February 17, 1930 (6 pages)

were LEY r the t for alley this ovid ED sted,-fense ConJustook hearp ae 4 am Je 4 PTT SEE VOLUME IV, NUMBER [4 THE GOLD CENTER NEVADA CITY, NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, HEADCUARTERS OF STATE MINERS IN SACRAMENTO = New, hiceiaaan ere. of the state mining association are being ofened in the Travelers Hotel on Jay street in Sacramento and mining men will find it a good place to make headquarters while in the capital city. THE -seadquarters aré being fitted up through the enterprise of the Sacramento Chapter of the state association following the refusal of the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce to sponsor the mining department and further. Unwilling to see Sacramento lose the prestige of having the mining capital moved elsewhere, the Chapter there rose to the occas-) ction against , Core E. Woods. a= sion and is fitting the place up it} prjor owner of the Woods tract real mining fashion. west -of Grass Valley and certain The association expects t6 report its campaign for stockholders in the new mutual insurance organization to carry compensation insurance to be ready to get under way at an early date. The move has been anxiosly awaited by a number of small operators who have been under a heavy handicap with the present alinost prohibitive costs. . Chairman Stewart of the Tocal chapter is expecting to call the next mecting of the local chapter to be held at-Auburn. the latter part of this month or the first of next. The local chapter membership list is now -on its second hundred and with an active committee at work it is .expected to boost the list to at least 250 members’ by early suinmer. JACK BROUGHMAN HAS. PROMOTED WINNEMUCCA Jack Bonham “for nearly a yeas past the enegreti * manager of the local: Wesern Union office has been promoted to take over the managership of the office at Winnemueca, Nevada, effective March tstIt comes asa deserved promotion to the hard working young man who has greatly increased the business of the loeal office since taking over the reins. Jack has spent the past ten years with the company and he never misses an opportunity of building up business. The Winnemucca office uses three operators and two messenger boys and forms an important link in the WU chain. The best part of the promotion is that it. has come entirely unsolicited. Nevada City Odd Fellow and Boy NEW SHAFT PROPOSED FOR BOREHAM MINE eee The officials of the Boreham mine south of town who visited the prperty last week annunced that a standard shaft was prjected for thc mine at an early date to facilitate the development work which~so far has disclosed fine ote, including much specimen rock of high value. A. O. Witte, president of the company who had expected to fly up from Los Angeles with the party, was unable to make the~trip.BUTLER STARTS QUIET TITLE ON WOODS TRACT Cauley Butler cas his attorneys, Nilon, Hennessy & Kelly, the past week commenced a quiet title other defendants including Lyman Gilmore, Jr., and Frank L. Wolverton. = In his complaint, Butler sets forth that Gilmore and Wolverton for a valuable adequate considera-. tion made an assignment of their interests in.the property and that he paid Cora E. Woods in full on July 19th, 1929.~It is alleged that she has neglected and refused to convey the premises in question. The suit_is brought to quiet title to the premises n question and to assure possession of same. ELKS STAGE HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL NIGHT Past Exalted Rulers Night at the Elks Friday evening proved one of the best in the history of the local: organization. With Tom Richards at the helm of the committee of arrangements, everything "went through in shipshape fashion. The meeting was preceeded by a. turkey banquet. _— The following Past Exalteds filled the stations: T. W. Richards G. H. Calanan eee Exalted Ruler Leading Knight J. B. Colley ... E. Loyal Knight J. W. O'Neill E. Lecturing Knight Robert Carr -2-::-.<c:c0-c<c002-500Esquire R. L. PP. Bigelow. ... Chaplain S, Lee Leiter. Inner Guard Ray Hay ...------------cecereee* Tyler P. G. Seadden The initiatory work was conferred on a class of candidates in excellent fashion for the benefit of District Deputy Walter W. Shipley of Redding who paid ‘his official visit on that occasion. Speechmaking following the cereScouts circles will sorely miss him ashe has taken a lead part. since coming here. He has been scoutmaster of the, local troop and has done wonders. with the boys. WATT PARK PURCHASED FOR SITE BALL PARK Watt Park aiden ak as been used to stage athletic contests for some years past has been purchased by the Grass Valley Baseball Club the past week. The park contains 13 acres and is admirably adapted to athletic uses as well as for a picnie site. Tking the lead in putting through the deal were Manager J. E. tooding of the baseball club and Lou Elkus assisted by assistant secretary James Davis of the Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce. A number of contests are scheduled for the diamond already with Franklin, Orayille and Marysville Foresters. ay On learning that the owners were site for planning. on selling the farming purposes git busy and saved the park for atheltic uses.At one time the park was