July 3, 1931 (6 pages)

~ BOUNDARY MINE . « SHOWS UP GOOD “worth of assessment work on five Jevada City ugget -VOLUME V, NUMBER 29 THE GOLD CENTER NEVADA CITY, NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA” THE COUNTY SEAT PAPER * he original Grass Valley Boundary Mines Company have taken ever the Boundary Mine near the center of Grass Valley and are doing considerable development work. M. J. Brock is president of the company. Tyg, shifts are at work atthe present time sinking a shaft. A good showing of free gold has been encountered in the foot wall which is dipping towards the main ledge. There is a new ten stamp mill on the property and a new seven drill air compressor. The hoist’ has been] bered rebuilt and it is in first class condition. Development work is being rushed as rapidly as possible. MRS KIMBALL RETURNS FROM MINING PROPERTY Mrs. Kitty Kimball returned to Nevada City Thursday after spending several weeks at her mining prop-. erties Reliance Placer and Quartz in the Alleghany. and Eureka Dis‘tricts. While there she supervised the completion of the assessment, work on the five claims incorporat-' ed under one head. She saw the : sys : . i i ! . . . . completion of a building and the th Past, was workd within 700 fect . . (ew magazine the directors felt it was only just as The building of trails on the property. , of the present lower level. The, The men are now working on a. north drift was being driven on the. 55 foot gravel tunnel which will! eventually connect with a 175 foot . tunnel on the quartz ledge. The: gravel in the tunnel is running exceedingly high. From ten to fifteen . fair sized colors show up in each pan. : Mrs. Kimball was accompanied by her son-in-law and daughter, Mr.; and Mrs.° Adolph Hagist, and their, pmall son. The party was enroute to] their home in Oakland. MINING ASSOCIATION ~ BLECTS MAC BOYLE PRES. At a meeting of the directors of the Mining Association of California held last Saturday at Travelers Hotel in San Francisco Errol Mac-; Boyle, president of the Idaho Mary-; jand Mines Company was unanl‘mously elected president of the Association. Lee Rowland of Mariposa Chapter was elected first vice president. A committee was appointed to revise the by-laws for the Association to allow for the election of an, executive board who can quickly handle matters of importance with-; out calling the entire board of Di-, rectors many of whim must come from a considerable distance to _attend the meeting. A great need for a publication was expressed by all present. Negotiations are under way to' secure an organizer who will put full time in the fiéld securing members and proper support for the Association so as to place it on a firm financial basis. SCADDEN COMPLETES 200 FOOT TUNNEL’ Thomas Scadden of North Columbia was a Nevada City visitor this week. He now has a tunnel in his Oak Flat property 200 feet long. He expects to hole through to the channel within the next few weeks. He formerly had a tunnel 140 feet but found he was too high so he, abandoned it and drove the new tunnel lower down. The tunnel has been driven thru hard rock and Mr. Scaddn has been doing all the work alone. He has also just completed $500 claims belonging to the Grizzly Ridge Mining Company, Inc. The work was done on the Outlet, Mazuma, Grey Eagle, Polar Bear and Little Bear. Incidentally. Mr. Scadden is one of The Nugget’s good friends and subscribes and besides paying his subscription for the coming year to The Nugget paid for his subscription to the new California Mining Journal thereby becoming one of the first subscribers.George Erway has also done his assessment work on his Risk claim. There is a forty foot shaft and he is now working on the tunnel which is in 60 feet. GASTON MINE WILL IHIGGINS RANCH TO fr ) CALIFORNIA MINING JOURNAL ISTO BE PUBLISHED SHORTLY Within the next few. weeks another publication will . come to light in Nevada City. It will be called the . California Mining Journal and will be published by the . Nevada City Nugget Publishing Company. As the name . ‘ndicates “it will be devoted to the mining industry of . the state and last Saturday at the meeting of the directors of the Mining Association of California it received the sanction of that body and will be the official publication of that organization. START OPERATIONS: The Gaston mine, located in the Washington mining district, will goon start operations. .Theprperty is completely equipped. There is a ten stamp mill on the property at the present time but future plans call for the installation of a flotation