Mohave County miner., 1911-08-05
The Ruth and Rattan
 Mines and Mill

This week c. B. Van Deman and T. s. O'Brien paid visit to the Ruth and Rattan properties, near the famous old Moss, where the Ruth Gold Mines con- pany is operating with a good sized force of men.
 From MT. O'Brien, one of the best known mining men of the county, and at present mine superintendent for the Frisco Mines & Power company, we property has been placed in the hands of Emerson Gee, one of the best mine managers In the territory.
 The company is getting everything in shape to make an output of forty tons of ore daily for the Till and at the same time continue the work of de- velopment. The drift between l and ? shafts has been completed and an all most unbroken body of ore opened be- tween the two points, a distance of about 5 0 feet. Number one shaft is down 100 feet, while number two shaft has reached the same level at depth of 1855 feet. The drift is now being driven east from the 100 level on seven feet of ore that averages IFS to the ton. Between the two shafts the ore has a width of five feet and the mill average of the ore is above POS, the entire block of ground to the surface being solid ore. Slopes are being opened in this ground and few men will be able to knock down enough ore to keep the mill pounding away.
 Another lift of 100 feet is to be sunk on the number one shaft and levels run under the ore body from that depth. This work is 10 be done under con- tract, the contractors now being on the ground.
 At the Rattan the drift west 125 feet shows three feet of ore for a distance of 75 feet that gives an average in gold and silver ot PAS. The management of the property has concluded to start up work on the property and run west from the 200-level into the virgin ground below the old ore body. Twenty five men are to be put to work at once on mine work, some under days pay and others on contract work opening new ground. About twenty men are now at the mine. Owing to the install lation of a new compressor that failed to do the work the mine work has been held back the past ninety days, but a new and big compressor is now in con- mission and it is expected DO further trouble from this cause will be found.
 The mill is to be put into commission Monday next and will handle forty tons of ore daily. The Parks amalgamators are in use in this mill and the two hundred tons of ore run through showed saving of values above 95 per cent Dr.. Parks, inventor of the process. is at the mill and will make few changes in the amalgamators. The mill con- sists of four two-stamp batteries of the Hendy- Bolthoff make, the stamps weighing lO5O pounds each and having a capacity of more than forty tons of Ruth ore daily. Classifiers and tube mill put the ore in shape for the anal gamators.
 The plant is equipped with every class of labor saving machinery and driven by electric power furnished from the big plant at Kingman.
 Emerson Gee, who is managing the prop erty, believes from his examinat- ion that it is one of the most promising of the big mines of the Goldroad section and in this view he but voices the view of MT. O'Brien. c. B. Van Deman, secretary of the company, is now resid- ing in Kingman, from which point the financial end of the corporation is di- rected.