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

that most vein faults require.
 The Oatman Gold estate is situate about one mile southeasterly of the town of Oatman, and is contiguous to the Big Jim. It is surrounded by the Oatman United, the Combination, the Big Jim of the United Eastern and the Aztec Center of the Tom Reed estate. It is the impression that the Big Jim vein may be within a portion of the ground of the Oatman Gold, especially in passing eastward out of the end lines of the Eastern property, the vein appearing to take strike that would easily carry it into the ground to the south and east of the new producer, although it may also be possible that it's strike is through the Aztec vein of the Reed that property showing vein of ore bearing poten- tiality west of the end line of the United American.
 Nevertheless the position of this property in relation to the ore bear ing veins of the district is ideal, everyone of them being ore bearing or having developed potential ore bodies. The Big Jim, the nearest of the producers to the new operations on the Oatman Gold, is sinking to deeper level and with the knowledge of what is in store,, and it is this de- velopment that will have large bear ing on the explorations carried on in the property under discussion. The great Elephants Tooth towers over the new working shaft and the rhyo- litic plugs show at their best across this property, insuring wonderful pos abilities of ore deposition. The one important vein in the estate is the Kokomo, although the other veins have potentialities for ore bearing, as evidenced in the outcrop. The north and south strike of the other vein in the group brings it into contact with the east-west Assuring and may cause a condition that would make for a wider distribution of the miner alizing waters through that area, and therefore for the betterment of the veins. These veins having a strike that bring them closely together at point close in to the new shaft paves the way for developing the veins with asmall amount of lateral work.
 The big fault that caused the suit between the Tom Reed and United Eastern, is traceable through the Oat man Gold ground, and it's identity es- tablished to a certainty, so that when the faulted area is reached there will be little difficulty in picking up the veins and carrying development work to a conclusion. This faulted area, as in the Big Jim, may be the point of enrichment, as usually is the case l in the fracturing and rending of the vein structure and allowing the enrich ing waters to have free and ready ac- cess.
 The Oatman Gold has always been an inviting proposition to the people of this county, as the shares were originally placed on the local market | WlCl cllIlIS SuSSCSS, liiet le NeRo eihS early financink that enabled the pro- motors to get quickly at work in de- velopment. And the fact that good ore values had been found on the sur- face and carried down in the prospect shaft to a depth of 60 feet had much to do with this early financing. The ore body, both in the prospect shaft and in the tunnel work at close in to the new shaft and reachable from this development. Sidelining the Big Jim and endlining the Oatman United, the Oatman Gold lies in a most inviting position and should soon be in the pro- ,ducing class. It has an excellent man. agementand the new shaft is going down rapidly, bringing the days closer when the ore bearing territory will be
 reached.