January 29, 1932 (4 pages)

ae Batt : ae ¥ The Nugget Is California’s Leading Mining Weekly evada Cit % ; West Coast The Chinese \route. .“bpumboatmen’” at Port Said added VOLUME VI NUMBER 12 “THE GOLD CENTER THE NEVADA CITY NUGGET, CALIF ORNIA THE COUNTY SEAT PAPER “FRIDAY, JAN. 28, 1932 GORDON HADLEY TELLS OF HIS WORLD TOUR cilities . The following clipping is from a Humboldt County: paper and tells of a long sea voyage of young Gordon: © Hadley,’ son of Mrs. Hildegarde Hadley, the latter’a formér Downieville girl: “Gordon -Hadley, son of,.Mrs. Hildegarde Hadley, of Arcata, returned on Tuesday after several months of traveling about the world on the two Dollar line boats, the President Johnson and the President Monroe. Hadley worked in the engine room during these trips, and expressed himself as satisfied to settle down for a time after’the completion of this last trip. He expects to “enroll at Humboldt State Teachers College} where he will be a welcome addition to. the Green and Gold basketball squad. Hadley’s itching feet caused him to leave. school last spring for another trip to sea. He secured a job on the President Johnson, while’the. . boat was in San Francisco, and then set sail for New York by way of the. Panama Canal. : Returning to the . after touching ‘at Havana he sailed for the Hawaiian! Islands and Yokoma. The ship continued through the Inland Sea): to Kobe, across the Yellow Sea te) Shanghi, and then down to Manila. fh Crossing the China Sea to Hon Kong and then back to Japan cee San Francisco completed what is known as ‘‘the horseshoe trip” to the Orient. The Arcata ‘boy tells tales of his experiences sha men and the unrest in the Far East. One night he went to a Japanese restaurant, Nagasei Joe’s for dinner. interesting with ’rickObtaining a good meal, he decided to return the next evening, but found it completely demolishea. driving the were Japanese out of their cities as rapidly as. they could. Foreigners of othe: nationalitiéS: were also in danger, according to the stories he heard. Gangs of Chinamen preyed upon shopkeepers who were watched ‘when they closed their establishments ,and were relieved of their money. oo Back they sailed across the RG, fic through the Canal once more,' and on to New York, where the boat went into dry dock. Here Hadley had a chance to go on the. néw ship, the President Hoover, but . because of a friend on the President . i brought back ENCOURAGING REPORTS FROM S. F. MINE EXCHANGE The following is an official statement on the Idaho-Maryland Mine i taken from.the San Francisco Mining Exchange of recent date: I dah o-Maryland Mines, Inc., ‘Consolidated was organized laws of Nevada in 1925 with an authorized capitalization of 2,500,000; 500,000 common and preferred shares, both classes of stock with al. ‘par value of $1---and both non-assessabie. Of the preferred. 220,966 shares have been issued. The executive office is located in the Hobart building in San Francisco, with the. transfer agency at the same ad-, dress. The annual meeting is held on the second Wewnesday in March. ‘The company’s — properties, situ-, ated in the Grass Valley section of; the California Mother Lode, consist of the Idaho-Maryland Hill. mines, .comprising 750 acres,' the Morehouse mine of 11 acres and more than 90 per cent stock ownership of the Brunswick-Consolidated Gold Mining Company, comprising . 450 acres. The history of the property dates from the discovery of the EurekaIdaho-Maryland oreshoot in 1860. From 1863 to 1893 this shoot produced approximately in gold. A few years later the mine: was closed on account of litigation. ‘Under the present the new ore management bodies veloped and the into duction. It now leading gold producers of nia. Net production in 1930 after bullion and smelter charges; Was, $234,762. During. .the =. first ten months of 1931, with two mills operating, gross recovery amounted to $57 $.33,.orcat. the tate of $12.77 a ton, while the net operat-! ing profit for this period was $24u 010.33, as compared with a slight loss-in the previous year, The plans are materializinge for a substantial inerease in for 1932, with the installation of a _ball mill which is scheduled to be in operation in a very short vnee The: milling plants with=the flotation scined of ex trace tion which is expected recoveries, According stockholders, 1931, to improve} to the last dated report to December I; under, have been des! mine has been,, profitable pro-. } ranks among the, Califor! production . EMPRESS MINING CO . MAKES GOOD RECORD, At the Ghaiehen: <6 of Commerce rooms in the Elks Building in Ne-. vada City is to be found a piece of’ . gold bearing . quartz jabout150 pounds ,from the ledge in the lower workings of the Empress Mine at New-. town, west of Nevada City. It is a that. was taken FAMOUS MURCHIE MINE IS RICH PRODUCER The’ Murchie’ Mine within four years from:a prospect of doubtful merit, sold by Nevada ducing $80,000 to $100,000 a ;month and earnj a substantial profit whfle paying "ment and extensive beautiful specimen and heavily min=/!work. The 20-stamp mill has been . eralized. The mine is over 400 feet deep ar {present with a station cut at the '400 level. A standard. headframe . erected, electrical hoist equipment with 300 horse power installea, two modern air compressors placed in operation with the result that the Newtown mine now presents one of the. most modern and compact sur-! ‘face plants of the district. tion of ore will be made by duniping . has been ers and from there to a stamp battery and on to a ball mill. Recovery process’ will include flotation cells. The mill was. put into operation last’ Wednesday, it is reported. operating with two shifts and mill-" ing 160 tons' of ore daily and producing 40 tons a week of high-grade concentrate of a minimum valué of $500 a ton it is said. Reopening of the mine after some . 