March 1, 1937 (4 pages)

_ Thinking Out Loud H. M. L. It is a far cry fom the Conestoga ‘wagons and oxen of the Donner Party, and the long drawn agony of death at Donner Lake, to the exhiieration and joy of motor wayfarers who speed past that stern, gloomy monument that stands now, in winter shroud at the foot of the lake. How rapidly and tremendously the ,world has changed since that tragedy! Sometimes when we compare and contrast that time with this we are more impressed with change in the people, the vast difference between grandfather and grandson, than with the modes of living. The privations grandfather endured, the storms he weathered, the horse-thieves he hung, the good Indians he ‘‘made,”’ the raw whiskey he drank, in retrospect at least, made him a virile upstanding male citizen. His manners were not polished, but his word was good and his interest in his government was keen. The grandson or greatgrandson. is somehow remindful in contrast with his progenitor, of a lobster that has) lost his rough pincers and hardy shell. Soft and pulpy, in politics, in social relations and too frequently in business relations. For light he touches a button, for warmth another button. In fact button pushing has taken the place of flint and steel, wood chopping, and hauling, and a dozen other activities in which brawn and sinew were accumulated on grandfather’s frame. For locomotion there is the car. It is always ready. Turn a key and the thing runs as long as the gas holds out. Grandfather, to get from here to there, went out in the pasture, rounded up a couple of horsss, curried, combed, harnessed them, and hitched them to the buggy, surrey or . Concord wagon, as the case might be, and in a day traveled as far as grandson now travels in twenty minutes. Grandfather took a lot of jolts on the way. The wagon road was rarely smooth. Yet grandfather, in retrospect, seems to have been more of a man than grandson does today. All of which leads to the conclusion, not new by any means, that hardships, privations, hard work breed better men than do push-buttons, soft living and mixed drinks. contrast of course goes far beyond mere externals. The button which saves millions of man hours of labor, and thereby softens the social fibre, has also negatively created an attitude of avoiding all bother. How often is heard the expression, “I won't be bothered with it.’ Millions of people who never do in a week as much hard labor as their grandparents did in a day, ‘“won’t ibe bothered.” They won’t be bothered with religion or with politics. Too many of them, won't even be bothered with family responsibiltics. Too many of them won’t even made life so easy in all its material aspects, that millions refuse to use their brains in consideration of life’s moral, political or economic aspects. HS pushThese are the heirs of the richest nation in the history of the world. The most marvelous era of civilization’s upward march is today. There is perhaps a 1,000 per cent more joy in living today than in grandfather’s time. But legions of modern day descedants of pioneers, seek only pleasures or thrills. The responsibilities, the duties that the abundant life today entails, they shirk, and eventually lose their birthright. NORTH BLOOMFIELD CAMP ALMOST COMPLETED Bert Wilmerton, construction superintendent of the SRA camp near North Bloomfield was in Nevada City today. He stated the camp will be completed in two weeks. The men are working on a 20 by 120 foot building and when completed it will accomodate 100 more or 400 men, in this state relief camp. A big truck load of parts for the -new building were sent out from Nevada City toa : : FRED WADE BELIEVED TO BE IN PLACERVILLE “At the time of going to press, the sheriff’s office reports that to the best of information: at hand, Fred Wade, reported missing, is in Placerville. Three friends of his saw him waiting for the Placerville stage Wednesday in Grass Valley and a request has been made of Placerville authorities to locate him there. Nevada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOL D AREA IN CALIFORNIA The Nevada City Nugget helps your city and county to grow in population and prosperity. By subscribing to, and advertising in the Nugget, therefore, you help yourself. Vol. 11, No. 18. The County Séat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1937. Open Forum Lecture for City are Assured It. was announced today that the Open Forum. series of ten lectures by Prof. Michael Brickley of the Sacramento Junior College had been of underwritten by upwards of ninety men and women of Nevada City and that they would begin the first week in April. The lectures will deal with world affairs, touching particularly upon current events in England and Spain. H. E. Kjorlie, principal of the high school, who sponsored the Open Forum is much pleased with the response. In view of the large subscription list, Mr. Kjorlie .hopes to be able to invite members of the Nevada City high school senior class to attend at a much lower rate. The fo!lowing is a list of those who have subscribed $1.25 each for the ten-} lecture series: Mr. and Mrs, E. M. Rector. Mr. J: F. Colley. T. A. Richards. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Curnow. Judge and Mrs. Tuttle. Mr, andMrs. DeWitt Nelson. Mr. and Mrs. E. Harris. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Elliott. Mr. and Mrs. Nye. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Parsons. Mr. and Mrs. Hefelfinger. Mr. and Mrs. Cain. Mr._and Mrs. Leete. Mr. and Mrs. Goldsmith. Mr. and Mrs. O. M. McCraney. Mrs. Bell Douglass. Mr. John Parke. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Bennetts. Mr. and Mrs. G. lL. Jones. Mr. and’ Mrs. Hal Draper. . Frank Finnegan. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Odegaard. Mr. and Mrs. Gwinn. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Larsen. Carrol Coughlin. Fred Conner. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ross. Dr. and Mrs. Hummelt. Mrs, Pat Bonner. Mrs. Walmsley. Dr. and Mrs. Reeder. -Mrs. L. M. Austin. ~~ Mrs. Elma Green. Mrs. Gordon Bettles. Mrs. Joe. Steger. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Grant. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Kjorlie. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Hobbie. Mr. and Mrs. B: C. Barron. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Libbey. Mrs. Flewellen. Miss Baggley. Miss Bartholomew. Miss Peterson. Miss -Tremaine. Miss Jones. Mr. Sweeney. Mr. Walter Carlston. Mr. McGinnis. Mrs. Dornberger. Mrs. Folley. Mrs. Warnecke. Miss Ruth~ Hogan. Miss Gertrude Goyne. ‘Mrs. Mabel Flindt. Miss Snell. Miss Tamblyn. Miss Ford. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Lee. Mrs. Dickerman. BANOUET FOR GREAT POCAHONTAS THIS EVE All is in readiness for one of the finest meetings ever to be held by Ponemah Council, degree of Pocahontas, this evening in Odd Fellows Hall. when the local council greets their Great Pohahontas Grace McMasters and guests from several other councils. A St. Patrick’s theme is being, carried out throughout the hall and the banquet room. A class of palefaces will be adopted. Miss Thelma Tefft is to sing a solo. 2 Mrs. Myrtle Betcher, general chairman has made elaborate preparations in decorating the hall and the banquet table. Shamrock motifs are scattered over the table cloth which has characters of_an Irish girl and her beau in green. Favors are tiny cups with yellow and orange petals to represent daffodils. Wreathes of shamrock leaves border cake stands, The dinner will be served at 6:30 at Schreiber’s Cafe before the council opens. senna ESBS wee NUGGETS GALORE IN RUIN OF SAN JUAN BANK BLDG. By KATHERINE BRAITHWAITE NORTH SAN JUAN, Feb. 28.— The mining activities of Bob Stebbins and Louis Guy on the site of a delapidated bank building in North San Juan continue to flourish day by day. The boys obtained a lease from the present owner, W. E. Moulton of French Corral, and have good prospects for a full six month’s run. This unusual gold mine has attracted state wide attention. Visitors from distant points have made long journeys.to watch the mine in operation. Last Friday the boys recovered only one ounce of gold as the best part of the day was spent in explaining the history of the building to visitors from Los Angeles and San Francisco and initiating -them into the ‘‘mysteries’”’ of back-yard placer mining. ‘The heavy down pours of rain failed to dampen the enthusiasm of the miners nor the long line of sightseers. The “tailings’’ of this mine tell a fascinating story. Here are found crucibles of. all and Queer, liquor bottles; strange padlocks of a bygone era, old stoves, and the beautiful remains of old time coal oil lamps. Then, when least expected nuggets weighing from eight grains to over a pennyweiht tumble into the sluice box. The boys retrieved almost a teacup -of them during the run Friday. An amateur miner would overlook these valuable nuggets besizes odd-shaped huge shapes. cause they are as black as tar from the minerals amalgamated with them long ago. But with an application of nitric acid they become bright and shiny. : The bottom of the gold pan, at each cleanup is thick with flour gold and fiberally sprinkled with rough, irregularly shaped grains of gleaming ‘‘escaped”’ gold and solidly rounded “‘beads’’ of all sizes. A nug= get weighing a little better than a pennyweight was found to be glued tight with hardened clay to the head of a rustry nail. TAX RATEIN. NEVADA COUNTY TRENDS HIGHER LOS ANGELES, 1.—Total taxes levied by the ecxunty, schools, and special districts of Nevada county were $284,349 in 1935-37, as compared with a low point of $176,340 in 1933-34 it was pointed out in a study of taxes levied hy California counties from 1932-33 to 1936-37, recently completed California Taxpayers association. These figures do not include taxes levied by cities, the association stated. Taxes for general county current purposes during the five year period reached their low of $124,982 in 1933-34 and had gone to $194,549 in 1936-37, the association found. School taxes for--current purposes reached their low of $36,233 in 193435 and were $53,585 —in .