used as race mony carried the occasion far into the evening. COLE GETS SHOT AT GRAY WOLF LAST WEEK Clyde Cole wounded a large gray wolf last week which had been committing depredatious on the South Yuba above Washington. Taking his fowling piece and gong up river, he soon heard cries. of distress and found the wolf making a meal off a yung fawn on the river's edge. He shot the wolf in the shoulder which started up the ridge. Following it he found it had attacked another fawn previously. It succeeded in making its way into.the brush PACIFIC GAS SPENDS ing over two months W. H. Cross; noted.geological technician, has deTELLURIC SMELTING & REFINING CO ENTERS LOCAL FIELD ON LARGE SCALE As the result of a ua dt 1 ease survey and rock examinations exterdcided that Nevada City—cradle of the Californian stamp mill — does not stand on granite aS was generally accepted by mining engineers who held that no ledges or gold values would be found In the speckled grey rock, or if quartz splashes occurred, they could not live to any depth si _ With almost untque world experience Cross was called in for a seological and petrological diagnosis and report ‘‘on the granite area and the Mohawk «l;ims’. He found no granite. and stated that ‘‘the petroligical and mineralogical circum stances surrounding such deposits as are lkely to be found very shortly at.the Mohawk if recommendations herein are followed, suggest gold enrichment as great as that found in the adjoining mines; to reach the geological horizon of which I have laid out rather expensive shaft sinking work which should reach its objective within three months. When ths work is completéd, easy geoloyical correlations will be made about a. mile vertically above the deepest workings of the Grass Valley mines in the near vicinty”’. A htherto unexpected area holding rich auriferou: deposits may soon be resounding with the glorious sounding roar of mills crushing out the yellow metai to add to ~ the stupendous quantits already won from this, the worid’r mos tfamous gold mining district, ii Cross has not erred. Those for whom he reported have taken the medi cine prescribed, are sinking with the latest machinéry—all electri cally driven—three shifts with « crew of husky miners. With the fut-fut-fut of the rock arills and tne clanking and bishing of the air and eieciris water punrps filling our ears as we stepped from the case deep down in ths Monaw« mystery -ock, we were ~ obsessed with ‘the teeling that this exten-+ive opervatien in rock hard as flint a. ready showing seams of rich mineralization, will soon set mining minded Californians talking. Cross stated that the area hereabouts was not developed because in the booin days “the geological idiosyncrasies of the district were not probed or underateod when the genesis f gold occurrences were rated as little important compared: with the practical matter and glamour of gold recovery.” He declared in his report that “there is no petrological reason whatever why Lledges richer in auriferous sulphides and as persistent as those of adjoining mines should not be cut, but much-to suggest that they will be.”’ The mines of the Nevada Grass Valley district, all in an area of but a few square miles, have produced from the quartz and gravel approximately $250,000,0000 a quarter of a billion dollars. The North Star shaft of 8600 feet is the world’s deepest in gold mines. The Empire mine has been payably productive for eighty years. At the deepest level, payable free gold ore is still being mined and on the statement of Cross, “there is no geological reasin why the deposits should not continue to greater depths fan man will ever work.” The San Francisco News this month in an editorial stated that since '49, ‘‘the digging of gold has, been a glorious industry for 80 years. Nwarly $2,000,000,000 has LARGE MONEY LOCALLY According to an. lannouncement made by H. M. Cooper, _ Drum Di vision Manager, the Pacific Gas and Blectric Company plans on spending over a half million dollars in this division’ the comng year on traek with fair grounds. TWO FIRES TURSDAY Two small fires ealled out the fire truck Tuesday. In the morning a run was made to the F, R. Kirkham ~ residenee on Spring.atreet where the-attic was found ablaze. It was extinguished without much damage: At noon there was a chimney fire at the Allen home on Boulder street. ~ cred Subseripe tor The DugEel betterments, Among the items listed are $€000 for-replacement of poles on the Alta-Grass Valley sion line, $21,750 for the replace ment of cross arms any line and rebuilding of miles of the Pike-Alleghany from Cold Spring and $4000 for the poles in Nevada City. transmison the Alleghfive line to’ Alleghany, replacement of 1 for the world’s enrichment, and last year the gold crop was $8,500,000. It is thought that there was not any new outbreak of gold fever among the old prospectors of the Mother Lode,but there 1s something of much greater portent: world’s greatest and best paying inrock, which if successful, the enormots gold shortage. recent Nevada City visitors. Porn B. Englsh and sister, Miss Georgia, of North Columbia were} billion dollars in gold while inter-. j national gold obligations amount toCity. 