April 8, 1947 (4 pages)

la “City Grass Valley Nugget 205 Broad Street, Nevada City, Telephone 36 hed at Legal Newspaper, as defined by statute. Printed and Publis ‘ Nevada City, California M. LEBTE, Jr. Published Tiwice Weekly, Tuesday and Friday, at Nevada City, California, and entered as . ] matter of the second claes in the postoffice at" Nevada City under’ Act of Congress, March 3,! 1879, Owner and Publisher , i _ BUBSCRIPTION RATES "Adaiiiaos are 5 che: might be called. ould there be laws under which some of oh for working here: are many words unon they are never given either back into the dictionary for a 1. They are forced to do the created and produce effects their line of duty. There is the word $0 ee ago, everything was latest in costly fur coats: innocuous expression, “oh sat ——. are other words and terms reactions in the minds of men and , “ee purposes ij arousing dread and fear, rance, of increasing suspicully analyzed and in many cases, ‘debunk them that they could or place merece: in the way of. “ literally ies by words: escaness from Pandora’s box ; of them, are approved and leaders, are distinctly bellioe = become war x our Caraga af ‘ an atomic bob ix the utterances, seem to be . us were to, “fall . back MARSHALL GOLD DISCOVERY RETOLD By JIM FISK Almost a centzry azo James Wileon Marshall left his home in New Jersey to satisfy his wanderlust in the then unsettled regions of the apacious west. Eventually he found his way to California, where he wae engaged by Captain John A. Sutter, a man widely known in California affairs, to locate a site for a saw mill which was to be operated by the pair on a partnership basis. Marshall, after a month's search, found a desirable spot on the north fork of the American River, now known as Coloma. According to their partnership Sutter was to furnish labor and finance the vexture, while Marshall was to build and run the asiness for an equal share of profits. The project was completed about the middle of Janwary i848, but upon a close inspection it was discovered that the ditch, or raceway, wa6 too shallow to lead enough water to the mill wheel for proper operation. Wherevpon, Marshall opened the flood gates and proceeded to use the rivers swift current to deepen the ditch. Water flowed teeeock the ditch break of day, Marshall while awaiting breakfast,, went alone to inspect the fruits of this efforts. He waded-into the stream, shut off the flood gates, and went on to éxamine the racgqway. As he did so he glanced toward the collection of sand and gravel that had accumulated during the dfght. etared up at him from the shallow water, casting a flickering golden light to the surface. Marshall waited until the evening before he casually remarked that he had found gold in the river’s bed. No one believed him. The workers and eight or ten Indians from Cavtain Suttér’s fort treated ‘hig find as a joke until the wife of Peter L. Wimmer, a carpenter employed at the mill, boiled the particles in one of her kifchen pots. The 4 90ld took on even more brilliance. Tit was then that the men at the mill really began to believe in Marshall’s discovery. Tie discoverer of. California's . tichest gold strike became fearful that the news would leak out before he could seciire proper means _to -make his find profitable to him. On the morning of January 28, 1848 he tain Sutter’s. fort. They further tested the metal to ascertain its true identity. "very test known was. given it and in the end it proved nothing but pure yellow gold. Sutter realizing that if the discovery were made public his laborers would quit their jobs in favor of Panning the dust +and thereby causing him.to lose jaach of his invest‘ment in his major enterprises. Together they planned to keep the secret for awhile. For about five weeks or more the meén at the mill kept quiet but such an event was far too much to hold. Syitter sent ne of his assistants, Chas, Bennett, to Monterey in order to secure a* grant that would peramit -he and his partner exclusive rights to the mining and milling the discovery proved too much for ‘Bennett. The secret was out. : With the publication of the secjret Coloma grew from a tottering town of carefree mill hands into a Seething mass of fortune hungry prospectors, jumping in population from almost nothing to thousands in a few months. Coloma and her citizof cardsharps, miners, _ murderers, . Soon gold filled the air as thick as the dust that Wwelled-wp from incomHing wagon, wheels. } mad’ rush, tried to pan some of the Pe er’ lHieving that he knew more about the location of the yellow dust than they, followed him, jumped ‘his claims, pat him and drowe him away. He died penniless in Kelsey a few fusinae from Coloma, with a grant {from the state of Califorpia, amounting to t one hundred dollars mee ‘His abou month. tinal, resting place overicein which brought fame -to , and to many of her adopt. is marked by a rugged throughout. the night and with the Bright yellow pellets TA took his horae and rode in to CapWhen Marshall, who started the privileges. The urge to talk about . } ens settled back to await the influx} and outlaws that were sure to come, . gold he found, other miners, be-} inot park. and includes the small cabin where Marshill lived until 