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EARLY HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA GULCH RECALLED BY EN G INEER By Richar d M arsh '" 1 have read with great interest the article appearing- in The Mining Journal of May 30 by Walter Rex Storms, entitled "Prospecting For Placer Gold," and was particularly concerned with the portion r eferring to California Gulch for it so h a p pens that I comm of San Luis Obispo county a no on porti on s of Monterey and King'S cou n ti e.~. A special -report on mini ng- a ctivity at ~oledad Mountain and Midd le B uttes-Mojave mining distl'ict, Kern co\m ty , ol'igjna~­ ly presented at the fall m ee tmg of Am~l'l­ ran In.,,titute of Mining- a n d Metallurgical Eng-ineers in San Francisco, October 3, ) 035, is included. It is accornpanied b~' a map of the area and claim map of the Mojave district. The geologic branch presents an article on "Geology of a Portion of the Perris Block, Southern California," with geologic map of the area. A complementary report on the mineral resources of that portion of the Perris Block foll ows. Data on the methods of placer mining: and types of ore from which lod e g old was rlerived were published in U. S. B ureau of Mines Economic Paper No.3, 1928, by 10year periods from 1848 to 1900 and the annual value by sources from 1901 to 192G inclusive. This table has b een extended to include 1934 and the data are graphically I'ho\\'n b\' a chart. Tlv' price of the October qual'terly is ·10 cents, plus 10 cents shipping charges, jf lYlailed. It may be obtained from t.he Division of Mines' offices in San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles, and Redding; and from the Division of Oil and Gas officeI'; in Bak· C'l'sfield, Taft, Clnd Santa Barbara .

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The Golden Queen Flow Sheet Con sidered to be one of the most moderll and efficient cyanide plants in. the wes t , the mill at the Golden Qu een mine, locaien. on the north slope of So l e d~d Moun~~in, about four miles south of MOJ!lv.e, California has settled down to ro utine operatio.;. The mill was de signed by W. A . Wartenwiller of the Sm ith-Eme ry Company and was erected by th e Golden . ~ueen Mi!1ing Company und "' l' th e superVISIon of W Illiam C. Browning , general m anager. Desig-ned to handle 350 tons in 2~ hours, the mill was compl eted and w ent Into operation on November 25 , 19 35 . Early op"),Htions demonstrated the f~ ct that the ore:; w.::re crushed m ore readIly. th~n w as :Inticipatcd, and the mill c.a pa clty IS no w hring au gmented by th e a4dltlO ~ of anoth r DOlT thick ener and an Oliver fdter. Passing through 12-inch g rizzlies into the bins, the ore is fed throu.gh chutes on to a Stephens-Adamson 32-mch co.nv eyor belt which transport it to the pl'l mary rrusher, a 12-inch by 3 6-inch Traylor gyrato rv crusher. From the primary crusher, a ~4-·inch conveyor belt carries the ore to \ he secondary crusher, a 7 -inch by 3 G-inc h Tnly\or gy ratory crush ~r. A n I8-I.n ch con,'('YOI' belt , equipped w.lth a Mel'l'lck automalic weighing maclll n ~, tram;ports the or e to a battery of Allis-Chalmers automatic samplers. From the samplers the ore is conv cye to the mill storage 01' fi ne ore bins whic.h hUH! a capacity of 750 to ns. From thls ]Joint the ore is fed to three No . 6~ Marcy hall mills manufactured by the Min e a nd Sm elter Supply Company of Denver. T~es mills six feet in diameter a nd seven fe et IrI;')g , amI carrying a no rmal ball chul'p!.' e of 1»,000 pounds each, grin d to 85 per cent throu~:h 200 mesh. Mills N o. 1 and No. 2 are fed by a movable feeder which can b e adjusted to feed from either bin, a nd m ill ~o. :3 is served by a reci p r ocating feed and 1'0n\'e \,01' which can be u sed as an emergene" 'feeder in case of accident to· the oth~)' feeder. The three ball m ms are op(;rated in series for coarse , m edium, and fille gTinding-, using fiv e , th ree, and twoilll'h balls. From mills No, 1 and No . 2 , the overflow is dis chal'ged on to a screen rotating by centl'ifug-al force from a P elton type buc~ e t arrangement, all wood and other foreIgn n1:.lttn being removed. The ov.e rflow from these mills is picked up by a pall' of rubbcrlined Allen-Sherman-Hoff Com pa ny Hydl'oseal pumps and delivered to No. is milL :·,Jills 1\0. 1 and No . 2 operate in closed circuit with DOlT duplex classifiers, and the third mill operates in closed circuit wilh a Don' bowl class ifie l'. They are &0 arrang-ed that grinding can be accomplished HI one, two, or three stages. Frolll the bowl classifier, the pulp gO('s to the primary thickener, a 55 -foot by 12fnot DOlT thickener. After settling, th€' unth-rflow from the thickener is delivered to three :~4-foot by 24-foot DOlT agitators, cyanide being added in the No.1, primary a~ilator. The overflow from the ag'itators ~Ol· .~ into the Don- counter-current systr 'm, which consists of three 55-foot by 12foot Don' thickeners, und lime is added ",,:hL I'C necessary. The underflow from the \0 . .! thickener goes into two 14-foot by 'Mojave. CalifornIa.

The Silve r Queen rr~ine iu the Mojave district oj California 1,oas purchas.ed in Janu[try of 1935 by Gold Fi.elds Ameri can De'ueiop?nent Co?npany a'nd a s1.thsidiar'y o01npany, the Golden Que.en Mining Cornpany, was irn1?wdiat.ely o'tgo.')1.1'/:·ed to operat.e the prop.erty, J.Jess than one year la.ter the /350ton cyanide plant roescribed below had been construct.ed (( nd placed in operation. 16-t'ooi Oliv er drum filters where the filte r ed pulp is re-p ulped and discharged to the t· ilin g:s p onel. The solution from the Olive r f ilters passes to solution tanks and hen is p umped by Wesco pumps to the No. 4 thi cken er . The solution overflow from th icken ers No .3 and No.4 flows back to thickener No . 2 a nd joins its overfto\." which is pumped to the mill solution tank . The overflow fr om the primary thickenr goes t hl'oug:h a clarifier into a 40-foot by 12-foot p regn ant solution tank, and then )asses into th e precip itation plant. Precip itation is a ccomplished by a MerrilJCrowe vac uu m precipitator capable of handling- 1,2 00 t on s of solution daily, and barren solution , a ft er thi::; process, is pumped to a 30-foo t b y 20-foot balTen solutio n t a nk on top of the hill, where it is agai n r eady to nt er the circuit at the • TO . 4 t hickener. Fin all y, the precipitates are taken from the precipitation plant to the refi nery, where t hey are dried and smelted into bullion. It is interesting to note that th e arrangemen t of th e plant allows for high efficiency jn savi ng water, with all solutions recovered as completely as possible and returned t o the circuit. William C. Browni ng, g-e nend manager, has offices at 12 14 Pacific Mutual BuiJd-

ing, Los Angeles . Dwight L. Sawyer is engineer in charg'e at the property, Charl es A. Kumke is mine superintendent, Ted Derner is mill superintendent, Mik e Le Favre 1S mill foreman, and C. H. Cayley is purchasing agent and head of t he off ice staff. HO ME S TAKE AGAIN PAYS CASH BONUS TO E MPLOYES The Homestake Mining Company, Lead, South Dakota, paid a bonus of $50 on J u ne 29 to all persons in the employ of the compan~T who were employed during the month of April. Since approximately 2,200 pe rsons were eligible to receive the bonus, the payment involved a cash outlay of about $11 0,000. Last December, Homestake paid a $10 0 bonus to each of the men on its pa yroll as a Christmas present. Payments in th e amollnt of $50 were made to each of th e employes as presents at the three preceeding Christmases. B. C. Yates is general manag·el'.

