February 11, 1929 (6 pages)

THE NEVADA Three Months A Legal Newspaper and Nevada County, published at Nevada City. Arthur A. Willoughby Elsie P. Willoughby Published weekly on Mondays at and entered as mail matter of the second class in the postoffice at Nevada City, under Act of Congress, SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, any address in California, in advance Outside California, in U. S. . ee wen of General Circulation for as defined by legal statute. Printed and a CITY NUGGET Nevada City, California, March 3, 1879. seweeapeceee Perens terete Nevada City COZY CORNER CHAT SOME OF OUR who are all het up over demolishcounty boosters ing the County Development Association and installing in its place the former colonization plan which now proposes to envelop the county advertising activities into a new organization with the sky as the limit, would. do well to consider some of the many accomplishments of the development board which has functioned in a satisfactory way for a number of years past on relatively small capital. One of the things which stands out above all else is the routing of the Tahoe Ukiah state highway up the Harmony Ridge as against the Grass Valley Colfax scheme which was nearly put over some years ago when wiskerism was in the height of its glory. Nevada City found some. earnest friends at court when it looked as if we would be backed off the map although the bond issue had désignated the general route to be followed. We can thank the development board for some excellent countv literature which was given wide distribution. It has seen’ that the county advertising fund has been wisely expended in various activities. Mr. W. E. Wright, who has been the presdent of the organization for some years past is one of the county’s leading boosters and always ready to put his shoulder to the wheel at any time. Mr. J. Earl Taylor has done valiant. service as secretary for a number of vears. To hodily turn over this public service funetion which has been effective for so many years, to a practicallv untried experiment it: to our mind taking too much hisk. THR PROMOTION ROARD was erganized to do colonization. work primarily and not concern ‘tcelf with meattera larvelv concerned with the ordinary functions of a chember of enmmerce The work of the nromotion hoard the past veor wil) have to be judged by what it has done as a colonizing agencv and not by the “contacts” it may have made in other fields of endeavor. If some of ~ovur enthusiasts want to finance the plan further out of their own pockets, all well and good, but when ‘hy prorose to divert public moneys to exploit their plan, and furthermore to increase the county tax rate some four cents on the dollar, that is where we draw the line on the basis of the showing made last year. THE MEETING the past week was a disappointment in several ways: One that it was turned into a money grabbing enterprise with everybody. askd to pungle up, and other than that there was no outstanding achievement reported done. The two things that Nevada City is . time. Jerry most directly interested in, were not . able service even mentioned, our new turpentine . ramento. industry and the Lake Vera enterprise ,both of which are vital to the future prosperity. of the county. Our glorious mineral resources were . port was a recent visitor here. ‘was collected, , money/. expended. sgiven but scant attention. The stashowed that $4999 most of which went tistical report for salary for th secretary, of the Although the freport showed 13 monthg’ ‘activities, but ten month’s salary was listed paid out. Over $4000 paid out is quite a sizable sum when no outstanding developments can be shown. As a Drivately financed enterprise there can be no legitimate protest from any quarter but the main effort seems. to be to create sentiment to overwhelm the board of supervisors. to get behind the plan with the major part of the finanecing. with the peoples’ money. That is where we are interested directly as a taxpayer of this county. We are for any enterprise that will produce results in fair measure at least for the: money expended and we feel that the development board has fully justified its past existence and until there is some valid reason for legislating it out of business we prefer to see it continue as a public instituton. NEVADA COUNTY’S MINING possibilities were directly told to more than a million readers in Southern California in an issue éf the Los Angeles Evenng Herald a few days ago. It was told over the signature of The Nevada City Nugget and it has brought in a large number of queries for information