Show ARIZONA A J ritchie representing the western machinery company of salt lake is here in the interest of his company for the purpose of wrecking the mining plants of the white cloud and trilby mines near morristown says the wickenburg miner arthur brisbane wants john D to put a twelve mile hole in the ground in hopes of tapping an ocean of gold says the oatman mining news fine idea now is the time to do it it will take a good sized lake of yellow metal to pay these war debts the matter with hearst doing it he has done everything else if hell furnish the money well furnish the hole W W wishon of searchlight has been platting up a group of mines in the neighborhood of the old 63 the past several weeks for himself and associates the men are reported to have located a good group of mines and it is understood that important development will be started soon one of the properties in the group is the old black dlabik and tan lying west and north of the 63 J L mclver mciver the main factor in bringing the united eastern mine into being was in 11 a short time ago aga 11 on his hilway way to the properties that he is interested in in the oatman camp the principal mine that is receiving his attention and work is the telluride but he is also interested in the baltic mine with W K ridenour this proper property y is now being equipped with machinery and the work of driving the shaft downward will soon be under way the drift on the level of the gold ore has reached the ore body and the work of iriving through this body will be continued until its dimensions are ascertained the ore that is now coming in is said to be of a high mill grade but when the body has been penetrated some distance a better grade is expected to be encountered as in the ore body opened near the surface the grade of this old ore body was about per ton kingman miner aliner |