March 23, 1934 (6 pages)

af EAE a EDN en f 4 , =. A a» : 4 a 4 4 ke ¥ RCH This is Nevada. ONLY Hometown paper, It supports sevibe for it? worth while. Do you subCity’s . j Newsthings MINI? evada City Nugget Nevada City Nugget is a Member of the United Press And California Newspaper bow ascreie Association L Your Hometown Newspaper helps build your _community. Readers and . advertisers make it a good builder. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The GOLD Center ° FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1934 Review of Activity in Districts dy Progress Properties Show Stea With approximately 2000 men employed in Nevada county gravel and quartz mines and a payroll of oyer a quarter of million dollars monthLy. Nevada county is becoming a big spot the country’s gold mining map. on Reports of are producing those companies which indicate that development work, pursued with more than usual energy, is showing greatly gold return. Most of review increased the below, list published however, stages of development with production usually incidental to the work’of making a mine. mines, both prafiatis of development, wis constantly increasing. A year ago this month, there were 12 mines being operated in Nevada. county, «ccording to the tally ‘made by this newspaper. Today there are mines in. operation. The number of men have inereased in the coarse of the year from 1200 to 2,000. These figures are.closely approximate. The payroll, in round figures, has jumped from $160,000 to $250,000. Mine owners still find it for in. the are still in various The list of and in course ever, ms oD nt which have to’ obtain capital deveiopm Ww van n in properties much merit. One of them vesterday stated that, aside from .those who were already engaged in the mining industry when the New Deal was deeclared; people with money to invest are not yet convinced that cond{tions are sufficiently stable to warrant investment in mining. difficult . posal nie sts Abe eC Te development, is amply -attested by the 600 men, who have been put to work in Nevada county mines since March, 1933. The following is a brief resume of development in Nevada county’s mines during the past’ month: a EAGLE BIRD A station has been cut at the first level of the Eagle Bird mine and a small amount of drifting has been done on that level. Work of sinking to the proposed 500 foot level is progressing, A third shift was added to the force of men within the last few weeks. McDONALD RANCH Cash Cook and associates have installed a ball mill and plant to rework the mine tailings on the MeDonald rach, south of Grass Valley. One hundred tons of tailings are being handled daily. ANCHO-ERIE MINE The Anchoe-E£rie mine, in. the Washington district, has 20 men taking out ore and operating a 10 stamp mill. The company is making regular shipments to the mint. The Bagdad Copper Company, of Arizona, house is finished and the engine in stalled. J. J. Jordan is. superintendent for the new company. A. Kellihev, of: Nevada City, is the contractor. 3 MAYBERT GOLD MINES The Yuba, Mayflower, Silathea!, Gray Eagle and Lindsay mines in the Washington district, were incorporated last week under the name of the Maybert Gold Mines, by a group owns the property. KEYSTONE DIVIDE MINE Work of pumping out the new shaft on the Keystone Divide preperty, west of Grass Valley, started Monday. The new headframe_ is completed. Ore and waste bins are] to be started at once. The hoisting © on the cleaning out and extending the Yuba tunnel to the Mayflower ore shoot. will start soon. The company it’s own water rights. MATTIE GOLD MINE Owns About /30 feet of sinking in the . . ! new shaft at the -Mattie mine’ in Dead Man’s Flat, south of Grass Val. . ley, remains to be done before Thirty shaft is cut to connect at the 280 foot level in the new shaft. The new shaft is ‘to intersect the drift 700 feet from the station in the old shaft. Thsi drift<.continues south over 300 feet. The>old shaft is to be used as a second exit, pumping water from