Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-02-03
PRES. EDWARDS OF s. r. STOCK
 EX, VISITS 0ATNAN AND KATHERINE
By William P. DeWolf.


 William Edwards, president of the San Francisco Stock Exchange, and Harry E. Epstine and Frank G. Jew cit, members of the listing committee of the exchange, have just completed four days inspection of the mines of the Oatman and Katherine districts. The outcome of their inspection will be the listing of number of Oatman and Katherine mining companies shares on the San Francisco exchange during February.
 MT. Edwards, speaking for himself and the other members of the party, expressed to M. B. Dudley, president of the Mohave County Chamber of Mines and Commerce, under whose escort the inspection of the several mines was made, the opinion that the two districts would grow in investment favor from now on and that each of fers to the investor in mining shares an exceptional money-making oppor- tunity.
 The visit of the San Franciscans to the United American property at Oat- man was made under the personal guidance of w. K. Ridenour, president and general manager. The inspection was confined to the 70O-foot level' where a very high grade milling ore is being mined and trammed to the Aztec shaft of the Tom Reed company, and from there to the Tom Reed mil, for reduction. The ore showing in the American workings proved to be one of the events of the trip, as in the D foot face of ore which is being broken there is a lenze that is literally filled with free gold. This ore has a value running into thousands of dollars ton and if it were segregated from the ore of lesser grade surrounding it, would be a very high grade product. The visitors were given a number of very handsome free gold specimens as sou venirs. ..
 From the United American the visi- tors went to the Telluride property where ore is being mined for shipment to the Tom Reed mill having an aver age value of $22 gold a ton. From there trip was made to the Oatman Gold property, where a 3compart- ment shaft is being sunk for the pur- pose of developing the extension of the bonanza vein opened on the Oat- man United property, adjoining. At the Oatman United the visitors were shown the rich diamond drill cores, in cluding those from the ore body 361s feet wide that averages $85 gold ton. At the Terra and Stoney lease on the Tom Reed property they saw the miners sacking ore in near surface workings that runs from SIP to $27 a pound across width of 8 inches Specimens of the ore, showing an a. bundance of gold in the free, were giv- sn to them as souvenirs. .-% Fl
 At the Katherine today, in the Kath- srne mine the visitors inspected the sre-body opened of late on the 800 foot or first winze level, where they were shown 2 feet of ore having an average gold value of $500 a ton: They were given samples showing gold in the free, and a number of pan nings" of the ore were made for them. These pannings supplied the San Franciscans with an peculiar demon stration of the value of the quartz as in the free. At the Katherine EX. property they were shown the 60 feet of ore crosscut to the north of the shaft on the 25O-foot level, and on the adjoining Treasure Vault ground were shown the strongly minerallzed Assure of which the big ore body open ed in the Katherine Extension work ings is a unit. South of the shaft in the Katherine Extension workings thev were shown the highly mineral ized face of the long cross cut which is heinz. driven to contact with the northeast continuation of the bonanza Katherine vein.
 At the Gold Chain property the visi- tors were shown the immense uplift ot the big vein crosscut for 46 feet on the l0O-foot level, and in the bottom ot the shaft at depth of nearly 200 feet were shown the downward continual tion of this vein. Above them on the Io0.f foot level the visitors were m- +bere are 200 900 tons of ore ,f an estimated gross value of Sl'ooo'- 100. At the Adams property an in- ,nection was made of the lateral work ,n both the 100 and 200-foot levels. )n both of these levels the visitors were shown ore carrying considerable ,earse gold in the free. l The visitors were much impressed with the ore yielding possibilities of 1 10th the Oatman and the Katherine ] ections.