Mohave County miner., 1913-02-01
Mines of the County

heah SC. CnarleS expects to nave ms mill on the Midnight mine in opera tion before many weeks and will try it out in concentration tests prepara- tory to a long run on the sulphide ores from the property, of which there are many thousands of tons.
 Leasers on the old Distaff property, at Chloride, shipped big carload of rich ore to the smelter last week. This ore showed native silver in abundance, the silver being mixed with the lead. giving it a handsome appearance. It also carried some gold. The ore was taken from below the old tunnel level and at depth that assured large ore shoot.
 Clifford Goulding, manager of the Yucca Mining company, operating the San Francisco mine, accompanied by his wife and children, attended the good roads meeting in Kingman this week. Mr. Goulding reports that re- cent shipments of ore from the San Francisco property is on the way to the smelter. The ore shows excellent values and the stOpes are being opened in some of the richest ground the mine has ever shown.
 It is reported that the Lewisshons, who have large mining interests ln the Copper Basin country, southwest of Prescott, have obtained permission for the construction of branch line of railroad from the main line of the Santa Fe at Seligman to Bouse, on the Arizona and California. The mining property that is to be worked in con- nection with this railroad is said to be the richest in the state, drill hay ing gone through fifty feet of native copper ore of exceptional richness. Other mining interests will be affected by the railroad.
 Last Sunday the big Saurer truck brought in another shipment of lead ore from the Smith. Hoffman property, near the McCracken mine. The ship ment consisted of about six tons of heavy silver-lead ore, which will be shipped to the smelter for treatment. The ore was taken from the mine by leasers, who made nice cleanup from their work the last few months. It is said that considerable money could be made from this property if properly handled with the present showing of ore h sight. The vein is of goodly width and the ore is one of the most desirab ble that smelter could demand.
 There has been considerable surpri. expressed at the action of the Gold Road Mines company laying off about 40 men of it's mining force, but when It is realized that there is now broken in the stopes of the mine more than one years ore supply and more than five years reserves of ore in the mine a ready explanation will be found The mine is Just now undergoing series of betterments and the mill is 10 be brought up to the mine capacity as soon as possible. Owing to the freeze month ago considerable work was en- tailed in getting things in shape to continue milling, but all that has been remedied, and with the additions and changes that are mapped out it is ex- pected that the property will soon be in fair way to greater production and consequent output of bullion. It is the general belief that the Gold Road is one of the greatest gold mines in the country and only needs additional mill ing capacity to place it among the great gold mines of the world.
 H, E Blerce, Thomas McNeely and Anson H, Smith went down to the Copper Canyon properties, owned by l.. J. Lassell, w. J. Connor, and Smith x Sawyers, where some work is now being carried on, Sunday last. The men were somewhat surprised with the showing of ore in the out crops of the veins, and in the workings on the Whale lode. This vein has been entered about S5 feet by adit drift, the breast of the drift being un der the apex about l25 feet. A cross- cut at the breast shows twelve feet of ore, there still being no walls in sight. zf