Mohave County miner., 1912-03-30
Mines of the County


 mine owner of Cerbat, was King man visitor this week. MT. Campbell owns some desirable mining property in the Cerbat section. upon which he has done considerable development work the past several years.
 Superintendent Britton, of the Alpha mine, is at N sedles this week looking after the working of the 500 ton lot of ore from that property. It is under stood that the lot is sampling out far better than expected and that when it has been milled good idea will be had of the class of plant necessary to handle the product of the mine. The ore carries good values in gold, silver and copper, and with the present price of copper there is no reason why the mine should not pay we'll. The re- moval of the 800 tons from the drift is hardly noticeable, the ore body being large and continuous.
 Recent work on the Shooting Star vein, at Stockton Hill, owned by Rob- ert Gray, has developed splendid body of ore. The ore body as shown by the drift, is five feet wide and min. eralized throughout. Values are car ried Tn gold. silver, lead, zinc and cop- per, separate streaks in the vein pre- dominating in each of the baser metals. Thomas Gray has been at work on the vein the past six months and has a large amount of ore opened up in the drift. It is one of the best showings of mineral opened up in the county in many years and the owner believes he will be able to make large shipments 10 the smelter soon. With the proper method of separating the metals the mine ought to be put on big output ting basis within short time.
 J. H. Hoffman, accompanied by c. B. Hoffman, of Kansas City, and c. Hoffman, of Enterprise, Kansas, passed through here on their way to the mines of the Arizona Southwestern Copper Company, last Saturday. The company has an immense tonnage of machinery at Yucca, from which rail road point it is being hauled out to the mines at Copperville. The mill is to be erected at the mines as soon as pos sible. At the mines work is progress sing favorably, an immense body of high grade ore having been opened up within the past month. The ore car ries exceptionally good values in sil- yer and lead and the vein is about fif- teen feet in width. This is the ore that is to be handled in the new mill and the concentrates will be shipped to the smelter.
 w. B. Ridenour, the well known mining man of Blackberry, accompan- led by w. l.. Wattes and E. A. Hard. ison, were visitors in Kingman Tues. day last. The gentlemen have been looking at the mining property of Mr. Ridenour near Blackberry. The mines are the Blackberry and Blackberry South properties, that in the early days of the county ma le lviable rep utation as producers of silver ore. Mir. Ridenour was one of the original discoverers of the vein, and took a large amount of rich ore from the out ch feet on the incline of the vein. or about 38O feet perpendicular. An effort has been made to reach the ore body below the 600, but the new shaft has not yet been driven to the proper depth to make the crosscut to the velu at that point. It is the general impression that this old property will again be- come a big producer of the white metal.
 Charles Grimes, president of the Tom Reed Gold Mines company, pass ed through Kingman few days ago on his way to Pasadena from the mines. He reported that the properties never looked so we'll and that greater ton mage was being handled than ever be- fore through the mill Betterments at the mill are being made every month and the cost of milling is being cut to minimum. Next month the annual meeting of the stockholders of the company will be held in Kingman and It is probable that the company will