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Gold or Just a Fever?
A 1930s prospector insisted that a Mojave peak hid an underground river flowing with the ore. Some are chasing that dream today.
By Ashley Powers, Times Staff Writer
September 11, 2006

KOKOWEEF PEAK, Calif. — The earthen ridge rises 6,038 feet from scrub brush and sand, an unspectacular summit were it not for the legend: a river underneath, overflowing with gold.

At least since the 1930s, leather-skinned prospectors have chased the tale to a mining shantytown at the base of the peak, on the edge of Mojave National Preserve, where the cheeriest structure is a pink shed that bears the warning "Keep Out."

Today a hard-bitten crew of treasure hunters huddles in plywood homes, enduring icy winters and roasting summers. Their big-city neighbor is an apt one: Las Vegas, about 75 miles away, which also welcomes dreamers happy to risk savings and sanity.

Kokoweef — a name believed to stem from Southern Paiute words meaning "gopher snake canyon" — lures its own kind of gamblers, though these days barely enough for a hand of seven-card stud: a military surplus merchant, a cocktail waitress, a retired construction manager and a few others.

Their quest, however, comes with this caveat: It consumed Earl Dorr, the brusque miner who fathered the legend — and who may have concocted it for his own nefarious ends.

The bleak sands of the Mojave conceal a bounty of treasure. Native tribes pocketed agate and turquoise long before Nevada's silver rush in the 1860s, which sent fortune-hungry miners scrambling into the Providence, Mescal and Clark ranges.

Tent cities sprouted in the sand. Some matured to communities of shelters cobbled from rocks and juniper poles — with most towns building the requisite general store and saloon and sometimes a brothel.

Ivanpah, among the largest on the California-Nevada border, boomed to several hundred residents, but it and most smaller outposts went bust when the silver, copper or tin markets crashed.

The mining rush slowed to a trickle by the 1930s. Into this desolate landscape wandered Dorr, a prospector with blue eyes, a shoulder-holstered gun and "immaculate table manners," said his nephew Ray Dorr, 78, a retired contractor in Cañon City, Colo., who is writing a book about Kokoweef.

Earl Dorr, born in the 1880s to wealthy Colorado cattle ranchers, traveled the Southwest in search of a mine that would make him rich. He would visit Ray's father in Pasadena, striding to the door in a Stetson hat with a sack of penny candy for the kids, whom he entranced with tall tales.

Along the way, Dorr either "discovered the richest gold deposit in the United States … or he was the most imaginative liar in the state of California," his nephew wrote in a 1967 article for Argosy magazine.

Dorr told The Times in 1936 that he came across Kokoweef when he checked into a Death Valley tale that three men who stumbled upon the golden river had deposited $57,000 in a Needles, Calif., bank.

Dorr told his nephew a different version: that he had befriended three Indian brothers who had discovered a river thick with ore in a Kokoweef cavern. After one brother plummeted to his death in the cavern, the other two refused to return to the mountain and told Dorr the tale.

The mountain, near the Ivanpah range, has three sizable, nearly vertical caves with limestone chambers: Kokoweef, Crystal and Quién Sabe — Spanish for "who knows." In 1934, Dorr produced a sworn statement that said he and an engineer, whom he identified only as Mr. Morton, descended several thousand feet into chambers he called "one of the marvels of the world."

On the floor of a half-mile-deep canyon, Dorr said, he came across a river, about 300 feet wide, that rose and fell as if it were breathing. The water receded to reveal black sand. Dorr said he panned it and found gold. Lots of it.

Dorr told The Times that upon returning to the surface, he dynamited the cavern's entrance to keep others from plundering his bounty while he filed a mining claim.

Within the next decade or so, cave explorers from Pasadena, curious about the tale, shimmied into a cavern and found "D-O-R-R" seared onto a wall.

Dorr's statement was published in the California Mining Journal in 1940, and it has been the source of endless speculation ever since. Why would he write up such a strike when he went to such lengths to hide it? Yet, if he were telling the truth, weren't untold riches just waiting to be rediscovered?

Larry Hahn opts for the latter.

In the 1980s, Hahn, who owns a military surplus store in Las Vegas, became the latest in a series of folks to entrance investors with Kokoweef. He is a partner in Explorations Inc., which has leased land from a company that owns 85 acres near the mountain and has mineral rights to 300 more and would share profits from any cache discovered.

Hahn, 68, said he had coaxed 300 to 500 investors to chip in for drilling, blasting and zapping the mountainside with electric current to pinpoint where to drill.

His newsletters promise gold like a televangelist promises salvation: "It only takes that one lucky hole that is connected to the big void to show us the way," one newsletter reads.

On a recent afternoon at base camp, Hahn said the search seemed as feasible as dredging for gold doubloons. "But in this day and age, we don't have buried treasure; all of it's been found. This is the last frontier," he said.

Only the most devout trundle up Zinc Mine Road, a tire-busting path that zigzags past boulders and Joshua trees about a mile from where long-extinct coelurosaurs imprinted what might be the state's only dinosaur tracks. The occasional hand-lettered sign reassures that the path peters out at "Kokoweef" — a graveyard of sagging buildings and rusting mining equipment.

At the plywood-and-pallet home that he built, one wall plastered with his great-grandfather's claim certificates for a gold mine, Randy Stenberg, 59, a retired construction manager, tends to his dreams.

His wife, Bernice, 50, a cocktail waitress at the MGM Grand casino in Las Vegas, had dismissed Larry Hahn as a huckster who had blinded her husband with a fable. But nearly 15 years ago, the Stenbergs descended from their 13th-floor condo near the Las Vegas Country Club for a tour of a tunnel that miners had chiseled.

Hahn's pitch was simple: "If you hit it, you're talking about the biggest thing that ever happened."

The couple threw in about $1,000, inspecting their investment on weekends and scraping rock and debris from the mine. It wasn't until four or so years ago that they settled at base camp, where electricity churns from solar panels and, for about two hours a day, a generator.

Residents fetch water from a pool that seeps from rocks in the Mescal range. One neighbor, a retired factory worker in her 70s, plans to spend the rest of her days staring at the spindly Joshua trees that hem in the hodgepodge of structures.

Randy Stenberg passes time slogging through one 1,200-foot tunnel into Kokoweef Peak and gazing at the zinc mine's ballroom ceilings and relics of miners past, such as a leather jacket and a V8 juice can ossified in dust.

"Gambling's for fools," he said recently from a frontyard whose sole decoration was a pink flamingo. "I don't consider this gambling — looking for something that's possibly there. You'd go down in history with it."

The miners under Hahn's direction long ago abandoned the sometimes dodgy work of blasting Kokoweef with dynamite. They instead poke at the mountain with more inventive tools, including microphones that help measure sound from small explosions to see if it pings off ore.

The latest novelty is a drill. It is as tall as a two-story home and topped with a skull-and-crossbones pirate flag. Several miles from base camp, the machine labors six to eight hours a day, burrowing deep into the dirt. The rationale: When the drill hits nothing, it will have found the cavern, or the path to it.

Geologists scoff at the legend, saying Kokoweef Peak could never harbor such a deep cave or a raging underground river. The desert is too dry. The amount of gold said to be packed into the riverbed — at least 50 tons, by Dorr's estimate — is too great. Not even Gold Rush miners in the Sierra Nevada foothills unearthed such a cache.

Paleontologists working with the San Bernardino County Museum dug at Kokoweef Peak in the 1970s, recovering more than 200,000 animal remains, including fish bones. Birds had carried the fish from the Colorado River, scientists determined, but some miners took them as evidence that Dorr's golden river — and its mother lode — existed.

"If it would have been there, this guy would have mined it all and be rich as can be," said Ted Weasma, a Mojave National Preserve geologist.

Dorr's nephew and at least one prospector who has lived at Kokoweef are convinced that Dorr pulled a bait-and-switch on his fellow miners — signing the sworn statement to attract investors without giving up the gold's location or even guaranteeing that he had found it.

The prospector may not have shimmied through a small hole near Kokoweef's Crystal Cave but elsewhere in the Mojave, said Ralph Lewis, 54, an electrical apprentice who has distanced himself from Hahn's operation and is writing a book about the legend.

As evidence of such a subterfuge, both men point to a mining shack Dorr built, about 8 feet wide with a double bunk — not in the Ivanpah Mountains, but in the nearby Mescal range. Lewis, who lived in Kokoweef off and on for a quarter-century, is convinced that this is the so-called Dorr Peak, depicted on rudimentary maps as providing a second path to the underground river.

Dorr's lifelong search for another route to his treasure gnawed at him, especially after the legend piqued a mining company's interest in the 1930s. Its workers discovered zinc and gave up on the gold. Dorr claimed that the zinc mining had destroyed routes to his horde.

"I got the wrong class of men, all talk — the class we old desert prospectors call drugstore miners. It was too big for them — too big a thing," Dorr told author Howard D. Clark after the firm ditched its plans to find gold.

"I stuck as long as I could, until I was eating cooked watercress, chipmunk soup and sagebrush tea. I starved out and had a light stroke, which put me on my back for a whole year," he said.

After deserting the shack in the Mescals, he worked as a shipyard welder, then as a watchman at an Adelanto tungsten mine. The prospector died in the 1950s, his pan empty.

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ashley.powers@latimes.com

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Treasure map?

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Miners have flocked to Kokoweef Peak, a remote 6,038-foot mountain in the Mojave Desert, since at least the 1930's, when a man named Earl Dorr produced a sworn statement that he had discovered gold in a river underneath it.

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Source: "Adventure Is Underground" by William R. Halliday

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rehab · ANCIENT RIVER BEDS IN CALIFORNIA SIERRAS

rehab · ARGONAUT MINE DISASTER EMJ 9 23 1922

September 23, 1922 Engineering and Mining Journal-Press

RESCUE CREWS at Argonaut mine recover bodies of forty-seven men trapped by fire on Aug. 27.

Finding of Forty-Seven Bodies Ends Twenty-Two Day Rescue Effort at Argonaut Mine
Probable That Miners Perished Within Five Hours of Start of the Fire — Temporary Bulkheads Could Not Exclude Gas—Story of the Disaster.

LATE Monday night, Sept. 18, Byron 0. Pickard, of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, and Ben Sanguinetti, underground boss for the Argonaut mine, at Jackson, Calif., broke down a crude bulkhead on the 4,350 level of the mine and found the bodies of the forty-seven miners who had been entombed since Aug. 27 as the result of a fire in the shaft.

Notes left by the dead men are interpreted to show that the gas from the fire overcame the miners within five hours of the time the fire started. Rescue crews in twenty one days of desperate work cleared 475 ft. of caved drift and solid rock on the 3,600 level of the adjoining Kennedy mine and 530 on the 3,900 level. Connection was made by the crew from Argonaut mine working the 3,600 level.

from our San Francisco correspondent

Jackson, Calif., Sept. 18.—This morning at 4:55 connection was made on the 3,600 level with the 4,200 of the Argonaut after slightly over twenty-one days of desperate work and the clearing of 475 ft. of caved drift and solid rock on the 8~600 level and 580 ft. on the 3,900 level. Connection has not been made on the 3,900, where eighty-six feet of rock remain. Air from the Kennedy workings rushed into the Argonaut, and the first rescue squads of six men each entered the 4,200 level of the Argonaut, penetrating to the top of the raise from the 4,350 level. Conditions indicated possibility of the men being alive.

Sept. 19.—Following entry into the level a bulkhead was constructed in the shaft above the 4,200 level and rescue squads led by Rodney Hickox and B. F. McDonald, of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, descended to the 4,850 level and found a bulkhead that had been constructed by the entombed miners, in the drift on the Kennedy side of the Argonaut shaft.

The compressed air line was extended from the Kennedy and the bulkhead was removed. A rescue squad led by Byron 0. Pickard entered and found all of the miners dead. A note burned by acetylene flame on the mine timbers indicated that the men had perished from the effects of gas four or five hours after midnight on Aug. 27.

The Argonaut miners had climbed from the lower three levels to the 4,350 and had constructed a bulkhead, using their clothes to make it tight. A second bulkhead had been hastily constructed within the first and a third had been started when the gas evidently overcame the men.

