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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.

rehab · CALIFORNIA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 11 30 1929

for NOVEMBER 30, 1929

CALIFORNIA

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 hoist and compressor have beeen installed and the boarding house is accommodating a crew of 10 men. E. B. Frost is superintendent.
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The Butte Development Company has levied assessment No. 2 on its stock, payable at the rate of 2 cents a share. Date of delinquency was November 21, 1929. This company is working a Mine in Calaveras County, California, and its principal place of business is Reno, Nevada.
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rehab · IOWA HILL COMPANY OPENS ANCIENT CHANNEL TMJ 3 30 1934

IOWA HILL COMPANY OPENS ANCIENT RIVER CHANNEL

Placer County, California, once the mecca of the Forty-Niners, has again leaped into the limelight with the discovery of a gold-bearing Tertiary or Blue Lead Channel by the Iowa Hill Gold Mining Company. The channel was entered by an upraise at the end of the 1,280-foot tunnel, according to A. F. Muter, 303-807 Fidelity Building, Los Angeles, the company’s consulting engineer.

More than two years have lapsed since the company started driving its tunnel into Iowa Ridge, hoping to discover this channel which most of the well informed miners of the district and the geologists who first mapped its approximate course prophesied would be found.

Enough work has been done to prove that the channel is 350 feet wide and six feet deep and sufficient gravel has been washed to prove its value. Most of the gold is very course and nuggets up to four ounces have been recovered. One of the surprising features of the discovery
is that the black sand concentrates assayed nearly $2,000 a ton in gold.

The first test of 10 cubic yards yielded $20.77 per cubic yard and its second test of eight cubic yards yielded $18.69 a cubic yard. Ben Kagan, contractor and builder, and his Los Angeles associates have financed the operation to date. They are preparing to install machinery to work the property on a large scale.

rehab · CALIFORNIA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 8 15 1931

THE MINING JOURNAL august 15 1931

CALIFORNIA

Under the supervision of B. H. Ringdon, the Poverty Hill Mining Company is operating a hydraulic property in the vicinity of Scales, Sierra County, California. Mr. Kingdon has leased an independent property in the vicinity, which he owns, to the Atkinson brothers, W. R. and Ben, and two others, and they are to have the privilege of using the Poverty Hill water rights. The Atkinsons have applied to the California Debris Commission for a permit and if it is granted they wilt work the leased property in a small way this season. The men are residents of Strawberry Valley, California.
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Lawrence Monte Verda of Grass Valley, California, and his associates have installed a 10-stamp mill on the Free and Easy claim, which is a part of their lease from the Melon Mining Company. Until additional water can be obtained, the plant is operating only 12 hours daily and is treating ore that is being drifted on from the 60-foot level of the new two-compartment shaft, now down 75 feet. In the drift the ore is five feet wide and averages $20 a ton. Twelve dollars of this value are being recovered on the plates, and the tailings are being run over a concentrating table. The resulting concentrate is worth approximately $512 a ton.
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The 300-foot drainage tunnel in the Bellevue mine, eight miles east of Sonora, California, is nearing the 80-foot point in the 800-foot two-compartment incline shaft. This shaft has been re-timbered to the 80-foot point, which is the water level, and in it is a 10-foot vein of gold ore, which averaged $12 a ton when the ground was worked previously. Roy Clements and associates of Hollywood are working the property under a 25-year lease.
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John Meyers and William Mitchell of Los Angeles, California, have taken a bond and lease on the Last Chance group of gold mining claims, near Death Valley, Shaft sinking will be speeded up as soon as the hoist and compressor are installed. A substantial tonnage of low-grade ore is exposed and a manganese outcropping has been traced 160 feet along the surface.
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The Calvin Mining Company is doing preliminary work on the old Grit mine at Spanish Dry Diggings, near Placerville, California. It has headquarters in Los Angeles, and W. W. Harriott is directing the development. The Calvin group has a lease on the ground.
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Victory Gold Mines, Inc., controlled by Los Angeles capital, reports opening a fissure carrying high values in gold on its holdings in the Klamath River field, 35 miles south of the historic settlement of Happy Camp. Equipment has been installed and water piped one and one-half miles to the property.
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A new and important ore body has been opened 3,500 feet from the portal of the main tunnel of the Walker Mining Company at Walkermine, California, S. H. Cooper, assistant manager. A drift from the 900-foot level has penetrated the southern section of the north ore body for over 30 feet and has exposed a wide face of ore sampling close to 4 per cent copper. This ore ranks among the best deposits in the property. Its gold and silver revenues are partly compensating for the low price of copper. A number of surface improvements are being made and include the raising of the tailings dam another eight feet.
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W. Crosby has optioned the old Descanso mine in San Diego County, California, in the interest of John S. Burke, 80 Broad Street, New York City. The power company is building a line to the property and it is understood that power over the new line will be available within a few days.
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The Gilta mine at Forks of Salmon, California, is being developed by James Tracy of Seattle, according to Charles V. Averill, in charge of the Redding office of the California state bureau of mines. The program that has been outlined is in the nature of a prospecting campaign and will cover about three months. Paul A. Bundy is engineer in charge and has four men working on the job.
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The Midas Lode Mining Company, sponsored by John S. Burke, 80 Broad Street, and Harry A. Stevens & Co., of New York City, is working two shifts at the North Hubbard and Ready Relief gold properties in the Julian-Banner district in California. William Paddock, mill superintendent, is making tests and has obtained recoveries far above those obtained in the ‘50s, when only the ore above water level could be worked profitably. One winze in the North Hubbard is yielding $86 gold ore, according to Scott Price, mine superintendent. Arrangements are being made to list the stock on the New York Curb.
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Preliminary development and the installation of machinery has been started on Deer Creek, near Grass Valley, California, where the Silver Butte Consolidated Mining Company has recently acquired 400 acres of placer ground. This company has headquarters at 400 Atlas Block, Salt Lake City, Utah, and D. A. Walton is its general manager. Gasoline shovels and portable sluices are being installed and steps will be taken to reduce the water table on bedrock, which has prevented former operations and has left much virgin ground. To date, Mr. Walton is supervising the installation of the machinery. The Grass Valley operation will not interfere with the development of a lead-silver property which the company is operating at Mud Springs, Nevada.
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The new water supply, recently developed, saved the greater portion of the surface equipment at the Yellow Jacket mine, near Alleghany, California, during the fire which occurred July 15. The shop and transformer house on the ground were the only buildings burned. Manager Charles E. Trezona, 525 Security Building, Los Angeles, states that machinery burned is not a total loss, and is now being put in shape. The buildings were completed on or about the fifth of August, and work resumed August 15. The loss from the fire will run about $2,000. The main drift on the property is now in 1,720 feet, and efforts are at present being concentrated on the sinking of a winze. Another portion of the property is to be developed immediately by the sinking of a shaft on the Osceola claim. Present plans call for a depth of 500 feet at this point.
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Work at the Angels Consolidated Gold Mines, Ltd., at Angels Camp, California, is at present being confined to getting ready for the expulsion of water from the workings. A load of pipe has arrived at the property, and a large electric pump has been ordered. The water is to be carried away from the mine through a pipeline and ditch to Chinese Gulch. Todd B. Elliott is superintending the work.
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The mill at the Easy Bird gold mine at Mokelumne Hill, California, is being overhauled, and it is understood that there is a possibility that an oil flotation process may be installed, resulting in the removal of the concentrators. An aerial tram is now under construction from the shaft to the plant. This will carry the ore a distance of 2,000 feet and obviate hand tramming. A power line is also under construction to the property. Three shifts are working, operations being in charge of Todd B. Elliott of Angels Camp, superintendent, and John Casey, foreman.
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The Amador Star Mining Company of Sutter Creek, California, John Ratto, manager, has increased its working force from one to two shifts of miners daily. It is understood that the ledge being followed on the 800-foot level of the mine continues to gain in width, measuring at present seven feet between walls.
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Sinking operations in the three-compartment shaft on the Pathfinder property of the Russell-Kent Mining Corporation, three miles west of Jackson, California, have been considerably slowed up ‘by the encountering of water. The shaft has reached a depth of 135 feet towards its objective of 1,200 feet. Until the water was encountered, the three shifts of miners employed were gaining depth at an average rate of six feet every 24 hours. The management does not believe that the flow will prove a serious handicap, and it is at present being handled by baling.
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A new Fairbanks-Morse pump is being installed at the Calmo mine, near Angels Camp, California, to handle the present water flow, and the former pump which has served several years has been removed. Mining operations are to be resumed as soon as the new installation is completed. W. M. Graflin is superintendent.
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Under a lease and bond recently obtained, Jafet Lindeberg of San Francisco, widely known as a successful Alaskan mine operator, and S. Grauman of Los Angeles have acquired property of the Douglas Flat Mining Company, near Murphys, California, and resumed its development. They are at present installing a 500-gallon per minute electric pump to supplement one of 300-gallon per minute capacity already in use in the shaft. The property is equipped with milling facilities to handle from 240 to 350 tons of gravel daily.
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Under a lease and bond from W. L. Mahoney of Larksboro, California, R. D. Storey, Richard and Lewis Scott and Robert Muir, San Francisco business men, are vigorously developing the Mahoney placer mine, four miles northwest of Columbia, California. Operations are being prosecuted by a force of miners under the direction of Mr. Muir. After building a three-quarter mile aerial tram and electric power line and installing an electric hoist, the new operators are sinking a new shaft, which has already gained a depth of 40 feet. It is estimated that only from 10 to 15 feet of additional sinking will be required to reach bedrock.
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To expedite operations and attain maximum production at the earliest possible date, the Calaveras Central Gold Mining Company, Ltd., has just completed the installation of a new 100-foot belt conveyor at its placer property near Angels Camp, California, according to President Harry Sears. This appliance, capable of handling 40 tons an hour, is handling waste boulders and bedrock raised to the surface through the 350-foot three-compartment vertical shaft, while the No. 1 belt conveyor, installed some time ago and having a capacity of 20 tons hourly, moves the reject from the pay gravel after the coarse gold has been recovered by the washing mills, which have a combined capacity of 800 tons daily. At present the company is employing a force of 14 miners, working in two shifts.
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J. A. Tenney and Ed Hampton have opened the Rolph mine on Yankee Hill, six miles east of Columbia, California, which has been idle for 35 years. The face of the 250-foot drift tunnel they are reconditioning has a two-foot showing of ore that assays close to $50 a ton in gold. Stoping is to be started as soon as the tunnel is retimbered.
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The Glenn mine, situated near Michigan Bluff, California, has been acquired by the Silver Pick Consolidated Mining Company from Senator J. M. Inman of Sacramento, according to the announcement of B. S. Davis, president of the Silver Pick company. Mr. Davis stated that the property follows a rich channel for a distance of three miles, and that 800 feet of gravel have been opened up and made ready for production.
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Damage of more than $10,000 was suffered at the Good Luck mine near Diamond Spring, California, early this month, when the fire which had been burning for several days in that district swept over the property. It is reported that the mill, mine buildings and considerable machinery and equipment were destroyed by the flames. Manager John Noce has announced that it is not yet certain whether or not the fire will effect negotiations which have been under way for acquisition of the property by San Francisco interests. Other mines in the path of the fire were also reported as hard hit. The Crusader, west of Diamond Spring, was damaged to a considerable extent, when the new building, recently completed, went up in smoke, as well as the hosting plant and bulkheading at the shaft. The half-finished mill building, living quarters and other surface improvements at the Larkin mine were also reported completely destroyed.
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It has been reported that the Hickox Mining Company has acquired the Big Bonanza, Little Bonanza and Fairview mining properties, near Sonora, California. The Bonanza claims, discovered in 1851, have been worked intermittently with a total production record of more than $4,000,000, it is stated. At a meeting of the Hickox Company’s board of directors Paul Morris, former merchant, and president of the First National Bank of Sonora, was elected president; G. G. Stewart was named vice-president, and A. Delerey, secretary-treasurer.
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The Blue Ridge Midway Gold Mines Company, Lt&, of Reno, Nevada, Joseph W. Welch, president, and D. J. Lyons, general manager, has purchased the Pilot placer mine at Downieville, California, from the Midway Divide Mining Company. The new owners plan to extend the present tunnel an additional 200 to 400 feet, and put up a new working raise to the channel. The property is traversed by two separate channel systems.
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Control of the Sierra Development Company, operating property in the Michigan Bluff district of Placer county, California, has passed to the Butte Mining Company, according to advices from San Francisco. It is understood that new equipment has just been installed at the property to handle 500 tons of gravel daily.
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There has been no interruption in production at the Brush Creek mine, near Forest, California, it is stated, and according to Superintendent Ben F. Ballard of Goodyear Bar, about 1,000 tons of ore per month have lately been put through the mill. A new 140-foot shaft has just been completed at the mine, opening up a body of ore estimated at approximately 85,000 tons of good mill rock.
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The Sunshine placers, near Quincy, California, have been acquired by J. L. Harper and associates of Los Angeles. This well-known old property had been owned by one family for over 40 years. Recent tests conducted under Mr. Harper’s supervision showed the gravel to average over $2.75 per cubic yard. It is planned to construct one mile of ditch and flume near the property, which will add the total volume of another creek to the present water flow.
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Following the provision of jobs for about 50 leasers at the Kelly-Rand mine at Randsburg, California, announcement has been made that the mill on the property is to be augmented and used as a custom plant. It is understood that cyanide equipment capable of handling 150 tons daily has been ordered, this to be added to the 400-ton flotation plant, and placed in operation by September 1. The Kelly-Rand mine is now owned by Homer L. Gibson and L. E. Main, Pasadena and Los Angeles capitalists, and Roy A. Hardy, Reno mining engineer. Gordon Cole has been placed in charge as general superintendent. Underground operations are to be conducted through the No. 6 shaft.
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The mill of the Argonaut Mining Company at Jackson, California, W. E. Stent, superintendent, is reported handling 250 tons of ore daily. In the mine, a winze is being sunk below the 5,850-foot level to a depth of 800 feet, and two new levels are to be opened up. The compressed air pipelines underground have recently been rehabilitated, and better operating conditions have resulted. A force of 150 men is employed.
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The three-year lease of Randall Northrup and associates on the Mountain Lily mine, five miles north of Columbia, California, has been taken over by G. A. Schmidt, Michael Rossiter and A. J. McCormick of Los Angeles. The new operators have already put a force of miners to work un-watering the 140-foot winze sunk at the 450-foot point in a 750-foot drift tunnel. It is stated that in the bottom of the winze there is better than a two-foot width of ore averaging $40 per ton. For the immediate future operations are to be confined to additional sinking of the winze and the continuation of the tunnel. The property is equipped with a five-stamp mill and a concentrating unit, as well ns necessary mining equipment.
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Recent installations at the plant of the Amador Metals Reduction Company at Jackson, California, consist of an American three-leaf filter, a Ruggles-Cole dryer, and a sacker. This company is treating tailings from the Argonaut mine, and is also operating a custom plant for gold concentrates. The new equipment is used in the preparation of concentrator tailing for oil-well work. A Coe classifier is used to classify the concentrator tailing.
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Current reports state that 150 men are now employed at the Murchie mine, near Nevada City, California, and 140 tons of ore are being milled daily. The stamp mill on the property is being increased to 20 stamps, and it is planned that 250 tons of ore can soon be treated daily. A No. 5 gyratory has been installed in the crusher division of the plant, and limited provision has been made for hand sorting. J. M. Hoff is manager.
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It is reported that the Pacific Coast Borax Company will resume operations at several of its Kern county properties, near Mojave, California, at once, and will put more than 100 men to work. C. B. Zabriskie, 598 Madison Avenue, New York City, is manager of the company.
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UTAH MINING MEN INTERESTED
IN NEW CALIFORNIA GOLD FIELD
The Halloran Spring country, located about 18 miles east of Baker, California, is being developed by Utah mining men from Salt Lake City, Salina, St. George and Beaver. Some 8,000 claims have been staked in the past four months and work is going forward in several different locations over a distance of 10 miles. The Burns-Snyder interests of Salt Lake City, affiliated with National Lead, are sinking a shaft on a 85-foot dyke that carries splendid gold values and which can be traced on the surface for a half mile.
A mill has been installed on the Wanderer, in the west end of the district, where several men are employed taking out rich ore. Lena Hall and Hernick McQuarrie, some of the first to locate in the district, have six men working on the Commander lease, adjoining the Burns-Snyder property. Here gold ore running as high as $800 per ton is being mined for shipment.
Mining men who are constantly visiting the entire district are watching developments closely, as the formation is considered favorable to deep-seated ore bodies. Locations have been made over an area five miles wide and 10 miles long and the entire distance is mineralized. All values are gold and silver, with traces of copper here and there. The formation consists of altered granite, cut by quartz veins and lying on contacts with porphyry. Assay values range all the way from $5 per ton to $5,000. Many specimens from the Hall-McQuarrie lease are splattered with free gold.

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DEPRESSION BRINGS GOLD SEEKERS TO CALIF. PLACERS

The Yuba and Feather River canyons of California are once again in the grip of a gold fever. The participants are ariiving on foot, in fiivvers and wagons, and all inoculated with “depression.” These 1931 gold seekers line the benches as of old, many with the rocker and long tom of ancient vintage, and others with “gold machines,” the result of a strong technique of mechanization developed in the present age, around the family garage and radio.
These gold machines, which seems to be the favorite title, usually resemble homemade concrete mixers, crossed with washing machines, or lawn mowers, and require a daily addition of an extra “this or that” to comfort the imagination of the novice. Contrary to the custom of the days of ‘49, women and children swell the ranks of the eager swarms. As one woman remarked to a visitor, as she turned the crank on a gold machine while her husband was trying to keep the machine full of gravel, “This beats picking peaches.” One can see that mining, if ever so humble, carries its fascination.
Stories of rich finds greet the ears of the newcomers, many of whom have to fall in line for instructions in placering. Then they find a spot for themselves, and if only a few cents a day are recovered, they are happy to sell, as in the days of yore.

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The old Socrates Mine, in the Pine Flat District, near Healdsburg, California, has been taken under bond and lease by C. A. Teal, wellknown in the Couer d’Alene District of Idaho, who is now acting as superintendent. The property, which consists of 500 acres, is noted for its production of cinnabar and native quicksilver. A force of men is now repairing the road for hauling machinery and supplies, and work will soon start in the lower 500-foot tunnel, with the expectation of finding ore in about 400 feet.
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The Mountain Monarch Mining Company, William Lyle Skinner, mine and mill superintendent, Lone Pine, Inyo County, California, has discovered a vein of commercial ore, in the extension of its No. 4 main transportation tunnel. The position of the strike gives 1,700 feet of backs, and is in the vicinity of the 150-ton mill, which will be completed after a little more tunnel work.
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The Harmill Mining and Smelting Company will complete its core-drilling program in the Ubehebe District property in Inyo County, California, by the end of January, according to Gerald B. Hartley, president and manager, 112 East Second Street, Reno, Nevada. The objective of this drilling is to prove continuity of an ore body, 2,000 feet long, and 100 feet wide, which is exposed on the surface. The deposit has been developed by tunnels, crosscuts and a winze from the main tunnel floor.
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It is understood the Big Black Bear Mining Company will spend $115,000 in the development and improvement of its property, near Forks of Salmon, California. The property comprises 34 claims, and a new shaft is being sunk with the objective of reaching a gold vein abandoned in 1882. Enough supplies are on hand to last until the snow is off the ground. A recent surface discovery assayed $30 a ton, and 12 samples taken from various parts of the property, assayed $9.33 a ton. W. B. Robinson of Medford, has charge of the property. E. W. Knight is president and Fred C. Elliott is secretary.
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The Portland, Oregon, interests, which have leased the Mount de Oro Mines at Woodleaf, Yuba County, California, are planning to construct a concentrating plant. A 1,250-pound stamp mill is now in operation. Work done under previous management, consists of a crosscut tunnel 600 feet long, a 100-foot drift along the vein, and a 130-foot raise to the surface.
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The Hoge Development Company, O. E. Schiffner, Box 16, Nevada City, California, general manager, has sunk its three-compartment shaft to the 300-foot level. The orebodies, which have been discovered, will now be worked by crosscuts and drifts. Underground work will be completed before milling facilities are provided.
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Under the supervision of John E. Rothwell of Bodie, California, the Clinton-West Company, Inc., is treating 400 tons of dump ore daily, from the Northend mines. The concentrates are worth $900, to $1,000 a ton. The ore is conveyed by dragline scraper, to a “dry land dredge,” where it
is screened, the coarse material discarded, and the fine material sluiced through a six-inch pipe, to the flotation mill. The objective of the Smith-Clinton Lease, on a portion of the old Bodie Mine, is to find the downward extension of a rich vein found on the 300 level. Sam C. Smith, pioneer resident of Bodie, is interested with E. J. Clinton in this lease. The Bodie Shaft has been repaired to the 400 level, and a 500-foot drift will be cleaned out, to a point beneath a winze. The ore is treated by amalgamation in the Standard Mill.
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The Treadwell-Yukon Company, Ltd., R. J. Duncan, Bodie, California, superintendent, is producing ore averaging $15 a ton, from a vein 28 feet wide, in the Red Cloud Shaft, which has been unwatered to the 700-foot level. From the 700 level, access may be had to an incline winze in the adjoining Noonday Mine, which is said to have considerable high-grade gold ore in the bottom. This winze has been cleaned out, and retimbered for 250 feet, [by the] former management.
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The Siskiyou Metals Company, operating the El Crapo Mine, on the Salmon River in Siskiyou County, California, has opened three levels, all in milling ore, for about 400 feet. The mine has been proven beyond the prospect stage of development. An assay laboratory has been established on the property, and the company is preparing to install compressors, in order to begin production by next fall. The ore of this district carries cobalt and platinum metals, in addition to gold and copper.
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The Lucky Jim Mine in San Bernardino County, near Milligan, California, has been sold to Frank A. Crampton, and associates. This mine is a producer of silver-copper ore, the last 19 carloads averaging over $100 a ton. Shipments, at the rate of a carload a month, are now being made to the Douglas, Arizona, smelter, of the Phelps Dodge Corporation.
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Frank Orr, mining engineer of Randsburg, California, and associates, have developed an oreshoot 1,200 feet long in the Imperial Lode Mine, of San Bernardino County, and have made an initial shipment of lead-silver ore to the Douglas, Arizona, smelter. A compressor, and other equipment, have been installed. Orr holds a long-time lease on the property, which had previously been developed as a silver mine.
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In the Kernville District, California, Wolf and Heldman, who have a lease for 11 years on the Glen Olive Mine, have opened a new ore body said to run more than $20 per ton in free milling gold. The property is equipped with a 1O-stamp mill.
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The California-Oregon Power Company lost the suit to collect an additional $57,000 from the Victory Gold Mine Company, operating in the Salmon Mountains, near Etna, Siskiyou County, California. The mining company, which had paid $45,000 on contract, claimed an expensive route to the property had been taken.
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The shaft of the Yakima-Mohawk Mining Company, near Nevada City, California, has been driven to a depth of 170 feet, and will be continued to 200 feet, where a 25-foot crosscut, sump, and a station will be cut, and will be run to the west to determine ledge locations. President John Sawbridge, 116 East A Street, Yakima, Washington, recently inspected the property.
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It is reported, although not officially, that a new strike has been made at the bottom of the Tightner Shaft, of the Original Sixteen-to-One Mine, Inc., Alleghany, California. A strike was made in this shaft several months ago during sinking operations. H. U. Maxfleld, 607 Monadnock Building, San Francisco, is president of the organization.
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The displacement vein in limestone in the Big Silver Mine in Inyo County, California, has been partially developed, and 25 feet of ore, carrying hornsilver, native silver and chlorides, are showing with backs of 900 feet. About 60 percent of the ore is of shipping value. A truck road is being built to the site of the 250-ton unit of the proposed milling plant. The Big Silver Mine is operated by the National Silver Corporation, John D. Fields, president and general manager, 1202 Financial Center Building, Los Angeles.
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About 16 feet of gravel, averaging from $8 to $14 per yard, has been encountered by the Keystone Divide Mining Company, L. E. Stein, general manager, which is operating in the Vallecito District of Butte County, California. This strike has been identified as a placer of the Central Hill Channel, because the mineral is red ruby gold. The Keystone Shaft is down 153 feet, and a drift is out 32 feet.
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The Nevada Blue Bird Mines Corporation, James M. Rice, superintendent, has begun operations at the Givens Mine, in the Cathay Valley, Mariposa County, California. Hoisting equipment and a compressor have been installed, a headframe built, and the shaft retimbered.
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The Champion Mining Company of Reno, Nevada, has taken over the Ruth Pierce Mine, near Hornitos, California. The property has been worked to the 600-foot level. Through deep mining, the new company hopes to find a continuation of the ore veins.
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The Union Mines, Inc., H. A. Dunn, president and manager, Hollingsworth Building, Los Angeles, California, intends to erect a stamp mill on its property, near Mokelumne Hill. Albert Field is in charge of the work.
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An assessment of 1 cent per share has been levied by the Reorganized Silver King Divide Mining Company, Shand Smith, 5661 Oak Grove, Oakland, California, president, to cover the expenditure of $25,000 on the Vanderbilt Mine, in San Bernardino County, in which it holds a one-half interest. One 38-ton carload of ore, which returned about $20 a ton in gold and silver, has been shipped by the Vanderbilt Mines Company to a Utah smelter of the American Smelting and Refining Company. A 50-ton car is now being loaded.

[Rehab Notes: This mine is located roughly 15 miles south of Nipton, CA, off the Cima Road. The District is located on the northern side of the New York Mountains. The first RR in the region was a spur from Needles, CA, from the now Santa Fe RR, that served the Vanderbilt mines and LanFair Valley mines and ranchers. Much of the ore of the Goodsprings/Yellow Pine District, was loaded onto wagons and shuttled to the railhead of this spur, which in-turn, tokk the ore cross-country to New Jersey, where it was then loaded onto a ship that took it to Swansea, Wales, for milling and reduction. Much of the Searchlight and Nelson, NV; and Chloride and Cerbat Mtns, AZ, ores made the same trip.

At the Vanderbilt site, 320 acres are patented, and a newer mill was buit in the 1970’s, named the Golden Quail. Later operators bulldozed all of the old Vanderbilt town, which was quite extensive and intact, as well as push-filled all of the old mine openings. The ore, called Graywhacke, held high grade gold values, though the gold content could not be discerned by sight, but rather by assay. Lode miners from the California Mother Lode Gold Belt were able to successfully work the ore, that carried many of the same characteristics as mines along the Sierras.]
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Gordon Bettles, Nevada City, California, is sinking a shaft, between 75 and 100 feet below the 260-foot level, in the Queen Lil property, west of that town. He holds an option on all the former Champion Properties, north of Deer Creek, and the objective of the Queen Lil work, is to get into virgin ground, west of the Champion Mine. Rolfe Buffington has charge of sinking.
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The Valjean Imperial Mines, Inc., J. H. Kennedy, president and manager, 123 North Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, is installing a 200-horsepower generating plant, and pumping equipment, at Ogilby, California, three and one-half miles from the mine. A pipeline and a powerline will be run to the property, the Diesel engines in the mine and mill will be replaced with electric motors, and a core drilling program will be started. Milling has been suspended while these improvements are being made. About 12 men are employed at this property. It is planned to install a 50-ton concentrating plant on a scheelite property, in Tulare County, 40 miles southeast of Porterville, which was recently purchased. A development crew of five men is employed there.
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Improvements planned by the Yellow Aster Mining and Milling Company, 602 Transportation Building, Los Angeles, California, A. Ancker, president, for the ensuing year, include a gasoline one-yard shovel, and the installation of a cyanide milling plant. About 4,000 tons of ore, assaying $2.50 to $8 per ton in gold, are being treated monthly in the stamp mill, with a recovery of 90 percent of millhead assays. Engineers estimate there are 6,000,000 tons of ore in sight. W. F. Allen, Jr., Box 341, Randsburg, California, is general manager of the company.