plant if the production warrants. The property was sold to George St. Johns of Berkeley a year and a half ago by Fred Cassidy of Nevada City and Claude Ferguson. Up to January of 1929 the surface workings were all rehabilitated , the tunnel cleaned out and retimthe main tunnel which is 4700 feet long. A 1500 foot tramway was built, saw mill installed, the Gaston ditch reconditioned with 600 feet of flumes, over 2000 feet of 12-to 16 inch. pipe placed in _position for’ generating water power. They have 21600 cubic foot com-; pressor driven by a Pelton wheel, using water under'a 1172 foot head. A 70 ton mill is on the property. Two Lyner machines were used in driving an east cross cut and north . drift. The east cross cut was in The first issue will be a special edition of Nevada and Sierra Counties and material is now being prepared by issue a widely sought one. It was at first the thought of The Nugget publishers to . publish another special number of The Nugget as_ the . last special is about exhausted and there is a_ steady demand. However, upon interviewing mining machinery men they urged that a monthly magazine be published in the interest of the industry of the state as a whole. There is a wide demand for such a publication. The Mining Association has long desired to havea publication granodiorite and it was thought in. of some sort in which they could keep their members in 4690 that the downward: extension . . totem WIth the head office .and with the happenings of of the Gambrinus vein would shortly . . } each other, but had;not been able to reach a proper . be encountered. This vein which has . . method in which to finance the publication. been a big producer of good ore in. In awarding The Nugget privilege of publishing the . . Nugget has been the one paper of the state to boost the . . . contact between’ granodiorite and'. . mining industry and both of the publishers have been slate, known as the main Gaston'. } active members and offiers of the organization. Then too vein. if: people listened to talks by Congresswell known mining engineers which will make the first ]. .pioying 1,500 deputies. . . Patent Committee mining activity at the present time is centering around this locality. The directors as a whole pledged their support to . the new publication. The delegation from Oroville requested that the second issue be a Butte County special edition and were eager to assist. : There have recently been a number of movements to start a mining magazine of some sort so great was the need felt but they lacked the proper support and necessary backing. Two of these attémpted publications have given up their idea entirely and have thrown their support to . the California Mining Jounral. The Journal has already . secured the services of a field representative who will spend his time touring the state securing advertising, . subscriptions and news items. The new publication already has a dozen paid in . advance subscriptions. The subscription price to Nugget . . . A water right goes with this prop. erty which isan important item at this time. This property was worked by the Rescue Eula, a Nevada mining con-, pany, a couple of years ago. Lack! of water or electricity for running: machinery closed the property at! that time, we understand. This section now has electricity, it being, brought in by the P. G. & E. Co. from the north or Alleghany district BE HYDRAULICKED . D. L. Powers and W. L. Richards } have taken a contract to hydraulic . the old Higgins ranch on Goodyear . subscribers or members of the Mining Association of . ' BUTLER INTERESTS BUY ty The Cooley Butler Interests have jerem the Golden Center Mining ComCONG ENGLEBRIGHT IS . POPULAR ~ SPEAKER Calls for our.popular Congressman have come so thick and fast that he is able to accept only a small sed . tion of the invitations that are pouring in from all parts of the state.” Last week bright spent many Congressman. Engleseveral busy days in Los Angeles where he was one of the principal speakers at the Sheriff's Relief Association Barba{eus at Luna Park in the an annual event southern city. Over 30,000 imen Swing and Englebright and by . Sheriff Bill Treggor who’ heads the largest sheriff’ office in the world . . The theatres of Los Angeles doinated their best acts for the occasion ‘and after the formal speeches there . was a continuous vaudeville per-. formance. . Congressman Englebright was also! a guest of the city officials of Los' ; Angeles. They were vitally interested , !in our genial congressman ssgesie Sen district controls the water supply of Los Angeles. . He was also a luncheon’ guest of . 