February 19, 1942 (4 pages)

4 9 a » 8 x \ BAe ” (caren -fThe Nugget is delivered to “il! Your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month : » a City Nug EBRUARY MINING ISSUE T If get . coverage of all local happenings.friends, your neighbors, read his paper gives you complete you want to read about your J COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA s l The at oe Vol. 16, No 15.” The County SeatPaper__NEVADACITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center_____ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1942. . Thinking . ] SALVAGINGAT ~T, Dubetz Mines Employment In_ . / Caught. ee ae Killed At Nevada County Drops . im the ities famraam, . gtewie ae'e eet Lava Cap loo Du ring Past Month. _Batates __ patent. the nation’s war effort throes: (1) Voted themselves pensions. (2) Insisted on appropriations for boondoggling, (3) sure groups. _.(4) Voted for pork barrel usual, We are also willing to piace a small will have memories long enough to recall that Governor Olson: (1) Squandered millions of their hard earned dollars on SRA. (2) Used the taxpayers money to ‘build himself a political machine of assorted incompetents in charge of state institutions and functions. (3) . Pardoned or paroled five red handed murderers. (4) ‘Fit, bled and died’ politically) in the cause of large appropriations to continue these claques and parasites in office, (5) Would still have had +this state’s finances deep in the red had it not been for the legislature's economy bloc. (6) Having been desperately $8,000,000 Fuard. (7) Beaten foiled, tried to get control of the voted for the ‘State this attempt, this is written, is trying to have State Guard act invalidated by the courts. in as the Let every man and woman who goes to the polls this fall, subject candidates for public © office to sharp scrutiny, asking these’ questions: (1) Is this man or woman a faithful servant, or a wastrel? (2) Does he serve the public interest first, or his own? (3) Is he the kind of man we want to vepresent us and to serve us during this war? Every American voter should eat humble ‘pie. Whose fault was it that. Japan, was able to deliver such a staggering blow on December 7? Why, it was everybody’s fault from white wings in the city streets to the President in the White House, We had taken our government for granted, Human nature ‘being what it is, this can’t be ) done. Voter: vigilance is the price of liberty and the price of liberty, in the world as constituted, is the price of being alble to hit first and then doing it. We had paid good: money for Pearl Harbor and assumed that our servants there and their superior officers, were looking out for our interest. But slothful masters make slothful servants as we again found out. Now that we are all thoroughly aroused to the war issues this is the time to cast out all those publie officials wh have squandered our money. and let us in for tremendous expenditures, that, had they done their duty, would have been unnecessary. We do not care what party label they bear, we want them out. If we, the people do not watch out, we*may make our last mistake. That would lose us the war and our country. France did it. And Norway, and,.if you like, so did Germany, We can also lose, unless we awake to the dire necessity of electing” honest and capable men to office, instead of demagogues and smooth-tongu-. ed rascals. A. man in public office, who is not: one hundred per cent patriotic in war time, is traitorous. , Just a word about pensions for Congressmen. It is said there was no reason why, if.-all civil service employes of the government have pensions, why ‘Congressmen should “not enjoy the same privilege. It is. not comparable. Mighty few civil service employes get $10,000 a year. Most of. us do jolly well to But without predicting anything we are willing to lay a small wager that the elections of Congressmen this fall will reflect * the dissatisfaction of voters with Congressmen who in the midst of Curried favor with presas bet that California voters sad com'pleted. Ten men are at work a the mine compared to 270 next couple of weeks and then al will be given ‘the opportunity working for the Empire-Star Mines kiyou County. When the salvaging is completed former highly productive filled with water, will be sealed. three years ago. The ten men are expected to complete their duties within the of Ltd., at the Gray Eagle Mine in Sisthere will be nothing to mark the Murchie property. Even the mill, headframe, etc. are being razed. The shaft, now DEATH WAS FIRST FATALITY IN ;. LONG WHILE ’ and was showered with debris py the resultant explosion. Dulbetz died 40 minutes after he DEFENSE STAMP CHAIN LETTERS ILLEGAL ALSO Betty Martin West, postmaster, calls the public’s attention to the illegal practice of mailing letters relating to so ‘called endless