'been taken out of California’s hills, the entry into the dustry of new money for extensive work carried out in the Hght of the latest scientific opinion such as the penetation if the Mohawk country will attract to the listrict where was the ‘birth of quartz mining in California a new era of prosperity by supplying The world now holds about nine forty times that. quantity. To ‘atri¥e a paying ledge in the Mohawk area would be a real strike, one to set the world agog, one which would who make it possible. The greatest fortunes have their origin in the mines. In our own entourage arc Hearst, Fleischacker, Mills, New-, hall, and dozens of others. Every cent invested in mining in the U. S. A. for the last half year earned the stupendous interest of 182% per annum, and yet there are other industries held to be paying that are returning less than 5% of this am-—birthplace of the California stamp —area will come back in glorious measure as a result of academical work opposed to widespread mining engineering reports. It is a challenge to them and the cutting of auiferous deposits will be a triumph for the technician. ee ‘The Telluric Mining & Smelting Company which has lately purchased the Mohawk holdings and is pushing the sinking of the shaft with the utmost dspatch, has an eye for tellurides of gold. The officials are advised that a telluride, unsuspected though determined by their engineer to occur in an adjoining famous mine, will be found at the Mohawk. Another of the properties in Plumas county is now fully equipped for ore teatment and concentration and while work is proceeding © apace there in order to have reserevs: well ahead of the mill capacity, it is expected that milling will commence before the middle of April on material which will be highly profitabl<« Large brokerag ehouses are watching developments of this new plan of ore development by one company with a central administration, in four counties. Mr. Leo Lucier, director of the Telluric, In whose company we visited the Mohawk, stated: that in his opinion, “the expenslys work undertaken for the-good of t gold mining industry in California would be entirely successful and in it might be hidden the real strike which would lead to complete rehabilitation of the ndustry and the building up of more fortunes for those ‘associated with it.” The new presdent of the Telluric is John Sawbridge, president of one of the most successful mining companies on the Coast, the Sunnyside Mining Company ,which pays regular dividends at the rate of over 300% per annum and which is .very likely to increase materially this rate this yea. Mr. Grubb, “Apple Kng of the Yakima Valley,’ another active member of the board of directors, is interested in metallurgical apparatus including a new type of electrical furnace capable of melting iridium as easily as copper, from its gangues. The construction of the board of directors is such that every member is.adapted to one or another of the demands upon it by a successful mining. company. With a technical staff second to-none, skilled mine manages, miners and mill men, the ‘getup of the Telluric, leaves nothing to be desired. It has stockholders in Europe, Africa and China. as well as closer home. ow Several properties are being opened in, the vicinity of the Mohawk. One owned by the Gold Run Syndicate has already stripping a ledge on the fringe of the famous Gold Flat district. If developments continue favorable this syndicate will be incorporated. Its holdings were visited by engineers and San Francisco. capitalists recently. . COMMENCES SUIT comnienced suit against Dan Pagin in superior court, to and fr $300 for damages ing possession of the property. os attract the attention of the great . west of Downieville, last week. H. gold mining companies and one. ’p. McCormick, with his son, S. N. which would enrich the investors McCormick, own the property, re a, wrchich =. Nevada Mrs. Charles Hope of Truckee has: recover the sum of $200 alleged due for rent in hold-} ne sng rse THE. COUNTY SEAT . PAPER _ o FEBRUARY 17, 1930 MCCORMICKS STRIKE RICH DEPOSIT OF GRAVEL GOLD DOWNIEVILLE, Feb. 17—(Special to-The Nugget)—The most im-] portant event in mining in this district this season is the striking. of gravel in the Arizona Mine, at the head of Jim Crow Canyon, southports having struck gravel on the west rim of the channel in a 26 foot raise. Sufficient drifting: ha: been done to determire the course of the rim, and McCormick now in tends to.drop down in the rais and drift to bottom of the chante: The Arizona lies on the old Ne braska channel, fabulously rich it early days. During the nine year. water in the gravel, another nev} condition in this heretofore we. mine. McCormick ifitends to do con mine this winter. MINING LOCATIONS ARE PLACED COTNTY RECORD G. A. Bigelow, W. 8S. Bigelow, TES C. Bigelow and L. D. Gassowa} have located the -Trood No. 3 and Trood No. 4 placer claims in Secs. 4 and 9, TI7N R9E. GRAND OFFICERS VISIT THIS DISTRICT AGAIN A large number of the Grand_Ofrepresented at the meeting which was largely attended from over the district. The party of distinguished visitors then continued to Truckee tffat night and spent Saturday in the snow sports. Saturday night Donner Chapter acted as host at time the Grand Chapter of was also officially represented by a number of its