August 17, 1936 (6 pages)

} Thinking Out Loud Nevada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA eity you The Nevada’ City Nugget lelpsyour and prosperity. By subscribing. to, and advertising in the Nugget, thercfore, and county to grow in population help yourself, H. M. L. In a democracy it would seem ill advised that any candidate for public service should attempt to ride in. to office on feats of arms or statesao Be manship performed by, his ancestors, a Pride of the individual in his illustrious ancestry, of course, is par. se te and even acceptable among 4 his neighbors, provided’ he exempliI 4 fies in chafacter and achievement those qualities that made. his forebeats famous. We have mind Benton Fremont, grandson of the great (‘John Fremont, candidate for the U. S. . House of Representatives from this district. Frankly we never knew until this. announcement of-.candidacy that General Fremont had any descendants in this state. Until this moment apparently Benton Fremont has done nothing in the way of public service to. win even a passing flash of the public spot light. Rea)izing this he leans heavily on his genelogoical tree. Personally we don’t think the tree should be obliged to support this incubus. Nexa Saturday night at Bret Harte Inn the Hydraulic Mining Association of California is giving a great banquet at. which Congressman Harry L. Englebright will be the guest of honor, We know in advance that at that banquet table every available seat will be taken. It is the first time in a long while that neighbors of Harry Englebright have had a chance to show their appreciation of the many fine things he has aecomplished for this district during his years in Congress. It is especialiy appropriate that the dinner in his honor should be sponsored by the men _interested in hydraulic mining, since this particular branch of the mining industry most of all, has been the beneficiary of his services. For, when the first steam shovel of river bottom is lifted in the construction of the debris. dams, the vast project conceived and carried through a four campaign to success by Congressman Englebright, there will open a new era of prosperity for,this district. It will be thé beginning of year 2 v beneficient ecdnomie eycle in which A fc tS ‘all activities of this .region will participate and profit. [f there were no A‘nther achievement to which Mr. Enebright could point, .this alone should be.a monumental and irrefutable reason for his return to. the House of Representatives. In these last days of the hectic battle going forward in the contest for the seat in the state senate between R. L. P. Bigelow and Jerrold L. Seawell, incumbent, one is tempted to draw the deadly parallel, illustrating the characters of the two contestants. We believe that nothing reveals the character of a man so much as the methods he uses to be elected to office. It has often been-a deciding factor, when we enter a booth, -to reflect on the ‘kind of battle candidates have waged in their respective campaign, and to place the cross after the name of the man whose record in this respect is clean. We believe most of our readers who love fair play and fair dealing will be inclined to weigh these circumstances when they come to vote, and to place their cross after the name of R. L. P: Bigelow. No matter what some of the candidates say regarding the duties of those who make ordinances and laws, the truth of the matter is that nothing they do is more important than constructing good roads in this district. Yesterday we had occasion to traverse the Rim of the Lake road around. Tahoe.-It.is one of the most scenic roads in California. A smooth wide highway that makes accessible the entire beautiful perimeter of that great sbody of living blue water for recreation and renegeration of hundreds of thousands of people. A few weeks ago we traveled over the Yuba Pass and into the wonderfully beautiful Sierra Valley and reflected upon the immense importance of this road to the cattle men, dairymen and mining men of this entire secaion. These are the two <Ag,ads that Dick Bigelow built by obviniatne the co-ordination of state, federal and Forest Service funds for the construction of these two high‘ways. Now that Mr. Bigelow is asking to continue in a wider field his public service, we feel confident that the people of these three mountain counties will show their appreciation of his great achievement and his abilities by electing him to the (piste Senate. : What Mr. Bigelow has done to improve and make living conditions easier in his long service as Forest Vol. 10, No. 80. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center MONDAY, ‘AUGUST 17, 1936. The Yuba Pass road from Downieville to Hobart Mills will, when comDleted ‘have cost $1,250,000. This is the statement of Bruce B. Burnett, engineer in charge of Forest Service roads. Engineer. Burnett © states: “Bigelow fought for this project against ‘considerable opposition. The Yuba Pass road was not a_ state highway when constructed. The section from Downieville to Satley has already cost $763,000, and that from Sierraville to Hobart Mills, $215,000.” The Yuba Pass county road together with other main county roads traversing the Tahoe National Forest were recommended by Forest Supervisor RichardP. Bigelow to be placed in the Forest Highway system soon after the plan of Forest highways was originated. At that time funds were only allotted for construction when’ the counties or the state would cooperate