August 23, 1943 (4 pages)

Page F our a onmemaemn ~— COD’S COUNTRY (Continued from Page One) closes rather amazing values. Admittedly there are thousands of tons of commercial ore available in mining more attractive. The Gaston vein is on a contact of granite and vein and a richer one, is in the granite and has not been developed at the ~drain tunnel level. The Ethel Mine, two miles north of the river and 2500 feet higher, was operating in 1903 under Al Maltman, who carried on for six or seven years. Tom Reynolds, who is in the construction business in this city, was millman at the time. He states that the average monthly cleanup was. $8000 to $9000 from a shoot of ore 300 feet long, above the tunnel level, with a small crew of men. A shaft was started to bottom this ‘shoot but was abandoned at 60 feet because the compressor capacity was not sufficient to handle the water. Steam, converted to electric, was the power used. The Arctic Group on Canyon Creek embraces some 8 veins which have the same general trend as those of : it. re sos ania tenia Two years ago a Nevada company took over the Cosmopolitan and jerected a small mill. From the tunnel within a few months they gouged Out an ore shoot 4 feet thick that iran as high as $48 a ton. In -the . meantime they did no “development ,be no deep mines anywhere at all. ; The situation at the Arctic was ‘rather unusual owing to the fact that ; Angles and vicinity were interestied. For many years the only under. to perform the annual work. Some of ithe shareholders were unable to keep ‘up their end and the real burden fell 'on two or three who had to shoulder lall, with the result that work was imuch curtailed. In the meantime, however, the company had completed in 1914 a 6600 volt hydro-electric plant and had installed a large compressor, all 'Creek. The plant still stands, toigether with office building and boarding house in good condition awaiting owned by L. F. Utter of Los Angeles. There are a number of other properties within this area which have not worked beyond the state of prospects. It will be noted that the most better days for mining. It is now ,operated almost . worked the crevices to bring forth more of the precious metal. Great {numbers of Chinese were thrown out lof employment when the Central Pacific railroad had been complet,ed in 1867. They had been import'ed on contract labor from China. . In the ’80s Washington and vicin! to any extent bit rather were en-. Whatever in order to find new ore. ity was headquarters for perhaps a largemenis of existing raises along! Obviously if this method of mining;thousand miners. It had 19 saloons, the sides of which this sampling dis-; was follewed generally there~would two hotels and other stores and had . two competing stage lines to Nevada City. Harking back to the better days the Gaston and Gambrinus just as;the company was a cooperative. afalong the, Yuba, the hydraulic mining . soon as higher prices for gold make; fair in which many people of Los camps played their part in-the general prosperity of the time. High ;above Washington on the ridge to slate, while’ the Gambrinus a smaller . 8round advancement was by-contract. the south sat the little town of Omega, and when hydraulic mining was declared out of order after the Sawiyer decision in 1884, it was a lively place with 200 or more people. It had competing stage lifies, a hotel, two stores and a Masonic Chapter of its own. Omega had earned a name for itself by producing from its gravels : ;during the ’70s f.rom $110,000 to operated by free water from Canyon. $120,000 a year. For many years after it continued to yield some of the coarsest nugget gold to be found anywhere in the west. It ‘has been continually ever since and would be working today under normal conditions. The site of the old town has been washed away these many years, for it stood on pay gravel. ‘Alpha was rather a small compersistent mines, yielding the greatest values; those that have made the Eagle Bird and Yuba, a mile and "90s by Harry Stowe when all sup-. plies had to be brought in over al rough trail on mule back. He sunk 4. shaft 180 feet deep with a horse! history in the district, like the Bagle } a half south. The Washington Chief, . Bird, the Yuba, the Blue Bell, Gas-. About a mile and a half of this group, was worked in thejton and Garbrinus are either on the'Omega granite+~late contact or within the granite. Of course, there are exceptions—. like the Ancho-Erie, for instance, . munity which owed its existence to a narrow neck of gravel that had resisted erosion under the lava cap. ally a toll road, it was a _ west of. which lasts until September 3. He is it was separated from thatinow in the employ of the U. S. Imentirely. camp by the canyon of Scotchman! migration Service in San Francisco. ‘Creek. A road from Washington was His wife is also employed by the fedbuilt to serve the diggings. Origin-. era] government. -somewhat . Nevada City Nugget — Monday, August 23, 1943 Mr. and Mrs. Ed Martz of near Areata are spending this week end re cenminneiditeaiaeiag seeneienensies — ) review and reissuance by the boards. y on or after August 23rd. All gas ra“OCT SONG “i tion books must be returned to the!Saturday were their sons, Carl and local board not later than five days. Louie Netz, who are both on leave after a car is sold. ‘in their home on the Murchie road.' 