20 years of inactivi was accom-plished by two promoters, J. M. Hoff’ and Vv. v. Price. The property . was transferred to the American ' Foundation Co., and was largely. . Sels, a wealthy agriculturist with gad Binion tle ore directly into the rock-break. extensive land holdings in the delta of the Sacramento river. Van Loben . Sels moved to Nevada City to give his personal attention to the pro-. ject. Success of the project is large-. tly due to. O. McCraney, genefal Manager, who left the Argonaut The. double ranging from 5 to 15 feet in width which is carrying excellent’ gold $18,000, 000 . values. The ore brought up in sink-. : ing operations has been placed on the dump and will be milled. Stoping will start. as soon as the: station is completed on the 400 level. A water supply for the mine has been assured . by a series oftanks which have been built for-storage af water pumped from the workings. The property is composed of 450 acres of —axcellent mineral Mr. Kd erty about six\months Jaeobs opened this. propago and. has rapid. development — of ‘the! that he. mining and, about opening wp the! property in= a most way.mine, . He ‘has: proven ithoroughly understands thas. gone compartment shaft! was sunk 200 feet on a ledge of ore, ground, ; businesslike . Mine to take charge of the Murchie W. A. Kervin, former manager of the Mason Valley Mines Co., {mont ‘subsidiary, manager of the Empire-Star . Ltd.,;. is said ager of the Murchie Mine. left Grass Valley in the fall of 1929 ; to take over the management of the! . South African. Copper Co. ita: Newmont Mines, another ; O'Okiep, (ca. 9: The i closed down sx subsidiary. Namaqualand, So South African. mine veral months a the copper market t Of. the Mu the 1300-foot ley under thé new Mine .machinery is operated by electricity, the develope el. will be e3 panded management. mill by water pow: The.ore at the Murchie Mine con,one of gold and ‘the quartz { i some carries About 30 men: have been employ. galena and chalcopyrite. DeApel : 4 See velopmer : 301 py (ed for some time at the mine ih iis! . nt at the 1200-foot level . . development. ee opened up two ‘ore bodies. ic See alan Ge . Madison © Lodge, BG ALM. of Monroe, he decided to ship on that ' of the company has been paid and, 20unced purchase of an 86 frontage: boat for a round-the-world cruise. ! This friend was William Quigg, of . Bureka, son of Policeman John . Quigg. He is an assistant engineer: ‘on the ship. Quigg arranged for his' transfer to Hadley’s watch, . sufficient profit is being made to retire in .the very near future all preferred stock now Accrued dividends on preferred shares outstanding ‘on Auburn ‘as the site Street, at for the Bank Street,’ new Manvonic! outstanding. . Temple, which has been projected’ made. for the last two years. Three separprior to 1929 ate parcels of land were purchased ; Journal and have been paid and the balance will t0 Set the desired frontage, Mrs. u. . Cypress, helped him to learn the engine room ‘he paid within the next few months, WStarr, C. H. Clinch and Dr. Carl! work. The Dollar boats all travel west,!shares profits will be available for . Grocery Store on the corner of Au-. and so Hadley was off for the Canal by way of Havana. He was! favorably impressed with this tropi-. cal city and enjoyed visiting it, . though trouble with negro guides was not pleasant. Work. was still going on at this time in clearing the large slide that! had moved into Culebra Cut. West~ ward again to Sen Francisco, they followed the-same~ route to the Orient, stopping at Honolulu ens) Whilé-in Hong Kong, the. Hadley boy was impressed again’ with the beauty of the lights of the city of Victoria on Hong Kong Is. land and the panorama which unfolds itself\as the traveler climbs to the Peak. South to Singapore the ship made its way. While there, Hadley made a trip to Jahore on the mainland. The boat curved northward from Singapore to Penang, and then across the Indian Ocean to“Columbo on the Island of Ceylon. The. little Island--of---Minakoi, lying —-atthe southern end of India,. was notea for its beauty. Lights were seen at Aden in Arabia as the boat entered the Red Sea, but it did not stop there. Two days and a fraction found them. at the entrance of the Suez Canal. The heat was terrific in the engine rooms here. But the searchlights on other ships which they met in the eanal, droves of camels, Bedouin eamps and other strange scenes compensated for this discomfort,’ Arguments with world -famea spice to the trip. Here many passengérs left the boat for Cairo to be picked up a few. days later in (Contiuned On: Page Three) * ; : Pee ber.) Sales last With the retirement of the preferred } dividends on the common shares. Idaho-Miaryland, which is listed on the San Francisco Mining Exchange, enjoyed a steady advance in price during 1981. The. low for the year was 30 cents (January) and the high $1.50 (November and DecemSaturday were at $1.42. Persistent rumors’ prevail that various tracts of potentially valuable, mineral ‘ground in the vicinity are _Soon to be trasferred, presumably to th eldaho-Maryland group. They .include Loma. Rica orehard tract, the Mitchell ranch, the Washington claims and others. ey . nn a ELKS INITIATE CLASS AT COLFAX WEDNESDAY A large Ss oe ‘Elks of Nevada City Lodge, No.