June 25, 1937 (6 pages)

4 4] ‘which under 2 a Thinking . Out Loud . . H. M. L. Listening to the hearing, in which the CIO local miners union affiliate seeks through the’ Federal Labor board the reinstatement of some eighty five men, who were thrown out of employment when the Idaho Maryland mine management closed the Old Brunswick mine, one can-. } not fail to be impressed with features of the proceeding that are without precedent in American experience. First and foremost is the fact that the hearing carries out in its: procedure the intent of the Wagner Labor act, which legally requires that any employer whose plant or business may be construed to affect interstate commerce, who discharges & man or men, must prove beyond reasonable doubt that the discharge was for other reasons than union affiliation or agitation on the part of those discharged. Next one is impressed by the fact that hearsay evidence is freely admitted. Opinions or conclusions of witnesses are admitted as pertinent. They may not have, in the final conelusions of the Labor Board in Washington, the same weight as_ facts, such as what the witnesses: saw with their own eyes, did themselves, or heard with their own ears, but nevertheless what a witness believed, heard or opined goes into the reeord. The Wagner Labor act is intended to protect a working man in his joh. and particularly to protect associations or unions of working men in their jobs. The hearing in Grass Valley faithfully reflects the expressed intent of the act. It is not in any sense a judicial: ‘preceeding, though some of the forms are ob-. served, and the examiner is addressed as “your honor.” We are not concerned with the merits of the controversy between the local affiliate of the GIO and the Idaho Maryland mine. Thus far out brief visits to scene of the hearing, are too sketchy to admit of anything like a matured conclusion. The td: ho Maryland may or may not be able to prove, as some of the questions asked by its attorney seem to indicate that it will try to prove, that the Old Brunswick ‘was closed because high«grading was. so rife. that Lwhat is. covered, them E. evada City N ug COVERS RICHEST GOL D AREA IN CALIFORNIA get 8 < The Nevada City Nugget helps your city and county to grow in population . and prosperity. adveitising in By subsribing to, and the Nugget, therefore, you help yourself. Vol. U1, No. 50: Phe County Se Paper _NEVADA CITY, CALIF ORNIA . The Gold Center FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1937. First prize of the Hisipeieak “Viens Landmarks committee of the N. D. G, W. for submitting the best literary work on pioneer life in California has been awarded to Mrs. Belle Douglass of Nevada City. Mrs. Douglass was notified of the award Wednesday by the Nevada City delegates attending the Grand Parlor of Native Daughters of the Golden West in session in San Jose. Mrs. Douglass submitted the memoirs of her mother, Mrs. R. J. Rolfe, who came to California in 1854 and settled in Nevada City where she_ resided until her death in 1907. The memoirs are given below: (By MRS. I. J. ROLFE) Born in Maine, January 26, moved to Massachusetts vears old. Married Rolfe, August 31, 1854. Came to California, arriving the last of October of the same vear, stopped at Grass Valley for two weeks while Mr. R. bought a house and prepared for my coming to Nevada City. Our house was-situated on Spring street opposite the home of Mr. and Mrs. Z. P. Davis. The house was situated on a rise of ground at the back of now Rosenburg’s store: It was battened, which is wide boards with narrow strips nailed over the cracks. Some of the boards and strips just reached to the sills, some and others of ail NEVADA CITY TO 1832, when 12 lanthis Jerome the management regarded it as uneco. nomic to continue operation, It may . or may not be able to prove that af-; ter closing the mine, it made an effort to sift out and to .re-employ those men, regardless of union mentbership, whom the management regarded as honest. As a matter of fact that some fifteen the record shows or twenty of the discharged men were re-employed. Commentators, editorial, sociolosical and political all agree that the Wagner Labor act does this: it gives a man a vested right to his job, a property right, If he strikes, according to the act, and does not work while striking, or if his employer locks him out, he is_ still, paradoxical as it may seem, an employe, and as such is entitled to his wages. It is an interesting development in industrial, capital and labor relations in this . country. Many questions are being raised in the minds of both employers and intelligent labor leaders. Some of these are: Will the Wagner labor act force