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Soon there will be a photo of all the water washing through the Osceola mill.
in reply to: Clips from Alleghany #2370Have you been reading about the rains plummeting northern California? Thirty-six hours of pounding rain, a short break and then twenty-four hours more caused Kanaka Creek to roar down the canyon. It also impacted the mine. Water probably increased in the north end of the mine as well. Water rose as fast as anyone can remember, flooding the 2200 level. The miners worked under harsh conditions to install a different pump in order to regain the level and service the existing pumps and electrical connections. It has been a tough week!
in reply to: Miscellaneous #2372Well, if that’s true, that photo should go on my website.
in reply to: Miscellaneous #2368C’mon guys, we’ve been hangin’ out at the “Y” on the 800 level long enough! Let’s see something new. Even if it’s flowers growing out of the old muckin’ machine in front of the office or Mike with his feet on his desk talkin’ on the phone or maybe some bars of gold stacked up on a velvet pillow or some specimens or… anything!!!
Thanks, man. You’re a Pal.in reply to: EMPIRE STRIKES BACK #2369Michael, How are things going at the empire? Is the project stalled or are you drilling and blasting? My gandfather worked at the Empire complex over many years, hence my interest.
in reply to: Clips from Alleghany #2367As you know the Company sought relief from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth circuit about a year ago. A brief was accepted and the Respondent (lawyer for MSHA) filed a motion to have it thrown out, which was denied. The lawyer (a very nice lady in Washington D.C.) filed a brief. Mike was hit with a scheduled OSHA hearing and then a MSHA hearing and asked for an extension of time to answer. Things were moving right along until a week or so ago. Rae call to check how the request for time was coming along and the clerk said an issue arose. The issue surfaced today. The office received an ORDER from the Ninth Circuit in today’s mail. It says:
“A review of the record indicates that Petitioner Original Sixteen to One Mine, Inc. is not represented by an attorney. Within fourteen days from the entry of this order, Petitioner shall show cause why this petition for review should not be dismissed. See Highley v. Highlander, Inc., 459F .2d 554, 555-56 (9th Cir. 1972) (A corporation can appear in a court proceeding only through an attorney at law.)
Petitioner’s failure to comply with this order will result in dismissal of the petition for review.”
For the Court:
Howard E. Goldberg, Deputy Clerk
Local Rule 27-7Well, well, well. What have we here? Does not a corporation have all rights equal to a person? It says so in California law for California corporations. Original Sixteen to One Mine, Inc. was incorporated in California in 1911. Has another constitutional right gone atrophied? How long have the lawyers assumed this right from the rest of us? Is it an unbeatable situation or maybe it has never been tested under the circumstances that Original Sixteen found itself in because of the unlawful abuse of the entire MSHA rats. (Notice Scoop did not say the entire MSHA agency. There are plenty of good solid employees within the agency; however the agency has been taken over by a lying incompetent fringe.)
Ours is an issue that arose because of abuses in the executive branch, not the judicial. What happens to a small and financial beat up old corporation that finds itself in a fight for survival and when it finally gets its chance to bring its case to a real court, not the pretend court of administrative law the door closes shut?
in reply to: Clips from Alleghany #2365Mike finished a three day MSHA hearing today. It ran last Thursday and Friday. The judge returned to Washington D.C. Friday afternoon and resumed the hearing this morning at 8:30 am. While the six allegations of violations in mine regulations would only cost $1,300, more than money was his concern. The citations were full of untruths, which Mike tried to convey to the administrative law judge. Untruths cannot survive. He believes doing so threatens the mine, its owners, the miners, the community as well as the American people. Scoop will attempt an interview soon for details.
Missy, one of the office cats disappeared for a week. If you have ever been in the company office, she is the one that looks you straight in the eyes, lifts her paw and gently places it on your face. She has the personality to make everyone who comes through the door feel special. She also is a pest to Rae, Kyle and Mike as they work at their desks; however all of them were relieved when she returned.
Ray Wittkopp, the renowned company geologist returned from his annual travels in Australia. It is nice to have him back in the area. Ray, Mike and Ian planned to investigate the new area of the mine they are considering for gold production last Friday but had to cancel due to the MSHA hearing.
in reply to: Clips from Alleghany #2364April 30, 2005
Dear Gary,
Hope this is okay. It was a fun project, especially since I do not know the likely readers. You can reject any part or send it back for clarification.
