July 26, 1937 (4 pages)

_ property interests of one kind or an’ Jes. % Thinking Out Loud ty Nugget! 7 4 : COVERS RICHEST GOL D AREA IN CALIFORNIA city and you The Nevada City “Nugget mega . your advertising in the Nugget, therefore, 4 and county to grow in population prosperity. By subsribing to, and help yourself. H. M. L. The President’s erican, who values his liberty, his right to free speech, free, press, and free assemblage, should rejoice. For this is an epochal victory. Regardless of party everyone should sing hallalujahs, glory to God. Even the yellow-bellied communists should be glad, because President had won the battle that he started so casually last February, he could have easily established in this broad land of ours a_ fascist government, under which commun-! ism would have been. herded into concentration camps. But we suspect that John L. Lewis and his comMmunist organizers and _ associates will now desert the administration . with the same alacrity with which. fleas leave a defunct dog. And for the same reason, there is no: more sustenance there. The communists never for a moment suspected the direction they were going. Along with John L. Lewis they were so busy throwing ‘boomerangs, they never saw where they were heading. . The six month’s battle staged in Washington reallly reflects two opposing schools of thought, two philosophies of government. On the one hand were all those discontented elements who believe that their country owes them a living, whether they earn it or not, and who seize upon any means to enforce this demand. It must be admitted that there are many intelligent who take this view and who hold that only a distortion or perversion of justice prevents the realization of this scheme. The constitution and the courts stand in their path, and accordingly they seek not so much to alter as to destroy these obstacThese elements which range all the way from outright anarchism up through the varying shades of pink to blood red communism and on into lesser phases of state socialism, seeking one thing, a centralized government and a regimented people, are opposed by the great majority who have at stake in their homes, their businesses, their savings, and other, great or small. When the constitution was born, all but a very few, an infinitesimal fraction of the population of the thirteen original states had this stake in their country, and admittedly the constitution was written for home owners and holders of property. However, personal liberty and the equal opportunity to gain and hold _ property were guaranteed to all. While this majority of home owners is not so great now as when the constitution was written, still there is a large majority, and these citizens will always resist any plan of centralized government that threatens to abridge their liberties or their. opportunities to gain a competence, or for that matter, to gain.a fortune. What is actually occuring, is a bending, not a breaking of our constitution. Actually under the Social Security and Unemployment acts we have launched a_ share-the-wealth project, that twenty years ago would have been fought to the last ditch. The ‘people of the United States. thus acknowledge their social responstbility to the wage earners and the great army of workers. By giving social security and insurance against unemployment we should, in the long run, restore in a great degree that equality of opportunity which modern industrial conditions have tended to deny. For those two measures we shall have to thank the New Deal. plunged into maelstrom series of social experiments of visionary value, we have to thank the Supreme Court, and, at long last, Congress. Just what the President had in mind, in the way of legislation, had he“ been able to appoint judges enough on the Supreme Court to assure compliance with his wishes, he has not said. He has never fully trusted his fellow countrymen. He did not even consult with congressional leaders with respect to his court: plan. Like Athena, the plan sprang full panoplied from the forehead of Jove. The danger is past. The country breathes free again. Sanity is enthroneed again, and from now on. we shall have a government restored to a condition of checks and balances, as prescribed in the Concourt packing plan has been beaten, beaten by a majority in the Senate of 70 to 20, which also means a big majority of the Democratic senators. Every Amif the, peopie But that we have-not been!’ — ———— ——— rn —— en —— Vol. L, No. 59. Ts County Seat Paper NEVADA city, CALIFORNIA The Gold Ceciber MONDAY, cle 26, 1937. ea ileal —— TWO “DIVING BELLES i . SAWMILL OWNER above as they were about to dive pool in practice for the ‘‘Pale Moon,” which will be given next Friday night at the pool. These two diving belles have star roles in this beautiful and thrilling spectacle. ( a tesy Sacramento Bee Millicent Barry (lett) and Dorothy ‘Pionsa (right) are shown into the waters of the municipal the annual water pageant ae le rl < _. in the Foresthill district of the Ta4 five thousand acres were burned over killing approximately . FINED $500 FOR LETTING FIRE GO As a sequel to the disastrous fire hoe National Forest last fall, Alex McKenzie of Auburn, California, recenttly plead guilty in the court of Justice I. L. Pierce, at Foresthill, to allowing fire to escape from his sawmill and causing this conflagration. 'MeKenzie was prosecuted under section 384 of the state fire laws according to the report from DeWitt Nelson, forest supervisor at Nevada City, and was fined $500; $400 of the fine being suspended. Twentyiby this fire, forty five million board feet of fine . Standing timber. The ‘salvage sale was issued to the Setzer Box Com pany of Sacramento and Nelson says that logs are being hauled to Sacramento by this company’s contractors at the rate of approximately ninety thousand board feet a day. Nelson estimates that they will be able to haul probably one year longer until the inevitable blue stain appears and destroys all value of the timber for commercial use. A long term planting and seeding program is in operation and Nelson states that no efforts will be spared to put the area eventually in as nearly its original condtiion as is humanly possible. Thee sad part of it is however, that: it is not humanly possible to altogether, even with a great amount of labor and expense, restore this magnificent stand of timber to its original condition. Mrs. A. Jacobs. and daughter Marian, left at 11:45 Sunday for Chicago where they will spend a month visiting her parents. WATER PAGEANT TICKETS SELLING. LIKE HOT CAKES Verle Gray, life guard of the pool and general impressario of the great annual” pageant’ at the municipal. pool reports that all is in readiness for the big event. Tickets to the “Pale Moon”’ are being sold like hot cakes and as the number is limited, those who delay may noi be able to obtain them. ; The front of the change house along the pool on next Friday night, will be transformed into a beautiful wooded lake shore along which Indian teepees will stand. From these teepees will issue the chiefs and the beautiful maidens of the tribe to do their part in the pageant as it unrolls, The Nevada County Lumber Company, through the courtesy of Oscar Odegaard, is supplying seats for the audience which will be anged along the pool on the south, The. entire cast of some _ thirty boys and girls in the leading roles and scores of “‘supers’’ have been practising assidiously for the past fortnight. Verle Gray states that this year’s. pageant will undoubtedly be the best hus far offered the communityt. A small charge, 25 cents for adults and older boys and girls, and ten cents for children under 12, is being made. The entire proceeds of the show will be devoted to the benefit of the park and the pool. JUVENILES BALKED BY PARENTS, HAPPY TODAY Michael Grich, 19, of this city and Miss Helen Vivian of Richmond, California, this morning were granted permission by their parents to file a declaration ‘of intention to wed at the county clerk's office. Yesterday the sheriff’s office received wired instructions from the _ girls parents to stop the couple from obtaaning the necessary papers. This was done, but on the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Vivian this morning, “love found a way’’ and the young couple were permitted to carryout their happy plans. will probably end presently and when it reconvenes we may expect constructive action national problems as farm tenantry and stabilization of agriculture. It is also to be hoped that a means may he found to ‘prevent the vast waste intitution. This session of Congress cident to industrial strife. respecting ‘such } (By KATHE JUAN, July 26.— of North San Juan very fortunate young man. Last NORTH SAN Robert Stebbins is a February he and ‘his partner recoyered over $400 in gold dust in less than a month on the site of an old bank Duilding in this town. Last week Mr S.tebbins began ‘‘prospecting’ on the site of an old gold retorting building and again struck “pay dirt’ in the form: of huge amounts of mercury or ‘‘quick’’ which the miners used to amalgamate the ore. gw The old time methods of retorting the gold allowed hundreds of ounces of gold to escape and many times that amount of quicksilver. On a vacant lot in the historic old mining camp of North San Juan is the erumbling remnants of a huge rettort. It was here that the gold from the ancient pliocene. river. channels was moulded into ‘bricks seventy years ago. Where now is but a sunken lot overgrown with weeds there once stood on the site a long one story wooden structure, This building was erected to be used as a saloon by Mr. John Harrington in the early fifties. Here