Mohave County miner., 1912-01-06
Nearly 1000, ,ooo$ Increase in Mineral Production for Year
MOhaveLeads in Gold
Ton Reed and Gold Road Biggest Gold Producers
 of Arizona.
Gold Road Mines Company.

A subsidiary corporation or the United States Smelling, Refining & Mining Company is the Gold Road Mines company, operating the famous Gold Road mines. This corporation has been in existence only about nine months, taking over the mines from the Gold Road Mining < Exploration company, paying therefor about l,6OO,- 0O0$. During the year it produced gold and silver to the value of 673.54OS, the tonnage being far above that of any previous year. While the increase in the production of the company amounts to more than 63, ,000S, it will be remembered that the old company operated it's big mill many months during 1910, and part of it's produc- tion during that year coming from the tailings pits.
 The company is just now putting the property in the best possible shape for large output of bullion during the year 1912, and it is possible that the production will reach more than 2. 000,000S. The company is to make the No. ? shaft on the Billy Bryan the main working shaft and from that point the big mine will be opened to great depth. While the old shaft will not be entirely abandoned it is ex. pected that it will only be used to cut out the ore to the 800 level, at which that the best part - the mine lies in and along the ground covered by the Line Road and Billy Bryan locations and it is this part of the ground that is to receive the best attention of the company. At the present time the shaft is 700 feet and the drift extends to t,,..e old shaft 22OO feet to the west, and also is in the neighborhood of the Railroad claim on the east. Through out the length of this drift, which ap- proximates 4500 feet n'length, the ore body is apparently unbroken. Through out the Billy Bryan the ore has bet ter and more uniform value than that in the old workings. It is estimated that more than fifteen years ore is now in sight in the property, even with double the capacity of the pres ent milling plant.
 Showing the confidence the new cor poration has in the future of the mine great milling plant has already been planned by the directors of the con- pany, doubling the present capacity of the mill. Already eight cars of lum. Der and timber for this plant have arrived in the Kingman yards and will be hauled at once to the camp. Lovin & Withers company, having the con- tract for this haulage, have been noti- fled to put on all the teams that can be obtained to get the material on the ground with as little delay as possible. Every team possible is being pressed into service and it is expected that all the timber and machinery will be on the ground by the first day of March The new mill will add 40 stamps to the present 40 stamp capacity together with duplicate of the present recov. cry system. The machinery will oc. cupy fourteen solid cars, while the other materials will run the tonnage up to about 40 cars. Following this will come the big aerial tram that will convey the ores from the Billie Bryan shaft to the mill, a distance of about three. fourth mile. The building ol the tram will lay the ores in the mill at cost of not to exceed ten cents a ton and materially reduce the costs from the mining end. It is also con- sidered that the costs of mining anG milling will be reduced far below the present cost, which is above AS per ton The great ore bodies throughout the 700 level, running in width from 8 tc 2S feet, will be broken by machine drills and everything in and about the mine and mill made as automatic a. possible. The management of tho property is under the best men tha can be obtained in the mining world