March 22, 1935 (8 pages)

@ @ } Ld ) { ! ff %: . h é ngs structures te ment, and would be able to give serThinking Out Loud Nevada City Nugget Nevada City Nugget is a Member of the United Press And California Newspaper Publishers Association Your Hometewn Newspaper helps build your ‘ community. Readers and advertisers make it a good builder. —— Vol. IX, No. 40. No one man can sit in judgment on the Nevada County Narrow Gauge . 7H l The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNI A The GOLD Center. _ FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1935. Railroad, and say whether it should eontinue on a basis of its present equipment, rate structure and mManasement, whether it should fold up and liquidate, or -whether under modified conditions it could continue to give this county good and satisfactory service. That is a decision which the California Railroad Co:mission must make. And whatever is decided by that body will inevitably fail to please all thepeople of Ne-j vada County. ° . GEO. WRIGHT TO REST IN GRAVE whichwill be engraved: GEORGE D. WRIGHT Sgt. 363rd Infantry 91st Division will mark the This, however, can be said. or one reason or another, a large proportion of this road’s. freight. business has been lost during the last decade or more. The company is now making an energetic effort to cover this lost business in freight. cisco. Mr. Wright week. Funeral services in charge reas it has recovered much of its pas-! cemetery, with military honors. Fo fenger service, by means of motor }lowing the service read by the Pres adjunets or auxiliaries. jed a salute over the grave and Opposing this endeavor of the . busier sounded taps. railroad company is a motor truck . company which already has a rvan-/ SUPERVISORS ATTEND . Cormack, Judge Raglan Tuttle ave been heard before one of the ATS. F. PRESIDIO A plain white slab of marble on grave of the former . veteran and Nevada City resident, in the Presidio cemetery in San Fran-! passed away last of j ‘the Holmes Funeral Home were held . inthis city Tuesday, arid on Wednesday burial took place in the Presidio eae “ee cco = ;to enter Nevada County, at one time . dio chaplain, a firing squad discharg. and ‘O'Connor MOTOR TRUCK HEARING ENDS The hearing in which applications ‘for a motor truck freight franchise iwere considered, concluded WednesGerman Bar Mine To SHER IFF’S RAID NETS FIVE AND Start New Mill Soon: LOTS OF BOOZE 'day afternoon in Auburn. Tuesday /and Wednesday morning witnesses lwere heard in Grass Valley. This . hearing followed one earlier in the year at Grass Valley. } ' The United Motor Transport com-. { ; pany and the Nevada County Nar-. ‘row Gauge railroad company are . seeking a franchise to truck \freight into Nevada City and Grass! . Valley. The United Motor Transport . 1 ‘already has a franchise to Auburn . ; and for some years has been seeking . each . ‘receiving a franchise as far as Hig-. a : \ Corner, down near the Bear gins Sheriff Carl Tobiassen aided by ussell Farley, state liquor law enorcement officer, Wednesday night { i Istaged a raid on bootleggeries in i . . . f s Nevada City and Grass Valléy. { Four arrests were made. In Nevada City, Giacomo Fontana on Saejramegto street, was nabbed along swigh Too gallons of untaxed wine, i H 9 gallons of ungaxed. whiskey, and (25 gallons of raigin brandy, and an assortment of other contraband potables. Antonio Fradelizio was next, ;and garnered at his spot on Pine street, weré 700 gallons of untaxed . wine and a miscellaneous assortment River on the road to Auburn. The! Narrow Gauge has obtained a pass-; New Mill Erected by German Bar Gold Mines’ Inc. ,of materials used in moonshining. , Third was Dominic Merzetti of the iUnion Hotel. Commercial street, who ‘enger D. Eldredge, Howard Penrose, Lloyd ; z a ay 7 i= 8 : oe S ty side of the Middle Yuba’River. In the raiding party besides the bus franchise and now seeks s } : )yielded up' 118 gallons of untaxed thi . ay ic ag far ac s vada C r-18 os have anj chise from San Francisco as far as to secure a freight franchise. “evada County is soon to have an. (whiskey: and 800 gallons of untaxed Auburn, and now asks the Railroad . SACTO. RQGAD HEARING Commissioner M. B. Harris yes.,0'2® ee ig sgh Che eria aa isa: eae wine. Jack L. Durbin on the MarysCommission to extend its franchise oe erday heard the following witnedsés . or 22 ee Gold Mines, ve : t Lis ville. road below Grass Valley was to Grass. Valley <= Nevada City fee is z E : roberty of 96 acres, patented claims. ; “ : 5 ; eal oe y se : and eee P oe The Nevada courity board -of--suwho testified on behalf of the Moa 1 1 ae 1 : nt su iE NE fourth. Only a small Aluantity of These two pe ers marshalled and . ; : : although classified as in the-AHezhSe : : nee : oe some Pee ened B00)» rvisapa. County Clerk, R. N. Metor Transport Company: M. Data,_D. : eee 3 : a S . wea b . Gs oe moonshine was collected there. subpoenaed their witnesses and these any district, is on the Nevada oe ety HI ee . County Survayor, J. Ff. commissioners. ‘ Among other . t jattended a hearing hefore the state . Senate. and Assembly committees on ‘Weeks and others. These were Grass . Toy r : . it as rever he sa > oe we Valley and Nevada City -witnesses,. it has, however, the same general In Auburn witnesses who were pa. characteristics of the other mines 0: witnesses subpoena-. Roads and Highways