California Mining Journal (PH 16-14)(April 1943) (36 pages)

TWENTY-EIGHT California Mining Journal, April, 1943 Southwest Ass’n Out to Kill Separate Department Bill . following news story out of Los Angeles is evidence that there will be fireworks when the Seawell Bill, S.B. 414, calling for the separation of the Division of Mines from the Natural Resource Department, comes up in the present session of the Legislature. It reads: Hopes for a solid front in support of the Seawell Bill, designed to abolish the present California Division of Mines and set up a new Department of Mines, faded when the board of directors of the Mining Association of the Southwest voted unanimously to oppose the Seawell Bill and all proposed legislation directly related to it. The southern California mining division of the California State Chamber of Commerce, meeting in Los Angeles, also went on record last week as being in opposition to the Seawell Bill. Want Revolving Fund This action carried with it determined opposition to another bill which is designed to strip the California Division of Mines of its revolving fund for publication of periodicals and reports. By this action, 500 mining men south of Angels Camp expressed their disapproval of two bills which would sidetrack the present state mineralogist and put the appointment of a new one in the hands of the governor or the state mining board, whereas the position has long been under civil service. Would Abolish Bureau Along with its protest against the Seawell Bill, the mining association ordered sent to the efficiency committee of the Legislature and to others interested a statement to the effect that it favors abolition of the Bureau of War Minerals Production at Sacramento, and any and all other political or semipolitical bureaus and agencies which seemingly duplicate duties already being discharged either by the California Division of Mines, the United States Bureau of Mines, or some other long-established agency. The mining association adopted a resolution calling upon the California Legislature and Governor Warren to refrain from any further expenditure of tax money for activities purporting to be of benefit to the mining industry of this state, for the duration. Mining! at Its Peak ; Directors of the organization contended that mining is and has been for five years at its peak in this state, without recourse to extraordinary expenditures and that there is no apparent need for setting up additional bureaus or agencies during the next two years for the benefit of mining. The association also voted to certify to Governor Warren within 10 days the names of five or its members from which to select two persons for consideration as appointees on the state mining board) when next a vacancy occurs, LOS ANGELES NOTES Dan R, Rankin, for the past 5 years assistant to the chief engineer for the Peerless Pump division, Food Machinery Corp., 301 West Avenue 26, Los Angeles, was recently appointed acting chief engineer for the same department. Ralph R. Langley, who has been operating the Golden Gem Mine in Mohave Co., Ariz., has moved to 1045 S. Bedford St., Los Angeles, COMMENT The Mining Association of the Southwest, headquartering in Los Angeles and taking in the state of Arizona and other territory, has long been the “dog in the manger” in reference to any attempt of the vast majority of mine operators of California to get proper governmental aid for exploration and development. It’s the same old clique, always willing to annoint themselves as fountains of mining knowledge and supreme leaders in the industry, in an ever-repeating attempt to keep mining a closed corporation in California. It’s a good thing there was no Los Angeles mining association in the days of ’49. They would have come to Sacramento, Sutter's Fort and Coloma in an attempt to convince the onrush of prospectors that “there was no gold in them thar hills.” And they might even have been successful; and where would California have been today? The Southwest boys talk about “mining being at its peak in the past five years.” If that is so, why was it necessary for the supervisors of every county in the state to make a strategic mineral survey when the Japs grabbed all the sources of minerals we were importing? And why was it necessary for the state to set up a Strategic Bureau? If mining has been at its peak, why has it been necessary for the federal government to scour California, searching for raw material for its aluminum plant at Riberbank, Stanislaus County? And why was it necessary for Kaiser to put in a steel plant in the Southwest boys’ home county? If mining is, or was, at its peak, why is 15% to 34% copper ore in the Mother Lode area still being overlooked when we haven't even got enough copper to make cent pieces and when 71can-ounce silver has to be substituted for 12c-per-pound copper? Has mining been at its peak when we have to bring in antimony from China by airplanes, when we have outstanding antimony districts in California? Is mining at its peak when it was necessary for us to have Earl K. Nixon, head of the Oregon State Department, go to Washington to get our Metals Reserve Co. ore purchasing depots and stockpiles? Is mining at its peak when the Southwest Association did its best to blast any attempts to develop a commercial supply of tin in California when the Japs have 90% of our needed supply tied up in Burma and Malay? We wonder how they feel about the Dodge Construction Co. developing the Cajalco tin lode in Riverside and shipments of tin ore, containing 120 lbs. of tin to the ton, being shipped out of San Bernardino County to the