July 3, 1936 (16 pages)

Vol. 10. No. 67. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The GOLD Center ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. vights governments are instituted among men, deriving their powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.’ That to secure these i TI Parade Is Coming! and Grass Valley in ‘this city is featured wic: mencing at the Methodist church, march down:Broad street, to the : Plaza, out Main into Commercial, . eut over into Pine and back on 3road. The program has been changad this year, as the parade will march over the loop twice instead of onee as in past years. This will give ayeryone a good chance tp see all Bigelow. Klag Bearers. Veterans of all wars, Auxiliary, . . atc. . I Orator of Day, Henry Lyons. Officers of Day—-Judge ‘Tuttle, Mhas. Leiter, Mrs, Lyda Talbot. City Council of Grass Valley and . Nevada City, . (Continued on Page Fifteen) REMINGTON HILL HAS BEEN RICH RPODUCER The area at t Ramtneion are deposits known variously Jemocrat, Klepsteins, ourne Hill. MeBoyle in ‘‘Mines and Hill is, vbout two square miles and in it . as, Excelsior . -oint, Renolds, Bald Eagle and Mel-— . ARTHUR B FOOTE Ft much more than the usual spectacny i les, parades, sports, dancing, and musical events. Both cities have eae done their best to make this observ. } ance of the Fourth long to be rej = > membered by both spectators and oe varticipants. The list of those whe ) . : have contributed their time, energy . and money toward making this: af. ? fair a great success is long, too long ey to cite here. The leadership in ai! * plans devolves upon Councilman . Charles W. Leiter, named general chairman by the citizens in mass neeting. He has been ably and con; scientiously seconded in Grass Valtj] ey by Bert Chegwidden. The program for the three days . ippears in / the middie of this} . i . ig page, . The great feature, of course, of . iny celebration is the parade and El. ‘a Kiltoy, who had to act during the . ; vosencte of Sheriff Carl Tobiassen, . nvorganizing the parade, reports the . 7 “Aoats which have been entered from zn he various cities and communities. . The parade will start at 10 o'clock ; sn the morning of Juty Fourth, comtee . Listen To The Band! The joint celebration of Nevada . a City j which opens today and Mayors Hall anda. ih . established at . <" vA , the floats, different interesting ob» @ jects, and characters. r Gg The following is the list: i ; Welcome Folks — (Cooperation, . . : Nevada City-Grass Valley. Messrs. . Elza J. Kilroy and Bert Chegwid-!. . for ‘ f den. } . DIVISION I ; { trand Marshall—R. L. P. (Dick) Me AN . GEORGE STAR: OF MEN Ai "BENE es. In this souvenir Pourbh of July edition of the Nevada City Nugget we have endeavored to dress up the front page in as near as. possible a facsimile of the man. . ner and style of Argonaut. news. . papers, which clarioned the spec4 ial events of their days. The type used dates kack.to 1850 and 1860 . and the ornate border is of about i . . é Some of the issue were loaned the same period. fonts for this ‘he Nugget by the Mountain Messenger of Downieville. We take especial pleasure in calling attention to pages 8 and 9 . of this gala edition on which ap. . pears an historical sketch of minNevada ing development in over forty yeas. This article is written by Mr. Arthur B. Foote with the collaboration of Mr. George Starr, . and is the leading mining companies of this district. . ! Mr. Foote recital of the uns and downs of the mining business over four decades a document Of wide human interest by means of his personal recollec. tions of men and methods, _ his keen insight regarding mining policies and economics and _ his wide acquaintance and friendship with the members of the engineering profession. Many jof the men mentioned in this article have attained world wide recognition for their splendid achievements. We express herewith our thanks Sierra counties, in sronsored by makes this to the authors, ” “among the placer. gold, ‘in ty’’ mentions. it as arger producers of 1 that portion of Nevada County withi ; from cineral ‘Resources of Nevada Coundrifting. n the Colfax quadrangle.”’ The largest recorded nugget 1 weighed 3882 ounces while several have been found from 100 to 150 The recorded production is 2,570,000, This came the area actually known as Remington Hill, there was an additional production at some of the lesounces, mines. Remington Hill’ ies north of Lowell Hill-and was discovered soon after the first rush ‘to Duteh Flat. An overation employing 20 men is now in. progress. Production has been, both from hydraulic operations in the movement of about 3,000,000 cubic yards and from drifting, the area is capped with lava and most of the gold has been recovered by and . . . ‘Program Of Three Day Celebration the the month with 2547 employed in the many = properties now operating in this county. The payroll each month now totals a little better than $356,000. Nevada county is now producing Mine employment was near peak during past County Gold Output Is $7,500,000 Annually $7,500,000 -in golc In three years employmen approximately annually. in the mines has more than doubled Reports from many of the operatin; gravel anl mines, both quartz, ar: published in this issue. ‘PHOTOS OF NUDE FAN. . DANCERS BANNED BY CITY OFFICIALS “They. shall not put up those indecent pictures for our boys and girls to see.’’ With that declaration a promiinent. member of the Civic Club got together Mayor Ben Hall, City Clerk George Calanan, Chief of Police Robson, and Charles W. Leiter, chairman ~° of the Fourth of July ,Committee, . ° . Friday, July 3rd. . 7 P. M. Whiskerinos . entertainment Broad and Commercial streets: Queen will:be introduced, on platform, between this time the 9 P. M. Eldorado 49er dance and entertainment at Iiremen’s Hall, the Queen will be crowned at 9:30 Po mM; eh Saturday, July 4 10 A. M. Start of Parade. Immediately following the Parade, Lady Hill Billies orchestra and quardrille team and drum corps of Placerville will hold an exhibition drill at the of Broad and Pine streets. Following the drill there will be a reception held at the P. G. & E. park for the alumni of the Nevada.City high school. The Lady. Hill Billies Team will entercorner tain. ~2.P.M. Sports program starts at Pioneers Park. 3 P.M. Literary Program. : Solo, Star Spangled Banner, Mrs. Lydia Talbot. Remarks, Hon. Raglan Tuttle, chairman. Selection hy Grass Valley Men’s Choir. Address, District Attorney Henry Lyons of Placerville. Selection America. Immediately following the Literary Program: Drilling Contests; Hand Drilling; Machine. Drilling. 5:30 P. M. At the Plaza at the end of Broad street. Tug of War; Water Battle. 7 P. M. Whiskerettes Entertainment on form. Pine street. between Broad sirdets. " 9 P, M. Aerial Display of Fire wor moving airplane. by the Nevada City High School Band, the platand Commercial “s dropred from # } % Sunday, July 5 9 P. M. Grand Ball and Entertainment at the Eldorado. bia 2 P. M. Water carnival at Pioneer Park. 3 P. M. Baseball Game at Pioneer Park. 5:30 P. M. Cornish Wrestling on Platform on Pine street at Corner of Broad and Commercial. 9 P. M. Grand Ball and. Entertainment at the Eldorado. them Pine and streets the . the fan dancing . marshalling a picture nude and marehed down to the corner of Commercial . impr concession, where esario of was array of the around door. concession. feminity way of his The complaint after the city officials one good look at ithe decorations. In fact the city officials had no other alternative because the woman who protested declared if the pictures were not taken down she would do the job herself. However, the manager of the nudity exhibition consented without.argument to remove the indecent picture gallery. The club woman has since received the commendation of all decent minded folks for her forthright action in calling together the city officials and in having the pornographie pictures removacted had taken offensive was upon SHIRT STEALER T old BY JUDGE T0 DE SPART Willam eda Carroll stealing 2 Murnity. 