the red-shirted miners of the early fifties were accomodated.Later the saloon was sold to the Hureka Lake and Yuba Canal Mining Company who renovated the building and fitted up a giant retort. This company owned vast holdings in the “diggin’s”’ that extended from French Corral. to Malakoff This building was also the local Old Retort Site At “Nor: San Juan Yields Gold and Mercury INE BRAITHWAITE) office of the Ridge Telephone Company which. was the first long distance telephone line in the world and was established here in 1878. The line was sixty miles long and ran from French Corral to Milton Dam) with a branch to Foucharie. In ali A new company, the O’Okiep Copper Company, Ltd., has just been registered with a capital of. 1,600,600 pounds in 10s. shares to work the copper property in Namaqualand in northern Cape Province, South Africa, formerly operated by the South African Copper Company, Ltd. Operations are scheduled to begin in 1939. The new. company will erect the largest base metal recovery and smelting plant in the Union, with an initial daily output of 1,500 tons of copper ore yielding about. 50 tons of metal, At present prices the annual . worth about 1,200,000 pounds. The vendor company, South African Copper Company, Ltd., is registered in the State of Delaware, and H. DeWitt Smith, of Newmont Mining Corporation is president; Harold K. Hockschiild, of American Metal Company, is’ vice president; Fred Searls, Jr., vice president; Henry E. Dodge, secretary and treasurer, of the O’Okiep enterprise, for which the nec. essary funds have been secured in. the United States. About 2,000 per-. sons, 500 of whom are white, will} find employment through the new! venture, which is expected to give a fresh impetus to an area now inhabi-! ted by only a few impoverished fam-! illes. American engineers have already completed most of the plans for the mine, mill and the smelting unit. Although at first the property will be worked by one shift, two shifts are planned ultimately, which would then result. in a daily output of 3,000 tons of ore, or nearly 40,000 tons of copper a year provid-. ed demand for copper warrants such! Searls and Kerwin In Charge of Huge South — African Copper Mine ; production of about 20,000 tons is} . } the West coast. an increase. It is. estimated produc. : tion costs per pound of refined copper delivered at European ports will be 6%e. The property, covering several hundred thousand acres, is known to contain an ore reserve of 10,200,000 tons averaging 2.45 per cent copper: The first production will be from the Nababeep mine, one of a@ series of copper ibearing dikes, formerly a“substantial producer of cop~ per. A headframe will be erected, hoists installed, and a 1,000-ton ore bin, together with a crushing plant, will be erected. Electric power for the whole project will be supplied by four HE-8, 1,000 hp. Worthington diesel engines that will drive 665kw. General Blectric generators. Ore from the crushing plant will be conveyed by aerial tram 3 miles to the mill to be erected at Garracoup. © Three milling its’ each of 5600 tons capacity, will constitute the mfil. Symons cone crushers, Marcy ball mills, and Dorr classifiers have been purchased for the plant. The smelter will employ the Pierce-Smith system of converting and blister copper will be transported by narrow gauge railway 90 miles to Port Nolioth, on _A small group of engineers will direct opGeorge A. Kervin is general manager, Wesley VP. Goss, mine superintendent; F. A. Elliott, mill superintendent; John C. Salisbury, smelter superintendent; W. E. Lane, construction superintendent and W. E. Meals, mine engineer. The remainder of the technical staff must be selected from British or Canadian engineers. —HEngineering and Mining: Journal. American erations. NEVADA CITY. . WOMAN, WIDELY BELOVED, PASSES Mrs. Honnor Virginia Seadden, the . wife of Phillip G. Scadden of this . city, passed away late Saturday night at her home on Coyote street. The end came after months of battling with an incurable malady. The funeral under the direction of there were twenty two stations on the line and its chief use-was the . management of the ditches and flum-/ es that carried water to the mining claims. An injunction against ‘hy-; draudic mining over fifty years ago . brought to a sudden stop the progress of a great industry and the telephone line fell into disuse. In the early days Mr. Robert McMurry, superintendent of the Eureka Mines, rode up and down the Ridge in a spick and span buggy drawn by a pair of beautiful horses and collected the gold mined by his company. Always in front of him on the road was another buggy containing two guards, or messengers, as they were called in those days, carrying short rifled guns. In the rear of Mr. MeMurry followed another buggy with guards and guns. When the gold was safe