in Sacramentu. trons of the United Motors Transthe district, in that the gold is not ed on behalf of the motor truck . The purpose was to discuss and pro-. port testified that the service was; Uiformly distributed in the quartz. company, was this writer, despite the. test the proposed Highway bill to. satisfactory and that. they desired: But, as has been noted by the U. S. Jact that he had asked to be excused, . take over the county roads by thelits continuance. tobert A. Paine, Geological Survey Engineers, the jeeling “incompetent because of his . State Highway Department. The su-. station agent for the Narrow Gauge German Bar milling rock was given comparative short residence here and . pervisors of Nevada County have . at Nevada City testified that his 2 Value of $10.00 a ton under the uex Of first hand knowledge of \ row Gange conditions. . Opposing the arbitrary ithe roads to the state.‘ _ This writer was, however, repres. ented in the Grass Valley Morning . was represented at the tnion, as “expressing indifference to. hear the arguments and opinions pre future of the railroad connec. and con. 2 tion.” But a witness is not permitted if express his views, even before the (NEW LUMBER FIRM TO Railroad Commission. The reporter’s 4 is transfer o ine siteful jab at a fellow publisher. Of course, no business man in Ne-. yaaa City can be indifferent to the! fate of the Narrow Gauge. The com‘yany employs between forty and_/. ‘fifty men, most of them steadily. As on industrial organization it will compare more than favorably with ‘yaany mining companies in the counyn throw these men, who live! that the ground _ is heing rapidly cleared and’ placed in readiness for installing stocks. The firm is to be ‘known as the * Building * Supply House. Mr. Conner has established his office there. On the property is ty. a large brick building in which will here, out of employment, is not po yeea for storage and exhibition something to be viewed with indifpurposes. Orders are-now being takference. Nor as regards service, , is ‘en for building materials. Mr. Conner states that he expects to open his place of business early in April. the matter one of indifference. There are certain services the? Narrow Gauge performs, such as transshipping carload lots from the Southern Vacific, which undoubtedly it can perform as well and as cheaply as a} motor cOmpany. i FOREST FOREMAN AND WIFE HURT IN CRASH ~ . One service it does perform as n0j ciher agency could, nor as cheaply, . while : : is moving 140 carloads each season . ¥°T® i ‘nto the bank at the of the fruit crop of Chicago Park,;°'de of the’ Iichway by an alleged Peardale, and other sections to Col. . (ranken driver and in the ensuing jax. This service costs the fruit *°¢ident Mrs. Beedle received. a growers exactly nothing, for the. >'ken leg and wrist while he re: ‘Southern Pacific absorbs the charges . °®ved. a cut across the hand. Mrs. jn the haul to Caléax. Beedle is in the Highland hospital in Auburn. Mr. Beedle is in the employ of the Tahoe National forest as a foreman, and is Stationed at Applegate, Placer wife, in Auburn Wednesday; + Inferences from the testimony in veneral, that can.be ; fairly. drawn, .was that the. Narrow” Gauge should Justify its existence by its. servies; appeal to sentiment, its past performance in upbuilding this county, sor to its picturesque attributes. To draw a parallel, there have been in’ 03 : <4 Nevada City from time to time news-_ papers that served this community well. The old Daily Transdtript was one of these. But when it ceased to fill the need,’ or through bad manogement or hard times, failed to verve the people, it ceased to exist. EHiven if it operated under the. aegis “\\ sme such regulatory body as the . Mlroad Commission, that itwould Nave been permitted to continue is coubtful. Dispatches from Howell, Michigan, reciting the progress, of the trial of Clarence Frechette, charged with murder, and who was. arrested in Truckee two months ago driving Robert Brown's car with Brown’s frozen body stuffed in the car trunk, indicated that there are plenty of ‘Witnesses to unfriendly relations between the two men. Two witnesses testified to utterances of threats by Frechette against Brown. CARL FOOTE BUILDING HOME ON ZION STREET If business men in the two comyaunities could now be assured that ine Narrow Gauge could be reorganjged under a_ progressive manage‘ar-lput themselves on record as firmly Nearly every county in California meeting to Fred FE. Conner, who has purchas‘ed a large plot on Spring street: for ia lumber yard site, stated yesterday Roy Beedle of Nevada City; and: old price of gold. VEIN ENRICHMENT The vein enrichment vary in size and in distribution, the largest reSee covered from the property when: for‘merly worked being $26,000. Thése GOVERNOR'S HI-WAY PLAN “°° to the hanging wall, seldom ‘in . the foot but more often where the {Vein increases in’ size and ehanyes SACRAMENTO, March 21.—Leg-. ite dip and strike. islative forces arrayed today for a major conflict over Governor Frank F. Merriam’s plan to include an’ the county roads in~ttte~state highway system and repeal the county road tax laws. The. fight is the second test of the sovernor’s strength in the legislaHe won the first engagement this week when he succeeded in finally forcing through the senate a resolution to endorse the Townsend ,old age pension plan after bitter op‘position in both houses. Hearing Is Held , The semate and assembly roads hand highways committees scheduled iget Sieeting jn the SET an transferred to lighter trucks . . . 