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The Best and Belcher Gold and Silver Mining Company, H. L. Slosson, Jr., manager, Room 804, 888 Kearny Street, San Francisco, California, has cleaned out the shaft, and drift on the 800 Level of the Commodore Property, near San Andreas. On completion of this work, the company will be able to ascertain whether or not there is mill grade ore in the crosscut ahead, where the vein is 17 feet wide. Camp buildings have been erected and enough equipment has been installed for the above operation.
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According to Superintendent George L. Duffey, new electric haulage is to be installed at the Mayflower Gravel Mining Company, operating at Foresthill, California. E. C. Uren of Nevada City, California, is consulting engineer for the company. The crew is from 19 to 28 men.
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The Grass Valley Boundary Mines Company, M. H. Brock, manager, Grass Valley, California, has made a test run at its new cyanide plant, the purpose of which was to extract gold economically from sulphides, which have been permitted to oxidize slightly. B. W. Hills, managing director of the Grass Valley Assay Office, supervised the construction, and the test run of the plant. It has a capacity of five tons. The process requires two agitators, and a vacuum pump is used for filtering.
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Assessment No. 6 of 1 cent per share, has been levied by the Smuggler Divide Mining Company, and is payable at the Registration Surety Company, Rooms 804-6, 888 Kearny Street, San Francisco. The date of delinquent sale is March 19, 1930. This company is operating property in San Mateo County, California.
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The Butte Mining Company has paid a dividend of one share of Vallecito Central Mines, Ltd., for each share of Butte stock. The stock will be held in escrow for one year, and the stockholders have received warrants as evidence of ownership. This company operates near Angels Camp, California.
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The Engineers’ Exploration Company, W. H. Coons, Bakersfield, California, president, has struck ore, averaging 85 percent lead, below the 500-foot Level of the Ophir Mine, near Trona. The mine is running on two shifts, and the new mill on three shifts. John M. Fox is manager and C. O. Mittendorf is superintendent. The company maintains an office in the Hibernian Building, Los Angeles.
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The Consolidated Metals Corporation, operating the Kelly Rand Mine at Randsburg, California, has opened several new faces in ore of both milling and shipping grades. The company is now negotiating for the purchase of a quicksilver property, which, if acquired, will considerably increase its earnings. About 1,180 tons of ore and concentrates, with a gross value of $126,156, were shipped from October 1, 1929 to January 1, 1930. S. A. Reid of Randsburg is superintendent.
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Operation of a five-stamp mill has been started by the Grumlumm Mining Company, which has made a strike on its property, consisting of nine claims, about a mile and a half from Bodfish, California.
Julius Meyhoefer, 915 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, has spent $20,000 in improvements, consisting of road building, and 185 feet of tunnel. Assays show from $15 to $785 in gold per ton, according to W. C. Noyes, general manager. As many as 15 men have been employed.
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The Acme Mines and Mills Company, has earned a net operating profit from its La Joya Mine, of $86,779, and a net loss of $3,528 from its Oat Hill Property, according to a financial statement presented by B. C. Austin, general manager, 762 Mills Building, San Francisco, California. The Oat Hill Property has not been operating long enough to absorb the expense of improvements. These figures did not include depreciation, which will be figured at the end of the fiscal year.
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The California Hercules Mining Company, M. H. Theo. Karcher, 1712 Lyndon Street, South Pasadena, California, has let a contract to E. D. Foster, geologist, 671 I. W. Hellman Building, Los Angeles, to install a mill. The company is now opening up ore bodies, and developing an ore reserve.
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It is reported that A. L. Beardsley, 4284 Rosewood Avenue, Los Angeles, California, B. H. Parrott, and associates, started development the first of the year on the Iron Dyke Mine in Plumas County, a mile south of Taylorsville, California. An air compressor and other equipment, including electric machinery, have been installed. The crew now consists of 10 men, and it is planned to increase the force to 40.
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The Mother Lode Central Gold Mines Company, James W. Hamby, Mokelumne Hill, California, manager, is planning to install additional concentration tables, to construct a new headframe and hoist house, and to continue sinking the shaft 500 feet. Two raises are being extended from the 180-foot level, and two more from the 280-foot level, where two crosscuts are also being driven.
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Additional machinery and equipment are being installed at the Walker Extension Mine, near Genesee, California, by the C. & L. Mining Company, A. L. Beardsley, president, 4284 Rosewood Avenue, Los Angeles. Development of the ore body opened by the 420-foot tunnel is being continued.
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The old main working tunnel of the Reed Quicksilver Mine, has been advanced to an old stope, and is now in a distance of 908 feet, according to J. H. Collier, general manager, 888 Kearney Street, San Francisco, California. The drift in the lower tunnel has been continued in vein formation, and is now in 840 feet. Opaline entered the vein about 10 feet from the drift face. Work has been slowed up because it was necessary to timber part of this tunnel, and because of road repair.
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The receivership of the properties of the Grizzly Ridge Mining Company at North Columbia, California, has been terminated, and Lloyd L. Root, the receiver, discharged. James E. Merriam of Mt. Kisco, New York, is a large stockholder, and is represented by Philip M. Toleman of North Columbia. Very little development work has been done for about a year.
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Frank and William Moyle have made a gold strike on their claims on Shaw’s Flat Hill, near Sonora, California. The ore said to be paying from $1,000 to $2,000 per foot. Two shafts have been sunk to about 60 feet, the first being a prospect hole, while the vein was discovered in the second. The mine is equipped with a hoist and compressor.
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Fire, which caused a loss of between $20,000 and $25,000, destroyed the engine house, gallows frame, and other equipment, at the property of the Marklee Mining Company, in the Mother Lode District, near Volcano, California. The origin of the fire is unknown. This mine, which is about 60 years old, was closed down for a time, and reopened about six years ago, the shaft then being about 600 feet deep. Joseph L. Del Monte, 1114 Filbert Street, Oakland, California, was president of the organization, according to latest record.
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The Wallberg Mining Corporation has been incorporated in Yuba County, California, with a capital of $200,000, to operate the old Horseshoe Mine at Challenge, which is the property of the Horseshoe Gold Mining Company, controlled by Portland, Oregon, interests. It is reported that Seattle and Los Angeles capital has been provided, although the company incorporators are all of Yuba County. I. O. Wallberg, experienced mining engineer of Seattle, is in charge of operations. The main office is at Marysville, California.
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An ore body, eight feet wide, has been intersected by two raises from the 1,950 mine level, of the Idaho-Maryland Mines Company, Albert Crase, general superintendent, Grass Valley, California. About 75 men are now employed. The report that the company plans to sell its Brunswick and Union Hill properties has been denied by President Errol MacBoyle.
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A recent rain at Chico, California, washed out one side of the log dam of the Aladdin Divide Mining Company, Clyde F. Collins, manager. It will be rebuilt at once, and water will be stored for sluicing, according to Manager Collins. This company has taken a lease with option to purchase, on six 20-acre placer locations, 17 miles from the property of the Genii Mining Company, which are believed to be on the Mammoth Channel. A shaft in the latter property, struck top gravel at about 20 feet and has been in gravel, averaging $5 per ton, for 85 feet. A pump is required, as water has come into the shaft, indicating proximity to bedrock. Collins suggests the plan of removing the overburden, and mining the river bed with power shovels. The purchase price of the property was $70,000.

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THE MINING JOURNAL

FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY FOR CALIFORNIA MINES BUREAU

During April, California celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of its state mining bureau. This was created by a bill introduced in the legislature, by Assemblyman Joseph Wasson of Mono and Inyo Counties, and signed by Governor George C. Perkins. Headquarters were established in San Francisco, with Henry G. Ranks as the first state mineralogist.

Previously there had been two short-lived geological Surveys in California, the first under John B. Trask, as State Geologist, 1853-1856, and the second, under J. D. Whitney, 1860-1878. The fundamental idea underlying the creation of the State Mining Bureau, was that it should be concerned primarily with an economic development survey of California’s mineral resources and their utilization, rather than solely as a geological survey. Provision was made, however, in the organic act that geology should be included in the work of the Bureau.

The State Mining Bureau continued under that title (though the act was thrice amended, 1885, 1898, and 1913, as to organization details) until July, 1927, when it was made the “Division of Mines and Mining,” and in July, 1929, “Division of Mines,” under the State Department of Natural Resources, of which Fred G. Stevenot, is the present director. The Board of Trustees provided for, in the amendment of 1885, and continued by the 1898 amendment, was abolished in 1913; but again restored under the designation of “State Mining Board,” by the 1929 amendment to the Department of Natural Resources Act.

The following have served as State Mineralogist: Henry C. Ranks, 1880-1886; Win. Irelan, 1886-1898; J. J. Crawford, 1898-1897; A. S. Cooper, 1897-1901; Lewis E. Aubrey, 1901-1911; Win. H. Storms, Dec., 1911-Feb., 1913; Fletcher Hamilton; 1918-1928; Lloyd L. Root, Feb 1923-July 1928; the incumbent Walter W. Bradley, since August 1, 1928.

Besides the main headquarters with offices in the Ferry Building, San Francisco, including the library, laboratory and mineral exhibits, district mining engineers are stationed with offices at Sacramento, Los Angeles, and Redding. Reports and bulletins to a total number of over one hundred, have been published from time to time, describing in detail (with maps, charts, and photographs) the varied mineral substances available in this great commonwealth of California—their location, character, transportation facilities, state of development, utilization, and other pertinent data.

At the present time, along with these economic surveys the State Division of Mines has underway, a new and comprehensive Geological Survey of California, made possible by a special item in the budget for the current biennium. One feature of this survey will be the preparation of a new geologic map of the entire state.

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According to Harry B. Leonard of Holister, California, owner of the Alpine Quicksilver Mine near Georgetown, a new rotary furnace is to be installed by a company which now holds an option on the property. At present, the mine is equipped with a 20-ton Scott furnace. The ore is extracted through tunnel workings, and in one of the old tunnels, some new deposits have been found, which had escaped notice of the original operators. During the past year, some of the old dump was treated, and was found to contain 2 per cent quicksilver.
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The Engels Copper Mining Company, W. I. Nelson, operating engineer, Engelmine, California, has practically discontinued work on the property of the Calaveras Copper Company, at Copperopolis, California. It is said that this shutdown has put 800 men out of work. The company is planning to continue one of the shafts. For more than a year, the Engels Ccompany has been operating this property under option, and it is believed that the low price of copper caused cessation of work.
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The City of Six Mining Company, A. B. Hodgkinson, principal owner, 302 Lane Mortgage Building, Los Angeles, California, is starting preliminary work on its Lode Gravel Mine, near Downieville. This is the eighteenth year of development, and it is expected that production will be started soon. A famous producer of placer gold in the early days, this property is now valuable principally for its lode veins.
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The Idaho-Maryland Mines Company. Albert Crase, Grass Valley, California, general superintendent, is planning to add a 20-stamp unit to its mill, to improve its devices for recovering gold, and to enlarge its mine plant. The Brunswick Property is to be unwatered, and its plant may be made the center of activities for the group. It is said that the Dorsey Ledge is showing steady values, and that a considerable tonnage of good ore has been blocked out on the 1,900-foot level.
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Preparations for steady production, are being completed by the Paramount Mining Corporation, W. A. Hunter, general manager, 618 Crocker Building, San Francisco, California. The property is near Onion Valley in Plumas County, at an altitude of 6,500 feet, and is now covered by four feet of snow. The Paramount Company is also operating two giants, profitably, on a property, near Sierra City.
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The Reorganized Carrie Silver-Lead Mines Corporation, C. H. Murdoch, Tonopah, Nevada, manager, is installing a modern five-stamp mill equipped with a semi-Diesel oil-burning engine, on its gold property in Amador County, California. Water for the mill, flows by gravity from a 500-foot drainage tunnel, to the storage tanks. Free-milling concentrates, and high-grade shipping sulphides are to be the mill products.
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The Vanderbilt Mines Company, Shand Smith, president, 434 I. W. Hellman Building, Los Angeles, California, recently shipped 15 carloads of ore from its property, near Ivanpah. The cars contained a total of 752.04 tons and brought a gross return of $11,194.12.
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The Butte-Saddle Gold Mines, Ltd., T. W. Callender, superintendent in charge, Sierra City, California, has completed its modern 10-stamp mill, and is operating it on a three-shift basis. In the 800-foot tunnel, where 400 feet of backs are available, a vein varying from three to nine feet in thickness, has been uncovered. Solon Chatfield of Nevada City is mill superintendent.
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The Walker Mining Company, H. A. Geisendorfer, Spring Garden, California, manager, reduced wages of miners, 50 cents per day, beginning June 1. This reduction, caused by decrease in the price of copper, will cut the cost of producing about 1/2 cent, making it $0.095 per pound. The company is producing about 1,200,000 pounds of copper monthly, and is contemplating no decrease in this amount.
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Smelter returns on concentrates, shipped during April by the Banner Development Company, amounted to $14,356, according to Sigmund Janas, president, Box 241, Calistoga, California. This is the net return, after smelting and freight charges, and is a gain over March. Mill heads have been raised, and the concentrates now carry 7 ounces gold, and 612 ounces silver per ton. In the mine, a crosscut is being driven on the 380-foot level to cut the Palisades Vein.
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The McNamara Development Company, J. L. Joseph, 542 Mills Building, San Francisco, California, president, has started production from its property, near Coffee, Trinity County. Steam shovels are being used to mine the gravel, to within a loot of bedrock, leaving the richest material to be mined by hand. The road to the property has been repaired, and all preliminary work has been done. L. A. Roberts of Coffee is superintendent.
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The American Potash and Chemical Corporation, Frederic Vieweg, California manager, trona, reports a net income, during 1929, of $1,348,428, after all charges, compared with $1,556,541 in 1928. Surplus, at the end of 1929, was $2,729,954, compared with $1,909,916 in 1928. Net sales were $4,279,600 in 1929 This company produces borax and potash salts.
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H. W. Gould and Company, 762 Mills Building, San Francisco, California, has taken over the management of the Bella Oaks Mine, of the Belha Oaks Mines Company, and are installing a 3x40-foot Gould rotary furnace. About 25 men are employed. The property is near Oakville, Napa County, and was first operated in 1876, producing a considerable amount at that time, and also during the World War [1] period.
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North Fork Placers, R. L. Chase, 519 Clements Drive, Glendale, California, general manager, has leased its mine and water rights to seven of its employees, who are said to be operating profitably. The company spent $276,000 on a 24-mile flume, to bring water from the North Fork of the Trinity River, through a mountainous country, and, after a few months’ operation, returns from the property were not as large as expected. Hydraulicking of this ground is difficult because it contains some cement formation.
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On May 16, David McClure pulled the lever, which started the new 800-horsepower Allis-Chalmers hoist of the Kennedy Mining and Milling Company, at Jackson, California. Mr. McClure is a director of the organization, and is also the only living stockholder of the original company. A vein has reecntly been encountered on the 4,800-foot level of the mine, and the plant is being operated at capacity.
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The Trinity Gold Bar Syndicate has levied assessment No. 1, of 2 cents per share. July 14, 1930, has been set as the date on which delinquent stock will be sold. The Trinity Company has property in Trinity County, California, and in Sinaloa, Mexico.
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A. D. Nash, Hotel Golden, Reno, Nevada, and a group of southern California people, have taken over a chromite deposit, 13 miles by wagon road, west of Fruto, California, on the Southern Pacific railroad, and are planning to install a concentrator. The first deposit developed is 80 feet wide, and over 200,000 tons of ore are known to exist in the mine. Values run 20 percent chromite.
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The Belmont-Osborn Mining Company, Todd B. Elliott, superintendent, Box 1998, Angels Camp, California, has started production from its gold property on the Mother Lode. The mill started operation on April 13, working dump ore. Several large bodies of commercial ore are said to have been opened. This organization is also opening the Colorado Mine, a famous producer of pioneer times.
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The Curtz Consolidated Mines Company, Peter Curtz, Markleeville, California, has given an option on 22 claims, in the Mogul District, near that town, to A. H. Gracey. The company owns several old-time properties, which are opened by a 3,000-foot tunnel, said to be in ore, worth from $3 to $7 per ton, for its entire length. There is a hydroelectric power plant, and a 16-stamp mill on site.
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A five-foot ledge of quartz, containing a considerable amount of sulphides, has been opened in the No. 3 tunnel of the Twin Sisters Mining Company, H. O. Foster, president and general manager, Ukiah, California. This is believed to be the objective of the tunnel, the downward extension of the Twin Sister Ledge, opened in the upper levels. The strike was made 155 feet from the first ledge cut in the tunnel. Bert Davidson of Nevada City is foreman.
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The You Bet Mining Company has leased a number of mining claims to William H. O’Brien. The property is near Nevada City, California. In the old days, the You Bet Company was one of the best producers.

rehab · CALIFORNIA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 6 30 1930

for JUNE 30, 1930

CALIFORNIA

The Redstone Mines Corporation, developing a gold property in northern Placer County, California, has installed machinery, and started a 500-foot tunnel, which is expected to cut the ledge at a depth of about 900 feet; 200 feet below the deepest workings. The ledge is wide, some of the old stopes being 80 feet across. It was necessary to clear away brush, and repair buildings, as the property has not been operated since the ‘90s. Previous to that time, a 10-stamp, and later a 20-stamp mill, were installed. The mine was recently taken over by the company from E. C. Klinker of Colfax.
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C. L. Shinn of San Francisco, California, has optioned eleven claims from Fred Remick, and C. C. Honk, of Beatty, Nevada; several others from I'm a dufus Aylward, and Willett, and also another group from O’Brien and Hencher. The property totals 26 claims, located on cyanite and sillimanite deposits, on the Nevada-California boundary line, near the old gold camp of Lee. The options range from $50,000 to $200,000 on each holding. Operations are to be started at once, and are said to include construction of a branch railroad to the mine.
[Rehab Notes: accessible by taking Farm Road, north out of Amargosa Valley, following what’s left of the road in a rocky wash. estimated distance from the last house off Farm Road, to Lee’s Camp, is about 11 miles. the camp is currently within the boundaries of Death Valley NP. there is an old towsite there with lots of empty cans, and mine-related ruins. There are several prominent mines in view, including one to the north with beautiful lavender rock dump material. There is also another remote camp accessible from Lee’s Camp, called Schwab (found on some maps and not on others). This is 4x4 Low country, and no cell phone service is generally available. Actually the best bet for walking out would be to retrace back to the country store on Farm Road.
There is another prominent road from US95, around mile marker 47, but this was once used as a SNORE track, and even after a few years, much of the road is in deep powder, and no longer recommended for casual travel (though I did pull a trailer from Lee’s Camp and just barely made it at moderate speeds to keep from getting stuck). Prior to the SNORE race, I went out there to Lee’s Camp and explored some pretty nice ruins (a lot of potential for gold picture rock). The problem was that I got stuck, and in starting and stopping the engine continously, while road building and jacking around the truck, burned up the fuel pump. By myself, the only route I knew to take was back to US95. 22 miles across the desert, 1 gallon of water, and then to get help, turned into one of those very ‘educational scenic tours’ that a guy would never be in a position to purchase. I came real close to not making it out. after getting help, partially having to employ my wife who lectured me in and out, I also killed about 5 tires in the process.
finally getting back to pavement with some really low tires, and no snot left, to my dismay, the only air pump around was at a gas sation in Indian Springs. Some places are best left alone, I guess.]
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According to Thomas Scadden, operating the Oak Flat Mine, near North Columbia, California, work is now within five feet of the bedrock channel. Indications are, that good gravel will be opened. Mr. Scadden has been working this property for two years.
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A new compressor is being installed at the Spanish Mine, James Bradley, superintendent, Washington, California. This property has been under development for six years, and two drifts are now being driven, one at the tunnel level, and the other 200 feet below. The crew consists of 80 men.
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The Hoge Development Company, O. E. Schiffner, general manager, P. 0. Box 16, Nevada City, California, is drifting to the west, and crosscutting to the east, in the ore body recently opened on the 800-foot level. On the footwall of the main ledge, values run as high as $180 per ton. William Genasci, foreman, has discovered on the surface, a 10-inch ledge of quartz, which assays as high as $160 per ton.
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Addison Brown and C. S. York have repaired the five-stamp mill, and almost completed construction work, on the Triple Pocket Property, near Downieville, California. Shaft sinking is to be started soon. This property lies on the famous Downieville-Alleghany Contact, and at one time, produced a considerable amount of ore.
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A group of San Francisco, California, capitalists are opening the old Barbarossa Mine, near Caliente, which contains several bodies of low grade ore, now being blocked out by a crew of five men. Considerable gold was at one time produced by this mine, but it has of late years been neglected because of the high cost of labor and materials. With power equipment and modern methods it is believed that the property can be worked successfully.
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The Providence Mining Company, composed of Bakersfield and Oildale, California, people, with C. S. Morrison as president, is building a six-ton smelter, to handle ore from a property, in the Mojave Desert. In the past two years, this organization has driven a tunnel into the ore body of 240 feet, and has encountered ore assaying as high as $480 silver, and $8 gold, per ton, with a four-foot vein which averages $100 per ton. More than 200 tons of ore are now on the dump. Three men are doing the development work.
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The Red Hill Florence Mining Company, S. E. Bevis, president, 15 East Second Street, Reno, Nevada, and the Reorganized Broken Hills Silver Corporation, under the same management, have taken over four gold claims, 22 miles from Johnsville, California. The property is to be developed jointly.
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Property of the Lassen Mining Company, situated on Hayden Hill, about 40 miles northwest of Susanville, California, is said to have been leased with option to purchase, to C. H. McKendree, cattle man of Lakeview, Oregon, by Sloss Brothers of San Francisco; principal owners. A small crew is to start prospecting, and if an ore body is developed, arrangements will be made with Brainard Brothers, to treat ore in their mill, which has just been completed to treat tailings, on the adjoining Jupiter Property. This mine has been idle since 1916.
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During May, the lower tunnel drift in the Reed Quicksilver Mine, Yolo County, California, was driven 28 feet, and is now 848 feet long, with its face in good opaline. Early in the month, this work was discontinued temporarily, and Crosscut No. 6 was started, 46 feet back from the drift face. Although not yet in 28 feet, this crosscut is in opaline all the way, except for two 12-inch seams of serpentine. The north drift in the old main working tunnel, was advanced 47 feet, making a total length of 105 feet, to an old crosscut, where a good grade of cinnabar ore was exposed. This work was also temporarily suspended, and efforts are being centered in Crosscut No. 1, a continuation of the lower tunnel, now in 788 feet from the portal. Crosscut No. 1 has opened a 16-inch seam of good furnace ore, this seeming to prove the downward continuation of ore bodies opened in the old, or upper tunnel. S. H. Collier, 888 Kearny Street, San Francisco, is general manager of the mine.
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The Harmill Mining and Smelting Company, Gerald B. Hartley, 112 East Second Street, Reno, Nevada, has declared a dividend of one share of Argyle Mining Company Stock, for each share of Harmill Stock, held on June 30, 1930. All shares of Harmill Divide Mining Company stock, which are converted to Harmill Mining and Smelting Company stock, on, or before June 30, will participate. The dividend is payable on, or after, July 10. This company is active in the Ubehebe District of California, and owns property at Goldfield, Nevada.
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The Empire-Star Mines Corporation, F. W. Nobs, Grass Valley, California, general manager, placed its recently completed aerial tramway in operation, early this month. The line is about one mile long and the cars operate over cables, being propelled by a small engine . The haul is uphill and at the Empire Terminal, electric power is applied, where the motivating cable winds on a drum. Forty cars, of one-half ton capacity, are being used. At the North Star Shaft, the cars are loaded through chutes, and at the mill, the ore is dumped into chutes, and transported to the stamps.
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The City of Six Mining Company, under the direction of A. E. Hodgkinson, 802 Lane Mortgage Building, Los Angeles, California, is planning to install a small mill during this season. Several faces of good ore, and considerable high grade, were opened last season by the two long tunnels. This mine is the theme of Canfield’s book, “The City of Six.”
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The Best and Belcher Gold and Silver Mining Company, H. L. Slosson, Jr., president, Room 304, 883 Kearny Street, San Francisco, California, is planning to install a new compressor on the Commodore Mine, near San Andreas. The shaft has been retimbered to within 70 feet of the 800-foot Level. When that point is reached, crosscutting and drifting will be done to prove values. W. H. Clary is superintendent.
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Dump sheds are being built, and other equipment prepared, by Henry Fowler, 1310 East Colorado Street, and B. W. Meeker, 1320 East Colorado Street, Glendale, California, to handle gravel from a property on the Port Wine Channel, in Sierra County. Although Fowler’s father filed a claim on the property in 1862, it was not worked until the past four years. During that time an 1840-foot tunnel has been driven through rock, drifts and raises extended, and good gravel opened. A new tunnel is now being driven, parallel to the main tunnel, to intersect the main channel, which is believed to be at lower depth. Two shifts have been at work for the past two years.
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D. L. Oneto and associates, have relinquished their option on the Duncan mine, near Hornitos, California, to San Francisco, and Oakland people, who are organizing a new company, and will reopen the property, which has been idle for three months. A five-stamp mill is to be installed, to crush ore taken out near the high grade, and also about 7,000 tons of $5 ore now on the dump. The shaft is to be sunk from the 800-foot Level, where the vein is six feet wide, to the 500 Level. Oneto is to be manager for the new organization.
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Gold values up to $50 per ton have opened in a property, near Clearinghouse, California, according to Dr. Frederick Bass, owner. The surface ore also carries galena, pyrite, and other minerals. The vein is situated a few hundred yards east of the Original Mine, and is believed to be a part of the East Belt Vein System.
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The Marinez Extension mine, near Hornitos, California, has been leased to W. C. Paugh, M F. Stoner, and A. W. Schroeder, of Oakland, and D. L. Oneto, of Hornitos, and is to be worked for high-grade crystals. A shaft is now down 50 feet, on a vein six feet wide. Crystals produced from this mine, bring from 50 cents, to $18 per pound, and clusters bring $75 per ton. The material contains gold, and a shipment was made recently to the mint at San Francisco. Four men are employed.
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California Barite Corporation. Ltd., Edwin Earl, president and general manager, 1206-08 Subway Terminal Building, Los Angeles, California, has opened a body of high-grade barite ore, 10 feet wide. Below one of the barite outcrops on the property, an adit has opened a five-foot face of almost pure mineral, and five feet of drilling in the side of the tunnel has not reached the end of the ore body. George W. Egenhoff, 830 Nineteenth Street, Merced, is superintendent in charge.
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The Tuolumne Mines Corporation, Ltd., C. F. Layman, Confidence, Tuolumne County, California, superintendent, is planning to install another stamp mill, and is now erecting a boarding house, and two bunk houses. The company is operating the Morning Glory Mine, in which a body of ore assaying over $16 per ton has been opened. A shaft, now down 240 feet, is being continued, a 90-foot drift at the 200 Level is being extended, and stoping is also under way. The vein is from 80 inches, to nearly five feet wide.
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The lime quarry, located eight miles east of Lindsay, California, and formerly operated by Abramson-Hode Corporation, has been sold to E. H. McEuen of that city, who will be associated with W. J. Resch, of Tracy. They will operate it as the Valley Lime Company of Lindsay. Loading facilities are being prepared on the Visalia electric railroad, and the raw product is to be shipped to sugar refineries and steel mills.
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The Lucky Strike Mining Company, B. C. Austin, president, 762 Mills Building, San Francisco, California, produced 60 flasks of quicksilver, during the month of May. Actual running time of the furnace was 11 days.
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Union Consolidated Mining Company, R. L. Rader, president and manager, 811-812 Alexander Building, San Francisco, California, is said to have opened gold values in a cross vein, four feet wide. The new ledge has been followed for 20 feet, and plans are being made to begin stoping. J. M. Dikeman is superintendent.

