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NEVADA CITY
Where Climate, Good Water .
and Gold Invite the World. . Nevada City Nu
Nevada City Nugget is a Member of the United Press
cet
_.Nevada City Nugget
LIVE NEWSPAPER published in a live town.
Vol. VII, No. 71 The County“Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA 1933 The GOLD Center MONDAY, JULY 3,
Nevada City
Grass Valley In Gala
Fourth
“Big doings will mark the célebration of Indepe}idance Day, tomorrow which is the Fourth of
July. Nevada City. is joining wholeheartedly with Grass Valley in mak_
ing the three day holiday a gala
event for Nevada county. Hundreds
of automobile loads of métry makers: and vacationers formed a. big
continuous procession. hound for the
hills on the Ukiah-Tahoe~ highway,
all day Sunday and today.
The Traffic Officers ball at Lake
Olympia tonight, the spedfal. programs staged at Twin Cities Pleasure hall, and at all the nearby recreation resorts for Sunday, today and
ons
Celebration
5:00 P. M»— Cornish wrestling,
boxing, Main and Mill streets.
8:00 P. M. Band Concert.
Nevada City will be represented
in the grand Fourth of July procession by. ten beautiful floats led
by the Nevada City high school band
which represents the contribution of
the Nevada City: Chamber of Commerce to the parade. The ten floats
were entered by the following:
Native Sons
Red Men
Nevada County Farm
Nevada County Rodeo Assn.
Nevada City Fire Department
Nevada City Chamber of
“SLIPS, FALLS IN BATH
ROOM, GASHES BACK .
Lisha Curtis of Nevada City,
who has not been well for some
time entered his bath room last
night to take a bath and slipped,
falling in-such a way as to strike
a glass towel rail over the bathtub. A section of the rail broke
and the two ends struck him in
the back cutting two deep gashes
near the small of the back. .
The injuries bled profusly and
today he was placed under the
eare of Doctor W. W. Reed. .
TRAFFIC FINES FOR
2 YEARS IN JUDGE
WINBURNS COURT $5065
Judge Oscar E. Winbun, of: the
Grass Valley township court, of July
1st. turned over to the county treasury the sum of $340.00, which will
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FRANK MERRIAM
TO ENTER RACE
FOR GOVERNOR .
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tomorrow, in themselves are attracting a large concourse:of people from
the valley.
Grass Valley is decorated and
flressed for the great parade which
begins tomorrow at. 10. o’clock.
Headed by the juvenile section will
come the big parade of floats, bands
dignitaries and organizations.
The cémplete program for tonight
and tomorrow follows:
MONDAY, JULY 3
8:00 P.M. ‘Prosperity Paraae’’,
by California Highway Patrol.
9:00 P. M. ‘Traffic Cops’ Ball,
sponsored by the California Highway Patrolmen. Lake Olympia Park.
§ « i stra. in the enforcement of the traffic
PORE OTS. Ane bias be made by West Mines Corporass .
TUESDAY, PULY 4 ; i laws in Nevada County.
y tion toward recovery of the old
10:00 A. M. Juvenile parade. Spears ca ; ‘nada Hill c
21:00 A te. Paiblotic exercises at Charronnat shaft at the Canada Hi
7 Eh ES Si a mine, where an average of 30 feet ; 0 LS
Veterans Memorial Building. 2 3 nee mes RAG N MINE INSTAL
a day has been maintained for the
2:00 P. M. Grass Valley Miners
vs. Dixon Packers in baseball game
at Watt Park.
4:00 P. M. Gold mine gift at Wain clined shaft has been unwatered The new headframe has been eom_.
and repaired and exploratory work sted ¢ >. stock € »oint
op Mill streets. ica et, exploratory} leted at the Comstock Gold: Poin
-30 P. M. Grass Valley Fire Deis being undertaken on several levels} Ragon mine northwest of here and
eae water fight which figured prominently in the] installation of further surface plane
Ste heavy production from the famous) and clearing of the old shaft is proPAY DAYING.C.C.
CAMP BOOMS BUSINESS
Pay-day at the Civilian Conserva
tion Camps in the Tahoe National
Forest brought a small business
boem to Nevada City last Friday.
The 4,000 men of the different
éamps got $6 each. For many it was
the first money earned in many
months -The balance of their wages
ig sent to dependents.
Hundreds of these boys swarmed
to town and enjoyed ice cream and
attending the movies.
The boys were given a four day
holiday to last until after the Fourth .
of July.
About 100
Bloomfield camp came Nevada
ity late Friday and most of them
enjoyed a tainkle féed and then start“ed hitch hiking to their in
San Francisco and Burlingame for
the short holiday.
Several local merchants spoke in
the highest and kindest terms of the
boys as they made their purchases
-in Nevada City.
the North
ta
boys from
homes
; Commerce
of Foreign Wars
Foreign Wars.
UNWATERING IN
CANADA HILLIS (veces
and that there were only
past two weeks.
Nevada City Council
Boy Scouts
Banner Mountain Post Veterans
Ladies Auxiliary of Veterans of
t
Impressive progress continues to
Approximately 800 feet of the inold mine. Folowing a brief interval
rate of speed for a few days,
pected.te.be.effeeted--andinereased
progress in unwatering will be attained.
SAN JUAN MINE TO
RUN TWO MORE TUNNELS
Plans at the San Juan mine near
North San Juan call for the running
SP. 45 PCT. CUT
-INFARES OKED
Application of the Southern Pacifie Company to reduce coach and
tourist sleeping car fares 45 per cent
tas-been-approved by the Interstate
Commerce Commission and various
state regulatory bodies.
nounced yesterday.
Effective July 1 between all stations on the company’s lines in six
western states, th enew tariff establishes a basic one-way fare of
two cents a mile for such travel, as
compared with the present rate of
3.6 cents a mile.
Plans call for a 90-day experimental period with the intention of
making the low fare permanent if
warranted by increased patronage,
aecording to Felix S. McGinnis, vice
president in charge of system pas_
senger traffic.
FOUND UNCONSCIOUS
Chris Ennis, was found unconsqious in a cabin above Nevada City
and taken to the Nevada City Sdnitarium Wednesday evening, where
-he is still in a half conscious condition.
Why. Net Subcribe for the Nugget?
of two more tunnels. A force of men
will be put to work as soon as returns are received from the 100 ton
ore shipment to Tacoma, Wash.
The. main shaft is down 400 feet
but for the last two years they have
been working on the 200 foot level
running an 8590 foot drift on a 6 ft.
vein and put in a upraise where the
rich looking sulphide ore that was
shipped, was taken out.
Another prospect shaft has been!
started on the property within recent
weeks that is expected to open up
new ground that shows up well on
the surface.
Eleven men are employed at the
property with C. J. Lyser as superintendent.
NATIVE SONS ACQUIRE
CORNER PROPERTY
The Native Sons, Hydraulic Parlor,
owners of a half interest in the
building at the Northeast corner of
Pine and Commercial, have purchased the other half interest from W.
Peard. They have decided to raze
the wooden second story of. the
structure.
Mirs. Belle Doukians is spending
a few days in Colfax. cpeeabr ties
the county
Valley city.
ceeding
be placed in the county road fund.
This money will be used to improve
outside of Grass roads
The $340.00 represen
fic fines for the month of June. The
total amount of collected fines for
offenses coming
before the Judge duing the past two
fiscal years: amounts to $5,065.00.
raffic and other
The fact that
accidents
fatilities from such
to
lve
in the year
there were thirteen fatilities from
indicate that some
substantial progress has been made
Lieutenant Governor,
FRANK C. MERRIAM
Wants to
Head Man.
be
State’s
p
ts the traf1931
in Nevada
accidents in
NEEDED EQUIPMENT
rapidly. New
shaft is again found to be in splen-. been in use. Compressor is being
did shape, with no timbering re-, set and another shift will be added
quired, thus making for improved} within a few days.
progress. This is also facilitated by Recovery of the caved potion of
the fact that the stoped area be-. the shaft has been at the rate of
comes more limited as depth is at: . five feet a day, which is expected to
tained. be doubled as soon as the third
Water from the adjoining Green-. shift comes on. Old timbers are
man property comes through on the] found in fairly sound condition nad
second and third levels and’ this in_. it is belieyed that theendof the
flow has been: partly taken care of. cave will be reached within a few
by ejectors. It is_planned to put in] sets, when the recovery work will
a small electric pump to handle all] become a pumping job. A new
this flow, making it unnecessary tO} pump is to be installed and will be
care for it at added depth as the un-. ready to go into operation as soon
watering advances. As most of the] as the cave is cleared. Early producwater which the mine is now mak-. tion is -anticipated from the vein
ing comes. from this source, a sub-. tapped by the present shaft and
stantial. saving in pumping is ex-. workings but an early drive also will
be
electric hoist
of heavy ground which checked the. is being hooked up to replace the
the. temporary. gasoline hoist which has
made on the Merrifield vein.
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MANY WEEK END
week end
creation seekers
National Hotel
and today.
Russel. W.
D. Cevrry,
San Francisco,
North
Clayhoo! and Jim
Bakersfield; H. M.
ASM:
Many
Satur
Besson, B
Berkeley,
Mr.
Co
Hills, Seatle; A.
Los Angeles;
Jose;
eB
and Mrs.
son, San Francisco;
Kimberly, Nevada;
Graniteville;
AT NATIONAL HOTEL
visitors
registered
Mrs. Kate Davis
George
Bloomfield; Joe Belish, P.
Crayford
wife, Sacramento; Stephen J. Depta
C. J. Delta, North San
Helen and Ethelyn, Covestor;
Simmons, Vallejo;
GUESTS
and reat the
day, Sunday
erkeley; Vera
Lubin,
from
oper Auburn;
B. Baker and
mon ,Vallejo; Emilie Bonetti, OakThis move reveals Lou Kopp in
Apnd; Jack Bradley, San Francisco; . jine with the policy of his father
William, Henry, Harry , Arthur SuKarl Kopp. He is looking to the
mer, Sacramento;Mr.:and Mrs. F. future and ‘should this new route
Ww. Miller, Oakland; Mr. and Mrs. prove as satisfactory as the other
Amark, San Francisco; Agnes Mentwo have ,new equipment will be adlian, San Francisco; G. W. Stevens. qoq as needed.
and family, San Francisco; Kingae
ley Selverger, Mt. View; F. V. BruMOTOR CAR REPAIR SHOP
mba,, Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Stephens, W .R. Peck is opening up genLong Beach; Mr. and Mrs. J. 3H. eral repair shop at.211 South School
Marcoux, San Fraincisco; Mr. and] street, Grass Valley. Peck was forMrs. H. V. Pyuntz, San Francisco; . merly with the Nash distributor in
. 'C. Hoffman and party, Oakland; Mr.
J. Gerald Croin, Washington; Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wolford, San
Francisco; J. Oneste M. D. wife and
E._ H. Monhi,
H. A. Fletcher
and wife, Hollywood; Leonard Cater,
John Stout, and D. L. Nelson from
O. A. Clark and wife,
Tracy; R. L. Chase and wife, AlleMattie Simscp t
SACRAMENTO, July 8—(UP)—
Perhaps his early newspaper experience taught him the man who gets
problem
tr
down upon it. The officials are wish-. C.
ing that by a bit of magic they cquid
turn
broad gauge.
lem,
running
mobiles and trucks for the C. C. C.
camps,
fire
Nevada county’s
highly specialized,
does not take account of specials in
Fourth of July beer, and dollar day
oot! Toot! Narrow
Gauge Is Sorry It
ls Not Broad Gauge
The Nevada County Narrow Gauge
ith the snow and ice problem last
inter, is now grappling with the
of taking care of all the
affic that is piled up and. pressed . d
the historic old, road into a
The road is faced “with the prob(and solving the problem)
specials for Uncle Sam,
in nine carloads of autoof
ringing
specials carrying hundreds
f£ C. C. C. camp workers, specials
ringing some hundreds of Campgirls, specials taking out gold ore
prgnier, peerless
here, and specials
road become
so to speak, This
roduct,
here,
specials
until the has
instance,
railroad, which grappled so manfully . C
\ Oakland homes,
girls
taking
Reno or San
sights over the Fourth. What with
shipping ore out and vacationers in,
the
seventy girls from Camp
elio departed Saturday for their
and seventy more
came in. the same day.—And
advantage of those dollar
ays, some scores or hundreds of the
€: €. boys went to Sacramento or
Francisco ‘to see the
Narrow Gauge lads find life is
just one thing after another, while
the
count the days until another dividend ts declared.
SCOUTS OFF FOR
stockholders are beginning to
BIG SPLASH AT
PAHATSI, JULY $
until Camp PaThree days only,
in on the “ground floor’. usually. fares on the S.: P. which also cal). patsi and the ‘‘old swimmin’ hole,’
comes in ahead-—but ‘at all events. for extra passenger .cars and conopens,on July 9 for the fourth year
Frank F. Merriam is letting ne grass. ductors punches. at Kilborn Lake. Registrations slighgrow under the feet of his guber-. ‘There is a vast deal of coming and . tly exceed those of the same day last
natorial candidacy. going over the Narrow Gauge. For . year.
The republican lieutenant goverMany changes have been made in
nor has not formally announced his WHY NOT A BAND STAND? the camp program and staff. The
candidacy for his party’s nomination
in August, 1934 but has made it. .:
quite clear he is in the race.
Merriam may set an all-time: high
for campaign speech’ making by the
Time August rolls around.
months, now, h ehas been traveling
one end of the state to the other
speaking at every opportunity. :
Of course, Merriam
For
hasn’t openly
entered the campaing. That is, sub“jects of iiss many addresses do hot}
bear a distinct political color. Zut .
that he is actually behalf of
his own candidacy is admitted by his
friends.
The job of
out on
lieutenant governor
an ideal for a gubernatorial
candidate. Ordinarily he about
three and one half months real work
every That’s when he
presides over the senate.
There is, of course,
ship of the advisory
But that is merely a nominal task
4nvolving only the official's presence. The job pays $4,000 annually.
Thus Merriam, like ex-Governor
CG; Young, has ample time on his
hands to campaign.
tenant
1s
one
has
two years.
the chairmanpardon board.
Young was-lieu_
eovernor during the Richardadministration. He, found
“light duties of
afforded splendid _opportunson too,
the relatively
office
%
his
ity for campaigning.
Merriam came to California jn}
1910 and \engaged in -newspaper
work “for 11 years on two Long
Beach newspapers. He was an assemblyman for 10 years and speaker of the assembly four years. In
1928 he was elected. to the state
senate and two years later was elected lieutenant governor.
KOPP’S BAKERY BUYS
ANOTHER NEW TRUCK
A new six cylinder Dodge panel
delivery truck was added to the rolling stock of the Kopp Bakery last
Saturday. Already there are two
other trucks distributing the bakery
products made right here in Nevada
the route now being developed be_
tween here and Lake Tahoe. This
route will be in charge of William
Hatch. j
San Francisco and he now specilizes
in servicing Nash and Plymouth cars
for Alfred Phillips of Grass Valley.
FILM FOR C. C./C. BOYS
The Methodist church is putting
on a fine educational film, which
is from the University of California.
City. The pietures will be sho
Friday evening at 7.00 p. m.
by
. 'zens of Nevada City to maintain the
band concerts
mer
the
said
meeting
Thursday
City.”The new unit will bé used for .
for the 200 C. C. C. boys in Nevada.
ASKS CHIEF ROBSON:
that given . !
oor
‘he money is being
the businessmen and other citithroughout the sumhas a bearing on the future of
younger generation,’ earnestly
Mr. Robison at a Bible class
of the Methodist chureh
evening. ‘‘We should give .
financial and moral support to the}
students, because our interest heart.
ens them in their endeavor. At present they are giving two concerts a
week—but where! The only place
they have is the baleony of the National hotel. It is not a suitable
place and traffic is congested.
“Through the help of the lodges,
public subscription, and what the
Bible class can do, why couldn't a
Band Stand be erected in the Native
Daughter’s .Park anda row of
bleachers constructed along the wall
ee
WASHINGTON NEWS
By Mrs. €. Cc,
Washington, July 3 E. Conrad and family of Oakland have arrived to spend their summer vacation at their home on Main street.
F. B. Williamson and
¢ ‘ole
and wife
son, Bruce Jr., ars spending a week
in town.
Mrs. EB. A. Langford and Mrs
Chas. Mitchell of San Rafael arrived Saturday and will
days visiting friends.
‘Mrs. A. Schwartz
keley Schwartz, of
visiting friends in
Schwartz is a sister of Clyde Cole.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Curry and
children of Taft, spent a few days
vacation as guest -of Mr. and Mrs.
Clyde Cole in Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonara Ford of
Sacramento were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. C. Cole last week. :
Harvey Codde and wife are visiting friends. Their home is in Oakland.
Jack Still, of the Eagie Bird mine
has returned-to Washington and we
hear they are reopening the mine.
Rand Webber ‘of Giant-King mine
is spending his vacation in: Sacramento. ‘ : :
W. E. Luce and wife and Charles
Nash of Reno, Nevada, were at the
Giant-King mine a.few days ago. Mr.
Luee ownes the property, and has a
few men working on he old tunnels.
Mervyn Haggerty has returned to
the Giant-King mine, after a visit
rN
spend a few
and son, BerRichmond. are
town. Mrs.
senior
tive Harris Ricksecker,
editcy,
E.° Arp,
saving,
Stephen,
associate
cook; 5S.
Paul Burbage,
learther work;
surveying,
boating and
Holmes,
swimming,
oneering;
Other
staff, all over 18 years “of
is composed of Scout ExecuSam Partcamp program, office and
Rus Penrose, nature; R.
nature; Jeff Moore, Life
Leathercraft and games;; F.
steward, leathercraft ana
editor; Mrs. A. Dalbey,
Beecher, three day hikes}
truck driver and
Milo Tally( geology
Elwyn Gregory,
fire; William
H. E. Chastain,
tests; Ralph Herman
quartermaster; Willard Geyer, DiH .H. Rollins, handicraft
H. E. Chastain, leatherwork.
of these are Eagle Seputs.
scoutmasters and assistants
will be present to aid this staff to be
prepared to offer a greater variety
of camp activity than ever before.
Sam Patridge and Fred Stephen
have developed a ‘‘keen” 4 page
camp paper that will appear daily at
age,
ridge,
hikes;
camp
handicraft;
Mrs.
Most
by the Alfa Stor?"’ My. Robson closE "
d by stating. “It is a duty developnoon. Thé first two issues for Suned by statin sa y dev :
: . day July 9th (in colors). are aling upon each citizen to maintain a. 2 2
ready off the press with camp
band, such as we have in Nevada . ». ce :
City.”’
news" and jokes.
Si y Scotty Allen of Alaska Dog Team
A collection was taken up for the . Race fame has already promised
new ‘band-stand at the Bible class} .jme more of his wonderful campand it: was decided to have “@.bOX} sine stories
every Sunday for free-will offerings.! gaturday July 22nd. has been
Anyone wishing to contribute . named Service Club day with a
should see Mr. Elza Kilroy, who is. \special supper seryed.at.7_P..M, for
keeping th elist of subscribers. ee service club men of Placer, Nevada
and Sierra counties. A program will
follow consisting of numbers by the
Scouts and some of the visitors. This
will provide an opportunity for
many who have never visited: Camp
Pahatsi before.
A number of Seouters and their
families have planned to spend the
coming week-end and July 4th at
camp to assist in preparing for
camp opening, working either on the
pipe line, repairing the dam, building a dock or hauling dirt to fill in
the front porch.
Miss Mugford to
Wed. Elmer Chenoweth
Miss: Loretta Mugford of Sacramento spent the week end holiday
with her brother, Clyde Mugford,
manager of the Valley Meat Com-pany shop in Nevada City,
Tomorrow, July 4, Miss Mugford,
accompanied by her brother and family; will motor to Reno where she
will become the bride of Elmer
Chenoweth, resident of Sacramento.
The bride is an attractive and accomplished young lady who has made
a number of friends on her visits ig
Nevada City.
Creek until he formed business connections in Sacramento, where he Je
held with high regard.
Their many friends wish for t
great happiness in their je
thru life eran eons 3S
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“Jimmie Cornele ‘and Neil 1
spending ee
tains east of
to his home in Reno, Nevada,
4
naw Wet
ing trip.
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The groom is a native of Sutter —
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