'Mr. Martz is employed in mining war mimerals. T. Angiolini of Boulder street i ‘now working in the Southern Pacific jshops at Colfax, driving back and Donahue ;forth to work each day. He resign-'yy,. ,ed recently from bus driving for the . jcompany after holding that position . and Mrs. ifor the past eight’ years. ‘Miss Ida Pratti returned to San! Francisco Sunday after enjoying a Valley; week’s vacation in Nevada City with . Cemetery. DEATH HART—In Grass Valley, . County, August 21, 1943, Mrs. Kath-. 'Francisco and they are “jerine Hart, mother i : ;muir, Siskiyou County, a NETZ BOYS IN U. S. NAVY Visitors at the Lugwig Netz home from the U. S. Navy and their wives. Louie Netz is just home from the Sicilian campaign and hoine on a 30 day leave. His wife resides in San enjoying Nevada of Mrs. Beatrice. part of the time here with his par. \Jacka of Grass Valley, Mrs. Eleanor of Oakland, ents. Carl Netz, on a 15 day leave is California, . visiting his wife in Grass Valley. He Marion Kneebone of Berkeley,. has just returned from a five month Florence Downs of Duns-'course at Camp Perry, Virgitiia. Be! native of fore returning to service the young . Pennsylvania, aged 65 years. Funer-,.man and wives will visit their two *\al services August 23, 1943, in Grass sisters and families who reside in interment in the Elm Ridge Martinez. LADY JANE MANOR SOLD her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Pratti. : Mjrs. Elton 'Tobiassen, who has! been visiting her father and mother . in law, left Friday for Winchester Bay, Oregon, to join her husband who has just completed attending petty officers school. Mrs. Carl Tobiassen, Jr. hase returned to her “What You leu With WAR BONDS No More Brass home in San Bernardino after spending several days here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Woods and husband’s parents, Sheriff and Mrs. Carl J. Tobiassen. Everett Angove, who entered the ‘armed services in February from Nevada City, is now stationed at Pendelton Air Base, Oregon, a member of the quartermaster’s dept. He is home on short furlough. Phillip {Angove, his brother is stationed in . Casa Blanca, Morocco. He is in the . medical corps of the U.S. Navy. ; O. F. Tonella came; up from San . Francisco to enjoy “his vacation of a bugle. nent bases. Among those spending the week On land or at sea our fighting men do their many chores by the sound All sorts of uncomplimentary epithets are used to desighate the bugler, but nobody has yet been able to provide a satisfactory substitute for a bugle although recordings are used at some permaLady Jane Manor, one of Nevada Counity’s show places has been sold by William J. Ross to Leonard Redman, Ine. The consideration as indicated by revenue stamps on the deed was $30,000, approximately. . Harold Robinson, insurance man of Grass Valley, first purchased the property and improved it with: a large residence and other buildings gome 15 years ago. The, holding: includes vineyards, orchards and pasture lands and is eituated on the Grass Valley-Auburn Highway abort 8 miles west of Grass Valley. ABSENTEE BALLOTS Thus far 147. service men have taken out absentee ballots from the county clerk’s office. Of this number 14 have been returned, for the special election for Representative in the Second Congressional District. This is regarded as an indication that the soldier vote in the 18 counties of the district will be light. August 26th is the last day such ballots may be obtained. ibility of the mine before the road foot vein to the Arctic was built. The croppings of the Arctic vein 700 feet above the canyon, sample tunnel ran by Henry Kohler he had to pack whatever was essary up a trailless thaze of loose pany are now as much as $10 a pound. . A cross cut tunnel from Canyon Creek has been driven into the hill! road. supposed to be the Arctic vein, but fined to identity as no raises have been run . to verify it. rough area I have taken when of commercial ore which nec-'available at the war’s building a will along the A large number of Chinese had al4 birthplace of Emma \ready ‘settled there attracted by the) famous singer. The site of the old Up Canyon Creek in an extremely. gold in the gravels. They