on a 5U150 basis with the Federal Government. Bigelow conférred with the Board of Supervisors of Sierra county soon after this recommendation was approved placing the Yuba Pass county road into the Forest Highway system. It was his endeavor to obtain cooperation from the county for the construction of this highway. but Sierra county on account of lack of funds could not meet the 50-50 requirements. Bigelow then conferred with the heads of the Forest Service and was successful.in having this road viewed by the head engineers of the. Forest Service and the U. S. Bureau of Roads. There was opposition to the project. but Bigelow with the help of the Board of Supervisors of Sierra county and the late Judge Redding of Downieville-persisted that funds should be allotted and finally when Paul E. Redington was placed as Regional Forester of the California District, “he and Begilow at Bigelow’s request went. before the Sierra county board and discussed the project. At that meeting.in the summer of 1923 it was finally decided that on account of the inability of Sierra county to meet the requirement of 50 per cent cooperation that this requirement would be waived and early in 1924 the necessary agreements were signed by the county board of supervisors and the Secretary of Agriculture and the first installment. for the construction of this highway was allotted and the contract for the first unit from Satley to the Gold Lake Road was awarded. ‘Work was started in June, 1924. Before this contract was. completed the second contract, was let from the Gold Lake Road junction to Sierra City and as fast as Forest Highway funds were available work progressed steadily until this highway was completed to Downieville at a final cost of $763,000. After Congressman Harry Englebright was elected to Congress he assisted the Forest Service in obtaining appropriations for Forest highway funds as our representative of Congress and was an immense help in furthering the Forest highways of this district—not only in Sierra county ‘but in other counties of his district but the Yuba Pass Forest highway was conceived and (Continued on Page Six) or Arbogast has done in the smaller domain of his supervisorial district. Measured in terms of public. need, good roads are only less important than good schools, and nowadays good schools must depend upon good roads. Considering the small amount of money which Supervisor Arbogast has had to spend, the great improvement he has made in the 135 miles of roads in this district in his four year term of office, is remarkable. Not only has he made the roads in this district safer and smoother, but he thas helped to reduce the taxes and at the same time energetically shared in the work of modernizing our county buildings, the courthouse and the county hospital. A vote for Arbogast is a vote to continue the present business-like regime on its road to progress and -eounty.-upbuilding. Yuba Pass Road Is Monument To Service Rendered By Bigelow GRACEY MINE MILL DEDICATED AT BARBECUE The Gracey Mine mill whistle announced to Nevada City residents Sunday morning that the property Jhad started production and milling. The management of the Gracey mine held open house Sunday at the mine, in honor of the starting of the mill. About 100 people were present to witness the dedication ceremonies of 'the new mill. Mrs. Ed Wilkinson, wife of one of the principal stockholders, broke the bottle of champagne on the mill. Mr. George R. Carter of Nevada City was in charge of preparing the barbecue. Among out of town prominent people present were, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wilkinson, Stockton; Mr. and Mrs. E. Wilson, San Francisco, principal stockholders; Mr. Russell Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilkinson and superintendent of the Black Oak mine, Placer county;; Mr. <A. G. Hanke, former operator of the Ancho-Erie mine, and a stockholder in the new company; O. H. Simmonds, prominent mining engineer of New York and Messrs. E: J. N. Ott and F. F. Cassidy of Nevada City. Storage space for ore had been filled to capacity and mining held up due to lack of space. Now that the mill has started, work of mining will re resumed. : The whistle blew again at 7 o’clock this morning announcing the welcome news of men starting’ on another shift. The new management have the best wishes of the entire: district for suecess in this property which holds such fine promise of becoming a big producer. _Mr., H. Hy Bean, connected with the Miners /Foundry inthis city is taking a weeks vacation. HEADQUARTERS © BUILDING FOR FOREST SERVICE Purchase of a Forest Supervisor’s headquarters site in Nevada City has been approved. Supervisor DeWitt Nelson of the Tahoe National Forest announces that approval,has been received for the purchase of the Native Daughters Park Site, which adjoins the Alpha Hardware, for the purpose of building a Forest headquarters building. The property at present is owned by the Native, Daughters of the Golden West and _ immediate action is being taken to clear title and consummate the purchase. As soon as title is assurred, an architect will be put to -work designing an appropriate fire-proof building, which it is hoped can be constructed during the .coming winter. The lot on which the Forest Service is to erect a headquarters building for the Tahoe National Forest was. formerly the site of the Central St. John hotel which was conducted for many years by Miss Josephine Downing, daughter of one of the