-518,.\B. P.O. E., traveled over the narrow gauge railroad to-Colfax Wednesday: evening where they, initiated a class of candidates for the Grass Valley Lodge. It was a regular meeting of the Grass Valley Lodge and the initiatory degree was put on by the Nevada City. Lodge. Grass Valley members joined the members on the trip to Colfax. Most of the members at Colfax ‘are members of Grass Valléy “Lodge. They had made extensive, \plans’ for the entertainment of the visitors and a social session was enjoyed ‘after adjournment’ of lodge. . Judge W. L. Mobley has -returned from San Francisco queh improved }, in health. “Py Jones being the seller: A Gitinese: . burn and Bank will be razed, as . will several other smaller buildings. {. At this time plans for the! ‘temple are still incomplete, with, both plans and methods of financing . being indefinite. Si Satire PAST PRESIDENTS OF N D G W NAME OFFICERS Fhe Nevada City-Grasg Association of -Past Presidents of the N. D. G. W. Association No. 6, ‘met Friday night and installed the following officers: Margaret Nolan, President; Richards, Past President; Adele Tredinnick, First Vice ~ President; Beatrice George, Second Vice President; Adeline O’Connor, Third Vice President; Jennie Shearer, Inside Sentinel; Ethel Foote, Outside Sentinel; Beatrice Watters, Marshall; Lenore Steger, Financial Secretary; Edna ~ Sampson, Treasurer; Vera Hansen, Recording Secretary; Aatha. Locklin, Pianist; Annie Conlin, Junior Past President. = A social session was held and delightful refreshments served at the conclusion of. the installation ceremonies. Valley Mary _ ——0_—_. LEGION HALL, GRASS SOON TO BE VALLEY COMPLETED The new Legion Hall in Grass Valley is fast nearing completion and will add much to the looks of the city. It is of concrete and attractive in appearance. eS Clyde Cole of Washington. was a Thesday visitor in Nevada City. \ _calls than nave been eausnea’ MASONIC LODGE, F. & A. uy MANY CALLS COME FOR BUY SITE TO BUILD The Obitsrnia . which is edited Mining Journal by Mrs. Elsie ike all outstanding indebtedness. Grass Valley last Friday night an-. wiltoughby, is aking well with the! mining. fraternity, There were more ' the office could fill of, one issue and reprints had to be ' In Tuesday’s mail .copies of the were sent to the. Isle of Greece; Switzerland; Count de Tristan, Paris. France; Lima, Peru, and Columbia, South America; while several copies: were sent to Ontario, Candas: —_——0-__+. NEV. CITY-GRASS VALLEY SKI COURSE IS POPULAR, has emerged f ., ings and equipped a New-. who was the first; to be slated as man-! : { Kervin . tains about three ounces of silver to. SIERRA MINING SYND. : The Sierra Mining above Quaker Hill men who are running powder drifts that weighs’ County for taxes, into a mine pro-'into a 52 foot bank of earth, gravel; and large boulders that have to be /Shaken up for hydraulicking operafor new equip. tions. They have development blasted it early last week and were: run one drift and loading another drift with 52 cans of black powder and 12 boxes of giant powder, the latter being placed near the opening, and this will ae set off with caps and fuse. The’ . last drift was not as large as the first and was according to reports a Tee. When this blast is set off the company will be ready for hydraulicking. These drifts are cus,tomary in all drifts mines where ‘solid. banks are encountered. The Reduc-. (financed by M. C. C. Van Loben Van Geisen dam is to be used for retaining the debris. At present the snow ranges from!, , about 2% to 3% feet at the prop‘erty and they will have-to wait for! a rain or for warmer weather tothaw the snow. Last season the Sierra Mining Syndicate erected four or five buildthem with mod‘ern furnishings. During the fall they constructed . a ditch to carry water down to the ‘works for ly,draulicking. A telephone line wiil soon be run into the property. About 12 men are employed at eae property at the present time. Mr. Dean. Hayes’ is president of the company and Mr. William: Deegan is superintendent. Shu ie mine on Methodist Episcopal. Church under the direction of Miss Minnie Brand, ine Celio, and Mr. Marman. The program will Mrs. Cathet shell Geis include numbers from: out of town and iocal talent. i) ‘NEWS OF INTEREST ~ CALIF, MINING JOURNAL FROM SIERRA CITY : 'Slecta City, Calif. (Special to The , Nugget)——F.-M. Doak of Ruther_ford and Messrs. Prescott and Isgig of Los Angeles spent several days at the Young America Mine last ; week. Mr. Isgig will return soon to make preparations for operating = mine. Jos. W. Thomas and his: do team accompanied the men out ea the mine. Henry G. Hubbard and Elmer N. Honn of Los Angeles arrived ‘at the Bigelow Mine on the 25th. During the cold weather everyone enjoyed the sleigh track between the’\Phoenix Mine and town. ONE MINER KILLED: Last Sunday was an ideal day for snow sports at the Nevada City-j Grass Valley Ski Club course nine miles above Nevada City on the Tahoe Ukiah highway. was present from Nevada City, valley sections and as far away Ae the bay region, for one of the best days of the séason. President Leiter plans the snow scraped off the and -parking ‘space at the course next Sunday as it required chains for most cars to reach the course, Captain Joe Blake, and Officers W. C. Fouyer and George Hammill . &Aept traffic moving and supervised parking of machines along the eh way. With more.