Weekly journal-miner., 1915-04-28
GID TRAILS IS THE
 NAME OF NEW CAMP

OA1 MAN, Aprll ZS.-l nat man IS. indeed, a pessimist, who can look upon the mammoth dikes of the Tom Reed-G Gold Road mining district, view the great ore-body in the United Eastern mine, inspect the five miles of drifts and crosscuts in the Gold Road mine and read the production figures of the Tom Reed mine with out being convinced that this camp with its monthly bullion output of $l60,O00 is soon to be in the spot light as a mining proposition.
 At this time the camp presents much the same appearance as did Manhattan just prior to the rush which increased the population of that well known Southern Nevada camp from a few hundred to more than 5000 within sixty days.
 Mining operations are being prose cuted on an increasing scale through out the and 1Omile area of the dis trict, and the results are so com pletcly satisfactory capital for mine development is becoming more plentiful and easier to secure than formerly. This quickening of the local mining industry is due in part to a renewal of interest in mining in the investment centers or the United States, Primarily, though, it has origin in a number of valuable dis coverics of ore made of late: chief among them being the 40-foot vein of high grade opened on the 300 and 46O-foot levels in the United East crn mine, and the shoot of high grade opened in the west drift on the 1075-foot level in the Tom Reed mine.
 From the Black Range property on the south to the Neglected group of the Tom Reed estate on the north "a distance of nearly 10 miles-the district is undergoing development. Within that area there is an ore pro duction of 14000 tons per month. Within that area the Tom Reed mine is outputting better than $1OO,OOO worth of ore per month. Within that area the Gold Road mine is out putting better than $6O.000 worth of ore per month. Within that area there are forty properties equipped with mining machinery. Within that area there are sixty stamps crushing out the gold.
 Within that area there are several mills where the machinery is being overhauled preparatory to the rcduc- ton of ore Within that area the United Eastern people are preparing to erect mill for the reduction of the $2,0OO,0O0 worth of ore that is in sight on and above the 460-foot level ir their mine. Within that area are located the prosperous mining set dement's of Oatman and Gold Road, and within that area is being estab- lishcd the mining camp of Old Trails.
 Origin of Name.
 Old Trails is the hub of the Tom Reed Gold Road district. The auto trails to connection with the Santa Fe railroad at Needles, California, and Topock and Kingman, Arizona, lead through Old Trails avenue the main street of Old Trails. The camp derives its name from the Padre Garces trail, dating back to the 18th century. and to the cmigrant trail leading westward from Santa Fe, New Mexico, and dating back to the days of bull teams and prairie schoon- CTS. Both of these trails pass over the site of Old Trails. Southern California capital, represented by V. s. Rowley of Los Angeles and Henry ID. Blakeslee, former public admin istrator of San Bernardino county, is invested in Old Trails.
 Half and Colwell, deputy United States mineral surveyors, formerly of Cripple Creek, Colorado, and later of Goldheld and Rawhide, Nevada, are surveying and plating Old Trails. They expect to have the work com pleted in time for dcdicatory cere- monies on May 18th. The advent of Old Trails into the sisterhood of Ari- zona mining camps is to be celebrat- ed in an appropriate manner. The program so far as outlined includes barbecue, miners drilling contest, field sports, concert by the Tom Reed Mine Band and auto races over portion of the route of the annual Los Angeles to Phoenix automobile race-it leads across the site of Old Trails
 Black Range Plans.
 D. P. Wright, president of the Black Range Mining Company, re turned the current week from Los Angeles where he attended direc- tors meeting of the company, and ! ,..,-.I,,-oJ .,,-,,I;a- ,,I o+Lar min Q [