1867. Also within the fourteen acre realm is the village which housed, in it’s glory, thousands of pleasure bent miners with pouches of yellow dust bulging from their pockets. MINING EXPANDS IN DOWNIEVILLE AREA DOWNIEVILLE: Indication of expansion in mining activity in this area is given by the announcement this week by C. L. Best that he had leased the Gold Point (Mine, five and a half miles east of here. from Mrs. Amelia Sullivan 6f Downieville, and would start work on it immediately. Additional expansion by the Best interests -here is indicated by the recent purchase of six claims north of the -Standard and adjoining this Oxford and Gold Bluff mines on the north, Known as the Belmont Claims from Mrs. James E. Neweomb. The Belmont claims are said to have been worked much, practically only on the surface and can be readily handled in conjunction with the Oxford and Gold Bluff. Free gold was. reported taken from the Gold Point as far back as the 80s. Principal workings consist of two tunnels of 1200 feet each. Much of the base ore still remains, according to . recent diamond drillings made by Lewis .L.Huelsdonk local manager for Best’s allie@ mines. 2 Tombstone Development Company ceased ‘operation of the Gold Point in 1941 when this country entered the war. Ore was then hauled seven and a half miles to Sierra City for milling. It will now be brought to the modern mill at the Oxford Mine. one and a half miles north of Downieville. The latter continued in operation during the war, unable to produce gold on account of L-208, the governiirent executive order closing gold mines but producing chrome for the war effort. This was done at a loss but having the advantage of keeping the Oxford in— and repair. Best Mines feces which is not incorporated is the new name chosen for this local group of gold produc. ers, according to further announcement by Best here. this week. Thé company is preparing to build two residences, for Best_and Huelsdonk, near the Oxford, a bunkhouse for <ingle men nearby, and six houses for married employes on property recently purchased from the county on upper Main Street, opposite the county hospital. Warning Issued On = Unexploded Shells At Camp Beale Duds (unexploded missils 9r shells) still exist on many parts of the Camp Beale reservation, is the ‘Warnings issued by Captain R. S. Jones, post operations officer, to post personnel and tomemibers of the surrounding communities. Although efforts were made to apprehend and destroy all such unexploded shells after firing had ceased at Beale in 1944, wind and rain have buried or artially uncovered many of them and! some have been concealed by vegetation. = Mareiidit's grave. It is now a state}. TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1947 College of the Pacific in Stockton is one of 14 colleges amd universities in the nation which will offer a series of intensive, 30 day courses to train veterans under the Gi Bill for positions in the retail and lhimber building material fields, the Veterans Administration said today. Conducted by the TWrational Retail Lumber Deaters Acssociation, the training program is aimed to gain critically needed replacements for employees who left during the war. This lack of traine@ personnel, the dssociation said, has been an important factor in the current slowdown of home building. The 30 day course covers four main topics: building products, general business procedures, construction and estimating. and miscellaneous subjects. A veteran eligible under the GI ments to attend the classes: Display a genuine intention to enter the lumber building material field upon graduation. Have a anfficient educational background to absorb a concentrated G@ose of lectures six hours a day for the duration of the course. Experience in a retail lumber yard can serve in place of the educational requirement. Classes will bezim at the college of Pacific April 7. “FRe first course will run to May 8. Veterans who wish to apply may write to the school or to the Lumber Mercihants Association, 1833 Broadway, Fresno, California. . The original Vigilance Committee bell, hanging in the San Francisco \Marine Exchange, is tolled to announce the mishap to some ship whose. home port is San _ Francisco. . : FLINDT’S WATCH REPAIR “Careful Workmanship” NEW AND USED WATCHES Phone 537 229.Commercial Street Nevada City -_ REAL ESTATE Insurance, Mimaeographing, Public Stenogra pher, Notary. Phone Answerimg Service STINSON COMPANY 102 W. Main Street Grass VaHey Telephone 101-J : _— Signs) —ANY KIND— Elliott Sign Go, 117 Broad Street. Phone 6703 Bill must meet two further requirel'F MOVING . AND STORAGE HOUSEHOLD Goons BOUGHT AND sown y Reliable Transfer & S Hills Flat; Grass Viste: i SS -RICHIN NECESSARY . FOOD ELEMENTS We carry the Best MeatsQ obtainable. It is our pride to serve our patrons with good meat at good values. . KEYSTONE MARKET Nevada City Telephone 67 =—— NEVADA CITY P. L. BULLARDNO MUSIC SO SWEET AS A CAR RUNNING ON GOOD SAFE TIRES WE RECAP RIGHT = moors vr nom nue oer orice TIRE. SERVICE wae For Che ‘Try our Modern Cleaning Establishment. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Pickup and Delivery VALET CLEANERS Nevada City . san CEO THING HAVE YOU-TRIED THE . ARMY and NAVY “ WAR SURPLUS HARDWARE

