August 25, 1933 (6 pages)

ne NEVADA CITY Where Climate, Good Water and Gold Invite the World. Nevada City Nugget is a Member of the United Press evada mas Nugget A LIVE NEWSPAPER pub. * jished fn a live town. ‘Vol. VII, No. 86 The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The GOLD Center tr FRIDAY, AUG. 25, 1933. Mining Assn. Finds Canada Mart Open For California Gold . fornia gold producers SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24—Galican receive between $27 and $28 per ounce for their gold, after all costs and handling charges are deducted; if their product is marketed at Vancouver, B. ne according to a statement. just ; fited by the attendance of 50 more ‘It was crowded and not suitable for issued by the Mining Association of California. In accord with the re‘cent United States treasury department ruling permitting the exportation of gold ores, including na‘tive full page statement in a daily newspaper by major gold producers of the west. This was copied and commented upon ‘throughout the country and was also sent directly to President Roosevelt. mission to export all newly mined gold ,except that which has been refined or smelted, was granted, with the opening of a Canadian market for United States gold, California and placer gold, concentrates, pre-. Producers can now receive the bencipitates and unretorted amalgam, . efit of world market prices for their which have not been refined or. productwhich means an increase of smelted, and the decision, of the Dominion of Canada to accept these products at the Dominion assay _office, Vancouver, for refining, Canadian Department of Finance will purchase ‘the resultant gold at the current London price. This maixs the latest. advance in an effort to obtain the benefits of world market prices for United States gold producers. through securing either the right to export their product or obtain a free domestic market, in which California has been prominently identified Mining Association. The campaign commenced some two months ago, apprising the administration by individual telegrams of the critical situation in the gold mining industry, caught between rapidly rising prices of mining supplies and commodities and the fixed price of $20.67 Der ounce of gold. It was more forcibly Drought to national attention by a BANK REVIEW ~ REVEALS GAINS INEMPLO Improved conditions of agriculture and business throughout California are reflected in the trade and ‘crop reports ¢ontained in the August issue of the Bank of America Business Review. The bank’s preliminary July index 1 of Far Western Business registered 64.2 a gain of 4.2 points over the June figure and an increase of 19.3 per cent over the depression low of 53.8 registered in March. The gain from June to July is the largest since February 1930. The next largest gain since that date was 3.6, recorded in June of this year over the May showing. The 1933 July index figure is approximately at the level of. Mareh, 1932; and is 2.2 points above July 1932. An increase of 8.1 Per Cent over July, 1982, and an inerease of 7.1 per cent over June, 1933, was shown in the number of persons employed in California manufacturing industries last month, the Review says. The gain over July 1932, is the larBest increase over the corresponding month of a preceding year which has been shown in the past 24 months. A survey of July building permits in 58 cities throughout eight far western states showed a 66.7 per cent gain over July 1932. Bank debits for the month in 27 Western cities were 8.4 per cent above the debits in July 1932, the largest percentage gain since October of 1929. Dollar yolume of retail sales in July of this year was 12.8 per cent above the July 1932 total, the largest percentage gain since February, 1924. HOUSING SHORTAGE DISADVANTAGE TO CITY Houses are Sakae built and_ still the demand is not met. A family in which there were five children was living in a small two room house near the outskirts of Nevada City. winter, so the father remained in Nevada City, where he has a job While his family moved to Reno tu live. ‘ As’ one. business man _ estimate? Nevada City schools would be benechildren if there were more hotises the through its some $5,000,000 to the annual income of the state. KEYSTONE MINE ASSAYS REVEAL he Keystone. vk mine, formerly oan as the Grass Valley Premier and the Goforth property, is making property has recently been taken vada. muck pile ran $16 in gold and over over 16 ounces ni silver. phide ore ran $13.40 in gold and 12 ounces in silver. : the same vein as that upon which ‘the shaft. is sunk. shaft to be sunk immediately to the 200 foot level. HISTUDENTS T0. All stidents who who plan to attend the Nevada City high school during the coming school year are requested ‘to register and enroll