Mohave County miner., 1912-02-03
Mines of the County

At depth of l6S feet well sunk on section D, to the southeast of King man, has a big body of water, it being impossible to sink below that depth without casing the we'll. This well is the farthest east of any of the wells in town and shows that there is great body of water underlying the volcanic flow in this basin. Other wells are to be sunk in that neighborhood and that part of the town possibly plated to large residence lots.
 Lon Wells and wife came down from Wallapai mountain few days ago to obtain some supplies and look after business matters. Mr. Wells has been at work on the Great Eastern mine and reports having made considera ble progress. He says that during the past month it has been extremely cold in the mountains, although the snow has practically gone from the ,outh side of the high peaks.
 A. L. McKesson is running his little gold mill on the ores of the Holy Moses mine, six miles south of Kingman. The ore had excellent values and yields readily to amalgamation on plates, and by concentrating the tailings, high saving of the values is made. The mine has been opened to a depth of POO feet and throughout the oxidized zone the values are high enough to re- turn big profit to the owner.
 Cloyd Richardson came in from the London mine few days ago. He re- ports that work on the peoperty is being carried on and that big values have been obtained in the new shaft It is probable that the mine will be well equipped with machinery and that the shaft vill be sunk at once to depth of several hundred feet. This property lies to the south of the Gold Crown, in the Union Pass section.
 Report is currant that strike of considerable importance has been made on the Winnifred group of mines, now under option to Los An. geles people. The new ore streak is about two feet wide and carries very high values in gold. The vein is very large and carries milling values throughout. This is the property tha was recently bonded to Mr. Brodne and later turued over to Los An geles people for operation. A con. tract was let on the mines and shaft is now being sunk.
 Splendid ore is now coming from the Alpha mine, the breast showing better values than ever. This is one of the good things of the Wallapai district and should be equipped with hoisting plant and pumps and shaft sunk below the water level. Much of the upper ground has been leached, but the adit drift is now reaching be-. low the oxidized zona. Ore is being shipped to the shelter and within a few days trainload will be ready to go to the shelter.
 Manuel Ruiz is up from his mining claims in the Chemehuevis mountains, where he has been at work the past several months. He reports that he and partners have crosscut eight feet Of splendid ore, much of which shows free gold Samples brought to town show the gold and it is said that all the rock horns freely. The claims are situated near the north end of the mountains and about eight miles south of Franconia. Associated with Mir. Ruiz is Bill Yee and Fred Brown. The old placer miners worked the ground almost to the veins, and even now very good values may be had in the alluvium below the claims.
 J. Ross Clark. who is one of the directors of the Salt Lake railroad is reported as saying that rails will be laid on the branch line from Moapa to St. Thomas before the end of this month. This railroad has consider. able significance to this county, es. pecially the north part, whence much produce and mineral can be shipped readily to market. The road will reach into Mohave county in the Grand Gulch section and also the Beaver Dam section, which is agri.