Mohave County miner., 1915-06-19
By the Bye.

come, said well known New York mining engineer at the Rocky Mountain Club this week.
 'They have yielded more money, down to where the oxide ores give way to the sulpbides, than has been obtain ed under the same condition in any other camp in Utah.
 ''That is, they have produced car bonate ores from which 6O,OOO, OOO$ have been obtained.
 Below where the sulphide ore zone has been explored, the ore assays just about twice as much in value per cubic foot as did the soft ores above. The reasons for this are twofold. The ores are all in place and no teaching has been going on.
 'It may be asked why these ores have never been worked.
 "When first struck there was no shelter in Utah that could reduce sul- phide ores; when such furnaces were finally erected, the charges made and the cost of transporting the ores to the smelters were so high that there was no profit left to the mine owners.
 Nevertheless, great many for tunes have been made in the Cotton woods; the faith in the mines by the initiated has never wavered and the dawn of new day for the wonderful district is even now reddening in the east.
 "A tramway from the center of the district has already been constructed four and one-half miles and will this year be continued two and one-half miles to the railway.
 "A like tramway across the valley in Bingham district reduced ore trans portation to the reduction works more than 70 per cent.
 ''From where the tramway starts at the mines, tunnels ramify the hills north, east and south, and deep tun- mel started far down the mountains is creeping in and will drain the district uuiluS IuC CoiHiiiS IWSlVS UT ulIceH months.
 "Then look out for the liveliest min ing camp in the whole west!
 "It must be kept in mind that the Cottonwoods were first opened by men who knew no more about mining than Nicodemus knew of the second birth, and in a region where no one knew any, thing at all about reducing ores that contain lead, silver, copper and gold all n combination.
 cup to twelve years ago if a miner brought to Utah shelter ores contain ing those metals. with the assays show ing 5 per cent. copper, the smelter would allow nothing for the copper, though at that time refined copper was selling in the markets of the world at more than 2O0$ per ton.
 "At first the miners knew little about the mechanics of mining and far less about the constituent elements and their combinations in the ores.
 ''Then the old rule for locating quartz veins was most crude. A loca- tor was entitled to 200 feet along the vein and 200 feet more for discovery. Then the rule was to put down about four or five more names, each for 200 feet, and give the whole name. Thus, "The Queen of Sheba" mine would contain, say, 1,20O feet along the vein, of which Thomas Jefferson, the locator would own 400 feet as locator and Martin Van Buren, Silas Wright, Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson, and other owners, would have each 200 feet. Then work would begin, each owner putting up his share to meet the expense, then one would get cold feet and debt would begin to pile up against him. If the prospect looked we'll and began to be talked about, an other owner would say to himself that a man was fool to risk money in busi- ness of which he knew nothing, and so would sell half his interest (feeD to an outsider. In half the cases the trans fers were never recorded.
 "Often the owners of mines next ad- joining the mine that was being work ed would do nothing on their property except a few days assessment work