June 4, 1928 (6 pages)

ee ity Nugget Thomas F. Hogan, prominent local business man passed away just before noon today after a lingering iilness. of some months. en VOLUME II: NUMBER 29 THE GOLD CENTER NEVADA CITY, NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, THE COUNTY SEAT PAPER JUNE 4, 1928 RISING SUN MINE UNWATERING IS NOW COMPLETED The workings of the Rising Sun property on Bear river have been drained of water the past few days’ with the tapping through of a large drill hole toa raise above the 600 level. The gas is still heavy in the old workings and as soon as this is cleared out, development work will be started. The shaft is being repaired at the present time. A 130 ton modern amalgamation mill with a 200 ton cyanide plant is being’ installed. The Rising Sun was a large producer until the excessive flow of water rendered unprofitable mining on the lower levels: The work of draining the property down to the drain tunnel level means a new era of production for this property. = The main tunnel was completed in February but the connections were not made with the old workings until the past week. The old orebody in the west end of the mine which was lost in the éarly days through faulting was picked up in the tunnel and a rich ore shoot opened up. Four ledges were cut during the driving of the tunnel which contain good milling rock. With the new ten stamps added to the former ten stamp .equipment and a Chilean mill for fine regrinding will give ample milling capacity. The cyanide plant will treat the tailings from the mill and accumulated tailings from the old dump. The Nevada Mining Press in its issue pays Edward C. Uren a well deserved compliment: ‘“‘The tunnel was surveyed and laid out by E. C. Uren of Nevada City, and so well was the work done that, although separated by 500 vertical feet of water, the connection was made with only the variation of a few inches.” E. C. Klinker is in charge of operations. GOOD PROSPECT FOUND IN THE FINNEY MINE) Pannings from a recent strike in the Finney mine near Downieville show assay values running from $20 to $30 per ton according to Manager J. H. Collier who is in-charge of operations at this property near Downieville. A 16 inch vein was picked up in the footwall and has been followed for some distance. The tunnel is now in 800 feet. TELEPHONE DIRECTORY FOR JUNE bb NOW OUT!,.:.: BIG MINING OPERATIONS ASSURED IN SALE OF THE GASTON PROPERTIES RESCUE EULA COMPANY SIGNS PAPERS FRIDAY AND WILL START AT ONCE CAMPTONVILLE MINING HAS WATER SHORTAGE The running season for mining depending upon water is shortening as these hot summer days are lowering the water, and the ‘‘piving season”’ of the -hydraulic mines is almost over. The Bald Top, the highest elevated of the local hydraulic mines cut down its crew several weeks ago,” and is now doing repair work, and other work which must be done during 'the dry season. Fred BE. Aldous, superintendent of the property, is at present at Los Angeles, expected back at any” time to continue’ the work, a small crew is at the property at. all times. The Joubert mines pipes only a few hours each day, and unless some more precipitation falls soon, the water will soon be gone, and the work of getting things in order for next season will start. The busiest property _at the present time in the Camptonville section is the Halkyard gravel property seven miles north of town. The mine is in charge of the B. F. McNaught & Co., Los Angeles . people, and a small village of people live at the mine, making a happy group, and bringing that section to the front once again. They are pushing the tunnel ahead in search of the main channel which is expect to be reach, ed most anytime. Old timers say that this is one of the’ best properties in , this mining district. It is located in agold producing area for even the' ladies of the camp are able to pan free gold from the surface of nearby ravines. Mrs. Baldwin, who handles the pan well, has succeeded in getting considerable free gold from the . nearby. ravines, getting two nuggets } as large a8 a brown bean, which: speaks well of the country where the . property is located. The non operation of the Snowden ! Hill property is the result of a stock © selling speculative scheme last year. of a Los Angeles combine which took the mine only to profit from the sale of stock and interest in the same. They ran it on a luxuriant style for a short time when a final came, and since that time the owners: of the property have been, in. court in order to eradicate the lease from the mine. The trial is on the calendar . ‘have been aceéntuated by the present . of the Sierra County Superior Court, , sates: sf H : and as soon as it is\over and the matter settled, there is no doubt but what the property will be again, but no one will operate it while in litigation. enry Rabe is going ahead with property near the Sleighville House. He has some very good The new June directories of the . quarts and the outlook is good for Pacific Telephone and Telepgraph Company are now being delivered to; the’ Nevada City subscribers, and number given out, 550, for this exchange shows a steady and continuous growth. The style of makeup has been changed in the present issue, the outside “exchanges being placed in the front and the Sacramento directory to the rear. The classified section and the business and bureau guide will be found of interest. Any patron not receiving their co. should notify the! WASHINGTON ROAD TQ HAVE py by June 10th central office. Wm. Litchenberger was in town Friday from the having some machinery repaired at the Miner’s Foundry. T. B. Williamson who is operating a copper mine at Island Mountain in Trinity county has been visiting his brother R. Foster Williamson of Washington. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Barnes are at home after a visit in Sacramento. Mrs. I’. Davies and three sons, Lionel, Alton and Craig decorated the graves of loved ones at Forest Hill on Memorial Day. Mrs. Annie Hill entertained Fdward Gray and. son, Edward Jr., and the latter’s fiancee, Miss Ellen Whitlock, all of Oakland. The Grays are former resident and enjoyed , spending Memorial Day renewing old . acquaintancés. Miles Coughlin is home quick trip to Oakland. R. D. Stenger and daughter, Le-! nore returned home Wednesday from Oakland where they visited Robert , done in the ‘people who Brush Creek Mine . ‘ning on building .the several bad ‘stretches of road. and alfinding something better, in which event he will erect a small mill to handle the rock. Considerable prospecting has been Camptonville field this spring, and several new mining loca,tions have been filed. Several pocket , hunters have been scouting in the in the nearby ravines, and while they may not have found anything big, yet they have found enough to encourage them to locate. MUCH NEEDED CHANGES It will be good news to the many travel the Washington road that Supervisor Dudley is plana new road from to Washington in It will cut out Junction House near future. so leave out some steep grades. The road will go through the Fowler saw ‘mill property, from which ‘rights of way have been purchased. Some of ; the old mill roads will be used with about 1000, feet of new road to be eonstructed, John Marks is at home after some time spent around Folsem, Mr. and Mrs. James Cairns have returned to their home at Palo Alto after a pleasant visit here with Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Richards. W. M. Kane of Downieville, who . recently broke his wrist, was in town after a . Friday and is recovering fast from his injury. He was accompanied by iP. W. Smith, who was here on busiA " ness. Mrs, Ed Schmidt left this week for Stenger, Jr., who was recently oper} a visit with relatives in San Francisated upon for appendicitis, blowup . opened } General Manager O. E. Schiffner Is On The Ground To Direct Operations Following Exténsive Sampling; Electric Power Will Be Brought In And New Equipment Installed One of the largest transfers of mining properties in Nevada -County for a number of years, and which was exclusively ‘forecast in The Nugget of last week, was accomplished on Friday when the ‘papers transferring the extensive Gaston Ridge properties lying between Washington and Graniteville wer esigned by the Rescue Eula Mining Company of Nevada _which is preparing to open up development on a large scale at once. Electric power lines areto be brought to the property as soon as possible. This company which has a record of twenty four years of production at Tonopah has been making a thorough examination of the mining fields between Arizona and Oregon: for the past nine months and the excellent showing made in the sampling of the Gaston properties caused it to select this section as the scene of its major operations. General Manager Otto E. Schiffner has been making his headquarters in Nevada City for some weks past and will open offices here at once and will bring his family here to reside. The Rescue Eula Mining Company is a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Nevada and has a permit from the California Commissioner of Corporations to operate in California. It is amply financed and has no stock to sell. Sam Shannon of San Francisco is president and George Searle of San Francisea is . secretary. Among the directors are Messrs. W. H. Hannon, F. W: Mon;ahan, Parker and McGinnis. 0. EF. ‘ Schiffner is general manager and will i be in active charge of operations. . . SAMPLING SHOWS PROPERTY i TO HAVE UNUSUAL MERIT A thorough sampling of the Gas.ton properties has been made with . the idea of checking up on the report of the engineers of the compa. ny and it was found that the mine values show the property to be one of unusual merit. The large-structure which prevails points to future possibilities in opening up new ore, bodies on the strike on the vein in impressive fashion. The executives of the Rescue Company believe that in the Gaston holdings there is an excellent opportunity. for the development ' ,of a biz mine. dis, trict surrounding the Gaston mines, . the possibilities of development in of the close by properties . Speaking of the immediate es veral developments. Due to the fact that ; the drain tunnel on the Gaston Ridge mines intercepts the vein sys-tem 1900 feet below its outcrop, the . possibility of utilizing this drain tunnel for properties is a very attractive mining posibility. OPERATIONS SCHEDULED TO BEGIN AT ONCE Operations at the Gaston are to start as onc¢é as soon as a crew can be.