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

such promising outcrop at the sur face, and it shows it for the full length of the claim, so that feel that the showing of this claim fully war rants the sinking of deep shaft in it's center, in order to prospect the main vein which crosses it at a suffi- cient depth, and to explore it fully. Of course such a program should not be undertaken until the work from the present shaft has fully demon strated the value of the property at 1 the points of junction of the Hardy vein with the northern extension of the Gold Road and of the United Eastern veins.
 I consider that the Oatman Anal gamated has just reached the point in it's development work where it is go- I ing to begin to show results. The dead work of reaching a sufficient depth has been done, as we'll as the dead work needed to recut one of your veins at that depth of 600 feet. Un- til this had been accomplished you could not expect any results of much interest. It is from now on that you can expect to open up ore with fur l ther development work.
 I believe firmly that the chances of the Oatman Amalgamated Gold Min ing Company are exceptionally good to develop into an important gold mine with a sufficient amount of eX- ploration work carried on the two main veins of the property, up to and past their points of junction with the Hardy vein.
 The only rock exposure through out the property of the Amalgamated is the green chloritic andesite, which is the ore bearing formation in the district. This flow is visible far to the north and west, although it narrows up in the territory of the Moss and Mossback, this narrow neck of unerod- ed chloritic material taking in radi- us of mile wide around the Mossback and then feathering out toward the Thumb Butte country, where the gran | lLSS dDptdi. lllC hOSo lS III oSi and granite, showing that the veins that leave the andesite still carry thelr potentialities into the primary. The depth of this andesiteic flow through the territory of the Amalgamated, and in fact through all the territory to the east of the property and over the summit of the range, is estimated to be fully 2,000 feet thick, so that there is an almost bottomless area to pene- trate before reaching either the older andesite or the primary.
 Iris part of the district must be pre- decated on what has come out of the Gold Road, that famous old property producing more than $9,000,000 from what may be termed a shallow depth. It's ore shoot is wonderfully long, being the greatest in the district, and the width of vein on an average is wond- erful. And it is the westerly strike of this vein that the Amalgamated is to search out with it's diamond drill operations, as well as picking up the northwesterly strike of the Tom Reed lode. This work is laid out so that there will be no wastage of drilling, each hole to reach into certain local ity where vein material is known to lie, The driving of the drifts from the 300 and 600 levels have indicated the To- cation of the ore bearing veins and these will be entered at various ang- les, so that there will be brought to light the value of each and every one of the lodges striking through the big property. Diamond drilling, such as is being carried on by the Oatman United and the other properties of the district, is important in that it may prove an ore bearing territory as in telligently as would large crosscuts and drifts, and at far less expense. It is this character of work that is now mapped out fer the Amalgamated and it's operations will be watched with great interest by the whole district
 The Oatman Amalgamated Gold Mines company was organized at Flagstaff some years ago, and it's officers are among the best citizens of that Skylight City. Sims Ely is president. T. A. Rickel, vice-presi- dent; Charles Prochnow, secretary and treasurer; E. A. Ritter, consulting engineer. The directors are E. T. Nc Gonnigle, E. A. Ritter, Fred Hensing, T. A. Rickel, Charles Prochnow, Sims Ely and John P. Kerley. These men have pinned their faith to the property and have put up their own funds to keep things going. They are now on the road to development that will bring success, we believe. Their mine is in shape to put on campaign of drilling that will soon tell the story of success. E. A. Ritter, who IS in charge of operations as consulting engineer, is one of the most energetic painstaking engineers in the west, his knowledge of mining being second to none, and this property has been his favorite, his, being grounded on it's