April 9, 1937 (6 pages)

Thinking Out Loud H. M. L. The opening of the Oakland-San j Francisco Bay Bridge in November and the coming celebration to mark the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge during the week beginning May 23, are epochal events in California, especially for Northern California. Two direct quick routes to the (big. city of Northern California are offered residents of this city. The motoring time via the Bay bridge (for short) is five hours of easy travel, and by the Golden Gate bridge five and one-half hours. The latter); route from Sacramento is by way of . Napa Junction; San Rafael and Sausalito, or its environs, and across to San Francisco at Richardson avenue, a broad six lane entrance into the metropolis, far more beautiful than that offered by the Bay Bridge. It is here, perhaps, that a tribute should be paid the New Deal. The two. great bridges were helped by New Deal financing, and are. only a fraction of the giant, progressive structures that dot’ the map of the United States. These include such notable projects as the Tennessee Valley dams and structures, dam on Columbia, the great vault and fortress built in Kentucky forstoring the nation’s gold hoard,, bridges, dikes, and conservation structures sprinkled here and there through the country where they were needed. Looking at the Roosevelt regime from an historical point of view it may well be that its greatest achievement has been rather these national improvements of a permanent and substantial value, than the social reforms and redistribution of wealth which at the moment irritate all intelligent, people by their monumental wastefulness, their demagogic and vote getting appeal, and their trend toward dictatorship. While the English people ‘‘muddle’’ through, we Americans; flounder through. But great structural creations, conceived on a splendid scale by the New Deal, possibly by the President himself, but carried to completion under the trained and non-pplitical supervision and direction of army engineers, have contributed to the national life something of immense and lasting value. Two great new highways spanning the bay into San Francisco are hailed as giving that city, what it has always coveted, a world eminence second to none. And in time this dream is likely to come true, for the Pacific is the coming arena of vast commercial development. Old Asia in years to come will be modernized, and in some respects this is almost equivalent, to the modern trader, to finding a brand new.continent such as Columbus stumbled upon. San Francisco in time, perhaps a ‘hundred years hence, will be a gréater city than New York and certainly the greatest city on the rim of the Pacific ocean. 3ut in the immediate future, a note of warning has come from various sources regarding realty values. For, though the bridges give easy access to San Francisco they also give easy’ exit. In some of Alameda and Marin counties’ wide open spaces, these bridges will shorten the time to San Francisco’s business disitriet to less than the time it requires to get down town from the city’s own outlying residence districts. The San Francisco board of supervisors is now wrestling with this problem and hopes in the next year or two to construct great subways which will shorten ‘the time distance within its limits to at least the equivalent offered by Alameda and Marin counties in superior residential districts. San Francisco, to hold its present population, and to gain more, must. build better and faster transportation facilities. It is a foregone conclusion that it will do so. The reason the city by the Golden Gate must make this. improvement is obvious. Whére the home is, there the buying is. Mrs. Tom, Dick and Harry, residing in Oakland buy the family food and clothing where they live, no matter where friend husband spends his day time working hours. It is this food and clothing trade which builds substantial homes, and substantial cities. Your wage earner, the moment he can, vives his family light and air. He quits the old, crowded flat or apartment, buys or rents a cottage where living conditions are better. San Francisco must now put up a real fight to hold its own for the next few .years. Ultimately, of course, economy will dictate a borough system of government for the cities around the Puce Nevada City ne COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA . The Nevada City Nugget helps your city and county to grow in population and prosperity. advertising in the Nugget, you help yourself. By subsribing to, and therefore, Vol. 11, No. 29. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIF a The Gold Center FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1997 MRS. F. E, WORTH CALLED TO REST Word has-reached Nevada City of the passing of Mrs. Florence E. Worth, aged 59 years, in San Francisco at 1:40 yesterday morning after an illness of about four weeks. She was the former Miss Florence Snow and was born iin the mining town of You Bet, now a ghost town, east of Nevada City. A sweet and ‘lovely woman the news of her ‘passing will be learned with sorrow by those who knew her. She leaves to mourn her passing four sons, Mervyn D. Worth, Santa Cruz; Leslie S. Worth, San Francisco; Fred L. Worth and Richard S. Worth, Nevada City; and a brother John Davis of Sacramento. Funeral services will be held in San Francisco Saturday afternoon. Fred and Richard Worth of this city were called to the city upon learning of their mothers critical illness and were present when she passed away. STATE GARDEN CHAIRMAN