-snow falling this week it looks as if there will be many more days of snow sports before the season ends. eters OR » NID FLUME DAMAGED BY SNOW to have highway A repair crew of men sent out from N. I. D. -headquarters have been engaged for several days Mac! pairing breaks in»the 15 mile flume}! connecting Bowman Dam with Lake}, Spaulding, caused by snow slides, is reported.as making favorable progress. Snow in the. Lake Bowman district is about 8 feet deep. Snow A large crowd . i the others, and one so seriously that he, merce’ ,headed by Dean Probert of TWO OTHERS INJUR SERso tear A “hung blast’? ox missed hole in ‘the Golden Center killed one victim. and injured two may die. He lost one eye ahd may Nose the other, and a large ‘piece of rock went thru his side and punctured his lung. Herbert. Finch drilled into an old charge of powder shortly after 10 o’clock Thursday morning in the Golden Center mine, under the heart of the Grass Valley business district. A blinding road resulted. Finch was killed instantly. Lyle Folck, a companion was badly cut }and torn and William Griggs, the third man of the party, was less! seriously hurt. . . The two injured men were taken [to the Jones Memorial Hospital. The mine is operated by Cooley Butler interests and is one of the' best known in the district. The explosion occurred in the old workings and miners say that the “hung” blast may have been there! for 25 years or more. Finch is a. newcomer _in Grass Valley. : 0 Supervisor Dick Eddy . sent his road crew to the Quaker Hill dist. last week to open shoes are the only means of travel above Graniteville ‘So deep is” the Mining Synd. “trucks * whieh aa oyrain: of the . ; Stalled in the snow. énow, x bring out “the P,G. &E and Sierra) READY TO HYDRAULIC) arasitete. has.a crew of} METHODIST ¢ URC GIVES CALE fi ei Mine Thursday . the road and MUCH OF INTEREST AT LOCAL C. OF of our local people a overlooking a chance of seeing worthwhile objects in the Ch lof Commerce rooms at Nevada As you enter the room you attracted’ by an oddhandca ‘cabinet made by Post Master $ iden’s father many years ago. It con ltains specimens of ore, old coins and mementoes. ; In a ease in the center of the ! room are to be found a sp:endid col‘lection. of nuts grown in Nevada County. To. the left a” case on the wall contains specimens,of ore and one shelf of especially fine fossils © of oysters, clams, petrified wood and jthe petrified vertebrae of some sea animal, all coming from the Steep Hollow district, in eastern Nevada County! This, shows that this section was once a part of the ocean. Zh In the next case are beautiful —— 1sea shells, many. fine ore specimens, es ‘and beautiful pieces of petrified , Wood, besides a number of reties of. ‘early timers that are of interest to all. In the back of the building are several helmets and gas attachments, besides several old fire arms. The date Judge Walling presented Ps C. of C. with an old army gun with bayonet attached -used in the early Spanish and American Wars, The re are also'a sawed off shot gun . used by messengers and several muzzle loading guns. In the samecase there was an old hammer used by the famous Emma ‘Nevada, who ‘was born at Omega, Eastern Nevada County:—There was\also, a much worn snow. shoe for’ a { Many horse; Mr. Woodman opened a drawer wed the writer a fluting mae ching which ladies ruffles long agu. pakt of a from Chammade nd candle, moulds of: the In another. case was mastadon’s nmrolat brought. Alaska and presented to the ber of Commerce by Myr. Hothersall. George Hanging in the back o€ il lock of 1856 that must wea . néarly a pound x nd a rusty old hand made mill-key om-Suiter’s mill. There , olf the oddest looking ‘worn by ‘the. late City Marshal Spethen Vanard, who went out and single handed killed three obbers in Miner's Ravine west of ig City. . These are only a part of the ex‘hibit and Mr. Griffiths, the secretary. of the Chamber of GoOmmerce, — ‘or Mr. Woodman are always most courteous in showing these interesting objects to an Dy > NEW MOVEMENT Bi BEGUN TO ‘AD CALIF MINE INDUSTRY _ California civic and official agencies have begun a movement to ‘eliminate shackles' which are re‘tarding the state’s mining industry. Under the initiative of the state chamber of commerce and Walter iW. Bradley, state mineralogist, for-— ‘mulation of a standard code of mine : Safety practices is under way and it is confidently expected the mining ;industry will adopt the regulations. : The mineral committee of the California State Chamber of Com-s — the case are an old ja , tyial Gane ty . 2180 is a pair “spectacles — the University of.California, College of Mines, feels assured that once a standard code is in operation, there will result a material reduction in compensation rates, the principal _ factor which so long and in manifold ways has hampered mineral development. At its recent annual meeting held in Los Angeles the state chamber of commerce adopted the committee’s proposal that immediate efforts be made to reduce -the basic -rate of miner’s compensation: insurance, now stated by Mr. Bradley to be $10.54 per $100 of payroll in Cali-+ fornia, an amount greatly in excess of that prevailing in other states. : The mining’ committee has found . that despite the present handic D more than 100 .mining pro j have been opened or newly de ed during the present year, these tivities involving an expendi approximately $10,000,000 ar ing employment to more than 7. men. sae ere . / Mr. Bradley is authority statement that thehighest. sation “insurance rat states range from $5 to $7