early residents here, who at one time owned what was known as'the Downing block. The property was presented to the Native Doughters by E. M. Rector and G. J. Rector on behalf of the Nevada County Bank. The stipulation was made that it be maintained as a city park and the Native Daughters have so maintained it for many They subsequently added to their holding by the purchase from Grissel brothers of the lot between the. former St. John Hotel corner and the present Alpha Stores building. Under the present arrangement and sale to the U. 8S. Forest Service, the Rector brothers waived ‘the provisio under which the lot was originally deeded to the Native Daughters, restricting it to park purposes. It iwas felt that now that the city has a fine park of its own, the need fora small park of this kind no longer exists, and that the business and community interest will be far better served by the erection of a new government building on the lot. years. pleted and rehearsals are now pro. gressing briskly for the big water pageant at the pool in Pioneers Park next Friday evening. This annual earnival of water sports and athletics is for the benefit of the pool and the park. Oscar Odegaard of the Nevada County Lumber Company, is providing free of charge the planks from which the seats along the terraces overlooking the pool are to be constructed. Art Remple of Grass Valley is providing the amplifier and music for the pageant and for the dance which participants in the pageant will hold in Seaman’s lodge. following the water pageant. Verle Gray, pool manager, who is in charge of the show, announced today that the Northern California high school diving champion, Earl Johnson, will appear and give an exhibition of high and fancy diving and will also illustrate the new breast stroke, known as the ‘‘flying fish.’’ It was through Verle Gray’s efforts that’ Johnson consented to give this exhibition here. Gray formerly coached Johnson in his extraordinary aquatic feats. Johnson ‘will leave immedjately after the pageant to enter in the contest at Los Angeles for the National Junior Diving champoionship there. All participants in the pageant are urged to be at the pool this evening at seven o’clock to rehearse the several events which will feature the pool will be changed this evening instead of Friday night as has usually been the case. On Friday the pool will be open from nine o’clock in the morning until 3 o’clock in the afternoon, after which ‘it will be closed big water carnival. The water in the Champion Diver to Take Part in Water Pageant _ All arrangements have. been com. ‘cast that have parts in the pageant. Neptune this year will be impersonated by Bud Biggs, strapping athlete° whose prowess in the water has given him the reputation of being a human seal Attending hinf will be four little mermaid pages, Roberta, Betty and Susanne Deschwanden and Doris.Garwood. Other mermaids wil: be Patsy King, Myrtle Berry, Betty Smith, Hazel and Dorothy Thomas. The water clowns will be Carl Tobiassen Jr., Bill Masterson, and Chick Thomas. Herb’ Hallett, Jim Barret and Carl Tobiassen will do the fire diving. Verle Gray reports that tickets for the pageant are going like hot cakes. The price of admission is only 25 cents and the success of last years water pageant is helping to sell the tickets for next Friday night, especially as the pageant this year will have many added attractions. The water pageant tickets are on sale at the following stores:. Kopp’s Bakery, Betty Jean Shop, Mrs, Preston‘s Newsstand, Nevada City Drug Store; Nevada City Nugget, Alpha Stores (Mrs. Virginia Ghidotti,) The Lace House (Mrs. Ruby Miller), Bosworth Furniture Co., Foote Electrical Co., Dickerman’s Drug Store, Colley’s Ice Cream Shop, J. J.\Jackson’s Grocery Shop, Harris Drug \ Store, -and Plaza Grocery. Mr. J. V. McClain was awarded a fine pair. of maplewood skates at the skating rink in Armory hall a few days ago. He had just bought a high priced pair, so auctioned “the new ones off at the rink. Last Monday night Mr. H. Merriweather of the Zeibright mine also won a pair of skates. Mr. T, L. Keller is operator of the rink and stated skates are Announcement has just been made that the Miners Foundry and Supply Company has been acquired by the following named individuals: Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Goyne, Benjamin Hall and Ted Edinger with a view to, extending the plant to increasé production and efficiency. The greatest project and the one nearing completion is in the welding and steel fabricating department . )under the direction of Mr. Edinger, where a new building of 4,000\ feet of floor space practically quadruples the old plant. The addition of mono .rail. hoists and travelers together with the production layout ‘bof the floor plan should result in large savings of mutual advantage to management and customers, at the same time providing facilities for steel fabrications of any size or intricacy,,.and materially ~increasing production on the famous “Miners Foundry are-car_and mills. The office facilities under management of Mr. H. H. Bein have been materially extended, including additional floor space to handle the welcome increase in volumn of business. The Miners Foundry has recently Miners Foundry Is Reorganized, Expands been appointed distributors for the Whité and Indiana trucks the counties of Nevada, Sierra, Placer and El Dorado with Mr. Robert Brandienier in change of sales and serin vice, whose energetic handling of this department