la “City Grass Valley Nugget 205 Broad Street, Nevada City, Telephone 36 hed at Legal Newspaper, as defined by statute. Printed and Publis ‘ Nevada City, California M. LEBTE, Jr. Published Tiwice Weekly, Tuesday and Friday, at Nevada City, California, and entered as . ] matter of the second claes in the postoffice at" Nevada City under’ Act of Congress, March 3,! 1879, Owner and Publisher , i _ BUBSCRIPTION RATES "Adaiiiaos are 5 che: might be called. ould there be laws under which some of oh for working here: are many words unon they are never given either back into the dictionary for a 1. They are forced to do the created and produce effects their line of duty. There is the word $0 ee ago, everything was latest in costly fur coats: innocuous expression, “oh sat ——. are other words and terms reactions in the minds of men and , “ee purposes ij arousing dread and fear, rance, of increasing suspicully analyzed and in many cases, ‘debunk them that they could or place merece: in the way of. “ literally ies by words: escaness from Pandora’s box ; of them, are approved and leaders, are distinctly bellioe = become war x our Caraga af ‘ an atomic bob ix the utterances, seem to be . us were to, “fall . back MARSHALL GOLD DISCOVERY RETOLD By JIM FISK Almost a centzry azo James Wileon Marshall left his home in New Jersey to satisfy his wanderlust in the then unsettled regions of the apacious west. Eventually he found his way to California, where he wae engaged by Captain John A. Sutter, a man widely known in California affairs, to locate a site for a saw mill which was to be operated by the pair on a partnership basis. Marshall, after a month's search, found a desirable spot on the north fork of the American River, now known as Coloma. According to their partnership Sutter was to furnish labor and finance the vexture, while Marshall was to build and run the asiness for an equal share of profits. The project was completed about the middle of Janwary i848, but upon a close inspection it was discovered that the ditch, or raceway, wa6 too shallow to lead enough water to the mill wheel for proper operation. Wherevpon, Marshall opened the flood gates and proceeded to use the rivers swift current to deepen the ditch. Water flowed teeeock the ditch break of day, Marshall while awaiting breakfast,, went alone to inspect the fruits of this efforts. He waded-into the stream, shut off the flood gates, and went on to éxamine the racgqway. As he did so he glanced toward the collection of sand and gravel that had accumulated during the dfght. etared up at him from the shallow water, casting a flickering golden light to the surface. Marshall waited until the evening before he casually remarked that he had found gold in the river’s bed. No one believed him. The workers and eight or ten Indians from Cavtain Suttér’s fort treated ‘hig find as a joke until the wife of Peter L. Wimmer, a carpenter employed at the mill, boiled the particles in one of her kifchen pots. The 4 90ld took on even more brilliance. Tit was then that the men at the mill really began to believe in Marshall’s discovery. Tie discoverer of. California's . tichest gold strike became fearful that the news would leak out before he could seciire proper means _to -make his find profitable to him. On the morning of January 28, 1848 he tain Sutter’s. fort. They further tested the metal to ascertain its true identity. "very test known was. given it and in the end it proved nothing but pure yellow gold. Sutter realizing that if the discovery were made public his laborers would quit their jobs in favor of Panning the dust +and thereby causing him.to lose jaach of his invest‘ment in his major enterprises. Together they planned to keep the secret for awhile. For about five weeks or more the meén at the mill kept quiet but such an event was far too much to hold. Syitter sent ne of his assistants, Chas, Bennett, to Monterey in order to secure a* grant that would peramit -he and his partner exclusive rights to the mining and milling the discovery proved too much for ‘Bennett. The secret was out. : With the publication of the secjret Coloma grew from a tottering town of carefree mill hands into a Seething mass of fortune hungry prospectors, jumping in population from almost nothing to thousands in a few months. Coloma and her citizof cardsharps, miners, _ murderers, . Soon gold filled the air as thick as the dust that Wwelled-wp from incomHing wagon, wheels. } mad’ rush, tried to pan some of the Pe er’ lHieving that he knew more about the location of the yellow dust than they, followed him, jumped ‘his claims, pat him and drowe him away. He died penniless in Kelsey a few fusinae from Coloma, with a grant {from the state of Califorpia, amounting to t one hundred dollars mee ‘His abou month. tinal, resting place overicein which brought fame -to , and to many of her adopt. is marked by a rugged throughout. the night and with the Bright yellow pellets TA took his horae and rode in to CapWhen Marshall, who started the privileges. The urge to talk about . } ens settled back to await the influx} and outlaws that were sure to come, . gold he found, other miners, be-} inot park. and includes the small cabin where Marshill lived until 1867. Also within the fourteen acre realm is the village which housed, in it’s glory, thousands of pleasure bent miners with pouches of yellow dust bulging from their pockets. MINING EXPANDS IN DOWNIEVILLE AREA DOWNIEVILLE: Indication of