Grand Officers, and officers and members of Reno Chapter. WATER SHUTOFFS GET CASH IN THE TREASURY Determination to follow up their pronunciamento that water users must keep their bills paid up proved the unlossening of a lot of sach by delinquents.for the city treasury the past week, and showed that the city trustees intend to step on things 4 little in the water department. The water receipts are the source of revenue for the city general fund which provides the wherewithal tc ketp the wheels turning. Heretofore there have been vrbal blasts oc casionally that the bills would have to be paid but in but few case: @was pressure applied to compel p2ayment, and a lot of people got careless and thught they didn’t mean anything. SEAWELL ESCHEWED THE Assemblyman Jerry Seawell principal speaker before Valley Lions Club at its last\week neatly eschewed any mensportsmanship. He brought ancient Grecis and traced ~ down to the present day. brought up the subject of constitu tlonalamendment No. with counties sharing in public utilties. 5 * Subserthe For The Nugget siderable development work in the) SUBJECT OF POLITICS. . = as the Grass eeting tion of politics in his talk and gave a fine address on sports and good in the. n and Riman games history of sports He District Attorney H. B. Bore oe and Ross F, Taylor of Downieville awa STATION CUT AT MURCHIE MINE WAS COMPLETED Gendiien. are aes ee promisirig at-the Murehie for the opening up of.new ore bodies on the lower levels of this famous property. With the completion of the cutting of the new station at the 1300 level, drifting will be pushed ahead to de-velop new ground. Conditions look favorable for important ore bodies” on the new. deep level as the formations from the ‘upper level show evidence of continuance to considerable depth. Milling has been going shea convalués are said tinuusly and the : McCormick has been prospecting th«. {o be very encouraging. The oil ount. Our mines have made thous-. property gravel has been struc’ . ‘lotaiion process has worked out ands of fortunes in the past, they. several times, but is was invariably. yery successfully on / the Murchie will do likewise in the future. distrubed. McCormick reports thc. ore and the concentrates ‘have been If commensurate results follow. /new find to be apparently solid} ;unning very uniform. the well founded technical construc-. gravel, lying on undistrubed siate. --pne mine is maintaining a large tion of the Cross report, as notable} bedrock, the first thus far encoun . 5,5;ol1 and is Nevada City’s largest for its language as its conclusive-. tered in the mine. That the pipe sayroll at the present time Pe. ness, the Grass Valley—-world’s dee-. clay is intact over the gravei 1 as : pest mine area—and Nevada City. evidenced by the absolute lack oi MrCONNELL IS BOOSTING = FOR THE STATE FAIR frank H. McConnell, exhibit reupesentative of the California State air was here from Sacamento Fridy on business connected with the coming. state fair which. promises to ecpilse all others in point of exhibits and’ attendance. McConnell dd very effective work last year in securing the cooperation of the counties in making exhibits, 54 of the 58 counties being represented and nine of these never having shown at a state fair previously. The attendance last year reached ‘the phenomenal mark of 431,000 and came within 2,000 of the ndtional attendance record held by Iowa. : This year it is expected to surpass this easily. More foreign naficers of Royal Arch Masons paid) tions are expected to show this an official visit to Siloam Chapter} year. = on Friday evening, Nevada and With the Pan American Trade Grass Valley’ Chapters both being Conference conveneing at Sacramento August 25 to 30, with the state fair opening its doors at the close of the conference, will provide a unique setting this year. With the splenaid showing made . by Nevada county in her. exhibit last year particularly iu the display of fruits, the county has made a good start toward regti:ar participasion in the state show. : JUDGE CHARLES SCKER ANNOUNCES C “NDIDACY Judge Charles A. Ccker, one of Truckee’s highly respec: ¢d citizens, gains the honor this ycar of being the first in Nevada cou .ty toformally announce his candidicy for public office. Charley who his served for many years at the post of justice of the peace of Meadow l.ke Township is again seeking reelection to that office and it goes without saying that he will poll’a heavy vote among the people where he has spent 30 many years. He is now rounding out four terms of office, the first by appointment, and Sy returned at the polls.* Charley ‘thas. been officer in his official “duties and ~ fathful service hag its just. reward. — LIONS CLUB WILL = PRESENT FINE BILL The Grass Valley Lionh Club the Nevada City Club assisting wil E present a make “‘follies’’ skit in next few weeks which should a scream. Miss ftuby Allan who etntly staged a knockout ‘with the Pl cerville Club week ago fill act as pro manager and is. busy arranging cast and details of the p The skit will be produced trand Theatre and do -. fe repated at the Broadway i} the next night. The: proce the. entertainment will ‘be taking eare of the e district meeting of the Li held here in April. ; were business. visitors, in this . city.

