Mohave County Miner and Our Mineral Wealth, 1922-12-01

ORGANIZATION OF BOY SCOUTS 100 PER CENT INJR1Z0NA O W Gildow who recently attended the Boy Scouts Convention held at Phoenix had this to say concerning his trip The convention was called to order by Mr Miller representing National Headquarters Every Scout Executive in the State was present as well as many Troop Committeemen and Scoutmasters While this was our first State Convention we had the honor to report Arizona as the first State in the Union 100 organized as to Districts The work of organizing Troops in the various communities will be rapidly completed and we hope to be able to report a very large percent of our boys in the Scout ranks at our next State Convention which will be held in Prescott A large number of representative business men from many parts of the State were also present and pledged their hearty support and co operation to the good work of Scouting Kingman will have at least two more Troops Oatman one and possibly one at Chlo Chloride - ride Chloride The newly organized Mohave County Council will have a general supervision over the entire district However each Troop will have its own Troop Committee who will directly supervise the Trqops activty and be a part of the County Council Mr A R Groenink Scout Executive of Yav apai and Mohave County District will visit Kingman in December and as assist - sist assist in completing our organization A copy of the entire proceedings of the State Convention will be forward ed to this Council as soon as com completed - pleted completed and will be given in at a later date The ice is broken and I have every reason to believe that Mohave County is going to take its place as one of the leading districts of the State in the work of character build building - ing building in our boys

LUCKY BOY DRILL NOW DOWN MOREJAN 380 FT The drill of the Lucky Boy has reached a depth of 380 feet and it is expected to cut the vein early next week The work is going on with considerable rapidity and the opening of the vein at the new level should be but the work of four or five more days as it is expected to be reached within 450 or 500 feet below the apex The Lucky Boy is one of the proper properties - ties properties that shoujd soon be making a record It is in the neighborhood of the Sunnyside which we believe is another of the good things of the camp u WIN PRIZES AT THE MUSQUERADE BALL The Masquerade Ball Thursday night at the I O O F Hall was very successful Prizes were given to the most originally costumed dancers The first prize was captured by the Parson sisters who were garbed in Oriental Costumes The second prize was awarded to Lonnie Van Marter dressed to represent His First Night Out Alone and the third prize went to Bill Cook The Colored Gentle Gentleman - man Gentleman Many other original and ar artistic - tistic artistic gowns and costumes were worn

The membership list will be in increased - creased increased at the rate of three a month Wednesday the first luncheon of i the newly formed club was held 20 members being present The luncheon was presided over by the president of the club Robert W Wilde who an announced - nounced announced that Carl Walters would pre preside - side preside over the luncheon the following Wednesday and Charles Granger the one of the f ollowing week Mr Wilde in his remarks called especial atten attention - tion attention to two committees that of fel fellowship - lowship fellowship composed of Charles Gran Granger - ger Granger Willis Black J Harry Knight and J M Gates and that of Public Affairs made up of Tom Devine Ira George Jay M Gates and Smiley Jones Upon these committees rests a great deal of the responsibilities of the club and they hold until the elec election - tion election of officers in April next It was Continued on Page 6

W J CONNER OLD TIMER IS CALLED BV DEATH W J Connor at one time agent at Hackberry and later at Yucca died suddenly in Flagstaff on the 20th of this month Mrs Connor and daugh daughter - ter daughter who were in San Bernardino at the time went to Flagstaff where the funeral was held W J Connor came to this county in the early days df the entry of the Santa Fe railroad being an operator and later agent and also pumper the agent at water stations in these old olden - en olden days having to be the jack of all trades After the discovery of the Orange Blossom mine over near Bar stow Mr Connor entered the employ employment - ment employment of the company and removed to that place until the collapse of the enterprise He was a holder in the Leviathan mine near Cedar from which he secured a neat sum of money He was a worthy man and his many friends in this county will learn of his death with sincere sor sorrow - row sorrow

county it had a record for cheap production that has never been ap approached - proached approached by any of the other operat operating - ing operating gold concerns and with improved devices it should still further reduce the production costs And when this shutdown came it was known that the Gold Road had more than 10000a tons of better than 10 ore in sight As this great ore body had been en entered - tered entered only a short time before the shutdown it is reasonable to suppose that further development will bring in hundreds of thousands of tons of still better ore It is the general be belief - lief belief that the reiH 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 had from the ores Prior to the shutdown the company had put in a crushing plant at the Billy Bryan mine the pulped ore to be conveyed to the tanks through a Continued On Page 12

TELLIIRIDE DRIFTED 45 FEEL ON VEIN The Telluride drift is now in 45 feet from the crosscut this distance having been driven in ore the vein at the heading being 16 inches wide This ore is of high grade but the main ore body has yet to be reached there yet being 115 feet to go before the point reached in the winze is cut At that point the ore body had a width of 9 feet and a value of over 35 This ore body is really one of the best opened in the Oatman field in recent jeavs especially taken with the wonderful ore that was opened on the levels above These levels show ore that runs from mill grade into the hundreds of dollars to the ton From the upper levels there is now going forward to the mill 35 tons daily that has an average grade of above 30 per ton This grade will be largely increased when the new oie Body is ready to produce which will be but a short time

of the Lodge from the time of its or organization - ganization organization to the present Five mem members - bers members of Kingman Lodge crossed the Great Divide- during the year which ends December 1st They were J W Morgan Del Sherer Thomas H Bro bant William H Mack and Harry W Vogt The officers in charge of this ceremony announce that the public is cordially invited and all Visiting Elks are invited to attend the services with the members of Kingman Lodge silveKInes now shipping ore The Silver Blade Mines company Wednesday last made a shipment of several tons of ore to the Humboldt smelter as a test The ore carried good values in silver and copper and in general appearance it is the same as that taken from the Hibemia The company is sinking its main working shaft but so far only superficial depth has been gained The old shaft

Keily will have charge of the affairs of the company EXCURSION RATES TO PHOENIXJEC 18 19 Account of the Arizona Industrial Congress at Phoenix December 18th and 19th the Santa Fe and the South Southern - ern Southern Pacific railways have made a rate of one and one half times the regular one way fare to Phdenix from all stations within Arizonai These tick tickets - ets tickets will be on sale December 16th 17th and 18th with final return limit of December 21st 1922 Going trip must begin on date ticket is purchas purchased - ed purchased The fare fromStKingmanfcto Phoenix and return for this occasion will be 2250