February 10, 1933 (6 pages)

~ .Y “NEVADA CITY oy Where Climate, Good Water — . and Gold Invite the World.’ . pi Nevada City Navads he Nugget is a! Member of the Vol. VII, No.30 The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CA \LIFORNIA Vie CO) Contr Snow By EDW. C. UREN "There probably is no placé in the country where Conmimunity spirit of co-operation is better xemptified than: it has heen here_in Nevada City during the last six days, when an average of 40-anen have attired themselves in long legged gum boots and set forth each ‘morning with shovels ‘on -their backs to, lft the-—blockade—in——_ Snow Mountain ditch. Shortly after seven. the crew as sembted “orest Service headquarters -and were taken by trucks furnished by the Service to a point beyond’ the County Hospital. Here they .transferred to the large sled donated t the-Nevadh County. Lumber Company and the Miner's Foundry I yn “thirty Caterpil-} lar’ piloted: by. Ted Deal, .then start-. €q on it lor treck to Scotts ITat Epo th hump above’ the Mon mine, where the road .ascends at least. a ixteen—per cent erade, little “tractor:pulls. it’s load of ‘human fr ht through froin 8 to 6 feet of snow with a power and sturdine: almost. unbelievable. SNOW DEEPER WFEH ELEVATION The snow increases in aepth as el evation is gained. Now and then the tops of a few fence posts are visible. <A tense quietness pervades over all. Even the birds are absent, but occasionally deer tracks where the animals have come down off the hills toward the creek bottom. Small trees are bent to the ground, but occasionally trees six or eight inches in diameter have. been broken off by the weight of. snow which has overcome them. A. man would soon. perish in this white . wilderness unless he were equipped with snow shoes. Arriving at the first crossing of. Snow Mountain one crew of a.dozen. men go up the ditch while the rest continue on four miles further to the road crossing at Scott’s Flat. Here part ef the crew, headed by the more experienced ditch men go up toward the head to follow the-water down, for this part of the ditch has already been cleared and awaits the flushing. ONLY HARD WORK GETS RESULTS ; . The follow down the ditch, walking through the slush, broken, ice and water between. banks” 6f} snow four feet deep above the ditch which press inward until there is ofare seen . storm started, rest ten less than two feet space betWeen Two miles down they. come to where’ work ceased the day before. Now there is ice three or thick and water soaked snow underand has to Standing four inches neath. The ice resists be broken up with an axe. NEW MACHINERY FOR FRENCH CORRAL MINE In a letter to Clarence C, Meyer at French Corral, A. .A. Wise, dent of the American Machine Company of Oakland, that heavy mining machinery is being shipped to the Harrison French gravel mine and that will be put to work there immediately. The mine is adjacent to the southern Corral township and producer in Calvin Linnell cuniel presistates men boundary of rench has. been a rich past Meyer been in years. . and the mine. since} . charge of production Meyer in the inThomas Meyer, water ceased and stopped last summer. terests of his father, owner of the mine and Linnel in-the interests of Clarence.Knights, James Rodda of Oakland and Harold B. Wright of Nevada City, are holders of a lease and bond on the.property. In December the Wise interests bought the lease and bond from the latter three through T. M. Darnell of. \El Cerito. of the mining operations in place of Darnell, according to Wise’s letter, Heavy snow that has fallen in the Sierra-Nevada mountains. this ter, will greatly help the working of gravel mines on the San Juan ridge. The French .mine will be no exception. The reservoir that goes with the mine has full for several weeks, big head of water came .into the reservoir continually until the middle of July. This year the seaso1 should bé a great deal. longer. Chesson is to be in winHarrison been Last year a . Irrigation . the city.for the 250, or 'of labor charge . , Fh Again Flowing Water in this iee cold water and heaving and snow wp over a séven or -eight foot bank. is no picnics Pt ts work. the broken ice hard In going and coming it is neceéssary in places to climb up out ditch on account of the depth of water. The snow is not frozen’ hart istain’ a weight mans and with: first. one» lege down, then 1@ Ofnrer, prozress 13 slow and ver} . tiring. HADY FOR HEAD OF WATER But Tuesday was rathér a cheerfuljday-after all, for-alons vO o'clocl in. the afternoon returning from the: head reported er noon, for reasons. unknown and inle “to de hig: -aege opening .a full férmine. half . . final hundred inches of water to float out: the ice and snow now in the canal and into it what is bound to drop from time to time in the next féw. days, Snow Mountain will again