Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-01-24
DEVELOPMENT WORK
 CONTINUES AT RURAL
DUDLEY INTERESTS PLAN ER- FICTION OF EXPERIMENTAL MILL FOR TEST RUNS.

Development work on the Rural Mines, Inc, is progressing rapidly. The new double compartment working shaft being sunk on the Buckeye claim is nearing a depth of 200 feet. A crosscut is now being run from this shaft to connect with the west drift, which was run from the lowest level of the old Buckeye workings, thus connecting all the old workings of the property with this shaft, through which all hoisting vii be done in the future.
 AS soon as this connection is made the work of clearing out the second and third levels from the old Buck eye shaft vii be commenced, aud pushed ahead vigorously. All the caves and loose ground caught up and retimbered after which both the ore bodies on these two levels will be de- veloped at the same time.
 On the tunnel level of the old Buck eye claim, where the company has been drifting to the east for the past several weeks, the shoot of ore which was first encountered, 155 feet west of the present face, has now widened out. The full width has not yet been determined, but shot put in on the hanging wall side of this drift, shows all in ore and hanging has not yet been reached. This ore is far above milling grade as it breaks down, and a streak on the footwall is all shipping ore.
 In the west drift from the third level from the old Buckeye shaft, the ore body opened up in December is developing into large body of ore, which after connection is made with the main working shaft, will be block ed out and the drift continued into the old Rural workings, where an ex- animation made last spring, shows a large body of high grade shipping ore exists. With the connection of the old Rural workings with the main shaft made, the shipping of this ore will commence. In the meantime plans for the new mill will probably be com pleted.
 However no mill will be authorized by the engineers until the primary zone has been reached, ore developed and test runs made, in order to deter mine the most economical manner to recover the values from the ores of both the oxidized and priamry zones. It is understood the Dudley interests are now contemplating the erection Of an experimental mill which will be of large enough tonnage to turn tests on a commercial scale. Then ores frSm the different properties may be run in this mill, and the ores treated to find the best maner of handling, af- ter which, mill to be erected on {. property will be designed ito give tte best results from a commercial point of view.
 This is an excellent idea as this country has suffered more from the nasty erection of mills, which were not designed by competent and exper- fenced men and with insufficient ore blocked out to keep the mills running continually, than any other thing. By pursuing the careful methods they have outlined the Dudley interests are going to bring in some silver produced that will do lot for Mohave County. Mohave County has the ore and Mr. Dudley has secured some of the top notchers-now all that is need is the continuance of the same conservative engineering that MT. Widdowson, the engineer for the properties, has shown in the past.