December 9, 1949 (8 pages)

eee. 305 Broad Street, Nevada City—Telephone 36 A legal newspaper, as defined by statute ROBERT H. and DONALD W. WRAY, Publishers KENNETH W. WRAY, Editor and Advertising Manager Member California Newspaper Publishers Association Published every Friday at Nevada City, California, and emtered as as matter of the second class in the postoffice at Nevada City under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. 2 aed SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year outside county (in advance) $3.00 One year in county (in advance) 2.50 Four months (in advaiice) 1.00 One month (in advance) ; z < t .30 DO YOUR PART AND SHOP AT HOME One of the most effective arguments for a free enterprise economy is the very success of our way of life. Consider the position of ‘Nevada City and Grass Valley and the surrounding trade area—which is really a single economic unit: We produce beef, lumber and mineral products in the main, which have market values in distant areas. In return,we receive cash with which to purchase the goods and services needed to run our farms, our mills and our homes.Into our community economic system have come merchants making it easier for us to procure the needed, goods which we°consider necessary ‘to maintain a wholesome American standard ‘of living. Professional men, service people in all fields, sales people offering trinkets: or treasures—all are in our midst and able to spend their lives here because there is enough wealth coming into the market place to sustain them. t, This editorial, of course, is another effort to induce you to shop at-home. It’s a simple theme and one which you can, if you wish, shrug off on the basis that we write it merely to stand in good with the merchants and business people upon whom we, in turn, depend for revenues in our printing and publishing business. Our success, is, certainly, of concern to us. We like to think our printed products and our advertising space serve as needed outside sales agents for small businesses not equipped to canvass, the entire territory each week with a person-to-person message of services and goods offered. i ' But we are also concerned about the community's entirety. As Roy Zimmerman prospers and enlarges, his business may hire another wage earner. As John Sbaffi adds to his business he may find it possible to enlarge his store.’ As Dewney Clinch finds his sales curve rising he may find it wise to increase his staff of employees. With these evidences of growth will come many not immediately seen. Bigger insurance coverage, more banking . business, more profits put back into the business and more wages taken out.to repaint a home or buy a new kitchen range or build new homes for the new people engaged.to work in-local businesses. oe p New servicés and miore goods are offered on Broad and Commercial streets this year than were offered last year. Your place in this scheme of things is the important key. As you show your faith in your community, your community will prosper. There are admitted advantages in shopping the big city markets, but the advantages are surface benefits rather than real benefits. The several shopping trips a year you make to Sacramento or San Francisco, coupled with those of your neighbors, add up to large amounts of money leaving local channels of trade. No doubt some of these outside expenditures are for goods and services not available here, but many many dollars go out of town for items which could be purchased at home. We would that-it were possible to keep tabs for a year on the thousands of dollars going out of town which: could have purchased as much value at the local market. No one has these figures, but it would be interesting to weigh such a huge sum against the numbers of family paychecks the amount could mean if the dollars had stayed at home. All of us like Sacramento. It’s a fine city. But our homes and our well being depend upon the continued prosperity of Nevada City and Nevada county. Do your part. Shop at home. MONOPOLY AND SERVICE RARELY JOIN ‘ We don't know how the freight service was in to Nevada City before we ‘came here in February but-apparently it wasn’t of the*best, based on the fact that Apple-, gate Drayage company’s bid for a common carrier permit between here and Sacramento won the,endorsement of the two communities chambers of commerce. We do know that while the Applegate application was before the public utilities commission its threat of competition to the sole-permitted Pacific Motor ‘Transport ‘ gave us excellent service during that period. Now that the threat of competition has been removed to PMT apparently that excellent service is a thing of the past. The very week that the commission denied the ‘Applegate application PMT’s service from a 24-hour schedule changed to this for the first shipment we. had out of Sacramento since the denial of its competitor's application: Shipment picked up in Sacramento Nov. 18 (according to shipper’s statement and stamped date on package inclosure) shipment