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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada City Nugget

February 27, 1928 (6 pages)

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is think of pure *gold in @EFBRUARY 27, 1928 ran. THE NEVADA CITY NUG NUGGET, Cé CALIFORNIA CHEMICALLY PURE GOLD ORIGIN IS REVEALED (Communicated ) The ‘purity of the gold from an assay of ore from the ‘Dipper Consolidated claims at Red Ledge in Sierra county, as might have been expected, caused considerable doubt in the minds of a few “‘punkin heads” LE —and wiseacres, following the announcement made in The two weeks ago. Nugget The district as a wihvle has not been profittble but a change has oceurredf The vein system passing through the. Dipper and adjoining ground gives promise of developing into producing mines through persistent prospecting and the only way in which to prove the value of mineral land. Mrs. EB. .E. DeWein has held this ground since 1916, performing the assesment work: regularly anl now, it would seem is about to. receive her reward for many years of perserverance. It should also be said that she is the only’ woman in Nevada county who takes a direct interest in mining—the souree of all our metallic wealth. Considerable prospecting has been done over a period of many years. Recent work consists of a tunnel about 105 feet with a drift of 185 fect. The sample which has caused so much controversy came from.a point about 145 feet in this drift. The walls appear to be a serpentine slate hanging and porphyry ~ foot wall. The vein system is stratified with strata from 1% to 4% inches wide and undoubtedly they will unite in a solid vein in depth. So much for that. Now: in regard to the remarkable fineness of the gold. Nature plays many pranks in the different formations of this earth, no less so in the Mineral kingdom than in just plain common rocks. Ores are of every conceivable kind. Some metals are Well alloyed with two or more. Others like lead and copper are frequently found practically pure. Likewise gold which rules this earth, has varying degrees of purity. At differenti times during the past 45 years one reads of some mine carrying ore assaying $20.00 or thereabouts Per ounce. Occasionally around $20.30 or $20.40 per ounce. Admittedly high grade gold and whenever those facts become known, the information was siezed upon and broadcasted in the: mining press. It was and still is unusual to find $20.00 gold. Not long ago a sample of ore from the Dipper Consolidated was given to Mr. G. B. Phillips, the well known and competent assayer for the California Mac Van Company of Sacramento. To the surprise’ of all, he certified that that sample yielded one ounce per ton of the value of $20.67! The silver present was almost negligible. What little there was notworth calculating. Just nature and worth $20.67 an ounce, for that is all that pure gold is worth. It is cercounty has other ‘the vicinity of Alpha red and yellow } D an extremely rare effort of perme perme ——= * PAINT PIGMENTS OFFER. MINING COMMISSION IS AN ALLURING PROSPECT. PROPOSED BY STEVENOT The highly einer mineralized zones in } Nevada, Shasta, Trinity. and Siskiyou counties may some day furnish 1 \ . . t a large portion of the world‘s supply of paint pigments. Other counties in Superior California may also have depostits of these minerals suit, able for development. The Democrat mine near Alta operated by the Glidden paint people; . is being made into a superior “grade of paint and proves that Nevada . metals besides the precious yellow gold. The old copper mine dump near Spenceville is also furnishing material for paint and in. { ochre is being mined for king. paint ma! mercially, The study being made by the mines department of the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce is being made ' to aid prospeeting for some of the many industrial minerals needed for the fullest development of manufacturing in this great state of ours. and encourage There are five main requirements for the successful mining and marketing of the pigments. The material must contain the material desired in. large quantities and of the color and substance desired; the material must be uniform ‘in coolor and texture; the deposit must be so situated so that transportation will be available; the material must be of a quantity that can. be used without washing; the deposit must be ‘easily and cheaply mined. On the requirement of uniformity of color, texture and substance have most of the attempts to mine pigments in California in the past, fallen down. Pigments. come from three sources. There are the chemically manufactured pigments such as