April 17, 1941 (6 pages)

ii APRIL MINI NG DEV — . ELOPMENT ISSUE oF ceaamanis The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month evada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA Thi frie eamaastaemmnseee S paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your nds, your neighbors, read The Nugget. oF Si Vol. 15, No. 31. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CIT Y, CALIFORNIA, Tha Gold Conte SIS TH . Thinking . Out Loud By H. M. L. “ Representative Hatton W. Sumners of Texas, made ‘a_ notable speech in the House of Representatives a fortnight ago. This is the same man who stood up boldly and refused to give way to the President 'when he desired to pack the Supreme Court. The newspapers do not, ds a matter of fact, carry much of what is said in the United States Congress by the people’s delegates there. But Sumners’ address was reprinted and distributed to the press, and it is from that document that we quote a few passages on our national labor situation. Sumners compares our’ labor strife with the situation in France, and quotes liberally from -testimony heard in Congressional committees given by William C. Bullitt and Merrill C. Meigs -of the OPM air division. It is not a pretty picture he limns, But it is one that careless and talkative patriots should ponder. It calls for action, positive, forceful. Wé set the forthright utterance of this great. Texas: Democrat against those that eminate from the White House. ‘Sumner’s address is 4 clear call to obligations and duties that all citizens who love their country should heed, Perhaps they are beginning to heed, for since the words that follow were uttered, the roll call of strikes in defense industries has measurably diminished, Here is the address, in part, of Representative ‘Sumners: “Then in 1928 public opinion shifted. The swing of the pendulum came and—lI say this without purpose to offend—carried us to the ‘point where we have had for some time practically a labor government at Washington. I mean exactly that. * “As a result, during the time of this swing, labor has been deprived of the necessary restraining influence of government, essential to the safety of any movement of that magnitude and momentum, and essential to the stability of gain. When the facts of these large movements are examined, it becomes clear that whenever such a movement gets under way and begins to accumulate momentum, its own momentum, especially if supported by public opinion, gives it all the speed it is safe to have. Speaking generally, the most dangerous thing in such a situation is for it to have not only no brakes applied by a public agency, but to have that agency provide an additional stimulus. There is a similarity in such matters everywhere, due to the fact that a natural law is in control and natural-laws are unifonm in their application. “There is no difference between the human nature of the people who are in the factory and the human nature of the people who are in the offices. It will aid us in dealing with this situation, if we hold that fact in mind. “It is not meanness. It is the danger which nature associates with too great speed and the limitation which nature puts upon the possessors of too great power, Whether it is a king, a hereditary noble, a church digntary, a military chieftain, organized labor, organized capital, or I, as an individual, with the possession of too great power, there goes an irresistible disposition to abuse it. God has put a limitation upon the amount of power that people can possess without its abusive exercise. Aside.from the disloyal element and the racketeer, it is a fact that just as capital was not able to restrain itself a short time ago labor has not been able to restrain itself in some of these strike situations, not becauge the are meaner, but because when capital moved this pendulum far from the center, when we were building up in this country an economic fuedalism, the men who worked in the (Continued on Page Four) More Mi Men Added At Mines Is On Increase Total Number of Men at Work In County Now 2.622 Despite reports of the whole sale departure of men in Nevada City and Grass Valley for