Arizona republican., 1918-08-14
M|N|NG ACTIVITY
 IN MOHAvE COUNTY
 DUE ID WAR RATES

Considerable activity is manifest in Mohave County in several well known mining sections and a number of old , properties abandoned during the days | of low prices of silver and lead are be- ing financed and worked with the view ! of these properties coming back to | their own and once more going on a | permanent shipping basis. Of course, | the high prices of materials of all | kinds and labor is drawback in many instances, but with, silver bringing S1 per ounce and the better freight and smelting facilities of today is overcom- ing the present costs, and gives much larger margin of profit than during the crude mining days of the early nineties.
 Kinginan is the center of the mining i industry of Mohave County and is en- l toying more activity in all lines than for several years past. In the old Ce- dar district about 5 miles east of Yuc- ca. the Cedar and Berkley silver mines are being put in shape to resume ship ments of ore at an early date, and Yuc- ca, on the Santa Fe, is where this ore will be loaded. The road east from Yucca is in fine shape and is the most direct route from Phoenix to the coast via Congress Junction, and as soon as the crossings on the Bill Williams and couple of smaller streams are re- paired, will be a popular route for the coast traveller.
 In the Chloride section, where some of the largest and richest properties are located, mining men are confident that within the next twelve months will see more properties producing and on shirping basis than any section of the state. Here is located the worlds famous Tennessee mine lying one half mile east of the center of Chloride pr practically considered a part of this little mining camp. This property has d record of shipping eighteen to twenty million dollars in rich silver-lead- zinc ores, with a depth of 1900 feet; and is said to have more ore left than has been taken out.
 The Scuylkill and Bullion adjoin the Tennessee on the north and have been big producers of rich ores These two properties with the Tnnessee, it is re- ported, have joined forces, and repre- sentatives are east making arrange menst for the machinery for a 300 ton i mill daily. to be located on their prop critics and at point at the end of the railroad. What great advantages of mill of this magnitude will mean Co this district are hard to realize as the 1 in the mines and the mill are estimated ' by the hundreds. The entire mine and , mill equipment will be electrified and : machinery will be of the most modern , that money can buy.
 5 Adjoining these properties on the north is the Elkhart mine and mill t This property shipped over one million s dollars worth of ore and the deepest workings are 300 feet. It is given out 5 authentically that large eastern capi-
 talists are making arrangements to be- ;. gin work in the near future on this
 property and install electrical equip ]. ment and n1odernize the mill, and 1t is expected work will begin within 50 : days
 Just north of the Elkhart lies the Chloride Queen which property shipped
 something like s200.000 of high grade silver ores. in the early days. and deep
 est workings were 40 feet. Old records
 show that about 1896 one Barney
 McCall' shipped silver ore assayine f frrm 50 to 330 ounces vn silver. If one
 will figure silver at s1.00 per ounce
 and total cost of production, hauling
 and smelting at s15.oO per ton. it is .. easy to see how large the net profits U are per ton. The Chloride Queer e started to operate their large machn-
 cry on August 1st, which consists O. . one 15 HIP Western hoist. one 50 II 1 '' oil burning Bessemer engine. Chicago z pneumatic compressor, capable of hand i' ling jack hammers and pump, anC
 other equipment necessary for thi!
 class of mining. The holdings consis
 of five full sized claims, and two frac
 tions with equipment and propert,
 fully paid for. The main working shaf
 is down 220 feet. timbered in fin
 shape. double compartment and cross
 cutting at this level was started las
 week, and drifting on the vein unde
 the bill will be carried on with the ut
 mot dispatch. The management ex
 ~ects to go on permanent shlppin H basis in about SO days. With a drif N run under the hill from the 220 foo level. a depth of $50 to 150 feet will D attained and this will give stoppin
 ground sufficient to supply permanen
 shipping ore for months to come. Tn
 short haul Of one mile from the Chlo sn ride Queen to the railroad gives tn on company short haul and with loadin ht bins at the mine and dumping facilitie nS at the railroad makes the haul an es handling of ore an easy matter. At tn na annual stockholders meeting, in Phoe k ~"lves as being confident that compan ti r'~.sthe stockholders expressed them
 would go on permanent shipping ba he sis in the near future.
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