today. Mr. H. E. Kjorlie, principal, will assist students with their registration between the hours of 2:30 to 5:00 and 7:00 to 9:00 p. m. All students who registered last June. should re-register at this time. New studenis are urged to bring report ecards or transcripts of their previous work. Classes will begin promptly at 8:40 _a. m. Monday, August 28. The high school will accomodate post-graduates, and any that have no definite plans for next year are urged to enroll for work that may be to their liking: Washington grammar the Nevada City high sechcool will Open next Monday morning, August 28, with all teachcers present to start the school year. Last years registration at the! grammar school was 286 pupils and aS Indian Flat was closed last Sea. son those pupils will attend Nevada City grammar school. A number of families have moved to Nevada City this summer and more will come in from the mines and add quite a number to the local school attendance. Mrs. Mabel Flindt has been engaged to teach the third grade, filling the vacancy left by Miss Noyes who was married recently. Mr. McGinnis has been secured to teach the eighth "grade the position being made vacant by the resignation of Mrs. Kate McCormack. Saturday will be. registration day at .grammar school for all new pupils. Mr. Walter Carlson, principal, wishes all of them who possibly .ean to come as it saves a lot of confusion for Monday. school and for families to rent. Some three weeks thereafter, perEXCELLENT ORE rapid headway’in development. The ! over by the Keystone Divide of Ne-! 11 ounces in silver. Across the face ! of the cut on the 55 foot level the assay resulted in $14.40 in gold and The sulThe most significant assay was taken 117 feet north of the fault in ‘the winze. Here the quartz ran $42 in gold and 22.91 ounces of silver. This is regarded by engineers to be Mr. McMurray has ordered! the ENROLL TODAY ed. BE UNWATERED The latest news from the WUava Cap Gold Mining Corporation is that the management is cleaning out the old Banner shaft preparatory t6 unwatering it. A power line has been extended from the Central to the Banner shaft, a distance of one and three quarter miles and within two Weeks a compressor and hoist will be inBanner shaft will start shortly. Development plans are to connect with the old workings of the Banner. At the Central a 100 horsepower double drum hoist is being installed and a 1700 cubic foot Chicago pneumatic compressor put in place. -A 70 foot gallows frame is being erected. Excavation for the 200°ton mill is under way. The shaft has been completed to the 850 foot level and as soon as the new hoist is completed this will be continued to the 1050 foot level. Both . + CS are being jointly operated by the Lava Kap Gold Mining ‘Corporation. Mr. R. F:. D. Le‘Mon, of New York, executive vice president of the company, has been here’ several weeks inspecting the property and making arrangements for further development. . Gordon S. Pendelbury of Bridgeport, Conn., auditor for thane Dv over r duties, and will reside in Nevada an dit is felt that this year’s show eee McMurray “ neser tee City. Otto E. Schiffner is general. wii: be more successful than the mae WN ied noNing: on ee a cna sae of the Lava Cap Gold Min-. others. day had a series of assays made fie Cakbehitton: which show excellent values. The ——<—<———$. ——— ‘KINDERGARTIN AGE SACRAMENTO, Aug. 24—(UP) means children aged between 412 and 5 years will be admitted to kindergartens in the fall. passed a measure raising the mini5 years. over the governor’s objections. ON LAVA CAP TO staHed:-Unwatering of the 900 foot} the company, has just arrived to assume his’ LIMIT RAISED OCT. 26 The kindergarten bill doesn’t F40) into effect until October 26. Peat ; Once there, it’s doubtful if school authorities would eject them, dur-. as he pulled out desk drawer. Inside ing the fall term, after th elaw be-. were communications to prisoners comes effective. The legislature. written on thick cards. They had mum kindergarten age from 4% to It was vetoed but passed ENTERPRISE SHAFT TO EA bi oN week the Enterprise. mine company in the Quaker Hill: mining district, had sunk its shaft to. the 100 foot level in gravel and struck an abundance of water:. Immediately a 50 gallem per minute pump was: ordered and installed and th emanagement is mow engaged in pumping out the water. It is planned to sink between 50 and 100 feet more before striking bedrock. This property lies en the rich old gravel channel that extends from North Bloomfield te Duteh Flat. A crew of niné men is employed. Mr. J. P. MeFadden is superintendent of the-property. FLOWER SHOW IS SET FOR SEPT. 16 A meeting of the garden club section of the Woman’s Civié Club was held last evening at Brands Studio and they decided to hold the annual Flower Show September. 