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The Nugget is California’s Leading Mining Weekly
Nugget
VOLUME Il, NUMBER 24 THE GOLD CENTER _ N EVA, DA Citi,
STEWART GIVES MASTERLY ADDRESS
BEFORE THE COMMONWEALTH CUS
The following is the address de ars but he has not reecived any
livered by J. D. Stewart beofre the such treatment in return.
Commonwealth Club of San Fran. The people in'the valley through
cisco on April 19th: YZ a all these years have ~protested any
Before proceeding to the ques. resufption of hydrulickine for fear
tion of the evening, I wish tothank Of damage. But while engineers have
the Commonwealth Club of Cahiorbeen building’ great. reilroads and
nia, and. particularly the officers canals, conquering the depths_of the.
and members~f the mineral section, sea and the heights of the air, they
for their courtesy and untiring pahave. also solved the problem contience in hearing this subject so eXxSometimes it is
sary in'this life to have opposition,
and I trust my opponents will always be as gentlemanly and cthical
as the who has debated
this subject with me for the past
nine months, and is seheduled to
answer this evening.
engineer
me
T stand before you this evening,
Pleading the cause of the hydraulic
miner. I was
in the sound of the roar of the hynecesborn and reared with.
i stream
'
i ent engineer,
draulie monitor and giant. My,;
schooling and living haS been. wrested from the gravels of the hills I
have always loved.
For forty-four years a few of us
have kept the vigil and handed down
from father to son’ and neighbor
to neighbor the. faith to litt the
cloud that has hung over our industry.
The hydraulic
most unfortunate
has been
in many ways,
miner
but most of all in the bitter intol}
erant antagonism
his poor — presentation
cause. The antagonism
cally disappeared,
Persistent
miner
and ;
of his own)
has practiand today
and insistent hydraulic
counts more real personal
friends in Marysville than anywhere
in California.
Aa to
cause,
ing,
of his foes
this
the presentation of his
we believe we are improywhen we are accepted into the
society of such a select body as the
Commonwealth Club, that is a stap
forward.
Hydraulic mining was stopped by
injunction. The first, granted out of
the state courts in 1881 as gainst the
Gold Run Ditch & Mining Company,
followed by the Federal Court
granting Timothy Woodruff an injunction_against the North Bloom
field Company in 1884.
In 1880 there were approximately
five hundred ‘hydraulic mines: operaing in the Sacramento and
quin drainage Their
Ment was enormous for
Of the $160,000;000.00
mining of all kinds in California,
that time, + over $100,000,000.00
was invested in hydraulic mines and
their necessary equipment.
Joainvestthat time.
San
areas.
This was wiped out in one blow.
A portion of the ditches and water
rights formed the nucleus of hydro-electric power plants. Some are
used for irrigation purposes and
others have gone to decay.
years the hydraulic
All these
on paying taxes on this property in
the hopes that a solution to the
problem would be found.
A -great deal of tears have heen
shed ove: the losses of the farmer
in the low lands, frem the debris
from hydraulie mines. This damage
has been rectified and in many
cases the !:nd_ has been benefitted
The filling of the. beds of the
streams -raised the water above tha
hard pen.table and has made possible
the sub-irtigation of the great eling
peach orchards of Yuba and. Sutter
counties. The is nearly back to
its old time” bed, and
will rend the
ards dying
river
soon
of the
want of water
Contrast the position of the miner.
He-was not: merely damaged,
wiped off the face of. the earth.
over forty years he has
relief and has met
and seorn.
At the last ession ef the. legvislature where we needed but one vote to
win, a
of
a
heavens orehfor
For
waited for
with only sneers
valkey senator
paternalism. A
raised the ery
few weeks ago
this self same senator at a meeting
in Nevada City told of the cling
Peach growers “troubles and stated
that it was the intention to ask the
next legislature for an appropriation
of several hundred thousand dollars
to pull the peach men out of thelr
trouble. We do not know much about
paternalism, but have
the subject.
The miner has
some idea on
would aid farming or any other inwail '
.
.
.
.
miner has gone .
} and has heen
this
lhe built,
fronting the hydraulie miner and the
dweller on the floor of the valley.
The 1e@
dams takes care of
stor: the
H. Jackson,
Comunission in
of in
*
the peimanent
Colorel Thos.