Texas tin smelter. No, the Southwest boys are all wet and should either get on the bandwagon for California mining development, or disband their whole organization, now obstructing the mining industry's effort to win the war. We buy Black Sand and Placer Concentrates. Prompt Settlement. Ragooland-Broy Laboratories, 754 Natoma &t., S. F, Advt The Southern Idea of a Separate Department . By THE PROSPECTOR Knowing how the Kegley boys of the’ Southern Association want to keep mining tied up by the self-annointed, I got a kick out of Howard Kegley’s story in the L. A. Times on the separate mining’ department bill, which I note is again introduced in the legislature. fee Howard talks about the “solid ‘opposition of the South.” He forgets about: the time Mr. Griggs, the Southwest Association legis-:: lative representative, was sent to Sacramento to back this same bill with a 4 to 1 vote: of the southern membership. And how,after thus fortified, Al Knorpp, the “Big Shot” lobbyist from Frisco, made “two trips to our fair city to persuade us that we were on the wrong track. The second time Al got 15 of our directors (7 of whom.had' no connection with mining at all) together and. voted ‘em against the bill. And just as the bill was about to pass, this bunch: of. turncoats sent a wire to the legislature -with-. drawing the support of the entire associa-: tion. They beat us that time, but by -no. means was it with the “opposition of the solid South.” (If you don’t believe me you can write Mr. Griggs. He’s up in Plumas County, at Greenville, running a manganese mine.) : Kegley shows his ignorance, purposely, I suppose, when he talks about a “new bu-~ reau, or department.” There will be nothing. new about it. The only thing that will happen will be a little divorce in the natural resource family. Mining will be independ-. ent and won’t have to ask a fisherman or sportsman about how to mine. And the forestry boys won’t be cracking the whip. Talk about the “Four Freedoms’—what we want is freedom to mine. We have never had it under the heel of Kegley’s big shots. Eb Kegley writes that he is opposed to “extending the activities of existing department beyond current needs.” Our department is so far behind the current needs that it’s a Joke; and Kegley and his gang would like to perpetuate the joke. rae California can supply every war mineral necessary to lick the Japs and the Nazi, but’ you would never know it. Once I read in’ your paper that Dr. Dean, a U. S. man, said the West “had every strategic material except enough hemp rope for some necktie parties,” and I believe him. ; Subscribe to The Journal, $2 per year. MINING and MILLING. MACHINERY Tractors, Shovels, Ete: Wanted For Burchare ALSO—— Have Good Stock of Used and Rebuilt Equipment For Sale. Bevis Machinery Co. Phone, Michigan 1478 585 Santa Fe Ave, LOS ANGELES ri.

TWENTY-EIGHT California Mining Journal, April, 1943 Southwest Ass’n Out to Kill Separate Department Bill . following news story out of Los Angeles is evidence that there will be fireworks when the Seawell Bill, S.B. 414, calling for the separation of the Division of Mines from the Natural Resource Department, comes up in the present session of the Legislature. It reads: Hopes for a solid front in support of the Seawell Bill, designed to abolish the present California Division of Mines and set up a new Department of Mines, faded when the board of directors of the Mining Association of the Southwest voted unanimously to oppose the Seawell Bill and all proposed legislation directly related to it. The southern California mining division of the California State Chamber of Commerce, meeting in Los Angeles, also went on record last week as being in opposition to the Seawell Bill. Want Revolving Fund This action carried with it determined opposition to another bill which is designed to strip the California Division of Mines of its revolving fund for publication of periodicals and reports. By this action, 500 mining men south of Angels Camp expressed their disapproval of two bills which would sidetrack the present state mineralogist and put the appointment of a new one in the hands of the governor or the state mining board, whereas the position has long been under civil service. Would Abolish Bureau Along with its protest against the Seawell Bill, the mining association ordered sent to the efficiency committee of the Legislature and to others interested a statement to the effect that it favors abolition of the Bureau of War Minerals Production at Sacramento, and any and all other political or semipolitical bureaus and agencies which seemingly duplicate duties already being discharged either by the California Division of Mines, the United States Bureau of Mines, or some other long-established agency. The mining association adopted a resolution calling upon the California Legislature and Governor Warren to refrain from any further expenditure of tax money for activities purporting to be of benefit to the mining industry of this state, for the duration. Mining! at Its Peak ; Directors of the organization contended that mining is and has been for five years at its peak in this state, without recourse to extraordinary expenditures and that there is no apparent need for setting up additional bureaus or agencies during the next two years for the benefit of mining. The association also voted to certify to Governor Warren within 10 days the names of five or its members from which to select two persons for consideration as appointees on the state mining board) when next a vacancy occurs, LOS ANGELES NOTES Dan R, Rankin, for the past 5 years assistant to the chief