2 <3 7 5 heads = oo, oF he . por the haul down the Gold Canyon a? PiOkTaN, aithough me Bee grade to the landing stage of the bey shee Se ee German. Bar, 750 feet above ‘he either, committec. Th : BO aue +i Yuba River. A cable line had been een heen! Mone Deters. Che eom constructed at this point to lower mittee with its defcat predicted by . company would soon install a new fltariff affecting hardware, giving certain commodity rates, which would mean a saving to shippers. were Mining differs from the ordinary practice on the Mother Lode in that development _metely. .exposes the . which is then explored by cutting—raises of 6 by 10 feet and then by drifting. In this way it is easier to . detect the presence of high-grade. . All the quartz mined from development operations in the three 600 foot length tunnels and the winz in the lower level will be put through the {mill f GERMAN BAR MILL All materials, including ture. quartz by tunnelling along the vein! lumber jand machinery, were hauled to the . No. 3 tunnel with receiving tank be-. 4ayY before Judge Walter Mobley. itop of the ridge last October and. low at No. 4. This will operate three At a recent meeting of the School P. T. A. and American iff ; Legion it was decided to ask Prin,cipal Walter Carlson of the WashGram‘sheriff and Farley were Deputy SherCarl Larsen, Woods, R. L. ‘mar Undersheriff W. D. Joiner, Roy Mitchell, Paul Wham John Ure, federal ‘ington Grammar Sclool to, appoint officers and Nevada City Chief of three boys to handle traffic in areas Police, Garfield Robson. ‘where many school children pass. The four arrested men will be This week Mr. Carlson appointed prosecuted in the local courts for vioJames Hunter, David McCraney and lation of state liquor laws and taken Elgin Pingaree as the dunior Patrol. to Sacramento to face indictments It is understood the boys will be by the Federal grand jury. stationed, one in front of the sramAlso arrested early Thursday mar school, One at Jackson Grocery morning by raiders was Joe Gribenc __ Store, and one at the Chamber of of the Deer Creek section, more fam, Commerce corner. The boys will asiliarly known as “Strawberry Joe’’. ‘sume their duties as soon as their! The enforcement officers seized 15 gallons brandy, 380 gallons of wine, and a large quantity of moon. shine whiskey. A small still was ‘found on the Gribene premises, and ‘this confiscated also, together with the illicit liquor. i Gribenc was taken to Judge More:house’s court in Grass Valley yester;day morning where he pleaded guilty SPEAKER MAR. 25 (ana was fined $150, which he paid ‘and was then released from custody. Mrs. George Wing; State Parlin’ Fradelizto, Fontana, Merzetta, ‘mentarian of the Women’s Federati224 Durbin were taken to Sacraed Clubs, will speak before the Ne. mento yesterday to. Seve a date hci vada City Woman's Civie Club at its Aah HOAFINS: Vracela ‘regular meeting Monday night. ay iene epee te oe abel a oi members are urged to attend. the vos de court before municipal Judge Miles Coughlin this morning. Durbin and Merzetta must appear toand . Suits arrive, the Legion is purchasing two suits while the local P. Tf A. is buying the other one. of was PARLIAMENTARIAN OF FEDERATED CLUBS from these lower levels will be taken . raised by cable bucket to the top. The Equinox brings the heaviest drills. } 5 A single drum hoist is to be 7 > out through No. 4 to a bin twelve . bin . fall of snow for March that has been : : vee these materials by sled to the mill Setvator telson Ye Edwards ‘of Or-) Nite ‘ange county, thé chairman of the'” — senate group. Hdwatd’’ does not be-. ; Mill construction was started in! ed at the incline in No. 4 and all ore FALL OF SNOW feet below the mill level and then . witnessed in this area for. many New buildings include compress-. . , Subernatorial nomination. He is car\disputed by the opposition and the claim is made that a change merely lieve the program ‘haga chance of approyal ‘by his @ommittee, much less sufficient votes to get it through the senate. Supervisors Fight Plan Appkaring against the inclusion program was Supervisor John R. Quinn of Los Angeles, one of MerTiam's opponents for the Republican rying. on’ the fight for the county: supervisors of the state who are opposed to the plan. Other heaxy artillery listed for the opposition includes State Con-. troller Ray L. Riley and C. C. Cottrell of the California State Automobile Association.Director Kelly Is. Present Harl Lee Kelly, the state director of public works, is the chief proponent of the plan. ee The administration claims millions of dollars could be saved the taxOctober 1934 and was practically or house, blacksmith shop, assay offinished by the first of March. Tho ‘fice and another bunk house. company is now ready to begin opCALIFORNIA COMPANY ° erations as soon as transformers for, The German Bar has long the power hook-up can be hauled in, known as. the original discovery of this spring. st ‘the district. Its total early producMILL PRACTICES ‘tion was over $200,000, mostly from The German Bar mill practice will high-grade. The property remained follow about the same general plan,idle for several decades until taken goes to a suspended type Challenge feeder-and from there to the Hend Ball Mill operated by a 30-h. p. motor. Four inch chrome steel balls will 'be used for grinding. as that established by the Sixteen-. over several years ago by Mining to-One across the river. The first ore Engineer Stephens. and associates. bin of 60 tons received ore carried; out over a trestle from No. 3 tunnel.' Between the first bin and the 70ton one below is placed .the 7x9 Blake crusher driven by a 15-h. p. motor. The ore from the lower bin Colonel C. R: Blood of Sacramento; is the president with T. E. Stephens as engineer in charge of develop+ iment. The company is a California: corporation, capitalized for $500,-! 