Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-06-03
Discovery in Katherine
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 site was then Spotted" in accord with the survey notes.
 The accuracy of this survey, and of the undertaking course of the Rather inc Assure, is better understood when it is stated that the contractors, Brethour and Sherman, after sinking to depth of 100 feet in the wash struck the continuation of the Assure and gold values. The ore, a porphy- ritic quartz, is identical in appearance with the ore opened in the Katherine mine, and while the gold content is comparatively nominal it is increasing Eas the shaft is deepened. Sinking will continue to depth of 200 feet and there the Assure will be crosscut and developed. Two shifts of miners are deepening the shaft at the rate of six feet day and their efforts are soon to be supplemented by the adding of a third shift. ToSexpedite the work an engine has been installed to generate electricity for lighting pur- poses.
 The discovery of ore in the Kath- crime Extension shaft has stimulated mining effort throughout the district, and more particularly at properties which are reasonably certain to carry the continuation of the Katherine fis- sure. The course of this huge vein, known as the mother lode of the camp, is now practically determined from the Katherine Workings to the Gold Chain shaft-a distance of approxi- mately three miles. Between the two points, and on direct line with it's course, lies the Katherine Extension, the Shaw and the River Range proper ties. Beyond the Gold Chain estate the course of the vein is through the New Comstock Consolidated group of claims. West of the Katherine shaft the course of the vein appears to be through the Pyramid property-about mile distant. X
 | In the Katherine mine the vein of- ten shows an ore breadth of more than 80 feet--all pay. On the e'first, second and third levels the value of the ore blocked out exceeds $4,000,000. This reserve has a general average value of $12.50 a ton and includes lenses of ore having gold value as high as $295 a ton. On the 400-foot level the ore has not been blocked out.- It is there, however, in the drift, for a length of more than 800 feet, and has value fully as high as the ore ex- posed on the levels above. Three shifts of miners are developing the property preparatory to the erection of an ore-reduction plant. The cy- anide process will be used for reclaim ing the gold values, as the Katherine ore and the ore of the camp in gen eral is in no way refractory.
 The Katherine Assure is paralleled by series ofwell mineralized Assures and these-in turn are intersected by equally well mineralized cross-fissur- es. On the Qatman Revenue ground, approximately four miles east of the Katherine mine, one of these Assures was recently encountered at a depth of 60 feet. The bottom of the shaft is filled with ore that is a replica of the Katherine ore. Fully four miles southeast of the Katherine mine an orebody of similar appearance is be- ing developed in the Arabian mine. A mile north of the Katherine the 40- foot vein on the Genuine group of five claims carries a lenze of ore that assays $9.45 gold ton across width of 12 feet.
 Mining work is going on at fifteen properties within the area thus out lined and si being furthered in num- Der of instances by mining machinery. Two months ago the Katherine was the only active property in the camp. Prior to that time investment interest was practically nil. Now the camp is attracting the attention of some of the foremost mine operators and in- vestors of the Pacific slope. A num- Der of them have already bought props critics there, and yet others are neeo- tiating for acreage. Among the lat ter is Eli Hilty, the locator of the Tom Reed mine at Oatman, one of the most valuable gold bonanzas in the west. Hilty has taken an option on the Fer ra property and expects an engineer to arrive from California in a few days to pass up it's mining worth.
 In closing it may be well to state that the camp of Katherine has of late made a second bid for fame. The in- ducement offered is not, however, to the mining man, but to the married man. A town lot will be given to the parents of the first female child born in the camp. The only string to the gift is the provision that the child be named Katherine. So, if you are mar ried and not of the race suicide cult, consult sex control expert, move to H.ILn,:u. o-L o%,,k