Mohave County miner., 1911-01-07
Mines of the County

operating the Home Pastime the past three years and had shipped a large amount of rich ore from it. He be- lieves it to be one of the big things of Mineral Park basin.
 T. R. Garnier was a Kingman visit or this week, coming in from the mines at Cerbat. He is getting to- gether a large shipment of lead ore at the St. Louis mine, which will be ship ped to Needles sometime next week. At the other mines good ore is being opened and his expectations are being realized to a great degree.
 T. J. Purdy, at one time manager of the San Francisco mines for the Yucca Cyanide Mining & Milling company, but now a practicing attorney of Pennsylvania, is looking after his in- terests in Kingman and at Cedar. It is probable that when matters have all been straightened out the San Fran cisco mine will again resume operations
 H. N. Tracy, of Los Angeles, gen. eral manager of the Desert Power & Water company, has been in King man several days looking after the general business of the company. He stated that as soon as the switchboard for the new unit is received the plant will be placed in commission. The board was lost in transit and tracers are now out looking it up. The plant is steadily throwing out new lines to the camps to the west and southwest of Kingman and it will be but a short time until it will be reaching out into the country to the north of Kingman.
 Ed. Williams was up from his tung- sten mines, in the Aquarius mountains, where he has been residing with his family. He reports that he has been extracting considerable tungsten from the mines and has a shipment ready to send to the smelters. The ore from this property is the richest mined in the United States, having an average shipping value of 70 per cent tungstic acid. The metal is now quoted at about 8.50S per unit, which would give this ore value above 500S per ton, f. o. b. Kingman.
 Ten eight and ten horse teams are expected in Kingman within a few days to commence hauling ore from the Banner mines at Stockton Hill. The shipments are expected to be about 60 tons daily from the mines, preparation having been made to han dle that amount of ore. At the Cham pion the ore shipments are to total about 30 tons daily, five teams being put on to haul to Cerbat station from that property. The two mines are ex- pected to make large output the next six months, the stopes now being full of ore. Additional development at the mines is expected to open big bodies of high class smelling ore.
 A. W. Bratlund, general manager of the Hercules Mining company, came in from San Francisco last even- ing, accompanied by O. P. Brown, presi- dent of the company. They departed to the mines this morning by automo- bile and will return to Kingman this evening, Mir. Brown going on tonight to Minneapolis, having been called there by the death of Mir. Eckman, vice-president of the company. The company has been receiving a large amount of electrical equipment for the mine and intend to operate the property with this power. The mines are among the most promising in the Silver Creek section of San Francisco district and have been developed to a considerable extent in the past two years.
 The big shaft of the Tennessee mine is down 46O feet and is being driven down at the rate of about five feet daily. It is expected that the 800 foot level will be reached by next Saturday night and levels will at once be run of to tap the old workings. The works will be tapped from the footwall side of the vein, drill being kept well ahead to keep the new work from be- ing flooded. As soon as the water is reduced to the level levels will be run independent of the old works and the vein opened for the extraction of the big ore bodies. AS soon as possible the shaft will be driven to the l2OO level, from which point the entire mine will be exploited. It is expected that the old levels will furnish an immense ton. nf nra acnaafol1xv