employers to keep on their payrolls inefficient, physically incapable, or dishonest employes who are members of the dominant bargaining union in their industry? Will the act force a man to continue operation of business or industry, when circumstances, perhaps entirely external. to ‘the management, have made such operation unprofitable or entail definite capital losses? The answer to this is probably in the negative, because another branch of the government, represented by the sheriff, would step in and hang a padlock on the gate. ~ Even the Wagner act does not afford the speedy relief, to either party in the ¢ontroversy, whieh “many would expect. After this hearing which is now procéding, the examiner will make his report to the Labor Board in Washington. The Labor Board will then render a decision, from which either party can appeal to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. After due consideration this eourt will hand down a decision, some circumstances SEND 15 FLOATS T0G.V. FOURTH P. E. Marshall, chairman of the Nevada Citv Fourth of July committee presided at an executive. mee:ing held in the Chamber of CGommerce headquarters on Wednesday night. Tifteen floats have already been entered for the parade in Grass Vailey on July 4 and the committee would greatly appreciate it if othe.” planning to enter floats’ in the ade would enter them at once. Sheriff C. J. Tobiassen and W. H. Griffiths were appointed to. solicit donations from the local — business houses to defray the expenses. of Nevada City’s participation in the celebration. Sheriff Tobiassen stated at a late hour yesterday that he had as yet any had one refusal. pr-ELM TREES SPRAYED Victor Widmier, tree surgeon, sprayed the elm trees in front of the E. J. N. Ott home Monday to control Japanese elm leaf heetle. There are quite a number of very large elm trees in Nevada City and in several eases the sprayer and. assistant had to elimb into the trees to spray the higher branches as the hose was not long enough, Some spraying was done in this city three or four weeks ago. Spraying trees in Grass Valley was completed-several,days.ago. can be appealed to the United States Supreme Court. For better or worse, the law’s delays are still with us. One cannot help but reflect what a boon the new labor act is to the legal profession. Each labor examiner must have an attorney to conduct labor’s side of each controversy. Firms that defend _employers must add to their legal staffs. It seems providential in a way. Just when bar associations all over were becoming alarmed at the trem. endous army of fledgeling attorneys the Jaw schools were turning out } a . cad each year, along comes the Wagner not pass over double line Mother’: S Memoirs be First Prize For _ Mrs. Belle Douglass lengths below making the house at the back look like an old broken tooth comb. It had two front doors, each leading into the front rooms and the strips ran across the boards, just boards for steps with no backs to them. : As we drove to the house I could see under the house through to the back yard. It was not inclosed in any way. The view was not artistic. The house had five rooms, two front rooms and two»bed rooms and a small work room, In the work room, or sink room was a slide window under the sink. which made the room -so. light I threw a pan of dish water against it, thinking it open. The house had been painted and papered inside and looked clean, but after a fire had been built in the cook’ stove, the paper soon showed grease spots and I noticed two little pyramid shaped, like blocks on -top of the paste boards below the grease spots on the paper. I investigated and found from frying pans that had evidently been hung up to dry by the miners without having been washed. The grease had drained from the pans and the painters had painted them over. On the sides of the front doors I‘noticed a great deal of sticky stuff where the miners had cleaned their knives after scraping the remains of the table to the pigs who run the streets, The first night in my new home I slept little, owing to the pigs and fleas. The pigs slept under the house and where there are _ pigs there are fleas. I was told, never having seen a flea until I came to California. I caught a few to send to friends in the east as a curiosity. In the morning I told Mr. R, that the house. and lot must ‘be inclosed to keep out the pigs and he told me . i . that pigs were healthy as they ate the refuse that was thrown from the houses, and that the refuse under ‘the house must be cleaned out. He sent a colored man the next day, and the miscellaneous things that came. to light were astonishing tO a person just from civilization. There were gum