be blockade City of func-. tioning after a which has Nevada over three MIGHT HAVE BEEN PREVENTED That this hazard prevented by turning in six or seven hundred inches at the head when the is conceded by all the deprived water for weeks. could -have been ditch men familiar with the situa. . tion. And while the citizens have so cheerfully accomplished what the N. D. could, or did not do, they insist that steps now be taken to see that sueh a preventable occurrence does not repeat itself. QUID PRO QUO IN ORDER Had not the volunteers worked s0-. valiantly in reopening Snow Mountain, Nevada City would have had no water from this source for) probably another month and it. is and opinion that! in the nadonation to the’ Nevada District but that the Discan do no less than reimburse shifts the expense by creditthe general feeling the work be not regarded ture. of a trict more, and value -of: water tous and inconven it is hard to fngan equal As for the we have suffered, hazard ience imagine ™ The Forest any recompense. Service and have it’s chief, Bigelow, supplied the and Richard trucks tools and have = given assistance possible to the city Their interest and every in it’s dilemma. help is deeply appreciated. SKI CLUB READY FOR BIG THRONGS With Sunday and Monday looming up as two of the biggest winter sports days of the year, the Nevada City-Grass Valley Ski Club pared for a banner week end. and from the The snow plows have all the way has preTravel conditions to course will be good. cleared a two-way from_this city to the course. The club advertised this week end both in Marysville and Sacthey anticThe Marysroad has ramento newspapers and ipate a big response. villle and Yuba City: folk have become -educated._to. the course this winter and many-are expected from that district. : The snow is six feet deep, the to-~ boggan slide is in excellent condition and skiing will be at’it’s “best. -O : MOTOR . LICENSE EXTENDED SACRAMENTO, Feb. 9California motorists have until TIME (UP)-— FebThe h ave tor vehicle licenses. period was supposed to ended February 3, but acting on the gestion of Governor Rolph, a ‘‘mor: declared by the de partment of motor vehicles. All who apply for ter February 14, will have to pay a double fee sugatorium’’ was persons licenses afMente — Attorney Harry M. McKee has returned from a trip on professional business in San: Francisco. California, renewal ft RO BPED aa? Ard ed ) Over K, N: X. broadcast last that in boldest rebberies -in the it was feported annals was invaded by two bandits rouches of mail taken, in which her was © $323,000. The bandits are reported to have escaped. iar ie rp A HE SE cae Hotte ( } T \ H ' INAN.C.R.R. BOX CAR) \ i . Pelee tn ener It, must: have been ‘just. Gus Orzalli bad lue that h hapned yt Ve rnin fro a it to say, When the snow 10 de w it {iS WOT a few days 220 yt yT1 ' t ) ry G crt a 7 i tl r7vt ( i2 to:-araep— oO “ Co (1 folied.” up. witt i j C} m. top coat and “his: lov hoes and dapper silk. oOcKS they’ would have “had a coach ready. for :him, but they had rough: work ahead and weren’t carrying any fancy et this’ night; in fact rather light more juipment they were running and had nothing than. an empty box car behind the engine. Sut Gus was glad to take passage in. the “rattler” as the hoboes call it. It didn’t look very inviting ,but if everything went along all right he woula be home in a little over an hour. The train arrived at. Grass Valley on schedule and left for Nevada City about 7:30. in the evening, but they hadn’t problocked the plow attached to blocked the plow attacked to the pilot of the engine. Then it became a game of back up and charge, in which Gus and another lone passenger, who hailed from Montana, wére shuttled: back and forth along the length of the car with every impact against the snow banks. Gus. says he lost count of the number of times he went back and forth over the same oid remembers. disback ground, but he tinetly going twice during the night to the gas ive eigine plant for to quench its thirst in. Wolf Creek-——-then back to the fray again. It: “got cold; ‘awfully. ‘cold. Even the fast leg action necesmaintain a balance suffigient to warmth, so -he that he by the engine crew sary to wasn’t create made such loud lament was overheard invited into the cab where he could at least toast And it along and his shins a little. came to -pass that o'clock in the morning they had finally battered their way to a half a mile west of Town Talk just a few minutes walk from the highway, and hill run to could a about four point about a short down But what fellow do in three feet of soft snow with low shoes and of the home. silk socks? It was out question. Anyhow, return to the train now had to Grass Valley to g regular five o’clock morning run to Colfax, and Gus went along with it. The fellow from Montana was peeved