Kanco Energy, Inc. (fka )

[Truegold]

St. Joe Minerals, Inc. out of Missouri opened up their gold mine operations in Tucson, Arizona because of H. Clyde Davis. Clyde controlled the mining activities of the Mormon Church since 1953 when he moved to Tucson from Salt Lake City as the Chief Technician for the Atomic Energy Commission, especially throughout the Rocky Mountains where at least 85% of each state was owned by the Federal government (National Forests, Bureau of Land Management, Indian Tribes). Clyde Davis was the best friend to Missouri Senator Harry S. Truman, who was elected Vice President of the United States in November, 1944 and President the next year. Senator Truman listened to Mormon Missionary H. Clyde Davis on a national radio program after Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese. All Indian Reservations only allowed H. Clyde Davis to enter their lands because of what he did with the Navajo “Talkers” during World War II and Senator/VP/President Truman.

The employees of St. Joe dealt with H. Clyde Davis for gold mining activities, especially in Nye County, Nevada. Clyde located a large deposit of “black sands” in the Armargosa River Basin and let St. Joe Minerals in St. Louis know about it in the 1950s with his partner Hubert B. Layne of Indiana/Florida. Clyde and Layne set up the Kelly Millsite in Beatty, Nevada to handle testing and production of this operation in the 1960s. St. Joe geologists and Kerr-McGee geologists always visited Clyde concerning gold mines since the Kelly Mill site was created.

Francis Cameron, a geologist, and President of St. Joe Minerals (St. Joe Lead) was a close friend of Clyde Davis because of their relationship in the Copper industry. The following is a history about St. Joe:

St. Joe Lead, St. Louis, Missouri

The story of St. Joe is of a relentless and successful search for new mineral deposits…
St. Joe’s story began on March 25, 1864 when Lyman W. Gilbert, John E. Wylie, Edmund I. Wade, Wilmot Williams, James L. Dunham and James L. Hathaway incorporated the St. Joseph Lead Company under the laws of the State of New York. To all intend and purposes it was just another of the many stock-jobbing ventures that were in existence at that time. Few of the incorporators knew or cared much about the mining business.

Since lead had been mined in southeastern Missouri from the time of the earliest French and Spanish explorers, James L. Dunham, one of the incorporators contacted a Mr. Anthony LaGrave who owned 946.32 acres of land in and around the present town of Bonne Terre. This entire acreage was purchased by the St. Joseph Lead Company for $25,000 cash and three notes in the amount of $25,000 each. These were reduced later to two notes of $25,000 each. St. Joseph Lead Company now owned land of which the lead content was not known and was in debt $75,000 with most of its stock sold and little cash on hand.

Missouri statutes enacted in 1890 and 1891 prohibited mining companies from owning more land than absolutely necessary for mining operations, and from transacting business not specified in the state charter. In response to these laws, the St. Joseph Lead Company organized the Bonne Terre Farming and Cattle Company in 1891. St. Joe turned over all of its surface op­era­tions to the company, including land sales and rentals, house rentals, company stores, and cattle operations. The Bonne Terre Farming and Cattle Company continued to administer all of St. Joe’s surface business until 1974, when it was dissolved after St. Joe moved its headquarters and operations to Viburnum. Viburnum became incorporated as a City in 1967. St. Joe Mining Company moved to Viburnum 1n 1974.

Mr. Francis Cameron was elected President of the Company on February 16, 1960 replacing Mr. Fletcher. Mr. Cameron, a geologist, came to St. Joe from Anaconda Copper Company in 1945. He was elected a Vice President in 1946 and Trustee in 1953. Prior to becoming President, he had general supervision of the Company’s southeast Missouri mining and milling operations and its exploration programs. These exploration programs revealed many new ore bodies in Southeast Missouri including Indian Creek, Viburnum, Meramec and Fletcher.

Meramec Mining Company in Washington County, Missouri

Began production of iron pellets in 1964.

The Fletcher plant is located in Reynolds County about six miles east of Bunker and about fifteen miles south of Viburnum. It is the largest individual producer of lead in the United States. The first car of lead concentrates was shipped on February 28, 1967. The first car of zinc concentrates was shipped on March 17, 1967 and the first car of copper concentrates shipped on May 27, 1968.

Mr. Cameron was awarded the Saunders Medal for “distinguished administration in finding and development of new mines and for inspiring leadership in the non-ferrous industry.”

Mr. Cameron succeeded Mr. Fletcher as Chairman of the Board of Trustees on May 8, 1967 at which time Mr. Lawrason Riggs III became the sixth President of the St. Joseph Lead Company.

Mr. Riggs attended St. Paul’s and Harvard, graduating in mining engineering from Harvard in 1936. He received his Masters degree from Columbia University.

Mr. Riggs started his career with St. Joe as a summer employee in 1936 at Balmat, N. Y. He began regular employment at the Bonne Terre mine October 3, 1939 as an Apprentice. He was called to active duty in the Navy in January, 1941 and served until September of 1948 as which time he was released from active duty after attaining the rank of Commander. Upon his return to the Lead Belt he assumed his duties as Mechanical Engineer at the Bonne Terre Shops. He served as Mine Engineer, Mine Captain, Asst. Mine Superintendent, Mine Superintendent, Business Repr. and Division Superintendent prior to being transferred to New Brunswick in 1954. He was transferred to the New York office in 1958 and Asst. Vice President and in 1960 became Vice President in charge of coordinating the Company’s domestic mining and lead smelting activities.

The Tucson, Arizona operation of St. Joe Minerals/Fluor Corporation, St. Joe Gold, went public on the American Stock Exchange for the specific purpose to circumventing Steve Davis and Kanco Energy Stockholders. Dale conversed with Robert Garcia about his meeting Steve Davis back in 1982 and after that wanted to get rid of Steve. Clyde Davis was bought off to accomplish this game-plan after the mysterious death of Pappy Layne on December 24, 1985 in Florida. Layne’s Florida Probate was active until 1993, under the protection of Ernst & Young, the same CPA Firm for St. Joe Gold/Fluor for the cover-up!