Mohave County miner., 1915-03-27
Local Mining News.

According to recent ruling of the Treasury Department, all ores here after handled in bonded warehouses will be assayed by the wet method. The smelters are protesting strongly against this innovation.
 The Calumet & Arizona Copper com pany last year paid in dividends 1,85l,- 8.5O$. This is below the 1913 dividend basis on account of the shutdown the last half of last year. The Copper Queen also shows large reduction in its dividends.
 Work is progressing on the mines owned by l. M. George, Dick Banks, Kayser brothers, 0. D. Gaddis and c. M. Stowe, in the Wallapai mountains, and recently optioned to Mir. Frazier. These claims have immense veins in them and carry consistent values in gold, silver and lead. While the weather has not been just right for the carrying on of mining under favorable conditions, it is expected that from this time on weather conditions will be right for economic and energetic work.
 James Jackman, owner of mining property in the Wallapai mountains, was Kingman visitor this week. MT. Jackman has opened this property to such an extent that it would be possible to make large output by the opening of the stopes, but until conditions are more favorable no ore will be shipped from the property to the shelter. With a railroad through that section it would be one of the big paying propositions of the State. The ore is high grade lead, carrying fairly good values in gold and silver.
 George w. Way and Herman Whitney, of Pasadena, and w. M. Saunders, of London, England, passed through here Thursday last on their way to the property of the Arizona Venture Corporation, situated in the lower part of Deluge Wash. This prot- erty now has a shaft below the 200 and is drifting and crosscutting the vein, where some excellent ore is being opened. The mines of this company comprise some of the largest veins in the district and have excellent mineral showing wherever opened. The com pany has equipped the property with splendid plant of machinery, there being a big compressor, machine drills, holster, electric light plant that furnish es illumination for the mine and camp and also milling plant of considerable capacity.
 This week the MINER received map and other data of the Goldroad- Tom Reed mining section from Half & Col well, engineers of Los Angeles. Some time ago the MINER secured the services of H. G. Schader to make map of all the claims of the Goldroad- Tom Reed section, but owing to his illness this map was never completed. Part of his data went into this new map, as well as further data furnished by H. K. Wheel CT. MT. Wheeler tied up all the areas of the various companies and individuals of the district, making this map one of the most complete that has ever been gotten out for that section. The Tom Reed-Gold Road Association, of which H. F. Woods is the secretary, is send ing this data to all who have interest in the mining future of the camps, and an application to him at Oatman or Los Angeles will bring the literature.
 One of the surprising things that mining and smelling has witnessed in the copper regions of the west is the rapid decrease of blast furnaces. Re placing these immense furnaces is the new reverberatories. It is said that this year will see the last of both Utah and Nevada blast furnaces, the evo- lution being brought about gradually.