engineer for the Peerless Pump division, Food Machinery Corp., 301 West Avenue 26, Los Angeles, was recently appointed acting chief engineer for the same department. Ralph R. Langley, who has been operating the Golden Gem Mine in Mohave Co., Ariz., has moved to 1045 S. Bedford St., Los Angeles, COMMENT The Mining Association of the Southwest, headquartering in Los Angeles and taking in the state of Arizona and other territory, has long been the “dog in the manger” in reference to any attempt of the vast majority of mine operators of California to get proper governmental aid for exploration and development. It’s the same old clique, always willing to annoint themselves as fountains of mining knowledge and supreme leaders in the industry, in an ever-repeating attempt to keep mining a closed corporation in California. It’s a good thing there was no Los Angeles mining association in the days of ’49. They would have come to Sacramento, Sutter's Fort and Coloma in an attempt to convince the onrush of prospectors that “there was no gold in them thar hills.” And they might even have been successful; and where would California have been today? The Southwest boys talk about “mining being at its peak in the past five years.” If that is so, why was it necessary for the supervisors of every county in the state to make a strategic mineral survey when the Japs grabbed all the sources of minerals we were importing? And why was it necessary for the state to set up a Strategic Bureau? If mining has been at its peak, why has it been necessary for the federal government to scour California, searching for raw material for its aluminum plant at Riberbank, Stanislaus County? And why was it necessary for Kaiser to put in a steel plant in the Southwest boys’

home county? If mining is, or was, at its peak, why is 15% to 34% copper ore in the Mother Lode area still being overlooked when we haven't even got enough copper to make cent pieces and when 71can-ounce silver has to be substituted for 12c-per-pound copper? Has mining been at its peak when we have to bring in antimony from China by airplanes, when we have outstanding antimony districts in California? Is mining at its peak when it was necessary for us to have Earl K. Nixon, head of the Oregon State Department, go to Washington to get our Metals Reserve Co. ore purchasing depots and stockpiles? Is mining at its peak when the Southwest Association did its best to blast any attempts to develop a commercial supply of tin in California when the Japs have 90% of our needed supply tied up in Burma and Malay? We wonder how they feel about the Dodge Construction Co. developing the Cajalco tin lode in Riverside and shipments of tin ore, containing 120 lbs. of tin to the ton, being shipped out of San Bernardino County to the Texas tin smelter. No, the Southwest boys are all wet and should either get on the bandwagon for California mining development, or disband their whole organization, now obstructing the mining industry's effort to win the war. We buy Black Sand and Placer Concentrates. Prompt Settlement. Ragooland-Broy Laboratories, 754 Natoma &t., S. F, Advt The Southern Idea of a Separate Department . By THE PROSPECTOR Knowing how the Kegley boys of the’ Southern Association want to keep mining tied up by the self-annointed, I got a kick out of Howard Kegley’s story in the L. A. Times on the separate mining’ department bill, which I note is again introduced in the legislature. fee Howard talks about the “solid ‘opposition of the South.” He forgets about: the time Mr. Griggs, the Southwest Association legis-:: lative representative, was sent to Sacramento to back this same bill with a 4 to 1 vote: of the southern membership. And how,after thus fortified, Al Knorpp, the “Big Shot” lobbyist from Frisco, made “two trips to our fair city to persuade us that we were on the wrong track. The second time Al got 15 of our directors (7 of whom.had' no connection with mining at all) together and. voted ‘em against the bill. And just as the bill was about to pass, this bunch: of. turncoats sent a wire to the legislature -with-. drawing the support of the entire associa-: tion. They beat us that time, but by -no. means was it with the “opposition of the solid South.” (If you don’t believe me you can write Mr. Griggs. He’s up in Plumas County, at Greenville, running a manganese mine.) : Kegley shows his ignorance, purposely, I suppose, when he talks about a “new bu-~ reau, or department.” There will be nothing. new about it. The only thing that will happen will be a little divorce in the natural resource family. Mining will be independ-. ent and won’t have to ask a fisherman or sportsman about how to mine. And the forestry boys won’t be cracking the whip. Talk about the “Four Freedoms’—what we want is freedom to mine. We have never had it under the heel of Kegley’s big shots. Eb Kegley writes that he is opposed to “extending the activities of existing department beyond current needs.” Our department is so far behind the current needs that it’s a Joke; and Kegley and his gang would like to perpetuate the joke. rae California can supply every war mineral necessary to lick the Japs and the Nazi, but’ you would never know it. Once I read in’ your paper that Dr. Dean, a U. S. man, said the West “had every strategic material except enough hemp rope for some necktie parties,” and I believe him. ; Subscribe to The Journal, $2 per year. MINING and MILLING. MACHINERY Tractors, Shovels, Ete: Wanted For Burchare ALSO—— Have Good Stock of Used and Rebuilt Equipment For Sale. Bevis Machinery Co. Phone, Michigan 1478 585 Santa Fe Ave, LOS ANGELES ri.