Arizona republican., 1919-03-03

F. \. Phillips Of Ray, Arizona, who spent the past week in the Wallapai mining district of Mohave county, has the following Co say:
 There is SO much to say of the Chloride Queen silver mine and the silver mines of the Chloride district that it Is of the greatest difficulty one can cull out profitably for the reader.
 "G have said the half was never told. Every one feels this who comes to this wonderfully mineralized district, and moro when the critic sits down to tell it himself, be feels he is not capa- blc of telling even the tenth part of what he would like to tell. And for this very reason | vii ltalk of a few things in general.
 Tn the first place, let it beeaid loud enough for all classes of mining men Co hear, nothing can be said against this district that does not affect the price of solver. The low price of sil- yer stopped these hundreds of silver mines, and the present high price of silver will start them all again. Hun drcds of mines ia the true cxpression- there are literally hundreds of them. We stood today on the top of Silver Mountain claim of the Chloride Queen Mining company, and counted 100 mines by tho dumps we could see.
 From 27 of these very mines l had ore Of assay values from $50 to 5000 per ton in silver. And, while stand ing on this claim we observed a dump some 300 yards away on the sams property. where high graders had worked GO Co GO years ago. So we went to the dump tfor we must see it alb and with a prospector's pick wo succeeded in oxoavating from the quartz ledge a sample of the very ore which SO long ago was shipped to Swansea. Wales, Europe. At present prices the assay we took runs near f250 per ton in silver The ledge from which VIC took this sample is only one of a number running across the prop erty of the Chloride Queen Mining Co
 Speaking of 'chloriding' or high trading one can high grade yet The very richest oxidized ores are still ir sight The old Chloriders' did not be- sin to touch the valuable ores which lie on top of the ground. The owner or the miner has not begun to cull out tho ore in sight. On one small 20. acre claim, tho superintendent. Johr B. Hughes. also part owner. showed U, several veins from IS inches to 15 fec in width running across this holdings where ores valuing hundreds of dol. lars per ton were taken out-and stil these veins showing over tho entir, property had only been scratched her, and there. To the west and north O this Bay State Nine is the old Town, Mine. recently bought by $. $. Jone. and NIr MnNr.htH uw1 srsEt Ia. af. Glory Hole from which silver ores O thevory highest values have been taker out. But this mine. which still hs. high grade silver ore in it's dump. hat not really bee nopcned up for the req body of orc lower down.
 "Next we visited the Midnight prop ertv adjoining the Bay State on th, east and north. The old watchmal showed us some rich ore which he sai, slzmc from the ledge 50 to GO feet ii -.idth. We walked over the rich Pink ham property and called on the super intendent of the Copper Age. wher, machinery to the value of several hun dreds of thousands of dollars has bee installed. We passed over the rscl dumps of the Gold Back and the Elm merson properties. collecting a speci men from each orc dump. Then ther vas the Molly Gibson, and others to numerous to mention. Will only men ton a few moro of the larger proper ties.
 The Tennesse has done no shippin recently. and the monthly shipment were S20.00o. But since then the Q ! machinery has been iunked and ne, electrical equipment has becn installo
 and tho management is now under