were ex-/. house is still ore, river . particular’ advantage in The old road builders figured 9n The Eagle Bird Co. built a road up the south side of the Yuba that placed it within 11 miles of EmiWashington itself was a flourish-. grant Gap. It was so steep that a! for a thousand feet and from it some ‘ing village in 1847 although at that/dashboard was necessary to drifting has been done along what is'time practically all ‘mining was conmanure out of the buggy. d placering there is considerable doubt as to its and the bars above it. keep Alpha is. perhaps better remem. bered by Nevada Countyans as the Nevada, the undisturbed. Emma samples . pert at cleaning bedrock and would. came to Nevada City and sang for from an outcrop which assayed $9/. lease ground already worked by the and no work has ever been done on!/whites and in their meticulous way 4 us, as nearly as I can remember. in 1902. She tried to please the audilence by singing some of @ The choice of wise home-owners . familiar songs, but we paid $3 to hear her. Summing up the situation in this /promising field of future mining— along the ridge particularly — the question naturally arises as to why this area has been so ne#lected in the past. There are several contributing causes. Perhaps the worst is the socalled ‘‘rotten granite” or slacked granite, which runs almost like quicksand in the presence of water. This danger might be illustrated in the fate that befell one Jack Driscoll in the old Boston Tunnel on the Rainbow Claim. The face of the tunnel had been breastboarded and Driscoll had been sent in with a Chinese carman. He had never worked in this kind of ground, so ~ he foolishly’ took an axe and chopped into the boarding, which had in the meantime impounder a lot of water and running ground; behind it. The bulkhead gave wy so quickly that he was buried alive before he could escape and when he was dug out he still clutched a piece of the Chinaman’s jumper, but the Chinaman, being on the outside of the car man-. aged to escape. . To work ground of this character it is necessary to first drain off the T{ water and this is no problem because the whole ridge can be most economically worked through adit tunnels. i the old; whim and took out pay ore, as can. Which, while it is in the slate belt , longer than the Phelps Hill road but end in Nevada City from the U. S. be proven by the dump samples, bu:z,has recently opened under the man-/had no he was handicapped by the inacess-. agement of Fred H. Anderson, a 16 grade. : of excellent milling . while driving a lower tunnel from!connecting two places in the short-: Poorman Creek. This tunnel is ae! est distance possible. Sixteen feet 500 feet below the old workings and!rise in a hundred seemed to be pop1from $4 to $50 and from a 200 foot should develop several thousand ions!Jar; sometimes it was 10 and 20. On ‘day at the Jeffrey home at Town be. ithe old road from Colfax to Iowa Talk* with a delightful dinner. Also end. The com-. Hill I have checked slopes of 22 per present for the happy affair were new road 'cent. boulders, he took out ore which ran ,along Poorman Creek from the Span-. {ish Mine which will be an all winter forest service camp at _ Sierraville . were Louie Savio, Elton Davies, Pack Williams and Ed Martine. The birthdays of Will Jeffery and son, Pvt. Charles Jeffrey of MsClel-j; ‘lann Field, were celebrated on Suniw. Jeffrey's sistez-in law, Mrs. Ida Guenther of Nevada City and niece, ‘Mrs. Clay Epperson and son of Bakersfield. ‘ ‘ RATION FACTS FOR CONSUMERS By MRS H. E. KJORLIE ’ LOCAL BOARD Stoves—Rationing of all domestic eooking and heating stoves will go into effect August 24th. All dealers and distributors must register on iSeptember 1, 2 or 3 at local boards on Form R-902 in triplicate. They must provide, in their registration statement, the number of stoves in Aboard ship the men fall in at the order of ‘‘Pipe muster.’’. On land the buzler scunds ‘‘Assembly!”’ But no matter where the bugle is used thousands must be bought out ‘of : ; : ears. the money we are investing in War 7 DEATH ELNDAHL—In Downieville, Sierra County, August 19, 1943, Olaf Elfdahl, a native of Sweden, aged Funeral services August 21, Bonds. Back the attack with an extra $100 Bond in the 3rd War Loan. . ty: U.S. Treasury Department . tery. 74 1943, in’ Nevada City, Nevada Couninterment in Pine Ridge CemeQuoted from a letter. a “My conscience hurts me today. “When I was washing up before getting off the train this morning, I learned that six sailors and three soldiers had sat up all night. These men were making this trip under orders—yet there was no sleeping space available for them. “When I think of the effort you of Southern Pacific, along with other railroads, are making to care for our service men—and then