Mohave County miner., 1916-08-26
WARNER PROPERTY : YIELDS GOLD OVER
 ITS ENTIRE AREA
lFrom oatn1an seetion Daily Minerl

(From Oatnan Section Daily Miner.)
 With a gold-pan and pail of water
 large part of the surface of the
 Warner group was traversed yester.
 day by three of the owners and the
 Daily Miner representative. There is
 no hearsay about it when this paper
 states that any part of the surface
 visited, regardless of whether it was
 on a hill, gulch, ledge or elsewhere
 will pan free gold. In so doing not
 one skunk" was obtained; in other
 words, every pan of dirt washed show
 ed from a few to many colors and
 always coarse gold.
 Pannings on the ledge itself were
 better than elsewhere, with the one exception of material taken from bed
 rock in cuts that have been opened and worked as placers. There the pannings were so good in fact-the correspondent being an Old Klondiker that in the center of one channel the dirt taken directly from the bed rock showed coarse colors of about 25 cents to an ordinary large-sized gold pan.
 J. A. Warner, for IA years owner of this group, has worked it for placer nearly every year of that period and has had it for almost his sole source of income. By banning, rocking and with dry-washing machine, the ruins of which stand on the spot. He has taken out thousands of dollars. He was with the party yesterday, as also were E. c. Anderson and F. O. Altin- ger, who recently became interested with Mir. Warner in the property.
 That there is such a surface show ing in the Oatman district was noth- ing less than astounding to the correspondent, who has not been in the habit in this district of seeing gold taken from any and everywhere that a pan of dirt could be scraped up. There are placer countries that pan in that manner, but the writer has known them only as placers. This is one where the gold comes from a ledge or deposit.
 The Warner group IS on the north west side of the Hardy hills, which is a designation used for the purpose of this article and should be applied. These hills contain the old Hardy mine; also the Jerome-0atman, Big Lode and Times. The Warner end lines the Jerome. The Jerome com panv had the Warner under bond for a year.
 A ledge of gigantic proportions tra- verses the property from southeast to northwest, having the same strike as all of the main lodges of the camp. MT. Warner says his is the mother lode of this district. He has it for a length of four claims, 5000 feet. There are six claims in the group. From this ledge a great many cross samples have been taken. Mir. Altin- ger has assayed them and the lowest assay, he states, was S2.47. They have run from that up to fancy figures.
 One shaft, 52 feet deep, gave assays from S3 to $50. From this two pam nings were taken yesterday. The first, near the top, gave several coarse colors. The second from sev- eral feet down showed all kinds of coarse colors. None of the rock was moTtared. It was merely mashed up as much as possible on the surface of a fiat rock with other rocks as crush ing implements. About 40 feet away a surface assay went $2.8S. Mir. War ner states that he found S200 rock where the shaft was started and that the ledge in the shaft will average easily SS to S10. Some samples in the shaft have gone as high as $500.
 A tunnel to the southeast on the vein, has given averages from $5 to $50. At other openings up the hill toward the crest where the ground meets that of the Jerome Oatman the values are better still, he states.
 The owners consider that they have m ore shoot right on the surface and hat all they need to do to commence ,aking out the money is to erect a small mill and hammer out the rock hat is there in untold abundance. That much they have determined as heir policy under present milling costs. They expect to start upon the erection of such a mill in the next few weeks and hope to have it running before the first of the year.
 That comprises one feature of their property. Another is the act that a little northwest of the | enter of their group is a tall needle | ,utte, the pinnacles of which has lever been scaled by a human being, | md the west half of which it is claim d will pay to run drought a mill. | t is a heavy silicifed andesite and | carries gold. Anyway it | arries much iron, manganese and is crystalized.
 The butte is sometimes called Lone Butte and not infrequently, Hole or Holy Butte. There is a hole through | t, that can be seen for a distance. t is up as high as a person can