rehab · CALIFORNIA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 7 15 1930

for JULY 15, 1930

CALIFORNIA

According to H. B. McCormick, one of the owners of the Arizona Mine, near Downieville, California, gravel washing is to start within a few days. Several months ago, pipeclay was opened in this property, and the present find of gravel, indicates that work is near material carrying gold values.
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The shaft at the Triple Pocket Mine, near Downieville, California, is well under way, and is to be sunk to a depth of 200 feet, following the footwall of the Triple Pocket Vein. Three men are working. The property is owned by Addison Brown and C. J. York.
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The Montrose Mining and Development Company, Charles L. Davisson, superintendent, has discontinued its hydraulic operations, on the North Yuba River, for the season, because the water has failed. Superintendent Davisson reports that the water season has been poor.
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The Honey Lake Gold Mining and Developing Company, H. Sandberg, manager, Muford, California, is planning to install a 150-ton mill, either this fall, or next spring. The mill now on the property, has been put in operation. A 1,400-foot tunnel is to be driven, in order to develop a water supply, and the ledge in the mine, is to be opened at depth. While the road is now passable, it is being put into better condition, and will be completed in a short time.
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Installation of electric power, and more modern machinery, is said to be justified by values opened in recent development work at the Kirkpatrick Mine, George Nightengale, superintendent, Goodyear’s Bar, California. A definite gravel channel has been located in the Magnolia Claim, and crosscutting of the west rim, through a gravel bed, 8 to 16 feet deep, is now in progress. State Treasurer Charles G. Johnson has purchased the group of claims, owned by the Strand Interests, near Downieville, known as the Lafayette, Buckeye, Extention, G. and 0., making the Kirkpatrick property a contiguous group of 18 claims.
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The Aladdin Divide Mining Company, C. E. Collins, Box 290, Chico, California, has taken over the Rising Hope Channel Mine, at Placerville, on lease and option, and is laying 8,000 feet of air pipe. Power drills are to be put in operation in a few days. The property is fully equipped with machinery, including a washing plant with 18 cubic yards per hour capacity. Average value of the gravel is estimated at $4, and operating costs at $2, per cubic yard. It is said that the property was acquired on a four-year option, for $85,000 and 100,000 shares of Aladdin stock, to be paid to Atkinson, Orr and Dillon, former operators. All net operating profits apply on purchase price until the full amount has been paid. President C. N. Miller is to receive 50,000 shares from the company, to cover expenses involved in examination and exploration of the property. Work has been temporarily suspended on the Whiteside Channel in Butte County.
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A churn drill has been shipped by the International Chromic Mines, Inc., to a chromite deposit, near Fruto, California, and a concentrator is to be installed. The company has entered into a contract with A. D. Nash, Hotel Golden, Reno, Nevada, owner of the property, who is to be in charge of the work. It is said that there is a good market for chromite on the Pacific Coast.
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The Genii Mining Company, C. N. Miller, 549 Holbrook Building, San Francisco, California, has had plans drawn for a washing plant and flume, to be built along the bank of the West Branch of the Feather River, to convey tailings from placer operations downstream, below the Pacific Gas and Electric power house, where they will not interfere with operations of that plant. The drift along bedrock, up the river, is now in 640 feet, and it is said to carry from $25 to $80, per cubic yard.
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The California Nevada Quicksilver Company, Otto Taubert, president, 811 Carmel Street, Berkeley, California, is driving two tunnels, and sinking a shaft, in a cinnabar property, 15 miles south of San Jose, on which it holds a 20-year lease. A serpentine-sandstone contact, where cinnabar ore shows on the surface, is the objective of the tunnels. Samples of this ore run from .5 percent mercury as high as 40 percent. The property consists of 1,500 acres, about six miles east of the New Almaden Mine, which has been worked to a depth of 2,450 feet, and is credited with a production of $100,000,000.
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A small pan mill for treating high-grade ore, and two stamp mills, are being operated by the Original Sixteen-to-One Mine, Inc., H. U. Maxfield, 607 Monadnock Building, San Francisco, California, president. With the purpose of conducting a six-months’ test run on low-grade ore from deep levels of the mine, operation of 10 stamps of the Tightner Mill, began a short time ago. Mine operations have been conducted through the 3,000-foot Tightner Incline Shaft, but have been confined to Sixteen-to-One ground, and development plans provide for driving a long raise from the deepest levels, and exploration of new territory in the Tightner Property.
Below the 1,500-foot level, only two or three bodies of high-grade ore, which furnishes 85 percent of the company’s profit, have been found. Low-grade is expected to cover the cost of development. About 80 tons of ore are being treated daily, and 80 men are employed.
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The Topah Mining Company, F. C. Lenwell, general manager, 1425 Lyndon Street, South Pasadena, California, is rebuilding its reservoir, which broke a short time ago, causing a loss of 50,000 gallons of water, stored for use in milling. The 15-stamp mill will start operating on 600 tons of hand-picked ore, as soon as enough water is available. The property consists of 14 claims, located at an elevation of 5,000 feet, on the west slope of Death Valley. Water, flowing from two springs, is carried by 4,200 feet of pipeline, to the reservoir. Samples taken from the surface of the property, to a depth of 170 feet, average $83.90 per ton in gold, silver, and lead. The mine is owned by Mr. Lenwell, Henry Tucker, of Los Angeles, Josiah Tucker, of Placentia, and Carl Mengle, of Shoshone.
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John Nizik is putting in a four-stamp mill at the Ferris Mine, in the Caliente District in California, to supplement a smaller plant, which he is running now. He has a force of five men, and the ore is running high enough to return profit.
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The Wortley Consolidated Mines Company, Clark C. Wortley, president, 501 North Brand Street, San Fernando, California, is making plans for the installation of machinery, to develop its original ground, and the Kelly Mine, adjoining, which it has recently acquired. Ore will not be produced during the low price of silver. It is understood that the new owners have a process of their own, whereby they can mill ore of very low grade, and this process will be installed in their present reduction plant without incurring any great expense.
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Barbee S. Hook, and Cooper Shapley, of Los Angeles, have installed a 100-ton mill at Barstow, California, for the treatment of barium ore. Just now, they are recovering barium sulphate from the tailings from the old Waterman Mine, about two miles distant, by the flotation process. The application of the flotation process to barium ores, is something new in the metallurgical world. The entire production of the Barstow Plant is consumed in Los Angeles manufacturing plants.
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The Pioneer Gold Mines Company, H. H. Marsh, superintendent, Route 2, Grass Valley, California, has started production from its Mitchell Tract, and is considering the installation of a milling plant. At present the ore mined is shipped to a custom mill, and a fair-sized tonnage is said to be in sight.
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After several months of steady development, the Lopez Mining and Milling Company, Peter Lopez, president, and general manager, Plymouth, California, established production. These claims were among the first to be located in Amador County, and the gold in the ore, is increasing with depth. Work has been started on a 10-stamp mill, and the tramway is practically completed. Ore for milling has been stored in the 100-ton bin.
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A four-stamp mill has been set up on the property of the Siskiyou Lead Mines, in Plowman Valley, near Yreka, California, and a crusher, and concentrating tables, are being installed. The company is composed of A. Evans, J. G. Mitchell, and M. H. Balfrey, who have been developing the mine since last October, and have a considerable amount of ore blocked out in the property, as well as 700 to 800 tons of ore on the dump, ready for the mill. It is expected that the mill will handle about 16 tons of ore daily, producing two tons of concentrates, which will be shipped to Salt Lake City, Utah. The ore averages 10 percent lead, 8 percent zinc, $2.50 gold, and $2 silver, per ton.
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The report that the United Eastern Mining Company, Roy W. Moore, 1206 Pacific Mutual Building, Los Angeles, has taken a bond and option on a gold discovery in San Bernardino County, California, is incorrect. It is true, however, that the company has examined a number of prospects in that district, none of which has proven of interest.
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The Yellow Aster Mining and Milling Company, W. F. Allen, Jr., P. 0. Box 841, Randsburg, California, is installing a cone dry classifier, that is to be used with a Dorr thickener, on mill tailings. The May report, stated that 27 men were employed in mine and mill for the company, and 19 sets of lessees were working. Owing to the increase in the number of lessees, since that time, additional stamps will be needed for their ore, thus cutting down milling on company account.
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Alfred Rosner, 1452 Ravenna Avenue, Wilmington, California, and James Craig, have located a gold property, about 60 miles west of Needles. The property is about eight miles from the old Bonanza King, which is said to have produced $13,000,000 in gold. Arrangements will be made to ship ore either to Douglas, Arizona, or to Salt Lake City, Utah.
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The surface plant of the Lone Star Consolidated Mining Company, Gerald B. Hartley, 112 East Second Street, Reno, Nevada, has recently been overhauled, and new motors and generators of larger Capacity, installed. While this work was going on, water has been held to the 350-foot level, and the shaft is now to be completely unwatered, lowered from the 425, to the 525 Level. Some exploration has been done beyond a faulted section, which it is believed, caused the cutting off of the orebody, and bunches of gold values have been discovered.
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The Central Eureka Mining Company, W. P. Henry, president, 2012 Hunter Dulin Building, San Francisco, California, has levied an assessment of 5 cents a share, on all outstanding stock. The sale for delinquent stock is to be held on July 30. Property is situated in Amador County.
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Seventy cars of gravel has been washed by the Dix-Butte Placer Mining Company, at DeSabla, California, according to Harry Sheedy, general manager, and are said to have yielded $4 in coarse gold, per carload, which is equal to $8 per yard. The performance was a test, and preparations are being made to place the mine on a regular gravel-washing basis. The West Channel has been proven 800 feet wide, in a drift, and raise, and the East Channel will be developed to prove the opinion that it is richer than the West Channel.

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for AUGUST 15, 1930

CALIFORNIA

The Lester Mining Company, W. D. Dale, 798 Thirteenth Street, San Bernardino, California, has completed a 800-foot test shaft in one end of its property, near Victorville, and has opened an east-west fissure, from 9 to 14 feet wide, and extending the length of the claim. Values in this fissure amount to $15 per ton, while in smaller veins, branching from the main fissure, values amounting to $27 per ton have been found. Water has been developed at the Texas Spring, and two pipelines have been laid to the shaft house. Mr. Dale secured a half interest in the property from Dan J. Wheeler, the locator.
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The Belcher Consolidated Mines Company has leased the Yellowhammer, and Rosebud, quartz claims; adjoining its original holdings, with options to purchase at $10,000 each. Emil Schwoerer and Frank R. Collier, own the Yellowhammer, while William S. Bales owns the Rosebud. A royalty of 15 percent of the gross proceeds will be credited on the purchase price. The agreement requires payment of 5 percent of the purchase price on January 1, 1931; 5 percent July 1, 1931; 40 percent January 1, 1932, and the remaining 50 percent July 1, 1932. The Belcher Company recently took over three claims, about 10 miles north of Columbia, California, near the No. 9 Powerplant of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
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Four feet of cinnabar ore, carrying from 6 to 10 pounds of quicksilver per ton, have recently been opened in the Reed Quicksilver Mine, Yolo County, California, and have been followed for 25 feet. This showing may develop into a chamber of ore, characteristic of the district. Until a considerable body of ore is proven, six men will continue development work by hand.
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Since furnace operation was begun, on May 15, the Lucky Strike Mining Company, B. C. Austin, 762 Mills Building, San Francisco, California, president, has produced $11,000 in quicksilver, and has a considerable tonnage ready for the furnace, while more is being developed and mined. The ore is coming from a tunnel, in a section of the Oat Hill Property, which is leased from Acme Mines and Mill, Inc. The Lucky Strike Company also has a lease on the property of the Aetna Extension Mining Company, which consists of about 240 acres.
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The National Silver Corporation, John D. Fields, 1202 Financial Center Building, Los Angeles, California, president and general manager, has taken over the Big Hobby group of five gold claims, adjoining the Big Silver Property, now under operation by the company. Machinery for development of the new property is to be on the ground by September 1. The Big Bobby Group, situated higher up on the mountainside, is practically inaccessible from the surface and is to be developed by extending the main transport tunnel of the Big Silver, on the 1,900-foot Level. It will cut the Big Bobby orebody at a vertical depth of 3,600 feet, and will provide a convenient outlet to the valley below.
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Carson Hill, Ltd., has been organized, with a capitalization of $2,000,000 and stock issue, in like amount, to take over, and operate the holdings of the Carson Hill Gold Mining Company, consisting of about 43 claims, near Melones, California. Directors of the new organization are W. A. Sutherland, Frank M. Helm, W. E. White and A. R. McGuire of Fresno, N. H. Manuel of Murphy, Lawrence Monte Verde of Angels Camp, and F. A. Beauchamp of San Francisco. The new company has made payments on the property and is in full control.
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The name of the Aladdin Divide Mining Company is to be changed to Aladdin Gold Mining Company, Ltd., provided there is no opposition, at a special stockholders meeting to be held in Reno, Nevada, on August 12. C. N. Miller, 549 Holbrook Building, San Francisco, California, is president of the company, which is operating a channel placer mine, near Placerville. On the same day, and in the same place, a meeting will also be held for stockholders of the Genii Mining Company, of which Mr. Miller is also president.
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Pacific Clay Products Company, William Lacy, president, 601 Washington Building, Los Angeles, California, is planning to make important additions to its Lincoln Heights, and Los Nietos plants. During the first half of 1930, the company had a surplus of $24,819.74, after all fixed charges and current liabilities were met, charges for depreciation and depletion allowed, bonded debt further reduced, reserves set up, including local and Federal taxes, and regular dividends paid. Net earnings were $143,778.37 or $1.45 per share, compared with $205,138.10 or $2.07 earned during the first part of 1929. On June 30 of last year, cash on hand reached its highest point, $587,784.46, while the ratio of current assets to current liabilities also made a high record, being 11.27 to 1. The regular quarterly dividend check at the rate of 60 cents a share, was sent to the stockholders, with the financial statement.
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High-grade ore has been opened in the No. 8 raise, where work has been confined this season by the City of Six Mining Company, A. E. Hodgkinson, principal owner, 802 Lane Mortgage Building, Los Angeles, California. This property lies on the same contact as the Sixteen-to-One Mine, and is only six miles north of it. During the past 20 years, Hodgkinson has done about
4,000 feet of underground work and has blocked out a considerable tonnage of milling ore.
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Charles Hudson of San Jose, California, has taken over the Mt. Alta Mine, owned by C. N. Chatfield of Pike City. A small crew has started to clean the property, and open the tunnels, and other workings, which have caved during the past few years of idleness. Mr. Chatfield has been retained as superintendent.
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The Gold Star Mining and Developing Company has been incorporated by New York people, under the direction of J. E. Tudor, mining man, 2428 West Fifty-Sixth Street, Seattle, Washington, to take over the John H. Moynough Property, consisting of 800 acres, two and one-half miles northwest of Grass Valley, California. The Dull Vein, on the adjoining property of the Newton Mining Company, extends into the Moynough Property. This vicinity is practically virgin, as no development has been done to a greater depth than about 150 feet. Roy King of Grass Valley is to be associated with the new organization.
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The Garden Valley gold dredger, Dr. C. W. Evans, Modesto, California, owner, has resumed operations at Camptonville, after a month of idleness. The suspension of operations was caused by failure of the lessee, Gold Dredges, Inc., to keep to its agreement. Dr. Evans has taken over the property again, and a new crew is at work under the supervision of A. Berner.
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A tunnel, from the opposite side of the mountain from the present mill site, is being planned by the Walker Mining Company, H. A. Geisendorfer, general manager, Spring Garden, California. This is expected to cost $500,000, and would mean the construction of a new mill, at a cost of $1,000,000. A body of ore, 20 feet wide, and containing more than 2 percent copper, has been opened, 850 feet below the 700 or main tunnel level, which proves the downward extension of the Piute Orebody, below that level. The average grade of the ore is 2.1 percent copper, while mill heads average 1.5. The South and Central orebodies have been proven to a depth of 1,200 feet, and a drift is now being driven on that level to prove the Piute. If the ore continues downward, the system is to be tapped on the 2,150 Level by a crosscut, which could drain the mine to depth, and facilitate movement of the ore.
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The American Mining and Milling Company has acquired the old Standard and Pilgrim Gold-quartz mines, near Downieville, California. Arrangements are being made to begin work on the Standard, which is said to show a large vein of mill ore, and smaller ledges of high-grade material. The small mill is to be completed, electricity brought in and deeper mining conducted.
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Mines and mill of the Santa Mines Company, Frank W. Stall, president, 2580 N Street, Sacramento, California, have been taken over by the Santa Mining and Power Company, of Los Angeles. Several properties, containing considerable reserves of commercial ore, are contained in the Santa Group. It is said that good profits are being earned, with 50 tons of ore being treated daily, and 40 men employed.
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L. A. Smith, 53 Granada Street, San Francisco, California, and associates of that city, and Stockton, have leased the Middle Yuba Mining Claim from Poorman and Hastings, and are planning to begin operations at once. Camp is being established at the old Delhi Mill, and machinery is being hauled to the property. A shaft is to be sunk on Horseshoe Bar for the purpose of prospecting. This property was last worked 12 years ago, by A. A. Codd of the Western Merger Mines Company.
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An electric motor in the flotation mill of the Clinton-West ‘Company, Inc., John E. Rothwell, superintendent, Bodie, California, was burned out recently, add the mill was closed down for a few days, until a new motor could be installed. The mill has been operating at capacity of the dragline feed, which is used to get the ore to the mill. A thorough sampling of the dumps is under way.
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The Twin Sisters Mining Company, H. O. Foster, Ukiah, California, president and general manager, has purchased a 10-stamp mill, which is to be installed at the mouth of No. 3 Tunnel. An 800-ton ore bunker is also being set up. On the No. 3 Level, 850 feet below the vein, on the No. 2 Level, good milling ore has been opened, and drifting in the No. 3 Tunnel is proving that values are increasing. A crew of 12 men is employed.
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The Kate Hardy Mining Company, Ben F. Ballard, president and general superintendent, Goodyears Bar, California, reports that an ore body, 26 feet wide, and averaging $21 per ton, has been opened in a contact between slate and serpentine. A modern10-stamp mill on the property is being operated on a three-shift basis. Production for the past three months has been about $40,000.
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Electricity is to be brought to the Sacred Mount Mine, which is operated by the Butte-Saddle Gold Mine., Ltd., T. W. Callender, superintendent, Sierra City, California. The recent shipment of bullion, produced during one week, is said to have returned $5,000. Enough ore has been blocked out to keep the new 10-stamp mill in operation for three years.
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The Mountain Copper Company, Ltd., M. J. Murphy, Matheson, Shasta County, California, superintendent, has closed its No. 8 Mine, on account of the low price of copper. The Hornet Mine is in full operation, producing 225 tons daily, which are shipped to chemical plants on San Francisco Bay. A cyanide plant is treating 300 tons of gossan daily.
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Joseph Mears, P. O. Box 704, Bigpine, California, principal owner of the New Era Mine, eight miles north of that town, is planning to install a 60-ton ball, or rod mill. The mill plant is said to be completed, and after the machinery is acquired, it will be ready for operation. A low grade body of ore, 37 feet wide, on the 150 Level, runs from $5.80 to $6.52 per ton. The property is located one quarter of a mile from the Midland Trail Highway, and is crossed by both the Southern Sierras, and the City of Los Angeles, powerlines, the supply for the mine being received from the latter. An ample supply of water is obtained from a 90-foot water well.
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The Washington Mining Company, Claud Scanavino, superintendent, Tuolumne, California, has run an 1,800-foot crosscut, and has opened three and one half feet of gravel, which is believed to be a portion of the old Calaveras Channel. Values amount to about $6 per car. Considerable development must be done, however, to determine whether or not there is sufficient tonnage for profitable operation.
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The Clay Corporation of California, O. M. Tupper, superintendent, Box 341, Lincoln, California, is stripping overburden, at a ratio of 2.3 to 1, to the fire clay obtained from the Lincoln Pit. About 50 percent of this is rock capping, and must be drilled and blasted. Stripping costs must be low in order to operate at a profit, since the value of the crude clay is small. At Ione, California, where work is done underground, the problem is to make a high recovery, since the clay is of high grade.
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Assessment No. 5, of three cents per share, has been levied on outstanding capital stock of the Butte Mining Company, operating near Angels Camp, California. Unless the assessment is paid, stock will be sold at public auction on September 15, 1930.
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The Keystone Divide Mining Company, L. B. Steiln, general manager, is said to be negotiating for the McMillan group of claims, near the Genii Mine, in Butte County, California. T. C. Cunningham, superintendent of the Genii, has reported favorably on the property. The Keystone Company is to apply to the Corporation Commission for a permit to sell treasury stock, in order to finance operations.
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Gravel of higher grade is being opened in both upstream and downstream drifts in the property of the Genii Mining Company, C. N. Miller, president, 549 Holbrook Building, San Francisco, California. Upstream, the channel has been proven for a width of 260 feet, and a depth of 6 to 15 feet. It is said to raise abruptly for 11 feet, at a point about 800 feet from the tunnel. One pan from the downstream drift yielded $135, while a cleanup of seven yards produced $480. It is said that over a years’ supply of gravel has been blocked out.
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The Reorganized Carrie Silver-Lead Mines Corporation, C. R. Murdoch, manager, Tonopah, Nevada, has made a satisfactory mill run on dump ore, and has finished cleaning out the old workings, at its property, near Pine Grove, California. Good grade ore from the mine is to be started through the mill soon.
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The Estelle Unit of the American Smelting and Refining Company at Keeler, California, produced 425 tons of ore, averaging 50 percent lead, and 88 ounces silver, per ton, during the month of June. This ore was sent to the company’s Selby Plant on San Francisco Bay. Thomas L. Chapman is general superintendent of the Estelle Unit.
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Assessments of 1 cent per share, have been levied by the Red Hill Florence Mining Company, and the Reorganized Broken Hills Silver Corporation, operating jointly at Johnsville, California. J. E. Bevis, 15 East Second Street, Reno, Nevada, is president of both concerns.
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E. A. (Bob) Montgomery has relinquished his option on the Beauregard tungsten property, near Bishop, California, on account of the low price of tungsten. The mine is owned by the Beauregards, who have been operating a small concentrator, and shipping the product to Los Angeles.
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AUGUST 30, 1930

CALIFORNIA

Cory Mine Company, Ltd., A. E. Duer, San Jose, California, President, has driven its two-compartment shaft to a depth of 125 feet. The property, located on the Magalia Channel, has been tested by drilling, gravel having been encountered in the three holes, at depth of from 445, to 485 feet. The gravel was from 6 to 10 feet deep. It is said that about $6,400,000 was at one time, taken from 5,800 feet of this channel.
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The Easy Money Mine Company, J. P. Bollinger, President, Challenge, California, has been organized as the Northern Yuba Mining Company. A permit to issue 114,000 shares of stock, par value 25 cents, has been granted the new company.
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A new electric tram has been ordered by the Treadwell-Yukon Company, Ltd., R. J. Duncan, Superintendent, Bodie, California. The Red Cloud Shaft has now been un-watered to the 860-foot level, and sinking has been discontinued until exploration work on the 700 Level has been done. About 100 men are employed on a contract-bonus basis, which gives them good pay, and accounts for footage that is being made. It is said that 1,200 feet of lateral work is being completed each month.
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The Yellow Aster Mining and Milling Company, Albert Ancker, President, 840 Citizens National Bank, Los Angeles, California, has 48 lessees working on its property, near Randsburg. A crew of 20 men is operating the 30-stamp mill, on three shifts, on both company ore and ore from the leases. Frank Feldman and Oliver Phillips, Lessees, produced the best milling ore this month. It ran better than $40 per ton, and came from the Shake ‘Em Up Stope.
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The mill of the Consolidated Mines Company, near Randsburg, California, is operating on a shipment of ore, from the El Segundo Mine. In a short time, the mill will be operating on company ore and ore from the leases, 200 sacks now being ready. A road is being built from the Bing Hole Claim, to the mill. Charles Norman, Sr., is Superintendent in charge of operations.
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B. B. Maginnis, of Randsburg, and Bert Day, of Atolia, P. O. Red Mountain, California, are prospecting their cinnabar strike, through open cuts. Pannings have not yet showed less than .5 percent per ton. Later, shafts on the property, 100, 420, and 500 feet deep, will be useful in crosscutting. During the years that this district has been prospected, pannings have been made for gold rather than quicksilver.
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It has recently been announced that a new mill is to be installed at the Spanish Mine, near Washington, California. A strike of good ore was recently made in this property. It is owned by F. W. Bradley, 1022 Crocker Building, San Francisco.
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El Dorado Gold Mines, Ltd., has been organized by S. H. Brady, King George Hotel, San Francisco, California, and C. L. “Briz” Putnam, both formerly of Nevada, to operate two claims adjoining the Sliger Mine, 18 miles east of Auburn, California. The property is said to contain an extension of the Black Quartz Vein, which is being mined by the Sliger Company, and which carries uniform values of about $14 or $15 per ton.
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The first unit of a 100-ton furnace is being installed by the Cottrell Engineering Company on the property of the Los Prietos Quicksilver Mines Company, F. M. Townsend1 president, 762 Subway Terminal Building, Los Angeles, California. Recent development work has opened up a rich chute of highgrade ore, 50 feet wide, and over 300 feet long, averaging about 1 percent quicksilver. The property is near Santa Barbara.
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The Bellevue Mining Company, of Washington, has been organized with a capital of $1,650,000, to operate a property op the South Feather River, near La Porte, California. This mine was formerly owned and operated by the late Sir James Bell, Lord Mayor of Edinburgh, and his brother, Sir Henry Bell, of London, and is credited with a production of $1,000,000 in placer gold.
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A pint jar full of nuggets, said to be worth from $700 to $800, has been taken from the raise to the West Channel, recently opened up by the Dix-Butte Placer Mining Company, Harry Sheedy, General manager, De Sabla, California. The property is equipped with air compressor, water wheel, machine drills, machine tool sharpeners, mine cars, 5,000 feet of air pipe, blacksmith shop, living quarters, sluice lines, and three miles of water ditch. Power is generated from the ditch. The main tunnel is being extended to reach the East Channel, said to be the richest part of the property.
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The Yuba Pass Development Company, B. O. Carvin, temporary manager, Sierra City, California, is in process of incorporation, for the purpose of providing funds to develop the Carvin or Sierra Homestake Group of mining claims, seven miles east of that town. Preliminary development program calls for completion of the ditch, which is to convey water from the river to the powerhouse site, installation of pressure pipe line, a two-drill air compressor, other mine equipment, a portable sawmill, capable of cutting from 5,000 to 10,000 feet, board measure, daily, and a five-ton stamp mill with concentrator. The property consists of five mining claims, and a five acre mill-site and contains values in gold, silver, copper, and molybdenum. There are two 140-foot tunnels, one on each ledge, and three other tunnels of less depth. Machinery is to be run by direct waterpower, although there will be an electric plant large enough to furnish light. Two furnished buildings are now on the property. The company address is P. O. Box 145, Sierra City.
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The Green Mountain Mine Association, A. C. Frohlich, General manager, P. O Box 888, Reno, Nevada, reports discovery of a blind ledge in property, 91 miles northwest of that city, which is operated under bond and lease. C. K. Jarvis contracted to drive a 250-foot tunnel with hand steel, but the ground became so hard that it was necessary to install a compressor and air drills. The tunnel is to be continued to its original objective, the vein exposed on the surface, and drifts will be run later on the blind vein. A selected sample assayed over $60 per ton, principally in gold.
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Siskiyou Metals Company of Long Beach, California, has its crew of 14 men at work, in the Godfrey Mine, on Methodist Creek, near Forks of Salmon. The mill is being reconditioned, new track is being laid in the tunnels, and regular operations are to be started soon. This company also controls the Crapo Mine on Crapo Creek.
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The Grass Valley Gold Mines Company, Austin Boreham, superintendent, Nevada City, California, has equipped its property electrically, and turned the power on. Two shifts started working August 9, and three shifts will be employed when the 10-stamp mill is installed. In addition to other machinery, a 200-gallon per minute Byron Jackson pump, is being used to un-water the property.
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The New England Consolidated Mines, A. R. Archibald, President and General manager, 128 High Street, Grass Valley, California, has obtained an option on the Champion group of mines, west of Nevada City, formerly operated by the North Star Mines Company. The property, credited with a production of $25,000,000 in gold, has been idle since 1921, owing to depression following the world war. The New England company now controls 2,700 acres, the second largest property in the district, taking in the Banner, the Central Consolidated, Perrin, Norambagua, and Champion properties. Two plans of development are being considered, that of deepening the shaft and extending the different laterals, or extending the Providence Drain Tunnel from Deer Creek, to tap the workings on the 700 Level. Fred Nettell, of Grass Valley, is General superintendent.
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The Colosseum Mines, Inc., [near Mountain Pass, CA] C. H. Gowman, President and general manager, 401 Bank of Hollywood Building, Los Angeles, California, is completing its 200-ton concentration plant, and is planning installation of a matting furnace of the pyritic type, which is to handle concentrates and higher grade ore, direct from the mine. A 180-horsepower Fairbanks-Morse Diesel power plant is now in operation, and a 90-gallon per minute pumping plant has been installed, and connected with reservoirs having a capacity of 100,000 gallons. New buildings for housing the employees are under construction. The new 575-foot transportation tunnel is under way, and three raises in the No. 1 Ore body, connecting with three different levels, are to be started shortly. Drifting on the No. 2 Ore body is to start at the same time, and ore from this section will go directly to the concentrating plant.
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Attracted by surface showings of copper and gold on the Hays lode mining claims, 11 miles southeast of Needles, California, active prospecting has been started. E. Ross Housholder of Kingman, Arizona, mining engineer, has been called in to examine the ground, and further exploration and development will be outlined in his report. The claims are owned by local men: Jerome J. Booth, who located the property several years ago, and W. W. Hays, real estate and mining broker.
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Guy Edde has completed a thorough sampling of the Big Gold property, at Randsburg, California, until recently, operated by O’Donnel and Simpson, of Los Angeles. Convinced of the possibilities of the ground, he has paid off all obligations against the property, and has made arrangements to open the ground. Former operators have located four ledges, averaging $15 a ton, and varying in width from 4 to 12 feet.
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The New Sutherland Divide Mining Company has granted a six-month option on its property, to Whitman Symmes of San Francisco, who has been working the ground under lease, since last January. Symmes has shipped some ore to the Selby Smelter. In the event the option is taken up, the purchase price reported is $750,000. The financial standing of New Sutherland Divide is good. After paying off all debts, $2,281.84 remains in the treasury. Its officers and directors are: John Gallios, President; Dr. Thomas A. Stoddard, Vice-president; C. H. Kobicke, A. J. Dannenbaum, and Mr. Symmes.
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During the first half of the current year, the Banner Development Company, Sigmund Janas, president, Box 241, Calistoga, California, earned a net profit of $69,171, after the payment of royalties, and smelting charges. Figured similarly, the net income during the corresponding period of last year, was $27,318. During the period referred to this year, new crushing and milling machinery has been installed, and a new working shaft sunk. The mill is handling between 75 and 100 tons of ore, averaging $12 a ton, daily.
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GENII MINING COMPANY TO BUILD NEW WASHING PLANT

A washing plant of 800 to 400 cubic yards daily capacity, is to be built by the Genii Mining Company, as soon as the bench areas in its Mammoth Channel Property, on the West fork of the Feather River, in California, are explored. If these areas should be found to contain cemented gravel, changes in mill design would be necessary.

Included in the washing plant design is a 300-ton storage bin, from which the gravel passes by automatic feeder, to a revolving trommel grizzly, the boulders and cleaned bed rock dropping to the reject dump, and the fine gravel and sand flowing to the long sluice, fitted with iron-lipped riffles. An undercurrent at the head-box will separate the black sand, which assays as high as $3,000 per ton, and the fine gold will be amalgamated at this point. Tailings will be carried by flume, to a gulch below the camp.

Beginning at the only point in this section low enough to cut the main Mammoth Channel, a tunnel has been extended 3,400 feet to the East Rim, and from a 40-foot incline, parallel drifts and laterals have been driven upstream on bedrock, in the trough of the channel, blocking out an area 250x700 feet. Pay gravel ranges from 6 to 15 feet in thickness, and is of a formation that requires no crushing.

In preparation for production, the main haulage tunnel has been enlarged to 6x7 feet, and has been provided with additional bypasses. Rails are being laid, and a second storage battery locomotive and ore cars have been ordered. Gravel is to be loaded direct from the stopes, by dragline scrapers, operated by air tuggers, and at the tunnel portal, will be elevated 50 feet to the bin above the washing plant.

The Genii property is crossed by the Stirling branch of the Southern Pacific Railroad, and is well-timbered and contains an ample supply of water. C. N. Miller, 549 Holbrook Building, San Francisco, is President of the Genii Company, and T. C. Cunningham is in charge of operations.