California
‘efficient us conerete
debris.
the
a letter to the Miner
Section,
re of
of Debris
al Resource
ively and positively the dams can be
built as to efficiently and permanently impound the debris so. that it will
states conclus.
not injure the lands further down the :
or
said stream.
the havigability
Otto von Geldern, eminand representing the
farmers of Sutter county in this discussion, agrees that thois position is
correct.
To point out the
untenable
inconsistent and
of the people of
this line: For
position
Sutter county along a
number of years there has been in
existence at. Bullard’s Bar on tie
North Yuba _ river, a concret2? dam
feet in height; and some half
dozen or more hydraulie mines_have
been, and are now, operzting behind
lit. The people of Sutter county say
. that this new legislation will deprive
(them of the-right of injunction.
‘This proposed legislation has not
yet been passed, why, then, do they
not enjoin these miners? There is
but;one answer—the dam is efficient,
and they cannot show any damage.
The next line of attack is that the
hydraulie mining industry will nét
pay. This controversy has raged
largely ered one particular preperty or holding. Let it be understood
that this movement is for the resumption of hydraulic mining in
(or:
vlifornia;
perty or holding.
umpiion must be so that every hy
draulic miner owning property that is
of the
not of-any particular pro.
This propdsed-re.
possible of being worked may have
an equal opportunity te work his
ground, if. he meet and abide by thageneral conditions laid down.
The man to be listened to in this
matter is the hydraulic miner who
has held his property all
vailin the future and that he might
resume his Operations instead of opportunity being created for promotors to unload or trade’ in holdings
other ge their own. :
As fa as I know, tonight I am
the ay man in this room whv is,
all
schooling
a hydraulieminer
hf life; whose living and
has come from hydraulie maing operations; who has -done, and is eapable of doing, any and all things ne
eessary to be
lie mine with
what this
That
governinents
Yppropriations to
his own -hands. And
is hydraulic
tate,
make the necessa
build these da:
ims be built by, and bea
the supervision of ihe Califo:
propos:
tion is: the S and Fede
al
Phat these dé
under,
nia Debris Commission as at presen
That no dains be built .on an
. streams until the hydraulic miner.
on that stream have filed—a ‘itten
petition with the California Debris
. Commission, asking that such a dam
ted snificient
the Commission to cover
and deposi
funds with
the inspection of the project by tha
“ommissions’ enrineers. That the
=i A
but ;yards of gravel the petitioner ue He
never fought any.
hing in the way'of legislation that .
tition shall state how many
1
to
until the petitioners
taking
the
work. That no dam shalVbe Duilt
file fan Nunderbond that they will work
_of yardage stated in
That when the dam is
or
amount
; hein
i huilt,
. sion
petition.
with the Commisthe
storage of the debris
they will file
a further bond to cover
payment of the
Sehind the dam.
This figuring can be kept endless
doing all this
~-but—know
hydraulie mining and
hydraulie mine
the best of cir
iv,.for the staticians
figuring are well mesning
nothing. of
net
successfully
tHe tA Rees:
. it
ments, State or Federal, anything to
make these appropriations if they
are not expended . and if they are
conld operate a
under
is not ecins to cost the zovern(Continued on Page Three)
these yeurs, '
; . . having faith that fair play would preinvested in!
at .
NEVADA COUNTY. CALIFORNIA, eg iE COUNT
Gold Mine, the; Western Mei
To go one 24 Hour Basis
ATIC IG
shi [i aL HAVE
% FER T OR
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert C. Lewis
have filed alocation on The Lucky
Boy Placer Naim in the Eureka Mining District, SE%NE™%See. 18
TISN, -R1AB:
Elizebeth McCullough, R. J.-Golding, L. W. Lobdell, Alfred Heather,
Alec Ramsey, E. Dewey
Calligan and W.
eated 160
purpose to
H. Clarke, te
H. Clarke have loa
acres for placer rome!
be known as the Rose of
cae, Placer Mining Claim $1
SE%, NEY SEYNEY, See: 8,
TISN, R1II1E.
FIRE AT SCOTTS FLAT DAM
BURNS GAS AND COMPRESSOR .
Quite a bitof excitement was .
eaused Thursday at
workman
Scotts Flat Dam .
drew some gaso.
frem a drum in
when
line
heuse
a
the compressor .
way a
room Was id
minutes
himself thrvt, a .