“assembled and necessary equipment installed. Negotiations are now Pending with several companies owning property in the vicinity looking toward the installation of electric power. The Pacific Gas and Electric Company has several men in the field working out a logical plan for the entry of. electric power into the Gaston section. The present equipment is to be thoroughly overhauled and added to. The tunnel is to be retimbered and put into working condition. Suitabie houses will be erected for the employes and-a complete camp equipment is being sought by general ma nager Schiffner. The necessary utsclinery will be installed with the ob ject of starting mining operaticns as soon as posisble. Otto FE. Schiffner, the general inenager, has had a long experience in a number of mining ventures ip Mcntana. Nevada and Southern California. He is highly pleased with the prospects for large time operations on the Gaston Ridge. The deal closed Friday forecasts greatly improved in creased interest in Nevada County mining operations which has come to the front so fast already this year and are making this and Sierra County the banner mining section of the state. The first authentic report on the Gaston group of properties which lig between Washington and Graniteville is found in a state mining bureau report.issued in 1888 at which time the Gaston Ridge mine, locally known as the California, had been developing several adjacent . ! ; i hrough connecting the drain tunnel developed to a depth of 147 feet by a 600 foot tunnel and another tunnel 100 feet below. A 10 stamp mill had recovered $45,000 from August 12, 1887 to June 14, 1888. From 1888 to 1898 the Gaston mine was worked intermittently, but by the latter year the ~vein had been worked to a depth of 275 feet. In.1898. the Gaston Gold Mining Company began active operations. A main adit was started 400 feet below the upper workings and in 1900 -at-a-distance of 2000 feet it interSected the Gaston vein. This tunnel was continued 600 feet into the hanging wall where in 1901 the Gambrinus vein was encountered. . Later, a winze was sunk on the Gaston vein, and some of the best ore that the mine produced was taken out from below the adit Tevel. In ithe eight years from 1899 to 1907 j the production was approximately a million dollars from 174,000 tons of ore stoped from both the Gaston and Gambrinus veins. In 1905 a §campaign of energetic development was inaugurated and new equipment at a cost of $50,000 was ordered. A drain tunnel was started 800 vertically below the main adit but owing to the San Francisco fire it was found impossible to secure capital to carry out the extensive plans fo1 improvement. All development work was suspended, the ore in sight was stoped, and the mine temporarily in 1906. In 1908 work was resumed and the drain tunnel was driven a distance of 4500 feet to the Gaston veins. A raise was put was closed and the bottom of the winze 5090 feet above. After ten stamps of {h2 40 stamp mill had been removed to the lower tunnel and run on ore from the lower levels, the mine was closed in the fall of 1913. Work was again resumed in the 1914 and was intermittently operated after that time. The property owned by the Gaston ! eompany consists of 1200 acres of which 1100 are patented including 26 mining claims. There are eight separate and distinct veins on the property but only two, the Gaston and Gambrinus, have been worked. The properties included transfer are the following: Gaston Ridge Consolidated Mine embracing Yale, ton Ridge North Extension, in the Baltimore and Southern Extension California Quartz Mines, Gambrinus Quartz Mine and Gambrinus mill: site, Solace Quartz — Gambrinus North Extension, U. S. Tunnel No. 1, Tunnel No. 2, eo uel No. 3, and Gamgast Quartz Mining Claims; Mrs. guests this week, Mrs. Joseph Polldrd and daughter, Mrs. A. E. Walton, of Oakland. Mr. and Mrs. C. W_ Towvre of Marysville attended the /uneral of his mother Thursday. Mrs. W. P. Sawyer hac guest, Mrs. Belle Powell, resident. Miss Lillian Nevis and brother, Albert of Yuba City spent Sunday here renewing olda cquaintances. as a a former cisco over the Wek-end. spring of . Gaston Ridge, Gas. Burns, 1 Burns: North Extension, West Burns, ! William Hutchinson had as' which was held here. Mrs. Mary Rossen. entertained her, son,Raymond, and wife of San Fran-— KENNEBEC PROPERTY TO BE OPERATED SHORTLY The Kennebec mine above Edwards Crossing gwned by the Paine Brothers is about to be developed with the completion of financing arrangements which have been pending for some time. This property is one of the promising ones of the district and should make an excellent production record with the installation of milling facilities. iat pe a oe BRUSH CREEK MILE WILL SOON BE ON FULL TIMZ The stamps are again dropping at the Brush Creek mine following a cessation while a new electric hoist was being installed in the shaft. The installation has been completed and development work is being pushed. Three tousand feet of air pipe has been run from the surface to the bottom of the shaft. Stoning has been started and the mill will shortly be Operating three shifts. President Ben F. Ballard of the Kate Hardy Company whieh is operating the Brush Creek is at the property for a time. ‘HIGH VALUE GRAVEL Is FOUND IN BLACK BEAR Reports reaching Nevada City. are to the effect that Hugh and Stanley McCormick who are operating the former Teleghaph gravel mine now