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Wildcat Mining Corporation Page 14 <br />The Idaho mine was acquired in 1933 by the La Plata Mountains Gold Mines <br />Company. In 1936, a small pilot mill was erected and operated successfully for <br />several years. <br />At the time of McCausland's 1941 report on the May Day mine, there were over <br />25,000 feet of development work, including a vertical shaft of 565 feet, an <br />inclined shaft to the same depth, raises and winzes connecting the different <br />levels, four long tunnels, several thousand feet of crosscuts and drifts, and <br />numerous surface cuts and shafts. <br />All mining ceased in October 1942 with War Production Board Limitation Order L- <br />208, which classified gold production as non - essential and directed all but the <br />smallest of gold mines to shut down so their labor force could be used elsewhere <br />to support the war effort. <br />The mines sat idle until the early 1960's, when the May Day mine was again <br />leased to the Ferris Brothers, who opened the #1, #2 and #3 levels and <br />completed both surface and underground exploration drilling. They mined a bit of <br />ore but had quit by the mid- 1970's. <br />In the mid- 1980's, Mr. Alistair Martin purchased the Idaho property and leased <br />the May Day property. His Great Guennol Gold Mining Company completed <br />several development and limited mining campaigns between 1978 and 1987. All <br />. of the mined ore was milled away from site. Mr. John Ferguson managed mining <br />operations; Mr. Fred Johnson was the mine geologist. Notably, some 1200 tons <br />of the ore mined during this period remain stockpiled on the property and <br />available for immediate processing. <br />Following the Martin years, Shalako International picked up the property and kept <br />all of the permits active, but did not complete any significant work. <br />Wildcat Mining purchased the Idaho mine property and entered into a mining <br />lease on the May Day mine property in 2006. <br />Interestingly, the May Day mine property is still owned by the heirs of Mr. A.E. <br />Reynolds, the man who purchased the initial discovery claim and opened the <br />May Day mine in 1903. <br />Historical documentation <br />For having been explored, developed and mined for more than a century, the <br />May Day and Idaho mines have surprisingly few records. Following is a <br />summary of the more important archival documents. <br />Geologist George H. Garrey prepared a report for the May Day Gold Mining <br />Company dated October 1928. In this report, he records that he had mapped the <br />January 2007 May Day — Idaho Mine Colorado <br />