16. They also are making arrangements to secure quarters for the gorgeous display of flowers. This will be the fourth Flower Show to be held by the Club. They were all successe sand each year seems to lead the others in variety, size and color of flowers. The fall flowers of Nevada City seem to carry more brilliant hues than those of the valleys. All members of the Garden ciub were present at last night’s meeting PRISON ATTACHES HALT NARCOTIC SMUGGLING FOLSOM PRISON, Aug. 24—(UP) ——Repeated attempts to smuggle narcotics into Folsom prison are constantly being frustrated by alert Penitentiary attaches, Smith revealed to the United Press, “Hlere’s one way,’ he explained, ‘been slit open and inside was enough cocaine to satisfy the craving of certain convicts. Another method is to soak cocaine into paper. State’Board SACRAMENTO, Aug. 24——Califer~ nia’s state government will not “split pennies” in the administration of the new 2% per cent Sales tax, but if individual merchants wish to do so the state has no objection: Such, in effeet, was the ruling handed down today by the State Board of Equalization, definitely rejecting proposals that the State issue stamps, tokens or coupons for fractions of a cent to permit “breaddown”’ of the tax on small purchases. In annuoncing its decision, however, the equalization board flatly declmred that ithe collection of a penny tax on 5 or 10 cents is “entirely beyond justification”’ and declared the “profiteering and chiseling under the guise of taxation will be stamped out at all costs.” THREE SALIENT RULES Enunciating its policies on col: lection of the tax, the State board laid down three salient rules as follows: 1. No stamps, tokens or coupons will be issued by the state for fractions of a cent. 2. Merchants can, if they wish, however, issue “house money” in fractions of a cent to facilitate colNew Sales Tax Rules -_—__————— Issues “Fhe Board’ has no. objection whatever to any system which merchants may work out on small sales,”’ the official statement of policy said, “‘providing the total tax collected is not more than 2% per cent, as required by law. Attempts to use the tax as a quick route to excess profits, hewever, will bring vigorous prosecutions. B. “This tax was adopted to meet an emergency condition in state and local government in California and to’ give much needed relief to overburdened property owners. Abuses will not and can not be tolerated. The success of this program—at least in California—is just as important to the welfare of our people as the success of the national recovery program. -The tax-dodger, or the tax-profitear, will get exactly the same treatment which the draftevader and the war-profiteer got in war times.” RILEY’S STATEMENT bs The statement was signed by Richard E. Collins, chairman of the board, H. G. Cattell’ and John C. Corbett, members, and Fred E. Stewart, member of the board and director of the Tax, Research Bureau, with State Controller, Ray L. Riley, lection of a tax on small puréhases, But the state will look to the retailer for 2% per cent of his gross sales, regardless of how the tax is collect3. Collection of a penny tax on items less than 15 cents is ‘‘frowned upon” by the Board as unjustifiable and in violation of the letter and spirit of the law. Merchants who use the tax for chiseling and profiteering will be prosecuted to the full The Nugget $2.00 per year, extent « of the law. ex-officio member. Controller Riley, summing up the board's position, declared that, “The merchant who is short-sighted enough to build up sales resistence by charging excessive and unwarranted taxation will be regulated by public opinion. This tax will save thousands of California property owners from bankruptcy and it deserves the support of every citizen who is sincerely interested in a return to normal conGO DOWN TO BEDROCK Warden C. To The Citizens of Nevada County: Have received from Honorable George. Creel, NRA Administrator for Western Division, the following telegram: San Francisco, Cal., Aug. IT, C. E. CLINCH, Grass Valley, Calif., Wil You Accept Aippoiintment, ts County Chairman M?a to Take Place . of Late Stanley Bavier? If . so” ‘Instructions Will Ft ollow. George Creel. I have decided t@ aecept. The duties are many. The late Stanley Bavier of Truc-. kee, who was the NRA Supervisor for the County, recently passed away from the result of an automobile accident. He was a_ brilliani man, and all his friends were pleased when he was appointed, knowing that he would be. eonscientious in the performance of the duties assigned him? { feel, therefore, that to carry out the many phases of the werk that he would have so splendidly ‘handled that it will be necessary for me to have the confidence and assistance of those engaged in business and in all walks of