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Miniotiit FLEXIBLE , BLOWER PIPE WITH THE (/fln t Allnfl DEMOUNTABLE COUPLING 61>t QUICK. ECONOMICAL VENTILA TION OF ADVANCED WOIlXINGS Min. Vent pula air where TOU want it when you want it. The patented Min. Vent demountahle coupling and Mine Vent Methods of suapen .iOD permit rapid lnatallation: it can be installed or reclaimed by one unsldll.d man. The fabric it specially proe .... d to resist acid. fungus. and powder fum.. and will withstand the hazards of blasting and falling rock much better than metal tublnq. It lends itself reaclily to una .... n roof conditions. FOR INFORMATION ON YOUR VENTILATION PROBLEMS, SEE 1.. L. Schofield. Eagle Paaa. TaxeD Southwelt.", R.pre .. atady. D. C. Frob •• Co.. Salt Lake City Ulah-W,omID, RepreNntatl .... Union Supply Co •• Denver Colorado Representath'. Sawtooth Co_ Bola.. Idaho Idaho-Onion RepresentatiYe All Represent the ABC Corporation AMERICAN BRATTICE CLOTH CORPORATION Page 20 WARSAW. INDIANA. U. S. A. on that vein. It is reported that this is entirely unexplored ground and satisfactory COT)ner values are anticipated. The Blue Bell is owned by the Southwest Metals Company, Ford Building, Detroit, Michigan. It is reported that a recent fire at the Gladiator mine resulted in the loss of several thousand dollars' worth of mining equipment and machinery. The hoist house and compressor room were destroyed, but it is understood that the shaft and headframe were not harmed. Reconstruction already is under way, and it is believed that, if a sufficient crew can be engaged, mining operations will be resumed in the near future. During the shutdown period, it is expected that the Golden Belt mill at Cordes, Arizona, which has been handling the Gladiator ore, will do some contract milling. The property of the Gladiator Mining Company is situated in the Pine Grove district near Crown King, Arizona, and is under lease from the owner, David Russell, Box 603, Prescott, Arizona. E. M. Moores, Box 628, Glendale, Arizona, is president and general manager, and Anthony N. Bennett, Crown King, is mine superintendent. R. G. Sturm. Cordes, is superintendent at the Golden Belt plant. Jack Manifee, Rock Springs, Arizona, is said to be doing some development work at the Cold Standard mine, formerly known as the Nigger Brown, located in the Black Canyon district of Yavapai County, Arizona. At present he is doing some trench work, exploring a feeder vein at the old gold property, and he also plans to deepen the shaft on the vein. -It is reported that the Permanente Metal. Corporation, Henry J. Kaiser, Latham Square Building, Oakland 12, California, president, is resuming operations at its silica deposit at White Rock in Mariposa County, California. A crew already is on the ground, engaged in quarrying operations. Permanente first started operating the property late in 1942 and shipments were made to the company's ferro silicon plant near San Jose, California. Mining consists of blasting the rock and loading it by power shovels in giant trucks for shipping. John Podey has been mine foreman under Superintendent Don Tretzel. A washing plant for the recovery of zirconium, garnet, and ruby has been installed by G. L. Tomlinson, 831 Eleanor Avenue, North Sacramento, California. The unit is situated in Placer County near Lincoln, California, an old gold dredging area, and Tomlinson's operations consist of working the old dragline tailings. Zirconium is used in manufacturing gun steel because of its heat resistance. Regular shipping is being continued from the Strawberry tungsten mine on Granite Creek, a tributary of the San Joaquin River, in the eastern part of Madera County, California. The ore comes from both open-cut and tunnel mining and is treated in the company's new 50-ton gravity concentration plant. J. C. Perkins, 322 North Calaveras Street, Fresno, California, is general manager at the Strawberry property. The mine is operated by a syndicate owned by Walter Haggerty, Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Beverly - Hills, California, and Coleman Madden of New York and Nevada. Madden and Haggerty formerly were the principal owners of the Weepah Mining Company of Nevada, and control the Northumberland Mining Company, also of Nevada. Regular shipments are being made by Damon and Damon from the Gold Bottom mine located east of Trona, California, and a milling plant is being constructed at the Ophir mine which adjoins the Gold Bottom property. The mill will handle ores from both properties, which recently were acquired by the Damon and Damon firm. It is understood that a substantial tonnage of commercial-grade lead-zincgold ore is exposed at the Gold Bottom and it is planned to conduct an extensive development program at the Ophir to develop additional reserves. Both properties fonnerly were worked for their gold values. Road improvement work has been authorized for 5 * mites of access road to the Castro chrome property, and it is expected that about $3,200 will be expended on the project. The property is owned by Castro Chrome Associates and is located north of San Luis Obispo, California. Power shovel mining has been resumed at the old Harri.on quicksilver mine located in Morgan Valley near Reiff, Lake County, California. The property had been closed down because of weather conditions. Operations are conducted by H. C. Scott of Oakland, California, under lease from Vince and Hannon Harrison, Morgan Valley. A crew of five men is engaged in operations at the Red Star gold mine near Michigan Bluff, Placer County, California. Hydraulic mining methods are employed. Work was resumed recently by the Red Star Mining Company, Inc., under special pennission from the WPB. The company is headed by David M. Ray, Georgetown, California. A. F. Erickson of Santa Rosa, California, directs work at the mine. Head offices for the company are maintained at 210 Post Street, Room 910, San Francisco. Approximately 20 tons of scrap and mine-run mica are being treated daily at the mica mill of Durand Beam, Beam Smelters, 10535 Buford Avenue, Inglewood, California, and it is planned to increase production materially by the installation of a new vacuum concentrator. Beam completed installation of the plant only recently. The Barker Corporation, Box 696, Patterson, California, former gold dredge operator, is successfully continuing manganese mining in the Red Mountain mining district of California. The Dead Oak property is the principal producing mine now being worked by the Barker company. Development work at the Peter MOT prop. THE MINING JOURNAL lor JUNE 30, 1944