See you in Alleghany sometime. Thanks for thinking of me.Michael
1. In late 1960’s, I knew that I no longer wanted to live in southern California (Santa Barbara). Born and raised in Sacramento (fifth generation Californian), rural northern California was my location of choice to explore for finding my family’s new home. We motored the Sierra Nevada up highway 49 to Quincy. Thanks to the good fortune of my father owning a small interest in a gold mining company in Sierra County, I found Alleghany in 1974. My early impression was that the area and the gold mining offered great opportunities for independent living, work satisfaction and adventure.
2. My job is that of a president. Presidents make both easy and tough decisions, especially in a corporation with a small staff. My activities include hands on tasks, including dump runs. Most of my time the past ten years and today is spent managing the flow of paper required to keep the various operations going. I also handle much of the gold sales, project analysis, legal activities and personnel issues.
3. Besides the universal inspirations most industrious businessmen feel, the “long gone” miners who worked the gold mines of the Alleghany Mining District inspire me to think a little more or work a little longer to overcome the problems of building and running a gold mine. There is an old saying that mines are not found they are built. Ours is over 100 years old with a good potential to produce for another 100 years.
4. My plans for the future are very ambitious. I want to find and mine the largest pocket of gold. The record is 83,000 ounces. I believe a good location is the junction of two primary gold veins in property we own called the Red Star. It requires a capital investment that we must obtain by gold production or perhaps some adventurous capitalists will join the effort. Other plans include winning an important social lawsuit against some evil lawyers, who have broken the laws in their misguided prosecution of innocent miners. I want to grow mushrooms in the abandoned workings of the mines. I want to build affordable natural Sierra Nevada mountain coffins. I want to make “moonshine”.
5. My favorite spot in the region is my home and surrounding property. I built my house in 1977 and continue to improve its hominess. My favorite spots are anywhere underground in the mines. It never ceases to humble me. Both the natural beauty and the human endeavors to challenge the earth’s forces we see each day underground are inspiring.
6. Our section of the Sierra Nevada is similar in beauty to most all other areas of the 200 plus mile long mountain range. Our area is called the Northern Mines. South of Auburn the area is called the Mother Lode. A great amount of gold likely remains buried in the California gold belt. Alleghany holds the record for the richest concentrations (pockets) ever mined in the state. Gold is unlike all other elements, and I think that many people both consciously or unconsciously feel and are affected by the powers of gold. I have witnessed the affects of Sixteen to One gold on men, women and children. It has always been positive.
7. Genuine.
in reply to: Gold Enters Major Bull Market #2363Lynwood
A graph of the ratio between the dollar gold price and the Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index going back to January of 1984 is available at http://www.mineweb.net/sections/other_minerals/438667.htm.
in reply to: Gold Enters Major Bull Market #2362Lynwood
There is a free and exemplary DVD discussing gold now available. The DVD is being offered by MONEX out of Newport Beach(800 949-GOLD). The interview is with Mr. James Sinclair. This DVD will be a classic.
Concerning the gold stocks, the most reliable 1 year indicator is the ratio of the dollar gold spot price to the Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index(XAU). So says Myles Zyblock the chief North American institutional strategist for RBC Capital of Canada.
Recently, Mr. Zyblock has identified a buy signal for gold stocks. Currently the gold to XAU Index ratio is 5.08. Byblock’s bottom line: buy gold stocks when the ratio is above 5 and sell them when the ration is below 3.
Selecting gold stocks is a difficult pursuit as compared to holding the safer bullion but they can be extremely rewarding if you are holding the right one.
The quality players in the gold stock sector are presently favoring Jack Dempsey’s Royal Gold. Mr. Sinclair is also positive on this one. As you might well know, Royal Gold is a gold royalty company with almost all of their revenue stream coming in from mines in Nevada which are operated by the majors.
As far as exploration gold stocks are concerned, our own 16 to 1 is an asset rich play with excellent prospects awaiting a higher gold price.
in reply to: Clips from Alleghany #2361We have three active headings going. A little color showed a round ago in one of the headings, but some timber work needs to be done before we are off and running on the vien. Faris smelled arsenic in his heading after Friday’s round went off, which is a good sign. On the 800 level (main travel way) steel sets are being put in.
Alleghany is soggy and green. Everybody is longing for some sunshine.
The first quarter 10-Q will be filed this week. The company shows a $200,000 loss for the quarter.
To answer Smithsgold about how a person becomes a hard-rock miner. Most miners become miners by getting an entry level job at a mine and sticking with it.
in reply to: Miscellaneous #2360How and What does one do to become a Hardrock Miner?