life. The position carries with it much power which I trust I will not be forced to use. I feel that Nevada County has.always been 100 per cent loyal to the Government . and I urgently ask that what has prevailed in the past will continue into the future. Bach month. when I report to the Western Division I shall be veary happy if the report carries with it 100 per cent Derformance on the part of the merchants,.and that the public has given loyal support to the National ‘Recovery Act. To those who are in doubt as to ‘what they should do to comply with the Blue Hagle in order to reall times to advise. If Iam unable to ansewer any question I immediately secure the information desired. transmitted through the press in order that-all will be afficially advis. ed, Your cooperation is respectfully invited, and by following the rules which the President has requested: A. LIVE UP TO THE AGREEMENT. B. DON’T PROFITEER, C. DEAL ONLY WITH OTHERS “UNDER THE BLUE EAGLE.” D.-GET A CODE IN BY SEPTEMBER 1st, If the above requests are lived. up to and when the war on depression is won you will be able to keep as an evidence of your loyalty to the Blue Eagle Membership card unblemished. As time goes on you will have something in your possession of which C. E. Clinch Is Named — County NRA Chairman tain it, I shall: be very happy. ati ment of: four captains: Mrs. James shall? As conditions change there will be . new rules which will be immediately: . ty maintains at ajl times the NRA 100 per cent I shal% feel well rewarded. Cc. E. CLINCH, Nevada County Supervisor NRA. am EDITOR’S NOTE: A reading of Mr. Creel’s. imstructions to Mr. Clinch indicates that the county chairman's duties are nota duplicate of the NRA’s Set up through the various Chamber of Commerces. but rather ~ advisory and supervisory to such organizations. The county unit ties in with the State Chamber of Commerce with William Boucher of Sacramento district. supervisor of this region. It is clearly indicated that the county-wide organization is intended to be am important cog in the immense NRA machine. with authority given the supervisor to contact individuals and firms outside of the local NRA’s, ALL NEVADA CITY EMPLOYERS SIGN N.R.A. COMPACT Nevada City employers are 100 per cent supporters and signers of President Roosevelt's blanket NRA agreement. . This was the report of General Phil Scadden at Monday night’s meeting of NRA officials. He stated that all of the pledges distributed to merchants and other emfloyers in Nevada City had been signed and returned to him. Col. Fred Conners announced that he had established a forty hour week for the Nevada County Lumber company with a mimimum wage of 45 cents an hour. Col. Mrs. Belle Douglass, in charge of publicity, announced the appointHutchinson, Mrs. Fred E. Conner, = Ww. O'Neill and. H. M. Leete. — Arrangements have already been made for official film advertising. A. Beauchamp, owner of the Point gravel mine at Smartville; has sold the property to Titaniec Standard of Utah, one of the largest mining holding companies in the United Siates. J.-M. Slow, executive of the Utah corporation, is. in charge. of operations at Smartvilte. Several Garloads of mining eas chinery have been unloaded: at the mine which will be worked on a very large ‘tonnage basis with modern equipment. Blue The Blue Point has been worked in a small way by the hydraulic process for the last. several years and by various other methods prior to you will be proud. It is an evidence now of your belief in American principles and when conditions are improved, which they will be, you will feel proud that you assisted in bringing about increased wages, employment, and shorter hours. It will assist in finding Places for fifteen million men and women who are now out of employment, Many of them suffering the pangs of hunger, sickness, and distress. The position does not earry with it a remuneration. The only freward is to perform the duties concientiously and in order to do so I must have the cooperation of all. This I respectfully ask. If the eounMACK MINES EXPLORES — MCCUTCHEON PROPERTY A power line is belt is being built to the former MeCutcheon property. now known as the Mack Mines Ltd., loeated near the Canada Hill mine. A crew working under Bruce Wallacce, superintendent, is building «a headframe and putting in an electric hoist: The Mack Mines. Ltd. will sink] the shaft to about 125 feet at which level it is expected to cut the vein. that. Debris dams will be erected below the property to catch the tailings from tl mine. : -Q:-— The Misses Nobs of Redwood City and Burbank respectively, are visiting their. brother, Fred Nobs, of Grass Valley. This gravel was worked as placer. a, and the vein, which was uncovered ht ay (aries ~ ditions.” during placcer geeesirens, — not , developed. : ; mS