is to include the infacifities for these vehicles, which program is now stallation of service under way. The foundry and machine shop under the management of Richard Goyne is being newly equipped and generally over hauled toward increased production. The work in question is progressing slowly due to the pressure of current business, but it. is hoped that the completion of the projects will be accomplished within the next 60 days. The Miners Foundry is one of the oldest and best known business firms in Nevada county and has been since 1860 a most dependable source of service in the Nevada City and surrounding mining districts. It has also enjoyed the patronage of far distane fields, even South Africa and Alaska. SEVEN COUNTIES OVER TOP FOR MERRIAM RECALL. Seven California counties have reported themselves ‘‘over the top’’ on their quotas of signatures -for ae petition, sponsored . by. the United Organizations for Pro. gressive Political Action, the UOPP A recall office announced today. They stated that the total number of signatures now safely locked in safe deposit vaults places the recall within striking distance of filing. At the-same ttime they charged a desperate effort by those wnfriendly to the inovement to block further securing of signatures, charging that circulators have been bought. off, and openly threatened. If’ checking-of recall signatures passes the November‘ election deadline, Frank O’Brien, recall secretary said, a special election will be call. ed. He pointed out that the cost of such an election would be infinitesimal, compared with the expected tax increases when the governor draws up his 1937-39 budget early in January, and but one eighthieth of the present state deficit. Simultaneously, the UOPPA revealed that Raymond L. Haight, former state corporation commissioner, who astonished the state by his showing in the 1934 gubernatorial race, is far and away in the lead in the statewide gubernatorial preference poll being conducted by the recall group. Instituted to gain an idea of the voters’ choice for a Merriam guccessor, the still incomplete poll shows Haight with more votes than all the rest of the possibillties listed, the UOPPA said. O’Brien, in charge of the _ poll, stated that Haight at present has better than 52 per cent of the votes, with State Senator Culbert L. Olson a poor second with 20 per cent. Governor Merriam and Publisher Man‘chester Boddy are third and fourth, respectively, while other “choices have ‘practically no‘ support. Voters were selected at random from the lists of both major parties, on a basis of their statewide proportionate registration. O’Brien announced that recall headquarters are to operate as usual. In a statement today, Rube Borough, former Los Angeles newspaper man in the recall organization said: “We are determined to oust the governor from office, and nothing will deter us. In the welter of ob‘Seurity surrounding the Pacific Mutual ‘re-organization,’ the people are now beginning to see Merriam in his old familiar role of cat’s-paw to a ‘group of powerful business men. “His administration is openly backing ‘the tide lands oil drilling Merriam recall has ever before supported a privately ,originated initiative measure, for the final rehearsal of the big i H xe at <e ‘, awarded each Monday evening. ‘September ‘home of Thomas Oliver at Nevada ‘W. Hummelt. Officer Charles States the drivers of the ca initiative. No other. administration: “The stench of the liquor grafts CLUB ABANDONS SHOW FOR LACK OF FLOWERS The committee of the Nevada City Woman’s Civic clib appointed to arrange for a fall flower show have, after due consideration decided not to have a show this year. The committee consisting of Mrs. C. E. Parsons, chairman, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. R. J. Bennetts, Miss Winnie Mulloy, Mrs. A. W. Hoge, Mrs. J. B. Newsome, Mrs. Hal Draper,Mrs. James Penrose, Mrs. Bert Forman and Mrs. Frank Farmer have carefully weigh~ ed all angles of the affair and decided that due to the lack of flowers at this time, caused by hot weather which forced an early bloom, @ flower show would not be feasible. The ladies have put on such beautiful shows. in the past‘and ever aim to make each one surpass.the past. They did not believe that this could be done this year. However they still have a great working enthusiasm ror civic projects and will direct their energies to.some other event. A spring flow\ er show has been discussed but no : conclusion arrived at. The club year opens on Monday, 14 and at this meeting further plans will be discussed. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WILL MEET TONIGHT , President Fred E. Conner of the Chamber of Commerce requests that all members attend the meeting tonight at the Chamber of Commerce ' rooms. Important matters to be decided upon are: Final settlement of Fourth of July celebration, financial affairs; proposed transportation in — the Washington distrnet, and the: dinner next Saturday night at the — Bret Harte Inn, Grass Valley, com— plimentary to Congressman H. L. En= glebright. e CAR ROLLS OVER AND At an early hour this morning as two. cars attempted to pass near the City’s southern limits, the ear of F. L. L. Harris seemingly skidded and after turning over a time or two landed against a tree badly dam ‘ed. The door was pried open Mr. Harris out. He received a cut his leg which was treated by D they were both at fault in th: cident. . ee which are flourishing u rises from> some new vent most weekly reg : rity’

