February 24, 1930 (6 pages)

Re, e. 2 ara *y ‘a lava a The Nugget is California's Leading Mining Weekly * SS VOLUME. IV, NUMBER 15 THE GOLD CENTER NEVADA CITY, NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNI THE Cc COUNTY SEAT PAPER ! FEBRUARY 24, . 930 YOSEMITE MINE ~» TAKEN OVER BY _WESTN. MERGER : Throveti S caHations completed the past few days, the rich placer ground in the Yosemite and Albert mine north of town has been taken over by the Western .Merger Mines and operations are expected to commence at an early date. The praperty which consists of 160 acres was last worked about 1894, when ‘rich gravel is reported to have been taken out. The channel is said: to be a branch of the extremely rich Harmony channel which -was such a heavy producer in the early days. The channel has capping from 300 to 500 feet thick and was formerly worked through an incline. It is the property of the W. D. Harris estate of Grass Valley. Harry B. Skewes, superintendent of operations for the Western Merger has returned from Reno where he attended the annual meeting of the Merger and Alleghany Morning Glory companies. Both companies are expecting to be operating this spring according to Mr. Skewes, the at Alleghany being equipped for operations at the present time. He reports that A. A. Codd, president of both companies, is now out of the hospital but shows the effects of his long sojourn. :Quite a bit of Merger stock is held locally and the news that the company will commence operations again will be welcome news. LANDRY FILES ANSWER TO WAYNFLETE SUIT R. D. Landry through his attorneys,-Nilon, Hennessy & Kelly has filed an answer and cross complaint in the: suit-recently brought by Walter Waynflete, publisher of the Truckee Republican through his attorney, O. E. Winburn. Landry makes sensational charges of undue influence being brought to bear on Waynflete to stop the campaign .and his cross complaint charges that his agents services were worth in excess of $1000 to Waynflete. An accounting of the contest is called for, it is asked that J. C. Edmunds be made a party to the suit and that defendant may obtain judgment in the amount of $374.25 and for costs incurred. The cross complaint asks for damages in excess of $20,000. Morming Ctory ready MISS HELEN JONES WINS SCHOLARSHIP AWARD The coveted membership in the Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholarship society, was won by Miss Helen Frances Jones last week who is a student at Stanford University. Miss Jones, who is the daughter of Judge and Mrs. George L. Jones, has shown remarkable ability in her school work and this honor sheds new luster on the family name, long prominent in Nevada City and County. RUBY MINE PAYS OFF “ary 25th. IN REAL GOLD DUST a Feb 24, (SpeciThe. Nugget) — Probnae for the first time since -early ’50s a Sierra county mine is paying off her miners in gold dust. This, according to Chas. Wittstruck, is the present practice at the Ruby mine, three miles south of shis place Wittstruck, who is leasing at: the mine, says that the. operators are weighing out ‘‘dust’’ to employees who prefer it to cash. ANOTHER HYDRAULIC MINE DUE TO START DOWNIEVILLE, Feb. 24 (Special to, The Nugget)—Presistent rumors to the effect that Dr. C. H. Montgomery and Major French, of Los Angeles, expect to begin development work on the Frost-Piety Hill hydraulic property this summer are in circulation here. This property, which consists» of placer ground covered by town lots and adjacent ground was acquired by the present owners some time ago. A dam has been built in the South Fork near the mouth of Secret Canyon and surveys for water rights completed . While no definite plans have been made public a resumption of activ. ities this season are practically assured. CALIF ORNIA MINING © PRESS IS SENT OUT The first issue of the California Mining Press is just —off the press and is being sent out to each member of the Mining — Association of California. It wll be ~issued at monthly intervals. Its first issue ir a newsy one and contains much of interest. Enough advertising is carried to make it self supporting. R. L. Kimmel -appears-as the editor. CENSUS ENUMERATORS . TO BE APPOINTED SOON According to information reaching this office from Census Supervisor H. B. Thomas of Placerville, no applications for position as enumerator will be received after FebruWork of taking the famity starts the first week in April. The business census is being taken at present. RECOMMENDS RELEASE Stating that the witness whose testimony was needed in Nevada and refused to appear in court, Dis. trict Attorney W. E. Wright recommended to Judge Landis Friday that the: case ‘pending against George Capelo, who was charged with burglary and grand ‘theft, be dismissed. Capelo was released from jail a few hours later. The alleged depredations had _ been committed at Floriston and Capelo was arrested on the two charges and taken before Judge Ocker at Truckee who bound him over to superior court. — MRS. EDITH SOLARO PASSES LIONS WILL FROLIC The Lions will frolic Wednesday and Thursday nights at the Strand Theater with a promises to be a as impersonations go and a cream from start to