Weekly journal-miner., 1912-05-15
TOM REED SHIPS HANDSOME BAR
 OF BULLION
Other Properties Active In Leading Gold Pro-
 ducing County

Yesterday the Tom Reed messen- ger brought ,o Kingman the clean up for the pas, four weeks and ship ped by express to the mint at San Francisco The bar was a hadsome one and weighed Sl,0oO Sumner Beechcr escorted the bar to San Francisco
 MT. and Mrs. Ralph Bukley came rp from their mines in the Aquarius range last Saturday evening. The tungsten mine upon which work IS being done is improving with every foot of development and it now looks as though they would have one of the best properties in the county The mines arc situated some distance cast of the windmill. a, the head of the Big Sandy and in the same bel, as the Williams mine
 |, is reported that Los Angeles corporation is getting matters in shape to begin at once the construc- ton of . big dam in the Colorado river at the mouth of Diamond Can yon The smaller canyon will be damned and the waters of Diamond Greek used for power purposes in the building of the big dam. The country is easy of entry and if the government will allow this dam to be built it will bc of great value in the upbuilding of this part of the state
 w. W. Clack, who has been pros pecting over in California, returned to kingman few days ago. bring ing with him some samples of tile that he had manufactured from q deposit of magnesia and powdered quartz that he discovered in the deSedr, section sixty miles north of Daggett The material has the same appearance as soapstone. nut con tains just the proper mixture to be one of the best materials found from which to make tile bricks The pur- est of the material is used for tai. cum powder and can be put to vari- ouS other uses The bricks on ex- hibiiion here are beautiful and are so far ahead of the ordinary tile brick that they arc sure to meet with a ready market. A corporation for the manufacture of the brick has been organized and will a, once begin the work of mining and shipping the raw material to Los Angeles, where large factory is io be built. Mir. Clack believes that he has a better thing than mining gold and silver.
 T. J. Purdy. president of the Yuc- ca Mining company. reorganization Of the old Yucca Cyanide NJ. & M company, arrived in Kingman Mon day last After looking after busi- ness affairs here he departed Tues. day night to Yucca. from which point he went to the mines near Cedar The company has had men ai work the past seven months un. watering the mines and it is under. stood that practically all the water has been removed and that work will soon be under way for the sink. ing of another 100 feet below the present level, where it is expected the ore body will be cut At the lower level some of the best ore ever taken from the mine was ob. tained and this ore body still showed m the bottom of the level The o,, ran over slo00 in gold to the ton with large vein Should the sam, ore be cut at the deeper level tho mine will bear out the plan of in, management and il is probable thai further development on the old leve, VIII bring to light another ore bod, that has been mapped in the ,rac. ing out of the ore body. A faul, plane has cut the ore body in fin, old levels. but it is thought ,ba, ,b, ore will be found to run beyond in, fault or to follow the lines of ,h, intrusion.