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for OCTOBER 30, 1930

CALIFORNIA

The Butte Mining Company, L. E. Stein, General Manager, has formally taken possession of the Black Diamond Mine, near DeSabla, Butte County, and has made arrangements for financing development. A power line has been started, and electrical appliances will he used to replace the steam plant used during former operations. The gravel has been proven to be from 8 to 25 feet thick, and to date, its length has been followed 72 feet. Tests on the gravel have yielded good returns in coarse gold.
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Ed. B. Maginnis, and A. Bert Day, owners of the ground where the cinnabar strike was made last March, are still actively prospecting and developing, and have made this report: “We are in 150 feet, with tunnel, 50 feet of which is on the ledge. Today’s pannings out of the face are as good as the high-grade on the surface.” They own seven claims, opened by trenches and shallow shafts, by which they have proven the ledge over a length of 3,000 feet, and a width of 100 feet. Maginnis is a pioneer of Randsburg, California, and Day has been a resident of Atolia (Red Mountain postoffice) for many years.
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The Zenda Gold Mining Company is prospecting the Calico Hills with one diamond drill, owned by the Sullivan Machinery Company; the work is being done under contract. T. H. Drummond, of Barstow, California, is General Manager of the mining company. The first carload of ore has been shipped to the Garfield Smelter, in Utah. It weighed 55 tons, and returned about $750 net, the silver content averaging 67 ounces. Further shipments are planned, and it is understood that the cyanide mill at Tehachapi Pass, will be moved to the present scene of operations, near Barstow. The barium in the ore, it is estimated, will meet the cost of milling.
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John E. Hanson and associates, are making a good recovery of gold from the old tailings dump at the Annie Laurie Mine, near Colfax, California, using a machine known as the Hanson-Rickel amalgamator and concentrator. The tailings average $1.80 a ton. The machine is operated by a gasoline motor, and one man can feed about 50 tons of crushed ore through it daily.
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L. W. Swenson, of Fresno, California, is now taking in a sectionalized Rib-Cone milling plant, together with Overstron Table, and Straub crusher, to his mine, located 45 miles east of Fresno. This equipment is to treat a high-grade free-milling gold ore.
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H. J. Jefferson of Reno, Nevada, is said to have purchased the old Janison Gold Mine, near Johnsville, Plumas County, California, from the Plumas Eureka Annex Mining Company. It is understood that commercial ore was exposed below the 400-foot Level, when water drove the early operators from the workings. Jefferson intends to un-water the ground, and to build a flotation plant to treat the ore, should the tonnage warrant that step.
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The Empire-Star Mines Corporation, F. W. Nobs, General Manager, Grass Valley, California, has completed a raise between the 5,300-foot Level of its North Star Mine, and the 4,600-foot Level of its Empire Mine. An aerial tramway connects these mines and the raise in the North Star Plant. The ore from both mines is crushed in the 80-stamp mill at the Empire mine.
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The Hoge Development Company, O. E. Schiffner, General Manager, operating the old Mike Lynch Ranch, northeast of Nevada City, California, has struck pay ore, about 300 feet East of its new three-compartment shaft. The ore was entered at a point about 300 feet from the shaft, and is heavy sulphide, similar to the Murchie rock. So far, it shows no free gold. The ledge is from 20 to 30 inches wide, and assays $66 a ton. Some time ago, a rich ore body had been opened on the same level, and about 350 feet West of the shaft.
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Under the management of Gordon Bettles, of Nevada City, California, development is in progress on three levels of the Queen Lil Mine, and the 10-stamp mill is being operated one shift daily. Eight men are employed. Nothing is planned other than the development of the main vein, which is a small but persistent vein. A hoist, air compressor, and accessory equipment are adequate for present needs.
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During September, the production from the Oat Hill Mine, of Acme Mines and Mill, Inc., was 80 flasks of quicksilver, and it is anticipated that the October output will exceed that figure by about 20 flasks. New veins are showing high-grade ore, and widths have increased with drifting and sinking. B. C. Austin, 762 Mills Building, San Francisco, is General Manager of the company.
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The Sunrise Mining and Development Company, at Grass Valley, California, has sunk its shaft to the 400-foot point, and the vein has widened to more than eight feet. Some rich quartz has been opened in the shaft, and within 30 days, drifting will be in progress at the 400 Level. Two distinct oreshoots have been uncovered at the 200-foot Level, and will be cut at the lower depth, with about 300 feet of drifting. Arrangements are being made to electrify the mine. W. T. Loughlin, 516 McDowell Building, Seattle, Washington, is President of the company. Fren Pinch is Superintendent of developments at Grass Valley.
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During September, the Estelle Unit, of the American Smelting and Refining Company at Keeler, California, Thomas L. Chapman, Superintendent, shipped 370 tons of ore. The value of this ore ranged from 38 to 50 percent lead, and from 28 to 80 ounces silver to the ton, and left a profit after paying all operating expenses.
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The Treadwell-Yukon Company, Ltd., H. J. Duncan, Manager, Bodie, California, is rebuilding the mill at the Standard Mine, which was installed by the Clinton-West Company, and will operate it during the winter months. The shovel and trucks can handle 500 tons daily, while the mill has a daily capacity of 280 tons. Flotation and cyanide will be practiced. A new one cubic yard shovel has been purchased, and will keep two trucks busy hauling ore from the top of Standard Hill, to the reduction plant below.
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Encouraged by the discovery of a vein of gold ore on the 400-foot Level, Mayflower Gold Mines Consolidated, Ltd., has let a contract for sinking a three-compartment shaft, to the 1,000-foot point, in its property on Canada Hill, south of Nevada City, California. The vein is from four to six feet wide, and is said to be the best showing that has been made. Machinery and equipment are to be installed to mill 225 tons of ore daily. This will be the first unit of the mill, and provisions are to be made for additional units as the output of the mine justifies their installation. The realization of this program will place the Mayflower second only to the Empire and North Star mines. The operating personnel includes: H. Alfred Hood, controlling Owner; M. Ivan Dow, General Manager; S. A. Sweet, Chief engineer; and James Lewis, Superintendent of operations at the Greenman Mine.
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General examination of the large area belonging to the Hoge Development Company at Nevada City, California, and detailed sampling of the recent Hoge vein development, has lately been completed by J. C. Brumlay of Nevada, field representative of the International Smelting Company. Comments made by Brumlay, before departing from Nevada City, indicate his findings were very favorable to the company.
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The Alleghany-Eldorado Gold Mining Company, has installed 10 stamps and tables, at Alleghany, California, thus providing a mill capacity of 35 tons daily, using amalgamation-gravity concentration recovery. The mine has been producing for some time. The workings are between 5,000 and 6,000 feet in length, and a substantial tonnage is available for milling. The operating personnel includes: Frank C. Jordan, of Sacramento, President; E. E. Rodabaugh, Bancroft Building, San Diego, General Manager; C. E. Ferreira, 1626 Hopkins Street, Oakland, Assistant general manager; and Bert A. Reber, Alleghany, Superintendent.
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M. P. R. Kelsey is considering the installation of 20 stamps, at the Castagnetto Mine, in Hunter’s Valley, near Mariposa, California. A crew is working through a 165-foot shaft, and has done more than 250 feet of drifting, with good showings of ore.
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A strike of gold ore, assaying as high as $1,000 a ton, has been reported from the property of the Elmonte Mining Company, at DeSabla, California, P. J. McHugh, General Manager. This vein is from 8 to 12 inches wide, and is an offshoot of the main quartz vein. Arthur Richards, and J. A. Frazier, both of Hollywood, are carrying on the actual development, with a crew of 10 men divided into two shifts. The quartz is crushed at the mine to extract the gold.
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The Lucky Strike Mining Company, B. C. Austin, President, 762 Mills Building, San Francisco, has purchased the LaJoya Mine, in Napa County, from Acme Mines and Mill, Inc. The sum of $85,000 changed hands in the deal. At the same time the Lucky Strike relinquished its lease on the Oat Hill Mine of the Acme Company.
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The Ready Relief Consolidated Mining Company, financed in New York, has taken a bond and lease on 11 mining claims in the Julian-Banner District, San Diego County, California, and is getting ready for active mining. Construction of a 50-ton mill has been started at Banner. Theodore Cappel is General Manager of the concern.
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rehab · CALIFORNIA MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 11 15 1930

for NOVEMBER 15, 1930

CALIFORNIA

A four-foot quartz vein, contacting black slate and porphyry, has been opened in the Little Bonanza Mine, near Sonora, California, by the Otis-Monnette Mining Company, Elaine Otis, Manager. The mine is one of the best equipped on the Mother Lode. It is electrified throughout, including the lighting of the workings, and has telephone service. The Fairview and Graham properties are also included in the Otis-Monnette property.
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A new ledge of ore has been uncovered in the Golden Eagle Mine, in the Rough Ready District, near Newtown, California, one of the properties being operated by Thomas Bath. The ore is worth from $4 to $12 a ton, and was opened at the shallow depth of 15 feet. One thousand tons of milling ore are on the dump. Bath is working claims, the Golden Eagles No. 1 and 2, Henry Ford, Crag-y-nos, Bath, and Rame Mendrow. The latter is producing some $5 ore.
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The Gold Star Mining and Development Company has set up a hoist on its property, two and one-half miles northwest of Grass Valley, California, and intends to put in a ball and rod mill. For several days, all attention has been turned to construction. S. E. Tudor, 7810 Twenty-third Avenue, N. W., Seattle, Washington, is President of the organization, and was a recent visitor to the mine. New York people are associated with him in the enterprise.
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Financial arrangements have been made to dewater the Gold Bar Shaft, of the Vanderbilt Mines Company, near Ivanpah, California, and to build a 50-ton flotation mill. According to old maps, the Gold Bar Shaft is 425 feet deep, and the water now stands at 375 feet. A test of 15 cars of ore have been shipped to the International Smelter, and returned an average of $15 a ton, by flotation. This ore was mined from veins 6 to 15 feet, and considerable ore is ready for milling.
In the event that the Sierra Nevada Power Company runs its line into the Boulder Dam District, it will pass within four miles of the Vanderbilt Mines. The company is controlled by the Reorganized Silver King Divide Mining Company, Shand Smith, President, 484 I. W. Hellman Building, Los Angeles.
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The Blue Lead Mining Company, Harry B. Gray, manager, North Bloomfield, California, is installing a generator, gravel bins, sluice boxes, and will equip its ground with modern machinery to handle the gravel. Sufficient timber is on the ground, and free power is available for washing.
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About $20,000 were subscribed for further development at the stockholders’ meeting and barbecue held recently at the Princess Mine of the Cory Mine Company, Ltd. near Magalia, California. This money will be expended in bringing in electric power, and putting on another shift of miners.
The main shaft is now down 235 feet, and is expected to reach pay gravel at 485 feet, according to tests made with drills. Development is carried on by two shifts of eight hours each. A. E. Duer of San Jose, California, is President of the organization, and C. H. Thunnan of Oroville, is Managing Director.
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The Elkhorn Mining Company, Ltd., S. M. Reynolds, General Manager, Randsburg, California, has uncovered a vein of high-grade scheelite ore, parallel to the gold-silver vein it has been developing the past year. The scheelite is in virgin ground, and was uncovered in a new drift that is being driven on the 220-foot level. The vein is six inches wide.
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The Topah Mining Company, Frank C. Lenwell, manager, Shoshone, California, is operating a 15-ton stamp mill, at an elevation of 6,000 feet, in the Panamint Range, 60 miles from Shoshone. The ore is gold-silver-lead, and enough is in sight to keep the plant running three years. Six men are employed.
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Under the supervision of L. F. S. Holland of Placerville, California, 20 men are working the property of the Guilford Gold Mining Company, on the South Fork of the American River. Two tunnels are being reopened, and a crosscut is being driven on the vein from the New York Shaft, which is 180 feet deep. The Guilford Company controls 840 acres of patented property, consolidated over several years by A. Baring-Gould, and all of the mines are electrically equipped. A 10-stamp mill on the ground is ready to receive ore.
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The Idaho-Maryland Mines Company. Albert Crase, General Superintendent, Grass Valley California, is dropping 20 stamps on ore that is running from $12 to $15 a ton, and is considering building a mill that can treat 150 tons of ore daily. A block of ore has been developed on five levels, including the 1,500 and the 1,960 levels, and is estimated to be worth more than $2,500,000. A promising vein is being opened on the 2,000 Level.
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The Copperconda Mines Company, operating near Kingman, Arizona, is considering the building of a refining plant at Santa Ana, or Huntington Beach, California, for the purpose of manufacturing zinc oxide. Its establishment on the coast, is to take advantage of cheap fuel available there.
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A physical and geological examination of the old St. Lawrence Gold Mine, at Kelsey, California, has just been completed by E. Martin Thorniley, of Placerville, Mining Engineer. This is another old timer, with a past production of interesting dimensions, which has lain dormant for 54 years, with the exception of treating the tailings by cyanidation, twice, since its shutdown. The mine was operated by an English company, who used amalgamation treatment only.
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The Clinton-West Company, Inc., has sold out all its holdings and equipment at Bodie, California, to the Treadwell-Yukon Company, Ltd. Clinton-West operated a 250-ton flotation mill at capacity on gold-silver ores under the supervision of John E. Rothwell, Metallurgical Engineer, who is now at 20216 Arminta Street, Owensmouth, California. The new owners are operating the plant. Ore is mined from an open pit, between 40 and 50 feet deep.
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The Pacific Coast Talc Company is starting to lower its old 220-foot main shaft, another 150 feet, in its property seven miles northeast of Silver Lake, San Bernardino County, California. The talc lenses have no regularity of location or dimensions, but are often 75 to 100 feet long and from 8 to 10 feet thick.
It is trammed through a 2,000-foot main tunnel, which connects with the main shaft, sorted, and placed in 50 to 60-ton bins at the surface. The sorted tale is trucked six miles to Talc, on the Tonopah and Tidewater Railway, and shipped to the company’s plant at 2149 Hay Street, Los Angeles.
At the mine, raises to the surface supply good ventilation; Sullivan air hoists have been used in development, and there is a Fairbanks-Morse single-drum hoisting engine at the main shaft, which will be used in deeper mining. George Ames, of Los Angeles, is General Manager of the company.
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H. W. Gould and Company, Mills Building, San Francisco, is said to have taken over the property of the Bishop Creek Mining Company, 20 miles southwest of Bishop, California, subject to what they find during exploration. The property is sometimes spoken of as the Wilshire Gold Mine, and Roy Hill’s report to the Gould people was favorable. A substantial tonnage of complex gold ore has been blocked out to the 300-foot level, and with modern treatment, has commercial value. The mine is to be dewatered and the oreshoots sampled.
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Carson Hill, Ltd., is installing a stamp mill, compressor, and drilling equipment, in the Melones District in California, and expects to begin development soon. The Carson Hill Mine is more than 50 years old, and has produced more than $60,000,000 in gold.
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Three truckloads of heavy timbers have been taken to the Spanish Mine, near Washington, California, being operated under the supervision of F. W. Bradley, Jr., of San Francisco. Between 3,000 and 4,000 tons of high-grade barites are blocked out, and the strike made early in August, is showing up well. Electric power was made available a year ago, by a line built from Alleghany, by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
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Frank S. Channing has taken a lease and option on the Good Hope Mine, near Wheatland, Yuba County, California, from W. S. Sanford, son of the original owner. This mine, and the Duncan Hill, optioned from the Walsh Brothers, one and one-half miles west of Auburn, will be worked at the same time, and Channing expects to make his headquarters at Auburn, which is convenient to both mines. Financial support will come from the East.
The Good Hope Mine is about 50 years old, but not much development has been done as it was located on patented land owned by a rancher, and several years’ litigation followed. The plan, proposed by Channing, includes building three quarters of a mile of power line to connect with the main line, and installing some electrically operated machinery. The Duncan Hill Mine has produced $800,000 in high-grade gold ore, but has been idle nearly 30 years. The proposed development of this ground includes sinking a new vertical shaft, to cut the Centennial Vein, at 300 feet on its dip.
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The California Nevada Quicksilver Company, Otto Taubert, President, 811 Carmel Street, Berkeley, California, is considering building a furnace at its property southwest of San Jose. The property comprises 1,500 acres, and five deposits of quicksilver are known. It is at low elevation and climatic conditions are favorable, and operating costs low. An electric power line and the natural gas line from the Kettleman Hills, to San Jose and Sacramento, are both close by. Funds are sufficient for both development and equipment.
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for DECEMBER 15, 1930

CALIFORNIA

Operations are at a standstill, at the Bull Frog Placer Mine, on the Stanislaus River, between Oakdale, and Nights Ferry, California, pending the installation of equipment for greater capacity, according to D. V. Cole, Mechanical Engineer, 621 North Foothill Boulevard, Beverly Hills. Plans are to install machinery that can handle about 2,000 cubic yards of gravel during 24 hours. The recovery will be made with sluice boxes, floored with carpet, metal lath, and steel screen—no riffles. This method has given satisfactory recoveries of the gravel, which runs about 30 cents per yard, and is 35 feet deep to bedrock. Joshua Hendy Iron Works giants and hydraulic elevators, will probably be used.
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J. G. Worth, Box 70, Superior, Arizona, has leased the Collier Mines, near Angels Camp, California. He is operating the Belcher Lead-Silver Mines near Superior, where a rich strike has just been made, and has recently returned from New York City, on business in connection with his enterprises.
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T. B. Elliott, Box 1993, Angels Camp, California, has leased the Lucky Jim Gold Quartz Mine, near San Andreas. This mine is a tunnel proposition, but as the owner had died, has never been fully developed. The tunnel is in 270 feet.
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The Belmont-Osborn Mining Company, J. C. Kamp van Ee, President and Manager, 381 Bush Street, San Francisco, has cleaned out the South Shaft, near Angels Camp, California. This shaft is 170 feet deep, and has been worked by old timers. A vein of commercial ore is in sight. It is 14 feet wide, and has been opened by drifts both ways.
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A new test mill for handling low-grade ore, which will be trenched from a nearby mountain, is being built at Bodie, California, by the Treadwell-Yukon Company, Ltd. R. J. Duncan is Manager at Bodie, for the company.
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The Golden Horseshoe Mining Company, Ltd., is operating the Guildford, and Pacific Groups of mines at Placerville, California, under lease from A. Baring-Gould. Three tunnels, each longer than 1,000 feet, have been reopened. Drifting is in progress from the bottom of the Fortuna Shaft, and a crosscut and a drift are being reopened on the Oregon Mine, of the Pacific Group. Twenty-five men are on the payroll. A 10-stamp amalgamation-gravity concentration mill is on the ground. John McKeon, Petroleum Securities Building, Los Angeles, is President of the company. The operating personnel includes L. F. S. Holland, of Placerville, who is Vice-President and General Manager; William Christian, Foreman at the Guildford Mines, and Howard L. Heath, Foreman at the Pacific Mines.
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The Walker Mining Company, at Spring Garden, California, H. A. Geisendorfer, General Manager, has curtailed production 30 percent, by shutting down on Saturday, and on Sunday. Five hundred men are employed, and all of them have been retained. The Walker properties had been producing approximately 1,500,000 pounds of copper monthly.
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The Nevada Quicksilver Mines, Inc., Lloyd J. Lathrop, Superintendent, Cloverdale, California, is adding new tanks, boxes, and pipe, at its 100-ton mill, which is in regular operation, and plans to add another 100-ton unit in the spring. A new ore bin has been finished, and some tunneling is going on. Three towers of the one-mile tram have been set up, and the only suspension in milling will be about one week, when final connections with the tram will be completed.
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E. W. Callahan of Los Angeles, California, has taken a bond and lease on the Baltic Mine and Mill, and the Buckboard, two old-time producers in the “stringer” gold fields of the Rand District. The Baltic Plant is connected with water and power service, and the mill has given a good recovery on the ore. It is only a mile from camp. Callahan is bringing in a concentrator that was tried out in Nevada, for the treatment of the Buckboard ore, and will use Diesel power, and pipe water in from the Yellow Aster system. The owners of both properties have interests in the Yellow Aster.
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Carwymac, Inc., of Los Angeles, George H. Wyman, Manager, 305 Hibernian Building, Los Angeles, is sampling the tailings at the King Solomon Gold Mine, near Randsburg, California. They are now handling the great hill of tailings at the Yellow Aster Mine.
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By the middle of this month, the Hoge Development Company, O. E. Schiffner, General Manager, Nevada City, California, expects to have its 1,050-cubic-foot compressor, and 185-horsepower synchronous motor, ready for use. These complete hoisting and compressor equipment, efficient to a depth of 2,000 feet. Around the first of the year, the 826-foot three-compartment shaft, will be sunk to a new depth of 600 feet, and stations established at the 450 and 600 Levels. The ore body on the 300-foot Level has been followed 325 feet, and sampled every four or five feet. These samples averaged in excess of $40 per ton, and the ore that has been shipped to the Selby Smelter, has averaged $60 a ton. A modern flotation mill of 100-ton capacity is planned, and will be installed early in the spring.
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The Yellow Aster Mining and Milling Company, W. F. Allen, Jr., General Manager, Box 341, Randsburg, California, is installing a double-drum hoist, for a two-compartment shaft, to be sunk 200 feet below the old workings. The company has a payroll of 20, and 30 lessees are making good.
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A general rehabilitation program is in progress at the Hercules Prospect, on Fiddlers Gulch, near Randsburg, California, recently purchased by Gustav Bender, of Johannesburg. A roadway is being built on the side of the hill above the workings, and general equipment is being taken in. Foundations are being laid for the hoist and shaft house, an ore bin is being installed, and the collar and timbers in the shaft, are being repaired. A good blacksmith shop is on the ground.
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John Nefroney of Etna Mills, California, is installing a crusher and cleanup barrel to be used principally on ore from the Advance Consolidated Mines Company’s property, in the Liberty Mining District, in Siskiyou County. He is also installing machinery to increase his power supply from 500 to 1,200 kilowatts, which will be used in driving machinery in hydraulicking his placers on the South Fork, of the Russian River. Another machine that will furnish 72 kilowatts, is being installed for temporary use.
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The new flotation mill of the Twin Sisters Mining Company, at North Bloomfleld, California, is demonstrating a recovery 80 percent higher than the concentrates recovered by the former machinery, and which ran between $16 and $20 a ton. It is operating eight hours a day, and another shift will probably be added within a few weeks. About 500 feet of drifting has been done on the No. 3 Level, and the ore opened, runs as low as 60 cents, and as high as $200, in gold, silver, and iron. Fifteen men are on the payroll. R. O. Foster, 1418 North Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada, is President and General Manager, and Bert Davidson is mine Superintendent.
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The Western Borax Company, Newton K. Millett, Manager, Daggett, California, is making important additions to its plant. Development is being carried on between 700 and 800 feet below the surface, and the veins are from 50 to 100 feet high. Some of the borax is clear as window glass. The enterprise maintains a substantial payroll in the district. A. M. Buley, Room 761, 417 South Hill Street, Los Angeles, is President of the organization.
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Arthur H. Anthony, owner of the Carmel Rock quarries near Monterey, California, has leased the Pine Nut Gold Quartz Mine, and is installing a small mill, hoist, and compressor. The shaft is 85 feet deep, and the pay shoot dips north, with a two-foot ledge running high in values. C. H. Weldon, of Carson City, Nevada, is in charge during the absence of Anthony.
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The McGilvray-Raymond Corporation, of San Francisco, is filling an order for 750 tons of black granite, to be used in finishing the new building of the Dallas Light and Power Company, at Dallas, Texas. The order will cost approximately $160,000. About half of it has been shipped to San Francisco for polishing, and from there, it will he shipped to Dallas. McGilvray-Raymond took over these quarries from the California Granite Company, in the Success District, 12 miles from Porterville. Charles Miel is local manager.
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The famous old Cherokee Mine, operated first in 1853, has come under the management of a new group, known as the Cherokee Gold Drift and Mining Company. Its officers are: Jack Sullivan, President; Jack Johnson, Vice-President and General Manager, and Alex E. Wilson, Secretary-Treasurer. Dr. Robert E. Hutchings is a member of the Board. Wilson lives at Oroville, California, and the others are residents of San Francisco. In contrast with the monitors, which once tore down the ground, electrical muckers, a monorail system, and other machinery, will be installed. Exhaustive sampling has been carried on in virgin gravel, and carry from $2.75 to $3.50, a yard. It is their intentions to handle 5,000 yards of gravel daily. Water for mining will come from one of the Oroville irrigation systems, and in addition, five reservoirs have been purchased. The water system alone represents an outlay of over $300,000.
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The Mountain Copper Company, Ltd., near Matheson, California, has completed the doubling of its cyanide plant, and is now treating 550 tons daily of gossan, which is being dug from the surface with a Bucyrus electric shovel. This gossan is the capping, over the old Iron Mountain copper mine. It only carries $1.50 to $2 per ton in gold, but by modern methods can be made to pay. William F. Kett, 112 Market Street, San Francisco, is General Manager of the organization, and M. J. Murphy is Superintendent, at Matheson.
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The Golden State Mines, Ltd., J. Y. Owensby, Superintendent, Forest, California, has cleaned outM and repaired about 700 feet of the Extension Tunnel, and intends to carry on the development of a virgin channel, during the rainy season. New equipment is being installed on the adjacent Bald Mountain gravel property, where the old Copeland Tunnel is to be extended 1,400 feet, to the deep channel. 10 men are employed at Bald Mountain, and 17 at the South Fork property.
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The Pacific Ore Testing Company is demonstrating a new leaching process, at 1824 East Slauson Avenue, Los Angeles, California. According to Charles A. Palmer, Mining Engineer of that city, the process is an entirely new one, created for the purpose of handling silicates, found in some quantity in western Arizona, and eastern California. It is claimed to recover copper, lead, and zinc from these ores, without smelting, at a cost of about 9 cents a pound of copper. The copper is leached and precipitated on iron, after which it is melted, and cast into pigs or bars. Until recently pure copper bars could not be obtained west of Baltimore, without shipping them direct, for whatever purpose they were needed, and the freight is such an item, that copper and brass industries do not, as a rule, locate in the west.
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The Mother Lode is yielding one of its richest deposits in the Argonaut Mining Company’s ground, at Jackson, California, Frank Mercer, Superintendent. The vein has been opened more than 50 feet on the 8,800-foot Level, and only one wall is in sight. Samples from the vein, assay nearly $25 in gold, to the ton.
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S. M. Levy, formerly General Manager for the Calaveras Copper Company at Copperopolis, California, is perfecting an organization for the operation of the Penn Mining Company’s property, at Campo Seco. The copper-bearing ores are said to carry sufficient gold to permit their profitable operation. Southern California men are said to be associated with him in the proposition.
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J. H. Beachman and associates, at Los Angeles, California, have leased the Blue Point Mine, at Smartville, Yuba County, and expect to place a crew of men at work, early in December. This is a gold proposition that has been worked in a desultory way during the last half century. Fifty years ago the mine is said to have yielded $600,000 during three months’ operation.
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PROSPECTORS RETAIN MINERAL RIGHTS IN DEATH VALLEY AREA

E. S. Giles of Goldfield, Nevada, Consulting Engineer, and Surveyor, has been advised by the United States Land Ddepartment, that the recent withdrawal of lands in the Death Valley area, will not affect the mineral rights of prospectors. Under the provision of the act, the lands shall at all times, be open to exploration, discovery, occupation and purchase, under the United States mineral laws.

The, area withdrawn for a new national park development, which includes a large part of Death Valley, extends from Death Valley Scotty’s famous ranch in Grapevine Canyon, to within three miles of Trona, California. It includes the old mining towns of Ballarat, Panamint, Skidoo, and Greenwater.
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rehab · CALIFORNIA MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 12 30 1930

for DECEMBER 30, 193O

CALIFORNIA

The Santa Ana Mining Company is mining ore that carries 17 per cent cinnabar, 15 percent tungsten, a small percentage of gold, and a trace of silver, from the bottom of its 75-foot working shaft, near Keene, California. The showing warrants the construction of a 100-ton mill, and reduction plant, fully equipped with standard crusher, four concentrating tables, flotation machines and classifier. The completion of the milling plant will be immediately finished after the holidays. The camp is supplied with mountain spring water, which in average seasons will supply the mine for eight months. Good auto roads and the railroad are close to the mine. and the main Edison line furnishes power. Twenty-five men are employed. C. O. Holmes, citrus grower of Pomona, is President of the company; G. R. Simpson, experienced and practical mining engineer, is the resident superintendent.
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During the past few months, operations at the Reed Quicksilver Mine. in Yolo County, California, have been confined to drifting north and south from the lower tunnel. The North drift was driven 61 feet during November, and has reached a length of 528 feet. The South drift was driven 33 feet during that time, and is out 264 feet. J. H. Collier, 333 Kearney Street, San Francisco, is General Manager.
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The Metal Mines Corporation of California, with Chris Waumhof of Long Beach as President, has leased the Norfolk Mine, a mile southwest of Murphys, California. The ground is 130 acres, with a gravel channel the entire length, and good quartz deposits carrying gold. Approximately $165,000 was mined from the Norfolk in early days, by sluicing, gravel, and stamp mill. There is a shaft down 30 feet. During the past eight months, a power line and transformers, hoist and compressor have been completed, ready for use; and buildings have been established.
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Fred M. Miller, consulting engineer, 262 South Auburn Street, Grass Valley, California, has leased 200 acres of mineral lode, near Grass Valley. Fifty percent of the ground is patented, and it includes the Tribute or Black Ledge, the Hudson Bay, the New Rocky Bar, and the Irish-American Vein systems. His plans have not been announced yet.
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In accordance with its development program outlined last June, the River Placers Company, Ltd., has sunk a 40-foot vertical shaft, on the Middle Fork of the Yuba River, and has crosscut to the channel, which is 80 feet from the shaft, and four feet lower. The company has a lease for eight years on the old Hastings, and Poor-Man claims, extending three miles along the Middle Fork, and within 10 days, will be ready to open the channel bottom. Water, which gave some trouble in the shaft, and called for pumping equipment, has subsided until the shaft is dry. River Placers is sponsored by L. A. Smith, 53 Granada Street, San Francisco, and his associates.
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The Bonanza Gold Mines Company, William R. Price, 35 Cooper Avenue, Yuba City, California, has completed a nine-mile flume to its Omega Unit, on the upper Yuba River. It is 5 x 6 feet and will permit five monitors to operate 24 hours a day next summer.
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The Salyer Consolidated Mines Company, R. B. Brown, Mine Superintendent, Salyer, California, placed a seven-inch hydraulic monitor in operation, and has four additional Hendy monitors going into commission. About $500,000 has been spent in developing and equipping the property, and at capacity, about 30,000 cubic yards of gravel can be handled daily. Water is furnished by two pipelines, two and eight miles in length, respectively. C. B. Dunster of Oceanside, California, is consulting engineer.
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Sanford Sobey and associates of Hollywood, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, have acquired the Herman Gold Mines at Foresthill, California. The ground was originally placered, and in the ‘90s, operated as a quartz mine. Litigation and war conditions forced its shutdown in 1916. Four major, free-milling, ribbon quartz veins cross the property, but the Herman is the only vein that has as yet been developed. About a million dollars has been spent in driving several thousand feet of workings, erecting buildings, and a 30-stamp mill, and building roads. At the 1,200-foot Level, the ore averages $7 per ton, and milling costs are estimated at $3 a ton. About 20,000 tons are blocked out, and there are a million tons of backs. The property embraces 1,400 acres, partly covered with heavy timber.
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The Calaveras Development Company, a Nevada corporation, has acquired the old Ford Mine at San Andreas, California, credited with a production record of $300,000. Deeper development will be undertaken. The mine is known to contain several thousand tons of gold ore, and the early building of a 100-ton cyanide plant is being considered.
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The old Cavanaugh Gold Mine, near Michigan Bluff, California, has been taken over by the Sierra Development Company. It is one of the famous pioneer producers in Placer County, and it is said that considerable milling ore still exists in its workings.
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The Standard Pacific Development Company, Ltd., a California incorporation, has started the development of a property in Siskiyou County. Contracts have been let for re-timbering and re-aligning a 270-foot tunnel that has been driven along the main vein. This adit has opened a chute of ore for a length of 70 feet, and samples of it have run from $25 to $150 per ton. The general average will be around $40 a ton. The ore can be handled by gravity, and the hoisting of ore and pumping eliminated. It is said that $5 ore can be handled profitably.
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The crushing plant at the Hornet Mine of the Mountain Copper Company, Ltd., M. J. Murphy, Superintendent, Mattheson, California, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $20,000. Fumes from burning sulphur handicapped the fire fighters, but they were able to save the other buildings and the tramway.
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The St. Lawrence Rand, Inc., Randsburg, California, has been taken over by the Copperconda Mines Company, an Arizona company, with an office at 114 West Fifth Street, Santa Ana, California. It is understood that they are building a plant on the coast, to manufacture zinc oxide.
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The California Zinc Company, E. L. Ralston, General Manager, Winthrop, California, is building a road from Castella, to its barium mine, seven miles east. The work is expected to be completed before heavy snow falls, and will enable trucks to haul the ore to the railroad; where it will be carried by train to the company’s paint works.
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The Pacific Gas and Electric Company is installing a complete new system of transformers at Nevada City, California. The old transformers, numbering about 80, are being replaced with improved ones. Daniel C. Stewart, agent for that division, is in charge of the work.
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The Wortley Consolidated Mines Company, Frank Lamley, General Manager, Randsburg, California, has cut a station at the No. 12 Level of the Santa Fe Mine, and has started sinking a winze on a body of ore, 28 feet wide. More than 400 tons of ore were mined from the cutting of the station, and were treated in the mill. The new hoist at the Kelly No. 6 Shaft is functioning well, and lessees are taking out both shipping and milling ores. They have made several shipments during the past two weeks.
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The Treadwell-Yukon Company, Ltd., R. J. Duncan, Manager, Bodie, California, is getting some high-grade ore from the 700-foot Level of the Noonday Vein. All work is handled through the Red Cloud Shaft. The drift has advanced 60 feet on a fair grade of mill ore, which averages four feet in width, and still lacks several hundred feet of the Noonday Shaft. The 250-ton flotation mill under construction at the Standard Mine, is expected to go into operation the first of the year.
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Recent storms have provided the Dix-Butte Placer Mining Company, Harry Sheehy, General Manager, c/o Butte Meadow Stage, Chico, California, with water for sluicing. The company has worked nearly two years, and has’ a good line of equipment. The channel has been opened by a 3,500-foot tunnel, and a 175-foot raise, said to show considerable coarse gold.
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The Idaho-Maryland Mines Company, Albert Crase, General Superintendent, Grass Valley, California, has reconditioned its Brunswick 20-stamp mill, and is making arrangements to haul ore from its main properties, with motor trucks. The mill feed averages $18 a ton in gold. The end of this month expects to see the Idaho-Maryland and Brunswick mills crushing 40 tons of ore a day.
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GOLD PRODUCTION CONTINUES FROM MINES ON MOTHER LODE

With the regularity of clockwork, production continues from the bottom levels of the Kennedy Mine; near Jackson, California, the deepest gold mine in the United States. With the exception of shutdowns caused by fire, and other unavoidable circumstances, it has been yielding ore, and handsomely rewarding its comparatively few owners, for 45 years—since 1885. According to information obtained from a reliable source, it is giving no sign of exhaustion, notwithstanding the fact that current production is coming largely from its deepest level, which is 4,800 feet vertically below the collar of its huge shaft.