finish. Grass Valley and Nevada City are furnishing the male talent in a bathing beauty revue that is said to be a gogetter for laughs galore. The proceeds will be used to help defray the expenses~ of the district convention to be, held in this community in April. Reserved seat tickets will be but 50c and 75c. -— Mrs. sitors recently, and daughter Patsy Lou _ mento. Fred\ L. Arbogast, a former lawyer of Nevada City, came up from} and attended te business affairs here. He visited his brother, family while Oakland J, P. Arbogast), and here. A roof is ae ‘erected over the second story porch ofthe Uniun Ho-; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Goede east of, by D: . this city, were Mr, and Mrs. Fred tel on lower Main street Merzetta, the Grnee, topside show thati knockout as far, Fred Tredennick had as viMrs. Edward Tully of SacraMrs. Edith Solaro of Graniteville passed away in New Mexico recently according to advices received here. She was the wife of A. Solaro of that place and was respected resident. DIDN'T PAY THE TAX In the list of delinquents pubJevelopments, ‘HOGE ADDS TO EXTENSIVE HOLDINGS BUYS THE DAY PROPERTY PAST WEEK The Hoge Development Cones teins operations in the Blue Tent and! Harmony Ridge sections are rapidly reaching the point, where they are quite sure of having some’ very important and also quite interesting within the near fuThe Hoge interests have just recently acugqired all of the Day interests, which represent the major portion of the Western Merger holdings, and put the Hoge interests in control of practically two square miles of territory that is conceded by our best local mining authorities, to be one’ of the most desirable gold minefal zones in Nevada county, and one that has tremendous possibilities of profitable production, from both a quartz and gravel standpoint. The acquisition of the Day properties, by the Hoge interests, puts this company with their modern new shaft and equipment, in a very desirable position for extensive and deep development, and outside of the Newmont and IdahoMaryland, we do not know of any company in the camp, that have such large and valuabie holdings in one solid connecting block. They have undoubtedly the best operating shaft of any new company in the entire district, and everything is well laid out for an econemieal and successful operation. The shaft is 3 compartment, solidly timbered all the way down to a depth of 326 feet. At the 300 tevel they have cut a large station with double chutes, so that they can hoist either ore or waste at the same time, with separate lines on the surface, for either ore or waste Their station pumps are installed in series so that in the event of a break down of any one pump, the water can be handled without any serious difficulty. And as an extra precaution, they have their hoisting skips equipped to take water in the event of an emergency. Cross cutting and drifting has already been started, for the purpose of opening up the ore: bodies, that showed up such excellent prospects on the surface, and also to explore and open up the hanging wall country, that appears to have exccllent possibilities for important new r discoveries. ._The. south crosscut ‘development program is completed, to is*in about 60 feet pore the north one 20 feet. _This Company has expended a large sum of money, in puttiag themselves in the enviable position that they are in today, and it is the general opinion, that when their that they shall have ample ore reserves for .a continuous 50 ton daily output for a long period of time, with the probability of that being materially increased within the course of one or two years. The Company’s operations for the present are confined solely to their proven quartz iedges, and in the exploration of a new and virgin country, north of their uew shaft, which shows indications of important developments, along and near the slate contact. And if these new developments should prove to be as.important, as the fooiwall ledge, that was proven up on the surface to a depth of sixty feet, and which showed up ore that averaged over $40.00 per ton in the mill. The Company will within a very few months, be ready for the installation of a 50 ton mill. They have an excellent mill site, and their hoisting plant was laid out with the idea in mind of ‘having ample réom for a modern mill site, with a gravity operation from the mine to the mill, and just as soon as they have fully demonstrated ample ore reserves, they will take steps to install a modern and up-to-date mill» that will be capable of saving up to 95% of their high grade values. With this accomplished, and this operation into profitable production they plan upon taking steps to open up and operate their gravel channel, which is known to exist upon a large portion of their holdings, and which produced handsomely up and into the Hoge Company’s present holdings. This Company, therefore, as we stated have all of the necessary essentials for the , development of a handsome producer, and. with their modern up-to-date equipment, modern shaft etc., and an efficient and up-to-date management, they have certainly a bright outlook for their future developments and