February 19, 1937 (6 pages)

Sa ‘steer clear of class distinctions. Varyto deliminate our ‘classes, there is first the patricians, namely those ‘who arrived in the Mayflower or E Thinking Out Loud H. M. L. In this country we have tried to ing -degrees of wealth tend. to set up social barriers, but-as-a matter of fact, the barriers have always been rather thin and unstable. The pretty waitress that brings you your morning stack of wheats amd coffee may tomorrow be the wife of a cattle king or a textile tycoon, The bootblack who gives your shoes a beautiful polish may next year be the proprietor of a fashionable hotel in the heart of the social whirl of a metropolis. You never can _ tell. Democracy is full of those chances and opportunities. If there are social barriers in this. democracy of ours, they don’t ‘exercise much restraint upon adventurous and ambitious men and women. We are commenting thusly because of reading in the papers that the First Lady, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, otherwise the President’s wife, has stepped into the verbal fray regarding the changes proposed by her husband in the country’s judicial system. Now we think it a very natural and wifely thing — for Mrs. Roosevelt to espouse and champjon her husband’s ‘cause. The fact that most of her predecessors in the White House have kept strictly to their social knitting, have let ‘‘politics’? and party policies flow serenely by without plunging into the stream; has nothing to do with the case. In a democracy we think that the President’s wife,should have her say along with Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Jones. However, when the President’s wite speaks, her words will naturally attract more attention than what the wives of Tom, Dick and Harry say. People will weigh her words. Thoug we shouldn’t do so, from the White House we -expect oracles. Now the Associated Press quotes her as saying: “The opposition to the program apparently arises from upper middle class persons opposed to social legislation. From what they say they have something material they fear to lose.” This sounds so much like tea-party chatter that we hesitate to comment upon it, But there are certain arresting revelations the First Lady makes of her mind that, to say the least, are intriguing. For instance this allusion to upper middle. class persons. It sounds like an importation from a gathering of England’s nobility and patricians of the Realm, In England classes are recognized without a blush. It is that kind of a democracy. There is the nobility, or the patrician class. There is the up-. per middle class consisting of bank. ers, manufacturers and people who have grubbed for their money and piled up a lot of it. There is the lower middle classes, ‘which includes small shop owners, small professioual people amd teachers, and finally at the bottom are the masses (pronounced mahsses. ) In this country if we are forced earlier and made money and kept it. Then there is the upper middle“class which Mrs. Roosevelt refers to, whose ancestors, or themselves, made money and kept it. The lower middle class which comstantly hopes to be upper middle class, who are on the make in whatever. vocation they follow. But under the lower middle class, in this country there are only the hobloes, no mahsses. This for the reason that every man jack in this country hopes and expects to move into a larger house, a better motor car, or marry a prettier woman, than his neighbor has. In other words our social strata are in a constant state of flux. It would be presumptious of course to charge our First Lady with a bit of undemocratic condension in speaking of the ‘‘upper clagses.”’ Her family and that of her husband belong to the American patrician class, if there is such a class; Old Dutch, there is nothing much higher in the social register unless it be the Virginia Cavaliers. But we mildly suspect that Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt has made another of those social faux pas that since her arrival in the national spot light have done so much (Continued on Page Five) ity Nu COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA "FEBRUARY MINING DEVELOPMENT ISSU eget eae Nr aE Seer Fm The Nevada City Nugget helps your city and county to grow in population and prosperity. By subscribing to, and advertising in the Nugget, therefore, you help yourself. Vol. 11, No. 15. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1937. HUNGRY BOB CAT CHEATED OF DINNE CAIMPTONVILLE, Feb. Ae Coming down the highway Tuesday morning, Chester Butz, highway formamn, on the highway half mile north of this place, came ‘upon a large bob cat devouring young deer which he had just killed. Butz jumped from the car, pulled his revolver and killed the large cat before it could exca'pe. PEACE OFFICERS HEAR LAW ENFORCEMENT TALK The Northern California Peace Officers Association held their meeting in Bret Harte Inn in Grass Valley yesterday. A noon luncheon and program were enjoyed, after which the business meeting was held. Judge George L. Jones of Nevada City spoke during the program on law enforcement, : Darge LaFortune of Yuba county is president of the association. Sheriff C. J: Tobiassen, president of the Nevada-Sierra Peace Officers Association and members of the two counties acted as hosts Thursday. 1937 SENIOR FARCE AND CAST ARE SELECTED Every senior class of the — local high school is privileged to select and present the semior farce. Miss Nancy Jones, dramatics teacher, held try-outs last week and selected the cast of the farce to be ‘. !given March 19, at the Nevada theatre. The farce selection ,this year is a light play of youth and love in the summer time entitled ‘‘Seventeen’’ by Booth Tarkington. The cast consists of fourteen players. It gives many of the dramatically inclined seniors a chance. The cast follows: Mr. Baxter, John Harding; . Mrs. Baxter, Joan Grant; Willie Baxter, Dick Tuttle;, Jane Baxter, Margaret Gibbs; Lola Pratt, Roberta Ostrom; May Parcher, Ruth Curnow; Mr, Parcher, John Kron; John Watson. Carl Tobiassen;. Joe Billitt, Harlath Brock; George Cooper, Bill Bennett; Ethel Boke, Amy Lou McCraneyv# Willie Banks, Marlin Young, Mary Brooks, Dorothy Thomas and Genesis, Tom Rickard. Rehearsals have started already and the cast is work-~ ing diligently towards a splendid performance. CITY ATTORNEY RESIGNS, JONES & FINNEGAN NAMED Att a special meeting of the—city council last evening the resignation of City Attorney W. E. Wright was accepted and the legal firm of Jones & Finnegan appointed to the post. The city council also passed a resolution under which the city will install a red lamp, probably at the corner of Broad andy,Pine _ streets, for the purpose of signalling the police. Arrangements have been made with the Pacific Telephone company so that. when any one phones for a policeman or sends jin an alarm, the operator at the switch board pushes a button that lights the red lamp, and the night policeman’ responds, phoning into the phone office or calling there in person to ascertain whence the alarm was turned in. NEVADA PROPERTY An 18-inch vein hasbeen encountered in-the Nolan-or Nevada claim in the Canada Hill district that assays over $25 per ton and shows some free gold. The new cross cut tunnel has been driven 1200 feet. According to mining maps of Engineer Fred Miller it will take 210 feet more drifting to contact the Orleans lode. The property is situated be-, tween the Gracey and Mayflower properties. Superintendent George R. Carter has three men employed. FINE PROGRAM DINNER MEETING AT CIVIC CLUB Tuesday evening at six thirty the Nevada City Woman’s Civic Club will hold its annual dinner meeting to which husbands of the members have been invited. Nearly all of the club members have signified their intention of attending and the dinner meeting bids fair to be a_ delightful occassion. There will be a program which has been arranged by the club program chairman, Mrs. Charles Elliott. First there will be two short skits. “The Quest of Four Bachelors” and “The Ballad of Mary Jane.’’ The characters are taken by club members and ’tis said there will be some difficulty in figuring out who is who. After the humerous part of the program Supervisor DeWitt Nelson of the Tahoe National Forest service will give a short talk on some phase of forestry. Any member who does not know . what she is to do toward the dinner } please telephone to Mrs. Charles Elliott who has charge of the dinner arrangements. HUSBAND TOLD TO GET A JOB SUPPORT KIDS Ray Whalin, who. was arrested Wednesday on a warrant sworn to by his wife for failure to provide, appeared before Judge W. L. Mobley yesterday. After hearing his case the judge told him to ‘go get a job and go to work and support your kids.’’ Whalin stated he had a promise of a job in Woodland and was released with the armonition to report when he left and also report when the returns here. Whalin has a wife and four minor children. OPEN FORUM IN PROSPCET FOR NEVADA CITY Through the efforts of H.E. Kjorlie, principal of the Nevada City hign school, an open forum is now practically assured/Nevada City beginning in April and lasting through May. Prof, Michael Brickley of Sacramento Junior College, has agreed to give a series of ten lectures during the two months mentioned, provided enough mer °rd women in this: city are interest: ” At the meeting of ths Rotary club yesterday eight members signed up for the series with their wives. Among the topics Prof. Brickley will discuss, will be the abdication of King Edward, England's relation to Burope, the Spanish~ Civil War, historical background cf Spain, ana other topics of world-wide interest. Prof. Brickley is the registrar, of Sacramento Junior, College, and is one of the most interesting speakers on current history and events on the coast. His lectures have won him the commendation of thousands of Californians who have heard him during the past ten years. He has the faculty of finding the inner significance of national policies and events that leads to war or peace. Mr. Kjorlie asks all those interested in attending the open forum series to phone him immediately at the high school. The number is 120. The cost per person is, $1.25 for the ten lectures. MISTLETOE PROPERTY Assemblyman Fred Glick of Southern California is expected at the Mistletoe Mine in-‘the-Rough — and Ready district with several truck loads of machinery and equipment for his property ‘this week end. Plans are complete to increase the power voltage to 450 horsepower. A drift on the vein was made 40 feet below the surface in the 150 foot shaft. Cold weather has held up pouring concrete for buildings. Plans call for. am ertensive program for surface buildings. CEILING DRIPS HONEY; ANYBODY WANT BEES? Mr.-and Mrs. Martin VanBerg of Grove street have had a swarm of bees and considerable honey removed from the second story of their home this week by a man from near. Lake Olympia. They swarmed and moved in last spring and it was sort of a joke with them at first, but the bees became a nuisance and when the VanBerg family attempted to give them away no one in Nevada City wanted them. The swarm was near the chimney “and with continued fires in the home the honey started to melt and run through the ceiling down stairs, and bees ‘could be neard working in the hive. N. C. MERCHANTS PLAY LASSELL’S SAT. NIGHT There will be a fast game of basket ball at Armory hall “tomorrow night according to Howard: Penrose and Herb Skeahan who have made the arrangements between the Lasell’s hoopsters of Martinez and the Nevada City Merchants. The Lasells played in Nevada City last season and gave a good exhibition of basket ball. Among the victories of the unlimited team of the Lasells was the Sioux City, Iowa, Negro Ghost which played the Nevada City Merchants last Saturday night. The score was 31 to 28. JUDGE TUTTLE TO TRY CASEIN LOS ANGELES The California Judicial Council has assigned Judge Raglan Tuttle to preside at the trial of the People vs. Gregory, a brother-in-law of Buron Fitts, district attorney of Los Amgeles. Gregory is charged with violation of the Blue Sky laws. The trial opens in Los Angeles on March 1, and will probably require several weeks to complete. All judges’ in Los Angeles county disqualified themselves. During Judge Tuttle's absence, Judge Ray MacIntosh of Sierra county will sit on the’bench in Nevada county when necessary. ROTARY CLUB HEARS SEAWELL ON LEGISLATION Senator Jerrold Seawell, was guest speaker at the meeting of the Rotary club yesterday ait luncheon. A. M. Holmes, program charman, introduced the senator, who declared that both parties in the state legislature this year were pledged by their platforms to strict economy. ‘However,’ declared Senator Seawell, “this state government belongs to you. It does not belong to the man who sits in the corner of the capitol,’ or to the 120 members of ‘the legislature. It belongs to you and the people of California. We are there to do your bidding. “We are resolved. upon a policy of ecoonmy but organized groups, usually representing progressive elements, are constantly coming to us with plans to spend money. I -dare say if fifty per cent of the bills now before the legislature were enacted, our budget of $446,000,000 would be increased to one billion dollars. “Now $446,000,000 is a lot of money, but do you know that $233,000,000 of that amount will be returned to the counties?’’ That is the sum which comes back to the cgunties, in the main, for schools and roads. The state of California is the greatest collection agency in ‘the world. “Until 1910 there was a state advalorum tax on all personal and real property in the state. Then this was changed so that public utilities paid the tax, 7 1-2 per cent on their gross earnings. Then the burden upon real estate began to pile up until, not in (Continued on Page Six) Bad Weather Reduces Mining Employment A survey of mining operations in the county reveals a falling off in employment of nearly 100 miners, as compared with a month ago. A part of this decrease is due to the tremendous storms which have hampered the mines in regard to water and communications. A total of 2,587 men are employed as compared /with 2,682 last month. Nevada county continued to be the leading gold producing county in California ‘during 1936, by far the greater part of the gold output.coming from mines of the Nevada CityGrass Valley district. Empire Star Mines Co. Ltd., continued the leading producer of the dsitrict. Additional properties were acsuired, large additions were made to mine equipment, and an extensive prospecting and developing campaign was carried on in addition to production. a5 Idaho-Maryland Milnes Corp. was the second most important producer in the district. This company increased its milling capacity and carried on further development work at its Brunswick mine, placing it on a production of 600 tons a day. Much interest was taken in the circular shaft bored on Idaho Maryland property. Lava Cap Gold Mining Corp. another large producer, added to its equipment and did a considerable amount of development work underground. Permission was granted the company by Securities and Exchange Commission: to further finance its work by sale of common stock. Another large producer was the Golden Center mine where an active development program was earried on as well as the production of a large quantity of gold ore. Nevada county’s gold mine payroll averaged over one-third of a million dollars per month throughout the year. The most productive Nevada county mines, outside of the Nevada City-Grass Valley district, were Zeibright mine, operated by the Empire Star Mines Co., Ltd., and Spanish mine, worked by the San Francisco Commercail Co. A large number of smaller properties are producing or being developed in the county. YOU BET GRAVEL MINES F. F .Cassidy of Nevada City, who is interested in the You Bet Gravel Mines at the old ‘‘ghost town’ of You Bet, states a few prospectors are working the gravel at different plac~ es .with’ satisfactory results. This ground which is an immense gravel deposit has a splendid past production record and is again expected to yield a rich return. GRACEY MINE Good ore has been encountered on the 600 foot level in the Gracey mine southeast of Nevada City. The ore bins in the big newly equipped mill are full of ore which assays $10 per ton. It is stated the management is well pleased: with prospects at the Gracey. Russell Wilson, president of the company) and owner of the Black Oak mine near Aubuyn, is in charge of the Gracey property. SPRING HILL MINE Twelve men are employed under Superintendent Don C. Billick in the Spring Hill mine north of Grass Valley. Development is being done on the 900 foot and 1100 foot levels in the shaft. RUBY MINE Ten men are employed: stoping ore at the Ruby mine located between Alleghany and Downieville. There is a modern 10 stamp mill on the property. Although snow was re(Continued on Page Five ) OPERATING MINES, MEN EMPLOYED AND MONTHLY PAYROLL IN NEVADA COUNTY MINE QUARTZ LOCATION NUMBER OR GRAVEL EMPLOYED PAYROLL N. Star Empire Pennsylvania Quartz Grass Valley 800 $112.000 Brunswick and idaho-Maryland Quartz NE Grass Valley 700 98,000 : Murchie Quartz E of Nevada City 300 42,000 Great Northern Quartz Harmony Ridge 1 15 2,100 Golden Center Quartz Grass Valley 110 15,400 Spring Hill Quartz NE Grass Valley : 13 1820 Lava Cap Quartz Banner Mt. 255 35,700 Bullion-Alaska Quartz FE of Grass Valley 60 8,400 Spanish Quartz Washington 50 7,000 Zeibright Quartz E of ‘Nevada City 85 11,900 Prescott Hill Quartz = E. of ‘Grass Valley 25 3,500 Giant King Quartz Washington Psy 700 ps Gravel N. Washington 5 700 Norambagua Quartz 5S. Grass Valley 25 3,500 Quaker Hill Gravel E Nevada City 3 420 Deer Creek Union Quartz SE Nevada City 3 420 San Juan Mine Quartz Nor. San Juan 17 1,380 Ragon Quartz W. Nevada City 24 3,360 Valley Gold Mines Quartz E Nevada City 1,260 Alaska Quartz Pike City 700 Lucky Jane Quartz N. Bloomfield 420 Schepp Quartz Graniteville 140 Gracey Quartz S Nevada City 10 1,400 Stockton Hill Quartz So. Grass Valley 5 700 City Belle Quartz Nevada City 420 Morning Star Gusts Tyler 280 Mistletoe Quartz Rough and Ready 10 1,400 Lowell Hill Gravel KE. Nevada City 5 700. Reeder Gravel-.Nor. San Juan is FOO Boreham Quartz Town Talk a 560 Nevada Quartz E. Nevada City 4 560 Ridge Mines Gravel. San Juan 5 700 . Maben Hill ~ Quartz S. Grass Valley 5 700 Mt. View Quartz Washington 7 980 Atlasta ‘Quartz So. Grass Valley 10 1,400 TOTALS ..1.2.--.2-2--2587 i

