Show TH EDITOR SALE Fie Group of Claims Absorbed By the Gold Bug The Heralds Mercur correspondent has given publicity to the fact that Frank Jardine has sold the Editor group of claims on the West Dip Camp Floyd dis i j trict to the Gold Bug company whos3 j property is located in the same locality The Gold Bug company Is composed of I heavy capitalists and prominent businessmen business-men of Evanston Wyo 1 Kastor being the president of the organization and the addition of the Editor group to the com panys original holdings not only gives important extensions on the vein but also vests in the company the title to one of the most valuable prospects in that section The Gold Bug will work its Camp Floyd possessions aggressively from now on and the outlook for the property is flattering Hining I Arizona The Miner of Kingman Ariz says P E Collins is putting up the whim on tho Belle McEllroy mine at Cedar As soon as it is in working order the little ltte mill will be put to grinding out bullion Judge Blakely has just returned from a visit to the property and Is wall pleased I with the way it is showing up under development de-velopment I C E Bowers H J DeLamar and G G Hogg went out to Temple Bar this week to inaugurate work on the glance boom in the Colorado river Several piers will be built and the old piers strengthened and repaired Mr Hogg will have charge of the work Messrs Bowers and DeLa mar returned to Kingman last night Georgi Aitken one of the brightest mining men Mohave county has ever had among her ciiizens has discovered a mine carrying I large percentage of antimony I about 12 miles northeast of Mojave Cal I i The antimony in the ore is not associated with the many other bases usually found I in connection with this metal Mr Ait kens many friends in Mohave county wish him success with his new find T M Drennan of Parker Ariz was in I Kingman the first the week looking after the sampling 01 several tons of gold ore from a new location 30 miles below I Needles on the Colorado river The ore sampled over four ounces in gold to the ton The ledge from which the ore was taken is a vein two feet in width one foot of which is solid ore Three car loads of this grade of ore are on the dump awaking the arrival of the steamer whun it will be shipped to the sampler Thomas Ewing the wealthy Pacific coast mining operator has bonded the Shirttail mountain group of mines from Monaghaii Murphy Judge J H West I irrrmlr Wnlmos Strvnhpn Tod = 11 nvirl r tharo I and now has 35 men at work on them The ledges are big bodies of low grade ore with wonderfully rich stratas running through them are so situated that they can be develoued to great depth at a moderate cost Six miles below the mines flows the mighty Colorado river from which power sufficient for all purposes of milling can be obtained I John Barry the well known mining man and owner of the richest mines in Walla pal mining district is in KIngman Sir I Barry is now engaged in sinking a two compartment shaft on the Minnesota i mine within a short distance of the Connor I Con-nor line The shaft is now down 140 feet i hee 200foot level is reached drifts fhe di will be run off north and south and an I immense block of ground opened for stop ing A large force of men will be put on i and the mill and concentrators run day I and night The richest of the ore will b3 j shipped and the poorer ore concentrated j and put in marketable shape The mine is one of the big properties of the Pacific I i coast and frb Barry Dir putting it in condition con-dition to eclipse the output of any of the big yroducers of the coast Relation of Lodes and Placers I happens sometimes that placers are found where there are no lodes and vice versa And regarding this matter a recent re-cent mining authority says we hear it now frequently with reference to the new deposits of the Yukon In this case it is almost a matter of surmise because there has not been yet any general exploration ex-ploration of lodes there attention hayIng hay-ing been concentrated naturally upon the easily worked placers and prospecting In the hills being difficult for various reasons rea-sons There may be workable veins of gold quartz above the placers and there may not There are vague reports as to the existence of some but it does not follow necessarily either in the Yukon or elsewhere that where there are placers there are workable lodes A placer deposit of gold or tin Is a natural nat-ural concentrator of mineral that existed in solid rock The erosion of wind and water acting through immeasurable time has worn down the earths surface in many places to 3 marvelous extent In this kind of disintegration stable minerals min-erals like gold and cassiterite which are I of much greater specific gravity than their original matrix when concentrated in water courses just as they are now concentrated by men in sluicing But nature has concentrated millions of tons of material where man has to concentrate comparatively few The discovery of such natural concen traton in alluvial depoMts does not however Imply that its source will be found or if found that it will be workable work-able because the original lode may have been rOC n entirely and therefore no longer In existence the placer gold or tin may have come from a dissemination in a great mass of rock which it would never pay to mine or from innumerable veinlets which were never exploitable or the auriferous debris may have been carried j car-ried far from its original source by glacial gla-cial action so that the connection be tween placer and lode can be established I is not to be inferred from these BUg I gestions however that there are not I cases where placers have led directly to mother lodes Numerous instances can be j j cited where they havje done so and vice versa The conclusion is simply that no I general rule can be laid down and the existence of rich placers does not in itself it-self imply the existence of rich or even workable veins The placers of Breckinridge Colo were I discovered at the time of the Pikes Peak excitement 1S59 and have been worked more or less ever since producing a good many millions of gold Their origin from lodes near by can be traced with reasonable rea-sonable Certainty and some of these lodes have been worked profitably but the pro duction of the lodes has nqt yet been a tithe of that of the placers The same may be said of Alder and Last Chance World gulches in Montana Western Mining I |