operations, and for a long period of . profitable production. TURPENTINE PLANT IS NOW BEING FABRICATED Rebuildingof the . plant of the California Timber Products. Co., Inc., was actively commenced the past week with carpenters starting the building of a new plant to house the thousand and one things that enter into the iefining of turpentine and resin and 140 by-pro ducts from the raw gum of our pine trees. None of the old plant will be used, even the boiler. everything being new. It is possible that the iron cooking kettle in the first plant will be rebuilt’ for use. A load of stills was brought from Oakland and will be set up as sooa as the plant and foundations _are ready. Tha work wilh be rushed to early completion. The work of hanging cups and tapping trees on the various tracts under contract has been started anc with warm weather continuing, the collecting of the gum will be carlished by the irrigation district, apker. Wonder if that is. the party who once was connected with the district in an official capacity at a handsome stipend? County Superintendent of Schools Mrs. EHa M. Austin visited the Cherokee school during last week. Miss Elaine Mobley, teacher in the Placer Union High School, spent the last week end in Nevada City visiting -her parents, .Mr. and Mrs W. L. Mobley. y J. H. Gilmore of Pike was operated on for hernia at the Grass Valley hospital last, week removal of a hernia. He is reported ‘. as. recovering nicely. Recent . — of Galt. pears the name of one A. L. Wis-: for the]. visitors to the home of \* uniicensed ones in Nevada City. ried on. The two conerete vats contain a great deal of the first gum leo ected last year and while the top was damaged by the fire, the resi_due will be distilled and the vats cleaned out in preparation for the new gum which will be coming in shortly. N. T. Mirov will be:in charge ‘of operations. Mr. and Mrs. William Boyd, Mrs. E. S. Boyd and Mrs. B. O. Thistle of Sacramento motored up fora visit with relatives in Nevada City recently. Mrs. Thistle remained for a longer vsit. Williem and Victor Buck came up from their ranch near Lincoln and spent some time visting in Nevada City last week. Tuere are 42 licensed doggies in Grass Valley. There are a number YUBA PASS OPENING WAS ACCOMPLISHED SIERRA CITY, Feb. 18—Opening of the Yuba Pass to motor travel was accomplished today easily with the running of a scraper and removing the remaining snow. A number of cars came through and if storms do not block the summit again it is expected that the Pass will be largely used as all the passes to the south are still blocked with snow. The use of chains is advised and a shovel in case a persoa in passing has to get into the snow at the side. WHITE LIONS TALKER E. S. White, the meeting of week, had his Nevada---City. program speaker at the Lions Club last troubles getting to He -was-heldup—in Auburn getting a reel of fine skiing pictures. to show. After he got here it was necessary to secure a projector and the Rev. H. H. Buckaer stepped into the breach, bui when he had the machine set up it was found that he did not have an empty reel and W. V. Tamblyn was »ressed into service to furnish one from the theatre. After the film finally started it was found that it was upside down. Aside from these minor disturbances. the picture was finally shown and created a great deal of interest as it Haugen making his near course. daughter, Helen, the week end, H. A. Curnow, John J. Fortier, showed Lars record breaking leap of 196 feet at Tahoe Mr. and Mrs. Carey Arbogast and and Mrs. Arbogast’s sster, Miss Katherine Kinkead motored to Sacramento and spent Myers Mobley and William Home CALKINS PRAISES THE NUGGET MINING NEWS The fcllowing is contained in a letter received by The Nugget. Friday from C. B. Calkins of Chatsworth and well known in Nevada City: “I am enclosing check for reaewal of my subscription. Am expecting to be up there in the near future and start something in the mining industry. I am very much interested in the mining news of The Nugget. No better paper for mining men was ever printed in that section’’. Considering that Mr. Calkins was formerly in the publishing business here that comes as quite a compliment and is greatly appreciated. SAILOR FLAT MINE IS INTO COURT RECORDS The Sailor Flat Mining Company which officially went defunct ir 1919 due to its failing to pay its franchise tax to the state is being resurrected in superior court by Mrs. Ann Campbell, one of the surviving directors. The property. has been optioned by local interests who propose to work its reputedly. rich gravel deposits by drift methods and the present action is te clear up any legal difficulties in clearing title. J. M. McMahon appears as attorney for the corporation. The mine which is located in the Blue, Tent section was formerly workel by the hydraulic process prior to 1883 but since that time has been idle. There is a 3000 foot tunnel on the adjoining Blue Tent property which may be used to work the Sailor Flat property. Those proposing to work the property state that the gravel appears rich. enough , to handle by drift mining. PRIMROSE SHAFT IS NOW BEING DEEPENED SIERRA CITY, Feb. 22 (Special to The Nugget)—Retimbering of the shaft at the Primrose property has been completed and sinking from the 100 to the 350 foot level is now in. progress. The mine is re; ported as making considerable water due to the snow melting and coming down through the old workings. A crew of fifteen men is employed. The operations are being financed by the J. F .Burkhard interests of Los Angeles. J.