California Mining Journal (PH 16-11)(July 1937) (30 pages)

Two California Mining Journal, July, 1937 $3,000 Gold Gravel Land Worth Only $15 for Farming OODLEBUGS are swarming over the rocky lands all along the Sierra foothills wherever there is up to 10 feet of gold-bearing gravel, gorging themselves on gold-bearing earth. Two new outfits are reported to be moving onto property a short distance from Folsom, Secramento Co., according to H. S. Lord, chairman of the organization committee of Dragline Gold Dredge Operators a newly formed group with headquarters in Sacramento. Lord & Bishop, Pioneers Lord & Bishop is one of the firms that has been operating in this district approximately three months. Lord's partner is Arthur Bishop, also of Sacramento. Five years ago Lord & Bishop operated the first doodlebug ever built. It was constructed near Oroville by the late Horace Onyett and the outfit still is in operation. No one has ever been able to explain why the drags and dredges are designated “Doodlebugs,” except that is the name given them by Onyett, which still sticks. Output 90,000 Ounces Thirty members of the dragline organization, which is expected soon to affiliate with the Gold Producers of California, last year took out 90,000 ounces of gold valued at $2,500,000, Lord said. His report revealed that the members paid $350,000 for land; $1,400,000 for equipment; $700,000 for wages; $600,000 for material and supplies; $40,000 for compensation insurance. Operators united to protect their interests and in an attempt to formulate ethical methods of mining. They are interested in preventing pollution of streams and confining their activities to property not valuable to agricultural interests. $3,000 Acre Minimum According to Lord, unless the land mined will gross an average of $3,000 an acre, it is not worth working. He said the average his firm is handling now is worth, as farm land, less than $15 per acre on an average, and that it is estimated it would take four acres to support one steer. He said: “To our knowledge, only three operators in California are working land valuable for agriculture. Those are near Madera.” Lord & Bishop, operating a medium sized outfit, have 1,225,000 yards of material to mine at their present location which they have leased. It is estimated they will complete the job in another year and a half. Eight to 10 pct. royalty of what they make is paid to the farmer. Equipment, including a one-and-one-half-yard shovel, costs $40,000. Cost of operating the doodlebug is $40 for each 24 hours in addition to a daily payroll amounting to $92. The equipment works day and night, stopping only for repairs and 20 minutes out of each eight-hour shift for lunch. Three men work each shift and a supervisor handles reports, takes charge of cleaning up. Before land is leased by operators, experl prospectors are sent out to pan dirt from sample holes. When they have finished, a second man is sent out te check on reports of the first. 90 Per Cent Recovery Lord said his firm had saved 90 per cent of the gold put through the doodlebug and that this high percentage was due to the use cf cccoa mat under the screening on the riffles and to the design of the riffles which causes the water to “dance up and down” rather than simply flow over them. The dredge, maneuvered into place in the stream by means of cross wires, is operated by a 125 h. p. engine. One set of cross wires, anchored out in the fields, are loosened when the boat is moved; the other set is tightened and thus the dredge is pulled from one point to another. New Type Shovels A comparatively new type shovel operated with Speed-O-Matic control, introduced in California and Nevada by Garfield Co., San Francisco, is being used by Lord & Bishop. The operator, highest paid man on the job, no longer has to pull and push stubborn hand levers, but gently touches small levers that do the work. The new firms starting work near here are Clark and Wiltsee, Harms and Larson. Each has a $40,000 outfit similar to Lord & Bishop's. Lord Heads Organization Committee Committeemen working with Lord to complete organization of dragline operators include O. W. Jaspar, San Francisco; Harry England and R. G. Stapleton, Oroville; R. W. Baker, Redding. The Gold Producers of California with which the small dredge operators intend to unite is comprised of all bucketing operators and larger gold quartz interests, Malcolm W. Moss, W. D. O’Brien and J. K. Gold, associates in the Placers De Oro Co., who bought a Smith’s Flat channel property from Bert Carpender for $35,000 and expended $33,000 in operation and examination, are suing Carpender for $105,565, claiming he represented it to be worth $80,000. Head Frames 18th and Campbell Sts. for MINE and Mi FIRE SAFETY, PERMANENCY, ECONOMY, ADAPTABILITY BUILT TO YOUR REQUIREMENTS—QUICK DELIVERY Send Us Your Inquiries HERRICK IRON WORKS Steel Buildings ILL OAKLAND, CALIF. EL DORADO COUNTY The Dayton Consolidated of Virginia City, Nev., is now employing 35 men at the Davy and Henry Bacchi properties, 20 at the former and 15 at the latter, Supt. A. H. Weiler being in charge of both properties with Marshall Draper of Auburn as engineer. A station has been cut on the 200-level preparatory to further sinking. A new 50 h. p. hoist and power saw for framing timbers has been installed. Surface development is going on at the Bacchi property. A dredge for the recovery of gold, is under construction about four miles from Latrobe, on Big Canyon Creek. Following its completion, another unit will be built in the same locality, H. 