Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-05-24

ed by United States Patent No. 6138881 and described as the Gold, Sil yer, Lead, Anthony, Copper and Zinc Lode Mining Claims.
 It is situated in the Stockton Hill section of the Cerbat Range, Mohave County, Arizona, lying between the Golconda mine and the c. O. D. mine at an elevation of nearly 5000 feet, fifteen miles from Kingman, the coun- ty seat, commercial and banking cen ter of Mohave County, Arizona, on the main line of the Santa Fe Rail way.
 A good auto road, five miles of which was constructed during the past three years, penetrates every portion of the property and connects with the main road at Kingman. HISTORY OF MINING IN THE
 CERBAT RANGE
 Extracts from U. S. Geological Sur vey No. 397:
 First mineral discoveries made by miners from California in 1862 and 1863. Operations retarded by Indians until 1872 when a rush of prospectors from Pioche, Nevada, overwhelmed them and scores of rich veins were discovered. Large profits were deriv- ed from shipments of high grade ore via the Colorado River to San Fran cisco and England"
 For many years the country was is- plated owing to lack of railroad con- nections but the production of high grade ore aggregated twenty-five millions of dollars.
 During recent years the mining in dustry here has taken new life and many prospects of we'll known merit are being opened and exploited. The Wallapai District extends from the vicinity of Kingman on the south to Chloride on the north, 25 miles. It has width of about eight miles. The gross value of silver, gold, lead, copper and zinc ores mined in this area is conservatively figured at twenty-five millions of dollars taken from some eighty properties, only a few of which were sunk to depth of 500 feet.
 The Mines Hand Book, 1918, credits the Tennessee Mine in the north end of the district with gross production of eighteen millions of dollars in gold, silver, lead and zinc and the Golconda Mine with over eight millions of dol lars in value. The ores in these min- es are similar, being lead-zinc sul- phides. Their respective shafts have reached a depth of over 1400 feet.
 The c. O. D. Mine, located about one half mile north from the Arizp pna Sulphides Property, has produced high grade silver ore of gross value of fully one and one half millions of dollars, taken out above the $40 foot level.
 The bulk of the production of the Golconda and Tennessee mines was made subsequent to the publication of United States Bulletin No. 397 in 1909.
 Quoting from Bulletin No. 397 of the United States Geological Survey:
 "We find that the rocks of the Ger bat Range are essentially of the pre- Cambrian complex and consist of gray granite, gneissoid granite and dark schists- flanked on the west by local areas of rhyolite and other tertiary volcanic rocks and intruded by dikes of granite-porphyry, diabase and other rocks mostly of a basic character............,...... intruded in plac- es by later aplitic granite they are Assure veins which in general strike northwesterly and southeaster- ly and are vertical or dip at steep an- gles to the northwest"
 The property has been occupied as mineral domain since about 1865 but until 1916sno shaft deeper than 60 feet had been sunk and all develop ment was of a superficial character.
 The former owners mined small tonnages of the lead-silver ore found practically at surface along the veins fo1 a considerable distance.
 Water was always encountered at a depth of about 50 feet and develop ment then stopped. All such work was done prior to the introduction and use of gas engines and electricity for power and transportation pur- poses, when the expense of mining, pumping water, etc., on this property was prohibitive.
 No high grade silver ore having been found the property has until re- gently been considered a potential large tonnage producer of low grade concentrating sulphide ore, heavy in lead and zinc and containing the us- ual values in gold and silver found in the ores of this district.
 But recent developments have prov en the existence of high grade ore in these claims, containing silver, lead,