000. and is financed entirely by Call-. fornia capital. £: oe EARLY RECORDS © . The first producer of the: high-, grade ore that made the Alleghany ' : district notable in the sixties, the SIMPLICITY OF OPERATION ‘German Bar mine on the Middle Yub The trick discharge flows into a River in. Nevada County, has — just payers annually by turning over al}: highway construction and mainten-, ance to the state. ; . Saving Is Questioned The possibility of the savings is sluice with Hungarian riffles which completed a difficult building operaenters into a Dorr Simplex Classifier jtion, constructing its 35-ton mill un2 feet by 16 feet. The diluted over-. flow will be passed, first over an. amalgamating table four by feet, then into a trap. From. there der adverse snow conditions. . All material, lumber and machineight lery had to be lowered by cable 700 ‘feet down the steep mountain side} the pulp passes over two more tables . would build up a strong political ma-. °2¢ four by eight feet riffled with. .q out of’ the rocky cliff. . chine for any state administration, Side Strips, 3-8 inch riffles spaced to the river, The mill site was blast-! As soon as the roads are open this! { vice equal in frequency, speed and; Carl Foote assisted by Ruther‘The bills. proposing the program . ©ne and one-quarter {inches apart 'snring and transformers can be . fates to similar motor service in ford Stephens,’ is building a neW}. were introduced by Senator George 2nd then one table, four by eigt feet brought for the electric hook-up tye! other parts of the state, by means of home of five rooms, bath, pantry and . Biggar of Mendocino county and Ags-/©! corduroy which will. be cleaned . mine will be placed in‘ operation. j a motor truck line, far from objectbreakfast nook on the:Neaves PYOP-. semblyman Charles levery 24 hours. Water is pumped ing, it would seem reasonable to sup‘erty which was purchased from Mr. pose that. all would welcome it. iJ. J. Campbell. The building is on . eoncrete foundation and will be plasi tered inside. Mrs. Foote is the daughMrs. Arthur Pratti of Nevada City At a late hour :last evening no underwent a _ severe operation on . ter of Mrs. Blanche Neaves. word had heen received from the ity, small erew necessary (15 men) . by California eapital. Wednesday in Jones Memorial hos-. : Davies freight truck comin eut . and low power requirements, { pital in Grass Valley; the operation The Sunshine Food Shop’ is being performed by Drs. Reed and honte of the fresh green apple pie. Jones., : : : ; AG estes == . Dieso county. Stream of San = p ae STAGE DELAYED the from Alleghany, and it is thought. it . wes on account of the tf.snow. fall of new! : ‘from the river into a 6000-gallon: pn res jtank. . 326-foot capacity has been placed at ‘number of .years. The German Bar has been under! . develomment for a number of years, iy 62 The outstanding features. of the Colonel C. R. Blood and T. EB. Step. German Bar mill will be its simplic-\ hens and has been financed entirely . been . jthat the snow was -over nine feet sroup of engineers headed by rof snow fallen, and two feet {the home of Mrs: Jetinie Pr . The workings consist of three tun-) Nevada City at 4:30 Thurs@s MINE OPERATIONS iInels on the vein and enough ore is inoon the rainfaN fer. One, Ingersoll-Rand compressor of lin sight to insure mill capacity for ‘ 65. in r e ‘years. Weather predictions indicate . more snow today. As a harbinger of ~ ispring, however, one of the SERA ‘workmen yesterday. noted a flock of ralows flying over the city. . Rain, a fall of large hailstones, land snow was the order and the variety of the weather yesterday. Nearly four inches had fallen during Wednesday night and this depth was increased yesterday. The snow closed jthe Tahoe-Ukiah road yesterday and from the Washington Junction eame the report of four and a half feet of new snow. In the Camptonville district there was reported several inches of new snow which somewhat delayed the Downieville stage. The. highway to Sierra City was open at last accounts, and beyond © deep on the level. Ss In the present storm over two feet . of new snow had fallen in‘ the Granitville district late Thursday _after-" noon. Steve Matteoda, U. Ss mail carrier, has had his horses on snow shoes since the big stotfm of éarly January, the longest. tet! in“many years, for this time of fuss It is understood there are over two feet of new snow at Alleghany. Davies freight line was late in artiving in Nevada City yesterday. A foot of new snow was reported from North Bloomfield yesterday ~ afternoon. “Phone lines -to Washington and North Bloomfield are out, of order: The P. G. & H.-‘teports @ f show at Drum. pe Aeeofding to the rain gau fot the. °

