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ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES AZMILS DATA

PRIMARY NAME: LEXINGTON ARIZONA

ALTERNATE NAMES: BIG JOHNNIE SHAFT ANDY BIG ANDY ALICE CLAIM

MOHAVE COUNTY MILS NUMBER: 370

LOCATION: TOWNSHIP 19 N RANGE 20 W SECTION 26 QUARTER NW LATITUDE: N 35DEG OOMIN 37SEC LONGITUDE: W 114DEG 23MIN 03SEC TOPO MAP NAME: OATMAN - 7.5 MIN

CURRENT STATUS: DEVEL DEPOSIT

COMMODITY: GOLD LODE

BIBLIOGRAPHY: ADMMR LEXINGTON ARIZONA MINE FILE ADMMR MAZONA MINING COMPANY MINE FILE GARDNER. E.D .. "GOLD MINING & MILLING IN BLCK MTNS. MOH. CTY. Al" USBM IC 6901. P 38; 1936

WEED'S MINES HANDBOOK. VOL. XVI. P. 336; 1931 AZ. MNG JNL. VOL. 11. NO.1 O. P. 33; 1919 WILSON. E.D. "Al LODE GOLD MINES & MINING" AZBM BULL 137. P. 80-81. MPA; 1967 BLM MINING DISTRICT SHEET 482

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ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES FILE DATA

PRIMARY NAME: LEXINGTON ARIZONA

ALTERNATE NAMES: BIG JOHNNIE SHAFT ANDY BIG ANDY ALICE CLAIM

MOHAVE COUNTY MILS NUMBER: 37D

LOCATION: TOWNSHIP 19 N RANGE 20 W SECTION 26 QTR. NW LATITUDE:N 35DEG OOMIN 37SEC LONGITUDE:W 108DEG 23MIN 03SEC TOPO MAP NAME: OATMAN - 7.5 MIN

CURRENT STATUS: DEVEL DEPOSIT

COMMODITY: GOLD-(M) LODE-PRIMARY

BIBLIOGRAPHY: USGS OATMAN QUAD BLM DISTRICT MAP 482 ADMR HOUSEHOLDER MAP ADMR LEXINGTON ARIZONA MINE FILE ADMR MAZONA MINING COMPANY MINE FILE GARDNER, E.D., USBM IC 6901, P. 38 WEED, W.H., MINES HNDBK. VOL. XVI, 1931, P336 WILSON, E.D., AZBM BULL 137, P. 80-81 MAP ADMR FILES ' AZ. MINING JOURNAL VOL. 11, NO. 10, ~

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ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES MINERAL BUILDING, FAIRGROUNDS

PHOENIX, ARIZONA

August 20, 1958

To the Owner or Operator of the Arizona Mining Property named below:

The Lexington Arizona

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We have an old listing of the above property which we would like to have

brought up to date.

Please fill out the enclosed Mine Owner's Report fonm with as complete detail

as possible and aftach copies of reports, maps, assay returns, shipment returns

or other data which you have not sent us before and which might interest a

prospective buyer in looking at the property.

Ene: Mine Owner's Report

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LEXINGTON ARIZONA MINING CO.

No information on this propertyo Mark Gemmill May 27, 1957

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rm=~~~~HE properties of the Lexington Arizona Mining Company, an Arizona Corporation, --;n the one broad thoroughfare of the Tom Reed-Gold Road District, largely upon the east side of the gulch, one mile south of the main shafts of the Tom Reed and Big Jim mines, "-tQ.e. mineral zone being an entirely distinct and parallel one to that in which has been opened th.-e United

Western, United Eastern, Tom Reed and Big Jim Mines.

MINES HOLDINGS \

The Lexington Arizona ~ining Company is the owner .of 155'.184 a~res of mi~eral lands, ~ embrac~d witbin the borders of the Lexmgton, Happt New Year, ., Boston, AlIce, York, York :Annex, Bunker HIll, Anay , Big \tAndy, Only~Chance, Big Johnnie, and South Annex Mining Claims, a compact group the greater portion of which is patented.

TOWNSITE The company is the owner of the town of OLDTRAILS, upon the Scenic Branch of the National Old­

trails Highway, platted upon the westerly portion of the Lexington properties. Old trails has a population estimated at 500; is the nearest to the mines of the Nellie, Lazy Boy and Pioneer vein systems and is the most desirable and favored spot in the District for business and residence purposes.

ELECTRIC LIGHT The OLDTRAILS electric installation is the property of the Lexington Company and electricity. is fur­

nished for power and ,l,ighting purposes.

WATER SYSTEM An extensive system of water mains has been laid throughout the townsite of Oldtrails and to adjacent

mines and the Lexington Company supplies the needs of this part of the District from its steel reservoir upon the Bunker Hill claim overlooking Oldtrails.

LEXINGTON SPRINGS At an altitude of 4000 feet, in the Lexington Springs, this Company has the only supply of water

__ which will flow by gravity into the District. The springs provide an abundance of cool mountain water, requiring a pipe line of six miles to convey the same into Oldtrails, the building of which is contemplated at an early date.