at North San Juan it was retorted in iron pots to release it from the quicksilver which was used to retrieve it from the ancient channels. Afterwards the gold was melted into “bricks’’, At this point it was taken across the street to the Wells Fargo office and placed on a stage bound for the mint at San Francisco. The stage.was.drawn.by. four horses, and) sometimes six, and the bullion was guarded to its final destination by . MINUTE MELODIES (Songs of Northern California) CRINOLINE LADY (Placerville) There’s a Crinoline Lady sketched by stars in the sky, And she’s languidly, meandering by, : Trailing her loveliness over God’s tidy blue lawn, To keep her aneicintinan to tates breakfast with Dawn, ROY GRIFFITHS DEETER armed messengers who, rode on the outside seat with the driver. The old Consolidated Mines, the’ Laird, and the Farrel Mines at North Coumbia, the American Diggings at at Birchville also brought their gold to the retort at North San Juan. Used quicksilver such as Mr. Stebbins is recovering it worth about seventy cents to one dollar per pound as it can no longer be classed as commecial pure mercury after it has gone through a retort. The gold content is small but up to date this young seeker for buried treasure has retrieved thirty five pounds Sweetland and the Manzanita Mines} of the. the Holmes Funeral Home at their? chapel, will be held tomorrow morning at 10:30 o’clock with the Rev. E. O. Chapel of the Grass Valley . Methodist church, in charge of the . service. Mrs. Scadden was born Honnor Virginia Stevens, March 20. 1874, in Dover, New Jersey. Her parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. John S. Stevens, came to Califormia when she was but six months old, settled first in Hansonville in‘ Yuba county but removed to Nevada City when she was five. years old. In June, 1894 she and ° Phillip Seadden were married and in the happy vears following,. three ‘children were born: Malcolm, who died in infancy, Veda Blanche Scadden, now Mrs. Wm. Herman Moore of Sacramentto, and Walter Douglas Scadden of this city. Until illmess encroached upon her and cut her off from active participation in the constructive enterprises of various clubs and fraternal orders in Nevada City, Mrs. Scadden took a prominent part in the work, especially of the Woman’s Civic club, and with her sister, the late Mrs. Walter Mobley, was known as one of the civic Minded and’ active supporters of those things which helped to make life better in Nevada City. She was widely loved and with her husband created one of the most beautiful gardens in this community. A garden in fact, which visitors from. other sections often admired. All the older families of Nevada City join in sympathy and grieving with her husband and children. Be-~ sides these left to mourn her untimely passing, are a ‘brother, George Stephens and a sister, Mrs. John W. Darke. ' Pall bearers tomorrow morning will be R. R. Goyne, T. H. Richards, John J. Fortier, J. F. Colley, W. W. Waggoner.and John W. O’Neill, In‘miles of new main and costing in the . according to announcement by H. M. terment will be in Pine oor ceme-!. (P.G&E SPENDS $103,000 ON MANY IMPROVEMENTS Extensive replacements to pipelines, utilizing apptoximately ffve neighborhood of $80,000, have just been completed in Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s Drum Division, Cooper, Jocal division manager. Fourteen major pipe line jobs were undertaken, combined work on them taking about six months to finish. Water mains were replaced on Pacific «treet in Rocklin, Finley and Borland streets in Auburn. Pipe on the Ben Franklin line, Alta supply line and the Auburn supply line was replaced. Highway crossings were rebuilt at the lower Banvard pipeline on the Auburn-Neweastle highway . and on the Loomis-Rocklin highway. New mains were also laid on Newcastle, Gold Run, Colfax supply line, Bowman-~ supply line at Applegate — and at the lower Banvard trestle on’ the Ophir road. Other improvements to service in» ‘rum division include expenditures in excess of $23,000 for flume repairs, pole and insulator replace-~ ments,~increased transformer CapaC~ i ity and voltage requirements, exten© sions to supply electric service to new customers and power line Te> placements. MIND OF F Daniel Esola, a wood pores . Truckee, was taken into the court o Justice of the Peace Smith at Truckee recentl by Fire Prevention o ficer J D. Rafferty according to 4 report by DeWitt Nelson, supervisor. of the Tahoe National Forest at.Nevada City. Upon entering a plea guilty to the charge of blasting wi: out a permit and allowing a fire escape from such operations he given his choice of paying a. fine or spending twenty five days the Nevada county new modern €. calaboosge and so decided upon — latter and nothing could change mind until the local deputy sh extremely exlusive mereury. tery. ren

