January 2, 1939 (4 pages)

Se. A) “ concern over the fact that more and » more of the lands along the Klamath MONDAY, JANUARY 2. Medel B NEVADA CITY NUGGET ne PRIVATE OWNERS . CLOSE FISHING ALONG KLAMATH BERKELEY, Jan. 2.—Expressing river are being withdrawn from public fishing and other recreation through the building of private lodges and the issuance of mineral patents, a conference of farm and business leaders of Siskiyou county has recommended that a right of way for fishermen be reserved through THE MOST APPRECIATED GIFTS Will Be Found At CLIFFORD WARNER’S STUDIO ON COMMERCIAL STREET Drawings, Paintings, Photographs, Colored Reproductions Sepiagraphsi VISION IS RARE all land to be withdrawn from pub. : a : : lic entry in the future. The meeting was one of a series of economic conferences called by leaders of various farm and business enterprises. in : : 4 : various counties of the state to discuss current pressing economic »vroblems and the manner in which they should be handled. The county farm advisors and the Agricultural Pxtension Service of the University of California assist in the arrangement for the meetings. A general easing of credit regulations by the Federal Land Bank, the protecting of domestic markets through protective tariffs, and a thorough study into the cause of the bloating of cattle on pasture ‘‘which has come to be of increasing importance,’ were also recommended by the conference. The Land Bank commissioner was asked to extend the time of principal payments in individual cases where such an extension seems necessary. Congressional action looking toward -the lowering of federal] land bank and commissioners Joans was salso recommended. Regarding the tariff issue the conference held that the present reciprocal trade agreements should be discontinued and protective tariffs instituted in their stead. SEAMAN BUILDING © PURCHASED BY MR. HOGE Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hoge, Sr., have purchased the house and office of the late Mrs. Lottie Seaman, adjacent to the Hartung jewelry store, and are completely remodeling, painting and papering the interior, The roof is being reshingled. The Great Northern Mining company of Hoge Mine interests. will continue to.rent the office which they have held under a long term lease. The-cosy furnished apartment will be leased. PASTURIZED RAW CREAM AND MILK MABEN’S DAIRY ~ Ranch-to-Customer Delivery Service in Nevada City and Grass Valley ADDRESS, MABEN’S DAIRY, Send Us a Postal, Driver Will Call. THE POCKETBOOK "Kom IN THE BARLY DAY: C# BASEBALL, 5 UMPIRES WORE FRICK COATS, CARRIED CANES AND WHILE SITTING ON ACYIAIR IN BACK OF HOME PLATE — aya It costs THE 1 U.S. APPROXIMATELY £50,000,000 TO BUILO A MODERN BATTLESHIP FOR THE NAYY! 7HE FIRST UNITED STATES NAVY COMPRISING EIGHT VESSELS COST LUT SIS4333L THE GOATS WERE GOUGH AND FITTED OUT FOR THE SUM AT THE BEGINNING OF THE REVOLUTYONARY WAR— of KNOWLEDGE :. 1) +4, THe PEOPLE OF SYRIA ALWAYS LAMPS vs SESE yee BREAKFAST. jcAN EX Apogee mie 1937 . GS DEPCSITORS IN DIOS ocrecenece LAST YEAR THERE WERE 16,372,000 SA b226,778A 170% INCREASE IN LESS THAN 30 YEARS. STATE VITALLY INTERESTED IN RAIL PROBLEM By CLEM WHITAKER Californians will follow with intense interest the deliberations of Congress on the program recommended by the President’s committee on railroad rehabilitation. The problem is of national concern; but the health of California industry and agriculture, rooted on this far rim of the continent, is singularly dependent upon adequate, low rate, longhaul transportation in order to. compete successfully in eastern markets. Three major factors point to a sound solution to the general transBOX 847, GRASS VALLEY. SAVE. ON REPAIR COSTS POLISHING, RENT BATTERIE Broad and Union Streets Expert Mechanics Phone Dick Lane’s Garage GAS, OIL, ACCESSORIES, WASHING, Ss 525 NEVADA CITY ASSAY & REFINING OFFICE Pyvactical mining tests from 25 to percentage of sulphurets, valu Assays made for gold, silver, lead and copper. Mail order check work Agent for New York-California : Delaware Underwriters AUTOMOBILE E. J. N. OTT, Proprietor 1000 pounds, giving the free gold e of sulphurets and tailings. promptly attended to. Underwriters, Westchester and Insurance Companies INSURANCE 111 MAIN STREET ED BURTNER OF THE GRASS VALLEY CLEANERS NOW IS THE TIME To get garments cleaned for Fall and Winter. New Fall and Winter samples just received, SUITS from $29 to $55. GRASS VALLEY PHONE 875: IF YOU ARE HARD _ WHY NOT START THE NEW YEAR WITH THE NEW CRYSTALIC ACOUSTICON, instead of just an ordinary hearing aid, and enjoy LIVING SOUND such as only Acoustican can bring you. Your deafened friends know Acousticon as the oldest and leading firm in the United States speci will