The company’s 60-stamp mill is treating around 7,000 tons of ore monthly, or an average of about 233 tons daily. Although President E. C. Hutchinson declines at all times to make public the value of the ore reduced, current output is known to be yielding a good profit. In reply to questions he merely smiles, and says the values have persisted “from the grass roots, to the present bottom level, 4,800 feet vertically.”

Despite the sphinx-like policy of the management, the Kennedy, and its equally famous, and almost as deep, neighbor on the north, the Argonaut, have demonstrated, beyond a doubt, the persistence of Mother Lode ore bodies to phenomenal depths. This condition, coupled with the worldwide cry for greater production of gold, is largely responsible for the current and steadily increasing revival of mining operations, on California’s great vein system, for many miles north and south of the two great producers named.

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FORD MINE BEING REOPENED BY MOTHER LODE OPERATOR

Under the supervision of Joseph E. King, who has been identified with Mother Lode mining operations for more than 35 years, rapid progress is being made in the rehabilitation of the Ford Mine, on the outskirts of San Andreas, California, recently taken over from Captain Alton Hawes. of the United States Mint, at San Francisco, by the Calaveras Development Company, a Nevada corporation, composed of I. E. Selix, P. J. de Flores, and Sol Silverman, all business men of San Francisco, and W. L. Merrill, a mining engineer of Sacramento.

The mine, which is credited with a production of $300,000 in high-grade gold ore, 30 years ago, and which is estimated by engineers to contain in excess of one million tons of available mill or lower grade ore, is being reopened by the new operators, as a private enterprise. It has a 750-foot single-compartment, and manway, incline shaft of large proportions, from which laterals, having a total of 3,500 linear feet, were run by the early day owners, who did no stoping; they apparently being content to confine their energies to the extraction of the immediately available high-grade rock, because of the lack of economical, and efficient methods at that time, of reducing the lower-grade ore revealed by them. The present equipment of the property includes a large electric hoist, air compressor, machine drills, pumps, etc.

Re-timbering and de-watering of the shaft have already attained a depth of about 300 feet, the mine crew working in three shifts. As soon as this work has been completed, the ore bodies are to be resurveyed and checked. Treatment tests recently made, show that by the use of the modern cyanide process, a recovery of 92 percent of.the metal content of the ore can be made. Plans of the present operators include the erection, when justified, of a 100-ton daily capacity plant of that type, according to Mr. Selix.

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SHADOW MOUNTAIN DISTRICT TO HAVE CUSTOM PLANT

Foster Mines is building a 25-ton mill at Windmill Station, 96 miles north of Barstow, on the Barstow-Las Vegas paved highway, about 26 miles north of Baker. [Where the rest stop is on I-15, between Mountain Pass and Halloran Summit]. It is a four-foot ball mill with crusher, plates, concentrator and a 40-horsepower gas engine for power. Self-screening is accomplished by end discharge through grids onto a 24-mesh screen built at the end of the mill.

The present location is just temporary, and the plant will be moved as soon as a water supply can be developed. At that time its capacity will be increased to 100 tons, and gold-copper ores from Foster Mines property, at Shadow Mountain, will be treated. For a time, custom ore from surrounding properties, particularly the high-grade gold ores from the north-south system of fissures running through both the Foster Mines and adjoining properties, will be milled.

These veins have been developed by many shafts to the 100-foot level, all openings exposing milling ore, some of which has stood shipment as far away as the Salt Lake smelters.

Rich specimen ore has been mined from these shafts, but the venture lacked a nearby mill for profitable operation. The custom ores will be supplemented by Foster Mines ore, as soon as proper leaching equipment, and increased grinding capacity are provided.

This plant is being built and will be operated by William E. Fenwick, a mining engineer with a wide range of experience in mining and milling in Arizona, Cuba, and South America. For a number of years, he has been Department Manager for the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio, builders of crusher and conveyor equipment. He is a Governor of the Southwestern Mining Exchange, and a member of the Los Angeles Chapter of the California Mining Association. He has leased the gold veins on the Foster Mines, and it is expected that many lessors will find desirable ground at that camp.

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LOUGHEAD, OF AIRPLANE FAME, NOW TURNS TO GOLD MINING

Malcolm Loughead, of Los Angeles, who, with his brother, Allen H. Loughead, invented the “Lockheed” airplane, and automobile hydraulic brake, is meeting with highly encouraging results in the development of a property of two claims, or 40 acres, at Whiskey Slide, about eight miles east of Mokelumne Hill. From the bottom of a 118-foot single compartment and manway vertical shaft, sunk solely for prospecting purposes, he has extended into a large vein, a north drift, 200 feet, and a south drift, 50 feet. He plans to continue the north drift, which he states is exposing a full face of ore, assaying $20 a ton in gold, an additional 250 feet, and the south drift, 50 feet more, before sinking the shaft to greater depth.

Mr. Loughead calculates that he has about developed sufficient pay ore by the shaft, and laterals referred to and in other workings on the property, to warrant the erection of a small mill, but he says he will not proceed definitely with such plans until he is fully convinced on that score. He has equipped the property with a small gasoline prospect hoist, air compressor, machine drills, etc., with which excellent progress is being made in the exploratory work. Mr. Loughead acquired the property about a year ago, by individual purchase, and is developing it with his own funds. His brother, Allen H. Loughead, however, has become so impressed with the results obtained, that he himself is investigating other properties in the same locality with a view to acquisition and development, in association with a syndicate of Chicago capitalists, as a private project.

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THE MINING JOURNAL for JANUARY 15, 1931

CALIFORNIA

Gustav Bender of Johannesburg, California, is making a millrun of about 100 tons of ore, from the 50-foot Level of his Bender Prospect, on Fiddlers Gulch, near Randsburg. This property has already produced $3,700 from a 40-foot shaft, and a hoist and other machinery have replaced hand mining.
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An appreciable showing in gold ore is reported from the Golden Nugget Mine, owned by E. W. Minnehan, and associates, Box 36, Fenner, California. The mine is being operated at the 50-foot level.
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The Contention and Mable Mining Company, Thomas A. Gannon, Superintendent, Fenner, is preparing a shipment of ore. Ore is being mined that carries 5.5 ounces gold, 4 ounces silver, and about 15 percent lead, and development is more than gratifying to the management.
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The San Francisco Gold Mines Company is operating five stamps, of its 10-stamp mill at Grizzly Flats, Eldorado County, California. The ore averages $20 a ton, and mining and milling costs are running between $4 and $5 a ton, thus assuring a good profit. F. H. Neve, 704 South Spring Street, Los Angeles, is President of the company, and Rollins MacFayden, is Superintendent, at Grizzly Flats.
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The tunnel in the Bitterwater Creek Mine, at Llanada, California, is nearing a connection with the upper workings, according to H. V. Underwood, of Hollister, one of the owners. Development of this ground was resumed not long ago, and hundreds of tons of high-grade cinnabar ore are said to be piled on the dump, in addition to a large possible tonnage in the mine.
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William J. McGee, Mills Building, San Francisco, is said to have made the high bid on the old Doyle Mine, in Amador County, California.
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Ed. Herkelrath, Kramer Hills, via Adelanto, California, informs us that the Shaherald Mining Company has accepted a first payment for its property. This ground covers a part of the Kramer Hills patented land, and it is planned to start activity early in the year. Lack of water has been a great drawback, but a supply has been developed about a mile and a quarter from the property.
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The Virginia Mines Company, O. C. Hadley, Superintendent, Perris, California, is milling about 54 tons of ore daily, with all of its equipment in A-1 condition. Ore for milling has been developed in the No. 1 Mine, along a length of 250 feet, and is said to average $16.80 a ton in gold. Development has been started in the No. 2 Mine, and the vein is averaging six feet in width. The ore from the No. 2 Mine runs as high as $100 a ton in gold, and will be milled at the No. 1 Mine. Electricity is used as power, and to light the camp. Thirty-seven men are on the payroll. H. L. Musick, 2286 Whittier Boulevard, Los Angeles, controls the property.
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Ore of sensational value is being exposed in sinking a shaft on the Quartz Mountain property, four miles east of Sutter Creek, California, recently taken over, and being operated by Anderson Callison, oil man of San Francisco and Los Angeles, and James R. Murphy, mining engineer of San Francisco. The shaft, now down 50 feet, is disclosing 13 ½ feet of shipping ore, with assays running as high as $1,738 a ton in gold, as well as small silver and lead values. Additional work will be required to determine the importance and magnitude of the discovery.
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The Reorganized Carrie Silver-Lead Mines Corporation, operating near Pioneer Station, 16 miles east of Jackson, California, is sinking its shaft from the 100-foot level, to a depth of 200 feet. The purpose of this work is to open up the downward extensions of three oreshoots, varying in width from two to five feet, which were revealed by a 500-foot drift tunnel, connecting with the shaft on the 100-foot Level. The three shoots were disclosed by the tunnel within a distance of 250 feet, and are almost one continuous ore body. The shipping ore thus far extracted, has averaged $150, and the milling grade has ranged from $22 to $58 a ton in gold, according to Manager C. R. Murdoch, of Tonopah, Nevada. In addition to its own product, the company’s five-stamp mill reduces ores from nearby properties.
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The drift tunnel being advanced by John Pierovich, W. D. Tam, and Boggs Caminetti, all of Jackson, California, in the St. Julian Mine, three miles south of that town, is disclosing four stringers of quartz, varying in width from two to six inches, and yielding high gold values. Conditions in the face of the drift indicate that the stringers should make one orebody within a short distance. In the early days, this mine was owned by Mrs. Ella Caminetti, and yielded many rich pockets of gold. The present operators are working under bond and lease.
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The old Plumas Eureka Mine, at Johnsville, California, has been acquired under bond and lease, by J. R. Brown and associates, of Oakland, California. Details of their plans have not been learned yet.
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The Rising Sun mining claim, in the Pine Grove District, in California, has been acquired by Paul S. Webb, and W. L. Aiken, of Los Angeles. Further development is scheduled to start next spring.
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The Cherokee Drift Gold Mining Company is hauling timber to its gravel mines, near Oroville, California, and expects to have active development well under way by the middle of January. Electrical energy will be brought in from the lines of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, two and one-half miles distant, and the latest devices in the extraction and reduction of the gravels will be employed, according to Alex. M. Wilson, 1213 Brown Street, Oroville. Jack Sullivan, of San Francisco, is President of the company, and Jack Johnson is Vice-president and General Manager. They may be reached at the St. Regis Hotel, San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO MEN REOPEN OLD CHEROKEE GRAVEL PITS

Development work is again to be started early in January on the old Cherokee gravel pits, near Oroville, Calif. This is one of the pioneer hydraulic mines of the state, which has a channel 1,200 feet in width, and from which, millions of dollars have been extracted from the worked portions.

The new development work is to be carried on, under the direction of Jack Sullivan and Jack Johnson, of San Francisco, as President, and Vice-president and General Manager, respectively, under the company name of the Cherokee Drift Gold Mining Company. Alex E. Wilson, 1213 Brown Street, Oroville, California, is Secretary and Treasurer.

The plans for development call for the securing of electric power from the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, requiring two and one-half miles of new line, and it is also stated that four miles of railroad, are planned to connect with the Sacramento Northern. The gravel is to be handled by modern methods, using draglines, and conveying 4,000 feet to the new plant, which is to have a capacity of handling 4,000 yards daily.

Various engineers, who have examined the ground, have discovered that in one portion of the channel, commercial values in gold are contained in the boulders proper. These boulders will be crushed, and their gold will add materially to the value of that particular deposit. The blue gravel deposit, capping the bedrock, and underlying the boulders, 45 feet, will be attacked by means of air drills, and conveyors.

The Cherokee was one of the first to use the carbon lighting system, to illuminate its mines at night. Its channel has a width of 1,200 feet, and the worked portions have yielded millions of dollars. Two miles of the channel are virgin ground, capped by basalt lava, and pipe clay, to a depth of 700 feet, making prohibitive the hydraulic system, and leaving the drift system as the only alternative means to secure the gold.

A system is also planned in an attempt to recover diamonds, which have been known to exist on this property, since the early ‘5Os. Many of these diamonds have been recovered by the hydraulic, sluice, and by the pan processes.
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Mining is to be resumed on a large scale at the Tumco Mines, five miles north of Ogilby, California, according to President Sidney E. Mayer, of the Mines Division of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce, in addressing a meeting of several chambers at Seeley. The program includes the establishment of milling facilities. M. B. Patton, Box 15, Ogilby, is President of Tumco Mines.
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Financial arrangements have been made for the further operation of the Paragon Placer Mines at Raymond, California, and the development outlined includes an expenditure of $25,000 for machinery and equipment. The reopening of the mine has come about through the persistent efforts of Charles J. Stoneham, 611 West Fortieth Place, Los Angeles, who is the President and General Manager of the organization. When in full force, about 30 men will be employed, and about 4,000 cubic yards of gravel treated daily.
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The Mutual Security Company, Oakland, California, J. E. McDonald, President, has purchased the Gold Blossom Mine, at Ophir, Placer County, from W. K. Reed of Auburn. McDonald has spent some time at Auburn, and with A. D. Frumento, local engineer, has been examining the mine and adjoining claims, which may be acquired later. Frumento has studied the Ophir formations carefully, and will be Engineer for the new owners. The mine has produced close to a half million dollars above its 400 Level, most of the ore going $9 in gold and silver. The shaft will be unwatered, and the levels examined. If the ore is found as reported, the 20-stamp mill will be rebuilt at a new location, for primary grinding and amalgamation, and a ball mill and flotation cells will be added. Automatic conveyors will be installed to dump the ore into the bins.
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An ore deposit has been located below the 1,200 level of the Original-Ferguson Mining Company at Clearinghouse, California. It was at this point that a fault had been cut in previous operations, and development suspended. J. W. Warford, of Mariposa, is General Manager.
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The 2,000-foot tunnel of the Kenmar Mining Company, has cut three auxiliary channels running almost parallel to the noted old hard lava channel, in the South Fork Mine, at Forest, California. All three channels show good values, and will be worked later. Seventeen men are on the payroll, and the crew will be increased as developments warrant. The Kenmar Company is a syndicate of New York capitalists, and J. Y. Owenby of Los Angeles has charge of their interests. Manager Owenby hastened to the mine as soon as he received the good news of the channel developments.
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Control of the North Fork Mining Company, at Forest, California, is said to have passed to Los Angeles capital, who intend to develop and equip the ground early in the spring. George B. Stone, who has been Superintendent of the mine, for the last 17 years, has been retained by the new interests. The ore blocked out in the mine is estimated to be worth $800,000.
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With a full line of equipment and supplies for the winter, a crew of 30 men is pushing development in the Tom and Jerry Mine, in the Mt. Oro District, in California. James D. Stewart, of Auburn, is managing the mine for the Bickel placer mining interests of New York.
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Early in the year the Nevada Monarch Gold Mining Company will start driving a new tunnel in the Bald Mountain Mine, at Forest, California, to cut known ledges of ore at greater depth. According to President and General Manager F. W. Powers, of Los Angeles, who has recently returned from the mine, 10 men are engaged in development and it is intended to keep up that pace through the winter. The Nevada Monarch’s office is 253 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles.
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A long-term lease on the old Stafford Gold Property, at Georgetown, California, has been granted the Swift Gold Dome Lode Mining Company, Ltd., of Los Angeles. Some good ore is in sight. Equipment has been ordered, to be electrically operated, and arrangements are being made to drive a 700-foot tunnel to the ledge.
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Gold values are improving consistently as the Yellow Treasure Shaft goes down, according to Anthony DeMayo, Box 104, Randsburg, California. The gold is accompanied by iron, manganese, calcite, and some peacock copper. Exceptionally rich ore is expected as the shaft reaches deeper formations.
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It is understood that the washing plant of the Aladdin Gold Mining Company, Ltd., C. E. Collins, Superintendent, Box 186, Placerville, California, is handling enough gravel to pay the bulk of operating expenses. Three raises from the drainage tunnel, have entered the trough of the channel, and drifts are being run in the ore, which samples from $6 to $8 a yard. This gravel is cemented, and its treatment will require breaking in a revolving trommel.
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The Wortley Consolidated Mines Company, Frank Lamley, General Manager, Randsburg, California, has shipped its first carload of concentrates, from the big orebody in the Santa Fe Mine. This vein is 28 feet wide, and contains streaks of shipping ore, along with mill grade. Better values are reported in a winze that is being sunk. The above shipment was accompanied by 100 tons of ore mined from the Eighth Level of the Kelly Mine, by Lessees Rust, Fernandez, and Andreason. Forty-nine lessees, living mostly at Red Mountain, are working through the Nos. 1, 2, and 6 Shafts.
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The Treadwell-Yukon Company, Ltd., R. J. Duncan, Manager, Bodie, California, is dropping 10 stamps on ore mined from development at the Standard Mine, and will place its 250-ton flotation plant in operation, within a few days. This flotation plant was designed as a test plant, and will be run on ore from the Standard, and other North End mines, and on approximately 500,000 tons of dump ore. Several crosscuts have been run to the west into the Noonday Mine, from the 700-foot Level of the Red Cloud Shaft. One crosscut struck five veins, from 14 inches to four feet wide, with a streak of high grade that carries as high as $56,000 a ton in gold. Drifts are being run south on these veins, into ground that is virgin below the 500 Level.
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The 1,550-foot North Drift, being driven under contract, for the Central Eureka Mining Company, A. S. Howe, General Superintendent, Sutter Creek, California, has been completed 300 feet of its length. It is being driven between two parallel veins from the 2,540-foot Level of the Central Eureka Shaft, to the 2,300-foot Level in the Old Eureka Shaft. The objective will probably not be reached until next August, and it is estimated that the level will save the company about $30,000 annually. About 140 miners and millmen are on the payroll, and the 40-stamp mill is handling an average of 4,000 tons of ore monthly.
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The Calaveras Development Company, under the supervision of Joseph E. King, Box 64, San Andreas, California, has un-watered and re-timbered its shaft to a depth of 300 feet, and a mine crew is working in three shifts. The orebodies will be resurveyed and checked immediately upon the completion of the shaft work. This is a 750-foot single-compartment and manway incline shaft, from which about 3,500 feet of lateral development have been completed. The Calaveras Development organization is composed of I. E. Selix, P. J. de Flores, and Sol. Silverman, all of San Francisco, and W. L. Merrill, a mining engineer of Sacramento. Cyanide tests have recovered 92 percent of the ore values, and they plan to build a 100 ton plant of this type, as soon as the mine justifies that step.
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According to A. L. Lidwell, rancher and mining man of Springdale, the gold discovery recently reported from the Grapevine Range, at the eastern edge of Death Valley, California, is making good. The discovery was made by Bobby Thompson, Indian prospector, who optioned his find to Benson and Simpson, Virginia coal operators. They have driven a 50-foot tunnel, that has exposed 18 inches of talc, carrying $118 in gold, to the ton. Associated with the showing, is considerable $20 gold ore.
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The Genii Mining Company, Ltd., at Magalia, California, T. C. Cunningham, General Superintendent, has opened gold-bearing gravel, said to run $10. The deposit was opened in drifting from the main crosscut, and a substantial tonnage is said to have been proven. Arrangements are being made for steady operation through the rainy season, and to later develop its quartz locations. A restraining dam has been built to retain debris from the Sacramento River.
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The Consolidated Metal Mines, Ltd., organized at Park City, Utah, a few months ago, is arranging to finance the development of the Virginia-Belmont Gold Mine, near Coulterville, California. Consolidated Metal has a lease and bond on the Virginia-Belmont, which comprises five patented, and several unpatented claims, fully equipped, and has a substantial tonnage of $14 ore blocked out.
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Fifty stamps of the Yellow Aster Mining Company’s well equipped mill are dropping, 10 stamps on lessees’ ores, and 40 on company ore. As the gold product carries only free milling gold, the recovery is high. The plant is operated three shifts a day. The equipping of the 200-foot two-compartment shaft has been started. Two experienced miners are carefully extracting ore from the 20-inch high-grade strike on the south side of the glory hole, 250 feet above the working level of the plant. W. F. Allen, Jr., Box 341, Randsburg, California, is General Manager.
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E. W. Callahan of Los Angeles, California, is awaiting the arrival of a carload of machinery from Arizona, at his Baltic and Buckboard properties, at Randsburg. Actual work will be started as soon as this machinery arrives.
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CENTRAL EUREKA ENGAGED IN IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT

Mine receipts—returns from bullion and concentrates sold—of the Central Eureka Mining Company, operating at Sutter Creek, a short distance north of the Kennedy and Argonaut Mines, for the ten months ended October 31, last, officially made public recently, totalled $326,000. This is at the annual rate of $391,200, and compared with $357,570, for the fiscal year ended April 1, last. With a force of around 140 miners and niillmen, the company’s 40-stamp plant is reducing an average of 4,000 tons of ore monthly, it is officially stated.

Current production is being obtained from the 2,000 and 2,100-foot Levels of the old Eureka property, frequently referred to as the Hetty Green Mine, it having been owned at one time by the late woman financier. It was bought five years ago, at a net cost of $150,000, by the Central Eureka, from the Old Eureka Mining Company, which, years previously, paid Mrs. Green $500,000 for it. State records show that in the early days of California mining, the Old Eureka produced ore valued in excess of $12,000,000, above the 1,700-foot Level, which, in elevation, corresponds with the 1,900-foot Level of the Central Eureka, adjoining on the south.

Following acquisition, the Central Eureka resumed development of the Old Eureka at depth, and, in the last two and a half years, has expended $200,000, in addition to the purchase price, in equipping and preparing the property for the renewed production, which is now getting under way. Its more expeditious and economical operation, than at present possible, will be accomplished, it is claimed by the management, upon the completion of the 1,550-foot North Drift being extended by contract, on the 2,540-foot Level of the Central Eureka Shaft, to connect with the 2,300-foot point in the Old Eureka Shaft.

This drift, proceeding between two parallel veins about 70 feet apart, has already been advanced more than 300 feet. It is expected to be completed about August next. In addition to facilitating the mining and further exploration of the Old Eureka and Central Eureka orebodies at depth, the completion of this connecting drift will make possible the abandonment by the Central Eureka, of the South Eureka Mining Company’s 2,700-foot Shaft, maintained for the last 12 years as an emergency exit, and for the pumping and passage of Central Eureka mine water, to the surface. The discontinuance of this practice will, it is asserted by the management, result in saving the Central Eureka $30,000, annually. Thereafter, Central Eureka mine water, as well as that of the Old Eureka and South Eureka, will be handled through the connecting drift, and up the Old Eureka Shaft. The same route will also provide the Central Eureka mine with a new emergency exit, and an avenue, of ventilation
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THE MINING JOURNAL for JANUARY 30, 1931

CALIFORNIA

KING UNWATERS 700 LEVEL OF OLD FORD INCLINE SHAFT

Notwithstanding several delays caused by mechanical mishaps, re-timbering, and de-watering of the 750-foot incline shaft on the Ford Mine on the outskirts of San Andreas, started late last November, the work is practically completed. The property is being operated by the Calaveras Development Company, controlled by I. E. Selix, San Francisco merchant, and associates, under the supervision of Joseph E. King, (address, San Andreas, Calif.), veteran Mother Lode mine manager. Water is at present, being pulled by pump and baler from the 700-foot Level, the bottom lateral, on which there are 830 feet of drifts. To expedite operations, a 75-horsepower motor is being connected with the hoist, to replace a 50-horsepower motor used in the past.