_ property interests of one kind or an’ Jes. % Thinking Out Loud ty Nugget! 7 4 : COVERS RICHEST GOL D AREA IN CALIFORNIA city and you The Nevada City “Nugget mega . your advertising in the Nugget, therefore, 4 and county to grow in population prosperity. By subsribing to, and help yourself. H. M. L. The President’s erican, who values his liberty, his right to free speech, free, press, and free assemblage, should rejoice. For this is an epochal victory. Regardless of party everyone should sing hallalujahs, glory to God. Even the yellow-bellied communists should be glad, because President had won the battle that he started so casually last February, he could have easily established in this broad land of ours a_ fascist government, under which commun-! ism would have been. herded into concentration camps. But we suspect that John L. Lewis and his comMmunist organizers and _ associates will now desert the administration . with the same alacrity with which. fleas leave a defunct dog. And for the same reason, there is no: more sustenance there. The communists never for a moment suspected the direction they were going. Along with John L. Lewis they were so busy throwing ‘boomerangs, they never saw where they were heading. . The six month’s battle staged in Washington reallly reflects two opposing schools of thought, two philosophies of government. On the one hand were all those discontented elements who believe that their country owes them a living, whether they earn it or not, and who seize upon any means to enforce this demand. It must be admitted that there are many intelligent who take this view and who hold that only a distortion or perversion of justice prevents the realization of this scheme. The constitution and the courts stand in their path, and accordingly they seek not so much to alter as to destroy these obstacThese elements which range all the way from outright anarchism up through the varying shades of pink to blood red communism and on into lesser phases of state socialism, seeking one thing, a centralized government and a regimented people, are opposed by the great majority who have at stake in their homes, their businesses, their savings, and other, great or small. When the constitution was born, all but a very few, an infinitesimal fraction of the population of the thirteen original states had this stake in their country, and admittedly the constitution was written for home owners and holders of property. However, personal liberty and the equal opportunity to gain and hold _ property were guaranteed to all. While this majority of home owners is not so great now as when the constitution was written, still there is a large majority, and these citizens will always resist any plan of centralized government that threatens to abridge their liberties or their. opportunities to gain a competence, or for that matter, to gain.a fortune. What is actually occuring, is a bending, not a breaking of our constitution. Actually under the Social Security and Unemployment acts we have launched a_ share-the-wealth project, that twenty years ago would have been fought to the last ditch. The ‘people of the United States. thus acknowledge their social responstbility to the wage earners and the great army of workers. By giving social security and insurance against unemployment we should, in the long run, restore in a great degree that equality of opportunity which modern industrial conditions have tended to deny. For those two measures we shall have to thank the New Deal. plunged into maelstrom series of social experiments of visionary value, we have to thank the Supreme Court, and, at long last, Congress. Just what the President had in mind, in the way of legislation, had he“ been able to appoint judges enough on the Supreme Court to assure compliance with his wishes, he has not said. He has never fully trusted his fellow countrymen. He did not even consult with congressional leaders with respect to his court: plan. Like Athena, the plan sprang full panoplied from the forehead of Jove. The danger is past. The country breathes free again. Sanity is enthroneed again, and from now on. we shall have a government restored to a condition of checks and balances, as prescribed in the Concourt packing plan has been beaten, beaten by a majority in the Senate of 70 to 20, which also means a big majority of the Democratic senators. Every Amif the, peopie But that we have-not been!’ — ———— ——— rn —— en —— Vol.. L, No. 59. Ts County Seat Paper NEVADA city, CALIFORNIA The Gold Ceciber MONDAY, cle 26, 1937. ea ileal —— TWO “DIVING BELLES i . SAWMILL OWNER above as they were about to dive pool in practice for the ‘‘Pale Moon,” which will be given next Friday night at the pool. These two diving belles have star roles in this beautiful and thrilling spectacle. ( a tesy Sacramento Bee Millicent Barry (lett) and Dorothy ‘Pionsa (right) are shown into the waters of the municipal the annual water pageant ae le rl < _. in the Foresthill district of the Ta4 five thousand acres were burned over killing approximately . FINED $500 FOR LETTING FIRE GO As a sequel to the disastrous fire hoe National Forest last fall, Alex McKenzie of Auburn, California, recenttly plead guilty in the court of Justice I. L. Pierce, at Foresthill, to allowing fire to escape from his sawmill and causing this conflagration. 'MeKenzie was prosecuted under section 384 of the state fire laws according to the report from DeWitt Nelson, forest supervisor at Nevada City, and was fined $500; $400 of the fine being suspended. Twentyiby this fire, forty five million board feet of fine . Standing timber. The ‘salvage sale was issued to the Setzer Box Com pany of Sacramento and Nelson says that logs are being hauled to Sacramento by this company’s contractors at the rate of approximately ninety thousand board feet a day. Nelson estimates that they will be able to haul probably one year longer until the inevitable blue stain appears and destroys all value of the timber for commercial use. A long term planting and seeding program is in operation and Nelson states that no efforts will be spared to put the area eventually in as nearly its original condtiion as is humanly possible. Thee sad part of it is however, that: it is not humanly possible to altogether, even with a great amount of labor and expense, restore this magnificent stand of timber to its original condition. Mrs. A. Jacobs. and daughter Marian, left at 11:45 Sunday for Chicago where they will spend a month visiting her parents. WATER PAGEANT TICKETS SELLING. LIKE HOT CAKES Verle Gray, life guard of the pool and general impressario of the great annual” pageant’ at the municipal. pool reports that all is in readiness for the big event. Tickets to the “Pale Moon”’ are being sold like hot cakes and as the number is limited, those who delay may noi be able to obtain them. ; The front of the change house along the pool on next Friday night, will be transformed into a beautiful wooded lake shore along which Indian teepees will stand. From these teepees will issue the chiefs and the beautiful maidens of the tribe to do their part in the pageant as it unrolls, The Nevada County Lumber Company, through the courtesy of Oscar Odegaard, is supplying seats for the audience which will be anged along the pool on the south, The. entire cast of some _ thirty boys and girls in the leading roles and scores of “‘supers’’ have been practising assidiously for the past fortnight. Verle Gray states that this year’s. pageant will undoubtedly be the best hus far offered the communityt. A small charge, 25 cents for adults and older boys and girls, and ten cents for children under 12, is being made. The entire proceeds of the show will be devoted to the benefit of the park and the pool. JUVENILES BALKED BY PARENTS, HAPPY TODAY Michael Grich, 19, of this city and Miss Helen Vivian of Richmond, California, this morning were granted permission by their parents to file a declaration ‘of intention to wed at the county clerk's office. Yesterday the sheriff’s office received wired instructions from the _ girls parents to stop the couple from obtaaning the necessary papers. This was done, but on the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Vivian this morning, “love found a way’’ and the young couple were permitted to carryout their happy plans. will probably end presently and when it reconvenes we may expect constructive action national problems as farm tenantry and stabilization of agriculture. It is also to be hoped that a means may he found to ‘prevent the vast waste intitution. This session of Congress cident to industrial strife. respecting ‘such } (By KATHE JUAN, July 26.— of North San Juan very fortunate young man. Last NORTH SAN Robert Stebbins is a February he and ‘his partner recoyered over $400 in gold dust in less than a month on the site of an old bank Duilding in this town. Last week Mr S.tebbins began ‘‘prospecting’ on the site of an old gold retorting building and again struck “pay dirt’ in the form: of huge amounts of mercury or ‘‘quick’’ which the miners used to amalgamate the ore. gw The old time methods of retorting the gold allowed hundreds of ounces of gold to escape and many times that amount of quicksilver. On a vacant lot in the historic old mining camp of North San Juan is the erumbling remnants of a huge rettort. It was here that the gold from the ancient pliocene. river. channels was moulded into ‘bricks seventy years ago. Where now is but a sunken lot overgrown with weeds there once stood on the site a long one story wooden structure, This building was erected to be used as a saloon by Mr. John Harrington in the early fifties. Here the red-shirted miners of the early fifties were accomodated.Later the saloon was sold to the Hureka

