Mohave County miner., 1911-12-02
Mines of the County

Silver Creek, is said TO be fully under
control The property is situated in
the north of the Hercules group and
had wonderful showing Of gold ore
On the superficial openings,
The better part of a carload of rich
concentrates is now at the station of
Mineral and. by the first of the week
the balance of the. car will be hauled
down and the car shipped to the smelt-
err. The concentrates carry high val
ues in gold and silver with a lead base.
1t is one of the most desirable smelling
products, that has been produced in
bhe county in many years. The mill
has been run on dump ores and ores
from the old Slopes, all yielding
splendid product. With the opening
mp OF other levels the mine should soon
be producing largely of high grade
shipping ore as well as the milling
product The mine is under the direct
management of o. B. Stanton, who
has been giving the I1ill and mine his
entire attention the past six months
The mill has been doing good work
and with the further opening of the
mine will be enabled to get a better
grade of ore to run on. although the
dumps and old slopes have many thous-
ands of tons of high grade milling.
D. B. Wright, owner of the big vein
in the Boundary Gone section, has
bonded the property to Mr.. Parrot,
of Los Angeles. Mr. PARROT is sink
ing the shaft further and has reached
a depth of 160 feet, where he eneoun-
tered body of very high grade gold
ore. The Wright vein is one Of the
peculiar properties Of that region. the
gold being deposited in dixie of the
newer andesite and lying against the
older andesite. This andesitic flow APP
pears TO be fslly 200 feet wide and
shows considerable gold while on the
contact with the older andesire the
values run very high. At depth of
so feet the ore showed exceptionally
high values. but the ore in the deeper
workings grew much leaner. Mr..
Wright kept at the development un-
I'll he was compelled 10 call in help.
With the new blood it is to be ex-
pected that great mine will be OPP
ened up. Everything appears TO pred
ecate the enrichment of the ores at a
lower level.
S. R. Porter. manager Of the Vivian
Mining company, is in Kingman, hav-
Judge Z. NJ. Ross, one of the large
shareholders in the company. He re-
ports tha5 the shaft on the Mitchell
claim has been sunk to a depth Of 80
feet and that the showing Of ore at
that point is excellent. The shaft
stood at a depth Of about 60 feet when
the new company took over the prop
erty. 1t was in fault in the vein,
but at a depth of less than 100 feet the
fault was passed through and the en-
tire shaft, XII feet, came into ore of
a good milling value. Assays from the
bottom of the shaft COW show ore of
exceptional richness. The belief of
Mr.. Porter is that the Mitchell vein
will merge with that of the Leland and
shat there is a chance for the opening
of one Of the greatest properties in the
district. Judge Ross is to take look
over the property during the next few
days, possibly bringing with him some
of the other large shareholders. He
is interested in the old Vivian mine,
situated a few hundred feet south of
the Mitchell.
At a depth of 400 feet a crosscut
from the bottom of the Boundary Gone
mine is showing up splendid vein of
ore. The shaft has not been in the
vein for some distance the dip carrying
the vein in the hanging wall 1t is
the intention of the management To
now open the property up on this
level. The shaft passed into the older
andesite at depth of about 200 feet,
where the vein was found to be some.
what broken up. Drifting was carried
on to some distance from the shaft
where good ore and a better vein wa:
found. With the sinking of the shaft
far into the older andesite and the open
ing of rich ore the theory of the Cd
er adesite being non-ore bearing is be
ing quite thoroughly exploded. Da!
by day the veins of the Vivian Bash
are proving the fallacy of the theor!
that the older andesite lying to thu