-1936-37. Special district taxes reached their low of. $1,390 gone to $2,208 in 1936-37. For school bonds th levy was $8,557, in 1932-33 and $34,007 in 1936-37. “The demands for tax reduction in 1933 and 1134, together with. the changes in the tax system brought about by the Riley-Stewart constitutional amendments, the fact that the depression was still severe, and valMarch by uations-were still decreasing, caused decreases in tax levies in most counties and districts,’’ the association stated. ‘However, with the coming of 1935-36, the business of tax levying réteived a powerful stimulus from two sources. The bottom ofthe depression seemed well past and the urge -of local. governments —to ‘increase their spending was becoming insistent In addition, there was a great increase in local assessed valuations, as a further result of the Riley-Stewart amendment. Local officials enjoyed the first real. break rusted but . . in 1934-35 and had. . the legislature should add LAST GAME. S — LOST GAME FOR YELLOWJACKETS Ending the 1937 Sierra foothill league basketball contest ‘Friday night the Nevada City Yellowjackets lost their game to the pottery boys from Lincoln high school. The high light of the evening was the unlimited game of the Lincoln A and Nevada City A. Throughout the game both teams rotated in the lead. The final score was Lincoln 43 and Nevada 40. Nevada City, probably playing the best game throughout the _ season, held the Lincolnites down to the last half and made the pottery boys take notice that the Nevada Cty team was out to win. With Cliff Hoff scoring tops and with the fine offense-defense playing of Bennett, Joyal, Perez, Clark, Jones and Bonner the Jackets were able to score many baskets against one of the _ best teams in the league. In the individual scoring table, Cliff Hoff again came up and lead the score with 17; Joyal 17; Casemore 6; Bennett 4; Clark 2. The lineup for Nevada City was: Phil Joyal, Cliff Hoff, Carlose Casemore, forwards; Bill Bennett, Tony Perez, centers; ‘Mel Clark, Carl To-. biassen, Lacy Jones, Todd Bonner as guards. Phil Joyal, Bill Bennett, Tony Perez, Carl Tobiassen, Lacy Jones, and Todd Bonner played their last game as they will graduate in June. N. C. NARROW GAUGE HAS © NEW WAITING ROOM The old waiting room of the Nevada County Narrow Gague_ Railroad Company has been torn down and a part of the warehouse’ has been partitioned off for a general office and waiting room. The entrance to the office and waiting room will be from a poreh which is to be erected on the north side of the building on the site of the old office. COUNTY HIGHWAY PROBLEM VIEWED BY E. L. KELLY SACRAMENTO, March 1.—Sundry emanating from and organizations inclusion in the state highway system of numerous county roads created a serious problem affecting highway maintenance for the balance of this biennium, according to Earl Lee Kelly, director of public works. In a statement issued today, Director Kelly says that damage to the state highways wrought by this winter’s storms already has imposed upon the division of highways repair expenditures approximating $1,000,000 and that this figure may run to $300,000 additional before the rainy season ends. 5 Probable requirements of the eleven highway districts, Director Kelly said, over and above budgeted appropriations for storm repairs, total $718,000, and anticipated storms are expected to increase this amount to $800,000. “The added expense which the recent storms have imposed upon the department of public works for highway repairs as well as a great number of minor construction jobs necessitated by the major flood conditions which we have experienced will make heavy inroads into division-of highway funds,’’ Director Kelly said “The serious question arises whether, in view of this situation, to the maintenance burden of the division of highways, iby increasing the mileage of the state highway system, or adding more projects to the highway budget. “The present state highway system has a mileage of 13,871 miles, the 1933 legislature having added 6630 miles to the system.’ ; varfor proposals ious sections the have they had had in’ six years; they could increase the tax levy without increasing the tax rate. The tax levies of 1936 and 1937 show plainly the effect of this release of pressure. With few exceptions, the levies for general county purposes and current school purposes have risen sharply and school districts are rapidly increasing their tax demands to a point where the benefits of the abolition of the general county school tax in 1934 will be entirely wiped out.’”’ Ss Chamber Sent in \ The returns from Washington, are ber of Commerce wins by a hand-. some majority. First there was the letter of appeal for food, especially certan suppplies that. Washington lacked in the midst of the big snow storm. Fred Conner, president of the Chamber, by calling to his assistance, Senator Jerry Seawell, Earl Lee Kelly, Supervisor E. B. Dudley and others got the road open so that food supplies were sent in. A few days later came -the first returns so to speak. It was in the nature of a denial that any food emergency existed. It was signed by a half dozen Washington citizens, But now President Conner has received a letter signed apparently by the great majority of the Washington people, which commends the Chamber highly for its quick and decisive action ‘in supplying food. All’s well that ends well. The letter follows: Open Letter Washington, Calif. 