Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1911-12-09
Mines of the County

John D. Moat and wife, of Detroit,
Michigan, arrived in Kingman a few
DAYS ago, on their way to White Hills.
Mr.. Moat is interested in mining prop
erty in the Gold Basin mining district
which will be operated to some extent
this winter.
A Pasadena mining company has
built a piece of wagon road from the
main Cedar rold to the Montezuma
wash, on the east side of the Wallapai
mountains. in the Deluge Wash region
where they have mining property upon
which they intend to do a large
amount of work The veins in that
section are large and show good miner
alization.
w. B. Alley, who has had charge Of
the road work between Blue Mary
Spring and the mine of the Arizona
Southwestern Copper company the
past six months, came to KIngman a
few days ago, having completed the
work. The road extends over the
Wallapai mountain, a distance of
about eight miles. Much of the work
was heavy rock work that required
time, labor and the expenditure of
large sums of money. Mr.. Alley is in
terested in promising mining proper
ties IN the Cedar district to which he
will devote considerable time this
winter.
Newton Evans and others have lOcat-
ed many thousands of acres Of land on
the east side of the Chemehuevis
mountain as gold placer ground, The
area comprises the land lying high up
on the mesas from north of Arastra
Well wash to point above the head
of Mohave Wash. Considerable gold
has been recovered from that section
by dry washer process in the past
twenty years and there is undoubtedly
much of it gold bearing. 1t Is under.
stood to be the intention of the locator:
to get water on the ground and work
the gravel for its golden content by
sluicing.
W. 3. Granuis. who is operating a
group OF mining claims on the c. o. D,
vein. extending from the East end OF
the c. o. D. group to the foot of the
hill, is reported to have opened a splen
did showing of ore. Recent assay:
from a small streak in the vein gave
results Of nearly 500 ounces silver anC
"a per cent lead. The vein is four fee
wide and the main ore streak is eight
to ten inches. A drift is now being
driven on the vein toward the west,
where considerable depth is being
gained. Some of the ore is very heav!
in lead and gives indication of soOr
filing the area between the walls.
Some difficulty is being encountered
by Newton Evans in drilling for water
in the Valley of the Sacramento, some
miles above the head Of Mohave Wash
where he has been drilling for watel
the past month. At depth of abOu
300 feet wash boulders are encounter
ed.that the drill is unable to penetrate
II Is probable that a standard string o
tools will have to be put in before tina
class of ground can be drilled through
Should the drill penetrate tine hard
strata below the old river bed it i
more than probable that a flow o
water will be secured.
Fred Brown and Manuel Ruiz arrived
a few days ago from the Chimehuavi
mountains, in the region of the OLE
Arastra Well, where they had beef
doing the annual assessment work Oh
a group of mining claims. The gentle
men report that the mining interest
of that section are looking better da,
81 day and that they expect a boom L
strike the northern end of the rang
before winter Is over. There are man
good mining claims in and around tn
old Arastra Wells and SCOTS Well
that might well be developed into pay
fng properties. The veins are larg
and well defined and carry excellen
values in gold, silver and lead.
Ed. G. Williams came to Kingman
rev days ago from his tungsten mine
N the Aquarius range. He report
that he has eight men at work on tn
mines. The work mapped out consist
of the driving of three tunnels fror
the low side of the mountain to Ia
the network of veins at great depth
The mines of wolfram ores are situate
high up on the Aouarius mountain.