chain schemes. soliciting defense stamps. The sending of such matter through the mails is a violation of the postal fraud and lottery statutes and.violators are subwas taken to the Jones Memorial Hospital. Death was due to internal injuries and a fractured skull. Coroner A. M. Holmes is continuing his investigation into the accident. The death of Dubetz was regretted by all Lava Cap employees. He leas one of the oldest employees in point of service at the mine and was well liked. The accident which -caused his death occurred on the 1,000 foot level of the Central Mine. The funeral rites for Dubetz will be held at 4:30 o’clock tomorrow aftrenoon at the Hooper-Weaver. Mortject to show cause why fraud . orders should not be issued . . against them. i} SC ARTUREREEORIITS SE . a ESN TRINrey marae FMPT AY 330 MEN Desipite a rapid turnover in labsr ;at the Lava *Cap Mines, employment . remains at a fairly high figure, At both thes Central and «Banner: mines . there are 330 men emiployed, 198 at ithe Central and 137 at the Banner. Work at: the Lava.Cap properties ;are continuing normal with the Cen. tral mill operating to capacity. {DAHO-MARYLAND TEMPORARILY HALTS MONTHLY DIVIDEND Suspension of monthly dividend ipayments, at least for the present, has been announced to Idaho-Maryland Mines Corporation stockholders in letters bearing the signature of Secretary’ W. H. French and mailed from the San Francisco office of the mining corporation., = Future didivend =pdlicy of the company, which operates the IdahoMaryland and Brunswick Mines in thiis district, will be determined on the basis of forthcoming tax and labor situations in the nation and state. ; If the tax bill is decided by April or May, the dividend payments will be resumed in a¢cordance with the situation following that levy and if the tax bill passage is delayed, a dividend may be voted in the spring. French said the company already has lost a small number of its workers to higher paying defense industries and a greater loss-would result in’ a sharp curtailment of production. #) The letter adds the properties of the company are in excellent condition and the reserves continue to be. satisfactory. TWO MONITORS AT WORK IN RELIEF ‘HILL MINE PIT C. E. Clark, superintendent of the Relief Hill Hydraulic Mine, reports two ‘monitors are in operation at the mine with 12 men employed. With the advent’ of good weather, Clark said additional men will be employed. : The Relief Hill started operations for the season the first of the year. N{he steady fall of rain made operatidke-tifficult for a time but the, hydraulic men were not disgruntled because it assured them of a good water supply. £ Mr. and Mrs. Ashley Lillard of Sacramento are spending a fortnight as the guests of H. M.,Leete, Prospect Hill. Mrs, Leete is in Burlingame (Continued On Page Two) y with her sister, Mrs. Violet Rodgers, uary in Grass Valley. Burial will he . ;in the Elm Ridge Cemetery. . The deceased leaves his wife, Mar. garet Dulbetz, two daughters, Flor-! ee Elaine and Carol Joanne ;betz all of Grass Valley, Michael Dubetz of VICTORY GARDEN CAMPAIGN OPENS . The scheal children of the city are . going to make a survey of Victory . garden possibilities in Nevada City. . Mrs. Mabel Flindt has been named as . chairman of the project. SuperintendDubrother. San Francisco, a . lent H, E. Kjorlie states that the stu. , dents will ascertain by .a canvass of {the city, just how much space lavailable for gardens and gather inlaiabiad a regarding varieties of veg is etables and small fruits that householders propose to plant when the . season permits. The survey will. in_clude the names of all lot and back‘yard owners who are interested in . planting Victory’ gardens. ‘ -. 7 RED CROSS DRIVE . TS RESUMED The, committees that aided the chairman, R. J. Bennetts in the Red Cross Drive, has gone to work again to raise the $600 additional to the $2,000 quota recently completed, and here are the, first contributions recorded toward the new quota: R. R. Goyne L,loyd Gilbert. $5.00 ‘each. Henry Hilliard, $2.50:. One dollar each, Nils Hansen, William Chris, Chester White, a friend, H. W. Eaton, Walter McCall, Don M. Guiness, Mrs, W. P. Jones, T. J. Ryan, Dr. Adele Renee. . Other contributors, Mrs. ‘Raynor. Damage Suit Filed In Superior Court A total of $13,000 damages is asked by Katherine Hart in a suit filed in: the superior court here against Roy Don Stultz a minor, his parents, Henry and Grace Stultz and Gilbert Nance The first fatality at the Lava Cap Mines in a long while occurred’ Tuesday when Thomas Dubetz, 40, who had been employed there for the past six years, drilled into a missed hole SURVEY REVEALS GOLD EMPLOYING 2,214 MEN; PAYROEL $332,100 payroll of $332,100. 