Show DISCOVERY OF GOLD ROAD A great property in which salt lake people are interested miner kingman ariz the gold road mine was discovered by jose jeres who was grubstaked grub staked by henry lovin the grubstake amounted to thirteen dollars jere represented to several kingman gentlemen that he knew the whereabouts of a rich ledge of gold ore in the country bordering on eldorado canyon and tried to get a grubstake but failed until he ran across harry lovin who listened to ME his story and gave him what he wanted jere was camped on the colorado river and was on his way back there with his provisions when he accidentally discovered gold in the great vein now known as the gold road lode breaking off some of the ore which showed free gold he returned to kingman and reported his find the assays essays from the outcrop gave results of lorty ounces gold to the ton A rush was made in there and soon the whole country was staked off lovin and jeres did their location work and when the shaft on the gold road was fifteen feet deep they bonded the property to los angeles people for later the property was sold to joseph burkhardt who worked it for some time and then disposed of it to posey baily and mccornick for A french syndicate boughs bough an interest in the property paying a half million dollars for one fourth of the stock since the inception of this company work has been carried on systematically and at the present time the main shaft has reached a depth of feet the levels run off show the mine to be one of the greatest in the country on the and the levels the ore bodies are immense and the values range am from 20 to to the ton on the level samples taken from across eight feet of ore recently averaged 36 on the level the same rich grade of ore is found and the shoot appears to be extending to greater 1 dimensions than above A mill capable of handling tons of ore is on the ground and at the present time tons daily are handled through it sixteen cyanide vats capable of holding tons of pulp each are in commission besides which there are many other vats of lesser capacity wh who ic the greater part of the ore is leached beached in the vats fifty tons of slimes are daily handled through the filters the ore I 1 is rtin through a crusher at the mine and then carried to the mill where it is put 1121 rolls and in huntington mills the solution is feo to the machine and its decomposing action begins at once the loss through the biters is about fifty cent to the ton of ore but in the vats a greater loss is made thel the mill is one of the most complete in the united states men of largo large experience preside over the destinies of both mine and mill at the present time tile the monthly output of the mill is about while in the two and one half years since its installation JL has produced in bullion S R porter is in complete charge of both mine and mill during the present year it is e expected K that a power transmission line will he be put in from some ce convenient point on the santa fe railroad to operate all the machinery at mine and mill when this his is done the mine will becomer become one of the largest producers of gold in the united states as a s the capacity of the property can be doubled whenever additional power is lur dished the gold road company has acquired a large acreage of mining ground on which the town of gold road acme postoffice post office is situated the town is made up of a cosmopolitan people water is supplied to all tile ane residences from the big tank and ahe business houses are lighted by electricity at the present time there are about five hundred inhabitants in the camp and as the mines are opened up in the surrounding sections the kopul population correspondingly lu in creases water is obtained from the mine anine for all milling purposes while that for domestic use is pumped over the mount mountain aln from little meadows four miles mile away |