onour mines and may be the THE NEVADA CITY NUGGET. CALIFORNIA. res oe ra ape urenerrne as a HISTORY OF (Continued From Last Week) elt had the# power to prescribe iust.how hydraulic mining should be conducted or prohibited and laid down an iron clad set of rules for this regulation. The commission was empowered to seize public lands for dam sites upon which to build dams ‘o restrain the @e>ris and to take stone and timber from public lands which were to be used to build ‘hese dams and to levy a tax of 3 ner centum on the gross gold recovery of hydraulic operations. These were the salient and valuable provisions of the act. In the 35 years that the Commission has been in existence not one of these provisions have been put into practice nor has any attempt been made to put. them to use. Immediately after the passage of the act, hundreds of hydraulic miners made application for permits to ‘operate under this act Many were granted to operate behind the’ log and brush dams. Thesel-were but temporary and had the commission had the foresight ar the miners ‘the energy to have seen that the authorized tax was ‘evied and permanent. dams built-in the lower stretches to catch the debris that eseaped, a different. story might be written of hydraulic mintne today. For insufficient as were these log and brush dams, but a comparatively small amount of debris escaped. When the structure seis out the waters washed a channel down the center and the greater portion of the material re‘mained high and dry out of the water’s reach. : The California Debris Commission ezradually grew away from the hydraulic miner and devoted more and more of its time to the cleaning of the clogged streams. It has made a splendid job of this task but seem to have lost sight entirely of the purpose for which it was created; the succor of the. hydraulic miner. For many years it has used its police powers to restrain but done nothing to revive this industry. Mining by the’ hydraulic process means of bringing in new companies. If we could only keep our mineral resources constantly before ithe investing public in an‘ effective. !way. That is what will open up our . mines’ in full measure once more. iThe Nugget is carrying on this ‘task as best it can each week and with its circulation covering a vast expanse of territory. already, its message is being felt and many have said that it is performing 4 most valuable. service in the communty in this regard. The more pages we can issue ~ each week, the stronger will be the messaze to the outside world. We have dedicated ourselves to the task of seeing the mines of Nevada county working full blast once more. MANY. COMPLIMENTARY remarks have been heard on the address given by Assemblyman Jerry Seawell before. the Lions Club the past week. Jerry showed 1n excellent grasp of the legislative situation and it is a safe bt that Nevada county will suffer none in ,its representstive in the assembly. He has made numerous trips up this way to keep in close touch with his ‘eonstituents and that is a most . ! eommendable trait to possess. Many politicians think all they need to de it to hand out a large amount of 'bull a few weeks before election and jit will get them by. It may—for a is performing a valufor this county at SacAAW Judge Frink S. Reader of BridgeWE ARE MOVING é To Our New Location About . . February 20th Next to Bank of America on Bank Street Free Parking Space for Our Customers CLINCH MERCANTILE €9. Grass Valley \. ; bite without a permit where the commission has jurisdiction is punishable by-one year’s imprisonment in a Federal prison or a $5000.00 fine or both. So trifling with its provisions is no laughing matter. Many causes have mitigated agaISTORY OF HYDRAULIC MINING IS INTERESTING ONE SAW ITS EARLY START IN THIS SECTION IN DAYS OF *49 ‘with a regular would be affected. If no valid objections were entered, the plans of the barrier were given the miner, vhen the structure was completed the commission was notified and an engineer was sent to inspect the job. If built in accordance with the plans a permit -was issued. It was'then legal to operate by the hydraulic process behind it. All through this proceeding, the hydraulic miner had acted légally and in good faith. However, as soon as he commenced his operations he was constantly hectored by agents or spies from an anti-debris association. These birds were a peculiar species whose eyesight wsa reputed more or less affected. If the hydraulic miner was solicitous of the eyesight OF these gentry; fine ‘And dandy. But if he were careless of this small. matter, woe betide him. He was immediately served