ae Batt : ae ¥ The Nugget Is California’s Leading Mining Weekly evada Cit % ; West Coast The Chinese \route. .“bpumboatmen’” at Port Said added VOLUME VI NUMBER 12 “THE GOLD CENTER THE NEVADA CITY NUGGET, CALIF ORNIA THE COUNTY SEAT PAPER “FRIDAY, JAN. 28, 1932 GORDON HADLEY TELLS OF HIS WORLD TOUR cilities . The following clipping is from a Humboldt County: paper and tells of a long sea voyage of young Gordon: © Hadley,’ son of Mrs. Hildegarde Hadley, the latter’a formér Downieville girl: “Gordon -Hadley, son of,.Mrs. Hildegarde Hadley, of Arcata, returned on Tuesday after several months of traveling about the world on the two Dollar line boats, the President Johnson and the President Monroe. Hadley worked in the engine room during these trips, and expressed himself as satisfied to settle down for a time after’the completion of this last trip. He expects to “enroll at Humboldt State Teachers College} where he will be a welcome addition to. the Green and Gold basketball squad. Hadley’s itching feet caused him to leave. school last spring for another trip to sea. He secured a job on the President Johnson, while’the. . boat was in San Francisco, and then set sail for New York by way of the. Panama Canal. : Returning to the . after touching ‘at Havana he sailed for the Hawaiian! Islands and Yokoma. The ship continued through the Inland Sea): to Kobe, across the Yellow Sea te) Shanghi, and then down to Manila. fh Crossing the China Sea to Hon Kong and then back to Japan cee San Francisco completed what is known as ‘‘the horseshoe trip” to the Orient. The Arcata ‘boy tells tales of his experiences sha men and the unrest in the Far East. One night he went to a Japanese restaurant, Nagasei Joe’s for dinner. interesting with ’rickObtaining a good meal, he decided to return the next evening, but found it completely demolishea. driving the were Japanese out of their cities as rapidly as. they could. Foreigners of othe: nationalitiéS: were also in danger, according to the stories he heard. Gangs of Chinamen preyed upon shopkeepers who were watched ‘when they closed their establishments ,and were relieved of their money. oo Back they sailed across the RG, fic through the Canal once more,' and on to New York, where the boat went into dry dock. Here Hadley had a chance to go on the. néw ship, the President Hoover, but . because of a friend on the President . i brought back ENCOURAGING REPORTS FROM S. F. MINE EXCHANGE The following is an official statement on the Idaho-Maryland Mine i taken from.the San Francisco Mining Exchange of recent date: I dah o-Maryland Mines, Inc., ‘Consolidated was organized laws of Nevada in 1925 with an authorized capitalization of 2,500,000; 500,000 common and preferred shares, both classes of stock with al. ‘par value of $1---and both non-assessabie. Of the preferred. 220,966 shares have been issued. The executive office is located in the Hobart building in San Francisco, with the. transfer agency at the same ad-, dress. The annual meeting is held on the second Wewnesday in March. ‘The company’s — properties, situ-, ated in the Grass Valley section of; the California Mother Lode, consist of the Idaho-Maryland Hill. mines, .comprising 750 acres,' the Morehouse mine of 11 acres and more than 90 per cent stock ownership of the Brunswick-Consolidated Gold Mining Company, comprising . 450 acres. The history of the property dates from the discovery of the EurekaIdaho-Maryland oreshoot in 1860. From 1863 to 1893 this shoot produced approximately in gold. A few years later the mine: was closed on account of litigation. ‘Under the present the new ore management bodies veloped and the into duction. It now leading gold producers of nia. Net production in 1930 after bullion and smelter charges; Was, $234,762. During. .the =. first ten months of 1931, with two mills operating, gross recovery amounted to $57 $.33,.orcat. the tate of $12.77 a ton, while the net operat-! ing profit for this period was $24u 010.33, as compared with a slight loss-in the previous year, The plans are materializinge for a substantial inerease in for 1932, with the installation of a _ball mill which is scheduled to be in operation in a very short vnee The: milling plants with=the flotation scined of ex trace tion which is expected recoveries, According stockholders, 1931, to improve} to the last dated report to December I; under, have been des! mine has been,, profitable pro-. } ranks among the, Califor! production . EMPRESS MINING CO . MAKES GOOD RECORD, At the Ghaiehen: <6 of Commerce rooms in the Elks Building in Ne-. vada City is to be found a piece of’ . gold bearing . quartz jabout150 pounds ,from the ledge in the lower workings of the Empress Mine at New-. town, west of Nevada City. It is a that. was taken FAMOUS MURCHIE MINE IS RICH PRODUCER The’ Murchie’ Mine within four years from:a prospect of doubtful merit, sold by Nevada ducing $80,000 to $100,000 a ;month and earnj a substantial profit whfle paying "ment and extensive beautiful specimen and heavily min=/!work. The 20-stamp mill has been . eralized. The mine is over 400 feet deep ar {present with a station cut at the '400 level. A standard. headframe . erected, electrical hoist equipment with 300 horse power installea, two modern air compressors placed in operation with the result that the Newtown mine now presents one of the. most modern and compact sur-! ‘face plants of the district. tion of ore will be made by duniping . has been ers and from there to a stamp battery and on to a ball mill. Recovery process’ will include flotation cells. The mill was. put into operation last’ Wednesday, it is reported. operating with two shifts and mill-" ing 160 tons' of ore daily and producing 40 tons a week of high-grade concentrate of a minimum valué of $500 a ton it is said. Reopening of the mine after some . 