June 21, 1937 (4 pages)

NEVADA CITY NUGGET . cj : . Y Nevada City Nugget 305, Broad Street. Phone 36 A Legal Newspaper, as defined by statute. Printed and Published at Nevada City. * sseeneesenensarssanesouninn TYPICAL EFFECTS OF A STR IN ANY MAJOR INDUSTRY oe (eer ee _. Editor and Publisher nT Publicsh.d Semi-Weekly, Monday and Friday at SUPPLY SOURCES ty CHANNELS Nevada City. California, and entered as mail matter of the seeoue class in the postoffice ai ADVERSELY AFFECTED ADVERSELY AFFECTED N d a A f Congress, March 3. ; x oe yes apd a City, under Act o ongress arc ) AOR Transportation STRIKE soak & ‘ SUBSCRIPTION RATES Forests R.R. Jobbers One. year (im Advance) —..0.-.-.. $2.50 . Mines Water ‘CENTER Warehouses Oil & Ges Wells Motor Retailers ‘ ae ae ee Factories Sclesmen ae Mills Adversely Buyers . i Electric Power Affected Clerks John Davidson Rockefeller if Fuels Advertising it} Imports Exports . Sod now octtics, firmly tak over the grave of John! > D. Rockefeller. His interment in a Cleveland cemetery plot . : last week wrote a belated “Finis” to a chapter of Americaii . : economic history which long before had ended—a chapter . TYPICAL GENERAL EFFECTS entitled “The Tycoon Era.” Retail Trades Gov't Finances At 97, Rockefeller had outlived by far the era in which . Adversely Affected . Adversely Affected he first gained fame. When he died he was already a memory. oon : —— t Yet the peo were few who remembered him as the shrewd . “Chedilig ties lose — / opportunist who became oil king, the greatest of the tycoons, . Cigar Stores Corporation Tox Losses held up to public coritumely as the personification of indusPasties Retoil Sales Tox Losses irial greed. The people who remembered that Rockefeller ' ae: hie Registration Tax Losses were almost as few as those who recalled that the ““D.”’ in his . Motos Cots Property Tax Losses name stood for Davidson. Insurance Admissions Tox Losses Amusements Increased Relief Costs In his day Rockefeller and a few associates pocketed a . mighty oil trust’s vast flow of wealth. No such empire could and dividends among vast numbers of people. holders. Investments by thousands of little men have replaced . the holdings of the old oil barons. Rockefeller did not create the tycoon era; he was its not have become a billionaire, but there is every reason to believe he would have risen to a position of corresponding eminence. The years were kind. They gave him time to become a new Rockefeller, whom one generation will remember as the kindly old man who gave bright, shiny dimes to children. who gave away $525,500,000 to benefit mankind. — ConRested Ind ividualists In their cinder-strewn jungles, the “Knights of. the Road” are chuckling these days over a green and yellow tabloid sheet—the 1937 Spring edition of “Hobo News.” There is a wealth of humor in this unusual publication. There is box car philosophy, too, an abundance of advice for the inexperienced itinerant and an occasional note of pathos. Probably not intended by its editors, but just as obviously present in the “Hobo News” columns, is a homely sidelight on the current history of American transportation. The hobo columnists, taking it for granted that none of their readers would be so foolhardy as to hop a speedy, . streamlined passenger train, devote themselves to the subject of riding the freights. Even this mode of travel is not what it used to be. The freight trains have met the tempo which modern business demands. : “I’ve been on many a fast ‘cannon ball’ freight, some-! exist to enrich one man in today’s changed world. The very . name Standard Oil today means several individual companies, ; and the earnings of these are spread widely in wages, taxes, . California's . product. Entering the industrial scene 50 years later, he could . . Many more generations will know him as the philanthropist . . Willow Valley and of. the ruins of ' The chart above shows how the chief effects