Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1911-10-21
Mines of the County

CD. Atlees, general manager of
the Xxi mine, in the Stockton Hill
section, was in Kingman this week.
Mr.. Atlee has done more work for the
money than any other mine manager
in the county. The property has
splendid showing of ore, much of it of
a shippable grade.
Peter Gallery, who spent a day this
week at the Alpha mine, reports that
the adit drift is now getting into
splendid looking copper and lead ore.
The vein is three feet wide in the
breast, all the material being ore of
good milling grade. The management
of the property propose to drift under
the old shaft and make a raise to a
connection.
The Neglected group of mines, now
under bond to a syndicate represented
by A. f. Haggott, the well known
mining engineer, is about to install
heavy machinery, the flow of water en-
countered at the 200 level requiring
the installation of a compressor and a
sinking pump. The mine is showing
so well that the company feels justified
in going to large expense in its devel-
opment.
This week the people holding option
on the First and Last Chance and
and other mining property at Walla-
pal Springs made the initial payment.
Other payments are TO follow quarter
ly. The company is to equip the prop
erty with hosting machinery and a
mill. The shaft on the property is
down about 100 feet and the adit drift
is in about 100 feet below the bottom
of the shaft. The openings show good
ore, the values being in gold, silver
and lead.
Frank L. Hunt, John Moore, and
another gentleman, have optioned
the Iowa group of mines, in the Tom
Reed section, to a mining syndicate.
The price to be paid for the property
is well up in the thousands, and the
company is to begin development
work at once. The main shaft on the
property now stands at a depth of 200
feet, while drifts have been run off Oh
the vein, showing a splendid body of
high grade milling ore. Mr.. Hunt
and partners have been developing
the property for years past and have
opened up one of the best looking
properties in that section. They also
have other promising properties in
the same neighborhood that will pro-
badly be snapped up before many
months.
S. R. Porter came in from the
Leland and Mitchell mines Wednes-
day, where he has a force of men at
work sinking a two compartment
shaft on the Mitchell vein. The shaft
has attained a depth of so feet and
shows good ore. These properties
have been idle for some years, the
mining public scouting the idea that
the ore bodies would go down through
the older andesite. The recent dis
coveries of rich ore in the older ande-
site in widely scattered sections of San
Francisco district has given an impet-
US to mining and especially in the
region where the newer andesite is a
shallow Gaping on the old andesite
flow. The shaft that is being sunk on
the Mitchell is now in the old andesite
and shows the vein and the same high
class of ore in vein at depth that was
found on the surface.
D. B. Wright, who has been work
ing one or two men on his mines near
Boundary Cone has cut a splendid
body of ore in crosscut on the 100
foot level. This is the mine that
created considerable talk in mining
circles when discovered, the ore being
found entirely in the old andesite and
carrying very high values. At the
time Mr.. Wright was made a cash
offer for the property but refused. He
has been opening the mine with vary
ing success, but it is the general be-
lief that he now has a prospect that
will make mine. The ore body lies
in dixie of andesite following a fault,
and was found to be more than fifty
feet in width, the whole carrying very
good milling values, while there was
found to be streaks that gave values
as high as zoos gold to the ton.