} Thinking Out Loud Nevada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA eity you The Nevada’ City Nugget lelpsyour and prosperity. By subscribing. to, and advertising in the Nugget, thercfore, and county to grow in population help yourself, H. M. L. In a democracy it would seem ill advised that any candidate for public service should attempt to ride in. to office on feats of arms or statesao Be manship performed by, his ancestors, a Pride of the individual in his illustrious ancestry, of course, is par. se te and even acceptable among 4 his neighbors, provided’ he exempliI 4 fies in chafacter and achievement those qualities that made. his forebeats famous. We have mind Benton Fremont, grandson of the great (‘John Fremont, candidate for the U. S. . House of Representatives from this district. Frankly we never knew until this. announcement of-.candidacy that General Fremont had any descendants in this state. Until this moment apparently Benton Fremont has done nothing in the way of public service to. win even a passing flash of the public spot light. Rea)izing this he leans heavily on his genelogoical tree. Personally we don’t think the tree should be obliged to support this incubus. Nexa Saturday night at Bret Harte Inn the Hydraulic Mining Association of California is giving a great banquet at. which Congressman Harry L. Englebright will be the guest of honor, We know in advance that at that banquet table every available seat will be taken. It is the first time in a long while that neighbors of Harry Englebright have had a chance to show their appreciation of the many fine things he has aecomplished for this district during his years in Congress. It is especialiy appropriate that the dinner in his honor should be sponsored by the men _interested in hydraulic mining, since this particular branch of the mining industry most of all, has been the beneficiary of his services. For, when the first steam shovel of river bottom is lifted in the construction of the debris. dams, the vast project conceived and carried through a four campaign to success by Congressman Englebright, there will open a new era of prosperity for,this district. It will be thé beginning of year 2 v beneficient ecdnomie eycle in which A fc tS ‘all activities of this .region will participate and profit. [f there were no A‘nther achievement to which Mr. Enebright could point, .this alone should be.a monumental and irrefutable reason for his return to. the House of Representatives. In these last days of the hectic battle going forward in the contest for the seat in the state senate between R. L. P. Bigelow and Jerrold L. Seawell, incumbent, one is tempted to draw the deadly parallel, illustrating the characters of the two contestants. We believe that nothing reveals the character of a man so much as the methods he uses to be elected to office. It has often been-a deciding factor, when we enter a booth, -to reflect on the ‘kind of battle candidates have waged in their respective campaign, and to place the cross after the name of the man whose record in this respect is clean. We believe most of our readers who love fair play and fair dealing will be inclined to weigh these circumstances when they come to vote, and to place their cross after the name of R. L. P: Bigelow. No matter what some of the candidates say regarding the duties of those who make ordinances and laws, the truth of the matter is that nothing they do is more important than constructing good roads in this district. Yesterday we had occasion to traverse the Rim of the Lake road around. Tahoe.-It.is one of the most scenic roads in California. A smooth wide highway that makes accessible the entire beautiful perimeter of that great sbody of living blue water for recreation and renegeration of hundreds of thousands of people. A few weeks ago we traveled over the Yuba Pass and into the wonderfully beautiful Sierra Valley and reflected upon the immense importance of this road to the cattle men, dairymen and mining men of this entire secaion. These are the two <Ag,ads that Dick Bigelow built by obviniatne the co-ordination of state, federal and Forest Service funds for the construction of these two high‘ways. Now that Mr. Bigelow is asking to continue in a wider field his public service, we feel confident that the people of these three mountain counties will show their appreciation of his great achievement and his abilities by electing him to the (piste Senate. : What Mr. Bigelow has done to improve and make living conditions easier in his long service as Forest Vol. 10, No. 80. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center MONDAY, ‘AUGUST 17, 1936. The Yuba Pass road from Downieville to Hobart Mills will, when comDleted ‘have cost $1,250,000. This is the statement of Bruce B. Burnett, engineer in charge of Forest Service roads. Engineer. Burnett © states: “Bigelow fought for this project against ‘considerable opposition. The Yuba Pass road was not a_ state highway when constructed. The section from Downieville to Satley has already cost $763,000, and that from Sierraville to Hobart Mills, $215,000.” The Yuba Pass county road together with other main county roads traversing the Tahoe National Forest were recommended by Forest Supervisor RichardP. Bigelow to be placed in the Forest Highway system soon after the plan of Forest highways was originated. At that time funds were only allotted for construction when’ the counties or the state would cooperate on a 5U150 basis