Reorganized Cracker Jack Mining Company Records

The Reorganized Cracker Jack Mining Company was incorporated in Nevada on December 18, 1915. As the name implies, it was a reorganization of the Cracker Jack Mining Company. Officers upon incorporation were E. P. Junor, president; George K. Cremer, vice president; H. G. McMahon, secretary-treasurer and manager; and C. H. Shirtz and J. A. Erickson, directors. The company was listed on the San Francisco Stock Exchange beginning in 1915.

The property consisted of five claims covering 80 acres, formerly owned by the Adams Goldfield Mining Company, and purchased through tax sale in 1916; the Great Western group; and 10 claims in the Park group, located 25 miles south of Goldfield at Railroad Springs, purchased in June 1921. From 1919-1924, the company held a five-year lease on part of the ground of Florence Goldfield Mining Company. Over the period of two years (1919-1921), extensive development was conducted to a depth of 500feet through a shaft of the Red Hill Company. In 10 months ending with October 1920, the Cracker Jack Company operated principally on the Florence lease, with an output level of $15,000 net in gold. Failing to find other orebodies of commercial value, the lease covering ground above the 500 foot level was relinquished.

[Information on the company taken from Weed, Walter Harvey. The Mines Handbook Succeeding The Copper Handbook Describing the Mining Companies of the World, Volume 15. Tuckahoe, New York: The Mines Handbook Company, 1922.]