Thanks,
Jeffin reply to: Clips from Alleghany #2359Not much snow on my porch anymore, and im wondrin whats the lastest going on at the mine, sense thres no news. No news isnt good news or is it? Whats goin on up under the hill?
in reply to: L.A. Times Article #2358Mining is a dangerous profession. So is crossing a street on foot. Not too long ago one of our long time residents was killed in a crosswalk. The driver was excused because of some circumstance and was issued a citation. Yesterday I saw that a squirrel near the same crosswalk didn’t make it to the other side.
Human beings, like all living things, don’t mix when factoring in machinery plus gravity and perpetual motion. If California state legislators had their way we would all live in a perfect world with the attorneys orchestrating our lives. Lee Romney and her handlers obviously know nothing of physics nor the natural destructive consequences of it.
I bring to your attention the construction of water tunnel #3 in New York City being dug out by the Sand Hogs who are also miners. My question is: why hasn’t Elliot Spitzer, the New York state attorney general, prosecuted the unions for all the loss of live that has resulted since the beginning of this project in 1970? I’ll tell you why, mining is a dangerous business. Anyway, Mr. Spitzer is spending his time these days chasing down and prosecuting rampant white collar crime in New York City.
Lee Romney’s thesis of the recent L.A. Times article may have made her handlers happy but it was no more that an blantant insult to anyone’s intelligence who read the news story.
It absolutely amazes me that the L.A. Times doesn’t spend more time investigating why the federal and state governments are so ill prepared for the approaching Bird Flu that might probably kill millions in this country alone.
in reply to: L.A. Times Article #2357Thanks Rick, for seeing what I saw in the L.A. Times article. Maybe Lee Romney thinks that L.A. citizens will believe anything in print. That may be true.
People who live and work in the rural areas of the U.S. know what a skunk smells like. I think that Lee’s article has a slight oder of the same quality.
I hope some other readers of the forum chime in. Even if it’s just to vote “Like” or “Dislike” the L.A. Times article.in reply to: L.A. Times Article #2356Well, gfxgold is absolutely right. Perhaps I need to clarify why I wrote what I did. The ‘smile on my face’ comes from the way the LA Times article slithers by the obvious questions and then tries to make it seem like the CDAA is getting a raw deal. Or, put another way, it should leave the savy reader (thanks gfxgold) wondering:
“What about leaving out exculpatory evidence from the Grand Jury?”
“Why does the CDAA feel free to accuse respected businessmen when there is evidence to the contrary?”
“When cases fizzle, how does this underscore cultural rifts, rather than the cases had no evidence?”
“When the judge tossed the case brought against Mike and Jonathan, was ‘little comment’ from the judge because the judge is ‘Appalachian and part of a rural rift’, or was the CDAA so lacking in proper procedure and lacking in evidence that little comment was due?”
“Why didn’t the article mention who intentionally withheld the excupatory evidence?”
“Is it only a technical slip that an illegal vigilante group of lawyers has charged two citizens with murder?”
“If Knox said that ‘prosecuters were clearly operating under the authority of then-Sierra Co. Dist. Atty Sharon O’Sullivan’ isn’t that a clear admission that there was complicity coming from that office in the willful withholding of exculpatory evidence?”
“Why does the article draw the inference that Mikes case is of of negligence when the excupatory evidence, available to the writer of the article, clearly states otherwise?”
“What run-ins? Where’s the distinction between Mike Miller the man and the the president of a publically traded mine?”
“Why aren’t these ‘run-ins’ properly identified as frivilous citations initiated by yet another federal institution, most of which are routine and many of which were withdrawn, all of which have been mediated?”
“Why does the article continue to say, twice, that ‘Miller and Farrell were indicted’…and leave out why they were, and by whom, and then only by the CDAA leaving out exculpatory evidence?”
“In the case against the Yolo County farmer, why would the CDAA even attempt to prosecute when there was absolutely no evidence of negligence?”
“Instead of citing Zimring that ‘prosecutors are setting themselves up for failure by pursuing felonies without giving jurors a chance to convict on lesser misdemeanors’ why not say ‘CDAA prosecutors are setting themselves up for failure by pursuing felonies without evidence, by willfully withholding exculpatory evidence, and by acting under the assumption of immunity from punitive action, all without proper authority?”
“How is it simply problematic and not criminal?”
And finally, “Why is the LA Times article slithering past the obvious issue of the Sixteen-to-One Mine’s and Mike’s lawsuit: that the CDAA should be accountable for illegal activity, the breach of everything our Constitution protects?”
