Mohave County miner., 1911-08-19
Mines of the County

prospecting in the Cedar and Aubrey districts, reports that he has located some good property in the south end of the Wallapais.
 Mart. Little, owner of rich mining property in the Wright Creek section, is visiting in Kingman. Mir. Little believes that within short time Cot tonwood district will become one of the most important in the county.
 Splendid ore is now being taken from the I. X. L. mine, in I. X. L. Basin, north of Stockton Hill, where the Ari- Arizona Turquoise company is operat- ing that property under the superin- tendency of c. G. Atlee. The drifts are now in body of very rich silver ore and the prospects for opening up as great a shoot of ore as was found on the surface many years ago appears to be good.
 E. Fl. Barton, general manager of the Frisco Mines and Power company, came in from Los Angeles a few days ago and has put men to work on the properties, and will soon have the mill pounding away on good ore as soon as the engines are lined up and some re- pairs have been completed. The mines have probably the greatest showing of ore ever opened in the ter ritory with the same amount of work.
 Dennis Kelleher is in town from Copperville and reports that good pro- gress is now being made on the wagon road over the mountain from the Eshom ranch to Copperville. By the last of the month the road will have been built to the summit of the mountain, and from that point there will be only a small amount of rock work to complete the road to the camp. Eight men are being worked in the mine and about thirty on the road.
 Last night M. W. Mosgrove and M. Scanlon departed to New York, where they have been called on mining busi- ness. MT. Mosgrove has a bond on the Scanlon property, situated near the mouth of Wallapai Wash, in the Salt Springs section of Gold Basin, which he will present to New York people. The ScanlOn properties have always been considered among the best in that section and only need more development to make them pro- ducers. They are close to the Colo rado river, where power for all pur- poses could be developed. Mr. Mos grove also has bond on the interests of his co-owners in the Mocking Bird group of mines.
 F. A. Wright, accompanied by H. D. Rankin, arrived in Kingman last Thursday morning from Denver, and the two men departed the same day to Chloride, where Mir. Rankin will look over the Elkhart mine with view of putting in his method of saving lead and zinc. The Rankin method is now employed at one of the base metals mines at Lake City, Colorado, with ex- cellent success, 80 it is said. The pro- cess is an acid one and is said to clean up the mass of all bases and leave the gold and silver in shape to be recover ed by whatever process that will give the best results. If such a process is found economical and safe in the re- x1f ,l ,i, county it would be of inestimable value to the mine owners.
 Loper x Carney, who have been de- veloping a recent discovery in the Wright Creek section, have their arastra almost completed. The aras- tra is to be operated by gas engine power and it is thought will enable the men to work a few tons of the ore daily. The mine has been opened to a depth of almost loo feet and shows a splendid body of ore. Samples taken across forty inches of ore gave a value in gold of 5SS. This average is said to have been maintained throughout the shaft and is still to be had in the bot | tom. In connection with the finding of this vein the story is told that Loper, who is an old prospector, ob- served a reddish bank of clay in | the side of the wash, where the wagon | road entered from an embankment. He at once sized it up as mireralized | vein running through the place and | getting tools went to work on it. Clearing of the overburden of detritis he found the rich vein that he and