waybilled out of Sacramento Nov. 28. Shipment received in our office Dec. 2. (Four days from Sacramento. Did it come by ox cart?) In the meantime we draw the wrath and cancellations of printing orders from our customers while being held up by sugh freight service. Monopoly and service rarely go hand in hand. freemen magnons (1 CERN ARES ERTS oe ie So eee oma prrepeserrnresPoaey enn pe ae Bag i oom Just Wonderin’ I’m wonderin’ about thinkers no And also about thinking; To those who make of thought an art; A toast I’m duly drinking. May all their efforts bring to light Bright jewels of the mind, And through vexations of the day A lighted pathway find. It seems as we try to comprehend the various problems of the day, that what this world needs most of all, is straight and constructive thinking. When one listens to the wild clamor of contending voices shouting in defense of this and that, charging and counter charging, one feels that in reality there is a dearth of thinking—real thinking in almost every quarter. What are the qualifications of a thinker? Truly they are varied and many. . To be able to think things through, one must understand both sides Of a question. We find this to be a fact when we hear so many expressing thoughts which are in defense of some favorite theory, and are based upon prejudice, bigotry, intolerance and preconceived notions. I once heard a famous art critic say that ‘“‘no one should presume to criticize a work of art unless he could first of all find good in it.’’. Much of the criticism, much of the thought expressions which we hear are based upon superficial knowledge blended with a superb contempt for all views save one’s own. The’ affliction of one-sidedness enfeebles even many of our ablest public speakers, and for that reason we should not follow them too unquestioningly. With Christmas just around the corner, we might with profit, take time to examine the machinery of our own thought processes and find if they are in good working order. Christmas is a time for clarification of the mind; almost automatically we find some of our unworthy thoughts fading out and more genial and tolerant thoughts taking their places. It is a good season for thinking things through to their ultimate conclusions; a good time for taking the lamp of Pe ci sane Ms upon the inner implications of thought and reveal them for what they are, good or bad, wise or foolish. One may say, “I am not a thinker, . leave all that to those who have time for study and introspection. ‘‘Oh, yes you are a thinker; you begin to think the moment you wake up in the morning and you keep at it until you fall asleep at night. With all the multiplicity of thoughts expended day by day, how much of our thinking is straight, how much of it comes from false premises, from prejudice, from misunderstanding and lack of perspective? Let’s think up the answers to these questions and turn the white light of self knowledge upon the processes of thought which we employ. If thought is an art, why are there so many amateurs? If we cannot all be professional thinkers, we may at least do a modicum of really intelligent and worthy thinking and in the process add our bit to the calm and reasonable conclusions at which we must arrive if the world is to become a better place in which to live and if the Christmas spirit is to come into and abide in our human hearts for aye. Who knows, the other fellow’s view point may well be worth a cursory inspection. If we get wisdom and understanding, we shall begin practicing the art of thought and achieving results which may amaze us. Think brother, think; have fun, keep your sense of humor, but take time out each day for a season of thinking that is thinking. Surely that will not be time lost. ADELINE MERRIAM CONNER. Discontent and griping have done more to advance this world of ours than anything else. People were not satisfied‘to walk—hence horseback travel and ultimately the automobile and airplane. And women do not have any love for scrubbing clothes by hand, so nowadays we havé washing machines. People were not happy with candles, so in their stead today we have electric lights. Coffee, tea, whiskey. There is no stimulant that can give you the lift of the stars in a little boy’s eyes when he comes home from school and holds up a paper with a big red A on it. Don't assume because she has a sad expression she loved and lost. She may have won the guy. No one can lead a balanced existence without a few well-chosen enemies. Some fellows say clinging vines can be ramblers too. No matter what happens, there is someone who knew it would. . Adolescence is when they begin to question answers. To hear some roosters crow you'd think the sun was rising especially for them. More husbands than socks are usually darned at women’s sewing circle. ~ It's funny how a tree will stand-in one place for years and then-suddenly jump in front of a woman driver. 