While I stand no chance to have these questions appear in the LA Times, if this website is so powerful, let it be known I am closer to Sacramento than rural Alleghany. I don’t want the CDAA’s illegal activity to go unchecked anywhere.
in reply to: L.A. Times Article #2355Rick, (and everyone else) please go back and read the L.A. Times article a few more times. Lee Romney chooses words and catch phrases very well. The words describing the lawsuit make it seem like a frivolous nuisance.
Describing Alleghany as HIS (Mike’s) mountain community, makes it sound like Mike is Warlord of the Sierra’s. The description of Alleghany as an Appalachia… well, what picture comes to mind when you think of people that live in Appalachia? And the quote from George Gilmour, describing Mike as an irresponsible screwball. I’m sure he had more to say about the CDAA than he did Mike but, that phrase was too good to pass up. There’s plenty more. Read slower this time.
The battle is not over.in reply to: L.A. Times Article #2354[Please first read below, the reference from gfxgold regarding the recent LA Times article for this entry to make any sense; tie that with Mike Miller’s referenceto the original LA Times article that sparked us to write.]
It seems like just yesterday we were on this blog battling imbedded plants (Hi there, Goldmaster) and others, with their distraction attempt. Now that the battle is engaged, one must wonder why the LA Times editor has taken a more mild approach to this volitile subject.
Do they smell themselves in the blood-soaked water?
Granted, the recent article still doesn’t address the main issue…how the CDAA represents nothing other than ‘shut-down’ political tactics.
‘Rural cleansing’, as referenced by Mike in his defense from the onslaught, wasn’t exactly characterized properly in the article; instead, the gist inference made a stab at Mike’s and the Mine’s attempt to put the CDAA on notice as something vigilante, rather than the other way around.
But, overall, I read it with wide eyes and a smile on my face, that even the LA Times smells crap when the see it.
in reply to: L.A. Times Article #2353Please read the 04/19/2005 L.A. Times article under News (if you haven’t already).
The writer of that column (Lee Romney) does not understand just what the CDAA really was. I would compare them to the McCarthy Trials. On the surface, they look and sound like the end-all do-all white knights of the legal system. In my opinion, they really weren’t out to make a lot of convictions but, they want to make people afraid. They can affect a large group of people’s actions by making an example of others. With the way that this reporting is slanted, I believe that the author, Lee Romney, was blinded by the shine of the armour and can not see the blackheartedness of the CDAA knight inside.in reply to: L.A. Times Article #2352Two years and five months ago this topic was opened by gfxgold (11/16/02). Seven other entries followed: Rick on 11/16/02; Blujay on 11/25/02; Roberta Petersen on 1/16/03; Bluejay on 1/19/03; Rick on 1/25/03; Blujay on 2/17/03; and Rick on 2/20/03. The writing seemed worth holding its own topic in one of the limited slots. Though there would be no more entries, the writings deserved immortality. Subject closed. Then guess what? Lee Romney followed her original story and it was accepted. Southern California will do well to heed the many lessons of criminal prosecution performed by non-government employees inflicted on a couple of guys and an old California corporation. I hope a lot of them read the paper that day.
I participated in several discussions about the April 19, 2005, LA Times article this week. Everyone’s comments varied yet worth the time and energy, so the article was added to NEWS for you to read and perhaps compare and comment or just scan and file away. For those of us who read the first article, we can only wonder what first time readers thought about this one. The November 11, 2002 article was on the front page. This last article was on the front page of section B, someone said. The first one was posted on the Teamsters web site. I am planning a letter to the writer and may post it later.
Thank you and you were right then and still right now. Beginning with gfxgold up through Rick, rereading your analysis is brilliant and amazingly clear.
in reply to: Gold Enters Major Bull Market #2350Gold shares have been jolted with selling recently. During the past eight weeks the Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index(XAU) is lower by 21%.
In early 2003 a comparable assault took place on the XAU Index during a similar eight week period by a greater percentage of 26%.
Unfortunately for people that sold in early 2003, they missed the 85% move that directly followed.
Shake out moves like these are extremely difficult to forecast or almost impossible to predict. The important point is while the herd gets scattered don’t let your emotions control you. This is not a fight or flight situation.