remember tha I obtained a berth that should have gone to a servic¢ man—it humiliates me. I was due back for a-War Bond meeting today and at the time it seemed important. But compared with taking accommodations away from soldiers and sailors their inventory. Shoes—-A shoe stamp may be detached from aration book and sent with a mail order only if the customer, or his agent, does not personally select or receive the shoes at the supplier’s place of business. Blue Stamps—R, S.and T validated August Ist, will be good through September 20. U, V, and W to be my presence here was highly unessential. “It has been a good lesson for me. Hereafter I shall travel only when I know I’m not depriving service men of sleeping space . .” 3 i ite > Bay is: 0 oe 5b Rg © Se We validated September list will remain good for buying processed foods through October 20th, so that customers will have six sets of blue stamps with which to buy processed foods. . Red tamps (Book II) X._ valid August 22-October 2; Y valid August 20-October 2, Z valid September 5-October 2. : eas Brown Stamps (Book III) A will become valid September 12th. Other stamps will become valid successive Sundays, and will expirt on the Saturday nearest the end ’of the montti. Institutional Users—insfitutional users must confine their meat servings to .93 per meal. ‘The local board has no authority to voluntarily increase allotmenitts unless there has been a 10% increase in business. Boards will not deduet from the September-October allotment any How’s YOUR conscience today ? The letter quoted here came from a western newspaper editor and publisher. This man has a conscience that can’t be lulled to sleep by easy self-reassurances. We hope many other prospective travelers will listen to the “still small voice” of their conscience when it asks questions like these: throughout the West. ALPHA STORES, Ltd. Nevada City—Phone 5 Grass Valley—Phone 88 NEVADA CITY ASSAY AND REFINING OFFICE mining tests from 75 to 1000 pounds, giving the free gold mtages of suiphurets, value of sulphurets.and tailings. Mail ordér check work promptly attended to. Assays made for gold, silver, lead and copper. Agent for New York-California Underwriter-, Westchester and Delaware Underwriters Insurance Uompanies, Automobile Insurance Proprietor Water power which was formerly available from the Bloomfield ditch yjand from the river under heads to op] erate Pelton wheels is now of the past on account of disuse and the appropriation of the water by power companies. Diesel engines had not been perfected and steam was inconvenient and costly. ‘Compressors, drills, milling methods‘ have gone through changes that have kept pace with everything else these last 40 years. : The days of mucking down a flat stope by strong arm methods is also of the past and in its place we have the tugger hoist and power scraper which, under the proper distribution of raisés and stopes, there seems to be no limit to its use. Geologicaly, if there were any question as to the permanance of, these veins in depth, the answer would be a cross section of the eroded canyon of the Yuba 2500 feet below the highest outcrop, together supplemental allotments given institutional users during the past 3 periods. & Before issuing the SeptemberOctober, allotment, it will be necessary to go through the complete file of each institutional registrant and correct any.such errors which may be found. ; Gasoline Ration Books—Old type B and C books will be called in for with some 900 feet of shaft at the river, which should answer that. That there is untold wealth remaining under the Gaston Ridge and in the depths below-the river on these many fissure veins is beyond argument o anyone who will take the trouble to investigate the past history of this region. Let us hope that at the war’s end and with a forthcoming boost in the price of gold “‘God’s Country” will regain its old tradition of wealth and prosperity. How much business and how much pleasure are involved in the train trip I plan? Is it really important for me to visit those relatives back East « this war year? Couldn’t I get just as much rest and relaxation a little closer to home? Today the railroad is hard-pressed to find space for essential travelers: People whosc trip must be: ade to keep business and war production going . . Service men on well-deserved furloughs, possibly the last before combat duty . Parents going to visit their son when the latter can’t get away from his post. When people travel for pleasure, or other non-essential reasons, they prevent such deserving travelers from getting on the train. Yes, we sincerely mean it when we say: “Don’t take the train unless your trip is really NECESSARY.” , The friendly a ag Southern Pacific Advance reservations required for S. P. coach space + a 995A -