'R, K. O. Studios in Hollywood. . . Adolph Menjou was called from loca. jf; tion to act as host to the congress. . = }. man. He was conducted thru the' . stifdio and witnessed the preview of pictures. The movie people; several Po espcially interested in copy-right . legislation which is handled by the of which . sressman Englebright is a member. . ; The committee is considering the . revision of the copy right laws. . July 6th Congressman Englebright is to: meet the Congressional . Committee and conduct them thru' July 24th he is to be master of Ceremonies a the Lassen National! Yosemite Park. Park dedication. 1 . . He still has time to be a genial . Confellow citizen of Nevada City. : GOLDEN CENTER MINE i purchased the Golden Center mine pany. It took two years to complete creek near Goodyears Bar in iSerra county. Wl California will be one dollar payable in advance. The . California Mining Journal will make its premier about the The then have been working for . . third week in July. Thousands of copies will be distribut. the past six weeks preparing the ed throughout the east extolling the golden opportunities . property for the operations and arej}/ \¢ California and of Nevada County in particular. . needtiations for the property. . Plans are under way to unwater jthe mine and retimber the shaft, then additional sinking and cross; cutting will be done to reach valuable ore bodies of the Butler inter-' . ( ‘ i now ready for the monitor which is; to be installed. Operations willl acit Wo recat tne eas “bose ita sual DAVE JANSON HAS GOOD —, EMPRESS GOLD MINING ORE ON HIS PROPERTY COMPANY INCORPORATED a 140 foot drop. Mr. C. C. Bennetts — The old Higgins Ranch is a historic spot. In the old days it was a pack train station and the ranch was was in Tne! ‘The Empress Gold Mining Comleft untouched to raise feed for the Nugget office Wednesday and stated’ pany has been incorporated for . ! “ pack train, altho the ground allithat Dave Janson of Amador county operation of the Newtown mine around it was washed for the gold; has one of the prettiest little leads ynder management of Mr. Ed JaGoodyear Creek was one of the! in quartz porphyry on his property. cobs. richest in the district and has a re-. in the Edwards Bridge section of; A crew of men are atwork on the cord production of $3,000,000 forj Nevada county. . property. Machinery is coming in three miles along the creek. There are values in the gouge in to-be installed and operations will The owner Mr. Higgins passedithe west wall. The sulphides are in. soon be under way. away last winter and the property. the: east wall. The formation is on! The old company developed the now belongs to his widow and-chil-. a~-contact of granodiorite and slates. mine to a depth of 150° feet and dren, who live in Portland, Oregon. The assays run from about $2.48 to exposed a considerable tonnage of 0 $18.45. ore, but the machinery at that time ROUGH AND READY MINES This property is above the South. was not suitable to recover values ARE SHOWING ACTIVITY: Yuba river and between the riverj/in paying quantities. ‘and the Hoge mine. It is composed : 0 'of one claim and adjoins Mr. Ben-; Mr. C. C. Bennetts, a mine owner, netts property on the north and the! was a Nevada City visitor WednesThe Rough and Ready mining dis-. Kirkham property is to the south. . day. trict is also experiencing a mining i revival. Not only have a lot of new July the Fourth u locations been made, but a large number are doing assessment work with filings up to last Tuesday showing the following — proofs ofj labr and development work: Olympus and S. Olympus quartz by Chas. F. Folck et ai; Sumner and Alta quartz, by South Star Gold Mines Company; Bath Consolidated quartz mining claims, Golden Eagle No. 1 and 2, Rame Windron, Henry Ford, Cragynos Fraction and Bath by Thomas Bath; Osceola, Osceola North Ext., Osceola South Ext., Aurora Borealis, Shibboleth, Live Oak, Mos Agate, Yellow Pointer, and Florence, by Osceola Consolidated Mines Company; Option quartz, by C. R. Chechetini. _ _ This district has ledges of good ore but is noted for the rich pockets of gold found in the re. 0. uv Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Day and children of Modesto spent the week-end at Mr. Day’s brother, S. M. Day. ests north and west of the Grass !Valley townsite. It is thought work . will start’ in a few days. . The Golden Center mine has long . been regarded asone of the best . prospects and enables the new.own-, ers to make