boots, old -coats. pants, and vests, red shirts, blue shirts, and white ones, any number of old socks, bottles of all sizes and descriptions, tin cans of every shape and size, bones that the dogs had carried under there, and I cannot describe the odor or-now remember the number of wheel barrowloads that were dumped into Deér Creek. The fleas were still there, butsin not so large (« soatiswed on Page ¥ ‘ive) IMPROVEMENTS MADE IN ROADS The new stretch of road. between the Yuba-Nevada county line and the Parks Bar bridge was opened June 10 to traffic. The road is of eight inch base with asphalt surface, making the highway not only durable but comfortable as well. Approximately seventy five men were employed on the construction, which was done by the Hempstreet and Bell Construction company. ‘The road took eight months to complete and is four miles long. It is now under the supervision. ofthe local highway division. ah Another Hempstreet and Bell construction is taking place between Goodyears Bar and Downieville, which will be opened soon. The type of road is the best and willl add much to the,improvements which are going on between Nevada. Cify and Downieville. The same number of men approximately are being used on this construction as are the ones in the Parks-county line job. .' The the country . started on May work is ahead of schedule ‘and was £5. ‘Another minor but important im. provement to the highways around . this territory is the_ placing of “Do signs on act and gives employment to a bright 1 the two stretche: “Detween Grass Valfaced legion of graduates. . ley and . ity. I washed the window,+: them solid grease that had piled up! ROTARIANS HOLD GAY PICNIC IN PIONEERS PARK‘ Rotarians of Grass Valley and Nevada City, their wives, friends and children had a bang-up good time last evening in Pidneers Park. There were seventy five persons who enjoyed the al fresco supper, consisting of excellent broiled steak, weenies, coffee, ice cream, pickles, etc. The picnic was held in the grove of cedars’ and pines at the fire place on Little Deer Creek. John L. LaRue, Oscar Odegaard, ‘Louie Kopp and Bruce McClard were cooks and chefs. Following the supper Grass Valley . aiid Nevada City baseball players in the two clubs lined up for a fast and frisky game of ‘soft ball on the park diamond. The umpire declared the game was:-a tie. CIVIC CLUB PICNIC PROVES BIG SUCCESS The Civic Club pienie in the R. J. Bennetts gardens Tuesday was a great success with over members and guests present. A fine supper was served at 5:39 after which a social time with group singing was. enjoyed. The beautiful gardens was a delightful sefting for the picnic and everyone enjoyed walking about them. The next affair to be given by the Civie Club is the flower show to‘be held in Armory hall in September. evening sixty SAN JUAN MINE Development continues at the San Juan mine north of San Juan, although no ore has been shipped for about a month. The Bradley interests who own the property have taken over Mrs. Neilson’s property of 249 acres which adjoins on the Shady Creek sidé. Ray Butterfield is superintendent. TWENTY SEVEN SEEK AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP The following twenty seven persons have been notified by County Clerk, R. N. (MeCormack, ‘to appear in. th courtroom of Judge Raglan Tuttle at the courthouse in Nevada City, on Monday, June 28, at 10 a. m. for the purpose of taking their naturalization examination. There will be an examiner’ present frora the U. S. Department of Labor to interrogate the candidates. Grass Valley: William Gordon Luke; William Henry Bartle, England; Guilio Artuso, Italy; Mrs. Clarissa Grigg, England; Daniele Solaro, Italy; Everett Hitchin, England; Joseph “Noel Beaudoin, Canada; John Chegwidden, England; John Moffat Hinds, Scotland; Michael Joseph Caulfield. freland; Richard Martin Heather, England; Edward Ernest. Rogers, England; Mrs. Agnes Lloyd, England; Joseph David Tellam, England; Mrs. Johanna Personeni, Germany. Nevada City: Leroy Ferris Whitney, Canada; Mrs. Ragnhild Ronning, Norway; Eli Rodman, Yugoslavia; Richard C. Martens, Latvia; Ferdinand Zadra, Italy; Mary Lucy Museardini, Italy. Truckee: Andra Armati, Italy; Ole Bergeson, Wergeland, Norway; Ednardo Lanfrance, Italy; Anna Jensen, Wergeland, Norway. : Hobart Mills: Joseph France; Narcissio Renucci, TRINITY S. S. WILL PICNIC JUNE 29 The Sunday mahaal of Trinity church will hold a Sunday school and parish pot-luck supper at the municipal swimming pool and _ pienic grounds at Pioneer park on Tuesday evening, June 24. Miss Elma Hecker, superintendent of the Sunday school and the other teachers are making the arrangements. for the picnic. Definite