-E. Little is superintendent of operations. SIERRA COUNTY MINING DOWNIEVILLE, Feb. 24—Chas. Wittstruck returned last week to the Ruby Mine, where he has a lease on the tailings. Wittstruck took a load of riffies to the mine. and is about ready to wash the tailings. J. H. Gifford, -of Los -Angeles, passed through Downieville Wednesday on his way to. Sierra City on mining business. This is Mr. Gifford’s first visit to this district in thirty-eight years. Lavier Thomas, a_ local prospec tor, was exhibiting a nice prospec* of placer gold last week, which he washed from the East Fork. The] gold was quite coarse, and indicates that the “old timer’’ has not completely robbed our streams. POURS LIQUORS OUT Sheriff George Bynon poured a libation of some four kegs of jas sack to the Yuba last week follow ing official approval being given by District Attorney H. B. Neville. Interested witnesses were County Treasurer Lambert and Deputy Surveyor Ross F. Taylor. The wetness was confiscated recently when the sheriff was invited to help unload the cargo in the rear of a building there. SPIKED IN ARM When helping carry a timber on one of the lower. levels of the Idaho Maryland mine last week, MINER MEETING scheduled by the chairman and folWILL BE AUBURN ON. SATURDAY A great~déal of interest is being manifested in the coming meeting of _ the local. Chapter of the Mining Association of California to be held at Auburn next Saturday afternoon, commencing at—2 o’clock.-The meeting will be held in the spacious lower floor offices of James D. Stewart, chairman of the Chapter. Several 15 and 5 minute addresses have been lowing their rendition the meeting will be thrown open to open diseussion. Mr. Stewart’s offices are opposite the court house on the north. It isplanned at this meeting to idopt a set of by-laws and a name ‘or the Chapter which has been functioniag asa unit oi the state associa{ion since last October without one. The membership lis thas reached 101 with the signed. application of W F. Durfee of Auburn whose name was sent in by Charles LaKamp, arlent ‘booster forthe Association. With gh active membership committee at work it is expected to shove the list to 250 at an early date. With the membership fee set at such a tow figure, there is nd excuse for any one having any connections with the nining industry, with not joining. It is hoped that there will be a irge gathering of members and minimg men at the meeting as it will only be by some such organization that the mining industry will be able to get on its feet again. : Some of the subjects to be discussed. briefly are Compensation Insurance and Taxation, both lead topics with the fraternity at the -present time, and particularly the former which has badly throttled development work and active operations at numerous properties. The status of the new mutual insurance company will be explained. SIERRA COUNTY HAS : INTEREST IN MINING DOWNIEVILLE, ‘Feb. 24—Attesting that interest inthe California — Mining Associaton has not waned in Serra couty, the local chapter held an impromptu meeting Friday. The -+nain business wasthe urgent need. of members, and’ a cor:mittee consisting of Geo. R. Costa, Antone Lavezzola, W.L. Carter,azd R. F. Taylor were named tosolicit members ‘rom Sierra county operators and mines. A meeting is piunned for the near future, at which the memberchip committee is expe>ted to sive a .ood account of itself. i BROUGHMAN RECOGNIZED Jack Broughman, who has been scoutmaster of the loc:.i Boy Scout trocp was given a farewell ‘reception at troop headquarters the other evening and presented with a fine pencil in recognitio of hs efforts in behalf of scouting since he has been here. He has succeeded in bringing the troop up to near complete membership and he was given a warm vote of thanks for his efforts. * A CORRECTION A slight apology is-due our readers on the article on the pees . company printed in’ these colun iast week. The article was peopel some days in advance of _publication due to the fact that the publisher was to be out of town for the weekend. The deal was to hav been concluded and work started by the new company the previous week but due to a hitch in the former company not having some of debts cleaned up the actual ti of the property was delayed a result and at the time the p appeared shaft sinking had not sumed, as was stated. Miss Elise Hieronijnous, in the Loomis public schools Miss Adele Hieronimous, stu State Teachers College in Ss cisco, visited their mother, Hieronimous over the week The first fire of the John Caselli had a spike pierce his arm when the timber slipped. —s spent the week end in San FraneleMitchell Hales, an aged miner/! reported from the Forest district _where a pile of and racher of the Union Hill sec‘tom passed away lest week, SSE a Seed