ne NEVADA CITY Where Climate, Good Water and Gold Invite the World. Nevada City Nugget is a Member of the United Press evada mas Nugget A LIVE NEWSPAPER pub. * jished fn a live town. ‘Vol. VII, No. 86 The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The GOLD Center tr FRIDAY, AUG. 25, 1933. Mining Assn. Finds Canada Mart Open For California Gold . fornia gold producers SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24—Galican receive between $27 and $28 per ounce for their gold, after all costs and handling charges are deducted; if their product is marketed at Vancouver, B. ne according to a statement. just ; fited by the attendance of 50 more ‘It was crowded and not suitable for issued by the Mining Association of California. In accord with the re‘cent United States treasury department ruling permitting the exportation of gold ores, including na‘tive full page statement in a daily newspaper by major gold producers of the west. This was copied and commented upon ‘throughout the country and was also sent directly to President Roosevelt. mission to export all newly mined gold ,except that which has been refined or smelted, was granted, with the opening of a Canadian market for United States gold, California and placer gold, concentrates, pre-. Producers can now receive the bencipitates and unretorted amalgam, . efit of world market prices for their which have not been refined or. productwhich means an increase of smelted, and the decision, of the Dominion of Canada to accept these products at the Dominion assay _office, Vancouver, for refining, Canadian Department of Finance will purchase ‘the resultant gold at the current London price. This maixs the latest. advance in an effort to obtain the benefits of world market prices for United States gold producers. through securing either the right to export their product or obtain a free domestic market, in which California has been prominently identified Mining Association. The campaign commenced some two months ago, apprising the administration by individual telegrams of the critical situation in the gold mining industry, caught between rapidly rising prices of mining supplies and commodities and the fixed price of $20.67 Der ounce of gold. It was more forcibly Drought to national attention by a BANK REVIEW ~ REVEALS GAINS INEMPLO Improved conditions of agriculture and business throughout California are reflected in the trade and ‘crop reports ¢ontained in the August issue of the Bank of America Business Review. The bank’s preliminary July index 1 of Far Western Business registered 64.2 a gain of 4.2 points over the June figure and an increase of 19.3 per cent over the depression low of 53.8 registered in March. The gain from June to July is the largest since February 1930. The next largest gain since that date was 3.6, recorded in June of this year over the May showing. The 1933 July index figure is approximately at the level of. Mareh, 1932; and is 2.2 points above July 1932. An increase of 8.1 Per Cent over July, 1982, and an inerease of 7.1 per cent over June, 1933, was shown in the number of persons employed in California manufacturing industries last month, the Review says. The gain over July 1932, is the larBest increase over the corresponding month of a preceding year which has been shown in the past 24 months. A survey of July building permits in 58 cities throughout eight far western states showed a 66.7 per cent gain over July 1932. Bank debits for the month in 27 Western cities were 8.4 per cent above the debits in July 1932, the largest percentage gain since October of 1929. Dollar yolume of retail sales in July of this year was 12.8 per cent above the July 1932 total, the largest percentage gain since February, 1924. HOUSING SHORTAGE DISADVANTAGE TO CITY Houses are Sakae built and_ still the demand is not met. A family in which there were five children was living in a small two room house near the outskirts of Nevada City. winter, so the father remained in Nevada City, where he has a job While his family moved to Reno tu live. ‘ As’ one. business man _ estimate? Nevada City schools would be benechildren if there were more hotises the through its some $5,000,000 to the annual income of the state. KEYSTONE MINE ASSAYS REVEAL he Keystone. vk mine, formerly oan as the Grass Valley Premier and the Goforth property, is making property has recently been taken vada. muck pile ran $16 in gold and over over 16 ounces ni silver. phide ore ran $13.40 in gold and 12 ounces in silver. : the same vein as that upon which ‘the shaft. is sunk. shaft to be sunk immediately to the 200 foot level. HISTUDENTS T0. All stidents who who plan to attend the Nevada City high school during the coming school year are requested ‘to register and enroll today. Mr. H. E. Kjorlie, principal, will