plans will be Italy. ‘announced to the Sunday school and the church congregation Sunday morning. Lembeve, iners at Work Total 2400; Payroll $361,000. ~Mining has’ proceeded in this district during the past month at a very even pace with one new mine the Alcalde. west of Grass, Valley, employing ten men, added to the list of active mines. Development work has continued with all’mines and assessment work has been started on many properties and in a number of cases has been completed. The news of the President's signing the bill waiving the annual assessment work on mining claims for the year ending July 1, 1937, came as a great boon to many owners of small claims who had not been able to do their assessment work. s Almost a hundred more men are employed this month than last. The total number of men now at work in] mines is 2412, with a payroll. of $361,000 monthly. Reports frem various mines follow: BETCHER PROPERTY O. E. Betcher, who gave a on the mineral rights to his pronerty near the county hospital to Dr. Long of San Francisco is continuing with development --work while the doctor is away. L. C. Fischer, also associated with the doctor, had charge for a time but he tes is away . and Mr.-Beteher feels the ground holds good promise and ts continuing. A heavy flow of water last~fall . closed a shaft near Deer Creek and . a new one has béen started higher . up on the slope. lease weeks ago, the crew has been enlarg-~ ed to about 60 men. The company is developing the Gold Bank and treating mined ore in a large mill put up on the property last year. E. MacBoyle is in charge of these properties. LAVA CAP. MINE A 90 foot steel gallows frame is being erected and a 300 horse power hoist installed at the Central shaft on the Lava Cap property southeast of Nevada City. An underground station is being cut in the Banner shaft. Otto E. Schiffner is superin~ tendent.RELIEF HILL AND LUCKY JANE According to Superintendent C. E. Clark there will be no hydraulic op erations at the Relief Hill property until the debris dam at the Narrows on the South Yuba river is high enough to permit storage of debris. Several men employed are developing outlet tunnels, sluice ways, ditches and roads. The tunnel being driven to contact an old channel at the Lucky Jame property is practically complete. Plans call for a washing plant equipped to handle black Sands carrying free gold and platinum, as soon as development is completed. ALCALDE MINE Ten men are employed at the Ak calde mine west of Grass Valley. C. !L. Best, tractor manufacturer of San IDAHO-MA RYLAND MINES Approximately 95 men have been added to the Idaho-Maryland~ mine payroll since last month when it was noted there were 500 men employed. The company continues to treat 800 tons of ore per day. This company is also operating a property it. Forbestown, the Gold Bank and others. From 12 or 15 men_ several, Leandro purchased the property several months ago and the 735 foot shaft is practically unwatered. Mike K. Maguire of Grass Valley is superintendent. WOODRUFF PROPERTY E. D. Woodruff, who located his ground above Jones Bar on the north (Continued on Page Two) OPERATING MINES, MEN EMPLOYED AND MONTHLY PAYROLL IN NEVADA COUNTY LOCATION MINE QUARTZ NUMBER OR GRAVEL EMPLOYED PAYROLL N. Star Empire . Pennsylvania Quartz Grass Valley $30 $124,500 Brunswick and 3} Idaho-Maryland Quartz NE Grass: Valley 595 89,250 Murchie Quartz § of Nevada City 240 36,000 Great Northern Quartz Harmony Ridge 15 2,250 Golden Center Quartz Grass Valley 110 16,500 Spring Hill Quartz NE Grass Valley 15 2,250 Lava Cap Quartz Banner Mt. 240 36,000 Spanish Quartz Washington 50 7,500 Zeibright . Quartz. E Nevada City 125 18,750 Precott Hill Quartz FE Grass Valley 15 2,250 Giant King Quartz Washington 3 150 Omega Gravel N .Washington 5 750 Norambagua Quartz S Grass Valley 15 2,250 Queen Lil Mill Nevada City 5 TO San Juan Mine Quartz Nor. San Juan ET ~ B550 Valley Gold Mines Quartz E Nevada City 8 1,200 Lucky Jane Quartz N. Bloomfield 3 450 Golden Triangle _ Quartz —_ Graniteville 450 Graces : Quartz S Nevada City 10 1,500 _ Stockton Hill Quartz S Grass Valley 5 : 750 3 A Morning Star Quartz Tyler me 300 Mistletoe Quartz Rough and Ready 5 750 Lowell Hill Gravel E Nevada “City _ 5 Boreham Quartz Town Talk 3 Nevada Quartz E Nevada City 2 Ridge Mines . Gravel San Juan 5 Mt. View Quartz Washington sh Shovel Plagers Gravel North Columbia 3 Daisy Blue Quartz NW Nevada City 4 Atlas Gravel Anthony House 15 Jim, Mine { na Qpartz Graniteville 6 Treas, Box, Lady Bug. Qtz. Washington 6 Red Ledge Quartz Washington 4 Birchville , Quartz Graniteville : 5 Republic Quartz Graniteville 4 Bullion Quartz ~~ Grass Valley 20 Alcalde x Quartz W Grass Valley — 10

