Mohave County miner., 1910-01-08
Mines of the County

P. McCardell has just made a com-
plere survey of the Horseshoe mining
c aims. at Cerbat. including plating
of the workings of the property.
L. Hoffman, general manager of the
Arizona Southwestern Copper com
pany. was in Los Angeles a few DAYS
this week attending to business mat
tiers. He departed to the mines Thurs
day evening, where he will look after
important affairs in connection with
the property.
The Searchlight Bulletin reports
that the big dredger, built at a cost of
lS0.000S, was sunk by the big sand
waves at its mooring below Edorado
Canyon, last Sunday. The Colorado
liver rose twelve feet in twenty hours
and the dredger, partly resting on a
md bar was caught by the waves and
entirely submerged. II now rests in
eight feet of water and sand.
F. L. Hanna, travelling freight agent
of the Santa Fe, was Kingman visit
or this week. 1t is understood that
Mr.. Hanna has been looking over this
section to get line on any and all of
the new business that will be offered
10 his road in the near future and
make provision that will care for it
without delay. He reports that the
Gold Crown people are figuring N
putting in big plant of machinery at
the mines and that the railroad will
he called upon to handle it in the near
future
The management of the Planet
property is making an effort to have
all of the freight for that property
brought in by way of Yucca, on &C
count of the delay in getting it in by
way of Bouse. The people of Yucca
will improve the road from that place
TO the Planet crossing by cutting a
new and shorter road from the town to
several miles to the southeast, where
it will again join the main road. By
small amount of work a much better
and shorter road will be obtained and
the cost of hauling reduced materially.
Freight from Bouse to the mines is
now sixteen dollars per ton, while
freighting from Yucca to the mines
can be done for twenty dollars per ton,
and the company avoids the annoying
delays that are now experienced.
The Gold Cross Mining company
will make its final payment on the
purchase of the Gold Cross group of
mines today. The company contem-
plates the building of a wagon road
through the low divide from the ranch
of William Eshom to the property,
which will make the mine easy of ac-
cess from the main road that passes
the Cienega ranch. II is also the in
tention of the company to build a mill
on the property and mill the large ore
reserves now in the mine. 1t is re-
ported by miners that have worked in
the mine that there are large bodies of
ore running on an average above 25S
per ton in gold, while small streaks of
extremely rich ore has been opened in
places throughout the property. The
company is in good shape financially
TO carry any plans it may have TO a
successful issue.
A. W. Bratland, general manager
of the Hercules Mining company, ar
rived in Kingman Thursday last from
his home in San Francisco, where he
spent the holidays with his family.
He departed the following day to the
mines of the company in the Silver
Creek section of San Francisco dis
trict The company is now getting
things in shape for an active year of
development on the mines, a large
holster, machine drills and pumping
plant being among the equipment that
is soon to be placed on the property. |
The mine is making a large amount of
water. which will have TO be handled
by pumps. Good ore shows in the
bottom of the present shaft and it is
purpOsed TO sink on this ore to
depth of several hundred feet. The !
property is considered one of the
best in that section and is in the hands
of one of the most conscientious mine
managers in the county.