20 years of inactivi was accom-plished by two promoters, J. M. Hoff’ and Vv. v. Price. The property . was transferred to the American ' Foundation Co., and was largely. . Sels, a wealthy agriculturist with gad Binion tle ore directly into the rock-break. extensive land holdings in the delta of the Sacramento river. Van Loben . Sels moved to Nevada City to give his personal attention to the pro-. ject. Success of the project is large-. tly due to. O. McCraney, genefal Manager, who left the Argonaut The. double ranging from 5 to 15 feet in width which is carrying excellent’ gold $18,000, 000 . values. The ore brought up in sink-. : ing operations has been placed on the dump and will be milled. Stoping will start. as soon as the: station is completed on the 400 level. A water supply for the mine has been assured . by a series oftanks which have been built for-storage af water pumped from the workings. The property is composed of 450 acres of —axcellent mineral Mr. Kd erty about six\months Jaeobs opened this. propago and. has rapid.. development — of ‘the! that he. mining and, about opening wp the! property in= a most way.mine, . He ‘has: proven ithoroughly understands thas. gone compartment shaft! was sunk 200 feet on a ledge of ore, ground, ; businesslike . Mine to take charge of the Murchie W. A. Kervin, former manager of the Mason Valley Mines Co., {mont ‘subsidiary, manager of the Empire-Star . Ltd.,;. is said ager of the Murchie Mine. left Grass Valley in the fall of 1929 ; to take over the management of the! . South African. Copper Co. ita: Newmont Mines, another ; O'Okiep, (ca. 9: The i closed down sx subsidiary. Namaqualand, So South African. mine veral months a the copper market t Of. the Mu the 1300-foot ley under thé new Mine .machinery is operated by electricity, the develope el. will be e3 panded management. mill by water pow: The.ore at the Murchie Mine con,one of gold and ‘the quartz { i some carries About 30 men: have been employ. galena and chalcopyrite. DeApel : 4 See velopmer : 301 py (ed for some time at the mine ih iis! . nt at the 1200-foot level . . development. ee opened up two ‘ore bodies. ic See alan Ge . Madison © Lodge, BG ALM.. of Monroe, he decided to ship on that ' of the company has been paid and, 20unced purchase of an 86 frontage: boat for a round-the-world cruise. ! This friend was William Quigg, of . Bureka, son of Policeman John . Quigg. He is an assistant engineer: ‘on the ship. Quigg arranged for his' transfer to Hadley’s watch, . sufficient profit is being made to retire in .the very near future all preferred stock now Accrued dividends on preferred shares outstanding ‘on Auburn ‘as the site Street, at for the Bank Street,’ new Manvonic! outstanding. . Temple, which has been projected’ made. for the last two years. Three separprior to 1929 ate parcels of land were purchased ; Journal and have been paid and the balance will t0 Set the desired frontage, Mrs. u. . Cypress, helped him to learn the engine room ‘he paid within the next few months, WStarr, C. H. Clinch and Dr. Carl! work. The Dollar boats all travel west,!shares profits will be available for . Grocery Store on the corner of Au-. and so Hadley was off for the Canal by way of Havana. He was! favorably impressed with this tropi-. cal city and enjoyed visiting it, . though trouble with negro guides was not pleasant. Work. was still going on at this time in clearing the large slide that! had moved into Culebra Cut. West~ ward again to Sen Francisco, they followed the-same~ route to the Orient, stopping at Honolulu ens) Whilé-in Hong Kong, the. Hadley boy was impressed again’ with the beauty of the lights of the city of Victoria on Hong Kong Is. land and the panorama which unfolds itself\as the traveler climbs to the Peak. South to Singapore the ship made its way. While there, Hadley made a trip to Jahore on the mainland. The boat curved northward from Singapore to Penang, and then across the Indian Ocean to“Columbo on the Island of Ceylon. The. little Island--of---Minakoi, lying —-atthe southern end of India,. was notea for its beauty. Lights were seen at Aden in Arabia as the boat entered the Red Sea, but it did not stop there. Two days and a fraction found them. at the entrance of the Suez Canal. The heat was terrific in the engine rooms here. But the searchlights on other ships which they met in the eanal, droves of camels, Bedouin eamps and other strange scenes compensated for this discomfort,’ Arguments with world -famea spice to the trip. Here many passengérs left the boat for Cairo to be picked up a few. days later in (Contiuned On: Page Three) * ; : Pee ber.) Sales last With the retirement of the preferred } dividends on the common shares. Idaho-Miaryland, which is listed on the San Francisco Mining Exchange, enjoyed a steady advance in price during 1981. The. low for the year was 30 cents (January) and the high $1.50 (November and DecemSaturday were at $1.42. Persistent rumors’ prevail that various tracts of potentially valuable, mineral ‘ground in the vicinity are _Soon to be trasferred, presumably to th eldaho-Maryland group. They .include Loma. Rica orehard tract, the Mitchell ranch, the Washington claims and others. ey . nn a ELKS INITIATE CLASS AT COLFAX WEDNESDAY