expansion in mining activity in this area is given by the announcement this week by C. L. Best that he had leased the Gold Point (Mine, five and a half miles east of here. from Mrs. Amelia Sullivan 6f Downieville, and would start work on it immediately. Additional expansion by the Best interests -here is indicated by the recent purchase of six claims north of the -Standard and adjoining this Oxford and Gold Bluff mines on the north, Known as the Belmont Claims from Mrs. James E. Neweomb. The Belmont claims are said to have been worked much, practically only on the surface and can be readily handled in conjunction with the Oxford and Gold Bluff. Free gold was. reported taken from the Gold Point as far back as the 80s. Principal workings consist of two tunnels of 1200 feet each. Much of the base ore still remains, according to . recent diamond drillings made by Lewis .L.Huelsdonk local manager for Best’s allie@ mines. 2 Tombstone Development Company ceased ‘operation of the Gold Point in 1941 when this country entered the war. Ore was then hauled seven and a half miles to Sierra City for milling. It will now be brought to the modern mill at the Oxford Mine. one and a half miles north of Downieville. The latter continued in operation during the war, unable to produce gold on account of L-208, the governiirent executive order closing gold mines but producing chrome for the war effort. This was done at a loss but having the advantage of keeping the Oxford in— and repair. Best Mines feces which is not incorporated is the new name chosen for this local group of gold produc. ers, according to further announcement by Best here. this week. Thé company is preparing to build two residences, for Best_and Huelsdonk, near the Oxford, a bunkhouse for <ingle men nearby, and six houses for married employes on property recently purchased from the county on upper Main Street, opposite the county hospital. Warning Issued On = Unexploded Shells At Camp Beale Duds (unexploded missils 9r shells) still exist on many parts of the Camp Beale reservation, is the ‘Warnings issued by Captain R. S. Jones, post operations officer, to post personnel and tomemibers of the surrounding communities. Although efforts were made to apprehend and destroy all such unexploded shells after firing had ceased at Beale in 1944, wind and rain have buried or artially uncovered many of them and! some have been concealed by vegetation. = Mareiidit's grave. It is now a state}. TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1947 College of the Pacific in Stockton is one of 14 colleges amd universities in the nation which will offer a series of intensive, 30 day courses to train veterans under the Gi Bill for positions in the retail and lhimber building material fields, the Veterans Administration said today. Conducted by the TWrational Retail Lumber Deaters Acssociation, the training program is aimed to gain critically needed replacements for employees who left during the war. This lack of traine@ personnel, the dssociation said, has been an important factor in the current slowdown of home building.. The 30 day course covers four main topics: building products, general business procedures, construction and estimating. and miscellaneous subjects. A veteran eligible under the GI ments to attend the classes: Display a genuine intention to enter the lumber building material field upon graduation. Have a anfficient educational background to absorb a concentrated G@ose of lectures six hours a day for the duration of the course. Experience in a retail lumber yard can serve in place of the educational requirement. Classes will bezim at the college of Pacific April 7. “FRe first course will run to May 8. Veterans who wish to apply may write to the school or to the Lumber Mercihants Association, 1833 Broadway, Fresno, California.. . The original Vigilance Committee bell, hanging in the San Francisco \Marine Exchange, is tolled to announce the mishap to some ship whose. home port is San _ Francisco. . : FLINDT’S WATCH REPAIR “Careful Workmanship” NEW AND USED WATCHES Phone 537 229.Commercial Street Nevada City -_ REAL ESTATE Insurance, Mimaeographing, Public Stenogra pher, Notary. Phone Answerimg Service STINSON COMPANY 102 W. Main Street Grass VaHey Telephone 101-J : _— Signs) —ANY KIND— Elliott Sign Go, 117 Broad Street. Phone 6703 Bill must meet two further requirel'F MOVING . AND STORAGE HOUSEHOLD Goons BOUGHT AND sown y Reliable Transfer & S Hills Flat; Grass Viste: i SS -RICHIN NECESSARY . FOOD ELEMENTS We carry the Best MeatsQ obtainable. It is our pride to serve our patrons with good meat at good values. . KEYSTONE MARKET Nevada City Telephone 67 =—— NEVADA CITY P. L. BULLARDNO MUSIC SO SWEET AS A CAR RUNNING ON GOOD SAFE TIRES WE RECAP RIGHT = moors vr nom nue oer orice TIRE. SERVICE wae For Che ‘Try our Modern Cleaning Establishment. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Pickup and Delivery VALET CLEANERS Nevada City . san CEO THING HAVE YOU-TRIED THE . ARMY and NAVY “ WAR SURPLUS HARDWARE