.2in some unaccountable
. The
few
sn eas
gy
ark ignited the
a2 mass of flame in
the man
a
throwing
This
v of Hoisting Works at Nevada City’s Newest Producing
rger, Whose Stamp Mill Is
Week On Fine Rock
WESTERN MERGER MILL
IS RUNNING SINGLE SHIFT
The new stamp mill at the WesiernMerger mine is-already running .
a single shift daily and as s
fully tuned
hours,
it has been up, will be
24
by
several
ru nning
expected
With
on
a and this is
or Wedneshundred tons of
the dump and a
biecked out
and 400 levels,
dividend producer
are exceedingly bright.
‘ President A. A: Codd of -Rano has
guest days; A.
of the Nevis
day
tomorrow
da: ay.
ine rok large
the
pects for
this
tonnaga Detween
200 the pro:
new year
had. as his for a few
J. Moore, mining
State Journal Reno
greatly impresed with the
inade at the property as well as wiih
this section of California.
TURPEN
3E MADE HERE
editor
ada: of who
window to escape. The compressor,
a gasoline engine, a truck, about ten :
drums a seat oe a quantity of ; The stage is nearl alt set for
aes i z ‘the starting of Nevada. City’s new
pau Were: Usethored. Che amore Be turpentine industry. F.C. Ernst whoa
ing figured at about $5,000. ms = et
represents outside capitalists propoThe exploding drums-cf gi sins to start a refinery here, will be
threw fire into-the forest whi -here in a day or so to open offices.
soon started a blaze. Workmen about . Oyor 12,000 acres have already been
the premises fled in all directions to . .;. wed 1 ani Mere bracts Are” sow.
escape ‘being hit by the drams. Mr. nitinge inspection. The plant-onee esW. FP. Sharpe, fire warden, was sum. tablished will mean a large payroll
moned and assisted in extinguishi he re and a great deal of money spent
the blaze. The woods: were téo damp } with the timber owners who get in
to cause much damage. on the proposition.
The Califernia Air Construction : SIE vane Ate
Company, which is building tlie diNEW ENG “LAND Mi aT§
ersion dai for the N. E-D. below ies 4a u rTPA iu
Scotts Flat on Deer -Creek,_were the
done around a hydrau}
heaviest losers.
yes
Mr. and Mrs.
home after a
Hopkins are
motor trip to Yosemite
At the latter place they
daughter, Mrs. Harry .
Gomer
Merced.
their
and
visited
Cook.
Mt Rrian Kreush, formerly Miss
Lucille Boyd, is making steadyim
illSutter
proveme form a
nt
ness and will
reeent serious
the
iis will
Fric
soon leave
pI
> De
nds
Sacramento.
to her many
hey surprise Mrs.
Thui
Friends
rappy was given
sdiy evening when
eulled at her
Nose Jones
twelve home
bringing refreshments with them. A
happy time was enjoyed and Mrs.
Jones made many happy by reading
ortunes in tea leaves.
Mrs. C. F. Scheemer had -as guests {
Tuesday Mrs. George Rilby and dau
ehter, . Mrs. Jack Straub of Sacra-i
mento. i
P. Delucchi left Fridsy. for hir
mine vear Creniteville. He has spent .
the winter here. z :
Warren Brown passed through {
hore Friday from Granitevitle going . .
to the lower eeuntry with his horses
Mr. and Xlrs Ri. Turner forme
resic ont. dro here Visiting for a short
t'ine il week, .
Mrs. Joe Day anc somrJoe, Jr., .
were hurriedly summoned j~o Dixon .
Wridiy (0 hke-at the bedside_of her
.
husband stroke .
of
who had suffered
He
at
him
Rohert E.
returned
a
isa former resident . . paralysis.
Id Fl
for
é
and -his-meny friends :
“Lope
Dr
hive
a, speedy reeovery.
Werner bride
after
and .
a honeymoon !.
the southern” part of the
His bride is.a charniing voung
the East and will be
in our city.
Charles Genasei of Willow Valley
wes a business visitor here Thursday.