4 who’ few days ago by Nis} Towle of Nevada shirt from-the_Grizzle and Dolan store on Broad street, was tried Wednesday ence and given a_ sentof six months in the county pail. Sentence was suspended = on promise that Murphy leave the county never to return. The sheriff stated Murphy has a past criminal record of burglary, four petty theft, and one for vagrancy. He has served three state prison terms in Utah, Idaho and South Dakota, . become the best engineers of today of two’ counts of robbery, two counts ELDER ENGINEERS GAVE YOUNG MEN GOOD TRAINING (By BYRON EASTMAN) -The historical material appearins in these pages written by Messrs Geo. W. Starr and Arthur B. Foote son of the late A. D. Foote, suggests this as an appropriae occasion’ trecall the fine example and splendidly helpful interest shown the youns engineers of the time by Mr Foote when these twe of theit mining Starr and: Mr: men were the driving power mines, to thirty five years age the Empire mine under Geo. .W Starr and the North Star mine unA. D. Foote each functioned as of post graduate. school fo: of the young men who have respective Twenty der a sort many These young men found in the managers of the two mines and ir Robert Walker, su parintendent of the North Star mine, men of suci fine attainment and generous, kind ly personality combined with an acthat they became more or less stand:{ ards for which to strive. The work was not easy in tho days of 400 pound drilling machines, hahd mucking and tallow candles, but it was, way to really learn the aspects of, the business, : : I think, that, without exception tho young engineers who first. tried Base metal in these mines have ¢ very warm gratitude and iove fo . the kindly gentlemen, who made ‘he peers possible, here in thi: delightful, so called “mining camp.” Our hats are off to you Georgé Starr and to the memories of A, D Foote and Robert Walker. (Ed., Note: This appreciation 0. the elder generation of mining en gineers of this district with particu® lar mention of George Starr and A’ D. Foote, should be. read in connec tion ‘with the historical sketch writ. ten by Arthur. B, Foote, : with the collaboration of George Starr, entitled: County and Adjacent Territory for Forty Years, which appears on pages 8 and 9 of this issue of the Nu . Bet.) » a LWA ersten curate sense of justice and discipline Ry and still is the bes fe practical is Men and Mines of Nevadag: oe ee es Sencha ete ee Se

Vol. 10. No. 67. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The GOLD Center ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. vights governments are instituted among men, deriving their powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.’ That to secure these i TI Parade Is Coming! and Grass Valley in ‘this city is featured wic: mencing at the Methodist church, march down:Broad street, to the : Plaza, out Main into Commercial, . eut over into Pine and back on 3road. The program has been changad this year, as the parade will march over the loop twice instead of onee as in past years. This will give ayeryone a good chance tp see all Bigelow. Klag Bearers. Veterans of all wars, Auxiliary, . . atc. . I Orator of Day, Henry Lyons. Officers of Day—-Judge ‘Tuttle, Mhas. Leiter, Mrs, Lyda Talbot. City Council of Grass Valley and . Nevada City, . (Continued on Page Fifteen) REMINGTON HILL HAS BEEN RICH RPODUCER The area at t Ramtneion are deposits known variously Jemocrat, Klepsteins, ourne Hill. MeBoyle in ‘‘Mines and Hill is, vbout two square miles and in it . as, Excelsior . -oint, Renolds, Bald Eagle and Mel-— . ARTHUR B FOOTE Ft much more than the usual spectacny i les, parades, sports, dancing, and musical events. Both cities have eae done their best to make this observ. } ance of the Fourth long to be rej = > membered by both spectators and oe varticipants. The list of those whe ) . : have contributed their time, energy . and money toward making this: af. ? fair a great success is long, too long ey to cite here. The leadership in ai! * plans devolves upon Councilman . Charles W. Leiter, named general chairman by the citizens in mass neeting. He has been ably and con; scientiously seconded in Grass Valtj] ey by Bert Chegwidden. The program for the three days . ippears in / the middie of this} . i . ig page, . The great feature, of course, of . iny celebration is the parade and El. ‘a Kiltoy, who had to act during the . ; vosencte of Sheriff Carl Tobiassen, . nvorganizing the parade, reports the . 