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Jihir?on (u.R) The
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h'te department said the
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THg) two countries offered to
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Ingddition, the United States,
(hd Britain promised "to con
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help for later -stages of the dam
project.
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Sunday, Diembt: 18, 195S
Mines
McDonalds Resent
Charges That They
Are Take Miners'
BY DICK JEWETT
Mail Tribune Staff Writer
"We resent the charge that
we are 'fake miners." . . . We are
100 per cent against people
snitching timber."
Those are declarations of two
Medford brothers, H. P. McDon
ald Jr., and Charles McDonald,
associated with Al Sarena Mines,
Inc., Trail, an Oregon corpora
tion and a family enterprise
which is now caught in the
"hot box" of national politics.
A hearing hag been called
for January in Washington, D.
C. by the Democratic Congress
to hear explanation of Eisen
hower administration officials
concerning the patenting of 15
disputed Al Sarena mining
claims in the Rogue River Na
tional Forest in 1954. Since the
patenting action by Secretary of
Interior Douglas McKay, the
case has been the subject of
charge and counter charge be
tween opponents and supporters
of the administration.
Timber Issue
A total of 23 claims in the
Elk creek mining district of
Jackson county are involved in
the case. The United States for
est service had no objection to
eight but contested the other
15 on grounds that minerals were
not found in sufficient quantity
to constitute a valid discovery.
Since then the timber on the
property, rather than the min
erals, apparently has become
the main issue of the case.
Charges have been made that
$100,000 worth of timber have
been cut and that $400,000 more
worth stands ready to be cut on
the Al Sarena claims in a Re
publican administration "give
away." The McDonald brothers
challenge those figures as mis
representations made in "veiled",
political charges. They said that
complaining witnesses in the
recent hearings on timber man
agement policies set the value
of the timber on the disputed
claims at $77,000.
"When we (Al Sarena) first
went into the area, you couldn't
give away the timber," they
remarked. They pointed out
that, while the mining law makes
no mention of timber, Al Sarena
inquired about it at the time
it was given the green light to
apply for patents. The firm was
told, they said, that the timber
made no difference. 1
"Badlr Wrong"
Only a little timber, about
2,000,000 board feet, hai been
cut since patents were obtained,
the brothers reported and most
of it from claims other than' the
15 disputed. The funds were
and engineers
appointed
limbing
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the firm from nine years of
litigation in the case. While the
McDonald's feel that the exact
amount realized from sale of
the timber is not public business,
they declare that the $100,000
quotation is "badly wrong" and
"several hunded per cent off.''
"We feel our integrity has
been challenged," the McDon
alds said. "It's politics and we're
caught in the crossfire." They
maintain that many misrepre
sentations and half-truths have
been published about the Al
Sarena case.
Coined Nam
But the McDonald's present
the name of their mining firm,
in addition to the records of
their case, as a proof of their
integrity. "Would people .going
out to steal timber name their
business after persons they most
love?," they asked. -
Al Sarena is a coined word,
the brothers stated. The firm
is named for the brother, Al
fred, the sister, Sarah, and the
mother, Rena, of the original
incorporators of the business,
H. P. McDonald Sr., and Wil
liam G. McDonald, father and
uncle of the Medford men. The
three were deceased at the time
of incorporation. William is
since deceased. The elder H. P.
McDonald, president of Al
Sarena, lives at Mobile, Ala.
Al Sarena is a 20-year-old
corporation but the history of
its 23 claims begins in 1897,
well before there was a federal
forest service. That year Peter
Applegate, Jackson county sur
veyor, did some prospecting in
the Elk creek area. He, Mark
Applegate and J. L. Grubbe
filed the first mining claims in
May. By the end of the year
they and their associates had
filed seven more. The 10, known
as the Buzzard mine, were taken
later by Pearl Mining company.
Extensive Exploration
William G. and H. P. Mc
Donald Sr. entered the picture
in the 1920s. William, with a
background of similar work in
Canada, made extensive mineral
explorations in the area adjacent
to the Buzzard mine into the
early 1930s. He interested his
brother who worked with him
in the period and claims were
located.
Al Sarena was formed in 1935
as an Oregon corporation with
the brothers as chief incorporat
ors. The firm purchased " the
Pearl Mining company claims.
Eleven claims held by individ
ual members of the corporation
were bought and consolidated
into the company in the period
up to 1939. That year the last
two of the firm's 23 claims were
located.
The claims are on 454.129
acres, mostly in sections 29 and
30, township 31 south, range 2
east of the Willamette meridian.
Some parts are in sections 19,
20, 21 and 28 and the locations
are some 18 miles northeast of
where Crater Lake highway
crosses . Elk creek.