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SM E LTIN G REPORTS INCOME FOR FIRST FIVE MON T HS, 1936 Consolidated net income for the five months ended May 31, 1936, for the U . S . Smelting Refining and Mining Com pan y was $2,110,394, after taxes, interest, depreciation, and other deduction s. This compares with $2,385,510 in the similar perio d of 1!)35. Earnings for 1935 included quotation al c.·ains realized from metal sales in excess the prices at whjch they were taken i nto eaming's at the time of production. Earnings for the five months of this year do not include any C)uotational gains. The n et income for the fitst five months of 193G, after dividend l'equirements on 7 per cent preferred stock, equals $2.71 a share on 528,765 shares of common stock, ag-ain!';t $3.22 in 1935. The company recently declared a $2 d ividend on common stock, payable July 15 to st0ck of record July 3. This is double the amount paid last March and the same as that paid a year ago. O. J. Egleston, N ewhouse Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, is vice-president and p,'eneral manager of we!"tern operations. U.

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Rowland King is at Boulder, Montana, where he is engin eer for Elkhorn Metals, Inc. Edward P. Scallon of Crosby, Minnesota, has been examining mining properties near T onopah, Nevada. J. A . Studstrup is at McGill, Nevada, where he has join ed the staff of the Nevada Consolidated Copper Corporation . Luda N. Gross of th e Los Plumas Mining Company, is n ow located at Route 5, Box 1688 E Street, Sac r amento, California. H. V . Kruse, master mechanic for the United Verd e Bran ch, Phelps Dodge Corporation) has been transferred to Douglas, Arizona . Paul A. Bundy is engaged in engineering work at the Bra dley Mining Company's Sulphur Bank quicksilver mine. Clear Lake, California. D. M. Kentro, f ormer chief engineer for Arizona Molybdenum Corporation at Copper Creek, Arizona, is now located in Warren, Arizona. C. G. Lindstrom of Worthington Compa ny, Inc .• who h as been in Salt Lake City, Utah, recentl y, h as r eturned to 1423 Dahlia Street, Denver, Col or ado. C. Perez, Mendo t a, California, has ta.kell a lease on t he Mexican quicksilver mine fr om Howard Christie, and is producing ab out f ive flasks a month. ErIe V. Daveler, assistant general manager a nd t rea surer of the Utah Copper Company, h as m oved his offices from 25 Broad Str eet t o 120 Broadway, New York. G. J. Harbauer, consulting mining engineer , 126 N. Alarcon Street, Prescott, Arizona, is m aking some ore shipments from t he Fourth of J uly mine, near Walker. R. W . Lottridge, who has been employed by the Austin Silve r Mining Company at Austin, Nevada, f or the past months, ha$ su cceeded Dean Pratt as mill superintendent. Cecil R. Walbridge, 1515 Baseline, Boulder, Colorado, who ha s bee n on the staff of the Slide Mines, In c., was recently promoted to the position of mill superintendent. James Colasanti of the class of 1935, Colorado Sch oo l of Mines, ha.s been conn ected with the Cripple Creek Milling Company at Cri pple Creek, Colorado, since his g raduation. M. A. Tanner, Goldfield, Nevada, superintend ent of Bradshaw, Inc., since 1927, has b een proposed fo r membership in the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical E ngin eers. W . C. Lay, who has been employed with the Montana Silver Mining' Company at Neih art, Montana, has left for South America where he has accepted a position w ith a mining concern. Earl T. Hayes, resear ch fellow in metallurgy at the Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology at Moscow, Idaho, is changing his status in t he A.I.M.E. from that of student associate t o j unio r member. Donald McMaster has joined the staff of Minas del Tajo, Rosario, Sinaloa, Mexico. He formerly was chief mine engineer with Negocia ci on Min era San Rafael y Anexas) S. A., at Pachu ca, Hidalgo.

NEILL CONDUCTS RESE ARCH WORK FOR L OOMIS DRE DGE

J ames Wilson Neill, mining and metallurgical eng ineer, 430 West Colol'ado Street, P asadena, California, has been conducting research work on the Loomis dredge of the Gold Hill Dredg'ing- Company, Folsom i California. A Neill jig has been installed, the con c e n t rat e from which goes to a Wilfley table for :re. James W. Neill concentration after which the black-sand conc entrate is' ground and amalgamated. The operation of a table on a dredge is believed entirely new) but in spite of the surge of the dredge, the table is understood to be operating efficiently. The material from th e 9-cubic foot dredge bU"d St,

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A construction p r ogram is planned for the Lost Camp Gold M 'ning Company's hydraulic mine near Blue Canyon, Placer county, California, early in August, preparatory to early resumption of activities next season, The program will include the provision of an additional water supply and about $40,000 will be spent on improvements at the property. Plans have been made for the use of two pits during the coming season. George F. Buell, Emigrant Gap, California, is superintendent. A milling plant is to be in operation soon at the Two Brothers mine, Big Oak Flat, California, operated by Two Brothers Consolidated Gold Mines, Inc. F. R. Sta~1ley, 731 North Edison Street, Stockton. California, is the principal owner of the company. The Titanium Ferro Alloys Corporation of Niagara Falls has taken under optioJ) the large deposit of molybdenum and tungsten ore located on Bloody Mountain neal' Mammoth Lakes, Mono county, California . and a crew of men is engaged in activitie s at the property under the direction of Eugene Thomas of Colorado. The ground has been under examination bv the 01-ganization's engineers since last ·year. The