with the Federal Government. Bigelow conférred with the Board of Supervisors of Sierra county soon after this recommendation was approved placing the Yuba Pass county road into the Forest Highway system. It was his endeavor to obtain cooperation from the county for the construction of this highway. but Sierra county on account of lack of funds could not meet the 50-50 requirements. Bigelow then conferred with the heads of the Forest Service and was successful.in having this road viewed by the head engineers of the. Forest Service and the U. S. Bureau of Roads. There was opposition to the project. but Bigelow with the help of the Board of Supervisors of Sierra county and the late Judge Redding of Downieville-persisted that funds should be allotted and finally when Paul E. Redington was placed as Regional Forester of the California District, “he and Begilow at Bigelow’s request went. before the Sierra county board and discussed the project. At that meeting.in the summer of 1923 it was finally decided that on account of the inability of Sierra county to meet the requirement of 50 per cent cooperation that this requirement would be waived and early in 1924 the necessary agreements were signed by the county board of supervisors and the Secretary of Agriculture and the first installment. for the construction of this highway was allotted and the contract for the first unit from Satley to the Gold Lake Road was awarded. ‘Work was started in June, 1924. Before this contract was. completed the second contract, was let from the Gold Lake Road junction to Sierra City and as fast as Forest Highway funds were available work progressed steadily until this highway was completed to Downieville at a final cost of $763,000. After Congressman Harry Englebright was elected to Congress he assisted the Forest Service in obtaining appropriations for Forest highway funds as our representative of Congress and was an immense help in furthering the Forest highways of this district—not only in Sierra county ‘but in other counties of his district but the Yuba Pass Forest highway was conceived and (Continued on Page Six) or Arbogast has done in the smaller domain of his supervisorial district. Measured in terms of public. need, good roads are only less important than good schools, and nowadays good schools must depend upon good roads. Considering the small amount of money which Supervisor Arbogast has had to spend, the great improvement he has made in the 135 miles of roads in this district in his four year term of office, is remarkable. Not only has he made the roads in this district safer and smoother, but he thas helped to reduce the taxes and at the same time energetically shared in the work of modernizing our county buildings, the courthouse and the county hospital. A vote for Arbogast is a vote to continue the present business-like regime on its road to progress and -eounty.-upbuilding. Yuba Pass Road Is Monument To Service Rendered By Bigelow GRACEY MINE MILL DEDICATED AT BARBECUE The Gracey Mine mill whistle announced to Nevada City residents Sunday morning that the property Jhad started production and milling. The management of the Gracey mine held open house Sunday at the mine, in honor of the starting of the mill. About 100 people were present to witness the dedication ceremonies of 'the new mill. Mrs. Ed Wilkinson, wife of one of the principal stockholders, broke the bottle of champagne on the mill. Mr. George R. Carter of Nevada City was in charge of preparing the barbecue. Among out of town prominent people present were, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wilkinson, Stockton; Mr. and Mrs. E. Wilson, San Francisco, principal stockholders; Mr. Russell Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilkinson and superintendent of the Black Oak mine, Placer county;; Mr. <A. G. Hanke, former operator of the Ancho-Erie mine, and a stockholder in the new company; O. H. Simmonds, prominent mining engineer of New York and Messrs. E: J. N. Ott and F. F. Cassidy of Nevada City. Storage space for ore had been filled to capacity and mining held up due to lack of space. Now that the mill has started, work of mining will re resumed. : The whistle blew again at 7 o’clock this morning announcing the welcome news of men starting’ on another shift. The new management have the best wishes of the entire: district for suecess in this property which holds such fine promise of becoming a big producer. _Mr., H. Hy Bean, connected with the Miners /Foundry inthis city is taking a weeks vacation. HEADQUARTERS © BUILDING FOR FOREST SERVICE Purchase of a Forest Supervisor’s headquarters site in Nevada City has been approved. Supervisor DeWitt Nelson of the Tahoe National Forest announces that approval,has been received for the purchase of the Native Daughters Park Site, which adjoins the Alpha Hardware, for the purpose of building a Forest headquarters building. The property at present is owned by the Native, Daughters of the Golden West and _ immediate action is being taken to clear title and consummate the purchase. As soon as title is assurred, an architect will be put to -work designing an appropriate fire-proof building, which it is hoped can be constructed during the .coming winter. The lot on which the Forest Service is to erect a headquarters building for the Tahoe National Forest was. formerly the site of the Central St. John hotel which was conducted for many years by Miss Josephine Downing, daughter of one of the early residents here, who at one time owned what was known as'the Downing block. The property was presented to the Native Doughters by E. M. Rector and G. J. Rector on behalf of the Nevada County Bank. The stipulation was made that it be maintained as a city park and the Native Daughters have so maintained it for many They subsequently added to their holding by the purchase from Grissel brothers of the lot between