of a strixe begin immediately to spread in all directions. Back at the supply sources, cancelled orders for raw and . semi-finished materials Fa 2 , . equipment tend to create iStandard has its profits shared by more than 69,000 stock. tional unemployment and lost j business in ever-widening circles. ™ distribution channels, sales, employment, and income fall off more or less sharply. trartinas tation revenues shrink. Curtailed business and thin pocketbooks at the strike center,:in the supply sources, and distribution and transportation channels result in generally reduced retail trade, smaller tax collections, increased relief burdens. This picture of > the long trail of losses, even much simplified as it is, indicates why economists cannot estimate in advance the total cost of a strike. Studies of the losses from previous strikes show that their total cost mounts to anywhere from 6 to 700 times the value of wages lost by men thrown out of work at the strike center itself. isALWAYS AVAILABLE and ALWAYS: in SEASON ; We Have Quality Meats at Right Prices PORK SAUSAGE SELECTED ROASTS, CHOPS, STEAKS KEYSTONE: MARKET i j i photographs of the Arrastra mentioned in the first installment of Pannings (June 14) and have been . informed of another much older ar,Fastra on the Deadwood property in yet another on the old Gregory estate across from the Rafter property on Nile street in the limits of Ne-. vada City. Readers are invited to‘ submit any information § regarding the history of these or other arrastra in this vicinity. The pictures mentioned above may be seen in the Nevada City Nugget window. ,, . . BACKS—tThe avea above the roof; times called ‘hot shots’,”” Ben (Hobo) Benson recalls. ““These freights make passenger train time, and almost bounce the life . out of the hobo. I’ve had to hold on for dear life on many of . these fast hot shots, and was glad when it stopped. Sometimes . used to pray for them to stop!” The true hobo, however. still prefers beating the road via rail, with al! its dangers, to hitch-hiking on the highway. He prefers the railroads for reasons of their reliability, his own self-respect and, paradoxically, his safety. As the “Hobo News” ioke page puts it: “Why are there more automobile accidents than railroad accidents?”’ “Because the engineer doesn’t drive with an arm around the fireman.’’—Contributed. ict ok hain te. The studio that satisfies. . ine om _ Good photos at reasonable aah prices—no guess work. 8 Droroccaprer hour Kodak finishing ser. vice. —OF THE— GRASS VALLEY CLEANERS Invites Nevada City and Grass Valley folks to bring their Clothes to him for ; ‘CLEANING AND PRESSING). 2 ’ Modern cleaning processes renew the life of all garments 1 : 111 MAIN STREET ; GRASS VALLEY PHONE 375 _ NEVADA CITY ASSAY & REFINING OFFICE . ae . Practien! mining tests from 25 to 1000 pounds, giving the free eaik 4 a percentage of sulphurets, value of sulphurets and tailings. = Assays made for gold, silver, lead and copper. Mail order check work promptly attended -to, Agent for New York-California Underwriters, Westchester and Delaware Underwriters Insurance Companies (EEN EES os q "AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE > — £ JN. OTT, Proprietor pita adcsscececcs yellow variety has been found. In the Osborne Hill a reddish-brown blend gold. which does not outcrop. ceedingly rich ore, or a large body of ; ? ; .ar fs 8 : ; ye f 7 bl = = * % LLL EEE EEE IO I OE IE Editor's Note: We have received, connection with the imménse ore . bodies of the Comstock Lode. BOOKS—A bibliography of this area will be included in an early installment of Pannings. BORNITE—A combination of cop-/. per and sulphur and i-on, one of the richest of the copper minerals. its beautifully varied colors it ed “peacock copper.”’ Occurs ingly in a number area. Is here generally mineral. 