Few mining accidents have been so thoroughly brought to public attention as the tragedy at Argonaut. Profound feeling and sorrow are expressed throughout the nation. A thorough investigation will be made. Feeling is general that the committee directing operations, composed of E. C. Hutchinson, president of the Kennedy Co.; V. S. Gabarini, superintendent of the Argonaut, and F. W. Lowell, of the Industrial Accident Commission of California, used every facility at their command and did everything possible to expedite contact with the entombed miners

By T. A. RICKARD

THE Argonaut mine is situated a mile north of Jackson, in Amador County, California; it is about ninety miles northeast of San Francisco. This mine is on the Mother Lode, a gold-bearing formation, or belt, that runs along the western slope of the foothills of the Sierra Nevada with a strike N. 20’ W.

The Argonaut adjoins the Kennedy mine; their workings extend to a depth of nearly a mile; to be exact, the Argonaut is 4,275 ft. deep and the Kennedy 4,150 ft., part of this difference being due to the fact that the collar of the Argonaut shaft is 112 ft. higher than that of the Kennedy, owing to the contour of the ground.

The Argonaut main shaft is 4,885 ft. long, because it is sunk on the dip of vein at an average angle of 63’. The Kennedy main shaft, which is vertical, starts at a considerable distance from the vein, on the hanging-wall side, and passes through it at a depth of 8,650 ft. The two shafts are 1,100 ft. apart.

The altitude above sea-level is 1,500 ft. The two mines are near the top of a ridge that commands a fine view southward over golden-brown foothills adorned with a parklike growth of evergreen oak. At I sat on the veranda of the Kennedy office yesterday, the manager pointed down the hill and said: “Do you see that patch of burnt grass; that is where they are.” He meant that 4,000 ft. vertically under that spot were the forty-seven -men whose fate was our sole subject of interest.

On the night of Sunday, Aug. 27, the shaft of the Argonaut was found to be afire. Shortly after the midnight lunch-hour, a shift-boss and two skip tenders at the 4,200-ft. station noticed the smell of smoke. They took the skip and went to the surface at once, and on their way up they noted that the fire extended for two sets just below the 3,000-ft. level.

Communication with those below by means of the telephone and electric bell-line is said to have been broken by the fire; No signal of warning was given to the miners, who were working at the bottom of the mine, chiefly between the 4,800-ft. and 4,650-ft levels. Nothing could be done to extricate them, because the fire prevented the use of the cage in the main shaft.

There is another shaft, the Muldoon, which is 450. ft. south -of the main shaft and is supposed to serve as a secondary exit, but it was not available because the draft was taking the smoke and gas into it from the main shaft. This was the established system of ventilation. The first thought appears to have been to ascertain the place and extent of the fire, and to check it.

On Monday and Tuesday efforts were made to extinguish the fire by the use of water from above, but this proved futile. On Thursday it was decided to prevent the fire from spreading upward, by building a bulkhead across the shaft at the 2,400-ft. level, for by that time the fire had reached to within a short distance of the 2,500-ft. level.

None of the men underground, of course, had been able to escape through the Muldoon shaft, and nothing was known concerning their fate.

It is necessary to explain that the Argonaut mine was on fire three years ago, in March, 1919; the fire spread into the Kennedy mine because the ventilation was from that mine into the Argonaut—and fire seeks oxygen. When the fire of 1919 had extended for a distance of 500 ft. northward into the Kennedy workings, the decision was made to cease pumping and to allow both mines to drown. To expedite this purpose, a large volume of water was admitted from the surface. That was in March, 1920. They remained under water until April, 1921, when they were unwatered and reopened. Only one life was lost in this fire.

Some of the upper workings of the two mines connect, or used to do so. The deep levels do not connect. This proved an unfortunate fact when it was decided, on the night of Monday, Aug. 28, to attempt a rescue by means of establishing communication with the men in the Argonaut through the Kennedy mine.

Early on Tuesday morning the work was started. The fire of 1919 had burned the timbers in the Kennedy workings nearest to the Argonaut, and the admission of water in 1920 had caused the round to cave so as to fill the levels with the mud and brown rock that had descended from the stopes as soon as the timbers were destroyed.

It was decided to try to reach the imprisoned men along two lines of approach, one on the 3,600-ft. level and the other on the 3,900 of the Kennedy. The lower of these levels was clear for the- longer distance, but to connect it with the Argonaut workings it would have to be advanced 140 ft. south through virgin rock.

Altogether 475 ft. of rock and waste would have to be penetrated. By the 3,600 the -total distance, would be 530 ft., but the conditions appeared likely to be more favorable than on the 8,900, because less stoping had been done immediately above that level, which therefore, it was~ hoped, would be less choked with debris. The 8,600-ft. drift would have to be extended in two places through virgin ground for an aggregate distance of 130 ft.; it would enter the Argonaut at a point 60 ft. below the 4,200-ft. level of that mine.

Thus the task of rescue - consisted partly of digging new drifts through debris and partly of blasting a way through rock.

The whereabouts of the imprisoned men could only be guessed; the superintendent of the Argonaut thought that some of them would have gone to the north end of the 4,200 because that drift is behind the shaft and nearest to the Kennedy workings, from which, it was believed, there was a leakage of air.

This place would be outside the line of the draft that was carrying the smoke and gases from the shaft into the workings below and southward. Others believed that the men would have made an attempt to escape through the Muldoon shaft and that they would be at the south end of the mine.

Ordinarily the miners work in shifts of eight hours; in order to hasten the rescue it was arranged for the men to work in shifts of six hours and in gangs of twenty men at each heading, two men working at the face for twenty minutes before being relieved by another pair. With good luck, an advance of 40 ft. could be made along a choked drift and 16 ft. could be driven in live rock in twenty-four hours. Everything was done to expedite the work of rescue and the staffs of the two mining companies cooperated loyally, despite the fact that litigation was pending between them.

rehab · CALIFORNIA MINING NEWS E&MJ 9 23 1922

CALIFORNIA

General Activity Is Apparent in Gold Mining Camps

~ Our Special Correspondent

San Francisco—Ten stamps were added to the Central Eureka mill, Sutter Creek, Amador County, recently. The 3,900 south drift in the mine has been repaired and development work has been started in the South Eureka.
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New operators of the Bush Creek mine, near Alleghany, will extend an old tunnel about 1,500 ft. to intersect the present shaft close to the bottom, or 800 ft. form the surface.
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A discovery of gold ore is reported from Coquett Creek, in Plumas County, five miles from the Butte County line and ten miles northeast of Merrimac.
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The Irelan Mines Co. has been incorporated to operate the Irelan mine, near the Tightner-Sixteen to One group at Alleghany, Sierra County. The incorporators are H. N. Yates, Pacific Grove;
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W. L. Waldron, Grass Valley; D. C. Smith, Meridian; F. L. Fisher, Meridian; and A. C. Irwin, Marysville. The Irelan mine has been in operation for several years and is fully equipped.
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The concrete foundation for the new hoist at the Brunswick property at Grass Valley has been completed. The shafts and workings of the mine are to. be unwatered as a preliminary to the resumption of operations.
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The American Bar Quartz Miniag Co., operating on the American River, is reported to have discovered a rich ledge between Michigan Bluff and the American River. The ledge is stated to be 4 ft. wide and to have been opened up for a length of 175 ft.
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The Black Oak mine, at Soulsbyville, which has been inactive for two years, has been financed by strong New York interests, who will resume operations at an early date.
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The Golden Gate mine, one mile south of Sonora, is being reopened by its owner, Andrew McCormick. The property, which has been shut down for about fifteen years, was formerly a heavy producer.
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The Chileno mine, on Jackass Hill, near Tuttletown, is being developed under bond by the Nevada Wonder Mining Co.
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The Crystalline and Alabama claims, near the Harvard mine, are being developed by the Tonopah Mining Co.

The Shawmut mine, near Sonora, had a disastrous wreck in its main shaft due to caving of the hanging wall. Both skips with their cables and much of the track and pipe lines are in the bottom of the shaft. A skilled crew has been brought from Tonopah to repair the damage. Operation of the mill will be suspended until October.
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The entire mine plant and mill of the Clio mine, near Jacksonville, was totally destroyed by fire on Aug. 19.
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The Harriman mine, on the river above Jacksonville, which was being operated under bond by Spokane parties, has shut down.
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The Parole mine, about six miles northwest of Tholumne, is sinking a new shaft.

rehab · CALIFORNIA MINING NEWS E&MJ 10 20 1928

Yellow Tiger Acquires Ancho
Preparations for additional exploration at its newly acquired Ancho property, situated in the Graniteville district of Nevada County, Calif, are being made by Yellow Tiger Consolidated, a Goldfield, Nev., company. The old workings will he cleaned out. This property was shut down in 1918. At that time several veins in the Calaveras slates were explored and low-grade ore was extracted. A ten-stamp mill, a compressor, and mine buildings are on the property.

Construct Mill at Hibernia
A ten-stamp mill is being constructed at the Hibernia property, near Greenville, Plumas County, Calif., recently acquired by Yakima-Mohawk Mining. This property was formerly known as Southern Eureka. A crosscut, 450 ft. long, intersects the South Eureka vein, which was stoped for a length of about 400 ft.

Engineering and Mining Journal — Vol.126, No.16

rehab · CALIFORNIA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 3 30 1929