were LEY r the t for alley this ovid ED sted,-fense ConJustook hearp ae 4 am Je 4 PTT SEE VOLUME IV, NUMBER [4 THE GOLD CENTER NEVADA CITY, NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, HEADCUARTERS OF STATE MINERS IN SACRAMENTO = New, hiceiaaan ere. of the state mining association are being ofened in the Travelers Hotel on Jay street in Sacramento and mining men will find it a good place to make headquarters while in the capital city. THE -seadquarters aré being fitted up through the enterprise of the Sacramento Chapter of the state association following the refusal of the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce to sponsor the mining department and further. Unwilling to see Sacramento lose the prestige of having the mining capital moved elsewhere, the Chapter there rose to the occas-) ction against , Core E. Woods. a= sion and is fitting the place up it} prjor owner of the Woods tract real mining fashion. west -of Grass Valley and certain The association expects t6 report its campaign for stockholders in the new mutual insurance organization to carry compensation insurance to be ready to get under way at an early date. The move has been anxiosly awaited by a number of small operators who have been under a heavy handicap with the present alinost prohibitive costs. . Chairman Stewart of the Tocal chapter is expecting to call the next mecting of the local chapter to be held at-Auburn. the latter part of this month or the first of next. The local chapter membership list is now -on its second hundred and with an active committee at work it is .expected to boost the list to at least 250 members’ by early suinmer. JACK BROUGHMAN HAS. PROMOTED WINNEMUCCA Jack Bonham “for nearly a yeas past the enegreti * manager of the local: Wesern Union office has been promoted to take over the managership of the office at Winnemueca, Nevada, effective March tstIt comes asa deserved promotion to the hard working young man who has greatly increased the business of the loeal office since taking over the reins. Jack has spent the past ten years with the company and he never misses an opportunity of building up business. The Winnemucca office uses three operators and two messenger boys and forms an important link in the WU chain. The best part of the promotion is that it. has come entirely unsolicited. Nevada City Odd Fellow and Boy NEW SHAFT PROPOSED FOR BOREHAM MINE eee The officials of the Boreham mine south of town who visited the prperty last week annunced that a standard shaft was prjected for thc mine at an early date to facilitate the development work which~so far has disclosed fine ote, including much specimen rock of high value. A. O. Witte, president of the company who had expected to fly up from Los Angeles with the party, was unable to make the~trip.BUTLER STARTS QUIET TITLE ON WOODS TRACT Cauley Butler cas his attorneys, Nilon, Hennessy & Kelly, the past week commenced a quiet title other defendants including Lyman Gilmore, Jr., and Frank L. Wolverton. = In his complaint, Butler sets forth that Gilmore and Wolverton for a valuable adequate considera-. tion made an assignment of their interests in.the property and that he paid Cora E. Woods in full on July 19th, 1929.~It is alleged that she has neglected and refused to convey the premises in question. The suit_is brought to quiet title to the premises n question and to assure possession of same. ELKS STAGE HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL NIGHT Past Exalted Rulers Night at the Elks Friday evening proved one of the best in the history of the local: organization. With Tom Richards at the helm of the committee of arrangements, everything "went through in shipshape fashion. The meeting was preceeded by a. turkey banquet. _— The following Past Exalteds filled the stations: T. W. Richards G. H. Calanan eee Exalted Ruler Leading Knight J. B. Colley ..... E. Loyal Knight J. W. O'Neill E. Lecturing Knight Robert Carr -2-::-.<c:c0-c<c002-500Esquire R. L. PP. Bigelow. ...... Chaplain S, Lee Leiter.. Inner Guard Ray Hay .....------------cecereee* Tyler P. G. Seadden The initiatory work was conferred on a class of candidates in excellent fashion for the benefit of District Deputy Walter W. Shipley of Redding who paid ‘his official visit on that occasion. Speechmaking following the cereScouts circles will sorely miss him ashe has taken a lead part. since coming here. He has been scoutmaster of the, local troop and has done wonders. with the boys. WATT PARK PURCHASED FOR SITE BALL PARK Watt Park aiden ak as been used to stage athletic contests for some years past has been purchased by the Grass Valley Baseball Club the past week. The park contains 13 acres and is admirably adapted to athletic uses as well as for a picnie site. Tking the lead in putting through the deal were Manager J. E. tooding of the baseball club and Lou Elkus assisted by assistant secretary James Davis of the Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce. A number of contests are scheduled for the diamond already with Franklin, Orayille and Marysville Foresters. ay On learning that the owners were site for planning. on selling the farming purposes git busy and saved the park for atheltic uses.At one time the park was used as race