accessable’ _ their ground for operation. The mine is completely with surface which has condition. equipped and mill excellent. machinery been kept in ———0 Le . . MINING PERSONALS . Mr. Griff L. Thomas formerly of . Nevada City, and now of San Francisco, is spending his vacation in. Downieville. At one time he had . charge of several mines in this disi triet among them being the Telegraph, Posey and Pushach. John Saulsbury, who has spent several. years in Arizona mining fields, and now resides in Los Anangeles, was a visitor in Nevada City. : L. L. Patrick and wife passed thru. town Thursday’ enroute to Downieville. Mr. Patrick had the first mill in Gold Field, Nevada! which.was called Combination. Thomas Scadden, who owns mining property near Columbia Hill was a business visitor in Nevada City during the week. 0. . MINE NOTES OF INTEREST Mr. James Grimes, mining man of experience, was talking of good ore ,in Nevada City district. He stated ;that gold was sold at $9 an ounce off the plates at the Mountaineer Mine. It’s a good mine that sells gold off the plates at $6 an ounce. In the state of Nevada mining men look for gold in porphyry. ©. In California “gold is where you find it’, in fact it is found in slate schist, granidorite, porphyry, etc. : Company; FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1938 GRASS VALLEY ALL SET FOR 41H A band concert by the Grass Val— ley Concert Band at Bret Harte Inm started off the week end of festivities which will continue until late Sunday afternoon. The city is prettily decorated with bunting and flags and preparation is being made for the greatest influx of former residents and.visitors im the Fourth of Juty~history. It has been advertised by radio, pen letters and personal mail. Hotels will be crowded, the Memorial Park throwm open to campers and many homes will assist in caring for the visitors. The following is the list of entrie® from Nevada City: ‘ Decorated Car—Nevada City Coun= cilmen. “National Interpretation”’ Hy+ draulic Parlor No. 56, N. S. G. We “Homes Among-the Hills’’—Ghame= _ ber of Commerce. “Nevada County Wild Life’___Ray Teale, Taxidermist. “Prospector of Yesterdays’’—Lawerence Calanan. “Prospector of _Today’’—Milton Milton Masters. “Preparing Breakfast’? — Nevada City Nugget. _ “Uncle Tom, Little Eva and Topsy” Mrs. Carl Tobiassen.and Mrs. Ie Marsh. “Float’’—Nevada City Fire Department. “Christopher Columbus” — Court Cristo Colombo Lodge. Decorated Car Gieselman. Marshal Ws Float—‘‘Kopp’s Bakery Welcomes: . You"’—Kopp’s Bakery. It is requested that all those pare ticipating in the Nevada City group to meet on Spring, street so that they may go to Grass Valley together. ‘ SUNDAY EVENTS 2:00 p.m. Watt Park. Grass Valley Braves vs. Richmond Elks. Stores are carrying window dis-= plays of old relics. WORK TO START SOON ON SUNRISE PROPERTY Joseph Sergi, owner of the rancia property and a stockholder in the Sunrise Mining and Development Company states operations will start in about two weeks at the mine. This property has been in fitiga= tion for about a year until Seattle ,interests bought out the Grass Valley mining men. The mine has been operated to @ depth of 400 Ofeet, the limit of the hoist, compressors and gasoline sur— face equipment. The company has applied for electricity in order ta operate all machinery .by power. This machinery was to have beem purchased to sink the shaft to 100@ feet when litigation started. The way-is now cleared for immediate operation. Some of the men interested are Chas. DeWhite, originator of the Sunrise Mining and Development: W. S. Washburn of Seattle, representative of Seattle interests and Joseph Sergi. W. S. Washburn is superinten« dent and Fred Pinch is foreman a& the property. WORK ON BELEFONTARNE MINE NOW UNDER WAY The Nevada County Mires Corpor ation was organized this: week. to take over the Bellefontaine mine which includes the Beliefantaine mine and mill and a number of adjacent mineral claims, This is another one of the J. M. Hoff groups headed by A. Gordom Nicolson of Berkeley. It brings into the district some San Francise@ capital. A crew of men have been on the property opening up old workings. A rich ore shoot has been encounter— ed. Further sampling is being conducted by Ed Uren, local mining engineer of prominence. : Another shipment of ore has gon@ to Selby’s The‘St. Louis mil? will be operating in the next: two weeks: About 45 men are: employed onthe several properties including the Bellefontaine, Constitution, Cyane, Federal Loan, Le Compton and La Belle. : 4 2 from the Constitution. — By 4