for MARCH 30, 1929 THE MINING JOURNAL

CALIFORNIA

Five Santa Ana, California, men have organized the Santa Ann Mining Company for the purpose of developing a quicksilver mine in the Tehachapi Mountains. Papers of incorporation were filed through 0. A. Jacobs, attorney at Santa Ana. The names mentioned are C. P. Holmes, 1408 North Main Street; E. P. Holmes, Jr., 12181,4 North Broadway; Cleve Sedoris, A. J. Visel and Frank C. Freeman. The capitalization is $250,000.
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F. B. Brown, former manager of La Grange hydraulic mine, has been placed in charge of the Dutton Creek property of the Fortuna Mining Company at Douglas City, California, and arrangements have been made for the installation of additional machinery. It is said that large deposits of commercial gold-bearing gravels exist in the property. William J. Warren of San Francisco is president of the Fortuna Company.
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It is understood that Lloyd L. Root at Grass Valley, California, has taken an option on the properties of the Ganim Gold Mining Company in the Whiskeytown District in northern California. The consideration is $100,000. J. C. Hess of Schilling is foreman at the mines.
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The Zenda Gold Mining Company, Barstow, Califoraia, Oscar 0. Engelder, general superintendent, has sunk its shaft to a depth of 355 feet and work is in progress on the 340-foot level. Judging from present operations the 340 drift should enter ore some time in April and if the showing meets expectations the mill will be moved from Caliente. In shaft sinking a flow of water was released at a depth of 315 feet and a larger pump is being installed in the station on the 340-foot level. No report has been received of the annual meeting held in New York on March 11. The Zenda is said to have good financial backing.
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The Sugarman Mine, Inc., Arthur Deleray, superintendent, Sonora, California, has installed a mill at its property and expects to double the present capacity of the mine. Principal development is being done at the 300-foot level and is to be continued several hundred feet farther. Since January 22 of this year, the company has shipped about $10,000 in bullion and has about $20,000 worth of ore ready for milling and about six months’ supply blocked out in the mine. B. H. Nelson, 533 Roosevelt Building, Los Angeles, California, is president and general manager of the organization.
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It is understood that the Ord Mines, Inc., operating near Daggett, California, has brought a 40-stamp mill from Tonopah and will be on a production basis in the near future. The Ord mine contains a large deposit of ore averaging $10 per ton. Capt. J. L. Carder, 3656 South Van Ness Street, Los Angeles, is manager.
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The Camzo Consolidated Corporation, 1323 Pacific Finance Building, Los Angeles California, has built a bridge over the south Fork of the Trinity River, for the purpose of bringing in hydraulic pipeline to the company’s placer diggings, near Salyer in Trinity county. It is planned to start hydraulic operations and gravel washing at this point within the next two weeks.
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Surveys have been completed for a ditch to the upper channel in the Hayward properties near Big Bar on the main Trinity River, and it is anticipated that the recovery of the gold content found in these properties will be under way within 60 days. Major Bernard Day of Los Angeles is consulting engineer.
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B. F. Mack is drifting to tap the old shaft in the Halyard property at Camptonville, California. He is operating the property under lease and bond and has six men engaged in the project. About 800 feet of the distance has been covered and the objective will be reached within a short distance. The Halyard property comprises 280 acres in Sierra County and was operated by St. Clair and Halyard about 40 years ago.
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Roads are being repaired and the workings cleaned out in the property of the Stewart Gravel Mines, Inc., at Gold Run, Placer county, California, according to James P. Stewart of Auburn. It is planned to start drift placer operations this spring.
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General Manager Charles Manker has purchased a mill of between 50 and 75 tons’ daily capacity for the property of the Neocene Gold, Inc., near Scales, California. Excavation of the millsite has been started and the plant will be set up immediately upon its arrival from San Francisco. Gravel is being stoped at five faces and approximately 35 cars are being run through the sluices daily. Considerable ore is being piled on the dump for milling. Edward Nolan, engineer, has charge of the work at the mine.
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The Westgard Silver-Lead Mining Company will begin making regular shipments about May 15, according to Mark Bradshaw of Tonopah, Nevada, general manager. About 30 tons a day will be shipped to the Midvale smelter in Utah. The ore will be trucked to Big Fine, California, from which point a basic rate of $3.90 per ton has been secured. Bradshaw estimates values will run around $50 per ton, made up of 25 per cent lead, 17 ounces silver and $2 gold.
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The Yellow Aster Mining and Milling Company, W. F. Allen, Jr., general manager, Box 341, Randsburg, California, plans the installation of an additional 20 stamps. This company is producing and already has a plant of 30 stamps, using amalgamation plates and the tailings are retreated using Wilfley tables. The leaching plant has a capacity to treat 200 tons of ore daily. An average of 43 men are engaged in present work. Albert Ancker of Los Angeles is president of the Yellow Aster.
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The Mammoth Mine Corporation of Nevada has been incorporated to take over the assets and mineral holdings of the Mammoth Consolidated Mines Company, 50 miles north of Bishop, California. The company is capitalized at 1,500,000 shares of $1 par. Its officers and directors are C. F. Bumpus, Orange, California, president; Harley Harmon, Las Vegas, Nevada, vice-president; A. C. Mahan, Jr., 1241 Subway Terminal Building, Los Angeles, secretary-treasurer; A. C. Mahan, Sr., F. D. Surge, William B. Cilroy and L. C. King. Arrangements have been made for the payment of debts and ample funds provided for development and equipment. [rehab notes, mine is on top of a hill, about 3 miles wnw of Mammoth Lakes, CA]
M. D. Rossiter is to be in charge of operation, with whom will be associated F. W. Solomon, formerly associated for 15 years as millman on the staff of the Miami Copper Company. Work is to commence about April 15.
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The Western Merger Mines Company, Nevada City, California, H. B. Skewes, superintendent, has shipped $5,000 worth of concentrates representing three months’ accumulation of that part of the values not recovered by amalgamation. The ore is coming from the 400-foot level and a nice reserve is being developed so that it is probable that two shifts will be engaged in milling soon.
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The Belmont Metals Corporation. L. Everett, general manager, Mariposa, California, has developed an ore body from three to four feet in width for 141 feet in the Coolrado mine. The values in the ore average $30 per ton. This is considered to be one of the most important showings made in the district in many years. J. C. Kempvanee, 381. Hush Street, San Francisco, is president and manager of the organization.
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The 20-stamp mill of the California Premier Mine. Corporation at Colfax, California, will be placed in commission soon and the power plant enlarged, according to E. C. Klinker, president and general manager. The company operated both the Rising Sun and the Big Oak gold mines.
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Mining is picking up in the vicinity of Forks of Salmon in northern California, according to Milton R. Dunphy of Sawyers Bar. Some work is being done at the Black Bear and King Solomon mines and a strike has been made near the Forks of Salmon. A wagon road is being built to the latter two properties. A party has acquired an option on the old Ball mine, near Rollin, and expects to start work in the spring. Mr. Dunphy is one of the trustees of the Ball mine.
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It is reported that ore from the Desert Gold mine, 12 miles southeast of Goffs, California, has assayed as high as 800 ounces silver and 3 ounces gold in addition to its copper values. A shaft has been sunk 100 feet in the Desert Gold mine and a stope is being run to intersect a vein of ore. This property is owned by C. S. Craw, 845 West Twelfth Street, Riverside, California, and is in the same district as the Gold Turtle claims.
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Official announcement has been made that the Shaherald Mining Company made a 20-hour run on low-grade ore from its property in the Kramer Hills and realized $500 in gold. The high grade has been sacked and has not yet been run through the mill. The ground is owned by the Herkelrath Brothers, C. T. McDonald of Rialto, C. F. Shaw and H. C. Spring of Fontana, California.
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J. H. Sharpe, 1212 Humboldt Bank Building, San Francisco, and C. A. Jackson of Portland, Oregon, are considering exercising their option on the Banner mine, near Oroville, California, which is owned by William Livesly. If plans materialize, the new owners will spend about $25,000 in its development.
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The California Rand Silver, Inc., Randsburg, California, C. S. Meroney, general manager, has suspended dividends. The only ore in sight in the mine now is low grade, worth about $9 per ton, but work will be continued as long as the discovery of ore is considered possible. The company has moved some of its equipment to a property north of Yucca, Arizona, for exploration purposes and pending favorable showings may take over that property.
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It is reported that a Vandercook mercuric cyanide plant will be built at the Vandalia mine at Shingle Springs, California, as soon as it can be financed. The officials connected with the operation of this mine are Lela C. Geddes, 1115 McAllister Street, San Francisco, president; Gordon S. Cranmer, general manager; William Pugh, mine superintendent, and A. E. Vandercook of the California MacVan Company at Sacramento, California, chief mine engineer.
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rehab · CALIFORNIA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 4 15 1929

THE MINING JOURNAL for APRIL 15, 1929

CALIFORNIA MINING NEWS

The report of the North Star Mining Company at Grass Valley, California, for the year 1928, shows that the company produced $836,567. Operating costs were $734,831 and development work performed cost $147,891, resulting in a deficit for the year. Approximately 108,000 tons of ore, averaging $7.70 a ton, were crushed. A promising ore-shoot has been opened on the 8,600 level of the incline shaft and at several other points in the mine. A. B. Foote is general manager and about 375 men are employed.

It is understood that the Ophir mine, 12 miles north of Trona, California, has been reopened and it is probable that a mill will be erected shortly to treat the silver-lead ore. This property has been worked by the Engineers Exploration Company and the high-grade ore that was mined was trucked to Trona.

Ira Thorp, who is working the Centennial Mine near Auburn, California, under lease, has opened some high-grade ore in the Conrad vein and about 300 feet from the portal of a tunnel. He has mortared out by hand about $8,000 worth of ore in drifting 45 feet on the showing.

The fifth carload of copper ore has been shipped from the Greenhorn copper mine to the Tacoma smelter, according to Manager Albert Hanford, Redding, California. The ore carries about 25 per cent copper and specimens of pure copper have been found, although not in any large quantity. Storage bunkers and loading platforms are 7 built for the more economical handling of the ore and it is planned to ship about 5,000 tons of ore to the smelter at Tacoma.

During 1928, the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company of Los Angeles, California, mined about 18,000 tons of feldspar from its property at Campo, Between 30 and 50 men are employed and two shifts are working in both the mine and mill. This is the largest mine of its kind in the state. The plant has a capacity of about three and one-half tons per hour and the resulting products are pottery, enamel and glass materials. The pottery is shipped to the company’s plants at Kokomo, Indiana, and Tiffin, Ohio. Enamel is shipped to the company’s plant at Richmond, where it is used for enameling bathroom fixtures, and glass is sold to various manufacturers on the Pacific coast.

The board of directors of the National Silver Corporation, composed of John D. Fields, Max Socha, L. Lindsay, George E. Riley and Harry E. Williams, is making an inspection of the company’s property in Inyo county, California, for the purpose of deciding upon improvements to be made. These consist of the installation of an electric power line and water pipe line system and the construction of a 250-ton daily capacity milling plant. Company engineers have prepared plans and specifications for these improvements and they will be submitted to the board at its next meeting. Offices for the organization are maintained at 1107 Financial Center Building, Los Angeles.

Plans are to reopen the chrome mines of the Noble Electric Steel Company on North Elder Creek in Tehama County, California. These mines have been dormant for some time and, according to our most recent information, J. E. Windhain of Heroult, California, is superintendent.

A newly organized company, known as the Magalia Treasure Box, Inc., has been formed by W. L. Leland for the operation of mining property in the Magalia and Nimshew Districts in California. Mr. Leland, who is president and general manager of the new company, holds the same position with La Porte Mines, Inc., operating successfully in Plumas County. The Magalia Treasure Box has let a contract to Seattle parties to test the ancient river channel with drills and to run a drain tunnel to eliminate the necessity of pumping.

It is understood that the stockholders of the Jenny Lind Mining Company have decided to sell its property at Grass Valley, California, on the terms offered by L. S. Wincapaw, representing the Cooley Butler interests of Los Angeles. These holdings are in the northern part of the district.

Repair work has been finished on the Garden Valley dredger, near Camptonville, California, and it is in commission during two shifts daily.

B. C. Gibson and Frank U. Lassen of San Francisco, California, who are operating the Pioneer Mine at Grass Valley, California, under bond and lease, have opened a six-foot ledge of milling ore on the 700-foot level. The drift entered the ore at distance of 800 feet from the shaft and assays will be made to determine the value of the ore. A drift is to be run to the vein at a depth of 100 feet below the present showing.

It is planned to equip both the Sadie Ann and the Black Warrior gold mines, near Carrville, California, with amalgamation mills. Both of these properties are being operated by J. L. Hamilton and have large tonnages of $12 and $15 free-milling gold ore available for mill treatment, although zones of high-grade occur in the ledges running into thousands of dollars per ton. Ten stamps will probably be installed at the Sadie Ann and 20 stamps at the Black Warrior.

Control of the Vallecito Central placers, near Vallecito, Calaveras County, California, has passed to a group of southern California people, known as the Old Gold Extension Mining Company. The property embraces 60 acres and mining has been started under the supervision of Robert Mack. He will repair the shaft and put in foundations for a hoist, compressor, pump and other equipment, which is expected to arrive shortly. Electricity is available from lines crossing the property. The pay streak is from nine to twelve feet wide and is worth from $5 to $20 a cubic yard. The present shaft is 225 feet deep and is expected to reach bedrock in another 75 feet.

Stephen K. Ligday of Redlands, California, made what is believed to be an important gold and copper discovery in Wallace Creek, 14 miles east of that town and 8 miles north of Beaumont. The ledge is about five and one-half feet wide and has been traced for 2,000 feet. Some of the ore assays as high as $108 in gold and 19 per cent copper. Ten claims have been staked out and work has been started in the exploration of the ground. Mr. Ligday is a retired engineer and was formerly with the Guggenheims. In this venture he is associated with Herman Yorker.

Two shifts are working in both the No. 2 and the No. 8 tunnels in the German Bar property of the Sunnyside Consolidated Mining Company, Thomas E. Stephens, manager, Auburn, California. An assay plant has been completed at the mine and samples from the tunnels are being handled so that the milling ore left between the old stopes where enrichments were found in former development can be mapped out for mill installation during this summer or early fall.

The Paramount Mining Corporation, which has acquired the Mayflower mine, near Onion Valley in Plumas County, California, and the Pride hydraulic mine on the North Fork of the Yuba River, will begin active operations this spring on both properties. The Mayflower is said to have approximately 1,000,000 yards of gravel proven. Six men are getting it in shape for work. The Pride mine has about 1,500,000 yards of 50-cent gravel and storage rights in Bullard’s Bar Dam. E. A. Stent is president of the company and W. A. Hunter is general manager.

The Gruss Mining Company, J. H. Collier, manager and consulting engineer, 838 Kearny Street, San Francisco, is making good progress in the Finney mine, near Downieville, in an 1,100-foot tunnel and a raise and winze on the ore-shoot which assays from $24 to $50 a ton. The vein is two feet wide. J. R. Stark is superintendent at the mine.

Shares of the Amalgamated Gold Mining Company, owning properties in California and in Oregon, have been listed on the Salt Lake Stock and Mining Exchange. Harold E. Goodenow, 1059 Chamber of Commerce Building, Los Angeles, California, is president.