the mine and ventilation. Mike McGuire is superintendent. CHAMPION DREDGER The dredger, on the old Champion tailings, west of Nevada City, has “now been put into operation by R. E. Anderson and associates of MarysRebuilding of the flume . . . the . } 1,000 foot drift from the old Seven. . @ 000 SATURDAY EVENING POST WRITER SEEKS NEVADA CITY DATA . Courtney Riley Cooper, writing . for the Saturday Evening Post, ; called at the Nevada Cify Nugget . . . office yesterday morning and reviewed files of this-newspaper to ld obtain data on the New Gold Rush, aI to which the Literary Digest. a . week or two since devoted an in. . teresting article by Kenneth StewThe Saturday Evening Post will-soon give Nevada county an. i 1 Baar is el EP . other hour in the national lime-. . light. . Mr. Cooper has been gathering material for his forthcoming article in all the gold camps from . Lead, South Dakota, westward to . the cities along the Mother Lode . in California. He was much in. . terested in the development which . has taken place in Nevada county since last spring. He was impressed with the fact gunner: cps is found at about a that ast year’at this time apA tractor with. dragline equipproximately but 1200 men were ment, feéds several hundred yards of . . . ©™Ployed, with a monthly payroll gravel and sand into the hopper at at $160,000, while today over 2,yaadahae Nee of the spain oe 000 men are employed with a payredge 8 r ec =] snae j ee sce contelteel Shae dad roll of approximately-a quarter of cd@nveyor belts. SPANISH MINE The Spanish mine, erated by the Bradley treating 50. tons of a vein. about a ore daily, from mile from the’ old workings. The mile and a quarter cable tramway, built last fall, is being. used to convey the ore from the new workings to ‘the mill. Jack Bradley is the new superintendent. IDAHO-MARYLAND Several recently installed units of the new cyanide plant of the IdahoMaryland Company, Ltd., near the Idaho-Maryland shaft, are being tested in order to place the huge new plant in operation, probably by. the Those who have spent their lives. of San. Francisco business men. end of the month. Rehabilitation in mining operations, however, are Ore from the old shafts on the work at the old and new Brunswick winning the confidence of investors. . yates ener ore values at $12 to $13. gin soon. A sump is being sunk at The fact that money is coming in for] Work at present is being centered! the bottom. of. the old Brunswick QUARTZ NUMBER es MINE OR GRAVEL LOCATION EMPLOYHD PAYROLL eigen ict oc quarts Grass Valley 740 $94,350 faahoMarlend quartz Nor. Bast of Grass ceey. d 350 45,625 Murchie quartz East of Nevada Cit ity eee 242 Ss “80,855 ee Hoge aw. Col a quartz. en. Harmony Ridge ‘ 23 oe 3,570 . Golden Center at why Grass Valley ; 100 12,750 "impress" See quarts % Newtown 40 5,100 Spring Hill aa eth Nor, : Bast. of Grass Valley” Deh 2,705 aa Cap oe ee quarts Banner Mt. Si ee te 11,47 ~~" Ancho-Erie quarts Graniteville : : ae 2,550 Stockton Hill quartz, South. of Grass Valley: _ .— 310 ‘Bullion = =-—s—=~S~Ss«qtartz Bast if Grass Valley _ 15 oe OAS “You Bet Mining a grayel . ee Rope aes 6,375 : . Spanish quart “ aa Washington a 35 4,462 : Iowa. Hill travel North West of Nev. € City 6 764 San Juan "quartz Te ae of San Jus an i a ne er ae er aes 1,530 Eagle Bird quartz We ashington . a 22 2,805 : és Alcalde i Quartz 6 Ce Grass Valley 45 6,738 Queen Lil mill West of Nevada City 3 382 Remington Hill gravel ——». East. of, Nevada City 10 1,275 Relief Hill gravel North of Nevada City 15 1,912 — Bunker Hill quartz Rough & Ready 6 764 Omega : gravel Near Washington 25 aoe 3, 187 Black . Bear : quartz Sou. of Grass’ Valley 3 : 382 Champion Tailings West Of Nevada C City 5 637 McDonald Ranch Tailings ‘So of Grass Valley 12 1.530 Hussey quartz East of Nev., City 14 1,785 Homestake, gravel ; Kast of Nev. City 5 637 French Corral gravel French Corral 6 765 Canada nim quartz * South Hast of “Nevada City 10 1,27 5 eaten Phoenix Vere quartz Fe ~~ South of Grass Valley 20 ; : 