Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-04-10
CATHERINE MINE
 HAS WONDERFULLY
 RICH ORE BODY

Last Wednesday Anson H. Smith of the Miner accompanied county asses sor w. o. Ruggles and state tax com missioners Rudolph Kuchler, Charles R. Howe, and c. M. Zander to the Catherine mine, of the New Comstock Mining Company, where the gentle men met Supt. R. L. Dimmick and were escorted through the mine.
 The New Comstock property is sit uated about 40 miles west of King man, in the country below Union Pass. It is within two miles of the Colorado River and at one time 20 stomp gold mill was operated on it's ores and made good recovery. This mill was de- stroyed by vandal and the heavy ma chinery sold for junk, during a Hull in the operation of the property.
 The shaft of the Catherine mine stands at depth of 400 feet. At the 100 level the vein faulted and the old management was unable to pick it up, although large amount of work was. done in drifting and crosscutting. The fault has double throw, which rath- CT puzzled the engineers, but about two years ago, when the mine was m the hands of Robert s. Billings the vein was picked up on the 100 level and drifts carried along it for sev- eral hundred feet. Later the property went back into the hands of the New Comstock company, and under the management of w. c. Howard won derful progress has been made in the development of two new levels, the 200 and 300. Ray l.. Dimmick, who has been manager of the Frisco mines for several years, is now with the company and is looking after the ac- tive mining end of the business. The drifts east and west on the 200 level of the property have paralleled the ore bodies over 1900 feet, crosscuts being driven from wall to wall 50 feet apart. The showing in the crosscuts are truly wonderful, the ore bodies be- ing from 33 to 69 feet wide. At one point, where the ore is largest, IS feet carries values of $100gold and several ounces silver. Practically all the ores carry values in silver, but the general run of the ore is about SIS gold and a few ounces silver, On the 300 level the ore bodies, 50 far as opened, show still greater values and greater width. A winze is being sunk from the 200 to the 300 level and will be carried through to the 400 level as soon as possible. When the 400 level is opened up and stopes pre- pared the company will probably be, gin the erection of milling plant All the tests and flow sheet on this ore has been prepared so that the mil will be erected with full knowledge ot what it will do. Had the company not been compelled to open winzes be- tween the levels the ore body on the 400 would have been opened. It will be understood that no knowledge of the location of the ore body was had when the shaft was sunk below. the 100 level by the old management and it was only picked up two years ago, Since that time the company has had the advise of O. H. Hershey, who is consulting engineer of the Tom Reed MT. Hershey is one of the best known fault" finders in the country, hay ing qualified for these difficult prob lems by years of study of the various big mines and their systems of fault ing.
 ] The Catherine is now considered one of the greatest gold mines in the state, from the point of actual ore demon strated and the high gold content. It is in capable hands and the directorate is in position to furnish all the money that is necessary to keep the property under active development. This week Emil Sutro, who with his brother, Charles Sutro, is heavily interested in the mines, visited the property, re- turning to San Francisco Tuesday last, accompanied by w. c. Howard. 
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