Lake and Yuba Canal Mining Company who renovated the building and fitted up a giant retort. This company owned vast holdings in the “diggin’s”’ that extended from French Corral. to Malakoff This building was also the local Old Retort Site At “Nor: San Juan Yields Gold and Mercury INE BRAITHWAITE) office of the Ridge Telephone Company which. was the first long distance telephone line in the world and was established here in 1878. The line was sixty miles long and ran from French Corral to Milton Dam) with a branch to Foucharie. In ali A new company, the O’Okiep Copper Company, Ltd., has just been registered with a capital of. 1,600,600 pounds in 10s. shares to work the copper property in Namaqualand in northern Cape Province, South Africa, formerly operated by the South African Copper Company, Ltd. Operations are scheduled to begin in 1939. The new. company will erect the largest base metal recovery and smelting plant in the Union, with an initial daily output of 1,500 tons of copper ore yielding about. 50 tons of metal, At present prices the annual . worth about 1,200,000 pounds. The vendor company, South African Copper Company, Ltd., is registered in the State of Delaware, and H. DeWitt Smith, of Newmont Mining Corporation is president; Harold K. Hockschiild, of American Metal Company, is’ vice president; Fred Searls, Jr., vice president; Henry E. Dodge, secretary and treasurer, of the O’Okiep enterprise, for which the nec. essary funds have been secured in. the United States. About 2,000 per-. sons, 500 of whom are white, will} find employment through the new! venture, which is expected to give a fresh impetus to an area now inhabi-! ted by only a few impoverished fam-! illes. American engineers have already completed most of the plans for the mine, mill and the smelting unit. Although at first the property will be worked by one shift, two shifts are planned ultimately, which would then result. in a daily output of 3,000 tons of ore, or nearly 40,000 tons of copper a year provid-. ed demand for copper warrants such! Searls and Kerwin In Charge of Huge South — African Copper Mine ; production of about 20,000 tons is} . } the West coast. an increase. It is. estimated produc. : tion costs per pound of refined copper delivered at European ports will be 6%e. The property, covering several hundred thousand acres, is known to contain an ore reserve of 10,200,000 tons averaging 2.45 per cent copper: The first production will be from the Nababeep mine, one of a@ series of copper ibearing dikes, formerly a“substantial producer of cop~ per. A headframe will be erected, hoists installed, and a 1,000-ton ore bin, together with a crushing plant, will be erected. Electric power for the whole project will be supplied by four HE-8, 1,000 hp. Worthington diesel engines that will drive 665kw. General Blectric generators. Ore from the crushing plant will be conveyed by aerial tram 3 miles to the mill to be erected at Garracoup. © Three milling its’ each of 5600 tons capacity, will constitute the mfil. Symons cone crushers, Marcy ball mills, and Dorr classifiers have been purchased for the plant. The smelter will employ the Pierce-Smith system of converting and blister copper will be transported by narrow gauge railway 90 miles to Port Nolioth, on _A small group of engineers will direct opGeorge A. Kervin is general manager, Wesley VP. Goss, mine superintendent; F. A. Elliott, mill superintendent; John C. Salisbury, smelter superintendent; W. E. Lane, construction superintendent and W. E. Meals, mine engineer. The remainder of the technical staff must be selected from British or Canadian engineers. —HEngineering and Mining: Journal. American erations. NEVADA CITY. . WOMAN, WIDELY BELOVED, PASSES Mrs. Honnor Virginia Seadden, the . wife of Phillip G. Scadden of this . city, passed away late Saturday night at her home on Coyote street. The end came after months of battling with an incurable malady. The funeral under the direction of there were twenty two stations on the line and its chief use-was the . management of the ditches and flum-/ es that carried water to the mining claims. An injunction against ‘hy-; draudic mining over fifty years ago . brought to a sudden stop the progress of a great industry and the telephone line fell into disuse. In the early days Mr. Robert McMurry, superintendent of the Eureka Mines, rode up and down the Ridge in a spick and span buggy drawn by a pair of beautiful horses and collected the gold mined by his company. Always in front of him on the road was another buggy containing two guards, or messengers, as they were called in those days, carrying short rifled guns. In the rear of Mr. MeMurry followed another buggy with guards and guns. When the gold was safe at North