The Table Mountain claims are owned by Barry Murray, who is at present compiling an operating plan to file with the U.S. Forest Service when development is funded.

As the USFS has been quarrying and crushing some of the material on site for road gravel, it is not expected that environmental issues will be used as an excuse to slow development of this operation.

Murray will consider contracting for delivery of material once an operating permit has been granted, but would much rather lease/sell the deposit to another company.

As mentioned, the property is accesable to within five miles of the quarry on paved road which is rather curvy and narrow in places with the remainder being an all weather gravel (read crushed nepheline syenite) road.

A stroke of luck, as far as mining properties go, is that as Table Mountain also hosts a microwave repeater station, there also is an electric line (buried) coming in from the Toledo side. A microwave relay station on the top of Table Mountain is powered by electricity brought in, underground, from Toledo.

The ideal scenario would be to do the preliminary crushing of the nepheline syenite on the mountain and having the haul trucks on a continious circle, climbing the Waldport side of the mountain, descending via the Georgia Pacific road to Toledo for shipping by barge or rail in the raw state to customers as Coors, or for refinement to a higher priced material.

Toledo has much to offer as a manufacturing/warehouse site. Being the region is financially depressed due to a cutback in timber operations there are federal, state, and local monies available to subsidize any sort of endeavor that would retrain ex-millworkers into rock polishers, for one example.

The Oregon and Lincoln County Economic Development Comission, working with the City of Toledo have offered a very favorable long term lease on the industrial site pictured here, with possibly a built-to-suit package.

A panorama of the industrial site offered by the City of Toledo. Note that both barge and rail transportation are available. The plant in the backgroud is a Georgia-Pacific pulp operation. As one of the uses for nepheline syenite is as a paper filler, delivery to this plant would not be that difficult.

Though Table Mountain is solid, there is a good artesian spring flowing two claim legnths up the road from from the southern claim boundry line. The Forest Service has a reservoir and spigot accessable by truck.

The USFS for years has been crushing Table Mountain nepheline syenite for use as road gravel. As any mining opperation, with the exception of dimension stone quarrying, would also start with crushing, it follows that the use permit precident has been set.

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