Mohave County miner., 1917-03-03
PICTURE ORE
IS DISCLOSED
IN TOM REED
Rich Values Revealed for
100 Feet in West Drift on
400-FOOt Level of Aztec
Center Claim of 0atman's
Famous Property


OATMAN, Ariz., Feb. %. = TIL,
eastern end of the big lode which frs
brought Oatman into public notice
through the phenomenal record of pro
duction of the Tom Reed, a RECORD
that promises to be duplicated, if moi
excelled, by the United Eastern anc
Big Jim mines, is again occupying the
center of the stage, with every indi.
cation that another bonanza has beer
found.
The Tom Reed, pioneer in this sec.
ton of the big district known as Dat
man, is the cause of the excitement
the Tom Reed and Big Jim-the
former because of the discovery Of
picture ore" in the Aztec Center
claim, and the Big Jim because few
more days will bring the 600 crosscut
into the huge ore body; the 600, mag
ic number, where Horace v. Winchell
says "some of the bonanza ore shoots
for which the district is famous may
be encountered"
While it has been known around the
camp that the Tom Reed was getting
"some mighty fine ore" on the west
400 drift, the fact that the drift for
100 feet has been in real high grade
was not generally known" A couple
of days ago President Moerdyke came
out from Los Angeles to view the
strike, and exhibited some of the rich
ore. It is the ribbon quartz which is
found throughout the district, and it
contains seams of gold that run the
values up into fancy figures. But the
best of it is that the full face of the
drift is in splendid ore, values run
ming 40 to $50 ton as it breaks. A
small part of the mill feed consisted
of the ore from this drift and report
saith that it increased the average by
IS ton.
1t is one mile from the Aztec work
ings to the main shaft and the mill of
the Tom Reed and everyfoot of the
distance is fraught with great posi-
bilities for the discovery of ore. 1t is
a mile and three-quarters from the
%farthest east" workings of the Tom
Reed to the "farthest west" workings
of the United Eastern bonanza. From
this territory the Tom Reed has ex-
tracted almost S6,OO0,OOO. The United
Eastern has another $6,000,000 in
sight, and the Big Jim, with 100000
developed and within few feet of the
vein lis feet below the lowest de-
veloped level, is in a fair way to raise
its ante to 100000. Eighteen mil
lions, and the deepest workings less
than 700 feet, excepting in the older
part of the Tom Reed, where the deep
seated character of the ore bodies is
proven by mining to the 1400-fcot
level. And the ore bodies in the United
Eastern on the west end, and the Az
tee and Rig Jim on the east end, have
an average width of 80 feet. What,
then, of the future?
And yet these mines cover but a
small part of the big field of gold
known as Oatman. On the southeast
are the Nellie, Black Range, Adams,
Crescent and Murdoch in the Black
Range section. A mile southeast of
the Aztec is the Sunnyside, already
a proven mine; and two miles north
east are the Goldroad, with a record
of S6,OOO,OO0 and plenty of ore left,
the Gold Ore, for which mill is to
be built this spring, and the Goldroad
Bonanza, a splendid prospect with
good ore developed, to say nothing of
the rich proven country out north, the
Moss, Mossback and Hardy mines and
a score of good prospects, and the
Times, Ivanhoe and Bluebird.
With all its great record for pro-
duction, Oatman is but in its infancy.
1t is going to make Arizona one of
the great gold producing states of the
southwest.