other fields of endeavor as a result of the defense boom, the. gold mining industry in this county held its own as far as employment was concerned during the past month. No large differences in the number of men_ employed were reported by the leading operating companies, In fact, due to the start of operations by several new outfits, principally placer, employment is slightly ahead of March. The employment total for the mines in the county is 2,622 with a payroll amounting to $393,000. The most important advancement to the industry during the past month ‘was the acquisition by Dr. . Carl Power Jones of -two, new proplerties adjoining the MountaineeriChampion group. It is believed extensive operations will begin at the properties in the near future. The Gibson Dredging Company of Oroville completed the installation of a dredge outfit on the Martel property in the Rough and Ready district. Twelve men are employed. E. C. Jacobs of this city, who has held an option on the St. John Mine ‘Continued on Page Five Funeral Services Tomorrow for Mrs. Annie Ford Mrs, Annie Ford, 78, mother of Mrs. Ed C. Uren of this city and well known here, died yesterday at the Jones Memorial Hospital in Grass Valley following a lengthy illness. The funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock tomorrow afternoon at the Holmes Funeral Home in Grass Valley. Rev. Mark Pike of the Methodist Church will officiate. The Grass Valley Rebekah Lodge will have charge of the graveside services at the city cemetery. Mrs. Ford was born in Grass Valley and during her life time of residence in this county made hundreds of friends in both her home town and Nevada City as well as other parts of the state. She was active in many organizations. She was‘a Past Pocahontas of Ponemah Council, Past ‘Noble Grand of Rebekahs, member of Mistletoe Circle, Companions of the Forest, member of the Native Daughters of the-Golden West and of: the American Legion Auxiliary. Mrs. Ford was the widow of the late Henry Ford, who died in Grass Valley in, 1894, The deceased, besides Mrs, Uren, leaves another daughter, Mrs. Harry George of Grass Valley, three sons; Chester Ford of Grass Valley and Frank and Leonard Ford of-Sacramento, 15 grandchildren “and 15 grandchildren. Mrs. Emma Crase and Mrs. Nettie {Phillips of Grass Valley are siSters, About six months ago’a daughter, Mrs. James Harry of Sacramento, died. Mrs. Harry was a wife of Councilman Harry of Sacramento, who formerly resided in Gold Flat. Mrs. Alta Rowe of Sacramento spent last weekend with Mr. and Mrs. C, E. Parsons. great GUESSING CONTEST What's your guess? Here’s a chance to win a ride on a Greyhound bus. See a tire at the new Narrow Gauge Depot in Grass Valey and guess how many miles it was operated on a Pacific Greyhound bus. The contest closes at 6 p. m. tomorrow, The 11 guessing the closest to the actual number of miles will receive prizes, including free Greyhound bus rides. nes Acquired By Dr Purchase of FIVE STUDENTS GUEST SPEAKERS AT ROTARY CLUB Dr. Carl P. Jones has recently Five high school students at the! Rotary luncheon today were guest . speakers under the program chair-. manship of Helm Kjorlie. The five! were Elsie Schreiber, Mary Innis, Ruth Mitchell, Kirk Martin and Walter St. John. The topic was democracy, its ideals and practice, as contrasted with those of totalitarian governments, including Russia, Germany. and Italy. . Mary Innis, the first speaker, de-. scribed. the historic: background of. dictatorship. She found that“it was. originally an Oriental philosophy of government. It began four thousand years ago in the VaHey of the Nile, (Continued: on Page Six) Narrow Gauge Railroad Near Abandonment In 1926, Prepares To Celebrate New Era In Dedicating Beautiful Grass Valley Terminal In 1926, the Nevada County Narrow. Gauge Railroad, due to the inroads made by automobiles on its passenger and freight business applied for abandonment. : However, the railroad was saved from oblivion by a group of progressive Nevada City and Grass Valley businessmen after they were promised full support by merchants, and mines in the district and the major oil companies. Since those dark days of 