Mohave County miner., 1914-02-07
Sampling Gold Bearing
 Gravel ot the Colorado.

York City, Eli Hilty and A. h. Mc- Kesson, practical mining men of King man. went out to the placer fields Of the Colorado river Tuesday, with Judge M. w. Musgrove. Prof. Hassan went out a second time to check samples taken by him couple Of weeks ago. There is every evidence that active operations will be started very soon. Certainly the rich bars on the Colorado river should be an at tractive investment to conservative operators, for the gold is there in paying quantities.
 Thursday evening the party return ed to Kingman, having made the trip by automobile and spending full day and parts of two days on the ground.
 F. H. Crafts, owner of the Badger and Hercules mines, at Chloride came in from Los. Ageles and Pasadena Thursday last, where he had been at tending to important business connect ed with his mining affairs.
 The Utah Arizona Gold and Copper | com pany have levied an assessment Of one half cent per share on it's issued
 shares for the purpose of continuing
 the work on the properties west of
 White Hills, in the Black range. The
 company is composed of Utah people.
 Joseph and Charles Dudley, who are
 the head of the big mining outfit operating the Blackberry and c. O. D. mines, were Kingman visitors this
 week and looked over the properties. l.. A. Cookery is the engineer in
 charge of the work and has it well
 under way. Owing to the influx of
 water in both mines the work of sink
 ing has been retarded, but thls will
 be obviated within the next few days, large sinking pump being put in at
 both places.
 Ed. Williams was in Kingman from his tungsten mines, in the Aquarius mountains, a few days ago. He re- ports that he has five men at work on the mines and will soon have the mill running on the ores from that property. Owing to the heavy rains in that region the mil
 has been idle the past two months, il t being found impossible to haul ore t from the mine. A preliminary TUT was made which demonstrated the I adaptability Of the mill to handle the . ore, nice grade of concentrates being !. made. With better weather the mil e will soon be in commission.
 H. F.. Bierce and wife came in iron Mineral Park yesterday to look after
 business matters. He reports tha ', work of sinking a winze in the drift or
 the McNsely property is going or
 steadily and that some good yalue C have been found in the oxdlzed ores l. In the bottom of the winZe water i h commencing to come in and it is th' Il I'm pf0SSlOQ UndI d l6W leeU lllOt0 Wll 2 bring the water level and sulphides IS The sulphide ores of that section carr n better values than the oxides, whicl J. would lead to the belief that bette 2 ore may be looked for, as well as al It easier ore for milling, at or belo, r. water level.
 ID. s. Williams, one of the direc N tors of the Boundary Cone Minin
 company, was Klngman visitor thi e week, having been out to the mines to Good work is being done on the proE D. erty and it is understood that millin le plant will soon be under way. Tn Id property is developed to such an e, De tent that it can now be relied upon { D. furnish large tonnage of high grad ty milling ore. The company has worl re ed the mines conservatively durin is the past several years and the stool e, holders may feel assured that the G. have been given value received ft $, their money in the development of a de excellent mining property, every dc
 lar being expended below ground ar o not in expensive quarters on the su =, face