Mohave County miner., 1913-04-26
Mines of the County

W ''ii"" ANSoSiSS iSpi N'> United Verde interests, was in King man last Tuesday, going from here to the mines at Brownsville, where work is being lnaugurated on the Copper Giant mine. The company is to get things in shape for the employment Of quite a force of men.
 Frank Gibbons. who has been pros pecting in the Cedar district. is re- ported to have discovered vein of ore high up among the pines, on the great fault that runs through Deluge Wash, that carries shipping values in gold silver and copper. The surface showing is good and those that have seen the ore say that it is very rich. A shipment is now being taken out and will be sent to the smeher short ly.
 James S. Douglas, manager of the Greene Cananea Copper company. was driven from Cananea the other day by Mexicans, who held some grievance against the company. Just what that grievance was is not known, but the impression is that the company cut the pay of the workers to something be- low the old scale, which act is belev- ed to have been resented. As no one was working at the time it does not appear to have injured the men in the matter of cutting salaries, but the men thought they had a grievance and took the method of driving Douglas out of the camp as the only solace to their feelings. It was at first reported that he was held prisoner with ransom of 200, ,000$ on his head.
 The congress is now up to it's eyes in the discussion of tariff measures Among the matters of tariff legislation affecting the mining interests of the state is that of lead and zinc, copper being so well intrenched that nothing can injure the standing of the metal in the worlds markets. It is purposed to take the duty off both lead and zinc at the pound rate and put them into the advalorum class, which will reduce the duty more than sixty per cert on each metal. No one can foretell just what effect this action will have on the mining of the two metals, but it looks to us that some of the low grade mines will be put out of commission. Lead is now too low to provide profit | able mining and with the duty practi- | cally off zinc only the large rich zinc bodies can keep going, especially the western zinc mine, which now have to give up the biggest part of their con. tent in freight rates. 1
 This week locating engineer Mir | Barlow, of the State Engineers office, came up from west of Yucca, where he located the road that is to traverse Mohave county from east to west. He | reports having found an excellent route and believes splendid road may be built along that line. The sur. veyors are now in the field making a permanent survey of the route, which | is to be later built under the super vision of the State engineering de- partment. The road will have its terminus at Topock, which point the San Bernardino county road will con. meet with 1t. The entire roadway will l be built as soon as men and money will | do the work and will be made as per- feet a grade as possible. The en- gineering will provide suitable drain. age for the road throughout. From Kingman to Yucca new route will probably be made from the Goldroad | wagon road near the Thirteen Mile | wash, which will obviate the upkeep of the lines of paralleling road.
 The Compressed Air Magazine con. tains an advertisement for four men | who own in the aggregate 1,250 shares | of stock in the Tamarack X Chesa. peake Mining company of Idaho Among the men is Patrick Torley. of Kingman, who is said to have acuuir- ed 4,2o0 shares, now worth the sum of 6,5S7 7,5OS, the shares of the other men sought by the company holding the balance of the shares, worth in the aggregate more than ll,OOOS It ap. pears that MT. Torley deposited his