‘pent in
state.
from ady a
veleome neweomer
READY FOR OPERATIONS
Work is starting this week
tine the New
on geiEngland: miil south eft
iown for operation as a cus ready
mill, sufficient tonna having
?
been olfered
fom ee
to keep the mill running
will pn
OWnhers C6
fer some time. This ‘ove Ay
excelient opportunity ofr
concentrates and old dumps to wor}
out the values which heretofore dic
not assay high -enouegh. to warrant
ishipping them below.
SHERIFF CARTER FINDS
Sheriff George R. Carter and hi
efficient deputies Were not, above
putting in a little overtime oni Sun
day evening and their elforis i
sleithine netted nice opium layeut
at the establishment of Hing ui,
tras Valley laundrymain. He was:
charged with nareotie pos: sion_and .
was ende: ing today to raise the
!bonds for his release.
Sheriff Carter dd up for
iff White of Merced, Pete Rupe
s charged with a
vol
piek Sherwho
felony.
red
while
William ehat
with
Hayes who was
operating an automobile
intoxicated, was sentenced. to. serve
six menths in the county jail, ~oday.
Superior Judge Razlan Tuttie_has
retu: from-eonductinz
hase ToOUNtY.
ned eourt in
nn
North Bloomfield
time this “week
Oliver
spending
Carter of
is some
visiting in our eity.
The many friends of Mrs. Charles
T. Worthley will be pleased to learn
that-she is recovering — from her recent jliness.
Subscribe for The Nuxget, —
PLACER C0. INT
following dispatch
mento bee is self exp
90n 2S
showing
TNE WILL
au
night's Sacrc
janatory:
SAN FRANGISCO, April. 28 A th ection, if posible, until enginroup of Placer County Inndowner: &¢ diffieultic and other matters
rehome 1 by } tl ory an ¢ issue have’ bee locked into.
tative, T: L. Cl} n-of Auburn Members of. the bond ecommisision
met here te with the state mdi who met at the ill of Dan-S. GCaneo V1 ion” en iderit t lecall4 I ecretaryv, include State Inginof io bend. elk on ¢ ed for Ma { Mdward Hyatt, Attorney Gener:
15th by the dir vad 11 a. Wébb and Will Cc. Wood,
Irrigation Distr ida ind tate superintendent of banks.
Mlacer Counties, ~ They ‘to. discuss whether the
The Placer Count? delteeation jn of the irrigation district: di
vas here for the announced inten. rectors in: ealline the bond election
. tion of asking the state commission . without first securing approval of
inot to srant a permit for the plec-! their action, is legal. Some State ofition until a completa investization . ficials were quoted as believing that
{. has been made of all angles eonneec. the directors of the irrigation dis. ted with administration of the-dis-" trict had “sot the eart before’ the
trict. hhorse’ in calling the election. before
Would Block Election . the approval of the bond commission
. They state they intend to block ad been: obtained,
14 ™ Ag EY ry to be ‘here to keep it in order and
1 f¢ © yt ag 8 \ running properly
VErdWes PAU RAV AG & Rice
: . During the past.. several years,
. ig he i there has been many and all kinds
. lof gold savin machines and black
ae ms Ti nd devices, but none of them have
a ‘ iM r. % Hay proved very successful in these parts.
. add mA li la wh Y & adi ihey would work but not catch
' ease sees nough ° gold to pay for their:-con. Some little activity bas been notice truction and “meintenanee, and the
ied in the Camptonyillé mining field . !ocal: people especially miners, look
this season. The neople-at the Hal pon this one’with considerable in'yard Mine been the me im erest and await the outeome of tne
. proving, they have built” -several ear’s experiment.
i houses, to” house employees and thos¢ ~MERICAN FLAG MINS
j interested in the property, and other James Grimes, principay owner of
{development work. It is. reportec he American Flag quartz. property,
. that later they expect to put up a asin. this section last week with a
[small saw mill, suple of inining men, geting to his
i The Halkyard Claim is one of the . ‘overty on an inspection vi It is
lola gravel properties of this section. . \robable that a deal may be made
; it has been worked but very little. . ‘ater, and the property opened? There
and the old timers predict that a re already ‘many. tons of ore ott,
very good channel with rich pay is in . (7d more blocked out read} to be
its reach; and & is’ hoped that the . un throuch a’ mit
{local company, The MeNaueht Com UBERT HYDRAULIC MINE
pany of Tos > Angele will be siucThe Joubert Mine is running daily
cessufl in opening it up. ind considerable ground is. being
1 TOP MINE washed. This is one of the oldest
Bi ld Top Gravel Property is work. channels in this section, having been
ing two shifts with a small crew of Continuéd on Page Five
men, and making very gcod headway. ———.