CIVIC CLUB SPEAKER The regular meeting of the Nevada City Womans Civic Club will be held Monday evening, April 12 at eight o’clock at the Brand Studio. This will be a very interesting meeting and all members are urged to attend, Mrs. James Pemrose, dele: gate to the district convention ac Woodland will give her report. New ‘officers will ‘be elected at the meeting on April 26 and the nominating meeting Monday night. committee will be announced at the The’state chairman of gardens will be the guest speaker of the evening and following the business meeting will give a talk on flowers and gardens. This is the time of the year that the ladies are planning. and making their gardens and it Is most fortunate that the garden chairman should be here at this time. ALLEGHANY MINE MEN RECEIVE WAGE INCREASE Raises in make scales affecting more than 200 men of the Alleghany district was announced Wednesday. Raises were announced as of April 1, as follows: Men who have been receiving less than $5 per day will hence-forward receive $5.75 per day; those receiving $5 and less than $6 will receive an increase of 50 cents per day; men paceiving $6 will receive $6.25. . Hoist men.and mill men are benefitted by a boost of 25 cents per day. Hoist men have been receiving $6.25 and’ will now receive $6.50. Mill men are raised from $6.00 to $6.50. The new scale becomes effective as of April Ist. The approximate number of men from the various mines who get the increases: Sixteen-to-One,.135; Plumbago, 40; Kenton, 20; Oriental, 35; and other small mines will add about 25 or 30 to the total. HAL DRAPER, CANDIDATE FOR SCHOOL TRUSTEE April 24 will close the registration period for those desiring to enter the rage for trustees in both grammar and high schools in Nevada City. Hal. Draper yesterday filed his nomination papers with clerk of the board and is a candidate. Draper was formerly associate professor of chemistry in the Fresno Teachers and Junior College. The terms of E. M. Rector, P. G. Seadden and Wade Armstrong, trustees in the grammar and high schools will#xpire this year and all are seeking re-election. The other trustees are J. F. Colley, H. A. Curnow, T. W. Richards and R. J. Bennetts. bay, Ultimately the bay will be a pond in the midst of a magnificent metropolis. Ultimately Los Angeles, despite acquisitions of territory perhaps as far nerth as Bakersfield, will play second fiddle’ to the great San Francisco metropolis. Law Makers By SEN. JERROLD L. SEAWELL, in a radio address, April 6. I have ‘been requested to discuss the problems of one of California’s oldest and most. important industries, the gold mining industry. Gold mining is peculiar to itself and cannot meet its problems in the same manner as other industries. It was hydraulie mining in former years that caused: the friction between the farmers and theminers. Under early day methods tailings from these mines were dumped into the streams and when winter storms came this debris was carried down into the rivers of the valley. causing the same to overflow and destroy valuable agricultural lands. The farmers carried their fight into the courts and in 1884 Judge Sawyer issued an injunction against this type of operation, which, resulted in the destruction of over one hundred million dollars in equipment and in property values. I do not believe there is any doubt in anyones mind that the damage occurred and that the decision was just. The fact still remains however that an industry was destroyed by one sweep of the hand that could have been saved had the contesting factions arbitrated their differences. In 1893 Congressman Caminetti obtained a law in congress that permitted the resumption of this type of minimg under federal regulation. This act created and placed under the control of the California Debris Commission this type of mining, and these mines are now operating under this commission and its regulations. While the Caminetti act protided for the resumption of hydraulic mining, it did not solve the problems created by the Sawyer decision, as it provided that restraining. dams 5 3 This was alright for the large operators who had finances to construct such dams, but did not aid the hundreds of small operators who were unable to finance these dams. Songressman Englebright recently passed an amendment to the Rivers and Harbors .Act that provides for the.federal government to construct four such dams in the Yuba, Bear and American rivers, and the small operators wiill then be able to resume operations by leasing storage space from the government behind these dams, and the fifty year old problem. will have been solved. I have recited these facts to show how easy it is for industry to be destroyed, and how difficult it is to cause its resumption by legal methSen. Seawell Chides Hamper Gold Mining must beconstructed to restrain the; debris from reaching the valley streams. Who Would ods—a reasonable argument against hasty action. California is today, as it was 80 years ago, one of the leading gold producing states of the Union, employing thousands. of men and involving millions of dollars of invested capital. This condition did not exist however until the President issued the order that increased the price of gold per ounce to. its present value, an increase of about fifty per cent. This increase permitted hundreds of low grade ore mines to be re-opened that could not operate at the old value. With their re-opening came additional ‘capital and emTHIS JOKE IS NOT ON THE CHIEF OF POLICE Ray Pengelli of Grass Valley attending the Elks