Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-05-17

OHe Ol tHe HlOSI important IllliiliiS
 deals that has been pulled off in this
 county was the taking over of the
 Rural and Buckeye mines, at Mineral
 Park, by M. B. Dudley and his New
 York associates, the cash for the
 properties being paid yesterday in
 Kingman. The men at the head of
 affair are G. c. Duschnes, Samuel
 Veil, Samuel l. Rabinovich. Milton
 Gross and M. B. Dudley. These men
 are we'll known in financial circles
 of the Empire State.
 The Rural and Buckeye mines were
 among the big shippers of the county
 before silver went cellarward, the
 ores carrying exceptionally high val ues in both gold and silver. The
 thing that gave them country wide notoriety was the wonderful speci- mems of native silver that was taken from both claims. So important were these specimens that no mineral cabi- net of note in the world was complete without piece of this ore. Some of the heavy wires of silver were coated with calcite, the brilliant white silver. threads showing through the trans lucent rock coating. Chunks weigh ing as high as 90 pounds of almost pure silver were taken from the upper workings of the mines, while below the water level magnificent specimens of ruby were found.
 Silver finally began to drop in price and silver miners here, as we'll as throughout the country, became over the continual down. ward tendency and finally practically all silver mining in the county was abandoned. It was not because of lack of ore that work on this proper ty was suspended, but because the owners harbored the opinion that some day silver would come into it's own and the ore was better in the mine than being sold at such low price.
 The examination of the Rural and Buckeye mines was made the past ten days by w. w. Widdowson, assisted by G. w. Schilling, of Los Angeles. It was on MT. Widdowson's report that the property was taken over. In his examination MT. Widdowson found that only small part of the ores opened up had been stopped and that there was now more than 22,00O tons of high grade milling ore ready to be broken down and sent to mill, A sample taken of the cobbings on the dump gave results of ~$S6.65 in gold and silver and there is estimated to be at least 5000 tons of mill ore in the Buckeye dump alone. The Rural shaft is 200 feet and from the bottom of this shaft six feet of ore was sampled that gave $142 in gold and silver, the gold values being about $2O. A small streak gave re- suits of $5171,, and selected ore from a large part of the vein gave 99 ounces silver and $17 in gold. It was streaks like that which gave re- turns of $5,171 that the early day miner was hunting for and of which he shipped many tons. The finding ! of that class of ore in the mines of Nevada has caused world wide fur or, but among the miners who are lsed to immensely rich silver ores it | never caused ripple on the surface.
 The Buckeye has tunnel 700 feet nto the mountain following the vein .he greater part of the way, from which large tonnage of ore has been shipped to the smelters. It is from above this tunnel level that the ton 1age of milling ore is available. Along the course of this tunnel the ,ein shows unbroken for at least 800 'eet. A sample taken across six feet 'f vein at one place gives values of '36.53. Another cutting gave II ounces silver and $S in gold. A sam ,le from small streak where cross 'ein intersects the larger vein gave ] result of over $1100. In the stopes here is a large tonnage of ore that