Mohave County miner., 1913-02-15
Mrs. Ray Wheslock, who has been on he sick list the past few days. will leave this evening for Los Angeles.

on he sick list the past few days, will leave this evening for Los Angeles.
 Chairman of the Board of Super visors J. c. Potts has gone to Phenix, where he will look after important county business and make the ac- Qualntance of nephew he has not seen in forty years,
 It is expected that Mohave county bonds would arrive in Kingman this week and that as soon as the signature of the chairman of the board of super. visors was affixed they would be re. turned to Kansas City and the money paid over.
 l.. A. Dockery and the Dudley Brothers have gone to the McCracken mine, where they will make a thorough examination of that proper ty. The gentlemen are capable of handlisg just such a mining propoSi. tion and it is to be hoped that they will take it over.
 NJ. A. Burke, who has been operat. ing his mining claims in the Stockton Hill section, is in kinyman. He re. ports having opened up nice body of ore in one of the properties and that with proper milling appliances it could be made good paying invest mAnt. The ore carries values in gold, silver and lead
 w. D Grannis came in from Pasa- dena last Sunday morning and depart ed the following day to his mining properties in the lower part of DeIuye Wash, by way of the Big Sandy. The mines are under development, several men having been kept at work the past three or four months and It is re- ported that a splendid showing of ore is now in sight.
 Clarence Wilson and Hubert Smith have taken over the Big Sandy auto. mobile stage line from H. F. White and are now operating it. The s'a~e to the Sandy is a great conv, nienc- ,n the people along the route, a- it gir them speedy access to Kingnan and the county seat. The stage makes the trip between Owen postotfice and Kingman in four hours. distance of about 65 miles.
 The work on the Piukham mine is showing up a great property, so it is reported. The people back of this enterprise are among the largest cop. per operators in the United States. l.. A. Dockery is in charge of the mining work, while associated with him are the Dudley Brothers, well known Mexi- can mining men. The mine is to be developed to a depth of six or seven hundred feet and all the veins conti- guOus to the big main vein will be cut by deep crosscuts.
 Kean St. Charles and Bro. have been running their concentpator plant on the Midnight mine, at Chloride, the past week and it is said that they have been getting the best of results. The plant is working smoothly and turning out valuable product. The dumps of the mine show big bodies of low grade ores that can be worked in- to most desirable smelling material, while the mine has thousands of tons of a still better grade of ore that can be dressed up for the market.
 Several gasoline engines and pumps were taken this week to the Big San. dy section, where they will be installed for purposes of irrigation. The high lands are being looked after by many of the old settlers of that section. as well as by the new locators. The high lands cannot be irrigated from the creek. but with wells and a thorough system of pumping these lands will be made the most produc- tive in the valley, while at the same time they are high above any poss- bility of floods.