Re, e. 2 ara *y ‘a lava a The Nugget is California's Leading Mining Weekly * SS VOLUME. IV, NUMBER 15 THE GOLD CENTER NEVADA CITY, NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNI THE Cc COUNTY SEAT PAPER ! FEBRUARY 24, . 930 YOSEMITE MINE ~» TAKEN OVER BY _WESTN. MERGER : Throveti S caHations completed the past few days, the rich placer ground in the Yosemite and Albert mine north of town has been taken over by the Western .Merger Mines and operations are expected to commence at an early date. The praperty which consists of 160 acres was last worked about 1894, when ‘rich gravel is reported to have been taken out. The channel is said: to be a branch of the extremely rich Harmony channel which -was such a heavy producer in the early days. The channel has capping from 300 to 500 feet thick and was formerly worked through an incline. It is the property of the W. D. Harris estate of Grass Valley. Harry B. Skewes, superintendent of operations for the Western Merger has returned from Reno where he attended the annual meeting of the Merger and Alleghany Morning Glory companies. Both companies are expecting to be operating this spring according to Mr. Skewes, the at Alleghany being equipped for operations at the present time. He reports that A. A. Codd, president of both companies, is now out of the hospital but shows the effects of his long sojourn. :Quite a bit of Merger stock is held locally and the news that the company will commence operations again will be welcome news. LANDRY FILES ANSWER TO WAYNFLETE SUIT R. D. Landry through his attorneys,-Nilon, Hennessy & Kelly has filed an answer and cross complaint in the: suit-recently brought by Walter Waynflete, publisher of the Truckee Republican through his attorney, O. E. Winburn. Landry makes sensational charges of undue influence being brought to bear on Waynflete to stop the campaign .and his cross complaint charges that his agents services were worth in excess of $1000 to Waynflete. An accounting of the contest is called for, it is asked that J. C. Edmunds be made a party to the suit and that defendant may obtain judgment in the amount of $374.25 and for costs incurred. The cross complaint asks for damages in excess of $20,000. Morming Ctory ready MISS HELEN JONES WINS SCHOLARSHIP AWARD The coveted membership in the Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholarship society, was won by Miss Helen Frances Jones last week who is a student at Stanford University. Miss Jones, who is the daughter of Judge and Mrs. George L. Jones, has shown remarkable ability in her school work and this honor sheds new luster on the family name, long prominent in Nevada City and County. RUBY MINE PAYS OFF “ary 25th. IN REAL GOLD DUST a Feb 24, (SpeciThe. Nugget) — Probnae for the first time since -early ’50s a Sierra county mine is paying off her miners in gold dust. This, according to Chas. Wittstruck, is the present practice at the Ruby mine, three miles south of shis place Wittstruck, who is leasing at: the mine, says that the. operators are weighing out ‘‘dust’’ to employees who prefer it to cash. ANOTHER HYDRAULIC MINE DUE TO START DOWNIEVILLE, Feb. 24 (Special to, The Nugget)—Presistent rumors to the effect that Dr. C. H. Montgomery and Major French, of Los Angeles, expect to begin development work on the Frost-Piety Hill hydraulic property this summer are in circulation here. This property, which consists» of placer ground covered by town lots and adjacent ground was acquired by the present owners some time ago. A dam has been built in the South Fork near the mouth of Secret Canyon and surveys for water rights completed . While no definite plans have been made public a resumption of activ. ities this season are practically assured. CALIF ORNIA MINING © PRESS IS SENT OUT The first issue of the California Mining Press is just —off the press and is being sent out to each member of the Mining — Association of California. It wll be ~issued at monthly intervals. Its first issue ir a newsy one and contains much of interest. Enough advertising is carried to make it self supporting. R. L. Kimmel -appears-as the editor. CENSUS ENUMERATORS . TO BE APPOINTED SOON According to information reaching this office from Census Supervisor H. B. Thomas of Placerville, no applications for position as enumerator will be received after FebruWork of taking the famity starts the first week in April. The business census is being taken at present. RECOMMENDS RELEASE Stating that the witness whose testimony was needed in Nevada and refused to appear in court, Dis. trict Attorney W. E. Wright recommended to Judge Landis Friday that the: case ‘pending against George Capelo, who was charged with burglary and grand ‘theft, be dismissed. Capelo was released from jail a few hours later. The alleged depredations had _ been committed at Floriston and Capelo was arrested on the two charges and taken before Judge Ocker at Truckee who bound him over to superior court. — MRS. EDITH SOLARO PASSES LIONS WILL FROLIC The Lions will frolic Wednesday and Thursday nights at the Strand Theater with a promises to be a as impersonations go and a cream from start to finish. Grass Valley