appreciate the many joyous hearing advantages of the New -Crystalic Acousticon with its Thermionic Tubes—for deafness is a very serious problem to those affected. The New Crystalic Acousticon, complementing our present world famous Coronation models, makes it possible for Acousticon to offer HAPPY HEARING to practically all types of hearing deficiencies. ‘Acousticons are custom fitted to insure the accurate selection of all component parts best adapted to each individual requirement. We suggest that you let our fitting expert, who is hard of hearing and understands the problems, ; Acousticon. All advice, consultation and demonstrations free in your own home or in our office. Write or phone for ap Terms can be arranged, Libera ACOUSTICON INSTITUTE OF SACRAMENTO Palmer B. Conner, Manager % 1021 K. St., Sacramento, Calif. ere Hinininieieieieeieieieieieieieieieieinieieiniiininty OF HEARING alizing in better hearing. They fit you with a New Crystalic intment. 1 allowance on old sets. Phone: Main 670 portation dilemma: First: The sweeping nature of the 14-point program shows. that the committemen realize that the finan‘cial situation of many major lines is desperate, that a solution is impossible in existing circumstances, and that reorganization must be thorough and seundly based. Salient proposals include relief from excessive, discriminatory tax burdens; lifting of political restrictions that hamper rail carriers in competition, with supplemental forms of transportation which in some cases are subsidized; repeal of the Land Grant statutes under which the federal government enjoys freight rates lower than those of private shippers; restoration to rail managements of abrogated rights of initiative in meeting their specfalized problems; and enlargement of the powers of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to permit urgently needed refinancing of carriers now in the red. Second: President Roosevelt’s intimation that he will ask, in a speial message, early consideration of the committee’s recommendations by the Congress indicates his awareness for the proposal of the carriers— abandoned at the Administration’s request—that the crushing financial pressure be lessened through a wage cut. Third: The “‘spirit of the 76th” congress. There will be many new faces when the Houses are called to order; and the rec@it off-year elections demonstrated plainly that the will of the people is toward renewed reliance upon the American systtem of private enterprise engineered by business experts and free of undue governmental regulation. Generally, in the congressional contests, sober-minded ,fact-regarding, middle-of-the-road candidates were elected wherever opposed by visionary leftists. : Restoration to a_ self-sustaining basis of the $26,000,000,000 railroad industry, which is essential to the welfare of all American industry and {all labor, probably would be the outstanding achievement of the Seventy-Sixth Congress of the United States—and ‘a “consummation devoutely to be wished’ by, the millions whose destiny lies in building a greater California. CHIMNEY FIRE One fire truck and driver responded to a call from the Herbert Hallett home on upper Broad street at about noon today when the chimney suddenly caught fire. \ that some alternative must be found . TAHOE FOREST PROVIDES 20.000 XMAS TREES The Tahoe National Forest sold 20,250 Christmas trees during the: past season for a total revenue of . over $4900 according to DeWitt Nel-' son, forest supervisor at Nevada City. Nelson states that he had not considered the Tahoe as in the Christmas tree business this year for the reason that the supply had been depleted in former years but that the Christmas tree merchants had scoutD RECOVERY NEEDS FAPM LABOR AND COV. TEAM WORK By RALPH H. TAYLOR It is a hapyy characteristic of mankind, at the start of a new year, to push aside the diffienlties and disappointments .of the year just gone and to dip into the future—-with new hope, new dreams and a sublime conviction that there’s a rainbow around the worner! Tt is a period of new optimism and father-to-the-wish forecasts of better times ahead. But it is also a time for balancing books on the old year, realistically reviewing mistakes— and planning, with new courage, to profit in the future by the errors of the past. The year 1938, from the standpoint of agriculture, left much to be desired. California crop returns, according to the best information available dt this writing, averaged 27 por cent less than returns of the preceding year, with some major crops the 1937 level. Nationally, cash income from farm products marketed in 1938 (including government payments) reached approximately $7,500,000,000, acrcording to estimates of the