Page F our a onmemaemn ~— COD’S COUNTRY (Continued from Page One) closes rather amazing values. Admittedly there are thousands of tons of commercial ore available in mining more attractive. The Gaston vein is on a contact of granite and vein and a richer one, is in the granite and has not been developed at the ~drain tunnel level. The Ethel Mine, two miles north of the river and 2500 feet higher, was operating in 1903 under Al Maltman, who carried on for six or seven years. Tom Reynolds, who is in the construction business in this city, was millman at the time. He states that the average monthly cleanup was. $8000 to $9000 from a shoot of ore 300 feet long, above the tunnel level, with a small crew of men. A shaft was started to bottom this ‘shoot but was abandoned at 60 feet because the compressor capacity was not sufficient to handle the water. Steam, converted to electric, was the power used. The Arctic Group on Canyon Creek embraces some 8 veins which have the same general trend as those of : it. re sos ania tenia Two years ago a Nevada company took over the Cosmopolitan and jerected a small mill. From the tunnel within a few months they gouged Out an ore shoot 4 feet thick that iran as high as $48 a ton. In -the . meantime they did no “development ,be no deep mines anywhere at all. ; The situation at the Arctic was ‘rather unusual owing to the fact that ; Angles and vicinity were interestied. For many years the only under. to perform the annual work. Some of ithe shareholders were unable to keep ‘up their end and the real burden fell 'on two or three who had to shoulder lall, with the result that work was imuch curtailed. In the meantime, however, the company had completed in 1914 a 6600 volt hydro-electric plant and had installed a large compressor, all 'Creek. The plant still stands, toigether with office building and boarding house in good condition awaiting owned by L. F. Utter of Los Angeles. There are a number of other properties within this area which have not worked beyond the state of prospects. It will be noted that the most better days for mining. It is now ,operated almost . worked the crevices to bring forth more of the precious metal. Great {numbers of Chinese were thrown out lof employment when the Central Pacific railroad had been complet,ed in 1867. They had been import'ed on contract labor from China. . In the ’80s Washington and vicin! to any extent bit rather were en-. Whatever in order to find new ore. ity was headquarters for perhaps a largemenis of existing raises along! Obviously if this method of mining;thousand miners. It had 19 saloons, the sides of which this sampling dis-; was follewed generally there~would two hotels and other stores and had . two competing stage lines to Nevada City. Harking back to the better days the Gaston and Gambrinus just as;the company was a cooperative. afalong the, Yuba, the hydraulic mining . soon as higher prices for gold make; fair in which many people of Los camps played their part in-the general prosperity of the time. High ;above Washington on the ridge to slate, while’ the Gambrinus a smaller . 8round advancement was by-contract. the south sat the little town of Omega, and when hydraulic mining was declared out of order after the Sawiyer decision in 1884, it was a lively place with 200 or more people. It had competing stage lifies, a hotel, two stores and a Masonic Chapter of its own. Omega had earned a name for itself by producing from its gravels : ;during the ’70s f.rom $110,000 to operated by free water from Canyon. $120,000 a year. For many years after it continued to yield some of the coarsest nugget gold to be found anywhere in the west. It ‘has been continually ever since and would be working today under normal conditions. The site of the old town has been washed away these many years, for it stood on pay gravel. ‘Alpha was rather a small compersistent mines, yielding the greatest values; those that have made the Eagle Bird and Yuba, a mile and "90s by Harry Stowe when all sup-. plies had to be brought in over al rough trail on mule back. He sunk 4. shaft 180 feet deep with a horse! history in the district, like the Bagle } a half south. The Washington Chief, . Bird, the Yuba, the Blue Bell, Gas-. About a mile and a half of this group, was worked in thejton and Garbrinus are either on the'Omega granite+~late contact or within the granite. Of course, there are exceptions—. like the Ancho-Erie, for instance, . munity which owed its existence to a narrow neck of gravel that had resisted erosion under the lava cap. ally a toll road, it was a _ west of. which lasts until September 3. He is it was separated from thatinow in the employ of the U. S. Imentirely. camp by the canyon of Scotchman! migration Service in San Francisco. ‘Creek. A road from Washington was His wife is also employed by the fedbuilt to serve the diggings. Origin-. era] government. -somewhat . Nevada City Nugget — Monday, August 23, 1943 Mr. and Mrs. Ed Martz of near Areata are spending this week end re cenminneiditeaiaeiag seeneienensies — ) review and reissuance by the boards. y on or after August 23rd. All gas ra“OCT SONG “i tion books must be returned to the!Saturday were their sons, Carl and local board not later than five days. Louie Netz, who are both on leave after a car is sold. ‘in their home on the Murchie road.' 