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Two California Mining Journal, July, 1937 $3,000 Gold Gravel Land Worth Only $15 for Farming OODLEBUGS are swarming over the rocky lands all along the Sierra foothills wherever there is up to 10 feet of gold-bearing gravel, gorging themselves on gold-bearing earth. Two new outfits are reported to be moving onto property a short distance from Folsom, Secramento Co., according to H. S. Lord, chairman of the organization committee of Dragline Gold Dredge Operators a newly formed group with headquarters in Sacramento. Lord & Bishop, Pioneers Lord & Bishop is one of the firms that has been operating in this district approximately three months. Lord's partner is Arthur Bishop, also of Sacramento. Five years ago Lord & Bishop operated the first doodlebug ever built. It was constructed near Oroville by the late Horace Onyett and the outfit still is in operation. No one has ever been able to explain why the drags and dredges are designated “Doodlebugs,” except that is the name given them by Onyett, which still sticks. Output 90,000 Ounces Thirty members of the dragline organization, which is expected soon to affiliate with the Gold Producers of California, last year took out 90,000 ounces of gold valued at $2,500,000, Lord said. His report revealed that the members paid $350,000 for land; $1,400,000 for equipment; $700,000 for wages; $600,000 for material and supplies; $40,000 for compensation insurance. Operators united to protect their interests and in an attempt to formulate ethical methods of mining. They are interested in preventing pollution of streams and confining their activities to property not valuable to agricultural interests. $3,000 Acre Minimum According to Lord, unless the land mined will gross an average of $3,000 an acre, it is not worth working. He said the average his firm is handling now is worth, as farm land, less than $15 per acre on an average, and that it is estimated it would take four acres to support one steer. He said: “To our knowledge, only three operators in California are working land valuable for agriculture. Those are near Madera.” Lord & Bishop, operating a medium sized outfit, have 1,225,000 yards of material to mine at their present location which they have leased. It is estimated they will complete the job in another year and a half. Eight to 10 pct. royalty of what they make is paid to the farmer. Equipment, including a one-and-one-half-yard shovel, costs $40,000. Cost of operating the doodlebug is $40 for each 24 hours in addition to a daily payroll amounting to $92. The equipment works day and night, stopping only for repairs and 20 minutes out of each eight-hour shift for lunch. Three men work each shift and a supervisor handles reports, takes charge of cleaning up. Before land is leased by operators, experl prospectors are sent out to pan dirt from sample holes. When they have finished, a second man is sent out te check on reports of the first. 90 Per Cent Recovery Lord said his firm had saved 90 per cent of the gold put through the doodlebug and that this high percentage was due to the use cf cccoa mat under the screening on the riffles and to the design of the riffles which causes the water to “dance up and down” rather than simply flow over them. The dredge, maneuvered into place in the stream by means of cross wires, is operated by a 125 h. p. engine. One set of cross wires, anchored out in the fields, are loosened when the boat is moved; the other set is tightened and thus the dredge is pulled from one point to another. New Type Shovels A comparatively new type shovel operated with Speed-O-Matic control, introduced in California and Nevada by Garfield Co., San Francisco, is being used by Lord & Bishop. The operator, highest paid man on the job, no longer has to pull and push stubborn hand levers, but gently touches small levers that do the work. The new firms starting work near here are Clark and Wiltsee, Harms and Larson. Each has a $40,000 outfit similar to Lord &

Bishop's. Lord Heads Organization Committee Committeemen working with Lord to complete organization of dragline operators include O. W. Jaspar, San Francisco; Harry England and R. G. Stapleton, Oroville; R. W. Baker, Redding. The Gold Producers of California with which the small dredge operators intend to unite is comprised of all bucketing operators and larger gold quartz interests, Malcolm W. Moss, W. D. O’Brien and J. K. Gold, associates in the Placers De Oro Co., who bought a Smith’s Flat channel property from Bert Carpender for $35,000 and expended $33,000 in operation and examination, are suing Carpender for $105,565, claiming he represented it to be worth $80,000. Head Frames 18th and Campbell Sts. for MINE and Mi FIRE SAFETY, PERMANENCY, ECONOMY, ADAPTABILITY BUILT TO YOUR REQUIREMENTS—QUICK DELIVERY Send Us Your Inquiries HERRICK IRON WORKS Steel Buildings ILL OAKLAND, CALIF. EL DORADO COUNTY The Dayton Consolidated of Virginia City, Nev., is now employing 35 men at the Davy and Henry Bacchi properties, 20 at the former and 15 at the latter, Supt. A. H. Weiler being in charge of both properties with Marshall Draper of Auburn as engineer. A station has been cut on the 200-level preparatory to further sinking. A new 50 h. p. hoist and power saw for framing timbers has been installed. Surface development is going on at the Bacchi property. A dredge for the recovery of gold, is under construction about four miles from Latrobe, on Big Canyon Creek. Following its completion, another unit will be built in the same locality, H. KRIEGER Dealer in MINING and INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY of All Kinds Single and Double Drum Hoists, Pulleys, Gears, Shafting, Rail, Leather & Rubber Belting, Valves, Fittings, Pipe, Cable Pumps, Motors, Gas Engines Mine Cars and Lighting Plants 724 Brannan Street Market 5409 SAN FRANCISCO rrr rrr rrr rrr rrr At Your Service Submit Your Mining Problems to our staff of Trained Specialists. CHECK THE PROBLEM on which you desire aid, and return this Ad to us; or better still, write us fully: Statistical Information New and Used Machinery Leasing and Bonding Purchasing Agents Audits and Reports Geologic Reports Mining Supplies Aerial Surveys Financing Chemicals Samplings Listings Records Surveys Assays Mapping WESTERN MINING SERVICE BUREAU Room 496—532 16th Street OAKLAND, CALIF. Phone Highgate 7257 [Ee Organization Consultants Inventories Engineering Supervision Appraisals Accounting Research —.