with an injunction out of the state courts. The average little “gne-horse hydraulic mine had a fine time settling whya federal permit was amenable to state jurisdiction. A ease of this. kind happened more than 20 years ago at Dutch Flat. Wm. Nicholls, Jr., a banker at that place was operating the Polar Star Mine under a. permit from the California Debris Commission béhind a barrier that is still standng. He was enjoined out of the Sutter County Court, but being endowed backbone defied the edict Thereupon he was arrested, taken into enemy territory, found guilty, fined $500.00 and was sent to jail for five days. This was but one of many outragés of similar character. These excerpts are merely a Cross section taken from the report of J. Ross Browne, to the Secretary of the Treasury of the U. S. in 1868 gives some idea of the production of gold and prosperity.of the Hydraulic Mining section. — Page 93, Forest Hill District, Placer county: The Dardanelles has yielded $2,000,000; the Jenny Lind has yielded $1,000,000; the Jew Jersey has yielded $850,000; the Independence has yielded $450,000; the Deidesheimer has yielded $650,000; the East and Nortwood, and Rough and Ready, and the Gore, have each yielded $250,000; the Alabama has inst an energetic fight to rehabilitate this industry. Many of the properties have fal-. len into the hands of money lend-; ars who gained owenrship by terrific. jinterest rates; 11% to 2 per centum rer month ete Ags the owners died and estates with seattered owneriship gained title; this added to the inertia of the mortgage foreclosing . group couple with the political bal-. {lvhoo_ of opponents whose only stock in trade was inciting passion and prejudice made the work of ruin complete. i! in the valley; It remained. however, for one who never forzot the place of hits ~birth tn revive the half century old battle. Harold Cloudman, a mining. ongineer, born at You Bet, Nevada county, introduced a bill in the Tevislature of 1924-25 approriating $10 000 00 to investieate the feasibilitv of resuming. this industry. It passed without a dissentne vote, , was signed by the governor ‘and became a law. For a time there ws no response from the miner. He did not seem to grasp. what the assemblyman from Alameda was trying. to do for him. : Under the provisions of the act. Lloyd L. Root, state mineralogist and W. S. Kingsbury became the commission to:make_ the investigation. They selected Arthur Jarman, a mining engineer, to make the examinations and start the ball rollng calling -a meeting of the newly appointed commission and all nterted parties It was offered all its data, agreed to make the*new surverys required and bid fair to function for the purpose for which it was created. It rendered wonderful service and had two. of its members refrained from. giving out misleading newspaner interviews during the legislative fight of 1926-27, Assembly Bill_No. 681. designed to put the Caminetti Act into effect for the benefit of the miner would have undoubtedly become a law. The California Debris Commission ts a Federal body created by an act of Congress. Its acts and permits are Federal. It is not smendahle in any way to state jurisdiction. The hvdraulie miner fott*h anplied for a permit to hydraulic unAer the provisions of the 2¢° and the supplementary provision: Inid down by the commission. Thevenpon the engineer of the commission visited the site. The commission then adrarticed the application for three in onnd i yielded $150,000. These claims were ,in Califorpia. Nine thousand inches /of water fare used here, requiring a ‘about 200 inches of water.The shipbut from 50 to 100 feet in length of the channel. 4 On page 101, Gold Run District, Placer County: The latter did not obtain a large supply of water until lately, and therefore its best claims have not been exhausted and it is the most prosperous hydraulic camp paymen th 20 Page 121 Birehville, Nevada coun‘y: The gross yield and net profits of the claims of five of the leading . companies at Birchville, for 1866, were as follows, in round numbers: Gross Proceeds Net’ Proceeds of $1,000 a day or more Irish Amer. Co. $180,000 $133,000 San Joaquin Co. . 