assist students with their registration between the hours of 2:30 to 5:00 and 7:00 to 9:00 p. m. All students who registered last June. should re-register at this time. New studenis are urged to bring report ecards or transcripts of their previous work. Classes will begin promptly at 8:40 _a. m. Monday, August 28. The high school will accomodate post-graduates, and any that have no definite plans for next year are urged to enroll for work that may be to their liking: Washington grammar the Nevada City high sechcool will Open next Monday morning, August 28, with all teachcers present to start the school year. Last years registration at the! grammar school was 286 pupils and aS Indian Flat was closed last Sea. son those pupils will attend Nevada City grammar school. A number of families have moved to Nevada City this summer and more will come in from the mines and add quite a number to the local school attendance. Mrs. Mabel Flindt has been engaged to teach the third grade, filling the vacancy left by Miss Noyes who was married recently. Mr. McGinnis has been secured to teach the eighth "grade the position being made vacant by the resignation of Mrs. Kate McCormack. Saturday will be. registration day at .grammar school for all new pupils. Mr. Walter Carlson, principal, wishes all of them who possibly .ean to come as it saves a lot of confusion for Monday. school and for families to rent. Some three weeks thereafter, perEXCELLENT ORE rapid headway’in development. The ! over by the Keystone Divide of Ne-! 11 ounces in silver. Across the face ! of the cut on the 55 foot level the assay resulted in $14.40 in gold and The sulThe most significant assay was taken 117 feet north of the fault in ‘the winze. Here the quartz ran $42 in gold and 22.91 ounces of silver. This is regarded by engineers to be Mr. McMurray has ordered! the ENROLL TODAY ed. BE UNWATERED The latest news from the WUava Cap Gold Mining Corporation is that the management is cleaning out the old Banner shaft preparatory t6 unwatering it. A power line has been extended from the Central to the Banner shaft, a distance of one and three quarter miles and within two Weeks a compressor and hoist will be inBanner shaft will start shortly. Development plans are to connect with the old workings of the Banner. At the Central a 100 horsepower double drum hoist is being installed and a 1700 cubic foot Chicago pneumatic compressor put in place. -A 70 foot gallows frame is being erected. Excavation for the 200°ton mill is under way. The shaft has been completed to the 850 foot level and as soon as the new hoist is completed this will be continued to the 1050 foot level. Both . + CS are being jointly operated by the Lava Kap Gold Mining ‘Corporation. Mr. R. F:. D. Le‘Mon, of New York, executive vice president of the company, has been here’ several weeks inspecting the property and making arrangements for further development. . Gordon S. Pendelbury of Bridgeport, Conn., auditor for thane Dv over r duties, and will reside in Nevada an dit is felt that this year’s show eee McMurray “ neser tee City. Otto E. Schiffner is general. wii: be more successful than the mae WN ied noNing: on ee a cna sae of the Lava Cap Gold Min-. others. day had a series of assays made fie Cakbehitton: which show excellent values. The ——<—<———$. ——— ‘KINDERGARTIN AGE SACRAMENTO, Aug. 24—(UP) means children aged between 412 and 5 years will be admitted to kindergartens in the fall. passed a measure raising the mini5 years. over the governor’s objections. ON LAVA CAP TO staHed:-Unwatering of the 900 foot} the company, has just arrived to assume his’ LIMIT RAISED OCT. 26 The kindergarten bill doesn’t F40) into effect until October 26. Peat ; Once there, it’s doubtful if school authorities would eject them, dur-. as he pulled out desk drawer. Inside ing the fall term, after th elaw be-. were communications to prisoners comes effective. The legislature. written on thick cards. They had mum kindergarten age from 4% to It was vetoed but passed ENTERPRISE SHAFT TO EA bi oN week the Enterprise. mine company in the Quaker Hill: mining district, had sunk its shaft to. the 100 foot level in gravel and struck an abundance of water:. Immediately a 50 gallem per minute pump was: ordered and installed and th emanagement is mow engaged in pumping out the water. It is planned to sink between 50 and 100 feet more before striking bedrock. This property lies en the rich old gravel channel that extends from North Bloomfield te Duteh Flat. A crew of niné men is employed. Mr. J. P. MeFadden is superintendent of the-property. FLOWER SHOW IS SET FOR SEPT. 16 A meeting of the garden club section of the Woman’s Civié Club was held last evening at Brands Studio and they decided to hold the annual Flower Show September. 16.

