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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1922
Page
3
John C. Wray writes from Los Angeles detailing strenuously open operations at the Rand Silver Mine in the Coyote area. He notes the Kelly mine leadership, the Blanck and Harrell influence, and declares the policy to let courts decide issues while the mine works stay open to the public and to educational groups.
A new mining company organized by Los Angeles and Pasadena capitalists plans to invest 500000 in its Randsburg district holdings. Articles filed with County Clerk Harry L. Allison list directors R L Schirmer Tille Schirmer of Pasadena Charles Reiner C N Driskell Paul Ritchard George J Pfeister and Phil DeMesney of Los Angeles. Nearly a dozen mining corporations with Randsburg holdings have formed recently.
C. S. King, a mining engineer writing a Barstow district history, left for Los Angeles. Shearer, Parks and King, lessees of the Waterman property, will install a 40-ton cyanide mill to treat ore, claiming 95 percent value recovery. Currently 30 to 50 tons of milling ore remain on the dump.
A December 4 report from the Silver Zone notes the Kelly mine tried to relocate claims 1 and 2 of the Santa Fe group but was ordered off by a Randsburg Silver Mine Company employee. Jay A. Carpenter, engineer in charge, then located the discovery point where ore was found 600 feet underground in a cross cut by the Kelly Mine Company. The Randsburg Silver Mining Company is sinking a two compartment shaft on the Santa Fe group, with both surface and underground locations. It is described as a moment of excitement, though the writer adds it is “to laugh.”
The speaker denounces a Knob Hill light project and the $50 subscription as impractical and nonsensical. He condemns the organizer as running a Wallingford style penny-ante scheme and says subscribers deserve to lose their money.
The California Rand Silver Inc. plaintiffs demand shipments to the smelter continue without dissipating returns until court decides the disposition. Attorneys C. V. Anderson, Wm. Colby, C. V. Tapaan state no objection to extra shipments if returns remain intact. John W. Kelly previously suggested the same shipping solution to Kelly Rand stockholders.
The Board of Supervisors granted American Magnesium Company right to build a monorail through Leighton Canyon and Wingate Pass. The line will run 32 miles across Searles Lake to Trona, with $500000 investment. Company backed by Los Angeles capitalists aims to tap large deposits of Epsom salts, potash, alum, and chemicals, creating a new industry and boosting county wealth. About 25 miners protested, citing narrow canyon walls. the firm offered free transport of miners’ supplies, a proposal praised by Supervisor Crain, J. H. Wright, and miner J. A. Swank.
The note lists E L Blanck spending the weekend in Rand district and due in Los Angeles Tuesday afternoon. Sam Dickinson travels through Randsburg to New York for a grand Northern tour before returning to East Bakersfield. John W Kelly delayed in Los Angeles missing a Rand visit, likely leaving Thursday for San Francisco with Mrs Kelly for a combined pleasure and business trip. Mrs Kelly improving steadily after five years, with ridges of health in the home.
The camp is in better condition than ever and future prospects look bright. Leases on the Foster ground are active while engineer Jay A. Carpenter reports increasing depth. Barrett base information suggests ore within the next twenty days, with similar outlook for other districts.
Clarence S. King explains prospector geologist as Geopros, stressing reading rock alteration and surficial signs to judge ore potential. He cites Barstow Mojave area, pre tertiary rocks, and Tertiary intrusives, stressing geology reading for locating ore deposits amid folds, faults, and igneous activity.
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