Bisbee daily review., 1921-06-19
|NOHAvE COUNTY
SILVER MINES
AGAIN PAYING
New Katherine District Now
Demonstrating Its Worth
In Certain Manner

KINGMAN. June 1S.-"The miner
aliZation of Mohave county is com
parable to a silver bow with a golden
string said mining man from Ne
vsda who is here on affairs connect
ed with his calling. "For," he con-
tinued in explanation of the parallel.
'the silVer-bearing section curves like
an archer's bow from the Wallapai
mountains to the Cerlnt range while
from tip TO tip, like a Dow-cord.
stretches the gold-bearing section of
the Union Pass-Secret Pass district"
Within the periphery thus outlined
by the visitor are some of the most
valuable gold and silver mines in the
Southeast < number oN these mines
date back in HISTORY to the days of
the Arizona Argonauts and have pro-
duced millions of dollars worth of
precious metal wealth. Others are of
later origin and have just entered
upon their productive era. Yet 9TH
eds are but now demonstrating their
ore-yielding possibilities. Most of
them. however. old-time and prospec-
tive bonanza alike, are making good
through the agency OF modern min
ing and milling methods.
Tests Are Withsteod
No factors are more intimately cor
related with mining success here
than the formulas which have been
worked out for the reduction of the
refractory silver-bearing ores of the
mines of the Wallapai and the Ger
bat sections. 1t was then no uncom-
mon occurrence for the ores to carry
a silver content of several thousand
ounces a ton, nor for shipments to be
made to smelling points as far dis
tant as Swansea. Wales. With in
creasing depth. however, the ores be-
came more generally refractory and
their values fell off. These condi-
tions. together with she, at that time,
long ore-haul to shipping points and
the primitive ore-reduction methods
employed, ultimately forced the OPP
orators to close their properties Con
tributing causes. were the demone-
tizing of silver and later the repeal
of the silver purchasing act by the
United States Government.
With the passing of the years the
railroad and the highroad came to
bring the ores OF the Arizona desert
into quick touch with smelling points
processes were devised that are suit
ed to their reduction needs, and the
bilized by our government at one dol
lar an ounce Thus favored by the
gods of transportation, invention and
chance, the silver mines OF Mohave
county are again going concerns and
are responding satisfactorily to the
test of development.
The c. O. d. mine. veteran silver
producer of the Cerbat Range, has
been revitalized, and now ranks next
to- the United Eastern and the Tom
Reed mines at Oatman in tonnage
and value of output The property
has been equipped with mining and
milling machinery at an approximate
cost of 100000 and is shipping $43,-
600 worth of concentrates to the
smelter a month. The Diamond Joe
mine, an old-time silver bonanza of
| the Wallapai mountains, is again be-
| ing worked and is in line to surpass
| its former reproduction record. The
! Colconda mine, another historic sill
! yer producer of Mohave County, is
| being equipped with 100-ton mill to
replace the plant destroyed by fire
several years ago. From the Darda'
nelles mine in the Chloride district
shipments of ore are being made that
net s45 gold-silyer a ton. The ore
being shipped from the Rawhide
mine has a silver content OF several
thousand ounces a ton.
Ore Assays Heavy
At the Kingman Silver-Gold proper
| ty I'M the Cedar district, 20 feet of the
vein is said to assay 40 ounces silver
and So gold a ton. The vein in the
Dean mine, another old-time proper
| ty in the Wallapai mountains, car
ries six Meet of ore that assays 81
ounces silver a ton. The old Arnold
Hubbard and General Lee mines II
the Cedar district are soon to be
worked by l. NJ. George of kingmar
and associates. In the Kingman Con
solidated mine at Stockton Hill, the
vein carries Is feet of ore that as
says go OUNCES silver ton. The
Parker company is building road t.
its mine in the Hibernia district. N