Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-04-08
By William P. De Wolf.

They are on their way to Arizona ths camp builders of the western trails who blazed the way to Creede and Cripple Creek, to Tonopah and ooldfield, and to the other bonanza xold and silver camps that have been established between the Rockies and the Pacific slope during the past thirty years. The skirmishers-those foreloppers who sense an impending rush" we'll in advance of the excite ment which attends the later and more concerted movement to scene of min ing activity-are already here.
 With Kingman as focusing point they are hastening to the adjacent broad mineral belt in search of likely looking properties. Prospecting as they go, they are subjecting every promising outcrop and vein to the test of pick and pan. They are getting results, too; and with these results as basis of negotiations a number of properties have of late changed own ership.
 The lobby of the Beale Hotel, the headquarters for both local and out side mining men, is daily taking on the additional animation that is the forerunner of a mining excitement of proportions. Automobiles arrive and depart at frequent intervals freighted with mine owners and prospective in vestors. Locations are being made and options are being taken on claims covering an area extending from Stockton Hill to the Colorado River. ~ Union Pass, Secret Pass and all the mineral country tributary thereto is receiving the favorable attention of the new corners.
 Late arrivals state that others are sn the way from the various mining states of the Pacific slope and are predicting "rush" to this section similar to those which featured Tono- pah and Goldfield in the early years of 1900. Nevada, California and Col orado mining men of prominence have already taken over substantial mining interests here, and are preparing to add to their holdings. Notable among recent arrivals are:
 Charles S. Sprague, who opened and mined a fortune in the Jumbo Ex- tension property at Goldfield; J. P. Loftus, who developed the Sandstorm, the Kendall and the Great Bend prop critics at Goldfield into shippers and who followed these successes by de- veloping the Round Mountain property at Round Mountain, Nevada, into a dividend-payer; J. K. Turner, promin- snt Nevada mining engineer, who To- cated the faulted segment of the bo- nanza Jumbo Extension vein; Billy Mckay, superintendent of the famous Francis Mohawk lease at Goldfield at the time it was outputting $30,00O worth of high grade ore day; and Charles N. Miller, former Cripple Creek mine operator and broker who is now operating mines in California and Nevada.
 Primarily, the very satisfactory status of the mining situation here is due to the success which has attended the development of the c. O. D. (sil- ver) mine in the Stockton Hill sec tion ,and the Katherine (gold) mine located in the foothills adjacent to the Colorado river. The former is owned and operated by Morris B. Dudley, formerly of Manhattan, Nevada, and eastern associates, while the latter is owned and operated by Charles Sutro and associates of San Francisco.
 During the past few years the Dud- ley interests, as they are termed, have expended upward of million dollars in the development of mining proper ties tributary to Kingman. The money required for the carrying out of this comprehensive campaign has been supplied by small coterie of eastern capitalists, who are now be- ginning to realize on their investment, as the c. O. D. mine is on paying basis. The c. o. D. is close corpor- ation with no outstanding stock and no debts aside from current expenses.
 The property carries continuous ore shoot to a depth of 400 feet, the present lowest point of development, and is wider and richer there than on the levels above. The value of the ore in the backs between the 400 and the 300 foot levels is placed at better than $1,00O,0O0. On the 400 foot level the ore shoot has been developed for a length of S35 feet with the headings still in pay rock.
 A recent sampling across 30 inches of the vein gave an average assay return of BIO ounces of silver and $16 gold a ton, while a sampling across eight feet of the vein few feet back of this point gave an average assay return of 40 ounces silver and $3 gold a ton.
 The pAOperty has been equipped with modern, electrically driven min ing and milling plants at cost of several hundred thousand dollars, and is now outputting from thirty-five to firty tons of concentrates every four days having value of approximately $25O ton.
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