134,000 68,500 Don Jose Co... 100,000 72,000 Granite Tunnel Co. 82,000 24,000 Kennebec and American Co. 85,000 30,000 Page 124 Nevada County: Shafts were sunk on Bourbon, Manzanita, Wet, and American Hills, and. the yichest deposits drifted out, but the claims were subsequently bought up by a few companies, and the ground worked from the surface down by which sold their dust there, in 1857 was $4,000,000 annually, now is $1,000,000. Page 84, El Dorado County: The Friar claim has yielded $50,000 but after leaving the surface the miners found the cement so hard aaey could not wash it and nothing was done on it.for years. A San Francisco Company is now at work, opening it by a tunnel. to be 1,000 feet long, and to be finished in 2 years. Page 84, BE! Dorado County: The Live-oak claim is worked through a tunnel and has yielded $50,000 or $60,000. Under this claim runs the blue channel. To be Continued) a Mr. and . Mrs H. O. Kohler of Washington were visiting in Nevada City Friday. Miss Milli Clerkin of French Corral spent some time here visiting friends. C. H. Jones of French Corral was . a business visitor here Friday. Miss Helen Searls attended ‘the; tenth wedding anniversary of her brother, Dr, Henry Searls and wife in San Francisco, © a The EOE EE a 124 Mill Street a a : Ly VALENTINES — Valentines of every kind—big and small—fancy and funny. Many of them from the famous GIBSON line. é “Make your own Valentines’ Sets Decorations and favors in variety for your valentine dinner or party. REHARRIS Rexale Store S %, o “ast esha doleeqe ininininicioteiinae ys stertertesfertertent esberlenie ofeste sete slerdetier tere elenie: ie oka eheole tis nat els le oie viene nies -MADERA COUNTY The Minaret Mines Co. have made 1 recent strike of high grade ore it is reported. It is below the 100 foot level. At 135 feet it widened to three feet of high grade ore and promises to fill the shaft, which was being sunk on. @ body of $50ore. It is intended to sink to 300 feet. Regular shipments’ will be made as soon as the roads are good Frank McGovern is superintendent of the mine. rT The Lewisten dredge has been sold to R. F. Lewis and L. K. Requa “of San Francisco. It is on the Trinity rive where it has worked for the past six years. New ground wagealso purchased by the new owners and they plan continuous operation. Misses Evelyn O’Connor, Iris Murchie, and Dearestine Daniels, all of whom teach in the Roseville schools, spent last week end here with relatives. John Hooper and daughter, Mrs. Wilborn Smith and husband, were called here from Richmond by the death of the former’s mother, Mrs. Mary Hooper. 30c and 50c sfetetetetefeteruioieiet detatetetedetei teleietetes test re Pe lene 7 oO +4) * "S a i, 2s +? As Se he rahe oh ae af o as t ee % feats ste Soaledtetes LODGE AND FRATERNITY EMBLEMS The most popular designs in Rings : Pins, Chains and Cuff Links Special Designs suppliied on short notice H. W. HARTUNG & SON Jewelers Grass Valley r. O: Box 163 All Kinds of Electrical and Radio Work Anything Mechanical Local Agent for Scott and Fetzer Sanatation System Also Non-Electric Sweeper ED ADDINGTON Nevada City the hydraulic These claims yielded immensely, and the amount of gold extracted from the base of Sugar Loaf to the Lower workings of American Hill, a little over a mile, is *elieved to have reached $7,000,000 to $8,000,000. Page 142, Sierra County: Howland Flat is now the most prosperous minins; camp in the Sierra and the most productive drifting camp in the State, unless Fir Cap has surpassed it. The shipment of gold this year will be about $300,000; it was twice as: much annually for four years previous to 1866. The shipment for February, 1867 was $28,000; for Mar. $10,000; for Apr. $24,000; for May, $31,000; for June, $31,000. Page 148, Yuba County: Campton, Brown’s and’ Hansonville— Camptoville is an old channel which appears north at “Brandy City, in Sierra County, and south at San Juan,, in Nevada county. At Camptonville it appears near the top of a high ridge, and is nearly worked out. There are three hydraulic, companies at work there, each using ment of gold from Camptonville is now about $500,000 per year; seven years ago it was $700,000. Page 166, Plumas County: The weeks in papers in the vicinity that yield of .La Porta and the placers. ACRAMENTO AUBURN NEVADA CITY STAGE Ly. Nevada City: 7:40 A. Ms711:30 A.-M. 3:15 P.M ¥3:00 P.M Lv. Grass Vally 7:55 A. M. °11:45 A. M. 3:30 P.M. *3:15 P. M. Ar, Sacramento 10:40 A. M. 2°30 POM. Goes Pe Me 1°300P.M Ar. San Francisco 12:15 P. M. 2:15 4P 32M, 6:55 P. M > San Francisco 9:00-A. M.11:20 A.M. 1°20: PocM av. Sacramiento 8:00 A.-M. 12200 A.-M. 3:00 P.M. *7:45 P. M Ar. Grass Valley 10:45 A. M. 1:45 P.M. 5:45 P.M. «10:30 P.M Ar, Nevada City 11:00 A.M. 2:00 P.M. 6:00 P.M. *10:46 P. M. (*) Sundays only. (+) Daily except Sunday. a 2 : z 4 STREAMERS 14 KS Floating hotels de luxe Rooms with private bath SINGLE OR ENSUITE Unsurpassed dining service Special advantages for automobile parti w~ . Teeke your Automobile . e MAKE RESERVATIONS ony Phone MAIN 4620 0 . Foot. or M STREET +