2 BREAST (Or Brest}—-Aheadin of a drift, tunnel or working. BRECCIA—A rock sparof in Which angu. er. BUDDLING—Separating ores by mill used for crushing ore. The first mill in this area was put up at Boston Ravine, Grass Valley, in 1851. within a year after the first quartz lode was located at Gold Hiil. It was a crude affair and proved -practically worthless. The second mill, a ‘‘battery ofeight stamps, erected a few. months jater, proved somewhat more effective. In 1867 two hundred and forty eight stamps were dropping in the Grass Valley district which crushed 71,420 tons of ore yielding an average of about $32.50 per *ton in gold, -and in Nevada City, 142 stamps é¢rushing 14,200 tons averaging $25. The first stamps were made of pine poles shod with iron. . BED—A horizontal seam or deposit of ore or of gold bearing gravel. BED ROCK — (in gold mining) The rdéck formation underlying soil of a drift or tunnel. Generally. pag Leoreise) ore between the lowect level and the . PULLION—Mei-ed gold oe siyer-. surface or between two lévels. pPae Me ee ae Pane 2 BAR—A bank of ‘sand or gravel or . 078 YANe™ S £2 Bat aveseeed. Der . Siher siateria® ak die’ month or in] haps, 850 fine, and contained about slack nort‘ons of a stream. . 12.5 ever 3 = . BAR DIGGINGS — Gold washi tne BUTTON—The glob Ne of anstent én ieee bars. pened ing in a crucible after: fusion . BAR GOLD = Gold bars nes not . in dry assaying. Consisting of added . standardized. The usual size is about eae vine Mie presiens puchau 63,x3%x1%, inches. of a value of . $10,090 to $11:200: smaller sizes! Bob Tamblyn sas returned irom . from $200 to $500 are used in the; Berkeley to spend the summer with arts and industries. \his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. V./! BASE METALS — All metals ex-} cent gold, silver, mercury and the platinum group which are termed ME Rs’. noble metals. Wi vi BATTERY—(f mining) A stamp UPPLIES.. SWIM KAPS—AIl Styles and Sizes. Newest Designs 10¢ to 50¢ Swimming Belis—Water Wings ie ' Rubber Carrying Bags—Ear Plugs SPECIAL— LARGE RUBBER BEACH BALL—25c { SPECIAL. Electric Fans New type electric fans—guaranteed and approved by underwriters. as Ss THE REXALL DRUG STORE Prescription Specialists PHONE 100 or an alluvial deposit on which “pay dirt’”’ is usually most productive. BLACK JACK—A dark variety of/# zinc blende. (See bDilende). BLENDE— (Zinz blende) Sphalerite of Black Jack: Sulphide of zinc. The mineral occurs in almest all of the quartz veins in this area. It is usually black with a greenish tinge although in the Canada Hill a pale was found, sometimes very rich in BLIND LODE OR VEIN—A lode BONANZA—An occurrance of exSAFE AND LOCKSMITH KEYS Made While You Wait Bicycles, Steel Tapes, Vacuum Cleaners, Washing Machi~es, Electric Irons, Stoves, Etc. Repaired. SAWS, AXES, KNIVES, SCISSORS ETC., SHARPENED Gunsmith, Light Welding RAY’S FIXIT SHOP ee j From . is tall-} veins in this. a secondary . other horizontal ; fragments are cemented togeth-! Tamblyn. cation. Miss. Dorothy Tamblyn, . in the Wasco school, refurn; ed sine Sunday for her summer vaCALANAN & RICHARDS Commercial, Sireet, Nevada City PHONE 67 $ $ $ i . . ; : 2 SPECIAL HAMBURGER, . ir t i } i i i . } i} j eee ee pay ore. Became a familiar term in 220-East Main St., Phone 602 GRASS VALLEY : & AUTOMATIC GAS WATER HEATER You'll save from four to six hours each week when’ hot water on tap is on hand to serve you. Just turn a faucet and hot water is at your service for your scrubbing bucket or to fill a washtub many times. When you want hot water for a bath to wake you up or a bath to help being res:ful sleep, all . you have to do is turn a faucet when an Automatic is in your home. Nothing really makes a household —“‘wake up and live” —as hot water on tap in kitchen, laundry and bath. You will find an Automatic Gas Water Heater to be a summer joy and year ’round help. Buy yours today. SEE YOUR DEALER OR ee. ‘Gav Fi. 