April 9, 1928 (6 pages)

NT i? . Spenceville after peers rr PPP EOE SETS The Nugget is California’s Leading Mining Weekly naa ity Nugget VOLUME Il, NUMBER ae THE GOLD CENTER NEVADA CEEy, ‘NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, THE COUNTY § SEAT PA a APER J _ WESTERN MERGER MILL NOW READY} GRACEY MINE TO HAVE 10 STAMP MULL . mill is being given its final tests for operation in the Nevada City disThe Westerd “Merger new. stamp: this week and is due to start _operations next Sunday, states Superintenthis morning. the wiring o fthe big electric, motors is being completed. Five stopes have already been op' ened on the 400 level, both east and . west of the shaft and a large block of ground is ready for and the mill. Several hundred tons o good milling, rock taken during sinking dnd drifting operations have been accumullated on the dump and ger of short water -supply as the last storms left overflowing tanks behind on the-hill above. A 30,000 gallon storage tank is being ereted at the mill. ROUGH AND READY WILL SEE MINING ACTIVITY Work is to he commenced in the crosscut tunnel at the Black Bear mine in the Rough and Ready District in the next few days, driving in 700 feet further to cut the Black Bear vein. The property is fully equipped with a ten. stamp mill, air compressor and power drills. The property is being developed by the Reorganized Rand Mines. Company of which H. ei Ostrander ts the president. MINE OWNERS PROTEST RAILROAD LAND PATENTS Downieville, April 7, (Special to The Nugget) Among the local mine owners who were foreed to file pretests against the Southern Pacific Company’s recent application fer patents in this vicinity are John T. Mason, owner of the Cuba » Placer Mine; A. S. Wilson, Litlian “¢ and Hardscrabble Mines; the Hilda Mining Co.; Bradley-Haley Mining Company, operating the Prids Hydraulic Mine at Sierra City; John Lee, owner of. the Monareh Mine: F. Me Doak, Young Amewea Ming; LinecIn Placers, Inc., of Los Angeles. Thesfagt that ail of the land asked for lies in the mineral belt west of the Yuba Pass, mine owner SEM in the district, and beside the individual protests of ownthe chutes affects every: . mine has’been making such a favor: dent HH. B: Skewes to The Nugget ' able showing in the drifting operaThe nmrahinery is all tions that a 10 stamp mill has been set, the concrete floors poured and _ Durchased from the Ben Hur Divide ! will be installed inits new location _ter will be fed through. There is no dan. Another stamp “mill is scheduled trict in the near future. The Gracey ' property south of Grass Valley and at once. A mill site is being cleared below the hoist at the present titne and the work of erecting the building to house the mill will be rushed to completion. The Ben Hur mill is. complete.and was used but little afits installation at the Alaska mine, being in excellent conditien. Drifting operations ate continuing in fine ore at the Gracey and this property gives prumise of becoming one of. the district’s good pecans in the near future. R. N. McCormack is manager. NORTH STAR PRODUCES NEARLY ONE MILLION Production of the gold at. the North Star properties the past year totalled $881,319. Due to a large development program the property shows an operating loss for the year but the present outlook with ¢he fine ore shoot being developed on the 8600 level, it is probable that : the present year’s operations’ will make a-.good showing this year. Over $50,000 was lost in the surrender of the option of the Plumbago property last June which accounts for approximately half the deficit for the year. The report shows that the bulk of the production was from the territory between the 6900 and 8690 levels on the X-+Vein and between the 6600 and 6900 on the No. 2. A total of 129,814 tons of rock was mined, of which 21,814 was discarded as waste. The average yield was $8.11 per ton, with $6.95 cost for operating and $1.45 per ton for development. Recovery by amalgamation was 70.16 per cent, and by cyanidation, 29.84 per cent. From 1884 to December, 1927, the total production is given “s ers directly affected by the applica. tion, a general protest has been filed ‘by mine owners and citizens of Downieville and Sierra City. SANITARIUM NOTES “Mrs. Frank Nichols and baby boy have returned to. their home at a sojourn at the Nevada City Sanitarium. Dr. Rood of Grass Valley performed a tonsileptomy on H. W. Paynter, at the Sanitarium. A mastoid operation was nerformed on the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Clemo by Dr. Tikell the past Week. . Misstress. Opal Blasdell of Downieville is getting alon gwell at the Sanitarium following her recent accident. ’ Mrs. W. H. Moore who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pp, G. Seadden, has returned to her Pittsburg home. Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Thore were down from Tyler on Saturday. Mrs. Mildred Rosebrough has returned to her Oakland home after a visit with her parents, Mr. William Peard. The funeral services for Mrs. Ella : the Nevada City Club Donnelly were held from the Holmes Funeral Home in Grass Valley on r Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Wade J. Armstrong left for the city today for a short ; stay after casting their ballots at ihe eity election. Mrs. Bessie Yelland left last week for her home in Negaunee, Michigan after a visit’ with her daughter, Mrs. A. H. Haddy. She had been making a visit of acme months and expects to return later for another. visit. The fence along the children’s playground on Piety Hill has been } restored the past week. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Glise_ of the Lincoln’ section were Nevada City visitors Friday. $29,805,807 with dividends paid cof $5,762,040: The operating and development. cost. during that time ‘3} given as $22,603,711, a considerable . portion of which was wages. NEVADA CITY LIONS GET GRASS VALLEY A START Nevada City Lions: went Over to Grass Valley Tuesday in nearly, full strength to do the preliminary work for organizing a Club in that city. Sheriff George R. Carter was. in charge of the arrangements. The dinner was held at the Bret Harte and was largely attended. President R. L. P. Bigelow presided and when the evening’s eremonics were Over, around $40 had beeu cl lected in the kitty to start the nev elub terasury. . International Vic» President Ray L. Riley, State Controller was present as was Deputy Governor Byrl Babcock of Sacramento and a large delegation from the Auburn Club. The evening passed quickly and at its close the Grass Valley signers of the application for and Mrs. “a Club chose Fred M. Miller as temporary chairman and Charles F. Law as temporary secretary. Next Thurecay noon has_ been set as the first luncheon meeting. Mrs. Charles. Elliott, pianist for favored with several fine solos as did Lou Chesbro of Auburn. Dick Bigelow and Dave + Gordon led the singing. ‘ Mr. and Mrs. Frank. Sommers of Seabright were Easter guests of Mr. and Mrs» Thomas Jones. Mis: Edna Smith has. returned to} Pittsburg after spending the holidays , with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. Ww. Smith. . A throat operation was performed on Alvin Moody the past week by , Dr. Robert F. Werner. Mr Emma Cook, nee Young, . ihas been up from Oakland to spend the past week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. sete: for the Easter vacation. { ; the afternoon . with the HYDRAULIC MINING WILL START ON CHINA GRAVEL DOWNIEVILLE, April 6, (Special to The Nugget)—-That hydraulicking will be resumed cn the old China ground near the mouth of Jim Crow canyon, about three. miles east of Downieville, is indicated by work just begun for the application for water. E. H. Hurlburt of Los Angeles, the owner of the ground, plans to bring water from Van Joan ereek, a distance of about a -mile, to wash the gravel. This ground has been icle for many years!’ ‘The last work was done on it by Chines2, and a falling bark, which buried several of the miners, stopped the work. It is understood here chat the bodies of the unfortunate Chinaimen were never removed from the cave, and the superstitious Chinese immediately -abandoned the ground. The survey for the water application was started Saturday. BEAUTIFUL CEREMONIAL STAGED BY THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS OF OAKLAND The inspiring ceremonial of the Camp Fire Girls was Never more impressively rendered than by the Oakland team at Odd Fellows Hall last Thursday night for the Nevada City groups. There were fifteen Visiting members headed by Mrs. Nils Searls and Miss Elizabeth Kendall. On arrival they were registered at the National Hotel.and then spent about. town. Dinner was served at the Methodist church at 5:30 by the Nevada City groups. At 7:30 the ceremonial was staged Oakland girls acting as torch bearers and the Nevada City girls as the novitiates. The lodge hall was crowded to witness the exemplification. A short talk was made by . Mrs. Searls in which she expressed the: pleasure of the visitors there would be hundreds’ of the members coming up this summer to stay at Camp Celio on the shore of Loke Vera. : PUBLIC SCHOOLS WEEK DATE 1S SET APRIL 26 The annual observance of Public Schools Week will be held in the high sehool auditorium on Thursd pik evening, April 26th. Prof. Isensee Has arranged for a speaker from Sacramento. The grammar school grades are preparing an exhibit to be held en that evening. An elaborate program is being arranged for. that oceasion. Fuller details will be given next week. MELBA HUSON AND GLADYS POHLGLASE GIVE PARTY Mises Melba Huson and Gladys Pohlglase proved delightful hostesses Saturday afternoon when they staged a hunt for Baster eggs. at the Huson ‘home. Prizes were awarded to the lumky finders and. refreshments were served. The following were guests: Mises Margaret White, Dorothy Foot; Perine Helma, Ida Iradelizio, Aeola Smith, Luella Wilson, Hattie. Huson, Angeline Alaria, Teresa Alaria, Wilma Jost, Nadine neagle. Eleanor Schreiber, Mary Costa, Pauline Rohrig and Zoe Tredennik. BOND ISSUE NOW SOUGHT COVER A HUGE. DEFICIT The directors of the Nevada Irrigation are preparing. to ask or more bond money in the near future from the farmers, this time in the amount of $2,592,000. It will first be necesrsary to secure the consent of the Bond Certification Commission to the issuance of more bonds and this has not yet been secured, it is understood, as the Commission has asked for a financial set-up of how the additional issue will produce revenue sufficient to retire the bonds and interest, and as to how the people stand on the proposition. With the District reported to be nearly thre hundred thousand dollars over-drawn and the notorious PED contract still nominally in force the horn of the dilemma chosen by the directors as