The current pressure on the gold stocks is being orchestrated by a desperate group of people who are having nightmares at the thought of a much lower U.S. Dollar, which is coming.
in reply to: Gold Enters Major Bull Market #2351When gold was selling for $250 an ounce, who was buying the physical commodity? Was the supply of gold consumed in manufacturing? Did it go into storage of value? In predicting the price per ounce of gold does supply and demand rule? What does this mean for the gold producers, refiners or central banks? Gold shares have dropped. Why? Is it less demand for speculators and investors of their stock or is it because the price of gold has hit a plateau? Years ago the federal government tracked production and other information about gold. No one seems to care anymore. Is gold still an economic factor in global business? There hasn’t been a good book with fresh ideas on gold for years, at least not in the past five years. Is gold manipulated like other commodities? If so, who are the players? Do foreign government care a whit about gold? Are the oil producers acting like they did in the late 1970’s regarding their interest in gold? There are too many questions for me to get a handle on future price trends. Bluejay, you are probably a chartist and use the past as the foundation as an indicator for the future. You have called it right in the past but has anyone developed another way to follow gold? If so, write a book or post it here. As a storage of wealth gold appears undervalued.
in reply to: Clips from Alleghany #2349For those living in California, can you remember more spectacular seasons? The high Sierra Nevada mountain range is the eastern rib of California. The desert flowers are bringing record crowds to the southern deserts, complimenting the eastern fling of nature’s push from the Pacific Ocean inland. I read that the restaurants and stores in the desert oasis are struggling with the crowds, and the crowds are threatening everyone and everything because they arrived unprepared. Alleghany has no outside threats of a tourist invasion. People drive up here but what they see is not what we are and drive out of town. The beauty of a driving adventure continuing north on highway 49 or north up US 99 or US 5 to Mount Shasta appears to remain unnoticed by the press. It is a blessing to many in the communities of Shasta City, Etna, Paradise, Weed and the wide reach of the Sierra Valley that most people are unaware of the beauty evolving each day. And it’s free for the looking. Due to the rain, snow and warm sun that continue to fall onto the land in no apparent or predictable pattern, the vegetation exudes a richness and depth of color rarely seen. Scoop sees it all and reports this because there is little news to report about gold mining.
Well, maybe there is something to report other than the miners relentless drive to find another pocket. Everyone is breaking rock or moving muck or fixing equipment. An important press is underway to find gold, nothing new here.
Ian proposed a new idea to Mike mid-week. It is intriguing because it opens up a block of ground that historically yielded gold and has never faced twentieth century metal detectors. It is an inexpensive project and relatively quick. To set it in motion requires less than $5,000 of supplies. Mike authorized the project. No one knows what the actual conditions of the old workings will be as they are exposed, so no one can estimate the time to open the hidden block of ground. An educated guess is two months from start to finish. An educated guess of gold potential is 2500 ounces (based on past production from similar areas detected between 1992 and 1995.) Once the project is underway, Scoop will infiltrate the operation to learn more about the project and give you a report. Like times before, the project may be a gold bust, but this one somehow slipped into the crack of obscurity, until now.
in reply to: From the Sixteen to One Archives #2348Tomorrow is John Muir’s birthday. His image has been included on the US quarter for the state of California. He is cited as a great and perhaps the first environmentalist. If you want to read something about John Muir rarely written, it is on this web site, somewhere, but I cannot remember where. If you find it, Please make an entry here with the path to find it from Home Page.
in reply to: Clips from Alleghany #2346The Sierra Nevada gold fields are having a hard time in many ways. Ill informed people immigrated onto its surface with an unrealistic attitude that underground hard rock mining is something to fear. It makes some sense since our Californian society has been running on fear for decades. Another example of hard times is that the adventurer/business types also fear investing in the California goldfields. Embarrassment for participating in a gold mine may be a leading reason. Why? Well, most propositions or proposals fail. There are readily available indicators to study revealing those most likely to succeed or fail, but who wants to take the time to study and learn? These two (many others exist) drawbacks can be mitigated by anyone who uses the Sixteen to One as a model. It has a 100-year history of failures to examine and avoid repeating. It also has 100 years of history supporting successes for its owners and other Californians. The current “hard time” causing great unrest in Alleghany cannot be solved by anyone. It is the weather. In the past month Alleghany has experienced spring, summer and winter. Right now, a few weeks after record breaking high temperatures, it has over a foot of snow covering everything. However, if weather is all people have to complain about, life is not too bad.