THE NEVADA Three Months A Legal Newspaper and Nevada County, published at Nevada City. Arthur A. Willoughby Elsie P. Willoughby Published weekly on Mondays at and entered as mail matter of the second class in the postoffice at Nevada City, under Act of Congress, SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, any address in California, in advance Outside California, in U. S. . ee wen of General Circulation for as defined by legal statute. Printed and a CITY NUGGET Nevada City, California, March 3, 1879. seweeapeceee Perens terete Nevada City COZY CORNER CHAT SOME OF OUR who are all het up over demolishcounty boosters ing the County Development Association and installing in its place the former colonization plan which now proposes to envelop the county advertising activities into a new organization with the sky as the limit, would. do well to consider some of the many accomplishments of the development board which has functioned in a satisfactory way for a number of years past on relatively small capital. One of the things which stands out above all else is the routing of the Tahoe Ukiah state highway up the Harmony Ridge as against the Grass Valley Colfax scheme which was nearly put over some years ago when wiskerism was in the height of its glory. Nevada City found some. earnest friends at court when it looked as if we would be backed off the map although the bond issue had désignated the general route to be followed. We can thank the development board for some excellent countv literature which was given wide distribution. It has seen’ that the county advertising fund has been wisely expended in various activities. Mr. W. E. Wright, who has been the presdent of the organization for some years past is one of the county’s leading boosters and always ready to put his shoulder to the wheel at any time. Mr. J. Earl Taylor has done valiant. service as secretary for a number of vears. To hodily turn over this public service funetion which has been effective for so many years, to a practicallv untried experiment it: to our mind taking too much hisk. THR PROMOTION ROARD was erganized to do colonization. work primarily and not concern ‘tcelf with meattera larvelv concerned with the ordinary functions of a chember of enmmerce The work of the nromotion hoard the past veor wil) have to be judged by what it has done as a colonizing agencv and not by the “contacts” it may have made in other fields of endeavor. If some of ~ovur enthusiasts want to finance the plan further out of their own pockets, all well and good, but when ‘hy prorose to divert public moneys to exploit their plan, and furthermore to increase the county tax rate some four cents on the dollar, that is where we draw the line on the basis of the showing made last year. THE MEETING the past week was a disappointment in several ways: One that it was turned into a money grabbing enterprise with everybody. askd to pungle up, and other than that there was no outstanding achievement reported done. The two things that Nevada City is . time. Jerry most directly interested in, were not . able service even mentioned, our new turpentine . ramento. industry and the Lake Vera enterprise ,both of which are vital to the future prosperity. of the county. Our glorious mineral resources were . port was a recent visitor here. ‘was collected, , money/. expended. sgiven but scant attention. The stashowed that $4999 most of which went tistical report for salary for th secretary, of the Although the freport showed 13 monthg’ ‘activities, but ten month’s salary was listed paid out. Over $4000 paid out is quite a sizable sum when no outstanding developments can be shown. As a Drivately financed enterprise there can be no legitimate protest from any quarter but the main effort seems. to be to create sentiment to overwhelm the board of supervisors. to get behind the plan with the major part of the finanecing. with the peoples’ money. That is where we are interested directly as a taxpayer of this county. We are for any enterprise that will produce results in fair measure at least for the: money expended and we feel that the development board has fully justified its past existence and until there is some valid reason for legislating it out of business we prefer to see it continue as a public instituton. NEVADA COUNTY’S MINING possibilities were directly told to more than a million readers in Southern California in an issue éf the Los Angeles Evenng Herald a few days ago. It was told over the signature of The Nevada City Nugget and it has brought in a large number of queries for information onour mines and