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March 20, 1936 (8 pages)

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+¥ oe — ees 6a bis eee tere a 7 MiNING DEVELOPMENT ISSUE Thinking evada CityNugget . = The Nevada City Nugget helps your city and .county to grow in population ,and presperity. By subscribing to, and advertising in the Nugget, therefore, . Out Loud *. you help yourself. COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA iNyee:Seta (By H. M. L.) TA . Vol. 10. No. 37. . NEV.ADA CITY, CALIF Soe ae The Couee Stat Paper FRIDAY, MARCH 20, Babee The seed Center sre eS eN tonville, is an instance of this kind BAD COLD NEARLY “. PRINCIPAL OF SEVEN MEN IN Five Mines Reopen COST THIS MAN $15 _SACTO.HIGIVES RACE FOR THREE Under New Auspices TALK ON SAFETY COUNCIL SEATS of endeavor. Their club is making a . costed by two Gypsy worten early Every community which has a live wide-awake women’s club is fortun \ me These clubs look to the things vhich make their villages and towns more livable, better places for boys and girls to grow up in, with im proved social conditions and advantages. The organized women of Camp-, determined effort to establish . Al eee who oopenides on chad? Downieville highway west of this . , city, told friends here he was ac a George. Jensen, principal. of Three vacancies are to be filled the this week who asked“for a drink of water. They took food from his Sacramento high school yesterday ad in ject of obtaining a branch for Camp dressed the Rotary club on ‘‘safety’’. the. table and as he“handed the drink tonville. If the supervisors are wise, He was introduced by Bill Cain, for Ray Murchie, James of water toy Ane woman she said: politically and otherwise, merly “Oh mister you have a cold!”’ and Robert Nye. heed plea of high county library with the ultimate ob the will school, of who the was Red Bluff chairman’ of ment. In time the company will con Mayor perance at French Corral, the Sneath -and and Clay of Nevada City, the Clerk nect, by tunnel, the Scotia and Golden Center properties through the “Penrose and in gravel property at French Corral, Alta Hill Nye are entering the: race for rethe Valley Gold Mines east of Neelection,._.1while.Mr. Murchie— states. vada—City-and the Gold Star south will be positions of being Nevada held by Penrose Messrs. stroked his collar. He carried his women. They might as wéll have the the money in his vest pocket and in a Lynn, a member of the Sacramento he will not bea candidate. As it now of Grass Valley. Actotal of forty men few seconds realized he had been board of school directors. stands seven citizens have announc have -been ed their candidacy for the three vac properties in the last month. On the nitude of this subject of safety,’’ deancies in the council. These men are other hand the Empress has closed, tion of as establishing some mately the later institu-} this for-« ulti-) board, women will win. Their cause is just. Every community, matter its what robbed of $15. He asked for his -money and she refused. As he no glanced about population; shoula noticed a _ have a library. 7 ae him for other this community organization contributed of its to generously Boy Scout movement, to cipal to the swimming library, and to mas “festival children, pool, making a time especially of . the the munipublic the C OF C COMMITTEES TO BE APPOINTED TUESDAY all committee of Chamber of Commerce lect year. chamber for theensuing year. This other forces to al} which seek to organizations improve Nevada\ City’s home life. permanent ber at its The record of the\club is one of un selfish, Conner raising the standards of for living i committees list will be submitted night, “Constant \endeavor Jensen. “We have 130, and ert we could put them all in pas next April 14. taxes about money all he present to help formulate plans for per cent of all on gasoline to the build best roads do not: begin to compare with the roads built through out this country. In one California county there are more and better roads than all those built by ancient Rome. “We are time still system suffering of from building an roads, the kind that were built of earth and a ng Dillon and election» Charles takes been is who has been acquainted with all fraternities, civic bodies and other in city or county elections, the memMrs. Pansy Misner of Grass Valbers are all vitally interested in the)! ley has been committed to the Stock are a driving hazard. Trucks cause about 27 per cent of all accidents and there have been several propos community interest undertakings. Robert Nye, mining engineer, and property owner and. was appointed to business fill an unexpired off the roads on Sunday, and anoth own life by drinking iodine. er to build special roads for trucks in this. There is a movement foot in Nevada City to on make the Using a piece of iron for a weapon ing for liquor resorts. This hour is Misner. struck the state closing hour, but municip old son probably prevented the chila alities are permitted stand from being injured fatally. to make their own closing, ‘which is now 1 o’clock in the