A large Ss oe ‘Elks of Nevada City Lodge, No.-518,.\B. P.O. E., traveled over the narrow gauge railroad to-Colfax Wednesday: evening where they, initiated a class of candidates for the Grass Valley Lodge. It was a regular meeting of the Grass Valley Lodge and the initiatory degree was put on by the Nevada City. Lodge. Grass Valley members joined the members on the trip to Colfax. Most of the members at Colfax ‘are members of Grass Valléy “Lodge. They had made extensive, \plans’ for the entertainment of the visitors and a social session was enjoyed ‘after adjournment’ of lodge. . Judge W. L. Mobley has -returned from San Francisco queh improved }, in health. “Py Jones being the seller: A Gitinese: . burn and Bank will be razed, as . will several other smaller buildings. {. At this time plans for the! ‘temple are still incomplete, with, both plans and methods of financing . being indefinite. Si Satire PAST PRESIDENTS OF N D G W NAME OFFICERS Fhe Nevada City-Grasg Association of -Past Presidents of the N. D. G. W. Association No. 6, ‘met Friday night and installed the following officers: Margaret Nolan, President; Richards, Past President; Adele Tredinnick, First Vice ~ President; Beatrice George, Second Vice President; Adeline O’Connor, Third Vice President; Jennie Shearer, Inside Sentinel; Ethel Foote, Outside Sentinel; Beatrice Watters, Marshall; Lenore Steger, Financial Secretary; Edna ~ Sampson, Treasurer; Vera Hansen, Recording Secretary; Aatha. Locklin, Pianist; Annie Conlin, Junior Past President. = A social session was held and delightful refreshments served at the conclusion of. the installation ceremonies. Valley Mary _ ——0_—_. LEGION HALL, GRASS SOON TO BE VALLEY COMPLETED The new Legion Hall in Grass Valley is fast nearing completion and will add much to the looks of the city. It is of concrete and attractive in appearance. eS Clyde Cole of Washington. was a Thesday visitor in Nevada City. \ _calls than nave been eausnea’ MASONIC LODGE, F. & A. uy MANY CALLS COME FOR BUY SITE TO BUILD The Obitsrnia . which is edited Mining Journal by Mrs. Elsie ike all outstanding indebtedness. Grass Valley last Friday night an-. wiltoughby, is aking well with the! mining. fraternity, There were more ' the office could fill of, one issue and reprints had to be ' In Tuesday’s mail .copies of the were sent to the. Isle of Greece; Switzerland; Count de Tristan, Paris. France; Lima, Peru, and Columbia, South America; while several copies: were sent to Ontario, Candas: —_——0-__+. NEV. CITY-GRASS VALLEY SKI COURSE IS POPULAR, has emerged f ., ings and equipped a New-. who was the first; to be slated as man-! : { Kervin . tains about three ounces of silver to. SIERRA MINING SYND. : The Sierra Mining above Quaker Hill men who are running powder drifts that weighs’ County for taxes, into a mine pro-'into a 52 foot bank of earth, gravel; and large boulders that have to be /Shaken up for hydraulicking operafor new equip. tions. They have development blasted it early last week and were: run one drift and loading another drift with 52 cans of black powder and 12 boxes of giant powder, the latter being placed near the opening, and this will ae set off with caps and fuse. The’ . last drift was not as large as the first and was according to reports a Tee. When this blast is set off the company will be ready for hydraulicking. These drifts are cus,tomary in all drifts mines where ‘solid. banks are encountered. The Reduc-. (financed by M. C. C. Van Loben Van Geisen dam is to be used for retaining the debris. At present the snow ranges from!, , about 2% to 3% feet at the prop‘erty and they will have-to wait for! a rain or for warmer weather tothaw the snow. Last season the Sierra Mining Syndicate erected four or five buildthem with mod‘ern furnishings. During the fall they constructed . a ditch to carry water down to the ‘works for ly,draulicking. A telephone line wiil soon be run into the property. About 12 men are employed at eae property at the present time. Mr. Dean. Hayes’ is president of the company and Mr. William: Deegan is superintendent. Shu ie mine on Methodist Episcopal. Church under the direction of Miss Minnie Brand, ine Celio, and Mr. Marman. The program will Mrs. Cathet shell Geis include numbers from: out of town and iocal talent. i) ‘NEWS OF INTEREST ~ CALIF, MINING JOURNAL FROM SIERRA CITY : 'Slecta City, Calif. (Special to The , Nugget)——F.-M. Doak of Ruther_ford and Messrs. Prescott and Isgig of Los Angeles spent several days at the Young America Mine last ; week. Mr. Isgig will return soon to make preparations for operating = mine. Jos. W. Thomas and his: do team accompanied the men out ea the mine. Henry G. Hubbard and Elmer N. Honn of Los Angeles arrived ‘at the Bigelow Mine on the 25th. During the cold weather everyone enjoyed the sleigh track between the’\Phoenix Mine and town. ONE MINER KILLED: Last Sunday was an ideal day for snow sports at the Nevada City-j Grass Valley Ski Club course nine miles above Nevada City on the Tahoe Ukiah highway. was present from Nevada City, valley sections and as far away Ae the bay region, for one of the best days of the séason. President Leiter plans the snow scraped off the and -parking ‘space at the course next Sunday as it required chains for most cars to reach the course, Captain Joe Blake, and Officers W. C. Fouyer and George Hammill . &Aept traffic moving and supervised parking of machines along the eh way. With more.