beeause lie had paid for a ticket to Nevada City and thought he should have been deliveded at his destination. And Gus says his ice cream overcoat is so soiled with soot and engine grease that it is about ruined. EACH HEAD OF THIS out on its _.DOUBLE-HEADED TROUT ruary 14 to apply for their 1933 mo= or FIGHTS FOR FOOD MT, SHASTA, Feb. '9-—(CUP) A two headed Loch Leven trout has for four years proved the greatest “freak’’ at the state fish hatchery here. The fish two pair of and feeds either left or right mouth. The heads fight for the food, employes said, the right head usually winning over the left.Sex of the fish has not been determined. heads, with tWo normal eyes has one of the} of} and two, the Sacramento postoffice . : Yesterday was. the sixth day that vada City Volunteersunder—the sadership of the .ffre department Oo wrestles with no Mountain ditch } Morning ~the A kehia Lic x Lo eservoll Ther 4 started up again full force and . ead of iter in + diteh y eris now working the entire crew of out 200 } down far gre deal in opening ul] rat. is. Ot 1 vi é boot blan t Ski a food ¢ ft} Volunte ( n I nt t or te] 1 the N¢ dor Ont now *) employe ) work '¢ re dite . Mou 1in d Will. ean ttis l¢ 4 ( Wi}? ado ou mil 1 I yi om two ( b two lay ind one geht ha b 1 Cé ( effo cf tH lanage i} { eh { thre } Nn . Sis Hf Vera © yin I t t { ived ! Ot we ( 1 ¢ { Pat oO ‘ eye days all Lifts Sof . ( 1 ’ t ey Or ) ity ] n n MI a I to the line fb ans of a huge sled ) it o wa for the tow drawn: b ilar trac: . CANADA HILL RESEROTR ULI ‘ } no 0 0 60° -m t j } ray iter were thow= ) ( Ho ularly and n UC tn Canad Hil reservoir Letio ] f to norm . Lerday; ac £ to Superinten idmpres i the only hig: dent ob. ft. Hallet Jn weno tate ‘ rt in the district that con-, that. temporary repairs were made inued work without a lavoff. dur-. on the outlet pipe Monday night Ine thie torm. All of th employ-. whieh prevented more than a temes. aresaid to have chipped: in a. porary interruption in the city’s . dollar each and with ddaiiowal ere money given by the company, a man. FAMILY iS REPORT ED was hired to keep the Rough and. . Ready. road open. so that. the men) STRANDED NEAR DELHI could get back and forth to.work. The full crew of 40 men is working there now and it is said that the expects to double that spring, when the new be ready to operate. The Empress is about five miles west of \Nevada City. me All of management number by mill will the big quartz mines in Grass Valley had started full proluction by Thursday morning, with plenty of water for mining purposes. The North Star, Empire and. Pennsylvania of the Newmont Company have over 600 men at work and the Golden Center about 75. The Idaho Maryland has 200 and the Hill about 15. There. are men employed in the and Nevada City have been for almost Spring nore Grass Valley mines than many long this ditsrict looks here vears, bright. GRANNINI TELLS OF CHT IN COSTS SAN FRANCISCO, Giannini, Mining in Feb. 9—-A. P interviewed bank's headquarters about rumors econeerning ‘his stated emphatically, retirement, “Nothing is further thaughts. During . the proxy battle I pledged myself to pro-}. tect and or. the from my promote the best interests stockholders and I forgotten my “Very few haven't pledge. people realize’ fully today at the. how much The has been has been accomplished. . of the Bank . over $473,000, profits for the . 198 32 »=s« averaged . month. I have visited branch and loans have been surveyed, Expense Account reduced by per month. Current last six months of $693,440 per nearly every personally earefully and determined serves set up. A losses adequate resubstantial gain in deposits has been achieved. rale of the splendid. The} senior executives are in close touch . with their problems, have them well}! in hand and are enthusiastic about} their work: My job is not yet done . and talk about a mature,”’ The mostaff is successor is preeS RS, AP ete WIFE RUNS DOWN HER SPOUSE IN SNOW STORM CHESTER, Feb. 9—(UP)— A new. kind of a motorist-pedestrian accident was recorded here when Mr. W. B. Leyton ran ’down her husband during a snow storm: When the road became invisible. due to heavy snow, Layton got out and walked following his dark ahead, his figure with. of the car wife the antomobile. el Everything .wap fine until ~Lay. ton’s’ clothing became covered with} snow and he blended into the storm. . him down. He suffered only a few slight injuries. . City. fin its . Within three miles of the one in . which they are to be merged. Henry Huckins of San Juan yesterday sent word to. the Red Cross organization of Nevada City that a family has been stranded for several days at Box Canyon on the road to Alleghany near Delhi. The family consists of a man and his wife and a small child. A resident of that section, it is reported, has divided its meager rations withthe