Pay Roll Mine (Payroll Mine), Chloride, Chloride Mining District, Wallapai Mining District, Cerbat Mountains, Mohave County, Arizona, USAi

Regional Level Types
Pay Roll Mine (Payroll Mine)	Mine
Chloride	Census-designated Place
Chloride Mining District	Mining District
Wallapai Mining District	Mining District
Cerbat Mountains	Mountain Range
Mohave County	County
Arizona	State
USA	Country

PAY ROLL MINE.

The Pay Roll mine is about 1½ miles east of Chloride, near the middle of the west slope of the Cerbat Range. It is situated on Pay Roll Gulch near its head, at an elevation of about 4,400 feet, whence the surface rises steeply to about 5,200 feet in Rainbow Mountain on the northeast. The mine is approached by a good wagon road of easy grade.

The property, aggregating 40 acres, consists of two claims, known as the Pay Roll and Black Prince quartz. It is owned by Mrs. Mary Murphy, of Kingman, and Judge J. J. Hawkins, of Prescott. It was located in March, 1887, by J. W. Murphy.

The country rock consists of the usual pre-Cambrian crystalline schists, with granitoid rock predominating in the hanging wall and schist on the foot-wall side. A diabase dike is locally associated with the vein, which is cut off on the northwest by a raised fault block of black hornblende schist. In the gulch just below the mine the schists are cut by dikes of relatively young light-colored garnet-bearing aplitic granite.

The principal development work, all on the Pay Roll claim, consists of three shafts, aggregating about 500 feet in depth, over 600 feet of tunnels, about 400 feet of drifts, and some crosscuts and stopes. Shaft No. 1, the main working shaft, sunk off the vein, is 225 feet deep, and contains water in the sump. Shafts Nos. 2 and 3 are sunk oh the vein to depths of 100 and 60 feet, respectively. The main drift is about 500 feet in length and the main crosscut tunnel about 130 feet. Where the latter intersects the vein a winze about 50 feet deep is sunk on the vein.

The mine is situated on the Pay Roll vein or lode, which strikes about N. 30° W. and dips steeply to the northeast; the structure in the adjacent rocks trends about N. 40° W., with the dip approximately vertical. The Pay Roll is one of the large veins in the Chloride region. As shown by its persistent croppings it has a horizontal extent of nearly a mile, but is reported to be somewhat broken in the bottom of the mine. It varies from 6 to nearly 100 feet in thickness, 10 feet being perhaps a fair average, and contains in places a fair grade of concentrating ore. The gangue is mainly quartz, and the vein is in places separated from the wall rock by a thick sheet of argillaceous or talcose gouge.

Near the mine, as shown in figure 4, the vein is joined by the Redemption Clyde vein, which probably enriches the Pay Roll ore shoots. The ore in the persistent pay shoots consists of lead carbonates and galena, with some pyrite and chalcopyrite; it contains both gold and silver. The total production of the mine was not learned, but it is reported to include many carloads of rich shipping ore that run about $80 a ton, mostly in gold, derived principally from the surface workings, excellent values being found in the south shaft. So far as can be judged at present the deposit is a good-sized body of low-grade ore.