and Nevada City are furnishing the male talent in a bathing beauty revue that is said to be a gogetter for laughs galore. The proceeds will be used to help defray the expenses~ of the district convention to be, held in this community in April. Reserved seat tickets will be but 50c and 75c. -— Mrs. sitors recently, and daughter Patsy Lou _ mento. Fred\ L. Arbogast, a former lawyer of Nevada City, came up from} and attended te business affairs here. He visited his brother, family while Oakland J, P. Arbogast), and here. A roof is ae ‘erected over the second story porch ofthe Uniun Ho-; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Goede east of, by D: . this city, were Mr, and Mrs. Fred tel on lower Main street Merzetta, the Grnee, topside show thati knockout as far, Fred Tredennick had as viMrs. Edward Tully of SacraMrs. Edith Solaro of Graniteville passed away in New Mexico recently according to advices received here. She was the wife of A. Solaro of that place and was respected resident. DIDN'T PAY THE TAX In the list of delinquents pubJevelopments, ‘HOGE ADDS TO EXTENSIVE HOLDINGS BUYS THE DAY PROPERTY PAST WEEK The Hoge Development Cones teins operations in the Blue Tent and! Harmony Ridge sections are rapidly reaching the point, where they are quite sure of having some’ very important and also quite interesting within the near fuThe Hoge interests have just recently acugqired all of the Day interests, which represent the major portion of the Western Merger holdings, and put the Hoge interests in control of practically two square miles of territory that is conceded by our best local mining authorities, to be one’ of the most desirable gold minefal zones in Nevada county, and one that has tremendous possibilities of profitable production, from both a quartz and gravel standpoint. The acquisition of the Day properties, by the Hoge interests, puts this company with their modern new shaft and equipment, in a very desirable position for extensive and deep development, and outside of the Newmont and IdahoMaryland, we do not know of any company in the camp, that have such large and valuabie holdings in one solid connecting block. They have undoubtedly the best operating shaft of any new company in the entire district, and everything is well laid out for an econemieal and successful operation. The shaft is 3 compartment, solidly timbered all the way down to a depth of 326 feet. At the 300 tevel they have cut a large station with double chutes, so that they can hoist either ore or waste at the same time, with separate lines on the surface, for either ore or waste Their station pumps are installed in series so that in the event of a break down of any one pump, the water can be handled without any serious difficulty. And as an extra precaution, they have their hoisting skips equipped to take water in the event of an emergency. Cross cutting and drifting has already been started, for the purpose of opening up the ore: bodies, that showed up such excellent prospects on the surface, and also to explore and open up the hanging wall country, that appears to have exccllent possibilities for important new r discoveries. ._The. south crosscut ‘development program is completed, to is*in about 60 feet pore the north one 20 feet. _This Company has expended a large sum of money, in puttiag themselves in the enviable position that they are in today, and it is the general opinion, that when their that they shall have ample ore reserves for .a continuous 50 ton daily output for a long period of time, with the probability of that being materially increased within the course of one or two years. The Company’s operations for the present are confined solely to their proven quartz iedges, and in the exploration of a new and virgin country, north of their uew shaft, which shows indications of important developments, along and near the slate contact. And if these new developments should prove to be as.important, as the fooiwall ledge, that was proven up on the surface to a depth of sixty feet, and which showed up ore that averaged over $40.00 per ton in the mill. The Company will within a very few months, be ready for the installation of a 50 ton mill. They have an excellent mill site, and their hoisting plant was laid out with the idea in mind of ‘having ample réom for a modern mill site, with a gravity operation from the mine to the mill, and just as soon as they have fully demonstrated ample ore reserves, they will take steps to install a modern and up-to-date mill» that will be capable of saving up to 95% of their high grade values. With this accomplished, and this operation into profitable production they plan upon taking steps to open up and operate their gravel channel, which is known to exist upon a large portion of their holdings, and which produced handsomely up and into the Hoge Company’s present holdings. This Company, therefore, as we stated have all of the necessary essentials for the , development of a handsome producer, and. with their modern up-to-date equipment, modern shaft etc., and an efficient and up-to-date management, they have certainly a bright outlook for their future developments and operations, and for a long period of . profitable production. TURPENTINE PLANT IS