the Black Bear near Scales have picked up a rich channel which is running almost unbelievable values per car. It is thought to be a continuation of the old Shamrock lead which was lost by the former owners. The MecCormicks and Steve Dondero pumped out an old incline that was in over 1000 feet from the tunnel adit and made the strike while drifting. GRANITEVILLE IS GETTING PEPPED ABOUT MINING Aacsechist is gectting all pépped up Over the great pending mining aci tivity on the Ridge and watching with interest prospective developments at the Ancho mine . which is being sampled with a ito early operations on a large seale. ‘BOOM IS NCURISHED FOR NEW IRRIGATE MANAGER Despairing of continuing the management of the Nevada Irrigation Dictrict. much longer, it is reperted thet strong pressure is being brought to bear in Grass Valley to have Fred ‘M. Miller’ succeed to the position of 1 general manager of the Distriet and ‘thus perpetuate the regime -which ,has plunged the District treasury in"to such severe financial straits. A 'meeting of the Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce has been called for this evening at which time some of the District’s troubles will be aired ‘and it is presumed the Miller boom will. be formally launched. The that only a thorough house cleanins ‘of those connected with the affairs of the District since its inception wil jsave the day and restore public.conifidence in the project. is Gaston view Mrs. Charles H. Miller and_ son, Donald, of San Leandro are here i visiting Mesdames W. P. Sawyer and W. L. Mobley for a few days. Mrs. Miller was formerly Miss Maude McKillican of North Bloomfield. and is renewing old acquaintances. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Fisk and family are at Lake Tahoe where they will spend the summer. Rev. Father Reilley spent Memor‘ial Day at ‘Sierra City. visiting Mrs. ‘Annie Spellenberg, who. suffered a stroke of paralysis Sunday. She is reported as somewhat better. The many friends of Miss Ruth 'arbogast will be pleased to learn that she is rapidly recovering from a recent operation for appendiciti¢ , at the lacal sanitarium. HI GRADE STRIKE MADE IN ARCTIC MINE PAST WEEK Superinadeas aad Martin Vanberg of the Arctic mine was in town yesterday, bringing with him specimens of excellent milling ore which has just been exposed “in-one of the Arctic tunnels. The shoot was encountered about 700 feet in from Canyon Creek and is about two feet in width where it was encountered. The ore is unusually dark, and of coarse texture, being well studded with sulphide and galena with free gold. ~ Crews of men are now at work at different faces on the property and cevelopment on the main Arctic ledge is being pushed ahead as rapidly as possible. The company has recently installed an electric lighting plant of sufficient size to illuminate the grounds as Well as the bulidings. : STEEP HOLLOW MINES NOW BEING DEVELOPED Yiave es . work has been started on the Martz gravel property near Big Tunnel by the Steep Hollow Mines Company.-Crosscutting. operation to tap the trough of the chanrel are being undertaken. John Poole is in charge of operations and the: project is being financed with Santa Barbara capital. GRAY EAGLE HOLDINGS TAKEN OVER BY SELF Riley W. Self has taken a bond and lease on the Gray Eagle mining. property above Downieville from D. F. Sullivan, owner of: the property. Self is acting in the interest of a well financed Nevada corporation which is expecting to take over a number of Nevada and Sierra county properties this year. Murchie Mine Officials To Open Nevada City Office J. M. Hoff, superintendent and V. M. Price, president, of the Murchie mine are opening a Nevada City office in the former Citizen’s Bank Building which is being made ready for occupancy. heavy Local Masons Tiek To The Coloma Doings Saturday A number o flocal Masons trekked to the anniversary celebration at Coloma Saturday. They were headed by Past rGand Master George L. Jones and Gilbert J. Davis, Worshipful Master of Nevada Lodge. Others making the trip were John W. Darke, Atherton S. Lord, W. 5. Meservey, Jos. F. Stenger, Louis W. Kopp and A. A.-Willoughby. erass fire called out the fire departmentat 11:30 this forenoon to s1t Out a gras fire which had gotten ay from Mrs. Nichols opposite the Raglan Tuttle home. Charles H. Ninnis motored to Sacramento Friday and returned with his wife who had been visiting in © San Francisco and came that far by 3 jtrain. Nugget ventures the opinion George G. Morrison of Sierra City was here attending to business matters Saturday. Three little boys suffered broken bones the last week and Dr, R. EB, Werner was called in each case. Billy Sharpe fell from a trapeze in the gym at the Methodist church and fractured an arm. Bobby James, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew James on Wet Hill, broke his arm while a play near home; George Ebaugh, son of Mrs. Alfred) Martin Of Gold Flat was hit by an auto as he alighted from one. in ,front of his jown home breaking hig leg. Rev. H. H. Buekner conducted Memorial Day services at Downieville. “ Mrs. Mattie a is home after a visit with relatives in Sacramento. © Mrs. Richard Phillips has as her guest her niece, Mrs. Mardel Titus, former resident. R. L. P. Bigelow and Dr, C. Chapman attended the Grand ot veo Native Sons a, ;