On the 300-foot Level, the Main Vein, Superintendent King states, shows a width of from 15 to 25 feet, for the length of 400 feet, opened up, while the Footwall Vein, 160 feet west of the Main Vein on the same level, varies in width from four to 10 feet. Both veins pan well in gold. On the 400-foot Level, a 117-foot crosscut shows the Main Vein to be from 10 to 15 feet wide. Samples assayed gave an average of $8.40 a ton
in gold. All present workings of the mine were run by its early operators. When the 700-foot Level is cleaned out, an assay map of all workings will be made, in order to check up engineering data, which has come into the possession of the present management.
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Considerable good cinnabar ore has been opened in the Bitterwater Creek Mine, according to H. V. Underwood, of Hollister, California, and a larger retort will be installed soon. The drift is in 55 feet, and a shaft, now down 15 feet, is being sunk below that level. The property is five claims and a millsite, located within two miles of a natural gas pipeline, and has an abundance of water.
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Gustav Bender, of Johannesburg, California, owner of the Bender Mine, intends to sink a 300-foot shaft, and drift 200 feet at that depth. Since the development of this mine was started last Fall, it has been opened to a depth of 70 feet, and about three tons of gold ore are being mined daily. It is equipped with a hoist and hoist house, a blacksmith shop, a three-room house, and an ore bin. Three men are working.
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The drift from the bottom of the 85-foot vertical shaft in the Blue Lead gravels, at Bangor, California, has opened the Blue Lead Tertiary Channel, and is within 20 feet of the Grey Channel. The former prospected about $4.50 a cubic yard, and temporary equipment has been installed to test both channels. Pending satisfactory results, electric power, and a plant, consisting of an automatic hoist, Krogh mill, Huelsdonk concentrator, etc., will be installed capable of handling as much as 250 cubic yards of gravel in 24 hours. The electricity may be provided either by Diesel engines, or by hookup with the lines of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Twelve men are employed.
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Negotiations are in progress to finance the purchase and installation of a complete line of new machinery at the Gross-Street Mining Company, Ltd., property on the Mother Lode, between Melones, and Rawhide, California. No ore has yet been produced commercially by the company, but it is estimated that 43,820 tons, having a gross value of $388,650 are to be developed. The company controls 40 acres, developed by a 312-shaft, and 1,350 feet of drifts on three levels. E. B. Cushman, and R. W. Bender, of 1024 Mills Building, San Francisco, are President and General Manager, respectively.
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The Mayflower Gravel Mining Company, at Foresthill, California, George L. Duffey, Superintendent, is asking bids on the driving of 1,400 feet of bedrock tunnel at its Baltimore property. The Baltimore property was acquired by the late W. F. Detert in 1928, when the handling of water, and working downstream from the main Mayflower tunnel became prohibitive. The Baltimore property includes a mill and electrical equipment, and is developed by a 5,800-foot tunnel.
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A deposit of $5 gravel has been opened by River Placers Co., Ltd., L. A. Smith, Superintendent, on the Middle Yuba River. The streak is from two to four feet thick and is being drifted along upstream. Superintendent Smith’s headquarters are 53 Granada Street, San Francisco.
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Donald Woodrum, Merchants Exchange Building, San Francisco, California, and associates, have been granted permission to market stock in the California Mines Corporation, Ltd., and development will be started as soon as funds are available. Its property is a consolidation of the Arbogast, Rodgers, Layton, Price, Walrath, Reward, Summit, Dodo, Orleans, and Mountaineer Claims, in all, more than 36 mining claims.
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The San Francisco Mining Exchange has listed the shares of the Mirabel Mining Company, embracing 1,400 acres in Lake County, California, fully equipped with operating machinery, and a 48-ton Scott furnace. The ground is said to have a production record of about 36,000 flasks of quicksilver, and, at a depth of 300 feet, a vein as wide as 18 feet in places is being developed.
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W. P. Hofstetter, of Murphys, California, has taken a two-year lease, on the Tanner Mine, near that town, and is operating one shift. The old dump is being run through the mill, with good returns. The Tanner is developed principally by an 1,800 foot tunnel.
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The Valley Lime Company, Ltd., at Lindsay, California, intends to widen its quarry tracks, and install cars of greater capacity, according to E. H. McEuen, President and General Manager. Twenty-one men are in the employ of the company. The average daily output is 160 tons.
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On January 9, the Oversite Mining Company opened very rich ore, one nugget alone being worth $75, in its gravel workings on Six Mile Creek, near Angels Camp, California. A shaft has been sunk to a depth of 256 feet, and approximately 1,400 feet of drifting done. The rich discovery was made while crosscutting from the main drift. The property adjoins the Vallecita Western Mine, one of the best producing gravel propositions in the state. E. A. Eames, and Victor Lemoge, are President and Secretary, respectively. The company maintains an office at 281-285 Natoma Street, San Francisco.
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During December, the Estelle Unit, of the American Smelting and Refining Company, at Keeler, California, Thomas L. Chapman, General Superintendent, shipped 350 tons of ore to the Selby Smelter. This was direct smelting ore, assaying 33 percent lead, and from 25 to 30 ounces silver, and is of the general average content which the company has been shipping for several months. Some new ore has been opened and, with further development, may he a faulted segment of one of the famous Cerro Gordo producers. The aerial tramway has been repaired, and is carrying its normal tonnage.
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The General Kieselguhr Corporation has acquired a number of placer claims, and fee simple acreage containing a large body of high-grade in Shasta County, California, near Weed, from the Mt. Shasta Silica Company, M. H. Neimeyer, General Manager. The ground is said to contain large deposits of diatomaceous barites, which the new owners will operate.
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The Champion Mining Company plans to resume the operation of its property at Hornitos, Mariposa County, California, with a payroll of 10 men. General development, and a new mill, are included in its program. This is a gold property, developed by approximately 4,000 feet of underground workings, to a depth of 600 feet. E. Stevens, President; W. A. Noon, Secretary and General Manager; and George C. Hogg, Consulting Engineer, all reside at Portland, Oregon, and the company’s office is located there, at 215 Porter Building. Clarence Jarbeau is General Superintendent at Hornitos. This company also owns property in Malheur County, Oregon, and at Kingman, Arizona.
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C. H. Massan is dismantling the stamp mills, and other machinery, at the Picacho Gold Mines, located about 20 miles from Yuma, on the California side of the Colorado River. Twenty years ago, the mines were at the peak of their production. A railroad was built to the river, over which the ores were carried and transported to the Gulf of Lower California, thence to the smelters along the Pacific Coast. A large part of this ore found its way to England, for refining.
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The constructive improvements effected recently by the Bonanza Gold Mines Company, have cost approximately $135,000, and enable the company to mine 1,000 tons of gravel daily, according to Charles Moore, of Yuba City, California, President of the organization. Thirty men are on the payroll. William U. Price is General Manager and Consulting Engineer.
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The improvements made by the Crystal Silica Sand Company, at Oceanside, California, during 1930, have increased its production 30 percent, according to President and General Manager J. A. Benell, 716 East Sixtieth Street, Los Angeles. The plant is now equipped to produce sand for all purposes, at the rate of 200 tons a day. M. A. Kite, Superintendent at Oceanside, has a crew of 10 men working.
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Immediate development of the Roydon Mining Company, on Soledad Mountain, in the Mojave District, in California, will be confined largely to driving a 335-foot tunnel in the Echo Mine, and crosscutting 225 to the east, and about 245 feet to the west. The old milling plant has been taken apart and is being rebuilt with such gold-saving devices as a 100-ton high-speed rotary grinder that crushes to 20 mesh, a Dorr classifier, Marcy ball mill, plates, agitator, cyanide equipment, and zinc boxes. This plant will be operated on a 50-ton basis, until all parts are checked. The officers of the company are: A. R. McGuire, M. E., President; Littleton Price, Vice-President and Engineer in Charge; and W. J. Pierce, Secretary and Treasurer. The company receives its mail at Box 127, Mojave.
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The Brunswick Mill of the ldaho Maryland Mines Company, at Grass Valley, California, has been making test runs for several days on silica from the Idaho Maryland Mine. The mile of road between the mine and mill are undergoing repair for heavy hauling, and as soon as the mill begins regular operation, a better grade of ore will be milled. William S. Sheeler, of Silverton, British Columbia, who has installed the flotation process in the mill, will continue to operate the mill until it is in regular production, and probably longer.
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The Smuggler Mining Company, Ltd., C. N. Miller, President and General Manager, 549 Holbrook Building, San Francisco, has taken over the Brown’s Hill Channel Mine, 45 miles from Oroville, California. A tunnel has been driven 312 feet, and is expected to reach the ore channel within 90 days. Buildings have been erected at the mine, and supplies are in camp, for the winter. This company was formerly known as the Smuggler Divide Mining Company, and still owns the Limerick Mine, at Rochester, Nevada, where a large tonnage of mill ore is in sight.
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The Mar-John Mines Company is stoping on three distinct veins, paralleling each other, within a distance of 340 feet, at Sheepranch, California. One shift is engaged in the mine, and three shifts in the 10-stamp mill. Production is coming from the 350-foot Level of the 470-foot vertical shaft. Following two and one-half years of systematic and vigorous development, Mar-John Mines became a profitable operation last summer, and has been making a creditable showing since that time. A mile east of the main workings, the company is mining some cobalt and rare metals and shipping them to its plant in San Francisco, for special treatment. John T. Martin, 381 Bush Street, San Francisco, is President.
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E. W. Callahan, of Los Angeles, California, mine operator, expects to begin active work at his Baltic and Buckboard leases, at Randsburg, January 10. The 10-stamp mill at the Baltic will be reconditioned, and deeper development prosecuted in both mines. The Baltic incline shaft is 600 feet deep. Water and power service are available, and the mine is close to a paved county highway. The Buckboard Shaft has been sunk 400 feet vertically, and, in the bottom, Callahan has located a four-foot ledge of sulphide ore, that will return about $30 a ton.

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rehab · CALIFORNIA MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 2 15 1931

THE MINING JOURNAL

Pacific Coast Mining Activities
Concentrated mining news from California,

Nevada, Oregon, and Washington

CALIFORNIA

Todd B. Elliott, Box 1998, Angels Camp, California, and eastern associates, have leased the Bower Mine, 17 miles northeast of Angels Camp, from Del Ray, of Sonora. The new operators are losing no time in laying concrete foundations for the construction of a five-stamp mill, and will install amalgamation, concentration, and oil flotation machinery. The Bower ground has been idle 30 years. The former operators sank a 180-foot shaft on the vein, and drifted 200 feet east, and 150 feet west at that depth, on a vein that averaged eight feet in width and $20 a ton in gold. An 850-foot crosscut was driven to the vein, at a depth of 200 feet below the shaft.
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The Western Empire Mines, Ltd., is dropping 20, of its 120 stamps, at the Royal Mine, two miles north of Copperopolis, California, and expects to use 10 more within a few weeks. Three shifts totaling 40 men are working the mine and mill, and handling close to 60 tons a day. The mill heads run between $8 and $10 a ton. Frank S. Tower has been connected with the Royal Mine many years, either as General Manager, or as leaser, and is Superintendent for the new operators.
They are Los Angeles people and took over the ground last August. Since then, they have sunk the 1,000-foot incline shaft another 200 feet, and are drifting northwest and southeast from that point, to pick up the downward extensions of the ore bodies that have yielded several millions from their upper levels.
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The Genii Mining Company has reorganized as the Genii Consolidated Mines Company, Ltd., with a capitalization of $2,600,000, divided into non-assessable shares of $1 par. The officials of the reorganization are: C. N. Miller, 549 Holbrook Building, San Francisco, President; William F. Seeds, Vice-president; and Townley Ball, Secretary-Treasurer. From the sale of treasury stock, the new organization hopes to complete a plant that can wash 100 yards of gravel daily, and make other preparations to place the property on production. A second storage battery locomotive, and additional cars, are to be provided that can move 400 yards of gravel daily, and it is hoped to eventually increase the capacity of the washing plant to handle that tonnage.
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Finances have been obtained in San Francisco, for the further operation of the property of the Drytown Mining Company, according to Walter T. Lucot, of Sutter Creek, California, President and General Manager of the enterprise. From the 485-foot incline shaft, levels have been run at 50, 150, 260, and 450 feet, on the Bonanza Vein, which yielded its highest grade ore from the lowest level, and returned $8 to $20 a ton, all gold. The 180-foot incline shaft sunk on the Crown Point Vein has opened 10 feet of ore that assays $11 a ton, also in gold.
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Within another 50 feet the Amador Star Company hopes to reach the vein towards which it has driven a 200-foot crosscut, from the 800-foot level of the shaft. The Amador Star Mine comprises 138 acres, two and one-half miles north of Plymouth, California, and came under its present management last October. It is equipped with a full line of mine machinery, and the development is financed by the Boro Brothers, of Jackson, and associates.

John Ratto, of Sutter Creek, is President and General Manager. The former development consisted principally of a three-compartment shaft, sank to a vertical depth of 580 feet. At the 500-foot point, a crosscut was driven 170 feet to a west vein that was followed in drifts, 450 feet to the north, and 175 feet to the south. A streak of ribbon quartz was followed 800 feet along this vein that averaged $8 a ton in gold, across a width varying from 8 to 20 inches.
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The Texas Mining Company, Inc., J. R. Hoskinson, President and General Manager, Valley Springs, California, is sinking a shaft to a depth of 150 feet, and will crosscut east, to three veins. These veins will be reached at lengths of 80, 50, and 100 feet, in the crosscut. West of the shaft, ore has been opened at distances of 10 and 25 feet. The small stamp mill is operating on rock that assays from $5 to $325 a ton in gold and silver, no attempt having been made to recover the cobalt and nickel. Gasoline furnishes power, and to date, the shaft has reached a depth of more than 90 feet.
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An agreement of sale of the North Fork gold-silver property, at Forest, California, is in escrow, and the new owners have until June 1, 1931, to assume full charge of the property, according to Manager George F. Stone. Development has reached the point where a 100-stamp mill is required, and a new working shaft should be sunk to a depth of 500, or more feet. The examinations recently made, based on H. G. Ferguson, United States Geologist’s report, showed that the mine has more than $800,000 worth of ore in sight.
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A deposit of nickel has been discovered, near Elsinore, California, that can be traced 1,000 feet along the surface, according to J. M. Mack, Box 122, Elsinore. The ore is of good grade, and the ledge has been followed across a width of 41 feet.
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Grant H. Smith, attorney, Mills Building, San Francisco, California, has purchased the Redding Consolidated Mines, in the Middletown mining district, four miles west of Redding, California, at sheriff’s sale, for the sum of $9,618. The personal property on the ground was sold for an additional $2,000. The Redding Consolidated mines include 68 claims, on which more than $800,000 is claimed to have been expended.
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L. E. Kimball and Percy Barnhart are producing some good ore from the Golden Thread Mine, near Pine Grove, California.
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Lew Rowland of Cathay, California, is preparing to put a small mill on the Mistletoe mining claim, where he has opened considerable ore that runs $45 a ton, and has 100 feet of backs from the tunnel available for mining. He is leasing the ground from J. W. Warford of Mariposa, Milo Caton, and George W. Egenhoff of Merced, and Louis Hanson of Clearinghouse.
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A 50-foot headframe has been completed, and ore is being hoisted from the old workings, of the Yellow Aster Mine, in the Randsburg District, in California. The shaft has two compartments, according to General Manager W. F. Allen, Jr. An agreement for a reduction in wages was entered into between the management and its 30 employees, to continue three months from February 1. Workers drawing $6 a day have been reduced to $5; the $5.50 men have been reduced to $4.50 and the workers who were paid $5.00 a day have been cut to $4.
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The Treadwell-Yukon Company, Ltd., R. J. Duncan, Manager, Bodie, California, is treating between 30 and 40 tons of ore daily from its South End Mines in the Standard Mill, and the new 250-ton mill on the hill above the Standard Mill, is in operation. The crushing department of the new plant is entirely satisfactory, but adjustments are being made in the flotation machinery. As soon as the necessary adjustments are made, it is expected that the mill will work at capacity in the treatment of ore from the old Standard dumps.
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An office, repair shop, and road to the portal of the tunnel, have been completed by the Swift Gold Lode Mining Company, two miles north of Georgetown, California. This is the old Stafford property, which came under the control of a group of Los Angeles men late last year. Fourteen men are working, under Superintendent B. V. Dermody, and the tunnel, which is the principal piece of underground development, has reached a length of 40 feet, and is being well timbered.
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Dr. W. R. Colbert, Box 555, Elsinore, California, and associates, have followed a large andesite-porphyry ledge in Valley View ground, 10 to 14 feet wide, and carrying gold, silver, and lead ore, to a value of $60 a ton. The ledge has been followed 120 feet by a tunnel and drift, and carries its predominating value in gold. A good automobile road has been built to the property, and it is within three-quarters of a mile of each, a railroad, high voltage line, and aqueduct.
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In spite of “hard times” the following transactions have been brought to our attention: the transfer of the Cherry Hill Mining property in Colusa County, California, to the Amalgamated Gold Mines Company, now building a 200-ton cyanide plant; the transfer of the Aurora Quicksilver Mine to Hamilton Carhart, Jr., now in operation and production; transfer of the Big Four group at Manhattan, Nevada, to Cohn McIntosh, formerly of Salt Lake City, Utah, now developing a large low-grade gold mine.
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The Confidence property, comprising more than 70 acres, two unpatented claims, and two lots in the townsite of Confidence, have been sold and deeded to J. Coutts, by Mary Lord Sexton, of Maine. The property has been improved by a shaft house, headframe, engine room, blacksmith shop, boarding house, mill building, and some equipment.
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The Murray Mining Company has dismantled its property, formerly known as the Hinshaw Mine, and is moving its equipment to Humboldt County, California, where it is opening a placer property. George McClutchey is Superintendent.
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A New York company has taken a five-year lease with option to purchase the L. A. and J. T. Burns Ranch, near Soulsbyville, California, embracing the Wheal Rough Mine. In the event of its purchase, the sum of $25,000 has been named in the agreement. Preliminary work is already in progress, pending the arrival of machinery, and it is understood that a shaft will be sunk between 200 and 800 feet. The Wheal Rough vein shows a width of 14 to 16 inches and averages $30 a ton.
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The Silver Creek Development Company, Ltd., is building a 8,500-foot gravity aerial tramway at the Oro Standard Mine, near Victorville, California, according to E. H. Wambold, mining engineer in charge of the property. As soon as weather conditions permit, the 125-foot shaft will be continued to the Third level. Gold, silver, and copper are the principal minerals in the ore, and a concentrating plant will be purchased and installed when development reaches that stage. A. L. Shipley of Los Angeles, is President and General Manager of the company.
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The Whitlock Mines Corporation, M. T. Tresidder, General Superintendent, Mariposa, California, has closed negotiations for the purchase of the Mullin property, and is surveying it for patent. A head frame is being built over the Miner’s Hope Shaft, and the grading has been completed for a 75-horsepower hoist, and for a 525-cubic-foot compressor. The shaft has two compartments, each 4x4 feet inside the timbers, and has been re-timbered 150 feet. Gasoline, which had supplied the motive power, is being abandoned for electricity, necessitating the construction of 8,700 feet of power line. Three men are engaged in surface construction, and three are developing the mine underground.
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A zinc-oxide refinery with a daily capacity of 12 tons of finished product, is to be built at Santa Ana, California, by the Copperconda Mines Company, Robert O. Gruwell, Jr., President and General Manager, 812 North Olive Street, Santa Ana. The concentrate for the refinery will be supplied from the company’s mines at Kingman, and Vicksburg, Arizona, where a 100-ton concentrating plant will be constructed shortly. Approximately 15,000 feet of development that has reached a depth of 1,400 feet, has been done in the mines, and a large tonnage of gold, silver, lead, copper, and zinc ore, is available.
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The hydraulic mine of the Paramount Mining Company, near La Porte, California, is ready for production, awaiting only a supply of water, which will run for about three months, according to General Manager W. A. Hunter, 318 Crocker Building, San Francisco. The equipment includes two giants, pipeline and ditches, a water powered hoist, and a lighting plant. During the past year considerable attention has been given to its drift mine, opened by more than 4,000 feet of tunnels and raises, and its development justifies the installation of a Diesel engine, generator, compressor, and electric engine, for tramming the ore. E. A. Stent of Jackson, California, is President of the company, and Charles S. Haley of San Francisco is Consulting Engineer.
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Water is being drawn from the 700 Level, of the Calaveras Development Company’s property at San Andreas, California, with a pump and baler, in preparation of mining ore from the 300, 400, 600 and 700-foot levels. The 50-horsepower motor has been replaced with one of 75 horsepower, and two pumps will be installed soon, one of 300-gallon per minute capacity at the 400 Level, and one of 225-gallon capacity at the 750-point, in the shaft. Plans for the 100-ton mill are taking form, hoping to be milling ore during the summer. W. L- Merrill, a mining engineer of Sacramento, is President and General Manager, and J. E. King of San Andreas is Mine Superintendent. Thirteen men make up the payroll.
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The Death Valley Exploration Company has taken a new 80-stamp mill, to its property about 50 miles northeast of Barstow, California, and plans to place it in operation as soon as it can be installed. Frank J. Buck, general manager of the company, was formerly on the engineering staff of the Guggenheims, and for the last year has been prospecting the Death Valley property and operating a four-stamp mill. The average return on the plates is said to have been $108 a ton in gold. A supply of water has always been a drawback in the district, but the company has developed a supply considerably beyond its needs. John Allmer is mill foreman.
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Charles B. Watson, and H. L. Cotton, of Sonora, California, have leased the Stanislaus, Keystone, and Adelaide mines, at Melones, from Carson Hill, Ltd. They will begin work by cleaning out the 450-foot shaft in the Stanislaus claim, and intend to install considerable equipment. The Carson Hill properties have a production record of more than a million and a half in gold.
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The California Zinc Company, E. L. Ralston, General Manager, Winthrop, California, has sold all that is left of the original Afterthought smelter and refining plant, to Samuel Billings at Los Angeles. The company, however, retained all of the tramline to Bully Hill, and the Ingot terminal, and all of the mine buildings and the roaster plant.
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The Kennedy Mining and Milling Company, Jackson, California, operating the oldest gold producer in the United States, is experimenting with the oil flotation process, in the treatment of its ores. The 60-stamp mill is treating about 7,000 tons of ore monthly, or around 233 tons a day. E. C. Hutchinson, Room 302, 619 California Street, San Francisco, is president.
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For the purpose of exploring the extension of the Empire Vein, in Pacific ground, the Argonaut Mining Company, Frank Mercer, Superintendent, Jackson, California, is crosscutting west from the 900-foot Level of the Pacific Shaft. One hundred feet of crosscut have been driven, and the objective should be reached in another 50 feet. In Empire ground, this vein yielded more than $6,000,000, to an incline depth of 1,300 feet, or a vertical depth of 1,140 feet.
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J. M. Crandon, a Nevada mine operator, has acquired a lease and option on the Yellow Treasure No. 2 Mine, at Lonely Camp, two and one-half miles east of Rademacker siding, Kern County, California, from Anthony DeMayo. Immediate development is planned.
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The Virginia Mines Company, at Perris, California, is developing the Virginia Mine, through a 220-foot shaft, and in the Trujillo claim, has followed the ledge 120 feet. The ore averages $49.68 a ton across the ledge, and is from 22 inches to five feet wide. Since the ground came under the control of Dr. H. L. Musick, 2236 Whittier Boulevard, Los Angeles nine months ago, close to $85,000 has been spent in its development, and the force reached 37 men. Recently, however, the crew was cut to 20, while the concentrating plant is being built, but a full crew is planned upon the completion of the mill.
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It is reported on good authority that some of the Goldstone mines, near Barstow, California, are about to reopen. They have been closed under option for several years.
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The Los Prietos Quicksilver Mines Company, F. M. Townsend, President, 762 Subway Terminal Building, Los Angeles, California, is in the midst of spending $150,000 in the development of the old Snow quicksilver property in Santa Barbara County, two miles southwest of the Gibraltar Dam. About a fifth of the expenditure has been used up. The retort can turn out two flasks of mercury daily, and a large body of cinnabar has been located.
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A pilot plant, equipped with a Straub Rib-Cone mill, is operating successfully at the Collier Mine, not far from Angels Camp, California. It is the first mill of this manufacture in this section of the East Belt. This mine is owned by Perry Condit, of Murphys, California, and is being operated under lease, by a man named Crawford, from San Diego. It is a quartz proposition, with the vein, in places 28 feet wide, and worth as high as $60 a ton, and has produced many dollars since it was first opened in the early ‘60s.
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A full face of shipping ore, with an eight-inch streak of high grade, assaying better than $200 a ton in gold and silver, has been exposed in the extension of a drift tunnel, on the Rising Sun property, on the Mokelumne River, 19 miles east of Jackson, California. This property has recently been taken over by Paul S. Webb of Santa Monica, formerly chief engineer of smelters, for the Cerro de Pasco Copper Corporation, in Peru, and W. L. Aiken, who has been identified with western mining for many years. They have a lease and bond on the adjoining Henry Toop Ranch of 804 acres. At the surface, the vein has been traced several thousand feet, and its average width is four feet. More than $67,000 have been mined from a 40-foot hole in the Rising Sun claim by early operators. The property is mechanically equipped for extensive operations.
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E. S. Prather of Beverly Hills, California, who took over the Lookout Mountain property, five miles south of Mokelumne Hill, has leased the 20-stamp mill of the Mother Lode Central Mines Company, five miles distant. It will be used in testing and treating ores from the Prather property, which is being developed by a crew of 15 men, and a complete line of mechanical equipment. A power line is being built one and one-half miles to bring in electricity.
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What has the appearance of a new ore body is being opened on the 1,500-foot level of the Idaho-Maryland Mines Company, Albert Crase, General Superintendent, Grass Valley, California. The remodeled Brunswick mill has made test runs during the past three weeks, and is in regular operation, handling more than 100 tons daily, and supplementing the 20-stamp Idaho-Maryland mill.
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METAL PRODUCTS DRIVES TUNNEL TO NINE VEINS IN OLD MAN MTN.

The Metal Products Holding Corporation, operating the Carlyle Mine, on Old Man Mountain, eight miles north of Cisco, California, under the management of Walter Arnstein, Vice-President and General Manager, Hobart Building, San Francisco, has spent over $50,000 since last September, in equipment, supplies, and development. With 21 men working, the corporation is driving a tunnel to cut some nine major veins that run through the mountain, from east to west.

Already the management estimates that there are available 2,000,000 tons of ore, that will average $10 a ton in gold, some silver, and 1.5 percent copper. The main tunnel, now in 200 feet, has cut one of the fissures, and the Eagle, one of the main veins, is 200 feet ahead. This will give 800 feet of backs, and driving west on this vein, a depth of 1,500 feet will be attained in 1,000 feet. Drifts will be run on the fissures as soon as they are cut.

By summer, the management expects to have sufficient ore in the lower levels to insure the first unit of a mill. From where the Eagle vein will be cut to its outcrop, on the top of Old Man Mountain, the difference in altitude is 2,000 feet. As the shrinkage system will be used, and all work will be by gravity, mining will be unusually cheap.

The other officers and directors are:
Harry P. Raansay of Berkeley, president; William F. Stoneback, formerly with George Wingfield and the Goldfield Consolidated Mines, secretary; J. W. Fauson, San Francisco capitalist and oil operator; and Clarence T. Johnston, Menlo Park capitalist, inventor and engineer. Max Cohen, San Francisco capitalist, is also interested.
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CENTRAL EUREKA CENTERS WORK ON HETTY GREEN MINE

On account of heavy ground and excessive costs, the Central Eureka Mining Company, A. S. Howe, Superintendent, Sutter Creek, California, operating at Sutter Creek, has discontinued mining in all lateral workings tributary to its 4,850-foot main incline shaft, and is now confining ore extraction, and new development work, to its north adjoining Old Eureka property, frequently referred to as the Hetty Green Mine, acquired five years ago.

The company’s 40-stamp mill is treating monthly an average of 4,000 tons of ore, which is being drawn from the 2,000 and 2,100-foot levels of the Old Eureka Shaft. This shaft has a total depth of 3,500 feet, but at present, is open only to the 2,860-foot point. At the 2,300-foot point a station is now being cut, preliminary to the opening up of the downward extensions of the Old Eureka ore bodies being mined above.

It will be at this point that the new 1,550-foot North Drift, from the 2,540-foot Level of the Central Eureka Shaft, will connect with the Old Eureka Shaft. This connecting drift, being extended between two parallel veins about 70 feet apart, has thus far been advanced approximately one-third of the distance to its objective point. Its completion will permit the Central Eureka to abandon the South Eureka Mining Company’s 2,700-foot shaft, which has been maintained for the last 12 years as an emergency exit and passageway for mine water, from the Central Eureka, and other workings, thus effecting, it is estimated by the Central Eureka management, to that corporation, a saving of $2,500 monthly.

All water from the Central Eureka, Old Eureka and South Eureka mines will thereafter be pumped up the Central Eureka Shaft, to and through the connecting drift, and thence up the Old Eureka Shaft, to the surface.
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VALLECITO WESTERN YIELDS UNUSUALLY RICH PANNINGS

Placer gold gravel, revealing nuggets reminiscent of the “days of ‘49,” in size and quantity, is being found at the Vallecito Western Mine, two and a half miles east of Angels Camp, just off the Calaveras Big Trees Highway. Strange as it may seem in this day, single pans of gravel have recently yielded nuggets in the pan. Five particular pans showed large pieces of the yellow metal, having an aggregate value of $399, or an average of slightly less than $80 to the pan.

It should be explained, however, that such exceptionally rich pannings are unusual. The general average of the gravel being hoisted at the mine, situated on what is known as the Tertiary Calaveras Channel, nevertheless, is around $15 a ton car, or about $22.50 a cubic yard, the gravel weighing a ton and a half to the cubic yard.

Since the new find, designated by Manager Don Steffa as the “third concentration” revealed in the property, was first made about a month ago, more than $4,500 worth of placer gold has been obtained from the gravel yield, remarkable by reason of the fact that it has come solely from development work. No attempt has yet been made to breast the pay dirt exposed in the new workings, located at a vertical depth of 240 feet beneath the surface at a point about 2,200 feet east of the main working shaft, a single-compartment and manway bore, having a depth of 153 feet. It will be seen from the vertical measurements given above, that the development operations gain in depth beneath the surface, as the exploratory work progresses.

Manager Steffa is authority for the statement that current output of the mine, derived exclusively from development of the new find, is paying all operating costs and piling up a surplus. He further states that for a distance of 500 feet, immediately approaching, or below the new discovery, the extension of the main gangway exposed gravel varying in value from $5 to $14 a ton, or $7.50 to $21 a cubic yard. A still lower stretch of ground, breasted for a width of 65 feet, and a length of 200 feet, at a point about 1,000 feet east of the main shaft, and about the same distance west of the face of the main gangway, yielded $56,000, according to Steffa.

He estimates that there is at present, immediately available in the entire workings of the mine, around 40,000 tons of pay gravel. The Vallecito Western property, equipped with a full complement of machinery and employing 11 men working in two shifts, is being operated by the Vallecito Mining Company, controlled by Thomas H. Lipps, Los Angeles oilman, and associates.

rehab · CALIFORNIA MINING NEWS EMJ 9 15 1928

Fire Destroys Headframe and Plant at Kennedy Shaft

ON SEPT. 7, the headframe, and at the main shaft, of Kennedy Mining & Milling, near Jackson, Calif., were destroyed by a surface fire. Fortunately no lives were lost. The fire spread so rapidly as to get out of control within a short time, and nothing could be done to save the equipment. The Kennedy mill and office buildings escaped damage.

The men underground at the time, escaped through the neighboring Argonaut Mine, and the north shaft of the Kennedy Mine. The new steel head frame, 135 ft. high, which was being built by Moore Shipbuilding, of Oakland, Calif., to serve the main shaft, was destroyed, as well as the machinery equipment, and shops. The shaft itself, which reaches a depth of 4,776 ft and is the deepest in any gold mine in the United States, was damaged, but it is believed that this is not serious. So far as is known, no plant insurance was carried by the company, and the financial loss is heavy.

Kennedy Mining has been particularly unfortunate in suffering losses from fire. Recently, the company lost a suit against Argonaut Mining, for damages resulting from a fire in the Argonaut Mine, which caused the flooding and shutting down of both properties in 1919.

rehab · ARGONAUT MINE DISASTER, 1922 LA TIMES

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1922 Gold Mine Disaster Was State's Deadliest
· Nearly a mile below ground, 47 workers ran out of time and air in a case with similarities to the recent tragedy in West Virginia.