3 Tales of Nevada County From Lorig Ago to Now H. P. DAVIS BOOKS THE NORTHERN MINES, by Edward Kinyon. . In the San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, Dec. 4, Joseph Henry Jackson, guide, philosopher and friend to book lovers-everywhere pays well merited tribute to our “Ed” Kinyon, “long a newspaperman and sound historfoe Sy ian. Of Mr. Kinyon’s new book, “The Northern Mines,” Jackson says, “It is a series of factual narratives of the counties of Nevada, Placer, Sierra, Yuba a (it) comments on hydraulic’ mining, on such curiosities as the Kentucky Ridge slave colony and much more. ‘Readers,’ says Jackson, “‘of this sort of material will find Mr. Kinyon’s book a treasurehouse of odds and ends of stories and facts bearing on California’s first century in the region of which he writes.” Copies of Mr. Kinyon’s book may be obtained at the Union office at the published price, $3.00. GREAT WOMEN OF CALIFORNIA—EMMA‘NEwisdom and holding it high, so that its rays may fall VADA. A recent and valued addition to my library isa most interesting pamphlet by Rockell D. Hunt entitled ‘Great Women of California.”’ In this 28-page booklet, a reprint from the Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, Dr. Hunt, in the charming style which has endeared him to Nevada City audiences, tells of the notable women of this state since the early days of gold, and something of outstanding women of the pre-American era. Knowing as he has many of the women of whom he here writes, and deeply versed as he is, in California tradition, Dr. Hunt has, here made.a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the lives and achievements of great women of California. : Of Emma Nevada, the famous singer who born at Alpha and who sang first in public at the Baptist church in Nevada City, Dr. Hunt says, “Not only California but the American west lays claim to Emma Nevada, ‘Little Wixy, the Comstock nightingale. Born near Nevada City in California she spent her childhood days in the small mining town of Austin in the state of Nevada. Thus the name she assumed is a compliment to both her native county and her childhood state.”’ Dr. Hunt tell us that after graduating from Mills colwhile there was fortunate enough to meet and gain the interest of Madame Marchesi “‘who heard this young girl sing and praised her voice with enthusiasm.” It was not long after this meeting that Emma Nevada gained recognition as queen of the operatic stage. Multitudes, says Dr. Hunt, were charmed by her soprano voice “with great range, marvelous flexibility, flute-like purity and wondrous sweetness.” Emma Nevada, after her European.and eastern triumphs returned about fifty years ago for one brief visit to Nevada City. She sang at the Nevada theatre and after the performance attended a reception in her honor held on the then recently completed front veranda of the National Hotel. Among the songs she sang on this occasion was “‘Listen to the Mocking Bird,” a song she had made famous in Europe and America. THE ELEPHANT AS THEY SAW IT was-briefly reviewed by this writer in last week's issue of The Nugget. In the December ‘‘Notes” from the California Historical Society we find this book referred to as ‘‘a delightful pamphlet entitled ‘“The Elephant As They Saw It.” “This,” says the compiler of “Notes,” “‘is a profusely illustrated history of mining in the early days and is well worth more than the 75 cents for which ‘it may be obtained from the publishers.” “The Elephant As They Saw It” may be obtained by sending 75 cents plus three percent sales tax, to the Californjia Division of Mines, Ferry Building, San Francisco, or it may be purchased at a slightly advanced price at one of several stores in this city. NEVADA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY’S BULLETIN. In the December Bulletin of the Nevada County Historical Society Audrey Welselsky contributes a most interesting sketch of the Ridge telephone line, one of, if not the first long distance telephone line in this state. — This line, says Mrs. Welselsky, was built in the late 70's by three of the great hydraulic mining companies then operating on the San Juan ridge. Its primary purpose was to fill the need for means of instant communication between the reservoirs and higher ditch camps up in Sierra county, arid ditch tenders along the great canal system, and the offices at North San Juan and French Corral. When hydraulic mining was stopped by the antidebris law of 1884 (the famous Sawyer decision) a new use was found for the ridge telephone lines.””. Here Mrs Welselsky explains that after this decision which prohibited the deposit of tailings in running streams of this area, . slikers’’ or “spies,” as they were called, were sent into this district to report on any unlawful Operations. On the first intimation of the presence of such investigators in the neighborhood employees of the telephone company, or of the hydraulic operators, promptly telephoned the miners that “‘the slikers are coming” and gave the miners time to shut off the water and remove or camouflage all signs of unlawful activities, lege, with a group of young ladies she visited Europe and . a? &

