Mohave County miner., 1911-05-06

Tom Reed and Silver Creek sections and was agreeably surprised with the vast amount of mining that is being carried on by corpora tions and indi- viduals. Everywhere throughout the district men are fast getting mining property into the producing stage and before another year rolls around many mills will be turning out big bars of bullion.
 TOM REED.
 At the Tom Reed the main shaft has reached depth of 50 feet, where crosscut has been run to the vein. Owing to the eat flow of water en- countered when the casing of the vein was broken no attempt has been made to open the property on that level un- til big pump has been installed. A station has beel cut in the $50 level, where the water is now under control, and it was expected that the vein would be reached yesterday. T. winze from the 3j) level has been carried to this depth and it is stated under the old or shoot. It is from above this level that all the ore is being taken at the present time, the average of which is said to be above 50S to the ton. The ore body through out the rich zone runs frJm five to seven feet, while there is an ore body of lower grade that runs above fifteen feet in width. It is probable that thls ore body will soon be extracted and milled, as the mine can be better protected by removing the ore and filling the mine to hold the walls in place. A drift has been run from the $50 level l400 feet west, where it e D. meets with the 250 level of a new shaft. A great part of this ground shows good ore and the shaft at this point is now being carried down to connect with other projected levels To the east from the same level a drift has been carried 300 feet. These drifts are on the Ton eel and en Harrison claims, the main properties of the group.
 The mill stands below the head frame of the main shaft and is one of the most complete gold mills in the west. Its crushing machinery is con- posed of number five Gates crushers immediately below the ore bins, and a Dodge crusher in the mill for secondary work. The crushed ore is taken to the mill on a belt conveyor and dumped into the ore bins, whence it Is automatically feed into the bat teries. From the moment that the ore comes from the mine its way to the tailings dump is entirely auto- matic. The mill is fitted with four fve-stamp batteries, with 1850 pound stamps, having crushing capacity of six tons each. From the batteries the pulp passes through the tube mills to the pachucas, where they are agitated by an air current. These pachucas heve capacity of 45 tons each, there being four tanks 38xl0 feet. A Butt CTS filter is used to filter the mass, and the solution with its gold laden burden is run into the precipitating room, where it is relieved of its gold. The whole process is entirely auto- matic and the recovery of gold is close to the limit.
 The mine and mill is under the superintendence of s. s. Jone. who has been with the property since it passed into the hands of the Tom Reed Gold Mines company, and it is to his intelligent direction that this property owes its enviable position among the gold producing mines of the country. B. F. Lunceford is as- sistant uperintendent, having charge of the milling and cyaniding depart ment. That the mine is a producer we have to refer to the fact that the i last months run of the mill. partly | with ten and twenty stamps, gave a | bullion output of IOl, ,OOOS During the | past year the management of the com pany has been in the hands of Charles Grimes, president of the company. | who has brought about many better ments that tend to greater efficiency 1 in and about the property. it is ex- pected that before his present term as president of the company expires he will have still further increased the output of the property and added | 10 its milling capacity.