United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics. This compares with $8,600,000,000 in 1937 and $7,944,000,000 in 1936. The Bureau’s analysis of reasons for the drop in farm income is significant to the farming industry because it turns the’ spotlight, “once again, on the. inter-dependence of rural America and wurban America. States the report: “The decline in farm income this dropping as low as 46 per cent below . CLAMPTONWLE. Jans? Jom Mnders arrived Sunday from San Francisco on a»brief visit to friends — here. Mrs. William A. Lang and daughter came home from Nevada City Saturday. Miss Dorothy Hays spent the week end at North San Juan © visiting friends. Henry Woods, Jr., arrived a few . days ago from Coalinga and his par_ ents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Woods returned south with him for a short visit. Mrs. Nellie Hinds and family left . Saturday for San Jose to spend two weeks visiting with her father. John Olson of San Francisco arrived Saturday to spend the week end at his mining claims on . Oregon Creek north of this place. . Valley Grill WELCOMES YOU ‘Whenever you are in GRASS VALLEY ‘We specialize in a 50 cent Sunday Dinner Excellent Meals at all times 103 MILL ST., GRASS VALLEY +, % a ce ae i ee ee ee Sc ee ao ee Neeteojerfes + BEST WISHES FOR THE NEW YEAR @ years in which farmers’ cash’ income has increased over the previous year, The smaller income this year is attributed largely to the marked deeline in industrial activity during the past year, and to the lower level of the income of urban consumers which has greatly reduced the demand for farm products.”’ Any attemmt to forecast what the ed out the above number of trees on the forest that they were willing to urchase for market purposes. * son’s headquarters at ‘Nevada City issued 625 free permits to local residents and 150 permits were issued by the caretaker at Tahoe-Ukiah CCC camp. Taking into consideration the permits issued by the respective district rangers. Nelson figures that probably 1000 free permits were issued for a total of 1500 trees. A great many people, it has been found, still experience a great thrill in going after and cutting their own Christseveral times as much as the spurchase of one in the market would. SCIENTISTS FIND SIERRA RANGE BERKELEY, Jan. 2.—The Sierra Nevada range of mountains is slowly falling, for the third.time in geologic history, amd, if the movement continues, it will have disappeared in a few hundred thousand years. The University of California is to show just what is happening, as a feature exhibit in its $200,000 display, Science of Man, at the Golden Gate International Exposition in 1939. The “Ghost Towns” of 49, if they last long enough, will be carried from the foothills to the plain on the slipping rock and soil stratas, foot by foot ‘Then, if the cycle is continued, the mountains will rise again, as slowly as they disappeared, and other towns will appear on them. ‘This phenomenon of mountain range disintegration and elevation at the hands of mighty natural forces, about which man is iearning more’ and more, will be shown in‘a heroic panorama seven feet high by 22 feet long, and will be the center of geology’s display at the Exposition, The panorama will feature a painting of the mountain background, with the foothills and valleys in the foreground. Specifically, there will be shown the wide range of geologic formations in the manner in which these are being affected by the shifting crust of the earth, erosion and voleanic action. A study of the panorama will make it possible to select areas in which there are six different soil types, deposits which were left by the past sinking of the mountains to the level of the plain. The history of these formations and how they came about will be told by legends at the side of the centr&l painting and other legends will round out mas tree even though it costs them . SLOWLY SINKING new year, 1939, will mean to Caii‘fornia agriculture must, in large part, be conditioned on what the lfuture holds for business and indusry. The farming industry, to be sure, is confronted with many problems i which are typically farm problems— , and which must ibe met and solved iby the industry and the individual farmers comprising it. . But overshadowing all such prob. lems within the industry is the probij lem of national recovery. If business :and industry, government and labor . find a better basis for mutual cooperation—if all America finally starts pulling in harness toward a common objective—then it can be safely farecast that both city income and farm income will start climbing back toward normal levels. Rash, indeed, would be the prophet who would predict that 1939, however, will be free from turmoil