being the most painless method as against a land tax at the present time, may have to be further explained before the people vote to dump more money into the capacious hopper. The present plan being followed is to secure enough signatures to avoid the necessity of a two thirds bond election which admittedly would not pass. It is rumored that another. recall election is in the offat coming to Nevada City and that . fing since the deficit became known and is at present being considered by a number of intersted land .owners who.are dissatisfied with the present financial crisis. The bill rendered by the District. to the Pacific Gas for water furnished was in the amount of $136,000 which is but half the deficit reported As to whether the payment for the $33,500 office building in Grass Valley is to come out of the new bond issue is not mentioned. It is admitted that a financial cri'sis is impending at the present time. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OLD FASHIONED DANCE The annual Chamber of Commerce Old Fashioned Dance which will be held this year on Saturday evening, May 5th, gives promise of being one of the most successful ever staged by the organization. The various committees have been appointed and show excellent selection by ‘President ' Bennetts. If you have any old fash‘joned clothes around, get them out and have them ready to wear that night. MARRIOTT HOME CAUGHT FIRE THURSDAY MORN Fire breaking shortly after midnight Wednesday brought the fire department to the Joe Marriott home on Piety Hill and the flames which had gained considerable headway. in the-attic were held to the rocf entirely and main damage _ to the downstairs was by water leakage which. was slight, due‘to the use of a small hose coupled to the large fire hose. The fire presumably start‘ed from the brick chimney although this point was not settled by Fire Chief Coughlin. Mrs. Marriott and son were below at the time and the head of the house was alone in the . house. The furniture was quickly removed to a place of safety in the Miss Elaine Mobley has returned . yard. Truck Drive Hallett was quickto her work in the Auburn schools after spending the holidays with her . parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Mobley. Vitor Johnson has' returned to his honie in Oakland after visiting with friends for a few days. Mr .and Mrs. Ralph W. Gaylord were up from Sacramento to visit Mrs. C. J. Brand:and Miss Minnie 3rand. Miss° Betty Gaylord who has bees visiting at the Brand home, reiurned with them. uneral services for the late John Yor! who passed away at Colfax were held Saturday afternoon from “Holm@s Funeral Home and = were . conduted by the Rev. Father O‘Reilly. The R. Noble MeCormacks have taken up their residence in their newly built home on Broad street. Miss dns King of Pulga, Miss Binlen Huy and Charles Huy motor‘ed back to Berkeley after spending the weekend with Mr, and Mrs, J, E. Huy. : 4 the, Ay on the scene. “One of the very pleasureable features at the Easter. service last evening was the playing on the large harp by Mrs. Grace Raymond. Solos were sung by Mrs: Ruth Rector and Mrs. Talbot. Miss Mary Rossen has returned to swith her mother, Mrs. Mary Rossen. A fair sized gold nugget was piked up at the Scott Flat reservoir site by one of the workmen while excavating the ground. It happened to be on mineral ground held by the Excelsior interests. The Boy Scouts enjoyed a treasure hunt after their meting on Wednesday night that afforded a great deal of entertainment. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Ruiter and Mrs. J. N. Ivey of Sacramento were weekend guests of Dr. R. Ivey. Mrs. Ruiter isa sister of Dr. Ivey. — ; Chamber of Commerce headquarters Oakland after spending her vacation : CITY ELECTION RETURNS GIVEN AT THIS OFFICE There were 93 votes cast by one o’clock this noon at the city hall out of 426 registrations. Polis close at 6 The city election smoothly today at the city hali at six o’clock tonight the be closed and the ccunting The Nugget: will bulletin the returns in its windows as soon as the results are known and anyone interested may telephone No:. 36.at time during the evening and secure the results from this office. The large in the race have a hard one to predict and there has not been much waering on the out come. The swimming lurking in the balloting. is proceeding and polls will nook issue is . backsround of the . FORMER NEVADA CITIANS HAVE NA RROW ESCAPE » Mr. and Mrs. E. J. 5 EIN. Ott Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Yoerfke of Sacramento while motoring up to Nevada City Saturday afternoon met with an automobile accident between . Sylvan. Corner and Roseville that might easily have ended fatally. Mr. Yoerke was driving his car on . the straight highway when he observed a car driven by a woman ¢coing at him at a great rate out of control. Fhe woman driver had gone . off the road and in attempting to get back on, lost control and hit the back-end © fthe Yoerke car and it landed ‘in the ditch upside down. Fortunately the occupants were able to clamber out. of the wreck thru the windows. Hardly a scratch was received.