MINING OPERATIONS Other than many cuts, trenches and shallow shafts, development has been largely centered in a series

I)f shafts, F"n~ in all, placed upon the York, Happy New Year, Lexington, and Big J ohnnie cl;;.i~s, de~on­strating the existence of large bodies of low grade material for over 3500 feet in length, these workings being from 50 to 225 feet in depth. The new permanent shaft which is a three compartment affair is sunk upon the Happy New Year, at a point opposite the largest bodies of ore yet opened upon the property and at the most available site for erection of a mill for dump and tailings.

The properties are equipped with one Fairbanks-Morse gasoline engine and hoist and one Charter engine and hoist which will be replaced with electric power.

The sale of Oldtrails lots, water and electricity is constantly increasing and will ultimately prove a con­siderable source of revenue.

Throughout the Tom Reed-Gold Road District, the outcrops of the prominent fissures are largely cal­cite (spar)-with the replacement of calcite with silica (quartz) at deptH the ~old content of the vein increases, pay ore coming in at from 400 to 600 feet depth. The rule, therefore, is to develop with deep vertical shafts placed away from the vein and sinking in the country andesite to the proper depth, a work­ing from the bottom of shaft is extended toward and into the vein.

A thousand feet of exploration in shaft sinking, driving drifts and cross cuts into and beneath the quarter section of mining lands grouped as the Lexington, has convinced the company that it possesses one of the largest gold mines of the Oatman section and all that is required to usher in another Arizona dividend payer is to complete the new shaft to the 600 foot level projecting the cross cut south through the Lex­ington, Boundary Cone and other veins of the Lexington Arizona Mining Company.

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THE LEXINGTON ARIZONA MINING CO.

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Mines: Oatman Section CAPITALIZATION, $1,000,000.00

PAR VALUE SHARES, $1.00 EACH

NON.ASSESSABLE

I'DR. C. H. PHINNEY . . Los Angeles, Cal.

~ESIDENT .

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Dr. Chas. M. Heber-con ___ VICE.PRESIDENT

J. A. SMALL Oatman, Arizona SECRETARY

H. RAY WOODS . . Old trails, Arizona TREASURER

D. F. MEIKLEJOHN . Oldtrails, Arizona SUPERINTENDENT

H. E. WOODS . ' Old trails, Arizona GENERAL MANAGER

194.304 ACRES PATENTED

MINERAL 51.18 ACRES PATENT AP.P. ROVED HOLDINGS 10 ACRES UNPATENTED

OWNS:

5 ACRES LEXINGTON SPRINGS

OLDTRAILS TO\VNSITE OLDTRAILS WATER WORKS OLDTRAILS ELECTRIC SYSTEM LEXINGTON SPRINGS

OFFICES:

MAIN OFFICE, OLDTRAILS, ARIZONA BRANCH OFFICE, 538 Merchants National Bank Bldg., Los Angeles

TRANSFER OFFICE:

Security Transfer and Registrar Co., 66 Broadway, N. Y.

LISTED UPON NEW YORK CURB SAN FRANCISCO STOCK EXCHANGE

LOS ANGELES STOCK EXCHANGE

LLXINGTON VEIN SYSTE-M

THE LEX I N G TON- Z 0 N E

The central mineralized zone of the District, is the Lexington, lying as it does, midway between the Gold Road and Tom Reed upon the north and the Lazy Boy-Nellie Zones upon the South.

The Lexington according to some geologists is the oldest mineralized fissure of all, leading to the belief that more examples of mineral deposition will be found in the Central zone than elsewhere.

A VEIN OF MANY MERGERS. At the exact center of the mineral belt, no other juncture of so many im­portant veins occurs in the entire Oatman section. The various veins forming the Lexington can be traced for thou­sands of feet to the west. From the Boundary Cone, _ the Gold Key, the Gold Dust, the Oversight, Bennett, Apex Pioneer, Arizona Tom Reed, Oatman Queen, Golconda, Leland-Mitchell, Gilt Edge and others, all trend easterly toward a common center and bury themselves into the one gigantic fissure--the Lexington.

VALUE ,)F COMPONENT PARTS Based up-on the market valuation of the shares of a number of companies, whose veins center in the Lexington,

the latter should have a combined selling value of $2.00 per share and upward.

Boundary Cone _________________ ~ ________ Listed on Los Angeles Stock Exchange ___ $ ,55 Gold Key _______________________________ Listed on Los Angeles Stock Exchange ___ ,25 Gold Dust ______________________________ __ Listed on New York Curb _____________ ,20 Tom Reed, Jr, (Branch oO _________________ Listed on Los Angeles Stock Exchange ___ ,20 Arizona Tom Reed ___________________ ______ Listed on San Francisco Stock Exchange_ ,25 Go I co n d a _______________________________ Un list ed _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ,20 Gilt Edge _______________________________ Listed Oil San Francisco Stock Exchange_ ,10 Apex Pioneer ____________________________ Unlisted ___________________________ ,25

$2,00 An expert comparison of the geological merits of the veins outcropping upon the Lexington group, with the

westerly continuation of the same, is favorable to the former, for:

THE LEXINGTON ESTATE is entirely removed from any menace of the older Andesite; the filling of veins at the surface is largely quartz and long unbroken stretches of outcrop are presented where ore shoots of magnitude can make and have continuity and further, it is in the same northerly-southerly horizon of the United Eastern-Tom Reed and Big Jim-the District's most noted: mines.

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