Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-12-09
By William P. De Wolf.

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 A round of shots, touched off few days ago to the north of the fault plane, on the 1OO-foot level, in the Million Dollar Gold Chain workings disclosed the best grade of ore thus far discovered in the mine The ore was located at point 140 feet east of the shaft and has since been cross, cut a distance of 20 feet. The ore pans freely, is well oxidized, and car, ries considerable coarse gold. The find is important, not only because of the satisfactory character of the values of the deposit, but also because it demonstrates that there is no ap- preciable faulting of the vein on its strike to the east through the Gold Chain property. Further development of the new find will doubtless result in the demonstration of an ore breadth equal to that in the crosscut north at the shaft, where 46 feet of pay quartz has been opened.
 Other developments of importance of late in the Katherine district in clude the start of work at the Big Four and Katherine Victor proper ties. The Big Four group was recent ay taken over by Harry LeClair and associates. It is located near the Gold Chain mine and carries several veins of considerable re-yielding pos abilities. The Katherine Victor prop erty, better known as the Noontime group, consisting of two claims and a fraction, was located some time ago by E. Ross Housholder, a we'll known mining engineer, and D. o. Curtis, D.. W. (Danl Ryan, we'll known New ada mining man, closed the deal with Housholder for the transfer of the group, which is located 5000 feet southeast of the Gold Chain shaft Prior to the transfer, Housholder and his partner had the property super ficially prospected, and at nominal depth opened vein which assays as high as $10 gold ton.
 Work was also started few days ago at the Illinois Katherine proper ty, located near the Treasure Vault group. w. S. Jennings, who is in charge of operations, has started two-compartment shaft. It is under stood that ample funds have been pro- vided for sinking the shaft to depth, and for equipping it with the neces- sary machinery.
 At the adjoining Treasure Vault property, one of number at Kath- erine held by M. B. Dudley and Sam Brethour, the crosscut south on the 55-foot level of the two compartment shaft is showing milling grade ore identical with the ore blocked out on levels in the adjoining bonanza Katherine mine. The partnership of Dudley and Brethour carries with it friendship dating back to the days of Tonopah and Goldfield, Nevada, at which time Dudley did number of favors for Brethour. The latter never forgot the obligation and in an effort to repay the favors extended, he gave Dudley fourth interest in all of the mining locations he made in the Kath- erine district. This was done without the knowledge of Dudley, who at that time was heavily interested in mining affairs elsewhere in Mohave County and not in position to enter active ly into the development of the Breth- our properties. Now, however, he has so arranged his affairs that he can devote his time exclusively to mining work at Katherine. He has interest ed outside capital in the Treasure Vault and will soon list the shares on the San Francisco Exchange.
 At the Katherine Rand property, To- cated nearby the Katherine mine, shaft has been sunk to a depth of 35 feet, with a depth of 100 feet as its first objective. There a crosscut will be driven south to contact with ! well-mineralized vein opened at sur lace. The necessary camp buildings | nave been erected, and the financing 'f the property has been sufficiently sffeSted in San Francisco to assure continuous development and the