NOW BEING FABRICATED Rebuildingof the . plant of the California Timber Products. Co., Inc., was actively commenced the past week with carpenters starting the building of a new plant to house the thousand and one things that enter into the iefining of turpentine and resin and 140 by-pro ducts from the raw gum of our pine trees. None of the old plant will be used, even the boiler. everything being new. It is possible that the iron cooking kettle in the first plant will be rebuilt’ for use. A load of stills was brought from Oakland and will be set up as sooa as the plant and foundations _are ready.. Tha work wilh be rushed to early completion. The work of hanging cups and tapping trees on the various tracts under contract has been started anc with warm weather continuing, the collecting of the gum will be carlished by the irrigation district, apker. Wonder if that is. the party who once was connected with the district in an official capacity at a handsome stipend? County Superintendent of Schools Mrs. EHa M. Austin visited the Cherokee school during last week. Miss Elaine Mobley, teacher in the Placer Union High School, spent the last week end in Nevada City visiting -her parents, .Mr. and Mrs W. L. Mobley. y J. H. Gilmore of Pike was operated on for hernia at the Grass Valley hospital last, week removal of a hernia. He is reported ‘. as. recovering nicely. Recent . — of Galt. pears the name of one A. L. Wis-: for the]. visitors to the home of \* uniicensed ones in Nevada City. ried on. The two conerete vats contain a great deal of the first gum leo ected last year and while the top was damaged by the fire, the resi_due will be distilled and the vats cleaned out in preparation for the new gum which will be coming in shortly. N. T. Mirov will be:in charge ‘of operations. Mr. and Mrs. William Boyd, Mrs. E. S. Boyd and Mrs. B. O. Thistle of Sacramento motored up fora visit with relatives in Nevada City recently. Mrs. Thistle remained for a longer vsit. Williem and Victor Buck came up from their ranch near Lincoln and spent some time visting in Nevada City last week. Tuere are 42 licensed doggies in Grass Valley. There are a number YUBA PASS OPENING WAS ACCOMPLISHED SIERRA CITY, Feb. 18—Opening of the Yuba Pass to motor travel was accomplished today easily with the running of a scraper and removing the remaining snow. A number of cars came through and if storms do not block the summit again it is expected that the Pass will be largely used as all the passes to the south are still blocked with snow. The use of chains is advised and a shovel in case a persoa in passing has to get into the snow at the side. WHITE LIONS TALKER E. S. White, the meeting of week, had his Nevada---City. program speaker at the Lions Club last troubles getting to He -was-heldup—in Auburn getting a reel of fine skiing pictures. to show. After he got here it was necessary to secure a projector and the Rev. H. H. Buckaer stepped into the breach, bui when he had the machine set up it was found that he did not have an empty reel and W. V. Tamblyn was »ressed into service to furnish one from the theatre. After the film finally started it was found that it was upside down. Aside from these minor disturbances. the picture was finally shown and created a great deal of interest as it Haugen making his near course. daughter, Helen, the week end, H. A. Curnow, John J. Fortier, showed Lars record breaking leap of 196 feet at Tahoe Mr. and Mrs. Carey Arbogast and and Mrs. Arbogast’s sster, Miss Katherine Kinkead motored to Sacramento and spent Myers Mobley and William Home CALKINS PRAISES THE NUGGET MINING NEWS The fcllowing is contained in a letter received by The Nugget. Friday from C. B. Calkins of Chatsworth and well known in Nevada City: “I am enclosing check for reaewal of my subscription. Am expecting to be up there in the near future and start something in the mining industry. I am very much interested in the mining news of The Nugget. No better paper for mining men was ever printed in that section’’. Considering that Mr. Calkins was formerly in the publishing business here that comes as quite a compliment and is greatly appreciated. SAILOR FLAT MINE IS INTO COURT RECORDS The Sailor Flat Mining Company which officially went defunct ir 1919 due to its failing to pay its franchise tax to the state is being resurrected in superior court by Mrs. Ann Campbell, one of the surviving directors. The property. has been optioned by local interests who propose to work its reputedly. rich gravel deposits by drift methods and the present action is te clear up any legal difficulties in clearing title. J. M. McMahon appears as attorney for the corporation. The mine which is located in the Blue, Tent section was formerly workel by the hydraulic process prior to 1883 but since that time has been idle. There is a 3000 foot tunnel on the adjoining Blue Tent property which may be used to work the Sailor Flat property. Those proposing to work the property state that the gravel appears rich. enough , to handle by drift mining. PRIMROSE SHAFT IS NOW BEING DEEPENED SIERRA CITY, Feb. 22 (Special to The Nugget)—Retimbering of the shaft at the Primrose property has been completed and sinking from the 100 to the 350 foot level is now in. progress. The mine is re; ported as making considerable water due to the snow melting and coming down through the old workings. A crew of fifteen men is employed. The operations are being financed by the J. F .Burkhard interests of Los Angeles. J.