The Acme Mines and Mill, Inc., expects to produce even more quicksilver this month than during January, when production was 128 flasks, according to Henry W. Gould, vice-president, Mills Building, San Francisco. The winze being sunk from the 800-foot level is still in good ore, the values remaining as strong as in the stope above the tunnel level, where the ore has been continuous for 185 feet. Foundations are nearly completed for an ore bin and 10-ton furnace at the Oat Hill mine at Oakville. Edward Leister is superintendent at the mine.

The Black Mountain Mining Company, F. C. Hopkins, general manager, Escondido, California, is unloading machinery for installation at its property nine miles southwest of that town, according to Sydney Mayer, president of the San Diego Chamber of Mines. Arsenic is the leading mineral and it is planned to be operating at full capacity within 90 days. The project is backed by Los Angeles capital.

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rehab · YELLOW ASTER TAILINGS RECOVERY THE MINING JOURNAL 6 30 1929

SPLENDID RECORD AT YELLOW ASTER IN TAILING TREATMENT

For the last 12 months Carwyniac Incorporated of Los Angeles, George H. Wyman, Jr., manager and consulting engineer, has been succeasfully engaged in the treatment of old mill tailings at the famous Yellow Aster mine at Randsburg, Kern county, California. It is consigning a gold brick to the United States mint every 10 days.

The company is operating a 250-ton daily capacity cyanide leaching plant of modern design, handling auriferous tailings of an assay value of less than $1 per ton, a total cost, including all overhead, of 20 cents a ton. The capacity of the plant is being increased to 300 tons daily, at 7 which time the company expects to be able to reduce costs to 17 cents per ton, making a notable record in the economic handling of old mill tailings.

It is estimated that there are in excess of 3,000,000 tons of accumulated mill tailings at the Yellow Aster mine, which are being handled by a combination of drag and slackline scrapers. The fiowsheet and equipment were designed by Mr. Wyman, who states that similar plants will be installed shortly in a number of places in the southwest for the handling of old mill tailings of low grade.

The Yellow Aster Mining Company, with millions in gold production to its credit, is increasing the capacity of its ore reduction plant from 20 to 50 stamps. Forty have received their finishing touches and are now in regular commission.

rehab · CALIIFORNIA MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 6 30 1929

for JUNE 30, 1929 THE MINING JOURNAL

CALIFORNIA

The building of a power line to serve the mines in the Poorman Creek and Gaston ridge sections of Nevada County, California, is expected to materially aid development in that region. The line will be built by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, from Alleghany, to the Spanish Group, and from that point branch lines will be run to the Ancho, Twin Sister, German Bar and Gaston properties.
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Following the collapse of the Georgetown Mines, Inc., on October 15, 1928, Thomas H. Berry and W. F. McMahon were arrested, on alleged failure to pay labor claims amounting to approximately $4,000. They were taken into custody at Los Angeles and are at liberty on $1,500 bail. The Georgetown Mines, Inc., was operating the Woodside-Eurcka mine at Georgetown, California.
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The Rescue Eu!a Mining Company, O. B. Schiffner, general manager, Washington, California, has been operating its Gaston mill since May 6 on a good grade of ore during one shift daily. It is not known how long the water supply will be available for power, but is adequate to meet the company’s needs at the present time. The hardness of the ore has slowed progress somewhat in both drilling and crushing. Work is being carried on through tunnels, the lowest of which is 1,900 feet from the outcrop. On the 1,500-foot level a 16-foot width of milling ore has been opened and carries a streak of high-grade.
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A $5,000 gold brick was recovered in the second cleanup from the quartz mill at the Colorado mine of the Belmont Metals Corporation, L. Everett, general manager, Mariposa, California. The ore body has been opened for 860 feet on the 200-foot level and below that depth is all virgin ground. Three shifts have been engaged in sinking this shaft another 100 feet and should finish the job in 80 days. J. C. Kempvanee, 881 Bush Street, San Francisco, spent a few days at the mine to witness the cleanup. W. Marsh is mill superintendent.
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The new dredge of the Madrona Dredging Company, B. L. Smith, president and general manager, Junction City, California, is running smoothly. Its construction covered a period of two years and entailed an expenditure of approximately $150,000. There are 71 buckets, having a capacity of nine cubic feet each. Twenty-five men are employed. This is the third dredge operating in Trinity County.
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The Whitlock Mines Corporation, M. T. Tresidder, general superintendent, Mariposa, California, has unexpectedly opened high-grade milling ore in sinking the shaft from the 200 to the 800 level. The ore averages from $40 to $50 per ton, but the extent of the deposit has not been determined. Seventeen men are employed on two shifts and the force will be increased by the middle of this month, at which time it is expected that the mill will be placed in operation.
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The working force of 15 men of the Santa Mines Company, Masonic, California, has nearly completed the repair of the ditch and flume for supplying water to the power plant. Good progress is being made in repairing the mill. Frank W. Stall of Winnemucca, Nevada, is manager of the work.
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Between 15 and 16 tons of travertine were shipped to Los Angeles a few days ago, from the property of the ‘California Red Travertine Company, Bridgeport, California, Fred Bailey, superintendent. Additional machinery for use at the quarries was brought back on the return trip. Twenty men are employed.
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The Poker Pot Mining Company is prospecting the Dogtown placers, near Bridgeport, California, using a dredge and shovel. The company’s washer is working also. Quiney Stephens, 1940 Outpost Circle, Hollywood, California, is president of the Poker Pot company.
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A four-foot body of $500 ore has been exposed in the face of a 60-foot crosscut by the Mammoth Mines Corporation, Bishop, California, according to A. G. Mahan of Los Angeles, secretary and treasurer to the company and who is now at the mine. The ore is a free-milling gold product and 600 feet from this discovery and presumably on the same ledge, the 680-foot crosscut has opened’ a body of ore of about the same size and gold content. If the tonnage blocked out will justify, the company plans direct smelter shipments pending mill construction. A 125-horsepower Diesel engine is en-route to the mine and its installation will speed up mine operation. Ten men are employed under the management of M. D. Rossiter.
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The Reorganized Silver King Divide Mining Company, Shand Smith, president and general manager, 7874 Plymouth Street, Oakland, California, is considering the erection of a 50-ton mill, near Ivanpah, California. Seven men are employed in development of the mine. H. G. Humes is purchasing agent and mine superintendent.
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With a force of 10 men, the Parnall Gold Mines Corporation, B. C. Leadbetter, general manager, Placerville, California, is drifting on a six-foot vein of quartz from the 150-foot level of the shaft. The high-grade ore is being sacked awaiting shipment direct to the smelter and the milling ore is being stored on the dump awaiting the construction of a 10-stamp mill. C. L. Salmon is mine superintendent.
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The five-stamp mill at the Keyes mine in Kern County, California, of the Minaret Mines Company, has been running since the last of May on ore removed from the 100-foot drift on the 525-foot level, and stoping is now in progress. Within a few days, the mill will be operating on a 24-hour schedule. Superintendent H. L. Lee reports ore values increasing as stoping progresses.
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A crosscut from the face of the No. 10, or transport, tunnel of the National Silver Corporation, W. B. Johns, superintendent, Darwin, California, has exposed the vein at an additional depth of 400 feet, thus verifying the opinion of engineers that a body of shipping ore would be opened at the intersection of the No. 1 vein with the Merry Widow fissure. The vein is an 80-foot width of high-grade argentite and silver glance penetrating the quartz vein filling. The recent development gives 1,000 feet of backs on ore to the surface and it is planned to start shipping as soon as further development has been done.
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The Ethel Quicksilver Mining Company, William Elwood, president and principal owner, has opened a deposit of high-grade furnace ore in its property 10 miles west of Bodie, California. The property is one and one-half miles north of the Bridgeport-Bodie stage road and was located last summer by Clyde Garrett of Reno, Nevada. A station has been established on the 50-foot level on the hanging wall side of the vein and a crosscut has been advanced 175 feet in 3 per cent ore.
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The Yellow Aster Mining and Milling Company, Randsburg, Kern County, California, is increasing the capacity of its ore reduction plant from 20 to 50 stamps, 40 of which have received their finishing touches and are in regular commission. The mine is being operated on a much larger scale than for the past few years. W. F. Allen, Jr., Box 341, Randsburg, is general manager.
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During the past year the Carwymac, Inc. of Los Angeles, George H. Wyman, Jr., manager and consulting engineer, 305 Hibernian Building, Los Angeles, has been treating old mill tailings at the Yellow Aster mine at Randsburg, California, and is consigning a gold brick to the United States mint every 10 days. The company’s 250-ton cyanide leaching plant is of modern machinery and is running at full capacity in the treatment of auriferous tailings assaying not less than $1 per ton.
Cost of production, including all overhead, is not more than 20 cents a ton and when the capacity of the plant is increased to 300 tons daily, it is believed that production costs will be reduced to about 17 cents per ton. It is estimated that there are more than 3,000,000 tons of mill tailings at the Yellow Aster mine, and they are being handled by a combination of drag and slackline scrapers.
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Work has been resumed in the Gracey Mine, Nevada City, California, R. N. McCormack, superintendent, with three shifts engaged in sinking a winze on the ore-shoot developed on the 170 level. This mine was flooded last year from seepage from the canal of the Nevada Irrigation District, but preventative measures have proven successful.
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La Grange Placers, Inc., A. S. Beaudette, manager, 3989 West Twenty-Seventh Street, Los Angeles, California, is operating two giants, near Weaverville, in tearing away the rich gravel banks. Water has been developed for a four or five months’ run. Several million cubic yards of gravel, averaging better than 10 cents, are available for washing.
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With new buildings and improved equipment instilled, the Elgin mine in the Coast Range Mountains, Colusa County, California, has renewed operations and is getting out quicksilver, sulphur, and some gold. Its backers are mainly interested, however, in sulphur. The property is being worked from the top of the hill and the ore is passed through a new process on its way down the hill. This new method is said to be the most efficient for the purpose that has been developed in recent years.
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Since C. D. McGonigal and Riley W. Self, took over the Mt. de Oro mine at Woodleaf, California, they have run 600 tons of ore, averaging $16 per ton, through the mill. The equipment they are using includes a new 1,250-pound stamp mill, driven by a semi-Diesel engine. The property has a crosscut tunnel 600 feet to a four-inch vein. Along this vein there is a 100-foot drift and a raise of 150 feet to the surface.
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At Pulga, California, W. H. King recently began working his soapstone mine, a new enterprise in that section. He has made a contract with a San Francisco firm to ship as much soapstone as he can under present conditions, agreeing to increase the amount to 400 tons a month as soon as facilities will permit. In places, the soapstone ledge is only six inches under the surface and use is being made of rainwater in removing the intervening soil.
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W. I. Leland and associates, operating the Magalia mine at Magalia, California, expect to bring the mine to production by means of driving a tunnel to tap the gold-bearing channel. This will eliminate the cost of pumping and reduce hoisting and other expenses. The project has been under consideration for nearly a quarter of a century.
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The stock of the Premier Metals Corporation has been listed on the Salt Lake Stock and Mining Exchange. This organization is working three properties in California, namely, the Mahoney quicksilver mine, 20 miles west of San Luis Obispo; the Belden silver mine in Plumas county, six miles from Belden, and the Granite Hill mine in Butte county. Donald Woodrum is president; James Kenna, treasurer, and H. W. Turner, consulting engineer. The principal office is 315 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, California.
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The Sugarman Mine., Inc., Sonora, California, is making good progress in mine development and the 20-ton daily capacity milling plant is in regular commission treating ore ranging from $23 to $26 per ton in gold, with a 95 per cent recovery of the assay value, according to Vice-President H. L. Dennis, 523 Roosevelt Building, Los Angeles.
The amalgamating plant is also treating occasional lots of high grade from the mine, ranging from $500 to $150,000 per ton in gold. The mill product, a gold amalgam, is retorted on the ground and consigned direct to the United States mint. Twenty men are on the payroll. Production since last January has amounted to more than $18,000. B. H. Nelson is president and general manager of the organization, and Arthur Deleray is general superintendent at Sonora.
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The lower tunnel in the Reed quicksilver mine, Lower Lake, Calif., has reached a length of 571 feet from its portal, having passed through conglomerate, and is in sandstone, believed to be the footwall of a ledge 50 feet in width.
On May 10 a flow of about 75 gallons of sulphur water developed in this tunnel and the two shifts working were forced to discontinue work. The flow has diminished to about 10 gallons per minute and one shift is engaged at the present writing. In the main working tunnel, work has been discontinued from the left to the right fork and it is believed that the worst part of the caving has been passed. J. H. Collier, 383 Kearney Street, San Francisco, is general manager.
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The Engelt Copper Mining Company, W. I. Nelson, general manager, Engelmine, California, will start systematic underground development of the known ore bodies in the Calaveras Copper property at Copperopolis, shortly. Medium of development will be through existing shafts. In the meantime the mill will be closed and repaired so that upon resuming operation it can treat between 400 and 500 tons of ore daily.
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Under the management of Clyde E. Coblins, the Aladdin Divide Mining Company is driving a 283-foot tunnel, 24 miles east of Chico, Butte county, California, through lava and serpentine to cut the bedrock below the ancient Whiteside Channel. All muck is hydraulicked out of the tunnel through a sluice box. At the mouth of the tunnel a 68-foot head of water is hooked up to a Pelton wheel and a compressor that runs two jackhammers. The cost of handling the gravel is estimated to be only about 30 cents a yard. About 200 feet of tunnel will be required to reach the channel, which is from 40 to 50 feet wide and from 10 to 15 feet deep.