By Cecilia Rasmussen, Times Staff Writer
The words "cave-in" and "mine disaster" inevitably call to mind the coal-mining region of Appalachia.

But 84 years ago, the Gold Country was the scene of the deadliest recorded mine disaster in California, with similarities to the recent Sago mine explosion in West Virginia that killed 12.

On a hot summer night in 1922, fire and toxic gas ripped through a mine shaft nearly a mile beneath the surface, trapping 47 miners. The incident at the Argonaut Gold Mine in Jackson, about 30 miles from Sutter's Mill in Coloma, turned into a 22-day rescue effort.

The harrowing story is told in Times news reports and a recent book.

The Argonaut mine had been discovered in the 1850s by two freed slaves, William Tudor and James Hager. It was destined to become one of California's richest, producing more than $25 million before the federal government closed the nation's gold mines at the beginning of World War II. (Gold was considered nonessential to the war effort.)

Tudor and Hager worked the mine until the 1860s. By the 20th century, it belonged to a large group of investors.

The Argonaut was the heartbeat of Jackson, along with the nearby Kennedy Mine, where ore-crushing hammers shook the earth around the clock.

By the early 1920s, the Argonaut's main shaft extended 4,900 feet into a maze of interconnected caverns and honeycombed tunnels. Most miners, primarily immigrants from Italy, Spain and Serbia, earned $4 a day.

Shortly before midnight on Aug. 27, 1922, when most of Jackson was asleep (or occupied in speak-easies and brothels), a fire broke out below 3,000 feet. Most of the men on the night shift were trapped.

A few miners who were stationed closer to the surface clambered out, alerted others and began pouring water down the shaft. By dawn, the townspeople, firefighters and every miner in Amador County had rushed to help. They could hear water hissing as it hit the flames, raging out of control in the impassable shaft.

It took 2 1/2 days, until Aug. 30, to extinguish the blaze. Two rescue teams began to reopen two passageways that connected the Argonaut with its rival and neighbor, the Kennedy Mine. The tunnels had been closed after a 1919 fire.

In dim light, slowed by heavy oxygen tanks and plagued by small cave-ins, rescuers laboriously cleared rock, timber and debris.

Word of the disaster had spread beyond the county. As the miners' families waited anxiously for news, dozens of reporters and newsreel crews with hand-cranked cameras swarmed into Jackson.

One of them was already there: a producer-actor named Hobart Bosworth, who in 1909 had starred in a dramatic epic filmed in Los Angeles' first studio, "In the Power of the Sultan."

Bosworth was staying in Jackson and using the mine as a backdrop for a silent movie, "The Beloved Unknown." He had hired and filmed many of the trapped miners as extras. Bosworth took his camera crew back to the mine to shoot real-life fire scenes and try to rescue miners. His still photos of the miners, taken before the fire, ran in all the newspapers.

After laboring for a week, rescuers had yet to reach the miners. But they, and newspapers, remained optimistic — if inconsistent. A front-page Times story almost two weeks after the fire had begun screamed: "Rescue Crews Hope to Reach Miners in Week." Yet three days earlier, the paper had quoted engineers and mining officials as saying they believed that there was no hope and that 47 coffins had been ordered.

Amador County's mining companies offered a $5,000 reward for the first rescue team to reach the miners.

In the depths of Prohibition, the American Red Cross dispensed a couple of shots of whiskey to each rescuer before he entered the tunnel, and a few more when he climbed out.

The liquor was supplied by the federal government as a special "dispensation" and to help bolster morale.

On the evening of Sept. 18, rescuers wearing masks and carrying oxygen tanks inserted a caged canary behind a bulkhead. Several minutes later, the small bird lay lifeless; rescuers lost all hope of finding survivors.

Moving on, the crew watched as rats scurried away from where the remains of two men would be found huddled together. They would be identified as Charles and Arthur O'Berg, father and son. All but one of the other bodies were found nearby.

Devastated townsfolk buried the victims four days later in three cemeteries — Protestant, Catholic and Greek Orthodox. Forty-seven coffins were placed in the ground, even though the body of the last man would not be found for a year.

It turned out that all of the doomed miners had fled farther into the mine to escape the fire. Trapped nearly a mile from the main entrance, they built two bulkheads and barricaded themselves, trying to stave off deadly carbon monoxide.

But the miners' training and precautions proved futile when critical hours passed without rescue — the same fate that befell the Sago miners.

As the oxygen supply dwindled, Argonaut miner Edward William Fessel used the carbon from his miner's lamp to scrawl a message on a rock wall: "3 o'clock, gas getting strong."

Another miner, using a rock, scratched: "3:15, half knocked out."

Fessel made the final entry: "4 o'clock" — nothing more. That was 4 a.m. — their oxygen had run out in four hours.

It was Fessel's body that was not found for a year, perhaps because the water used to extinguish the blaze had washed his remains farther down the shaft. During the intervening year, newspapers speculated that he had escaped and fled to start a new life — much to his family's anguish.

An investigative committee appointed by Gov. William Stephens concluded that the mine had violated safety regulations. But the owners of the Argonaut Mine Co. were not fined or punished; at the time, the U.S. Bureau of Mines had little control over enforcing safety regulations.

The committee's report is recounted in O. Henry Mace's 2004 book, "47 Down: The 1922 Argonaut Gold Mine Disaster."

Investigators eventually made 17 "logical" safety recommendations, Mace wrote, including the installation of an emergency alarm system, fire doors and reversible ventilation fans. But the committee could not determine what had caused the fire. It cited several possibilities but concluded with "incendiarism" — meaning arson — or defective electric wiring.

"Despite the death of 47 men in the Argonaut Mine, the government of California had determined that the value of the state's gold mines far exceeded the risk to human life," Mace wrote, noting that the Legislature had failed to regulate mine safety.

Sympathetic Americans banded together to raise money for the miners' families. At a ball sponsored by Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, several of the rescuers — friends of the dead miners — made special appearances in their denim mining garb and described the ordeal. (One of them insisted that Los Angeles traffic was more dangerous than mining.)

Members of Pacific Coast League baseball teams lined up against Hollywood celebrities at a charity game at Washington Park, which was at 8th and Hill streets in downtown L.A.

In all, more than $45,000 was raised nationwide — about $1,000 per miners' family.

After World War II, several attempts to reopen the Argonaut and the Kennedy failed. Both mines — registered together as California Historical Landmark No. 786 — now strike it rich as a tourist attraction.

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THE MINING JOURNAL 2 28 1931

CALIFORNIA MINING NEWS

The Central Eureka Mining Company, A. S. Howe, General Superintendent, Sutter Creek, California, has started stoping the new ore body opened recently in the North Drift, on the 2,100-foot Level, of the Old Eureka Mine. It is stated officially that the ore averages 7 feet in width, and $13 a ton in gold.
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Thomas Cooper of Volcano, and W. W. Cox of Grass Valley, California, are cleaning out, retimbering, and lowering the grade of a drift tunnel in the Battle Mountain Property, a half mile northeast of Volcano. They have a bond and lease from the Lagomarsino Brothers of Sutter Creek. The tunnel is 2,200 feet long, 1,800 feet of which is through the Cleveland Consolidated property, where gravel was mined for a width of 80 feet, and was from 1 to 3 feet thick. Specimens recently taken from the old Battle Mountain workings show a liberal distribution of flake and nugget gold.
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Eight feet of ore, assaying an average of $44 in gold, and $2 in silver, have been opened up in the Boston Mokelumne Mine, two miles northeast of Mokelumne Hill, California, according to Bat Sullivan, Manager of Operations. The ore is in the south drift, on the 950-foot Level of the 1,000-foot incline shaft, and 160 feet from the shaft. In the south drift, on the 100-foot Level, two chutes are being installed, preliminary to stoping a large body of ore, assaying from $7 to $10 in gold. Repair of the shaft has been completed from the collar to the sump, and changes are being made in the 200-ton ball mill, which is expected to resume operations within 30 days.
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Otto Ossinghaus, San Francisco mining man, has exposed ore from one to three feet wide, in the Yellow Aster Mine, near Westpoint, California, that assays from $43 to $81 in gold, with small silver values. The ore has been followed 90 feet in the tunnel, which has been driven 400 feet, and gives a vertical depth of 300 feet on the vein. W. W. Congdon, local man, owns the mine.
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The Lucky Tiger Combination Gold Mining Company, an Arizona corporation, with headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri, has taken a bond and lease on the American Girl Mine, in the Cargo Muchacho Mining District, in Imperial County, about 16 miles west of Yuma, Arizona. Machinery has been taken to the mines, and work started under the management of T. R. Herndon. The ground was operated during the heyday of the Hedges Mine, one mile distant, and which has a production record of more than $3,000,000. Most of the ores in the district are low grade, running between $5 and $7 a ton in gold.
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San Francisco capital, organized as the Gold Ledge Mining Company, Ltd., has taken over the Duncan Mine, and the Parallel Mine, both in Mariposa County, California, near Hornitos. While the Duncan Shaft is 190 feet, no stoping has been done below the 160 Level. Its production record is close to $600,000 in gold. Only a slight amount of development has been done in the Parallel ground, but the surface conditions are considered worthy of prospecting.
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The gold mine of the Lost Horse Mining and Milling Company, within 14 miles of Palm Springs, California, is being opened by Sam Ryan. Private capital is being used in the development of this ground, and a complete plant is being assembled for operation.
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Gravel washing has started at the Kirkpatrick Mine, at Goodyear’s Bar, California, George Nightingale, Superintendent, and will be continued as long as water is available. The paystreak has been opened 600 feet in a drift tunnel, and breasting therefrom is well under way.
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A rich pocket of gold ore is reported to have been located in the Slate Mountain Mine, eight miles cast of Georgetown, California, owned and managed by R. Ward Brookes. Seven men are working, and a stamp mill is in operation. Besides this pocket, there is a large body of ore with free gold throughout.
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Five feet of ore that assays $57 a ton in gold, has been opened by the Consolidated Metal Mines, Ltd., in a winze 70 feet below the 1,050 Level of the Virginia Mine, at Coulterville, California. The winze had been following a foot of gold ore, and the strike was made when a shot was put in what appeared to be the foot-wall of the vein. The mill has been operating on ore taken out during development and, if the discovery proves continuous, deeper development will be undertaken, according to Arthur Thomas, who resumed the operation of the property. Thomas maintains his headquarters at 1118 Newhouse Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, and is visiting in California at the present time.
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Work has been resumed on the gravel mining property on the Fred Batten Ranch, near Vallicita, California, by J. W. Rogers, and I. T. Long. The incline shaft is down 285 feet, and is being unwatered. They expect to find the channel at an early date.
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The Alpine Consolidated Mining Company will resume operations, the last of next month, according to C. L. Wilson, of Markleeville, California, President and General Manager of the company. Their plans call for a 500-foot vertical shaft on a gold-silver-copper deposit, which at a depth of 500 feet, shows 60 feet of good mill ore. Large deposits of enargite, running as high as $400 a ton, have been mined and shipped from the 260 Level, but these have not been reached in the lower tunnel, now in 5,000 feet. According to Wilson, winter development was impossible because they started too late in the Fall to make preparations for the winter. C. D. Wilkinson, Box 174, Tonopah, Nevada, is their Mine Superintendent and Consulting Engineer.
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Extensive constructive improvements have been made at the Victor Mine, at Angels Camp, California, by the Calaveras Central Mining Corporation, now developing and producing, and equipped to handle between 250 and 300 tons of gravel a day. Sixteen men are working, according to Harry Sears, President and General Manager, and they intend to increase the force to 30 men at an early date. The recent underground installations include six new two-ton, roller bearing, Joshua-Hendy ore cars, a Butler-Nordberg loading shovel, and changes in the track; and additional scrapers and ore cars are to be installed. A 150-ton steel ore bin will shortly be installed at the mill. The living accommodations have been improved by a three-room change house with showers, lockers, and wet clothes dryer. William H. Warwick is General Superintendent.
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Recent experiments in oil flotation, conducted by the Kennedy Mining and Milling Company, Webb Smith, Superintendent, Jackson, California, show that it can save approximately $1.20 a ton by adding this method to its amalgamation-concentration system. The 60-stamp mill treats an average of 7,000 tons of ore a month, and the loss in the tailings had been averaging $2 a ton, therefore the new process is of utmost importance. The Kennedy is the deepest gold mine in the United States, having a vertical depth of 4,800 feet.
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The 10-stamp mill at the Bigelow Mine, near Sierra City, California, is being operated continuously on a fair grade of ore, believed to be an extension of the Pearson Oreshoot, which has produced heavily In adjoining ground. Water power is used, and the ores are free milling. The work is conducted by T. W. Callender, J Martin, E. A, Humphreys, and D. Coughlan, under lease from Elizabeth Martin.
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Recent operation of the 100-ton milling plant at the Woodhouse Mine, three miles south of Westpoint, California, has brought $6.50 a ton by amalgamation and concentration. Drifts are being run from the 100 and 170, or bottom, of an incline shaft, on a vein averaging four feet in width. W. W. Gibson, 112 Market Street, inventor of ore reduction processes, and eastern associates, are operating the mine, and seven men are employed.
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Jack Munson, a Nevada mining man, and Charles Golta of Westpoint, California, are sinking an incline shaft and manway on the Paymaster Mine, one and one-quarter miles northwest of that town. Ore worth $40 a ton in gold, silver and lead is being mined from the shaft at a depth of 35 feet.
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On the 300-foot level of its property four miles south of Middletown, California, the Mirabel Mining Company has followed its Creek cinnabar strike 65 feet, and the ore is still running from 5 to 10 percent and better. The ore was first located at the surface, and later at the 150-foot Level. The vein is estimated to contain more than 10,000 tons. Besides this oreshoot, ore can be drawn from the Plymouth, Vineyard, Sandstone, and Bullion Veins. Twenty-one men are working. With favorable weather, the 48-ton Scott furnace will go into operation in two weeks, and the force will be nearly doubled.
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Last year the Walker Mining Company, at Spring Garden, California, H. A. Geisendorfer, General Manager, produced $15,782,200 pounds of copper concentrate. The mill heads ran close to 1.67 copper and the recovery averaged 91 percent. The tonnage mined was 580,529, at a cost averaging $1.26 a ton, and milling and tramming to the Spring Garden railroad station, brought the total cost of mining to $2.45 a ton. As a by-product, the company produced nearly 1,000 ounces of silver, and nearly $1,000 in gold, daily. During the year, improvements were made in the mill equipment, housing conditions, nine-mile aerial tramway, installations of hoisting equipment at the Piute Shaft, and maintenance of other plants at a cost of $98,878. The operating profit was $401,305, and was further increased by interest to $405,882. The mine is now working on a five-day basis, and during December, was producing copper at a cost of 9 cents a pound.
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The Santa Ana Mining Company, C. D. Holmes, 1408 North Main Street, Santa Ana, California, is running 30 tons of cinnabar ore daily, through its 100-ton reduction plant at Keene. Ore is being mined in excess of the tonnage concentrated, in order that substantial reserves may be maintained. Twenty men are employed at the property, under the supervision of G. H. Simpson.
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The installation of electric pumps is planned by Cory Mine Company, Ltd., at Magalia, California, in preparation for continuing the shaft below its present depth of 290 feet, and establishing permanent workings. Fifteen men are on the payroll, and three shifts will be employed within a week, according to C. H. Thurman, Box N, Oroville, California, who is Managing Director for the company. This is a gold proposition, and Jack Sobrero is Mine Superintendent.
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The Allegheny-Eldorado Gold Mining Company, at Alleghany, California, is sinking a winze below the Main Drift. It has reached a depth of 40 feet, and will probably be continued to a depth of 200 feet, according to Charles E. Trezona, 525 Security Building, Los Angeles, who is the President and General Manager of the company. Five men are engaged at the mine under the supervision of William Lichtenberg, formerly Superintendent for the Kate Hardy people, at Forest. Another important development planned, is the sinking of a shaft in the Osceola Claim, which will be started about June 1. The property is well equipped, including a 10-stamp mill and concentrators, and all the machinery is operated by electric power.
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Further geological studies are being made at the Estelle Unit of the American Smelting and Refining Company at Keeler, California, in view of extending development, according to Thomas L. Chapman, General Manager of that branch. Thirty men are employed, and development is at present confined to the 5, 7 and 9 Levels. Valuable ore has been opened on these levels, and also on the 2 and 4 Levels.
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The Atolia Mining Company, Clifford K. Dennis, General Superintendent, Atolia, California, on February 6, began sinking the incline shaft from the 1,200, to the 1,300-foot point. Upon completion of the sinking, some diamond drill exploration will be carried out in an effort to further increase its reserves of tungsten ore. Due to market conditions, the operation of milling equipment was suspended January 19 of this year. Six men are working now. A. V. Udell, 1022 Crocker Building, San Francisco, is President, General Manager and Consulting Engineer.
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The Bella Oak Mines Company is producing, on an average, 34 tons a day at its cinnabar property near Oakville, California, according to John P. Steckter, of Napa, President of the organization. Nearly a year ago, a Gould rotary furnace was completed and placed in operation. All machinery is operated by hydroelectric power. Twenty men are working.
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Arthur Turpen, 728 East Villa Street, Pasadena, California, has taken a three-year lease on the Bitterwater Creek Quicksilver Mine, at Llanada, from H. V. Underwood and E. A. Matthews, of Hollister, California. On February 13, he took possession of the property, and put three or four men at work building a new road and camp. His, contract specifies that a 10-pipe retort must be in operation within 60 days, and enlarged as soon as the development of the ground warrants its increase.
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The bullion production of the Empire Star Mines Corporation, at Grass Valley, California, for 1930, is estimated at $1, 663,000, or a monthly average of $187,750. Although no new ore has been opened up, development has maintained the usual amount of ore in sight. The North Star ore is shipped over a 6,000-foot tramway completed last year, to the Empire concentrator for reduction. The North Star plant is treating oxidized lease ore, and flotation experiments are being made on the tailings. Empire Star is a subsidiary of the Newmont Mining Corporation, which acquired the North Star and Empire mines in May, 1929, and until the close of that year, produced $806,000, or an average of $100,750 a month. F. W. Nobs is General Manager of the subsidiary organization.
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The California Barrett Gold Mining Company, inc., W. McGee, President, Confidence, California, has been granted an extension of its lease and option on the Mayflower, Elsie May, and Regeina quartz mines, to June 1, 1934, by W. F. and Etta E. Barrett, the owners of the property. The lessors are to receive an additional $50 a month, to apply on the purchase price.
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Two hundred flasks of quicksilver were the January production of the new plant of the Nevada Quicksilver Mines, inc., at Cloverdale, California, which started work December 24 of last year. It is a 100-ton, plant, although not being operated at capacity, and is in charge of H. Hazen. The mines are operated under the supervision of Archie Burnett, and within a few days, the mile tram will be completed between the Beaumeister and Cloverdale Mines, and a larger tonnage run through the mill. Forty-one men are employed.
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The Treadwell-Yukon Company, Ltd., R. J. Duncan, Manager, Bodie, California, made its first shipment of gold bullion to the Mint, from the old mines at Bodie. It was valued at $11,000. The low-grade ores, which are mined by power shovel, are treated by a 250-ton flotation mill, while the high-grade from the underground workings, is handled by a 20-stamp mill.
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A gallows frame has been erected at the Yellow Treasure No. 2 Mine, at Lonely Camp, California, and shaft sinking is in progress, according to G. F. Crandon of Searles (via Trona), who is leasing the ground. Systematic crosscutting and drifting will be carried out at different points in the shaft to explore three parallel ledges, which appear to be related to a porphyritic intrusion.
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The Aladdin Divide Mining Company, C. E. Collins, Superintendent, Box 186, Placerville, California, is washing about 40 cubic yards of gravel daily at the Rising Hope Mine. To date, the gold content in the ore is said to have averaged $4 a yard, and the cost of production is running around $1 a yard. A. large tonnage is available for washing, and the capacity will be raised shortly to 100 cubic yards a day. Twelve men are on the company’s payroll.
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The Golden Horseshoe Mining Company, Ltd., has started its 10-stamp mill on the Guildford property, and is milling ore from a chute in the upper tunnel, in that property. Samples along seven and a half feet of the vein have been assayed and average $80 a ton in gold. The mill can handle 50 tons a day, and will soon be worked at capacity. A crew of 20 men is employed, with L. F. S. Holland, of Placerville, as General Manager. In addition, drifts are being run from the 500-foot Tunnel, which is in approximately 1,800 feet, and from the River Tunnel, which is about 1,300 feet below the surface. The drift from the bottom of the 180 foot Fortuna Shaft is out 300 feet to the south, and the ore averages $20 a ton. At the Pacific Properties the old Oregon workings, which showed very rich ore in the past, are being opened up, and a shaft will be sunk either on the Oregon, or on the Epley, which is a part of this group.
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Three shifts are working at Forest, California, for the Nevada Monarch Gold Mining Company, and supplies are on hand to last all winter. Motors, a compressor, and complete blacksmith shop have been installed, and approximately 1,400 feet of tunnel will be driven to virgin placers, in the Bald Mountain Channel, which the company plans to work first. Several quartz ledges will be worked, which are producing at the present time in adjoining property. The Bald Mountain Channel is considerably lower than the Great Blue Lead Channel, which produced more than $3,000,000 in this property, as reported in the California State Mining Report of 1918. It is also reported that a gold nugget, weighing 201.56 ounces [16.75 Troy pounds], has been obtained from the Ruby Mine, adjoining. F. W. Powers, 253 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, is President and General Manager of the Nevada Monarch, and W. Scott is Mine Superintendent at Forest.
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The ldawa Gold Mining Company, operating property at Quartzburg, Idaho, is said to be negotiating for six gold mining claims located in the new district, 15 miles north of Baker, California, by Boden and Watkins. The report further states that they have offered $50,000 for the group, with a cash payment of $5,000. The Idaho property is equipped with a 25-ton mill and has produced approximately $425,000 during the past four years and has paid its stockholders $80,000 in dividends.
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Robert Burns, W. J. Burns, Dr. David Andrew, and H. O. Hall, all of Salt Lake City, Utah, have organized as the California Gold Corporation, for the development of eight claims in San Bernardino County, California, located early in the year by Robert Burns. The location is about 15 miles north of Baker, on the Union Pacific Railroad, and is reached over the Zion National Park Highway (now I-15). Burns took 14 samples at various points near the surface, and their assays ran between $6 and $65. Trenches, six to eight feet deep, are to be dug, and, if a promising showing is opened, an air compressor will be installed, and the ground thrown open to lease. It is estimated that the entire cost of mining, trucking, and shipping the ore to the Utah smelters, will not exceed $11 a ton.
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KENMAR TUNNEL NEARS DEEP CHANNEL SIXTEEN-TO-ONE OPENS WIRE GOLD

With a force of ten miners, the Kenmar Gold Mines, Ltd., of which J. Y. Ownbey, 805 Security Building, Los Angeles, is President, is making rapid progress in reopening, and re-timbering the Golden State Tunnel, measuring more than a mile in length, on the South Fork Mine, at Forest City, Sierra County, two miles north of Alleghany. The work has advanced to a point 2,860 feet from the portal of the adit, and is entering, it is claimed by the management, the Deep Channel, one of the two gold-bearing ancient river courses, which current operations are designed to open. The second course, known as the Extension Channel, should be reached about 1,800 feet farther along the tunnel, when cleaned out, it is estimated.

The Kenmar, or South Fork, Estate adjoins the Sixteen-to-One Lode Mine, which is producing gold from a depth of 3,100 feet, and which is credited with a yield of more than $15,000,000 to date. In addition, to its placer channels, the Kenmar Property is traversed, it is claimed, by the extension of the Sixteen-to-One ledge. In the early days of California, the Kenmar yielded heavily to its pioneer owners, and was involved in a long drawn out legal battle, which was settled only a few years ago, making possible its present renewed development and operation.

According to reports emanating from an authentic source, negotiations have been inaugurated by the Newmont Mining Company of New York looking to the acquisition of the Sixteen-to-One Mine, on the 3,100-foot level of which, a new lens or shoot of surprisingly rich gold ore has recently been disclosed. It is estimated that the new discovery should yield from $80,000 to $100,000 in wire gold. It is understood that at present, the mine has at least six of these rich lenses, or pockets, immediately available for extraction.
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FEDERAL SURVEY CO-OPERATES WITH CALIF. DIVISION OF MINES

Mr. George W. Stose, Geologic Map Editor, U. S. Geological Survey, was recently in San Francisco to confer with the Geologic Branch of the California State Division of Mines as regards the new geologic map of the state, which the two surveys (state and federal) are preparing through a cooperative arrangement.

Mr. Stose arrived in San Francisco about February 8, and at that time,
conferred with Mr. Walter W. Bradley, State Mineralogist, and Mr. Olaf P. Jenkins, Chief Geologist, who is in charge of the preparation of the map.
Mr. Stose also conferred with many other geologists in California, first in Los Angeles and Pasadena, before arriving in San Francisco. There is much interest among members of the profession at this time, as regards the preparation of this valuable piece of work, and much cooperation is being secured from all institutions, academies, professional societies, and geological departments, of mining, oil, and railroad companies.

According to the arrangement made, the Federal Survey has been compiling all information that was available to it in Washington, D. C. There is, however, as much more information, unpublished, and in various files here in California, as in the office of the U. S. Geological Survey. It becomes the duty, therefore, of the State Division of Mines to complete this map as far as possible, with data it has secured, and to continue to fill in the gaps as fast as the required data are obtained through field work.

The general state geologic map is being drawn on the scale of eight miles to the inch, and will show clearly and accurately all of the principal geologic formations exposed on the surface. A map of this sort will be of widespread importance and value to all mineral resources, mines, oil and gas, water supply, agricultural, and forest industries, transportation lines, etc.

At a glance the reader, traveler, or engineer may see on just what rock formation he is located, and what its relation is to the rest of the state. The main geological structures, faults, etc., will all be shown. The map as a whole, will be of constant service and education to the world at large. Investors, visitors, and travelers, will use it as a constant source of information.

The state is very fortunate in securing the services of men well trained and experienced in making such state maps. Mr. Stose has been in charge of editing and engraving these state maps, and all geologic maps for the U. S. Geological Survey for many years. Mr. Jenkins, a few years ago, prepared such a map of the entire State of Tennessee, doing much of the field work himself, and later was employed in the preparation of the Arizona State Geologic Map, which was published jointly by Arizona and the U. S. Geological Survey.
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ELLIOTT AND ASSOCIATES IN MIDST OF BOWER GOLD DEVELOPMENT

Todd B. Elliott, mining engineer of San Francisco, and eastern associates, have obtained from Del Ray of Sonora, California, a lease and bond on the Bower Mine, 17 miles northeast of Angels Camp, and resumed its operation. The crew of workmen employed is at present engaged in grading and laying concrete foundations for the immediate construction of a five-stamp mill. Amalgamation, concentration, and oil flotation, will be used in the reduction of the ore from the mine.

It is more than 30 years since the property was actively worked, prior to which time, according to official records obtained by Mr. Elliott, it produced ore to the value of $140,000. The early operators opened up the mine by sinking a 180-foot vertical shaft, and extending an 850-foot crosscut tunnel, which exposed the vein and oreshoot 200 feet below the bottom of the shaft. The production named was obtained in drifting 200 feet east, and 150 feet west, on the ore body, averaging eight feet wide and assaying $20 in gold, on the 180-foot or present bottom level of the shaft.

The ore body was practically entirely stoped from that depth to the surface for the combined length of the two drifts. The 350-foot crosscut tunnel, Elliott states, shows the ore body and vein to be six feet wide, with assays of $20 in gold, and small silver and lead values. Development work on the vein from the tunnel, will be vigorously prosecuted.
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AMADOR STAR IN THREE-FOOT DISCOVERY HELD RICH IN GOLD

The northwest crosscut, from the 300-foot station of the Amador Star vertical shaft, has reached the ledge at 225 feet from the shaft, precisely the point calculated by John Ratto, of Sutter Creek, California. No assays have been made yet, but the vein is three feet wide, and its highly mineralized formation indicates that it is the southern extremity of the oreshoot that attracted wide attention at the 500-foot Level, more than ten years ago. Exploratory drifts are being run on the upper level.

The Amador Star property consists of 183 acres of land, two and one-half miles north of Plymouth, California, which have been idle several years. During 1916 and 1917, a vertical three-compartment shaft was sunk to a depth of 580 feet, and a crosscut driven 170 feet west, to the vein. Drifts were run 450 feet north, and 175 feet south, and revealed a streak of ribbon quartz from 8 to 20 inches wide, that averaged $8 a ton in gold, over a length of 300 feet. At another point, a tunnel was run on the vein, and a winze sunk 50 feet. These workings showed the vein to be from three to six feet wide, and averaging the same gold content of $8 to the ton.
The gold was recovered at the old Bay State Mill, less than a mile distant.

Last October, the Boro Brothers, of Jackson, and associates, organized as the Amador Star Mining Company, and financed the reopening of the property, with Ratto in charge as President and General Manager. The funds are entirely private subscriptions.
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THE MINING JOURNAL 3-15-1931

CALIFORNIA

CALIFORNIA MINING COMPANY PURCHASES ALDER GULCH MINES

The California Mining Company has purchased the Alder Gulch group of Mines, from T. Tomich, of Butte. This is a quartz Mine of 14 claims, and is fully equipped in all respects, including a mile of powerline, which was connected March 1. The ledges vary from 8 inches, to 5 and 6 feet, and the ore values are from $21.80 to $58.85 per ton. One of the ledges is two and one-half feet wide, and the ore runs as high as $180 a ton.

Frank Zichosch, engineer and superintendent for The California Mining Company, intends to install an Ellis ball mill of 100 tons daily capacity; and six months later, another one of similar capacity. By the end of the year the company hopes to be able to handle 500 tons of ore in 24 hours.

