Show GOLD BASIN CAMP miner kingman arizona gold basin owin owing to its situation far from the base of supplies has long been neglected by mining men although of late years several good propositions have been taken up and worked quite successfully one of these is the eldorado this mine was discovered in the late seventies and its ores worked in mills and erastras astras erastras astras ar thousands of dollars were taken out in this way but the process was expensive hundreds Hundred 3 of tons of rich ore were found on the surface of the claim which produced the first bullion taken from that district at first it was thought that the mine was a blanket but later development has proven it a fissure at the present time the shaft has reached r a depth of three hundred feet on the vein and is in good milling ore A ten stamp mill and cyanide plant are handling the ore from the mine successfully the arizona minnesota gold mining company is working the property this company has developed water for milling and camp use and while working under many disadvantages has done a large amount of development proving the property to be a good one the surrounding mines in the same mineral belt are the 0 K cyclopic tiptop and many others the veins are all large and some of them have excellent pay streaks the scarcity of fuel and water makes the handling of ores in the district an expensive proposition with the introduction of cheap power and a water supply adequate to demands of milling the district would become one of the richest in the ter and would make rich the investor and miner the heart of the camp is about forty five miles from hackberry and somewhat longer distance from Kin kingman guilin development on the mines is i s superficial few of them being opened to a depth exceeding fifty feet the owners preferring to pothole the vein in doing assessment work |