According to the younger Mc
Donalds, the claims are contig
uous, not separate, and cover
a vast low grade broad zone
ore body of possibly 190,000,000
tons. Included are gold, silver
lead and zinc. There is a 125
ton pilot mill at the site. One
mile of tunnels have been made
on the property. These with
roads and other mine develop-
Blown Fuses May
Cause Serious Fire
Salem (U.R) A blown fuse
may be a warning of a serious
electric overload often put on
home wiring systems during the
Christmas holidays', W. R. Vol
heye, chief electrical inspector
for the State Bureau of Labor,
said Saturday.
Volheye said the next 10 days
bring more fire and life risks
from use of electricity in the
home than any other time of
year.
The practice of using pennies
or any other means of bypassing
fuses is considered an open in
vitation to danger. Home own
ers are advised to regard the
purpose of a fuse to limit the
electric current safe operation.
Volheye said the common ele
ments of safety should not be
sacrificed by devising holiday
ornamental schemes, either in
doors or out. Lighting for out
door decorations should include
only what is approved for out
door use.
Some $200 Given To
Burned Out Family
More than $200 was given by
residents of the Mobile Home
Lodge, 2495 West Main st., to
the Ted E. Shura family after
their trailer home was destroyed
by fire Tuesday night.
William Mitchell, a resident of
the court and president of the
Jackson comity mobile home
owners, said that collections al
so are being taken for the family
at other courts in the area.
The Shuras lost the trailer
and possessions In the fire.
By
ments amount to an investment
of around S250.000 the McDon
ald's said. There is an estimated
67 years production in the ore
body.
War Effort Aided
During World War II, the ex
perimental . pilot plant was in
actual commerical production of
lead and-inc to help the fed
eral government meet vital war
needs. Peak employment during
the war, the brothers said, was
56 men. This production halted
in 1945 when attention was
turned to securing patents.
Twelve men were employed at
the site during the past season,
mining, making open cut ex
ploration and doing geophysical
work.
The McDonalds said that the
hearings, appeals, the suit in
federal court and the work con
nected with them have crippled
their operation over a five year
period.
After 1945 preliminaries In
which the bureau of land man
agement and forest service were
contacted, Al Sarena asked for
a field survey in 1946. It was
started in the spring of 1947
and comDleted " in the fall of
1948.
Protests Filed
The McDonalds reported that
Al Sarena felt the way had been
cleared for patents when the
firm formalyl applied' on Oct. 1,
1948. Charles and H. P. Jr. main
tain that the forest service had
indicated that it would not pro
test. (The property was in the
Rogue River National forest.)
However, on May 1, 1950, the
forest service got a protest serv
ed on the 15 claims. The Mc
Donalds charge the deadline was
ignored.
Samples of the claims were
taken by a BLM man for the
forest service as basis for its
case. Al Sarena, according to
the McDonalds, challenged the
sampling as substandard and in
conclusive. The company was
authorized to make supplement
ary samples which were assayed
in three laboratories. Some were
spot checks of the BLM man's
work and disputed his results,
the McDonalds asserted.
They said that the company
samples were acknowledged and
that Al Sarena was advised that
they were being made part of
the record. However, according
to Charles, a "confidential jack
et" was placed on the records
and access refused to the com-
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pany and its representatives.
A hearing in September 19o0
and subsequent appeal both re
sulted in decisions adverse to
the company. After the second
and final appeal, this time to
then Secretary of Interior Oscar
Chapman, the brothers said
"fatal defects" were discovered
in the records by Al Sarena.
This was on June 15, 1951.
The McDonalds charged that
assays of their samplingss and
references to them had been
"stripped" from the files, remov
ing evidence favorable to the
patent applicant. Al Sarena not
ified the interior department
solicitor of the discovery. When
no action was taken, the broth
ers said, a suit with Chapman
the defendant was filed by the
company in federal court.
McKay Defendant
Efforts to take the case out
of court were resisted, the Mc
Donald's said, because the forest
service petitioned that the dis
puted claims should be null and
void. Adverse decision on their
appeal, they said, would have
lost them the claims.
When Chapman took no action
before going out of office, ihe
new secretary, Douglas McKay,
became defendant in the suit.
Under his administration a new
and independent study was made
and McKay in 1954 granted
patents on the advice of Clar
ence A. Davis, then solicitor and
now undersecretary of the in
terior department.
On the charge of absentee
ownership, the brothers point
out that they are taxpayers here.
H. P., secretary-treasurer of the
firm, is a registered voter in
the county. Charles, the project
engineer, reports that he has no
stock in the firm. The two said
that, their father and their uncle
have contributed more than 100
man years to the mining venture.
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