Mohave County miner., 1916-08-26
CFrom oatman Section Daily Miner)


 northwest is the old Navy group and on the north edges are the Gaddis and Perry, the Clack and Gunnell and Black Wonder, all properties long fa- nous and of great merit.
 1 The Record Lode has the Hardy ledge. This property was located in 1860 and has produced thousands of dollars in high grade from shallow diggings. The depth of the workings are 175 feet and it had bonanza ore on the surface, which in the old days gave it renown to the ends of the min ing world. The ledge through the Record Lode averages 30 feet wide. It has been opened in a few places with in the boundaries of the group. The main opening is a tunnel 100 feet on the ledge as a drift. Herein many samplings have been made. And 1t IS from here that the owners feel that they could ship ore tomorrow. Their samplings have run in these figures: One S37.4O. another S31.2O and third S1S.1S. All were from bodies of ore ten feet wide. They have had many other assays run from doubtful and less likely looking points that have gone anywhere from S2 up, but from the ore body itself the above are the results.
 Of this fact the correspondent is convinced. He mortared and banned the rock and saw the gold. One pan ming especially would indicate values of easily $40 a ton. Other pannings from float were made and all showed colors in greater or less abundance.
 The tunnel was started with the idea of tapping a fork of the ledge where a smaller vein takes to the southwest in the direction of the Jerome-Oatman the main Harcy ledge goes southeast toward the Lucky Rudge and the liar dy group Just beyond the junction IS point of especial interest to J. J.. Mccarthy, one of the owners, where thete is a buckling-up fault or kind of step in the ledge. He is a mining su- perintendent with a record of rare success and he picks out those buck ling-up points every time for place to sink. There are several other such places to be found on the surface and it will be left to Mir. Mccarthy to se- lect the one to sink upon.
 The vein strikes northwest to the mouth of the tunnel of the old Navy property, beneath which there is a dump to indicate perhaps 500 feet of work with a lot of stoping. This is one of the old-time properties that has produced money in the past. It isI still owned by a company with offices at Los Angeles and while it is inactive it cannot be bought for price such as Oatman properties will command and applicants to the company have met with slim encouragement to carry on a conversation. The Hardy ledge passes on through and for seven miles, all told. It is said that on the lesert toward the Colorado river the surface values are persistent but low.
 The Record Lode is somewhat the same class of a property as the War ner group, which was described in the Sunday issue. It pans gold anywhere on the surface and is another case where great depth to find the values is unnecessary. They are in the same vicinity, the latter being little fur there to the northwest.
 The rock is the same-a white sugar quartz-and every piece of it pans gold. Indeed, all over the surface of the Record Lode there is float and any piece of it will pan. Some of it is rich and would stand gathering up and milling.
 One very attractive feature is a gen. erous supply of water. It comes from this great lode and shows that it amounts to something. The water ap- pears in a spring in a gulch close by. A well was dug there to a depth of ten feet and it stands almost full of water even at this dry part of the