Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-11-25
SUMMARY OF LATE DEVELOPMENTS
 KATHERINE GOLD N|N|NCID|S7R|CT
By William P. De Wolf

NAihS uSNSioPlhShe os oSPSiht ot> ~ ~duction on an extended scale and the consolidation of important mining in, terests in the new Katherine gold dis. trict in Union Pass, are presaged by the plans being drawn by engineers in the employ of w. J. Loring anC M. B. Dudley. Both are we'll known in mine investment and mine develop ment circles, and are already exten- sively interested in the new camp
 Prior to acquiring mining holdings at Katherine MT. Dudley had for a number of years been an important factor in Mohave County mining af- fairs in general. It is understood however, that he will now devote himself exclusively to mining work at Katherine. MT. Loring, who several months ago became finacially inter- ested in the Sunbeam property at Katherine has extensive mining in- terests in Nevada and California.
 Among the properties being operat- ed by Loring and his associates is the Ingalls, mine in Tule Canon, Nevada. The mine is, however, it is said, soon to be abandoned by the Silver Hills Mining companyrthe corporation or ganized to take over and develop it-' and the funds in treasury utilized for mine development elsewhere. A re- port received here from San Francisco .+o+o. +L,+ +ho S;l,,or u;1lc ooponany has taken over the Sunbeam property at Katherine and that the very sub stantial development fund of the cor poration is to be available for it's de- velopment. George Probasco, one of the original owners of the Sunbeam, is now in San Francisco conferring with MT. Loring, and will it is said return to Kingman in a few days ac- .companied by MT. Loring. Immediat- ely thereafter the development cam paign at the Sunbeam is to be started.
 The taking over of the Sunbeam by the Silver Hills company would appear to be the outcome of an in spection of the property made recent ly by F. c. Merritt, field engineer for the Loring interests. The property is adjacent to the Gold Chain mine on the northwest and is traversed by two strong and paralleling veins which are located about 400 feet apart. The samples taken from these veins by Merritt are said to have given assay returns of from $3S.90 to $133 gold a ton. The importance of the develop ment of these veins at depth can hard ly be overestimated in it's bearing on the Adams, Adams Extension, Com stock Consolidated and other proper ties located in the north end of the Katherine district-not excepting even the Gold Chain mine, where the ore in sight at and above a depth of 100 feet is estimated to have value of $1, 100000.
 At the Gold Chain mine No. 3 cross cut north has been driven 38 feet without disclosing the hanging wall of the vein. Superintendent Nourse states that the ore pans freely and is in general an even better looking gold-bearing quartz than that cross cut a distance of 46 feet near the shaft-station at a depth of 100 feet. No. 8 crosscut is located about 103 feet east of tn eshaft and about 36 feet west of No. 2 crosscut, which has a length of 50 feet and is in ore. The apparent discrepancy in the num- bering of the crosscuts is explained by the fact that the easternmost cross l cut, (No. 9, was driven before the crosscut lying between it and the crosscut at the shaft was started.
 Wire gold is showing in the face of the crosscut being driven through the vein at depth of 100 feet in the Adams workings, and the ore is some what different in character than that opened to the southeast in the Gold Chain mine, being for the most part a rhyolite quartz. The crosscut has at this time length of 100 feet and is carrying lenzes having high mill values. Additional mine equipment is being installed.
 At the Katherine mine, where be- tween two and three million dollars worth of ore has been blocked out to a depth of 400 feet, the new surface machinery is being installed and will probably be in operation not later than the first wek in December. Sink ing has been resumed at a depth Of 100 feet in the winze on the 40o-foot level. At the Katherine-Rand prop erty, adjoining the Katherine mine on the southwest, quarters for the miners are being erected preparatory to extensive development operations. At the Revenue property the maehin- cry is in commission and sinking has been resumed at a depth of 60 feet.
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