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property is owned by Major Selby and level. When this point is reached, it is Lloyd Summers of Mammoth Lakes. planned to raise to this channel and work Construction of the new quarter-million it while driving the rest of the tunnel. At dollar mill for the Virgilia Mining Corpora- the Johnson property, his son, George tion, Virgilia, Plumas county, California, il: Johnson is engineer in charge and Rinaldo progressing rapidly, according to company Daneri of Downieville, California, is superofficials. It is located 800 feet north of intendent. Eight men are employed. and above the mine shaft and is connected Engineers are examining the Santa Rosa; with the mine proper by an aerial tramway. mine near Keeler, California, for Alex NibA pit lined with concrete has been installed ley, 1016 Rossmoyne Street, Los Angeles, beneath the mill to minimize its height. and E. J. Broberg, who have taken an The shaft is now 300 feet in depth with option on the property. tunnels at the 100 and 200 levels. The new Frank T. Roberts of Los Angeles is premill is to have a capacity of 100 tons daily paring to start operations at the Pennsyland ore running as high as $14 per ton is vania mine near Kernville, California, which being stored preparatory to the opening of he holds llnder lease and option. He is inthe new plant, which is planned for early stalling a new compressor at the mouth of August. Hartwig A. Cohen, 712 DeYoung the 880-foot Pennsylvania crosscut, which Building, San Francisco, is manager of the was started by former operators but never company. C. H. Potter, Virgilia, is superin- completed. This crosscut is expected to tendent. Matt I. Sullivan, attorney, Mm~ strike the pay shoot 80 feet below the botTower, San Francisco, is president. tom level of the old workings, and will also The Auburn-Chicago Company, Penryn, be used as a means of draining water which California, has announced plans for sinking became a problem when the mine was last its shaft to a depth of 850 feet. A large worked. New track and pipe lines are be.compressor has recently been installed to ing installed in the tunnel. The property is provide the additional air necessary for owned by W. B. Walker and Melvin Marthe sinking program. A. N. Sweet, Auburn, shall of Keysville . California, is general manag'er of the comA plant sufficiently large to treat ore pany. from many mines along the Klamath River A 50-ton test mill is being constructed in is planned by Stanley Davis, operator of the Rattlesnake district chrome deposits, the Portugese mine near Seiad Valley, Sislocated 10 miles south of Auburn, Califol· kiyou county, California. nia. George Beers, Nevada mining engineer, Drifting operations are under way at the is in charge of t he mill construction for the Live Oak mine near Colfax, California, to Rustproof Steel C o rporation of Baltimore. undercut the old stopes on the property. which holds an option on several thousand The Live Oak, combined with the old Meda acres of the land. The mill will be used workings, was reopened two years ago by for a series of tests to develop the mod Jones and Sladen, and sufficient ore is practical manner of reduction of the ore. now reported in sight to justify the inChrome mining activities in the Rattlesnake stallation of a 25-ton mill unit this fall. district stopped abruptly with the ending of The plant is to include primary and sec~ the World War which provided a market ondary crushers, a ball mill and flotation for domestic chrome. Increased use of eells. chrome in the manufacture of stainles~ Kings Crown Gold Mines, Inc., 51 At~ steel and chromiu m plated products i~ lantic Avenue, Long Beach, California, has credited with the resumption of activity. filed a registration statement with the Harry Melton of Glendale, California, Securities and Exchange Commission seekhas leased the Sacramento gravel mine at ing to issue 10,000 shares of 7 per cent Foresthill, California, and is driving a bed- cumulative preferred stock, $10 par value, rock t unnel to connect with the Orono at par. O. G. Avery, 608 Heartwell Build~ channel. The Sacramento is one of the ing, Long Beach, is president. The comMa yflower group owned by Richard Detert. pany plans the development of two groups M.ms Tower, San Francisco. It is estimated of claims, located east of Caliente and that some 8,000 feet of gravel channel will north of Tehachapi. Erection of a lOO-ton be opened by the new operations. mill is to be included in the development Immediate installation of a ball mill and program. cyanide plant at the Blue Eagle mine in A five-stamp mill has been installed· at the Ophir district near Auburn, California. the Telegraph Line mine near Groveland, is planned by Tom Moore and Leon BUl'- California. Other equipment at the prop~ gess, who are operati ng the property under erty includes a 55-horsepower Diesel enlease from Hall Livingston , Auburn. gine, a compressor, and a pump which deThe Potillo group of claims located near livers water to the plant from the Tuolumne Weaverville, California, has been taken on River through a 600-foot pipe line. The a lease-purchase agreement by J. J. Jack- property has been under development fo'(' son, county treasurer, Weaverville. The some time and considerable ore has been group, owned by Mrs. Emma Miller, in- opened up, from which good results are cludes the Snowslide, Montezuma, and San expected. The new mill was secured from Miguel quartz mines, and the Hay Press . the Mother Lode Mine Supply Company, placer mine. Jackson is developing the prop- Box 135, Sonora, California. Sylvester C. erty and has run a new tunnel 140 feet, Phillips is in charge of operations at the tapping the main two-foot ledge at the mine. 110-foot level. Cardinal Gold Mining Company, Bishop, Charles G. Johnson , state treasurer, Sac- California, reports an operating profit of ramento, California, is d riving a tunnel at $16,568 for June, before allowing for dehis Kirkpatrick Mines Co. property, Forest, preciation, depletion or income taxes. This Californ ia, to r each a Tertiary channel compares with $25,379 in May and $17,known t o run through the property. Isham 423 in June of last year. June brought and Isham, geologists, who recently made operating profit for the first six months a survey of the ground, estimate that it of 1936 to $123,697, as compared with will be necessary t o tunnel in 1.885 feet $79,702 in the first six months of 1935. before t he channel is reached. Their sur- As of June 30 current assets totaled $212,vey also located another Tertiary channel G83, including $146,059 cash, and current 920 f eet from the portal of the new tun- liabilities totaled $42,405. During June net and about 18 feet above the tunnel Cardinal milled 4,674 tons of ore, from

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which it recovered $47,313, or an average of $10.12 a ton. Expenses and costs totaled $30,745, or an average of $6.57 a ton . Victor Bongard is general manager at Bishop. The new 300-ton Hardinge ball mill of the California Osborn Min ing Company at Angels Camp, California, was placed in operation July 26 with several hundred stockholders attending; the ceremonies, according to Cyril Stevenson, 333 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, president of the California Osborn company a nd of the California-Engels Mining Company, of which California Osborn is a subsidiary. The new mill is located at the Belmont Osborn mine and will treat ore from the Morning Star mine and the Gold Hill property of the company, as well as that from the Belmont Osborn. Walter Nelson is superintendent at Angels Camp. John M. Rogers, Box 2052, Mojave. California, has a crew of 16 men engaged in exploration of the Lockwood mine at W estpoint, Calaveras county, California, by means of core drills. It is understood that extensive operations are planned if the drilling campaign establishes the presence of large deposits at depth. Rog'ers is manager of the Lodestar Mining Company, which is operating ::he Elephant Eagle group at Mojave. Deepening of the 430-foot shaft at the Gracey-Glencoe mine near Nevada City, California, is scheduled to start shortly. New levels are to be opened and drifts run to prospect territory believed to contain continuations of veins which yielded good ore in the old workings. George Tett, N evada City, is in personal charge of mining' operations. The Canada. Hill claims of the Beauty Mining Company are being reopened on an extensive scale by the Canad a Hill Mi ning Corporation, Foresthill, California, headed by Robert Whitcomb . The claims are opened by tunnels and shafts and the ledges are large with ore moderate to low g ade, although some high grade quartz has also been recovered. A ten-stamp mill is located at the property and it is reported that commercial grade ore win be immediately available and that production will not be subject to development programs. Snowshed installations are planned to permit year-round mining. Jack Mauri and associates of Oakland, California, have taken a lease and option on the Blue Eagle property, consisting of 30 acres of patented land, located about two miles west of Nevada City, California, on Deer Creek. Machinery and equipment, including a small pilot mill, are being installed at the property, and work is to begin at once. A. Tetrault, manager of the Sacramento Gold Milling Machinery Compal1Y, 802 Second Street, Sacramento, California, and W. Berry have taken a lease and bond on the Oro Fino mine in the Garden Valley district near Georgetown, California, and equipment is being installed. Plans call for running a tunnel for development of the property. The mine is owned by S. W. Collins and associates. The Den£more Gold Mines, Inc., W. Co~ burn Cook, secretary, 6 Berg Building, Turlock, California, has been granted a $20,000 Class B loan for development of the Densmore quartz lode mine in Tuolumne county, California . It is planned to sink winzes and do some drift and raise work. The nearest railroad station to the property is Sonora, California.

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final cleaning, which includes removing the iron and also taking- out the hubnerite from the coarse table cut. The final cleaning is accomplished by a Wetherill magnetic separator, operating at \'urious intensities of magnetism. The operatols of the property believe that thi.'i i~ the first tirr.e th at magnetic separation hu:> been em ployed t o separate the t ungsten from siliceou:i ma tter fr om the table ii. Whi le the machine has been in olJenltion f or only a short time , it is r eported to be very effil'ient, making' po ssi ble a concentrate of around 70 per ce nt WO J . A t the present time, heavy rail is beinglaid from the mill to and throu~:h the mine, preparatory to the operation of a storage battery locomoti-; e which has alread y been ordel'ed. Approximately 30 men ,1I 'e 1l01'IIlally employed by the company. Lewis Hind, metallur~ical eng'ineer 'and gene r al ., uperintendent, and W. P. Barton, ge nel'al manager, are located at the property at May . Both men d eserve creoit for solving' :J rather difficult m etallurgical prob lem. COPPER TRADE GROU P S HOLD ELECTI O N OF OFFICERS Officer':; of two important trade organizations were elected at recent m eeting-so Cornelius F . Kell ey, president of An aconda, ~nd F. H . Brown ell , chairman of the Board of A. S. & R., ag'ain became cha irman and president, respectively, of the Copper I n::;titute, and Earl T. Stannard succ eeds himself as president of the U. S . Copp r Asso ciation. Louis S. Cates, president o f Phelp ' Dodge, and J. R. Hobbins, ('xecutive viceJ.)rc';ident of Anacondn, became vic e-presi uE:nts of the U. S. Copper Associatio n. R. R. Eckert continues but before depletion, depreciation 0)' income taxes. This compares with a profit, on the same basis, of $3,992 in May and a profit of $42,192 in June, 1035. June operations broug-ht income fol' the fil',;t half of 1935 to $99,393, against a net IO~ an d in the 1933 sessi on of the Ca li fo rnia Leg'i.'ila ture the Placer Mining' D istr ict Act w as pf'ssed and became law . Sho uld hyd r au lic mi n ing' be resumed, even u nde }' t h e p r es ent p rov isions made by Conj2.T e .;:s, it must closely follow the provisions of this act a n d t o M r. Stewart will be owed th e cred it fo r su ccess. Without his effort!;' n o pro Tess f o r t he illdu stry would have been m ade over the y ears of trial. ~t ead iI y