eee. 305 Broad Street, Nevada City—Telephone 36 A legal newspaper, as defined by statute ROBERT H. and DONALD W. WRAY, Publishers KENNETH W. WRAY, Editor and Advertising Manager Member California Newspaper Publishers Association Published every Friday at Nevada City, California, and emtered as as matter of the second class in the postoffice at Nevada City under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. 2 aed SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year outside county (in advance) $3.00 One year in county (in advance) 2.50 Four months (in advaiice) 1.00 One month (in advance) ; z < t .30 DO YOUR PART AND SHOP AT HOME One of the most effective arguments for a free enterprise economy is the very success of our way of life. Consider the position of ‘Nevada City and Grass Valley and the surrounding trade area—which is really a single economic unit: We produce beef, lumber and mineral products in the main, which have market values in distant areas. In return,we receive cash with which to purchase the goods and services needed to run our farms, our mills and our homes.Into our community economic system have come merchants making it easier for us to procure the needed, goods which we°consider necessary ‘to maintain a wholesome American standard ‘of living. Professional men, service people in all fields, sales people offering trinkets: or treasures—all are in our midst and able to spend their lives here because there is enough wealth coming into the market place to sustain them. t, This editorial, of course, is another effort to induce you to shop at-home. It’s a simple theme and one which you can, if you wish, shrug off on the basis that we write it merely to stand in good with the merchants and business people upon whom we, in turn, depend for revenues in our printing and publishing business. Our success, is, certainly, of concern to us. We like to think our printed products and our advertising space serve as needed outside sales agents for small businesses not equipped to canvass, the entire territory each week with a person-to-person message of services and goods offered. i ' But we are also concerned about the community's entirety. As Roy Zimmerman prospers and enlarges, his business may hire another wage earner. As John Sbaffi adds to his business he may find it possible to enlarge his store.’ As Dewney Clinch finds his sales curve rising he may find it wise to increase his staff of employees. With these evidences of growth will come many not immediately seen. Bigger insurance coverage, more banking . business, more profits put back into the business and more wages taken out.to repaint a home or buy a new kitchen range or build new homes for the new people engaged.to work in-local businesses. oe p New servicés and miore goods are offered on Broad and Commercial streets this year than were offered last year. Your place in this scheme of things is the important key. As you show your faith in your community, your community will prosper. There are admitted advantages in shopping the big city markets, but the advantages are surface benefits rather than real benefits. The several shopping trips a year you make to Sacramento or San Francisco, coupled with those of your neighbors, add up to large amounts of money leaving local channels of trade. No doubt some of these outside expenditures are for goods and services not available here, but many many dollars go out of town for items which could be purchased at home. We would that-it were possible to keep tabs for a year on the thousands of dollars going out of town which: could have purchased as much value at the local market. No one has these figures, but it would be interesting to weigh such a huge sum against the numbers of family paychecks the amount could mean if the dollars had stayed at home. All of us like Sacramento. It’s a fine city. But our homes and our well being depend upon the continued prosperity of Nevada City and Nevada county. Do your part. Shop at home. MONOPOLY AND SERVICE RARELY JOIN ‘ We don't know how the freight service was in to Nevada City before we ‘came here in February but-apparently it wasn’t of the*best, based on the fact that Apple-, gate Drayage company’s bid for a common carrier permit between here and Sacramento won the,endorsement of the two communities chambers of commerce. We do know that while the Applegate application was before the public utilities commission its threat of competition to the sole-permitted Pacific Motor ‘Transport ‘ gave us excellent service during that period. Now that the threat of competition has been removed to PMT apparently that excellent service is a thing of the past. The very week that the commission denied the ‘Applegate application PMT’s service from a 24-hour schedule changed to this for the first shipment we. had out of Sacramento since the denial of its competitor's application: Shipment picked up in Sacramento Nov. 18 (according to shipper’s statement and stamped date on package inclosure) shipment waybilled out