5 February 28, 1937. Mr. Conner, Dear -Sir: We, the following citizens of Washington and vicinity, wish to express to you, personally our many thanks and appreciation for your kind assistanee and efforts in getting the Tahoe Ukiah highway open to the Junction and on to Washington. Also, our many thanks to Senator Seawell, Mr. Garrison of YOUNG MAN HONORED . BY HYDRAULIC PARLOR is Hydraulic Parlor, N. S:. G. W. . preparing to’ give a farewell recep. tion Tuesday evening in Native Sons ‘hall in honor of Robert Tucker who lis leaving for New York state to study forestry. The young man has been attending Sacramento Junior ollege. Young Tucker and Henry Toccalini will leave about March 8 to take up a course of. instruction which will graduate them as forest. rangers. Theywill attend the New York state ranger’s school near Syracuse. FINGERPRINTING URGED TO CLEAN UP LIQUOR TRADE LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25. — Compulsory finger printing of all persons engaged in the sale of alcoholic beveraes “fas a means of cleaning up the liquor trade,” is urged by Miss Ethel Hubler of Los Angeles, member of the National Tem'perance Council, in a communication which is today on the desk of every state liquor control board in the United States for consideration. “More than 1200 men and women with criminal records have recently sought liquor licenses in southern California,’’. declared Miss Hubler in her letter to liquor control bodies. “These startling figures have just come to light, following the enforcement of compulsory finger-printing of all liquor license applicants in ‘the southern California area. Included on the list were the following: murder, 11; burglary, 47; counterfoiting, 9; arson, 12; drunken driving, 69; and many other criminal offenders. “A numiber of ‘wanted criminals’ including. several murderers, were prevented from selling liquor as a direct result of the fingerprinting experiment.” Miss Hubler--deelared. It is urged that.similar regulations be put into effect immediately in every state where alcoholic beverage ‘as a means of eliminating are sold now in the ranks. of the trade.”’ MERCHANDISE EXCHANGE OPENS IN NEVADA CITY H. F. Shaw, who owens the store which ad§oins the Carveth Insurance office on Main street, has openWashington Thanks now all in. The Nevada City Cham-, —* a large part of the criminal element . liquor . for dainty decorations for the tables. 'is proving quite successful. He buys, ed a Merchandise Exchange which EET ae CN ae SR for Food — Emergency the state highway department, Mr. Dudley, our supervisor, and Mr. Arbogast, the Spanish and Giant King Mine Corp.,. the press of Nevada City and to the _»many others who worked so tirelessly day and night to open this road. To the members of. Nevada City Chamber of Commerce and the progressive business men of Nevada City our appreciation for the provisions which were badly needed and gratefully received. *e Signed—Mr. and Mrs. Lowe Home Kitchen, Washington, Dave Williams and nine children, Mrs. Ruth J. Groves, John A. Groves, Joe Rondoni, Giant King Mine; James Irwin Fowler, J. A. Rondoni, Giant King Mine; Walter Netzel and Partner, Yuba Mine; Mr. Walker and Sister, Mt. View Mine; S. Nlazzolini, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lockyer and two children, Joe Connondelli, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Crabtree, Howard Hale, Spanish Mine; E. J. Haverstock, Mrs.:E, J. Haverstock, Mrs. . Chas. Moody, Charles Mloody, Kenneth L. Rush, John D. Cameron, Mae. Thompson, P. Y. Thompson, Lee Anderson, Joe Anderson, George Gilbert, Harold Starrett, Mr. and Mrs. D. K. Ribble, E. M. Whitman, George Woodward and wife, Mr. Forshee, Spanish Mine!; C. E. Pearce,, Mt. View Mine. GALENA CAMP IS CUT T0 78 MEN Galena Creek Camp will be reduced by 78 men effective February 28, according to DeWitt Nelson, supervisor of the Tahoe national forest. In giving this information Nelson comments as follows: “‘It is with the utmost regret that I have to take this step and it is done only after we have employed every means at our command to ‘secure authorization to continue Galena Creek Camp at its present strength of 208 men. We have done a lot of good work from this.camp, both while we were cooperating with the Works Progress Administration at Reno and after the forest service took over entire responsibility for it September 16, 1936. The Galena Creek Ski Shelter, Ski Jump and camp grounds. are examples of the work which has been done to supply recreational advantages for the people of Reno. Besides this, many worthwhile projects have been finished that are of more direct value to general forest administration, such as the construction of the telephone lines, truck trails, ete. Through judicious use of appropriations, we were able to carry up to February 28, a total of 160 more man months than we were getting an appropriation for. Starting March 1, however, we will have to cut down to the quota established of 130 men. This reduction is caused by the reduction in the federal quota allotted to the forest service by the Works Progress Administration in Washington, D. C., and our present advice is that there will be succeeding reductions each month, the tentative quota for June being a total of 89 men. Continuance after June 30 depends upon future legislation by congress.”’ M. E.” MISSIONARY SOCIETY The Woman’s Missionary Society of the Methodist church will hold a one o’clock luncheon and silver of. fering in the chureh parlors Wednesday afternoon. Plans are being made sells and exchanges all sorts of household goods. . Mr. and Mrs. Shaw resided in Grass Valley three years before moying to Nevada City. They have an apartment over their store and have come to this city to reside perman-ently.