@ @ } Ld ) { ! ff %: . h é ngs structures te ment, and would be able to give serThinking Out Loud Nevada City Nugget Nevada City Nugget is a Member of the United Press And California Newspaper Publishers Association Your Hometewn Newspaper helps build your ‘ community. Readers and advertisers make it a good builder. —— Vol. IX, No. 40. No one man can sit in judgment on the Nevada County Narrow Gauge . 7H l The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNI A The GOLD Center. _ FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1935. Railroad, and say whether it should eontinue on a basis of its present equipment, rate structure and mManasement, whether it should fold up and liquidate, or -whether under modified conditions it could continue to give this county good and satisfactory service. That is a decision which the California Railroad Co:mission must make. And whatever is decided by that body will inevitably fail to please all thepeople of Ne-j vada County. ° . GEO. WRIGHT TO REST IN GRAVE whichwill be engraved: GEORGE D. WRIGHT Sgt. 363rd Infantry 91st Division will mark the This, however, can be said. or one reason or another, a large proportion of this road’s. freight. business has been lost during the last decade or more. The company is now making an energetic effort to cover this lost business in freight. cisco. Mr. Wright week. Funeral services in charge reas it has recovered much of its pas-! cemetery, with military honors. Fo fenger service, by means of motor }lowing the service read by the Pres adjunets or auxiliaries. jed a salute over the grave and Opposing this endeavor of the . busier sounded taps. railroad company is a motor truck . company which already has a rvan-/ SUPERVISORS ATTEND . Cormack, Judge Raglan Tuttle ave been heard before one of the ATS. F. PRESIDIO A plain white slab of marble on grave of the former . veteran and Nevada City resident, in the Presidio cemetery in San Fran-! passed away last of j ‘the Holmes Funeral Home were held . inthis city Tuesday, arid on Wednesday burial took place in the Presidio eae “ee cco = ;to enter Nevada County, at one time . dio chaplain, a firing squad discharg. and ‘O'Connor MOTOR TRUCK HEARING ENDS The hearing in which applications ‘for a motor truck freight franchise iwere considered, concluded WednesGerman Bar Mine To SHER IFF’S RAID NETS FIVE AND Start New Mill Soon: LOTS OF BOOZE 'day afternoon in Auburn. Tuesday /and Wednesday morning witnesses lwere heard in Grass Valley. This . hearing followed one earlier in the year at Grass Valley. } ' The United Motor Transport com-. { ; pany and the Nevada County Nar-. ‘row Gauge railroad company are . seeking a franchise to truck \freight into Nevada City and Grass! . Valley. The United Motor Transport . 1 ‘already has a franchise to Auburn . ; and for some years has been seeking . each . ‘receiving a franchise as far as Hig-. a : \ Corner, down near the Bear gins Sheriff Carl Tobiassen aided by ussell Farley, state liquor law enorcement officer, Wednesday night { i Istaged a raid on bootleggeries in i . . . f s Nevada City and Grass Valléy. { Four arrests were made. In Nevada City, Giacomo Fontana on Saejramegto street, was nabbed along swigh Too gallons of untaxed wine, i H 9 gallons of ungaxed. whiskey, and (25 gallons of raigin brandy, and an assortment of other contraband potables. Antonio Fradelizio was next, ;and garnered at his spot on Pine street, weré 700 gallons of untaxed . wine and a miscellaneous assortment River on the road to Auburn. The! Narrow Gauge has obtained a pass-; New Mill Erected by German Bar Gold Mines’ Inc. ,of materials used in moonshining. , Third was Dominic Merzetti of the iUnion Hotel. Commercial street, who ‘enger D. Eldredge, Howard Penrose, Lloyd ; z a ay 7 i= 8 : oe S ty side of the Middle Yuba’River. In the raiding party besides the bus franchise and now seeks s } : )yielded up' 118 gallons of untaxed thi . ay ic ag far ac s vada C r-18 os have anj chise from San Francisco as far as to secure a freight franchise. “evada County is soon to have an. (whiskey: and 800 gallons of untaxed Auburn, and now asks the Railroad . SACTO. RQGAD HEARING Commissioner M. B. Harris yes.,0'2® ee ig sgh Che eria aa isa: eae wine. Jack L. Durbin on the MarysCommission to extend its franchise oe erday heard the following witnedsés . or 22 ee Gold Mines, ve : t Lis ville. road below Grass Valley was to Grass. Valley <= Nevada City fee is z E : roberty of 96 acres, patented claims. ; “ : 5 ; eal oe y se : and eee P oe The Nevada courity board -of--suwho testified on behalf of the Moa 1 1 ae 1 : nt su iE NE fourth. Only a small Aluantity of These two pe ers marshalled and . ; : : although classified as in the-AHezhSe : : nee : oe some Pee ened B00)» rvisapa. County Clerk, R. N. Metor Transport Company: M. Data,_D. : eee 3 : a S . wea b . Gs oe moonshine was collected there. subpoenaed their witnesses and these any district, is on the Nevada oe ety HI ee . County Survayor, J. Ff. commissioners. ‘ Among other . t jattended a hearing hefore the state . Senate. and Assembly committees on ‘Weeks and others. These were Grass . Toy r : . it as rever he sa > oe we Valley and Nevada City -witnesses,. it has, however, the same general In Auburn witnesses who were pa. characteristics of the other mines 0: witnesses subpoena-. Roads and Highways in Sacramentu. trons