of Sacramento Nov. 28. Shipment received in our office Dec. 2. (Four days from Sacramento. Did it come by ox cart?) In the meantime we draw the wrath and cancellations of printing orders from our customers while being held up by sugh freight service. Monopoly and service rarely go hand in hand. freemen magnons (1 CERN ARES ERTS oe ie So eee oma prrepeserrnresPoaey enn pe ae Bag i oom Just Wonderin’ I’m wonderin’ about thinkers no And also about thinking; To those who make of thought an art; A toast I’m duly drinking. May all their efforts bring to light Bright jewels of the mind, And through vexations of the day A lighted pathway find. It seems as we try to comprehend the various problems of the day, that what this world needs most of all, is straight and constructive thinking. When one listens to the wild clamor of contending voices shouting in defense of this and that, charging and counter charging, one feels that in reality there is a dearth of thinking—real thinking in almost every quarter. What are the qualifications of a thinker? Truly they are varied and many. . To be able to think things through, one must understand both sides Of a question. We find this to be a fact when we hear so many expressing thoughts which are in defense of some favorite theory, and are based upon prejudice, bigotry, intolerance and preconceived notions. I once heard a famous art critic say that ‘“‘no one should presume to criticize a work of art unless he could first of all find good in it.’’. Much of the criticism, much of the thought expressions which we hear are based upon superficial knowledge blended with a superb contempt for all views save one’s own. The’ affliction of one-sidedness enfeebles even many of our ablest public speakers, and for that reason we should not follow them too unquestioningly. With Christmas just around the corner, we might with profit, take time to examine the machinery of our own thought processes and find if they are in good working order. Christmas is a time for clarification of the mind; almost automatically we find some of our unworthy thoughts fading out and more genial and tolerant thoughts taking their places. It is a good season for thinking things through to their ultimate conclusions; a good time for taking the lamp of Pe ci sane Ms upon the inner implications of thought and reveal them for what they are, good or bad, wise or foolish. One may say, “I am not a thinker, . leave all that to those who have time for study and introspection. ‘‘Oh, yes you are a thinker; you begin to think the moment

you wake up in the morning and you keep at it until you fall asleep at night. With all the multiplicity of thoughts expended day by day, how much of our thinking is straight, how much of it comes from false premises, from prejudice, from misunderstanding and lack of perspective? Let’s think up the answers to these questions and turn the white light of self knowledge upon the processes of thought which we employ. If thought is an art, why are there so many amateurs? If we cannot all be professional thinkers, we may at least do a modicum of really intelligent and worthy thinking and in the process add our bit to the calm and reasonable conclusions at which we must arrive if the world is to become a better place in which to live and if the Christmas spirit is to come into and abide in our human hearts for aye. Who knows, the other fellow’s view point may well be worth a cursory inspection. If we get wisdom and understanding, we shall begin practicing the art of thought and achieving results which may amaze us. Think brother, think; have fun, keep your sense of humor, but take time out each day for a season of thinking that is thinking. Surely that will not be time lost. ADELINE MERRIAM CONNER. Discontent and griping have done more to advance this world of ours than anything else. People were not satisfied‘to walk—hence horseback travel and ultimately the automobile and airplane. And women do not have any love for scrubbing clothes by hand, so nowadays we havé washing machines. People were not happy with candles, so in their stead today we have electric lights. Coffee, tea, whiskey. There is no stimulant that can give you the lift of the stars in a little boy’s eyes when he comes home from school and holds up a paper with a big red A on it. Don't assume because she has a sad expression she loved and lost. She may have won the guy. No one can lead a balanced existence without a few well-chosen enemies. Some fellows say clinging vines can be ramblers too. No matter what happens, there is someone who knew it would. . Adolescence is when they begin to question answers. To hear some roosters crow you'd think the sun was rising especially for them. More husbands than socks are usually darned at women’s sewing circle. ~ It's funny how a tree will stand-in one place for years and then-suddenly jump in front of a woman driver. 