4 at work. ed. slightly. At the Idaho-Maryland 864 back during the first part month in hiring from ‘the Maryland employment ofifice. No news of great importance occurred duging the’ past month. Probably the most important was the reVelation the Idaho-Maryland Mines Corporation is doing its part for the war by mining and milling scheelite, an essential war mineral, of the Tdahollevels at the Idaho-Maryland. . Salvaging at the Muchie Mine pre. paratory to abandonment, was near. ly completed during the month but . the driving of the tunnel -from the . Yuba River to connect with the Zei. bright Mine workings is continuing, . A small crew of men is also doing . development work at the Zeibrignt. A bountiful fall of rain assurred . Sufficieht supply of water for hy. draulicking. Omega is employing 38 ;men and the Relief Hill 12 men with . more men soon to be added. . The mines operating and the payiToll follows: . . Empire-Star Mines— . Men _—s(wPayroll PRM DIP Ge hie co i eS 400 $60,000 Orb n Stat cc so5 275. 41,250 Pennsylvania 200 115 17,250 MOURIBMT cots ie estes 40 6,000 PURO RTO 2005 51 oui 10 1,500 Idaho-Maryland Mines— Idaho-Maryland .. 434 65,100 New Brunswick :.&. 422 63,300 MY MOIGALG 8g 8 1,200 Lava Cap Mines— Meniral se 193 28,950 DONNOP eo 137 20,550 Others— MIGHIBRE oo 8 9 1,350 vost 10 (ca a RGD as a aN ne 60 9,000 Sorin Hill 18 2,700 Stockton Hill ...0. 6 900 Anchoe Erie .:... 12 1,800 Pam lite 8) ae 6 900 OAH cee a 2 300 Placer Mines— ‘ 2210 CRO ge An ae ee asa 17 2,550 OMG Re tee 35 5,250 POTBORA GS cou i 38. 5,700 eet Fl 12 1,800 POOP AMER ico leas 2,214 $332,100 1DAHO-MARYLAND LOSES TO ISLANDS; EMPLOYS OTHERS The Idaho Maryland Mines Corporation payroll dropped somewhat when Nevada County miners signed a contract to work in the Hawaiian Islands but during the first two weeks of February a sufficient number of men were hired. to make up the deficit. : Cramer. The: suit charges a car. driven negligently by Roy. Stultz struck the plaintiff, a pedestrian in ‘Grass Valley a year agio. woke dhceercerscepssin intesibanvrsnreaiere:inpeebienpsitsiin lems 1 SEES MANY FRIENDS Albert Pratti, former Nevada City . resident and active with the Boy Scouts here for years, is now employed in a steel plant in the bay varea,. He writes his parents here that he has seen many people he formerly knew in Nevada City and Grass Valley. i At Hardware Convention— Ray Murchie, manager of the Alpha Hardware Store here, is attending the annual spring hardware manand expects to return home Sunday. agers convention in San Francisco. Thus, the total employment at the corporation’s properties for © this Month is little changed from. last month. There are 864 at the IdahoMaryland, New Brunswick and Syndicate Mines)-The latter formerly was the Bullion Mine. The IdahosMaryland has 284 underground Brunswick 343 underground. There are 179 in the milis and on the'surface at the. IdahoMaryland and Brunswick and 50 on the private operating payroll. Bodies of scheelite are reported to have been discovered on various levels at the Idaho-Maryland and a program for extracting this mineral is under way. During the World War T it is said that over $100,000 worth Two thousand, two hundred a The decrease is not as alarming as most people had believEmployment at the large overating mines declined only men are employed. The men lost to defense work in Hawaii were gained The scheelite is found on varions . candidacy for a seat on the city counINDUSTRY NOW w& That is the existing situation in the Nevada County gold mining industry. It shows Nevada County during. the past month has lost slightly more than 100 men to important national defense industries and the armed forces of the United States. In January, a survey revealed there were 2,339 men nd fourteen men with a At a recent party everything was perfect, The conversation was convivial; the drinks superb; the food delicious; the patriotic theme in the decorations in line with the occasion. BUT, the party was ruined as far as one observant guest was concerned. On one'of the flags used in the decorations she noted this: “MADE IN JAPAN.” Captain A. H. Willard and family will soon move to Loomis. Too bad. It’s not that the Willards want to Merchants Here Plan For Army Camp Business the army camp when the construction men have left?’’ ; ‘The solving of those problems was . the purpose of a meeting of local . businessmen in the ¢hamber of com. meree room here Tuesday night. In addition. to . committee of five. to army authorities in Sacramento re. garding Nevada City’s pag in the . cantonment plans, th meetine brought out the necessity of the foilowing points of action: selecting confer a 1—Complétion of a housing surof available for Nevada City and vicinity. . . 2—-Estalblish a trailer camp in this . 8—Advertise through signs and . 