2,550. es Keystone Divide quartz “Gs, West of Grass Valley as ees 39° 1,275 Page a Zeibright _ quartz jast of Nevada City 12 1,530 Mistletoe quartz Rough and Ready District ; oS oe oe oma Maybert quartz Washington District 2 255 oon ieee gravel . + Bear Valley _ 4 ES “510 TOTAL ‘ 1196 $254,490 owned and op-. interests, is, a million dollars. IDAHO MARYLAND PROFITS $359.07? At the annual meeting of the Idaho-Maryland stock holders in San Francisco last the executives reported revealed a net earning of $359,072 for the year ending Decem31, 1938, after deducting taxes but. before charges for depreciation, depletion and amortization. week, ber This was equivaient to 27 cents a share on 1,701,932 shares. outstanding. This compares with .186 cents earning 193 Net profit of the operating pany) amounted to $296,082. The company has debts amounting to more than $3,500,000 which it is paying off. All officers of the company re-elected. EB. _L. jOliver is president. in comwere shaft. KHrrol MacBoyle is general Manager. OMEGA GRAVEL. MINE Twelve men are employed at the Omegn gravel mine, north of Wash ington, where one monitor is making steady progress in tearing, down the gravel banks. It has been run ning about 25 days. SAN JUAN MINE More than 100 tons of. ore per month is being Juan mine, rock going shipped from the San with the gold bearing forward to the A, S. and R. copper smelter, at Tacoma, Washington, via railroad and boat. It ig peacock ore and contains zinc. C: J. Lyser is superintendent. BUACK BEAR MINE Three lessees of the Black Bear mine, in the Rough and Ready district, are stoping and hauling ore to the mill at the Golden Center mine in Grass Valley. ‘The Cooley Butler interests of Los Angeles, gave. the lease on the property. STOCKTON HILL MINE R. M. Burnette and associates, San Francisco, of are busily engaged at this time*in running a crosscut and sampling in the 160 foot shaft reRace Is On! Here Are The Entries Tuesday at noon. are expiring. Curtis Clark candidates to fill two-year Armstrong, resigned. The office of ; honorary. It carries no salary. . George Calanan, city clerk, .didate to succeed himself, and )}Emma V. Foley, is similarly \didate to succeed herself as _ treasurer. Neither are . These offices carry small salaries. COUNCIL'S RECORD Without. prejudice to any of those who have decided to make the race for city council, the Nevada City Nugget wishes. to call fine reeord during the the body to that past year>\. (1) They placed and extended the city water mains, pective attention made by have repaired, rewherever res: _these improvements were needed. They have cleanéd out the city’s reservoirs: and have obtained fencing material ‘to keep them free from incursions Evangeline Chapter Installs Officers Evangeline Chapter, 0. -E. tertained their Grand Deputy Ingram, last Tuesday evening, when made* her official visit to the chapter. The entire work of the 4rder was exemplified and the officers were highly praised for their The officers robed time or early Grecian castumes. S., enVera she work. Bible The white, were in matron was dressed pure the others white appropriate to their while wore with a drapes stations. which. made the floor work very. ef. fective. Other outstanding costum were worn by the following: Mrs, Virginia O’Neill, flag bearer, © was stately in green; -the .star points, Adah, Blizabeth Leiter, orchid and blue drape; Ruth, Ruth’ Tamblyn green and vellow; white with Ester, Esther Tresold bands, Martha; Alice Davies, and green; Flecta, Kath. yellow and red drape. maine, crown and flesh slippers: pink erne Celio, Several made short speeches, the Grand Deputy praised the officers for the honor shown her and stated it reminded here of her Eastern Star Sorority at college, in which they wore similar costumes. The Star Points in a pretty, unique little ceremony presented the. grand deputy with a large hammered brass: service tray. cently unwatered. There is another shaft of 200 feet, which has just been cleanedout. The principal shaft is