Another important development planned for the near future is the opening up of the lava-capped channel. The work will be started as soon as the weather warms up. The channel is said to be one of the richest pieces of gold land that has been found.
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The Metal Mines Corporation of California, Chris Waumhof, president, 1245 Pacific Avenue, Long Beach, California, has started the development of the Norfolk Mine, near Murphys. Since the lease has been taken, a gallows frame, compressor, and other equipment hare been installed and power equipment installed, ready for connection. A shaft will be sunk 500 feet, and approximately 1,000 feet of drifting are planned. This property has both quartz and gravel, but the quartz will be worked first.
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The five-stamp mill and 80-ton ball mill for regrinding purposes are scheduled to go into operation at the Bower Mine, 17 miles northeast of Angels Camp, California, the middle of the month. T. B. Elliott, engineer, and Eastern associates are conducting the work.
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The Boundary Cone Gold Mines Company, near Mokelumne Hill, California, is getting pay gravel from the Blue Lead ancient river channel, at a depth of 165 feet, according to General Superintendent J. J. McSorley. The work is being carried on from the bottom of the 450-foot incline shaft, and the face of the heading is out 500 feet.
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The Consolidated Metals Corporation, A. W. Frolli, general manager, 762 Mills Building, San Francisco, California, reports a net profit for 1930 of $121,299.71, after deduction of $199,082.42 for current expenses and taxes, and $7,865.96 for depreciation. Its receipts for that period were $238,197.75 from the sales of ore, $94,644 from the sale of the Kelly Mine, and $886.84 from miscellaneous sources. In April the company purchased the Oceanic Mine, which produced an average of 85 flasks of quicksilver a month until December 1. The furnace is now producing 150. flasks a day and is expected to maintain this production for several months. In October it acquired the Bishop Creek gold Mine in Inyo county and has developed approximately 70,000 tons of ore, averaging $12 a ton. Mining and milling costs are estimated to be $7 a ton. The Bishop Creek Mine is equipped with a 75-ton flotation mill and it is planned to double its capacity this spring.
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New discoveries of excellent ore on the deep workings of the North Star Mine of the Empire Star Mines Corporation, F. W. Nobs, general manager, Grass Valley, California, will probably result in deepening the 3,600-foot vertical shaft. Some fine bodies of ore have been opened during the last year, and the Mine is earning a good profit.
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Engineers have prepared plans for the construction of a reduction plant, which the Armstrong Mining Company proposes to build at Victorville, California, at a cost of approximately $890,000, exclusive of the site and excavation. The proposed plant will be constructed by the Mineral Conversion Company, owned principally by the Armstrong interests, to treat the ores from the Sidewinder Mine, near Victorville, and nearby Mines. Its output at capacity will be 50 tons of concentrates a day. It
is also planned to put in a concentrator at the Mine to reduce the ore before it is shipped to Victorville. More than $600,000 is said to have been spent in developing the Mine, where it is estimated 260,000 tons of ore, averaging $7.20 a ton, have been blocked out. Development to further depth is also included in the company’s program. It is 700 feet deep, and further development, probably to 1,000 feet, is included in the company’s extensive improvements. W. B. Armstrong, 535 Fifth Avenue, New York City, is president of the company, and Alfred Bell is Mine superintendent at Victorville.
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The Gold Ridge Mine, Inc., has acquired the Lulu, Poor Sinner, and Jones quartz claims, and an additional tract of approximately 54 acres near Stent, California, from Josephine and W. T. Jones. A substantial payment is said to have been made on the purchase price of $30,000, which is to be completely paid within five years. Mining and reduction equipment is to be installed at the property, and will include a ball mill of 300 tons capacity in 24 hours, two jaw crushers with a capacity to handle 400 tons of ore.
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Recalling the gold rush days of early California, more than 100 eager men and women prospectors, using pans and sluice boxes, are engaged in a hectic placer exploration in San Francisquito Canyon, six miles north of Saugus. A recent cloudburst, sending a three-foot stream of water down the canyon, is said to have uncovered the gold.
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The Arrowhead Gold Mining Company, Ltd., organized by a group of Salt Lake City, Utah, men, has started preliminary work in San Bernardino County, California, on locations of Robert Burns, who brought his strike to their attention. George W. Snyder of W. F. Snyder and and Sons, 218 Felt Building, Salt Lake City, is president of the new organization; Burns is vice-president; Guy M. Snyder, secretary and treasurer; and George Wilson and Neal B. Snyder, additional directors.

J. C. Ingersoll, geologist for the Snyders, in his report, found seven pronounced quartz veins, from 2 to 20 feet wide, in an area two and one-half miles long, and one and one-half miles wide. Ingersoll, and Earl Young, another company geologist, are on the ground now, in charge of geological work and development. Tent houses are being used for living and boarding quarters for the present, portable compressors from their work at the Bristol Mines, in Nevada, (near Pioche) will be used in sinking prospect shafts, and an assay office is being established. The establishment of permanent buildings and equipment will be deterMined by the success of the work now in hand. Water is available for culinary purposes.
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Within 10 days, the Gold Gravel Products, Inc., expects to be washing gravel at Wallace, 20 miles northwest of San Andreas, California. The plant is capable of handling 150 cubic yards an hour, and uses 2,000 gallons of water a minute, which are impounded and used over and over again. In connection with it, are operated a LinkBelt power shovel, and 12 four-cubic yard dump cars.

The cars are drawn over narrow gauge track by two small locomotives. It is estimated that 80,000,000 cubic feet of gravel can be handled. Local men represent the organization, with the exception of Arthur H. Barendt, an attorney of San Francisco, who is a member of the board. The officers are: Warren V. Clark, president and general manager; E. L. Farrington, vice-president, and Warren H. Clark, secretary-treasurer.
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Some consideration is being given to reopening the lower tunnel in the Bailey Mine at Dedrick, California, this spring, according to S. D. McDonald, who is manager of the ground. It is believed that from two to five feet of good milling gold ore can be opened by this tunnel. The Chloride and Bailey Mines are a part of the Globe Consolidated Mines, which have been idle a number of years. The Bailey vein averaged three and one-half feet between the lower tunnel, and the surface, and yielded $750,000.
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The boarding house and bunkhouses of the River Placers Company, Ltd., at Pike, California, were burned a few days ago. The blaze was caused by a spark from the chimney. Superintendent L. A. Smith is replacing the buildings immediately, at a nearby location.
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The Wallberg Mining Corporation, I. O. Wallberg, president and general manager, Challenge, California, has blocked out approximately 6,000 tons of ore, and plans to put in flotation equipment. A supply of water presents a problem, but within 60 days the management expects to have developed a sufficient supply.
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The Arlington Mining Corporation, Algernon Del Mar, president and general superintendent, Box 668, Victorville, California, is enlarging its 30-ton mill to handle 200 tons daily. This is a low-grade gold ore project, with a large tonnage available. It will be Mined by shovel from an open cut, and later by the caving system. Cyanide and amalgamation are practiced in the recovery of the gold, and Diesel engines furnish power.
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The City of Six Mining Company is producing some gold at Downieville, California, with a force of six men working, according to A. E. Hodgkinson, secretary and manager of the organization, 802 Lane Mortgage Building, Los Angeles. Some consideration is being given to the installation of larger equipment this year, D. E. Hunter, 703 Pacific Mutual Building, Los Angeles, is president of the organization.
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Foundations are completed for a five-stamp unit of a 20-stamp mill purchased recently, by the Brown Bear Mining and Exploration Company at Bagby, California, according to General Manager F. P. Myers. The other units will be installed as fast as development warrants. Approximately 15,000 tons of ore are blocked out, a power line has been installed, and water is available in abundance from the Merced River, 625 feet below the Mine, and one-quarter mile distant. Ten men are working. The vein has been traced in open cuts and drifts at the surface, over a length of 7,500 feet, and is from 3 to 10 feet wide. The formation is slate and porphyry footwall, and diorite hanging wall. About 150 feet south of the shaft on the 250 level, a vein three feet wide intersected the vein that was being followed, and the ore at that point ran $108.72. A. N. Waite at Portola, California, is president.
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Development is to be resumed at the Empire Mine, on French Creek, by April 1, according to James E. Garfield of Etna, California, who is in charge of the property. Test runs were made in the 25-ton ball mill last summer, and the plant will be enlarged in line with more extensive Mine development. The ore has averaged 1.5 ounces gold, and 8.5 percent copper, but the copper content has not been saved. With an increase in the price for this metal it is probable that cyanidation-amalgamation process will be supplemented with equipment to save that metal also.
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The Mt. Ontario Mining Company, George H. Hudson, president, Box 538, Garden Grove, California, will continue its tunnel to what is believed to be a valuable ore fissure. The ore is chalcopyrite, and it is planned to install a small concentrating plant to treat several tons of lower grade that are on the dump.
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According to C. N. Chatfield of Pike, California, the Pleasant View Properties, Ltd., will drive a 550-foot crosscut to tap the Pleasant View channel, and continue the main tunnel north, in the Mt. Alta channel. It is planned to install electric equipment to facilitate the work. C. L. Hudson, 449 South Fourteenth Street, San Jose, is president of the organization.
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The Kirby Development Corporation expects to commence the re-equipping, and further development, of its property at Fourth Crossing, Calaveras county, California, within 60 days, according to President and General Manager A. G. Kirby of San Andreas. No active development is in progress at the present time, but the Mine has been opened to a depth of 700 feet. The proposed development will be carried on by electric power.
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W. H. and G. E. Guthrie of Porterville, California, Star Route No. 1, have secured a lease and bond from the Redfield Gold Mining Company, on property near White River, Tulare county, California, and about 40 miles north of Bakersfield. The new operators are unwatering the shaft, and Ben Rickard is in charge of the work. There is a good steam hoist and pumping plant at the Mine. The Redfield Mine was located in the early 1860’s, and was known as the Last Chance Mine. It was worked by tunnel and shaft to water level, and considerable ore Mined and treated with an eight-stamp mill, driven by an overshot water wheel. The stamps are wooden, hewn oak stems, shod with iron, and the mill still stands a relic of bygone days. The Redfield company sunk the shaft 100 feet below water level, but did not mill any ore.
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Operations are said to have been resumed at the Rotten Boulder Mine, on the east side of the Feather River, four miles south of Magalia, California. The Knox brothers, Clyde and Edgar, own the Mine, and are in charge of the work, which is financed in Los Angeles. They hope to open an extension of the channel famous in the old Blue Hog Mine, which lies above the property.
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California Mining Existence Threatened

The Mining Association of California presents facts to Governor James Rolph, Jr.

During the past month there has been much activity in mining organizations throughout the state of California, in respect to apprising the newly-elected governor as to the problems of the mining industry, and securing action which will provide some relief. Combined delegations of mining men and independent oil producers, have secured audience with Governor Rolph, and urged him to issue a definite policy with respect to mining, and to appoint an authorized head who would be responsible for the carrying out of that policy.

In response, Governor Rolph has stated that he intended separating the Department of Natural Resources into four branches, putting oil and mines under separate heads. This move would require special legislation, and is arousing considerable contention, and it makes the welfare of California mining wait upon a political solution.

J. C. Kemp van Ee, Jr., president of the Mining Association of California, and president of the Belmont Metals Corporation. Mariposa, California, presented a message to Governor Rolph, which summed up the present mining situation in that state as follows:
“The Mining Association of California was possibly first brought to your attention by the appearance of articles in papers throughout the State, expressing our condemnation of the new retired administration, due to its utter indifference toward the mining industry. Last October, at Mariposa, I had the honor to bring the association personally to your attention, through the remark that mining was being legislated out of existence in California.

“Later, when you inquired further, I outlined the reasons for my assertion. But permit me at this time to change that statement, in view of the announcement that on March 1st, the compensation insurance rate affecting Miners will be increased from $9.42, to a minimum of $10.54. This means that for every Miner employed in California, the Mine operator must add to the average wage of his Miners, fifty cents per day, or $160 a year!

“For this same insurance covering identical risks, I am informed British Columbia charges one cent per day. In a word, in this detail alone, it costs the Mine operator $150 more per man per year to produce gold in California, than it does in Canada. And yet the price of gold is standard throughout the world.

“Consequently, I wish to change the statement made to you at Mariposa, that mining is being legislated out of existence and say, in all seriousness and sincerity, that the day this increase is confirmed, gold mining is legislated out of existence in California.
“I base this statement upon the fact that it is only natural and inevitable that with such a burden imposed upon our industry Mine investors and operators, judging the official attitude by the taxes levied, will turn to mining anywhere but in California.

“This situation is critical, arising as it does now that international bankers are
stressing the urgent need of more gold, when Australia has placed a bonus upon its increased gold production, when Great Britain has acknowledged the gold output of the Rand is declining to exhaustion— and the Rand has been supplying half of the total annual gold output for years— and when Canada is offering every inducement in the way of legislative co-operation to Miners to stimulate the development of her natural resources.

“Furthermore, this critical situation is aggravated, and made pathetically absurd by the fact that the greatest and most accessible known source of supply of gold today, is California, of which its Mother Lode, though the most extensive gold lode in the world, is only one of its many richly Mineralized areas. For the first time since ‘49, California has the opportunity to attract the attention of the world to its gold resources, and so enlist national and international capital in the development of its Mines.

“Here we are, provided we are alert to our opportunity, and true to the high obligation our Mineral wealth entails, on the dawn of another great era of mining in California. For the first time since ‘49, mining communities that have died, became ghost towns, and once again, have the possibility of becoming repopulated, of having their streets again filled with the stir of progress, their deserted houses transformed into homes, their stores busy supplying the needs of Mines and Miners, their farmers prospering through the sale of produce to the active camps, and thousands of men no longer unemployed and dispirited, but prosperous wage earners adding to the supply of gold which is the foundation of our economic structure.

“But opportunity is the mother of competition. Just as every nation, so is every state having even the prospect of attracting mining activity, bidding for this business. Every state, that is, except California, the one which according to the unanimous opinion of geologists and mining engineers, is inherently entitled to it.

“The obligation for immediate action on behalf of mining has now passed the phase of mere expediency on behalf of an industry, although that industry is the second largest in California. It has even passed beyond a matter of serious importance to the prosperity and progress of our entire state. It has become one of national and international concern.

“We feel that unless California publishes, through yourself, its policy toward mining, which we know is far-sighted and helpful, this opportunity will be seized by others, and pass us by. More, it will leave us responsible for increasing that growing discontent and unrest, caused by negative and subversive legislation, which is becoming a national menace.

“THEREFORE, the Mining Association of California respectfully urges a special and definite statement by yourself, concerning the policy of this state toward mining, and, “Whereas, a policy without a head, authorized and responsible both to yourself, and those it affects, becomes no more than the expression of a wish without the means of realization, and urges statement of definite policy in respect to mining and method of carrying out policy.

“THEREFORE, the Mining Association of California- further urges the appointment of a director of natural resources, so that Miners will have an accredited official, in whom both yourself and the industry have confidence, to guarantee the intelligent, efficient and conscientious enforcement of that policy.”
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COMMISSIONER INTERPRETS ATTITUDE TOWARDS MINING INDUSTRY

Walter G. Clark of Los Angeles, chairman of the Los Angeles chapter of the mining association of California, recently reported to his organization an interview with California Corporation Commissioner Raymond L. Haight, which gives an enlightening line on the attitude of the present administration towards the mining industry.

Mr. Clark stated the position of the mining association with regard to the California corporate securities act, and explained to Mr Haight, the commissioner, the workings of the Corporate Securities Act of New York, and the state of Washington, and also made some reference to the act in the state of Colorado.

Mr. Haight stated that the act in those various states was based on a different legal structure, than has been accepted by the legislature of the state of California, and that under the present act, he believed that we would be able to secure all the relief that we asked for, and further stated that the abuses that had crept in to the application of the Corporate Securities act, because of too strict a construction, would be remedied.

In the future, he intended to give the act as liberal a construction as is consistent with the purposes for which it was intended, that is to say, he intended to construe the act for the purpose of aiding and assisting corporations, rather than to hamper them, and he particularly stated that it was the governor’s desire to restore mining to its rightful position in the state of California; and he, as corporation commissioner, would be glad to aid mining men in their financial problems, by giving a very liberal construction to the act, so as not to interfere with the right of contract.

He stated further that should any pre-organization or pre-financial agreement between two or more persons, as a syndicate or as a partnership, for the purpose of raising funds for prospecting or developing a mining venture, be submitted to him, he would immediately issue a permit for the carrying out of the terms of the agreement, and the receiving of the money from the parties signing same. That is to say, he would permit any body of men to get together and agree upon a plan of financing or developing a prospect where they themselves agreed upon the amount of money that they would advance.

He did not feel that it was any of his business to make the contract for the syndicate, and as long as the syndicate members were confining the raising of money as between themselves and not offering anything to the public, he could see no reason why a permit should not be immediately issued. This is a more liberal construction than we were able to get under the former commissioners.

Under the present ruling, anyone having a prospect can get together and draw up any agreement that is satisfactory to the parties, and same will be approved by the corporation commissioner. He is not interested in what kind of an agreement the parties have when they themselves make the agreement, and know what it contains; but he would not give a blanket permit to sell stock or interest in a mining venture to the public, without some investigation on his part.

Under a ruling of this kind, the financing of prospects and raising money for development of mines, can be done in advance of getting the permit, but no money can actually be collected until the corporation commissioner issues the permit, and the committee feels that this is a long step toward solving our difficulties with the corporation commissioner, and believes that as long as Mr. Haight is corporate commissioner, that mining in California will be given assistance.
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NEW OPERATORS UNWATER DEEP SHAFT IN RANCH MINE

F. W. Wright and associates of Milton, California, are obtaining encouraging results in the operation of the Ranch Mine, three miles north of Felix, under lease and bond from J. D. McCarty, of Copperopolis, California. From an ore body assaying $5 in gold, and varying in width from one to five feet, they are extracting sufficient ore to keep an 18-ton daily capacity ball mill busy.

The ore is being Mined from a “blanket” vein, which has been opened up to a depth of 60 feet on its dip and a length of 250 feet. At another point on the property the operators are dewatering a 225-foot incline shaft on the Main, or Ranch vein.
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TWO GOLD PROJECTS AT SUTTER CREEK ENLARGE DEVELOPMENT

The Idaho Mines, Ltd., controlled by Shirley Houghton, a mining engineer of San Francisco, and associates, is installing a 50-horsepower gasoline hoist and three-drill compressor on its property, 20 miles north of Sutter Creek, California. The equipment replaces smaller equipment, and will be used in sinking the 350-foot incline shaft deeper.

Levels have been established from the 100, 220 and 350-foot points of the shaft, and the exploration of the upper level has revealed a vein 15 feet wide that assays $7 and $8 in gold, according to Superintendent John Noce. Lateral work on the lower level is being carried on to reach the vein.

Another comparatively new operation that has sprung into being in the Sutter Creek district, is the Quartz Mountain Mine, four and a half miles northeast, where Anderson Callison, Los Angeles and San Francisco oil man, and James R. Murphy, have recently taken charge. Murphy was formerly connected with the Guggenheim interest in Idaho, the old Amalgamated Copper Company in Montana, and the Wingfield properties in Nevada, and has charge of the development.

A hoist and three-drill compressor have been installed to expedite shaft sinking now at the 95-foot point. No extensive lateral work of consequence is planned until the shaft has reached the 150-foot point. The entire bottom is in ore assaying better than $25 a ton in gold and silver, the former predominating, exclusive of high-grade streaks that run into high figures. The vein on which the shaft is being sunk, has an average width of 13 feet, and is traceable at the surface for 8,000 feet.
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Governor’s Committee Investigates Argonaut Disaster E&MJ OCTOBER 28, 1922

Mine Fire That Killed Forty-seven Subject of Inquiry—Statements of Officials Appear Inconsistent.

The first public hearing of testimony by the committee appointed by Governor Stephens, to investigate the circumstances preceding and attending the disastrous fire at the Argonaut mine at Jackson, Calif., was held in San Francisco on Oct. 16. A. B. C. Dohrmann was appointed chairman; the other members are W. J. Loring and John C. Williams.

Will J. French, chairman of the California Industrial Accident Commission, first put upon the record, a statement of the amount of money available for the enforcement of safety laws, and for the education by the commission of the mining communities,in safety work. The amount, he said, should be increased from $18,000,to $50,000 or $100,000 per annum. He stressed the impossibility of adequate inspection with the present personnel of three safety engineers, a number that, he declared, should be increased to eight.

H. M. Wolflin, safety inspector for the commission, gave the date of the most recent inspection of the Argonaut mine as April, 1922, when he said everything was found satisfactory. The safety requirements comprised, he said, (1) the provision of extinguishers in the vicinity of powder magazines, (2) the provision of mine rescue apparatus, and (3) the holding of fire drills,if the commission was of the opinion that a hazard existed. No question was put as to whether it was considered that conditions at the Argonaut mine, made the holding of drills advisable.

The commission, Mr. Wolfiin said in answer to a question, has sufficient legal powers to enforce its regulations. Further inquiry elicited the evidence that the shift boss and skip tenders could probably have put the fire out had adequate apparatus been available.

Fred L. Lowell, assistant mine inspector on the commission’s staff, in reply to a question as to the value of extinguishers, said that a good supply of water was preferable. He recommended the provision of a hose and connection for every 100 ft. of shaft. On the question of the stoppage, or reversal of the fan, at the mouth of the Muldoon shaft, Mr. Lowell said that all concerned were unanimous that the direction of the air currents should be maintained. He was on the property about 1 o’clock on the day after the fire broke out, thirteen hours alter its discovery, and telephoned the commission’s headquarters in San Francisco for Instructions, in regard to the operation of the fan. Continuance of suction down through the Argonaut shaft was advocated.

T. A. Rickard, in his testimony, pointed out the inconsistency in statements made by officials of the commission. If the funds at their command were inadequate, he asked, how was it that the mine had been inspected sufficiently, and that all safety requirements had beet met? He added that he had learned on good authority, that one of the entombed men had telephoned the surface after fire was well under way, and had inquired as to when the skip was to be sent down for them; he suggested that the committee investigate this. In discussing the question of the operation of the fan at the mouth of the Muldoon shaft, Mr. Rickard pointed out that reversal was clearly impracticable, without a loss of several hours, but he was of the opinion that had the fan been stopped immediately, or soon after the fire was discovered, the Argonaut shaft would have become the upcast, and the natural draft caused by the fire would have sucked the foul gases away from the men, and would have created a current of air down the Muldoon shaft, and into the lower workings of the mine, thus permitting the men to escape death by asphyxiation.
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CALIFORNIA E&MJ OCTOBER 28, 1922
U. S. Smelting & Refining Co. Patents Claims—Gold Near Mariposa

Randsburg—About $14,000,000 worth of ore has been blocked out and developed in the California Rand mine,at Randsburg,since its discovery late in 1919, according to the annual report to stockholders, recently issued. Much of this has been shipped, but in addition to the shipments, ore worth $7,728,000 is blocked out to a vertical depth of only 513 ft. From the returns from this development, the company has paid $1,964,800 in dividends, and on Oct. 4 had a cash balance of $383,127.
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Adjoining the California Rand property on the east, is the Coyote claim of the Randsburg Silver Mining Co., which has sunk a shaft 700 ft., and opened up, and drifted on the same vein, as the California Rand mine, blocking out ore to an estimated reserve of $1,000,000. No ore has been shipped from this property, on account of threatened apex litigation with the California Rand Silver Co.
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Kennett—The U. S. Smelting, Refining & Mining Co., owner of the Mammoth and other copper mines in the Kennett district, has obtained a patent for the Spread Eagle group, and other mining claims, in the Flat Creek mining district. These comprise the McKinley, Evening Star, Backbone, Storm King, Link, Red Queen, Wedge, Spread Eagle, Ridge, Tom Boy, Canon, Grey Eagle, Connecting Link, Extension, Jumbo, Copper King, Copper Queen, Great View, Good Hope, Summit, American Girl, Merrimac, and North
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Visalia— A discovery of gold, seven miles from Mariposa, is reported by a Visalia rancher. Four partners in the enterprise have located ten claims, extending for a distance of 15,000 ft. The vein is said to be a part of the famous Mother Lode, at a point where mining operations ceased some years ago.

Grass Valley—The Empire and North Star mines are employing about 1,000 men, and are operating at full capacity.
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Jackson—Forty feet of the Argonaut shaft has been retimbered. The objective is the 2,570 level. The bulkhead on the 2,500 level has been removed, and water has been poured down the shaft for several days, in an effort to extinguish the fire.
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AItavIlle.—Work of straightening and timbering the shaft, at the Toll Gate Mine, is progressing; machinery is being installed. The shaft is to be taken down to the 200-ft. level. The ore on the 100-ft. level was cross-cut 28 ft. with no wall in sight. The mine is equipped with a two-stamp mill, plates, and concentrator.
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The Triple Lode Mine is situated about three-quarters of a mile west of the lode proper in a sulphide area of some promise. The workings on the 250-ft. level have disclosed a number of bodies of heavy sulphide. The ore differs considerably from the ore of the lode, but it may be amenable to cyanide, and therefore more cheaply treated than the lode ores. No mining is being done, but the water is being kept out, pending financing.
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Calaveras County.—A rich find was reported recently in the Washington Mine. The mine is one of the oldest in Calaveras County, and is near the old Calaveras Mine. Workings consist of numerous shallow tunnels and shafts, said to have produced about $300,000, years ago. Recently, ore was found near the end of a 700-ft. drift, and a short stope, 15 ft. high, and 20 ft. long, yielded $1200 on the plates, and about $500 in concentrate. The plant consists of five 850-lb. stamps, a battery built in 1873, plates, and one of the first Wilfley tables used in California.
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At the Morgan Mine, 30 stamps are being operated, having a capacity of 15,000 tons per month. A cross-cut in the lower levels, has opened up another rich shoot in the hanging-wall country. Reserves of some $5,000,000 are reported in the mine.—
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The ten-stamp mill at the Finnegan Mine is ready for operation. A raise was made from the 600-ft. level, to the surface, for the purpose of handling the ore; it is not yet timbered or equipped for hoisting. For the present, the mill will handle the ore on the dump, which will be hoisted to the mill on a tram. Ultimately the mill will be equipped with stamps, classifiers, a Hardinge mill for regrinding, plates, and concentrators. The tailing will be impounded for later treatment by cyanide.
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Twenty stamps are now dropping in the mill of the Angels Camp Deep Company. The grade of ore milled is being slowly bettered, and the development work both on the 500 and the 200-ft. level is being pushed.
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Grass Valley.—Approximately a thousand miners are employed in the mines of the district. Of these 450 are engaged at the Empire-Pennsylvania group, 250 at the North Star, 100 at the Idaho-Maryland. 25 at the Sultana, 25 at the Allison Ranch, and the remainder in various small properties of the district. The wage agreement between the operators, and the Mine Workers Protective League, expires July 1. It is reported that the company will endeavor to establish a lower scale on the ground, now that the cost of living has decreased.
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Jackson.—The Moore Mining Co. has purchased new equipment, and will re-open its mine, one mile south of here. Horace O. Perry is manager.
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Redding.—Plans and specifications for an aerial tramway 18,329 ft. long, have been completed by the Mountain Copper Co., operating the Hornet Mine, at Keswick. The tramline is designed to deliver ore direct from the mine, to the loading platform of the Southern Pacific Co., and is scheduled to go into service about November 1. The company has developed a large tonnage of pyritic ore in the Hornet property, and is shipping the product to plants on San Francisco Bay, for conversion into chemicals and fertilizers. The Hornet also contains deposits of low-grade copper ore, but this material will be held in reserve until the copper market warrants production.
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Lawrence Gardella, of Orovllle, who has operated two gold dredges on Clear Creek, three miles below here, for several years, has contracted to pay the American Gold Dredging Co. $75,000, for 310 acres of pasture land lying directly west of his own holdings. Gardella’s dredges have worked up to the west line of his ground. Now that the deal has been made for the land further up the creek, his No. 1 dredge will go into the new field, which has been thoroughly prospected. According to the agreement, Gardella is to pay for the land at the rate of $3000 per month.
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May 1, 1920 MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS

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Amador County —Arrangements have been made for reopening of the Fremont Consolidated Mine, under new management. Repairs are being made to the surface plant, and the pumps will soon commence un-watering the old workings.
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—Representatives of outside capital are investigating the Drytown Consolidated and Crown Point mines with a view to their rehabilitation, according to advices.
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Plumas County —The discovery of copper carbonate, in the drift left of the main tunnel, is reported from the Feather River group. This ore was cut about 610 ft. from the tunnel portal. The company recently ordered additional equipment.
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Operations are In progress at the Engels, Walker, Gruss, Beardsley, Trask, & Coffer, and other copper properties in the Plumas field, which is now the foremost producer of copper in California. Despite the high cost of labor and material, and the unfavorable market, operations in the Plumas field are active.
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May 1, 1920 MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS 623

T. A. RICKARD, Editor

FIRE is said to have destroyed the little settlement of Columbia, in Tuolumne County, CA, on April 24. This early Californian mining camp is one of many communities born during the romantic days of the first gold discoveries, in the foothills of the Sierra. Gold was found there in March 1850, and a population of 6000 miners, with 143 faro-banks soon enlivened this lovely spot amid the woods. At that exciting period, Columbia had ambition to become the capitol of California; in late years it dwindled to a few score derelicts, left by the receding tide of mining activity along that part of the Mother Lode.

We remember, many years ago, stumbling upon a group of abandoned cabins, in a quiet corner of Calaveras County. The only sounds were the murmur of a mountain rivulet, and the hammering of a woodpecker. A couple of seedy-looking Chinese were ground-sluicing, where once an eager community of hopeful diggers had sought their fortune.

The name of the camp survived upon a weather-beaten post. “El Dorado” it was called. ‘El huomo dorado’, the gilded man! The myth of the Venezuelan wilds, where Raleigh first heard of the Indian chief that was covered with gold. ‘Eldorado’ has become synonymous with romantic expectation, not in mining affairs alone; so does the high expectancy of youth end in the derelict purpose of old age.

TIDBITS OF INFO- CALIFORNIA

ANCIENT RIVER BEDS IN CALIFORNIA SIERRAS

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