Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1917-02-03
OATMAN MILLS
TURNING OUT
GOLD BULLION
Reduction Plants of United.
Eastern and Tom Reed
Kept Busy Grinding Ore
From Respective Proper
ties Other Properties
Looking Up Well
(By C. F. spilman)

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work along the big ore belt over a
part of which the town of oatman is
built is being prosecuted with vigor
and ore is being mined for distance
of almost two miles, from the Aztec
workings of the Tom Reed on the
southeast to the northwesterly end of
the big United Eastern oreshoot.
Somewhere between 400 and 500 men
are delving underground within
this area and two big mills are turn
ing out a stream Of gold bullion.
The Aztec workings of the Tom
Reed have been the most talked of
part of that mine Of late, but during
the past few days the roar Of ex-
ploding dynamite not far beneath the
surface and right downtown tells the
initiated that the bonanza oreshoots
Of the old workings are far from ex-
hausted. Slopes are being extended
upward along the footwall side Of the
lode on No. oreshoot, which seems
likely to extend to very near the sur
face. Last Sunday the first ore was
hauled from the Aztec shaft to the
mill and the 5-tOn truck is now max
ing regular trips.
By the time this story is in print
the compartment shaft Of the Big
Jim Gold Mining Company will be
down 592 feet and ten days or two
weeks later it will have passed the
600 to the depth Of a reasonable
sump. At the 600 level station viii
be cut and connection made with the
big vein. Much is expected of this |
level, which Winchell says is likely |
to encounter some bonanza oreshOots. |
AS soon as the orebody on the 600 |
level is developed sufficiently for
sampling mill tests will be finished. |
The management plans to build 400
ton mill before the end of 1917.
One month has expired since the
200-ton cyanide mill of the United |
Eastern was put in commission. The
necessary adjustments have been
made and the mill is now handling the
tonnage for which it was designed.
Underground the property is assum-
ing the appearance Of a really big |
mine, with 25-foot timbers in the huge |
slopes. The main shaft of three COM
partments is down to the 665-foot |
level and crosscut is being extended |
to the orebody. With this accomplish
ed an auxiliary electric hoist will be
installed and sinking resumed. The
shaft should cut the vein on its dip |
at about $50 feet.
A considerable force is employed at |
the Goldroad mine in the work of de-
yeloping the north branch of the lode |
from which the company has extrae-
ted S6,O00,000. This branch of the
vein, hitherto neglected, promises to
make a new mine. The work is being |
done through No. 2 shaft, which con-
meets with the Line Road tunnel at |
depth of so feet. The first discovery
was made in the tunnel level several
hundred feet beyond the shaft and far
into the mountain, which rises steep
ly to the east, thus gaining some 500 !
feet in depth. The orebody has been
opened on the tunnel level in two
places 400 feet apart and a third
crosscut is being driven 200 feet be
low the tunnel level.
The vagaries o. f vein are oft
times puzzling and exasperating. The
Goldroad Banana has been groping
on the 550-foot level for an oreshoot
which passed through the shaft be-
tween the 500 and SIS foot points,
finally with success. The crosscut has
entered the quartz deposit and within
day or two drifting will commence.
The oreshoot was three feet wide
where the vein dipped out of the shaft
and of good values.
In the Black Range section Man
ager Darcy of the Adams is continu-
inf the south crosscut on the 4OO-foot
level, convinced that it has not yet
reached the vein, which is very wide
on the surface.
The Crescent tunnel also is proceed
ing toward the main Crescent vein and
is in 110 feet beyond the first vein
and in mineralized andesite.
A broken hywheel on the hosting
engine forced closedown at the Mel
lie two weeks ago. A new wheel has