4 4] ‘which under 2 a Thinking . Out Loud . . H. M. L. Listening to the hearing, in which the CIO local miners union affiliate seeks through the’ Federal Labor board the reinstatement of some eighty five men, who were thrown out of employment when the Idaho Maryland mine management closed the Old Brunswick mine, one can-. } not fail to be impressed with features of the proceeding that are without precedent in American experience. First and foremost is the fact that the hearing carries out in its: procedure the intent of the Wagner Labor act, which legally requires that any employer whose plant or business may be construed to affect interstate commerce, who discharges & man or men, must prove beyond reasonable doubt that the discharge was for other reasons than union affiliation or agitation on the part of those discharged. Next one is impressed by the fact that hearsay evidence is freely admitted. Opinions or conclusions of witnesses are admitted as pertinent. They may not have, in the final conelusions of the Labor Board in Washington, the same weight as_ facts, such as what the witnesses: saw with their own eyes, did themselves, or heard with their own ears, but nevertheless what a witness believed, heard or opined goes into the reeord. The Wagner Labor act is intended to protect a working man in his joh. and particularly to protect associations or unions of working men in their jobs. The hearing in Grass Valley faithfully reflects the expressed intent of the act. It is not in any sense a judicial: ‘preceeding, though some of the forms are ob-. served, and the examiner is addressed as “your honor.” We are not concerned with the merits of the controversy between the local affiliate of the GIO and the Idaho Maryland mine. Thus far out brief visits to scene of the hearing, are too sketchy to admit of anything like a matured conclusion. The td: ho Maryland may or may not be able to prove, as some of the questions asked by its attorney seem to indicate that it will try to prove, that the Old Brunswick ‘was closed because high«grading was. so rife. that Lwhat is. covered, them E. evada City N ug COVERS RICHEST GOL D AREA IN CALIFORNIA get 8 < The Nevada City Nugget helps your city and county to grow in population . and prosperity. adveitising in By subsribing to, and the Nugget, therefore, you help yourself. Vol. U1, No. 50: Phe County Se Paper _NEVADA CITY, CALIF ORNIA . The Gold Center FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1937. First prize of the Hisipeieak “Viens Landmarks committee of the N. D. G, W. for submitting the best literary work on pioneer life in California has been awarded to Mrs. Belle Douglass of Nevada City. Mrs. Douglass was notified of the award Wednesday by the Nevada City delegates attending the Grand Parlor of Native Daughters of the Golden West in session in San Jose. Mrs. Douglass submitted the memoirs of her mother, Mrs. R. J. Rolfe, who came to California in 1854 and settled in Nevada City where she_ resided until her death in 1907. The memoirs are given below: (By MRS. I. J. ROLFE) Born in Maine, January 26, moved to Massachusetts vears old. Married Rolfe, August 31, 1854. Came to California, arriving the last of October of the same vear, stopped at Grass Valley for two weeks while Mr. R. bought a house and prepared for my coming to Nevada City. Our house was-situated on Spring street opposite the home of Mr. and Mrs. Z. P. Davis. The house was situated on a rise of ground at the back of now Rosenburg’s store: It was battened, which is wide boards with narrow strips nailed over the cracks. Some of the boards and strips just reached to the sills, some and others of ail NEVADA CITY TO 1832, when 12 lanthis Jerome the management regarded it as uneco. nomic to continue operation, It may . or may not be able to prove that af-; ter closing the mine, it made an effort to sift out and to .re-employ those men, regardless of union mentbership, whom the management regarded as honest. As a matter of fact that some fifteen the record shows or twenty of the discharged men were re-employed. Commentators, editorial, sociolosical and political all agree that the Wagner Labor act does this: it gives a man a vested right to his job, a property right, If he strikes, according to the act, and does not work while striking, or if his employer locks him out, he is_ still, paradoxical as it may seem, an employe, and as such is entitled to his wages. It is an interesting development in industrial, capital and labor relations in this . country. Many questions are being raised in the minds of both employers and intelligent labor leaders. Some of these are: Will the Wagner labor act force employers to