— Mr. Ott fearing that his folks here would worrk telephoned that he was detained and would arrive later than had ben planned. The party went back to Sacramento, secured another. car and made the trip up here without further incident. The woman admitted her lack of driving sense REGISTRATIONS SHOW A BIG REPUBLICAN LEAD The registration of voters for the May: Ist presidential primary shows a total of 4103 for Nevada county. Of these there are 2672 Republicans, 1275 Democrats, 39 Socialists, ’2 Prohibitionists and 112 who declined to state, the latter to vote at the primary by that. fact. being ineligible reason of WOMENS CHU HELD TTS FIRST SESSIGN THURSDAY The first regular meeting of the newly organived Fomen’s Civie Club proceed. . any . made the outcome } APRIL 7; 1928 W INDUSTRY MAY START UP IN NEVADA CITY Nevada City has chances of landing a turpentine refinery this year anda large payroll of 150 to-200 men if sufficient timber acreage can be secured at an early date. The matter . will length at the Nevada City tomorrow be diseussed at recular meeting of the \Chamber of Commetfee j ;Tuesday night. number of candidates . ray . GC: Ernst, who represents large, lusers of pine distilled products has owners in and far. gt h@en interviewing land ‘this {reports excel lent progress 50 will take: a minimum of a million . pine trees signed up. to make . the preicet commercially feasible here . and tyo million will make the proect a sure go, according to Mr. ee He states that his people have ple financial backing to make a jade: installation once the necessary timber holdings are secured. Every timber owner should make it a point to be on hand Tuesday evening and hear the plan outlined by Mr. Ernst. vicinity for some days past There are several plans of removjing the sap from the trees. By one lof them the life of the tree is not and production may be many years. Where the expects to use the trees for mining timber later, the sap can be withdrawn heavily and make the tree available for cutting the following year. The taking of the sap would mean an excellent source of revenue for the ‘owners of the timber used, as the tapping process is a simple one. Such ar institution would mean a great deal to this community as a revenue producer and President Wa J. Bennetts has beén taking a great deal of interest in the -matter the past few days.” Every business man in Nevada City should be on hand. Tuesday night to hear Mr. Ernest explain his plan. It is no stock selling ‘scheme. , destroyed . utilized for . owner . wood or CAMP FIRE VISITORS IN CAMP CELIO INSPECTION The Oakland Camp Fire Girls, who put on the beautiful ceremonial at Odd Fellows Hall last Thursday night, spent the fore part of the next day hiking out to their camp at Lake Vera ehristened Camp summnier whien has been Celio by virtue of the magnanimous. gift of the site by Mr. W._B. Celio and Mr. Gove C. Celio in honor of the Jate Mrs. Emma Celio. The merry party returned to their homes in Oakland that afternoon. . Construction work is shéduled to was held on Thursday evening at the with Mrs. Charles W. Leiter presiding. Due to counter attractions the . attendance wasnot as large as it might otherwise have been but an interesting meeting was held. The principal speaker.was Mr. C. B. Parsons who spoke on gardening and yard beatification in an entertaining and instructive way. The club is interesting a number of the ladies of the community. ' Miss Beatrice Ott came hame from University of Nevada to spend the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. N. J. Ott. Mrs. Sidney Thomas and children, Roy, Bud and Grace, of Yuba «City visited in our city Friday. Mrs. R. S. Hareourt of Clarksburg has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Phoebe Hathaway. Darrel Coughlan and daughter of Alameda were week end guests of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Coughlan. Mrs. Horace A. Curnow and Mrs. Fred C. Worth were Sacramento visitors on Wednesday. c% FOLLOW THE CROWD To the Nevada Theatre next Friday night, April 13, and see the Prize Baby Show. Most all the little ‘ones of Nevada City and community ‘will be shown on screen in life size and Mrs. J. east your vote The, everybody come and for The Citizen of Tomorrow. Sweetest Thing in The World. begin shortly for the eemp, the first group of girls to arrive on June ia ttn: William Fipren was a visitor from Rough and Ready Wednesday. Mrs. W. L. Garter was down from ’Downievillae Thursday for a short visit with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. P. Bigelow left Saturday for Lake county, where they will visit their daughter, Mrs. Herold Anderson and her family. Mr. Bigelow went on to the city from there. : Mr. and Mrs. Roy ‘McNamara of Tyler were business visitors here Friday. ; Supervisor M. F, Lusk of Downieville was a Thursday business visitor. John’ J. Stitch. who formerly reided at North Bloomfield, passed away at Paso Robles recently. Charles K. Power, a native of Ne-: vada City, passed away recently at Johannesburg, South Africa. He was at the time of his “death mine captain in the Crown mines. He was on his way to the caiést following an atMisses Alice Harry and Ruth Hogan were up from the San Franeisco State Teachers College to spend the Easter vacation. ; With the departure of The Nugget publisher on Saturday for San Diego to attend sessions of the Grand. Chapter and Grand Council, next Monday’s issue of the paper will beprinted somewhat earlier and :adver“The ._Baby” Coupon with each Ticket good for 100 votes. tisers are asked to bear this inmind jin the, preparation ‘of the COnr. for. i that issue. a . Ase of pneumonia when the end al ck ame i