chrome yellow, Prussian blue, etc.; the pigments made from residues of ores such as zine oxide and white lead, and the natural mineral pigments such as ochres, umbras and siennas. This article will deal only with the latter group. For the trade, these natural paint pigments are classified according to color and run from red to yellow, green, brown, black and _ orange. The color in’ most cases is due to iron content. The most important of the pigments is the mineral red or Prince's Metallic, as it is known to the trade. This is the paint which goes on boxears, bridges and rough work and the brick color is standard, It is known in the mineral as limonite or hydrated iron oxide. Hematite cf iron oxide is also used for the same purpose. There are deposits of hematite and limonite in, many places in California which await development. These materials must however, be further processed in order to be acceptable to the paint makers, who buy the refined product rather than the raw mine run. Owners of: deposits ave failed to market their proof their 1e proIhe proalso be ust. be barrelniform. ct sells he nas he ommon and i3 prepared mineral pw come ‘securing rnishing Afucturer . bnnsylvadomestic Oo states. bw ochre ver, and on while at from led form. the Califlop these m for the ing Nevare awaient should office and ied woman understand ressed with clean shirt i hig ray issio 7 is . has a fine supply of barytes which . Bighway commission in an advisory -humber . isfactorily it has a market. French. so large! quioxide }. or from ' . . . ‘is no ee Director Fred acvanut of the state department of natural resources, has . in mind the formation of the California mining commission, particul, arly designed to serve a much neg, lected industry of California, . but , which has an annual production record. of néar half a billion dollars. \Stevenct’s idea is to have it function along the lines of the state capacity to the director of the de. partment. Governor Young is said to: look with favor on the proposal and it is expected that the. matter will . be taken up actively at the 1929 session of. the state legislature. { In an interview Stevenot says: “California produces a larger . number of mineraP substances, comthan any other state in the Union. In recent. years, the of substances, exclusive of several grouped’ as gems, has totalled around sixty. , “Gold, of course, still continues our most important metal, and California leads the nation in the an; nual yield of the precious yellow metal, accounting for nearly 30 Der cent of our domestic gold annually. California’s total gold to date shows a valiie of more than £1,800,000,000 which if gathered together in one lump, would make a_= solid cube, nearly 17 feet in extent.” FULLERS EARTH COMING IMPORTANT PRODUCING The production of fuller’s earth
has grown to be a sizeable industry in California in recent years and the uses and demands are constantly growing. Last year the output ran close te $100,000 in California, with a littie over 5,000 tons mined. The California production, however, is only a small part of the. -national production, of 234,162 tons and the bulk of fuller’s earth ‘now comes from Georgia, Florida’ and Texas. Last year the average price was $14.33 per ton, which was a little better than 1925, when it was $14.15. The term Fuller’s earth has come to cover a variety of clays and there specified chemical composition for the product. The main requirement. is a physical one and the fact that a clay will do certain work entitles . it to be classed as fuller’s earth. It is usually, a soft, friable, earthy, non-plastic, white and gray to durk green in color. Its original use was for fuliing wool, from which ability it takes its name. It is greases, It is wallpaper, cum used for fats, and vegetable oil. a pigment for. painting for a substitute for talpowder, a poultice in cine and an antidote for poisons. clarifying mineral also medialkaloid Some is used in the manufacture of soap. The only test of fuller’s earth is to try it for the above purposes, and if it works satColloidot clays coming under the classification of fuller’s earth contain such local names as ‘Bentonite,’ ' tude, of ; Pot Ash.) <THE NUGGET PAGE OF MINING NES GATHERED FROM 0 OVER CALIFORNI ALIFORNIA NEW MINERAL CALLED RASORITE IS EXPLOITED California has disclosed an entirely new mineral, named rasorite af“ter its discoverer ,well known as a borax engineer. It is a tetra-hydrate of borax, and 8 millions tons of it are said to lie in Kern county. According to Science Service, it . Promises to cheapen ‘borax, and to greatly extend the use of unbreakOrdinary glass breaks because it has a high