dinner last Saturday night, parked his car in the driveway of a Commercial street business man. In addition to being marked with red the side-walk was also labeled ‘No Parking.” ‘Pengelli went to the . Elks club and had a real pleasant evening and in the meantime— Along about 10 o’clock a very irate ‘business man appeared at the city hall, almost too angry for utterance, and insisted that Chief Garfield Robson go down and remove the. car from his driveway. The car bore name of the owner and white slip on the steering wheel, but Robson inaquired im the Montana cafe for the owner and a frightened woman was vastly relieved to find it was not her car. Other inquiries provirg futile, Robson called a tow car and had the car stored in ployment for many thousands of men, ment situation to a great extent. mining has played a most important part in the development of this state we find before the California legislature literally dozens of bills that would retard its progress, if not destroy the industry in its entirety. Gold mining, unlike other industries, cannot pass on to the public the additional cost of any increase in operation expenditures. The price of gold is fixed by the government and cannot be sold at a higher price. So it is not difficult to see that if operation costs are allowed to mount it would only be a matter of time until the costs esual the fixed price of gold. When this occurs, there is only one answer. The mine must cease to operate and unemployment would be the result. Many of the bills before us do inerease materially the production cost of gold mining. In my opinion they would retard the industry, if not destroy many of the law producing » mines. A careful anaylzis of some «sof these measures causes one to wonder what inspired their introduction and if the authors really understand the results that would be involved should these measures be enacted into law. It is beyond my comprehension to understand what motives the desire to destroy an industry that has done so much to develop our state and contribute so much to our. people’s welfare. o It is) my sincere hope. that the small goup of legislators who represent the Mother Lode district of California will be able to cope with the situation in order that we may -preserve that which it has been our privilege to enjoy and truthfully say ‘that California is a Golden State, born from a Golden Industry, ever looking ahead through the Golden Gate of Life to bigger and _ better things. ‘AMERICAN RIVER DAMS. ASSURED In a telegram to the Nevada City Nugget Tuesday Congressman Harry L. Englebright reports that the Secretary of War has accepted the assurances of placer owners and opthe which were secured through the activities of the California Hydraulic erators on American river, Miners Association, and that dams on the Ruck-a-Chucky and North Fork are now assured. Congressman Englebright’s message follows: I am delighted to advise you that at 2:30 this afternoon the Secretary of War signed an order.accepting guarantees and assurances of hydraulic miners for two dams on the American river which means construction of the North Fork and Lower Ruck-a-Chucky hydrawic mining debris dams. Have had most difficult fight to bring this matter to this conclusion and am grateful for. the fine assistace given me. by many of you:as individuals and to the California Hydraulic Mining Association. Inasmuch as hydraulic mining has been closed for fifty years, the event of today is of great importance to future prosperity of the locality involved and as you know I have labored for a number of years to obWPA CREWS AT WORK ON ROADS W. P. Mitchell, in af in thas ge of WPA work in this district states projects in Nevada county continue with men on several much needed improvements. Twelve ' men employed on the McCourtney road south of Grass Valley have been handicapped with stormy weather. Twenty five men are employed on the high school grounds at Grass Valley building a retaining wall to the north of the playground. Twelve men to a crew give almost continuous work on the project. ‘These improvements are in Supervisor Frank Rowe’s district. Mr. Mitchell stated the WPA project on Nevada City’s new city hall will be completed about April 19. This does not mean the _ building will be finished as the painting and interior decorating still. has to be done. This work is held up until the WPA men finish work. In the French Corral area Mr. Mitchell stated Supervisor Joe Frank has about 20 men employed on the roads between French Corral and Sweetland. Drain ditches have been cleaned, the road widened by building rock retaining walls along the road sides; rocky points have been blasted out and gravel is being hauled from Shady Creek to the road. tain this result. Three or four trucks are being used. thus relieving ‘the unemploy. Notwithstanding the fact that gold . the Lane garage. Next morning Robson asked the night watchman if anyone had reported a missing car. No one had. And in the meantime—Pengelli late Saturday night reported the theft of the car to the highway patrol and far and wide over the shortwave brogjdcast went the call to be on the lookout for a car>-of such and such a make. Finally Monday morning Chief Robson called up the highway patrol and asked if anyone had reported their carmissing.Oh, yes! Ray Pengelli had and then the denoument. Pengelliipaid for the towing and the storage, and Robsoh, thinking that that cost was something in the way of penance, tore up the ticket. MOUNTAIN HOUSE ROAD WILL BE C:AMPTONVILLE, — Apnil Changes have taken