Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-03-17

far down into the bowels of the earth and into the far reaches of the under ground mineralized world. No cam paign in the history of mining has ever been carried on as systematically as has the new development plan now being followed in this field. A shoot will have to be meager to get away from the eyes of the drills that are going out into territory of vein in- fluence, and before many months we l expect to see more new development work under way carrying drifts and crosscuts into the veins discovered by these drill holes. This drilling meant more to camp than the present activ- ity and foreshadows the dawning of a new day in this great gold district. With eight or ten drills in active ser vice, cutting through a territory f known to be rich in vein material, many of them carrying potential val ues in their outcrops, lying contiguous to the dikes that enriched them, there is reason to believe that this camp vii be in an active state of produc- tion for years to come.
 The production of the camp has been wonderful, the three great prop critics having produced fully $35,OOO,- GOO in gold and silver. These veins have scarcely encroached upon their ore bodies, and it may be years before their full production has been arrived at. In the early years of the eighties, the management of the Copper Queen properties were ready to quit because the ore body had floored. One of the owners, who knew nothing of mining, proposed to sink to a new level and see if it was not possible that the ore went down below the big limestone in trusion. His partners refused to put up, but not deterred by this, having the means of his own to carry on the work, he was rewarded by bringing in what has since proved to be one of the most wonderful producers of cop per in the world. This was prior to the advent of the Phelps-Dodge peo- pie. It may be the important work of the Oatman United that will fore cast the future development of the Oatman camp. Like the Copper Queen, many engineers have predicted the end of ore bearing in that section, but again their knowledge appears to be limited to the open part of the big veins, the ordinary mortal seeing just as far into Mother Earth as they.
 Oatman has come back to stay. Its future position in the mining world has been established by magnificent production of gold from superficial depth. It lies in belt or mineralized zone second to no other like area in the world, and the men now in the field are out to bring in real mines and to increase gold production through actual and active development of the wonderful veins. The camp is ideally placed, lying under the escarp- ment of the pinnacled hills of the Blue Ridge mountains. It has a climate that makes for all the year operations. with water free from the impurities that are found in so many localities, and it's citizenry is of the best in America. The men at the head of its mining development are the real broadminded fellows who will give every shareholder run for his invest ment; men who believe in the develop ment of the mines, not the milking of investors.
 Oatman is to day the Wonder Camp of the gold territory; it has men with vision to look into the future and take advantage of the good things that in dulgent nature has planted in magnif- icent quantity in the multi-colored rocks of the range. And it is these men who have acquired knowledge of mining in the school of actual service who are at the front in the new Oat- man, that is climbing to greater heights in development and produc- ton, giving to that section of our magnificent state the title of Premier Gold Center of the World"
 The Lumianrs newspaper one time