Nevada Nugget Hunters

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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.

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rehab · Joined: 15 Aug 2006 Posts: 939 Location: NEVADA

for JUNE 30, 1930

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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.
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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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