Mohave County miner., 1911-02-11

l dSO lIOu 11OS ALSOlcS; hhCIC hC was called by press of business matters, and has gone to the mines, near Little Meadows.
 Another carload of machinery was received this week for the Ruth mill, which is now being fast assembled at the mine. The plant is expected to be in commission in less than forty days. At the mine everything is working along smoothly.
 The water is being pumped from the 500 level of the Gold Road mine, and as soon as men can be put to work on that level the further sampling of the mine will be taken up. The prop erty is now under option to the United States Smelling company, and it is understood that the sampling of the other parts of the mine were fully up to the representation. Should this big corporation take over the proprty the town of Goldroad would become one of the most important mining centers of the territory. This com pany does nothing in small way and it is understood to be the company's intention to bring the production of mine up to about 1000 tons of ore daily. This would give the gold production about 15O.OOOS monthly or more.
 Fred Brawn and Fred Coolidge, who have done the assessment work on the Nighthawk group of mines, returned to Kingman Thursday last. The old mine has been big producer of gold and silver in the past thirty years, but practically all the shippable ore above water has been cut out and machinery will have to be installed and the shaft carried down a considerable depth before new ore can be reached. In the bottom of the old works very rich ore was left, but this part of the mine is now deep under water. An adit drift runs along the vein for distance of HOO feet, at the breast the vertical depth being 700 feet. Below thls level the winze is about ninety feet. The rich ore body ran from eight inches to two feet, while the lover grade ore body was quite large. The large low grade ore body has been left in the mine practically intact. With proper reduction plant this ore could be mil led at a nice profit.
 Charles Grimes, president and gen eral manager of the Tom Reed Gold Mines company. arrived in Kingman Wednesday last from Los Angeles and departed to the mines. The same day the company shipped a bar of bullion weighing PAP pounds to the mint This bar was valued at nearly 60OOOS, and was the result of three weeks cleanup of the ten stamp mill. The report from the mine is that the main shaft is to be continued to the 800 as soon as machines and men can do the work. The company also contemplate great improvements all along the line better power system is to be intro duced, with plenty of water and i'm provement of hoisting and other facil- ities at the mine. By the bringing in of a large volume of water and the building up of the camp the company will he greatly benefited by improved conditions among the employees and the obtaining of a good class of work men.
 Messrs. Keech and Davis, of Los An geles, two prospectors who have been at work in the Aubrey district the past several months, have discovered a magnificent vein of ore, the average of four feet of which is 40S and eight feet averages POS to the ton. The shoot is two hundred feet in length. The men are working on the property and ex- pect to have one of the bonanzas of the county. The district is rich in small stringers of ore, but this is the first time that large body of good grade hliilnS OIO hdS oOSu ulSOONSTSu lu JndI section. The country has not really been prospected, except for exception ally rich ore, the high cost of getting the ore to market deterring the miner from working on anything that would not bear the expense of transportation to the railroad. A big vein of ore could easily be handled by the milling process, the Big Sandy creek being but few miles away and down hill pull to the best mill site in the country. Considerable fuel can be had along the creek and in some places water nOWar oould ba dayalonad