7 “Aoats which have been entered from zn he various cities and communities. . The parade will start at 10 o'clock ; sn the morning of Juty Fourth, comtee . Listen To The Band! The joint celebration of Nevada . a City j which opens today and Mayors Hall anda. ih . established at . <" vA , the floats, different interesting ob» @ jects, and characters. r Gg The following is the list: i ; Welcome Folks — (Cooperation, . . : Nevada City-Grass Valley. Messrs. . Elza J. Kilroy and Bert Chegwid-!. . for ‘ f den. } . DIVISION I ; { trand Marshall—R. L. P. (Dick) Me AN . GEORGE STAR: OF MEN Ai "BENE es. In this souvenir Pourbh of July edition of the Nevada City Nugget we have endeavored to dress up the front page in as near as. possible a facsimile of the man. . ner and style of Argonaut. news. . papers, which clarioned the spec4 ial events of their days. The type used dates kack.to 1850 and 1860 . and the ornate border is of about i . . é Some of the issue were loaned the same period. fonts for this ‘he Nugget by the Mountain Messenger of Downieville. We take especial pleasure in calling attention to pages 8 and 9 . of this gala edition on which ap. . pears an historical sketch of minNevada ing development in over forty yeas. This article is written by Mr. Arthur B. Foote with the collaboration of Mr. George Starr, . and is the leading mining companies of this district. . ! Mr. Foote recital of the uns and downs of the mining business over four decades a document Of wide human interest by means of his personal recollec. tions of men and methods, _ his keen insight regarding mining policies and economics and _ his wide acquaintance and friendship with the members of the engineering profession. Many jof the men mentioned in this article have attained world wide recognition for their splendid achievements. We express herewith our thanks Sierra counties, in sronsored by makes this to the authors, ” “among the placer. gold, ‘in ty’’ mentions. it as arger producers of 1 that portion of Nevada County withi ; from cineral ‘Resources of Nevada Coundrifting. n the Colfax quadrangle.”’ The largest recorded nugget 1 weighed 3882 ounces while several have been found from 100 to 150 The recorded production is 2,570,000, This came the area actually known as Remington Hill, there was an additional production at some of the lesounces, mines. Remington Hill’ ies north of Lowell Hill-and was discovered soon after the first rush ‘to Duteh Flat. An overation employing 20 men is now in. progress. Production has been, both from hydraulic operations in the movement of about 3,000,000 cubic yards and from drifting, the area is capped with lava and most of the gold has been recovered by and . . . ‘Program Of Three Day Celebration the the month with 2547 employed in the many = properties now operating in this county. The payroll each month now totals a little better than $356,000. Nevada county is now producing Mine employment was near peak during past County Gold Output Is $7,500,000 Annually $7,500,000 -in golc In three years employmen approximately annually.. in the mines has more than doubled

Reports from many of the operatin; gravel anl mines, both quartz, ar: published in this issue. ‘PHOTOS OF NUDE FAN. . DANCERS BANNED BY CITY OFFICIALS “They. shall not put up those indecent pictures for our boys and girls to see.’’ With that declaration a promiinent. member of the Civic Club got together Mayor Ben Hall, City Clerk George Calanan, Chief of Police Robson, and Charles W. Leiter, chairman ~° of the Fourth of July ,Committee, . ° . Friday, July 3rd. . 7 P. M. Whiskerinos . entertainment Broad and Commercial streets: Queen will:be introduced, on platform, between this time the 9 P. M. Eldorado 49er dance and entertainment at Iiremen’s Hall, the Queen will be crowned at 9:30 Po mM; eh Saturday, July 4 10 A. M. Start of Parade. Immediately following the Parade, Lady Hill Billies orchestra and quardrille team and drum corps of Placerville will hold an exhibition drill at the of Broad and Pine streets. Following the drill there will be a reception held at the P. G. & E. park for the alumni of the Nevada.City high school. The Lady. Hill Billies Team will entercorner tain. ~2.P.M. Sports program starts at Pioneers Park. 3 P.M. Literary Program. : Solo, Star Spangled Banner, Mrs. Lydia Talbot. Remarks, Hon. Raglan Tuttle, chairman. Selection hy Grass Valley Men’s Choir. Address, District Attorney Henry Lyons of Placerville. Selection America. Immediately following the Literary Program: Drilling Contests; Hand Drilling; Machine. Drilling. 