may be the THE NEVADA CITY NUGGET.. CALIFORNIA. res oe ra ape urenerrne as a HISTORY OF (Continued From Last Week) elt had the# power to prescribe iust.how hydraulic mining should be conducted or prohibited and laid down an iron clad set of rules for this regulation. The commission was empowered to seize public lands for dam sites upon which to build dams ‘o restrain the @e>ris and to take stone and timber from public lands which were to be used to build ‘hese dams and to levy a tax of 3 ner centum on the gross gold recovery of hydraulic operations. These were the salient and valuable provisions of the act. In the 35 years that the Commission has been in existence not one of these provisions have been put into practice nor has any attempt been made to put. them to use. Immediately after the passage of the act, hundreds of hydraulic miners made application for permits to ‘operate under this act Many were granted to operate behind the’ log and brush dams. Thesel-were but temporary and had the commission had the foresight ar the miners ‘the energy to have seen that the authorized tax was ‘evied and permanent. dams built-in the lower stretches to catch the debris that eseaped, a different. story might be written of hydraulic mintne today. For insufficient as were these log and brush dams, but a comparatively small amount of debris escaped. When the structure seis out the waters washed a channel down the center and the greater portion of the material re‘mained high and dry out of the water’s reach.. : The California Debris Commission ezradually grew away from the hydraulic miner and devoted more and more of its time to the cleaning of the clogged streams. It has made a splendid job of this task but seem to have lost sight entirely of the purpose for which it was created; the succor of the. hydraulic miner. For many years it has used its police powers to restrain but done nothing to revive this industry. Mining by the’ hydraulic process means of bringing in new companies. If we could only keep our mineral resources constantly before ithe investing public in an‘ effective. !way. That is what will open up our . mines’ in full measure once more. iThe Nugget is carrying on this ‘task as best it can each week and with its circulation covering a vast expanse of territory. already, its message is being felt and many have said that it is performing 4 most valuable. service in the communty in this regard. The more pages we can issue ~ each week, the stronger will be the messaze to the outside world. We have dedicated ourselves to the task of seeing the mines of Nevada county working full blast once more. MANY. COMPLIMENTARY remarks have been heard on the address given by Assemblyman Jerry Seawell before. the Lions Club the past week. Jerry showed 1n excellent grasp of the legislative situation and it is a safe bt that Nevada county will suffer none in ,its representstive in the assembly. He has made numerous trips up this way to keep in close touch with his ‘eonstituents and that is a most . ! eommendable trait to possess. Many politicians think all they need to de it to hand out a large amount of 'bull a few weeks before election and jit will get them by. It may—for a is performing a valufor this county at SacAAW Judge Frink S. Reader of BridgeWE ARE MOVING é To Our New Location About . . February 20th Next to Bank of America on Bank Street Free Parking Space for Our Customers CLINCH MERCANTILE €9. Grass Valley \. ; bite without a permit where the commission has jurisdiction is punishable by-one year’s imprisonment in a Federal prison or a $5000.00 fine or both. So trifling with its provisions is no laughing matter. Many causes have mitigated agaISTORY OF HYDRAULIC MINING IS INTERESTING ONE SAW ITS EARLY START IN THIS SECTION IN DAYS OF *49 ‘with a regular would be affected. If no valid objections were entered, the plans of the barrier were given the miner, vhen the structure was completed the commission was notified and an engineer was sent to inspect the job. If built in accordance with the plans a permit -was issued. It was'then legal to operate by the hydraulic process behind it. All through this proceeding, the hydraulic miner had acted légally and in good faith. However, as soon as he commenced his operations he was constantly hectored by agents or spies from an anti-debris association. These birds were a peculiar species whose eyesight wsa reputed more or less affected. If the hydraulic miner was solicitous of the eyesight OF these gentry; fine ‘And dandy. But if he were careless of this small. matter, woe betide him. He was immediately served with an injunction