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California. Jack Lowe is superintendent
and he is directing the purchase of food
supplies for the entire winter as it is an~
ticipated that the mine will he snowed in
for as long as five months. A shovel is
being moved in over a new road recently
built to the property and will be used in
dredging the bar. It is believed that the
mine will be operated for from 10 to 15
years. A camp for 30 men will be built
at Marble Cone.
C. A. Lindsay and associates have acuuired
from H. D. Look the Argentine
mine near the head of Squirrel Creek near
Quincy, California, involving a total of 122
acres. The new operators propose to install
a 150-ton mill if sufficient ore can
be developed to warrant such a step. The
mine was formerly known as the Gold
Leaf.
H. F. McCan and Nevada associates have
acquired a lease and option on 39 claims
of the Southern California Gold Mines,
Ltd., located north of Lucerne Valley, California,
between Kane Springs. and the Ord
Mountains. The lease was secured from
L. J. Bonnett, 656 Thirteenth Street, San
Bernardino, California, and Stephen Turick.
Values are in gold and copper.
The Union Consolidated Mining Company.
155 Montgomery Street, San Francisco,
California, has levied an assessment
of 2 cents per share on its outstanding
stock, payable immediately. The company
owns the Oro y Plata mine at Murphy,
California. J. C. Scoles is president and
general manager.
A production of $175,000 over a sixmonth
period is reported by the Cherokee
mine, Greenville, California, owned by Alfred
L. Merritt, 200 Bush Street, San
Francisco. The ore now runs $25 to $40,
according to reports. An extensive development
program is in progress and two
veins are being developed. Frank Humphrey,
Box 215, Greenville, is general man~
ager.
Reopening of the Kleinsurge chrome
mine and other chrome and manganese
properties near Red Bluff, California, is
reported to he planned for the near future.
The Kleinsurge was operated in
1918 and is said to have produced a considerable
amount of fairly high-grade
chrome.
The United States Vanadium Corporation,
Bishop, California, has rec-ently completed
its new laboratory and processing
plant on Pine Creek. Blair Burwell is
~eneral superintendent for the corporation;
M. N. Shaw is superintendent of the
Pine Creek Unit; K. G. Link is mine superintendent
under Shaw; and J. V. Galloway
iR mill snperintendent.
An extensive construction program i3
under way at the Surcease mine 20 miles
northeast of Oroville, California, including
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the enlarging of the mill capacity, building
of new roads, and increasing the water
supply. The present mill-capacity of 75
tons will be stepped up to 120 tons; twelve
thousand feet of four-inch pipe line to
Fraser Creek are being laid to obtain more
water; the 75 men now employed will be
increased to 100. About 110 men are
working during the period of construction.
The increased tonnage of the mill will
bring about lower operating costs, and
lower grades of ore can be treated profitably.
The property is owned by HoeHling
Brothers, 1820 D Street, Sacramento, California.
Allan E. Jones, Box 1204, Oroville
is general manager; W. E. Messner, mili
superintendent, Kevin Malone, mine superintendent;
Milo Horner, master mf'­
chanic; J. C. Lawton and William Lawton,
underground foremen, all of Oroville.
A good-sized pocket of gold ore has beel1
discovered in the Independent mine near
El Dorado, California, according to reports.
The property has been a producer of pockets
of considerable size for some time. Tht
extent of the present discovery is not yet
known, but it was found at greater depth
than any previous pocket. Madre de Oro
Gold Mines, Inc., Forest Riley, president,
Corcoran, California) operates the Ind('­
pendent, Starlight, and Church mines, all
in El Dorado County. William J. Loring,
El Dorado, is consulting engineer and general
manager.
The Jack Ranch tungsten mine neal'
Porterville, California, is operating at full
capacity since replacing of the mining machinery
destroyed by fire in August. NQ
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