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August 14, 1931 (8 pages)

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PRE atte street j i PAGETWO “~~ ‘THE NEVADA CITY NUGGET, CALIFORNIA THE NEVADA CITY NUGGET Published weekly on Friday morning at Nevada City, Calif., ~ and entered as mail matter of the second class in the postoffice at Nevado City, under Acf of Congress, March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ne Year. pny address in California, in advance ...... $2.00 DP ictcide Cadzfornia, inn Ol. Si ccc sciences acters 2.50 Tabi TVR TAE EAS oiccscn apse ec sarenancscocnnnsosssnnaconsurdoncnnsesmmennsedongenongprecentn 60 One Month A Legal Newspaper of General Circulation for Nevada City nd Nevada County, as defined by legal statute. Printed and published at Nevada City. 0 IE Si San SAY eae eer vere rns oe Editor and Publisher Thomas Bessler —_—_— DICKEY BOY, LIMITED . TROUT AGREE COPPER SHOWS GOOD VALUES BETTER THAN PEBBLES Sonora Calif.,. August 14—In 4 Although great countries are conrecent mill test on three tons of ore} stantly tussling with the silver-gold tthe Dickey Boy Mine, Ltd., controllstandard problems,. trout at the Yo_ wed by Lee R. Cordray of Los An-. semite hatchery of the Division of “geles and associates. and operating; Fish and Game have. stolen the tthe Diekey Boy property on Sulli-. march and readily agree on copper. twan Creek, two miles south of SoOf course there may be a number tora, obtained by amalgamation $9 ‘of sly angles: to this sa ton in gold. The resultant concenard business and perhaps a line of ttrates, amounting to eight percent discussion would not be amiss. szave am assay return of $180.55 a It seems that there is a beautiful ston in gold, it is: officially stated. outdoor aquarium at the above nam“The combined recoveries give the. ed hatchery. It also seems that inwore a total value of more than $23] terested spectators are in the habit into the water in la ton. The ore tested was extracted . of tossing pebbles from a shoot. showing a width of order to see the fine big trout rise sseven feet in the bottom of a 97-. and strike. Now then, Peter Topp, the fellow who cares for these trout, soon dis_ “oot vertical shaft, which has just Meen retimbered preliminary to its : ontinuation to a depth of 300 feet covered thatthe cleaning problem on the main vein, which traverses . had assumed . the proportions of a the property in a northwesterly and major activity. Shoveling piles and ‘southeasterly direction, according to . Piles of pebbles from the acquarium “Manager Cordroay during the sombre moments after the : crowds had disappeared sort of aphis inventive sense of res 2 crew is conAt present the’ mine cre s lpaated ‘ fining work tothe extension of Ra: ¢new drift tunnel on a cross vein in One day he dropped a shiny cop~which there is an eight-inch streak eof ore assaying $60 a ton in gold. Et is estimated by Mr. Cordray that %t will be necessary to drive the new sadit a total distance of 180 feet to weveal the junetion of the cross fedge with the main vein, at which woint avertical depth of 150 feet ‘will be gained. He states that a 25thorsepower electric hoist, a fourdrill compressor and machine drills ‘will be installed in the immediate future to expedite operations. The! <«ompany is also planning the early erection of a reduction plant, which ~will include a ten-stamp mill and 50Q-ton ball mill. Cc. A. Gillis of Tuttletown, with C. H Holbrook, Jr, of San Francisco, is operating the Argo mine, ten miles east of Groveland, @nnounces that within the next ten days the three-stamp mill on the! j property will be placed in commisWill some one kindly step forward gion treating ore being extracted in, with.a’ few dimes or quarters? the extension of the south drift on . —0 the bottom or 100-foot level of the incline shaft. Thus far the drift nas LOS ANGELES INTERESTS 120 fect the drift BUY REPUBLIC MIN 275 feet. For the last 120 feet the drift has been exposing . “in ore body averaging in width two . feet and in value $25 a ton in: Jamestown, Calif., August 14—H. #zold. The ore continues in the face. D. Meyer, F. A. Virtue and assoAt the 250-foot point in the drift . ciates of Los Angeles have purchasa station is being cut preliminary tg! ed from the State of California the making awinze in the orebody. An . Republican mine, notable early day ir hoist and pump-will be installed . producer, and contiguous property, to facilitate this work. Mr. Gillis. embracing, in all, 197 acres, states. . Woods Creek, eight miles south of Jamestown, and plan its immediate of miners in the sinking of an in-. T¢habilitation. The property is cred<line shaft on his property on Bull . ited with a past production of Creek, 12 miles northeast of Coy)-. $500, 000. It has a 600-foot inchine ‘terville. The shaft, now down gq . shaft, with lateral workings aggrefeet, is exposing gating, it is said, more than 4,000 0 ifeet, which were extended 25 years WANDEGRIFT MORE THAN . azo. The property is traversed by a LIKELY GETS THE POSITION : Duse vein of free milling ore, it is x stated.. The new owners, it is learnInformation was brought ieee plan the early buliding of a dam Pasadena in the last few days that ° Woods Creek two miles from the Rolland A. Vandegrift will likely be ; Property and erection of a 20-stamp mamed Manager of the City of. Pasa-! mill on the mine. : dena at a meeting of the City Coun-. il within the next ten days. at the “lure. After a the successful trout tank to get quick nibble merely dropped bottom. And this is how the pebble tossing ended. As soon as a crowd of probable pebble throwers assemble, Topp would edge up to'‘the tank and casu_ jallytoss a penny to the fishes— the effect was almost magnetic on fish and spectator alike. Pebbles retired in dismay. Soon a regular shoWer of pennies slithered