ee ity Nugget Thomas F. Hogan, prominent local business man passed away just before noon today after a lingering iilness. of some months. en VOLUME II: NUMBER 29 THE GOLD CENTER NEVADA CITY, NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, THE COUNTY SEAT PAPER JUNE 4, 1928 RISING SUN MINE UNWATERING IS NOW COMPLETED The workings of the Rising Sun property on Bear river have been drained of water the past few days’ with the tapping through of a large drill hole toa raise above the 600 level. The gas is still heavy in the old workings and as soon as this is cleared out, development work will be started. The shaft is being repaired at the present time. A 130 ton modern amalgamation mill with a 200 ton cyanide plant is being’ installed. The Rising Sun was a large producer until the excessive flow of water rendered unprofitable mining on the lower levels: The work of draining the property down to the drain tunnel level means a new era of production for this property. = The main tunnel was completed in February but the connections were not made with the old workings until the past week. The old orebody in the west end of the mine which was lost in the éarly days through faulting was picked up in the tunnel and a rich ore shoot opened up. Four ledges were cut during the driving of the tunnel which contain good milling rock. With the new ten stamps added to the former ten stamp .equipment and a Chilean mill for fine regrinding will give ample milling capacity. The cyanide plant will treat the tailings from the mill and accumulated tailings from the old dump. The Nevada Mining Press in its issue pays Edward C. Uren a well deserved compliment: ‘“‘The tunnel was surveyed and laid out by E. C. Uren of Nevada City, and so well was the work done that, although separated by 500 vertical feet of water, the connection was made with only the variation of a few inches.” E. C. Klinker is in charge of operations. GOOD PROSPECT FOUND IN THE FINNEY MINE) Pannings from a recent strike in the Finney mine near Downieville show assay values running from $20 to $30 per ton according to Manager J. H. Collier who is in-charge of operations at this property near Downieville. A 16 inch vein was picked up in the footwall and has been followed for some distance. The tunnel is now in 800 feet. TELEPHONE DIRECTORY FOR JUNE bb NOW OUT!,.:.: BIG MINING OPERATIONS ASSURED IN SALE OF THE GASTON PROPERTIES RESCUE EULA COMPANY SIGNS PAPERS FRIDAY AND WILL START AT ONCE CAMPTONVILLE MINING HAS WATER SHORTAGE The running season for mining depending upon water is shortening as these hot summer days are lowering the water, and the ‘‘piving season”’ of the -hydraulic mines is almost over. The Bald Top, the highest elevated of the local hydraulic mines cut down its crew several weeks ago,” and is now doing repair work, and other work which must be done during 'the dry season. Fred BE. Aldous, superintendent of the property, is at present at Los Angeles, expected back at any” time to continue’ the work, a small crew is at the property at. all times. The Joubert mines pipes only a few hours each day, and unless some more precipitation falls soon, the water will soon be gone, and the work of getting things in order for next season will start. The busiest property _at the present time in the Camptonville section is the Halkyard gravel property seven miles north of town. The mine is in charge of the B. F. McNaught & Co., Los Angeles . people, and a small village of people live at the mine, making a happy group, and bringing that section to the front once again. They are pushing the tunnel ahead in search of the main channel which is expect to be reach, ed most anytime. Old timers say that this is one of the’ best properties in , this mining district. It is located in agold producing area for even the' ladies of the camp are able to pan free gold from the surface of nearby ravines. Mrs. Baldwin, who handles the pan well, has succeeded in getting considerable free gold from the . nearby. ravines, getting two nuggets } as large a8 a brown bean, which: speaks well of the country where the . property is located. The non operation of the Snowden ! Hill property is the result of a stock © selling speculative scheme last year. of a Los Angeles combine which took the mine only to profit from the sale of stock and interest in the same. They ran it on a luxuriant style for a short time when a final came, and since that time the owners: of the property have been, in. court in order to eradicate the lease from the mine. The trial is on the calendar . ‘have been aceéntuated by the present . of the Sierra County Superior Court, , sates: sf H : and as soon as it is\over and the matter settled, there is no doubt but what the property will be again, but no one will operate it while in litigation. enry Rabe is going ahead with property near the Sleighville House. He has some very good The new June directories of the . quarts and the outlook is good for Pacific Telephone and Telepgraph Company are now being delivered to; the’ Nevada City subscribers, and number given out, 550, for this exchange shows a steady and continuous growth. The style of makeup has been changed in the present issue, the outside “exchanges being placed in the front and the Sacramento directory to the rear. The classified section and the business and bureau guide will be found of interest. Any patron not receiving their co. should notify the! WASHINGTON ROAD TQ HAVE py by June 10th central office. Wm. Litchenberger was in town Friday from the having some machinery repaired at the Miner’s Foundry. T. B. Williamson who is operating a copper mine at Island Mountain in Trinity county has been visiting his brother R. Foster Williamson of Washington. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Barnes are at home after a visit in Sacramento. Mrs. I’. Davies and three sons, Lionel, Alton and Craig decorated the graves of loved ones at Forest Hill on Memorial Day. Mrs. Annie Hill entertained Fdward Gray and. son, Edward Jr., and the latter’s fiancee, Miss Ellen Whitlock, all of Oakland. The Grays are former resident and enjoyed , spending Memorial Day renewing old . acquaintancés. Miles Coughlin is home quick trip to Oakland. R. D. Stenger and daughter, Le-! nore returned home Wednesday from Oakland where they visited Robert , done in the ‘people who Brush Creek Mine . ‘ning on building .the several bad ‘stretches of road. and alfinding something better, in which event he will erect a small mill to handle the rock. Considerable prospecting has been Camptonville field this spring, and several new mining loca,tions have been filed. Several pocket , hunters have been scouting in the in the nearby ravines, and while they may not have found anything big, yet they have found enough to encourage them to locate. MUCH NEEDED CHANGES It will be good news to the many travel the Washington road that Supervisor Dudley is plana new road from to Washington in It will cut out Junction House near future. so leave out some steep grades. The road will go through the Fowler saw ‘mill property, from which ‘rights of way have been purchased. Some of ; the old mill roads will be used with about 1000, feet of new road to be eonstructed, John Marks is at home after some time spent around Folsem, Mr. and Mrs. James Cairns have returned to their home at Palo Alto after a pleasant visit here with Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Richards. W. M. Kane of Downieville, who . recently broke his wrist, was in town after a . Friday and is recovering fast from his injury. He was accompanied by iP. W. Smith, who was here on busiA " ness. Mrs, Ed Schmidt left this week for Stenger, Jr., who was recently oper} a visit with relatives in San Francisated upon for appendicitis, blowup . opened } General Manager O. E. Schiffner Is On The Ground To Direct Operations Following Exténsive Sampling; Electric Power Will Be Brought In And New Equipment Installed One of the largest transfers of mining properties in Nevada -County for a number of years, and which was exclusively ‘forecast in The Nugget of last week, was accomplished on Friday when the ‘papers transferring the extensive Gaston Ridge properties lying between Washington and Graniteville wer esigned by the Rescue Eula Mining Company of Nevada _which is preparing to open up development on a large scale at once. Electric power lines areto be brought to the property as soon as possible. This company which has a record of twenty four years of production at Tonopah has been making a thorough examination of the mining fields between Arizona and Oregon: for the past nine months and the excellent showing made in the sampling of the Gaston properties caused it to select this section as the scene of its major operations. General Manager Otto E. Schiffner has been making his headquarters in Nevada City for some weks past and will open offices here at once and will bring his family here to reside. The Rescue Eula Mining Company is a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Nevada and has a permit from the California Commissioner of Corporations to operate in California. It is amply financed and has no stock to sell. Sam Shannon of San Francisco is president and George Searle of San Francisea is . secretary. Among the directors are Messrs. W. H. Hannon, F. W: Mon;ahan, Parker and McGinnis. 0. EF. ‘ Schiffner is general manager and will i be in active charge of operations. . . SAMPLING SHOWS PROPERTY i TO HAVE UNUSUAL MERIT A thorough sampling of the Gas.ton properties has been made with . the idea of checking up on the report of the engineers of the compa. ny and it was found that the mine values show the property to be one of unusual merit. The large-structure which prevails points to future possibilities in opening up new ore, bodies on the strike on the vein in impressive fashion. The executives of the Rescue Company believe that in the Gaston holdings there is an excellent opportunity. for the development ' ,of a biz mine. dis, trict surrounding the Gaston mines, . the possibilities of development in of the close by properties . Speaking of the immediate es veral developments. Due to the fact that ; the drain tunnel on the Gaston Ridge mines intercepts the vein sys-tem 1900 feet below its outcrop, the . possibility of utilizing this drain tunnel for properties is a very attractive mining posibility. OPERATIONS SCHEDULED TO BEGIN AT ONCE Operations at the Gaston are to start as onc¢é as soon as a crew can be.“assembled and necessary equipment installed. Negotiations are now Pending with several companies owning property in the vicinity looking toward the installation of electric power. The Pacific Gas and Electric Company has several men in the field working out a logical plan for the entry of. electric power into the Gaston section. The present equipment is to be thoroughly overhauled and added to. The tunnel is to be retimbered and put into working condition. Suitabie houses will be erected for the employes and-a complete camp equipment is being sought by general ma nager Schiffner. The necessary utsclinery will be installed with the ob ject of starting mining operaticns as soon as posisble. Otto FE. Schiffner, the general inenager, has had a long experience in a number of mining ventures ip

