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

pany. The company's treatment plant was
rehabilitated for increased production late
last year. J. H. Marsman, Russ Building,
San Francisco 4, California, is president of
the Marsman concern. The mine address
is Box 465, Dunsmuir, California.
The U. S. Bureau of Mines is reported
to be engaged in drilling operations at the
Collier mine near Telegraph City, California.
It is expected that the program
wiJI be completed during September and
in the meantime production has been discontinued.
The Collier is a copper-zinc
property and regular shipments have been
made to a custom smelter. Operators are
E. A. Vogt, 101 Palm Drive, Piedmont,
California, and Jack B. Rice of San Francisco,
California.
Proceedings for reorganization of the
Walker Mining Company under the federal
bankruptcy law have been filed in the
United States district court at Salt Lake
City, Utah. The action originally was filed
in Sacramento, California, and Willard H.
Davis of Sacramento was appointed
trustee. The r equest for reorganization
followed the notice served on the Walker
concern by the International Smelting and
Refining Company, an Anaconda subsidiary,
for payment of a $513,729 indebtedness.
The Walker co ncern, at one time one
of California's leading copper producers,
now has no operations other than maintenance
of its property at Walkermine, California,
and reports that its present income
amounts to $1,387 annually on stock dividends.
The mine was closed down in October
1941 because of exhaustion of ore, but
stockholders now feel that further development
would uncover promising ore deposits.
The International Smelting and Refining
Company owns 882,266 of the total
1,749,308 shares of Walker stock. J. R.
Walker, Newhouse Building, Salt Lake
City, Utah, is president of the Walker
Mining Company.
Present output at the Culver Baer quicksilver
mine is reported to be averaging
from 10 to 15 flasks monthly, and development
work is being continued. The
Culver Baer is located near Cloverdale,
California, and is worked by C. A. Baumeister,
Cloverdale, and P. W. Baumeister
of Healdsburg, California. The mine is
equipped with a 20-ton mill and a retort.
An extensive rehabilitation program,
comprising installation of new machinery,
dewatering the shaft, and repairing the
tunnels, is said to be well under way at
the Gruss mine, now worked by Sierra
Mines, Inc., of Salt Lake City, Utah.
Plans are being made for thorough sampling
of developed ore bodies, preparatory
to an exploration and development progra
m. The Gruss, leased recently by
Sierra Mines, is located near the old Walker
mine southeast of Genesee on Ward
Creek in Plumas County, California. It
is a copper property, and was worked several
years ago by the Gruss Mining Company,
at which time it was equipped with
a 150-ton mill. A. E. Blackner and C. H.
Dampf of Salt Lake are making headquarters
at the Hoselkus Ranch, Genesee,
in order to direct the project for Sierra
Mines.
Felix Kahn and Louis R. Lurie, San
Francisco, California, business men, are
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reported to have acquired a lease with
option to purchase on the old Nelly-Kayo,
or Dry Creek, lode mining claims located
about two miles from Bear Valley, Mariposa
County, California. The purchase
price is reported to be $40,000. The mine
has been owned by Harold Hansen, Copperopolis,
who purchased it from the Mariposa
Commercial and Mining Company.
Recently the mine was leased by Hansen
to R. B. Lamb, and the lease later was
transferred to W. H. Brule, who in turn
reassigned his lease to the present operators.
According to latest reports, copper production
from the Keystone mine at Copperopolis,
California, has been more than
doubled in recent months, and now the
Lava Cap Gold Mining Corporation is l;Iaid
to be planning to triple output from the
property this year. The Keystone was
taken over by Lava Cap in July of 1943
and for the firat six months some 4,000,-
000 pounds of copper were produced. The
property is operated by Lava Cap under
the name of the Keystone Copper Cor-
Payroll insert, drawn by John Powers and
reproduced through the courtesy of the
Anaconda Copper Mining Company, Butte,
Montana.
poration, of which Otto E. Schiffner, Nevada
City, California, is president. J. W.
Channing is vice-president and general
superintendent, and John Palacek, Box 64
Copperopolis, is mill superintendent at
Lava Cap's Mountain King mill, where the
Keystone ore is handled.
The Bradley Mining Company is reported
to have suspended its furnace operations
at the Mount Diablo quicksilver
mine near Clayton, Contra Costa County,
California. However, it is understood that
the operating company is continuing development
work at the property, with a
crew of about five men employed. The
mine formerly produced from one to three
flasks of quicksilver daily and a crew of
about 10 men was employed. The Bradley
concern is headed by Worthen Bradley,
425 Crocker Building, San Francisco 4,
California.
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Occasional ore shipments are being
made from the Mary Murphy mine in the
Chalk Creek district near St. Elmo, Colorado,
by M. K. McIver of St. Elmo and
Harmon Nelson, who have been leasing on
the property for years. Ore values are
in zinc, lead, silver, and gold and recent
returns have shown especially high zinc
values. The Mary Murphy mill tailings
are being reworked by the Minerals Recovery
Company, J. G. McKenzie, 710
Cooper Building, Denver 2, manager.
The company completed a new spiral gravity
concentrating plant at the mine this
summer and currently is treating about
1,000 tons of material daily.
By October 1 of this year the Idarado
Mining Company of Ouray, Colorado, expects
to start its 250-ton, rehabilitated
Treasury mill. Ore is being stockpiled
and material taken out during development
work also will be treated. Work
will be started in the near future on the
1,100-foot raise from the newly completed
12,OOO-foot t unnel. The company,
which is headed by Oscar H. Johnson,
president of Mine and Smelter Supply
Company, Box: 5270, Terminal Station,
Denver, paid off its indebtedness to the
Metals Reserve Company and resumed
management of its affairs July 1, 1944.
Charles W. Plumb of Ouray is general
manager.
L. D. Lankston, Lorna, Colorado, states
that he expects to install additional and
better equipment at his Continental mine
as soon as the present }'estrictions are
modified. Lankston recently renewed his
lease on the Continental property, located
south of Gunnison and owned by Patrick
and Owen O'Fallon of Gunnison, which he
has been working for the past several
years.
A contract has been let by the Unity
Mutual Mines for driving 300 feet of 5 by
7-foot tunnel at its property in the Henson
Creek district of Hinsdale County neal'
Lake City, Colorado. The company itself,
which is headed by R. C. Bowen of Fort
Worth, Texas, is not employing anyone at
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