Mohave County miner., 1912-05-04
Mines of the County

George Lockwood, owner of valuable mining property in the Stockton Hill section, was in Kingman several days this week.
 w. l.. Mckay and several other min. ing men took run into the mines this week. Mir. Mckay has been enter- taining mining friends from Goldfield and is interesting them in some of the good things that this county has to offer in the way of mines.
 Tom Brobant and Manuel Ruiz are doing considerable work on their min. ing claims Tn the Chemehuevis moun- talns and have opened up some ex- ceptionally good ore. The larger of the veins in their group carries values in gold, silver and lead.
 F. A Wilde has gone to Milwaukee, where he will look after business in- terests. Mr. Wilde has built up a wonderful plant at Kingman and is dis tributing power to large part of the county, but it is his intention to extend the lines to the north and west to cover greater extent of mining country.
 H. I. Stuart. president of the Union National Bank of Pasadena, accom- panied Charles Grimes. president of the Tom Reed Gold Mines company to the mines last Monday afternoon. This was MT. Stewards first visit to the mines and he was much impressed with the vast Improvements and the wonderful manner in which gold is re- covered from the rocks.
 It is reported in Kingman that Barney Mccall has made an import ant strike of gold ore in the section of country between the Gold Hill mines and the Dandy group. The vein is said to have fairly good size and the ore is specked with the yellow metal. In that section some of the richest gold ore ever taken from mine has been found, but the veins are somewhat bro. ken and little effort has been made to trace them through the faults.
 s, D. Mudd, representing the Gug. genheims, so it is said. was a King man visitor this week, going down to the tungsten mines on the Big Sandy. It is understood that the mines are looking so we'll that the force of men on them is to be increased and ar engagements made for plant to handle the low grades of ore now opened up. MT Mudd was accompanied by H. E. Bierce while making his trip through the country.
 J. H. Knight, E. A. Shaw, William Mckay, and M. w, Musgrove went out to Grass Springs last Sunday to look over power project at that point. They ran out of gasoline and had to impress Wallapai Indian into furnishing benzine for their buggy, S. T. Bagg furnishing the oil. They are loud in their praise of the treatment accorded them by MT. Bagg. They found good place for damsite and believe that one of the greatest hydro electric plants in the United States could be put in there.
 A number of the shareholders of the O. x c. Mining and Development con- pany, operating the Last Chance mines, at Wallapai Springs, arrived from Long Beach few days ago and have gone to the mines. The mill is ready to go into commission, the management awaiting the arrival of a smaller drive bully for one of the ma chimes. The company has been doing large amount of work on the mines and have large amount of ore in sight.
 Fred Brown. owner of mining prop erty in the Chemehuevis mountains, returned from that place the first of this week, having completed large amount of work on the properties. A shaft was sunk to depth of fifty feet on the main vein of the group, whence crosscut of the vein was made. At that point the vein was found to be twelve feet in width and to carry values in gold and silver in excess of 12$ to the ton. The veln is one of the best looking in the raLge and the hous