keep on their payrolls inefficient, physically incapable, or dishonest employes who are members of the dominant bargaining union in their industry? Will the act force a man to continue operation of business or industry, when circumstances, perhaps entirely external. to ‘the management, have made such operation unprofitable or entail definite capital losses? The answer to this is probably in the negative, because another branch of the government, represented by the sheriff, would step in and hang a padlock on the gate. ~ Even the Wagner act does not afford the speedy relief, to either party in the ¢ontroversy, whieh “many would expect. After this hearing which is now procéding, the examiner will make his report to the Labor Board in Washington. The Labor Board will then render a decision, from which either party can appeal to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. After due consideration this eourt will hand down a decision, some circumstances SEND 15 FLOATS T0G.V. FOURTH P. E. Marshall, chairman of the Nevada Citv Fourth of July committee presided at an executive. mee:ing held in the Chamber of CGommerce headquarters on Wednesday night. Tifteen floats have already been entered for the parade in Grass Vailey on July 4 and the committee would greatly appreciate it if othe.” planning to enter floats’ in the ade would enter them at once. Sheriff C. J. Tobiassen and W. H. Griffiths were appointed to. solicit donations from the local — business houses to defray the expenses. of Nevada City’s participation in the celebration. Sheriff Tobiassen stated at a late hour yesterday that he had as yet any had one refusal. pr-ELM TREES SPRAYED Victor Widmier, tree surgeon, sprayed the elm trees in front of the E. J. N. Ott home Monday to control Japanese elm leaf heetle. There are quite a number of very large elm trees in Nevada City and in several eases the sprayer and. assistant had to elimb into the trees to spray the higher branches as the hose was not long enough, Some spraying was done in this city three or four weeks ago. Spraying trees in Grass Valley was completed-several,days.ago.. can be appealed to the United States Supreme Court. For better or worse, the law’s delays are still with us. One cannot help but reflect what a boon the new labor act is to the legal profession. Each labor examiner must have an attorney to conduct labor’s side of each controversy. Firms that defend _employers must add to their legal staffs. It seems providential in a way. Just when bar associations all over were becoming alarmed at the trem. endous army of fledgeling attorneys the Jaw schools were turning out } a . cad each year, along comes the Wagner not pass over double line Mother’: S Memoirs be First Prize For _ Mrs. Belle Douglass lengths below making the house at the back look like an old broken tooth comb. It had two front doors, each leading into the front rooms and the strips ran across the boards, just boards for steps with no backs to them. : As we drove to the house I could see under the house through to the back yard. It was not inclosed in any way. The view was not artistic. The house had five rooms, two front rooms and two»bed rooms and a small work room, In the work room, or sink room was a slide window under the sink. which made the room -so. light I threw a pan of dish water against it, thinking it open. The house had been painted and papered inside and looked clean, but after a fire had been built in the cook’ stove, the paper soon showed grease spots and I noticed two little pyramid shaped, like blocks on -top of the paste boards below the grease spots on the paper. I investigated and found from frying pans that had evidently been hung up to dry by the miners without having been washed. The grease had drained from the pans and the painters had painted them over. On the sides of the front doors I‘noticed a great deal of sticky stuff where the miners had cleaned their knives after scraping the remains of the table to the pigs who run the streets, The first night in my new home I slept little, owing to the pigs and fleas. The pigs slept under the house and where there are _ pigs there are fleas. I was told, never having seen a flea until I came to California. I caught a few to send to friends in the east as a curiosity. In the morning I told Mr. R, that the house. and lot must ‘be inclosed to keep out the pigs and he told me . i . that pigs were healthy as they ate the refuse that was thrown from the houses, and that the refuse under