coefficienct of expansion. Glass made from quartz has a low refractory ,however, melting only at a very high temperature. When borax is used with the quartz, we get borosilicate glass or ' pyrex. This vast deposit, enough for 50 years, will give us enamels and oth er products. Ia glass, ‘it should give us unbréakable fruit jars, milk bottles ,tumblers, carafes and -a multieveryday things. (Tron MONO COUNTY Unwatering of the old Noonday, Red Cloud and other mines near Bodie is being undertaken by C. C. Julian of Los Angeies. The entireequipment o fthe Leadfield mine nea: Beatty, Nevada, is being transported by truck to the properties, a distance of 575 miles by way of Goldfield and Tonopah. There is a 125 horse yvower diesel engine and a 625 foot ir compressor and other equipment which will be set up. MARIPOSA COUNTY Much of the surface plant ofthe Mother Lode Extension mine near Merced Falls was recently destroyed by fire. The machine shop ,jhydraulic pump and other equipment was burned. The property is being operated by F. F. Lautenschlager. A rich shoot of ore is reported at the Buena Vista mine in the Saxon Creek district. The strike is said to have been made while driving the tunnel ahead. Miss Bele McCord Rvuberts of Long Beach, newspaper woman, haeds the company developin: the property. A rich vein is reported struck! in a properyt on Sherlock creek beinz opened up by Robert MacLean and John Noble. The property is a former producer. The mine is to be reopened and retimbered. SHASTA COUNTY H. C. Austin of Oakland has comMenced suit: in federal court against A. D. Joyce of Cleveland, president of the California Zine Company at Bully Hill alleging that $13,716 is due him for royalties on mining production. Austin charges that he sold Certain mining properties to Joyce and in addition to the purchase price was to receive a 10 per. cent royalty on all barium ore taken out. The properties in question are near Heroult. R. L. Hussey who recently acquired the Greenhorn copper pro)perties is now making his first trip to the property. He expects to. install a 50 ton flotation plant:as the first unit and this will be gradually increased as production gets under way ‘Otaylite’ and ‘Shosonite.’ The greater part of California’s. productionis used locally in California for the; decolorizing of petroleum and the oil companies own their own de! TRINITY COUNTY Ed D. Westbrook, Jr. has taken a bond and lease on the Dutton Creek group of four placer mines near the! famous!l. aGrange hydraulic properposits. ‘ty. Development work is to be un& dertaken at. once. TUOLUMNE COUNTY . A five stamp mill is being erected at the Tapie mine where a $1900 pocket was recently found. The: mill is being taken from the Huston property near Eennice: BITS OF HUMOR Nothing makes some women madder than for their husbands to admit they are wrong without giving them _ able borax glass of the kind known . . ,as pyrex. Hugsey bought the property at bankruptey sale following the failure of E. G. Lewis, of Atascadero notoriety. Tunnels and drifts in the property total two miles and it is stated that several hundred. thousand tons of ore have been blocked out. ar aaa FRO ORAFESRSL FS? SPER SSS SRA RETIRING FROM BU: Big Closing Out Sale For Cash Only. Of my Complete Stock of Ladies’ and Children’s Underwear [* chance to argue about it. n getting , show him ' The report that Trotsky is coming to the U. S. ought to chance to see how well our wamieel: ‘tion lows work. 2 From the way they go at it, some Nevada City girls considering powdering their nose as imvortant as scratching a hite. What has become or the old fashioned Nevada City man who always wanted to settle his arguments ‘with his fists? That government employee who has raised 20 children on $85 a month ought to be moved over to ae budget department, ) Broad Street FURR aRURARRE TERR ERE TESAFSSS w * Backed by-a\ $40,000,000 plant Behind Budweiser Real Quality Malt Syrup is a $40,000,000 institution which includes 110 ee. buildings and covers more than 70 city blocks. e Every operation is completed by automatic machines under the watchful guidance of America’s foremost maltsters. And every can is backed by a name and label that have meant top-quality the world over for more than 70 years. When in St. Louis visit our plant. Malt Syrup Increases Food Values Plain and Hop Flavored ~ Strictly Union Made ANHEUSER-BUSCH, St. Louis. «e HALL-LUHRS & CO. ~ Distributors Sacramento, Calif, Half Price for everything, nothing excepted. Sale now under way and will continue until the stock is sold COME EARLY BEFORE THE BEST ARE TAKEN MRS. GEORGE A. 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