San Juan it was retorted in iron pots to release it from the quicksilver which was used to retrieve it from the ancient channels. Afterwards the gold was melted into “bricks’’, At this point it was taken across the street to the Wells Fargo office and placed on a stage bound for the mint at San Francisco. The stage.was.drawn.by. four horses, and) sometimes six, and the bullion was guarded to its final destination by . MINUTE MELODIES (Songs of Northern California) CRINOLINE LADY (Placerville) There’s a Crinoline Lady sketched by stars in the sky, And she’s languidly, meandering by, : Trailing her loveliness over God’s tidy blue lawn, To keep her aneicintinan to tates breakfast with Dawn, ROY GRIFFITHS DEETER armed messengers who, rode on the outside seat with the driver. The old Consolidated Mines, the’ Laird, and the Farrel Mines at North Coumbia, the American Diggings at at Birchville also brought their gold to the retort at North San Juan. Used quicksilver such as Mr. Stebbins is recovering it worth about seventy cents to one dollar per pound as it can no longer be classed as commecial pure mercury after it has gone through a retort. The gold content is small but up to date this young seeker for buried treasure has retrieved thirty five pounds Sweetland and the Manzanita Mines} of the. the Holmes Funeral Home at their? chapel, will be held tomorrow morning at 10:30 o’clock with the Rev. E. O. Chapel of the Grass Valley . Methodist church, in charge of the . service. Mrs. Scadden was born Honnor Virginia Stevens, March 20. 1874, in Dover, New Jersey. Her parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. John S. Stevens, came to Califormia when she was but six months old, settled first in Hansonville in‘ Yuba county but removed to Nevada City when she was five. years old. In June, 1894 she and ° Phillip Seadden were married and in the happy vears following,. three ‘children were born: Malcolm, who died in infancy, Veda Blanche Scadden, now Mrs. Wm. Herman Moore of Sacramentto, and Walter Douglas Scadden of this city. Until illmess encroached upon her and cut her off from active participation in the constructive enterprises of various clubs and fraternal orders in Nevada City, Mrs. Scadden took a prominent part in the work, especially of the Woman’s Civic club, and with her sister, the late Mrs. Walter Mobley, was known as one of the civic Minded and’ active supporters of those things which helped to make life better in Nevada City. She was widely loved and with her husband created one of the most beautiful gardens in this community. A garden in fact, which visitors from. other sections often admired. All the older families of Nevada City join in sympathy and grieving with her husband and children. Be-~ sides these left to mourn her untimely passing, are a ‘brother, George Stephens and a sister, Mrs. John W. Darke. ' Pall bearers tomorrow morning will be R. R. Goyne, T. H. Richards, John J. Fortier, J. F. Colley, W. W. Waggoner.and John W. O’Neill, In‘miles of new main and costing in the . according to announcement by H. M. terment will be in Pine oor ceme-!. (P.G&E SPENDS $103,000 ON MANY IMPROVEMENTS Extensive replacements to pipelines, utilizing apptoximately ffve neighborhood of $80,000, have just been completed in Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s Drum Division, Cooper, Jocal division manager. Fourteen major pipe line jobs were undertaken, combined work on them taking about six months to finish. Water mains were replaced on Pacific «treet in Rocklin, Finley and Borland streets in Auburn. Pipe on the Ben Franklin line, Alta supply line and the Auburn supply line was replaced. Highway crossings were rebuilt at the lower Banvard pipeline on the Auburn-Neweastle highway . and on the Loomis-Rocklin highway. New mains were also laid on Newcastle, Gold Run, Colfax supply line, Bowman-~ supply line at Applegate — and at the lower Banvard trestle on’ the Ophir road. Other improvements to service in» ‘rum division include expenditures in excess of $23,000 for flume repairs, pole and insulator replace-~ ments,~increased transformer CapaC~ i ity and voltage requirements, exten© sions to supply electric service to new customers and power line Te> placements. MIND OF F Daniel Esola, a wood pores . Truckee, was taken into the court o Justice of the Peace Smith at Truckee recentl by Fire Prevention o ficer J D. Rafferty according to 4 report by DeWitt Nelson, supervisor. of the Tahoe National Forest at.Nevada City. Upon entering a plea guilty to the charge of blasting wi: out a permit and allowing a fire escape from such operations he given his choice of paying a. fine or spending twenty five days the Nevada county new modern €. calaboosge and so decided upon — latter and nothing could change mind until the local deputy sh extremely exlusive mereury. tery. ren