of the United Motors Transthe district, in that the gold is not ed on behalf of the motor truck . The purpose was to discuss and pro-. port testified that the service was; Uiformly distributed in the quartz. company, was this writer, despite the. test the proposed Highway bill to. satisfactory and that. they desired: But, as has been noted by the U. S. Jact that he had asked to be excused, . take over the county roads by thelits continuance. tobert A. Paine, Geological Survey Engineers, the jeeling “incompetent because of his . State Highway Department. The su-. station agent for the Narrow Gauge German Bar milling rock was given comparative short residence here and . pervisors of Nevada County have . at Nevada City testified that his 2 Value of $10.00 a ton under the uex Of first hand knowledge of \ row Gange conditions. . Opposing the arbitrary ithe roads to the state.‘ _ This writer was, however, repres. ented in the Grass Valley Morning . was represented at the tnion, as “expressing indifference to. hear the arguments and opinions pre future of the railroad connec. and con. 2 tion.” But a witness is not permitted if express his views, even before the (NEW LUMBER FIRM TO Railroad Commission. The reporter’s 4 is transfer o ine siteful jab at a fellow publisher. Of course, no business man in Ne-. yaaa City can be indifferent to the! fate of the Narrow Gauge. The com‘yany employs between forty and_/. ‘fifty men, most of them steadily. As on industrial organization it will compare more than favorably with ‘yaany mining companies in the counyn throw these men, who live! that the ground _ is heing rapidly cleared and’ placed in readiness for installing stocks. The firm is to be ‘known as the * Building * Supply House. Mr. Conner has established his office there. On the property is ty. a large brick building in which will here, out of employment, is not po yeea for storage and exhibition something to be viewed with indifpurposes. Orders are-now being takference. Nor as regards service, , is ‘en for building materials. Mr. Conner states that he expects to open his place of business early in April. the matter one of indifference. There are certain services the? Narrow Gauge performs, such as transshipping carload lots from the Southern Vacific, which undoubtedly it can perform as well and as cheaply as a} motor cOmpany. i FOREST FOREMAN AND WIFE HURT IN CRASH ~ . One service it does perform as n0j ciher agency could, nor as cheaply, . while : : is moving 140 carloads each season . ¥°T® i ‘nto the bank at the of the fruit crop of Chicago Park,;°'de of the’ Iichway by an alleged Peardale, and other sections to Col. . (ranken driver and in the ensuing jax. This service costs the fruit *°¢ident Mrs. Beedle received. a growers exactly nothing, for the. >'ken leg and wrist while he re: ‘Southern Pacific absorbs the charges . °®ved. a cut across the hand. Mrs. jn the haul to Caléax. Beedle is in the Highland hospital in Auburn. Mr. Beedle is in the employ of the Tahoe National forest as a foreman, and is Stationed at Applegate, Placer wife, in Auburn Wednesday; + Inferences from the testimony in veneral, that can..be ; fairly. drawn, .was that the. Narrow” Gauge should Justify its existence by its. servies; appeal to sentiment, its past performance in upbuilding this county, sor to its picturesque attributes. To draw a parallel, there have been in’ 03 : <4 Nevada City from time to time news-_ papers that served this community well. The old Daily Transdtript was one of these. But when it ceased to fill the need,’ or through bad manogement or hard times, failed to verve the people, it ceased to exist. EHiven if it operated under the. aegis “\\ sme such regulatory body as the . Mlroad Commission, that itwould Nave been permitted to continue is coubtful. Dispatches from Howell, Michigan, reciting the progress, of the trial of Clarence Frechette, charged with murder, and who was. arrested in Truckee two months ago driving Robert Brown's car with Brown’s frozen body stuffed in the car trunk, indicated that there are plenty of ‘Witnesses to unfriendly relations between the two men. Two witnesses testified to utterances of threats by Frechette against Brown. CARL FOOTE BUILDING HOME ON ZION STREET If business men in the two comyaunities could now be assured that ine Narrow Gauge could be reorganjged under a_ progressive manage‘ar-lput themselves on record as firmly Nearly every county in California meeting to

Fred FE. Conner, who has purchas‘ed a large plot on Spring street: for ia lumber yard site, stated yesterday Roy Beedle of Nevada City; and: old price of gold. VEIN ENRICHMENT The vein enrichment vary in size and in distribution, the largest reSee covered from the property when: for‘merly worked being $26,000. Thése GOVERNOR'S HI-WAY PLAN “°° to the hanging wall, seldom ‘in . the foot but more often where the {Vein increases in’ size and ehanyes SACRAMENTO, March 21.—Leg-. ite dip and strike. islative forces arrayed today for a major conflict over Governor Frank F. Merriam’s plan to include an’ the county roads in~ttte~state highway system and repeal the county road tax laws. The. fight is the second test of the sovernor’s strength in the legislaHe won the first engagement this week when he succeeded in finally forcing through the senate a resolution to endorse the Townsend ,old age pension plan after bitter op‘position in both houses. Hearing Is Held , The semate and assembly roads hand highways committees scheduled iget Sieeting jn the SET an transferred to lighter trucks . . . 