1926 the Narrow Gauge Railroad, under its new progressive management, has advanced into .a thriving business and at the same time has efficiently served the. Nevada Citty-Grass Valley district, And now a new milestone has been reached iin the program of the NCNGRR,. A new passenger depot, a longfelt need for Grass Valley, has been completed and tomorrow will be dedicated. completed# The passenger depot the modern, reinforced concrete terminal of the Narrow Gauge, a terminal not afforded in cities many times the size of Grass Valley. The building plan started two years ago on Grass Valley’s Old Chinatown after the shacks had been iliar sight to those visiting the ‘‘city” outlived her usefulness. Purchased by the French Corral Mining Company the old engine now furnishes electric power for the drag line operations, Standing 10 or 12 feet high and some 30 feet in length in two units, this engine weighs some 60 tons. One unit is in-use, and it is rated at 550 horse power, using 15 gallons of diesel oil per hour. The French Corral Company have Lseveral million yards of bench gravel, mostly stripped by early hydraulic operations, which is said to average, from top to bottom, 37 cents Engine Of Golden Gate F erry Boat Runs French Corral Mine the NCNGR is justly proud, answers By ED. C. UREN . the long felt need for a proper disThe old Southern Pacific ferry “Golden Gate’’ which tread the wat-' Ts < Francisco Bay-from Oakland Pier to the ferry slips was a fam-. : oxs Of San Vrancisce He: ‘ B . ; mation. The structure houses the lat‘reputation of being the richest hyfor many years. She was one of the old type boats, converted to diesel electric power) in later years and finally scrapped because, like all old timers, she had. per yard. The gravel in the old _ Tertiary Channel at French Corral has the draulic ground along any portion of the channel and large areas of the lower stratas nearest the bedrock, have not previously been worked on account of the problem of grade. The company is busy at this time repairing its equipment‘/and expects to be in active operation shortly. It is under the management—of -W,H. Rees of San Francisco. main structure are facilities rented . to the Rainier Brewing and Kraft Cheese Companies, which chose razed and the huge lot cleared. The. first structure was the freight terminal, In this building is housed all the freight facilities of the railroad, the passenger and truck repair garage, cold storage facilities and moatrn general offices. Adjoining the Grass Valley as the distribution center for a 100 mile radius. Now the passenger depot, of which pensing of passenger travel inforest inovations in speed and ‘comfort demanded by today’s travelling public. Adolph Verlod, well known as the agent in the Nevada City office of the railroad company for many years will be in charge of the passenger depot. ‘The freight transportation will continue to be handled by Robert Paine of this city. J. Earl Taylor, director and general manager of the Narrow Gauge and life-time civic leader of the county, has issued an invitation to the general pubic of both Grass Valley and Nevada City.to attend the Ragon Mine By ED. C: UREN URSDAY, APRIL 17, 1941. _ Jones % + and Grover Murphy Claims To Augment Present Extensive Mountaineer Holdings WELL FINANCED CAMPAIGN OF DEVELOPMENT IN OFFING EXPECTED TO ; MAKE DISTRICT WHITE SPOT IN DEPRESSION WHICH WILL FOLLOW WAR purchased from Wells Fargo Bank the Grover Murphy Claim adjoining the Mountaineer on the north. This includes the American Hill vein; which is an extension of the Mountaineer Vein. The American Hill was explored to‘a sma!l extent in 1904 when the Simmons Brothers sunk a shaft 125 feet deep and extended a dri‘t southward over 400 feet. It is understood negotiations are pending for the adjoining Craig ground on the north. Dr Jones has recently also acquired the Ragon Mine, which adjoins the Mount Auburn on the north, from the owner, Robert Nye. The property consists of two patented claims aggregating nearly 3000 feet along the lode. The Ragon, last operated in 1936 by San Francisco ' parties, with Orlando McCraney in charge, has been opened by an incline shaft 