and recriminations. There is still dissension on many fronts. But it is this writer’s opinion that the last few months, nationally, have been marked by a swing of the pendulum away from extremism and toward a new era of ‘‘live and let live’ policies. Public oponion, in the final analysis, is the greatest power in American life—and public opinion, wherever it has been tested recently, has indicated a growing demand for putting an end to the senseless struggle between government and industry, on one hand, and business and labor on the other. America, if we interpret the national elections during the fall of 1938 correctly, wants to get back to work—and working in, harmony. If government officials, business leaders and labor leaders heed the handwriting on the wall—and start working together to create new wealth instead of fighting over a division of the inadequate national. income now available—the year 1939 will mark the beginning of better times for the farmer and the farm hand, the city employer and the’ city worker —and all America. ,If they fail to do so, 1939 may be a repetition of 1938, only more so, The 1938 slump was a man made slump—and mankind, in 1939, can correct it, if the nation is still capable of profiting in the future from mistakes of the past. Our hope for 1939 is that it will mark a return to. straight thinking, reasonable action and a new measure of mutual trust and confidence. If that is accomplished, it will be the happiest New Year since the dawn of depression. = Miss Frances Davey, “who teaches in the Santa Barbara schools, is spending the Christmas and New parents, Mr, and Mrs. Harry Davey other details. on Prospect Hill. year (1938) follows five successive , NATIONAL HOTEL AND COFFEE SHOP NEVADA CITY CALIFORNIA . . i Se co ae SS le St ee he Se he ie ho ie See he a ee es he ee . . \ . LEONG GROCERY . FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES BEER— —WINE 314 Broad Street Nevada City SAFE AND LOCKSMITH KEYS _ Made While You Wait Bicycles, Steel Tapes, Vacuum Cleaners, Washing Machines, Electric Irons Stoves, Etc. SAWS, AXES, KNIVES, SCISSORS, ETC., SHARPENED Gunsmith, Light Welding RAY’S FIXIT SHOP 220 East Main St., Phone 602 GRASS VALLEY FINE WATCH REPAIRING Radio Service and REPAIRING Work Called for and Delivered Clarence R. Gra New Under New Delicious Mixed Drinks to F Years holiday at the home of her. .

Se. A) “ concern over the fact that more and » more of the lands along the Klamath MONDAY, JANUARY 2. Medel B NEVADA CITY NUGGET ne PRIVATE OWNERS . CLOSE FISHING ALONG KLAMATH BERKELEY, Jan. 2.—Expressing river are being withdrawn from public fishing and other recreation through the building of private lodges and the issuance of mineral patents, a conference of farm and business leaders of Siskiyou county has recommended that a right of way for fishermen be reserved through THE MOST APPRECIATED GIFTS Will Be Found At CLIFFORD WARNER’S STUDIO ON COMMERCIAL STREET Drawings, Paintings, Photographs, Colored Reproductions Sepiagraphsi VISION IS RARE all land to be withdrawn from pub. : a : : lic entry in the future. The meeting was one of a series of economic conferences called by leaders of various farm and business enterprises. in : : 4 : various counties of the state to discuss current pressing economic »vroblems and the manner in which they should be handled. The county farm advisors and the Agricultural Pxtension Service of the University of California assist in the arrangement for the meetings. A general easing of credit regulations by the Federal Land Bank, the protecting of domestic markets through protective tariffs, and a thorough study into the cause of the bloating of cattle on pasture ‘‘which has come to be of increasing importance,’ were also recommended by the conference. The Land Bank commissioner was asked to extend the time of principal payments in individual cases where such an extension seems necessary. Congressional action looking toward -the lowering of federal] land bank and commissioners Joans was salso recommended. Regarding the tariff issue the conference held that the present reciprocal trade agreements should be discontinued and protective tariffs instituted in their stead. SEAMAN BUILDING © PURCHASED BY MR. HOGE Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hoge, Sr., have purchased the house and office of the late Mrs. Lottie Seaman, adjacent to the Hartung jewelry store, and are completely remodeling, painting and papering the interior, The roof is being reshingled. The Great Northern Mining company of Hoge Mine interests. will continue to.rent the office which they have held under a long term lease. The-cosy furnished apartment will be leased. PASTURIZED RAW CREAM AND MILK MABEN’S DAIRY ~ Ranch-to-Customer Delivery Service in Nevada City and Grass Valley ADDRESS, MABEN’S DAIRY, Send Us a Postal, Driver Will Call. THE POCKETBOOK "Kom IN THE BARLY DAY: C# BASEBALL, 5 UMPIRES WORE FRICK COATS, CARRIED CANES AND WHILE SITTING ON ACYIAIR IN BACK OF HOME PLATE — aya It costs THE 1 U.S. APPROXIMATELY £50,000,000 TO BUILO A MODERN BATTLESHIP FOR THE NAYY! 7HE FIRST UNITED STATES NAVY COMPRISING EIGHT VESSELS COST LUT SIS4333L THE GOATS WERE GOUGH AND FITTED OUT FOR THE SUM AT THE BEGINNING OF THE REVOLUTYONARY WAR— of KNOWLEDGE :. 