'Mr. Martz is employed in mining war mimerals. T. Angiolini of Boulder street i ‘now working in the Southern Pacific jshops at Colfax, driving back and Donahue ;forth to work each day. He resign-'yy,. ,ed recently from bus driving for the . jcompany after holding that position . and Mrs. ifor the past eight’ years. ‘Miss Ida Pratti returned to San! Francisco Sunday after enjoying a Valley; week’s vacation in Nevada City with . Cemetery. DEATH HART—In Grass Valley, . County, August 21, 1943, Mrs. Kath-. 'Francisco and they are “jerine Hart, mother i : ;muir, Siskiyou County, a NETZ BOYS IN U. S. NAVY Visitors at the Lugwig Netz home from the U. S. Navy and their wives. Louie Netz is just home from the Sicilian campaign and hoine on a 30 day leave. His wife resides in San enjoying Nevada of Mrs. Beatrice. part of the time here with his par. \Jacka of Grass Valley, Mrs. Eleanor of Oakland, ents. Carl Netz, on a 15 day leave is California, . visiting his wife in Grass Valley. He Marion Kneebone of Berkeley,. has just returned from a five month Florence Downs of Duns-'course at Camp Perry, Virgitiia. Be! native of fore returning to service the young . Pennsylvania, aged 65 years. Funer-,.man and wives will visit their two *\al services August 23, 1943, in Grass sisters and families who reside in interment in the Elm Ridge Martinez. LADY JANE MANOR SOLD her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Pratti. : Mjrs. Elton 'Tobiassen, who has! been visiting her father and mother . in law, left Friday for Winchester Bay, Oregon, to join her husband who has just completed attending petty officers school. Mrs. Carl Tobiassen, Jr. hase returned to her “What You leu With WAR BONDS No More Brass home in San Bernardino after spending several days here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Woods and husband’s parents, Sheriff and Mrs. Carl J. Tobiassen. Everett Angove, who entered the ‘armed services in February from Nevada City, is now stationed at Pendelton Air Base, Oregon, a member of the quartermaster’s dept. He is home on short furlough. Phillip {Angove, his brother is stationed in . Casa Blanca, Morocco. He is in the . medical corps of the U.S. Navy. ; O. F. Tonella came; up from San . Francisco to enjoy “his vacation of a bugle. nent bases. Among those spending the week On land or at sea our fighting men do their many chores by the sound All sorts of uncomplimentary epithets are used to desighate the bugler, but nobody has yet been able to provide a satisfactory substitute for a bugle although recordings are used at some permaLady Jane Manor, one of Nevada Counity’s show places has been sold by William J. Ross to Leonard Redman, Ine. The consideration as indicated by revenue stamps on the deed was $30,000, approximately. . Harold Robinson, insurance man of Grass Valley, first purchased the property and improved it with: a large residence and other buildings gome 15 years ago. The, holding: includes vineyards, orchards and pasture lands and is eituated on the Grass Valley-Auburn Highway abort 8 miles west of Grass Valley. ABSENTEE BALLOTS Thus far 147. service men have taken out absentee ballots from the county clerk’s office. Of this number 14 have been returned, for the special election for Representative in the Second Congressional District. This is regarded as an indication that the soldier vote in the 18 counties of the district will be light. August 26th is the last day such ballots may be obtained. ibility of the mine before the road foot vein to the Arctic was built. The croppings of the Arctic vein 700 feet above the canyon, sample tunnel ran by Henry Kohler he had to pack whatever was essary up a trailless thaze of loose pany are now as much as $10 a pound. . A cross cut tunnel from Canyon Creek has been driven into the hill! road. supposed to be the Arctic vein, but fined to identity as no raises have been run . to verify it. rough area I have taken when of commercial ore which nec-'available at the war’s building a will along the A large number of Chinese had al4 birthplace of Emma