erty is well under way and production will average 100 tons per week. Substan· tial ore bodies have been developed by tunnels at two levels, which are connected by raises and drifts to block out the ore. The ore has been tested and assayed and shows an average of 47 per cent pyrolusite. Both the Peter Moy and Dead Oak properties are under the direct supervision of Everett C. AHari. Shipments are now being made at the rate of two carloads per week to the Metals Reserve stockpile at Sacramento, California. Glenn B. Bump, Box 696, Patterson, is president of the company. The Ancbo-Erie Mining Company is engaged in preparing its gold properties near Graniteville, Nevada County, California, for production. A substantial tonnage of commercial-grade ore was developed last year. The company, which has been operating under permission from the War Production Board, recently was granted a permit by the California Division of Water Resources to divert water from Rocky Glenn ravine for mining use. Fred Anderson, Grass Valley California, is superintendent and C. A. Helbach, 370 Alta Street, Grass Valley, is president. H. F. Litner and A. O. Wittle. representing the Walker interests, Redding, California, are reported to have optioned the Cherry Hill, Schroeder, Big Turk, and Hi-Yu mines. The gold properties are located in Quartz Valley, Siskiyou County, California. For the fiscal year ended February 29, lD44, the Yuba Consolidated Gold Fields, Ltd., has reported a net income of $258,- 014, after depreciation, depletion, federal taxes, and minority interests. This is equal to 16 cents a share on the 2,300,000 shares of stock outstanding and compares with a net income of 612,068 or 27 cents a share in the 1943 fiscal year and an income of $1,173,413 or 61 cents a share for the 1942 year. The sharp decrease in earnings is due to the fact that the concern has been allowed to operate only two of its seven dredges, while in 1942 Yuba operated all seven for 7lh months prior to the gold closing order in October. Gold recovery for the past year totaled 37,761 ounces, as against a gold output of 102,223 ounces in 1943 and 143,905 ounces in 1942. In his report to Yuba Consolidated stockholders, Stanley Bolster, president, stated that if government restrictions are continued throughout 1944, recoveries may not be as high as in the previous year, for one of the dredges probably will be working in ground where prospective values will be lower than in the territory which the company has been working during the past year. The company's present permit from the War Production Board for limited gold mining op· erations can be cancelled on 60 days' notice. Yuba Consolidated Gold Fields operates in Yuba County, California. F. C. van Deisne, 351 California Street, San Francisco 4, California, is vice-president in charge of operations. B. T. Wilkie. 433 South Spring Street, Los Angeles, California, is reported to be reopening the old Oro Grande gold mine under special permISSIon from the War Production Board. Three men already are at the property, but it is expected that about 20 more employes will be put to work immediately. All necessary machinery and equipment are at the mine and development work is completed. The gold property is located at Big Flat in Siskiyou County, California, and had been under development for several years when it was closed down by the WPB gold order. The Newmont Mining Corporation, 14 Wall Street, New York 5, New York, has declared a dividend of 37lh cents a share on the company's capital stock payable June 15, 1944, to stockholders of record on May 29, 1944. Charles F. Ayer, of the New York offices! heads the Newmont concern. Wilson J. Parks, 468 Colman Building, Seattle, Washington, is said to have a small crew working at the Snow Wbite property, an asbestos prospect located about six miles from Happy Camp, California. Main development work consists of tunneling and drifting, and assays have shown values in asbestos, aluminum, and magnesium. Parks also has a few men working at the Snow White Group of gold quartz claims on the east fork of Indian Creek. Work consists of keeping the gold claims in shape for .. The Key to Clean Concentrates Longer strokes and higher speeds are essential to efficient ore table performance. But, without a third vital ingredient of design, they, alone, won't turn the trick! That third ingredient is co-ordination . . . the ability to blend length of stroke and speed of stroke into the one headmotion combination that is exactly right for the ore under treatment. In Plat-O Ore Concentrating Tables, you'll find not only the higher speeds and longer strokes, but also that all-important feature of design which coordinates speed and stroke to provide the one headmotion that will best do the job. That's why you find so many Plat-O Tables on major mining operations ... and that's why, in turn, these same operations can show such a consistently high output of clean concentrates. It will cost you nothing to investigate the application of Plat-O Tables to your job ... why not write us for complete informatIOn - today? DEISTER MACHINE CO. FORT WAYNE 4. INDIANA THE MINING JOURNAL for JUNE 90, 19 .. Page 21
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