rehab · INVENTOR OF PELTON WHEEL HONORED TMJ 9 30 1929

THE MINING JOURNAL 9 30 1929

CAMPTONVILLE PAYS TRIBUTE TO PIONEER INVENTOR

Camptonville, Yuba county, California, a noted mining town in the Sierras since early days, recently dedicated, with appropriate ceremonies, a large concrete monument, 11 feet high, 10x10 base, to Lester Allen Pelton who invented the Pelton Wheel there in 1878. The Pelton Wheel has been of great service for a long period of years to many mining companies in their operations, thus the news of the monument to this pioneer inventor should be of interest to the mining industry at large.
The beautiful and heavy bronze tablet, which marks the monument, was donated by W. M. White, manager and chief engineer of the Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Company, which, “has constructed many hydraulic power plants of design resulting from Pelton’s genius,” as White wrote when sending the bronze tablet.
The monument is located in the lower part of town on the site of Pelton’s old workshop on Main Street and fronts on the old ‘49 trail, which passed through the town in early days. An early model made by Pelton of his famous wheel is still preserved with care by town residents.

rehab · CALIFORNIA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 9 30 1929

THE MINING JOURNAL for SEPTEMBER 30, 1929

CALIFORNIA

The Empire-Star Mines Corporation intends to install a cable tramway between the North Star Shaft and the Empire Mill at Grass Valley, California. Until it is ready for carrying ore, trucks will be used in transporting the ore from the North Star Mine to the mill. A. B. Foote is manager of this property of the Empire-Star mines.
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It is expected that plant construction will begin soon at the Idaho-Maryland Mine at Grass Valley, California, Bert Crase, superintendent, to prepare for the increased milling program adopted, now that preliminary tests of the ore are about finished. In all probability, the flotation system will be put in. Recently, miners blasted into an oreshoot of unusually rich ore on the 1,500 level, where the vein has been varying from one to two and one-half feet in width. The oreshoot was located just after the vein cleared a crossing of loose serpentine.
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The Yuba Consolidated Gold Fields, Hammonton, California, George Aaronson, superintendent, has a crew repairing the apron of the Daguerre Point Dam, for the United States Government. Electric pumps and a flume, keep the water down while the repairs are being made. A cement gun is used to get the material up, under the dam, where holes have been washed out by the force of the winter water flow. A cable stretched across the channel is used to carry out the tons of broken rock dumped into the holes preliminary to the concrete work. Charles Raymond is foreman on the job, and Engineer McGee is the government representative.
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It is understood that the Mountain Spring Mining ‘Company, Randsburg, California, is equipping its gold mine in the Mountain Spring Canyon, with a milling plant. The machinery is on the ground ready for installation. M. E. Edsell has charge of construction.
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Operations have been resumed at the Consolidated mine in the Randsburg District, California, under the management of Charles Norman. The Shea and Binco mine, operated by C. P. Flicker, is having its ore treated at the Windy mill.
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During the latter part of August, a flow of about 100 gallons of water per minute, was released in the lower tunnel in the Reed quicksilver mine, near Lower Lake, California, according to General Manager J. H. Collier, 333 Kearney Street, San Francisco, who has just returned from the mine. The flow has gradually diminished until at the present time it is about half that amount and has practically drained the main working tunnel.
Drifting is being done in the lower tunnel, which has reached a length of 452 feet, and during August, the main working tunnel was advanced 41 feet, making its length from the portal 686 feet. As of August 1, 1929, the secretary, O. A. Newcomer, reports cash on hand, $552.85, after the payment of operating costs, taxes, interest, etc.
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The Tungsten Corporation of America is milling at capacity, 125 tons daily, and is recovering from 12 to 15 tons of concentrates monthly, according to Cooper Shapley, vice-president and manager. This property is near Bishop, California, and the deposit is a low-grade ore, being mined by the glory hole system. It is proposed to increase the capacity of the mill to 500 tons of ore daily. Water is furnished by gravity through a two-mile pipe line and electric power comes from the Southern Sierra Power Company.
The Tungsten Corporation has acquired five claims in the Atolia District, developed by a 180-foot shaft. Work will be started shortly in deepening the shaft in the latter. S. Paul Jones is president of the company and L. B. Lachman is secretary-treasurer. An office is maintained in Reno, Nevada.
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Arthur P. Hoffschneider is understood to have purchased the Tuolumne Mine, one-half mile from Soulsbyville, California, from Benjamin Soulsby. The property comprises 40 acres, and has been a good producer from shallow depth, but no work has been done for some time.
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The San Francisco Gold Mines Company, George R. Colton, president, Room 1125, 111 West Seventh Street, Los Angeles, is milling 24 hours daily at its newly acquired property, in Eldorado County, California. Between 14 and 15 tons of ore are reduced during that period to about one-half ton of concentrates, worth about $280 per ton.
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The Trans-Pacific Properties, Ltd., has acquired control of the Old Gold Extension Mining Company, according to Robert Fisher, president of the Trans-Pacific organization. The Old Gold company consists of the Silver Peak group of mines at Silver Peak, Nevada, and the Vallecito Central placers, near Vallecito, California. Active operations are expected to be under way within 30 days. The TransPacific is developing the Kelso mine in San Bernardino County, California, where a deposit of milling ore has been opened in the lower tunnel.
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Plans are being made by the Pacific Tungsten Company, Ltd., P. J. Osdick, president, to build a metallurgical plant in Los Angeles for the production of metallic tungsten, and alloys for various local industries, especially for deep oil well drilling. A research laboratory has already been established.
A few months ago, this organization acquired the Osdick Group in the Atolia District, near Randsburg, California, and is developing the property. Shipments will be made to the Los Angeles plant and, in the event that a surplus is mined, it will be shipped to the eastern markets.
The officers of the Pacific Tungsten are: Edward A. Mills, vice-president and treasurer, and metallurgist in charge of smelting operations; C. Colcock Jones, secretary, and engineer in charge of mining operations, and Mr. Osdick. In the Atolia District, the property includes 70 acres of placer ground, similar to that being worked with steam shovels by the Atolia Mining Company.
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It is understood that the Zenda Gold Mining Company, Oscar G. Engelder, superintendent, Barstow, California, is sinking a new three-compartment shaft in the company’s property in the Caliente District. One of the compartments measures 4 ½ x 5 and the other 4 ½ x4 feet. This shaft has reached a depth of 160 feet and it is planned to continue it to a depth of 1,000 feet. Heavy timbering is required. The 340-foot level from the No. 1 shaft is near a body of shipping ore and shipments will be started as soon as it can be mined.
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Henry W. Klipstein has purchased the equipment and realty of the California Rand Silver, Inc., Randsburg, California, presumably for the H. W. Gould Company at San Francisco. Work on the property ceased last March, when the low value of ore and the decreasing price of silver made operations unprofitable. During the last few months of operation, work was confined largely to mining ore between the surface and the so-called barren zone between the twelfth and fourteenth levels. The new owners will attempt to open up new ore to the north and south and will let leases on a royalty basis. If enough ore is accumulated, the mill will be placed in operation.
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The Big Silver Mine of the National Silver Corporation, in Inyo County, California, is being equipped with electric power and regular shipments of high-grade ore are planned by President S. D. Fields, 500 South Kenmore Street, Los Angeles, to begin by October 15, by which time the air compressor and air lines will be installed; while milling operations are scheduled to start by the first of next year. The company has about 2,000 inches of water available and later intends building a hydroelectric plant. If necessary, power can be obtained from the Los Angeles main power line in the Owens Valley section.
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The Southwestern Engineering Corporation of Los Angeles has shipped machinery for a five-stamp mill to the Keyes Mine, in Kern County, California, of the Minaret Mines Company. The mill on the ground is in regular commission 16 hours daily and with the installation of the new equipment can treat 80 tons daily, handling mine ore averaging $50 in gold per ton, with a recovery of 97 per cent of the assay value of the heads. Superintendent Herbert E. Lee states that three new oreshoots, of commercial importance, have been opened in the main tunnel, making four from which the mill can draw its supply of ore.
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The Mammoth Mines Corporation, M. D. Rossiter, superintendent, Mammoth Lake, California, has completed the installation of a 150-horsepower Diesel engine and 650-cubic foot air compressor. A drill sharpener is being installed and arrangements are being made for the immediate storage of 30,000 gallons of fuel oil for winter use. Five additional surface buildings are being constructed for the use of employees.
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Good progress is being made in putting the old workings of the Walker Brothers Consolidated Copper Company in shape. Witcher Walker is in charge. The McGill Tunnel, 900 feet long,, has been cleaned out and work started on the Highland Boy adit, in both of which good showings are exposed. This mine is near Spring Garden, Plumas County, California.
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The Banner Development Company, H. Vincent Wallace, manager, P. O. Box 241, Calistoga, California, has improved the vein on the 370-foot level of the Palisade Mine, to be as much as 21 feet wide on the No. 1 oreshoot, running around $22 per ton in gold and silver.
The No. 2 shoot produced quite a tonnage from a vein, from seven to nine feet wide, running up to 140 ounces in silver. Beyond this there was a hard pinch, but the new ore body has recently been opened up to the north, exposing a vein over five feet wide, of high-grade ore. Lloyd L. Root, late California state mineralogist, is vice-president and general manager.
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The new mill of the Union Consolidated Mining Company, J. F. Littlefleld, superintendent, Murphys, California, has started operation. It consists of a 3x4 ball mill, Duplex Dorr classifier to a 5x10 tube mill connected to a four-cell Kraut flotation machine. This company is operating the old Oro Plata Mine, and the ore consists of quartz in limestone formation, and the values are contained in tetrahedrite, with some telluride. The first lot of concentrates were shipped on August 30. The mill is operated by electricity. The mine makes about 525 gallons of water per minute.
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President John Sawbridge of the Yakima-Mohawk Mining Company recently visited the Mohawk Property, near Nevada City, California, and recommended the immediate sinking of a two-compartment shaft to the 200-foot level. The work is to be started in a few days under the direction of Ben A. Host. The property is equipped with an air compressor, machine drills, electric hoist and adequate pumping facilities.

rehab · BETTY MAY MINE INTO HIGHGRADE ORE TMJ 10 15 1929

THE MINING JOURNAL OCTOBER 15 1929

DEEPER DEVELOPMENT TO FOLLOW BETTY MAY STRIKE

A strike of rich ore, running as high as $1,000 a ton, has been reported from a drift on the 80-foot level of the Betty May Mine. The character of the ore, is a hard-banded ribbon quartz with a rose tint. Spectacularly rich picture rock, showing free gold has been taken out. The free gold is also visible in the wallrock, which is locally called greenstone.

The Betty May was purchased three years ago by Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ragos of Long Beach, California, and who have sunk a shaft to a depth of 135 feet, and who are responsible for the new development program.

The Betty May is located in the old Wiskeytown Mining District of Shasta County, 14 miles from Redding, California. This district has been famous for its rich placer production during the early hell-roaring days of ‘49. The property consists of three quartz and three placer claims, from which some large nuggets have been taken during recent weeks. Some of the largest of these, found on Murder Gulch Diggings, are reported to have brought from $1,200 to $1,400 a nugget. This property is also owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ragos, who plan to start placer operations there shortly. The formation of the Betty May mine in Alaskite porphyry, and Copley metaandesite, with intrusions of diorite. The quartz vein itself is a true fissure vein, which runs $50 to the ton, with about 50 to 80 tons so far in sight. Considerable tonnage of low grade has been developed.