_ Thinking Out Loud H. M. L. It is a far cry fom the Conestoga ‘wagons and oxen of the Donner Party, and the long drawn agony of death at Donner Lake, to the exhiieration and joy of motor wayfarers who speed past that stern, gloomy monument that stands now, in winter shroud at the foot of the lake. How rapidly and tremendously the ,world has changed since that tragedy! Sometimes when we compare and contrast that time with this we are more impressed with change in the people, the vast difference between grandfather and grandson, than with the modes of living. The privations grandfather endured, the storms he weathered, the horse-thieves he hung, the good Indians he ‘‘made,”’ the raw whiskey he drank, in retrospect at least, made him a virile upstanding male citizen. His manners were not polished, but his word was good and his interest in his government was keen. The grandson or greatgrandson. is somehow remindful in contrast with his progenitor, of a lobster that has) lost his rough pincers and hardy shell. Soft and pulpy, in politics, in social relations and too frequently in business relations. For light he touches a button, for warmth another button. In fact button pushing has taken the place of flint and steel, wood chopping, and hauling, and a dozen other activities in which brawn and sinew were accumulated on grandfather’s frame. For locomotion there is the car. It is always ready. Turn a key and the thing runs as long as the gas holds out. Grandfather, to get from here to there, went out in the pasture, rounded up a couple of horsss, curried, combed, harnessed them, and hitched them to the buggy, surrey or . Concord wagon, as the case might be, and in a day traveled as far as grandson now travels in twenty minutes. Grandfather took a lot of jolts on the way. The wagon road was rarely smooth. Yet grandfather, in retrospect, seems to have been more of a man than grandson does today. All of which leads to the conclusion, not new by any means, that hardships, privations, hard work breed better men than do push-buttons, soft living and mixed drinks. contrast of course goes far beyond mere externals. The button which saves millions of man hours of labor, and thereby softens the social fibre, has also negatively created an attitude of avoiding all bother. How often is heard the expression, “I won't be bothered with it.’ Millions of people who never do in a week as much hard labor as their grandparents did in a day, ‘“won’t ibe bothered.” They won’t be bothered with religion or with politics. Too many of them, won't even be bothered with family responsibiltics. Too many of them won’t even made life so easy in all its material aspects, that millions refuse to use their brains in consideration of life’s moral, political or economic aspects. HS pushThese are the heirs of the richest nation in the history of the world. The most marvelous era of civilization’s upward march is today. There is perhaps a 1,000 per cent more joy in living today than in grandfather’s time. But legions of modern day descedants of pioneers, seek only pleasures or thrills. The responsibilities, the duties that the abundant life today entails, they shirk, and eventually lose their birthright. NORTH BLOOMFIELD CAMP ALMOST COMPLETED Bert Wilmerton, construction superintendent of the SRA camp near North Bloomfield was in Nevada City today. He stated the camp will be completed in two weeks. The men are working on a 20 by 120 foot building and when completed it will accomodate 100 more or 400 men, in this state relief camp. A big truck load of parts for the -new building were sent out from Nevada City toa : : FRED WADE BELIEVED TO BE IN PLACERVILLE “At the time of going to press, the sheriff’s office reports that to the best of information: at hand, Fred Wade, reported missing, is in Placerville. Three friends of his saw him waiting for the Placerville stage Wednesday in Grass Valley and a request has been made of Placerville authorities to locate him there. Nevada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOL D AREA IN CALIFORNIA The Nevada City Nugget helps your city and county to grow in population and prosperity. By subscribing to, and advertising in the Nugget, therefore, you help yourself. Vol. 11, No. 18. The County Séat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1937. Open Forum Lecture for City are Assured It. was announced today that the Open Forum. series of ten lectures by Prof. Michael Brickley of the Sacramento Junior College had been of underwritten by upwards of ninety men and women of Nevada City and that they would begin the first week in April. The lectures will deal with world affairs, touching particularly upon current events in England and Spain. H. E. Kjorlie, principal of the high school, who sponsored the Open Forum is much pleased with the response. In view of the large subscription list, Mr. Kjorlie .hopes to be able to invite members of the Nevada City high school senior class to attend at a much lower rate. The fo!lowing is a list of those who have subscribed $1.25 each for the ten-} lecture series: Mr. and Mrs, E. M. Rector. Mr. J: F. Colley. T. A. Richards. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Curnow. Judge and Mrs. Tuttle. Mr, andMrs. DeWitt Nelson. Mr. and Mrs. E. Harris. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Elliott. Mr. and Mrs. Nye. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Parsons. Mr. and Mrs. Hefelfinger. Mr. and Mrs. Cain. Mr._and Mrs. Leete. Mr. and Mrs. Goldsmith. Mr. and Mrs. O. M. McCraney. Mrs. Bell Douglass. Mr. John Parke. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Bennetts. Mr. and Mrs. G. lL. Jones. Mr. and’ Mrs. Hal Draper. . Frank Finnegan. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Odegaard. Mr. and Mrs. Gwinn. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Larsen. Carrol Coughlin. Fred Conner. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ross. Dr. and Mrs. Hummelt. Mrs, Pat Bonner. Mrs. Walmsley. Dr. and Mrs. Reeder. -Mrs. L. M. Austin. ~~ Mrs. Elma Green. Mrs. Gordon Bettles. Mrs. Joe. Steger. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Grant. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Kjorlie. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Hobbie. Mr. and Mrs. B: C. Barron. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Libbey. Mrs. Flewellen. Miss Baggley. Miss Bartholomew. Miss Peterson. Miss -Tremaine. Miss Jones. Mr. Sweeney. Mr. Walter Carlston. Mr. McGinnis. Mrs. Dornberger. Mrs. Folley. Mrs. Warnecke. Miss Ruth~ Hogan. Miss Gertrude Goyne. ‘Mrs. Mabel Flindt. Miss Snell. Miss Tamblyn. Miss Ford. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Lee. Mrs. Dickerman. BANOUET FOR GREAT POCAHONTAS THIS EVE All is in readiness for one of the finest meetings ever to be held by Ponemah Council, degree of Pocahontas, this evening in Odd Fellows Hall. when the local council greets their Great Pohahontas Grace McMasters and guests from several other councils. A St. Patrick’s theme is being, carried out throughout the hall and the banquet room. A class of palefaces will be adopted. Miss Thelma Tefft is to sing a solo. 2 Mrs. Myrtle Betcher, general chairman has made elaborate preparations in decorating the hall and the banquet table. Shamrock motifs are scattered over the table cloth which has characters of_an Irish girl and her beau in green. Favors are tiny cups with yellow and orange petals to represent daffodils. Wreathes of shamrock leaves border cake stands, The dinner will be served at 6:30 at Schreiber’s Cafe before the council opens. senna ESBS wee NUGGETS GALORE IN RUIN OF SAN JUAN BANK BLDG. By KATHERINE BRAITHWAITE NORTH SAN JUAN, Feb. 28.— The mining activities of Bob Stebbins and Louis Guy on the site of a delapidated bank building in North San Juan continue to flourish day by day. The boys obtained a lease from the present owner, W. E. Moulton of French Corral, and have good prospects for a full six month’s run. This unusual gold mine has attracted state wide attention. Visitors from distant points have made long journeys.to watch the mine in operation. Last Friday the boys recovered only one ounce of gold as the best part of the day was spent in explaining the history of the building to visitors from Los Angeles and San Francisco and initiating -them into the ‘‘mysteries’”’ of back-yard placer mining. ‘The heavy down pours of rain failed to dampen the enthusiasm of the miners nor the long line of sightseers. The “tailings’’ of this mine tell a fascinating story. Here are found crucibles of. all and Queer, liquor bottles; strange padlocks of a bygone era, old stoves, and the beautiful remains of old time coal oil lamps. Then, when least expected nuggets weighing from eight grains to over a pennyweiht tumble into the sluice box. The boys retrieved almost a teacup -of them during the run Friday. An amateur miner would overlook these valuable nuggets besizes odd-shaped huge shapes. cause they are as black as tar from the minerals amalgamated with them long ago. But with an application of nitric acid they become bright and shiny. : The bottom of the gold pan, at each cleanup is thick with flour gold and fiberally sprinkled with rough, irregularly shaped grains of gleaming ‘‘escaped”’ gold and solidly rounded “‘beads’’ of all sizes. A nug= get weighing a little better than a pennyweight was found to be glued tight with hardened clay to the head of a rustry nail. TAX RATEIN. NEVADA COUNTY TRENDS HIGHER LOS ANGELES, 1.—Total taxes levied by the ecxunty, schools, and special districts of Nevada county were $284,349 in 1935-37, as compared with a low point of $176,340 in 1933-34 it was pointed out in a study of taxes levied hy California counties from 1932-33 to 1936-37, recently completed California Taxpayers association. These figures do not include taxes levied by cities, the association stated. Taxes for general county current purposes during the five year period reached their low of $124,982 in 1933-34 and had gone to $194,549 in 1936-37, the association found. School taxes for--current purposes reached their low of $36,233 in 193435 and were $53,585 —in .-1936-37. Special district taxes reached their low of. $1,390