morning, in this city. rank It is the view of this writer that we are cursed with too many liquor resorts, ‘too «much liquor sérved at all hours, (all except five out of the twenty four) on too much drunkenness the street, too many in jail for offenses due to drunkenness. rom a business point of view a disproportionate expenditure of the workers money While he for liquor is bad business. Drunkards notoriously neglect to pay their food and clothing bills, permit their auto payments to lapse, and in other ways shirk their officers her child. held Misner, his the them “The second factor, that of equipment, hospital Down in Sacramento we have estab here and the iodine was pumped from her stomach. Late Wed nesday she was removed to the county jail. lished a as carefully safety equipment Cars, Misner said his wife told him she being is This lane. specially built regards their studied. bit ‘to wheel of test align ment, their brakes and other mechan wanted to take: the young child with isms her in death. cars which affecting safe use. Of 2441 voluntarily accepted the The near tragedy took place Wed-} challenge of this safety lane, 1503 nesday. That night Misner-was the cars were found to be defective. ‘It operator of a car that struck and in jured two Civilian Conservation Corps youths west of Grass Valley. was found that from canstant parking the righ wheel of a large percentage of cars had gradually been forced out of alignment, which. causpermits all kinds of roadhouses ana and.one of the this has property leading owner grocers of city, served one term as fairs. , ested in city activities. Frank Davies, large property owner, who with his sons operates the is always interested in the city affairs. the right to drive a car, for the reason that he cannot be brought to this point the city limits and continue ‘‘sopping view however is wrong, In fact reputable liquor dealers would do well to seek,a curtailment of the hours for selling, rather than to lengthen them. They also should welcome a high municipal license which: would freeze out the keepers dealers. in The liquor the city should organize of earlier hours, and higher licenses each car owner, they will be self sus nobody in the liquor business to make any money. find that it iscontrolling > us—our A company has. taken a lease on hind the wheel, and it varies with practically. every driver. the indifferent to assume the driver, We have who refuses responsibility that Gold Star mine which adjoins driving a car entails. He shirks his the Norambague ‘property south of duty of respecting the rights of his «,,@ifference of opinion here, but this Grass Valley. A small hoist has been fellow citizens and road. users the his _much is certain, no drunkards paracompleted and the 175 foot shaft is minute he sits down behind wheel. ready to be unwatered and cleaned dise was ever good place to rear “Again there is the driver who just out for examination. children and build homes. Seeceetenite doesn’t care He knows he is respon\ Mr. Fred Elierman, city SPE Be sible but he doesn’t care. There is Liquor dealers in. Nevada City sonable ness. control There is of the liquor room for an busi the honest sirong arm of the law. . have have shallow produced well in past. mine ZEIBRIGHT MINE ® The 500 daily capacity mill at the Zeibright mine east of Nevada temporarily until the P. G. & E. Co. company for the at the Golden Center mine making 110 men employed. Work at the Scotia property has been halted in the power. As soon as the mine employees. Scotia shaft is cleared Mr. L. S. Win The Newmont company is operating capaw, the property. superintendent stated plans. QUARTZ OR GRAVEL N. Star Empire Pennsylvania LOCATION NUMBER EMPLOYED PAYROLL 740 $103,600 84,000 Murchie Quartz E of Nevada City 300 42,000 Great Northern Quartz Harmony Ridge 15 2,100 Golden Center Quartz . Grass Valley 110 15,400 Esperance Quartz French Corral 10 1,400 Spring Hill Quartz NE Grass Valley 20 2,800 _ Lava Cap
. Quartz Banner Mt. 190 26,600 Bullion Quartz E 85 11,900 Spanish Quartz Washington 55 7,700 Zeibright Quartz E. of Nevada City 125 : 13,500 German Bar Quartz N. Bloomfield 8 1,120 Prescott Hill Quartz E. of Grass Valley 25 3,500 French Corral Gravel French Corral 8 1,120 Gravel N. Washington 5 Quartz Nevada City 10 1,400 Quartz Browns Valley 50 7,000 7 Salmon Quartz Tyler Deer Creek Union Quartz SE Nevada City Clerkin Gravel French Corral 10 1,400 ~ Quartz Nor, San Juan 16 2,240 Quartz W. Nevada City 24° 3,360 Quartz So. Grass Valley 5 2,100 Quartz KE. Nevada City 6 Quartz. Washington 6 Quartz N. Columbia 4 6 Quartz N. Bloomfield 8 1,120 Quartz N. Bloomfield 6 Quartz _S. Nevada City 7 Quartz So. Grass Valley 30 Quartz S. Grass Valley 4 iably cannot distinguish between red New Colorado — ‘Quartz E. Nevada City ee and green, and one in every twenty is color blind. Then there is a third Allison Ranch Gravel 5S. Grass Valley ee ree Militia Gravel — Grass Valley * Ses ,Gravel North Bloomfield. + ss Quartz E, ‘Nevada City ~ 4 upon individual responsibil ities. : “In this connection we must strive for adequate enforcement of