stranded family, which cannot get their car threugh the snow. Se Best SARL idee see RESORT WAITRESSES, SISTERS OF PROSPERTY SACRAMENTO, Feb. 9-—(UP)See may be just around the corner for most people, but for the resort-hotel waitress it lurks at every table, the industrialreaccording. to. a ‘report. .of state department of lations. At the report more swanky resorts, the indicated, waitresses may get as much as $5 or $6 in tips during a single meal, though the daily avy $10. SCHOOL DISTRICTS JOINED TO N.C. erage was fig ured at from $8 The Board of Supervisors at their session Wednesday. ordered: by lution the consolidation. of Indian Flat, Willow Valley and Blue Tent school districts with that of Nevada resoThe order has the legal sanction mendation of the grand jury which, report, incorporated the ommendation of Mrs. Ella M. Austin, county superintendent of The was upon motion of Supervisor bogast of this city. The of the that where school recschools. resolution taken Cary Arhas th school law, districts* order elegal which may be sanction provides consolidated uous and where the houses of the contig districts are Mrs. Austin solidation, states that the conWas recommended as a measure of economy. Several pup. ils from the three districts have been attending the Nevada City high school, and the only—-recompense re-. ceived for this instruction is the amount per pupil. alloted by the . state. . Few students attend the Indian! . Flat and Blue Tent schools, and the Willow Valley school pupils being City by is closed; the) transported to Nevada automobile to attend school . here. The supervisgrs adopted a strong hold a special election for the recall, of Governor Rolph. jhad . should: be “Grass Valley, oF Deere Cit) E ive Own, . tL I EB. 10, 1933 x SEE: t \ all-night shift Ke at re section o ipe ‘ { will 7 necesSary.to repl t ngth PHe: flo ; i serVOIrr =I (6) I ) mal ] tat 8 Ato to ow ‘onst t f LOW r ¢ YT ij Me ] noy ( tito the Ley ) f Ol! and a ‘ d filled CHOOT AR? IPENED the } ( 1 if inatt@) {tv ¢ \ Yr Sit« 1 f f y e! Th: OF \ f t { £ ae nd hi ) fro } el t rade, t th chool, Py . FS Kjo eported that 1 i tudqh . QO Ol L I f \ ne = day -mornin classes. The. final-semester examinations Were continued jyesterday, They had been intérupted by th eschool] closing three weeks ago, due to bad-weather and water PORCH COLLAPSES = UNDER SNOW IMPACT A mass of snow slipped from the roof and crashed ten feet below upon the porch roof in front of G. Gildersleeve’s printing establishment in Commercial street shortly after 8 o'clock last evening. The porch gave Way under the sudden impact and collapsed onto the sidewalk. Fortunately no one was _passing under it at the time. ‘puieladileaianee unmceetabiion 0O----— sie ROSEVILLE AND LOCAL CAGERS CLASH TONIGHT After several weeks of inactivity, the Nevada City ball will again tonight at nasium ag high school hbasketinto. action Hall gymclass A and B Roseville hich. iseheal A. month ago, both teams went to Roseville and took the count. When the teams erash Redmen’s ainst the eams of Roseville A team downed the Nevada City team, they won second place in the: Sierra Foothill Basketball League, Before the game the two teams had tied for having lost one rame only to Placérville.© With the defeat, the local lads are now occupying third place. The Nevada City but one practice second place, each Roseville hoys have had tonights record has game.If Neit will be by a before game. Roseville on its the edge for tonight’s City narrow vada does win, margin. Yesterday afternoon the teams practiced for the first. time in a due to the precarious condition of Redmen’s Hall . The hall has been braced repaired so that it good condition for week, and more in basketball. Coach Bev is. once that if forget everything else and go out on the floor tonight with but Barron thinks the boys one thought and that to win the games, they will have a _ fighting chance to put over wins. In the B team game’ at Roseville, the local team came closer to winning than from any other B team in the circuit. The score was 29 to 18; In past years, Nevada City was singularly successful in putting out a winning B class team. especially last year, Because of the rest the teams have during the past week, they raring to go. The game against Grass Valley -at was postponed by the valley school because of the lack of water and heating facilities. Coach .to put forth the full strength of his two teams as due to the long rest, all of the boys on the crippled list jhave-had a chance to recover. The jstarting lineups will not be chosen until just before game starting time, which will be 7:30 for the B team last week Mrs. Layton’ over-took him and ran. resolution condeming the attempt to'and 8:30 for the A team. Admission will be 20 cents for students and— children and 40 cents for adults. Barron expects to be able

