Mohave County miner., 1913-01-18
Mines of the County

klngman, has gone up the Colorado river from Eldorado Canyon for the purpose of prospecting some placer ground that is believed to exist above the Vegas Wash.
 Last year Wells, Fargo & Co. ship ped 2,000,0C0$ in gold bullion from Kingman station, the bullion coming from various mines in this vicinity. The shipments of base ore passing through here to the smelters was cor respondingly large.
 D. R. Muir paid visit to the mines of the Needles Mining & Smelling company this week. Mr. Muir is now located permanently at Goldroad, but has the same general supervision over all the mining camps and Needles smelter.
 Thomas McNeely. who has optioned the greater part of his Mineral Park holdings to H. E. Bierce and Roy Me- Causeland, was in Kingman this week closing up the deals. The mines in which he is interested are to be equip ped with machinery and the work car ried to greater depth.
 F. M. Barnes who has held mining property on the Colorado river many years, was in Kingman Thursday last on his way to Chloride, from which point he will go out to the Temple Bar section. He made trip to the river near Searchlight, where boat was built and the trip to Needles was made by water route.
 John l.. Riggs, owner of the chryso- phrase gem mines, near the old Walk CT ranch, completed the assessment work for the past year a week or so ago and reports that he found some excellent stone. The gem stone is one of the handsomest of the green gems and only few localities in the United States produces it.
 Practically all work has been sus- pended on the mines at Mineral Park, with exception of the drilling opera tions, the company being desirous of locating a good place for main work ing shaft. So far the drill work has been satisfactory, the first hole being
 
 in ore below the oxidized zone.
 E. A. Shaw, who is interested with Mir. Braley in mines in Bobtail basin, paid the properties visit last Wednesday. He reports that there is fine showing of ore in the mines, as- says above one hundred dollars in gold having been obtained from tho shaft. Other places were found that also car ried good gold values.
 The miners on the Metallic Acci- dent mine, at Mineral Park. have been laid off for the present, the company operating the property getting in shape to put in machinery in place of hand work. The winze has been sunk from the tunnel level to a depth of eighty feet, the work having all been done in ore of good value.
 Jack Hart gladdened the hearts of J. c. Lane and J. w. Morgan this week by bringing in some very rich gold ore from their mines at Cerbat. The ore was taken from the 50 foot shaft and shows free gold all through the rock. Mr. Hart says that the vein is the full width of the shaft and every part of it horns high in gold. The owners are quite Jubilant over the strike. The location is west of the Little Flores, and in one of the best gold belts of the range.
 J. w. Cornelius has gone back to the mines of the American Metals Mines company, in Deluge Wash, Cedar district, where he is to install a pumping plant to enable them to sink the shaft to depth of at least 1OC feet. At depth of thirty feet the water came in so strong that the miners were unable to make headway with windlass and bucket. At the depth the shaft was all in ore, the highest value being zinc, assays show. ing percentage of thirty-fve units.
 w. D. Grannis departed Thursday last by automobile stage to his mining