Because of the storms, : snow, and PVCU ATES: = tr Rt BASE : BALL
late season, it is expected that they UWL fits Bz
will have alons run this year, Pred TRAN : BEN REIT DANCE
\. Aldous of Los Argeles was at the Bu PAdl Diath
roperty this week on an inspection ~
visit, he bein: one-of the. parties
nterested. His son, Wred FB. Aldou
yas been in charge of the ~propert
r the past vear aid everything
rogressing. it ereditible manner.
Id Top isan G:d gravel ¢é¢hannel
vell known from the early days, and
Ithough many oh said: it was -a
ery worthwhile property, yet no on,
ver did anyjiing with it; for: thi
ason, . the present company. will
nd considerable virgin pay dirt; and
cal people wislthem every s :
ioe PHN WILL MINE =
Snowden Hill Mine still. remain
‘ased, principallly due to court ae
on pending between the owners and
{. W. Hartman, wherein the owners
re having the lease anavled, Hart
ian leaving the property over a year
eo, having i and
therwise worked himself out-of the
Tt is mostly
legallyhave the I
nd
without any
the old
broken reement,
ine. a matter of form
9) lease terminated,
then new parties can take it ove:
of after effect
A. Zerga,
property
fear
le:
in ch:
an
‘rom Reno
nas. been ree.of the
or the past several months, and.is
}
i everytii
started
order
short
keep ng. in
o that it could be on
ii desired.
ING DWVICY
enry Harrison of Auburn is ‘still
“The Trap’ at the end
the Joubert flume, at Oak Valley.
Tha head has hired Harvison remain here and take care of
the it
order, a new
¢
SAV
in. charge of
. of
company
to
inventien, in working
“The
device, run.
the to
enteh flonr and other fine gold which
keeping
is cold savTrap”’
by the ing un natural
of siream,and is supposed
no other machine can get, and which
lost.
this loeation because the
was
.
ied
mine
formerly
Joubert
is supposed -to be a model
eravel property, , conducted near as
. correct and” scientifie. as could he
land if the machne is a suecess at
. this mine, it avill be so on any property, this ‘being as rigid a test as
eould be applied. The heavy storms,
-and large amount of water-and ma. terial. eoing ‘through ‘and over the
. trap makes it necessary for a man
, the funeral of
Doewnieville basebail. enthusThe
re ‘eal pepped up with Sts at getting 1
he advent. of spring and summer
dayingseason. They are putting on
a grand benefit oe dance on
ie night of May 12 Hi mises to
be some large time Or which will
itaw many-from distant points. With
he ball game scheduled for the
xt day, there will be two days of
1errymaking according to Manager
>, WoSmith;: who. was in: Nevaia
‘ity and Grass Valley Friday making
iransements for musie.
With btt a small
lraw from th
population to
» baseball bugs up Sierexhibition of
American sport and are to
for their spirit in
good ball for the fans.
‘a way pet’ up a fine
he great
he commended
roviding
SMANS' AUXILIARY
GAVE CARD PARTY
AT GRASS VALLEY
he Womans’
ial card. ps
arty
Auxiliary. gave a sorecently to the memibers of the American’ Legion and
their wives. There were 35 present
and after the same refreshments —
were served and dancing finished the
evening.
.Miss C. Fleming won first ladies’
prize; Mrs. Carveth won the eonsolation. prize while R. L. Capps won
the. gentlemen’s first prize and V;
Crispen won the cons solation.
The ladies have ‘a benefit party
planned for Thursday, May 38rd.
C. Y. MeCormack, who attended
in Oakcity Friday. on
his-son, Ray,
land.arrived inthis:
his way home.to Alleghany.
The company pick. Mrs. H. E. Buekner
have been visiting
H. Buekner, left
Idoha, to join her
will make their new home.
Mrs. W. T. Riddle is home after
a visit with reenares around the bay
region,
Many tourists are passing uae
Nevada City the last few days going
over the Yuba Pass. The roads are bas
and son, who
and Mrs. H.Friday
Rey.
excellent condition,
for Boise, _
husband and they
aan