Mcntana. Nevada and Southern California. He is highly pleased with the prospects for large time operations on the Gaston Ridge. The deal closed Friday forecasts greatly improved in creased interest in Nevada County mining operations which has come to the front so fast already this year and are making this and Sierra County the banner mining section of the state. The first authentic report on the Gaston group of properties which lig between Washington and Graniteville is found in a state mining bureau report.issued in 1888 at which time the Gaston Ridge mine, locally known as the California, had been developing several adjacent . ! ; i hrough connecting the drain tunnel developed to a depth of 147 feet by a 600 foot tunnel and another tunnel 100 feet below. A 10 stamp mill had recovered $45,000 from August 12, 1887 to June 14, 1888. From 1888 to 1898 the Gaston mine was worked intermittently, but by the latter year the ~vein had been worked to a depth of 275 feet. In.1898. the Gaston Gold Mining Company began active operations. A main adit was started 400 feet below the upper workings and in 1900 -at-a-distance of 2000 feet it interSected the Gaston vein. This tunnel was continued 600 feet into the hanging wall where in 1901 the Gambrinus vein was encountered. . Later, a winze was sunk on the Gaston vein, and some of the best ore that the mine produced was taken out from below the adit Tevel. In ithe eight years from 1899 to 1907 j the production was approximately a million dollars from 174,000 tons of ore stoped from both the Gaston and Gambrinus veins. In 1905 a §campaign of energetic development was inaugurated and new equipment at a cost of $50,000 was ordered. A drain tunnel was started 800 vertically below the main adit but owing to the San Francisco fire it was found impossible to secure capital to carry out the extensive plans fo1 improvement. All development work was suspended, the ore in sight was stoped, and the mine temporarily in 1906. In 1908 work was resumed and the drain tunnel was driven a distance of 4500 feet to the Gaston veins. A raise was put was closed and the bottom of the winze 5090 feet above. After ten stamps of {h2 40 stamp mill had been removed to the lower tunnel and run on ore from the lower levels, the mine was closed in the fall of 1913. Work was again resumed in the 1914 and was intermittently operated after that time. The property owned by the Gaston ! eompany consists of 1200 acres of which 1100 are patented including 26 mining claims. There are eight separate and distinct veins on the property but only two, the Gaston and Gambrinus, have been worked. The properties included transfer are the following: Gaston Ridge Consolidated Mine embracing Yale, ton Ridge North Extension, in the Baltimore and Southern Extension California Quartz Mines, Gambrinus Quartz Mine and Gambrinus mill: site, Solace Quartz — Gambrinus North Extension, U. S. Tunnel No. 1, Tunnel No. 2, eo uel No. 3, and Gamgast Quartz Mining Claims; Mrs. guests this week, Mrs. Joseph Polldrd and daughter, Mrs. A. E. Walton, of Oakland. Mr. and Mrs. C. W_ Towvre of Marysville attended the /uneral of his mother Thursday. Mrs. W. P. Sawyer hac guest, Mrs. Belle Powell, resident. Miss Lillian Nevis and brother, Albert of Yuba City spent Sunday here renewing olda cquaintances. as a a former cisco over the Wek-end. spring of . Gaston Ridge, Gas. Burns, 1 Burns: North Extension, West Burns, ! William Hutchinson had as' which was held here. Mrs. Mary Rossen. entertained her, son,Raymond, and wife of San Fran-— KENNEBEC PROPERTY TO BE OPERATED SHORTLY The Kennebec mine above Edwards Crossing gwned by the Paine Brothers is about to be developed with the completion of financing arrangements which have been pending for some time. This property is one of the promising ones of the district and should make an excellent production record with the installation of milling facilities. iat pe a oe BRUSH CREEK MILE WILL SOON BE ON FULL TIMZ The stamps are again dropping at the Brush Creek mine following a cessation while a new electric hoist was being installed in the shaft. The installation has been completed and development work is being pushed. Three tousand feet of air pipe has been run from the surface to the bottom of the shaft. Stoning has been started and the mill will shortly be Operating three shifts. President Ben F. Ballard of the Kate Hardy Company whieh is operating the Brush Creek is at the property for a time. ‘HIGH VALUE GRAVEL Is FOUND IN BLACK BEAR Reports reaching Nevada City. are to the effect that Hugh and Stanley McCormick who are operating the former Teleghaph gravel mine now the Black