Bisbee daily review., 1915-06-13
OATMAN STRONG. IN MONTHLY
 CLEANUP
Gold Road Tom Reed District Send $16O,OOO to the Mint. Slight Decline Due to Yearly Work at Tom Reed.
lBy WHiam P Do WolfJ


 OATMAN, Ariz.. June 12.-There may be such a thing as a summer caliorie in the Tom Beed-Gold Road Mining District, Moiave county. Ariz. just the same as there are wallopai tigers and other pestiferous iusecti- ferrous phenomena of dindreC eutomo- logical savasery to irritate the spirit and the skin of all and sundry desert soiourns. l repeat. there may be such a thing as a summercaloric to add emphasis Co the aridity of a commu- nity already legally dry" and i'm. creased huskiness to throats already coated with the dust os en-5rced total abstinence
 Be that as is may, and may it not be at that the fact is our old friend Sol thus far shown a disposition to temper his rays to the temper Of the people with whom prohibition is about as popular as a barrel of grape juice at brewerymen's picnic All of which is one way of saving that in this section the weather's cool and the waters fine; so, come on in,
 Poor Los Prophecy.
 There have been days of late when the desert has tried on its summer mantle of heat-tO test the ht and texture of the garment. so to speak but for the most part the weather has been and yet is for the season of the year cool and free from enervating in. hueuces. The Indians barometers born and weather prophets by herit- age, predict a cool summer through out the Southwest with "plent of rain and heap tall grass"
 Poor Los prognostication would in. dicate that travel across the desert stretches of Arizona the current sum. mer will entail little of discomfort. and that prospecting and other sur face mining may be done without es- peCial hardship. In a mining section such as this. where may new people are coming in many ne wshafts are be- ing started and a great deal of sur. face work is being done, a modicum of heat means a maximum of mining work and the latter. in turn, means uninterrupted improvement of the To- cal mining industry throughout a sea- son of the year when, as rule, there is an easing off in physical and mental effort.
 Gold Output of Camp.
 Whatever the climatic conditions, the mills of the Tom Reed-Gold Road District grind a golden grist unceas- inely During the month of May they turned out gold bullion to the value of Sl60,OOO, the same being extracted from 14OOO tons of ore A comparl- son Of the May record with that for April shows a falling off of S5.000 in the value of the gold shipped to mint This curtailmeut was due to a 3-day shut down of the Tom Reed cOmpanys min for yearly cleanup and overhaul ing of the plant.
 On the 162-acre estate of the Mayo ma Mining company. nearby the Tom Reed mine. a body of highly oXdized vein material has been encountered at a depth of 20 feet The quartz shows gold in the free and yields a good string of colors when banned. A network of veins crosses the Mozo- ma from the direction Of the Tom Reed and associated herewith is a system of faults which in this and other sec. tions of the district has invariably shoots of pay ore The quartz exposed at nominal depth in the Mazona shaft is similar to uear-surface ores of the productive mines here James Conlin and E. c. Taber of Los Angeles, and Major Tom McClelland formerly of Denver and Cripple Creek, are dnan- oially interested in the affair of the Mazona company.
 Along the Back Trail.
 lt is a far look along the back trail of the years 10 the period of the Spaniards' dominion in Arizona; from the day Of the automobile to that of the sumpter-mule. from the hour of concentrated energy to that of indolent effort; yet, they are the golden links in the chain Of events which binds the present to the past and unites the wOrk-a-day world with the world of romance The very road that affords the camp access to railway at King man and at Needles winds backward along the trail of the years to the days of the Franciscan fathers and chiming mission bells
 Before the Declaration of Independ-
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