to be sunk 500 feet deeper. it has a rich production record from the shallow workings. Machinery and equipment,is to be enlarged and augmented, A flotation. reduction plant is to be installed. The contact is serpentine and diorite. MISTLETOE MINE A crew of six men’are taking ore out of the shaft at the Mistletoe mine, in the Rough and Ready district. It is being trucked to the Queen Lil custom mill, near Nevada City. The mine is being developed and ore is being milled also. C.E.! Laboyteaux is superintendent. . Sa age a Re j j Oakley Johns, well Valley resident, is recovering severe sprains and bruises to the 18¥t arm received ‘at the Murchie mine: His arm was caught between the skip and a roller. irass from known , Grand Deputy Vera Ingram. The-chapter room was _ prettily lecorated with flowering peach and he dining room was arrayed in a yrofusion of flowering peach and almond. blossoms. ‘Waster novelties were at each plate’ as favors and napkins were adorned with Easter emlems. A. cold some made njoyed after There were plate dinnér, delicious cakes and coffee were the chapter closed. 50 members present with the following visiting from Au‘ora chapter of Grass Valley, Mrs Coflin, Mrs. Alberta Ro lisses Verna Greely, and Dorot Dyke; Walter’ Weiger, patron, ana Minnie 2 Mrs. Lucille Neleon of San Francisco is visiting for a. ‘time at the Bets are beinz ;;made and hands shaken upon thern. Various groups have promised their . . Support to this or that candidate. and i] The’ biennial municipal race is on. . jjan active campaign, marked by humorous’ electioneering, has’ beeninaugurated. © : Those who left the starting post Tuesday are: Mayor R. J. Bennetts and Beénjamin Hall, incumbents, and Karl Kopp and A. H. Haddy, all’seceking . to fill the two seats on the city coun. cil. for which the terms of four years Then there are James Penrose and the unexpired term of Wade city councilman is is canMrs, a cancity opposed. George Erway home -with relatives. Hats were hurled into the ring last . of domestic stock and dogs. They have thus reduced fire and epidemic hazards to a minimum. Be oe They have vigorously prosecuted the work of street improvement, notably on Piety and Prospect Hills, and in Pine, Nevada, Main and West Broad streets, and have also done a’ great deal of work in protecting the streets from drainage in roads during wet weather. CmTryY PARK AND POOL (3) They have purchased ten acres, more or less, for a municipal park'in the most picturesque section of Nevada~City, as a setting for the municipal swimming pool. The work is well on the way toward successful completion. It is expected to. complete the swimming pool within the next six weeks. When completed, the park and pool, 40 by 130 feet in dimensions, will be one of the most attractive recreational spots’‘in the Sierras. (4) They have co-operated wholeheartedly and energetically -with the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce in: establishing the Nevada City Airport on Cement: Hill. Mayor. Bennetts has made. several trips to San (Cemtinued To Page 6) ARTIST WILL SKETCH HISTORIC SCENES HERE As the result of a special request from Edward Bruce, secretary of-the Ie in of ederal Public Works of Art Project, Washing points of interest in Pictorial record. Ned Hilton, San Francisco artist, commissioned to do.this work, -arrived ca in Nevada City Thursday. fice and was referred to several longtime residents, who will guide ‘him tg. those tore buildings.and scenes of hisinterest hereabouts. One Hundred Attend. ce Va indies de Ivic Club Card Party The Woman’s Civie Club of NeCity. entertained about 10@ WW « afternoon in da sdnesday Crand’s Studio with one of the most ightful son in of the seaform of a card party. tables were placed for aucsocial affairs the Sixteen tion, contract, whist and Mah jonge. Mrs. H. E. Kjorlie won high score in contraet with Mrs. Douglass Farmersecond. Mrs.