~ BOUNDARY MINE . « SHOWS UP GOOD “worth of assessment work on five Jevada City ugget -VOLUME V, NUMBER 29 THE GOLD CENTER NEVADA CITY, NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA” THE COUNTY SEAT PAPER * he original Grass Valley Boundary Mines Company have taken ever the Boundary Mine near the center of Grass Valley and are doing considerable development work. M. J. Brock is president of the company. Tyg, shifts are at work atthe present time sinking a shaft. A good showing of free gold has been encountered in the foot wall which is dipping towards the main ledge. There is a new ten stamp mill on the property and a new seven drill air compressor. The hoist’ has been] bered rebuilt and it is in first class condition. Development work is being rushed as rapidly as possible. MRS KIMBALL RETURNS FROM MINING PROPERTY Mrs. Kitty Kimball returned to Nevada City Thursday after spending several weeks at her mining prop-. erties Reliance Placer and Quartz in the Alleghany. and Eureka Dis‘tricts. While there she supervised the completion of the assessment, work on the five claims incorporat-' ed under one head. She saw the : sys : . i i ! . . . . completion of a building and the th Past, was workd within 700 fect . . (ew magazine the directors felt it was only just as The building of trails on the property. , of the present lower level. The, The men are now working on a. north drift was being driven on the. 55 foot gravel tunnel which will! eventually connect with a 175 foot . tunnel on the quartz ledge. The: gravel in the tunnel is running exceedingly high. From ten to fifteen . fair sized colors show up in each pan. : Mrs. Kimball was accompanied by her son-in-law and daughter, Mr.; and Mrs.° Adolph Hagist, and their, pmall son. The party was enroute to] their home in Oakland. MINING ASSOCIATION ~ BLECTS MAC BOYLE PRES. At a meeting of the directors of the Mining Association of California held last Saturday at Travelers Hotel in San Francisco Errol Mac-; Boyle, president of the Idaho Mary-; jand Mines Company was unanl‘mously elected president of the Association. Lee Rowland of Mariposa Chapter was elected first vice president. A committee was appointed to revise the by-laws for the Association to allow for the election of an, executive board who can quickly handle matters of importance with-; out calling the entire board of Di-, rectors many of whim must come from a considerable distance to _attend the meeting. A great need for a publication was expressed by all present. Negotiations are under way to' secure an organizer who will put full time in the fiéld securing members and proper support for the Association so as to place it on a firm financial basis. SCADDEN COMPLETES 200 FOOT TUNNEL’ Thomas Scadden of North Columbia was a Nevada City visitor this week. He now has a tunnel in his Oak Flat property 200 feet long. He expects to hole through to the channel within the next few weeks. He formerly had a tunnel 140 feet but found he was too high so he, abandoned it and drove the new tunnel lower down. The tunnel has been driven thru hard rock and Mr. Scaddn has been doing all the work alone. He has also just completed $500 claims belonging to the Grizzly Ridge Mining Company, Inc. The work was done on the Outlet, Mazuma, Grey Eagle, Polar Bear and Little Bear. Incidentally. Mr. Scadden is one of The Nugget’s good friends and subscribes and besides paying his subscription for the coming year to The Nugget paid for his subscription to the new California Mining Journal thereby becoming one of the first subscribers.George Erway has also done his assessment work on his Risk claim. There is a forty foot shaft and he is now working on the tunnel which is in 60 feet. GASTON MINE WILL IHIGGINS RANCH TO fr ) CALIFORNIA MINING JOURNAL ISTO BE PUBLISHED SHORTLY Within the next few. weeks another publication will . come to light in Nevada City. It will be called the . California Mining Journal and will be published by the . Nevada City Nugget Publishing Company. As the name . ‘ndicates “it will be devoted to the mining industry of . the state and last Saturday at the meeting of the directors of the Mining Association of California it received the sanction of that body and will be the official publication of that organization. START OPERATIONS: The Gaston mine, located in the Washington mining district, will goon start operations. .Theprperty is completely equipped. There is a ten stamp mill on the property at the present time but future plans call for the installation of a flotation plant if