Bear near Scales have picked up a rich channel which is running almost unbelievable values per car. It is thought to be a continuation of the old Shamrock lead which was lost by the former owners. The MecCormicks and Steve Dondero pumped out an old incline that was in over 1000 feet from the tunnel adit and made the strike while drifting. GRANITEVILLE IS GETTING PEPPED ABOUT MINING Aacsechist is gectting all pépped up Over the great pending mining aci tivity on the Ridge and watching with interest prospective developments at the Ancho mine . which is being sampled with a ito early operations on a large seale. ‘BOOM IS NCURISHED FOR NEW IRRIGATE MANAGER Despairing of continuing the management of the Nevada Irrigation Dictrict. much longer, it is reperted thet strong pressure is being brought to bear in Grass Valley to have Fred ‘M. Miller’ succeed to the position of 1 general manager of the Distriet and ‘thus perpetuate the regime -which ,has plunged the District treasury in"to such severe financial straits. A 'meeting of the Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce has been called for this evening at which time some of the District’s troubles will be aired ‘and it is presumed the Miller boom will. be formally launched. The that only a thorough house cleanins ‘of those connected with the affairs of the District since its inception wil jsave the day and restore public.conifidence in the project. is Gaston view Mrs. Charles H. Miller and_ son, Donald, of San Leandro are here i visiting Mesdames W. P. Sawyer and W. L. Mobley for a few days. Mrs. Miller was formerly Miss Maude McKillican of North Bloomfield. and is renewing old acquaintances. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Fisk and family are at Lake Tahoe where they will spend the summer. Rev. Father Reilley spent Memor‘ial Day at ‘Sierra City. visiting Mrs. ‘Annie Spellenberg, who. suffered a stroke of paralysis Sunday. She is reported as somewhat better. The many friends of Miss Ruth 'arbogast will be pleased to learn that she is rapidly recovering from a recent operation for appendiciti¢ , at the lacal sanitarium. HI GRADE STRIKE MADE IN ARCTIC MINE PAST WEEK Superinadeas aad Martin Vanberg of the Arctic mine was in town yesterday, bringing with him specimens of excellent milling ore which has just been exposed “in-one of the Arctic tunnels. The shoot was encountered about 700 feet in from Canyon Creek and is about two feet in width where it was encountered. The ore is unusually dark, and of coarse texture, being well studded with sulphide and galena with free gold. ~ Crews of men are now at work at different faces on the property and cevelopment on the main Arctic ledge is being pushed ahead as rapidly as possible. The company has recently installed an electric lighting plant of sufficient size to illuminate the grounds as Well as the bulidings. : STEEP HOLLOW MINES NOW BEING DEVELOPED Yiave es . work has been started on the Martz gravel property near Big Tunnel by the Steep Hollow Mines Company.-Crosscutting. operation to tap the trough of the chanrel are being undertaken. John Poole is in charge of operations and the: project is being financed with Santa Barbara capital. GRAY EAGLE HOLDINGS TAKEN OVER BY SELF Riley W. Self has taken a bond and lease on the Gray Eagle mining. property above Downieville from D. F. Sullivan, owner of: the property. Self is acting in the interest of a well financed Nevada corporation which is expecting to take over a number of Nevada and Sierra county properties this year. Murchie Mine Officials To Open Nevada City Office J. M. Hoff, superintendent and V. M. Price, president, of the Murchie mine are opening a Nevada City office in the former Citizen’s Bank Building which is being made ready for occupancy. heavy Local Masons Tiek To The Coloma Doings Saturday A number o flocal Masons trekked to the anniversary celebration at Coloma Saturday. They were headed by Past rGand Master George L. Jones and Gilbert J. Davis, Worshipful Master of Nevada Lodge. Others making the trip were John W. Darke, Atherton S. Lord, W. 5. Meservey, Jos. F. Stenger, Louis W. Kopp and A. A.-Willoughby. erass fire called out the fire departmentat 11:30 this forenoon to s1t Out a gras fire which had gotten ay from Mrs. Nichols opposite the Raglan Tuttle home. Charles H. Ninnis motored to Sacramento Friday and returned with his wife who had been visiting in © San Francisco and came that far by 3 jtrain. Nugget ventures the opinion George G. Morrison of Sierra City was here attending to business matters Saturday. Three little boys suffered broken bones the last week and Dr, R. EB, Werner was called in each case. Billy Sharpe fell from a trapeze in the gym at the Methodist church and fractured an arm. Bobby James, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew James on Wet Hill, broke his arm while a play near home; George Ebaugh, son of Mrs. Alfred) Martin Of Gold Flat was hit by an auto as he alighted from one. in ,front of his jown home breaking hig leg. Rev. H. H. Buekner conducted Memorial Day services at Downieville. “ Mrs. Mattie a is home after a visit with relatives in Sacramento. © Mrs. Richard Phillips has as her guest her niece, Mrs. Mardel Titus, former resident. R. L. P. Bigelow and Dr, C. Chapman attended the Grand ot veo Native Sons a, ;