Sa ‘steer clear of class distinctions. Varyto deliminate our ‘classes, there is first the patricians, namely those ‘who arrived in the Mayflower or E Thinking Out Loud H. M. L. In this country we have tried to ing -degrees of wealth tend. to set up social barriers, but-as-a matter of fact, the barriers have always been rather thin and unstable. The pretty waitress that brings you your morning stack of wheats amd coffee may tomorrow be the wife of a cattle king or a textile tycoon, The bootblack who gives your shoes a beautiful polish may next year be the proprietor of a fashionable hotel in the heart of the social whirl of a metropolis. You never can _ tell. Democracy is full of those chances and opportunities. If there are social barriers in this. democracy of ours, they don’t ‘exercise much restraint upon adventurous and ambitious men and women. We are commenting thusly because of reading in the papers that the First Lady, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, otherwise the President’s wife, has stepped into the verbal fray regarding the changes proposed by her husband in the country’s judicial system. Now we think it a very natural and wifely thing — for Mrs. Roosevelt to espouse and champjon her husband’s ‘cause. The fact that most of her predecessors in the White House have kept strictly to their social knitting, have let ‘‘politics’? and party policies flow serenely by without plunging into the stream; has nothing to do with the case. In a democracy we think that the President’s wife,should have her say along with Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Jones. However, when the President’s wite speaks, her words will naturally attract more attention than what the wives of Tom, Dick and Harry say. People will weigh her words. Thoug we shouldn’t do so, from the White House we -expect oracles. Now the Associated Press quotes her as saying: “The opposition to the program apparently arises from upper middle class persons opposed to social legislation. From what they say they have something material they fear to lose.” This sounds so much like tea-party chatter that we hesitate to comment upon it, But there are certain arresting revelations the First Lady makes of her mind that, to say the least, are intriguing. For instance this allusion to upper middle. class persons. It sounds like an importation from a gathering of England’s nobility and patricians of the Realm, In England classes are recognized without a blush. It is that kind of a democracy. There is the nobility, or the patrician class. There is the up-. per middle class consisting of bank. ers, manufacturers and people who have grubbed for their money and piled up a lot of it. There is the lower middle classes, ‘which includes small shop owners, small professioual people amd teachers, and finally at the bottom are the masses (pronounced mahsses. ) In this country if we are forced earlier and made money and kept it. Then there is the upper middle“class which Mrs. Roosevelt refers to, whose ancestors, or themselves, made money and kept it. The lower middle class which comstantly hopes to be upper middle class, who are on the make in whatever. vocation they follow. But under the lower middle class, in this country there are only the hobloes, no mahsses. This for the reason that every man jack in this country hopes and expects to move into a larger house, a better motor car, or marry a prettier woman, than his neighbor has. In other words our social strata are in a constant state of flux. It would be presumptious of course to charge our First Lady with a bit of undemocratic condension in speaking of the ‘‘upper clagses.”’ Her family and that of her husband belong to the American patrician class, if there is such a class; Old Dutch, there is nothing much higher in the social register unless it be the Virginia Cavaliers. But we mildly suspect that Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt has made another of those social faux pas that since her arrival in the national spot light have done so much (Continued on Page Five) ity Nu COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA "FEBRUARY MINING DEVELOPMENT ISSU eget eae Nr aE Seer Fm The Nevada City Nugget helps your city and county to grow in population and prosperity. By subscribing to, and advertising in the Nugget, therefore, you help yourself. Vol. 11, No. 15. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1937. HUNGRY BOB CAT CHEATED OF DINNE CAIMPTONVILLE, Feb. Ae Coming down the highway Tuesday morning, Chester Butz, highway formamn, on the highway half mile north of this place, came ‘upon a large bob cat devouring young deer which he had just killed. Butz jumped from the car, pulled his revolver and killed the large cat before it could exca'pe. PEACE OFFICERS HEAR LAW ENFORCEMENT TALK The Northern California Peace Officers Association held their meeting in Bret Harte Inn in Grass Valley yesterday. A noon luncheon and program were enjoyed, after which the business meeting was held. Judge George L. Jones of Nevada City spoke during the program on law enforcement, : Darge LaFortune of Yuba county is president of the association. Sheriff C. J: Tobiassen, president of the Nevada-Sierra Peace Officers Association and members of the two counties acted as hosts Thursday. 1937 SENIOR FARCE AND CAST ARE SELECTED Every senior class of the — local high school is privileged to select and present the semior farce. Miss Nancy Jones, dramatics teacher, held try-outs last week and selected the cast of the farce to be ‘. !given March 19, at the Nevada theatre. The farce selection ,this year is a light play of youth and love in the summer time entitled ‘‘Seventeen’’ by Booth Tarkington. The cast consists of fourteen players. It gives many of the dramatically inclined seniors a chance. The cast follows: Mr. Baxter, John Harding; . Mrs. Baxter, Joan Grant; Willie Baxter, Dick Tuttle;, Jane Baxter, Margaret Gibbs; Lola Pratt, Roberta Ostrom; May Parcher, Ruth Curnow; Mr, Parcher, John Kron; John Watson. Carl Tobiassen;. Joe Billitt, Harlath Brock; George Cooper, Bill Bennett; Ethel Boke, Amy Lou McCraneyv# Willie Banks, Marlin Young, Mary Brooks, Dorothy Thomas and Genesis, Tom Rickard. Rehearsals have started already and the cast is work-~ ing diligently towards a splendid performance. CITY ATTORNEY RESIGNS, JONES & FINNEGAN NAMED Att a special meeting of the—city council last evening the resignation of City Attorney W. E. Wright was accepted and the legal firm of Jones & Finnegan appointed to the post. The city council also passed a resolution under which the city will install a red lamp, probably at the corner of Broad andy,Pine _ streets, for the purpose of signalling the police. Arrangements have been made with the Pacific Telephone company so that. when any one phones for a policeman or sends jin an alarm, the operator at the switch board pushes a button that lights the red lamp, and the night policeman’ responds, phoning into the phone office or calling there in person to ascertain whence the alarm was turned in. NEVADA PROPERTY An 18-inch vein hasbeen encountered in-the Nolan-or Nevada claim in the Canada Hill district that assays over $25 per ton and shows some free gold. The new cross cut tunnel has been driven 1200 feet. According to mining maps of Engineer Fred Miller it will take 210 feet more drifting to contact the Orleans lode. The property is situated be-, tween the Gracey and Mayflower properties. Superintendent George R. Carter has three men employed. FINE PROGRAM DINNER MEETING AT CIVIC CLUB Tuesday evening at six thirty the Nevada City Woman’s Civic Club will hold its annual dinner meeting to which husbands of the members have been invited. Nearly all of the club members have signified their intention of attending and the dinner meeting bids fair to be a_ delightful occassion. There will be a program which has been arranged by the club program chairman, Mrs. Charles Elliott. First there will be two short skits. “The Quest of Four Bachelors” and “The Ballad of Mary Jane.’’ The characters are taken by club members and ’tis said there will be some difficulty in figuring out who is who. After the humerous part of the program Supervisor DeWitt Nelson of the Tahoe National Forest service will give a short talk on some phase of forestry. Any member who does not know . what she is to do toward the dinner } please telephone to Mrs. Charles Elliott who has charge of the dinner arrangements. HUSBAND TOLD TO GET A JOB SUPPORT KIDS Ray Whalin, who. was arrested Wednesday on a warrant sworn to by his wife for failure to provide, appeared before Judge W. L. Mobley yesterday. After hearing his case the judge told him to ‘go get a job and go to work and support your kids.’’ Whalin stated he had a promise of a job in Woodland and was released with the armonition to report when he left and also report when the returns here. Whalin has a wife and four minor children. OPEN FORUM IN PROSPCET FOR NEVADA CITY Through the efforts of H.E. Kjorlie, principal of the Nevada City hign school, an open forum is now practically assured/Nevada City beginning in April and lasting through May. Prof, Michael Brickley of Sacramento Junior College, has agreed to give a series of ten lectures during the two months mentioned, provided enough mer °rd women in