T he P la cer Dist rict Act, written by Mr . Stewa rt , wa s t he r es ult of a comprehensive and carefu l stud y ann placed in the hand s of the m iners a strong- and well baJanced weapon . It is a t ool of exceptional power . Briefly the act providefi the same features ;.} ~ fo r a n irri g'ation d i!'= tl'i ct. A pooling of a ssets and a co operative eff ort is required, b ut co n ditions m alpened by five tunnels along the vein, .vhich dips into the mountain at an angle )f 63 degrees. The new operators plan to 'un another tunnel, some 250 feet below 'he others. It will be necessary to run it

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750 feet b ef ore str ik ing the ore. The property is equipped with a two stamp mill. The led ge is 53 feet in width between rhyolite and andesite walls, and 21 feet have been sampled by Dr . D. E. Mitchell and A. E. Vandercook, 1014 Eighth Street, Sacramento, showing an average of $7.35 in g old. Examination work is in charge of Mitchell, Vandercook and C. E. Crook, mining en gineer , and erection of a 100-ton Vander cook Mercuric cyanide plant is planned if investigations are satisfactory. It is reported that the Freshour mine on Greenhorn Mountain in Siskiyou county, has bee n closed down by O. Hauge, Dunsmuir, California, operator, due to a water shortage. It is understood that he will secure another property and move his equi.pment to the new location. The Freshour is equipped with a two stamp mill, a 10-ton Straub mill, and a concentrating table. The Reliance Mines ;~.:om'P41ny, A. D. Pankey, pr esident, is operating the Reliance placer mine on Jackson Creek, about seven miles f rom Callahan, California. Hydraulic metho ds a re being used. A crosscut tunnel is being driven by Fred Dom bach at the K n ob Hill mine, three miles fr om Sawyers Bar, California, on E ddy Gulch, t o cut the ore shoot exposed in the upper workings. This will give over 100 fe et of backs. The Dayton Consolidated Mine. Company, Ga rden, Valley, California, which recently optioned the Clark, Davenport and Davy mines near Garden Valley, is completing install ation of an electric hoist and compressor at the Davy, and is also constructing new mine buildings. Cr osscutting to a depth of 200 feet to contact the Black Oak and Davenport veins will be started soon, and development of promising territ ory from ano ther shaft is also planned. The company has extensive operations in Nevada. Homer L. Gibson, Carson City, Nevada, is president. The Fort Ann mine, four miles north of Volcan o, Calif ornia, has resumed operations fo llowing a brief shutdown made necessary by a recent fire which destroyed the hoist and change room. The property is owned and operated by F . W. Kent and J. C. Nimmo, who act as mill superintendent and mine superintendent respectively. The shaft is down 200 feet and drifting has been carried about 200 feet on the ein. The property is equipped with a ball mill and concentrates are sent to the smelter at Selby. The ore is said to be high in silver content and the gold is said to average $14 per ton. Fred A. Seale, Southern Hotel, Bakersfi eld, has let a contract to Chr is Anderson of Rosamond, California, for a shaft t o be sunk t o bed rock on the southeast corner of section 36, 11-13, about five miles south of Mojave, California. A recent eff ort t o reach bed rock by use of a dragline was unsuccessful, t he ground failing t o stand as the excavation was made. However, samples of the overburden tak en at that time were such that Seale f elt that h e was j ust ified in continuing ex-

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ploration by regular mining methods. Bed rock is expected to be reached at between 200 and 300 feet. The property is owned by the Clinton R Worden Company, 1155 California Street, San Francisco. Seale has a 10-year lease with option to purchase on the southeast 40 acres. Paul F. Kerr, associate professor of mineralogy at Columbia University, New York City, made an examination of the old Soulaby mine at Souslbyville, California, early in August for eastern interests, who are reported to be negotiating for the property through Charles H. Segerstrom, Sonora, California. The SouIsby, discovered in the 50's, has been worked to a depth of less than 1,000 feet and is credited with a production of about $7,00-0,000. It was last actively operated some 25 years ago by the Bagdad Chase Gold Mining Company. The Suffolk Mine. Corporation, Frank B. Burns, president, 706 Pacific National Building, Los Angeles, California, has completed the reopening and retimbering of 2,300 feet of main haulage tunnel at its property located in Sierra county, about seven miles from La Porte, California. The compan'y has been engaged in preliminary work since 1933 with a crew of men steadily employed, and is now making preparations for enlarged activities. Surface buildings planned include bunkhouses, cook house, and cabins for married men. A larger washing plant is to be installed, capable of treating 200 cars of gravel daily. It will consist of water storage tanks, trommel and screens. A 210-foot air compressor and a 15 KVA lighting plant are also planned. In the tunnel, 16 pound iron throughout will replace the old eight pound and ironstrapped wood rails previously used. New roller-bearing cars are also planned. O. C. Matheis, 240 Willcox Building, Los J."J~­ geles, is supervising engineer, with A. i. Durr as foreman at the property. The mill at the Shanghai mine near Columbia, California, operated by the Sha nghai Mining Corporation, is now on a 24-hour basis with a crew of 14 men employed. In the mine, a raise is being driven to the surface from the 300 north drift to serve both as second exit and ventilation shaft. A development raise is being run from the same level in a large ore body south of the shaft. Walter Carmene, Columbia, is in charge of operations with Porter Roberts as assistant. A forest fire which swept the region around Angels Camp, California, recently, damaged several mining properties. At the Gold CHif mine, owned by the Utica Mining CODlpany of Angels Camp, the mill, headframe and shaft timbers down to the water line were destroyed, together with change rooms and the blacksmith shop, the loss being estimated at $8,000. The Triple Lode quartz mine, inactive at 'p resent, lost the headframe and four sets of timbers, while the timbers covering the old Madison shaft were burned off, leaving the deep shaft, almost 'filled with water, exposed. Th e camp of the Grizz ly Creek Mining Compan y was completely destroyed by f ire June 18, according to Clyde H. Smith, su-

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perintendent, Box 63, Walkermine, California. The company maintains offices in the Russ Building, San Francisco. Work is to begin immediately on construction of a SOO-ton ball mill at the Forbestown properties of Idaho Maryland Mines Corporation, Grass Valley, California. The company has al so r ecently purchased compressors with a capacity of 1,300 cubic feet and 20 t on and a half ore cars for its propertie at Forbestown, which include the Gold Bank, King Midas and Carlyle. The mill, which wi ll be modern in every detail, is expected to be completed about the fi r st of November. J. E . Ehrhorn, Forbestown, is superintendent of operations. The A laaka Juneau Gold Mining Company, P. R. Bradley, p:r;esident , 1022 Cr ocker Building, San Francisco, California, reports a July profit of $269,500 before prior charges, which is the largest monthly income ever reported in Juneau's 39year history. It compares with $220,600 in June, this year and $95,000 in July, last year, when the company was just recovering from a six-week shutdown due to a strike. July earnings brought the seven months' income tl) $1,4 11.300, against $1 ,049,600 in the first I'even months of 1935. Juneau's 1,500,000 shares of capital stock are on a $1.20 annual dividend basis, this rate having been maintained since the start of 1934. The SouIshy·B elle Mining Company is planning to install a larger electric hoist at its property near Soulsbyville, California, following which the shaft will be sunk an additional 160 feet. Harry Bahl, 1600 East 15th Street, Kansas City. Missouri, is president and general manager of the company. A. J. Bruce, Mojave, Califo rnia, has completed reconditioning of the mill at t he Standard Gol,cI Mining Company near Mojave, preparatory to resumption of mining operations on ore bodies r ecently f ound in the Exposed Treasure mine. The Mirabel Quicksilve r Company, W. E. Best, president, Middletown, Lake county, California, has completed rehabilitation of the property and is now on a regular production basis of better than 100 flasks per month. The Republican quartz mine near Jacksonville has been deeded to the Magna Exploration Corporation, Ltd., by C. V. Riccardi. The O'r cutt and Mammoth claims adjoining were also included in the transfer. The group was formerly operated by the Republican Mine and Development Company. The Peckham Hi1I Gold Mines Company, with headquarters at 106 East Second Street, Reno, Nevada, has taken one of the properties of the Mayflower Gravel Mining Company at Foresthill, Califor nia, under lease and bond, and installation of a compressor and reconditioning of the property is under way. W. A. Kannenberg, Reno, is president of the Peckham Hill Company. Shaft sinking is progressing at the Sisley mine near Penryn, California, with the work on a three-shift basis, according to John Burmeister, general manager of the Burm-Ball Mining Company, Box 306, Auburn, California. The shaft is to be carried to a depth of 1,000 feet with levels opened at 300 feet and every 200 feet thereafter. The Burm-Ball Company is also operating the Bullfrog property near Rhyolite, Nevada. The 30-stamp mill at the Herman mine 'near Foresthill, California, has been completely reconditioned, the mine shaft has