mony carried the occasion far into the evening. COLE GETS SHOT AT GRAY WOLF LAST WEEK Clyde Cole wounded a large gray wolf last week which had been committing depredatious on the South Yuba above Washington. Taking his fowling piece and gong up river, he soon heard cries. of distress and found the wolf making a meal off a yung fawn on the river's edge. He shot the wolf in the shoulder which started up the ridge. Following it he found it had attacked another fawn previously. It succeeded in making its way into.the brush PACIFIC GAS SPENDS ing over two months W. H. Cross; noted.geological technician, has deTELLURIC SMELTING & REFINING CO ENTERS LOCAL FIELD ON LARGE SCALE As the result of a ua dt 1 ease survey and rock examinations exterdcided that Nevada City—cradle of the Californian stamp mill — does not stand on granite aS was generally accepted by mining engineers who held that no ledges or gold values would be found In the speckled grey rock, or if quartz splashes occurred, they could not live to any depth si _ With almost untque world experience Cross was called in for a seological and petrological diagnosis and report ‘‘on the granite area and the Mohawk «l;ims’. He found no granite. and stated that ‘‘the petroligical and mineralogical circum stances surrounding such deposits as are lkely to be found very shortly at.the Mohawk if recommendations herein are followed, suggest gold enrichment as great as that found in the adjoining mines; to reach the geological horizon of which I have laid out rather expensive shaft sinking work which should reach its objective within three months. When ths work is completéd, easy geoloyical correlations will be made about a. mile vertically above the deepest workings of the Grass Valley mines in the near vicinty”’. A htherto unexpected area holding rich auriferou: deposits may soon be resounding with the glorious sounding roar of mills crushing out the yellow metai to add to ~ the stupendous quantits already won from this, the worid’r mos tfamous gold mining district, ii Cross has not erred. Those for whom he reported have taken the medi cine prescribed, are sinking with the latest machinéry—all electri cally driven—three shifts with « crew of husky miners. With the fut-fut-fut of the rock arills and tne clanking and bishing of the air and eieciris water punrps filling our ears as we stepped from the case deep down in ths Monaw« mystery -ock, we were ~ obsessed with ‘the teeling that this exten-+ive opervatien in rock hard as flint a. ready showing seams of rich mineralization, will soon set mining minded Californians talking. Cross stated that the area hereabouts was not developed because in the booin days “the geological idiosyncrasies of the district were not probed or underateod when the genesis f gold occurrences were rated as little important compared: with the practical matter and glamour of gold recovery.” He declared in his report that “there is no petrological reason whatever why Lledges richer in auriferous sulphides and as persistent as those of adjoining mines should not be cut, but much-to suggest that they will be.”’ The mines of the Nevada Grass Valley district, all in an area of but a few square miles, have produced from the quartz and gravel approximately $250,000,0000 a quarter of a billion dollars. The North Star shaft of 8600 feet is the world’s deepest in gold mines. The Empire mine has been payably productive for eighty years. At the deepest level, payable free gold ore is still being mined and on the statement of Cross, “there is no geological reasin why the deposits should not continue to greater depths fan man will ever work.” The San Francisco News this month in an editorial stated that since '49, ‘‘the digging of gold has, been a glorious industry for 80 years. Nwarly $2,000,000,000 has LARGE MONEY LOCALLY According to an. lannouncement made by H. M. Cooper, _ Drum Di vision Manager, the Pacific Gas and Blectric Company plans on spending over a half million dollars in this division’ the comng year on traek with fair grounds. TWO FIRES TURSDAY Two small fires ealled out the fire truck Tuesday. In the morning a run was made to the F, R. Kirkham ~ residenee on Spring..atreet where the-attic was found ablaze. It was extinguished without much damage: At noon there was a chimney fire at the Allen home on Boulder street. ~ cred Subseripe tor The DugEel betterments, Among the items listed are $€000 for-replacement of poles on the Alta-Grass Valley sion line, $21,750 for the replace ment of cross arms any line and rebuilding of miles of the Pike-Alleghany from Cold Spring and $4000 for the poles in Nevada City. transmison the Alleghfive line to’ Alleghany, replacement of 1 for the world’s enrichment, and last year the gold crop was $8,500,000. It is thought that there was not any new outbreak of gold fever among the old prospectors of the Mother Lode,but there 1s something of much greater portent: world’s greatest and best paying inrock, which if successful, the enormots gold shortage. recent Nevada City visitors.