Rae announced yesterday that the company only has two more monthly payments for past electric bills. PG&E rode with the company during its bleakest hours as charges crept up to $94,500 in overdue bills. Those of you who followed the reports of PG&E driving to shut off the power only to turn around at the last minute know the reasons why the company defied all odds and kept power on and pumps running as it endured an onslaught of outside interferences in its operation. The next creditor to be eliminated has been identified. Scoop will tell you who as soon as the first payment is in the mail. Cash flow is still a problem for the company. Over 2/3 of the crew is working on underground maintenance, which interferes with mining for gold.
Mike began making contacts with people interested in developing the company’s properties. His general plan is to consider joint participation for the Brown Bear and Bald Mountain mines, equity participation for sinking the Red Star shaft, guaranteed debt for developing the corporation, and anything else that makes sense to build a 21st century metal detector, expand the market for the Sixteen to One gemstone and build a hydraulic power plant. None of these objectives are likely to be accomplished without the participation of others. “The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.”-Abraham Lincoln.
in reply to: CDAA Conduct #2344The April 6th court date was postponed today for lack of a Judge. A new court date has not been set.
in reply to: From the Sixteen to One Archives #2343Physicists Take Close Look at Gold’s Atomic Value
LA Times 7/20/95 Page B-2All that glitters may not be gold, but gold is the most “noble” of all metals. It refuses to react with gases and liquids, which is one reason it can hang around for thousands of years in musty tombs and still shine brightly for those anthropologists (or Pirates) lucky enough to stumble upon it. But exactly what makes gold so standoffish (and hence valuable) has been something of a scientific mystery.
In the current issue of the journal Nature, two physicists from Denmark and Japan suggest that the electrons buzzing around the gold atom’s periphery overlap each other in ways that keep other atoms at a distance.
This same orbital dance allows gold atoms to hold onto each other with a grip sufficient to keep other atoms from breaking them apart.
in reply to: CDAA Conduct #2338in reply to: Gold Enters Major Bull Market #2337The word out tonight is that the Japanese are taking the Dollar higher to make their fiscal year ending March 31st look better. This is no more than marking up a losing position to save a little face for the day.
This type of short term market manipulation happens frequently when individuals or a group of people have a continuing nagging loss. Japan is the largest holder of U.S. Dollars.
It seems reasonable to expect the current weakness in gold to fizzle out at or very near the end of the month.
Smart market players are buying the gold stocks on the current weakness. The exploration stocks continue to look higher as they awaken from their long dormancy.
in reply to: Clips from Alleghany #2336Beer you guys, beer.
You take a shallow pie plate and put it in the ground so the edge is level with the soil surface and fill it with beer. The slugs crawl right in and die blissfuly.
It really works!
We don’t have very many slugs in Alleghany, but when I lived at lower climes I resorted to the method above.
The weather report from Alleghany is slush slush. We woke up yesterday morning (first day of spring) to winter wonderland. It has been alternating between rain and snow since yesterday afternoon. Right now it is snow and my lilacs were just starting to bud 🙁in reply to: Clips from Alleghany #2335gfxgold…yeah, I know, salt is a cruel and unusual punishment, meant only for six-year old boys who also like to use magnifying glasses to burn up ants. You know what works best on snails? A duck. But, I don’t have a duck, so I’ve resorted to just yanking them off and tossing them on the other side of the driveway.
in reply to: Clips from Alleghany #2334Rick, I gotta tell ya, using salt is a big mistake. I find that butter and garlic works better on snails. Now, if you’re trying to protect your plants, I would use the black, creamy, liquid slug and snail bait.
in reply to: Clips from Alleghany #2333Well, here’s an update from my garden, down here in the valley. The snails are eating the Ranunculus and not responding to salt (Kosher, sea-salt) so I’m tired of watching half of them just bubble and then return to continue eating. Reminds me of politics.
in reply to: Clips from Alleghany #2332Bluejay stays up of this gold market stuff and has proven to be reliable (go check old postings). Scoop knows a bit about the history of the gold market since 1974 (December 31), when the U.S.A. lifted the restrictions placed on gold in 1934, but will mostly defer to others for their account.
Now, here is some hot news! California is in the midst of a winter heat wave. At 4500 feet elevation in Alleghany the thermometer hit 66 degrees at 8am. Down in Nevada City (2500 feet elevation) the radio reported 46 degrees. Nature has its ways with weather as it does with gold deposition. Attitudes around the mine remain very upbeat even though last week did not turn out as planned. The high of the week was the successful repair of the 200-horse power electric motor that runs the hoist. The hoisting system is over a million-dollar asset that is not reflected on company balance sheet. It is the only incline operating man hoist in California. Everyone gets nervous when it develops electrical problems. It was brought underground piece by piece and it would be a nightmare to haul it out for repairs.