* Lewis carried high : seore in auction with Mrs,. Agnes _ Taylor winning — second. Whist awards went to Mrs. E. J. Baker and Miss Minnie Brand. Prizes for mah jongg were won by _ Mrs. Ben FEf¥all and Mrs. R;J Bennetts. Mrs. Rider, president for the Northern District Federation of Women’s Clubs, will visit the Civie Club in March 26. Nevada City Monday evening, All members are urged to be present. “A report is te be made on committees for the contention Which is “being held Rare April , la 20.and 21. . Mountain this evening tiation of candidates and a hennyy cial time. ipisecopal church will render a sp sermon on Palm Sunday, Mare at. musician, will sing the special ber ‘‘Palm Branches.” . oO. ‘0 Banner Mt. Auxiliary To Initiate Class ‘ . Auxiliary of “Banner ~ The Ladies’ Post, V. F. W., will meet in Pythian Castie:> -lans are being made for thei PALM SU NDAY_ AT TRINITY Rev. Charles Washburn of. Tr in: 11 o’clock A. M, Mrs. Lyda _ Talbot, acec =ton, a series of drawings Nevada county will be made as part of a permanent Be Ned at the Nevada City Nugget of-_

af EAE a EDN en f 4 , =. A a» : 4 a 4 4 ke ¥ RCH This is Nevada. ONLY Hometown paper, It supports sevibe for it? worth while. Do you subCity’s . j Newsthings MINI? evada City Nugget Nevada City Nugget is a Member of the United Press And California Newspaper bow ascreie Association L Your Hometown Newspaper helps build your _community. Readers and . advertisers make it a good builder. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The GOLD Center ° FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1934 Review of Activity in Districts dy Progress Properties Show Stea With approximately 2000 men employed in Nevada county gravel and quartz mines and a payroll of oyer a quarter of million dollars monthLy. Nevada county is becoming a big spot the country’s gold mining map. on Reports of are producing those companies which indicate that development work, pursued with more than usual energy, is showing greatly gold return. Most of review increased the below, list published however, stages of development with production usually incidental to the work’of making a mine. mines, both prafiatis of development, wis constantly increasing. A year ago this month, there were 12 mines being operated in Nevada. county, «ccording to the tally ‘made by this newspaper. Today there are mines in. operation. The number of men have inereased in the coarse of the year from 1200 to 2,000. These figures are.closely approximate. The payroll, in round figures, has jumped from $160,000 to $250,000. Mine owners still find it for in. the are still in various The list of and in course ever, ms oD nt which have to’ obtain capital deveiopm Ww van n in properties much merit. One of them vesterday stated that, aside from .those who were already engaged in the mining industry when the New Deal was deeclared; people with money to invest are not yet convinced that cond{tions are sufficiently stable to warrant investment in mining. difficult . posal nie sts Abe eC Te development, is amply -attested by the 600 men, who have been put to work in Nevada county mines since March, 1933. The following is a brief resume of development in Nevada county’s mines during the past’ month: a EAGLE BIRD A station has been cut at the first level of the Eagle Bird mine and a small amount of drifting has been done on that level. Work of sinking to the proposed 500 foot level is progressing, A third shift was added to the force of men within the last few weeks. McDONALD RANCH Cash Cook and associates have installed a ball mill and plant to rework the mine tailings on the MeDonald rach, south of Grass Valley. One hundred tons of tailings are being handled daily. ANCHO-ERIE MINE The Anchoe-E£rie mine, in. the Washington district, has 20 men taking out ore and operating a 10 stamp mill. The company is making regular shipments to the mint. The Bagdad Copper Company, of Arizona, house is finished and the engine in stalled. J. J. Jordan is. superintendent for the new company. A. Kellihev, of: Nevada City, is the contractor. 