The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-11-20
MANY MINES AT
OATMAN SINKING
DEEP SHAFTS ARE PLANNED ON
PROPERTIES THROUGHOUT
DISTRICT
by Ray II. Harris)

t'SSo mn w.
west Of Kingman, is increasing it's
proportions with each succeeding
day. Properties are changing hands
every day and the companies being
organized for their development are
proceeding along lines that insure
deep operations. The rush of for
t~une-seekers to Oatman and other
camps of Mohave county, all of which
are tributary to Kingman, is steadily
growing and it is apparent that the
eyes of the mining world are center
ed upon this section.
The management of the United
Eastern continues to push operations
on the 3O6, 465 and 565-foot levels
with all possible vigor and the re
suits being attained are thoroughly
in keeping with the showing made
/ N the past. The new north and south
drifts in the vein on the 306-foot
level are making excellent headway
in ore assaying from $40 to $50 per
ton.
Although work in the south DRIFT
on the 565-foot level has been
stopped, it having been advanced
to the southern boundary line OF the
property, all in ore averaging $35 a
ton and 22 feet in width, the north
drift on the came level is being ex-
tended. 1t now measures more than
800 feet in length. The vein to the
north OF the shaft on this level has
a width of around % feet and gives
returns ranging from $35 to $40 per
ton. At the 1S0-foot point in the
north drift on the %565-foot level, a
crosscut has been started from the
hanging wall to the footwall of the
vein.
Upon it's completion, a raise will be
nut up from it to the 465-foot level
for ventilation and exploratory pur-
noses. Having passed out of the
oreshoot, the north drift on the 465-
foot level has been stopped at the
595-foot point from the 70-fOot
northeast cross-cut to the vein. The
new south drift On the vein IN this
level is now more than 40 feet in
length and is exposing a full ACE of
r25 ore. Thus far no cross-cuts have
been run from this drift to determine
the full width of the vein in this
section of the mine.
With a force of several miners
the Gilt Edge Mining company, OPP
Grating to the southwest of the town
of Oatman near the Vivian and Lei
.~l .oDA~ttor &c nrnnnndinO UUifh
surface work preparatory to sinking
a main working shaft at the juno
ton of the two big lodges. 1t will be
sent down 200 feet before lateral de-
velopment is undertaken.
The main incline shaft or the
Carter Mining and Milling company
property is now down $50 feet. The
company will sOOn place into COM
mission a three-drill air compressor
and two machine drills to hasten the
shaft work, a depth of 500 feet be-
ing the objective point. In a winze,
now measuring about 20 feet in
depth, below the southeast drift on
the 150-foot level, there is exposed
at present four feet of $14 ore.
The Goldroad Bonanza company,
sink a vertical two-compartment
main working shaft on a branch, of
the main Goldroad vein. 1t will be
equipped with a 25lhorsepOwer gas
oline hoist and will be sent down
200 feet before lateral work is UNI
{ Il ox, D,;f;n~ ooct o~I u,ncf Il,
the vein is in progress OF the 500
foot level of the Gold Ore mine at
Goldroad. The drifts have been ey-
tended 200 feet in each direction.
The face of the east drift shows IS
'eet Of $40 ore, with a twO-foot
streak carrying values of 800 per
ton. Nine feet of ore in the face
of the west drift has been yielding
values of 500 per ton.
The Goldroad Capote Mines COM
pany. the property of which is locat-
ed to the west of Gold Ore. is making
prenarations to sink a shaft to a
depth of 500 feet. In cutting a sta
ton at the 5O5-fot point in it's shaft
the United Western is exposing
stringers of qaurtz carrying encour-
aging values.
The Fessenden Gold Mining COM
pany is installing a 25-hOrsepowei
gasoline hoist. recently delivered on
the ground. The main vertical shaft
now down 20 feet, will be sem to the
500-fOOt point.
Stringers of quartz, which pans
gold. are being revealed in the bot.
tom of the shaft being sunk on the
Big Jim.
Assays ranging from $11 to $40
rer ton are being obtained by the
lvanhoe in the extension of the cas-,
drift on the 200-foot level.
The Telluride Mining. Milling AND
Development company recently start
ed a southeast drift on the vein
from the 250-fOOt DOint in the south