place on ae mountain roads following the .meeting of the Sierra county supervisors with three forest officials. Supervis or DeWitt Nelson, Engineer William Lee and District Ranger Frank W. Meggers, and Ranger Geo. E. King. Sierra county in Supervisor Carvin’s district has assumed the future care of the Sandusky road above Forest City, and the Magnes ridge road, ane the ridge Henness Pass road from Forest to Alleghany and the road from Mountain House to Goodyears Bar. In consideration of this, the forest service has consented to take care of the old county road from the Yuba county line to the Mountain House. This latter change is significant to this section in as much as the old Mountain House road gleads to the various mining properties north of here and also opens a vast forest and hunting ‘and recreation ground, and ‘in the past while Sierra county had control of it, practically nothing was done on it and it was in very poor shape. With this change it is expected that the forest service will improve the road and take better care of it. It taps a vast timberland and it is to their interest for fire fighting reasons to have this road in good shape. A. A. BLANCO IS NEW RUMSEY MANAGER A. A. Blanco of the Sacramento Rumsey store has been placed in charge of the W. M. Rumsey store in Grass Valley. Mr. Blanco has had a wide experience on the sales and management end of the household . and electric appliance business. Herman Beck, who has been in charge of the Grass Valley store, has resigned to accept a post in. Oakland where his family resides, Many of these men were taken off the Washington road when snow became too heavy to get to the work. If time permits or if the WPA receives new allottments the new. road to Washington will be continued later. Present work calls for seven day’s work per crew, 108 hours a month and 54 hours for a two weeks period. The county supplies a truck for thee men to leave Nevada City at 7 o'clock in the morning to go to the McCourtney road project. PUT IN REPAIR ‘co on business. BILL CAIN, NEW HEAD OF ROTARY — Bill Cain of Salas Auto Court was chosen president of the Nevada City Rotary Club yesterday following an election of a board of directors. Carol Coughlin was elected secretary. The board of directors elected consisted of the following: Clyde Gwin, Charles P. Elliott, Oscar Odegaard, Andrew Larsen, Dr. B. W. Hummelt and H. M. Leete. Alfred Kram, member of the Nevada County Irrigation district staff, gave an interesting description of his trip by bicycle through Europe and Asia Minor. By means of his bicycle he stated he was able to explore and see many places that the tourist rarely visits. He wheeled through Germany, Czechoslovakia, France, Italy, Greece and ‘yria. Nice in southern France, the speaker, declared, was situated in one of the most beautiful regions of all those he visited; Dold biiits; @ cerulean sea, lovely villas in great gardens, and dazzling beaches, combined to make it one of.the greatest pleasure resorts on earth. He wheeled his way to Venice and gave an interesting description of the Grand Canal and St. Mark’s square, where the architectural beauty, he thought was without peer on-earth. On the grand canal one may rent gondolas, either with or without gondoliers, may ride in taxi gondolas, or in boats that correspond to street cars. The picturesque mooring poles, striped like barber poles, and the stately palaces that line the Grand Canal were novel features of the canal. Florence is also a city of great beauty with many treasures in the way of architecture. He crossed from Italy to Athens in Greece, where he visited an American school there and from there wheeled into Syria. Owing to time limitations Mr. Kram had ‘to conclude his talk while still in Syria. and he was cordially invited, to finish it at another meeting of 'the club. : CARD PARTY SPONSOR CIVIC CL To raise money to help pay for the new shelves and other improvements which they have recently hat made at the city library the Nevada City Woman’s Civic Club will give a public card party. The party will be given in the lodge room of the Odd Fellows Hall on Friday night, April 16, at eight o’clock. There will be tables for auction, contract, whist and mah jongs. Prizes will be awarded for high score in each. It will help greatly if those interested in the library will get up a table for the evening. The charge will be twenty five cents per person. The library committee of the club consisting of Mrs. A. W. Hoge, Mrs. Leland Smith and Mrs, W. P. Sawyer, assisted by Mrs. C. E. Bosworth, Mrs. James Penrose and Mrs. Geo. Gildersleeve will have charge of arrangements. Any club member or others wishing to help by donating a prize please telephone to Mrs. A. W. Hoge, Sr., or to any club member. The club is hoping that there , will be many who will come for the evenings pleasure at the card games ‘and thus help with the library improve-~ ments. It was announced at Wednesday’s meeting of the club that this card party would be held on Wednesday night. Members please note it has been'thanged to Friday, April 16. TELEGRAM IS SENT TO ENGLEBRIGHT Tuesday the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, through its president, Fred E. Conner, sent the following telegram to Congressman Harry L, Engiebright: Hon. H. L. Englebright, House Representatives, Washington, D. C. The Nevada City Chamber of — Commerce congratulates and thanks _ you for the great fight you have made on behalf of the hydraulic miners of California. Y R. J. Berggren, and Harry Long spent last week end in San Fr:

Thinking Out Loud H. M. L. The opening of the Oakland-San j Francisco Bay Bridge in November and the coming celebration to mark the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge during the week beginning May 23, are epochal events in California, especially for Northern California. Two direct quick routes to the (big. city of Northern California are offered residents of this city. The motoring time via the Bay bridge (for short) is five hours of easy travel, and by the Golden Gate bridge five and one-half hours. The latter); route from Sacramento is by way of . Napa Junction; San Rafael and Sausalito, or its environs, and across to San Francisco at Richardson avenue, a broad six lane entrance into the metropolis, far more beautiful than that offered by the Bay Bridge. It is here, perhaps, that a tribute should be paid the New Deal. The two. great bridges were helped by New Deal financing, and are. only a fraction of the giant, progressive structures that dot’ the map of the United States. These include such notable projects as the Tennessee Valley dams and structures, dam on Columbia, the great vault and fortress built in Kentucky forstoring the nation’s gold hoard,, bridges, dikes, and conservation structures sprinkled here and there through the country where they were needed. Looking at the Roosevelt regime from an historical point of view it may well be that its greatest achievement has been rather these national improvements of a permanent and substantial value, than the social reforms and redistribution of wealth which at the moment irritate all intelligent, people by their monumental wastefulness, their demagogic and vote getting appeal, and their trend toward dictatorship. While the English people ‘‘muddle’’ through, we Americans; flounder through. But great structural creations, conceived on a splendid scale by the New Deal, possibly by the President himself, but carried to completion under the trained and non-pplitical supervision and direction of army engineers, have contributed to the national life something of immense and lasting value. Two great new highways spanning the bay into San Francisco are hailed as giving that city, what it has always coveted, a world eminence second to none. And in time this dream is likely to come true, for the Pacific is the coming arena of vast commercial development. Old Asia in years to come will be modernized, and in some respects this is almost equivalent, to the modern trader, to finding a brand new.continent such as Columbus stumbled upon. San Francisco in time, perhaps a ‘hundred years hence, will be a gréater city than New York and certainly the greatest city on the rim of the Pacific ocean. 3ut in the immediate future, a note of warning has come from various sources regarding realty values. For, though the bridges give easy access to San Francisco they also give easy’ exit. In some of Alameda and Marin counties’ wide open spaces, these bridges will shorten the time to San Francisco’s business disitriet to less than the time it requires to get down town from the city’s own outlying residence districts. The San Francisco board of supervisors is now wrestling with this problem and hopes in the next year or two to construct great subways which will shorten ‘the time distance within its limits to at least the equivalent offered by Alameda and Marin counties in superior residential districts. San Francisco, to hold its present population, and to gain more, must. build better and faster transportation facilities. It is a foregone conclusion that it will do so. The reason the city by the Golden Gate must make this. improvement is obvious. Whére the home is, there the buying is. Mrs. Tom, Dick and Harry, residing in Oakland buy the family food and clothing where they live, no matter where friend husband spends his day time working hours. It is this food and clothing trade which builds substantial homes, and substantial cities. Your wage earner, the moment he can, vives his family light and air. He quits the old, crowded flat or apartment, buys or rents a cottage where living conditions are better. San Francisco must now put up a real fight to hold its own for the next few .years. Ultimately, of course, economy will dictate a borough system of government for the cities around the Puce Nevada City ne COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA . The Nevada City Nugget helps your city and county to grow in population and prosperity. advertising in the Nugget, you help yourself. By subsribing to, and therefore, Vol. 11, No. 29. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIF a The Gold Center FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1997 MRS. F. E, WORTH CALLED TO REST Word has-reached Nevada City of the passing of Mrs. Florence E. Worth, aged 59 years, in San Francisco at 1:40 yesterday morning after an illness of about four weeks. She was the former Miss Florence Snow and was born iin the mining town of You Bet, now a ghost town, east of Nevada City. A sweet and ‘lovely woman the news of her ‘passing will be learned with sorrow by those who knew her. She leaves to mourn her passing four sons, Mervyn D. Worth, Santa Cruz; Leslie S. Worth, San Francisco; Fred L. Worth and Richard S. Worth, Nevada City; and a brother John Davis of Sacramento. Funeral services will be held in San Francisco Saturday afternoon. Fred and Richard Worth of this city were called to the city upon learning of their mothers critical illness and were present when she passed away. STATE GARDEN CHAIRMAN CIVIC