‘the house must be cleaned out. He sent a colored man the next day, and the miscellaneous things that came. to light were astonishing tO a person just from civilization. There were gum boots, old -coats. pants, and vests, red shirts, blue shirts, and white ones, any number of old socks, bottles of all sizes and descriptions, tin cans of every shape and size, bones that the dogs had carried under there, and I cannot describe the odor or-now remember the number of wheel barrowloads that were dumped into Deér Creek. The fleas were still there, butsin not so large (« soatiswed on Page ¥ ‘ive) IMPROVEMENTS MADE IN ROADS The new stretch of road. between the Yuba-Nevada county line and the Parks Bar bridge was opened June 10 to traffic. The road is of eight inch base with asphalt surface, making the highway not only durable but comfortable as well. Approximately seventy five men were employed on the construction, which was done by the Hempstreet and Bell Construction company. ‘The road took eight months to complete and is four miles long. It is now under the supervision. ofthe local highway division. ah Another Hempstreet and Bell construction is taking place between Goodyears Bar and Downieville, which will be opened soon. The type of road is the best and willl add much to the,improvements which are going on between Nevada. Cify and Downieville. The same number of men approximately are being used on this construction as are the ones in the Parks-county line job. .' The the country . started on May work is ahead of schedule ‘and was £5. ‘Another minor but important im. provement to the highways around . this territory is the_ placing of “Do signs on act and gives employment to a bright 1 the two stretche: “Detween Grass Valfaced legion of graduates. . ley and . ity. I washed the window,+: them solid grease that had piled up! ROTARIANS HOLD GAY PICNIC IN PIONEERS PARK‘ Rotarians of Grass Valley and Nevada City, their wives, friends and children had a bang-up good time last evening in Pidneers Park. There were seventy five persons who enjoyed the al fresco supper, consisting of excellent broiled steak, weenies, coffee, ice cream, pickles, etc. The picnic was held in the grove of cedars’ and pines at the fire place on Little Deer Creek. John L. LaRue, Oscar Odegaard, ‘Louie Kopp and Bruce McClard were cooks and chefs. Following the supper Grass Valley . aiid Nevada City baseball players in the two clubs lined up for a fast and frisky game of ‘soft ball on the park diamond. The umpire declared the game was:-a tie. CIVIC CLUB PICNIC PROVES BIG SUCCESS The Civic Club pienie in the R. J. Bennetts gardens Tuesday was a great success with over members and guests present. A fine supper was served at 5:39 after which a social time with group singing was. enjoyed. The beautiful gardens was a delightful sefting for the picnic and everyone enjoyed walking about them. The next affair to be given by the Civie Club is the flower show to‘be held in Armory hall in September. evening sixty SAN JUAN MINE Development continues at the San Juan mine north of San Juan, although no ore has been shipped for about a month. The Bradley interests who own the property have taken over Mrs. Neilson’s property of 249 acres which adjoins on the Shady Creek sidé. Ray Butterfield is superintendent. TWENTY SEVEN SEEK AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP The following twenty seven persons have been notified by County Clerk, R. N. (MeCormack, ‘to appear in. th courtroom of Judge Raglan Tuttle at the courthouse in Nevada City, on Monday, June 28, at 10 a. m. for the purpose of taking their naturalization examination. There will be an examiner’ present frora the U. S. Department of Labor to interrogate the candidates. Grass Valley: William Gordon Luke; William Henry Bartle, England; Guilio Artuso, Italy; Mrs. Clarissa Grigg, England; Daniele Solaro, Italy; Everett Hitchin, England; Joseph “Noel Beaudoin, Canada; John Chegwidden, England; John Moffat Hinds, Scotland; Michael Joseph Caulfield. freland; Richard Martin Heather, England; Edward Ernest. Rogers, England; Mrs. Agnes Lloyd, England; Joseph David Tellam, England; Mrs. Johanna Personeni, Germany. Nevada City: Leroy Ferris Whitney, Canada; Mrs. Ragnhild Ronning, Norway; Eli Rodman, Yugoslavia; Richard C. Martens, Latvia; Ferdinand Zadra, Italy; Mary Lucy Museardini, Italy. Truckee: Andra Armati, Italy; Ole Bergeson, Wergeland, Norway; Ednardo Lanfrance, Italy; Anna Jensen, Wergeland, Norway. : Hobart Mills: Joseph France; Narcissio Renucci, TRINITY S. S. WILL PICNIC JUNE 29 The Sunday mahaal of Trinity church will hold a Sunday school and parish pot-luck supper at the municipal swimming pool and _ pienic grounds at Pioneer park on Tuesday evening, June 24. Miss Elma Hecker, superintendent of the Sunday school and the other teachers are making the arrangements. for the picnic. Definite plans