Mohave County miner., 1912-07-06
Mines of the County

sten mines the first of this week. He reports that a splendid showing of ore Is now opened in the properties and that with a concentrating plant on the mines a good output could be mace. The mines are situated high up in the Aquarius range, about sixty miles southeast of Kingman. The mines can be reached by building a short stretch of wagon road.
 o. B. Stanton, general Eanager of the Gro Plata mining company, has gone east to confer with his associates in the property and make possible the further development of the mine be- low the 2SO level. It is also the in- tention of Mr Stanton to get another crushing and concentrating plant for the mill. giving It double the present capacity. The mill has done excellent work, but it has been found to be in adeuuate to the needs of the mine.
 The work of extending the track from Chloride station to the Tennessee mine is expected to be commenced the first of the week. The railroad com pany will run spur to the mines and will probably erect depot at the town of Chloride, instead of at point one mile southwest, where it is now situated. The terminal of the rai(- road has always been regarded as a nuisance by the people O the big lead camp, and it is to be hoped that the railroad company will show some con- sideration to the people in the build ing of this extension of the road.
 It is understood that the shaft on the Ruth mine has reached the 400 and that station is being cut preliminary to crosscutting the vein. In sinking below the lSO the vein dipped out of the line of the shaft and since that time no effort has been maue to cut it.. It is the intention of the management to use the 400 level as a new develop ment point, and it is from this level that all future operations will be car. ried on. In the upper levels the mine has shown great bodies of high grade milling ore and it is to be supposed that at the present depth more con- tnuous ore body will be cut.
 Clack Brothers, who have been working on the north end of the Rico mines, in c. O. D. canyon, brought to Kinyman this week samples of the ore that they are taking out that is really erty. The ore shows free gold all through it, while the balance of the rock is said to horn big strings of gold. k. $. Osborne was out to the mine this week and was so well taken with it that he has taken short option on it and will place it before his associates in Los Angeles. The mine has been opened to considerable extent by the ClackS at the point of the recent gold discovery and the work of drifting un, der the ore body is now under way It is the intention to sink shaft to greater depth as soon as possible.
 Manager E. H. Barton came in from the Frisco mines Wednesday last with bar of bullion that weighed abou, 7,000$, the result of two weeks run oi the mill. The mill is pounding away night and day on excellent rock. The mlne has immense bodies of milling ore in sight and it is too bad that this company confines it's operations to 8 scale far below that which the output of the mine warrants. A mill of 50( tons daily capacity would be none toc large for the mine, and its only req limitation may be lack of water at the property. It is understood that the company can now converge enough water at the mine from its springs tC make possible the handling of at leas 300 tons daily, while it is possible tt get a great supply from the Colorado river, should it be found necessary tt pump from that low elevation. The mine is considered one Of the greates in the county.
 
 Dr. L. D. Godshal was Kingmal