~ .Y “NEVADA CITY oy Where Climate, Good Water — . and Gold Invite the World.’ . pi Nevada City Navads he Nugget is a! Member of the Vol. VII, No.30 The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CA \LIFORNIA Vie CO) Contr Snow By EDW. C. UREN "There probably is no placé in the country where Conmimunity spirit of co-operation is better xemptified than: it has heen here_in Nevada City during the last six days, when an average of 40-anen have attired themselves in long legged gum boots and set forth each ‘morning with shovels ‘on -their backs to, lft the-—blockade—in——_ Snow Mountain ditch. Shortly after seven. the crew as sembted “orest Service headquarters -and were taken by trucks furnished by the Service to a point beyond’ the County Hospital. Here they .transferred to the large sled donated t the-Nevadh County. Lumber Company and the Miner's Foundry I yn “thirty Caterpil-} lar’ piloted: by. Ted Deal, .then start-. €q on it lor treck to Scotts ITat Epo th hump above’ the Mon mine, where the road .ascends at least. a ixteen—per cent erade, little “tractor:pulls. it’s load of ‘human fr ht through froin 8 to 6 feet of snow with a power and sturdine: almost. unbelievable. SNOW DEEPER WFEH ELEVATION The snow increases in aepth as el evation is gained. Now and then the tops of a few fence posts are visible. <A tense quietness pervades over all. Even the birds are absent, but occasionally deer tracks where the animals have come down off the hills toward the creek bottom. Small trees are bent to the ground, but occasionally trees six or eight inches in diameter have. been broken off by the weight of. snow which has overcome them. A. man would soon. perish in this white . wilderness unless he were equipped with snow shoes. Arriving at the first crossing of. Snow Mountain one crew of a.dozen. men go up the ditch while the rest continue on four miles further to the road crossing at Scott’s Flat. Here part ef the crew, headed by the more experienced ditch men go up toward the head to follow the-water down, for this part of the ditch has already been cleared and awaits the flushing. ONLY HARD WORK GETS RESULTS ; . The follow down the ditch, walking through the slush, broken, ice and water between. banks” 6f} snow four feet deep above the ditch which press inward until there is ofare seen . storm started, rest ten less than two feet space betWeen Two miles down they. come to where’ work ceased the day before. Now there is ice three or thick and water soaked snow underand has to Standing four inches neath. The ice resists be broken up with an axe. NEW MACHINERY FOR FRENCH CORRAL MINE In a letter to Clarence C, Meyer at French Corral, A. .A. Wise, dent of the American Machine Company of Oakland, that heavy mining machinery is being shipped to the Harrison French gravel mine and that will be put to work there immediately. The mine is adjacent to the southern Corral township and producer in Calvin Linnell cuniel presistates men boundary of rench has. been a rich past Meyer been in years. . and the mine. since} . charge of production Meyer in the inThomas Meyer, water ceased and stopped last summer. terests of his father, owner of the mine and Linnel in-the interests of Clarence.Knights, James Rodda of Oakland and Harold B. Wright of Nevada City, are holders of a lease and bond on the.property. In December the Wise interests bought the lease and bond from the latter three through T. M. Darnell of. \El Cerito. of the mining operations in place of Darnell, according to Wise’s letter, Heavy snow that has fallen in the Sierra-Nevada mountains. this ter, will greatly help the working of gravel mines on the San Juan ridge. The French .mine will be no exception. The reservoir that goes with the mine has full for several weeks, big head of water came .into the reservoir continually until the middle of July. This year the seaso1 should bé a great deal. longer. Chesson is to be in winHarrison been Last year a . Irrigation . the city.for the 250, or 'of labor charge . , Fh Again Flowing Water in this iee cold water and heaving and snow wp over a séven or -eight foot bank. is no picnics Pt ts work. the broken ice hard In going and coming it is neceéssary in places to climb up out ditch on account of the depth of water. The snow is not frozen’ hart istain’ a weight mans and with: first. one» lege down, then 1@ Ofnrer, prozress 13 slow and ver} . tiring. HADY FOR HEAD OF WATER But Tuesday was rathér a cheerfuljday-after all, for-alons vO o'clocl in. the afternoon returning from the: head reported er noon, for reasons. unknown and inle “to de hig: -aege opening .a full férmine. half . . final hundred inches of water to float out: the ice and snow now in the canal and into it what is bound to drop from time to time in the next féw. days, Snow Mountain will again be blockade