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NEVADA CITY NUGGET . cj : . Y Nevada City Nugget 305, Broad Street. Phone 36 A Legal Newspaper, as defined by statute. Printed and Published at Nevada City. * sseeneesenensarssanesouninn TYPICAL EFFECTS OF A STR IN ANY MAJOR INDUSTRY oe (eer ee _.. Editor and Publisher nT Publicsh.d Semi-Weekly, Monday and Friday at SUPPLY SOURCES ty CHANNELS Nevada City. California, and entered as mail matter of the seeoue class in the postoffice ai ADVERSELY AFFECTED ADVERSELY AFFECTED N d a A f Congress, March 3. ; x oe yes apd a City, under Act o ongress arc ) AOR Transportation STRIKE soak & ‘ SUBSCRIPTION RATES Forests R.R. Jobbers One. year (im Advance) —....0..-.-... $2.50 . Mines Water ‘CENTER Warehouses Oil & Ges Wells Motor Retailers ‘ ae ae ee Factories Sclesmen ae Mills Adversely Buyers . i Electric Power Affected Clerks John Davidson Rockefeller if Fuels Advertising it} Imports Exports . Sod now octtics, firmly tak over the grave of John! > D. Rockefeller. His interment in a Cleveland cemetery plot . : last week wrote a belated “Finis” to a chapter of Americaii . : economic history which long before had ended—a chapter . TYPICAL GENERAL EFFECTS entitled “The Tycoon Era.” Retail Trades Gov't Finances At 97, Rockefeller had outlived by far the era in which . Adversely Affected . Adversely Affected he first gained fame. When he died he was already a memory. oon : —— t Yet the peo were few who remembered him as the shrewd . “Chedilig ties lose — / opportunist who became oil king, the greatest of the tycoons, . Cigar Stores Corporation Tox Losses held up to public coritumely as the personification of indusPasties Retoil Sales Tox Losses irial greed. The people who remembered that Rockefeller ' ae: hie Registration Tax Losses were almost as few as those who recalled that the ““D.”’ in his . Motos Cots Property Tax Losses name stood for Davidson. Insurance Admissions Tox Losses Amusements Increased Relief Costs In his day Rockefeller and a few associates pocketed a . mighty oil trust’s vast flow of wealth. No such empire could and dividends among vast numbers of people. holders. Investments by thousands of little men have replaced . the holdings of the old oil barons. Rockefeller did not create the tycoon era; he was its not have become a billionaire, but there is every reason to believe he would have risen to a position of corresponding eminence. The years were kind. They gave him time to become a new Rockefeller, whom one generation will remember as the kindly old man who gave bright, shiny dimes to children. who gave away $525,500,000 to benefit mankind. — ConRested Ind ividualists In their cinder-strewn jungles, the “Knights of. the Road” are chuckling these days over a green and yellow tabloid sheet—the 1937 Spring edition of “Hobo News.” There is a wealth of humor in this unusual publication. There is box car philosophy, too, an abundance of advice for the inexperienced itinerant and an occasional note of pathos. Probably not intended by its editors, but just as obviously present in the “Hobo News” columns, is a homely sidelight on the current history of American transportation. The hobo columnists, taking it for granted that none of their readers would be so foolhardy as to hop a speedy, . streamlined passenger train, devote themselves to the subject of riding the freights. Even this mode of travel is not what it used to be. The freight trains have met the tempo which modern business demands. : “I’ve been on many a fast ‘cannon ball’ freight, some-! exist to enrich one man in today’s changed world. The very . name Standard Oil today means several individual companies, ; and the earnings of these are spread widely in wages, taxes, . California's . product. Entering the industrial scene 50 years later, he could . . Many more generations will know him as the philanthropist . . Willow Valley and of. the ruins of ' The chart above shows how the chief effects of a strixe begin immediately to spread in all directions. Back