Mohave County miner., 1914-04-11
Mines of the County

Mir. Roberts, who is ere buyer of the American Smelling and Refining con- pany, with headquarters at Hayden, Arizona. was looking over the mines of this county this week with view to getting d big tonnage of copper ore.
 This morning George B. Ayers brought ia from the Gold Road mill a bar of bullion weighing 24,00O$, the cleanup of the big mill for the week. The mill is handling about 300 tons of ore daily and good recovery is made.
 N. J. Churchill, of the Tennessee mine, was over from Chloride yester- day on business. He met Manager D.. R. Muir of tho company in Kingman and the two nen went out to look the big lead mine over. It is the general impression that the Tennessee is opening a wonderful ore body in that property, near the 1000 level.
 w. H. Smith. who has been looking
 
 after mining business in Los Angeles the past month, returned to Kingman few days ago. He is getting matters shaped up for the installation of a plant on the mines of the Swastica company. near the old McCracken mine. This plant will handle about 80 tons of ore daily, concentration being affected by the use of dry machine. Tests have been satisfactory.
 The Gold Reed Mining x Milling company has received at Kingman a 4O-hOrse power engine that will be put in at the mine to operate a con- pressor plant. This company has opened it's mine to a depth of several hundred feet and is placing heavier machinery in commission to drive still further into the big vein H. H. Shuck. who has had charge of the de- velopment of the property, has done great work for the expenditure made.
 M. Stockder, of Tucson, who is rep resenting the American Smel lting and Refining company, was Kingmap visilor this week, having come here to make an examination of the Midnight mine. In company of Kean St. Charles he went out to the property Tuesday last and looked the mine over. It is understood that he is well pleased with the mine and the amount of ore in sight. He is well versed in the matter of mineral separation and believes that many of the ores of this county will respond to many well known meth- ods. While here he looked into the ores of molybdenite and tungsten, of which there are many deposits, and believes that they may be put in shape to produce heavily While molybde- nite is hard metal to handle when in combination with copper it is his be- lief that with proper methods em- ployed clean separation may be made. MT. Stockder will return with in the next ten days and look the coun- try over.
 J. E. Rose, of the Telluride Mining company, who has been over to the property. was in Kingman Wednesday last making arrangements for the haulage of a large amount of new ma chinery to the property. Among tbs new material is a compressor and six drill machine, which will be added to the equipment of the property. The shaft on the man vein of the group has reached depth of 200 feet, from which level a crosscut has been run through the vein l77 feet to the hang ing wall. l6O feet of this crosscut passed through ore of milling grade and the balance shows some value. On the hanging wall the heavy filling of clay shows considerable movement. This clayey matter is full of quartz, some of which gives results in gold in the horn spoon. The property adioius the Tom Reed mines on the th and shows. a great width of vein material. It has been in the hands of people that have not tried to hog the treas ury. every dollar coming from stock sales having gone into the mine. The management has been under the di- rection of P. c. Mcdonald, one of the best mine managers in the district. When the company was formed on the