CLUB SPEAKER The regular meeting of the Nevada City Womans Civic Club will be held Monday evening, April 12 at eight o’clock at the Brand Studio. This will be a very interesting meeting and all members are urged to attend, Mrs. James Pemrose, dele: gate to the district convention ac Woodland will give her report. New ‘officers will ‘be elected at the meeting on April 26 and the nominating meeting Monday night. committee will be announced at the The’state chairman of gardens will be the guest speaker of the evening and following the business meeting will give a talk on flowers and gardens. This is the time of the year that the ladies are planning. and making their gardens and it Is most fortunate that the garden chairman should be here at this time. ALLEGHANY MINE MEN RECEIVE WAGE INCREASE Raises in make scales affecting more than 200 men of the Alleghany district was announced Wednesday. Raises were announced as of April 1, as follows: Men who have been receiving less than $5 per day will hence-forward receive $5.75 per day; those receiving $5 and less than $6 will receive an increase of 50 cents per day; men paceiving $6 will receive $6.25. . Hoist men.and mill men are benefitted by a boost of 25 cents per day. Hoist men have been receiving $6.25 and’ will now receive $6.50. Mill men are raised from $6.00 to $6.50. The new scale becomes effective as of April Ist. The approximate number of men from the various mines who get the increases: Sixteen-to-One,.135; Plumbago, 40; Kenton, 20; Oriental, 35; and other small mines will add about 25 or 30 to the total. HAL DRAPER, CANDIDATE FOR SCHOOL TRUSTEE April 24 will close the registration period for those desiring to enter the rage for trustees in both grammar and high schools in Nevada City. Hal. Draper yesterday filed his nomination papers with clerk of the board and is a candidate. Draper was formerly associate professor of chemistry in the Fresno Teachers and Junior College. The terms of E. M. Rector, P. G. Seadden and Wade Armstrong, trustees in the grammar and high schools will#xpire this year and all are seeking re-election. The other trustees are J. F. Colley, H. A. Curnow, T. W. Richards and R. J. Bennetts. bay, Ultimately the bay will be a pond in the midst of a magnificent metropolis. Ultimately Los Angeles, despite acquisitions of territory perhaps as far nerth as Bakersfield, will play second fiddle’ to the great San Francisco metropolis. Law Makers By SEN. JERROLD L. SEAWELL, in a radio address, April 6. I have ‘been requested to discuss the problems of one of California’s oldest and most. important industries, the gold mining industry. Gold mining is peculiar to itself and cannot meet its problems in the same manner as other industries. It was hydraulie mining in former years that caused: the friction between the farmers and theminers. Under early day methods tailings from these mines were dumped into the streams and when winter storms came this debris was carried down into the rivers of the valley. causing the same to overflow and destroy valuable agricultural lands. The farmers carried their fight into the courts and in 1884 Judge Sawyer issued an injunction against this type of operation, which, resulted in the destruction of over one hundred million dollars in equipment and in property values. I do not believe there is any doubt in anyones mind that the damage occurred and that the decision was just. The fact still remains however that an industry was destroyed by one sweep of the hand that could have been saved had the contesting factions arbitrated their differences. In 1893 Congressman Caminetti obtained a law in congress that permitted the resumption of this type of minimg under federal regulation. This act created and placed under the control of the California Debris Commission this type of mining, and these mines are now operating under this commission and its regulations. While the Caminetti act protided for the resumption of hydraulic mining, it did not solve the problems created by the Sawyer decision, as it provided that restraining. dams 5 3 This was alright for the large operators who had finances to construct such dams, but did not aid the hundreds of small operators who were unable to finance these dams. Songressman Englebright recently passed an amendment to the Rivers and Harbors .Act that provides for the.federal government to construct four such dams in the Yuba, Bear and American rivers, and the small operators wiill then be able to resume operations by leasing storage space from the government behind these dams, and the fifty year old problem. will have been solved. I have recited these facts to show how easy it is for industry to be destroyed, and how difficult it is to cause its resumption by legal methSen. Seawell Chides Hamper Gold Mining must beconstructed to restrain the; debris from reaching the valley streams. Who Would ods—a reasonable argument against hasty action. California is today, as it was 80 years ago, one of the leading gold producing states of the Union, employing thousands. of men and involving millions of dollars of invested capital. This condition did not exist however until the President issued the order that increased the price of gold per ounce to. its present value, an increase of about fifty per cent. This increase permitted hundreds of low grade ore mines to be re-opened that could not operate at the old value. With their re-opening came additional ‘capital and emTHIS JOKE IS NOT ON THE CHIEF OF POLICE Ray Pengelli of Grass Valley attending the Elks dinner last Saturday night, parked his car in the driveway of a Commercial