'the newspapers the -facilities offered lin this community, 4__Endeavor to establish a trans; portation system between the cantonment and Nevada City not only for construction employees but soidiers as well. 5—Improve road conditions to the cantonment, 6—If possible endeavor to have a USO hospital center’ established here. 7—Offer the recreational, housing and business conditions of this community to the construction workers by sending Chamlber Secretary H. Sofge to Marysville to advertise the city and distribute literature. The committee of five which will confer with Colonel Hunter, who will supervise the construction of the cantonment for the army, and other army officials will be selected in a day or two by George Gildersleeve, who presided at the meeting in the absenice of President Guerdon Ellis and Vice President H. E. Kjorlie. vey homes rent \in Fear Jap Attack— Mr. and Mrs. R. L. P. Bigelow are visiting in Nevada City for a few days, having motored up from Pacific Grove Tuesday. Bigelow had a long and distinguished record: here as supervisor of-Tahoe-national forest and retired some years ago. He was until recently a member of the Nevada ‘County ‘Selective Service board, resigning because he had removed tio Pacific Grove. He states that all residents of the Monterey bay area are apprehensive of a Jap attack, Those who know Frank Dillon believe he must be playing a joke on the Mining Journal, published in Phoenix, Ariz. The . publication carries lowing item: “A crew of 16 men is employed in mining and milling operations at the Treasure Box Mine, Nevada City. Gold values are recovered by amalgamation. Frank Dillon, Nevada City is president and general manager of the operating company and ._F. M. Dillon, Grass Valley, is master mechanic.’’ the foi= # ; Miles Coughlin reports that his cil has not jonly been greatly exaggerated, but just “‘ain‘t so.’ He says “What can Nevada City do to accommodate the cantonment workers and the soldiers and the officers of with . ‘. tor, who secured a home for them in move but the state fish and game commission ‘believes he can. work more. advantageausly from that point; Several local residents got a ‘kick out of the following remark made by an aged resident of this city to a friend during ‘a. conversation on Broad Street: “There isn’t a place in this town where a respectable woman can go to have a glass of ‘beer or wine.’’ Wouldn’tit be‘ heart, rending if your children enquired each night before they were tucked to bed: “Do you think any bombs will drop on us tonight, Mommy?” That apparently is commonplace San Francisco, and at least one San Francisco couple has chosen Ne. vada County as a place to establish le home to relieve the minds of their children such horrifying fears.The San Francisco couple contacted Harold Biggs, Grass Valley realGrass Valley. The wife and two children will make their home there for the duration with the husband coming to Grass Valley on weekends, It seeths to us that many more families in the bay ‘area may be ‘interested in moving their families to this area, where. the possibility of bombing is very remote. Promotion of this area should stress that, WOW! Mrs. Al Bates informed her husband if he ran for city council she would run to the nearest attorney and ~~~ start a divorce action. Now, Mrs. Bates, being a city councilman isn’t that bad. = i Phyllis Laird has secured a Reno divorce from Arleigh Laird, Nevada County school teacher, ‘who ran for county superintendent of schools four years ago. ‘Phyllis, ‘a North Bloomfield girl, has been residing in Reno since her divorce. It will be remembered that Laird was beaten for county superintendent Partly because in his announcements, he misspelled ‘‘education.’’ Anselmo Lewis, local forest ranger, has received a call to be re-examined for army service, Lewis, who is an officer in the army resedve, was called into service several months ago but was unable to pass the phy-. sical test because of stoma'ch ulcers. The army apparently is quite in need of officers so-they have issued. instructions for him to report for an-: other examination, If Lewis passes the new examination he will have to report for duty in Texas by Monday. Leonard LEickhoff, who got a quickie divorce in Reno, may. have spent his: six weeks there in vain. Attorneys hold that since. his wife, the former Ferne Rockefeller, had already instituted divorce proceedings here, his re-marriage was null and void, for the California court will retain jurisdiction, If valid, this marriage will be Eickhoff’s third venture. The Nevada County Selective Service Board ip accordance with instructions from national headquart-_ ers, is giving all registrants otherwise eligible for service in the army, _ a 1-A classification regardless 0: whether they have been married December 7. Only ma which the bridegroom has no will defer his military of the ore was taken from the mine. that his friends should consult him before starting such rumors, : fone never hears of shotgun