out of the state courts. The average little “gne-horse hydraulic mine had a fine time settling whya federal permit was amenable to state jurisdiction. A ease of this. kind happened more than 20 years ago at Dutch Flat. Wm. Nicholls, Jr., a banker at that place was operating the Polar Star Mine under a. permit from the California Debris Commission béhind a barrier that is still standng. He was enjoined out of the Sutter County Court, but being endowed backbone defied the edict Thereupon he was arrested, taken into enemy territory, found guilty, fined $500.00 and was sent to jail for five days. This was but one of many outragés of similar character. These excerpts are merely a Cross section taken from the report of J. Ross Browne, to the Secretary of the Treasury of the U. S. in 1868 gives some idea of the production of gold and prosperity.of the Hydraulic

Mining section. — Page 93, Forest Hill District, Placer county: The Dardanelles has yielded $2,000,000; the Jenny Lind has yielded $1,000,000; the Jew Jersey has yielded $850,000; the Independence has yielded $450,000; the Deidesheimer has yielded $650,000; the East and Nortwood, and Rough and Ready, and the Gore, have each yielded $250,000; the Alabama has inst an energetic fight to rehabilitate this industry. Many of the properties have fal-. len into the hands of money lend-; ars who gained owenrship by terrific. jinterest rates; 11% to 2 per centum rer month ete Ags the owners died and estates with seattered owneriship gained title; this added to the inertia of the mortgage foreclosing . group couple with the political bal-. {lvhoo_ of opponents whose only stock in trade was inciting passion and prejudice made the work of ruin complete. i! in the valley; It remained. however, for one who never forzot the place of hits ~birth tn revive the half century old battle. Harold Cloudman, a mining. ongineer, born at You Bet, Nevada county, introduced a bill in the Tevislature of 1924-25 approriating $10 000 00 to investieate the feasibilitv of resuming. this industry. It passed without a dissentne vote, , was signed by the governor ‘and became a law. For a time there ws no response from the miner. He did not seem to grasp. what the assemblyman from Alameda was trying. to do for him. : Under the provisions of the act. Lloyd L. Root, state mineralogist and W. S. Kingsbury became the commission to:make_ the investigation. They selected Arthur Jarman, a mining engineer, to make the examinations and start the ball rollng calling -a meeting of the newly appointed commission and all nterted parties It was offered all its data, agreed to make the*new surverys required and bid fair to function for the purpose for which it was created. It rendered wonderful service and had two. of its members refrained from. giving out misleading newspaner interviews during the legislative fight of 1926-27, Assembly Bill_No. 681. designed to put the Caminetti Act into effect for the benefit of the miner would have undoubtedly become a law. The California Debris Commission ts a Federal body created by an act of Congress. Its acts and permits are Federal. It is not smendahle in any way to state jurisdiction. The hvdraulie miner fott*h anplied for a permit to hydraulic unAer the provisions of the 2¢° and the supplementary provision: Inid down by the commission. Thevenpon the engineer of the commission visited the site. The commission then adrarticed the application for three in onnd i yielded $150,000. These claims were ,in Califorpia. Nine thousand inches /of water fare used here, requiring a ‘about 200 inches of water.The shipbut from 50 to 100 feet in length of the channel. 4 On page 101, Gold Run District, Placer County: The latter did not obtain a large supply of water until lately, and therefore its best claims have not been exhausted and it is the most prosperous hydraulic camp paymen th 20 Page 121 Birehville, Nevada coun‘y: The gross yield and net profits of the claims of five of the leading . companies at Birchville, for 1866, were as follows, in round numbers: Gross Proceeds Net’ Proceeds of $1,000 a day or more Irish Amer. Co. $180,000 $133,000 San Joaquin Co. . 