440 feet in depth, dipping 40 degrees east. The ledge was first discovered in the progres of workin g the overlaying gravel channel and ~ a shoot of ore 125 feet in length, above the 200 level, and having excelient-milling values, has been stoped Nevada City On Air { Tomorrow Night Nevada City will be on the air tomorrow night’ over KROY in Sacramento, Secretary H. F. Sofge of the local chamber of commerce’ has re ceived notification. thé broadcast will start at 8:o’clock. Local radio listeners are urged to tune in. KROY is .1240 kilocycles, POPPY DAY DATE SET May 24th has been set by the Ban-. ner Mountain Post, Veterans of For-. eign Wars, as Popy Day in Nevada} County. The Veterans annual Buddy Poppy Dance will be. held at Lake Olympia. on May 31st. Goes To Willits— . Mrs. Helen Sawyer is visiting her! daughter in Willits. She will remain . there for several weeks. . out. 7% The mine is still in an undeveloped stage. Hardly more than one tenth of its lateral extent, practcially all ‘of which is lava-capped, has so far . been explored. Dr. Jones’ holdings now embrace . a territory four miles in length, extending from the Ragon on the north . to the East Orleans on the south. east. y Four great vein systems are in; cluded: the Summit, or Gracie-Glen; coe, one mile in extent, developed at one point to a depth of 40 feet, but with very -limited laterals; the Mountainteer, 8600 feet in length, developed at one point to a depth f 1200 feet only; the Providence 16,000 feet in length, developed to 3,000 feet in depth and _ still strong with an ore body at the bottom yielding higher values than ever known in any of the upper workings, but unfortunately halted over the protest of the management in 1921,. Continued on Page Five MINING SUMMARY Lode Mines Location Gen. Manager or No. Men PayName Superintendent Emp. roll Newmont J. R. C. Mann Gen. Manager ‘ Wmpine isi sy Grass Valley.) RC) alee 408 61,200 North Star ... Grass Valley ..:. M. E. Newlove .. 300 45,000 Pennsylvania Grass Valley .. William Jeffrey . 115 17,250 Zeibright (2230.63 Bear Valley ... R. J. Hendricks 110 16,500 Gen. Manager Arthur Swanson : Superintendent .. Murchie. 2.0.5) Nevada City .. R. J. Hendricks . 40 6,060 Albert Crase Idaho-Maryland Gen. Manager : Wdaho ies Grass Valley .. Fred: Pinch: 3.0.33::. 506 75,900 Brunswick Grass Valley .. Fred Denton . . . 414 62,100 Bullion i. Grass Valley .. Howard Dennis .. 41 , 6,150 O. E. Schiffner Lava Cap Gen. Manager Gontirgls 2s Nevada City .. John Chandler .. 205 30,450 Banner oo. b Nevada City .. John Chandler .. 130 19,500 Others Golden Center ..Grass Valley .. Wallace Butler .. 130 19,500 Spring? Hike. Grass Valley .. Cr. Cushwa .4:: 10 1,500 G. Northern .. Nevada City .. Al Mi OG 6.5 a, 7 1,050 Stockton Hill .. Dew Drop: --.:-.5: W. R. Woock ..28 4,200 Boundary: ©. Grass Valley .. Arthur Hellings . 11 1,650 . Coan 320s Nevada City TORY OMAN ccrca sce, hes 2 300 Anchoe Erie .. Graniteville ...Gus Helback ... 10 1,500 AYCHD ea Washington ...Kemmerer Ex. Co. 14 " 2,100 Mary Jane ...Mall Creek. 02.2: Robert Beck ... 2 300 Sadie Dee’. n:. Moore’s Flat .. Carl Larsen 3 300 Sleeping Beauty .Moore’s Flat .. Clyde Foster .. 2 300 PG OM eae tence Graniteville ...Bd Baker ..:... 3 450 Greely-Blackman .Newtown _.... Luke Williams .. 5 750 Big: Pine: 2. Wolf District .:; W. J. Bathhurst . 6 900 Spanish sc 5.sseckesacen Washington .. DP. Ke Ribble 35. 4 600 Placer Operations OmGeea. 2 Omega on Jack Bittle 2.3) 03. 22 3,300 Richter & Sons .North San Juan . William Richter . 10 1,500. Relief Mill. a Relief Hill 20 3,006 Lucky Day --.:..Quaker Hill ..Don MeGinnis 4 600 Eloro Planet .. Steephollow .. M. Donnelly _. 8 1,200 E. New York .. Steephollow .. S. R. Miller .:.2.. 4 600 Homestake ... Burlington Ridge.Wm. Granholm .. 2 300 Shovel Placers .Columbia Hill .. Kaufield) ..22.2.. 18 2,700 Blue Point Mooney Flat .. Asa Fippin .... 6 900 ipods. ce Fall Creek ... Bill Blood .... 2 300 Kennebec ... Lake City .. Pe BOS, 6 « 450 Wyandotte ... Wolf Creek -N. M. Gibson .. 6 900 GIDGON: .. oc. sae Rough & Ready .Gibson .-.0.cc.-0 2 MVDANO encore re ee 2622 $395/008 = going —