the. former St. John Hotel corner and the present Alpha Stores building. Under the present arrangement and sale to the U. 8S. Forest Service, the Rector brothers waived ‘the provisio under which the lot was originally deeded to the Native Daughters, restricting it to park purposes. It iwas felt that now that the city has a fine park of its own, the need fora small park of this kind no longer exists, and that the business and community interest will be far better served by the erection of a new government building on the lot. years. pleted and rehearsals are now pro. gressing briskly for the big water pageant at the pool in Pioneers Park next Friday evening. This annual earnival of water sports and athletics is for the benefit of the pool and the park. Oscar Odegaard of the Nevada County Lumber Company, is providing free of charge the planks from which the seats along the terraces overlooking the pool are to be constructed. Art Remple of Grass Valley is providing the amplifier and music for the pageant and for the dance which participants in the pageant will hold in Seaman’s lodge. following the water pageant. Verle Gray, pool manager, who is in charge of the show, announced today that the Northern California high school diving champion, Earl Johnson, will appear and give an exhibition of high and fancy diving and will also illustrate the new breast stroke, known as the ‘‘flying fish.’’ It was through Verle Gray’s efforts that’ Johnson consented to give this exhibition here. Gray formerly coached Johnson in his extraordinary aquatic feats. Johnson ‘will leave immedjately after the pageant to enter in the contest at Los Angeles for the National Junior Diving champoionship there. All participants in the pageant are urged to be at the pool this evening at seven o’clock to rehearse the several events which will feature the pool will be changed this evening instead of Friday night as has usually been the case. On Friday the pool will be open from nine o’clock in the morning until 3 o’clock in the afternoon, after which ‘it will be closed big water carnival. The water in the Champion Diver to Take Part in Water Pageant _ All arrangements have. been com. ‘cast that have parts in the pageant. Neptune this year will be impersonated by Bud Biggs, strapping athlete° whose prowess in the water has given him the reputation of being a human seal Attending hinf will be four little mermaid pages, Roberta, Betty and Susanne Deschwanden and Doris.Garwood. Other mermaids wil: be Patsy King, Myrtle Berry, Betty Smith, Hazel and Dorothy Thomas. The water clowns will be Carl Tobiassen Jr., Bill Masterson, and Chick Thomas. Herb’ Hallett, Jim Barret and Carl Tobiassen will do the fire diving. Verle Gray reports that tickets for the pageant are going like hot cakes. The price of admission is only 25 cents and the success of last years water pageant is helping to sell the tickets for next Friday night, especially as the pageant this year will have many added attractions. The water pageant tickets are on sale at the following stores:. Kopp’s Bakery, Betty Jean Shop, Mrs, Preston‘s Newsstand, Nevada City Drug Store; Nevada City Nugget, Alpha Stores (Mrs. Virginia Ghidotti,) The Lace House (Mrs. Ruby Miller), Bosworth Furniture Co., Foote Electrical Co., Dickerman’s Drug Store, Colley’s Ice Cream Shop, J. J.\Jackson’s Grocery Shop, Harris Drug \ Store, -and Plaza Grocery. Mr. J. V. McClain was awarded a fine pair. of maplewood skates at the skating rink in Armory hall a few days ago. He had just bought a high priced pair, so auctioned “the new ones off at the rink. Last Monday night Mr. H. Merriweather of the Zeibright mine also won a pair of skates. Mr. T, L. Keller is operator of the rink and stated skates are Announcement has just been made that the Miners Foundry and Supply Company has been acquired by the following named individuals: Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Goyne, Benjamin Hall and Ted Edinger with a view to, extending the plant to increasé production and efficiency. The greatest project and the one nearing completion is in the welding and steel fabricating department . )under the direction of Mr. Edinger, where a new building of 4,000\ feet of floor space practically quadruples the old plant. The addition of mono .rail. hoists and travelers together with the production layout ‘bof the floor plan should result in large savings of mutual advantage to management and customers, at the same time providing facilities for steel fabrications of any size or intricacy,,.and materially ~increasing production on the famous “Miners Foundry are-car_and mills. The office facilities under management of Mr. H. H. Bein have been materially extended, including additional floor space to handle the welcome increase in volumn of business. The Miners Foundry has recently Miners Foundry Is Reorganized, Expands been appointed distributors for the Whité and Indiana trucks the counties of Nevada, Sierra, Placer and El Dorado with Mr. Robert Brandienier in change of sales and serin vice, whose energetic handling of this department is to include