3 Tales of Nevada County From Lorig Ago to Now H. P. DAVIS BOOKS THE NORTHERN MINES, by Edward Kinyon. . In the San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, Dec. 4, Joseph Henry Jackson, guide, philosopher and friend to book lovers-everywhere pays well merited tribute to our “Ed” Kinyon, “long a newspaperman and sound historfoe Sy ian. Of Mr. Kinyon’s new book, “The Northern Mines,” Jackson says, “It is a series of factual narratives of the counties of Nevada, Placer, Sierra, Yuba a (it) comments on hydraulic’ mining, on such curiosities as the Kentucky Ridge slave colony and much more. ‘Readers,’ says Jackson, “‘of this sort of material will find Mr. Kinyon’s book a treasurehouse of odds and ends of stories and facts bearing on California’s first century in the region of which he writes.” Copies of Mr. Kinyon’s book may be obtained at the Union office at the published price, $3.00. GREAT WOMEN OF CALIFORNIA—EMMA‘NEwisdom and holding it high, so that its rays may fall VADA. A recent and valued addition to my library isa most interesting pamphlet by Rockell D. Hunt entitled ‘Great Women of California.”’ In this 28-page booklet, a reprint from the Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, Dr. Hunt, in the charming style which has endeared him to Nevada City audiences, tells of the notable women of this state since the early days of gold, and something of outstanding women of the pre-American era. Knowing as he has many of the women of whom he here writes, and deeply versed as he is, in California tradition, Dr. Hunt has, here made.a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the lives and achievements of great women of California. : Of Emma Nevada, the famous singer who born at Alpha and who sang first in public at the Baptist church in Nevada City, Dr. Hunt says, “Not only California but the American west lays claim to Emma Nevada, ‘Little Wixy, the Comstock nightingale. Born near Nevada City in California she spent her childhood days in the small mining town of Austin in the state of Nevada. Thus the name she assumed is a compliment to both her native county and her childhood state.”’ Dr. Hunt tell us that after graduating from Mills colwhile there was fortunate enough to meet and gain the interest of Madame Marchesi “‘who heard this young girl sing and praised her voice with enthusiasm.” It was not long after this meeting that Emma Nevada gained recognition as queen of the operatic stage. Multitudes, says Dr. Hunt, were charmed by her soprano voice “with great range, marvelous flexibility, flute-like purity and wondrous sweetness.” Emma Nevada, after her European.and eastern triumphs returned about fifty years ago for one brief visit to Nevada City. She sang at the Nevada theatre and after the performance attended a reception in her honor held on the then recently completed front veranda of the National Hotel. Among the songs she sang on this occasion was “‘Listen to the Mocking Bird,” a song she had made famous in Europe and America. THE ELEPHANT AS THEY SAW IT was-briefly reviewed by this writer in last week's issue of The Nugget. In the December ‘‘Notes” from the California Historical Society we find this book referred to as ‘‘a delightful pamphlet entitled ‘“The Elephant As They Saw It.” “This,” says the compiler of “Notes,” “‘is a profusely illustrated history of mining in the early days and is well worth more than the 75 cents for which ‘it may be obtained from the publishers.” “The Elephant As They Saw It” may be obtained by sending 75 cents plus three percent sales tax, to the Californjia Division of Mines, Ferry Building, San Francisco, or it may be purchased at a slightly advanced price at one of several stores in this city. NEVADA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY’S BULLETIN. In the December Bulletin of the Nevada County Historical Society Audrey Welselsky contributes a most interesting sketch of the Ridge telephone line, one of, if not the first long distance telephone line in this state. — This line, says Mrs. Welselsky, was built in the late 70's by three of the great hydraulic mining companies then operating on the San Juan ridge. Its primary purpose was to fill the need for means of instant communication between the reservoirs and higher ditch camps up in Sierra county, arid ditch tenders along the great canal system, and the offices at North San Juan and French Corral. When hydraulic mining was stopped by the antidebris law of 1884 (the famous Sawyer decision) a new use was found for the ridge telephone lines.””. Here Mrs Welselsky explains that after this decision which prohibited the deposit of tailings in running streams of this area, . slikers’’ or “spies,” as they were called, were sent into this district to report on any unlawful Operations. On the first intimation of the presence of such investigators in the neighborhood employees of the telephone company, or of the hydraulic operators, promptly telephoned the miners that “‘the slikers are coming” and gave the miners time to shut off the water and remove or camouflage all signs of unlawful activities, lege, with a group of young ladies she visited Europe and . a? &