Equipment consists of a small compressor and hoist, both driven by the same 10-horsepower gasoline engine. A small amount of water in the shaft is handled with pumps. A three and one-half-ton Huntington mill and primary crusher are driven by a 7-horsepower gasoline engine and are followed by amalgamating plates and Mat-a-Gold rubber mats.

In the bottom of the shaft sulphides are showing. According to P. H. Lietzow, mining engineer, who has just completed an examination, this will result in a considerable tonnage of lower grade, in addition to the high-grade free gold.

In order to arrange for heavier machinery for sinking to greater depth and for increased capacity, the Betty May Mines Corporation, Ltd., is being organized. The company has been incorporated under the laws of Nevada, capitalized at $1,000,000, par value $10 a share. The company plans to raise $65,000 by subscriptions. Officers of the company are:
Edward Ragos, president; Betty May Ragos, secretary-treasurer; Judge S. H. Underwood, vice-president, and P. H. Lietzow, engineer in charge.

rehab · PACIFIC PALISADES MINES REOPENS, CALISTOGA TMJ 10 15 1929

THE MINING JOURNAL FOR OCTOBER 15 1929

Revival of An Old Coast Producer
By H. VINCENT WALLACE, Mining Engineer, Murphys, California.
Recent developments are bringing new life to this old gold-silver producer of the Coast Range of California.

At the southerly foot of Mount St. Helena, and about three miles northeast from Calistoga, in Napa County, lies the old Palisade Mine, formerly known as the Grigsby-Johnson Mine. A group of claims were located some time in the ‘80s, but not a great deal of development was done until Robert F. Grigsby—who had long been connected with the famous Tajo mine, in Sinaloa—was attracted to it by noticing the similarity of the ores in both localities.

The first historical reference to this property is to be found in the Eighth Annual Report of the California State Mining Bureau, in 1888, where it refers to the ore-shoot being 900 feet long, width of vein at no place less than five feet, depth to which development had been carried as 170 feet. And, it is further interesting to note that the milling equipment consisted of crusher, driers (utilizing the waste heat from the Howell-White rotary roaster), TEN 750-pound stamps, and four pans and settlers. There were at that time four men employed in the mine and eight in the mill. Average wages $2 per 10-hour shift.

For several years Mr. Grigsby developed the mine, and during his four and one-half years of milling the yield amounted to about $385,000, with an average price of $1 per ounce for silver. It should be remembered that with a recorded stamp duty of only 1.7 tons per 24 hours, crushing through a 34-mesh screen, selective mining had to be resorted to, and only sorted ore of a high tenor could be profitably handled; the result was that back filling showed a tenor of around 11 ounces silver.

The writer, some 31 years ago, had an opportunity of visiting this property, and was able to get some first-hand information from one of the owners (Mr. Johnson). A meager description of the mine, submitted in the early part of 1924, induced him to make an investigation, with the result that the mine was unwatered; the caved portal of the main adit, known as the Mill Tunnel Level, retimbered; and the old workings on the 100, 160 and 270-foot levels explored and surveyed.

Before discussing geology, it is of interest to note that unwatering, from surface to the 210-toot level, was accomplished very quickly and economically by air lift. This was made possible by using the vertical shaft, which fortunately had no obstructions such as plats or bulkheads, so the system employed was as follows:

A four-inch casing, 300 feet long, with its bottom end open, was lowered down the shaft, the air jet consisting of a piece of three-quarter inch pipe, three feet long, connected to ells and nipples, at a point five feet above the bottom of the casing. The three-quarter inch jet was plugged at its upper end and the pipe itself perforated with a number of one-eighth inch holes. The airline consisted of three-quarter-inch pipe fastened to the casing with clamps, and the two columns were lowered as a pair. A long radius elbow was attached to the top of the casing, or water column, and air hose to the three-quarter-inch line, the air compressor was started and as soon as 103 pounds pressure developed the water began discharging from the four-inch line, much to the surprise of some of the old-time pessimists.

Approximately 2,500,000 gallons of water were lifted in nine days eight hours, without any other attention than the watching of the compressor. The 160-foot level was thus exposed and the water lowered to the 220-foot level; the balance of the unwatering being accomplished with a bailer. The initial pressure, as already stated, was 103 pounds, but as the water lowered, the pressure was maintained at about 90 pounds. Had this work been done by sinking a pump, it would have involved employment of pump men—three shifts—lowering pump every 20 feet, setting stulls and plats, cutting pipe, etc.

While Napa and Lake counties have been known as producers of mercury, for many years, it seems that the cinnabar deposits obtained in the serpentines, and stone-quartzite zones, obscured the broader understanding of the geology of the country immediately surrounding the Palisade Mine. The country rock, which bounds the vein, is a very fine-grained porphyritic andesite, assumed by Harold W. Tomlinson to be intrusive.

Lying to the west of the main vein, some 600 feet, is a sheet of acid rock which is rhyolitic, but for general field purposes has been called a trachite. This does not appear to have had any relation to the genesis of the silver-gold deposit which is being covered by this article.

The veins, of which there are two, are known, respectively, as the Easley, the more westerly, and the Palisade. These strike approximately north-south. The Easley is by far the most pronounced fissure, and has a dip at its south end of approximately 62 degrees, straightening up to 75 degrees at the north end workings on the present 270 and 370-foot levels (below the Mill tunnel level, or 630 feet below the apex of the ridge). The Palisade vein strikes a few degrees west of north, and dips 57 degrees to the west, indicating that at a depth of probably less than 600 feet they may join.

Above the 270 level, the ore in the Easley Vein had a silver content of a little over 12.4 ounces, as determined by the milling of 7,711 tons of ore. Below the 270 level, and to the 330 level, the tenor of the ore increased to 31.11 ounces per ton, and 26.48 ounces were recovered in treatment. The total production under the later operation being 180,677 ounces silver and 727 ounces of gold from 11,302 tons of ore.

In 1925 Palisades Mines Company was incorporated and the mine and mill, operated in that company’s interest, gave the above result. The system of treatment being crushing, grinding in ball mill, classifying with duplex Dorr, regrinding in 5-foot x 16-foot tube mill, all in cyanide solution; tailing was dewatered in Oliver filter, and tails elevated to stock pile. Recovery by cyanidation 85 per cent.

In June, 1927, the property was shut down, due to low price of silver and death of some members of the company, but during 1928 the writer, after carefully sampling the lowest or 330 level, carried out a set of flotation tests in a home-made Fahrenwald-type of cell, with the result that it was found that the unoxidized ores from the lower level gave excellent recoveries: as in, 96 per cent to 97 per cent extraction.

The writer had noted that in working from the 160-foot level down to the 270, and later to the 330, a notable increase in the occurrence of chalcopyrite in the ore, and directly as this mineral increased so did the gold. While the ore in the upper parts of the mine may be supposed to be oxidized, this is not actually a fact, the silver still remaining a sulphide. It is not so readily amenable to flotation, due to the fact that the accompanying iron sulphides have broken down, thus setting free the sulphuric acid.

This, in turn, has decomposed the wall rock (and the included fragments of crushed andesite in the vein), so that the result has been an abundance of acid kaolin, which, from its clayey nature, prevents efficient contact of the coated sulphide particles with the flotation media. It is probable that, due to the colloids, the sulphide particles cannot push their way to the surface; at any rate, practice shows a low recovery, and a much lower grade of flotation concentrates.

In the lower levels of the mine, the ores are almost entirely fine-grained gray to black sulphides, in a quartz gangue, such as argentite, stromeyerite, accompanying chalcopyrite, and occasional occurrences of pyrargyrite (ruby silver), and possibly some proustite, as well as some of the antimonial silver ore, stephanite.

The vein is accompanied by a soft black selvage or gouge, with a fairly smooth hanging wall, with a rolling footwall. It has been noted that at fairly regular intervals there are slight fractures in the hanging wall, striking at an angle of from 8 degrees to 13 degrees to the northwest, which indicate some strike-fault movement, so that the ore generally “makes” at these points.

Whenever a fracture cuts into the Ensley vein, through its footwall, it has been noted that there is a remarkable increase in gold value, when such fracture hits the vein. The Easley vein is well defined, and when a shoot of ore is opened up it maintains a fairly consistent value, but, of course, with high and low-grade spots, whereas, the Palisade vein shoot to the east is very sort in length, and extremely spotty in value.

The Palisades Mines Company sold on a bond to the Banner Development Company, last December, and the latter company has installed a four-cell Kraut flotation machine, the same crushing, grinding and classifying equipment being used as heretofore, but the concentrates are dewatered by a small Oliver filter, later dried with wood fuel, when they are shipped by truck to Selbys, a distance of less than 50 miles. Recovery is 97 per cent.

Recent development on the 370-foot level has proved the vein to be as much as 21 feet wide on No. 1 shoot, running around $22 in gold and silver, and the No. 2 shoot produced quite a tonnage from a vein from seven to nine feet in width, running up to 140 ounces in silver. Beyond the No. 2 shoot there was a hard pinch, but a new ore body has recently been opened up to the north, exposing a vein over five feet wide of high-grade ore. Mr. Lloyd L. Root, late California State Mineralogist, is vice-president and general manager of the Banner Development Company.

When one considers the proximity to San Francisco, it is remarkable that this mine was not reopened many years ago, but a good many engineers and geologists are prone to become obsessed with the belief that no mine, worthwhile, can be found on the Coast Range, hence they overlook an opportunity, practically at their doorsteps.

rehab · CALIFORNIA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 10 15 1929