gone to $2,208 in 1936-37. For school bonds th levy was $8,557, in 1932-33 and $34,007 in 1936-37. “The demands for tax reduction in 1933 and 1134, together with. the changes in the tax system brought about by the Riley-Stewart constitutional amendments, the fact that the depression was still severe, and valMarch by uations-were still decreasing, caused decreases in tax levies in most counties and districts,’’ the association stated. ‘However, with the coming of 1935-36, the business of tax levying réteived a powerful stimulus from two sources. The bottom ofthe depression seemed well past and the urge -of local. governments —to ‘increase their spending was becoming insistent In addition, there was a great increase in local assessed valuations, as a further result of the Riley-Stewart amendment. Local officials enjoyed the first real. break rusted but . . in 1934-35 and had. . the legislature should add LAST GAME. S — LOST GAME FOR YELLOWJACKETS Ending the 1937 Sierra foothill league basketball contest ‘Friday night the Nevada City Yellowjackets lost their game to the pottery boys from Lincoln high school. The high light of the evening was the unlimited game of the Lincoln A and Nevada City A. Throughout the game both teams rotated in the lead. The final score was Lincoln 43 and Nevada 40. Nevada City, probably playing the best game throughout the _ season, held the Lincolnites down to the last half and made the pottery boys take notice that the Nevada Cty team was out to win. With Cliff Hoff scoring tops and with the fine offense-defense playing of Bennett, Joyal, Perez, Clark, Jones and Bonner the Jackets were able to score many baskets against one of the _ best teams in the league. In the individual scoring table, Cliff Hoff again came up and lead the score with 17; Joyal 17; Casemore 6; Bennett 4; Clark 2. The lineup for Nevada City was: Phil Joyal, Cliff Hoff, Carlose Casemore, forwards; Bill Bennett, Tony Perez, centers; ‘Mel Clark, Carl To-. biassen, Lacy Jones, Todd Bonner as guards. Phil Joyal, Bill Bennett, Tony Perez, Carl Tobiassen, Lacy Jones, and Todd Bonner played their last game as they will graduate in June. N. C. NARROW GAUGE HAS © NEW WAITING ROOM The old waiting room of the Nevada County Narrow Gague_ Railroad Company has been torn down and a part of the warehouse’ has been partitioned off for a general office and waiting room. The entrance to the office and waiting room will be from a poreh which is to be erected on the north side of the building on the site of the old office. COUNTY HIGHWAY PROBLEM VIEWED BY E. L. KELLY SACRAMENTO, March 1.—Sundry emanating from and organizations inclusion in the state highway system of numerous county roads created a serious problem affecting highway maintenance for the balance of this biennium, according to Earl Lee Kelly, director of public works. In a statement issued today, Director Kelly says that damage to the state highways wrought by this winter’s storms already has imposed upon the division of highways repair expenditures approximating $1,000,000 and that this figure may run to $300,000 additional before the rainy season ends. 5 Probable requirements of the eleven highway districts, Director Kelly said, over and above budgeted appropriations for storm repairs, total $718,000, and anticipated storms are expected to increase this amount to $800,000. “The added expense which the recent storms have imposed upon the department of public works for highway repairs as well as a great number of minor construction jobs necessitated by the major flood conditions which we have experienced will make heavy inroads into division-of highway funds,’’ Director Kelly said “The serious question arises whether, in view of this situation, to the maintenance burden of the division of highways, iby increasing the mileage of the state highway system, or adding more projects to the highway budget. “The present state highway system has a mileage of 13,871 miles, the 1933 legislature having added 6630 miles to the system.’ ; varfor proposals ious sections the have they had had in’ six years; they could increase the tax levy without increasing the tax rate. The tax levies of 1936 and 1937 show plainly the effect of this release of pressure. With few exceptions, the levies for general county purposes and current school purposes have risen sharply and school districts are rapidly increasing their tax demands to a point where the benefits of the abolition of the general county school tax in 1934 will be entirely wiped out.’”’ Ss Chamber Sent in \ The returns from Washington, are ber of Commerce wins by a hand-. some majority. First there was the letter of appeal for food, especially certan suppplies that. Washington lacked in the midst of the big snow storm. Fred Conner, president of the Chamber, by calling to his assistance, Senator Jerry Seawell, Earl Lee Kelly, Supervisor E. B. Dudley and others got the road open so that food supplies were sent in. A few days later came -the first returns so to speak. It was in the nature of a denial that any food emergency existed. It was signed by a half dozen Washington citizens, But now President Conner has received a letter signed apparently by the great majority of the Washington people, which commends the Chamber highly for its quick and decisive action ‘in supplying food. All’s well that ends well. The letter follows: Open Letter Washington, Calif. 