Porn B. Englsh and sister, Miss Georgia, of North Columbia were} billion dollars in gold while inter-. j national gold obligations amount toCity. 'been taken out of California’s hills, the entry into the dustry of new money for extensive work carried out in the Hght of the latest scientific opinion such as the penetation if the Mohawk country will attract to the listrict where was the ‘birth of quartz mining in California a new era of prosperity by supplying The world now holds about nine forty times that. quantity. To ‘atri¥e a paying ledge in the Mohawk area would be a real strike, one to set the world agog, one which would who make it possible. The greatest fortunes have their origin in the mines. In our own entourage arc Hearst, Fleischacker, Mills, New-, hall, and dozens of others. Every cent invested in mining in the U. S. A. for the last half year earned the stupendous interest of 182% per annum, and yet there are other industries held to be paying that are returning less than 5% of this am-—birthplace of the California stamp —area will come back in glorious measure as a result of academical work opposed to widespread mining engineering reports. It is a challenge to them and the cutting of auiferous deposits will be a triumph for the technician. ee ‘The Telluric Mining & Smelting Company which has lately purchased the Mohawk holdings and is pushing the sinking of the shaft with the utmost dspatch, has an eye for tellurides of gold. The officials are advised that a telluride, unsuspected though determined by their engineer to occur in an adjoining famous mine, will be found at the Mohawk. Another of the properties in Plumas county is now fully equipped for ore teatment and concentration and while work is proceeding © apace there in order to have reserevs: well ahead of the mill capacity, it is expected that milling will commence before the middle of April on material which will be highly profitabl<« Large brokerag ehouses are watching developments of this new plan of ore development by one company with a central administration, in four counties. Mr. Leo Lucier, director of the Telluric, In whose company we visited the Mohawk, stated: that in his opinion, “the expenslys work undertaken for the-good of t gold mining industry in California would be entirely successful and in it might be hidden the real strike which would lead to complete rehabilitation of the ndustry and the building up of more fortunes for those ‘associated with it.” The new presdent of the Telluric is John Sawbridge, president of one of the most successful mining companies on the Coast, the Sunnyside Mining Company ,which pays regular dividends at the rate of over 300% per annum and which is .very likely to increase materially this rate this yea. Mr. Grubb, “Apple Kng of the Yakima Valley,’ another active member of the board of directors, is interested in metallurgical apparatus including a new type of electrical furnace capable of melting iridium as easily as copper, from its gangues. The construction of the board of directors is such that every member is.adapted to one or another of the demands upon it by a successful mining. company. With a technical staff second to-none, skilled mine manages, miners and mill men, the ‘getup of the Telluric, leaves nothing to be desired. It has stockholders in Europe, Africa and China. as well as closer home. ow Several properties are being opened in, the vicinity of the Mohawk. One owned by the Gold Run Syndicate has already stripping a ledge on the fringe of the famous Gold Flat district. If developments continue favorable this syndicate will be incorporated. Its holdings were visited by engineers and San Francisco. capitalists recently. . COMMENCES SUIT comnienced suit against Dan Pagin in superior court, to and fr $300 for damages ing possession of the property. os attract the attention of the great . west of Downieville, last week. H. gold mining companies and one. ’p. McCormick, with his son, S. N. which would enrich the investors McCormick, own the property, re a, wrchich =. Nevada Mrs. Charles Hope of Truckee has: recover the sum of $200 alleged due for rent in hold-} ne sng rse THE. COUNTY SEAT . PAPER _ o FEBRUARY 17, 1930 MCCORMICKS STRIKE RICH DEPOSIT OF GRAVEL GOLD DOWNIEVILLE, Feb. 17—(Special to-The Nugget)—The most im-] portant event in mining in this district this season is the striking. of gravel in the Arizona Mine, at the head of Jim Crow Canyon, southports having struck gravel on the west rim of the channel in a 26 foot raise. Sufficient drifting: ha: been done to determire the course of the rim, and McCormick now in tends to.drop down in the rais and drift to bottom of the chante: The Arizona lies on the old Ne braska channel, fabulously rich it early days. During the nine year. water in the gravel, another nev} condition in this heretofore we. mine. McCormick ifitends to do con mine this winter. MINING LOCATIONS ARE PLACED COTNTY RECORD G. A. Bigelow, W. 8S. Bigelow, TES C. Bigelow and L. D. Gassowa} have located the -Trood No. 3 and Trood No. 4 placer claims in Secs. 4 and 9, TI7N R9E. GRAND OFFICERS VISIT THIS DISTRICT AGAIN A large number of the Grand_Ofrepresented at the meeting which was largely attended from over the district. The party of distinguished visitors then continued to Truckee tffat night and spent Saturday in the snow sports. Saturday night Donner Chapter acted as host at time the Grand Chapter of was also officially represented by a number of its Grand