Mohave County miner., 1910-08-06


 company, in Weaver district.
 r. McCardell, the well known min eral surveyor and engineer, has been making surveys of mining property for John Barry, ST., the past week. Mir. Barry has large number of splendid mining claims. including the Cerbat, at Cerbat, and the Towne and Tucka- hoe, at Chloride.
 J. L. Phillips, consulting engineer of the Gold Road NJ. X k. company, arrived in Kingman Thursday night and departed yesterday to the mines. where he will inspect the properties. Under the direction of MT. Phillips the Goldroad mines have become the greatest gold producers in the terri tory. the output of gold now being in excess of a million dollars per year. The company has one of the most com plete and up-to date plants in the world, which is being constantly added to to keep pace with the develop ments of the mines. It is estimated that the mines now have in excess of three years milling ore in sight and this is being constantly augmented.
 tendent of construction for the Tracy Engineering company, arrived In Kingman and will at once begin the laying of the foundation for the new cross-compOund engine that is to be- come the second unit of the big plant. The new engine is one of the newest makes of the great Nordburg type; having a high pressure cylindar 22x25 inches and a low pressure cylindar 52x48 inches and developing fifteen hundred horsepower. It will be direct ly connected to the dynamo. The old tandem type of engines now in use in the first unit of the big plant have high pressure cylindars l6x42 inches and low pressure cylindars 38x42 inches and developing six hundred and
 fifty horsepower each. At the present time the plant has reached the capac- Ity of the engines and have contracted to deliver more power than can now be generated within the next few months. In consequence of these new demands on the plant work will be rushed on the new power unit and it is expected that it will be ready to go into commission within sixty days.
 c. w. Botsford. who has had force of men employed sampling the Me Cracken mine, arrived in Kingman last week Friday Saturday afternoon he employed an auto at the Kingman Garage and departed to Ash Fork to get train east, all trains having been held up at that point on account of with the train was made in about five hours, although the roads in places were almost impossible. MT. Botsford made the examination of the McCrack- en mines for the account of the Shan non Copper company, of Morenci, the deal being in the hands of an eastern firm of mine operators. If the prelim- mary sampling checks with the reports made by engineers some time ago the II at harriv, q ha f,,a hnr work of development and the sale of the property is practically assured. The Shannon Copper company has been trying to expand its mining oper- ations the past several years, but so far has been unable to get property outside of the Cliften-Morenci district It is one of the big copper companies and has a we'll filled treasury to meet all demands that may be made upon il.
 The first carload of ore from the c. O. D. mine netted the company l0OS per ton, which more than paid the ex- pense of operating the property during the time of its extraction. When it is that this ore was taken from the openings in doing develop ment work and that none of the stopes have been touched the reader will ap- preciate what the mlne is doing Since the property began operations few months ago a new shaft has been sunk over 200 feet and many hundreds of feet of new drift has been driven on the vein. At the lower level the mine shows better ore than in the upper workings and it is expected that when the lowest level of the old workings has been reached, and the mine drain ed of its large bodies of accumulated