ii APRIL MINI NG DEV — . ELOPMENT ISSUE oF ceaamanis The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month evada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA Thi frie eamaastaemmnseee S paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your nds, your neighbors, read The Nugget. oF Si Vol. 15, No. 31. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CIT Y, CALIFORNIA, Tha Gold Conte SIS TH . Thinking . Out Loud By H. M. L. “ Representative Hatton W. Sumners of Texas, made ‘a_ notable speech in the House of Representatives a fortnight ago. This is the same man who stood up boldly and refused to give way to the President 'when he desired to pack the Supreme Court. The newspapers do not, ds a matter of fact, carry much of what is said in the United States Congress by the people’s delegates there. But Sumners’ address was reprinted and distributed to the press, and it is from that document that we quote a few passages on our national labor situation. Sumners compares our’ labor strife with the situation in France, and quotes liberally from -testimony heard in Congressional committees given by William C. Bullitt and Merrill C. Meigs -of the OPM air division. It is not a pretty picture he limns, But it is one that careless and talkative patriots should ponder. It calls for action, positive, forceful. Wé set the forthright utterance of this great. Texas: Democrat against those that eminate from the White House. ‘Sumner’s address is 4 clear call to obligations and duties that all citizens who love their country should heed, Perhaps they are beginning to heed, for since the words that follow were uttered, the roll call of strikes in defense industries has measurably diminished, Here is the address, in part, of Representative ‘Sumners: “Then in 1928 public opinion shifted. The swing of the pendulum came and—lI say this without purpose to offend—carried us to the ‘point where we have had for some time practically a labor government at Washington. I mean exactly that. * “As a result, during the time of this swing, labor has been deprived of the necessary restraining influence of government, essential to the safety of any movement of that magnitude and momentum, and essential to the stability of gain. When the facts of these large movements are examined, it becomes clear that whenever such a movement gets under way and begins to accumulate momentum, its own momentum, especially if supported by public opinion, gives it all the speed it is safe to have. Speaking generally, the most dangerous thing in such a situation is for it to have not only no brakes applied by a public agency, but to have that agency provide an additional stimulus. There is a similarity in such matters everywhere, due to the fact that a natural law is in control and natural-laws are unifonm in their application. “There is no difference between the human nature of the people who are in the factory and the human nature of the people who are in the offices. It will aid us in dealing with this situation, if we hold that fact in mind. “It is not meanness. It is the danger which nature associates with too great speed and the limitation which nature puts upon the possessors of too great power, Whether it is a king, a hereditary noble, a church digntary, a military chieftain, organized labor, organized capital, or I, as an individual, with the possession of too great power, there goes an irresistible disposition to abuse it. God has put a limitation upon the amount of power that people can possess without its abusive exercise. Aside.from the disloyal element and the racketeer, it is a fact that just as capital was not able to restrain itself a short time ago labor has not been able to restrain itself in some of these strike situations, not becauge the are meaner, but because when capital moved this pendulum far from the center, when we were building up in this country an economic fuedalism, the men who worked in the (Continued on Page Four) More Mi Men Added At Mines Is On Increase Total Number of Men at Work In County Now 2.622 Despite reports of the whole sale departure of men in Nevada City and Grass Valley for other fields of endeavor as a result of the defense boom, the. gold mining