street business man. In addition to being marked with red the side-walk was also labeled ‘No Parking.” ‘Pengelli went to the . Elks club and had a real pleasant evening and in the meantime— Along about 10 o’clock a very irate ‘business man appeared at the city hall, almost too angry for utterance, and insisted that Chief Garfield Robson go down and remove the. car from his driveway. The car bore name of the owner and white slip on the steering wheel, but Robson inaquired im the Montana cafe for the owner and a frightened woman was vastly relieved to find it was not her car. Other inquiries provirg futile, Robson called a tow car and had the car stored in ployment for many thousands of men, ment situation to a great extent. mining has played a most important part in the development of this state we find before the California legislature literally dozens of bills that would retard its progress, if not destroy the industry in its entirety. Gold mining, unlike other industries, cannot pass on to the public the additional cost of any increase in operation expenditures. The price of gold is fixed by the government and cannot be sold at a higher price. So it is not difficult to see that if operation costs are allowed to mount it would only be a matter of time until the costs esual the fixed price of gold. When this occurs, there is only one answer. The mine must cease to operate and unemployment would be the result. Many of the bills before us do inerease materially the production cost of gold mining. In my opinion they would retard the industry, if not destroy many of the law producing » mines. A careful anaylzis of some «sof these measures causes one to wonder what inspired their introduction and if the authors really understand the results that would be involved should these measures be enacted into law. It is beyond my comprehension to understand what motives the desire to destroy an industry that has done so much to develop our state and contribute so much to our. people’s welfare. o It is) my sincere hope. that the small goup of legislators who represent the Mother Lode district of California will be able to cope with the situation in order that we may -preserve that which it has been our privilege to enjoy and truthfully say ‘that California is a Golden State, born from a Golden Industry, ever looking ahead through the Golden Gate of Life to bigger and _ better things. ‘AMERICAN RIVER DAMS. ASSURED In a telegram to the Nevada City Nugget Tuesday Congressman Harry L. Englebright reports that the Secretary of War has accepted the assurances of placer owners and opthe which were secured through the activities of the California Hydraulic erators on American river, Miners Association, and that dams on the Ruck-a-Chucky and North Fork are now assured. Congressman Englebright’s message follows: I am delighted to advise you that at 2:30 this afternoon the Secretary of War signed an order.accepting guarantees and assurances of hydraulic miners for two dams on the American river which means construction of the North Fork and Lower Ruck-a-Chucky hydrawic mining debris dams. Have had most difficult fight to bring this matter to this conclusion and am grateful for. the fine assistace given me. by many of you:as individuals and to the California Hydraulic Mining Association. Inasmuch as hydraulic mining has been closed for fifty years, the event of today is of great importance to future prosperity of the locality involved and as you know I have labored for a number of years to obWPA CREWS AT WORK ON ROADS W. P. Mitchell, in af in thas ge of WPA work in this district states projects in Nevada county continue with men on several much needed improvements. Twelve ' men employed on the McCourtney road south of Grass Valley have been handicapped with stormy weather. Twenty five men are employed on the high school grounds at Grass Valley building a retaining wall to the north of the playground. Twelve men to a crew give almost continuous work on the project. ‘These improvements are in Supervisor Frank Rowe’s district. Mr. Mitchell stated the WPA project on Nevada City’s new city hall will be completed about April 19. This does not mean the _ building will be finished as the painting and interior decorating still. has to be done. This work is held up until the WPA men finish work. In the French Corral area Mr. Mitchell stated Supervisor Joe Frank has about 20 men employed on the roads between French Corral and Sweetland. Drain ditches have been cleaned, the road widened by building rock retaining walls along the road sides; rocky points have been blasted out and gravel is being hauled from Shady Creek to the road. tain this result. Three or four trucks are being used. thus relieving ‘the unemploy. Notwithstanding the fact that gold . the Lane garage. Next morning Robson asked the night watchman if anyone had reported a missing car. No one had. And in the meantime—Pengelli late Saturday night reported the theft of the car to the highway patrol and far and wide over the shortwave brogjdcast went the call to be on the lookout for a car>-of such and such a make. Finally Monday morning Chief Robson called up the highway patrol and asked if anyone had reported their carmissing.Oh, yes! Ray Pengelli had and then the denoument. Pengelliipaid for the towing and the storage, and Robsoh, thinking that that cost was something in the way of penance, tore up the ticket. MOUNTAIN HOUSE ROAD WILL BE C:AMPTONVILLE, — Apnil Changes have taken place on