4 9 a » 8 x \ BAe ” (caren -fThe Nugget is delivered to “il! Your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month : » a City Nug EBRUARY MINING ISSUE T If get . coverage of all local happenings.friends, your neighbors, read his paper gives you complete you want to read about your J COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA s l The at oe Vol. 16, No 15.” The County SeatPaper__NEVADACITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center_____ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1942. . Thinking . ] SALVAGINGAT ~T, Dubetz Mines Employment In_ . / Caught. ee ae Killed At Nevada County Drops . im the ities famraam, . gtewie ae'e eet Lava Cap loo Du ring Past Month. _Batates __ patent. the nation’s war effort throes: (1) Voted themselves pensions. (2) Insisted on appropriations for boondoggling, (3) sure groups. _.(4) Voted for pork barrel usual, We are also willing to piace a small will have memories long enough to recall that Governor Olson: (1) Squandered millions of their hard earned dollars on SRA. (2) Used the taxpayers money to ‘build himself a political machine of assorted incompetents in charge of state institutions and functions. (3) . Pardoned or paroled five red handed murderers. (4) ‘Fit, bled and died’ politically) in the cause of large appropriations to continue these claques and parasites in office, (5) Would still have had +this state’s finances deep in the red had it not been for the legislature's economy bloc. (6) Having been desperately $8,000,000 Fuard. (7) Beaten foiled, tried to get control of the voted for the ‘State this attempt, this is written, is trying to have State Guard act invalidated by the courts. in as the Let every man and woman who goes to the polls this fall, subject candidates for public © office to sharp scrutiny, asking these’ questions: (1) Is this man or woman a faithful servant, or a wastrel? (2) Does he serve the public interest first, or his own? (3) Is he the kind of man we want to vepresent us and to serve us during this war? Every American voter should eat humble ‘pie. Whose fault was it that. Japan, was able to deliver such a staggering blow on December 7? Why, it was everybody’s fault from white wings in the city streets to the President in the White House, We had taken our government for granted, Human nature ‘being what it is, this can’t be ) done. Voter: vigilance is the price of liberty and the price of liberty, in the world as constituted, is the price of being alble to hit first and then doing it. We had paid good: money for Pearl Harbor and assumed that our servants there and their superior officers, were looking out for our interest. But slothful masters make slothful servants as we again found out. Now that we are all thoroughly aroused to the war issues this is the time to cast out all those publie officials wh have squandered our money. and let us in for tremendous expenditures, that, had they done their duty, would have been unnecessary. We do not care what party label they bear, we want them out. If we, the people do not watch out, we*may make our last mistake. That would lose us the war and our country. France did it. And Norway, and,.if you like, so did Germany, We can also lose, unless we awake to the dire necessity of electing” honest and capable men to office, instead of demagogues and smooth-tongu-. ed rascals. A. man in public office, who is not: one hundred per cent patriotic in war time, is traitorous. , Just a word about pensions for Congressmen. It is said there was no reason why, if.-all civil service employes of the government have pensions, why ‘Congressmen should “not enjoy the same privilege. It is. not comparable. Mighty few civil service employes get $10,000 a year. Most of. us do jolly well to But without predicting anything we are willing to lay a small wager that the elections of Congressmen this fall will reflect * the dissatisfaction of voters with Congressmen who in the midst of Curried favor with presas bet that California voters sad com'pleted. Ten men are at work a the mine compared to 270 next couple of weeks and then al will be given ‘the opportunity working for the Empire-Star Mines kiyou County. When the salvaging is completed former highly productive filled with water, will be sealed. three years ago. The ten men are expected to complete their duties within the of Ltd., at the Gray Eagle Mine in Sisthere will be nothing to mark the Murchie property. Even the mill, headframe, etc. are being razed. The shaft, now DEATH WAS FIRST FATALITY IN ;. LONG WHILE ’ and was showered with debris py the resultant explosion. Dulbetz died 40 minutes after he DEFENSE STAMP CHAIN LETTERS ILLEGAL ALSO Betty Martin West, postmaster, calls the public’s attention to the illegal practice of mailing letters relating to so ‘called endless chain