Weekly journal-miner., 1912-07-03
MINING IS ACTIVE
 AMONG M0HAVEITES
Boundary Cone Still Center of Much Interest Among Gold Miners
 Of That District.
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While h'ti, information Is given uu, by thc Boundary Cone Gold Mine t. regarding 'hc big strike ui gold iu that property some time ago 'h, knowing ones report that Che mine q, ,howing up the same wonderful ore that first attracted public attention 8 month ago. The strike was made on the 40 and that level show, three feet of ore that carries value from Sl25 as the minimum and thousands of dollars as the maximum Some of the ore found there Is laced with gold and thc specimens exhibited are the finest ever taken from mine any where The work of sinking to the 500 is under way and in this shaft The ore shows exceptionally high values wherever broken into. The shaft is not on the vein. but some of the shot, shattcr the wall and break into the vein, where the free gold IS to be seen wherever the break exposes the ore It k ex- pected that as soon as the 5o0 is reached the vein will be crosscut and drifts run each way
 J. \. Chestnut. who has been at the Riverside mines. near Parker. arrived m Kingman yesterday and went on to Chloride He reports matters going along al right at the mnes Mir Chestnut i, heavily in tcrestcd in inc mines oi this county and is firm believer in their ability to make good
 Al Nance. owner of valuable min ing property in the Union Pass sec iion. arrived from his home in Colo rado Springs last week and is at the mines Interested with him in inc properties are several Colorado mining men and it is the intention to bring the mines to the productive stage. Mir Nance will remain for some time at the mines.
 N. Hoffman, general manager of the Arizona Southwestern Copper company. came up from the mines few days ago and reports that a large part oi the machinery for the new mill has been hauled out to The mines and that within three months the mill will be in commis sion. A report was current in King man the past week that the mill had been completed. but he assured us that this was untrue. The mill IS to have a capacity of 200 tons daily.
 Thirty-iivc men are at work on ihe Mitchell. where the shaft is being sunk to the 500 level The shaft is all in ore of high milling value, it being stated that a sample taken across the entire width show cd in excess of Sl00 gold 10 the ton. The Mitchell is one Of the Leland group. but upon which little work was done by the old owners When taken over by the Porter interests it was proposed that the work be done on this ground, and the diagnosis of the management appears to have been concentrated. The mine is in charge of Joe Onetto, who did such good work on the Gold Road under Mir Porter and NIT. Phillips and brought that prop erty to its present high state of productiveness Mir Onetto is believer in the Gold Road country and is banking on making the Le- land Mitchell group one of the great est gold producers of that section.
 The Arizona legislature recently enacted law making mining prop erty. operated under lease. option or otherwise, responsible for the in debtedness for labor of all em- ployes working upon the property Tn a recent decision handed down by the supreme court of Wyoming statute somewhat simith in i'm port was declared unconsti,u- tional The statute under considera- lion required the owner to take from the contractor bond for the pay ment of all debts for labor and materials. provisions or goods of any kind incurred in carrying on the work, or in default of such bond the property oi the owner should bt laplf TOT ucnis contracted ne only feature lacking in the Arizona statute is the bond requirement.. but holding the property of the owner liable for the debts In conSonance with this theory it would he inn possible to fix debt on one class uf property. and not make the ap plicaiion of the lew general Taking | inc rule that a mine under lease is liable for the debts of the lessee. 1 why would it not follow that farm would also be liable for i,s lessees' debts, and SO on ad infinitum And 1 then what real protection would | property owners have in the matter uf leaseholder if the lessee could | fix a debt against h,s landlords | it would appear to us that the rule laid down by the su- prome court of Wyoming will be generally followed
 Last Thursday nigh, the shaft