Selected Articles from "The Mining Journal" 1944 ... - Vredenburgh

operation of its property as soon as gold
mining is resumed, and has been authorized
to issue and sell an additional 350,000
shares at par to provide funds for further
development. The company proposes
to extend the drifts on the vein intersected
by the crosscut tunnel both to the north
and to the south along the vein to open
at that depth ore bodies found in the
upper workings. This work is directed
at the Mexican and McCarthy ore bodies,
which are the most accessible, but it is
reported that, as 800n as it is deemed opportune,
the work of opening and developing
the main Providence shoot will be
started. The property comprises three
patented claims and a mill site in the East
Belt of the Mother Lode, Tuolumne
County, California, and has been held by
Providence Tuolumne since 1939, when
the concern was incorporated. The mine
has been closed since the WPB gold closing
order. The company is headed by A.
Vannini, president and general manager,
210 Post Street, San Francisco.
John A. Hassell has announced that he
plans to resume mining operations at his
Gold Ribbon property as soon as gold mining
is permitted. The Gold Ribbon is located
at Coarsegold, Madera County, California,
and is said to have been producing
commercial-grade gold quartz ore at the
time of the WPB gold shutdown. The
vein is reported to be more than four feet
wide and the property is equipped with
an amalgamation - concentration milling
plant. Hassell also holds the old Tex ••
Flat property in the same district under
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HI·CASTE
DIAMOND BITS
employ e lerge number of smell, whole stones,
beceuse they penetrete fester, require fewer
replecements end assure closer hole tolerance
-elimineting much extra reaming for the following
bits. Set in "Vankolite", the perfect
bit metel, they ere eveileble in flat-faced and
double round-nose types. Special designs to
order. Cetelog on request.
THE OLD TIMER HAD TO GO
The guy who dropped hi. hammer
on his loe when the quitting whistle
blew is kin to the miner who left the
old Walsen mine near Wal.enberg.
Colorado, about 58 year. ago. Miners
in the area recenUy broke Ihrough into
the abandoned .ection of the Wal.en
mine and found a pit-car. fully loaded
and ready to be brought aboveground.
OUhand we'd .ay that when thai old
Walsenberg miner quit. he quill
a long-term operating agreement. There
are reported to be several thousand tons
of mill are on the Texas F1at dumps. It
is understood that Hassell also is planning
construction of a custom mill in Nevada
to handle ores from nearby districts.
The Cyclone Gap mine in Siskiyou
County, California, just south of the Oregon
state line, is being reopened and a
crew of three or four men is employed.
It is planned to start drifting to the east
of the present ore body in an effort to
contact an additional are body. The Cyclone
Gap is a chrome property which
has been operated for the past three
years by James K. Remsen, 1726 North
Flint Avenue, Portland, Oregon.
A petition has been filed in Santa Rosa,
Sonoma County, California, by the Mount
Jack.on Quick.ilver Mining Company for
the complete dissolution of the company.
The company owned the Mount Jackson
quicksilver mine, comprising 30 acres near
Guerneville, Sonoma County, California,
for many years, and it was operated by
the Sonoma Quicksilver Mines, Inc., under
lease agreement. Last summer, the mine
was purchased by the Sonoma concern in
accordance with the tenns of the lease,
which provided that the property would be
sold to the leasing company when the sum
of $100,000 had been paid in royalties
to the owning company. H. D. Tudor, 58
Sutter Street, San Francisco, California,
is president of the Sonoma Quicksilver
Mines.
The old T.hoe Tre •• ure mine, which has
been idle for several years, is being reopened
by the Goldfield Con.olid.ted
Min.. Company, George Wingfield, Box
2520, Reno, Nevada, president. A crew of
about 12 men already is engaged in road
repair work, preparatory to hauling in
heavy machinery. Two air compressors
will be included in the new equipment for
the diamond drilling program planned. Ac·
tual development work, consisting mainly
of tunneling, will be started 88 soon as
possible. Herbert N. Witt, 1 Montgomery
Street, San Francisco 4, California, is in
charge of operations. L. L. Noonchester,
who located the mine in the 1930's and
still retains part ownership, also is at the
operation. The Tahoe Treasure is located
in Placer County about three miles west
of Homewood, Lake Tahoe, California, and
principal values are in copper and gold.
M. E. Hawe and associates, Red Bluff,
California, are shipping chrome ore regularly
from the Victory mine west of Red
Bluff to the government stockpile at An·
AMERICAN ZINC, LEAD
AND ·
SMELTING COMPANY
Buyers of Zinc Concentrates
Suitable for Smelting in Retort
and Electrolytic Smelting
Plants. also Buyers of High
Grade Lead Concentrates.
Atldren CommuniaJtiom to Ore Buying
DUMAS. TEXAS
Department
Paul Brown Building
ST. LOUIS. MISSOUBJ
927 Old National
BaDIe Building
SPOKANE. WASHINGTON
THE MINING JOURNAL for JULY 30, 194