schemes. soliciting defense stamps. The sending of such matter through the mails is a violation of the postal fraud and lottery statutes and.violators are subwas taken to the Jones Memorial Hospital. Death was due to internal injuries and a fractured skull. Coroner A. M. Holmes is continuing his investigation into the accident. The death of Dubetz was regretted by all Lava Cap employees. He leas one of the oldest employees in point of service at the mine and was well liked. The accident which -caused his death occurred on the 1,000 foot level of the Central Mine. The funeral rites for Dubetz will be held at 4:30 o’clock tomorrow aftrenoon at the Hooper-Weaver. Mortject to show cause why fraud . orders should not be issued . . against them. i} SC ARTUREREEORIITS SE . a ESN TRINrey marae FMPT AY 330 MEN Desipite a rapid turnover in labsr ;at the Lava *Cap Mines, employment . remains at a fairly high figure, At both thes Central and «Banner: mines . there are 330 men emiployed, 198 at ithe Central and 137 at the Banner. Work at: the Lava.Cap properties ;are continuing normal with the Cen. tral mill operating to capacity. {DAHO-MARYLAND TEMPORARILY HALTS MONTHLY DIVIDEND Suspension of monthly dividend ipayments, at least for the present, has been announced to Idaho-Maryland Mines Corporation stockholders in letters bearing the signature of Secretary’ W. H. French and mailed from the San Francisco office of the mining corporation., = Future didivend =pdlicy of the company, which operates the IdahoMaryland and Brunswick Mines in thiis district, will be determined on the basis of forthcoming tax and labor situations in the nation and state. ; If the tax bill is decided by April or May, the dividend payments will be resumed in a¢cordance with the situation following that levy and if the tax bill passage is delayed, a dividend may be voted in the spring. French said the company already has lost a small number of its workers to higher paying defense industries and a greater loss-would result in’ a sharp curtailment of production. #) The letter adds the properties of the company are in excellent condition and the reserves continue to be. satisfactory. TWO MONITORS AT WORK IN RELIEF ‘HILL MINE PIT C. E. Clark, superintendent of the Relief Hill Hydraulic Mine, reports two ‘monitors are in operation at the mine with 12 men employed. With the advent’ of good weather, Clark said additional men will be employed. : The Relief Hill started operations for the season the first of the year. N{he steady fall of rain made operatidke-tifficult for a time but the, hydraulic men were not disgruntled because it assured them of a good water supply. £ Mr. and Mrs. Ashley Lillard of Sacramento are spending a fortnight as the guests of H. M.,Leete, Prospect Hill. Mrs, Leete is in Burlingame (Continued On Page Two) y with her sister, Mrs. Violet Rodgers, uary in Grass Valley. Burial will he . ;in the Elm Ridge Cemetery. . The deceased leaves his wife, Mar. garet Dulbetz, two daughters, Flor-! ee Elaine and Carol Joanne ;betz all of Grass Valley, Michael Dubetz of VICTORY GARDEN CAMPAIGN OPENS . The scheal children of the city are . going to make a survey of Victory . garden possibilities in Nevada City. . Mrs. Mabel Flindt has been named as . chairman of the project. SuperintendDubrother. San Francisco, a . lent H, E. Kjorlie states that the stu. , dents will ascertain by .a canvass of {the city, just how much space lavailable for gardens and gather inlaiabiad a regarding varieties of veg is etables and small fruits that householders propose to plant when the . season permits. The survey will. in_clude the names of all lot and back‘yard owners who are interested in . planting Victory’ gardens. ‘ -. 7 RED CROSS DRIVE . TS RESUMED The, committees that aided the chairman, R. J. Bennetts in the Red Cross Drive, has gone to work again to raise the $600 additional to the $2,000 quota recently completed, and here are the, first contributions recorded toward the new quota: R. R. Goyne L,loyd Gilbert. $5.00 ‘each. Henry Hilliard, $2.50:. One dollar each, Nils Hansen, William Chris, Chester White, a friend, H. W. Eaton, Walter McCall, Don M. Guiness, Mrs, W. P. Jones, T. J. Ryan, Dr. Adele Renee. .

