Show U S MINING ORDERS resumption AT FAMOUS GOLD ROAD MINES the most important news that this country has received in mail many y years was the order of the united states mining minin smelting Sm elting refining company to their representative D R 1 muir to get everything in readiness to start up the gold roads mines and the ton milling zal plant as soon as a crew of miners could be obtained says the kingham kin b ham miner of the 1st ast mr muir has been in mohave county the past few weeks awaiting awaiting b this order having z first sent in an estimate is as to the probable cost of getting the property in shape for production I 1 men hen are to be put to work at once cleaning up the big z mill remodeling b the boarding house and putting every everything thin 9 in shape for the carrying 3 on of a big b production campaign the property has been kept in fairly good shape during 6 the years of idleness and it will be buta but a few weeks until everything has been made spick and span so far as it is possible 1 to brighten up tip a mining b camp and its appurtenances large ore reserves available 0 the gold road mine which was shut down in the early part of the war because of constantly rising costs has been one of the great properties of the gold country of mohave county it had a record for cheap production that has never been approached by any of the other operating gold concerns and with improved devices it should still further reduce the production costs when the shutdown came it was known that the gold road had more than tons of better than 10 ore in sight As this great ore body had been entered only a short time before the shutdown it is reasonable to suppose that further development will brin bring b in hundreds of thousands of tons of still better ore it is the general belief that the real value of the ore body in the gold road is in excess of 16 but even at the lower figure there is great profit to be bad from the ores prior to the shutdown the company had put in a crushing plant at the billy bryan mine the pulped gulped ore to be conveyed to the tanks through a pipe line instead of carrying the raw ore to the mill below it was estimated that this method would save a large amount of money yearly goodroad Gold road an important camp goodroad Gold road at one time was one of the most important camps in the county more than men were employed in the mine and it is expected that this number will soon be again at work in the great property the camp is ideal water is pumped over the hill from little meadows for household uses and the mine is supplying sufficient for mill purposes the town is situated just over the mountain from little meadows and is only about two miles north of oatman its mines were among the first important discoveries in that sec ton and have been large producers of gold and silver the veins are lar large 9 e and the shoots are longer than those of any mine in the district mine is rated as long lived one geologists who have made close examination of the gold road property are of the op opinion ilion that it is one of the longest lived Z gold mines in the world the ore body extends fro from m the z old glory hole on the west to the railroad claim on the east approximately through four claim lengths great lenses have been f found in this massive vein and these lenses should yield a large anio amount tint of gold when properly developed D R T muir who will take char charge chare 1 e of the mines under the new order of things has been in ill this county many years as the representative of the parent company and has a world of friends here since the closing down of the mines lie he has leen been lookin looking after the companas comp anys affairs in the zinc fields of kansas arkansas and missouri but lie he has always wanted to return to the mines at goodroad Gold road he made a success of the ope operation raton of this property and we are sure that lie he will again turn the trick iklo mohave have count county welcomes mr muir and his people to one of the great camps of the state |