City of func-. tioning after a which has Nevada over three MIGHT HAVE BEEN PREVENTED That this hazard prevented by turning in six or seven hundred inches at the head when the is conceded by all the deprived water for weeks. could -have been ditch men familiar with the situa. . tion. And while the citizens have so cheerfully accomplished what the N. D. could, or did not do, they insist that steps now be taken to see that sueh a preventable occurrence does not repeat itself. QUID PRO QUO IN ORDER Had not the volunteers worked s0-. valiantly in reopening Snow Mountain, Nevada City would have had no water from this source for) probably another month and it. is and opinion that! in the nadonation to the’ Nevada District but that the Discan do no less than reimburse shifts the expense by creditthe general feeling the work be not regarded ture. of a trict more, and value -of: water tous and inconven it is hard to fngan equal As for the we have suffered, hazard ience imagine ™ The Forest any recompense. Service and have it’s chief, Bigelow, supplied the and Richard trucks tools and have = given assistance possible to the city Their interest and every in it’s dilemma. help is deeply appreciated. SKI CLUB READY FOR BIG THRONGS With Sunday and Monday looming up as two of the biggest winter sports days of the year, the Nevada City-Grass Valley Ski Club pared for a banner week end. and from the The snow plows have all the way has preTravel conditions to course will be good. cleared a two-way from_this city to the course. The club advertised this week end both in Marysville and Sacthey anticThe Marysroad has ramento newspapers and ipate a big response. villle and Yuba City: folk have become -educated._to. the course this winter and many-are expected from that district. : The snow is six feet deep, the to-~ boggan slide is in excellent condition and skiing will be at’it’s “best. -O : MOTOR . LICENSE EXTENDED SACRAMENTO, Feb. 9California motorists have until TIME (UP)-— FebThe h ave tor vehicle licenses. period was supposed to ended February 3, but acting on the gestion of Governor Rolph, a ‘‘mor: declared by the de partment of motor vehicles. All who apply for ter February 14, will have to pay a double fee sugatorium’’ was persons licenses afMente — Attorney Harry M. McKee has returned from a trip on professional business in San: Francisco. California, renewal ft RO BPED aa? Ard ed ) Over K, N: X. broadcast last that in boldest rebberies -in the it was feported annals was invaded by two bandits rouches of mail taken, in which her was © $323,000. The bandits are reported to have escaped. iar ie rp A HE SE cae Hotte ( } T \ H ' INAN.C.R.R. BOX CAR) \ i . Pelee tn ener It, must: have been ‘just. Gus Orzalli bad lue that h hapned yt Ve rnin fro a it to say, When the snow 10 de w it {iS WOT a few days 220 yt yT1 ' t ) ry G crt a 7 i tl r7vt ( i2 to:-araep— oO “ Co (1 folied.” up. witt i j C} m. top coat and “his: lov hoes and dapper silk. oOcKS they’ would have “had a coach ready. for :him, but they had rough: work ahead and weren’t carrying any fancy et this’ night; in fact rather light more juipment they were running and had nothing than. an empty box car behind the engine. Sut Gus was glad to take passage in. the “rattler” as the hoboes call it. It didn’t look very inviting ,but if everything went along all right he woula be home in a little over an hour. The train arrived at. Grass Valley on schedule and left for Nevada City about 7:30. in the evening, but they hadn’t problocked the plow attached to blocked the plow attacked to the pilot of the engine. Then it became a game of back up and charge, in which Gus and another lone passenger, who hailed from Montana, wére shuttled: back and forth along the length of the car with every impact against the snow banks. Gus. says he lost count of the number of times he went back and forth over the same oid remembers. disback ground, but he tinetly going twice during the night to the gas ive eigine plant for to quench its thirst in. Wolf Creek-——-then back to the fray again. It: “got cold; ‘awfully. ‘cold. Even the fast leg action necesmaintain a balance suffigient to warmth, so -he that he by the engine crew sary to wasn’t create made such loud lament was overheard invited into the cab where he could at least toast And it along and his shins a little. came to -pass that o'clock in the morning they had finally battered their way to a half a mile west of Town Talk just a few minutes walk from the highway, and hill run to could a about four point about a short down But what fellow do in three feet of soft snow with low shoes and of the home. silk socks? It was out question. Anyhow, return to the train now had to Grass Valley to g regular five o’clock morning run to Colfax, and Gus