2 <3 7 5 heads = oo, oF he . por the haul down the Gold Canyon a? PiOkTaN, aithough me Bee grade to the landing stage of the bey shee Se ee German. Bar, 750 feet above ‘he either, committec. Th : BO aue +i Yuba River. A cable line had been een heen! Mone Deters. Che eom constructed at this point to lower mittee with its defcat predicted by . company would soon install a new fltariff affecting hardware, giving certain commodity rates, which would mean a saving to shippers. were Mining differs from the ordinary practice on the Mother Lode in that development _metely. .exposes the . which is then explored by cutting—raises of 6 by 10 feet and then by drifting. In this way it is easier to . detect the presence of high-grade. . All the quartz mined from development operations in the three 600 foot length tunnels and the winz in the lower level will be put through the {mill f GERMAN BAR MILL All materials, including ture. quartz by tunnelling along the vein! lumber jand machinery, were hauled to the . No. 3 tunnel with receiving tank be-. 4ayY before Judge Walter Mobley. itop of the ridge last October and. low at No. 4. This will operate three At a recent meeting of the School P. T. A. and American iff ; Legion it was decided to ask Prin,cipal Walter Carlson of the WashGram‘sheriff and Farley were Deputy SherCarl Larsen, Woods, R. L. ‘mar Undersheriff W. D. Joiner, Roy Mitchell, Paul Wham John Ure, federal ‘ington Grammar Sclool to, appoint officers and Nevada City Chief of three boys to handle traffic in areas Police, Garfield Robson. ‘where many school children pass. The four arrested men will be This week Mr. Carlson appointed prosecuted in the local courts for vioJames Hunter, David McCraney and lation of state liquor laws and taken Elgin Pingaree as the dunior Patrol. to Sacramento to face indictments It is understood the boys will be by the Federal grand jury. stationed, one in front of the sramAlso arrested early Thursday mar school, One at Jackson Grocery morning by raiders was Joe Gribenc __ Store, and one at the Chamber of of the Deer Creek section, more fam, Commerce corner. The boys will asiliarly known as “Strawberry Joe’’. ‘sume their duties as soon as their! The enforcement officers seized 15 gallons brandy, 380 gallons of wine, and a large quantity of moon. shine whiskey. A small still was ‘found on the Gribene premises, and ‘this confiscated also, together with the illicit liquor. i Gribenc was taken to Judge More:house’s court in Grass Valley yester;day morning where he pleaded guilty SPEAKER MAR. 25 (ana was fined $150, which he paid ‘and was then released from custody. Mrs. George Wing; State Parlin’ Fradelizto, Fontana, Merzetta, ‘mentarian of the Women’s Federati224 Durbin were taken to Sacraed Clubs, will speak before the Ne. mento yesterday to. Seve a date hci vada City Woman's Civie Club at its Aah HOAFINS: Vracela ‘regular meeting Monday night. ay iene epee te oe abel a oi members are urged to attend. the vos de court before municipal Judge Miles Coughlin this morning. Durbin and Merzetta must appear toand . Suits arrive, the Legion is purchasing two suits while the local P. Tf A. is buying the other one. of was PARLIAMENTARIAN OF FEDERATED CLUBS from these lower levels will be taken . raised by cable bucket to the top. The Equinox brings the heaviest drills. } 5 A single drum hoist is to be 7 > out through No. 4 to a bin twelve . bin . fall of snow for March that has been : : vee these materials by sled to the mill Setvator telson Ye Edwards ‘of Or-) Nite ‘ange county, thé chairman of the'” — senate group. Hdwatd’’ does not be-. ; Mill construction was started in! ed at the incline in No. 4 and all ore FALL OF SNOW feet below the mill level and then . witnessed in this area for. many New buildings include compress-. . , Subernatorial nomination. He is car\disputed by the opposition and the claim is made that a change merely lieve the program ‘haga chance of approyal ‘by his @ommittee, much less sufficient votes to get it through the senate. Supervisors Fight Plan Appkaring against the inclusion program was Supervisor John R. Quinn of Los Angeles, one of MerTiam's opponents for the Republican rying. on’ the fight for the county: supervisors of the state who are opposed to the plan. Other heaxy artillery listed for the opposition includes State Con-. troller Ray L. Riley and C. C. Cottrell of the California State Automobile Association.Director Kelly Is. Present Harl Lee Kelly, the state director of public works, is the chief proponent of the plan. ee The administration claims millions of dollars could be saved the taxOctober 1934 and was practically or house, blacksmith shop, assay offinished by the first of March. Tho ‘fice and another bunk house. company is now ready to begin opCALIFORNIA COMPANY ° erations as soon as transformers for, The German Bar has long the power hook-up can be hauled in, known as. the original discovery of this spring. st ‘the district. Its total early producMILL PRACTICES ‘tion was over $200,000, mostly from The German Bar mill practice will high-grade. The property remained follow about the same general plan,idle for several decades until taken goes to a suspended type Challenge feeder-and from there to the Hend Ball Mill operated by a 30-h. p. motor. Four inch chrome steel balls will 'be used for grinding. as that established by the Sixteen-. over several years ago by Mining to-One across the river. The first ore Engineer Stephens. and associates. bin of 60 tons received ore carried; out over a trestle from No. 3 tunnel.' Between the first bin and the 70ton one below is placed .the 7x9 Blake crusher driven by a 15-h. p. motor. The ore from the lower bin Colonel C. R: Blood of Sacramento; is the president with T. E. Stephens as engineer in charge of develop+ iment. The company is a California: corporation, capitalized for $500,-! 