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THE MINING JOURNAL for JANUARY 30, 1931

CALIFORNIA

KING UNWATERS 700 LEVEL OF OLD FORD INCLINE SHAFT

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

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

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