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designed to produce gold-silver concentrates
with a ratio of approximately 20 to
1 and at a rate of around 60 tons a day.
No attempt is being made to save the values
in lead, molybdenum, or vanadium at preEent.
Two shifts a day are employed in the
mill, and it is expected that operations will
be made continuous in the near future.
Larry Burton, Box 2587, Phoenix, Arizona,
is one of the owners, and Tom Russell,
Box 502, Mesa, is superintendent.
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Production is expected to begin within
60 days at the property of the Panocbe
Quickailver Mining Company, 1018 Mills
Building, San Francisco, California. Gould
furnaces capable of handling 75 to 100
tons of ore a day are being installed. The
property is in San Benito County about
42 miles south of Hollister, California, on
the Hollister-New Idria county road and
about 25 miles north of the New Idria
quicksilver mines. The mine is stated to
contain a surface ore body approximately
a mile long- and from 25 to 100 feet wide
situated on top of a ridge. The operating
company was incorporated recently in California
with a capitalization of $100,000.
P. D. Burtt, Mills Building, San Francisco,
is president and general manager.
EI Oro Mining Company, organized as
a corporation in 1985, has been dissolved
and succeeded by EI Oro Mining Company,
Room 817, 68 Post Street, San Francisco,
California, a partnership. General partners
in the finn are Lester Moses, D. M.
Donnelly, and Henry Mueller. The company
controls a drift mining property in
the New York mining district of Nevada
County, California, and operations are expected
to be under way by October 15.
Development has been by tunnel in an
old channel believed to be of Neocene
orlgm. The ground was first worked in
the late 60's.
Operations have been resumed at the
property of the Canon Hill Gold Minin,
Corporation, Melones, California, following
a forced shutdown while making hoist repairs.
Fifty miners were out of work
temporarily during the interval. John A.
Burgess, Melones, is general manager.
The Midland Company, dredge operators,
will work property of the Elra Exploration
and Mining Company on the North Fork
of the Salmon River in Siskiyou County,
California. Operations were scheduled to
start about October 20 on a three-shift
basis, handling from 2,000 to 3,000 cubic
yards every 24 hours. Leases covering
several properties were held originally by
the Elra Company, R. R. Stevens, managel',
105 Montgomery Street, San Francisco,
California, and have been transferred to
the Midland Company, which now has complete
mining rights on several miles of the
urea. It is estimated that sufficient material
for three to five years' work is available
at the site.
The Standart mine of the Indian Valley
Mining Company, G. L. Johnson, general
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manager, Greenville, California, has been
shut down after six yt!ar::" sl..eady operation.
C. L. Hibbard, 1210 Western Avenue,
Seattle, Washington, is president,of
the Indian Valley company.
Klau Mine, Inc., plans installation of a
larger plant at its quicksilver mine near
Paso Robles, California. At present ore
is treated in a 50-ton Gould rotary furnace.
Development work is continuing with 40
men employed and a 175-foot shaft is being
sunk to the 400-foot level. The mine is
operated by H. W. Gould, 10 Penthouse,
Mills Building, San Francisco, California,
and associates. Work at the property is
directed by B. A. Gould, general manager.
F. A. Bachich is mine superintendent.
The Gould interests, headed by H. W.
Gould, president, 10 Penthouse, Mills Building,
San Francisco, CaHfornia, are reopening
the Helena quicksilver mine in Lake
County, California. A crew of 20 men is
employed. A 30-ton plant is on the ground
and expected to be in operation early in
1941.
Production is averaging between 125 and
150 flasks of quicksilver a month at the
Oat Hill mine near Middleton in Napa
County, California, with a crew of 40 men
employed. One hundred tons of ore are
treated daily. The property is operated by
the Oat Hill Mine, Inc., H. W. Gould, general
manager, Mills Building, San Francisco,
California.
The shaft at the property of the Kennedy
Mining and Milling Company, Jackson,
California, has been completed to the
5,850-foot level and an exploratory drift
is being run at that point for the purpose
of opening up the extension of an ore
body worked on the 5,700-foot level. The
milling plant is handling about 45 tons of
ore daily, using 10 stamps. The 1,500-
ton tailings retreatment plant, which discontinued
operations some time ago, has
been sold, and the equipment is being dismantled.
Work at the mine is directed
by Mark Eudey, acting superintendent.
E. C. Hutchinson, 519 California Street,
San Francisco, California, is president of
the company.
Dredging operations have been undertaken
by the Gerlinger Mininr Comp •• ,
on the C. R. Moser property along Hayfork
Creek near Hayfork, California. The
dredge .... will operate along the creek bot.
tom for four miles, moving from 1 500 to
2,000 cubic yards of gravel a day. 'Albp.rt
B. Ogilvie is in charge and a crew ·)f i 1
men is employed.
Maurice Harbach, Lone Pine, California,
and associates are engaged in treating material
from China Lake, one of -the dry
lake beds in the Indian Wells Valley district.
A bulldozer is used to handle the
material but it is probable that a draglin.
will replace this method later. Sands are
washed out, leaving slimes for further
treatment by amalgamation. The present
daily capacity of the plant is 500 tOM
which is expected to be increased to 2 000
tons. Water is obtained from well; of
100-foot depth, and the number of these
will also be increased) it is understood.
Sonoma Quickailver Minel, Inc., operating
the Mt. Jackson quicksilver mine near
Guerneville, California, recently made the
first shipment of quicksilver from its new
plant. The plant is said to be functioning
satisfactorily and it is at present handling
about 70 tons of ore daily. A large
scraper hoist has been installed and a
dump left from the previous operations i.
being run through the furnace in order
to get it cleaned up before wet weather
sets in. Construction work at the mine
is practically completed and mining of ore
will begin as soon as the dump hru. been
run through the plant. S. F. Wickham iI
superintendent at the mine. H. D. Tudor
is president of the company, with headquarters
at 58 Sutter Street, San Francisco.
Mammoth Minea Corporation, A. G. Mahan,
president, 224 Board of Trade Build·
ing, Los Angeles, California, has resumeJ
operations at the original Mammoth mine
four miles southwest of M .. mmoth Lake.,
California, and it i~ planned to operate
throughout the winter. Ore values are said
to run as high as $100 a ton in gold. The
mine has been idle [(lr many years.
A new mill has been iu::;talled (In
Kearsarge Mountain ne~\r Independence,
California, to treat ore from the old K •.,..·
aarge Mountain mine, which has 'Sc~n idle
since 1880.
Cruaader Gold Minea, Inc., William E.
Payne, president, 3055 Richmond Boulevard,
Oakland, California, has heen organized
to operate the old Crusader mini
near Diamond Springs, EI Dorado COUl lty.
California. Machinery has been purchn.:;ed
and work is to begin at an early date.
The Panoche Quickailver Minea Comp •• ,
has been organized to operate a quicksilver
project in San Benito CouniY, Calif()rniL
J. R. Wilson, 1028 Mills Building; H. It
Cossitt, Hobart Building; A. R. Swanson..
2150 Twenty-first Avenue; and G. Gotzulak,
248 Hale Street, all of San Fraftcisco,
head the new company.
AI .. k. Juneau Gold Mining Camp •• "
P. R. Bradley, president, 1022 Crocker
BuiJding, San Francisco, California, reports
a 16.4 per cent improvement in Iftimated
profit for September over that of
August, although earnings were below Se,.
THE MINING JOURNAL for OCTOBER 30, I'"