Other contributors, Mrs. ‘Raynor. Damage Suit Filed In Superior Court A total of $13,000 damages is asked by Katherine Hart in a suit filed in: the superior court here against Roy Don Stultz a minor, his parents, Henry and Grace Stultz and Gilbert Nance The first fatality at the Lava Cap Mines in a long while occurred’ Tuesday when Thomas Dubetz, 40, who had been employed there for the past six years, drilled into a missed hole SURVEY REVEALS GOLD EMPLOYING 2,214 MEN; PAYROEL $332,100 payroll of $332,100. 4 at work. ed. slightly. At the Idaho-Maryland 864 back during the first part month in hiring from ‘the Maryland employment ofifice. No news of great importance occurred duging the’ past month. Probably the most important was the reVelation the Idaho-Maryland Mines Corporation is doing its part for the war by mining and milling scheelite, an essential war mineral, of the Tdahollevels at the Idaho-Maryland. . Salvaging at the Muchie Mine pre. paratory to abandonment, was near. ly completed during the month but . the driving of the tunnel -from the . Yuba River to connect with the Zei. bright Mine workings is continuing, . A small crew of men is also doing . development work at the Zeibrignt. A bountiful fall of rain assurred . Sufficieht supply of water for hy. draulicking. Omega is employing 38 ;men and the Relief Hill 12 men with . more men soon to be added. . The mines operating and the payiToll follows: . . Empire-Star Mines— . Men _—s(wPayroll PRM DIP Ge hie co i eS 400 $60,000 Orb n Stat cc so5 275. 41,250 Pennsylvania 200 115 17,250 MOURIBMT cots ie estes 40 6,000 PURO RTO 2005 51 oui 10 1,500 Idaho-Maryland Mines— Idaho-Maryland .... 434 65,100 New Brunswick :.&. 422 63,300 MY MOIGALG 8g 8 1,200 Lava Cap Mines— Meniral se 193 28,950 DONNOP eo 137 20,550 Others— MIGHIBRE oo 8 9 1,350 vost 10 (ca a RGD as a aN ne 60 9,000 Sorin Hill 18 2,700 Stockton Hill ......0. 6 900 Anchoe Erie ..:...... 12 1,800 Pam lite 8) ae 6 900 OAH cee a 2 300 Placer Mines— ‘ 2210 CRO ge An ae ee asa 17 2,550 OMG Re tee 35 5,250 POTBORA GS cou i 38. 5,700 eet Fl 12 1,800 POOP AMER ico leas 2,214 $332,100 1DAHO-MARYLAND LOSES TO ISLANDS; EMPLOYS OTHERS The Idaho Maryland Mines Corporation payroll dropped somewhat when Nevada County miners signed a contract to work in the Hawaiian Islands but during the first two weeks of February a sufficient number of men were hired. to make up the deficit. : Cramer. The: suit charges a car. driven negligently by Roy. Stultz struck the plaintiff, a pedestrian in ‘Grass Valley a year agio. woke dhceercerscepssin intesibanvrsnreaiere:inpeebienpsitsiin lems 1 SEES MANY FRIENDS Albert Pratti, former Nevada City . resident and active with the Boy Scouts here for years, is now employed in a steel plant in the bay varea,. He writes his parents here that he has seen many people he formerly knew in Nevada City and Grass Valley. i At Hardware Convention— Ray Murchie, manager of the Alpha Hardware Store here, is attending the annual spring hardware manand expects to return home Sunday. agers convention in San Francisco. Thus, the total employment at the corporation’s properties for © this Month is little changed from. last month. There are 864 at the IdahoMaryland, New Brunswick and Syndicate Mines)-The latter formerly was the Bullion Mine. The IdahosMaryland has 284 underground Brunswick 343 underground. There are 179 in the milis and on the'surface at the. IdahoMaryland and Brunswick and 50 on the private operating payroll. Bodies of scheelite are reported to have been discovered on various levels at the Idaho-Maryland and a program for extracting this mineral is under way. During the World War T it is said that over $100,000 worth Two thousand, two hundred a The decrease is not as alarming as most people had believEmployment at the large overating mines declined only men are employed. The men lost to defense work in Hawaii were gained The scheelite is found on varions . candidacy for a seat on the city counINDUSTRY NOW w& That is the existing situation in the Nevada County gold mining industry. It shows Nevada County during. the past month has lost slightly more than 100 men to important national defense industries and the armed forces of the United States. In January, a survey revealed there were 2,339 men nd fourteen men with a At a recent party everything was perfect, The conversation was convivial; the drinks superb; the food delicious; the patriotic theme in the decorations in line with the occasion. BUT, the party was ruined as far as one observant guest was concerned. On one'of the flags used in the decorations she noted this: “MADE IN JAPAN.” Captain A. H. Willard and family will soon move to Loomis. Too bad. It’s not that the Willards want to Merchants Here Plan For Army Camp Business the army camp when the construction men have left?’’ ; ‘The solving of those problems was . the purpose of a meeting of local . businessmen in the ¢hamber of com. meree room here Tuesday night. In addition. to . committee of five. to army authorities in Sacramento re. garding Nevada City’s pag in the . cantonment plans, th meetine brought out the necessity of the foilowing points of action: selecting confer a 1—Complétion of a housing surof available for Nevada City and vicinity. . . 2—-Estalblish a trailer camp in this . 8—Advertise through signs and . 