Weekly journal-miner., 1910-06-15
MOHAVE COUNTY COMING ID
 FRONT
Big Strike IS Made In The Old Keystone
 Mine

will probably prove the biggest
 strike ever recorded in Mohave coun-
 ty was made in the old Keystone
 mine at Mineral Park, several days
 ago. when four feet of high grade
 shipping ore and nine feet of fine
 milling ore were cut into on the I50 foot level west. Seldom has ore
 been found in the district so phe-
 nominally rich in native and ruby silver, and certainly never before in such large bodies. Assays made
 from samples of the 100 tons already
 broken. run from $250 to $2,500 per ton, while there are many tons of "picture" ore which greatly exceed
 the latter value. A very eonserva- tive estimate of the new find is that
 the four feet of ore now exposed will average about $500 per ton
 without sorting.
 Aside from its direct bearing on
 the Keystone itself, the new strike
 is most important in that it is the result of the newer development ln7
 augurated in the county practically within the last year. The Keystone
 is merely a type of dozens of old
 mines now again in operation in the
 Cerbat range, where work was nearly
 always abandoned when water was
 encountered or when a small pinch
 occurred in the vein. Like the Col
 eonda and the c. O. D., tac Key
 stone is proof of what systematic
 development will do in this district. The Keystone, owned by Tom Me Nicely and Jas. Uneapher of Mineral Park. was bonded last December by s. R. Porter of Los Angeles, former manager of the Gold Road mina, to
 whom, perhaps, more than any oibar man, is due the present great show ing of that. mine. The Keystone was an rld-timer, which in the firsc 150 feet had yielded nearly a million cellars in silver and gold. Notw:th- sCanGing that the vein outcrop for several thousand feet, from fourteen to fcrty feet in width, al, work was practically abandoned for. thirty-fve years, with the first pinch in the ore, Porter retimbered the shaft put up steam hoist and went to work in the pinch. He drifted just fifteen feet and then struck ore, and big ore it is proving.
 In addition to the ore he is now developing, Porter has about 25,000 tons of milling ore in the old stOpes, and on the dumps, which will be shipped to the Needles mill at a 60 cent rate, he has obtained from the Santa Fe railroad. Actual construe ton of the spur from the Chloride road to the mine will be started this month
 The C. O. D. mine, whose history is very similar to that of the Key stone, made its first shipment since operations were resumed there sev- eral months ago. It is expected that the ore just shipped, about thirty tons, will not over $6,O0O. The new ore shoot opened several weeks ago, continues showing up well, and a regular production of ore averaging about $2OO per ton, is looked for. The second station has been cut in the new shaft and another level started
 The Gold Road and Tom Reed mines sent in gold bullion valued at $55, 1000, representing about two weeks run of the mills. The auto matic-pouring furnaces installed at both plants few weeks ago, are proving very satisfactory. An i'm portant strike was made in the Gold Road mine, where a good body of milling ore was cut on the east 700 foot level. about 100 feet from the shaft. The new ore has come in so much nearer the shaft on this level than on the 300, that Manager Phil lips believes it is the beginning of another shoot. General samples across the face assay aboat SIP, which is a fair average of the en- tire mine.
 F. H. Summeril and JnO. Karlen of Denver, visited the Sunny Side mine, near the Tom Reed, in which they are heavily interested. Under the of A. c. Werden, two shafts, about 100 feet deep each, have been sunk in good milling ore. Work has been started on a wagon road, the power line is being extend ed from the present terminal to the Tom Reed, and an electric hoist is to be installed at once.