Mohave County miner., 1910-11-19

Vera A. Brewer, secretary of the
 Zona Mines company, operating prop.
 critics near Oatman, returned to Los
 Angeles few days ago from an in-
 spection of the mines.
 E. N. Greenleaf and T. G. Lewis,
 representing a we'll known Los An
 geles construction company, have been
 in Kingman several days in consulta-
 tion with E. B. and c. B. Van Deman
 regarding the construction of the new
 mill at the Ruth mine. The gentle men left this morning for the Ruth,
 where they will make camp and im-
 mediately commence the removal of the batteries of the mill to the mine,
 where it will be fitted up with the latest improved machinery for the
 fine crushing and recovery of the prec- ious metals. The mill is to be put in under a guarantee that it will make a high saving of the values in the Ruth ores. The mine is showing splendid bodies of rich gold ore and when the mill is completed large tonnage will have been blocked out in the stopes.
 The Cactus Copper company, an aux Hilary company of which operated mining property in this county the past year, has made statement to it's stockholders that it's investments have proven valueless. The stock on the market has fallen to almost nothing and it is probable that the company will be dissolved. Henry J. Stephens, an eminent authority on copper, states that the expectations of the company to open large bodies of low grade cop per ores at Miami, where the largest holdings of the company were located, were not realized. The same author ity states that the company is out of debt and has from 75,O00S to 10O,OOOS in its treasury, which he thinks should be used in an effort to find a mine, and not be distributed to the stockholders, as it would amount to nothing to them on their investments. The company made an honest endeavor to open mine and that they were not success ful was no fault of the management.
 John Boyle, jr., general manager and principal owner of the Golconda { group of mines, was a Kingman visit or this week. Under MT. Boyle's care ful management the property has be- come one of the greatest producers of zinc ore in the southwest. The pro- duction of the Golconda mine during the past year was oyer 300, 0,000S, nearly 100,000S above that of the Tom Reed mine, the biggest of the gold produc- | CTS of the county. Out of the produc- tion the property paid seven dividends, | aggregating about 70,O00S. The de- | velopment of this property has been something wonderful, as the mine has been made to pay for all the work and | improvements on the property. Indi- | vidual houses have been built for the | large army of employees, mill of large 1 capacity installed, tramways, boarding house, offices, stables and all necessary | buildings erected, besides the driving of hundreds of feet of shaft and tun- nels, and all this done from the output i of the property. The mine today shows more and better ore bodies than ever, and it is reported that in the mine stopes ore to the value of one and | one-half millions of dollars is broken and ready to go to the mill. The mill is now being run on ore from the ] dump, which is giving up it's values at the rate of two tons into one. From | the lower level of the mine the ore is said to carry values above fifty per cent zinc and the body is much larger than at any other point in the mine. Owing to the heavy volume of water encountered in the running of drifts on this level work had to be discon- tinued, but the deep drainage tunnel is now taking the water at rapid rate and work will soon be resumed.