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..uetary and manager, is engaged in run·
aing a drift from a 100-foot tunnel. Three
ftlina are on the property, and in early
daY8, two shafts were sunk, one 100 and
another 200 feet deep. Reginald Owen,
,aeen star, is president of the mining
tompany. Holland is addressed at Box
427, Placerville.
Equipment installations are being made
iD the custom milling plant on the McDow
holdings in the Diamond Mountain district,
Jix miles from Susanville, California, with
teat runs to start in the near future. Op·
eration of the mill will be under the super­
'rision of Ralph Bartholf, general superintendent,
who was formerly with the Indian
Valley Mining Company. A. G. Lantz
1115 Delmas Avenue, San Jose, CaHfor·
Dia, is owner of the plant, which will serve
all mining properties in the district, but
chiefly the lessees on the McDow properties
managed by Geo. N. McDow, Jr., of
Susanville.
Alonzo Layman, Hayfork, Trinity County,
California, has purchased a mill to be
installed on his mining property at the
Layman·Mueller quartz mine in Kingsbury
Gulch, near Hayfork.
The Smith and Terrill Mining Company,
Nevada City, California, is drilling test
holes on the Del Norte placer property
along the Klamath River above Happy
Camp, California, with a view to installing
• dragtine gold dredge. The property is
under lease to the company.
Bert Harden, Nevada City, California,
and Albert Hoagland have given a sublease
on the Midnight mine on Deer Creek to a
group of Grass Valley and Nevada City
miners. The sublessees are Richard Haddy,
Henry Conti, Barney De Veto, and Peter
Marcsheto. The new operators plan to
drive a 400-foot tunnel with the expectation
of going below the old workings in
the mine. Work haa been started, using
two shifts. The Midnight is stated to have
been a good producer in former days.
The Alliance Mining Company, M. C.
Williams, president, 129 North Broadway,
Los Angeles, California, plans construction
of a nonmetallic mill southeast of Lone
Pine, California, which will cost approximately
$50,000. The company owns talc
deposits near Darwin, California, next to
the Sierra Talc property. A good grade
of the product is being produced and bins
with a capacity of 120 tons have been
built for the ore. Drifting has progressed
for a distance of 90 feet and five men are
employed. The company also expects to
open up several lead properties, and hoped
to erect a custom smelter in the Inyo
County district, which will accommodate
many properties now lying idle because of
the difficulty in shipping ore to Salt Lake
City.
The Plumbaeo mine near Alleghany,
California, Ralph Youtz, superintendent, is
reported to be closed down pending a decision
as to future work. Until recently
approximately 38 men have been employed
at the property. The property is operated
by Allied Mine., Inc., Sidney B. Wood, Jr.,
president, 9176 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles,
California.
A recovery of over $1,500 from 14 tons
of ore produced from the 450-foot level
of the Kin g Solomon mine in the district
near Randsburg, California, has been reported
by Max Hess, mill operator. This
is said to be the highest value per ton obtained
from the ore in more than three
years' operation. Hess, Emil Schultz, James
Nosser, and James Christianson are operating
the property.
Weekly shipments of from 40 to 50 tons
of ore are being made from the GB mine
near Randsburg, California, under lease to
Milt Movald, Percy Wegmann and Bert
Wegmann. The operators are stoping on the
300 level. The ore is treated in the Kelly
mill in Red Mountain.
Work at the Ancbo-Erie mine near
Graniteville, California, is progressing at
the rate of nine feet a day in the No. 4
tunnel, which is being extended south for
a distance of 2,200 feet to contact the
Ancho vein. More than 650 feet have already
been driven. Ten men are employed
under the direction of Bob Harris, acting
superintendent for Fred Anderson.
A RECORD WE ARE PROUD OF
Eleven years' continuous running-day and night without a cent for repairs and making
an average extraction of 99°/~ that period is a record we are proud oL This is the
performance 01
two Gibson Roller
Bearing Concentrating
Tables operating
at the Melrose
Plant of the
National Lead
Company.
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