5:30 P. M. At the Plaza at the end of Broad street. Tug of War; Water Battle. 7 P. M. Whiskerettes Entertainment on form. Pine street. between Broad sirdets. " 9 P, M. Aerial Display of Fire wor moving airplane. by the Nevada City High School Band, the platand Commercial “s dropred from # } % Sunday, July 5 9 P. M. Grand Ball and Entertainment at the Eldorado. bia 2 P. M. Water carnival at Pioneer Park. 3 P. M. Baseball Game at Pioneer Park. 5:30 P. M. Cornish Wrestling on Platform on Pine street at Corner of Broad and Commercial. 9 P. M. Grand Ball and. Entertainment at the Eldorado. them Pine and streets the . the fan dancing . marshalling a picture nude and marehed down to the corner of Commercial . impr concession, where esario of was array of the around door. concession. feminity way of his The complaint after the city officials one good look at ithe decorations. In fact the city officials had no other alternative because the woman who protested declared if the pictures were not taken down she would do the job herself. However, the manager of the nudity exhibition consented without.argument to remove the indecent picture gallery. The club woman has since received the commendation of all decent minded folks for her forthright action in calling together the city officials and in having the pornographie pictures removacted had taken offensive was upon SHIRT STEALER T old BY JUDGE T0 DE SPART Willam eda Carroll stealing 2 Murnity. 4 who’ few days ago by Nis} Towle of Nevada shirt from-the_Grizzle and Dolan store on Broad street, was tried Wednesday ence and given a_ sentof six months in the county pail. Sentence was suspended = on promise that Murphy leave the county never to return. The sheriff stated Murphy has a past criminal record of burglary, four petty theft, and one for vagrancy. He has served three state prison terms in Utah, Idaho and South Dakota, . become the best engineers of today of two’ counts of robbery, two counts ELDER ENGINEERS GAVE YOUNG MEN GOOD TRAINING (By BYRON EASTMAN) -The historical material appearins in these pages written by Messrs Geo. W. Starr and Arthur B. Foote son of the late A. D. Foote, suggests this as an appropriae occasion’ trecall the fine example and splendidly helpful interest shown the youns engineers of the time by Mr Foote when these twe of theit mining Starr and: Mr: men were the driving power mines, to thirty five years age the Empire mine under Geo. .W Starr and the North Star mine unA. D. Foote each functioned as of post graduate. school fo: of the young men who have respective Twenty der a sort many These young men found in the managers of the two mines and ir Robert Walker, su parintendent of the North Star mine, men of suci fine attainment and generous, kind ly personality combined with an acthat they became more or less stand:{ ards for which to strive. The work was not easy in tho days of 400 pound drilling machines, hahd mucking and tallow candles, but it was, way to really learn the aspects of, the business, : : I think, that, without exception tho young engineers who first. tried Base metal in these mines have ¢ very warm gratitude and iove fo . the kindly gentlemen, who made ‘he peers possible, here in thi: delightful, so called “mining camp.” Our hats are off to you Georgé Starr and to the memories of A, D Foote and Robert Walker. (Ed., Note: This appreciation 0. the elder generation of mining en gineers of this district with particu® lar mention of George Starr and A’ D. Foote, should be. read in connec tion ‘with the historical sketch writ. ten by Arthur. B, Foote, : with the collaboration of George Starr, entitled: County and Adjacent Territory for Forty Years, which appears on pages 8 and 9 of this issue of the Nu . Bet.) » a LWA ersten curate sense of justice and discipline Ry and still is the bes fe practical is Men and Mines of Nevadag: oe ee es Sencha ete ee Se