\ready ‘settled there attracted by the) famous singer. The site of the old Up Canyon Creek in an extremely. gold in the gravels. They were ex-/. house is still ore, river . particular’ advantage in The old road builders figured 9n The Eagle Bird Co. built a road up the south side of the Yuba that placed it within 11 miles of EmiWashington itself was a flourish-. grant Gap. It was so steep that a! for a thousand feet and from it some ‘ing village in 1847 although at that/dashboard was necessary to drifting has been done along what is'time practically all ‘mining was conmanure out of the buggy. d placering there is considerable doubt as to its and the bars above it. keep Alpha is. perhaps better remem. bered by Nevada Countyans as the Nevada, the undisturbed. Emma samples . pert at cleaning bedrock and would. came to Nevada City and sang for from an outcrop which assayed $9/. lease ground already worked by the and no work has ever been done on!/whites and in their meticulous way 4 us, as nearly as I can remember. in 1902. She tried to please the audilence by singing some of @ The choice of wise home-owners . familiar songs, but we paid $3 to hear her. Summing up the situation in this /promising field of future mining— along the ridge particularly — the question naturally arises as to why this area has been so ne#lected in the past. There are several contributing causes. Perhaps the worst is the socalled ‘‘rotten granite” or slacked granite, which runs almost like quicksand in the presence of water. This danger might be illustrated in the fate that befell one Jack Driscoll in the old Boston Tunnel on the Rainbow Claim. The face of the tunnel had been breastboarded and Driscoll had been sent in with a Chinese carman. He had never worked in this kind of ground, so ~ he foolishly’ took an axe and chopped into the boarding, which had in the meantime impounder a lot of water and running ground; behind it. The bulkhead gave wy so quickly that he was buried alive before he could escape and when he was dug out he still clutched a piece of the Chinaman’s jumper, but the Chinaman, being on the outside of the car man-. aged to escape. . To work ground of this character it is necessary to first drain off the T{ water and this is no problem because the whole ridge can be most economically worked through adit tunnels. i the old; whim and took out pay ore, as can. Which, while it is in the slate belt , longer than the Phelps Hill road but end in Nevada City from the U. S. be proven by the dump samples, bu:z,has recently opened under the man-/had no he was handicapped by the inacess-. agement of Fred H. Anderson, a 16 grade. : of excellent milling . while driving a lower tunnel from!connecting two places in the short-: Poorman Creek. This tunnel is ae! est distance possible. Sixteen feet 500 feet below the old workings and!rise in a hundred seemed to be pop1from $4 to $50 and from a 200 foot should develop several thousand ions!Jar; sometimes it was 10 and 20. On ‘day at the Jeffrey home at Town be. ithe old road from Colfax to Iowa Talk* with a delightful dinner. Also end. The com-. Hill I have checked slopes of 22 per present for the happy affair were new road 'cent. boulders, he took out ore which ran ,along Poorman Creek from the Span-. {ish Mine which will be an all winter forest service camp at _ Sierraville . were Louie Savio, Elton Davies, Pack Williams and Ed Martine. The birthdays of Will Jeffery and son, Pvt. Charles Jeffrey of MsClel-j; ‘lann Field, were celebrated on Suniw. Jeffrey's sistez-in law, Mrs. Ida Guenther of Nevada City and niece, ‘Mrs. Clay Epperson and son of Bakersfield. ‘ ‘ RATION FACTS FOR CONSUMERS By MRS H. E. KJORLIE ’ LOCAL BOARD Stoves—Rationing of all domestic eooking and heating stoves will go into effect August 24th. All dealers and distributors must register on iSeptember 1, 2 or 3 at local boards on Form R-902 in triplicate. They must provide, in their registration statement, the number of stoves in Aboard ship the men fall in at the order of ‘‘Pipe muster.’’. On land the buzler scunds ‘‘Assembly!”’ But no matter where the bugle is used thousands must be bought out ‘of : ; : ears. the money we are investing in War 7 DEATH ELNDAHL—In Downieville, Sierra County, August 19, 1943, Olaf Elfdahl, a native of Sweden, aged Funeral services August 21, Bonds. Back the attack with an extra $100 Bond in the 3rd War Loan. . ty: U.S. Treasury Department . tery. 74 1943, in’ Nevada City, Nevada Couninterment in Pine Ridge CemeQuoted from a letter. a “My conscience hurts me today. “When I was washing up before getting off the train this morning, I learned that six sailors and three soldiers had sat up all night. These men were making this trip under orders—yet there was no sleeping space available for them. “When I think of the effort you of Southern Pacific, along with other railroads, are making to care for our service men—and then remember tha I obtained a berth that should have gone to a servic¢ man—it humiliates me. I was due back for a-War Bond meeting today and at the time it seemed important. But compared with taking accommodations away from soldiers and sailors their inventory. Shoes—-A shoe stamp may be detached from aration book and sent with a mail order only if the customer, or his agent, does not personally select or receive the shoes at the supplier’s place of business. Blue Stamps—R, S.and T validated August Ist, will be good through September 20. U, V, and W to be my presence here was highly unessential. “It has been a good lesson for me. Hereafter I shall travel only when I know I’m not depriving service men of sleeping space . .” 