at the supply sources, cancelled orders for raw and . semi-finished materials Fa 2 , . equipment tend to create iStandard has its profits shared by more than 69,000 stock. tional unemployment and lost j business in ever-widening circles. ™ distribution channels, sales, employment, and income fall off more or less sharply. trartinas tation revenues shrink. Curtailed business and thin pocketbooks at the strike center,:in the supply sources, and distribution and transportation channels result in generally reduced retail trade, smaller tax collections, increased relief burdens. This picture of > the long trail of losses, even much simplified as it is, indicates why economists cannot estimate in advance the total cost of a strike. Studies of the losses from previous strikes show that their total cost mounts to anywhere from 6 to 700 times the value of wages lost by men thrown out of work at the strike center itself. isALWAYS AVAILABLE and ALWAYS: in SEASON ; We Have Quality Meats at Right Prices PORK SAUSAGE SELECTED ROASTS, CHOPS, STEAKS KEYSTONE: MARKET i j i photographs of the Arrastra mentioned in the first installment of Pannings (June 14) and have been . informed of another much older ar,Fastra on the Deadwood property in yet another on the old Gregory estate across from the Rafter property on Nile street in the limits of Ne-. vada City. Readers are invited to‘ submit any information § regarding the history of these or other arrastra in this vicinity. The pictures mentioned above may be seen in the Nevada City Nugget window. ,, . . BACKS—tThe avea above the roof; times called ‘hot shots’,”” Ben (Hobo) Benson recalls. ““These freights make passenger train time, and almost bounce the life . out of the hobo. I’ve had to hold on for dear life on many of . these fast hot shots, and was glad when it stopped. Sometimes . used to pray for them to stop!” The true hobo, however. still prefers beating the road via rail, with al! its dangers, to hitch-hiking on the highway. He prefers the railroads for reasons of their reliability, his own self-respect and, paradoxically, his safety. As the “Hobo News” ioke page puts it: “Why are there more automobile accidents than railroad accidents?”’ “Because the engineer doesn’t drive with an arm around the fireman.’’—Contributed. ict ok hain te. The studio that satisfies. . ine om _ Good photos at reasonable aah prices—no guess work. 8 Droroccaprer hour Kodak finishing ser. vice. —OF THE— GRASS VALLEY CLEANERS Invites Nevada City and Grass Valley folks to bring their Clothes to him for ; ‘CLEANING AND PRESSING). 2 ’ Modern cleaning processes renew the life of all garments 1 : 111 MAIN STREET ; GRASS VALLEY PHONE 375 _ NEVADA CITY ASSAY & REFINING OFFICE . ae . Practien! mining tests from 25 to 1000 pounds, giving the free eaik 4 a percentage of sulphurets, value of sulphurets and tailings. = Assays made for gold, silver, lead and copper. Mail order check work promptly attended -to, Agent for New York-California Underwriters, Westchester and Delaware Underwriters Insurance Companies (EEN EES os q "AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE > — £ JN. OTT, Proprietor pita adcsscececcs yellow variety has been found. In the Osborne Hill a reddish-brown blend gold. which does not outcrop. ceedingly rich ore, or a large body of ; ? ; .ar

fs 8 : ; ye f 7 bl = = * % LLL EEE EEE IO I OE IE Editor's Note: We have received, connection with the imménse ore . bodies of the Comstock Lode. BOOKS—A bibliography of this area will be included in an early installment of Pannings. BORNITE—A combination of cop-/. per and sulphur and i-on, one of the richest of the copper minerals. its beautifully varied colors it ed “peacock copper.”’ Occurs ingly in a number area. Is here generally mineral. 