Mohave County miner., 1913-01-25
Mines of the County

shipped to the smeter. The big Saurer truck hauled the ore over soft roads distance of 3S miles in about five hours.
 P. McCardell this week made a sur vey of the Alpha group of mines for patent. The mines are now owned by the Arizona Alpha mining company, composed of Chicago men. The prop erty is all right, only small amount of work being required to put the main vein of the group in position to ship to the shelter
 Charles Grimes, president of the Tom Reed Gold Mines comrany. ac. companied by E. s. Harwood, of Pasa- dena, passed through Kingman few days ago on their way to the mines. Mr. Grimes has been one of the most successful mine managers in the state and has made the Tom Reed one of the great gold mines of the world.
 George B. Ayers came in Wednes- day from Goldroad with one of those big weekly bars of bullion from the mill at that place. The bar weighed something over 20,000S. The company has had some troubles during the past two weeks with the water system. the pipes conveying water over the mo n- tains having frozen up.
 w. D. Granpis came up from his mines near the Diamond Joe, last Wednesday, bringing with him some excellent samples of ore. These sam ples showed heavy silver values, and also contained some lead and copper. He reports that the mine is showing considerable of this rich ore in the drifts and that work is being pushed with the object of opening up. a large tonnage. The veins are large and have important ore bodies now open ed.
 John l.. Riggs. of Chloride. is the owner of the only Chrysopase mine in the state of Arizona, the property being situated near Burns Ranch, in the Weaver mining district. He has completed the assessment work on the mines for the past year and in doing the work opened nice showing of this gem stone. Some of it is beautiful in color and of the finest tex ture. The demand for the stone is great and it is probable that the proT- erty will soon be operated with a goodly force of men.
 J. E, McNeil, of Los Angeles, one of the owners of the Elkhart mlne, at Chloride, passed through Kingman last Wednesday on his way to the mines. The Elkhart is being equipped with plant for the separation of the lead, iron and zinc. Just what sue cess it will have remains to be seen. The Notation process employed at the Broken Hills proprietary mines, of New South Wales, would, in our op inion, be the method to employ in tke separation of these metals
 F. H, Summeril, who has been op. erating mining property in the Gold Road section, is in Kingman. This week he had a case in court covering the optional sale of mining property in the GOldroad. the defendants being Mullin and Sullivan. The matter came up in an equitable action ir which Summeril asked for all order enjoining the defendants interfering with his operation of the mining prop erty under the terms of the option The Superior Court granted the in junction.
 Sidney J. Jenning, Frederick Lyor and A. P. Anderson, representing the United States Smelling, Refining and Mining company, passed through Kingman yesterday on their way tC Goldroad, where they will confer with the local management. There l> something important happening in the bly corporation, as about one hundred and forty miners and muckers have been laid off, the suspension of min ing to last at least thirty days. It has been gwen out that the big mill is to have many important betterments the closing. of the null causing mining