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~en dewatered, and the property is now lady to start production. Eighty men are nployed with Arthur Seifang as general lanager at the property. James Maxfield, eneral manager of the Chiquita Mining ompany, Box 529, Las Vegas, Nevada, is le owner of the mine. It is reported that the Moun tain Copper ompany. J. M. Basham, superintendent, hingle Springs, California, is considering Ie erection of a Wile electric smelting tant for treating the concentrates proLlced at its Big Canyon mine. The proprty produces from 20 to 25 tons daily of yrite concentrates, carrying about two LInces of gold per ton, which for the past ear and a half have been shipped to the acoma Smelter for treatment. However, le cost of ~hipping is ~aid to be so high lat it absorbs what little margin of profit tight otherwise exist. Hence the proposal ) smelt at the mine. Joseph Ziehlke of Jamestown, California, nd Dr. 0, R. Michel of Los Angeles have ;arted placer operations at the North End line, located adjacent to the .West End line in the Peoria Flat district southwest f Jamestown. Stationary equipment conIsts of a trommel, gold saving plant, and pump which furnishes water from a neary well for the washing plant. A Fresno ~raper and a Best Caterpillar 30 tractor re used for dragging the material into a unker, from which it is delivered into the rommel. The fines which pass through the creen are conveyed into the gold saving lachine, where all recovery js made. Oprations are on a one-shift basis with a rew of four men. A second shift has been added to the rorking force at the Rising Sun mine, Colax, California, and the addition of a third l contemplated. With the addition of the econd crew, work of clearing the shaft 3 going forward at an average of seven eet daily. Tests recently made of the old ailings on the property have established he presence of satisfactory values for revorking', and further tests to determine the nost efficient method of treatment are now mder way. About 500 tons of the tailings vill be reworked. The mine is being reIpened by the Rising Sun Mining Comlany, controlled by New York interests, md represented at the property by L. A. 1:ughes, Colfax, California. Edward C. ]ren, Nevada City, California, is engineer n charge, and Thomas N. Coan is superinendent. Construction of a 55-foot laminated type ,eadframe has been completed at the Au-

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Grass Ravine property, near Auburn, California. Und erground work has been halted temporarily and crews are engaged in laying foundation for a new 50-ton Beaudry ball rrill. Production is to be started on a 15 to 20-ton schedule daily but will be stepped up to the f ull mill capacity as soon as sufficient ore has been developed. The present 400-foot shaft is to be straightened and a new skip installed. The shaft will th en be sunk to the 450 and a new working level opened at that point. Development along the 150 and 300 levels will a1so be pressed. William Ragsdale is superintendent. Both mining and rnillir.g operations at the Alabama-California Gold Mines Corn~ pany, Aub urn, Califo rnia, have returned to a three-shift basis, f ollowing completion of a program embracing complete rehabilitation of the property. Underground crews have a program of extensive development under way. including' drifting along the 200-foot level through the Alabama E'Xtension property, and a crosscut to pick up the north extension of the Alabama vein is to be run from the Penryn shaft. The 100-ton milling plant is now nearing its capacity also. William A. Beaudry, Auburn, is manager. Sinking of the shaft recently cut to connect the upper and lower tunnels at the St. Lawrence mine in the Ophir district near Auburn, California, is going forward on a t wo-shift basis. Present plans call for sendi ng' t he shaft t o a depth of 50 feet below the lower level and drifting in two directions from that point. Mill operations have been temporarily suspended during the shaft sinking program. Twelve men are employed with S. F . Turi ch as engineer in charge. Plans for the installation of a new compresso r and hoist at the property of the Crandall Mining Company near Aubu rn, California, are reported under consideration. A new ore bin has recently been constructed and drif ting and raising is under way a t the 100-foot level. Some stoping is also being done. Sam Denman, Auburn, is president and general manag·er. Discovery of a five-foo t vein of molybdenum is reported at the Contention mine of the Kappel Mining Com pany, Sonora, California. The find is said to be the first deposit of the mineral in this district in commercial quantity. Rudolph N. Kappel, Sonora, is president of the company. W. R. Colflesh, 342 West 47th Street, Los Angeles, California, and H. H. Forster,

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Box, 265, Victorville, California, mining engmeers, are installing a ball mill and other equipment at the Rosso property near Victorville, California, to handle their ore. They have aC9,uired the Barbara claims near the old SIdewinder mine. Miners in the district have urged that they operate a custom mill and equipment for that purpose will be added at a later date. Orrin P. Peterson and associates have become interested in the Hors.ub.oe mine at Challenge, California. The property has a 10-stamp mill and other equipment. COLORADO

Another shipment of ore from the recent strike at the 01l1.ah.a. Placers, a lode property of the Out West Mining Company, was sent to the smelter at Salt Lake, with assays stated to show 118.24 ounces of gold and 31.8 ounces of silver to the ton. The shipment contained 10 tons'. Operations are being can-ied on by George W. Johnston of Omaha, Nebraska, who is now at Mancos and James M. Brown of Mancos. The property consists of six claims, covering 160 acres of land, adjoining the famous Red Arrow mine. A dividend will be paid by the Top O'Th.e World Grubatake, Inc .• September 10, 1936) to stock of record August 31. Income is stated to be from an interest in the John Kolman lease on the EI Paso mine at Cripple Creek, Colorado. Operations are continuing at the Arapahoe mine in the East Argentine district of Clear Creek county, where a contract was recently let for 80 feet of new development work. It is believed that within the next 50 feet, development will disclose the junction of two strong veins. A crew of men is also employed at the company's property in the Holy Cross mining district, Eagle county, which is practically virgin ground . .1. C. Kirkpatrick of Georgetown is manager of the company. The Vanadium, Corporation of America, Charles Rees, Graybar Building, 420 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York, vicepresident, and its subsidiaries report for the first six months ended June 30, 1936, net profit of $41,838, after federal income taxes, depreciation, interests, etc. This is equal to 11 cents a share on 376,637 shares of capital stock. No provision was made for federal surtax on undistributed earnings. This compares with a net loss of $270,181 in the first half of 1935. Repairs and changes are being made in the 25-ton pilot mill at the Mabel mine of the San J u an Mining Company at Silver-

