Mohave County miner., 1912-11-30
Mines of the County


 to town by meeting of the board o directors of that corporation. The company has leased and bonded the c O. D. mines to Salt Lake people and the board of directors approved the lease at this meeting. The lessors will begin work on the mines on or before the 18th of December.
 James A. Roberts, who has been looking after important matters at the Frisco Mines, has departed to New York, where the subject of many bet ter'nents at the mine will be taken up by the board of directors and ap. propriations made to meet the big ex- pense. Mr. Roberts is well pleased with the outlook of the property, and the splendid condition of mining in the county.
 Harry Blackwell and others have a lease on the old Distatf thine, at Cho, ride, and are getting excellent ore from the winze below the tunenl level. Some of the ore will run thousands of ounces to the ton in silver, while the whole mass that shows in the workings will average about COOS to the ton. There is now on the dumps ready to be shipped nearly carload of this ore.
 Mike Coleman has discovered great vein of gold bearing rock on the con- tact near the summit of the Blue Ridge range, south of Union Pass. Some of the ore lying on this contact shows big values in gold and it is the opinion of the discoverer that he has found the parent vein of that country. MT. Coleman has been working on the mine the past several weeks and has opened the vein to quite an extent.
 The North Georgia mine, at Chlo- ride, owned by John H. Ware, J. B.. Hughes and others, has been taken over under option by Fred Chapman and B. l.. Farrar, of Fl Paso. These gentlemen have already begun opera. tioes on the mlne and will drive the shaft 10 depth of 100 feet. The North Georgia vein is said to be one of the best looking in that section and the ore values are excellent.
 E. B. Van Deman. general manager of the Ruth Gold Mines company, was kingman visitor thls week coming here to attend the Odd Fellows cele- bration. He reports that the drift on the lower level of the Ruth is break ing in to some ore and that the show Ing now indicates that the old ore body is being approached. Work is now under the supervision of A. w. Bratland, one of the best mining men in the business, who believes that the Ruth is one of the big things of that section of the county. With the open- ing of the ore body on this level the mill will be able to start operations and continue indefinitely.
 J. w. Cornelius, who with w. P. Carr, IS one of the principal owners in group of mining claims in the Del uge Wash section. has gone to the mines where work will be started up right away. Recently the mines were merged Into a corporation known as the American Metals Mines company, and this corporation has been financed in the east, the corporation having SC. cured enough financial aid to do large amount of development work. The veins that are to be operated have every evidence of quantity and quality. With recent development large body of ore was opened that carried values in gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc. It is purposed to sink the shaft to a depth of more than 100 feet immedi- ately.
 Judge w. G. Blakely, who has just returned from Chemehuevis mountains. where he is interested in group of seven claims, gave us the result of his samples of the mines. The following assays were received: O3.35$: 53.74S: l7l59$; 2S.93S; eos; l2$; 2s9. 7Ss. These samples were taken across the various veins and shows the uniform high grade of the ore. Last winter two men put several tons of ore from these claims thrOuuh a little fya Oto,,o