3 MAYBERT GOLD MINES The Yuba, Mayflower, Silathea!, Gray Eagle and Lindsay mines in the Washington district, were incorporated last week under the name of the Maybert Gold Mines, by a group owns the property. KEYSTONE DIVIDE MINE Work of pumping out the new shaft on the Keystone Divide preperty, west of Grass Valley, started Monday. The new headframe_ is completed. Ore and waste bins are] to be started at once. The hoisting © on the cleaning out and extending the Yuba tunnel to the Mayflower ore shoot. will start soon. The company it’s own water rights. MATTIE GOLD MINE Owns About /30 feet of sinking in the . . ! new shaft at the -Mattie mine’ in Dead Man’s Flat, south of Grass Val. . ley, remains to be done before Thirty shaft is cut to connect at the 280 foot level in the new shaft. The new shaft is ‘to intersect the drift 700 feet from the station in the old shaft. Thsi drift<.continues south over 300 feet. The>old shaft is to be used as a second exit, pumping water from the mine and ventilation. Mike McGuire is superintendent. CHAMPION DREDGER The dredger, on the old Champion tailings, west of Nevada City, has “now been put into operation by R. E. Anderson and associates of MarysRebuilding of the flume . . . the . } 1,000 foot drift from the old Seven. . @ 000 SATURDAY EVENING POST WRITER SEEKS NEVADA CITY DATA . Courtney Riley Cooper, writing . for the Saturday Evening Post, ; called at the Nevada Cify Nugget . . . office yesterday morning and reviewed files of this-newspaper to ld obtain data on the New Gold Rush, aI to which the Literary Digest. a . week or two since devoted an in. . teresting article by Kenneth StewThe Saturday Evening Post will-soon give Nevada county an. i 1 Baar is el EP . other hour in the national lime-. . light. . Mr. Cooper has been gathering material for his forthcoming article in all the gold camps from . Lead, South Dakota, westward to . the cities along the Mother Lode . in California. He was much in. . terested in the development which . has taken place in Nevada county since last spring. He was impressed with the fact gunner: cps is found at about a that ast year’at this time apA tractor with. dragline equipproximately but 1200 men were ment, feéds several hundred yards of . . . ©™Ployed, with a monthly payroll gravel and sand into the hopper at at $160,000, while today over 2,yaadahae Nee of the spain oe 000 men are employed with a payredge 8 r ec =] snae j ee sce contelteel Shae dad roll of approximately-a quarter of cd@nveyor belts. SPANISH MINE The Spanish mine, erated by the Bradley treating 50. tons of a vein. about a ore daily, from mile from the’ old workings. The mile and a quarter cable tramway, built last fall, is being. used to convey the ore from the new workings to ‘the mill. Jack Bradley is the new superintendent. IDAHO-MARYLAND Several recently installed units of the new cyanide plant of the IdahoMaryland Company, Ltd., near the Idaho-Maryland shaft, are being tested in order to place the huge new plant in operation, probably by. the Those who have spent their lives. of San. Francisco business men. end of the month. Rehabilitation in mining operations, however, are Ore from the old shafts on the work at the old and new Brunswick winning the confidence of investors. . yates ener ore values at $12 to $13. gin soon. A sump is being sunk at The fact that money is coming in for] Work at present is being centered! the bottom. of. the old Brunswick QUARTZ NUMBER es MINE OR GRAVEL LOCATION EMPLOYHD PAYROLL eigen ict oc quarts Grass Valley 740 $94,350 faahoMarlend quartz Nor. Bast of Grass ceey. d 350 45,625 Murchie quartz East of Nevada Cit ity eee 242 Ss “80,855 ee Hoge aw. Col a quartz. en. Harmony Ridge ‘ 23 oe 3,570 . Golden Center at why Grass Valley ; 100 12,750 "impress" See quarts % Newtown 40 5,100 Spring Hill aa eth Nor, : Bast. of Grass Valley” Deh 2,705 aa Cap oe ee quarts Banner Mt. Si ee te 11,47 ~~" Ancho-Erie quarts Graniteville : : ae 2,550 Stockton Hill quartz, South. of Grass Valley: _ .