Mohave County miner., 1917-12-29
LOW LINE TUNNEL PROJECT
 WILL TAP MANY RICHs MINES

dred feet. From the tunnel could he obtained sufficient water for all mill
 ing purposes, and an ideal mill site exists at the tunnel portal. This DOT tai is about seven miles distant from the main line of the Santa Fe and is connected up by a good wagon road.
 The Arizona Butte has a milling plant near the portal of the old Ban ner tunnel, which is capable of han ding 200 tons of ore daily. So far all ore milled has come from above the tunnel level. As the deep tunnel will tap the Banner at a depth of 1000 feet this mill will naturally have to be re- moved to the valley below, where it may be largely added to to handle the enormous tonnage that the new open ings will produce. So far the mill has been a wonderful success, saving high values and at a minimum of expense.
 The Cupel also has a milling plant that would have to be removed to the more ideal camp near the portal of the big tunnel, where it's ores could be treated by some process that would save the ruby silver that occurs in its ores.
 In the opening of the Banner group crosscut would also reach into the Fountain Head and Shooting Star ground, recognized as among the best properties in that camp. The Foun- tain Head produced large tonnage of exceptionally high grade silver-lead ore, while the Shooting Star was a. producer of zinc and copper. The Fountain Head has a vein fully 80 feet wide and of great potentialities. It is now in the hands of w. L. MacKay and associates.
 A numbe1 of years ago, the Miner editor, recognizing the possibilities of the mines of the Stockton Hill, got the business men of Kingman together with a view to driving a tunnel into the mountain to tap the veins that the present tunnel of the Arizona Butte. Options and agreements were obtained from the mine owners of the camp and a survey was made of that section, but owing to some of the busi- -ness= mer--beheVmg that the project was too good to allow the ordinary fellow to participate in it on the same basis as hemBelves the scheme fell through. The Miner editor never lost sight of the possibility and today be- ieves that no better proposition exists in the state for the opening of great mining section with the expenditure of considerable sum of money well di- rected. At the present time the com pany has tunnel driven on the Prince George vein 600 feet, and it is our im pression that a few hundred feet more will bring it into ore bearing ground. Some good ore has been cut, but not enough to create excitement. We know the ground and the mines and believe that our judgment as to their value will be borne out when the final rec oning day arrives. It takes money to mine and it will take money to make of Stockton Hill the camp that it should be, but when the deep tunnel is run and the veins opened at the great depth that they will be there will not be a doubter in the country as to the value of these great proper ties. Every foot of work done on them indicates great things for them at depthi but depth must be gained to prove the whole vein system of the camp and that can only be done by the driving of this big bore.
 Among the big mining men of the country who have seen the ground and Approved it is William Tevote, formerly field engineer for the Cop per Queen; Robert Talley, superinten- dent of the United Verde Copper com pany; Walter G. Miller, of the same company; Leonard Sivyer, one of the best known geologists, and Bert Dunn, another geologist of note. Every mi ner who has worked in the mines of that section are boosters for the mines and the humble editor of the Miner haa headed the procession.
 Mines are made, not found, is the opinion of the mining man, and this.is SO. But you have to have a mineraliz- ed vein to work on to make a mine. Stockton Hill has the veins and only money judiciously applied is neces- sary to make the mines.