January 6, 1932 (6 pages)

@ = men have alf pased on and informa-'the Salathie} ‘flow tunnel driven: to tap the vein at gay much ey 2 cme ot of % @ 2 evada Cit The Nugget Is California’s Leading Mining 9 Weekly x 4 ugg oe ms 3 a « VOLUME VI NUMBER 9 THE GOLD CENTER THE NEVADA CITY NUGGET. CALIFORNIA.‘ TH E COUNTY SEAT PAPER FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1952 2 Eastern Nevada County Unknown Mining properties situate in the personally 6éperate? Washington Mining district, Townproperty” known —as.the Gold Buy,!their caterpillar to haul the supplies ship 17, R11.E,.“MDM., Nevadn my plan of attack County, State of California, and ten miles north of _Emigrant Gap _ station of the Southern Pacific Railroad. A better approach to the properties, is by way 6% Nevada City, thence over the Harmony. ridge highway to Bear Valley, before pro; ceeding into the valley, a road will be observed turning -to the north, this road extends to the Salathiel and surrounding properties and is in good shape, the Forest Servece having recently rebuilt the road to this point. Situated on the south fork of the Yuba River, and twelve hundred feet below from where the road terMinates, is the Eagle Bird Mine, from which a million and a half of dollars were taken during the hey days of gold mining, the property is now being operated by Arizona interests from whom much can be expected in the development and future production from ore reserves unexplored. the tunnel from ed from the great ‘break river slope,” which~is tend many feet back into the mou natural -position, engaged in the operations ditions before jum piing recoverable, and very. often ;. ¢ial mines. Owing to the close relationship of the above property to the Salathiel, and the close observations I had reason to make of their respective positions, nothing 1s more convincing through the development of were kept from this th acta Bird ti dence formulative to a good opinion g r asa rospective pee g mead irae : HEOE, : of the probabilities, and as a gold value to ore reserves associated with the Salathiel vein, From the apex of the Salathiel to the collar of the Eagle Bird shaft, features. is twelve hundred feet vertical : Association of Calif., met in Nevada . Sixteen-to-One-Tightner, and Yellow their owners, tenit aa tle ty a ~fftato.drasoohacl jusiqnsw (bri by one of the heaviest srow storms City ; coe : Ce haw Reanitiay th Whe ae ik a Proto visit the Sierra Nevada Mountains Bobnita ry eer apa SivhineiA cen the bottom of the Eagle Bird shaft; nounced feature to this project and in several decades The Summit was” a Ok Se _ TUOLUMNE APPRECIATES MINING ADVERTISING 7 is approximately eight hundred feet, by continuing the tunnel sO econoa att am ne b nearly complete for early operation , : j two thousand’ feet from the plateau ically situated a speedy accounta ey ae of Nevada City-Grass Valley Nar-! ᐀ : : : 2 division. of highway crews working * The following article is copied in above. From the river level up is ing to the merits of the PEOROEY ae ay, teat ancw eh ; , TOW Gauge Railroad. : e latest snow ploy eqnipmen practically virgin ground, owing to Would soon be determined. Calling P habits plain faults and those in eharge not having familiarided themselves with the conditions and geological surroundings no exploration of the foot wall country from development of the lower regions is in-evidence,and why ownership to the Saiathiel neglected so important matters pertaining to the further development of the property remains a problem untold. During my residence in the vicinately, the World War ity of these mines tances of many of miners and mill men who were well I took my leave. versed in the operations an? extrace. During the year 1924, tion in gold values from the cifferent mines of the vicinity, and in this way treated ten ton. This was. picked stone, ing visible, ‘was—picture—rock, ing place, I abandoned tion from these sources though teresting and of impoitance-to the the claims \an. prospective.negotiatiOis to “further many years ago, operations leaves culative it more of a spetion, and on closer understanding owing to What it_had ben driven for, ed. However, the following informathe level tion was given me by the man who Vein, with ran the mill while was in operation and from plated as pound, r from encountering a-three foot an average assay of eight fifty years ore extracted, high ago Vein another twenty feet, here I enmany tons countered high grade running into as fifty cents a the thousands of dollars per ton, gardless of the above facts, 48ain I was confornted with litigamy own observations -and tion and other problems of a dissampling of the vein while the works tasteful nature, and Tetired to other Were accessable, I am convinced ‘a! (Continued Next Week.) shoot of ore exists not less than five hundred feet in length, and will run in value exceeding that of any of the properties of the vicinity producE VEN T OF SEASON ing their millions. The original work belonging to! + the property consists of a long shal-' ot . Seinen ee MASQUE BALL WAS Redmen’s Hall was thronged with maskuers and’ spectators on a depth of approximately sixty feet New Years Eve when the Firemen below the out crop and just how gave their masquer ball: ore was taken from _ these Just preceding the dance the auworks is not recorded, but from the’ dience ‘enjoyed several musical information’ given me by the mill selections by Mrs. Charles Bliioit, operator, of. the five stamps, five the Misses Hansen and _ the Cartosets of shoes and,dies were replaced. celli boys. Marshall Giselman acin the operations, the owners were companied Mrs. Elliott and the apparently a lot of sea captains and Misses Hansen on the piano. farmer8 on a vacation, and instead . Lloyd Penrose and assistants are of the pack train, then in use, bringto be given praise for their artistic ing supplies, it was loaded down work of decorating the hall in ferns with good old Scotch whiskey, which and greenery. #8 conclusive evidence, that hte. mine is from the Salathiel series, the work ig lo=} cated on the south slope ‘of the rivnorth east of er. canon, and three hundred feet be. prises 1400 . low the apex to the vein, in driving about 7000 feet 1 this point of vanbe worked. At this time the mine is . tage a very faulty condition was encountered, a natural sequence owing to the dip of the lode being replacfeet further. of the! river plane and Weaving only frag-! ment o fthe systems on down the mainly the raeson why, more exhaustive plans of attack were not indulged in, results of the fractured zone, will extain before the vein will take up its therefore, « those to conclusions, such costly mistakes are not lead to the abandonment of what would otherwise ‘hace developed commerAlthough no record of the returns property the —U legends in the richness of the ore, 0) SU 0 and my personal contact’ with the reD NNER MMIT N W sults of my work’is convincing eviproducer I feel ‘safe in saying, that no better opportunity exists where costs and returns are the essential attention to the results of ore taken from. this tunnel, I built an arrastra gold be? and considerable of it Owing to ohter negotiations takthe work for what apparently appeared, would : ultimately develop: the property on a much bigger scale, but unfortunwas by this quainti in full swing, d Id mining ~ ' cons curren oe ca flotitia NUMONT TAKES OVER + t was in.’ MURCHIE JANUARY FIRST duced to go back, and in. go doing, these I took up extentions to the south of; following along the in-Strike of the same series, One one of old -.tunnel.drives vorder’s offiée of a deed from the attracted my attenobservatoins of I was inthe work having caved from which duced to reopen the tunnel, with the convincing data is generally obtainresult of openin3~the ground above the Salathiel dollars perton, I then rasied on the ALTA VIEW MINE VIEW NV CRONOLOGY OF . PREPARES TO WORK . . The Alta View Mine has been ae-. JULY ‘layed in operating to any great: ex: ; 'Giimore This mine is situated six miles , » Camptonville and’ ¢oni-' acres in all. There are ae : River. of virgin gravel io. ; K ‘vada City reopening. being worked by drifting, They are 2: . Es in 2800 feet and expect to go 4000 2 is intersting. 1 ‘There are about 4000 feet epee B. Douglass, tracks in the different tunnels. The , qompany' has devently comstructed . a new-300 car capacity gravel bin, and 300 feet of flumes. They expect to handle from 80 to 100 cars of qa City do much dama gravel daily. The gravel that is. : : : — Coan Mine prope taken from the drifts 1s Washed and reopen. the gold taken at the end of. the flume in the sluice boxes. . ter operations. 1d Se In the early days parts of these . properties were hydraulicked. ‘ . There are 6 or.7 at present and tion it AUGUST (Aug. 7—Heart men employed John Curnow. when in full opera-} —Utah mining men is expected men will be employed; . —Mines, resorts, Dr. Clyde Wayland of San Jose featured at State Fair. is owner of the property. é —California Mining . ©. N. Chatfield of Pike’ City is im& over big. superintendent. ; i sravel. —Granite marker in honor of President —Old Alcalde Mine, -—Mrs. Maria Fergu : ‘100. years old, passed a The Donner Summit on ‘the Au-! — burn-Truckee highway was reopened for traffic Wednesday, January ¢th. It has been closed more than a week ed by Beagle. at below zero temperatures. People going to the summit for Scenery will be disappointed as traffie has to pass thru a virtual snow' tunnel, with banks of snow 15-feet ~ high’ on each side. This prevents a view of scenery. —Newmont aide Part of the road is only a one’ ment Company. way road and trucks or large cars! wider than 75 inches cannot g6 over’ the pass till the road is widened. birthplace. City. eee er men. ‘ ] ? ——— 1 chie Mine was made last Thursday . afternoon in the filing _ in_the re—Ball Maryland _Mjref American Foundation Co. and M~C. C. Van Loben Sels and wife to the Star Mines Co., Ltd. The Property conveyed consists Center of the Murchie Mines, with minera] Valley, shaft rebuilt. rights of the Long property on the north side of the Red Dog nitneral rights of the Kistle home-stead; “the Morgan: and Tilley sround;the-Texas Mine and mineral rights. of an unpatented quartz mine known_as. the Charleston. . ——Judgé Mulroy While no. definite program hasPasses suddenly, been mapped out at this time it is ‘John E. Bach dies at . understood the new — holders: plan . Pehees development work. As the in bed. : . mine develops a larger number of GGeronimi -passes at men will be employed than has been le€y_ Depot. in the past. i The new company . the present shaft an additional depth of about 300 feet, and this t0 new levels. . Work -will begin at once. _—Forest fires KEYSTONE DELIVERY CAR . ,,,‘ss Dov, sis CROWDED OFF HIGHWAY, small crew of men. ba -River. —-Golden road, taken over -by EFastern n play over station KPO. 21—Co. plans to sink Prise party. 0 livery car was crowded oft the hign. way near the Gold Flap school house . and turned over into the ditch. The . driver, Harry Stephens, luckily esand publisher a bruised arm, who. was . nal, operated attack fruits —Steep Hollow Mine nears OPEN T0 TRAFFIC vanes sinking 600 foot ‘shaft. Mine, Assesor passes at EnglishMountain camp. —Hog eDevelopment Co. *—Gilbert Davis elected PAST — YEAR SHOWS INTEREST New Merrifield Mine near Ne—Early histary}; Mohawk Mine Carl Larsen, driving” fire truck, injured on Downieville highway on way to gsidieg }them being the Alphaderrer, Kirk—Bigelow Bros prepare for win——Fierce Forest fires. near Nevage. rty 1 —Englebrights’ return from Las-! will be : isen National Park Dedication. wise in engaging resposible and intelligent ‘men of the profession who, will familiarize themselves with confatal visit Bou that about 20° dary Mine in Grass Valley. Journal ¢ to be Hoover. near son, almo way. —Nevada County Chapter Miiing!e'ties working —V. kK. Chestnut, chemist connec~ ‘ted with U. S. Dept. Agri. at Wasi. ington, D. C., visits Nevada City, his ‘August 14—Much mining ‘activ_ity noted in minesaround Nevada Hoge Develop—Spanish Mine is good producer. —Beflefontaine in Willow Valley to be reopened immediately. . Eagle Bird Mine works crew of —Fred Yocum’ passes. —High grade ore found claim near North Bloomfield. —Goyne elected fire chief of, Nei The formal transfer of the Mur‘vada City fire department. mill installed at Idaho—Boss Mine near San Juan warks — Indian Mine runs tunel on Yu-} —El Oro and Clipper Ship claims . t€!ling 1en. —Tamblyn and Peters, loca) boys of Grass Valley) Smartsville. —Chas.Bertonchini found dead also. Grass Val—Gove Celio tenders :father surSinking burn over much enters the new principal (Continued Next Week.) The Kavatone Meat Market a. EDITOR NUGGET AND JOURNAL IS IMPROVING Mrs. Elsie P. Willoughby, editor of The Nevada City caped out of the wreckage with only, Nugget and California Mining Jourupon last The orchestra Sacramento The top of the delivery car was Tuésday a week ago, is making a was of less importance ‘than the were given much praise by the wrecked, satisfactory recovery from a major é00d time indulged in. dancers, The accident hapiened late yesteroperation, With modern equipment and About thirty prizes were award-. day afternoon. 0. £00d general ship, there is no rea-. ed to as many artistic and well sus-} 0 Mr. and Mrs. Arnet of Denver son why this property shouldn’t be . tained characters, made a very intersting subject to California's gold mining industry. During the years eS This event is eagerly looked forward to each year and is always enand ’15, I. joyed by masquers and spectators. Mrs, L: M, Day was summoned . were Nevada City visitors to Manteca to be at the bedside of Mr. Arnet, her mother, Mrs. C. 8. Salmon ,who looking over different mi is quite ill. : ' “erties, this week. a mining man, is here ning proprich past produciton placed Grass SU Grass Schroeder = ee . ‘Sierra County Mining ! . ‘ : July 31—Salmon Mine to operate! i _. j tent thru_the lack _of—fuel--The‘Te= soon. ae eems 0G B cent storms made the roads impas. Paine Bros. find gravel values. iH — : ===! sable until at aes time when Grant —New stamping machinery for’: i an adjoining & Heether, sawmill owners, wiil use. o Nevada City Post Office. —S — sae i Sierra: County is so closely associ-! Jacket are operating. In a recent. F — lawyer, Mrs. ° Helen . : being towards tO the property. { Woman la yel . boosts Mining Association ; ated with Nevada County that it —J. H. Mumm and Ramsey--work . hard-to distinguish the line betwe Seven Come Bleven claims on Yuba conditions in this section. In commencing at Goodyears B there is found to be a great deal activity. : jture for this~district. (ties working in this camp patrick, Tim Dolan & Son, Creek, Sctoos Flat. Bru In the Downieville mining. district plans to 12 number of mines have been bondied and owners are developing other Among-the mines. at this Place a . Old. Colony, City of Standard, Australia, Six, and n-. of them records. have good present time. In the ozd o-, Christo there are also a ee) pronNsing old properties with records. property in this distriet-is the Exce sior, and Hs. Tibbey of property there. Alleghany which is a {to -One-Tightner, at this time. / Th the two when writing up the mining Mining men. predict a fuThere are about-a dozen~ properamong sh Finney, Bessler to; This is only mentioning a few of tte many promising properties and many past production ho Sacred Mount, Several of these mines are: to. be Operating at the shost “town of Monte . the last few of , them arge time, A gravel; The heavy snow fall and rains whicfs Downieassure : { Ville ows the Brown Bear a quartz familiar/the snow starts melting. name to aH mining men, on account . qf its being the home of the richest —Browns Valley mine being open-. high grade mine know n, the Sixteen has several propis, Communication to The Neavda City Nugget it-was stated the past pro-duction record of the Sixteen-to-One: © Mine was about $10,000,000. ° In the same district there are sit; uated the Pfumbago, Mornnig Glory Rainbow. The past production Te= ‘cords of these and several other properties read like a fairy boon with several of them running inte the millions. : en ar of * At Forest which is two miles frona : Alleghany several properties are Bbe~ © ing developed. Among them are the Bald Top, and Ruby. They large past production. records. The: i Ruby mine has been hampered? 2mre . lack of water. At this time there are several mén working. : In the Sierra City district there will be found the — Sierra Buttes, ; Primrose, Monarch, Bigelow, Colom Commadore, be-= ; Side many others. All of these prop— lerties have been operating. withim months and a few of: are operating at the present haven l' have come before the end of 1928 these mining districts am abundance of water and many, of thes mines will be operating as soon as With thé bond market in an un= . certain condition and financiers: looking about for good investments it. won"t be long till many of these. e€ mines will be working with profit te, full from the Sonora to give publicity given to their mines. Mining district cash. pays in Nugget office did not and realize that this / : : I : : s : mine investor. The great Newmont mining is a-borning. in Jay ; Mining Company, with New erties in the few_days. We should public position and in’ business in our mine possibilities. In this issue we earry an. arficle of an idle property in leastern part of Nevada County tha shows gotd to the naked eye in the ore! Our needs are more ,for our extensive, and . district. Mr. Harris, mentioned in this argood boosters rich mining . ticle, has made many fine contribu-tions to ~The Nevada City Nugget, j MINING PUBLICITY —-Is : AIDING TUOLUMNE COUNTY ; Essentially a mining.area with a 2 glorious early day record in the pro. duction” of gold -and with its treasure troves only thus far superfici! ally developed, Tuolumne County year of. 19382 with greater activity in its mines’ and prospects than has prevailed in the last thirty years or more, and looks upon the future with a confidence that is truly inspiring. World wide business conditions have accentuated the need of new and more gold. Undeniable proof of . this necessity is supplied by the ‘abandonment of the gold standard . by a majority of the nations in the closing months of 1931, Two-thirds of the monetary gold of the world is held today by two nations—America and France, with the greater pio‘portion of that hoard in the. posses~. sion of the former, The nations ard have not done so bychoige~ It was caused bythe dwindli: supply of their store of the metal, which Union Democrat of tain some semblrnce of solvency. some idea of how. The neze s* other mining districts appreciate the . not of sudden orizin. The Nevada City Nugget has been worknig along these lines about five years and people are slowly coming to the realization that boosting your! among the natio good hardjor later be supplied if normal trade. Very often people come into The state that they, ous thought sections held such great Dossibilities to the ey York . capital, realizes this and has secured one of the most promising propNevada City district, the Murchie Mine: within the last have more men in Nevada County, to put forth greater . efforts in boosting the plain facts, of Harris’ publicity — which have forsaken the gold sant-/” Ce peep resort, to conserve in order to main fv for such action wasIt is: aftermatin lof the-World War and is directly at~ tributable to economic conditions re~ sulting thereform. Quite naturally it has created a shortage of gold ns that must. sooneris to be restored. This, in turn, hascaused the public mind to give seri to the production of* new gold with the result that a new cle of activity in that division of Tuolumne County offers an excel= lent field for the production of newWealth-gold. There is no gainsayingthis fact. It has yielded upon millions of placer and lode. 7 eoltinthe “past as evidenced be government, statictics. Its latent eor— fers of the . yellow metal, despite. their enormous production in by~ gone days, have searcely been touch— ed. To acquaint the world with the zold mining activities, possibilities: and opportunities present within ivs borders, Ray D. Harris, a writer . of recognitized Wide newspaper millions miningeability ang. connections , has since last Mareh been publishingthem through his writings. These“have ‘attracted mining capitalists. land operators from far and near and } caused a revi¥al of mining throughout Tuolumne County that augers : well for the future. This gratifying: condition has given and is givingincreased employment in mniing andy other lines of endeavor that: undoubtedly will steadily improve to the material benefit of merchants. (of all lines of trade, owners of mins ~ _ing and residence property; in fact Tuolumne County and its people as a whole-have profited ‘and are profite * ing therefrom, directly or indirectly. ~ Mr. ‘Harris’ work has been made . possible through financial’ surport: and public-spiritedness of merchants and other business men, who recog— nize its great monetary valle to Sonora, in particular, and the coun— > ty, in general. : ‘ Due to the foresight of the super= Visors, the county government offi~_ cially _ recognized its material ang far-reaching worth by "giving financial help.;The Union Dem has no hesitancy in saying: that. ults? th we again heartily endorse it, cial sonoee its. -eontint “4 brought excellent they have been compélled, as a last} should be lacking.

@ = men have alf pased on and informa-'the Salathie} ‘flow tunnel driven: to tap the vein at gay much ey 2 cme ot of % @ 2 evada Cit The Nugget Is California’s Leading Mining 9 Weekly x 4 ugg oe ms 3 a « VOLUME VI NUMBER 9 THE GOLD CENTER THE NEVADA CITY NUGGET. CALIFORNIA.‘ TH E COUNTY SEAT PAPER FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1952 2 Eastern Nevada County Unknown Mining properties situate in the personally 6éperate? Washington Mining district, Townproperty” known —as.the Gold Buy,!their caterpillar to haul the supplies ship 17, R11.E,.“MDM., Nevadn my plan of attack County, State of California, and ten miles north of _Emigrant Gap _ station of the Southern Pacific Railroad. A better approach to the properties, is by way 6% Nevada City, thence over the Harmony. ridge highway to Bear Valley, before pro; ceeding into the valley, a road will be observed turning -to the north, this road extends to the Salathiel and surrounding properties and is in good shape, the Forest Servece having recently rebuilt the road to this point. Situated on the south fork of the Yuba River, and twelve hundred feet below from where the road terMinates, is the Eagle Bird Mine, from which a million and a half of dollars were taken during the hey days of gold mining, the property is now being operated by Arizona interests from whom much can be expected in the development and future production from ore reserves unexplored. the tunnel from ed from the great ‘break river slope,” which~is tend many feet back into the mou natural -position, engaged in the operations ditions before jum piing recoverable, and very. often ;. ¢ial mines. Owing to the close relationship of the above property to the Salathiel, and the close observations I had reason to make of their respective positions, nothing 1s more convincing through the development of were kept from this th acta Bird ti dence formulative to a good opinion g r asa rospective pee g mead irae : HEOE, : of the probabilities, and as a gold value to ore reserves associated with the Salathiel vein, From the apex of the Salathiel to the collar of the Eagle Bird shaft, features. is twelve hundred feet vertical : Association of Calif., met in Nevada . Sixteen-to-One-Tightner, and Yellow their owners, tenit aa tle ty a ~fftato.drasoohacl jusiqnsw (bri by one of the heaviest srow storms City ; coe : Ce haw Reanitiay th Whe ae ik a Proto visit the Sierra Nevada Mountains Bobnita ry eer apa SivhineiA cen the bottom of the Eagle Bird shaft; nounced feature to this project and in several decades The Summit was” a Ok Se _ TUOLUMNE APPRECIATES MINING ADVERTISING 7 is approximately eight hundred feet, by continuing the tunnel sO econoa att am ne b nearly complete for early operation , : j two thousand’ feet from the plateau ically situated a speedy accounta ey ae of Nevada City-Grass Valley Nar-! ᐀ : : : 2 division. of highway crews working * The following article is copied in above. From the river level up is ing to the merits of the PEOROEY ae ay, teat ancw eh ; , TOW Gauge Railroad. : e latest snow ploy eqnipmen practically virgin ground, owing to Would soon be determined. Calling P habits plain faults and those in eharge not having familiarided themselves with the conditions and geological surroundings no exploration of the foot wall country from development of the lower regions is in-evidence,and why ownership to the Saiathiel neglected so important matters pertaining to the further development of the property remains a problem untold. During my residence in the vicinately, the World War ity of these mines tances of many of miners and mill men who were well I took my leave. versed in the operations an? extrace. During the year 1924, tion in gold values from the cifferent mines of the vicinity, and in this way treated ten ton. This was. picked stone, ing visible, ‘was—picture—rock, ing place, I abandoned tion from these sources though teresting and of impoitance-to the the claims \an. prospective.negotiatiOis to “further many years ago, operations leaves culative it more of a spetion, and on closer understanding owing to What it_had ben driven for, ed. However, the following informathe level tion was given me by the man who Vein, with ran the mill while was in operation and from plated as pound, r from encountering a-three foot an average assay of eight fifty years ore extracted, high ago Vein another twenty feet, here I enmany tons countered high grade running into as fifty cents a the thousands of dollars per ton, gardless of the above facts, 48ain I was confornted with litigamy own observations -and tion and other problems of a dissampling of the vein while the works tasteful nature, and Tetired to other Were accessable, I am convinced ‘a! (Continued Next Week.) shoot of ore exists not less than five hundred feet in length, and will run in value exceeding that of any of the properties of the vicinity producE VEN T OF SEASON ing their millions. The original work belonging to! + the property consists of a long shal-' ot . Seinen ee MASQUE BALL WAS Redmen’s Hall was thronged with maskuers and’ spectators on a depth of approximately sixty feet New Years Eve when the Firemen below the out crop and just how gave their masquer ball: ore was taken from _ these Just preceding the dance the auworks is not recorded, but from the’ dience ‘enjoyed several musical information’ given me by the mill selections by Mrs. Charles Bliioit, operator, of. the five stamps, five the Misses Hansen and _ the Cartosets of shoes and,dies were replaced. celli boys. Marshall Giselman acin the operations, the owners were companied Mrs. Elliott and the apparently a lot of sea captains and Misses Hansen on the piano. farmer8 on a vacation, and instead . Lloyd Penrose and assistants are of the pack train, then in use, bringto be given praise for their artistic ing supplies, it was loaded down work of decorating the hall in ferns with good old Scotch whiskey, which and greenery. #8 conclusive evidence, that hte. mine is from the Salathiel series, the work ig lo=} cated on the south slope ‘of the rivnorth east of er. canon, and three hundred feet be. prises 1400 . low the apex to the vein, in driving about 7000 feet 1 this point of vanbe worked. At this time the mine is . tage a very faulty condition was encountered, a natural sequence owing to the dip of the lode being replacfeet further. of the! river plane and Weaving only frag-! ment o fthe systems on down the mainly the raeson why, more exhaustive plans of attack were not indulged in, results of the fractured zone, will extain before the vein will take up its therefore, « those to conclusions, such costly mistakes are not lead to the abandonment of what would otherwise ‘hace developed commerAlthough no record of the returns property the —U legends in the richness of the ore, 0) SU 0 and my personal contact’ with the reD NNER MMIT N W sults of my work’is convincing eviproducer I feel ‘safe in saying, that no better opportunity exists where costs and returns are the essential attention to the results of ore taken from. this tunnel, I built an arrastra gold be? and considerable of it Owing to ohter negotiations takthe work for what apparently appeared, would : ultimately develop: the property on a much bigger scale, but unfortunwas by this quainti in full swing, d Id mining ~ ' cons curren oe ca flotitia NUMONT TAKES OVER + t was in.’ MURCHIE JANUARY FIRST duced to go back, and in. go doing, these I took up extentions to the south of; following along the in-Strike of the same series, One one of old -.tunnel.drives vorder’s offiée of a deed from the attracted my attenobservatoins of I was inthe work having caved from which duced to reopen the tunnel, with the convincing data is generally obtainresult of openin3~the ground above the Salathiel dollars perton, I then rasied on the ALTA VIEW MINE VIEW NV CRONOLOGY OF . PREPARES TO WORK . . The Alta View Mine has been ae-. JULY ‘layed in operating to any great: ex: ; 'Giimore This mine is situated six miles , » Camptonville and’ ¢oni-' acres in all. There are ae : River. of virgin gravel io. ; K ‘vada City reopening. being worked by drifting, They are 2: . Es in 2800 feet and expect to go 4000 2 is intersting. 1 ‘There are about 4000 feet epee B. Douglass, tracks in the different tunnels. The , qompany' has devently comstructed . a new-300 car capacity gravel bin, and 300 feet of flumes. They expect to handle from 80 to 100 cars of qa City do much dama gravel daily. The gravel that is. : : : — Coan Mine prope taken from the drifts 1s Washed and reopen. the gold taken at the end of. the flume in the sluice boxes. . ter operations. 1d Se In the early days parts of these . properties were hydraulicked. ‘ . There are 6 or.7 at present and tion it AUGUST (Aug. 7—Heart men employed John Curnow. when in full opera-} —Utah mining men is expected men will be employed; . —Mines, resorts, Dr. Clyde Wayland of San Jose featured at State Fair. is owner of the property. é —California Mining . ©. N. Chatfield of Pike’ City is im& over big. superintendent. ; i sravel. —Granite marker in honor of President —Old Alcalde Mine, -—Mrs. Maria Fergu : ‘100. years old, passed a The Donner Summit on ‘the Au-! — burn-Truckee highway was reopened for traffic Wednesday, January ¢th. It has been closed more than a week ed by Beagle. at below zero temperatures. People going to the summit for Scenery will be disappointed as traffie has to pass thru a virtual snow' tunnel, with banks of snow 15-feet ~ high’ on each side. This prevents a view of scenery. —Newmont aide Part of the road is only a one’ ment Company. way road and trucks or large cars! wider than 75 inches cannot g6 over’ the pass till the road is widened. birthplace. City. eee er men. ‘ ] ? ——— 1 chie Mine was made last Thursday . afternoon in the filing _ in_the re—Ball Maryland _Mjref American Foundation Co. and M~C. C. Van Loben Sels and wife to the Star Mines Co., Ltd. The Property conveyed consists Center of the Murchie Mines, with minera] Valley, shaft rebuilt. rights of the Long property on the north side of the Red Dog nitneral rights of the Kistle home-stead; “the Morgan: and Tilley sround;the-Texas Mine and mineral rights. of an unpatented quartz mine known_as. the Charleston. . ——Judgé Mulroy While no. definite program hasPasses suddenly, been mapped out at this time it is ‘John E. Bach dies at . understood the new — holders: plan . Pehees development work. As the in bed. : . mine develops a larger number of GGeronimi -passes at men will be employed than has been le€y_ Depot. in the past. i The new company . the present shaft an additional depth of about 300 feet, and this t0 new levels. . Work -will begin at once. _—Forest fires KEYSTONE DELIVERY CAR . ,,,‘ss Dov, sis CROWDED OFF HIGHWAY, small crew of men. ba -River. —-Golden road, taken over -by EFastern n play over station KPO. 21—Co. plans to sink Prise party. 0 livery car was crowded oft the hign. way near the Gold Flap school house . and turned over into the ditch. The . driver, Harry Stephens, luckily esand publisher a bruised arm, who. was . nal, operated attack fruits —Steep Hollow Mine nears OPEN T0 TRAFFIC vanes sinking 600 foot ‘shaft. Mine, Assesor passes at EnglishMountain camp. —Hog eDevelopment Co. *—Gilbert Davis elected PAST — YEAR SHOWS INTEREST New Merrifield Mine near Ne—Early histary}; Mohawk Mine Carl Larsen, driving” fire truck, injured on Downieville highway on way to gsidieg }them being the Alphaderrer, Kirk—Bigelow Bros prepare for win——Fierce Forest fires. near Nevage. rty 1 —Englebrights’ return from Las-! will be : isen National Park Dedication. wise in engaging resposible and intelligent ‘men of the profession who,

will familiarize themselves with confatal visit Bou that about 20° dary Mine in Grass Valley. Journal ¢ to be Hoover. near son, almo way. —Nevada County Chapter Miiing!e'ties working —V. kK. Chestnut, chemist connec~ ‘ted with U. S. Dept. Agri. at Wasi. ington, D. C., visits Nevada City, his ‘August 14—Much mining ‘activ_ity noted in minesaround Nevada Hoge Develop—Spanish Mine is good producer. —Beflefontaine in Willow Valley to be reopened immediately. . Eagle Bird Mine works crew of —Fred Yocum’ passes. —High grade ore found claim near North Bloomfield. —Goyne elected fire chief of, Nei The formal transfer of the Mur‘vada City fire department. mill installed at Idaho—Boss Mine near San Juan warks — Indian Mine runs tunel on Yu-} —El Oro and Clipper Ship claims . t€!ling 1en. —Tamblyn and Peters, loca) boys of Grass Valley) Smartsville. —Chas.Bertonchini found dead also. Grass Val—Gove Celio tenders :father surSinking burn over much enters the new principal (Continued Next Week.) The Kavatone Meat Market a. EDITOR NUGGET AND JOURNAL IS IMPROVING Mrs. Elsie P. Willoughby, editor of The Nevada City caped out of the wreckage with only, Nugget and California Mining Jourupon last The orchestra Sacramento The top of the delivery car was Tuésday a week ago, is making a was of less importance ‘than the were given much praise by the wrecked, satisfactory recovery from a major é00d time indulged in. dancers, The accident hapiened late yesteroperation, With modern equipment and About thirty prizes were award-. day afternoon. 0. £00d general ship, there is no rea-. ed to as many artistic and well sus-} 0 Mr. and Mrs. Arnet of Denver son why this property shouldn’t be . tained characters, made a very intersting subject to California's gold mining industry. During the years eS This event is eagerly looked forward to each year and is always enand ’15, I. joyed by masquers and spectators. Mrs, L: M, Day was summoned . were Nevada City visitors to Manteca to be at the bedside of Mr. Arnet, her mother, Mrs. C. 8. Salmon ,who looking over different mi is quite ill. : ' “erties, this week. a mining man, is here ning proprich past produciton placed Grass SU Grass Schroeder = ee . ‘Sierra County Mining ! . ‘ : July 31—Salmon Mine to operate! i _. j tent thru_the lack _of—fuel--The‘Te= soon. ae eems 0G B cent storms made the roads impas. Paine Bros. find gravel values. iH — : ===! sable until at aes time when Grant —New stamping machinery for’: i an adjoining & Heether, sawmill owners, wiil use. o Nevada City Post Office. —S — sae i Sierra: County is so closely associ-! Jacket are operating. In a recent. F — lawyer, Mrs. ° Helen . : being towards tO the property. { Woman la yel . boosts Mining Association ; ated with Nevada County that it —J. H. Mumm and Ramsey--work . hard-to distinguish the line betwe Seven Come Bleven claims on Yuba conditions in this section. In commencing at Goodyears B there is found to be a great deal activity. : jture for this~district. (ties working in this camp patrick, Tim Dolan & Son, Creek, Sctoos Flat. Bru In the Downieville mining. district plans to 12 number of mines have been bondied and owners are developing other Among-the mines. at this Place a . Old. Colony, City of Standard, Australia, Six, and n-. of them records. have good present time. In the ozd o-, Christo there are also a ee) pronNsing old properties with records. property in this distriet-is the Exce sior, and Hs. Tibbey of property there. Alleghany which is a {to -One-Tightner, at this time. / Th the two when writing up the mining Mining men. predict a fuThere are about-a dozen~ properamong sh Finney, Bessler to; This is only mentioning a few of tte many promising properties and many past production ho Sacred Mount, Several of these mines are: to. be Operating at the shost “town of Monte . the last few of , them arge time, A gravel; The heavy snow fall and rains whicfs Downieassure : { Ville ows the Brown Bear a quartz familiar/the snow starts melting. name to aH mining men, on account . qf its being the home of the richest —Browns Valley mine being open-. high grade mine know n, the Sixteen has several propis, Communication to The Neavda City Nugget it-was stated the past pro-duction record of the Sixteen-to-One: © Mine was about $10,000,000. ° In the same district there are sit; uated the Pfumbago, Mornnig Glory Rainbow. The past production Te= ‘cords of these and several other properties read like a fairy boon with several of them running inte the millions. : en ar of * At Forest which is two miles frona : Alleghany several properties are Bbe~ © ing developed. Among them are the Bald Top, and Ruby. They large past production. records. The: i Ruby mine has been hampered? 2mre . lack of water. At this time there are several mén working. : In the Sierra City district there will be found the — Sierra Buttes, ; Primrose, Monarch, Bigelow, Colom Commadore, be-= ; Side many others. All of these prop— lerties have been operating. withim months and a few of: are operating at the present haven l' have come before the end of 1928 these mining districts am abundance of water and many, of thes mines will be operating as soon as With thé bond market in an un= . certain condition and financiers: looking about for good investments it. won"t be long till many of these. e€ mines will be working with profit te, full from the Sonora to give publicity given to their mines. Mining district cash. pays in Nugget office did not and realize that this / : : I : : s : mine investor. The great Newmont mining is a-borning. in Jay ; Mining Company, with New erties in the few_days. We should public position and in’ business in our mine possibilities. In this issue we earry an. arficle of an idle property in leastern part of Nevada County tha shows gotd to the naked eye in the ore! Our needs are more ,for our extensive, and . district. Mr. Harris, mentioned in this argood boosters rich mining . ticle, has made many fine contribu-tions to ~The Nevada City Nugget, j MINING PUBLICITY —-Is : AIDING TUOLUMNE COUNTY ; Essentially a mining.area with a 2 glorious early day record in the pro. duction” of gold -and with its treasure troves only thus far superfici! ally developed, Tuolumne County year of. 19382 with greater activity in its mines’ and prospects than has prevailed in the last thirty years or more, and looks upon the future with a confidence that is truly inspiring. World wide business conditions have accentuated the need of new and more gold. Undeniable proof of . this necessity is supplied by the ‘abandonment of the gold standard . by a majority of the nations in the closing months of 1931, Two-thirds of the monetary gold of the world is held today by two nations—America and France, with the greater pio‘portion of that hoard in the. posses~. sion of the former, The nations ard have not done so bychoige~ It was caused bythe dwindli: supply of their store of the metal, which Union Democrat of tain some semblrnce of solvency. some idea of how. The neze s* other mining districts appreciate the . not of sudden orizin. The Nevada City Nugget has been worknig along these lines about five years and people are slowly coming to the realization that boosting your! among the natio good hardjor later be supplied if normal trade. Very often people come into The state that they, ous thought sections held such great Dossibilities to the ey York . capital, realizes this and has secured one of the most promising propNevada City district, the Murchie Mine: within the last have more men in Nevada County, to put forth greater . efforts in boosting the plain facts, of Harris’ publicity — which have forsaken the gold sant-/” Ce peep resort, to conserve in order to main fv for such action wasIt is: aftermatin lof the-World War and is directly at~ tributable to economic conditions re~ sulting thereform. Quite naturally it has created a shortage of gold ns that must. sooneris to be restored. This, in turn, hascaused the public mind to give seri to the production of* new gold with the result that a new cle of activity in that division of Tuolumne County offers an excel= lent field for the production of newWealth-gold. There is no gainsayingthis fact. It has yielded upon millions of placer and lode. 7 eoltinthe “past as evidenced be government, statictics. Its latent eor— fers of the . yellow metal, despite. their enormous production in by~ gone days, have searcely been touch— ed. To acquaint the world with the zold mining activities, possibilities: and opportunities present within ivs borders, Ray D. Harris, a writer . of recognitized Wide newspaper millions miningeability ang. connections , has since last Mareh been publishingthem through his writings. These“have ‘attracted mining capitalists. land operators from far and near and } caused a revi¥al of mining throughout Tuolumne County that augers : well for the future. This gratifying: condition has given and is givingincreased employment in mniing andy other lines of endeavor that: undoubtedly will steadily improve to the material benefit of merchants. (of all lines of trade, owners of mins ~ _ing and residence property; in fact Tuolumne County and its people as a whole-have profited ‘and are profite * ing therefrom, directly or indirectly. ~ Mr. ‘Harris’ work has been made . possible through financial’ surport: and public-spiritedness of merchants and other business men, who recog— nize its great monetary valle to Sonora, in particular, and the coun— > ty, in general. : ‘ Due to the foresight of the super= Visors, the county government offi~_ cially _ recognized its material ang far-reaching worth by "giving financial help.;The Union Dem has no hesitancy in saying: that. ults? th we again heartily endorse it, cial sonoee its. -eontint “4 brought excellent they have been compélled, as a last} should be lacking.