1) +4, THe PEOPLE OF SYRIA ALWAYS LAMPS vs SESE yee BREAKFAST. jcAN EX Apogee mie 1937 . GS DEPCSITORS IN DIOS ocrecenece LAST YEAR THERE WERE 16,372,000 SA b226,778A 170% INCREASE IN LESS THAN 30 YEARS. STATE VITALLY INTERESTED IN RAIL PROBLEM By CLEM WHITAKER Californians will follow with intense interest the deliberations of Congress on the program recommended by the President’s committee on railroad rehabilitation. The problem is of national concern; but the health of California industry and agriculture, rooted on this far rim of the continent, is singularly dependent upon adequate, low rate, longhaul transportation in order to. compete successfully in eastern markets. Three major factors point to a sound solution to the general transBOX 847, GRASS VALLEY. SAVE.. ON REPAIR COSTS POLISHING, RENT BATTERIE Broad and Union Streets Expert Mechanics Phone Dick Lane’s Garage GAS, OIL, ACCESSORIES, WASHING, Ss 525 NEVADA CITY ASSAY & REFINING OFFICE Pyvactical mining tests from 25 to percentage of sulphurets, valu Assays made for gold, silver, lead and copper. Mail order check work Agent for New York-California : Delaware Underwriters AUTOMOBILE E. J. N. OTT, Proprietor 1000 pounds, giving the free gold e of sulphurets and tailings. promptly attended to. Underwriters, Westchester and Insurance Companies INSURANCE 111 MAIN STREET ED BURTNER OF THE GRASS VALLEY CLEANERS NOW IS THE TIME To get garments cleaned for Fall and Winter. New Fall and Winter samples just received, SUITS from $29 to $55. GRASS VALLEY PHONE 875: IF YOU ARE HARD _ WHY NOT START THE NEW YEAR WITH THE NEW CRYSTALIC ACOUSTICON, instead of just an ordinary hearing aid, and enjoy LIVING SOUND such as only Acoustican can bring you. Your deafened friends know Acousticon as the oldest and leading firm in the United States speci will appreciate the many joyous hearing advantages of the New -Crystalic Acousticon with its Thermionic Tubes—for deafness is a very serious problem to those affected. The New Crystalic Acousticon, complementing our present world famous Coronation models, makes it possible for Acousticon to offer HAPPY HEARING to practically all types of hearing deficiencies. ‘Acousticons are custom fitted to insure the accurate selection of all component parts best adapted to each individual requirement. We suggest that you let our fitting expert, who is hard of hearing and understands the problems, ; Acousticon. All advice, consultation and demonstrations free in your own home or in our office. Write or phone for ap Terms can be arranged, Libera ACOUSTICON INSTITUTE OF SACRAMENTO Palmer B. Conner, Manager % 1021 K. St., Sacramento, Calif. ere Hinininieieieieeieieieieieieieieieieinieieiniiininty OF HEARING alizing in better hearing. They fit you with a New Crystalic intment. 1 allowance on old sets. Phone: Main 670 portation dilemma: First: The sweeping nature of the 14-point program shows. that the committemen realize that the finan‘cial situation of many major lines is desperate, that a solution is impossible in existing circumstances, and that reorganization must be thorough and seundly based. Salient proposals include relief from excessive, discriminatory tax burdens; lifting of political restrictions that hamper rail carriers in competition, with supplemental forms of transportation which in some cases are subsidized; repeal of the Land Grant statutes under which the federal government enjoys freight rates lower than those of private shippers; restoration to rail managements of abrogated rights of initiative in meeting their specfalized problems; and enlargement of the powers of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to permit urgently needed refinancing of carriers now in the red. Second: President Roosevelt’s intimation that he will ask, in a speial message, early consideration of the committee’s recommendations by the Congress indicates his awareness for the proposal of the carriers— abandoned at the Administration’s request—that the crushing financial pressure be lessened through a wage cut. Third: The “‘spirit of the 76th” congress. There will be many new faces when the Houses are called to order; and the rec@it off-year elections demonstrated