Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-08-05
- MINING GAME LESS PRECARIOUS THAN IN FORMER YEARS

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 excessive freight rates, and with the
 aid of mining and ore reduction ma
 chinery which would now be consider
 ed very primitive. Today the condi-
 tions are reverse and the miner can
 mine and mill ore at profit which
 in former years was for all practical
 purposes no better than waste rock.
 The miner of the present is taking
 advantage of the money-making op-
 portunities offered by the early-day
 bonanza mines of this county. He is
 buying them while they are cheap and
 is making them over into going con- : cerns. The work already done has
 made this the banner gold and silver
 producing county of the state, and has
 attracted and is attracting mining
 capital to the mineral-bearing sections
 tributary to Kingman. -,
 In addition to the foregoing, a
 movement to locate claims in sections
 hitherto more or less neglected is we'll
 underway and is already assuming the
 status of a real mining excitement.
 This movement is particularly marked
 in the camp of Katherine, located
 about S5 miles from Kingman, and in
 the camp of Tristate, located about
 three miles from Katherine on the
 Nevada side of the Colorado river.
 Although it is in Nevada, Tristate
 draws on Kingman for supplies and is
 said to beot all intents and purposes a part of the mining industrial move ment for which Kingman is the focus ing point. The men behind Tristate are we'll known Nevada miners. They are advancing the interests of their camp with the same get-togetner-stay- together spirit which has kept Nevada on the mining map from the days of Virginia City to the present. The veins at Tristate are considered to be a continuation of the gold-bearing veins of the Katherine district, where, in a single ~mine-the Katherine,-be- tween three and four million dollars worth of ore has been blocked out. On the Nevada-K Katherine property, at Tristate, surface trenching is said to have disclosed a vein from. five to sixteen feet wide that carries values as high as $2S6.4S a ton across breadth of from 12 to 16 inches.
 A number of prospectors, said to have been grubstaked by c. c. Boak and other mining men of Tonopah, Nevada, have located claims at I'll state and are now engaged in like work in the Katherine district: Mem bers of the party state that the dls- trict is one of the most promising they have ever prospected and that other Nevada mining men Will soon have representatives in the field. AS a matter of fact number of tne pest claims in the Katherine district are slreadv held by Nevadans: Notaoly Inc Sunbeam, (W. J. Loring) proper tv. inc Katherine Extension, (C: N' Miller) property; the Gold Cham ssa { shank) property; the Aaat s ths fn,Arcv-Newland) property, ana the \ stherine Mohawk (Degenhardt-l0r- An enlightening demonstratleh +Se U .,s T nroduction potentialities Of the .ar,v-dav bonanzas of Mohave county 1 's afforded by the c. O. D. mine III .S. ' cerbat range. The c. o. U. ,S .rsd;ted with an output of several mi- ;on dollars worth of silver ore in @ aass lon ,oat Ultimately, however, the base metal content in the ore, together M,, , falling off in values' mace niin ,nas, ,nnrofitable and the property ~m ao ',nsed down. About two years ago Io q Q. D. was purchased by MOT is B. Dudley and associates anu wa %a
 mipped by them with modern elec mining and milling ma, h;nsrv at a cost of several hunareo dollars. The mill is nov now urning out approximately $4o'0oo ,orth of concentrates a month and IS | eing equipped with additional reduc- l ion units which will increase the out Il ut of concentrates to $6O,OO0 worth II month. The mine is in better phy- Ii cal condition today than ever before E: it's history, and the ore bodies are E lcreasing in width and value as depth I|
 gained. E Another old-time property that is IZ satisfactorily to the use || modern mining and milling appli- E ices is the Dean mine in the Walla- B