2 BREAST (Or Brest}—-Aheadin of a drift, tunnel or working. BRECCIA—A rock sparof in Which angu. er. BUDDLING—Separating ores by mill used for crushing ore. The first mill in this area was put up at Boston Ravine, Grass Valley, in 1851. within a year after the first quartz lode was located at Gold Hiil. It was a crude affair and proved -practically worthless. The second mill, a ‘‘battery ofeight stamps, erected a few. months jater, proved somewhat more effective. In 1867 two hundred and forty eight stamps were dropping in the Grass Valley district which crushed 71,420 tons of ore yielding an average of about $32.50 per *ton in gold, -and in Nevada City, 142 stamps é¢rushing 14,200 tons averaging $25. The first stamps were made of pine poles shod with iron. . BED—A horizontal seam or deposit of ore or of gold bearing gravel. BED ROCK — (in gold mining) The rdéck formation underlying soil of a drift or tunnel. Generally. pag Leoreise) ore between the lowect level and the . PULLION—Mei-ed gold oe siyer-. surface or between two lévels. pPae Me ee ae Pane 2 BAR—A bank of ‘sand or gravel or . 078 YANe™ S £2 Bat aveseeed. Der . Siher siateria® ak die’ month or in] haps, 850 fine, and contained about slack nort‘ons of a stream. . 12.5 ever 3 = . BAR DIGGINGS — Gold washi tne BUTTON—The glob Ne of anstent én ieee bars. pened ing in a crucible after: fusion . BAR GOLD = Gold bars nes not . in dry assaying. Consisting of added . standardized. The usual size is about eae vine Mie presiens puchau 63,x3%x1%, inches. of a value of . $10,090 to $11:200: smaller sizes! Bob Tamblyn sas returned irom . from $200 to $500 are used in the; Berkeley to spend the summer with arts and industries. \his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. V./! BASE METALS — All metals ex-} cent gold, silver, mercury and the platinum group which are termed ME Rs’. noble metals. Wi vi BATTERY—(f mining) A stamp UPPLIES... SWIM KAPS—AIl Styles and Sizes. Newest Designs 10¢ to 50¢ Swimming Belis—Water Wings ie ' Rubber Carrying Bags—Ear Plugs SPECIAL— LARGE RUBBER BEACH BALL—25c { SPECIAL. Electric Fans New type electric fans—guaranteed and approved by underwriters. as Ss THE REXALL DRUG STORE Prescription Specialists PHONE 100 or an alluvial deposit on which “pay dirt’”’ is usually most productive. BLACK JACK—A dark variety of/# zinc blende. (See bDilende). BLENDE— (Zinz blende) Sphalerite of Black Jack: Sulphide of zinc. The mineral occurs in almest all of the quartz veins in this area. It is usually black with a greenish tinge although in the Canada Hill a pale was found, sometimes very rich in BLIND LODE OR VEIN—A lode BONANZA—An occurrance of exSAFE AND LOCKSMITH KEYS Made While You Wait Bicycles, Steel Tapes, Vacuum Cleaners, Washing Machi~es, Electric Irons, Stoves, Etc. Repaired. SAWS, AXES, KNIVES, SCISSORS ETC., SHARPENED Gunsmith, Light Welding RAY’S FIXIT SHOP ee j From . is tall-} veins in this. a secondary . other horizontal ; fragments are cemented togeth-! Tamblyn. cation. Miss. Dorothy Tamblyn, . in the Wasco school, refurn; ed sine Sunday for her summer vaCALANAN & RICHARDS Commercial, Sireet, Nevada City PHONE 67 $ $ $ i . . ; : 2 SPECIAL HAMBURGER, . ir t i } i i i . } i} j eee ee pay ore. Became a familiar term in 220-East Main St., Phone 602 GRASS VALLEY : & AUTOMATIC GAS WATER HEATER You'll save from four to six hours each week when’ hot water on tap is on hand to serve you. Just turn a faucet and hot water is at your service for your scrubbing bucket or to fill a washtub many times. When you want hot water for a bath to wake you up or a bath to help being res:ful sleep, all . you have to do is turn a faucet when an Automatic is in your home. Nothing really makes a household —“‘wake up and live” —as hot water on tap in kitchen, laundry and bath. You will find an Automatic Gas Water Heater to be a summer joy and year ’round help. Buy yours today. SEE YOUR DEALER OR ee. ‘Gav Fi. PACIFIC GAS oFucene COMPANY Owned’ Operated Managed byCaliforsians 0000640000606pnbbbenses bade sees eeneensesebseennenseesesaseeneesess het tLe wiv why Te Bal ok