the production warrants. The property was sold to George St. Johns of Berkeley a year and a half ago by Fred Cassidy of Nevada City and Claude Ferguson. Up to January of 1929 the surface workings were all rehabilitated , the tunnel cleaned out and retimthe main tunnel which is 4700 feet long. A 1500 foot tramway was built, saw mill installed, the Gaston ditch reconditioned with 600 feet of flumes, over 2000 feet of 12-to 16 inch. pipe placed in _position for’ generating water power. They have 21600 cubic foot com-; pressor driven by a Pelton wheel, using water under'a 1172 foot head. A 70 ton mill is on the property. Two Lyner machines were used in driving an east cross cut and north . drift. The east cross cut was in The first issue will be a special edition of Nevada and Sierra Counties and material is now being prepared by issue a widely sought one. It was at first the thought of The Nugget publishers to . publish another special number of The Nugget as_ the . last special is about exhausted and there is a_ steady demand. However, upon interviewing mining machinery men they urged that a monthly magazine be published in the interest of the industry of the state as a whole. There is a wide demand for such a publication. The Mining Association has long desired to havea publication granodiorite and it was thought in. of some sort in which they could keep their members in 4690 that the downward: extension . . totem WIth the head office .and with the happenings of of the Gambrinus vein would shortly . . } each other, but had;not been able to reach a proper . be encountered. This vein which has . . method in which to finance the publication. been a big producer of good ore in. In awarding The Nugget privilege of publishing the . . Nugget has been the one paper of the state to boost the . . . contact between’ granodiorite and'. . mining industry and both of the publishers have been slate, known as the main Gaston'. } active members and offiers of the organization. Then too vein. if: people listened to talks by Congresswell known mining engineers which will make the first ]. ..pioying 1,500 deputies. . . Patent Committee mining activity at the present time is centering around this locality.. The directors as a whole pledged their support to . the new publication. The delegation from Oroville requested that the second issue be a Butte County special edition and were eager to assist. : There have recently been a number of movements to start a mining magazine of some sort so great was the need felt but they lacked the proper support and necessary backing. Two of these attémpted publications have given up their idea entirely and have thrown their support to . the California Mining Jounral. The Journal has already . secured the services of a field representative who will spend his time touring the state securing advertising, . subscriptions and news items. The new publication already has a dozen paid in . advance subscriptions. The subscription price to Nugget . . . A water right goes with this prop. erty which isan important item at this time. This property was worked by the Rescue Eula, a Nevada mining con-, pany, a couple of years ago. Lack! of water or electricity for running: machinery closed the property at! that time, we understand. This section now has electricity, it being, brought in by the P. G. & E. Co. from the north or Alleghany district BE HYDRAULICKED . D. L. Powers and W. L. Richards } have taken a contract to hydraulic . the old Higgins ranch on Goodyear . subscribers or members of the Mining Association of . ' BUTLER INTERESTS BUY ty The Cooley Butler Interests have jerem the Golden Center Mining ComCONG ENGLEBRIGHT IS . POPULAR ~ SPEAKER Calls for our.popular Congressman have come so thick and fast that he is able to accept only a small sed . tion of the invitations that are pouring in from all parts of the state.” Last week bright spent many Congressman. Engleseveral busy days in Los Angeles where he was one of the principal speakers at the Sheriff's Relief Association Barba{eus at Luna Park in the an annual event southern city. Over 30,000 imen Swing and Englebright and by . Sheriff Bill Treggor who’ heads the largest sheriff’ office in the world . . The theatres of Los Angeles doinated their best acts for the occasion ‘and after the formal speeches there . was a continuous vaudeville per-. formance. . Congressman Englebright was also! a guest of the city officials of Los' ; Angeles. They were vitally interested , !in our genial congressman ssgesie Sen district controls the water supply of Los Angeles. . He was also a luncheon’ guest of . 'R, K. O. Studios in Hollywood. . . Adolph Menjou was called from loca. jf; tion to act as host to the congress. . = }. man. He was conducted thru the' . stifdio and witnessed the preview of pictures. The movie people; several Po espcially interested in copy-right . legislation which is handled by the of which . sressman Englebright is a member. . ; The committee is considering the . revision of the copy right laws. . July 6th Congressman Englebright is to: meet the Congressional . Committee and conduct them thru' July 24th he is to be master of Ceremonies a the Lassen National!