They also are making arrangements to secure quarters for the gorgeous display of flowers. This will be the fourth Flower Show to be held by the Club. They were all successe sand each year seems to lead the others in variety, size and color of flowers. The fall flowers of Nevada City seem to carry more brilliant hues than those of the valleys. All members of the Garden ciub were present at last night’s meeting PRISON ATTACHES HALT NARCOTIC SMUGGLING FOLSOM PRISON, Aug. 24—(UP) ——Repeated attempts to smuggle narcotics into Folsom prison are constantly being frustrated by alert Penitentiary attaches, Smith revealed to the United Press, “Hlere’s one way,’ he explained, ‘been slit open and inside was enough cocaine to satisfy the craving of certain convicts. Another method is to soak cocaine into paper. State’Board SACRAMENTO, Aug. 24——Califer~ nia’s state government will not “split pennies” in the administration of the new 2% per cent Sales tax, but if individual merchants wish to do so the state has no objection: Such, in effeet, was the ruling handed down today by the State Board of Equalization, definitely rejecting proposals that the State issue stamps, tokens or coupons for fractions of a cent to permit “breaddown”’ of the tax on small purchases. In annuoncing its decision, however, the equalization board flatly declmred that ithe collection of a penny tax on 5 or 10 cents is “entirely beyond justification”’ and declared the “profiteering and chiseling under the guise of taxation will be stamped out at all costs.” THREE SALIENT RULES Enunciating its policies on col: lection of the tax, the State board laid down three salient rules as follows: 1. No stamps, tokens or coupons will be issued by the state for fractions of a cent. 2. Merchants can, if they wish, however, issue “house money” in fractions of a cent to facilitate colNew Sales Tax Rules -_—__————— Issues “Fhe Board’ has no. objection whatever to any system which merchants may work out on small sales,”’ the official statement of policy said, “‘providing the total tax collected is not more than 2% per cent, as required by law. Attempts to use the tax as a quick route to excess profits, hewever, will bring vigorous prosecutions. B. “This tax was adopted to meet an emergency condition in state and local government in California and to’ give much needed relief to overburdened property owners. Abuses will not and can not be tolerated. The success of this program—at least in California—is just as important to the welfare of our people as the success of the national recovery program. -The tax-dodger, or the tax-profitear, will get exactly the same treatment which the draftevader and the war-profiteer got in war times.” RILEY’S STATEMENT bs The statement was signed by Richard E. Collins, chairman of the board, H. G. Cattell’ and John C. Corbett, members, and Fred E. Stewart, member of the board and director of the Tax, Research Bureau, with State Controller, Ray L. Riley, lection of a tax on small puréhases, But the state will look to the retailer for 2% per cent of his gross sales, regardless of how the tax is collect3. Collection of a penny tax on items less than 15 cents is ‘‘frowned upon” by the Board as unjustifiable and in violation of the letter and spirit of the law. Merchants who use the tax for chiseling and profiteering will be prosecuted to the full The Nugget $2.00 per year, extent « of the law. ex-officio member. Controller Riley, summing up the board's position, declared that, “The merchant who is short-sighted enough to build up sales resistence by charging excessive and unwarranted taxation will be regulated by public opinion. This tax will save thousands of California property owners from bankruptcy and it deserves the support of every citizen who is sincerely interested in a return to normal conGO DOWN TO BEDROCK Warden C. To The Citizens of Nevada County: Have received from Honorable George. Creel, NRA Administrator for Western Division, the following telegram: San Francisco, Cal., Aug. IT, C. E. CLINCH, Grass Valley, Calif., Wil You Accept Aippoiintment, ts County Chairman M?a to Take Place . of Late Stanley Bavier? If . so” ‘Instructions Will Ft ollow. George Creel. I have decided t@ aecept. The duties are many. The late Stanley Bavier of Truc-. kee, who was the NRA Supervisor for the County, recently passed away from the result of an automobile accident. He was a_ brilliani man, and all his friends were pleased when he was appointed, knowing that he would be. eonscientious in the performance of the duties assigned him? { feel, therefore, that to carry out the many phases of the werk that he would have so splendidly ‘handled that it will be necessary for me to have the confidence and assistance of those engaged in business and in all walks of life. The position