went along with it. The fellow from Montana was peeved beeause lie had paid for a ticket to Nevada City and thought he should have been deliveded at his destination. And Gus says his ice cream overcoat is so soiled with soot and engine grease that it is about ruined. EACH HEAD OF THIS out on its _.DOUBLE-HEADED TROUT ruary 14 to apply for their 1933 mo= or FIGHTS FOR FOOD MT, SHASTA, Feb. '9-—(CUP) A two headed Loch Leven trout has for four years proved the greatest “freak’’ at the state fish hatchery here. The fish two pair of and feeds either left or right mouth. The heads fight for the food, employes said, the right head usually winning over the left..Sex of the fish has not been determined. heads, with tWo normal eyes has one of the} of} and two, the Sacramento postoffice . : Yesterday was. the sixth day that vada City Volunteersunder—the sadership of the .ffre department Oo wrestles with no Mountain ditch } Morning ~the A kehia Lic x Lo eservoll Ther 4 started up again full force and . ead of iter in + diteh y eris now working the entire crew of out 200 } down far gre deal in opening ul] rat. is. Ot 1 vi é boot blan t Ski a food ¢ ft} Volunte ( n I nt t or te] 1 the N¢ dor Ont now *) employe ) work '¢ re dite . Mou 1in d Will. ean ttis l¢ 4 ( Wi}? ado ou mil 1 I yi om two ( b two lay ind one geht ha b 1 Cé ( effo cf tH lanage i} { eh { thre } Nn . Sis Hf Vera © yin I t t { ived ! Ot we ( 1 ¢ { Pat oO ‘ eye days all Lifts Sof . ( 1 ’ t ey Or ) ity ] n n MI a I to the line fb ans of a huge sled ) it o wa for the tow drawn: b ilar trac: . CANADA HILL RESEROTR ULI ‘ } no 0 0 60° -m t j } ray iter were thow= ) ( Ho ularly and n UC tn Canad Hil reservoir Letio ] f to norm . Lerday; ac £ to Superinten idmpres i the only hig: dent ob. ft. Hallet Jn weno tate ‘ rt in the district that con-, that. temporary repairs were made inued work without a lavoff. dur-. on the outlet pipe Monday night Ine thie torm. All of th employ-. whieh prevented more than a temes. aresaid to have chipped: in a. porary interruption in the city’s . dollar each and with ddaiiowal ere money given by the company, a man. FAMILY iS REPORT ED was hired to keep the Rough and. . Ready. road open. so that. the men) STRANDED NEAR DELHI could get back and forth to.work. The full crew of 40 men is working there now and it is said that the expects to double that spring, when the new be ready to operate. The Empress is about five miles west of \Nevada City. me All of management number by mill will the big quartz mines in Grass Valley had started full proluction by Thursday morning, with plenty of water for mining purposes. The North Star, Empire and. Pennsylvania of the Newmont Company have over 600 men at work and the Golden Center about 75. The Idaho Maryland has 200 and the Hill about 15. There. are men employed in the and Nevada City have been for almost Spring nore Grass Valley mines than many long this ditsrict looks here vears, bright. GRANNINI TELLS OF CHT IN COSTS SAN FRANCISCO, Giannini, Mining in Feb. 9—-A. P interviewed bank's headquarters about rumors econeerning ‘his stated emphatically, retirement, “Nothing is further thaughts. During . the proxy battle I pledged myself to pro-}. tect and or. the from my promote the best interests stockholders and I forgotten my “Very few haven't pledge. people realize’ fully today at the. how much The has been has been accomplished. . of the Bank . over $473,000, profits for the . 198 32 »=s« averaged . month. I have visited branch and loans have been surveyed, Expense Account reduced by per month. Current last six months of $693,440 per nearly every personally earefully and determined serves set up. A losses adequate resubstantial gain in deposits has been achieved. rale of the splendid. The} senior executives are in close touch . with their problems, have them well}! in hand and are enthusiastic about} their work: My job is not yet done . and talk about a mature,”’ The mostaff is successor is preeS RS, AP ete WIFE RUNS DOWN HER SPOUSE IN SNOW STORM CHESTER, Feb. 9—(UP)— A new. kind of a motorist-pedestrian accident was recorded here when Mr. W. B. Leyton ran ’down her husband during a snow storm: When the road became invisible. due to heavy snow, Layton got out and walked following his dark ahead, his figure with. of the car wife the antomobile. el Everything .wap fine until ~Lay. ton’s’ clothing became covered with} snow and he blended into the storm. . him down. He suffered only a few slight injuries. . City. fin its . Within three miles of the one in . which they are to be merged. Henry Huckins of San Juan yesterday sent word to. the Red Cross organization of Nevada City that a family has been stranded for several days at Box Canyon on the road to Alleghany near Delhi. The family consists of a man and his wife and a small child. A resident of that section, it is reported, has divided its meager rations withthe stranded