NT i? . Spenceville after peers rr PPP EOE SETS The Nugget is California’s Leading Mining Weekly naa ity Nugget VOLUME Il, NUMBER ae THE GOLD CENTER NEVADA CEEy, ‘NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, THE COUNTY § SEAT PA a APER J _ WESTERN MERGER MILL NOW READY} GRACEY MINE TO HAVE 10 STAMP MULL . mill is being given its final tests for operation in the Nevada City disThe Westerd “Merger new. stamp: this week and is due to start _operations next Sunday, states Superintenthis morning. the wiring o fthe big electric, motors is being completed. Five stopes have already been op' ened on the 400 level, both east and . west of the shaft and a large block of ground is ready for and the mill. Several hundred tons o good milling, rock taken during sinking dnd drifting operations have been accumullated on the dump and ger of short water -supply as the last storms left overflowing tanks behind on the-hill above. A 30,000 gallon storage tank is being ereted at the mill. ROUGH AND READY WILL SEE MINING ACTIVITY Work is to he commenced in the crosscut tunnel at the Black Bear mine in the Rough and Ready District in the next few days, driving in 700 feet further to cut the Black Bear vein. The property is fully equipped with a ten. stamp mill, air compressor and power drills. The property is being developed by the Reorganized Rand Mines. Company of which H. ei Ostrander ts the president. MINE OWNERS PROTEST RAILROAD LAND PATENTS Downieville, April 7, (Special to The Nugget) Among the local mine owners who were foreed to file pretests against the Southern Pacific Company’s recent application fer patents in this vicinity are John T. Mason, owner of the Cuba » Placer Mine; A. S. Wilson, Litlian “¢ and Hardscrabble Mines; the Hilda Mining Co.; Bradley-Haley Mining Company, operating the Prids Hydraulic Mine at Sierra City; John Lee, owner of. the Monareh Mine: F. Me Doak, Young Amewea Ming; LinecIn Placers, Inc., of Los Angeles. Thesfagt that ail of the land asked for lies in the mineral belt west of the Yuba Pass, mine owner SEM in the district, and beside the individual protests of ownthe chutes affects every: . mine has’been making such a favor: dent HH. B: Skewes to The Nugget ' able showing in the drifting operaThe nmrahinery is all tions that a 10 stamp mill has been set, the concrete floors poured and _ Durchased from the Ben Hur Divide ! will be installed inits new location _ter will be fed through. There is no dan. Another stamp “mill is scheduled trict in the near future. The Gracey ' property south of Grass Valley and at once. A mill site is being cleared below the hoist at the present titne and the work of erecting the building to house the mill will be rushed to completion. The Ben Hur mill is. complete.and was used but little afits installation at the Alaska mine, being in excellent conditien. Drifting operations ate continuing in fine ore at the Gracey and this property gives prumise of becoming one of. the district’s good pecans in the near future. R. N. McCormack is manager. NORTH STAR PRODUCES NEARLY ONE MILLION Production of the gold at. the North Star properties the past year totalled $881,319. Due to a large development program the property shows an operating loss for the year but the present outlook with ¢he fine ore shoot being developed on the 8600 level, it is probable that : the present year’s operations’ will make a-.good showing this year. Over $50,000 was lost in the surrender of the option of the Plumbago property last June which accounts for approximately half the deficit for the year. The report shows that the bulk of the production was from the territory between the 6900 and 8690 levels on the X-+Vein and between the 6600 and 6900 on the No. 2. A total of 129,814 tons of rock was mined, of which 21,814 was discarded as waste. The average yield was $8.11 per ton, with $6.95 cost for operating and $1.45 per ton for development. Recovery by amalgamation was 70.16 per cent, and by cyanidation, 29.84 per cent. From 1884 to December, 1927, the total production is given “s ers directly affected by the applica. tion, a general protest has been filed ‘by mine owners and citizens of Downieville and Sierra City. SANITARIUM NOTES “Mrs. Frank Nichols and baby boy have returned to. their home at a sojourn at the Nevada City Sanitarium. Dr. Rood of Grass Valley performed a tonsileptomy on H. W. Paynter, at the Sanitarium. A mastoid operation was nerformed on the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Clemo by Dr. Tikell the past Week. . Misstress. Opal Blasdell of Downieville is getting alon gwell at the Sanitarium following her recent accident. ’ Mrs. W. H. Moore who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pp, G. Seadden, has returned to her Pittsburg home. Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Thore were down from Tyler on Saturday. Mrs. Mildred Rosebrough has returned to her Oakland home after a visit with her parents, Mr. William Peard. The funeral services for Mrs. Ella : the Nevada City Club Donnelly were held from the Holmes Funeral Home in Grass Valley on r Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Wade J. Armstrong left for the city today for a short ; stay after casting their ballots at ihe eity election. Mrs. Bessie Yelland left last week for her home in Negaunee, Michigan after a visit’ with her daughter, Mrs. A. H. Haddy. She had been making a visit of acme months and expects to return later for another. visit. The fence along the children’s playground on Piety Hill has been } restored the past week. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Glise_ of the Lincoln’ section were Nevada City visitors Friday. $29,805,807 with dividends paid cof $5,762,040: The operating and development. cost. during that time ‘3} given as $22,603,711, a considerable . portion of which was wages. NEVADA CITY LIONS GET GRASS VALLEY A START Nevada City Lions: went Over to Grass Valley Tuesday in nearly, full strength to do the preliminary work for organizing a Club in that city. Sheriff George R. Carter was. in charge of the arrangements. The dinner was held at the Bret Harte and was largely attended. President R. L. P. Bigelow presided and when the evening’s eremonics were Over, around $40 had beeu cl lected in the kitty to start the nev elub terasury. . International Vic» President Ray L. Riley, State Controller was present as was Deputy Governor Byrl Babcock of Sacramento and a large delegation from the Auburn Club. The evening passed quickly and at its close the Grass Valley signers of the application for and Mrs.. “a Club chose Fred M. Miller as temporary chairman and Charles F. Law as temporary secretary. Next Thurecay noon has_ been set as the first luncheon meeting. Mrs. Charles. Elliott, pianist for favored with several fine solos as did Lou Chesbro of Auburn. Dick Bigelow and Dave + Gordon led the singing. ‘ Mr. and Mrs. Frank. Sommers of Seabright were Easter guests of Mr. and Mrs» Thomas Jones. Mis: Edna Smith has. returned to} Pittsburg after spending the holidays , with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. Ww. Smith. . A throat operation was performed on Alvin Moody the past week by , Dr. Robert F. Werner. Mr Emma Cook, nee Young, . ihas been up from Oakland to spend the past week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. sete: for the Easter vacation. { ; the afternoon . with the HYDRAULIC MINING WILL START ON CHINA GRAVEL DOWNIEVILLE, April 6, (Special to The Nugget)—-That hydraulicking will be resumed cn the old China ground near the mouth of Jim Crow canyon, about three. miles east of Downieville, is indicated by work just begun for the application for water. E. H. Hurlburt of Los Angeles, the owner of the ground, plans to bring water from Van Joan ereek, a distance of about a -mile, to wash the gravel. This ground has been icle for many years!’ ‘The last work was done on it by Chines2, and a falling bark, which buried several of the miners, stopped the work. It is understood here chat the bodies of the unfortunate Chinaimen were never removed from the cave, and the superstitious Chinese immediately -abandoned the ground. The survey for the water application was started Saturday. BEAUTIFUL CEREMONIAL STAGED BY THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS OF OAKLAND The inspiring ceremonial of the Camp Fire Girls was Never more impressively rendered than by the Oakland team at Odd Fellows Hall last Thursday night for the Nevada City groups. There were fifteen Visiting members headed by Mrs. Nils Searls and Miss Elizabeth Kendall. On arrival they were registered at the National Hotel.and then spent about. town. Dinner was served at the Methodist church at 5:30 by the Nevada City groups. At 7:30 the ceremonial was staged Oakland girls acting as torch bearers and the Nevada City girls as the novitiates. The lodge hall was crowded to witness the exemplification. A short talk was made by . Mrs. Searls in which she expressed the: pleasure of the visitors there would be hundreds’ of the members coming up this summer to stay at Camp Celio on the shore of Loke Vera. : PUBLIC SCHOOLS WEEK DATE 1S SET APRIL 26 The annual observance of Public Schools Week will be held in the high sehool auditorium on Thursd pik evening, April 26th. Prof. Isensee Has arranged for a speaker from Sacramento. The grammar school grades are preparing an exhibit to be held en that evening. An elaborate program is being arranged for. that oceasion. Fuller details will be given next week. MELBA HUSON AND GLADYS POHLGLASE GIVE PARTY Mises Melba Huson and Gladys Pohlglase proved delightful hostesses Saturday afternoon when they staged a hunt for Baster eggs. at the Huson ‘home. Prizes were awarded to the lumky finders and. refreshments were served. The following were guests: Mises Margaret White, Dorothy Foot; Perine Helma, Ida Iradelizio, Aeola Smith, Luella Wilson, Hattie. Huson, Angeline Alaria, Teresa Alaria, Wilma Jost, Nadine neagle. Eleanor Schreiber, Mary Costa, Pauline Rohrig and Zoe Tredennik. BOND ISSUE NOW SOUGHT COVER A HUGE. DEFICIT The directors of the Nevada Irrigation are preparing. to ask or more bond money in the near future from the farmers, this time in the amount of $2,592,000. It will first be necesrsary to secure the consent of the Bond Certification Commission to the issuance of more bonds and this has not yet been secured, it is understood, as the Commission has asked for a financial set-up of how the additional issue will produce revenue sufficient to retire the bonds and interest, and as to how the people stand on the proposition. With the District reported to be nearly thre hundred thousand dollars over-drawn and the notorious PED contract still nominally in force the horn of the dilemma chosen by the directors as being the most painless method as against a land tax at the present time, may have to be further explained before the people vote to dump more money into the capacious hopper. The present plan being followed is to secure enough signatures to avoid the necessity of a two thirds bond election which admittedly would not pass. It is rumored that another. recall election is in the offat coming to Nevada City and that . fing since the deficit became known and is at present being considered by a number of intersted land .owners who.are dissatisfied with the present financial crisis. The bill rendered by the District. to the Pacific Gas for water furnished was in the amount of $136,000 which is but half the deficit reported

