Rand Mines Face Miner Shortage Amid Busy Development
In Rand mining district a historic miner shortage drives companies to recruiting at employment offices while multiple shafts advance. R. C. N. shaft headframe nears completion at St. Lawrence. old shaft enlarged and timbered. New hoists, ore bins, and buildings added. Mizpah Nevada and Mizpah Montana progress with sinking. Belcher Extension exposes two veins as 432 level crosscuts begin. Nancy Hanks and King Solomon leases yield rich ore, with early returns above thirty dollars per ton. A 40 gallon fire extinguisher on wheels buys by Rand businessmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Lawrence Mining Company
Frank Berge
Silver Belle
Belcher
Wdines
California News Briefs Highlights From Across The State
California News Briefs reports on a wave of diverse local items including clerical travels to Ireland by Reverend Vereker and colleagues, a Lodi funeral, a Sacramento foot contest winner Miss Juanita Sandmeyer, a Tuolumne gold find, a Hollywood bank robbery, and plans for new churches and schools. It notes road paving in Saratoga, electric power for Lick Observatory, Napa obituaries, Santa Clara alumni hall, a Turkee bank branch, and various civic projects, elections, and accidents across multiple counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coretta Keller
Lodi
Jacob Brack
San Joaquin County
John Keller
Lizzie Villinger
California
Sacramento
Juanita Sandmeyer
Pacific Southwest Trust and Savings Bank
Hollywood
Yuba City
Saratoga
Board of Supervisors
Improvement Club
Jessie Anderson
Weed
United States
A. Marcial
Corona
Jesus Perez
Homer Fowler
Chico
Douglas Young
Westwood
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
San Jose
Native Sons of the Golden West
Santa Barbara
Congress Spring
Lick Observatory
Domitilla Metcalf
Napa Valley
Napa
Santa Clara
Auburn Bank
Turkee
Richard Wylie
Presbyterian Church of
New York State
Princeton
Seminary of Theology of
Benicia
Wylie
Also Mentioned on This Page
Rand Mining Notes
Rand Mining District
White Horse Raach
Mizpah Nevada
Mizpah
Montana
Coyote
Santa Fe
Ben Hur
Pasadena
Monarch Band
Gate Way
Fremont Peak
Black Hawk
Treasure Hill
King Solomon
Randsburg
Richard Vereker
Auburn Catholic Church
Ireland
James Dermody
Thomas Dermody
Galt
New York
Cedric
Kilkenny County
Marysville
Roosevelt
Dinuba
Placer Union High School
Moravia
J. B. Webber
Butte County
Sonoma County
San Berardino
Southern Pacific
Oroville
William H. Rankin
Sutter County
Woodlake
Hawthorne
H. E. Welch
Red Bluff
Hiram Eckles
Orange
San Jose Circle “Y
Northern California Amateur Athletic Federation
Hetch Hetchy
Francis X. Moore
Bardsburg,California
William L. Denton
Randsburg, California
G. Cleveland Taylor
the Rand
Randsburg, Calif
Rand
Anderson
Los Angeles
Bakersfield
Packard Stage Line
Mojave
Oldick
THE
London
Breck
Malta
Dardanelles
Washington
United States Mine Workers
Scranton
la Carte
Club House
Almond Hotel
J. J. Chambers
Prop
T.D. Head
Vanderver
Victorville
Gunderson Jones. Drug CO
Christophers
Graduate of Pharmacy
Peacock
Goodes
Grant & McCall
Rand District Agents
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