THE MINING JOURNAL for OCTOBER 15, 1929

CALIFORNIA

The Keystone Divide Mining Company, L. E. Stein, general manager, is understood to have given 150,000 shares of its capital stock, as part payment for a lease on about 40 acres of the Garland Ranch property, near Murphys, California. This ground is the property of the Butte Mining Company, which will distribute this stock among its shareholders at the ratio of 1 share of Keystone for each share of Butte stock held.
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With the advent of cooler weather, a number of talc companies operating in the Death Valley region are preparing to resume operations, and when underway, it is expected shipments will average 25 carloads a month, most of it going to Los Angeles. The American-Italian Talc Company is assembling a crew and will start shipping in a few days. Its personnel includes: L. Pepin, president; E. Marks, vice-president, and Lowell Daniels of Tonopah, Nevada, secretary-treasurer. According to Mr. Marks, they already have a number of orders on hand, including one for 1,000 tons. The deposit is three miles from Jack Salisberry’s old carbonate mine.
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The Betty May Mines Corporation, Ltd., intends to install heavier machinery at its mine in Shasta County, California, 14 miles from Redding, to permit sinking to greater depth and increasing capacity. Edward Ragos of Long Beach is president; Betty May Ragos is secretary-treasurer, and Judge S. H. Underwood is vice-president. Equipment on the ground is a small compressor and hoist, driven by a 10-horsepower gasoline engine and a horsepower hoist driven by a 7-horsepower gasoline engine. P. H. Lietzow, 919 Albany Street, Los Angeles, is consulting engineer in charge.
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A transaction has just been recorded, by which the River Mines Company has transferred its right, title, and interest, in its placer holdings on the San Juan Ridge to the Empire Mines Company. Included in the transfer are the Malakoff workings at North Bloomfield, California, one of the largest hydraulic mines in the west.
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The Harmill Divide Mining Company, G. B. Hartley, president and manager, Goldfield, Nevada, intends to resume core drilling in its Copper King Mine, in the Ubehebe Mining District in Inyo County, California, to select the location for a working shaft. A four-compartment shaft is being considered.
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The Gibraltar Sierra Mining Company, James E. McGowan, treasurer and general manager, 928-929 Bank of Italy [now B of A] Building, Stockton, California, has driven the tunnel in its property, near Downieville, about 3,200 feet. At the 1,700-foot point in this tunnel, a double compartment raise is to be driven to what is believed the main part of the channel. The larger or McCray Channel is about 500 feet ahead of the present face of the tunnel, according to reports made recently by engineers. The personnel of this organization includes: W. A. Atchison of Stockton, president; Jay D. Crist, vice-president; O. S. Norton, secretary, and Mr. McGowan. With Carl W. Oser, they form the directorate of the company.
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Constructive improvements completed by the Taber Development Company include a boarding house, compressor room, blacksmith shop and sawmill, all under one roof, a bunkhouse for about 50 men and a timber shed. A dam has been built that will store about 100,000 gallons of water, and 1,300 lineal feet of track have been laid to the gravel.
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Taber Development has taken over 900 acres at the old town of Gibsonville, in the La Porte Mining District, and R. J. McGrath, superintendent, has a force of 16 men working. Attention is centered on the extreme west rim on top of the Union Channel, where the bottom of the channel has not been reached. Charles S. Haley, consulting engineer, Crocker Building, San Francisco, estimated that the gravel at this point, will run $7 a yard.
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Equipment for a 150-ton concentrating plant has been loaded on railway cars for the National Silver Corporation, J. D. Fields, president and general manager, 1107 Financial Center Building, Los Angeles, and will be installed immediately upon its arrival, at the company’s property in Inyo County. Within a few weeks it is anticipated that this plant will be treating gold-silver ore, worth in excess of $30 per ton. Regular shipments of crude ore will be started this month. Mine development insures mill feed.
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Leo Curtiss, manager of the Skaggs Springs Resort, has announced a find of cinnabar in the Skaggs Springs District, about 16 miles west of Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California. Engineers are surveying the ground to determine if the mineral is present in sufficient quantity for commercial use and, if this is true, further plans will be announced by Mr. Curtiss.
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The Engels Copper Mining Company, W. I. Nelson, operating engineer, Engelmine, California, is cutting a station at the 375-foot level of the Copperopolis Mine, of the Calaveras Copper Company, to determine the extent of a body of ore located while sinking the shaft. One sample of the ore tested 17.33 per cent copper, but the ore averages from 1.38 to 5.42 per cent copper.
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The Bluestone Copper Company, G. C. Kane, superintendent, Markleeville, California, received $720 from 30 tons of ore shipped from the old Leviathan Mine in Alpine County. The ore was mined from two old tunnels and was a test shipment. A new tunnel is being driven to provide a more economical method of taking out the ore, and is expected to be finished before cold weather sets in.
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The Original Mining and Milling Syndicate, Dan O’Frary, manager, Clearing house, California, is operating its 10-stamp mill on a 24-hour schedule. A winze is being sunk below the 1,225-foot level to explore the vein at greater depth.
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According to M. T. Tresidder, general superintendent of the Whitlock Mines Corporation, Mariposa, California, ore in the 200 north drift in the Spread Eagle Mine, has widened to two feet, and runs $30 per ton. This drift is entering the sulphide zone. There is also a good showing on the 300 north drift.
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The East Almaden Mining Company expects to commence work soon, at its property in the Coyote District, 12 miles southeast of San Jose, California, according to M. T. Taubert, vice-president of the company. This mine is on the extension of the New Almaden Mine, which has produced quicksilver to the value of several thousands of dollars.
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The Grandma Consolidated Mines Company, Charles S. Sprague, president, 309 Hobart Building, Los Angeles, has taken over the controlling interest in the Princess Magalia Mining Company at Magalia, Butte County, California. The Grandma Consolidated, is one of the old operators at Goldfield, Nevada, and has property at White Hills, Arizona, also. Enough money is said to be available to start development of the various properties. J. K. Turner, 922 Loews State Building, Los Angeles, is general manager for Grandma Consolidated.
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Plans have been worked out for the construction of a 20-stamp mill, at the Osborn Mine of the Belmont Metals Corporation, E. H. Bowly, Jr., superintendent, Mariposa, California. This is the second unit to be built by the corporation. The north drift from the shaft has been advanced 165 feet into Osborn ground. A centrifugal pump, driven by electricity, has been installed at the portal of the drift to handle the water that is developing as drifting proceeds.
At the Colorado Mine, a drift is being run on the 300-foot level, to open the downward extension of an oreshoot, which on the 200 level, extended a distance of 360 feet, and averaged from $9 to $10 from mill tests.
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Jt is understood that the Indium Steel and Alloys Company, is setting up a plant at Colorado and San Fernando Roads, Glendale, California, where ores mined in Southern California, may be smelted. The interior of a two-story building is being remodeled to house the smelting machinery, and upon the completion of the work, power lines will be strung to the plant and equipment installed. The company has worked out its own process for smelting the ores. Dr. Henry M. Stadt, 419 West Salem Street, is one of the executives in the organization.
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A 450-gallon pump has been installed, and the Lamphear, the Moser, and the Emerson mines, between San Andreas and Mokelumne Hill, California, will be unwatered. The pumps will be operated by electricity. The Mother Lode Central Mines Company, Jack Sangiunetti, superintendent, is operating these mines with a force of 16 men. It is estimated that $300,000 worth of ore, averaging from $6 to $10 per ton, are blocked out.
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Under Superintendent F. F. Lautenschlager, the Fifty-Fifty Mine at Merced Falls, California, is being unwatered and the camp, and 10-stamp mill, rehabilitated. The shaft is to be sunk 250 feet below its depth of 110 feet. Two feet of ore on the footwall run about $50 per ton, while the hanging wall is four feet wide and of lower mineral content.
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The Comanche Mining and Reduction Company is shipping two carloads of highgrade ore monthly from its property on Blind Springs Hill in Mono County, California. The ore carries from $119 to $140 per ton in silver, copper and gold to the ton. It is understood that arrangements are being made for a monthly output of four carloads with two shifts at work. William B. Tucker is consulting engineer and has charge of mine development.
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It is understood that the Keystone Divide Mining Company, of Nevada, has purchased placer property, in the Vallecito District, Calaveras County, California. No plans for its development have been given out. The Keystone Company has more than 142 acres, and is represented in Tonopah, Nevada, by Lowell Daniels, resident agent.
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The Treadwell-Yukon Company, Ltd., W. H. Blackburn, general manager, 923 Crocker Building, San Francisco, has acquired control of property at Bodie, California, and intends to purchase pumping equipment to supplement what is already at the mine. A contract for electricity has been signed with the Sierra Power Company. Attention will be centered on the Red Cloud shaft.

rehab · CALIFORNIA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 10 30 1929

THE MINING JOURNAL for OCTOBER 30, 1929

CALIFORNIA

Dave Morgan of the United Verde Extension Mining Company, T. H. Collins of the Calumet and Arizona, and associates, have taken over the property of the Zenda Gold Mining Company in the Calico District, San Bernardino County, California.
They are developing the King and Oriental veins at depth and at present have an ore body, a short distance above water level, that is 400 feet long, from 30 to 40 feet wide, and more than 100 feet in height. The ore averages 40 to 60 ounces silver, with many assays of 5 to 25 per cent copper, in the form of argentite, tetrahedrite, cuprite, bornite and chalcopyrite.
A week ago they encountered another oreshoot and are driving for a third at the junction of the above named veins. Arrangements are being made to list the Zenda stock on the New York Curb.
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The Calico Leviathan Corporation, F. B. Weeks, 904 Edwards and Wildey Building, Los Angeles, California, is financed for the development of property in the Calico mining District in San Bernardino County, California. Incorporation papers have been perfected under the laws of the state of Nevada and the organization maintains its head office in the Carson Valley Bank Building, Carson City, in that state.
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The L. & L. Mining and Milling Company, O M. Lau, president, Box 652, Riverside, Californa, has sunk a 96-foot shaft and crosscut at the 40-foot level, showing 42 feet of ore that averages $18 per ton in gold and copper, which continues to the bottom of the shaft. Another shaft has been sunk 50 feet and 70 feet of drifting at that depth disclosed $69 ore, also copper and gold. From a point at the foot of the hill, near where the road enters the property, a tunnel has been started to cut several veins at a depth of 400 feet. Eleven of these veins are in evidence at the surface and range from 18 inches to four feet in width, carrying values of from $90 to $141 per ton. W. B. Tucker, engineer for the State Bureau of Mines, has given a favorable report on the property, following which, it was incorporated under the laws of California for $500,000.
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The Mercury Corporation of America is making a trial run at the Rinconada Mine, Santa Marguerita, California, according to William Dowsing, 1528 Alta Avenue, Santa Monica, president of the corporation. Three shifts are working daily and the equipment can handle about 70 tons of ore daily. Preliminary work covered a period of nearly two years and included constructing new furnaces, silos and complete water-sealed equipment. The water-sealed equipment is of particular interest and is an innovation in the field of mercury extraction. Engineers, who have gone over the ground, estimate $2,000,000 worth of ore in sight. S. S. Rapp, 1415 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, is vice-president and manager of the Mine.
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The New Pyramid Mines Company expects to have its 50-ton mill, near Placerville, California, completed and in operation within 90 days. The mill machinery is being installed by A. E. Vandercook, 928 Eighth Street, Sacramento, California, according to a process of milling perfected by him. The frame work for the 400-ton ore bin has been erected.
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The Moore Mining Company, H. J. Duncan, general manager, Jackson, California, is understood to be making financial connections to permit further development of the Kennedy-Argonaut-South Jackson veins. From March 11, until some time in June, of the current year, 267 tons of ore were milled, but since that time the Mine has been inactive owing to lack of ore. Profits from the ore were used in repairing the shaft and in keeping up the property.
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A good ledge of mill ore has been opened in the Santa Mine, near Masonic, California, according to Frank W. Stall of Winnemucca, Nevada, who has recently bonded the Mine to Los Angeles interests. The new operators are said to be preparing for operations along more extensive lines.
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Official information from the Silver Cliff Mines Company at Newberry, California, is that they are going to enlarge their mill to a capacity of 300 tons daily, establish an office, install primary crushing equipment, enlarge hoisting facilities and install a cage to replace buckets. Underground work will be centered largely on continuing the shaft to the 1,000 level, drifting about 5,000 feet and raising to a height of 1,200 feet. Frank A. Humphrey, 953 West Seventh Street, Los Angeles, is president and general manager of the company. Charles E. Rombo ugh, Box 4, Newberry, is superintendent.
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James Hasset of Healdsburg, California, one of the principal stockholders of the Mt. Jackson and the Great Eastern quicksilver Mine, near Guerneville, says that the Mine has been closed temporarily on account of inadequate pumping facilities to handle the water below the 400-foot level. Plans are being made to reopen and unwater the workings to the 700-foot level, which is the bottom workings. It was on this level where much ore was in evidence when the Mine shut down in 1906, and it is believed that the ore continues to depth.
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The Kennedy Mining and Milling Company, Webb Smith, superintendent, Jackson, California, has made arrangements for the installation of a new 800-horsepower Allis-Chalmers hoist to replace the temporary one now in use. The new unit, which will be installed at the surface, will be a single-gear reduction, motor-operated, two-drum hoist. The drums will be eight feet in diameter with a six-foot face, providing for 4,900 feet of one and one-quarter-inch rope in four wraps. The hoist is equipped with Lilly safety controllers. Maximum rope speed will be 1,500 feet per minute. Including the sump, the Kennedy shaft is 4,764 feet deep and has three compartments. For a few weeks the Kennedy vein was being explored at even greater depth through an auxiliary incline shaft, sunk in the footwall about 200 feet from the vein.
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A new ore body has been opened on the 4,700-foot level by the Central Eureka Mining Company, Sutter Creek, Cali fornia, A. S. Howe, superintendent, and a station and bin are being completed on the 4,850 level. Ore has been encountered on the 2,100 level of the Old Eureka property and the main shaft is being unwatered below the 2,200 level.
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The Empire-Star Mines Corporation, F. W. Nobs, general manager, Grass Valley, California, has purchased the 6,000-foot tram formerly used by the Mason Valley Mines Company at Thompson, Nevada. It will be used in transporting ore from the North Star Mine to the Empire mill, where 80 stamps are dropping at present. For several weeks, the ore has been moved by trucks, but this method has proven unsatisfactory.
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It is understood that the Tungsten Corporation of America, J. Paul Jones, president, will increase the capacity of its Round Valley mill from 125 to 500 tons daily. This plant has been testing ore during the last two months.
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Litigation, which has tied up the development of the Alta Hill property at Grass Valley, California, has been settled. Before the property became involved in litigation, Cooley Butler, Title Insurance Building, Los Angeles, outlined a program of development including the sinking of a vertical shaft to a depth of 2,000 feet, and it appears that this objective may be realized.
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The Kate Hardy Mining Company, William Lichtenberg, superintendent, Forest, California, has built a dam, in the creek below the mill, and laid a pipe line around the hill, to carry water and debris from the mill, which the Goodyear Bar residents complained was getting into their irrigation ditch. The work will be finished and the 10-stamp mill will resume operation.
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The Sugarman Mines, Inc., R. H. Nelson, general manager, 533 Roosevelt Building, Los Angeles, opened a deposit of slate containing high gold content, while drifting preparatory to cutting a water sump. As a result of the showing, the 250-foot shaft will be continued to a depth of 375 feet. Since the first of this year, about $41,262 worth of ore has been mined, 65 per cent of which came from the lowest level. The Sugarman Mine is near Sonora, California. Arthur Deleray is general superintendent.
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Eighteen men are employed at the Rising Hope Mine, near Placerville, California, under lease to J. W. Qrr and Thomas J. Dillon of Sacramento, and expect to begin washing gravel in a few days. Most of the past summer has been spent in cleaning out the old workings and running
a new tunnel 3,000 feet to the ancient channel. The latter will be used as a drain and working tunnel.
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The Mines Operating Corporation, Ltd., recently incorporated, has taken over the entire holdings of the Loftus Blue Lead Mines Company in the Slate Creek District in Sierra County, California. Water rights are included in the deal. An agreement has been made for storage space behind the Bullards Bar dam, amounting to 25,800,000 cubic yards. Mines Operating Corporation has been organized by John M. Logan, son of President P. M. Logan of the Loftus company; E. A. McKenna; Robert L. Hanley, Los Angeles attorney; and J. K. Macomber, former chairman of the Board, as supervisors of Tulare County, California.
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The Kingman Silver-Gold Mines Company, S. Menchini, superintendent, Dobbins, California, plans to sink its main shaft from the 130 to the 250-foot point. If sufficient ore is located, a permanent milling plant will be set up. The experimental mill on the ground has treated 1,200 tons of ore, which gave a gross value of more than $14 per ton in gold. Returns on the bullion shipped to the mint are $15,134.
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Cinnabar ore, worth about $400 a ton, has been opened in the face of the tunnel in the Hastings quicksilver Mine, W. H. Clary, superintendent, Vallejo, California. This tunnel is in 850 feet, with 50 feet to go to reach the old workings. A heavy flow of water is being released. The mine is equipped with a furnace for the reduction of ore as soon as development has advances far enough.
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The Pioneer Gold Mines Company, H. H. Marsh, superintendent, Box 713, Grass Valley, California, has opened a four-foot vein at the 175-foot level of its property. The showing is said to justify development on a more extensive scale.
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The Metals Products Company, recently incorporated, has taken over the Carlisle Mine of the Royal Development Company, the Canadian Maple Leaf, and the Edison mines, on the south slope of Old Man Mountain, in Nevada County, California, and about six miles from Cisco, on the Southern Pacific railroad. Thirty mining claims make up the groups.
Electric power lines are within two miles of the tunnel site. Mine development outlined includes driving a 1,270-foot tunnel into the mountain, which, according to surveys, will cut five veins at depths varying from 1,000 to 2,200 feet below the surface of the mountain. Principals of the Metals Products organization are: Frank Jordan of Sacramento, E. S. Van Leer of Paso Robles; A. A. Bowman, vice-president of the California Transportation Company, and Herbert C. Hall of Hall Frog and Switch Company at Chicago.
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Brown and York, owners and operators of the Triple Pocket Mine in Slug Canyon, near Downieville, California, have completed a water system and have packed in a new hoist and compressor. Considerable ore has been produced in the past from pockets, and the present operators expect to continue work throughout the winter.
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The Boreham Gold Mining Company, Austin Boreham, superintendent, is sinking its shaft south of Nevada City, California, deeper. The ultimate objective is to supply enough ore to warrant steady milling. A. O. Witte, Chamber of Commerce Building, Los Angeles, is president of the company.
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The Hoge Development Company, A. W. Hoge, president and manager, Nevada City, California, is setting up a headframe and hoist equipment and is making connections with electricity. Upon the completion of this work, a three-compartment shaft will be sunk at a pitch of 70 degrees in the footwall of one of the principal veins. The shaft will be sunk between 300 and 400 feet deep. O. E. Schiffner has charge of the work.
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The Sierra Consolidated Mining Company has driven a tunnel in its Wonder group of eight mining claims at Alleghany, California, a distance of 915 feet and, in another few feet, expects to reach the main ledge. The surface equipment at the Wonder Mine, is a 355-cubic foot compressor, blower system, drill sharpener and blacksmith shop. The officers of the Sierra Consolidated are: State Senator Edgar S. Hurley, president; Harry G. Mack, vice-president; Victor J. Barnett, treasurer, and H. B. Kinney of Oakland, secretary and general manager.
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J. B. Bubb of Berkeley, California, is in charge of the dismantling of gold dredger No. 16 above Marysville, California, on the north side of the Yuba River, for the Yuba Consolidated Gold Fields. The dredger will be moved near Fair Oaks, Sacramento County, where it will be put in operation again. This is the largest dredger that has been moved from the Yuba River ground.