industry in this county held its own as far as employment was concerned during the past month. No large differences in the number of men_ employed were reported by the leading operating companies, In fact, due to the start of operations by several new outfits, principally placer, employment is slightly ahead of March. The employment total for the mines in the county is 2,622 with a payroll amounting to $393,000. The most important advancement to the industry during the past month ‘was the acquisition by Dr. . Carl Power Jones of -two, new proplerties adjoining the MountaineeriChampion group. It is believed extensive operations will begin at the properties in the near future. The Gibson Dredging Company of Oroville completed the installation of a dredge outfit on the Martel property in the Rough and Ready district. Twelve men are employed. E. C. Jacobs of this city, who has held an option on the St. John Mine ‘Continued on Page Five Funeral Services Tomorrow for Mrs. Annie Ford Mrs, Annie Ford, 78, mother of Mrs. Ed C. Uren of this city and well known here, died yesterday at the Jones Memorial Hospital in Grass Valley following a lengthy illness. The funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock tomorrow afternoon at the Holmes Funeral Home in Grass Valley. Rev. Mark Pike of the Methodist Church will officiate. The Grass Valley Rebekah Lodge will have charge of the graveside services at the city cemetery. Mrs. Ford was born in Grass Valley and during her life time of residence in this county made hundreds of friends in both her home town and Nevada City as well as other parts of the state. She was active in many organizations. She was‘a Past Pocahontas of Ponemah Council, Past ‘Noble Grand of Rebekahs, member of Mistletoe Circle, Companions of the Forest, member of the Native Daughters of the-Golden West and of: the American Legion Auxiliary. Mrs. Ford was the widow of the late Henry Ford, who died in Grass Valley in, 1894, The deceased, besides Mrs, Uren, leaves another daughter, Mrs. Harry George of Grass Valley, three sons; Chester Ford of Grass Valley and Frank and Leonard Ford of-Sacramento, 15 grandchildren “and 15 grandchildren. Mrs. Emma Crase and Mrs. Nettie {Phillips of Grass Valley are siSters, About six months ago’a daughter, Mrs. James Harry of Sacramento, died. Mrs. Harry was a wife of Councilman Harry of Sacramento, who formerly resided in Gold Flat. Mrs. Alta Rowe of Sacramento spent last weekend with Mr. and Mrs. C, E. Parsons. great GUESSING CONTEST What's your guess? Here’s a chance to win a ride on a Greyhound bus. See a tire at the new Narrow Gauge Depot in Grass Valey and guess how many miles it was operated on a Pacific Greyhound bus. The contest closes at 6 p. m. tomorrow, The 11 guessing the closest to the actual number of miles will receive prizes, including free Greyhound bus rides. nes Acquired By Dr Purchase of FIVE STUDENTS GUEST SPEAKERS AT ROTARY CLUB Dr. Carl P. Jones has recently Five high school students at the! Rotary luncheon today were guest . speakers under the program chair-. manship of Helm Kjorlie. The five! were Elsie Schreiber, Mary Innis, Ruth Mitchell, Kirk Martin and Walter St. John. The topic was democracy, its ideals and practice, as contrasted with those of totalitarian governments, including Russia, Germany. and Italy.

. Mary Innis, the first speaker, de-. scribed. the historic: background of. dictatorship. She found that“it was. originally an Oriental philosophy of government. It began four thousand years ago in the VaHey of the Nile, (Continued: on Page Six) Narrow Gauge Railroad Near Abandonment In 1926, Prepares To Celebrate New Era In Dedicating Beautiful Grass Valley Terminal In 1926, the Nevada County Narrow. Gauge Railroad, due to the inroads made by automobiles on its passenger and freight business applied for abandonment. : However, the railroad was saved from oblivion by a group of progressive Nevada City and Grass Valley businessmen after they were promised full support by merchants, and mines in the district and the major oil companies. Since those dark days of 1926 the Narrow Gauge Railroad, under its new progressive management, has