this: city are interest: ” At the meeting of ths Rotary club yesterday eight members signed up for the series with their wives. Among the topics Prof. Brickley will discuss, will be the abdication of King Edward, England's relation to Burope, the Spanish~ Civil War, historical background cf Spain, ana other topics of world-wide interest. Prof. Brickley is the registrar, of Sacramento Junior, College, and is one of the most interesting speakers on current history and events on the coast. His lectures have won him the commendation of thousands of Californians who have heard him during the past ten years. He has the faculty of finding the inner significance of national policies and events that leads to war or peace. Mr. Kjorlie asks all those interested in attending the open forum series to phone him immediately at the high school. The number is 120. The cost per person is, $1.25 for the ten lectures. MISTLETOE PROPERTY Assemblyman Fred Glick of Southern California is expected at the Mistletoe Mine in-‘the-Rough — and Ready district with several truck loads of machinery and equipment for his property ‘this week end. Plans are complete to increase the power voltage to 450 horsepower. A drift on the vein was made 40 feet below the surface in the 150 foot shaft. Cold weather has held up pouring concrete for buildings. Plans call for. am ertensive program for surface buildings. CEILING DRIPS HONEY; ANYBODY WANT BEES? Mr.-and Mrs. Martin VanBerg of Grove street have had a swarm of bees and considerable honey removed from the second story of their home this week by a man from near. Lake Olympia. They swarmed and moved in last spring and it was sort of a joke with them at first, but the bees became a nuisance and when the VanBerg family attempted to give them away no one in Nevada City wanted them. The swarm was near the chimney “and with continued fires in the home the honey started to melt and run through the ceiling down stairs, and bees ‘could be neard working in the hive. N. C. MERCHANTS PLAY LASSELL’S SAT. NIGHT There will be a fast game of basket ball at Armory hall “tomorrow night according to Howard: Penrose and Herb Skeahan who have made the arrangements between the Lasell’s hoopsters of Martinez and the Nevada City Merchants. The Lasells played in Nevada City last season and gave a good exhibition of basket ball. Among the victories of the unlimited team of the Lasells was the Sioux City, Iowa, Negro Ghost which played the Nevada City Merchants last Saturday night. The score was 31 to 28. JUDGE TUTTLE TO TRY CASEIN LOS ANGELES The California Judicial Council has assigned Judge Raglan Tuttle to preside at the trial of the People vs. Gregory, a brother-in-law of Buron Fitts, district attorney of Los Amgeles. Gregory is charged with violation of the Blue Sky laws. The trial opens in Los Angeles on March 1, and will probably require several weeks to complete. All judges’ in Los Angeles county disqualified themselves. During Judge Tuttle's absence, Judge Ray MacIntosh of Sierra county will sit on the’bench in Nevada county when necessary. ROTARY CLUB HEARS SEAWELL ON LEGISLATION Senator Jerrold Seawell, was guest speaker at the meeting of the Rotary club yesterday ait luncheon. A. M. Holmes, program charman, introduced the senator, who declared that both parties in the state legislature this year were pledged by their platforms to strict economy. ‘However,’ declared Senator Seawell, “this state government belongs to you. It does not belong to the man who sits in the corner of the capitol,’ or to the 120 members of ‘the legislature. It belongs to you and the people of California. We are there to do your bidding. “We are resolved. upon a policy of ecoonmy but organized groups, usually representing progressive elements, are constantly coming to us with plans to spend money. I -dare say if fifty per cent of the bills now before the legislature were enacted, our budget of $446,000,000 would be increased to one billion dollars. “Now $446,000,000 is a lot of money, but do you know that $233,000,000 of that amount will be returned to the counties?’’ That is the sum which comes back to the cgunties, in the main, for schools and roads. The state of California is the greatest collection agency in ‘the world. “Until 1910 there was a state advalorum tax on all personal and real property in the state. Then this was changed so that public utilities paid the tax, 7 1-2 per cent on their gross earnings. Then the burden upon real estate began to pile up until, not in (Continued on Page Six) Bad Weather Reduces Mining Employment A survey of mining operations in the county reveals a falling off in employment of nearly 100 miners, as compared with a month ago. A part of this decrease is due to the tremendous storms which have hampered the mines in regard to water and communications. A total of 2,587 men are employed as compared /with 2,682 last month. Nevada county continued to be the leading gold producing county in California ‘during 1936, by far the greater part of the gold output.coming from mines of the Nevada CityGrass Valley district. Empire Star Mines Co. Ltd., continued the leading producer of the dsitrict. Additional properties were acsuired, large additions were made to mine equipment, and an extensive prospecting and developing campaign was carried on in addition to production. a5 Idaho-Maryland Milnes Corp. was the second most important producer in the district. This company increased its milling capacity and carried on further development work at its Brunswick mine, placing it on a production of 600 tons a day. Much interest was taken in the circular shaft bored on Idaho Maryland property. Lava Cap Gold Mining Corp. another large producer, added to its equipment and did a considerable amount of development work underground. Permission was granted the company by Securities and Exchange Commission: to further finance its work by sale of common stock. Another large producer was the Golden Center mine where an active development program was earried on as well as the production of a large quantity of gold ore. Nevada county’s gold mine payroll averaged over one-third of a million dollars per month throughout the year. The most productive Nevada county mines, outside of the Nevada City-Grass Valley district, were Zeibright mine, operated by the Empire Star Mines Co., Ltd., and Spanish mine, worked by the San Francisco Commercail Co. A large number of smaller properties are producing or being developed in the county. YOU BET GRAVEL MINES F. F .Cassidy of Nevada City, who is interested in the You Bet Gravel Mines at the old ‘‘ghost town’ of You Bet, states a few prospectors are working the gravel at different plac~ es .with’ satisfactory results. This ground which is an immense gravel deposit has a splendid past production record and is again expected to yield a rich return. GRACEY MINE Good ore has been encountered on the 600 foot level in the Gracey mine southeast of Nevada City. The ore bins in the big newly equipped mill are full of ore which assays $10 per ton. It is stated the management is well pleased: with prospects at the Gracey. Russell Wilson, president of the company) and owner of the Black Oak mine near Aubuyn, is in charge of the Gracey property. SPRING HILL MINE Twelve men are employed under Superintendent Don C. Billick in the Spring Hill mine north of Grass Valley. Development is being done on the 900 foot and 1100 foot levels in the shaft. RUBY MINE Ten men are employed: stoping ore at the Ruby mine located between Alleghany and Downieville. There is a modern 10 stamp mill on the property. Although snow was re(Continued on Page Five ) OPERATING MINES, MEN EMPLOYED AND MONTHLY PAYROLL IN NEVADA COUNTY MINE QUARTZ LOCATION NUMBER OR GRAVEL EMPLOYED PAYROLL N. Star Empire Pennsylvania Quartz Grass Valley 800 $112.000 Brunswick and idaho-Maryland Quartz NE Grass Valley 700 98,000 : Murchie Quartz E of Nevada City 300 42,000 Great Northern Quartz Harmony Ridge 1 15 2,100 Golden Center Quartz Grass Valley 110 15,400 Spring Hill Quartz NE Grass Valley : 13 1820 Lava Cap Quartz Banner Mt. 255 35,700 Bullion-Alaska Quartz FE of Grass Valley 60 8,400 Spanish Quartz Washington 50 7,000 Zeibright Quartz E of ‘Nevada City 85 11,900 Prescott Hill Quartz = E. of ‘Grass Valley 25 3,500 Giant King Quartz Washington Psy 700 ps Gravel N. Washington 5 700 Norambagua Quartz 5S. Grass Valley 25 3,500 Quaker Hill Gravel E Nevada City 3 420 Deer Creek Union Quartz SE Nevada City 3 420 San Juan Mine Quartz Nor. San Juan 17 1,380 Ragon Quartz W. Nevada City 24 3,360 Valley Gold Mines Quartz E Nevada City 1,260 Alaska Quartz Pike City 700 Lucky Jane Quartz N. Bloomfield 420 Schepp Quartz Graniteville 140 Gracey Quartz S Nevada City 10 1,400 Stockton Hill Quartz So. Grass Valley 5 700 City Belle Quartz Nevada City 420 Morning Star Gusts Tyler 280 Mistletoe Quartz Rough and Ready 10 1,400 Lowell Hill Gravel KE. Nevada City 5 700. Reeder Gravel-.Nor. San Juan is FOO Boreham Quartz Town Talk a 560 Nevada Quartz E. Nevada City 4 560 Ridge Mines Gravel. San Juan 5 700 . Maben Hill ~ Quartz S. Grass Valley 5 700 Mt. View Quartz Washington 7 980 Atlasta ‘Quartz So. Grass Valley 10 1,400 TOTALS ...1..2.--.2-2--2587 i