'the newspapers the -facilities offered lin this community, 4__Endeavor to establish a trans; portation system between the cantonment and Nevada City not only for construction employees but soidiers as well. 5—Improve road conditions to the cantonment, 6—If possible endeavor to have a USO hospital center’ established here. 7—Offer the recreational, housing and business conditions of this community to the construction workers by sending Chamlber Secretary H. Sofge to Marysville to advertise the city and distribute literature. The committee of five which will confer with Colonel Hunter, who will supervise the construction of the cantonment for the army, and other army officials will be selected in a day or two by George Gildersleeve, who presided at the meeting in the absenice of President Guerdon Ellis and Vice President H. E. Kjorlie. vey homes rent \in Fear Jap Attack— Mr. and Mrs. R. L. P. Bigelow are visiting in Nevada City for a few days, having motored up from Pacific Grove Tuesday. Bigelow had a long and distinguished record: here as supervisor of-Tahoe-national forest and retired some years ago. He was until recently a member of the Nevada ‘County ‘Selective Service board, resigning because he had removed tio Pacific Grove. He states that all residents of the Monterey bay area are apprehensive of a Jap attack, Those who know Frank Dillon believe he must be playing a joke on the Mining Journal, published in Phoenix, Ariz. The . publication carries lowing item: “A crew of 16 men is employed in mining and milling operations at the Treasure Box Mine, Nevada City. Gold values are recovered by amalgamation. Frank Dillon, Nevada City is president and general manager of the operating company and ._F. M. Dillon, Grass Valley, is master mechanic.’’ the foi= # ; Miles Coughlin reports that his cil has not jonly been greatly exaggerated, but just “‘ain‘t so.’ He says “What can Nevada City do to accommodate the cantonment workers and the soldiers and the officers of with . ‘. tor, who secured a home for them in move but the state fish and game commission ‘believes he can. work more. advantageausly from that point; Several local residents got a ‘kick out of the following remark made by an aged resident of this city to a friend during ‘a. conversation on Broad Street: “There isn’t a place in this town where a respectable woman can go to have a glass of ‘beer or wine.’’ Wouldn’tit be‘ heart, rending if your children enquired each night before they were tucked to bed: “Do you think any bombs will drop on us tonight, Mommy?” That apparently is commonplace San Francisco, and at least one San Francisco couple has chosen Ne. vada County as a place to establish le home to relieve the minds of their children such horrifying fears.The San Francisco couple contacted Harold Biggs, Grass Valley realGrass Valley. The wife and two children will make their home there for the duration with the husband coming to Grass Valley on weekends, It seeths to us that many more families in the bay ‘area may be ‘interested in moving their families to this area, where. the possibility of bombing is very remote. Promotion of this area should stress that, WOW! Mrs. Al Bates informed her husband if he ran for city council she would run to the nearest attorney and ~~~ start a divorce action. Now, Mrs. Bates, being a city councilman isn’t that bad. = i Phyllis Laird has secured a Reno divorce from Arleigh Laird, Nevada County school teacher, ‘who ran for county superintendent of schools four years ago. ‘Phyllis, ‘a North Bloomfield girl, has been residing in Reno since her divorce. It will be remembered that Laird was beaten for county superintendent Partly because in his announcements, he misspelled ‘‘education.’’ Anselmo Lewis, local forest ranger, has received a call to be re-examined for army service, Lewis, who is an officer in the army resedve, was called into service several months ago but was unable to pass the phy-. sical test because of stoma'ch ulcers. The army apparently is quite in need of officers so-they have issued. instructions for him to report for an-: other examination, If Lewis passes the new examination he will have to report for duty in Texas by Monday. Leonard LEickhoff, who got a quickie divorce in Reno, may. have spent his: six weeks there in vain. Attorneys hold that since. his wife, the former Ferne Rockefeller, had already instituted divorce proceedings here, his re-marriage was null and void, for the California court will retain jurisdiction, If valid, this marriage will be Eickhoff’s third venture. The Nevada County Selective Service Board ip accordance with instructions from national headquart-_ ers, is giving all registrants otherwise eligible for service in the army, _ a 1-A classification regardless 0: whether they have been married December 7. Only ma which the bridegroom has no will defer his military of the ore was taken from the mine. that his friends should consult him before starting such rumors, : fone never hears of shotgun