5 February 28, 1937. Mr. Conner, Dear -Sir: We, the following citizens of Washington and vicinity, wish to express to you, personally our many thanks and appreciation for your kind assistanee and efforts in getting the Tahoe Ukiah highway open to the Junction and on to Washington. Also, our many thanks to Senator Seawell, Mr. Garrison of YOUNG MAN HONORED . BY HYDRAULIC PARLOR is Hydraulic Parlor, N. S:. G. W. . preparing to’ give a farewell recep. tion Tuesday evening in Native Sons ‘hall in honor of Robert Tucker who lis leaving for New York state to study forestry. The young man has been attending Sacramento Junior ollege. Young Tucker and Henry Toccalini will leave about March 8 to take up a course of. instruction which will graduate them as forest. rangers. Theywill attend the New York state ranger’s school near Syracuse. FINGERPRINTING URGED TO CLEAN UP LIQUOR TRADE LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25. — Compulsory finger printing of all persons engaged in the sale of alcoholic beveraes “fas a means of cleaning up the liquor trade,” is urged by Miss Ethel Hubler of Los Angeles, member of the National Tem'perance Council, in a communication which is today on the desk of every state liquor control board in the United States for consideration. “More than 1200 men and women with criminal records have recently sought liquor licenses in southern California,’’. declared Miss Hubler in her letter to liquor control bodies. “These startling figures have just come to light, following the enforcement of compulsory finger-printing of all liquor license applicants in ‘the southern California area. Included on the list were the following: murder, 11; burglary, 47; counterfoiting, 9; arson, 12; drunken driving, 69; and many other criminal offenders. “A numiber of ‘wanted criminals’ including. several murderers, were prevented from selling liquor as a direct result of the fingerprinting experiment.” Miss Hubler--deelared. It is urged that.similar regulations be put into effect immediately in every state where alcoholic beverage ‘as a means of eliminating are sold now in the ranks. of the trade.”’ MERCHANDISE EXCHANGE OPENS IN NEVADA CITY H. F. Shaw, who owens the store which ad§oins the Carveth Insurance office on Main street, has openWashington Thanks now all in. The Nevada City Cham-, —* a large part of the criminal element . liquor . for dainty decorations for the tables. 'is proving quite successful. He buys, ed a Merchandise Exchange which EET ae CN ae SR for Food — Emergency the state highway department, Mr. Dudley, our supervisor, and Mr. Arbogast, the Spanish and Giant King Mine Corp.,. the press of Nevada City and to the _»many others who worked so tirelessly day and night to open this road. To the members of. Nevada City Chamber of Commerce and the progressive business men of Nevada City our appreciation for the provisions which were badly needed and gratefully received. *e Signed—Mr. and Mrs. Lowe Home Kitchen, Washington, Dave Williams and nine children, Mrs. Ruth J. Groves, John A. Groves, Joe Rondoni, Giant King Mine; James Irwin Fowler, J. A. Rondoni, Giant King Mine; Walter Netzel and Partner, Yuba Mine; Mr. Walker and Sister, Mt. View Mine; S. Nlazzolini, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lockyer and two children, Joe Connondelli, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Crabtree, Howard Hale, Spanish Mine; E. J. Haverstock, Mrs.:E, J. Haverstock, Mrs. . Chas. Moody, Charles Mloody, Kenneth L. Rush, John D. Cameron, Mae. Thompson, P. Y. Thompson, Lee Anderson, Joe Anderson, George Gilbert, Harold Starrett, Mr. and Mrs. D. K. Ribble, E. M. Whitman, George Woodward and wife, Mr. Forshee, Spanish Mine!; C. E. Pearce,, Mt. View Mine. GALENA CAMP IS CUT T0 78 MEN Galena Creek Camp will be reduced by 78 men effective February 28, according to DeWitt Nelson, supervisor of the Tahoe national forest. In giving this information Nelson comments as follows: “‘It is with the utmost regret that I have to take this step and it is done only after we have employed every means at our command to ‘secure authorization to continue Galena Creek Camp at its present strength of 208 men. We have done a lot of good work from this.camp, both while we were cooperating with the Works Progress Administration at Reno and after the forest service took over entire responsibility for it September 16, 1936. The Galena Creek Ski Shelter, Ski Jump and camp grounds. are examples of the work which has been done to supply recreational advantages for the people of Reno. Besides this, many worthwhile projects have been finished that are of more direct value to general forest administration, such as the construction of the telephone lines, truck trails, ete. Through judicious use of appropriations, we were able to carry up to February 28, a total of 160 more man months than we were getting an appropriation for. Starting March 1, however, we will have to cut down to the quota established of 130 men. This reduction is caused by the reduction in the federal quota allotted to the forest service by the Works Progress Administration in Washington, D. C., and our present advice is that there will be succeeding reductions each month, the tentative quota for June being a total of 89 men. Continuance after June 30 depends upon future legislation by congress.”’ M. E.” MISSIONARY SOCIETY The Woman’s Missionary Society of the Methodist church will hold a one o’clock luncheon and silver of. fering in the chureh parlors Wednesday afternoon. Plans are being made sells and exchanges all sorts of household goods. . Mr. and Mrs. Shaw resided in Grass Valley three years before moying to Nevada City. They have an apartment over their store and have come to this city to reside perman-ently.