No gold for the week.
in reply to: Gold Enters Major Bull Market #2331Words of wisdom tonight from the jsmineset website spoken by Mr. Jim Sinclair who is referred to as Mr. Gold by the New York Times.
“The end of the game expected in 1980 in fact is here with 2008 written all over it. When the world recognizes that the CPI and the PPI are “CARTOONS” fabricating conditions that do not exist, the house of cards will implode upon itself.”
“Gold will be the “last man standing.” You either own it or you will not be standing. A little goes a long way.”
“Gold shares now plastered into the basement of single digits will rip the shorts a new behind. What is going to happen in the next three years will set your hair on fire.”
Also, a significant article appeared on http://www.jsmineset today written by Mr. Dan Norcini of Houston, Texas. The message is clear and well presented, the days of low interest rates are over.
in reply to: From the Sixteen to One Archives #2330A GOLDEN HIGHWAY by C.B. Glasscock, copyright, 1934
“Fortunately my car was old and experiences upon desert trails and mountain roads s well as upon city streets. It could, I felt, almost find its own way to a water hole as a dependable burro would do when its tongue or radiator began to crack with thirst. Frequently I have seen it run ten and twenty-odd miles past the point where its gasoline gauge revealed an alarming 0, while my traveling companion, secretary, cook, memory and wife, jittered silently in the corner of my right eye.
It would, I knew, climb sturdily up the steepest of mountain roads, slide cautiously on its hind quarters down dry creek beds to deserted villages, automatically dodge boys on bicycles, and pause beside old men with a potential gleam of reminiscence in faded blur eyes.
It would stop serenely upon the edge of a precipice to admire the view, or would draw gently toward a curbstone to win a smile from human beauty. It was in no great hurry. It would not stick too closely to the paved ways of speed and commerce when it wished to find its way into ghostly towns where men had worked and loved and laughed and died and helped to build a State and Nation. In short, it was precisely the sort of car in which one should go forth to find a Golden Highway of history, romance, laughter and adventure…..
The Alleghany district contains a hundred scars of the tremendous battles waged by men against mountains. It has been crisscrossed by foot trails, pack trails, freight roads and stage roads. We might ramble there for a week upon roads where we would meet only a mail carrier in a fliver or a 1933-model prospector seeking another of the innumerable gold pockets which have made this region the delight of prospectors and promoters for nearly a century.
Scores of itinerant miners throughout the years have taken ten, twenty, thirty thousand dollars in gold by their own efforts from the scattered rich deposits. A single chunk of ore has brought twenty-seven thousand dollars from the mint. Do not tell a present resident of these hills that he will not find another. They have been discovering new mines here for eighty years. Through North Columbia, North Bloomfield, Moores Flat, Pike City, Orleans Flat, Washington, Minnesota Flat and others have been great, Alleghany has been greater.
The famous Rainbow, which had its own stamp mill working in the ‘50s, once produced sixty thousand dollars in a single day. The Oriental dug seven hundred and thirty-four thousand from an area fourteen by twenty-two feet. The Tightner Mine Company has extracted more than three millions. All that started eighty years ago, but contrary to the history of most of the camps upon our golden highway, it has continued from decade to decade. As late as 1896, when William J. Bryan was first running for president, Thomas J. Bradbury located the tremendously rich Sixteen-to-One ledge fifteen hundred feet down the slope from his own back yard, within one hundred feet of the house where he had lived for twenty-five years. As late as 1912 the old Red Star produced eighty thousand dollars from a pocket of high grade.
Alleghany is also proud of its famous men. John Mackay, who was to become the richest of the bonanza kings upon the Comstock, learned his trade with pick and shovel and single-jack in the practical school of Alleghany’s shafts and tunnels. Fred Bradley, John T. Bradbury, and others famous, have worked in these mines.
Alleghany is unique in its continued complete devotion to mining—its only interest and its only source of revenue. Other old camps have supplemented their interests and revenues by cattle raising, lumbering, and other activities. Not Alleghany. It has always been a mining camp, and will continue to be that or nothing.”in reply to: CDAA Conduct #2329Why does a motion to ask for more time to meet a deadline even exist? I can understand if there is some extraordinary special reason that perhaps a second chance should be granted. If I file my car registration late or pay a parking ticket late, I also pay the price. The judge should accept the late notice, make the bad guys pay, and we move forward. Can someone explain? An interested shareholder.
in reply to: CDAA Conduct #2328On February 28, 2005, Michael Miller filed a Notice of Default against all defendants for repeated late filings. Later that day Knox’s firm filed a Notice of Motion and Motion for Change of Venue. The Notice of Default precludes defendants from any action against Miller until it is settled.