the laws, traffic laws, all laws. The fellow that tears up his ticket with. impunity is a threat to the rights of police. A Sacramento captain of police is now going to school to learn his business in a northern college where a course is given to train police officers. For the highly intelli “Other drivers are color blind, or exceedingly precarious action. If a and séeks to pass another car drivat the same rate, the and leave a to Ragon Arctic pass the car or nearly two city blocks. The law requires that he Lucky Jane must be on his own side of the road Bunker Hill 100 feet before he meets the ap proaching car. Cheney “Wor people who are color blind "Stockton Hill . our stop and go lights are very bad ly chosen, for the color blind invar class of drivers whose reaetions are Gold Star _ very slow. It takes too long often for Relief Hill _ (Continued on*Page Eight) Valley Brunswick and road _ before’ San Juan Mine is confined to his home with flu. Mr. while just.outside the city the county until he is able to return. the properties that euts payroll only one way to.reach a driver of a brain signal to reach the braking stands they must close at 1 a. m.,’ Ernest Towle is filling his Position this, kind, and that is with the foot. With these drivers whose reNevada Cons. x complain that as the ordinance now these shafts: 600 dicated in front must have 800 feet in which : Ragon in Grass Vally in the last few weeks, being “A third factor is the person be ing men of southern California. Some This group of. day and the company is preparing to increase its tonnage. Plans are going forward to build two bunk houses and several cabins there being a shortage of living quarters for the men required in mine operations. A baseball field is to.be cleared and laid out in nearby Bear Valley for the own Old and dangerously defective 45 miles rate, how far away must Phoenix cars, the rights of other road users: the approaching ‘car be, to make the passing of the car ahead, safe? That are not being jeopardized. Ways of VaHey Gold Mines eliminating treacherous’ cars.. that is a«<mere matter-of mathematics. The car which seeks to-pass the car Mt. View studied. operations for GOLDEN CENTER MINE Ten men have been added to the ther in preserving rights of those who, meeting another car, also driving at spirit!’’ and put the liquor business properties were taken over by min-. NE Grass Valley is driving 45 miles an hour, We hear person menace are’ now Plenty City, is treating 300 tons of ore per piness, and it is questionable whe-. gain his side of constitute a reports. under superintendent, O. E. MeCran it, that they have, and see to it that it did gold City. Twenty four men are employed margin of 100 feet in which to re the day may come again, as A small crew is building roads at on Cement Hill northwest of Nevada life, liberty and the pursuit of hap Otherwise op good ‘been completed in the right to be in business and profit by ed other business men. of the Quartz for constitutionality these un RAGON MINE Sinking to the 400 foot level has ing the a mere fice, and it might be well for the vot“out’’ for keeps instead of ers to find out the sentiment of the thirteen years: candidates for the office of city GOLD STAR PROPERTY councilmen whether or not they favor the ‘‘wide-open’”’ town, or a rea : days, the right of each individual to has charge the Mt. View mine near Washington. of same publisher, once, when. the people will say with Macbeth: “Out! Damned A new city government is Lady soon to be elected and placed in of much about to assured and outworn automobiles should be municipal, county and state governments. is the we presently water the newspaper is in MOUNTAIN VIEW MINE for some time. barber, liquor’ shall according dealer, iliges and advantages that are deni business, values, clothing’ merchant, the permitted on the roads, property recovering sider thatthe lumber of way gravel, con business. is.imposed on the the gravel should of adequate control in Corral They out they don’t ask or obtain special priy Unless’ something French see. objects in only two dimensions. Omega The latter cannot tell the distance taining. Sneath & Clay “It is a question which may seriof -automobiles: ahead of them and}, ously be debated whether ancient for such people to pass a car is an Pennsylvania that would put a lot of fly-by+nights of small dives and dens which habit. beauty shop lady, the grocer, the ually evade the laf-and-engage—in theatre owner, and yes, by heck, the cut throat competition which permits -annum Butterfield erations for the Bradley interests. [daho-Maryland democracy individual rights are pre compulsory use and that for a charge of about 71 cents per properties nee Grass In a gent criminals of today we need a specially trained and _ intelligent safety lanes will be placed in gereral force of peace officers. and seek a county closing ordinance various Quartz respect the rights of others. one third of the cars have seriously From few Browns Valley : MINE workers’ earnings. the time be denied the use of the roads, es tire wearing and that in turn beall of us: Little by little we are gocomes a serious road hazard. This ing to improve the personnel of our them up.’’ This may be true. In any defective brakes. One car which meof view évery business man, even event the sober hard working folks chanics declared had no brake fault, including the reputable liquor dealin the city are permitted to sleep was found with a brake which did er, should oppose increasing the undisturbed by the early morning not act, did not even touch the drum time and opportunity for spending whooper, or whoopee. The point of of one wheel. In time we think these more money on liquor. next of James Penrose, duties. In other words every other resorts to flourish until 2 a. m. When merchant suffers when the liquor they close the ‘‘soaks’’ move outside merchant gets the larger part of the safety lane also proved that about the for councilman. in ested in mining near Washington and awakened. He rushed his wife to the in cording to reports. interested vada City many years. He is inter was mill ssarted on the property last fall ac is heavier and are a constantly greater ‘husband, the the who ested in this city’s betterment. Frank Dillon has resided in Ne hazard. start chine with full quipment is handling men and mother’s arm, to days. civic affairs. He was among the first to announce his entrance in the race Plaza Garage, has always been inter larger east of Nevada City. Mr. L. W. Cheney, superintendent,. stated plans are business done about it soon for as matters getting op As soon as the weather settles active development will start. A shaft was ways altogether. Something must be are and drifting der Hector Declue. The trommel ma 10 year they forces continue Dr. W. P. Hawkins, local dentist, is one of the city‘s prominent young Mrs. say, A keep and take them off the present high closing hour 2 o’clock in,the morn investigating to. in Eight men are employed at the sion many years. He is much inter Another working have shifts erations at the Gracey mine south FRENCH CORRAL GRAVEL ; PROPERTY ters pertaining to city government. night time. ports from follow: ly and is well informed on all mat He has followed mining as a profes to kill her small child and end her interested reorganization. GRACEY MINE Two less than reported in February. Re ago. He has served the city faithful is to limit their use of the roads to ernment. They should be hospital, after an attempt their Pennsylvania resumes operations. these Zeibright men Scotia term on the council several months Alfred Haddy, canditate two years ago, has announced his candidacy. ton state a_ and the SAN JUAN MINE Two shifts of 16 men are mining and developing at the San Juan mine ed at work in mines in-the county is north of San Juan. A new shaft is 2,500 with a pay roll of $350,900, being sunk within a short distance the number of men being about 25 of the present workings. Mr. Ray man, als for eliminating this hazard. One policies of the city and county goy for Twenty when The total number of men report councilman and is up for re-election. sue a warning. While the Civic Club, on_ property. employed has practically doubled its crew. in the _ city’s affairs. He takes an active the DERANGED WOMAN TRIES you still find these roads, and they He takes a keen interest in city afTO KILL HER OWN CHILD organizations take no part, 48 such, rounded in the middle. Occasionally In this connection we want to is work Center increased garageman, well made Golden place business in Nevada City many years in 25 spent Their old aa te be good roads. You. have heard-of the Tuesday members person ‘ splendid military highways of Rome. President Fred that the The Charles Leiter, property owner and local “As regards roads we are paying the Frank The condition is without parallel in hind the wheel, to the cham meeting, March 28. urges of Nye, senger cars, at one time, and move, and to saidto be due to the ore pinching Davies, Alfred Haddy, Robout, and its reported that plans have Leiter. equipment, put. Dr. W. P. Hawkins; James Penrose, Frank the the year. Nevada City. Mr. ‘(000,000 people in the United States “There are thrée factors to be con scanty their people appreciates the mag sidered in traffic safety. The roads, go on, in Season and out, year after join was. John part of the earth. ly in her palm. Fred E. Conner, president, and a for of Jensen, history and to@ay is true’ of no other Christ joy those $10 and when he demanded . living. The good works of this -clup -members met Tuesday evenin to seThey clared the into tiny rolls-‘and was held tighti ze we know, here or elsewhere. It “Nas on The paper money had been made men can do,“The Civie Club in Ne vada City-fas accomplished more in any cleaver both the rest she handed him the $5. see what a detefmined body of wo improyéments large With “Few Shelf near him, The woman gave We do not need“go far afield to thaw the kitchen day. are to sink and raise in its develop March reveals the reopening of Es city council Camptonville “honor the they principal This review of mining activity for City the : of Grass Valley nk Ea , A