000. and is financed entirely by Call-. fornia capital. £: oe EARLY RECORDS © . The first producer of the: high-, grade ore that made the Alleghany ' : district notable in the sixties, the SIMPLICITY OF OPERATION ‘German Bar mine on the Middle Yub The trick discharge flows into a River in. Nevada County, has — just payers annually by turning over al}: highway construction and mainten-, ance to the state. ; . Saving Is Questioned The possibility of the savings is sluice with Hungarian riffles which completed a difficult building operaenters into a Dorr Simplex Classifier jtion, constructing its 35-ton mill un2 feet by 16 feet. The diluted over-. flow will be passed, first over an. amalgamating table four by feet, then into a trap. From. there der adverse snow conditions. . All material, lumber and machineight lery had to be lowered by cable 700 ‘feet down the steep mountain side} the pulp passes over two more tables . would build up a strong political ma-. °2¢ four by eight feet riffled with. .q out of’ the rocky cliff. . chine for any state administration, Side Strips, 3-8 inch riffles spaced to the river, The mill site was blast-! As soon as the roads are open this! { vice equal in frequency, speed and; Carl Foote assisted by Ruther‘The bills. proposing the program . ©ne and one-quarter {inches apart 'snring and transformers can be . fates to similar motor service in ford Stephens,’ is building a neW}. were introduced by Senator George 2nd then one table, four by eigt feet brought for the electric hook-up tye! other parts of the state, by means of home of five rooms, bath, pantry and . Biggar of Mendocino county and Ags-/©! corduroy which will. be cleaned . mine will be placed in‘ operation. j a motor truck line, far from objectbreakfast nook on the:Neaves PYOP-. semblyman Charles levery 24 hours. Water is pumped ing, it would seem reasonable to sup‘erty which was purchased from Mr. pose that. all would welcome it. iJ. J. Campbell. The building is on . eoncrete foundation and will be plasi tered inside. Mrs. Foote is the daughMrs. Arthur Pratti of Nevada City At a late hour :last evening no underwent a _ severe operation on . ter of Mrs. Blanche Neaves. word had heen received from the ity, small erew necessary (15 men) . by California eapital. Wednesday in Jones Memorial hos-. : Davies freight truck comin eut . and low power requirements, { pital in Grass Valley; the operation The Sunshine Food Shop’ is being performed by Drs. Reed and honte of the fresh green apple pie. Jones., : : : ; AG estes == . Dieso county. Stream of San = p ae STAGE DELAYED the from Alleghany, and it is thought. it . wes on account of the tf.snow. fall of new! : ‘from the river into a 6000-gallon: pn res jtank. . 326-foot capacity has been placed at ‘number of .years. The German Bar has been under! . develomment for a number of years, iy 62 The outstanding features. of the Colonel C. R. Blood and T. EB. Step. German Bar mill will be its simplic-\ hens and has been financed entirely . been . jthat the snow was -over nine feet sroup of engineers headed by rof snow fallen, and two feet {the home of Mrs: Jetinie Pr . The workings consist of three tun-) Nevada City at 4:30 Thurs@s MINE OPERATIONS iInels on the vein and enough ore is inoon the rainfaN fer. One, Ingersoll-Rand compressor of lin sight to insure mill capacity for ‘ 65. in r e ‘years. Weather predictions indicate . more snow today. As a harbinger of ~ ispring, however, one of the SERA ‘workmen yesterday. noted a flock of ralows flying over the city. . Rain, a fall of large hailstones, land snow was the order and the variety of the weather yesterday. Nearly four inches had fallen during Wednesday night and this depth was increased yesterday. The snow closed jthe Tahoe-Ukiah road yesterday and from the Washington Junction eame the report of four and a half feet of new snow. In the Camptonville district there was reported several inches of new snow which somewhat delayed the Downieville stage. The. highway to Sierra City was open at last accounts, and beyond © deep on the level. Ss In the present storm over two feet . of new snow had fallen in‘ the Granitville district late Thursday _after-" noon. Steve Matteoda, U. Ss mail carrier, has had his horses on snow shoes since the big stotfm of éarly January, the longest. tet! in“many years, for this time of fuss It is understood there are over two feet of new snow at Alleghany. Davies freight line was late in artiving in Nevada City yesterday. A foot of new snow was reported from North Bloomfield yesterday ~ afternoon. “Phone lines -to Washington and North Bloomfield are out, of order: The P. G. & H.-‘teports @ f show at Drum. pe Aeeofding to the rain gau fot the. °