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NOTE: there are two Shadow Mtn areas- one near Halloran Springs and Mtn Pass, and the other over near Brastow and Kramer Hills.

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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.

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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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for JANUARY 15, 1930

CALIFORNIA

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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for JANUARY 30, 1930

CALIFORNIA

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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