advanced into .a thriving business and at the same time has efficiently served the. Nevada Citty-Grass Valley district, And now a new milestone has been reached iin the program of the NCNGRR,. A new passenger depot, a longfelt need for Grass Valley, has been completed and tomorrow will be dedicated. completed# The passenger depot the modern, reinforced concrete terminal of the Narrow Gauge, a terminal not afforded in cities many times the size of Grass Valley. The building plan started two years ago on Grass Valley’s Old Chinatown after the shacks had been iliar sight to those visiting the ‘‘city” outlived her usefulness. Purchased by the French Corral Mining Company the old engine now furnishes electric power for the drag line operations, Standing 10 or 12 feet high and some 30 feet in length in two units, this engine weighs some 60 tons. One unit is in-use, and it is rated at 550 horse power, using 15 gallons of diesel oil per hour. The French Corral Company have Lseveral million yards of bench gravel, mostly stripped by early hydraulic operations, which is said to average, from top to bottom, 37 cents Engine Of Golden Gate F erry Boat Runs French Corral Mine the NCNGR is justly proud, answers By ED. C. UREN . the long felt need for a proper disThe old Southern Pacific ferry “Golden Gate’’ which tread the wat-' Ts < Francisco Bay-from Oakland Pier to the ferry slips was a fam-. : oxs Of San Vrancisce He: ‘ B . ; mation. The structure houses the lat‘reputation of being the richest hyfor many years. She was one of the old type boats, converted to diesel electric power) in later years and finally scrapped because, like all old timers, she had. per yard. The gravel in the old _ Tertiary Channel at French Corral has the draulic ground along any portion of the channel and large areas of the lower stratas nearest the bedrock, have not previously been worked on account of the problem of grade. The company is busy at this time repairing its equipment‘/and expects to be in active operation shortly. It is under the management—of -W,H. Rees of San Francisco. main structure are facilities rented . to the Rainier Brewing and Kraft Cheese Companies, which chose razed and the huge lot cleared. The. first structure was the freight terminal, In this building is housed all the freight facilities of the railroad, the passenger and truck repair garage, cold storage facilities and moatrn general offices. Adjoining the Grass Valley as the distribution center for a 100 mile radius. Now the passenger depot, of which pensing of passenger travel inforest inovations in speed and ‘comfort demanded by today’s travelling public. Adolph Verlod, well known as the agent in the Nevada City office of the railroad company for many years will be in charge of the passenger depot. ‘The freight transportation will continue to be handled by Robert Paine of this city. J. Earl Taylor, director and general manager of the Narrow Gauge and life-time civic leader of the county, has issued an invitation to the general pubic of both Grass Valley and Nevada City.to attend the Ragon Mine By ED. C: UREN URSDAY, APRIL 17, 1941. _ Jones % + and Grover Murphy Claims To Augment Present Extensive Mountaineer Holdings WELL FINANCED CAMPAIGN OF DEVELOPMENT IN OFFING EXPECTED TO ; MAKE DISTRICT WHITE SPOT IN DEPRESSION WHICH WILL FOLLOW WAR purchased from Wells Fargo Bank the Grover Murphy Claim adjoining the Mountaineer on the north. This includes the American Hill vein; which is an extension of the Mountaineer Vein. The American Hill was explored to‘a sma!l extent in 1904 when the Simmons Brothers sunk a shaft 125 feet deep and extended a dri‘t southward over 400 feet. It is understood negotiations are pending for the adjoining Craig ground on the north. Dr Jones has recently also acquired the Ragon Mine, which adjoins the Mount Auburn on the north, from the owner, Robert Nye. The property consists of two patented claims aggregating nearly 3000 feet along the lode. The Ragon, last operated in 1936 by San Francisco ' parties, with Orlando McCraney in charge, has been opened by an incline shaft 440 feet in depth, dipping 40 degrees east. The ledge was first discovered in