through the water. The who,. beautiful coppery lustre. Thus the die was cast. The cleaning process is not nearly so laborious, according to reports, and the state hatchery is gathering quite a ‘‘striking’’, fund. John Porah is employing a crewj an 18 inch vein. John D. Garaventa and Odelia : Restano are pushing the developHis ability asa financiar has been “ment of their Hendrickson property Proven on many occasions. at Shaw’s Flat, five miles north of The -selection of Vandegrift by Jamestown. Their incline shaft is Governor James Rolph for the posi-. nearing the 200-foot point, at which] “tion of State Finance Director is; crosscutting will be inaugurated. ~ample proof that he knows the tax] The shaft is exposing eight inches of question to its lowest depths. gold ore which pans well, it is He was selected by the governor! ~+ ’ FoNawie~ 0. YAKOTA MINERS RCH FOR GRAVEL GOLD 0ticle shows that gold is bet in all sections of the ates: \ TOOD, S. D.,—Gold pan : 3 have started placer minBlack Hills streams with it rivals the famous 1876 c ~~ of the” unemployment . dd the rise in value of men have staked out all ‘ound and in some cases led elaborate equipment to coax the yellow gold copper standj per penny into the pool. The trout} nearly butted each other out of the/state lodge, the copper to the. bottom of the acquarium assumed at on mo Sn RE: ell Bane r Ah, And Ay Both Wenez arnal CHARLES S/ KINNISON As when you came to me— My Dear, I seldom see. But when I do observe them, though, : And sometimes see a hair Or two, that’s turning gray, I know I helped to put them there! But as I see your youth depart I do not pine, with yearning heart, For one more yeuihful year! ys © For though, of course, we older grow, And each year takes its due, Life grows the sweeter, too. = LIFE LINES no—you're not as youthful now yet, those furrows in your brow, id middlg age draw near, you and I as lovers know from its hiding place. Rockers, sluice boxes, Long Toms and modern gold machines are a common sight along French Creek, Bear Creek and ‘Potato Gulch. Miners claim that they are making good wages. Henry Raver, whose
dairy farm supplied President Coolidge with milk while he was atthe found placer mining more profitable than dairy farming. He has been averaging about two dolfars a yard, and is reported to have made as much as $25 in one day. On this farm $40,000 in gold was mined in the '70’s. during a single month. . ‘Potato Creek’’ Johnny Perett,! recently found a nugget valued at! '$150 and another at $40 and inet Swans sold one that was worth $250. . Other prospectors in the Potato , Creek district average from $5 to $8 a day. The prospectors use various! méthods and the favorite, common-! , est and least expensive seems to be. ‘the pick, shovel and gold pan. By this method the miner picks loose {the rocks, shovels coarse gravel into . the pan, takes it to the side of a ;running stream and lets the Wator. {do the work. 1 . { A modern machine, however, is at iwork on French Creek. The ore is; . shoveled into an ore bin, and from! bin into a funnel, where water . _ washes the dirt into a large circular . rotating machine which operates by, ‘ pentifrugal force in much the same! ‘ manner as a cream separator. The} ‘whirling bowl is cleaned out each! night and a little panning separates . the gold from the gravel. The gold is sent to the mint at Denver by the storekeepers, who buy . ‘it from the prospectors, or sold to! a bank. ‘MOTHER LODE COUNTIES i“Golden. State.”’ Director of Publir ~Works, Walter Garrison, Edward Hyatt, state engineer and irrigation district chiefs are also invited to be present and take part n the discussion. In the afternoon of September 24 an executive meeting of the moun, tain counties delegation will be held where plans’ will be discussed on the program for the meeting. The conservationists. headed by ‘D. Fricot hope to work out a coordinated plan that will be recogniz_ ed by the state committee of the state chamber of commerce and the legislative water committee, which will give the mountain counties some protection in the new water legislation that is expected to be enacted at the special session of the state legislature next January. For the past ten year, Mr. Fricot and the conseryationists of the mountain counties have been working on a plan to conserve enough water in the mountain counties for . their future use. Twice a bill has been passed by the legislature, only to be killed by the governor veto. STAT GOLD PRODUCTION IN MILLION DOLLAR GAIN’ California still may be called the . According to figures on file with the state bureau of comnierce, the; production of gold amounted to! more than $9,450,000 in 1930, a gain of more than $1,000,000,000 over the previous year. The production amounted tol 457,199 fine ounces. Silver produc, tion also increased, raising from 1,176,895 ounces in 1929 to 1,622,803 last year. (— >) . ) . WHILE IN CAMPTONVILLE VISIT THE TO SEEK WATER PLAN. Se The Calaveras County Chamber of} Commerce headed by D. Fricot will} sponsor a meetiag of representatives of the mountain counties the Calaveras cement plant on September 24, at which time the plans for the mountain counties water conser, vation program will be discussed. . } Counties invited to send delegations LEADER GARAGE And Have “Stan’’ Look Your 1 Car Over and Estimate your Work—FREE. GAS AND OIL ' TIRES AND TUBES FREE AIR Jare Nevada, Placer, El Dorado, CAMPTONVILLE CALIF. }Amador, Mariposa and Tuolumne. :[} Phone 3 State Senators, Assemblymen, State. ‘ 4y — = —\ California Mining Journal, Nevada City, Calif. Please send me a sample copy of California Mining ~ Journal. . am a Nugget subscriber. De a a a ee ek Oe he oteeee eee sen SR HMHr ee rnrenniebebbiieb init FRIDAY, AUG 14, 1931 109J Phones 109M JOHN W. 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