August 12, 1929 (6 pages)

i) & k j i d i i y i _terests and the _ capital The Nugaét fs Ealiloralita Leading Mining Weekly Nevada City Nugget se eae VOLUME Il, ‘NUMBER 39. THE GOL CENTER = acim waa ens _NEVABA CITY, NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, THE COUNTY SEAT PAPER eemnmemarenr ce AUGUST 12, 1929 100 TON MILL 15 BEING PLANNED ROYAL COMPANY With the acquiring ‘of a large number of mining claims from Harry D. Ramsay, the Royal Development Company, which is operating the Royal Mine at Hodson in Calaveras county, is making preparations to enter the Nevada county field on a large seale. The properties taken over are located in the Meadow Lake district about eight miles from Cisco. The properties affected in the transfer from Ramsay are the Eagle Quartz, Nos. 1 pA ee a 7 . ts Free Milling, Mother Lode, White Quartz, Falcon and Grizzly Nos. 1 and .2, located on the south side of Old’ Man Mountain. There is also a river mill site at the base of the mountain: Most of the, claims are locations with the assessment work fully done on them. It is the intention of the company to erect a.100 ton selective flotation concentration plant on the property as the first unit of a 1060 ton plant to he built at a later date, as the resuil of. the examin:.tion of Messrs. Cheek and Hamilton. recently which chowed that the ore in the Number 3 tunnel will average around $17.00 per ton, of which this tunnel has at the present time nbout 800 feet of backs. The concentrates from the preliminary tests by the Pan American Engineering Corporation showed 6.72 ounces gold, 22.08 ounees. of silver and 23.4 per cent copper. < The officers:of the Royal are well known in the mining industry. H. E. White of Chicago is president. Fletcher Hamilton for ten years California state mineralogist, is vice president and general manager. Mr. Hamilton also gained distinction in having oeen appointed by the 64th Congress to represent a Senate investigation of the gold and silver industry at that time. Elliott Check, a well and favorably known engineer who was associated with the Old Flotation Limited inAnaconda Copper Company is a director,as is Harry D. Ramsay, company’s operations. Stoneback is secretary surer. Superintendent Ramsay telegraphed Friday that in the No. 1 tunnel on the Eagle vein, the shoot of ore is 20 feet wide anr sampling across William F. and treathe entire 20 feet shows coarse gold in the pannings. The Meadow Lake district . has been one of the mining puzzles with old methods of metallurgy. The gold in this district occurs in auriferous sulphides in iissure veins. Meadow Lake lies ina shallow draw on a ridge trending generally ina norhtwesterly ‘direction, and has an elevation of some 7300 feet. ‘tural and agricultural exhibit. superintendent of the): GRAYSTONE MINE NOW BEING DEVELOPED The Graystone mine ue e the Twin Sister is now. being opened up by Charles Hegarty its owner. A small crew is engaged in opening up the old tunnel. The of electric power to that section will mean a great deal of -development work started the coming year. SUPERVISORS ALLOT LARGE EXHIBIT SUM On representation from the Nevada County Farm Bureau that the original sum allotted for the placing of a. county exhibit atthe coming state fair, the supervisors last week raised the ante to $2500 which should provide ‘an excellent exhibit. M. D. Loney of Barnegat Ranch made a convincing talk to the board and promised an excellent horticulMr. Loney who is in charge of those features of the exhibit, has delegated Aubrey N. Wisker to secure the specimens and he is busy with the task. The last exhibit which was in eharge of Dan F. Norton was a knockout and prey home some fine prizes. H. W. Griffith, who is arranging the mineral display states that he is receiving fine cooperation from ae mining interests. OWENBY GOES T0 LOS ANGELES ON BUSINESS comes oD J. V. Owenby, general manager of. the Nevada Monarch Mining Company, operators of’the Bajd Mountain and South Fork properties at Forest ,has gone on a business trip to Los Angeles. A recent guest of the management was 8B. X. Dawson of New York City, who was much taken with the prospects of large production at the company’s propertes. FIRE DELEGATES ELECT NEW SET OF OFFICERS In.a meeting attended by the full board, the fire delegates got under way Thursday night for a new year under new. officers. Forrest Penrose, the newly elected depariment chief, was seated as chairman of the board. Ray Wilde was selected as secretary. ‘The delegates propose to put ina busy year. One of the improvements to be undertaken at once is the refurbishing of the Piety Hill ana Prospect Hill hose houses which have fallen more or less into decay, together with the equipment. Serviceable hose is to be put on the reels and everything put shipshape. pon sae rises to an elevation of . TRITER INSTALLS '§ NEW feet at English Mountain, 7800 at Old Man Mountain and 7860 at Signal, Peak. The greater portion of the area is made up of granidiorite. The granidiorite is in contact with the Blue Canyon formation on the west, a strip of Saflor Canyon formation on the north west, and east of tie latter is an area of diabase two miles in extent making up English Mountain. A series of veins is exposed between Summit City and Old Man Mountain which is very different in iis character from the typical gold suartz veins occurring in Callifonia. They strike to the north east, being fissure veins, often without defined walls. The ores carry gold, pyrite, arseno-pyrite and zine blends. The rouge consists of black tourmaline and epidote, The Royal Development: Compan is a Nevada corporation with a stock of $750,090, with a stock issue of three million. shares with a par value of 25¢e. The San Francisco offices are in the Russ Building. The Empire Mines and_ Investment Company is retiring over 90,000 shares of corporation stock, the (distribution of cash heing nearly $3,600,000. July 31st were reported of fifteen millions. Ignition Parts and Accesories at Miner’s Foundry. 24tf it in excess The assets on . RADIO SERVICE SHOP Charles W. Leiter has installed a new thing in Nevada City in the form of an exclusive radio studio in the Elks Building which. promises to become quite a popular spot. Artis tically fitted up in studio style. with floor coverngs, the place is at once an inviting one. A full line of. Atwater Kent models for which Mr. Leiter is dealer will be carried in stock ~ amd demonstrated: A complete stock of tubes, batteries and accessories will be on hand and servicing and repairing of all types and makes of radios will be done. A fully equipt repair shop has been fitted up in connection with the studio and guaranteed work will be done by expert help. Charles Cory, who has spent the past ten years in ° experimental radio work, rebuilding and repairing work, will be in charge of the studio and repair department .and will be associated with Mr. Leiter in the conduct of the business. Everyone is cordially invited te visit the studio, whether in the market or not for a set. The drink business must be good over in Truckee as one purveyor of joy juice was held up for $800 the other night. coming } AMERICAN FLAG LOOKS MINING LOCATIONS ARE PLACED COUNTY RECORD Mining localtions filed for record the past week are asfollows: NEAR IN TWIN . at the/32, T1§N R17E near Prosser Creek . and Truckee river by Arthur B. Foote and Jeanette H. Foote. Grass Valley quartz claim in Grass Valley Mining District adjoining Allison Ranch Stanton claim by Albert Morateur. Alta quartz claim in Washington Mining District in S%4 Sec 31, T18 N R11E by James Bradley. HIGH GRADE STRUCK AT BOREHAM MINE grad eore just twenty feet from the shaft, on the 200 level was accom. LEDGE LOOKING The big No. 3 tunnel Twin Sister mine which is now in 1000 feet looks to be drawing near to the ledge wall of the rich shoot which was uncovered in the No, 2 tunnel and it is not expected that it will take much distance to cut the ledge which is the objective of the present work. With the ledge reached, a station will be cut and a raise run to connect with the upper workings and preparations made for the extraction of ore as with the large amount of backs opened up there is plenty of ore in sight for steady milling for months to come. Several of the company stockholders were at the property the past week including Mr. Cooks of Los Angeles, Dave Rosasco and family of! plished at the Boreham mine on Healdsburg and Charles Miller Of . Banner Ridge souta of town last Geyserville. week. The shaft which was sunk to a depth of 200 feet was full width in. ore the last (°40 feet and the drift which was cut from that depth could not carry the full width of the ledge. The ore encountered is of the specimen variety and leads to the conclusion that a fine pay. shoot is ahead. The ledge at the’ surface prospects well. The drift runs, west from the shaft toward the adjoining Merrimac ground which showed rich values at the time it was worked. The property is equipped with a two 1250 pound stamp mill. <A concentrator is at present being installed prior to active millin;; operajtions. The site is admirably adapted for operations. The mill will be used during the development work which ‘will be pushed as soon as the milling equipment is ready for use. The property is being developed by the Grass Valley Boreham Gold Mining Company under a lease and bend. A. O. Witte of Los Angeles is president and general manager. Austin Boreham is superintendent in charge of operations. GRACIE SHAFT SINKING DOWN TO THE 300 LEVEL Serene A group of the Gold Lead stockholders visited the property yesterday. The Gold Lead people have had a tunnel going through the Twin Sister ground headed fo their gravel channel. The tunnel work is progressing about 2% feet per day on a_ single shirt. The combination of water power_and gas engine — gives. sufficient power to operate the compressor for the drills. Poles are being cut for the branch power line to connect with the new line from Alleghany to the Spanish mine. The branch line will be one third of a mile long. GOOD SAYS GRIMES The crossecut tunnel being run at the American Flag mine to intersect a large ledge was. in over 300 feet on Saturday and making good progress, reports James Grimes, one of the owners, who has been at the property for some days on an inspection trip. Since the Ist of July over 60 feet has been run. The ledge should be cut shortly and will give 500 to 600 feet of backs, Work of drifting east an another ledge is shortly to be undertaken. Shaft sinking operations at the The ledges all appear to carry. Gracie mine reached the 300 foo good values and are sulphide ore] jeyel Saturday. A pump station will be cut at this level and sinking will be resumed for another 50 feet, at’which point drifts will be run to open up the fine pay shoot uncoyered on the’ upper levels. Woodrum of San Francisco is head ing operations. R. N. McCormack is superintendent at the -property. GOLD HUB MINE SEES DEVELOPMENT WORK Operations at the Gold Hub prop erty, north of Forest aud near the Ruby mine, are progressing steadily. Drifts are being run, the 42 level drift now being in 500: feet and 100 level drift, 600 feet. ‘he property is an extensive one and includes also the Mohawk properties A. D. Hinton of Oakland is superintendent. IRRIGATION DISTRICT IN LOSS OF COURT DECISION The irrigation district was loser in the sult brought against the Yu ba River Power Company in the su preme court over the waters of the Middle Yuba. But as the Pacific Gas now owns or will, the Yubé River Power, it is hardly to be supposed that it will do much fighting against the district taking the water and putting it over into ‘Lake Spaulding for them as it is doing the other half of the water now being permitted for diversion. Meanor in. a sulphide zone. PUBLISHERS AUXILIARY “HAS SOME KIND WORDS A few weeks ago A. A. Willoughby, publisher of the Nevada City Nugget, put on a special mining number, The edition is printed on book paper with a colored cover and covers the extensive mining industry in Nevada City and vicinity. A directory of Nevada county mines, together with a history of the development of the mining industry, are items in the special number. The publisher is to be congratulated on his enterprise and the particularly attractive appearance of the edition. —PubHsher’s Auxiliary, Chicago. DIADEM COMPANY PLANS OPERATIONS AT FOREST The Diadem properties in the, town of Forest are being reopened} by the Diadem Mining Company and cousiderable development is being planned. The properties adjoin the North Star and Amethyst mines on the west. J. M. O’Rourke is superintendent. ELKS AT DOWNIEVILLE Nevada City Elks lodge is planning a pilgsimage to Downieville the coming month. the exact date depending on the reopening of. the highway between Downieville and Sierra City, so that’ the Plumas. while the,people on the San Juan county. bretheren can make the. Ridge are having to carry theii trip. Plans were laid at the meet-. drinking water in buckets from ing of the lodge on Friday night.} whatever springs they can find this Torace A. Cutiow will head the . }summer. The gardens and the crops committee, ean suffer. a W. P. Calkins, who formerly Mr. and Mrs. James Dolan and with his brothers edited acd owned the Neyada City Miner-Transcript passed «way recently in Coloradg. { his brother, Arthur Dolan, and fam‘ily spent a day at Dutch Flat recently, ‘years in this section to some form ‘of larger operations on a scale far Donald . -been under way by Fred W. BradENGLEBRIGHT VISIONS GREAT MINING HE SECURED LARGE APPROPRIATIONS In an interview granted The Nugget today, Congressman Harry L. Englebright envisioned the return of gold mining in the next few of its early glory from an industrial standpoint, that is, in the point eclipsing anything at present undertaken. Legislation enabling the return of placer mining under proper safeguards enacted within the aoe few years by both state and federal ' governments would be of inestimable help in bringing some of this activity intobeing. . “From what I have learned since my recent return from Washington the past month’’, stated Mr. Englebright, ‘it looks to me as if the gold mining sections of California were in for a real revival of activity that wil bring the industry back to something of its fornier status when it gave employment to many years have been in dire need. ereated should receive of all be accomplished by an effective organization. Yas lines ing prosperity is the very best form Prof gold mined and produced secures inany thousands of hardy men spread yolden prosperity Pacific Coast as no. other industry . has ever done or ever wii! do. Dae] to the marked . interest that nas . been shown in the gold mining in dustry, I. secured in the last Congress an increased appropriation of $130,000 for the geological survey which will be used in mapping the gold regions of California which will prove of inestimiable service to the industry. Another appropriation secured was $30,000 for the printing of literature on the Mother Lode and Alleghany districts and which has been meeting a larve demand from mining capital over the United States. For the Bureau of Mines I secured an appropriation of $125 000 for mineral mining investigations and an additional $20,000. especially for the. study of mining methods and costs of operations which should pruve o7 great deuefit to mining cperators. “These increased appropriations are bound to be very helpful to the gold mining industry in view of the fact that none such have. deen available during tne past 1f or 20 years. The determining of the cost of operations isan entirely new study for the bureau of mines and will open up a large field for research work. These appropriations shows that what has been aceomplished the past. year in bringing to the attention of Congress the needs of the gold mining industry. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on behalf of othe: ‘ines of activity but the mining in dustry has been allowed to languish because no organized effort had been exerted in its behalf in the way of) securing funds for investigations. “What has been . needed in thi: district has been the investment of large capital which can operate on a tremendous scale which is the tren¢ of modern business today. The copper, lead, zine, and iron miners have been carrying on for some years the idea of lage consolidated development. The same thing is now be ing applied to the gold’ mining in dustry. The costs’ of operation: today are such that it requires a large capacity output in order to ana , over the hold down the overhead expense: which very often cause the failure of smaller developments. We now have the start of large developments in Nevada county in the world wide Newmont interests taking over two well known Grass Valley properties. The large developments which have ley in the Washington section are of particular importance’ to this district. Mr. Bradley is one of the outstanding successful mining operators of the world and \, connected with some of the largest operations against the 100 shares of outstandcharge dividends of $4,350 per of preferred stock: schedule adopted Saturday by the board of supervisors, be around 12 cents hi: county rate in Nevad: be$4.10 per hundred, Valley and $5.70 in granted for a $5000 «appropriation, higher as it is not included in ihe above figures. The rate will not be finally set until September Ist. offers have Saturday. in Vancouver of member, business here, having bought out the er in law of Alphonse Hartung. The funeral was held today. Grand Master of California Masons, will pay an and the Placer county districts on Masons from Nevada City and Grass Valley are expecting that occasion. try have their trade to speak for them’ with reference to legislation and to advance and promote the welfare of their particular industry. The gold miners for organizations for an organization that would be representative of all phases of gold mining. The organization to be the support. companies and individuals interested in gold mining. Much can “Renewed activity in gold mining means renewed activity in all other of business. When the gold miners were enjoying prosperity all California was sharing in it. Minof prosperity that California can have because it is the creation of new wealth, and every one dollar five dollars worth of new capital for other lines of development”. “ ' TIGHTNER COMPANY TO PLAN REORGANIZATION The reorganization of the Tightner Mines Company,may follow the assessment of $36 per share levied ing stock which will be used to disseveral thousand dollars worth of debts. This company paid share on a total of $435,000 on its stock during its producing days and its subsequent sale of the Yightner ground at Alleghany to the 16 to 1 interests. In addition $80,090 was waid to shareholders of 80 shares In selling to the 16 to 1, the Red Stzer holdings lying north of the Gillespie Oseeola and Colorado propeities were retained and form a large p2ce of -attrae-tive ground. It is stated that 75 percent of the assessment’ is already in. E. L. Oliver of San’ Francisco is president, Bert Austin, vice president and R. BE. MeCu!lough, secretary of the Tightner company. COUNTY TAX RATE GOES UP SEVERAL KOPECKS According to the icntative. tax the rate will her per hundred than last year. Under the tentative ;chedule, the City would $:.20-in Grass Truckee. If the: Promotion Board iequest were. the rate would have to go. still AUGUST RAPP PASSES Milo Ledge, Knights of Pythias, received word of the an old August Rapp, who left here 21 years ago. He was formerly in Billy Andrews store.He was a brothGRAND MASTER TO VISIT Gustav A. Hutaff of Dunsmuir, official visit to this Wednesday, August 21st. Many to attend on A few days ‘ afterin Alaska and the United States, . wards the Grand Lodge will be con_ Anything that he undertakes he vened at Camptonville for the dedimakes a success of. cation of the Peltn Monument. on “We-have _other-large corpora. S2turday, August 3ist. Past Grane tions which are looking over this field. Large developments are about to. tdke place in the Mother Lode! charge of the latter ceremonies. counties of El Dorado, Calaveras, Amador, Tuolumne, and Mariposa, which will of course react favorably in other mining sections of the state. “The movement to organize a state wide mining organizatfon is of vital importance to the industry~ tonight. er ats going to Au-~ “burn Wednesday night for Grand © ing” may be assured -of Ridges: Aion. Practically all other lines of indusMaster George Il, Jones will be in ATTENTIO N, MASONS fe Second degree will be conferred — Master’s Visit should notify Master — or Seeretary so that all brehren goJ. F. Senger, Sec. J. W. Darke, ie

i) & k j i d i i y i _terests and the _ capital The Nugaét fs Ealiloralita Leading Mining Weekly Nevada City Nugget se eae VOLUME Il, ‘NUMBER 39. THE GOL CENTER = acim waa ens _NEVABA CITY, NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, THE COUNTY SEAT PAPER eemnmemarenr ce AUGUST 12, 1929 100 TON MILL 15 BEING PLANNED ROYAL COMPANY With the acquiring ‘of a large number of mining claims from Harry D. Ramsay, the Royal Development Company, which is operating the Royal Mine at Hodson in Calaveras county, is making preparations to enter the Nevada county field on a large seale. The properties taken over are located in the Meadow Lake district about eight miles from Cisco. The properties affected in the transfer from Ramsay are the Eagle Quartz, Nos. 1 pA ee a 7 . ts Free Milling, Mother Lode, White Quartz, Falcon and Grizzly Nos. 1 and .2, located on the south side of Old’ Man Mountain. There is also a river mill site at the base of the mountain: Most of the, claims are locations with the assessment work fully done on them. It is the intention of the company to erect a.100 ton selective flotation concentration plant on the property as the first unit of a 1060 ton plant to he built at a later date, as the resuil of. the examin:.tion of Messrs. Cheek and Hamilton. recently which chowed that the ore in the Number 3 tunnel will average around $17.00 per ton, of which this tunnel has at the present time nbout 800 feet of backs. The concentrates from the preliminary tests by the Pan American Engineering Corporation showed 6.72 ounces gold, 22.08 ounees. of silver and 23.4 per cent copper. < The officers:of the Royal are well known in the mining industry. H. E. White of Chicago is president. Fletcher Hamilton for ten years California state mineralogist, is vice president and general manager. Mr. Hamilton also gained distinction in having oeen appointed by the 64th Congress to represent a Senate investigation of the gold and silver industry at that time. Elliott Check, a well and favorably known engineer who was associated with the Old Flotation Limited inAnaconda Copper Company is a director,as is Harry D. Ramsay, company’s operations. Stoneback is secretary surer. Superintendent Ramsay telegraphed Friday that in the No. 1 tunnel on the Eagle vein, the shoot of ore is 20 feet wide anr sampling across William F. and treathe entire 20 feet shows coarse gold in the pannings. The Meadow Lake district . has been one of the mining puzzles with old methods of metallurgy. The gold in this district occurs in auriferous sulphides in iissure veins. Meadow Lake lies ina shallow draw on a ridge trending generally ina norhtwesterly ‘direction, and has an elevation of some 7300 feet. ‘tural and agricultural exhibit. superintendent of the): GRAYSTONE MINE NOW BEING DEVELOPED The Graystone mine ue e the Twin Sister is now. being opened up by Charles Hegarty its owner. A small crew is engaged in opening up the old tunnel. The of electric power to that section will mean a great deal of -development work started the coming year. SUPERVISORS ALLOT LARGE EXHIBIT SUM On representation from the Nevada County Farm Bureau that the original sum allotted for the placing of a. county exhibit atthe coming state fair, the supervisors last week raised the ante to $2500 which should provide ‘an excellent exhibit. M. D. Loney of Barnegat Ranch made a convincing talk to the board and promised an excellent horticulMr. Loney who is in charge of those features of the exhibit, has delegated Aubrey N. Wisker to secure the specimens and he is busy with the task. The last exhibit which was in eharge of Dan F. Norton was a knockout and prey home some fine prizes. H. W. Griffith, who is arranging the mineral display states that he is receiving fine cooperation from ae mining interests. OWENBY GOES T0 LOS ANGELES ON BUSINESS comes oD J. V. Owenby, general manager of. the Nevada Monarch Mining Company, operators of’the Bajd Mountain and South Fork properties at Forest ,has gone on a business trip to Los Angeles. A recent guest of the management was 8B. X. Dawson of New York City, who was much taken with the prospects of large production at the company’s propertes. FIRE DELEGATES ELECT NEW SET OF OFFICERS In.a meeting attended by the full board, the fire delegates got under way Thursday night for a new year under new. officers. Forrest Penrose, the newly elected depariment chief, was seated as chairman of the board. Ray Wilde was selected as secretary. ‘The delegates propose to put ina busy year. One of the improvements to be undertaken at once is the refurbishing of the Piety Hill ana Prospect Hill hose houses which have fallen more or less into decay, together with the equipment. Serviceable hose is to be put on the reels and everything put shipshape. pon sae rises to an elevation of . TRITER INSTALLS '§ NEW feet at English Mountain, 7800 at Old Man Mountain and 7860 at Signal, Peak. The greater portion of the area is made up of granidiorite. The granidiorite is in contact with the Blue Canyon formation on the west, a strip of Saflor Canyon formation on the north west, and east of tie latter is an area of diabase two miles in extent making up English Mountain. A series of veins is exposed between Summit City and Old Man Mountain which is very different in iis character from the typical gold suartz veins occurring in Callifonia. They strike to the north east, being fissure veins, often without defined walls. The ores carry gold, pyrite, arseno-pyrite and zine blends. The rouge consists of black tourmaline and epidote, The Royal Development: Compan is a Nevada corporation with a stock of $750,090, with a stock issue of three million. shares with a par value of 25¢e. The San Francisco offices are in the Russ Building. The Empire Mines and_ Investment Company is retiring over 90,000 shares of corporation stock, the (distribution of cash heing nearly $3,600,000. July 31st were reported of fifteen millions. Ignition Parts and Accesories at Miner’s Foundry. 24tf it in excess The assets on . RADIO SERVICE SHOP Charles W. Leiter has installed a new thing in Nevada City in the form of an exclusive radio studio in the Elks Building which. promises to become quite a popular spot. Artis tically fitted up in studio style. with floor coverngs, the place is at once an inviting one. A full line of. Atwater Kent models for which Mr. Leiter is dealer will be carried in stock ~ amd demonstrated: A complete stock of tubes, batteries and accessories will be on hand and servicing and repairing of all types and makes of radios will be done. A fully equipt repair shop has been fitted up in connection with the studio and guaranteed work will be done by expert help. Charles Cory, who has spent the past ten years in ° experimental radio work, rebuilding and repairing work, will be in charge of the studio and repair department .and will be associated with Mr. Leiter in the conduct of the business. Everyone is cordially invited te visit the studio, whether in the market or not for a set. The drink business must be good over in Truckee as one purveyor of joy juice was held up for $800 the other night. coming } AMERICAN FLAG LOOKS MINING LOCATIONS ARE PLACED COUNTY RECORD Mining localtions filed for record the past week are asfollows: NEAR IN TWIN . at the/32, T1§N R17E near Prosser Creek . and Truckee river by Arthur B. Foote and Jeanette H. Foote. Grass Valley quartz claim in Grass Valley Mining District adjoining Allison Ranch Stanton claim by Albert Morateur. Alta quartz claim in Washington Mining District in S%4 Sec 31, T18 N R11E by James Bradley. HIGH GRADE STRUCK AT BOREHAM MINE grad eore just twenty feet from the shaft, on the 200 level was accom. LEDGE LOOKING The big No. 3 tunnel Twin Sister mine which is now in 1000 feet looks to be drawing near to the ledge wall of the rich shoot which was uncovered in the No, 2 tunnel and it is not expected that it will take much distance to cut the ledge which is the objective of the present work. With the ledge reached, a station will be cut and a raise run to connect with the upper workings and preparations made for the extraction of ore as with the large amount of backs opened up there is plenty of ore in sight for steady milling for months to come. Several of the company stockholders were at the property the past week including Mr. Cooks of Los Angeles, Dave Rosasco and family of! plished at the Boreham mine on Healdsburg and Charles Miller Of . Banner Ridge souta of town last Geyserville. week. The shaft which was sunk to a depth of 200 feet was full width in. ore the last (°40 feet and the drift which was cut from that depth could not carry the full width of the ledge. The ore encountered is of the specimen variety and leads to the conclusion that a fine pay. shoot is ahead. The ledge at the’ surface prospects well. The drift runs, west from the shaft toward the adjoining Merrimac ground which showed rich values at the time it was worked. The property is equipped with a two 1250 pound stamp mill. <A concentrator is at present being installed prior to active millin;; operajtions. The site is admirably adapted for operations. The mill will be used during the development work which ‘will be pushed as soon as the milling equipment is ready for use. The property is being developed by the Grass Valley Boreham Gold Mining Company under a lease and bend. A. O. Witte of Los Angeles is president and general manager. Austin Boreham is superintendent in charge of operations. GRACIE SHAFT SINKING DOWN TO THE 300 LEVEL Serene A group of the Gold Lead stockholders visited the property yesterday. The Gold Lead people have had a tunnel going through the Twin Sister ground headed fo their gravel channel. The tunnel work is progressing about 2% feet per day on a_ single shirt. The combination of water

power_and gas engine — gives. sufficient power to operate the compressor for the drills. Poles are being cut for the branch power line to connect with the new line from Alleghany to the Spanish mine. The branch line will be one third of a mile long. GOOD SAYS GRIMES The crossecut tunnel being run at the American Flag mine to intersect a large ledge was. in over 300 feet on Saturday and making good progress, reports James Grimes, one of the owners, who has been at the property for some days on an inspection trip. Since the Ist of July over 60 feet has been run. The ledge should be cut shortly and will give 500 to 600 feet of backs, Work of drifting east an another ledge is shortly to be undertaken. Shaft sinking operations at the The ledges all appear to carry. Gracie mine reached the 300 foo good values and are sulphide ore] jeyel Saturday. A pump station will be cut at this level and sinking will be resumed for another 50 feet, at’which point drifts will be run to open up the fine pay shoot uncoyered on the’ upper levels. Woodrum of San Francisco is head ing operations. R. N. McCormack is superintendent at the -property. GOLD HUB MINE SEES DEVELOPMENT WORK Operations at the Gold Hub prop erty, north of Forest aud near the Ruby mine, are progressing steadily. Drifts are being run, the 42 level drift now being in 500: feet and 100 level drift, 600 feet. ‘he property is an extensive one and includes also the Mohawk properties A. D. Hinton of Oakland is superintendent. IRRIGATION DISTRICT IN LOSS OF COURT DECISION The irrigation district was loser in the sult brought against the Yu ba River Power Company in the su preme court over the waters of the Middle Yuba. But as the Pacific Gas now owns or will, the Yubé River Power, it is hardly to be supposed that it will do much fighting against the district taking the water and putting it over into ‘Lake Spaulding for them as it is doing the other half of the water now being permitted for diversion. Meanor in. a sulphide zone. PUBLISHERS AUXILIARY “HAS SOME KIND WORDS A few weeks ago A. A. Willoughby, publisher of the Nevada City Nugget, put on a special mining number, The edition is printed on book paper with a colored cover and covers the extensive mining industry in Nevada City and vicinity. A directory of Nevada county mines, together with a history of the development of the mining industry, are items in the special number. The publisher is to be congratulated on his enterprise and the particularly attractive appearance of the edition. —PubHsher’s Auxiliary, Chicago. DIADEM COMPANY PLANS OPERATIONS AT FOREST The Diadem properties in the, town of Forest are being reopened} by the Diadem Mining Company and cousiderable development is being planned. The properties adjoin the North Star and Amethyst mines on the west. J. M. O’Rourke is superintendent. ELKS AT DOWNIEVILLE Nevada City Elks lodge is planning a pilgsimage to Downieville the coming month. the exact date depending on the reopening of. the highway between Downieville and Sierra City, so that’ the Plumas. while the,people on the San Juan county. bretheren can make the. Ridge are having to carry theii trip. Plans were laid at the meet-. drinking water in buckets from ing of the lodge on Friday night.} whatever springs they can find this Torace A. Cutiow will head the . }summer. The gardens and the crops committee, ean suffer. a W. P. Calkins, who formerly Mr. and Mrs. James Dolan and with his brothers edited acd owned the Neyada City Miner-Transcript passed «way recently in Coloradg. { his brother, Arthur Dolan, and fam‘ily spent a day at Dutch Flat recently, ‘years in this section to some form ‘of larger operations on a scale far Donald . -been under way by Fred W. BradENGLEBRIGHT VISIONS GREAT MINING HE SECURED LARGE APPROPRIATIONS In an interview granted The Nugget today, Congressman Harry L. Englebright envisioned the return of gold mining in the next few of its early glory from an industrial standpoint, that is, in the point eclipsing anything at present undertaken. Legislation enabling the return of placer mining under proper safeguards enacted within the aoe few years by both state and federal ' governments would be of inestimable help in bringing some of this activity intobeing. . “From what I have learned since my recent return from Washington the past month’’, stated Mr. Englebright, ‘it looks to me as if the gold mining sections of California were in for a real revival of activity that wil bring the industry back to something of its fornier status when it gave employment to many years have been in dire need. ereated should receive of all be accomplished by an effective organization. Yas lines ing prosperity is the very best form Prof gold mined and produced secures inany thousands of hardy men spread yolden prosperity Pacific Coast as no. other industry . has ever done or ever wii! do. Dae] to the marked . interest that nas . been shown in the gold mining in dustry, I. secured in the last Congress an increased appropriation of $130,000 for the geological survey which will be used in mapping the gold regions of California which will prove of inestimiable service to the industry. Another appropriation secured was $30,000 for the printing of literature on the Mother Lode and Alleghany districts and which has been meeting a larve demand from mining capital over the United States. For the Bureau of Mines I secured an appropriation of $125 000 for mineral mining investigations and an additional $20,000. especially for the. study of mining methods and costs of operations which should pruve o7 great deuefit to mining cperators. “These increased appropriations are bound to be very helpful to the gold mining industry in view of the fact that none such have. deen available during tne past 1f or 20 years. The determining of the cost of operations isan entirely new study for the bureau of mines and will open up a large field for research work. These appropriations shows that what has been aceomplished the past. year in bringing to the attention of Congress the needs of the gold mining industry. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on behalf of othe: ‘ines of activity but the mining in dustry has been allowed to languish because no organized effort had been exerted in its behalf in the way of) securing funds for investigations. “What has been . needed in thi: district has been the investment of large capital which can operate on a tremendous scale which is the tren¢ of modern business today. The copper, lead, zine, and iron miners have been carrying on for some years the idea of lage consolidated development. The same thing is now be ing applied to the gold’ mining in dustry. The costs’ of operation: today are such that it requires a large capacity output in order to ana , over the hold down the overhead expense: which very often cause the failure of smaller developments. We now have the start of large developments in Nevada county in the world wide Newmont interests taking over two well known Grass Valley properties. The large developments which have ley in the Washington section are of particular importance’ to this district. Mr. Bradley is one of the outstanding successful mining operators of the world and \, connected with some of the largest operations against the 100 shares of outstandcharge dividends of $4,350 per of preferred stock: schedule adopted Saturday by the board of supervisors, be around 12 cents hi: county rate in Nevad: be$4.10 per hundred, Valley and $5.70 in granted for a $5000 «appropriation, higher as it is not included in ihe above figures. The rate will not be finally set until September Ist. offers have Saturday. in Vancouver of member, business here, having bought out the er in law of Alphonse Hartung. The funeral was held today. Grand Master of California Masons, will pay an and the Placer county districts on Masons from Nevada City and Grass Valley are expecting that occasion. try have their trade to speak for them’ with reference to legislation and to advance and promote the welfare of their particular industry. The gold miners for organizations for an organization that would be representative of all phases of gold mining. The organization to be the support. companies and individuals interested in gold mining. Much can “Renewed activity in gold mining means renewed activity in all other of business. When the gold miners were enjoying prosperity all California was sharing in it. Minof prosperity that California can have because it is the creation of new wealth, and every one dollar five dollars worth of new capital for other lines of development”. “ ' TIGHTNER COMPANY TO PLAN REORGANIZATION The reorganization of the Tightner Mines Company,may follow the assessment of $36 per share levied ing stock which will be used to disseveral thousand dollars worth of debts. This company paid share on a total of $435,000 on its stock during its producing days and its subsequent sale of the Yightner ground at Alleghany to the 16 to 1 interests. In addition $80,090 was waid to shareholders of 80 shares In selling to the 16 to 1, the Red Stzer holdings lying north of the Gillespie Oseeola and Colorado propeities were retained and form a large p2ce of -attrae-tive ground. It is stated that 75 percent of the assessment’ is already in. E. L. Oliver of San’ Francisco is president, Bert Austin, vice president and R. BE. MeCu!lough, secretary of the Tightner company. COUNTY TAX RATE GOES UP SEVERAL KOPECKS According to the icntative. tax the rate will her per hundred than last year. Under the tentative ;chedule, the City would $:.20-in Grass Truckee. If the: Promotion Board iequest were. the rate would have to go. still AUGUST RAPP PASSES Milo Ledge, Knights of Pythias, received word of the an old August Rapp, who left here 21 years ago. He was formerly in Billy Andrews store.He was a brothGRAND MASTER TO VISIT Gustav A. Hutaff of Dunsmuir, official visit to this Wednesday, August 21st. Many to attend on A few days ‘ afterin Alaska and the United States, . wards the Grand Lodge will be con_ Anything that he undertakes he vened at Camptonville for the dedimakes a success of. cation of the Peltn Monument. on “We-have _other-large corpora. S2turday, August 3ist. Past Grane tions which are looking over this field. Large developments are about to. tdke place in the Mother Lode! charge of the latter ceremonies. counties of El Dorado, Calaveras, Amador, Tuolumne, and Mariposa, which will of course react favorably in other mining sections of the state. “The movement to organize a state wide mining organizatfon is of vital importance to the industry~ tonight. er ats going to Au-~ “burn Wednesday night for Grand © ing” may be assured -of Ridges: Aion. Practically all other lines of indusMaster George Il, Jones will be in ATTENTIO N, MASONS fe Second degree will be conferred — Master’s Visit should notify Master — or Seeretary so that all brehren goJ. F. Senger, Sec. J. W. Darke, ie