ae mountain roads following the .meeting of the Sierra county supervisors with three forest officials. Supervis or DeWitt Nelson, Engineer William Lee and District Ranger Frank W. Meggers, and Ranger Geo. E. King. Sierra county in Supervisor Carvin’s district has assumed the future care of the Sandusky road above Forest City, and the Magnes ridge road, ane the ridge Henness Pass road from Forest to Alleghany and the road from Mountain House to Goodyears Bar. In consideration of this, the forest service has consented to take care of the old county road from the Yuba county line to the Mountain House. This latter change is significant to this section in as much as the old Mountain House road gleads to the various mining properties north of here and also opens a vast forest and hunting ‘and recreation ground, and ‘in the past while Sierra county had control of it, practically nothing was done on it and it was in very poor shape. With this change it is expected that the forest service will improve the road and take better care of it. It taps a vast timberland and it is to their interest for fire fighting reasons to have this road in good shape. A. A. BLANCO IS NEW RUMSEY MANAGER A. A. Blanco of the Sacramento Rumsey store has been placed in charge of the W. M. Rumsey store in Grass Valley. Mr. Blanco has had a wide experience on the sales and management end of the household . and electric appliance business. Herman Beck, who has been in charge of the Grass Valley store, has resigned to accept a post in. Oakland where his family resides, Many of these men were taken off the Washington road when snow became too heavy to get to the work. If time permits or if the WPA receives new allottments the new. road to Washington will be continued later. Present work calls for seven day’s work per crew, 108 hours a month and 54 hours for a two weeks period. The county supplies a truck for thee men to leave Nevada City at 7 o'clock in the morning to go to the McCourtney road project. PUT IN REPAIR ‘co on business. BILL CAIN, NEW HEAD OF ROTARY — Bill Cain of Salas Auto Court was chosen president of the Nevada City Rotary Club yesterday following an election of a board of directors. Carol Coughlin was elected secretary. The board of directors elected consisted of the following: Clyde Gwin, Charles P. Elliott, Oscar Odegaard, Andrew Larsen, Dr. B. W. Hummelt and H. M. Leete. Alfred Kram, member of the Nevada County Irrigation district staff, gave an interesting description of his trip by bicycle through Europe and Asia Minor. By means of his bicycle he stated he was able to explore and see many places that the tourist rarely visits. He wheeled through Germany, Czechoslovakia, France, Italy, Greece and ‘yria. Nice in southern France, the speaker, declared, was situated in one of the most beautiful regions of all those he visited; Dold biiits; @ cerulean sea, lovely villas in great gardens, and dazzling beaches, combined to make it one of.the greatest pleasure resorts on earth. He wheeled his way to Venice and gave an interesting description of the Grand Canal and St. Mark’s square, where the architectural beauty, he thought was without peer on-earth. On the grand canal one may rent gondolas, either with or without gondoliers, may ride in taxi gondolas, or in boats that correspond to street cars. The picturesque mooring poles, striped like barber poles, and the stately palaces that line the Grand Canal were novel features of the canal. Florence is also a city of great beauty with many treasures in the way of architecture. He crossed from Italy to Athens in Greece, where he visited an American school there and from there wheeled into Syria. Owing to time limitations Mr. Kram had ‘to conclude his talk while still in Syria. and he was cordially invited, to finish it at another meeting of 'the club. : CARD PARTY SPONSOR CIVIC CL To raise money to help pay for the new shelves and other improvements which they have recently hat made at the city library the Nevada City Woman’s Civic Club will give a public card party. The party will be given in the lodge room of the Odd Fellows Hall on Friday night, April 16, at eight o’clock. There will be tables for auction, contract, whist and mah jongs. Prizes will be awarded for high score in each. It will help greatly if those interested in the library will get up a table for the evening. The charge will be twenty five cents per person. The library committee of the club consisting of Mrs. A. W. Hoge, Mrs. Leland Smith and Mrs, W. P. Sawyer, assisted by Mrs. C. E. Bosworth, Mrs. James Penrose and Mrs. Geo. Gildersleeve will have charge of arrangements. Any club member or others wishing to help by donating a prize please telephone to Mrs. A. W. Hoge, Sr., or to any club member. The club is hoping that there , will be many who will come for the evenings pleasure at the card games ‘and thus help with the library improve-~ ments. It was announced at Wednesday’s meeting of the club that this card party would be held on Wednesday night. Members please note it has been'thanged to Friday, April 16. TELEGRAM IS SENT TO ENGLEBRIGHT Tuesday the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, through its president, Fred E. Conner, sent the following telegram to Congressman Harry L, Engiebright: Hon. H. L. Englebright, House Representatives, Washington, D. C. The Nevada City Chamber of — Commerce congratulates and thanks _ you for the great fight you have made on behalf of the hydraulic miners of California. Y R. J. Berggren, and Harry Long spent last week end in San Fr: