July 24, 1931 (4 pages)

a —————_ iii ae eso oe ee yee ee eee ee eee % : ao 2 Nae ay The Nugget Is California’s Leading Mining Weekly Nevada City Nugget Bae aks = V, NUMBER 32 THE GOLD CENTER NEVADA CITY, NEVADA ‘ COUNTY, CALIFORNIA THE COUNTY SEAT PAPER FRIDAY JULY 24, 1931 “RIVER PLACERS * FIND RICH ORE The Poorman & Hastings mine property on the Middle Yuba is under lease to the River Placers, Ltd. : This property river bed and runs for three is situated on the miles to Footes Crossing bridge. It is just: below Alleghany on the Middle Yu\ > river, and it is well known that ‘a. ‘ghany has rich ore values. The gravel in this river is from these rich veins of gold ore. About 33 years Poorman’s father worked this erty, but each winter ago Mr. Edward prophigh water drove them out. One season at the end of a shift the crew filled powder boxes gravel, from the bottom shaft than gravel. Again water drove them out. of men with gold and of the 50 and brought up more gold It amounted to $2200. The new company is on Horseshoe’ Bar and prepared to work winter and summer. The river channel is cut down more now with gravel bars here and there, the lowest in years, at this and the water is time. They have sunk a 50 foot shaft and drifted wp on the side wall of the present stream, hitting the old channel. A telegram to Mr. his home in San Jacinto Poorman at] . _ called him to the mine to view the new discovery. They have struck the old channel again and gravel is pannin to the pan. g& $1. REDUCTION PLANT FOR FORD MINE PROPERTY San Andreas, Calif. July 24,—-Recent metallurgical tests having demonstrated that a high recovery of the metal content of the ores of the Ford mine, near this town, can be made flotation, the management, by amalgamation and oil it is Jearned, is proceeding with plans for the early erection of a bedying such methods on the erty. The millsite selected is reduction -plant_of_200-tons daily_capacity-em-! propon a hillside, immediately beneath the 34foot headframe over the 750-foot _main incline working shaft and will permit of the handling of:the product of the mine in its reduction by gravity at low The site is now being cost, it is asserted. cleared of trees preliminary to grading operations. clude crushers, mating plates and oil flotation The mill equipment will inball. mills, amalgaunits Supt. Joseph E. King reports that underground development work is: steadily increasing the available tonnage of ore. On the 300-foot level, he suth drift on the East vein is ex-! Posing hree feet of ore assaying $10 a ton in gold, it is stated. This is a new find on the level named but is} known to be the downward continuation of an orebody first opened up on the 100-foot level and. followed for 70 feet, with the face still in ore In fact the distance named on the 100-foot level the orebody shows an average of two feet and assays varied from $2°:to $2,000, a Taken as a whole, have * ton. it constitutes an excellent grade of milling rock, itis said. In cleaning out an old south ! drift on the main ledge on the 100foot level miners are shoot of ore varying in width three to five feet Much of the ore revealing a from of good grade. extracted from it thus for has shown free gold to the’ i naked eye, it is stated. 3 0 4 OROVILLE HAS GREAT PLANS : e FOR 19382 MINING CELEBRATION i The second annaul State Mining the Butte Chapter, forthe best << ‘June 20th, Oroville, 1931, California, Celebration which was awarded to Mining Association, by Governor James Rolph, Jr., represenation made in the mining parade at Mariposa on will be held in during” the month of May 1932, the exact date of which will Governor in the near: future. be decided by the This celebration will be conducted under the auspices of the Chaptey, mining Association of Butte Cali-fornia which is one of the most progressive chapters in the State. The Oroville Chamber of Commerce and other civic organizations of county will play Butte a big part in cooperating with the Butte Chapter in making the celebration a great success. TOLEDO AND FREE LANCE MINES SHOW ACTIVITY Jamestown, Calif. July 24,—Wickham and Walker Havens of Oakland have acquired from Mrs. Marion R. Clement of Piedmont, Calif. under lease and bond the Toledo mine, embracing four claims or about 80 acres, four miles northwest of Jamestown. The property has not been actively operated for about a quarter of a century, prior to which period, according to reports, it was a notable producer of rich quartz ore and pocket gold from the various ledges coursing through it. : After being idle for about 30 years, operations are again in’ progress at the Free Lance mine, located on the Tuolumne River, 10 miles east of Jamestown, and owned by V. A. Solari of Jamestown and J. P. Mangante of Sonora. A crosscut tunnel, extended in the early days and said to be more than 400 feet in length, is being cleaned out and retimbered preliminary to the inauguration of a program of new development work. ACTIVITY IS SHOWN IN RANDSBURG. DISTRICT San Francisco, July '24,— New mining activities and pending developments in the Randsburg district of California are drawing the attention of local mining interests to that region which has contribucedsuch famous producers as the KellyRand and Yellow Aster to the mining industry of the West. The Operator Consolidated Mining Company, of which George Browne is president, is developing the! Bender mine, the latest project to be launched at Randsburg. The company’s shaft has reached a depth of 200 feet where the vein, which was 18 inches wide on the surface, has widened to six feet, according to a report just_received here from Superintendent Gustave Bender. ! A station has been cut and a drift started on the vein to tap the.downward extension of the ore shoot that produced -rich_ore on the 100 foot level. The drift will not stop there but continue on about 100 feet to the intersection of the Bender vein and the Yellow Aster vein which enters the Operator Company’s ground from the adjacent property, according to Bender Reports received here also ented that work has been ‘resumed in the Kelly-Rand mine following an ex-, amination by engineers and that a three week’s mill test of Yellow Aster ores will be conducted to determine whether or not the big Yellow Aster stamp mill will be placed on capacity production PROGRESS BEING MADE IN SUTTER CREEK MINES Gutter Creek Calif, July 24— A] 30-ton lot ‘of galena sulphide ore, assaying $90 a ton in gold, was Tecently made, it is stated, to a San Francisco Bay, smelter by Jack Howell from his prpoerty five miles] east of Pioneer Station. The ore was sorted from the product obtained in the extension of a drift tunnel. The vein varies in width from six inches to three feet . and, as a whole, consttutes a good grade of milling ore. The higher grade ore is usually ex' row widths of the vein .The property is equipped witha three-stamp mill, In developing the Praether prop} erty on the Mokelumne River, seven miles east of Pioneer Station, Stanley Barnhart and E. E. Cole are opening up a six to 12-inch orebody which yields $30 to $40 a ton in gold, it is stated. They are extending drifts north and south on the showing from a 100-foot cross-cut tunnel onthe property. . — .J M.McDonald of West Point is making excellent headway in the renewed developmtnt of the Columbus property, three miles southwest of, Pioneer Station; which is credited with a past production of $50,000. His force of miners isadvancing a drift and sinking a winze on an orebody showing a width of 12 feet and yielding good milling values, tracted from the ‘‘squeezers”’ or nar-j with occasional higher value rick. WHISTLE WILL START OPERATIONS — AT ST. LOUIS MONDAY MORNING When the whistle blows Monday on the St. Louis Mill of the Federal Consolidated Mines, Ltd., on Deer Creek in Willow Valley, three miles East of Nevada City, it will signalize the second major mining operaion undertaken and financed by J. M. Hoff and his associates in the present revival of old workings. The structure situated on the North side of the Creek and designed as the last word in modern mill construction, will handle ore from the Constitution, Cyane, the St. Louis, Jackson, and Bellefontaine Mines, all of which are grouped in the immediate area of the St. Louis claiins. The final tuning up of the Mill, under the Mill Superintendent, R. N. Diggles, has been accomplished, and full power will be turned on Monday. The Krout cells have been earefully inspected by engineers from the Krout organization, and the last details in hook-up are underway. The Company is now installing a road and nigh line bridge into the crusher so that ore from the Constitution Mine can be hauled down and milled at the St. Louis. Rock from the Constitution will come from the main level at the bottom of the shaft, which has been extended 250 feet East during the last thirty days. The ledge from two to six feet wide and he assays, the entire length, from five dollars to $70 a tou. Some 700 feet of 4 inch standard pipe line from the Allison Ranch secured through Mr. Fred Cassidy of the Alpha Hardware Co., and the balance of 3 inch pipe has been run into the face for a distance of 1700 feet. The St. Louis Mine which was filled by the over-flow of the Snow Mt. Ditch two years ago, is being mucked out, and theres has been MINING JOURNAL TO BE READY AUGUST FIRST The Nuget is only carrying four pages this week owning to the pressure of getting out the first edition of The California Mining Journal) which will be ready for the press next Tuesday and be in the nails August Ist. Every. Nugget subscriber is entitled to a sample copy free so send in for yours. A special subscription price of $1 is made to subscribers of the _Nugget-and to members of the Mining Association of California. This special offer only holds good until August 15th. After that the’ regular subscription _ price __will be $2 per year. The: publisher is receiving encouragement from all _ parts of the exposed a good two feet of ore. which assures more rock for the mill. : being sent to the Federal Loan and the Le Compton Mines which are further up the Creek. These units are being rapidly rehabilitated with new timbers and headframes. LEASE IS. GIVEN ON MOUNTAIN LILY -MINE Sonora, Calif, July 24— Randall Northrop and associates have sold to G A Schmidt, Michael Rossiter and A J McCormick of Los Angeles their three-year lease and bond on the Mountain Lily mine, five miles of Columbia, owned by the north ! Mountain Lily Mining Company The; new operators have taken possession of the property and put a force of miners to work unwatering a .140foot winze sunk atthe 450-feet point! the governor invited the committee in a 750-foot drift tunnel on a vein varying in width from oneto three and a half feet in the distance ex’ plored The tunnel was run in the early days of California mining and from stopes above it three shoots, having an average length of 50 feet, yielded heavily in gold ore according to reports. In the bottom of the winze in which work has recently been prosecuted there is better than . GOVERNOR TO VISIT HERE. A delegation representing the Nevada County Mining Association The surface workings of the sev-' eral Hoff properties are rapidly, assuming shape, last) week crews]; many of The Nugget subscribers have sent or brought in their $1 for the new_ publication ~-on the merits of The Nugget. The Nugget office is working under high pressure preparing for the ‘issue and another printer -has been added to the force. The list of contributers to the first issue includes Honorable James Rolph Jr., Governor; Congressman Harry L. Engilebright, Assemblyman J:Ly Seawell,-Errol-MacBoyle, Fred Miller; A. M. Hoge, Harry Tibbey and many others. Nevada. and Sierra Counties will be featured\in the first issue and the headed by Errol MacBoyle, president of the Mining Association of California visited Governor Rolph at his office in Sacramento last Friday to discuss with him some of the problems confronting the mining industry today. However the governor was due at a luncheon and the delega. tion were fortunate jten minutes of his valuable time. to cover the important problems so to meet with him at some date. The Governor expressed his desire to visit Nevada County and was extended an invitation to be the guest of Nevada County Chapter, Mining Association of California An entertainment is being planned for himNEWTOWN MINE CUT later two feet of ore averaging $40 a ton: IN WITH ELECTRICITY it is stated. For the immediate fuure operations are to be confined to additional sinking in the winze on It took a PG&E G. & E. eonatrustion ‘crew of 25 men less than a week to the showing described and the con-. tie in a 60 KV substation connectinuation of the drift tunnel ty is equipped with as all necessary mining machinery. Sinking of a two-compartment vertical shaft is being prosecuted by miners employed by C. C. Hale and John Anderson of Turlock Calif on} the Pruett-Rowell tract of placef gravel land, embracing 150 acres, one and a half miles south of Confidence and a short distance from the famous Confindence mine, a prodigous lode gold producer for many years: The shaft has attained a depth of 30 feet and will be con. tinued to bedrock, which should be reached 180 feet below the surface, as indicated by recently prospected drilling operations. in: search of new orebodies. The proper-. a five-stamp > mill and concentrating unit as well! tion on the KV Colgate power line and run poles and line a distance of about a mile. A 125 horsepower connection was established. Fred ; Foote of the Foote Electrical Company of Grass Valley is wiring the mine workings This property is located in the South Deer Creek section where a 'number of good prospective mines are known to exist. The opening of this property should be an incentive to others in the district. This is one of the most important connections made by the P. G. & E. in rural sections and particularly in the ore belt, in. some time. As soon as the new gallows frame and other surface improvements are complete extensive operations are planned to start at once. Road I Pests to be graned The time was entirely inadequate ) inaugurated first issue will contain a corrected index of the \mining properties in the two counties. MRS HELEN MCCULLOUGH Mrs. Helen Mill Valley Friday night. ing. At first it was thot she would be benefitted, but complications set in and death. came to relieve her suffering. She was born in Alleghany and spent her early life there. She married Joseph. McCullough,ene of the best known residents of the Ridge; and came to live at San Juan. Six children, three boys and three girls, were born to this union. They are Robert William and Walter, Misses Levina and Bessie McCullough and Mrs.-Michael Phelan. Mrs. McCullough was a devoted wife and mother and in the life of the community in which she lived . will be sadly missed for her active part in affairs that benefitted them. state. It is gratifying to note how PASSES TO HER REWARD McCullough passea away at the home of her sister in Several weeks ago she went to Sacramento where she underwent a major operation for an ailment of long standFORMER EDITOR PASSED AWAY Leonard Sayles Calkins, former Nevada City newspaperman passe away in Sacramento. i He was born in Nevada Cit September 3, 1853 and claimed this city as his own and even after he went to Kansas with his parents he returned in 1877 to Nevada City ta go into the newspaper business which he had learned while in the . East. For many years he was associated with the Nevada City Transcript first as printer and later owning a half interest. He was active in all.civic and po-~ litical. endeavors of his city an@ county. He served as postmaster under President Harrison. Fraternally he was a charter member of Hydraulic Parlor No. 56 N. S. G. W. and was a member of Nevada City Lodge No. 518 B. P. ® Elks, and Milo Lodge Knights of Pythias. He was a Grand Chancellor Knights of Pythias. Mr. Calkins leaves besides 2 host of friends in all parts of the state his widow, Hattie Dickerman Calkins and two daughters, Miss Leonore Calkins and Mrs. Olive Blair im Sacramento. Funeral. seryices _ Sacramento aes morning at 10 o'clock. . > PIONEER ATTEMPTS TO MINE LAVA CAP CHANNELS In 1852 A. B. Clark and William Breese while working the Butte Creek Placer mines, discovered that the greatest pay ceased when arriving at one of the high grade tridutaries of Butte Creek. Their investigations of the smalfi the exposed bed rock formations im the bed of said creek. Further investigations proved the source of this gold was from under the lava capped hill, from which a spring of water flowed, with particles.of gold in evidence at same paosition. > The depth of the lava at this poimt was 30 feet, and the propspectors concluded to\ sink a shaft through the Lava Formation. The absence of powder, and other appliances for this\ work prempte& the investigators to resort to the crude method of heating the lava with wood conveyed tothe seat of operations, and pouring water upon the heated formation, checking the same,and making possible the re‘moval of the lava by windlass. The bottom ofthe lava was reached and gold was discovered in the . CHEROKEE DEVELOPMENT . CO OPEN DEMAREST MINE: Angels Camp, Calif. p, Calif, July 24—— The Cherokee Development Company, financed by Washington capital, is preparing to resume the operation of the Demarest mine, six and a half miles north of this town, aftera practical shutdown since last November. Under the supervision of John F Benson of Seattel, general manager, workmen are at present employed in repainting the mine, mill and other bulidings onthe property and reconditioning all mining and milling equpment. Actual underground work will be under way again in the early future, according to Mr. Benson, who also announces that within the next 90 days the stamps in the mill will be increased from ten to 20 and. the capacity of the plant stepped up from 50 to 100 tons of ore daily. Following dewatering of va 700foot incline shaft by baiing operations, an electric pump of 300 gallons per minute capacity already on the ground, will be installed at he 600-foot level station and stoping of the Demarest vein above the south drift on that level to the 400-foot “at intervals along a stretch of 200 feet. The orebody tias an average width of eight feet and assays $10 to $15 a ton it is stated, with the face of the drift still in ore. Additional sinking is also to be done in a winze, now down $6 feet, below the 600-foot level on the hanging wall vein. In the winze bottom, there is six feet of ore assaying from $12.50 to $15., a ton in gravels exposed by this development, but the water would not permit them to proceed owing to the absence of pumps or other appliances ther abandoned this effort, and conclud— ing the water was supplied from crevices in the bed rock, and anoth— er shaft would miss this water souree. One partner supplied sions, the other did shaft No. 2, resulting nel being reached, likewise preventing gravel bed. the provithe work om in the chanand the water mining of the some months, went to work at ether pursuits to acquire capital for a -further assault upon his gravel bed. The next method of proceedure was the installation of a be@ rack cut 10 feet deep below the bed ef exposed channel, and. directly mto the channel. This development drained 2 lowed the determined prespectors $1700.00 of a reward for their labors. The channel pitched away from their cut in the bedrock, and prevented further developments at that time. {es Future developments by an organ ized mining company preved this depositsto be the famous Persh Becker Channel of Butte County, California situated on the Magalia Ridge, an@ famed for the many millions of dollars of production in gold values. 0. WM. NEWHOUSE PASSES Wm. G. Newhouse, -59, former vice president ofa San Francisca brothers survive. gold, it is asserted. He was born in Sierra county. _ pees ‘ Fi ee S z ae i lice ae e stream showed gold in quantities om They abandoned the project for — small portion of this gravez, and al-. bank died suddenly at his apartment — : of a heart attack. Two brothers — ies TMA TORI ORAL Ee ig ak Aye MIL AIL RN CP oa Se

a —————_ iii ae eso oe ee yee ee eee ee eee % : ao 2 Nae ay The Nugget Is California’s Leading Mining Weekly Nevada City Nugget Bae aks = V, NUMBER 32 THE GOLD CENTER NEVADA CITY, NEVADA ‘ COUNTY, CALIFORNIA THE COUNTY SEAT PAPER FRIDAY JULY 24, 1931 “RIVER PLACERS * FIND RICH ORE The Poorman & Hastings mine property on the Middle Yuba is under lease to the River Placers, Ltd. : This property river bed and runs for three is situated on the miles to Footes Crossing bridge. It is just: below Alleghany on the Middle Yu\ > river, and it is well known that ‘a. ‘ghany has rich ore values. The gravel in this river is from these rich veins of gold ore. About 33 years Poorman’s father worked this erty, but each winter ago Mr. Edward prophigh water drove them out. One season at the end of a shift the crew filled powder boxes gravel, from the bottom shaft than gravel. Again water drove them out. of men with gold and of the 50 and brought up more gold It amounted to $2200. The new company is on Horseshoe’ Bar and prepared to work winter and summer. The river channel is cut down more now with gravel bars here and there, the lowest in years, at this and the water is time. They have sunk a 50 foot shaft and drifted wp on the side wall of the present stream, hitting the old channel. A telegram to Mr. his home in San Jacinto Poorman at] . _ called him to the mine to view the new discovery. They have struck the old channel again and gravel is pannin to the pan. g& $1. REDUCTION PLANT FOR FORD MINE PROPERTY San Andreas, Calif. July 24,—-Recent metallurgical tests having demonstrated that a high recovery of the metal content of the ores of the Ford mine, near this town, can be made flotation, the management, by amalgamation and oil it is Jearned, is proceeding with plans for the early erection of a bedying such methods on the erty. The millsite selected is reduction -plant_of_200-tons daily_capacity-em-! propon a hillside, immediately beneath the 34foot headframe over the 750-foot _main incline working shaft and will permit of the handling of:the product of the mine in its reduction by gravity at low The site is now being cost, it is asserted. cleared of trees preliminary to grading operations. clude crushers, mating plates and oil flotation The mill equipment will inball. mills, amalgaunits Supt. Joseph E. King reports that underground development work is: steadily increasing the available tonnage of ore. On the 300-foot level, he suth drift on the East vein is ex-! Posing hree feet of ore assaying $10 a ton in gold, it is stated. This is a new find on the level named but is} known to be the downward continuation of an orebody first opened up on the 100-foot level and. followed for 70 feet, with the face still in ore In fact the distance named on the 100-foot level the orebody shows an average of two feet and assays varied from $2°:to $2,000, a Taken as a whole, have * ton. it constitutes an excellent grade of milling rock, itis said. In cleaning out an old south ! drift on the main ledge on the 100foot level miners are shoot of ore varying in width three to five feet Much of the ore revealing a from of good grade. extracted from it thus for has shown free gold to the’ i naked eye, it is stated. 3 0 4 OROVILLE HAS GREAT PLANS : e FOR 19382 MINING CELEBRATION i The second annaul State Mining the Butte Chapter, forthe best << ‘June 20th, Oroville, 1931, California, Celebration which was awarded to Mining Association, by Governor James Rolph, Jr., represenation made in the mining parade at Mariposa on will be held in during” the month of May 1932, the exact date of which will Governor in the near: future. be decided by the This celebration will be conducted under the auspices of the Chaptey, mining Association of Butte Cali-fornia which is one of the most progressive chapters in the State. The Oroville Chamber of Commerce and other civic organizations of county will play Butte a big part in cooperating with the Butte Chapter in making the celebration a great success. TOLEDO AND FREE LANCE MINES SHOW ACTIVITY Jamestown, Calif. July 24,—Wickham and Walker Havens of Oakland have acquired from Mrs. Marion R. Clement of Piedmont, Calif. under lease and bond the Toledo mine, embracing four claims or about 80 acres, four miles northwest of Jamestown. The property has not been actively operated for about a quarter of a century, prior to which period, according to reports, it was a notable producer of rich quartz ore and pocket gold from the various ledges coursing through it. : After being idle for about 30 years, operations are again in’ progress at the Free Lance mine, located on the Tuolumne River, 10 miles east of Jamestown, and owned by V. A. Solari of Jamestown and J. P. Mangante of Sonora. A crosscut tunnel, extended in the early days and said to be more than 400 feet in length, is being cleaned out and retimbered preliminary to the inauguration of a program of new development work. ACTIVITY IS SHOWN IN RANDSBURG. DISTRICT San Francisco, July '24,— New mining activities and pending developments in the Randsburg district of California are drawing the attention of local mining interests to that region which has contribucedsuch famous producers as the KellyRand and Yellow Aster to the mining industry of the West. The Operator Consolidated Mining Company, of which George Browne is president, is developing the! Bender mine, the latest project to be launched at Randsburg. The company’s shaft has reached a depth of 200 feet where the vein, which was 18 inches wide on the surface, has widened to six feet, according to a report just_received here from Superintendent Gustave Bender. ! A station has been cut and a drift started on the vein to tap the.downward extension of the ore shoot that produced -rich_ore on the 100 foot level. The drift will not stop there but continue on about 100 feet to the intersection of the Bender vein and the Yellow Aster vein which enters the Operator Company’s ground from the adjacent property, according to Bender Reports received here also ented that work has been ‘resumed in the Kelly-Rand mine following an ex-, amination by engineers and that a three week’s mill test of Yellow Aster ores will be conducted to determine whether or not the big Yellow Aster stamp mill will be placed on capacity production PROGRESS BEING MADE IN SUTTER CREEK MINES Gutter Creek Calif, July 24— A] 30-ton lot ‘of galena sulphide ore, assaying $90 a ton in gold, was Tecently made, it is stated, to a San Francisco Bay, smelter by Jack Howell from his prpoerty five miles] east of Pioneer Station. The ore was sorted from the product obtained in the extension of a drift tunnel. The vein varies in width from six inches to three feet . and, as a whole, consttutes a good grade of milling ore. The higher grade ore is usually ex' row widths of the vein .The property is equipped witha three-stamp mill, In developing the Praether prop} erty on the Mokelumne River, seven miles east of Pioneer Station, Stanley Barnhart and E. E. Cole are opening up a six to 12-inch orebody which yields $30 to $40 a ton in gold, it is stated. They are extending drifts north and south on the showing from a 100-foot cross-cut tunnel onthe property. . — .J M.McDonald of West Point is making excellent headway in the renewed developmtnt of the Columbus property, three miles southwest of, Pioneer Station; which is credited with a past production of $50,000. His force of miners isadvancing a drift and sinking a winze on an orebody showing a width of 12 feet and yielding good milling values, tracted from the ‘‘squeezers”’ or nar-j with occasional higher value rick. WHISTLE WILL START OPERATIONS — AT ST. LOUIS MONDAY MORNING When the whistle blows Monday on the St. Louis Mill of the Federal Consolidated Mines, Ltd., on Deer Creek in Willow Valley, three miles East of Nevada City, it will signalize the second major mining operaion undertaken and financed by J. M. Hoff and his associates in the present revival of old workings. The structure situated on the North side of the Creek and designed as the last word in modern mill construction, will handle ore from the Constitution, Cyane, the St. Louis, Jackson, and Bellefontaine Mines, all of which are grouped in the immediate area of the St. Louis claiins. The final tuning up of the Mill, under the Mill Superintendent, R. N. Diggles, has been accomplished, and full power will be turned on Monday. The Krout cells have been earefully inspected by engineers from the Krout organization, and the last details in hook-up are underway. The Company is now installing a road and nigh line bridge into the crusher so that ore from the Constitution Mine can be hauled down and milled at the St. Louis. Rock from the Constitution will come from the main level at the bottom of the shaft, which has been extended 250 feet East during the last thirty days. The ledge from two to six feet wide and he assays, the entire length, from five dollars to $70 a tou. Some 700 feet of 4 inch standard pipe line from the Allison Ranch secured through Mr. Fred Cassidy of the Alpha Hardware Co., and the balance of 3 inch pipe has been run into the face for a distance of 1700 feet. The St. Louis Mine which was filled by the over-flow of the Snow Mt. Ditch two years ago, is being mucked out, and theres has been MINING JOURNAL TO BE READY AUGUST FIRST The Nuget is only carrying four pages this week owning to the pressure of getting out the first edition of The California Mining Journal) which will be ready for the press next Tuesday and be in the nails August Ist. Every. Nugget subscriber is entitled to a sample copy free so send in for yours. A special subscription price of $1 is made to subscribers of the _Nugget-and to members of the Mining Association of California. This special offer only holds good until August 15th. After that the’ regular subscription _ price __will be $2 per year. The: publisher is receiving encouragement from all _ parts of the exposed a good two feet of ore.

which assures more rock for the mill. : being sent to the Federal Loan and the Le Compton Mines which are further up the Creek. These units are being rapidly rehabilitated with new timbers and headframes. LEASE IS. GIVEN ON MOUNTAIN LILY -MINE Sonora, Calif, July 24— Randall Northrop and associates have sold to G A Schmidt, Michael Rossiter and A J McCormick of Los Angeles their three-year lease and bond on the Mountain Lily mine, five miles of Columbia, owned by the north ! Mountain Lily Mining Company The; new operators have taken possession of the property and put a force of miners to work unwatering a .140foot winze sunk atthe 450-feet point! the governor invited the committee in a 750-foot drift tunnel on a vein varying in width from oneto three and a half feet in the distance ex’ plored The tunnel was run in the early days of California mining and from stopes above it three shoots, having an average length of 50 feet, yielded heavily in gold ore according to reports. In the bottom of the winze in which work has recently been prosecuted there is better than . GOVERNOR TO VISIT HERE. A delegation representing the Nevada County Mining Association The surface workings of the sev-' eral Hoff properties are rapidly, assuming shape, last) week crews]; many of The Nugget subscribers have sent or brought in their $1 for the new_ publication ~-on the merits of The Nugget. The Nugget office is working under high pressure preparing for the ‘issue and another printer -has been added to the force. The list of contributers to the first issue includes Honorable James Rolph Jr., Governor; Congressman Harry L. Engilebright, Assemblyman J:Ly Seawell,-Errol-MacBoyle, Fred Miller; A. M. Hoge, Harry Tibbey and many others. Nevada. and Sierra Counties will be featured\in the first issue and the headed by Errol MacBoyle, president of the Mining Association of California visited Governor Rolph at his office in Sacramento last Friday to discuss with him some of the problems confronting the mining industry today. However the governor was due at a luncheon and the delega. tion were fortunate jten minutes of his valuable time. to cover the important problems so to meet with him at some date. The Governor expressed his desire to visit Nevada County and was extended an invitation to be the guest of Nevada County Chapter, Mining Association of California An entertainment is being planned for himNEWTOWN MINE CUT later two feet of ore averaging $40 a ton: IN WITH ELECTRICITY it is stated. For the immediate fuure operations are to be confined to additional sinking in the winze on It took a PG&E G. & E. eonatrustion ‘crew of 25 men less than a week to the showing described and the con-. tie in a 60 KV substation connectinuation of the drift tunnel ty is equipped with as all necessary mining machinery. Sinking of a two-compartment vertical shaft is being prosecuted by miners employed by C. C. Hale and John Anderson of Turlock Calif on} the Pruett-Rowell tract of placef gravel land, embracing 150 acres, one and a half miles south of Confidence and a short distance from the famous Confindence mine, a prodigous lode gold producer for many years: The shaft has attained a depth of 30 feet and will be con. tinued to bedrock, which should be reached 180 feet below the surface, as indicated by recently prospected drilling operations. in: search of new orebodies. The proper-. a five-stamp > mill and concentrating unit as well! tion on the KV Colgate power line and run poles and line a distance of about a mile. A 125 horsepower connection was established. Fred ; Foote of the Foote Electrical Company of Grass Valley is wiring the mine workings This property is located in the South Deer Creek section where a 'number of good prospective mines are known to exist. The opening of this property should be an incentive to others in the district. This is one of the most important connections made by the P. G. & E. in rural sections and particularly in the ore belt, in. some time. As soon as the new gallows frame and other surface improvements are complete extensive operations are planned to start at once. Road I Pests to be graned The time was entirely inadequate ) inaugurated first issue will contain a corrected index of the \mining properties in the two counties. MRS HELEN MCCULLOUGH Mrs. Helen Mill Valley Friday night. ing. At first it was thot she would be benefitted, but complications set in and death. came to relieve her suffering. She was born in Alleghany and spent her early life there. She married Joseph. McCullough,ene of the best known residents of the Ridge; and came to live at San Juan. Six children, three boys and three girls, were born to this union. They are Robert William and Walter, Misses Levina and Bessie McCullough and Mrs.-Michael Phelan. Mrs. McCullough was a devoted wife and mother and in the life of the community in which she lived . will be sadly missed for her active part in affairs that benefitted them. state. It is gratifying to note how PASSES TO HER REWARD McCullough passea away at the home of her sister in Several weeks ago she went to Sacramento where she underwent a major operation for an ailment of long standFORMER EDITOR PASSED AWAY Leonard Sayles Calkins, former Nevada City newspaperman passe away in Sacramento. i He was born in Nevada Cit September 3, 1853 and claimed this city as his own and even after he went to Kansas with his parents he returned in 1877 to Nevada City ta go into the newspaper business which he had learned while in the . East. For many years he was associated with the Nevada City Transcript first as printer and later owning a half interest. He was active in all.civic and po-~ litical. endeavors of his city an@ county. He served as postmaster under President Harrison. Fraternally he was a charter member of Hydraulic Parlor No. 56 N. S. G. W. and was a member of Nevada City Lodge No. 518 B. P. ® Elks, and Milo Lodge Knights of Pythias. He was a Grand Chancellor Knights of Pythias. Mr. Calkins leaves besides 2 host of friends in all parts of the state his widow, Hattie Dickerman Calkins and two daughters, Miss Leonore Calkins and Mrs. Olive Blair im Sacramento. Funeral. seryices _ Sacramento aes morning at 10 o'clock. . > PIONEER ATTEMPTS TO MINE LAVA CAP CHANNELS In 1852 A. B. Clark and William Breese while working the Butte Creek Placer mines, discovered that the greatest pay ceased when arriving at one of the high grade tridutaries of Butte Creek. Their investigations of the smalfi the exposed bed rock formations im the bed of said creek. Further investigations proved the source of this gold was from under the lava capped hill, from which a spring of water flowed, with particles.of gold in evidence at same paosition. > The depth of the lava at this poimt was 30 feet, and the propspectors concluded to\ sink a shaft through the Lava Formation. The absence of powder, and other appliances for this\ work prempte& the investigators to resort to the crude method of heating the lava with wood conveyed tothe seat of operations, and pouring water upon the heated formation, checking the same,and making possible the re‘moval of the lava by windlass. The bottom ofthe lava was reached and gold was discovered in the . CHEROKEE DEVELOPMENT . CO OPEN DEMAREST MINE: Angels Camp, Calif. p, Calif, July 24—— The Cherokee Development Company, financed by Washington capital, is preparing to resume the operation of the Demarest mine, six and a half miles north of this town, aftera practical shutdown since last November. Under the supervision of John F Benson of Seattel, general manager, workmen are at present employed in repainting the mine, mill and other bulidings onthe property and reconditioning all mining and milling equpment. Actual underground work will be under way again in the early future, according to Mr. Benson, who also announces that within the next 90 days the stamps in the mill will be increased from ten to 20 and. the capacity of the plant stepped up from 50 to 100 tons of ore daily. Following dewatering of va 700foot incline shaft by baiing operations, an electric pump of 300 gallons per minute capacity already on the ground, will be installed at he 600-foot level station and stoping of the Demarest vein above the south drift on that level to the 400-foot “at intervals along a stretch of 200 feet. The orebody tias an average width of eight feet and assays $10 to $15 a ton it is stated, with the face of the drift still in ore. Additional sinking is also to be done in a winze, now down $6 feet, below the 600-foot level on the hanging wall vein. In the winze bottom, there is six feet of ore assaying from $12.50 to $15., a ton in gravels exposed by this development, but the water would not permit them to proceed owing to the absence of pumps or other appliances ther abandoned this effort, and conclud— ing the water was supplied from crevices in the bed rock, and anoth— er shaft would miss this water souree. One partner supplied sions, the other did shaft No. 2, resulting nel being reached, likewise preventing gravel bed. the provithe work om in the chanand the water mining of the some months, went to work at ether pursuits to acquire capital for a -further assault upon his gravel bed. The next method of proceedure was the installation of a be@ rack cut 10 feet deep below the bed ef exposed channel, and. directly mto the channel. This development drained 2 lowed the determined prespectors $1700.00 of a reward for their labors. The channel pitched away from their cut in the bedrock, and prevented further developments at that time. {es Future developments by an organ ized mining company preved this depositsto be the famous Persh Becker Channel of Butte County, California situated on the Magalia Ridge, an@ famed for the many millions of dollars of production in gold values. 0. WM. NEWHOUSE PASSES Wm. G. Newhouse, -59, former vice president ofa San Francisca brothers survive. gold, it is asserted. He was born in Sierra county. _ pees ‘ Fi ee S z ae i lice ae e stream showed gold in quantities om They abandoned the project for — small portion of this gravez, and al-. bank died suddenly at his apartment — : of a heart attack. Two brothers — ies TMA TORI ORAL Ee ig ak Aye MIL AIL RN CP oa Se