family, which cannot get their car threugh the snow. Se Best SARL idee see RESORT WAITRESSES, SISTERS OF PROSPERTY SACRAMENTO, Feb. 9-—(UP)See may be just around the corner for most people, but for the resort-hotel waitress it lurks at every table, the industrialreaccording. to. a ‘report. .of state department of lations. At the report more swanky resorts, the indicated, waitresses may get as much as $5 or $6 in tips during a single meal, though the daily avy $10. SCHOOL DISTRICTS JOINED TO N.C. erage was fig ured at from $8 The Board of Supervisors at their session Wednesday. ordered: by lution the consolidation. of Indian Flat, Willow Valley and Blue Tent school districts with that of Nevada resoThe order has the legal sanction mendation of the grand jury which, report, incorporated the ommendation of Mrs. Ella M. Austin, county superintendent of The was upon motion of Supervisor bogast of this city. The of the that where school recschools. resolution taken Cary Arhas th school law, districts* order elegal which may be sanction provides consolidated uous and where the houses of the contig districts are Mrs. Austin solidation, states that the conWas recommended as a measure of economy. Several pup. ils from the three districts have been attending the Nevada City high school, and the only—-recompense re-. ceived for this instruction is the amount per pupil. alloted by the . state. . Few students attend the Indian! . Flat and Blue Tent schools, and the Willow Valley school pupils being City by is closed; the) transported to Nevada automobile to attend school . here. The supervisgrs adopted a strong hold a special election for the recall, of Governor Rolph. jhad . should: be “Grass Valley, oF Deere Cit) E ive Own, . tL I EB. 10, 1933 x SEE: t \ all-night shift Ke at re section o ipe ‘ { will 7 necesSary.to repl t ngth PHe: flo ; i serVOIrr =I (6) I ) mal ] tat 8 Ato to ow ‘onst t f LOW r ¢ YT ij Me ] noy ( tito the Ley ) f Ol! and a ‘ d filled CHOOT AR? IPENED the } ( 1 if inatt@) {tv ¢ \ Yr Sit« 1 f f y e! Th: OF \ f t { £ ae nd hi ) fro } el t rade, t th chool, Py . FS Kjo eported that 1 i tudqh . QO Ol L I f \ ne = day -mornin classes. The. final-semester examinations Were continued jyesterday, They had been intérupted by th eschool] closing three weeks ago, due to bad-weather and water PORCH COLLAPSES = UNDER SNOW IMPACT A mass of snow slipped from the roof and crashed ten feet below upon the porch roof in front of G. Gildersleeve’s printing establishment in Commercial street shortly after 8 o'clock last evening. The porch gave Way under the sudden impact and collapsed onto the sidewalk. Fortunately no one was _passing under it at the time. ‘puieladileaianee unmceetabiion 0O----— sie ROSEVILLE AND LOCAL CAGERS CLASH TONIGHT After several weeks of inactivity, the Nevada City ball will again tonight at nasium ag high school hbasketinto. action Hall gymclass A and B Roseville hich. iseheal A. month ago, both teams went to Roseville and took the count. When the teams erash Redmen’s ainst the eams of Roseville A team downed the Nevada City team, they won second place in the: Sierra Foothill Basketball League, Before the game the two teams had tied for having lost one rame only to Placérville.© With the defeat, the local lads are now occupying third place. The Nevada City but one practice second place, each Roseville hoys have had tonights record has game.If Neit will be by a before game. Roseville on its the edge for tonight’s City narrow vada does win, margin. Yesterday afternoon the teams practiced for the first. time in a due to the precarious condition of Redmen’s Hall . The hall has been braced repaired so that it good condition for week, and more in basketball. Coach Bev is. once that if forget everything else and go out on the floor tonight with but Barron thinks the boys one thought and that to win the games, they will have a _ fighting chance to put over wins. In the B team game’ at Roseville, the local team came closer to winning than from any other B team in the circuit. The score was 29 to 18; In past years, Nevada City was singularly successful in putting out a winning B class team. especially last year, Because of the rest the teams have during the past week, they raring to go. The game against Grass Valley -at was postponed by the valley school because of the lack of water and heating facilities. Coach .to put forth the full strength of his two teams as due to the long rest, all of the boys on the crippled list jhave-had a chance to recover. The jstarting lineups will not be chosen until just before game starting time, which will be 7:30 for the B team last week Mrs. Layton’ over-took him and ran. resolution condeming the attempt to'and 8:30 for the A team. Admission will be 20 cents for students and— children and 40 cents for adults. Barron expects to be able