On March 4, Knox’s law firm filed an Ex Parte Application for Order Shortening Time for Motion to Set Aside Default and set up a telephonic conference call on Monday, March 7, 2005 at 10:00am. Judge Stanley Young will hear the motion.
On March 7, 2005, a phone conference was held. In addition to Judge Young, George Gilmour, Michael Miller and a lawyer from Knox’s firm were on the line. Mister Knox did not participate. Defendants wanted an immediate ruling on the Notice of Default. Gilmour had agreed to extend the late filing time so the issue was between Miller and Filter et al. Miller filed the notice because Knox broke the deal he had made with Miller to recognize and honor the plaintiffs as separate participants in the case. Knox had assured Miller that his (Miller’s demand that Gilmour could not speak for him) would be honored in the future. Knox broke the deal in less than one day, prompting Miller to file his Notice of Default.
The judge decided the issue and refused to rule on the Ex Parte Application to Set Aside the Default at this time, allowing all parties to properly prepare and submit their position to the court. The ruling on the Notice of Default will be held prior to the hearing on the Motion to Change Venue on April 6, at 1:30 p.m. in Downieville.
in reply to: Clips from Alleghany #2327As if Mike does not have enough on his plate, he was out inspecting another gold mine to buy this morning. Price and terms must fit the budget. It should not be news to shareholders. He has stated the company’s intention to build its holdings with property that has a real chance of qualifying. Company geologist won’t be back from Australia until mid April. Mike feels comfortable discussing various sides of a gold property with Ray before making a recommendation to the directors.
A fake quartz and gold is being manufactured and offered to jewelers in thin slabs. While it is quick to tell the difference between natural quartz and the man made stuff, in a slab, a small piece cut for rings and other products is not so easy. People will be fooled and it just depends on the slant those involved take in marketing their lines.
Sometimes Scoop gets fresh info after the last entry that changes the view of the operation in Alleghany. The best, of course, is when the crew gets into a pocket. It usually is quiet for a week or so, then rumors and then an announcement. No such announcement today. It looks like next week will see the rock breakers out in the shop fixing their drills. It breaks the spirit and body when a drill quits in the middle of a round, up a 100-foot or more raise and a mile from the portal. The company bought about $10,000 in new drill parts in the fall and hired help for maintenance and repairs. Drills take a beating and problems have arisen. A year ago Reid and Joe fixed their drills during the days of no pay and had pretty good luck with the outcome. Well, Friday, after too many shifts with problems, they came out and announced to no one that they were going to fix drills. It makes sense to have reliable tools so far under the ground. No gold next week.
in reply to: Clips from Alleghany #2326ok scoop hears you. I just talked to Underground Miner “Ragweed” Reid Miller this morning and he reports that we still have the two headings going on the 1100 foot level near the ballroom. “Jumbo” Joe Witterman’s heading is near the pocket and he continues to get dribbles of gold, but the general consensus is that this is the “aura” from around the pocket mined in July. The area where Jumbo is working is beginning to look like swiss cheese.
Reid’s heading is a wing heading under the area where the pocket was found and this is a larger block of ground.
Another small crew is rehabing the 1,000 ft level from the Tightner shaft towards the ballroom, mucking, putting in stalls etc.
Bill Murray the onsite carpenter is still working on the new “dry and office” complex.
Kevin McCarthy “Repo” is the mechanic and all around surface hand.
Ian Haley “The Shark” has his hands full running the entire operation. Just the compliance alone is more than a handful. Roy Stai who is out with injuries (not related to work) was helping out with the compliance, now it is all back on Ian.
Speaking of Roy, he is back home and doing better. He is chomping at the bit to return to work but his doctors just laughed at him when he asked if he could go to work. He has a bit more recovering to do.
A crew of five men is working at the Empire Mine State Park. That project is going much more slowly than was expected. The State did finally approve the steel sets, at least for the section of ground they are in now.
Rae is hoping to have the 10-k filed today, if not today then Monday. The company shows a nearly $400,000 profit for last year.
Cabin Fever has definately set in and is quickly morphing into Spring Fever. A little “social chaos” seems to be the order of the day in Alleghany. - AuthorPosts