Yosemite Park. Park dedication. 1 . . He still has time to be a genial . Confellow citizen of Nevada City. : GOLDEN CENTER MINE i purchased the Golden Center mine pany. It took two years to complete creek near Goodyears Bar in iSerra county. Wl California will be one dollar payable in advance. The . California Mining Journal will make its premier about the The then have been working for . . third week in July. Thousands of copies will be distribut. the past six weeks preparing the ed throughout the east extolling the golden opportunities . property for the operations and arej}/ \¢ California and of Nevada County in particular. . needtiations for the property. . Plans are under way to unwater jthe mine and retimber the shaft, then additional sinking and cross; cutting will be done to reach valuable ore bodies of the Butler inter-' . ( ‘ i now ready for the monitor which is; to be installed. Operations willl acit Wo recat tne eas “bose ita sual DAVE JANSON HAS GOOD —, EMPRESS GOLD MINING ORE ON HIS PROPERTY COMPANY INCORPORATED a 140 foot drop. Mr. C. C. Bennetts — The old Higgins Ranch is a historic spot. In the old days it was a pack train station and the ranch was was in Tne! ‘The Empress Gold Mining Comleft untouched to raise feed for the Nugget office Wednesday and stated’ pany has been incorporated for . ! “ pack train, altho the ground allithat Dave Janson of Amador county operation of the Newtown mine around it was washed for the gold; has one of the prettiest little leads ynder management of Mr. Ed JaGoodyear Creek was one of the! in quartz porphyry on his property. cobs. richest in the district and has a re-. in the Edwards Bridge section of; A crew of men are atwork on the cord production of $3,000,000 forj Nevada county. . property. Machinery is coming in three miles along the creek. There are values in the gouge in to-be installed and operations will The owner Mr. Higgins passedithe west wall. The sulphides are in. soon be under way. away last winter and the property. the: east wall. The formation is on! The old company developed the now belongs to his widow and-chil-. a~-contact of granodiorite and slates. mine to a depth of 150° feet and dren, who live in Portland, Oregon. The assays run from about $2.48 to exposed a considerable tonnage of 0 $18.45. ore, but the machinery at that time ROUGH AND READY MINES This property is above the South. was not suitable to recover values ARE SHOWING ACTIVITY: Yuba river and between the riverj/in paying quantities. ‘and the Hoge mine. It is composed : 0 'of one claim and adjoins Mr. Ben-; Mr. C. C. Bennetts, a mine owner, netts property on the north and the! was a Nevada City visitor WednesThe Rough and Ready mining dis-. Kirkham property is to the south. . day. trict is also experiencing a mining i revival. Not only have a lot of new July the Fourth u locations been made, but a large number are doing assessment work with filings up to last Tuesday showing the following — proofs ofj labr and development work: Olympus and S. Olympus quartz by Chas. F. Folck et ai; Sumner and Alta quartz, by South Star Gold Mines Company; Bath Consolidated quartz mining claims, Golden Eagle No. 1 and 2, Rame Windron, Henry Ford, Cragynos Fraction and Bath by Thomas Bath; Osceola, Osceola North Ext., Osceola South Ext., Aurora Borealis, Shibboleth, Live Oak, Mos Agate, Yellow Pointer, and Florence, by Osceola Consolidated Mines Company; Option quartz, by C. R. Chechetini. _ _ This district has ledges of good ore but is noted for the rich pockets of gold found in the re. 0. uv Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Day and children of Modesto spent the week-end at Mr. Day’s brother, S. M. Day. ests north and west of the Grass !Valley townsite. It is thought work . will start’ in a few days. . The Golden Center mine has long . been regarded asone of the best . prospects and enables the new.own-, ers to make accessable’ _ their ground for operation. The mine is completely with surface which has condition. equipped and mill excellent. machinery been kept in ———0 Le . . MINING PERSONALS . Mr. Griff L. Thomas formerly of . Nevada City, and now of San Francisco, is spending his vacation in. Downieville. At one time he had . charge of several mines in this disi triet among them being the Telegraph, Posey and Pushach. John Saulsbury, who has spent several. years in Arizona mining fields, and now resides in Los Anangeles, was a visitor in Nevada City. : L. L. Patrick and wife passed thru. town Thursday’ enroute to Downieville. Mr. Patrick had the first mill in Gold Field, Nevada! which.was called Combination. Thomas Scadden, who owns mining property near Columbia Hill was a business visitor in Nevada City during the week. 0. . MINE NOTES OF INTEREST Mr. James Grimes, mining man of experience, was talking of good ore ,in Nevada City district. He stated ;that gold was sold at $9 an ounce off the plates at the Mountaineer Mine. It’s a good mine that sells gold off the plates at $6 an ounce. In the state of Nevada mining men look for gold in porphyry. ©. In California “gold is where you find it’, in fact it is found in slate schist, granidorite, porphyry, etc. : Company; FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1938 GRASS VALLEY ALL SET FOR 41H A band concert by the Grass Val— ley Concert Band at Bret Harte Inm started off the week end of festivities which will continue until late Sunday afternoon. The city is prettily decorated with bunting and flags and preparation is being made for the greatest influx of former residents and.visitors im the Fourth of Juty~history. It has been advertised by radio, pen letters and personal mail. Hotels will be crowded, the Memorial Park throwm open to campers and many homes will assist in caring for the visitors. The following is the list of entrie® from Nevada City: ‘ Decorated Car—Nevada City Coun= cilmen. “National Interpretation”’ Hy+ draulic Parlor No. 56, N. S. G. We “Homes Among-the Hills’’—Ghame= _ ber of Commerce. “Nevada County Wild Life’___Ray Teale, Taxidermist. “Prospector of Yesterdays’’—Lawerence Calanan. “Prospector of _Today’’—Milton Milton Masters. “Preparing Breakfast’? — Nevada City Nugget. _ “Uncle Tom, Little Eva and Topsy” Mrs. Carl Tobiassen.and Mrs. Ie Marsh. “Float’’—Nevada City Fire Department. “Christopher Columbus” — Court Cristo Colombo Lodge. Decorated Car Gieselman. Marshal Ws Float—‘‘Kopp’s Bakery Welcomes: . You"’—Kopp’s Bakery. It is requested that all those pare ticipating in the Nevada City group to meet on Spring, street so that they may go to Grass Valley together. ‘ SUNDAY EVENTS 2:00 p.m. Watt Park. Grass Valley Braves vs. Richmond Elks. Stores are carrying window dis-= plays of old relics. WORK TO START SOON ON SUNRISE PROPERTY Joseph Sergi, owner of the rancia property and a stockholder in the Sunrise Mining and Development Company states operations will start in about two weeks at the mine. This property has been in fitiga= tion for about a year until Seattle ,interests bought out the Grass Valley mining men. The mine has been operated to @ depth of 400 Ofeet, the limit of the hoist, compressors and gasoline sur— face equipment. The company has applied for electricity in order ta operate all machinery .by power. This machinery was to have beem purchased to sink the shaft to 100@ feet when litigation started. The way-is now cleared for immediate operation. Some of the men interested are Chas. DeWhite, originator of the Sunrise Mining and Development: W. S. Washburn of Seattle, representative of Seattle interests and Joseph Sergi. W. S. Washburn is superinten« dent and Fred Pinch is foreman a& the property. WORK ON BELEFONTARNE MINE NOW UNDER WAY The Nevada County Mires Corpor ation was organized this: week. to take over the Bellefontaine mine which includes the Beliefantaine mine and mill and a number of adjacent mineral claims, This is another one of the J. M. Hoff groups headed by A. Gordom Nicolson of Berkeley. It brings into the district some San Francise@ capital. A crew of men have been on the property opening up old workings. A rich ore shoot has been encounter— ed. Further sampling is being conducted by Ed Uren, local mining engineer of prominence. : Another shipment of ore has gon@ to Selby’s The‘St. Louis mil? will be operating in the next: two weeks: About 45 men are: employed onthe several properties including the Bellefontaine, Constitution, Cyane, Federal Loan, Le Compton and La Belle. : 4 2 from the Constitution. — By 4