Arizona republican., 1911-08-10
GOOD SHOWING IN
RUTH AND RATTAN MINES
Forty Ton Mill Started Up Yestcr-
day.

c. +. Van Deman and T. S. O'Brein.
two well known mining men of the ter
ritory, paid a visit early last week to
the Ruth and Rattan properties, near
the famous Old Moss i'm Mohave coun-
". where the Gold Roads company is
operating with a good sized force Of
men.
From Mr.. O'Brien, one of the best
known mining men of Mohave county,
and at present superintendent for the
Frisco Mines and Power company. it
was learned that the management of
the Ruth and Rattan properties has
been placed in the hands of Emerson
Gee.
The company is getting everything
in shape to make an output of forty
tons of ore daily for the mill and at
the same time continue the work of
development The drift between and
shafts has been completed and an al
most unbroken body of ore opened be
tween the two points, distance of
about fifty feet. No. l shaft is down
100 feet while No. > shaft has reached
the same level at depth of 1S5 feet
The drift is now being driven east from
the 100 level on seven feet of Gre that
averages 81 to the ton. Between the
two shafts the ore has a width of five
feet and the mill average of The ore is
above $50. the entire block OF ground
to the surface being solid ore. Slopes
are being opened in this ground and a
few men will be able to knock down
enough ore 10 keep the mill pounding
away
Another lift of 100 feet is to be sunk
on the No. l shaft and levels run under
the ore body from that depth. This
work is to be done under contract, the
contractors now being on the ground.
At the Rattan the drift west 125 feet
shows three feet OF ore for a distance
Of Is feet that gives an average in
gold and silver of S24. The manage
ment Of the property has concluded to
start up work on the property and run
west from the 2O0-lcvel 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 10 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 COM
mission and il is expected no further
trouble from this cause will be found.
The mill is to be put into commission
a,-fa nd ha, 10
of ore daily The Parks amalgamators
are in use in this mill and the two
hundred tons Of ore run through show
ed a saving Of value above 95 per cent.
DR.. Parks, inventor of the process, is
at the mill and will make a few changes
in the amalgamators. The mill CON
sists of four two-stamp batteries of the
BOlthOff make. the stamps
1850 pounds each and having
a capacity of more than forty tons Of
Ruth ore daily. Classificrs and tube
mill put the orc in shape for the ANAL
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
property, believes from his examina-
ton that it is one of the most promis-
ing Of the big mines Of the Gold Road
section and i'm this view he but voices
the view OF Mr.. O'Brien. c. b. Van
Dcman, secretary Of the company. is
now residing in Kingman. from which
point the financial end of the corpora
ton is directed.