Mohave County miner., 1911-11-18
Mines of the County

mining properties In the Cedar dis
trict. Mr.. Grannis also owns
mining properties in the
Tom Reed section. upon which
he intends to do some work before re-
turning to his home. Many of the
claims show good ore bodies and only
need work to prove them up.
A branch line of railroad is being
built from Cedar Glade, Yavapai coun-
ty, to the Verde Valley, where it is
understood a great smelling plant is
soon to be erected by the United
Verde company. The plant is to be
one of the most uptodate smelteries in
the world and will handle about 5000
tons of ore daily. A line of railroad is
to be built from the mines at Jerome
to point on the Verde river, where a
town will be laid out along model
lines. The Clark people are now in
the valley buying lands and selecting
a site for the smeltery and town.
o. B. Amsden, superintendent of the
Goldbug mine, has been in Kingman
several days this week attending to
business affairs of the company. 1t is
to be hoped that the company will
soon get to work again on the mines,
as the properties are certainly deserv-
ing of further development. A large
tonnage of excellent ore has been
opened in the properties and it is to
be expected that more and better ore
will be found at depth, especially as it
is a we'll known fact that the man
ganese that is found in abundance in
the mines of that section rob the ores
of their gold throughout the leached
zone.
Parisia & Mcdonald passed through
Kingman today on their way To
Needles, where they will look after
the samplng of a carload of ore from
their big strike on the Juno vein.
The ore is said to have a value of
about 250S to the ton in silver and
some gold. The boys have sunk shaft
to depth of 120 feet and have the ore
all the way down. Drifts from the bot
tom of the shaft show the ore body to
be quite extensive. The greater part
of the shipment was -Oaken out in sink
ing the shaft and no Stopping has so far
been done. When the trial lot is
worked the boys will get some idea of
just how close to assert the ores and
cut down that part of the labor to a
minimum. The vein is about four feet
wide and every part of it is well miner
allied.
President Walker, of the Rainbow
Mountain Mlniug company, is at the
mines, at Chloride, where the big
aerial tram is being put in that will
convey Rainbow ores to the landing
below. The mine has been opened TO
a depth below 400 feet and has an i'm
mense tonnage of ore in the slopes
ready to he broken down and shipped
to the smelter. The ore is of such
grade that it will net big return over
ana above the cost of extraction and
shipment. h. L. McCarn, who has
been managing the property the past
three years, has done splendid work
in the development of the mines. The
tram that is soon to be placed in COM
mission, is of a new design, but which
has been tried out in a number of
places to the satisfaction of the ship
pers. 1t is easier of operation than The
old tram, as it does not require the
heavy coolies in use on some of the big
trans of the country.
The last forty feet in the Alpha tun-
mel passed through a shoot of ore that
carried average values of from fifteen
to twenty per cent copper, forty ounces
silver and five dollars gold. The ore
body was good sized and appeared to
be permanent, the big end being in
the floor of the drift. 1t is the intent
ion of the management to sink OF the
ore as soon as the drift is carried far
enough into the allow of the two shifts
working without interference. The
vein looks good all the way along and
the copper appears to be coming in
strong at several points. The impress
sion of the writer is that the drift is
being carried through partly leached
ground and that better results will be
obtained when the water level is
reached, where the secondary enrich
ment Will be found. The Alpha has
splendid vein and great things may be
expected of it when it is opened below