-E. Little is superintendent of operations. SIERRA COUNTY MINING DOWNIEVILLE, Feb. 24—Chas. Wittstruck returned last week to the Ruby Mine, where he has a lease on the tailings. Wittstruck took a load of riffies to the mine. and is about ready to wash the tailings. J. H. Gifford, -of Los -Angeles, passed through Downieville Wednesday on his way to. Sierra City on mining business. This is Mr. Gifford’s first visit to this district in thirty-eight years. Lavier Thomas, a_ local prospec tor, was exhibiting a nice prospec* of placer gold last week, which he washed from the East Fork. The] gold was quite coarse, and indicates that the “old timer’’ has not completely robbed our streams. POURS LIQUORS OUT Sheriff George Bynon poured a libation of some four kegs of jas sack to the Yuba last week follow ing official approval being given by District Attorney H. B. Neville. Interested witnesses were County Treasurer Lambert and Deputy Surveyor Ross F. Taylor. The wetness was confiscated recently when the sheriff was invited to help unload the cargo in the rear of a building there. SPIKED IN ARM When helping carry a timber on one of the lower. levels of the Idaho Maryland mine last week, MINER MEETING scheduled by the chairman and folWILL BE AUBURN ON. SATURDAY A great~déal of interest is being manifested in the coming meeting of _ the local. Chapter of the Mining Association of California to be held at Auburn next Saturday afternoon, commencing at—2 o’clock.-The meeting will be held in the spacious lower floor offices of James D. Stewart, chairman of the Chapter. Several 15 and 5 minute addresses have been lowing their rendition the meeting will be thrown open to open diseussion. Mr. Stewart’s offices are opposite the court house on the north. It isplanned at this meeting to idopt a set of by-laws and a name ‘or the Chapter which has been functioniag asa unit oi the state associa{ion since last October without one. The membership lis thas reached 101 with the signed. application of W F. Durfee of Auburn whose name was sent in by Charles LaKamp, arlent ‘booster forthe Association. With gh active membership committee at work it is expected to shove the list to 250 at an early date. With the membership fee set at such a tow figure, there is nd excuse for any one having any connections with the nining industry, with not joining. It is hoped that there will be a irge gathering of members and minimg men at the meeting as it will only be by some such organization that the mining industry will be able to get on its feet again. : Some of the subjects to be discussed. briefly are Compensation Insurance and Taxation, both lead topics with the fraternity at the -present time, and particularly the former which has badly throttled development work and active operations at numerous properties. The status of the new mutual insurance company will be explained. SIERRA COUNTY HAS : INTEREST IN MINING DOWNIEVILLE, ‘Feb. 24—Attesting that interest inthe California — Mining Associaton has not waned in Serra couty, the local chapter held an impromptu meeting Friday. The -+nain business wasthe urgent need. of members, and’ a cor:mittee consisting of Geo. R. Costa, Antone Lavezzola, W.L. Carter,azd R. F. Taylor were named tosolicit members ‘rom Sierra county operators and mines. A meeting is piunned for the near future, at which the memberchip committee is expe>ted to sive a .ood account of itself. i BROUGHMAN RECOGNIZED Jack Broughman, who has been scoutmaster of the loc:.i Boy Scout trocp was given a farewell ‘reception at troop headquarters the other evening and presented with a fine pencil in recognitio of hs efforts in behalf of scouting since he has been here. He has succeeded in bringing the troop up to near complete membership and he was given a warm vote of thanks for his efforts. * A CORRECTION A slight apology is-due our readers on the article on the pees . company printed in’ these colun iast week. The article was peopel some days in advance of _publication due to the fact that the publisher was to be out of town for the weekend. The deal was to hav been concluded and work started by the new company the previous week but due to a hitch in the former company not having some of debts cleaned up the actual ti of the property was delayed a result and at the time the p appeared shaft sinking had not sumed, as was stated. Miss Elise Hieronijnous, in the Loomis public schools Miss Adele Hieronimous, stu State Teachers College in Ss cisco, visited their mother, Hieronimous over the week The first fire of the John Caselli had a spike pierce his arm when the timber slipped. —s spent the week end in San FraneleMitchell Hales, an aged miner/! reported from the Forest district _where a pile of and racher of the Union Hill sec‘tom passed away lest week, SSE a Seed