134,000 68,500 Don Jose Co..... 100,000 72,000 Granite Tunnel Co. 82,000 24,000 Kennebec and American Co. 85,000 30,000 Page 124 Nevada County: Shafts were sunk on Bourbon, Manzanita, Wet, and American Hills, and. the yichest deposits drifted out, but the claims were subsequently bought up by a few companies, and the ground worked from the surface down by which sold their dust there, in 1857 was $4,000,000 annually, now is $1,000,000. Page 84, El Dorado County: The Friar claim has yielded $50,000 but after leaving the surface the miners found the cement so hard aaey could not wash it and nothing was done on it.for years. A San Francisco Company is now at work, opening it by a tunnel. to be 1,000 feet long, and to be finished in 2 years. Page 84, BE! Dorado County: The Live-oak claim is worked through a tunnel and has yielded $50,000 or $60,000. Under this claim runs the blue channel. To be Continued) a Mr. and . Mrs H. O. Kohler of Washington were visiting in Nevada City Friday. Miss Milli Clerkin of French Corral spent some time here visiting friends. C. H. Jones of French Corral was . a business visitor here Friday. Miss Helen Searls attended ‘the; tenth wedding anniversary of her brother, Dr, Henry Searls and wife in San Francisco, © a The EOE EE a 124 Mill Street a a : Ly VALENTINES — Valentines of every kind—big and small—fancy and funny. Many of them from the famous GIBSON line. é “Make your own Valentines’ Sets Decorations and favors in variety for your valentine dinner or party. REHARRIS Rexale Store S %, o “ast esha doleeqe ininininicioteiinae ys stertertesfertertent esberlenie ofeste sete slerdetier tere elenie: ie oka eheole tis nat els le oie viene nies -MADERA COUNTY The Minaret Mines Co. have made 1 recent strike of high grade ore it is reported. It is below the 100 foot level. At 135 feet it widened to three feet of high grade ore and promises to fill the shaft, which was being sunk on. @ body of $50ore. It is intended to sink to 300 feet. Regular shipments’ will be made as soon as the roads are good Frank McGovern is superintendent of the mine. rT The Lewisten dredge has been sold to R. F. Lewis and L. K. Requa “of San Francisco. It is on the Trinity rive where it has worked for the past six years. New ground wagealso purchased by the new owners and they plan continuous operation. Misses Evelyn O’Connor, Iris Murchie, and Dearestine Daniels, all of whom teach in the Roseville schools, spent last week end here with relatives. John Hooper and daughter, Mrs. Wilborn Smith and husband, were called here from Richmond by the death of the former’s mother, Mrs. Mary Hooper. 30c and 50c sfetetetetefeteruioieiet detatetetedetei teleietetes test re Pe lene 7 oO +4) * "S a i, 2s +? As Se he rahe oh ae af o as t ee % feats ste Soaledtetes LODGE AND FRATERNITY EMBLEMS The most popular designs in Rings : Pins, Chains and Cuff Links Special Designs suppliied on short notice H. W. HARTUNG & SON Jewelers Grass Valley r. O: Box 163 All Kinds of Electrical and Radio Work Anything Mechanical Local Agent for Scott and Fetzer Sanatation System Also Non-Electric Sweeper ED ADDINGTON Nevada City the hydraulic These claims yielded immensely, and the amount of gold extracted from the base of Sugar Loaf to the Lower workings of American Hill, a little over a mile, is *elieved to have reached $7,000,000 to $8,000,000. Page 142, Sierra County: Howland Flat is now the most prosperous minins; camp in the Sierra and the most productive drifting camp in the State, unless Fir Cap has surpassed it. The shipment of gold this year will be about $300,000; it was twice as: much annually for four years previous to 1866. The shipment for February, 1867 was $28,000; for Mar. $10,000; for Apr. $24,000; for May, $31,000; for June, $31,000. Page 148, Yuba County: Campton, Brown’s and’ Hansonville— Camptoville is an old channel which appears north at “Brandy City, in Sierra County, and south at San Juan,, in Nevada county. At Camptonville it appears near the top of a high ridge, and is nearly worked out. There are three hydraulic, companies at work there, each using ment of gold from Camptonville is now about $500,000 per year; seven years ago it was $700,000. Page 166, Plumas County: The weeks in papers in the vicinity that yield of .La Porta and the placers. ACRAMENTO AUBURN NEVADA CITY STAGE Ly. Nevada City: 7:40 A. Ms711:30 A.-M. 3:15 P.M ¥3:00 P.M Lv. Grass Vally 7:55 A. M. °11:45 A. M. 3:30 P.M. *3:15 P. M. Ar, Sacramento 10:40 A. M. 2°30 POM. Goes Pe Me 1°300P.M Ar. San Francisco 12:15 P. M. 2:15 4P 32M, 6:55 P. M > San Francisco 9:00-A. M.11:20 A.M. 1°20: PocM av. Sacramiento 8:00 A.-M. 12200 A.-M. 3:00 P.M. *7:45 P. M Ar. Grass Valley 10:45 A. M. 1:45 P.M. 5:45 P.M. «10:30 P.M Ar, Nevada City 11:00 A.M. 2:00 P.M. 6:00 P.M. *10:46 P. M. (*) Sundays only. (+) Daily except Sunday. a 2 : z 4 STREAMERS 14 KS Floating hotels de luxe Rooms with private bath SINGLE OR ENSUITE Unsurpassed dining service Special advantages for automobile parti w~ . Teeke your Automobile . e MAKE RESERVATIONS ony Phone MAIN 4620 0 . Foot. or M STREET +