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will not be explored at the present time, however, as the management intends to concentrate all efforts t oward reaching the Hunter ledge, which shows promising values on the surface. This is expected to be reached in about 30 more feet of development. William H. Walker is the company's superintendent. Several camp buildings, including a cook and bunk house, ar e under construction at the Paramount property, located in the Old Woman district, south of Essex, California, and operated by J. Lea Pifer and Sam Temple of Essex. The shaft is down 64 f eet and will be continued 'to the 100-foot level before starting- lateral work. W . D. Miller of Klamath, Oregon, has sold his lease on the McConnell Bar mine, near Yreka, California, to William Vonder Hellen of Medford, Oregon. The new operat or plans to install a Diesel-operated shovel and increase the capacity of the washing plant f or the handling of approximately 30,000 cubic yards of gravel per month. C. F. Tolman, head of the geology department at St anf ord Uniyersity, ~tanfor~, California, was recently m OrOVille, CalIf ornia, en r oute to properties of t~e Granl~e Ba8iin Mining Company, of which he lS president. He r eports work prop-essing satisfactorily at the property, which was formerly known as the Robinson mine, and t hat the mill is operating at its capacity of about 50 t ons per day. Tolman says that operations will be continued with a crew of 35 men throughout the winter even though t he roads are closed by the snow. Operations are to begin iromed~ately at the Cimarron, Pioneer, and MountaIn Queen mines near Pilot Hill, Eldorado county, 9aIifornia, sold recently to New York ~aplt~­ ists by Al Swinburn. Auburn, Cahforma, and Frank and Dan Delaney of San Francisco. The property was worked about 75 years ago b ut was abandoned because of a hard granite wall which, with mode~ machinery and smelting plants available, can be worked profitably t oday. The Ca,irn Mining and Milling Company, C. T. Neelr, Russ Buildinrr, San Francisco, president, IS developing property at El Port al, Mariposa county, California, and a depth of over 159 feet has been .reached. Neely is also preSIdent of the Bulhon Gold and Silver Mining Company and most of t he stock in the Cairn company is held by shareholders in Bullion. Drifting is in pro~ess. on the 50p-fo.ot level of the Ec:lipae mme In the Ophlr dISt rict n ear Auburn, California, in order to pick up t he vein. The property was formerly operated by Rhoades Grimshaw, 1666 K Street, Sacramento, California, and is now controlled by Webber and Anderson. Old tunnels are being reopened at the Culver Baer quicksilver mine, 20 miles east of Cloverdale, Sonoma county, California, and considerable open cut and trench work is being done on t he surface. A compressor and air drills have been installed and --1D men are employed. Some very good ore has been developed, it is understood, and a furn ace is contemplated in the near future. The mine is u nder lease and bond to the Vermillion Syndicate,-'a group headed by R. A. Hanan, 369 Pine Street, San Francisco, and Donald Smith. Hanan is general manager and H . W. Gould, Mills Building, San Francisco, is consulting engineer. Carl Baumeist er is superintendent at the property. Operation of the Ruby ~o]d mine in the Siskiyou m ountains of CalIfornia, has been resume d u nder a new set-up, following completion of litigation to establish title and

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settle other controversial points, according to George S. Barton. one of the owners. Three men are now employed and the crew will probably be increased later. George M. Roberts, attorney, of Medford, Oregon, owns a half interest in the prop,e rty, the other half being divided between Barton and the Lueky 13 Mining Company. The California Morning Star Company has been organized to reopen the Morning Star gravel mine at Iowa Hill, Placer county, California. The company is composed of officials of the California Standard Gold Mines Corporation, of which A. F. Muter, Box 204, J amestown, California, is president. The first 1,000 feet of the main tunnel has already been restored, according to Muter. The property, which is reputed to hll.ve produced $8,000,000 in g'old from 2,000 feet of channel, is said to still have 3,000 feet of virgin channel within its boundaries. John P. Branley has purchased and installed a 10 stamp mill at the Grizzly quartz mine on Grizzly Mountain, 16 miles southwest of Greenville, California. The mill was acquired f r om the McIntyre Brothers and had been in use at the Arcadia mine. Branley expects to have everything in readiness to start prod uction about May 1. Recent mill runs on ore from the property are said to have shown values ranging from $9.98 to $14 per ton. The mine is opened by a 50-foot shaft and a 136-foot tunnel. Dewatering and retimbering of 260 feet of shaft is in progress at the Blazing Star mine, three miles east of Westpoint, California, under the direction of Frank Beatty, superintendent. The property is being prospected and sampled. Nine men are working one shift a day. George Milne~ Fort Jones, California, is reported to have acquired the Scott Bar mine and equipment, including the buildings at Scott Bar. The mine was equipped by the Scott Bar Mines, Inc., and a long fl ume built to carry the water to a hydroelectric plant near the lower end of the property. After installing a hydraulic giant and other equipment, the company failed. A large ore bin and sluices have been installed and an approach to the tunnel site opened at the Oliver-Meteor gravel mine at Peoria Flat, near Jamestown, California, and washing of gravel is to begin as soon as the water supply increases sufficiently. The property is held under lease by John S. Bradley, Jamestown, and associates. A compressor is to be installed immediately and a trommel screen added to the washing plant. Operation of its 10-stamp mill at full capacity is planned soon by the Geraldine mine at Confidence, California, according to Frank Wheeler; manager. A Wilfley concentrating table is to be added to the recovery equipment, now consisting of amalgamation plates and flotation cells. Fifteen men are employed on a two-shift basis, under the direction of Earl C. Belding, superintendent. Drifting, stoping and crosscntting are under way on the 250, or bottom level. The Broder and Parazzo properties in the Blue Ravine section, east of Folsom, Cali.. forma, have been acquired by the Natomaa Company, gold dredging ' firm, Nat oma, California, according to Thomas McCormack, president, 607 Forum Building, Sacramento, California. The company plans the erection of a new dredge within two years to handle the 16,000,000 yards of gravel available at the newly acquired properties Six and one-half years will be required to work the claims, after work actually begins. The new dredge will be the two-stack-

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er type, capable of digging to a depth of 90 feet, and will cost $400,000. The area to be dredged has been mined in the past by the 'tunnel process with varied success, the most recent operation by this method being by the Grey Wing Extension Mining' Company. Walter Broder, from whom the properties were acquired, is to be paid on a 10 per cent royalty basis with an advance royalty of $35,000 for his interest. The Western Barium Company, R. A. Fredricks, president, 1643 Russ Building, San Francisco, plans the erection of a new industrial plant at Rosamond, Kern county, California, in the immediate future. A 53-acre site has been purchased and arrangements are being made with the Southern Pacific railroad fo r spur tracks into the plant. Barium ores fr om the company's deposit in Nine Mile Canyon, near Lin nie, California, are being trucked to the site and it is planned to have several thousand toIlS stock-piled upon which to start operations when the plant is finished. About 50 men will ultimately be employed. A development and exploration program is planned for the A lhambra and Shumway properties, located about three miles f rom Kelsey; California. Bert Williams, fo rmerly ot Coalinga, has moved to the property and is purchasing and installing mining and milling equipment. Present plans call for a 50-ton mill. The Alhambra is opened by a 129-foot shaft and the shumway by a shaft and a tunnel. A power line was recently completed to the property. As a result of the inability of the pumps to handle the water in the Rainbow mine near Pine Grove, California, the hanging wall of the shaft was softened, and when it caved substantial quantities of high-grade ore were exposed. The property is operated

by the Rainbow Mines, Inc., Cameron L. Evans, vice president and general manager, 1462 Durango Street, Los Angeles, whlch is also operating the J . Ruffino property in the same district. At the latter a twocoropai tment shaft is being sunk, a new gallows frame has been erected and an electric hoist is to be installed. The company is also operating the McKe s::·on and Mountain King properties in ' Calaveras county. The Hogan gold mine, located 45 miles west of Yreka, Ca1ifornia, is being developed under the direction of H. G. Walker, mining engineer, 233 East Plaza Street, Reno , Nevada. Los Angeles interests have taken a lease and option on the property and improvement of the mine plant and installation of a larger mill are planned. A small tamp mill is at present running on profitable ore. Developed to a depth of 500 f eet by the main tunnel and extensive lat eral workings, the Hogan is said to contain small veins of rich. ore, wide ledges of mill product , and large deposits of lowgrade material. Timber is abundant and water power available. A rich strike has been reported at the Exch'a nge placer mine near Forest, California, being operat ed by Clarence Thorne. The gravel is said t o run as high as $6 per yard. Tho ne plan s to instaIl a pipe line to the property and other necessary equipment. Julius A. Cassano of Camptonville, California, has taken over. the Weed. Point Mining Company hydrau1ic property located at Weeds Point , fr om Hector McNeil and associates. The property consists of a well-equipped hydraulic mine with a COTI~i derable amount of virgin ground yet to be worked.