As to whether the payment for the $33,500 office building in Grass Valley is to come out of the new bond issue is not mentioned. It is admitted that a financial cri'sis is impending at the present time. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OLD FASHIONED DANCE The annual Chamber of Commerce Old Fashioned Dance which will be held this year on Saturday evening, May 5th, gives promise of being one of the most successful ever staged by the organization. The various committees have been appointed and show excellent selection by ‘President ' Bennetts. If you have any old fash‘joned clothes around, get them out and have them ready to wear that night. MARRIOTT HOME CAUGHT FIRE THURSDAY MORN Fire breaking shortly after midnight Wednesday brought the fire department to the Joe Marriott home on Piety Hill and the flames which had gained considerable headway. in the-attic were held to the rocf entirely and main damage _ to the downstairs was by water leakage which. was slight, due‘to the use of a small hose coupled to the large fire hose. The fire presumably start‘ed from the brick chimney although this point was not settled by Fire Chief Coughlin. Mrs. Marriott and son were below at the time and the head of the house was alone in the . house. The furniture was quickly removed to a place of safety in the Miss Elaine Mobley has returned . yard. Truck Drive Hallett was quickto her work in the Auburn schools after spending the holidays with her . parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Mobley. Vitor Johnson has' returned to his honie in Oakland after visiting with friends for a few days. Mr .and Mrs. Ralph W. Gaylord were up from Sacramento to visit Mrs. C. J. Brand:and Miss Minnie 3rand. Miss° Betty Gaylord who has bees visiting at the Brand home, reiurned with them. uneral services for the late John Yor! who passed away at Colfax were held Saturday afternoon from “Holm@s Funeral Home and = were . conduted by the Rev. Father O‘Reilly. The R. Noble MeCormacks have taken up their residence in their newly built home on Broad street. Miss dns King of Pulga, Miss Binlen Huy and Charles Huy motor‘ed back to Berkeley after spending the weekend with Mr, and Mrs, J, E. Huy. : 4 the, Ay on the scene. “One of the very pleasureable features at the Easter. service last evening was the playing on the large harp by Mrs. Grace Raymond. Solos were sung by Mrs: Ruth Rector and Mrs. Talbot. Miss Mary Rossen has returned to swith her mother, Mrs. Mary Rossen. A fair sized gold nugget was piked up at the Scott Flat reservoir site by one of the workmen while excavating the ground. It happened to be on mineral ground held by the Excelsior interests. The Boy Scouts enjoyed a treasure hunt after their meting on Wednesday night that afforded a great deal of entertainment. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Ruiter and Mrs. J. N. Ivey of Sacramento were weekend guests of Dr. R. Ivey. Mrs. Ruiter isa sister of Dr. Ivey. — ; Chamber of Commerce headquarters Oakland after spending her vacation : CITY ELECTION RETURNS GIVEN AT THIS OFFICE There were 93 votes cast by one o’clock this noon at the city hall out of 426 registrations. Polis close at 6 The city election smoothly today at the city hali at six o’clock tonight the be closed and the ccunting The Nugget: will bulletin the returns in its windows as soon as the results are known and anyone interested may telephone No:. 36.at time during the evening and secure the results from this office. The large in the race have a hard one to predict and there has not been much waering on the out come. The swimming lurking in the balloting. is proceeding and polls will nook issue is . backsround of the . FORMER NEVADA CITIANS HAVE NA RROW ESCAPE » Mr. and Mrs. E. J. 5 EIN. Ott Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Yoerfke of Sacramento while motoring up to Nevada City Saturday afternoon met with an automobile accident between . Sylvan. Corner and Roseville that might easily have ended fatally. Mr. Yoerke was driving his car on . the straight highway when he observed a car driven by a woman ¢coing at him at a great rate out of control. Fhe woman driver had gone . off the road and in attempting to get back on, lost control and hit the back-end © fthe Yoerke car and it landed ‘in the ditch upside down. Fortunately the occupants were able to clamber out. of the wreck thru the windows. Hardly a scratch was received.