3 i ite > Bay is: 0 oe 5b Rg © Se We validated September list will remain good for buying processed foods through October 20th, so that customers will have six sets of blue stamps with which to buy processed foods. . Red tamps (Book II) X._ valid August 22-October 2; Y valid August 20-October 2, Z valid September 5-October 2. : eas Brown Stamps (Book III) A will become valid September 12th. Other stamps will become valid successive Sundays, and will expirt on the Saturday nearest the end ’of the montti. Institutional Users—insfitutional users must confine their meat servings to .93 per meal. ‘The local board has no authority to voluntarily increase allotmenitts unless there has been a 10% increase in business. Boards will not deduet from the September-October allotment any How’s YOUR conscience today ? The letter quoted here came from a western newspaper editor and publisher. This man has a conscience that can’t be lulled to sleep by easy self-reassurances. We hope many other prospective travelers will listen to the “still small voice” of their conscience when it asks questions like these: throughout the West. ALPHA STORES, Ltd. Nevada City—Phone 5 Grass Valley—Phone 88 NEVADA CITY ASSAY AND REFINING OFFICE mining tests from 75 to 1000 pounds, giving the free gold mtages of suiphurets, value of sulphurets.and tailings. Mail ordér check work promptly attended to. Assays made for gold, silver, lead and copper. Agent for New York-California Underwriter-, Westchester and Delaware Underwriters Insurance Uompanies, Automobile Insurance Proprietor Water power which was formerly available from the Bloomfield ditch yjand from the river under heads to op] erate Pelton wheels is now of the past on account of disuse and the appropriation of the water by power companies. Diesel engines had not been perfected and steam was inconvenient and costly. ‘Compressors, drills, milling methods‘ have gone through changes that have kept pace with everything else these last 40 years. : The days of mucking down a flat stope by strong arm methods is also of the past and in its place we have the tugger hoist and power scraper which, under the proper distribution of raisés and stopes, there seems to be no limit to its use. Geologicaly, if there were any question as to the permanance of, these veins in depth, the answer would be a cross section of the eroded canyon of the Yuba 2500 feet below the highest outcrop, together supplemental allotments given institutional users during the past 3 periods. & Before issuing the SeptemberOctober, allotment, it will be necessary to go through the complete file of each institutional registrant and correct any.such errors which may be found. ; Gasoline Ration Books—Old type B and C books will be called in for with some 900 feet of shaft at the river, which should answer that. That there is untold wealth remaining under the Gaston Ridge and in the depths below-the river on these many fissure veins is beyond argument o anyone who will take the trouble to investigate the past history of this region. Let us hope that at the war’s end and with a forthcoming boost in the price of gold “‘God’s Country” will regain its old tradition of wealth and prosperity. How much business and how much pleasure are involved in the train trip I plan? Is it really important for me to visit those relatives back East « this war year? Couldn’t I get just as much rest and relaxation a little closer to home? Today the railroad is hard-pressed to find space for essential travelers: People whosc trip must be: ade to keep business and war production going . . Service men on well-deserved furloughs, possibly the last before combat duty .. Parents going to visit their son when the latter can’t get away from his post. When people travel for pleasure, or other non-essential reasons, they prevent such deserving travelers from getting on the train. Yes, we sincerely mean it when we say: “Don’t take the train unless your trip is really NECESSARY.” , The friendly a ag Southern Pacific Advance reservations required for S. P. coach space + a 995A -