Show BIG STRIKE IN MOHAVE COUNTY kingman ariz may 25 mineral park again furnished the mining event of the week in mohave county when one of the biggest strikes of the year was announced this morning in the george wash agton mine operated by the los angeles gem company two teet feet of solid ore assaying per ton is the extent of the new discovery the los angeles firm is one of a group of companies which have been mining turquoise at mineral park for a number of years like the aztec company of new york which only last week made known its great project of prospecting twelve claims with diamond drills and tunnels the los angeles company has been quietly extending its operations in the district since last fall in october it bonded the george washington group of six claims owned by joe and started a tunnel on one ot of them several months ago crosscutting cross cutting disclosed a vein twelve feet wide with stringers of ore assaying as high as 40 per ton tan following one of these streaks of high grade ore a was sunk and at nineteen feet it had widened to eighteen inches and assayed today at a depth of thirty one feet in the or a little over feet below the surface the strike has increased to two fet of solid ore which runs i from thirty two to forty per cent in copper ounces in siver silver and about half an ounce in gold or more than per ton E B E peck of los angeles is superintendent at the home pastime mine nearby where joe and charles perdue have been leasing nearly two years a good body of lower grade ore has come in lately and there are now from six to seven seven feet of fine milling ore accompanying a foot of high grade the old mexican mine one of the best of the early producers has been bonded by A M and A H smith of claremont cal development by tunneling and extension of the present shaft will be started as soon as roads can be re repaired P aired and machinery installed J H ROSENBERG |