will be Italy. ‘announced to the Sunday school and the church congregation Sunday morning. Lembeve, iners at Work Total 2400; Payroll $361,000. ~Mining has’ proceeded in this district during the past month at a very even pace with one new mine the Alcalde. west of Grass, Valley, employing ten men, added to the list of active mines. Development work has continued with all’mines and assessment work has been started on many properties and in a number of cases has been completed. The news of the President's signing the bill waiving the annual assessment work on mining claims for the year ending July 1, 1937, came as a great boon to many owners of small claims who had not been able to do their assessment work. s Almost a hundred more men are employed this month than last. The total number of men now at work in] mines is 2412, with a payroll. of $361,000 monthly. Reports frem various mines follow: BETCHER PROPERTY O. E. Betcher, who gave a on the mineral rights to his pronerty near the county hospital to Dr. Long of San Francisco is continuing with development --work while the doctor is away. L. C. Fischer, also associated with the doctor, had charge for a time but he tes is away . and Mr.-Beteher feels the ground holds good promise and ts continuing. A heavy flow of water last~fall . closed a shaft near Deer Creek and . a new one has béen started higher . up on the slope. lease weeks ago, the crew has been enlarg-~ ed to about 60 men. The company is developing the Gold Bank and treating mined ore in a large mill put up on the property last year. E. MacBoyle is in charge of these properties. LAVA CAP. MINE A 90 foot steel gallows frame is being erected and a 300 horse power hoist installed at the Central shaft on the Lava Cap property southeast of Nevada City. An underground station is being cut in the Banner shaft. Otto E. Schiffner is superin~ tendent.RELIEF HILL AND LUCKY JANE According to Superintendent C. E. Clark there will be no hydraulic op erations at the Relief Hill property until the debris dam at the Narrows on the South Yuba river is high enough to permit storage of debris. Several men employed are developing outlet tunnels, sluice ways, ditches and roads. The tunnel being driven to contact an old channel at the Lucky Jame property is practically complete. Plans call for a washing plant equipped to handle black Sands carrying free gold and platinum, as soon as development is completed. ALCALDE MINE Ten men are employed at the Ak calde mine west of Grass Valley. C. !L. Best, tractor manufacturer of San IDAHO-MA RYLAND MINES Approximately 95 men have been added to the Idaho-Maryland~ mine payroll since last month when it was noted there were 500 men employed. The company continues to treat 800 tons of ore per day. This company is also operating a property it. Forbestown, the Gold Bank and others. From 12 or 15 men_ several, Leandro purchased the property several months ago and the 735 foot shaft is practically unwatered. Mike K. Maguire of Grass Valley is superintendent. WOODRUFF PROPERTY E. D. Woodruff, who located his ground above Jones Bar on the north (Continued on Page Two) OPERATING MINES, MEN EMPLOYED AND MONTHLY PAYROLL IN NEVADA COUNTY LOCATION MINE QUARTZ NUMBER OR GRAVEL EMPLOYED PAYROLL N. Star Empire . Pennsylvania Quartz Grass Valley $30 $124,500 Brunswick and 3} Idaho-Maryland Quartz NE Grass: Valley 595 89,250 Murchie Quartz § of Nevada City 240 36,000 Great Northern Quartz Harmony Ridge 15 2,250 Golden Center Quartz Grass Valley 110 16,500 Spring Hill Quartz NE Grass Valley 15 2,250 Lava Cap Quartz Banner Mt. 240 36,000 Spanish Quartz Washington 50 7,500 Zeibright . Quartz. E Nevada City 125 18,750 Precott Hill Quartz FE Grass Valley 15 2,250 Giant King Quartz Washington 3 150 Omega Gravel N .Washington 5 750 Norambagua Quartz S Grass Valley 15 2,250 Queen Lil Mill Nevada City 5 TO San Juan Mine Quartz Nor. San Juan ET ~ B550 Valley Gold Mines Quartz E Nevada City 8 1,200 Lucky Jane Quartz N. Bloomfield 3 450 Golden Triangle _ Quartz —_ Graniteville 450 Graces : Quartz S Nevada City 10 1,500 _ Stockton Hill Quartz S Grass Valley 5 : 750 3 A Morning Star Quartz Tyler me 300 Mistletoe Quartz Rough and Ready 5 750 Lowell Hill Gravel E Nevada “City _ 5 Boreham Quartz Town Talk 3 Nevada Quartz E Nevada City 2 Ridge Mines . Gravel San Juan 5 Mt. View Quartz Washington sh Shovel Plagers Gravel North Columbia 3 Daisy Blue Quartz NW Nevada City 4 Atlas Gravel Anthony House 15 Jim, Mine { na Qpartz Graniteville 6 Treas, Box, Lady Bug. Qtz. Washington 6 Red Ledge Quartz Washington 4 Birchville , Quartz Graniteville : 5 Republic Quartz Graniteville 4 Bullion Quartz ~~ Grass Valley 20 Alcalde x Quartz W Grass Valley — 10