Show MINING MATTERS OF MOMENT EMANATING FROM KINGMAN ARIZ special correspondence kingman ariz sept 21 the past weeks activities in mining in mohave county has tended to bear out the theory that this fall will increase local activity the strike recently made on comstock silvers banner claim has proven better than where the vein was first cut the company already has drifted about thirty feet in each direction from froin the original crosscut and to the north the crosscut has been completed in this crosscut three feet of galena was cut which averaged 6 and the whole vein vei in twelve feet wide averaged Z better b etter than 25 the crosscut to the south has not yet been completed four raises will be started on this ore and before the week is out it is the pla plan n of the management to have a car of ore a day going to the kingman sampler from this point in the meantime the company is keeping up its quota of forty tons a day from the prince nce george and banner claims and the water in the original banner shaft is being lowered at the rate of about four feet a day now that the new electrically tri cally driven equipment is in and 6 going the western apex at oatman which opened an ore shoot of more than feet in length on the level which surprised the management by widening out to a distance of over twenty five feet to the east is now sinking a near the vein from which a crosscut i is being driven fifty feet below the level the western Ar estern alexs development campaign is being carried on in a thorough manner and george lo 10 lon n 4 t g one of the original discoverers of the eastern i hopes to bring in i a another big producer after a record at goodroad Gold road jack shank who recently took over the famous gold road property prope arty expects to more than duplicate the record lie he made in in rejuvenating the tom reed instead of just a lease on this property as he had on the tom reed jack has an option to purchase and having organized a company known as the Stem winder gold mines company of which he is president already has his new ton mill completed and ais is now limbering it up preparatory to operation ore will be going through the mill next week shank has made a wonderful record on the tom reed if he had been able to buy this property as he has the gold road he would have been able to pay for it already out of the royalties he has paid the company it is said the gold road is far from exhausted and wik aiu be running for many years to come it is predicted sinking deep shaft at white hills the white hills company is steadily going down with with its new three compartment shaft and in the meantime has several men installing equipment after which the work in the shaft will be speeded up the high grade shoot of ore recently struck in the shaft is maintaining its width and grade crade it is understood this shaft will go to at least 1000 r leet feet before a crosscut is run the katherine mine continues to be the sensation the cross vein hit a few weeks ago on the level which was richer than anything yet struck in the mine has made possible a great 70 feet wide on that level for the formation between the old vein and the cross vein has been enriched ri to the point that the entire mass is commercial ore this cross vein is maintaining its values and inasmuch as its exploration is superficial as yet it is difficult to predict its full extent it already has done much toward further proving the katherine as one of the biggest gold mines of its day the katherine mill is maintaining a production of about tons a day |