Officers, and officers and members of Reno Chapter. WATER SHUTOFFS GET CASH IN THE TREASURY Determination to follow up their pronunciamento that water users must keep their bills paid up proved the unlossening of a lot of sach by delinquents.for the city treasury the past week, and showed that the city trustees intend to step on things 4 little in the water department. The water receipts are the source of revenue for the city general fund which provides the wherewithal tc ketp the wheels turning. Heretofore there have been vrbal blasts oc casionally that the bills would have to be paid but in but few case: @was pressure applied to compel p2ayment, and a lot of people got careless and thught they didn’t mean anything. SEAWELL ESCHEWED THE Assemblyman Jerry Seawell principal speaker before Valley Lions Club at its last\week neatly eschewed any mensportsmanship. He brought ancient Grecis and traced ~ down to the present day. brought up the subject of constitu tlonalamendment No. with counties sharing in public utilties. 5 * Subserthe For The Nugget siderable development work in the) SUBJECT OF POLITICS. . = as the Grass eeting tion of politics in his talk and gave a fine address on sports and good in the. n and Riman games history of sports He District Attorney H. B. Bore oe and Ross F, Taylor of Downieville awa STATION CUT AT MURCHIE MINE WAS COMPLETED Gendiien. are aes ee promisirig at-the Murehie for the opening up of.new ore bodies on the lower levels of this famous property. With the completion of the cutting of the new station at the 1300 level, drifting will be pushed ahead to de-velop new ground. Conditions look favorable for important ore bodies” on the new. deep level as the formations from the ‘upper level show evidence of continuance to considerable depth. Milling has been going shea convalués are said tinuusly and the : McCormick has been prospecting th«. {o be very encouraging. The oil ount. Our mines have made thous-. property gravel has been struc’ . ‘lotaiion process has worked out ands of fortunes in the past, they. several times, but is was invariably. yery successfully on / the Murchie will do likewise in the future. distrubed. McCormick reports thc. ore and the concentrates ‘have been If commensurate results follow. /new find to be apparently solid} ;unning very uniform. the well founded technical construc-. gravel, lying on undistrubed siate. --pne mine is maintaining a large tion of the Cross report, as notable} bedrock, the first thus far encoun . 5,5;ol1 and is Nevada City’s largest for its language as its conclusive-. tered in the mine. That the pipe sayroll at the present time Pe. ness, the Grass Valley—-world’s dee-. clay is intact over the gravei 1 as : pest mine area—and Nevada City. evidenced by the absolute lack oi MrCONNELL IS BOOSTING = FOR THE STATE FAIR frank H. McConnell, exhibit reupesentative of the California State air was here from Sacamento Fridy on business connected with the coming. state fair which. promises to ecpilse all others in point of exhibits and’ attendance. McConnell dd very effective work last year in securing the cooperation of the counties in making exhibits, 54 of the 58 counties being represented and nine of these never having shown at a state fair previously. The attendance last year reached ‘the phenomenal mark of 431,000 and came within 2,000 of the ndtional attendance record held by Iowa. : This year it is expected to surpass this easily. More foreign naficers of Royal Arch Masons paid) tions are expected to show this an official visit to Siloam Chapter} year. = on Friday evening, Nevada and With the Pan American Trade Grass Valley’ Chapters both being Conference conveneing at Sacramento August 25 to 30, with the state fair opening its doors at the close of the conference, will provide a unique setting this year. With the splenaid showing made . by Nevada county in her. exhibit last year particularly iu the display of fruits, the county has made a good start toward regti:ar participasion in the state show. : JUDGE CHARLES SCKER ANNOUNCES C “NDIDACY Judge Charles A. Ccker, one of Truckee’s highly respec: ¢d citizens, gains the honor this ycar of being the first in Nevada cou .ty toformally announce his candidicy for public office. Charley who his served for many years at the post of justice of the peace of Meadow l.ke Township is again seeking reelection to that office and it goes without saying that he will poll’a heavy vote among the people where he has spent 30 many years. He is now rounding out four terms of office, the first by appointment, and Sy returned at the polls.* Charley ‘thas. been officer in his official “duties and ~ fathful service hag its just. reward. — LIONS CLUB WILL = PRESENT FINE BILL The Grass Valley Lionh Club the Nevada City Club assisting wil E present a make “‘follies’’ skit in next few weeks which should a scream. Miss ftuby Allan who etntly staged a knockout ‘with the Pl cerville Club week ago fill act as pro manager and is. busy arranging cast and details of the p The skit will be produced trand Theatre and do -. fe repated at the Broadway i} the next night. The: proce the. entertainment will ‘be taking eare of the e district meeting of the Li held here in April. ; were business. visitors, in this . city.