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The Sunset Properties, Inc., has taken over the Lotus Bar property of George Colwell, in Eldorado County, California, and intends to start mining by drag line methods. A steam shovel is being used in digging a ditch for water and as soon as the winter rains commence, the washing of gravel will begin. George Cunningham, of Los Angeles, is manager and L. O. Anderson is president of the company.
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The Butte Mining Company has sold 148 acres of its property, known as the Shepard Shaft Section, of the Garland Ranch, near Angels Camp, California, to the Vallecito Central Mines Company, Ltd. The new owners are to pay $50,000, distributed over a period of five years, and in addition, will pay 800,000 shares of Vallecito Central stock as a dividend on a share-for-share basis, to Butte stockholders of record, December 15, 1929.
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Eastern capital has taken a substantial interest in the National Silver Corporation, which will enable the company to finish mill construction, build its power line and water system, and still maintain a healthy treasury reserve. Development is opening good reserves in the Big Silver Mine, near Darwin, California. In the reorganization of the directorate, John D. Fields, 1107 Financial Center Building, Los Angeles, was retained as president. The stock is to be listed.
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A 10-stamp mill and surface plant is being installed at the Yellow Metals Mine on the shores of Lake Bowman, in California, where a five-stamp battery is ready for use as soon as it is tuned up. Upper and lower tunnels have been driven into the property, to lengths of about 200 and 250 feet, and considerable ore is blocked out. For a time, this property was operated jointly by the Liberty Divide, and the Sunbeam Divide Mining Companies in Nevada, but the ground is now operated under bond and lease by F. M. Merrilees and Al Keller.
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The Pacific Gas and Electric Company has completed its power line extension from Alleghany, California, to the Spanish Mine, on the Gaston Ridge, near Washington, James Bradley, superintendent. Rapid construction was effected. It is understood that this line will furnish the German Bar, the Twin Sister, and other mines in the East Belt district.
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The Alpha Hardware and Supply Company purchased the Ruby Mine, near Downieville, Sierra County, California, at foreclosure sale, and will operate it as the Anglo Pacific Company. A crew of 16 men are cleaning out and retimbering the underground workings, under the management of Carl Vivian. Electric power is available from the new Alleghany-Downieville line.
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The Lost Horse Mining and Milling Company, owning a developed gold mine, 14 miles from Palm Springs, Riverside County, California, is to be reopened in the near future, according to T. C. Ryan, president of the company. Past production runs into several hundred thousand dollars, and the mine is equipped with a stamp mill, which is to be rehabilitated for service.
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Work has been suspended at the Golden Rule Drift Mine at Iowa Hill, California, E. H. Bowly, Jr., superintendent. The channel as far as developed, did not prove to be of commercial value. It is planned to do further development in the spring.
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Pay gravel has been opened in the Jupiter Drift Mine of the McGeachen Mining Company, B. I. Rose, superintendent, Iowa Hill, California. Due to the scarcity of water, the gravel is not being washed at present, but a small crew is kept on development work.
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The Geysers Development Company has opened a deposit of sulphur, 15 miles northwest of Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California, that is estimated to contain 1,000,000 tons of 80 percent sulphur rock. Mr. Bargersono, a sulphur miner, has taken out 40 tons of sulphur in the last few days, and preparations are being made to mine the rock in quantity. No work has been done on the property since the development of steam power, from wells in the mountains, at 160 pounds pressure per square inch by John Grant, president of the company. Mr. Grant plans installing a geyser steam electrical plant for the use of mines and prospects in that vicinity. The directors of the organization are Robert Herring, and Frank Woods, both of Los Angeles; J. B. Fopiona of Healdsburg, and Mr. Grant.
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Last month, the Western Mercury Company, Inc., Charles Cavagnaro, superintendent, Cloverdale, California, shipped 126 flasks of quicksilver to San Francisco by truck. This mine is equipped with a Gould rotary furnace, and for the last three years has been working quietly with a steady output.
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The Banner Development Company, Lloyd L. Root, general manager, 115 West Seventh Street, Los Angeles, is completing a raise between the lower level and the mill tunnel, which will later be used as the main shaft, and will permit handling 100 tons of ore daily. Three shifts will be employed as soon as the raise is made. This mine is near Calistoga, California, and production during October, was the highest that the company has made, approximating $14,300.
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The Clinton-West Mining Company, B. J. Clinton, manager, is installing a 300-ton flotation plant at Bodie, California, under the supervision of John B. Rothweil, of the Hawthorne Mines, Inc., who has worked out a process for saving 95 per cent of the metallic content. The Clinton-West Company is installing this plant to treat the old Standard dumps, estimated to contain 400,000 tons of ore, and millions of tons of eroded material excavated from a trench. The tests recovered $3.60 a ton from the dumps and $2.60 a ton from the eroded ore. A recent shipment of 25 tons of ore from the 300 level, averaged $200 a ton. At this depth the ore has been drifted on 54 feet, and is from 3 to 10 inches wide.
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The September profit of the Engels Copper Mining Company, W. I. Nelson, operating engineer, Engelmine, California, is $35,182 after expenses, taxes, interest, and expenditures for developments, but before depreciation and depletion, against $10,587 in September of last year. During the first nine months of 1929 the gross income totaled $1,606,937 and left a net profit of $496,841, as compared with $1,284,607 and leaving a net profit of $89,923. About $148,330 was spent during the nine-month period of this year for Mine development, and special exploration, as compared with $186,361 during the corresponding period of 1928.
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The Shasta Butte Gold Dredging Company, W. S. Davis, president, 405 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, is rebuilding its gold dredger, which capsized several months ago, while working near Thermalito, California, in the Oroville District. Thirty-five men are on the job. Operations are expected to resume about December 1.
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The Idaho-Maryland Mine, near Grass Valley, California, Bert Crase, superintendent, which closed down two weeks ago for repairs, has resumed operations.
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John C. Donnelly and his son, Charles, have made a thorough inspection of the True Grit Mine, near Camptonville, California, and are now in Oakland, in the interest of that property.
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The Kanaka property, near Alleghany, California, has been incorporated as the Madden Gold Mining Company. Ambrose Madden, 57 Taylor Street, San Francisco, is president. The capital stock is $300,000 and a permit has been granted the company to issue stock.
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Fire destroyed the hoisting works and the smelter, at the Wide Awake quicksilver Mine, near Wilbur Springs, Colusa County, California, inflicting a loss of about $10,000. It is believed that the fire was caused by sparks, from the kitchen stove, in the old Jones Hotel, which is being operated as a miners’ boarding house.
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It is understood that new capital has become interested in the Shaherald Mining Company’s property at Kramer Hills, California, and a development and constructive program has been outlined entailing an expenditure of several thousands of dollars. Steam shovels are to be installed and a mill built. The Shaherald ground includes the original discovery claim of Ed. and John Herkelrath, and recent sampling and assaying, under the supervision of T. M. Oehelin of Los Angeles, metallurgist, has returned values from $2.10 into the thousands of dollars. The officers of the company are: C. F. Shaw, Jr., of Fontana, president; Ed. Herkelrath of San Bernardino, and who with Mrs. Herkelrath, has taken up permanent residence at Kramer Hills, vice-president; T. C. McDonald of Rialto, secretary, and H. C. Spring of Fontana, treasurer.
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A winze is being sunk in the No.4 level of the Siberia Mine at Badger Hill, near Nevada City, California, to a depth of 50 feet to explore an oreshoot. A hois

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