Mohave County miner., 1916-11-25

The Qr1IC south Will be continued 225 feet to connection with the old workings, which are located near the old Homestead mill. Mineral condi-
 tions indicate the presence of a con-
 tinuous shoot of ore from the vein
 Juncture before mentioned to the old
 workings. At the latter point an up- raise will to made to surface. Later,
 this upraise will be used as a shaft.
 Through it's medium the old stopes
 will be tapped, from which approxi-
 mately S50,000 worth of high grade
 gold ore was mined about thirty years ago. This ore was treated nearby in
 an old 5-stamp mill on the bank of Lynx Creek. The ruins of the old
 mill, with its obsolete machinery, yet
 remains to remind the miner of the
 present of the ore reduction disad-
 vantages under which the miner of
 the past labored in his efforts to re-
 claim the gold from the reluctant rock.
 It was near the dike of this old mill
 that placer gold was first discovered
 on Lynx Creek, away back in the
 eos by the Walker party, made up of
 Confederate soldiers from Georgia and North Carolina. They established a
 camp which they named Walker, in
 honor of their leader, and within a few years reclaimed several hundred
 thousand dollars worth of gold from
 the creek-bed. From then until now
 the auriferous gravel of Lynx Creek
 has yielded upward of a million dol
 lars worth of gold, most of which was
 eroded from the lodges which line the
 Walker Basin. For the most part, the primitive sluice-box and Georgia" rocker of Walker days are yet used by the placer miners along Lynx Creek. A notable exception, however, is the Wichita Placer Mining Com pany which is employing with con siderable success a semi-hydraulic plant.
 The Homestead ledge before re- ferred to is the continuation north of the Eureka ledge, from which large tonnage of high gold ore was extrac- ted at nominal depth some 30 odd years ago. Paralleling to the west, | shows unusually strong copper in- dications at surface and nominal depth. In fact, it would not be sur prising if each of them proved under development to be a large deposit of copper-porphyry. All three of these veins traverse the Homestead estate for a length of fifteen hundred feet, and continue into the Goliah and Mark Twain properties. Within the boun- daries of the last two mentioned, they yielded ore that plated s15 gold per ton in the Goliah milan interesting relic.
 Paralleling the Homestead property on the east is the Mud Hole mine, another high grade producer in past years. The Mud Hole vein, from which about s1 100000 worth of gold silver ore has been extracted, is iden- tical in appearance with the main Homestead vein. The Mud Hole ore was treated in 70-ton mill erected near the shaft, and yielded $70 per ton concentrates. The concentrates were dropped 150 feet on an almost perpendicular tram to the level of the Poland tunnel and were transported through the latter-S,400 feet to Poland Station on the Santa Fe, and thence to smelter. The Poland tunnel has crosscut many lodges to the east of Walker Basin, among them being the Eberheart. The Eberheart, patented property, is under lease to |; J. M. Conner. A shaft has been sunk 120 feet in ore that samples from SIP to $15 in gold-silver per ton. In past years, ore was mined in this that plated $56 gold per ton, the tailings sampling $20 per ton. T ONL ACCb O4 O4C CApOSCu III balC CAOoo- cut from the winze below the Poland tunnel level samples an average of BPS gold per ton. Twenty-Five tons of this ore plated $22 and concentrated f STA per ton. i
 The ores of the Walker Basin sec l tion, while refractory, offer no reduc- i tion problem which cannot be readily ( solved by the oil-hotation process. They average high in gold and silver and carry copper, lead and zinc con- tents of commercial value, even C though the prices thereon were con- lower than those at present T In general, the country rock in the Basin is diorite and Yavapai schist, through which pass s reefs of monzonite similar to those of i .he other copper sections of Yavapai S County. That these ores were treated - at a profit by means of the primitive t reduction processes of the mast is in {