Mine supplies and , equipment are being trucked to the -Imperial mirie, five miles northeast of Quincy, California. This mine underwent exte~sive · development recently under -the supervision of E. V. Grant, and after a temporary lull in operations, the property is being put in shape for further exploration. Eight new flotation units are being installed at the milling plant of the Virgilia Mining Corporation, Virgilia, Plumas county, California, C. H. P otter, superintendent. The plant has been treating in the neighborhood of 120 tons of ore per day. Following the installation of new equipment, the resumption of active work in the Gloria m ine, near Newcastle, California, has been announced by George B. Phillips, general manager, 4300 (IX" Street, Sacramento. Crushers and improved hoists have been installed and work is now being concentrated on the removal of sufficient ore for a run through a custom mill at Auburn. Stopes have been opened on both sides of the shaft at the 80-foot level and drifting to the north is under way to pick up a vein located on the surface. Indications are that the ore values will/ range from $10 to $80 per t on. A tailings dam is under construction at the Midas property of the Idaho M aryl a nd Mines Corporation at Forbestown, California, · J. E. Ehrhorn, superintendent. The dam will be 200 feet across the top and 15 feet high. The company's new 300-ton Forbestown mm is now running 24 hours a day, and 110 men are employed at the Midas property. At the Grass VaHey, California, properties of the Idaho Maryland, Harold F. Lynn, superintendent, a new electric and welding shop is under construction, and a large addition to the dry house at the New Brunswick mine is being erected,

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De Telopment work is going ahead rapidly at holdings of the Pride of Mohave Mining Corporation on Bowers Hill, near Mohave, California. Under the direction of J. J. Murray, Box 394, Mohave, engineer in charge, preparations are being made fer extensive mine operations. At the present time, a drift is being run on the lOO-foot level, opening up a five-foot vein carrying promising values. This drift will connect with older workings t o th e north and provide better ventilation for the mine. The t unnel driven by the Golden Queen Mining Company on the south side of Soledad Mountain, near Mohave, California, has cut what appears to be the Golden Queen vein at a distance of approximately 225 feet northeast of the portal. A drift is being run t o the southeA.st for exploration purposes. Diamond drilling is also under way, but, according to the management, this work has not yet encountered ore of commercial value. William C. Browning, 1214 Pacific Mutual Building, Los Angeles, is general manager. A 15-ton rod mill has been installed and put in operation at the Sleepy Dutchman mining property at McKeon, California. The mil was purchased fpom the Miners Foundry at Nevada City, and is handling 30 tons successfully, according to J. W. Hagar, one of the operators. A 40-ton mill unit is in operation at the TWA mine, in the Ophir district, near Auburn, California. This property operates a custom plant . Charles Hopper Brown of A uburn is manager. An ore strike is said to have been made in the old Drummond mine, near Foresthill, California, by William K. Reed, who has been working the mine alone for several years. Reed was recently in Auburn with specimens of the ore, but the extent of the find has not yet been determined. A 125-ton ball mill and flotation plant have been purchased by the Voera Mines Corporation for its Uncle Sam mine, near Kennett, in Shasta county, California. The plant is to be put in operat ion in three or four months. Other new equipment, including ore cars and a compressor, has arrived at the property. Frank Rust and Edward White have been engaged by the company as assistants to A. A. Wren, engineer in charge of activities. George F. Grant has leased the Grant quartz mine, one and one-half miles north of Columbia, California, to Louis W. Osborne and Doyle S. Cox for one year. The mine will be worked continuously for the year, according to the agreement, and 15 per cent of the gross returns from operations will be paid Grant. A test run of six tons of ore from the Slocan and Ivanhoe claims, one mile northwest of Garden Valley, California, has been completed at the Flink mill fo r Warren RUB- . sell of Garden Valley, the owner of the property. Russell states that the returns were satisfactory. The ore was taken from a five-foot vein only 15 feet from the surface. It is reported that Rwsell has leased his mining property near the Black Oak mine to L. H. Baker of Reno, Nevada, who plans to start development work at once. Two power shovels are mining a gravel bar on the Hintz property. 13 miles from Chico, California, wher e it is understood that an extensive deposit of profitable material has been located. Thirty men are employed under the dir ection of Clarenc,f3 Young of Chico. . _.. According to Charles H. Parr, mining engineer, 2619 F Street, Sacramento, nlans have been made to install a pilot milf and hydro-electric plant at the Alhambra mine,

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12 miles from La Porte, California, early next spring. The Alhambra is controlled by Ferdinand Basler and associates. Opera-tions will be started at the property as Boon as roads are passable after the snows are over. Erection of the build.i.ng for the 150-ton cyanide and flotation plant of the Confidence Gold Mining Company at Confidence, via Sonora, California, is more than half completed and it is expected the plant will be in operation early in February. The plant was designed by Richard Krebs, company metallurgist. who lS supervising its construction. The mine has been reopened 1,180 feet on the incline of the vein, and for several months development has been proceeding vigorously on a three-shift basis. C. T. Eastman is manager at the property. The Sliver Prince mine, adjoining the Cactus Queen holdings, at Mojave, California, is to be developed by Frank Royer, formerly superintendent of the Kelly mine of the Kelly Gold and Silver Mines. Inc., at Randsburg. It is underBtood t hat Royer has mapped out an extensive development program and intends to install a mill. An ore body approximately 83 feet wide is said to have been uncovered on the 50-foot level. Manager J. A. Hodgman, P. O. Box 82, Lone Pine, California, is constructing a building for the new compressor recently purchased for the Alabama Blue Ridge mine, near Lone Pine. A new gasoline supply house is also being built. O. H. Honerlah is in charge of the construction work. The National MIneral Separation Company of Randsburg. California, M. R. Robinson, president, has acquired title to the property on which the first unit of its milling plant was erected, and further develop~ ment and .production as well as construction work will be pushed as rapidly as possible. Defects in the manufacture of machines for the plant were responsible for delays in getting the first unit in operation, but it is believed that this can be eliminated in the construction of further units. The company has more than 4,000 acres of placer territory under lease. Under the direction of Clarence O. Prest, tailings of the old Bright Star mine, in Kern County, near Bakersfield, are reported bein~ worked at a satisfactory profit. This mme is said to have produced approximately $600 ,0'l10 in the '80s, but has been shut down for many years, except for lease operations on the dump. Grady Appling and associates of Los Angeles are taking out ore carrying substantial values f rom the Shasta View mine, in the vicinity of Redding, California. The Shasta View was formerly controlled by A. R. Grund of St. Louis. A 200-ton mill !s reported to be under conf;truction at the Quail mine, located 11 miles from Coulterville, California. The mine is being operated by J. E. King of Sonora, California, and associates, who have put in complete mining equipment. Roy H. Clarke, South 611 Stevens Street, Spokane, Washington, recently inspected the property and is quoted as recommending operation on the basis of $7 a to~ ore. COLORADO