-snow falling this week it looks as if there will be many more days of snow sports before the season ends. eters OR » NID FLUME DAMAGED BY SNOW to have highway A repair crew of men sent out from N. I. D. -headquarters have been engaged for several days Mac! pairing breaks in»the 15 mile flume}! connecting Bowman Dam with Lake}, Spaulding, caused by snow slides, is reported.as making favorable progress. Snow in the. Lake Bowman district is about 8 feet deep. Snow A large crowd . i the others, and one so seriously that he, merce’ ,headed by Dean Probert of TWO OTHERS INJUR SERso tear A “hung blast’? ox missed hole in ‘the Golden Center killed one victim. and injured two may die. He lost one eye ahd may Nose the other, and a large ‘piece of rock went thru his side and punctured his lung. Herbert. Finch drilled into an old charge of powder shortly after 10 o’clock Thursday morning in the Golden Center mine, under the heart of the Grass Valley business district. A blinding road resulted. Finch was killed instantly. Lyle Folck, a companion was badly cut }and torn and William Griggs, the third man of the party, was less! seriously hurt. . . The two injured men were taken [to the Jones Memorial Hospital. The mine is operated by Cooley Butler interests and is one of the' best known in the district. The explosion occurred in the old workings and miners say that the “hung” blast may have been there! for 25 years or more. Finch is a. newcomer _in Grass Valley. : 0 Supervisor Dick Eddy . sent his road crew to the Quaker Hill dist. last week to open shoes are the only means of travel above Graniteville ‘So deep is” the Mining Synd. “trucks * whieh aa oyrain: of the . ; Stalled in the snow. énow, x bring out “the P,G. &E and Sierra) READY TO HYDRAULIC) arasitete. has.a crew of} METHODIST ¢ URC GIVES CALE fi ei Mine Thursday . the road and MUCH OF INTEREST AT LOCAL C. OF of our local people a overlooking a chance of seeing worthwhile objects in the Ch lof Commerce rooms at Nevada As you enter the room you attracted’ by an oddhandca ‘cabinet made by Post Master $ iden’s father many years ago. It con ltains specimens of ore, old coins and mementoes. ; In a ease in the center of the ! room are to be found a sp:endid col‘lection. of nuts grown in Nevada County. To. the left a” case on the wall contains specimens,of ore and one shelf of especially fine fossils © of oysters, clams, petrified wood and jthe petrified vertebrae of some sea animal, all coming from the Steep Hollow district, in eastern Nevada County! This, shows that this section was once a part of the ocean. Zh In the next case are beautiful —— 1sea shells, many. fine ore specimens, es ‘and beautiful pieces of petrified , Wood, besides a number of reties of. ‘early timers that are of interest to all. In the back of the building are several helmets and gas attachments, besides several old fire arms. The date Judge Walling presented Ps C. of C. with an old army gun with bayonet attached -used in the early Spanish and American Wars, The re are also'a sawed off shot gun . used by messengers and several muzzle loading guns. In the samecase there was an old hammer used by the famous Emma ‘Nevada, who ‘was born at Omega, Eastern Nevada County:—There was\also, a much worn snow. shoe for’ a { Many horse; Mr. Woodman opened a drawer wed the writer a fluting mae ching which ladies ruffles long agu. pakt of a from Chammade nd candle, moulds of: the In another. case was mastadon’s nmrolat brought. Alaska and presented to the ber of Commerce by Myr. Hothersall. George Hanging in the back o€ il lock of 1856 that must wea . néarly a pound x nd a rusty old hand made mill-key om-Suiter’s mill. There , olf the oddest looking ‘worn by ‘the. late City Marshal Spethen Vanard, who went out and single handed killed three obbers in Miner's Ravine west of ig City. . These are only a part of the ex‘hibit and Mr. Griffiths, the secretary. of the Chamber of GoOmmerce, — ‘or Mr. Woodman are always most courteous in showing these interesting objects to an Dy > NEW MOVEMENT Bi BEGUN TO ‘AD CALIF MINE INDUSTRY _ California civic and official agencies have begun a movement to ‘eliminate shackles' which are re‘tarding the state’s mining industry. Under the initiative of the state chamber of commerce and Walter iW. Bradley, state mineralogist, for-— ‘mulation of a standard code of mine : Safety practices is under way and it is confidently expected the mining ;industry will adopt the regulations. : The mineral committee of the California State Chamber of Com-s — the case are an old ja , tyial Gane ty . 2180 is a pair “spectacles — the University of.California, College of Mines, feels assured that once a standard code is in operation, there will result a material reduction in compensation rates, the principal _ factor which so long and in manifold ways has hampered mineral development. At its recent annual meeting held in Los Angeles the state chamber of commerce adopted the committee’s proposal that immediate efforts be made to reduce -the basic -rate of miner’s compensation: insurance, now stated by Mr. Bradley to be $10.54 per $100 of payroll in Cali-+ fornia, an amount greatly in excess of that prevailing in other states. : The mining’ committee has found . that despite the present handic D more than 100 .mining pro j have been opened or newly de ed during the present year, these tivities involving an expendi approximately $10,000,000 ar ing employment to more than 7. men. sae ere . / Mr. Bradley is authority statement that thehighest. sation “insurance rat states range from $5 to $7