plainly that the will of the people is toward renewed reliance upon the American systtem of private enterprise engineered by business experts and free of undue governmental regulation. Generally, in the congressional contests, sober-minded ,fact-regarding, middle-of-the-road candidates were elected wherever opposed by visionary leftists. : Restoration to a_ self-sustaining basis of the $26,000,000,000 railroad industry, which is essential to the welfare of all American industry and {all labor, probably would be the outstanding achievement of the Seventy-Sixth Congress of the United States—and ‘a “consummation devoutely to be wished’ by, the millions whose destiny lies in building a greater California. CHIMNEY FIRE One fire truck and driver responded to a call from the Herbert Hallett home on upper Broad street at about noon today when the chimney suddenly caught fire. \ that some alternative must be found . TAHOE FOREST PROVIDES 20.000 XMAS TREES The Tahoe National Forest sold 20,250 Christmas trees during the:

past season for a total revenue of . over $4900 according to DeWitt Nel-' son, forest supervisor at Nevada City. Nelson states that he had not considered the Tahoe as in the Christmas tree business this year for the reason that the supply had been depleted in former years but that the Christmas tree merchants had scoutD RECOVERY NEEDS FAPM LABOR AND COV. TEAM WORK By RALPH H. TAYLOR It is a hapyy characteristic of mankind, at the start of a new year, to push aside the diffienlties and disappointments .of the year just gone and to dip into the future—-with new hope, new dreams and a sublime conviction that there’s a rainbow around the worner! Tt is a period of new optimism and father-to-the-wish forecasts of better times ahead. But it is also a time for balancing books on the old year, realistically reviewing mistakes— and planning, with new courage, to profit in the future by the errors of the past. The year 1938, from the standpoint of agriculture, left much to be desired. California crop returns, according to the best information available dt this writing, averaged 27 por cent less than returns of the preceding year, with some major crops the 1937 level. Nationally, cash income from farm products marketed in 1938 (including government payments) reached approximately $7,500,000,000, acrcording to estimates of the United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics. This compares with $8,600,000,000 in 1937 and $7,944,000,000 in 1936. The Bureau’s analysis of reasons for the drop in farm income is significant to the farming industry because it turns the’ spotlight, “once again, on the. inter-dependence of rural America and wurban America. States the report: “The decline in farm income this dropping as low as 46 per cent below . CLAMPTONWLE. Jans? Jom Mnders arrived Sunday from San Francisco on a»brief visit to friends — here. Mrs. William A. Lang and daughter came home from Nevada City Saturday. Miss Dorothy Hays spent the week end at North San Juan © visiting friends. Henry Woods, Jr., arrived a few . days ago from Coalinga and his par_ ents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Woods returned south with him for a short visit. Mrs. Nellie Hinds and family left . Saturday for San Jose to spend two weeks visiting with her father. John Olson of San Francisco arrived Saturday to spend the week end at his mining claims on . Oregon Creek north of this place. . Valley Grill WELCOMES YOU ‘Whenever you are in GRASS VALLEY ‘We specialize in a 50 cent Sunday Dinner Excellent Meals at all times 103 MILL ST., GRASS VALLEY +, % a ce ae i ee ee ee Sc ee ao ee Neeteojerfes + BEST WISHES FOR THE NEW YEAR @ years in which farmers’ cash’ income has increased over the previous year, The smaller income this year is attributed largely to the marked deeline in industrial activity during the past year, and to the lower level of the income of urban consumers which has greatly reduced the demand for farm products.”’ Any attemmt to forecast what the ed out the above number of trees on the forest that they were willing to urchase for market purposes. * son’s headquarters at ‘Nevada City issued 625 free permits to local residents and 150 permits were issued by the caretaker at Tahoe-Ukiah CCC camp. Taking into consideration the permits issued by the respective district rangers. Nelson figures that probably 1000 free permits were issued for a total of 1500 trees. A great many people, it has been found, still experience a great thrill in going after and cutting their own Christseveral times as much as the spurchase of one in the market would. SCIENTISTS FIND SIERRA RANGE BERKELEY, Jan. 2.—The Sierra Nevada range of mountains is slowly falling, for the third.time in geologic history, amd, if the movement continues, it will have disappeared in a few hundred thousand years. The University of California is to show just what is happening, as a feature exhibit in its $200,000 display, Science of Man, at the Golden Gate International Exposition in 1939. The “Ghost Towns” of 49, if they last long enough, will be carried from the foothills to the plain on the slipping rock and soil stratas, foot by foot ‘Then, if the cycle is continued, the mountains will rise again, as slowly as they disappeared, and other towns will appear on them. ‘This phenomenon of mountain range disintegration and elevation at the hands of mighty natural forces, about which man is iearning more’ and more, will be shown in‘a heroic panorama seven feet high by 22 feet long, and will be the center of geology’s display at the Exposition, The panorama will feature a painting of the mountain background, with the foothills and valleys in the foreground. Specifically, there will be shown the wide range of geologic formations in the manner in which these are being affected by the shifting crust of the earth, erosion and voleanic action. A study of the panorama will make it possible to select areas in which there are six different soil types, deposits which were left by the past sinking of the mountains to the level of the plain. The history of these formations and how they came about will be told by legends at the side of the centr&l painting and other legends will round out mas tree even though it costs them . SLOWLY SINKING new year, 1939, will mean to Caii‘fornia agriculture must, in large part, be conditioned on what the lfuture holds for business and indusry. The farming industry, to be sure, is confronted with many problems i which are typically farm problems— , and which must ibe met and solved iby the industry and the individual farmers comprising it. . But overshadowing all such prob. lems within the industry is the probij lem of national recovery. If business :and industry, government and labor . find a better basis for mutual cooperation—if all America finally starts pulling in harness toward a common objective—then it can be safely farecast that both city income and farm income will start climbing back toward normal levels. Rash, indeed, would be the prophet who would predict that 1939, however, will be free from turmoil and recriminations. There is still dissension on many fronts. But it is this writer’s opinion that the last few months, nationally, have been marked by a swing of the pendulum away from extremism and toward a new era of ‘‘live and let live’ policies. Public oponion, in the final analysis, is the greatest power in American life—and public opinion, wherever it has been tested recently, has indicated a growing demand for putting an end to the senseless struggle between government and industry, on one hand, and business and labor on the other. America, if we interpret the national elections during the fall of 1938 correctly, wants to get back to work—and working in, harmony. If government officials, business leaders and labor leaders heed the handwriting on the wall—and start working together to create new wealth instead of fighting over a division of the inadequate national. income now available—the year 1939 will mark the beginning of better times for the farmer and the farm hand, the city employer and the’ city worker —and all America. ,If they fail to do so, 1939 may be a repetition of 1938, only more so, The 1938 slump was a man made slump—and mankind, in 1939, can correct it, if the nation is still capable of profiting in the future from mistakes of the past. Our hope for 1939 is that it will mark a return to. straight thinking, reasonable action and a new measure of mutual trust and confidence. If that is accomplished, it will be the happiest New Year since the dawn of depression. = Miss Frances Davey, “who teaches in the Santa Barbara schools, is spending the Christmas and New parents, Mr, and Mrs. Harry Davey other details. on Prospect Hill. year (1938) follows five successive , NATIONAL HOTEL AND COFFEE SHOP NEVADA CITY CALIFORNIA . . i Se co ae SS le St ee he Se he ie ho ie See he a ee es he ee . . \ . LEONG GROCERY . FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES BEER— —WINE 314 Broad Street Nevada City SAFE AND LOCKSMITH KEYS _ Made While You Wait Bicycles, Steel Tapes, Vacuum Cleaners, Washing Machines, Electric Irons Stoves, Etc. SAWS, AXES, KNIVES, SCISSORS, ETC., SHARPENED Gunsmith, Light Welding RAY’S FIXIT SHOP 220 East Main St., Phone 602 GRASS VALLEY FINE WATCH REPAIRING Radio Service and REPAIRING Work Called for and Delivered Clarence R. Gra New Under New Delicious Mixed Drinks to F Years holiday at the home of her. .