the infacifities for these vehicles, which program is now stallation of service under way. The foundry and machine shop under the management of Richard Goyne is being newly equipped and generally over hauled toward increased production. The work in question is progressing slowly due to the pressure of current business, but it. is hoped that the completion of the projects will be accomplished within the next 60 days. The Miners Foundry is one of the oldest and best known business firms in Nevada county and has been since 1860 a most dependable source of service in the Nevada City and surrounding mining districts. It has also enjoyed the patronage of far distane fields, even South Africa and Alaska. SEVEN COUNTIES OVER TOP FOR MERRIAM RECALL. Seven California counties have reported themselves ‘‘over the top’’ on their quotas of signatures -for ae petition, sponsored . by. the United Organizations for Pro. gressive Political Action, the UOPP A recall office announced today. They stated that the total number of signatures now safely locked in safe deposit vaults places the recall within striking distance of filing. At the-same ttime they charged a desperate effort by those wnfriendly to the inovement to block further securing of signatures, charging that circulators have been bought. off, and openly threatened. If’ checking-of recall signatures passes the November‘ election deadline, Frank O’Brien, recall secretary said, a special election will be call. ed. He pointed out that the cost of such an election would be infinitesimal, compared with the expected tax increases when the governor draws up his 1937-39 budget early in January, and but one eighthieth of the present state deficit. Simultaneously, the UOPPA revealed that Raymond L. Haight, former state corporation commissioner, who astonished the state by his showing in the 1934 gubernatorial race, is far and away in the lead in the statewide gubernatorial preference poll being conducted by the recall group. Instituted to gain an idea of the voters’ choice for a Merriam guccessor, the still incomplete poll shows Haight with more votes than all the rest of the possibillties listed, the UOPPA said. O’Brien, in charge of the _ poll, stated that Haight at present has better than 52 per cent of the votes, with State Senator Culbert L. Olson a poor second with 20 per cent. Governor Merriam and Publisher Man‘chester Boddy are third and fourth, respectively, while other “choices have ‘practically no‘ support. Voters were selected at random from the lists of both major parties, on a basis of their statewide proportionate registration. O’Brien announced that recall headquarters are to operate as usual. In a statement today, Rube Borough, former Los Angeles newspaper man in the recall organization said: “We are determined to oust the governor from office, and nothing will deter us. In the welter of ob‘Seurity surrounding the Pacific Mutual ‘re-organization,’ the people are now beginning to see Merriam in his old familiar role of cat’s-paw to a ‘group of powerful business men. “His administration is openly backing ‘the tide lands oil drilling Merriam recall has ever before supported a privately ,originated initiative measure, for the final rehearsal of the big i H xe at <e ‘, awarded each Monday evening. ‘September ‘home of Thomas Oliver at Nevada ‘W. Hummelt. Officer Charles States the drivers of the ca initiative. No other. administration: “The stench of the liquor grafts CLUB ABANDONS SHOW FOR LACK OF FLOWERS The committee of the Nevada City Woman’s Civic clib appointed to arrange for a fall flower show have, after due consideration decided not to have a show this year. The committee consisting of Mrs. C. E. Parsons, chairman, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. R. J. Bennetts, Miss Winnie Mulloy, Mrs. A. W. Hoge, Mrs. J. B. Newsome, Mrs. Hal Draper,Mrs. James Penrose, Mrs. Bert Forman and Mrs. Frank Farmer have carefully weigh~ ed all angles of the affair and decided that due to the lack of flowers at this time, caused by hot weather which forced an early bloom, @ flower show would not be feasible. The ladies have put on such beautiful shows. in the past‘and ever aim to make each one surpass.the past. They did not believe that this could be done this year. However they still have a great working enthusiasm ror civic projects and will direct their energies to.some other event. A spring flow\ er show has been discussed but no : conclusion arrived at. The club year opens on Monday, 14 and at this meeting further plans will be discussed. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WILL MEET TONIGHT , President Fred E. Conner of the Chamber of Commerce requests that all members attend the meeting tonight at the Chamber of Commerce ' rooms. Important matters to be decided upon are: Final settlement of Fourth of July celebration, financial affairs; proposed transportation in — the Washington distrnet, and the: dinner next Saturday night at the — Bret Harte Inn, Grass Valley, com— plimentary to Congressman H. L. En= glebright. e CAR ROLLS OVER AND At an early hour this morning as two. cars attempted to pass near the City’s southern limits, the ear of F. L. L. Harris seemingly skidded and after turning over a time or two landed against a tree badly dam ‘ed. The door was pried open Mr. Harris out. He received a cut his leg which was treated by D they were both at fault in th: cident. . ee which are flourishing u rises from> some new vent most weekly reg : rity’