Mohave County miner., 1913-05-24
Mining in Northern Mohave

Butte, and reports that that section of Nevada and Arizona is becoming quite prosperous from a mining standpoint. The Grand Gulch company is shipping a large tonnage of ore to the railroad, at St. Thomas, the hauling to the Vir- gin river being by truck, whence it is hauled across the rlver to the railroad by team. It is probable that bridge will be built across the river at St Thomas and the railroad may be con- tinued to the mine in Grand Gulch The ores from this mine are being as sorted to twelve per cent or better, be- low which it would not pay to send to the shelter. A great deal of the ore now being taken from the mine runs 10 thirty-three per cent and better. The lower grades that are being sent to the smelter is from the cobbings and dump ores left from the shipments that were sent to Salt Lake City by way of St. George.
 The Copper Mountain Mining con- pany, in the Buckskin Mountain region, is shipping a considerable tonnage of ore by way of the Grand Gulch. The haul is something over eighty miles and takes more than week to make the round trip by team. The ore is said to have value above sixty per cent copper, and also carries values in gold and silver. These veins are on q contact between sandstone and lime and lays in kidneys of rich copper. The mines have recently been taken over on bond by company that is said to be well financed. Along the belt, which is thought to be an extension of the United Verde, there are many out crops of copper through the sandstone and lines. The ore in every instance is rich oxides and carbonates.
 In the Virgin range several mines are now being worked and the ores shipped to the smslters. The bodies are not large, at least this may be said of the richer part of the veins, but con- tact with the granite and lime has been reached and the general opinion is that great bodies will be found be- low the point of contact. Above that level the ore was found in the lime and sandstone, the workings being at the 300.
 With the extension of the railroad into this county great country would be opened up, there being gold, copper, lead and silver, while in many places good grade of mica Is found. Along the Virgin there are many deposits of spodumine crystals that could be used in the place of jet: and close to the river is the great salt deposit that has furnished Utah's Dixie with it's salt for fifty years. Immense gypsum deposits are along the river for thirty miles and of great depth. With the entry of capital and the opening of the country by railroad that section would become one of the richest in the southwest.
 Over in the Wallapai Springs sec- tion the Myers Frost strike is being operated in a small way, several of the owners having to look after the open ing up of water holes for larger number of cattle that have come into the ranges in that neighborhood. As soon as this is done work will again be resumed and drifts run along the vein into tho rich ore. The shaft is now at a depth of 50 feet and shows about a foot of ore that will run above 1908 to the ton in gold and silver. Consider able of the ore is now on the dump and can be sent to the mill. Drifting has opened up good sized vein of fair milling ore, aside from the rich streak.
 The activity displayed among the mines of Cho bride owing to the rich strike of ore in the Tennessee is re- udthdolo. ENery ulne InaI SnOWS the smallest kidney of shippable ore in the camp is being looked after and there is probability of many of the large low grade properties being talk en over and worked. Many mining men from Mexico are lookiog at the mines of that section and appear well pleased with the outcrops.
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