Mohave County miner., 1916-09-30
WALLAPAIS COMING
 FAST: WILL RIVAL
 GERBAT MOUNTAINS
By YIN FORTUNE

chloriding days, and recent discoveries of vast number of mighty promising prospects, all lying just north of King man and contiguous to Chloride, so loudly call to the engineer and opera tor in the base metals field as to cause Mohave county to be listed among the most richly endowed mineral zones of the world. And yet these men of travel, experience and expert infor- nation, in most instances, have viewed scarce half of her great store of pre- cious and base metals.
 Many men in this fabulous section tell that but a few months ago "the Wallapais" conveyed to them no fur ther significance than the name of a most picturesque chain of hills rearing their mighty heads just to the east of Kingman, and in easterly trend of 70 miles, sldrting the beautiful Sacra- mento valley. Today these same men are stalking rich silver-lead, zinc, cop per, tungsten and molybdenum claims in "the Wallapais."
 Only last fall, when a few old boys drifted into town with their burros and related stories of amazing oppor- tunities in this range of rugged buttes, indulgent audiences greeted them with incredulous smiles and felt sorry for the "desert rats who had been too long in the hills"
 That has all suddenly changed, and the little known Wallapais of short time ago are making strides that will soon bring them the much desired rec ognition already accorded their, for the present, more favored sisters, the Cerbats.
 Perhaps there is no man better qualified to speak for the Wallapais and their huge lodges than Judge An son H. Smith of Kingman, for more than 30 years the editor-proprietor of the Mohave County Miner. MT. Smith has a knowledge of Mohave county mineral deposits that is com plete and definite, for he has worked, either as a miner, partner or sole own CT, in practically every well known property in the country. For years he held claims in the Wallapais, and was among the earliest to place a proper estimate upon the value of their mo- | lybdenum fields, since classed by the United States bureau of mines as the greatest deposits ever discovered.
 Associated with L. J. Lassell, W. J. Connor and M. A. Sawyer, located nine molybdenum claims in 19O7," said Judge Smith, recalling for an interest ed listener a bit of Wallapai history, land later sold four of them to par ties who are now operating under the rame of Leviathan Mines company. The other five were optioned to and are still controlled by J. L. Boyle and A. J. Morse of Los Angeles, Cal. These latter men formed a company known as the American Molybdenum, and are operating small Notation plant of about 15 tons daily capacity.
 "The Leviathan company instituted much more vigorous development campaign than the American," con- tinued the judge, land has now a prop erty valued at upward of S1,OOO,OO0, for which, less than three years ago, they paid S6O,OOO. In fact, not many months since an offer of S500,000 was made for the mine by financially strong parties, and il was turned down without a moments hesitancy.
 ''The Leviathan is now installing a Notation mill that will have a daily capacity of at least 100 tons, which will be ready for treating it's ore about November 1.
 Unless one has visited this great zone of huge ledges," continued the speaker, 'he cannot have a proper idea of their immensity. They consist in the main of great outcrOppings from two feet to 100 feet in width, strong and sturdy as the very mountains themselves which they cleave like mighty giants in their north and south strike. The country rock is biotite granite and is gridironed everywhere by small quartz stringers carrying both molybdenum and copper.
 'This biotite zone appears to be at least a mile in length by many miles in width, extending from the Levia- than on the west to the Arizona Ven ture and Diamond Joe on the east side of the range, and, in my opinion, is traceable to the Telluride Chief, near the extreme north end of the range, a distance of at least 20 miles.
 Referring again to the Leviathan ? This company enjoyed an experience 1, novel in the mining game, for in sink iDo +o +ba 1O0 Foo+ Io1raI and dyiffiD n