the progres of workin g the overlaying gravel channel and ~ a shoot of ore 125 feet in length, above the 200 level, and having excelient-milling values, has been stoped Nevada City On Air { Tomorrow Night Nevada City will be on the air tomorrow night’ over KROY in Sacramento, Secretary H. F. Sofge of the local chamber of commerce’ has re ceived notification. thé broadcast will start at 8:o’clock. Local radio listeners are urged to tune in. KROY is .1240 kilocycles, POPPY DAY DATE SET May 24th has been set by the Ban-. ner Mountain Post, Veterans of For-. eign Wars, as Popy Day in Nevada} County. The Veterans annual Buddy Poppy Dance will be. held at Lake Olympia. on May 31st. Goes To Willits— . Mrs. Helen Sawyer is visiting her! daughter in Willits. She will remain . there for several weeks. . out. 7% The mine is still in an undeveloped stage. Hardly more than one tenth of its lateral extent, practcially all ‘of which is lava-capped, has so far . been explored. Dr. Jones’ holdings now embrace . a territory four miles in length, extending from the Ragon on the north . to the East Orleans on the south. east. y Four great vein systems are in; cluded: the Summit, or Gracie-Glen; coe, one mile in extent, developed at one point to a depth of 40 feet, but with very -limited laterals; the Mountainteer, 8600 feet in length, developed at one point to a depth f 1200 feet only; the Providence 16,000 feet in length, developed to 3,000 feet in depth and _ still strong with an ore body at the bottom yielding higher values than ever known in any of the upper workings, but unfortunately halted over the protest of the management in 1921,. Continued on Page Five MINING SUMMARY Lode Mines Location Gen. Manager or No. Men PayName Superintendent Emp. roll Newmont J. R. C. Mann Gen. Manager ‘ Wmpine isi sy Grass Valley..) RC) alee 408 61,200 North Star ...... Grass Valley ...:. M. E. Newlove ... 300 45,000 Pennsylvania Grass Valley .... William Jeffrey .. 115 17,250 Zeibright (2230.63 Bear Valley ..... R. J. Hendricks 110 16,500 Gen. Manager Arthur Swanson : Superintendent ... Murchie. 2.0.5) Nevada City .... R. J. Hendricks .. 40 6,060 Albert Crase Idaho-Maryland Gen. Manager : Wdaho ies Grass Valley .... Fred: Pinch: 3.0.33::. 506 75,900 Brunswick Grass Valley .... Fred Denton . .. . 414 62,100 Bullion i. Grass Valley .... Howard Dennis ... 41 , 6,150 O. E. Schiffner Lava Cap Gen. Manager Gontirgls 2s Nevada City .... John Chandler ... 205 30,450 Banner oo. b Nevada City .... John Chandler ... 130 19,500 Others Golden Center ...Grass Valley .... Wallace Butler ... 130 19,500 Spring? Hike.. Grass Valley .... Cr. Cushwa ..4:: 10 1,500 G. Northern .... Nevada City .... Al Mi OG 6.5 a, 7 1,050 Stockton Hill ... Dew Drop: --.:-..5: W. R. Woock ....28 4,200 Boundary: ©.. Grass Valley .... Arthur Hellings .. 11 1,650 . Coan 320s Nevada City TORY OMAN ccrca sce, hes 2 300 Anchoe Erie .... Graniteville .....Gus Helback ..... 10 1,500 AYCHD ea Washington .....Kemmerer Ex. Co. 14 " 2,100 Mary Jane ......Mall Creek.. 02.2: Robert Beck ..... 2 300 Sadie Dee’.. n:. Moore’s Flat .... Carl Larsen 3 300 Sleeping Beauty .Moore’s Flat .... Clyde Foster .... 2 300 PG OM eae tence Graniteville .....Bd Baker ...:..... 3 450 Greely-Blackman .Newtown _........ Luke Williams ... 5 750 Big: Pine: 2. Wolf District ..:; W. J. Bathhurst . 6 900 Spanish sc 5.sseckesacen Washington .... DP. Ke Ribble 35.. 4 600 Placer Operations OmGeea. 2 Omega on Jack Bittle 2.3) 03.. 22 3,300 Richter & Sons ..North San Juan . William Richter .. 10 1,500. Relief Mill. a Relief Hill 20 3,006 Lucky Day --..:...Quaker Hill ....Don MeGinnis 4 600 Eloro Planet .... Steephollow .... M. Donnelly _. 8 1,200 E. New York .... Steephollow .... S. R. Miller .:..2... 4 600 Homestake ..... Burlington Ridge.Wm. Granholm ... 2 300 Shovel Placers ..Columbia Hill ... Kaufield) ...22.2... 18 2,700 Blue Point Mooney Flat .... Asa Fippin ....... 6 900 ipods. ce Fall Creek ...... Bill Blood ....... 2 300 Kennebec ...... Lake City ... Pe BOS, 6 « 450 Wyandotte ..... Wolf Creek -N. M. Gibson .... 6 900 GIDGON: .... oc.. sae Rough & Ready .Gibson ..-.0..cc.-0 2 MVDANO encore re ee 2622 $395/008 = going —