— Mr. Ott fearing that his folks here would worrk telephoned that he was detained and would arrive later than had ben planned. The party went back to Sacramento, secured another. car and made the trip up here without further incident. The woman admitted her lack of driving sense REGISTRATIONS SHOW A BIG REPUBLICAN LEAD The registration of voters for the May: Ist presidential primary shows a total of 4103 for Nevada county. Of these there are 2672 Republicans, 1275 Democrats, 39 Socialists, ’2 Prohibitionists and 112 who declined to state, the latter to vote at the primary by that. fact. being ineligible reason of WOMENS CHU HELD TTS FIRST SESSIGN THURSDAY The first regular meeting of the newly organived Fomen’s Civie Club proceed. . any . made the outcome } APRIL 7; 1928 W INDUSTRY MAY START UP IN NEVADA CITY Nevada City has chances of landing a turpentine refinery this year anda large payroll of 150 to-200 men if sufficient timber acreage can be secured at an early date. The matter . will length at the Nevada City tomorrow be diseussed at recular meeting of the \Chamber of Commetfee j ;Tuesday night. number of candidates . ray . GC: Ernst, who represents large, lusers of pine distilled products has owners in and far. gt h@en interviewing land ‘this {reports excel lent progress 50 will take: a minimum of a million . pine trees signed up. to make . the preicet commercially feasible here . and tyo million will make the proect a sure go, according to Mr. ee He states that his people have ple financial backing to make a jade: installation once the necessary timber holdings are secured. Every timber owner should make it a point to be on hand Tuesday evening and hear the plan outlined by Mr. Ernst. vicinity for some days past There are several plans of removjing the sap from the trees. By one lof them the life of the tree is not and production may be many years. Where the expects to use the trees for mining timber later, the sap can be withdrawn heavily and make the tree available for cutting the following year. The taking of the sap would mean an excellent source of revenue for the ‘owners of the timber used, as the tapping process is a simple one. Such ar institution would mean a great deal to this community as a revenue producer and President Wa J. Bennetts has beén taking a great deal of interest in the -matter the past few days.” Every business man in Nevada City should be on hand. Tuesday night to hear Mr. Ernest explain his plan. It is no stock selling ‘scheme. , destroyed . utilized for . owner . wood or CAMP FIRE VISITORS IN CAMP CELIO INSPECTION The Oakland Camp Fire Girls, who put on the beautiful ceremonial at Odd Fellows Hall last Thursday night, spent the fore part of the next day hiking out to their camp at Lake Vera ehristened Camp summnier whien has been Celio by virtue of the magnanimous. gift of the site by Mr. W._B. Celio and Mr. Gove C. Celio in honor of the Jate Mrs. Emma Celio. The merry party returned to their homes in Oakland that afternoon. . Construction work is shéduled to was held on Thursday evening at the with Mrs. Charles W. Leiter presiding. Due to counter attractions the . attendance wasnot as large as it might otherwise have been but an interesting meeting was held. The principal speaker.was Mr. C. B. Parsons who spoke on gardening and yard beatification in an entertaining and instructive way. The club is interesting a number of the ladies of the community. ' Miss Beatrice Ott came hame from University of Nevada to spend the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. N. J. Ott. Mrs. Sidney Thomas and children, Roy, Bud and Grace, of Yuba «City visited in our city Friday. Mrs. R. S. Hareourt of Clarksburg has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Phoebe Hathaway. Darrel Coughlan and daughter of Alameda were week end guests of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Coughlan. Mrs. Horace A. Curnow and Mrs. Fred C. Worth were Sacramento visitors on Wednesday. c% FOLLOW THE CROWD To the Nevada Theatre next Friday night, April 13, and see the Prize Baby Show. Most all the little ‘ones of Nevada City and community ‘will be shown on screen in life size and Mrs. J. east your vote The, everybody come and for The Citizen of Tomorrow. Sweetest Thing in The World. begin shortly for the eemp, the first group of girls to arrive on June ia ttn: William Fipren was a visitor from Rough and Ready Wednesday. Mrs. W. L. Garter was down from ’Downievillae Thursday for a short visit with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. P. Bigelow left Saturday for Lake county, where they will visit their daughter, Mrs. Herold Anderson and her family. Mr. Bigelow went on to the city from there. : Mr. and Mrs. Roy ‘McNamara of Tyler were business visitors here Friday. ; Supervisor M. F, Lusk of Downieville was a Thursday business visitor. John’ J. Stitch. who formerly reided at North Bloomfield, passed away at Paso Robles recently. Charles K. Power, a native of Ne-: vada City, passed away recently at Johannesburg, South Africa. He was at the time of his “death mine captain in the Crown mines. He was on his way to the caiést following an atMisses Alice Harry and Ruth Hogan were up from the San Franeisco State Teachers College to spend the Easter vacation. ; With the departure of The Nugget publisher on Saturday for San Diego to attend sessions of the Grand. Chapter and Grand Council, next Monday’s issue of the paper will beprinted somewhat earlier and :adver“The ._Baby” Coupon with each Ticket good for 100 votes. tisers are asked to bear this inmind jin the, preparation ‘of the COnr. for. i that issue. a . Ase of pneumonia when the end al ck ame i