carries with it much power which I trust I will not be forced to use. I feel that Nevada County has.always been 100 per cent loyal to the Government . and I urgently ask that what has prevailed in the past will continue into the future. Bach month. when I report to the Western Division I shall be veary happy if the report carries with it 100 per cent Derformance on the part of the merchants,.and that the public has given loyal support to the National ‘Recovery Act. To those who are in doubt as to ‘what they should do to comply with the Blue Hagle in order to reall times to advise. If Iam unable to ansewer any question I immediately secure the information desired. transmitted through the press in order that-all will be afficially advis. ed, Your cooperation is respectfully invited, and by following the rules which the President has requested: A. LIVE UP TO THE AGREEMENT. B. DON’T PROFITEER, C. DEAL ONLY WITH OTHERS “UNDER THE BLUE EAGLE.” D.-GET A CODE IN BY SEPTEMBER 1st, If the above requests are lived. up to and when the war on depression is won you will be able to keep as an evidence of your loyalty to the Blue Eagle Membership card unblemished. As time goes on you will have something in your possession of which C. E. Clinch Is Named — County NRA Chairman tain it, I shall: be very happy.. ati ment of: four captains: Mrs. James shall? As conditions change there will be . new rules which will be immediately: . ty maintains at ajl times the NRA 100 per cent I shal% feel well rewarded. Cc. E. CLINCH, Nevada County Supervisor NRA. am EDITOR’S NOTE: A reading of Mr. Creel’s. imstructions to Mr. Clinch indicates that the county chairman's duties are nota duplicate of the NRA’s Set up through the various Chamber of Commerces. but rather ~ advisory and supervisory to such organizations. The county unit ties in with the State Chamber of Commerce with William Boucher of Sacramento district. supervisor of this region. It is clearly indicated that the county-wide organization is intended to be am important cog in the immense NRA machine. with authority given the supervisor to contact individuals and firms outside of the local NRA’s, ALL NEVADA CITY EMPLOYERS SIGN N.R.A. COMPACT Nevada City employers are 100 per cent supporters and signers of President Roosevelt's blanket NRA agreement. . This was the report of General Phil Scadden at Monday night’s meeting of NRA officials. He stated that all of the pledges distributed to merchants and other emfloyers in Nevada City had been signed and returned to him. Col. Fred Conners announced that he had established a forty hour week for the Nevada County Lumber company with a mimimum wage of 45 cents an hour. Col. Mrs. Belle Douglass, in charge of publicity, announced the appointHutchinson, Mrs. Fred E. Conner, = Ww. O'Neill and. H. M. Leete. — Arrangements have already been made for official film advertising. A. Beauchamp, owner of the Point gravel mine at Smartville; has sold the property to Titaniec Standard of Utah, one of the largest mining holding companies in the United Siates. J.-M. Slow, executive of the Utah corporation, is. in charge. of operations at Smartvilte. Several Garloads of mining eas chinery have been unloaded: at the mine which will be worked on a very large ‘tonnage basis with modern equipment. Blue The Blue Point has been worked in a small way by the hydraulic process for the last. several years and by various other methods prior to you will be proud. It is an evidence now of your belief in American principles and when conditions are improved, which they will be, you will feel proud that you assisted in bringing about increased wages, employment, and shorter hours. It will assist in finding Places for fifteen million men and women who are now out of employment, Many of them suffering the pangs of hunger, sickness, and distress. The position does not earry with it a remuneration. The only freward is to perform the duties concientiously and in order to do so I must have the cooperation of all. This I respectfully ask. If the eounMACK MINES EXPLORES — MCCUTCHEON PROPERTY A power line is belt is being built to the former MeCutcheon property. now known as the Mack Mines Ltd., loeated near the Canada Hill mine. A crew working under Bruce Wallacce, superintendent, is building «a headframe and putting in an electric hoist: The Mack Mines. Ltd. will sink] the shaft to about 125 feet at which level it is expected to cut the vein. that. Debris dams will be erected below the property to catch the tailings from tl mine. : -Q:-— The Misses Nobs of Redwood City and Burbank respectively, are visiting their. brother, Fred Nobs, of Grass Valley. This gravel was worked as placer. a, and the vein, which was uncovered ht ay (aries ~ ditions.” during placcer geeesirens, — not , developed. : ; mS