Mohave County miner., 1913-09-13
Mines of the County

 mines at Layne Springs, where he has been opening up fine showing of cop per ore. The vein is one of the larg- est in that section and the ore runs well in gold and silver, as well as cop per.
 Columbus Ross, one of the old time miners of the Stockton Hill section, returned from Nevada ieW days ago. He says that while Nevada is looking good from a mining standpoint old Mohave is the only place in the world to him.
 J.F. Luthv and son came in from Gold Basin late last week and returned to their home in Albuquerque. Mir. Luthy is the owner of a group of min ing claims in the lower end of the Basin that should some day make him wealthy The mines are just now Tn process of patenting.
 George B. Ayers. bullion messenger for the Gold Road Mines company, Monday last brought Tn bar of bull lion weighing l5,0OO$. He reports the camp running along with full force and that the property is still produc. ing it's usual quota of bullion.
 Pierre and Augustus Schon, of Kan sas City, arrived in Kingman a few days ago to look after the trying out of the two big trucks shipped to the Union Basin mining company and the Arizona Southwestern Copper com. pany.
 Walter Burkhart and some other miners came in from the Yellow Jack ct mine Thursday night. but expect to return to that section within the next few days. The men believe the Cedar country is destined to become one of the big producing sections of the country.
 Allen E. and John H. Ware, ac- companied by representative of one of the powder companies, went up to the Copper Giant mine last Monday in one of Jesse Tarr's machines. They were well pleased with the trip and saw some very fine copper ore from the big property.
 w. +. Smith, one of the hustling boosters of the county, passed through Kingman Thursday last with a aiming man who is to make an examination of the Walkover group of mines, near the Copper Giant Mir. Smith will have examinations made of other property within the next week or so.
 c. R. Richards came down from Stockton Hill a few days ago. MT. Richards is leasing on the old Little Chief mine and driving ahead for an ore body that he believes to exist some distance from the tunnel level. The mine in years past produced some exceptionally rich silver ore.
 The third hole is now being sunk into the copper bearing ground of the King man Copper Mining x Milling com pany's estate at Mineral Park, It is the belief that this hole will reach the main ore body and bring forth better results than any of the other holes. H E. Bierce. who has charge of the ex ploitation of the property. has just re turned from Los Angeles and will drive work on this new hole as fast as pos sible.
 The first carload of ore from the Copper Giant mine was shipped iron Hack berry last Monday to the smeltel at Jerome. This carload is said tt carry values in the net neighborhooC of twenty per cent copper and abou POS in gold and silver. Each per cen of copper carrles one dollar in golt and silver values. The mine is show ing great values at the 300 and it i: possible that another lift will be sunk Drifts are to be run off from the 300 a station cut and preparation made tt open stopes on all levels. Ore ship ments are to be made regularly to the Jerome shelter and the mine put on pay basis as rapidly as possible.