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VE RDE EXTENSION T O EX PLO R E ITS VULCAN GROUP O F CLA IMS In a letter to stockholders, which accompanied the company's eig'hty-second dividend check, James S. Douglas, president of United Verde Extension Mining Company, gives something of that organization's plans for the future . President Douglas stated that, in line with former announcements, the company's reduction works at Clemenceau would be shut down before the end of the year as ore is practically exhausted, excepting small quantities of ore which may be extracted and smelted at the reduction works of the United Verde Branch, Phelps Dodge Corporation, and which will yield a nominal revenue. It was also stated that arrangements had been made with the Phelps Dodge corporation for exploration of the Vulcan group of claims, lying to the west and separated from the Verde Extension by the Phelps Dodge property. Phelps Dodge will, therefore, run a crosscut on its 2,100-foot level to a contact in the Vulcan group which is considered worthy of exploration, although in the judgment of best experts employed, the existence of commercial ore in that vicinity is very improbable. At the Golden Anchor mine in Idaho, satisfactory but limited results are being realized from the milling of the ore from the very spotty vein, and it has been arranged to continue w or k through the ',-;tinter. The company reports its financial condition as of November 20, 1936, as: Cash on hand , $1,170,672.75; marketable securities (cost $1,034,006.40) $1,672,059.'79; other securitie.~ (cost $1,143,591.92) $302,066.00. The current dividend, paid December 15, was for 25 cents ~t share. It is stated that in view of possible future needs it h as been decided to maintain an adequate treasu r y. MOTHER LOD E COMPANY IN STALLS NEW PLANT A new recovery plant h as been completed at the Mother Lode mine at Drytown, California, by the Mother Lode Gold Mining Company of Sutter Creek, Walter Lucot, president and manager. The plant includes a 100-ton ball mill, a classifier, three 28inch flotation cells, and a conditioning tank. A gold trap has been installed at the ball mill outlet to catch free gold , Kenneth McCoy, assayer and mill foreman, reports that about 5 per cent of the recovery is free gold. The above installa t ions we r e made following several months of vig orous develop" ment. The shaft is down 485 feet and present work is being pushed on the 300-foot level. The values are reported to be running from $10 to $15 per ton. An electric hoist will be installed at an early date to speed up the work.

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STR ONG LEAS ING COMPANY PAYS CASH FOR STRONG MINE The Strong L easing and Mining Company, together with M. H. Wilson, Jr., J. S. Reid, and Donald McBride of Cleveland, Ohio; and E. E. Watson of Columbus, Ohio, are stated to have purchased the Strong mine at VictOl', Colorado. The property, which the company has been operating under leasing arrangements, was pu rchased for cash, according to John Deerksen, 315 Continental Oil Building, Denver, president. The Jefferson mine, which adjoins the Strong property and is being operated through the Strong shaft, was also recently purchased by the company in a cash transaction. The Strong company has been operating the Strong and adjacent mines for the past two years. Present holdings include the Strong and Jefferson mines, the Mary Cashen, Black Diamond of the P ortl an d, and the Dillon mine. Louis Marold of Victor is in charge for the company, which is completing the installation of som e $50,000 worth of n ew machinery an d equipment. DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR SHEEP RANCH MINE St. Joseph Lead Company, 250 Park Avenue, New York City, Clinton H . Crane, president, is understood to be pre paring to spend in the neighborhood of a h alf million dollars for equipment and development at the Sheep Ranch mine, Angels Camp, Califonda, which the company recently acquired. The n ew program is expected to give employment to approximately 200 workmen when it is fully under way. The Sheep Ranch was taken over following a long period of examination of the workings, the transaction being handled for Clarence Feusier, San Francisc o, former owner, by J. H. Collier, consultin g mining engineer, 465 Valle Vista Avenue, Oakland, assisted by F. S. Bain of Philadelphia. R. T. Cornen, chief engineer of the exploration department of St. Joseph Lead, with headquarters in New York, represent ed the pu rchasers. Frank A. Skeels, formerly managel' of St. Joseph Lead's operations at Atl anta, Idaho, will have charge of th e compa ny's new activities at Angels Camp. NEV ADA PROSPECTORS' SCHOOL

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VlcloR. EQUIPMENI COMPANY Kimball-Kro gh Pump Division

404 Soutb 3d Street, Phoenix 1010 East 62d Street, Loa Angeles 515 Harri50n g·t reet. San Francisco Bakersfield - Salinas - Fn!sno

STEEL TANKS of all types and sizes

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Steel Tanks for Water Storage, Cyanide Solutions, Thickeners, Sand Leaching, Clarifiers, HydroSeparators, Ore Bins, Agitators, Acid Storage, Lime Bins, Air Receivers, Etc.- Welded or Riveted Steel Pipe, Hydraulic Pipe, Blower Pipe-Headframes, T rommel Screens and, in fact, Miscellaneous F ab~ ricated Steel For Any Mining Use.

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Los Angeles, California 5717 Santa Fe Ave.

EXPLOSIVES-"Everything for Blasting"

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VVestern ()~ces Los Angeles, Cal. San Francisco, Cal. Seattle, VVash. Denver, Col. Salt Lake City, Utah Butte, Mont. Spokane, Wash. Portland, Ore.

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DECEMBER

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1936

lYJen, and it is often difficult to distinguish the one from the other, but f r om the present confusion the basic truth will emerge. Insofar as He:nnan is able t o r estra in the unscrupulous and protect t he u nwary , he has my sympathy; on the subject of assaying he has my condolences as he is due to be disillusioned. Shortly after the first of the comi ng year, I hope to have adeq uate test equipment reassembled, which will be available to accredited groups or indivi duals , with which they make their own tests to satisfy themselves as to the validity of my claims. These claims are either true or false ; if true, they are revolutionar y in character ; if false they are criminally f raudu lent, in asmuch as I am possessed of sufficient knowledge of this subject to en abl e me to avoid fooling myself. The most thankless job in th e world ;;; debunking' the debunkers themselves . I can .guarantee neither satisfaction or accuracy in any statement contained herein, other than the demonstrable fact that th ere is gold which can neithel' be determ ined 01' recovered by means of t.he con ventional fire assay,

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Rugged, wear-resisting parts and superior construction featured in Pacific Jaw Crushers give super power, dependability and unintenupted service. Steel construction ... Forged steel shaft -bronze bearings ... Force feed cru shing-large capacities . . . Instant, easy adjustment to any size , . . All parts interchangeable.

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CRUSHERS

Three Leadersll 6x12, axl5, l Ox20. Pacific Crushers are availa ble in all sizes to meet your n eeds • . . Low prices • • • Comp lete drill steel aervlc • • • Manganelle steel wearing parts for nli n ing machioery.

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1862 E. 55th St.

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ARGONAUT MINING COMP'AN Y P A Y S A 50-CE NT DIVID E ND The Argonaut Mining Company, Ltd. , Jackson, Califo rnia, paid a dividend of 50 cents a share December 18 to stock of

record December 11, bringing total 19 36 disbursements to 75 cents a share. A di vidend of 25 cents was paid October 23, this year. The company reported an op el'a tin.c: profit of $17,160 f or October, against $44,055 in September, a nd $33,005 in Oct ober, last year. October results bro ught the 10 m onths' operating profit to $171,171, aga inst $111,403 in the corresponding 193 6 period . The operating profit repo rte d includ es Ilothe r income," but is before provision for depreciation, depletion 0 1' federal taxes. Argonaut in October milled 8,200 ton s of ore, from which it recovered $76 ,765, an average of $9.3 61 a ton. Costs and expenses in October t otaled $5D,!)77 fo r an average of $7.314 a t on. In Se ptember 7.900 tons were milled, recovery totaled $77 ,327, or $9.788 a ton, with expenses totaling' $57,126, 01' $7.231 a t on. In October, last year, 7,800 tons were milled, recovery totaling $90,483, or $11.60 a ton, and expenses totaling- $58,813, or $7.54 a ton ,

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Fire Equ·pment Ca alog 130 Pages - Jus t off the Press!

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TECHNICAL BOO S OF ALL PUBLISHE S

NEW REGISTER OF MINES PLAN NED FOR N E XT YEAR

The Mines Register and Metal Han dbook is being prepared for publication and w ill be ready in 1937. It will list and describe about 10,000 copper, gold, silver, lead, zinc, and other non-ferrous metal minin g companies in North and South Americ a, giving the history and development of the company, a geological report on the property, a description of its equipment and machinery, its production record for a number of years, its financial report ove r a period of years, the names of the offi cers of the company, its headquali:el's and branches, and the names of the operat.ingofficials. The Mines Register and Metal Handbook will consist of about 2,000 pages. The book .s published by the Atlas Pu blishinj?; Com)any, Inc., New York, publishers for more :han 30 years of the "Daily Meta! Report!l'."

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