— 310 ‘Bullion = =-—s—=~S~Ss«qtartz Bast if Grass Valley _ 15 oe OAS “You Bet Mining a grayel . ee Rope aes 6,375 : . Spanish quart “ aa Washington a 35 4,462 : Iowa. Hill travel North West of Nev. € City 6 764 San Juan "quartz Te ae of San Jus an i a ne er ae er aes 1,530 Eagle Bird quartz We ashington . a 22 2,805 : és Alcalde i Quartz 6 Ce Grass Valley 45 6,738 Queen Lil mill West of Nevada City 3 382 Remington Hill gravel ——». East. of, Nevada City 10 1,275 Relief Hill gravel North of Nevada City 15 1,912 — Bunker Hill quartz Rough & Ready 6 764 Omega : gravel Near Washington 25 aoe 3, 187 Black . Bear : quartz Sou. of Grass’ Valley 3 : 382 Champion Tailings West Of Nevada C City 5 637 McDonald Ranch Tailings ‘So of Grass Valley 12 1.530 Hussey quartz East of Nev., City 14 1,785 Homestake, gravel ; Kast of Nev. City 5 637 French Corral gravel French Corral 6 765 Canada nim quartz * South Hast of “Nevada City 10 1,27 5 eaten Phoenix Vere quartz Fe ~~ South of Grass Valley 20 ; : 2,550. es Keystone Divide quartz “Gs, West of Grass Valley as ees 39° 1,275 Page a Zeibright _ quartz jast of Nevada City 12 1,530 Mistletoe quartz Rough and Ready District ; oS oe oe oma Maybert quartz Washington District 2 255 oon ieee gravel . + Bear Valley _ 4 ES “510 TOTAL ‘ 1196 $254,490 owned and op-. interests, is, a million dollars. IDAHO MARYLAND PROFITS $359.07? At the annual meeting of the Idaho-Maryland stock holders in San Francisco last the executives reported revealed a net earning of $359,072 for the year ending Decem31, 1938, after deducting taxes but. before charges for depreciation, depletion and amortization. week, ber This was equivaient to 27 cents a share on 1,701,932 shares. outstanding. This compares with .186 cents earning 193 Net profit of the operating pany) amounted to $296,082. The company has debts amounting to more than $3,500,000 which it is paying off. All officers of the company re-elected. EB. _L. jOliver is president. in comwere shaft. KHrrol MacBoyle is general Manager. OMEGA GRAVEL. MINE Twelve men are employed at the Omegn gravel mine, north of Wash ington, where one monitor is making steady progress in tearing, down the gravel banks. It has been run ning about 25 days. SAN JUAN MINE More than 100 tons of. ore per month is being Juan mine, rock going shipped from the San with the gold bearing forward to the A, S. and R. copper smelter, at Tacoma, Washington, via railroad and boat. It ig peacock ore and contains zinc. C: J.

Lyser is superintendent. BUACK BEAR MINE Three lessees of the Black Bear mine, in the Rough and Ready district, are stoping and hauling ore to the mill at the Golden Center mine in Grass Valley. ‘The Cooley Butler interests of Los Angeles, gave. the lease on the property. STOCKTON HILL MINE R. M. Burnette and associates, San Francisco, of are busily engaged at this time*in running a crosscut and sampling in the 160 foot shaft reRace Is On! Here Are The Entries Tuesday at noon. are expiring. Curtis Clark candidates to fill two-year Armstrong, resigned. The office of ; honorary. It carries no salary. . George Calanan, city clerk, .didate to succeed himself, and )}Emma V. Foley, is similarly \didate to succeed herself as _ treasurer. Neither are . These offices carry small salaries. COUNCIL'S RECORD Without. prejudice to any of those who have decided to make the race for city council, the Nevada City Nugget wishes. to call fine reeord during the the body to that past year>\. (1) They placed and extended the city water mains, pective attention made by have repaired, rewherever res: _these improvements were needed. They have cleanéd out the city’s reservoirs: and have obtained fencing material ‘to keep them free from incursions Evangeline Chapter Installs Officers Evangeline Chapter, 0. -E. tertained their Grand Deputy Ingram, last Tuesday evening, when made* her official visit to the chapter. The entire work of the 4rder was exemplified and the officers were highly praised for their The officers robed time or early Grecian castumes. S., enVera she work. Bible The white, were in matron was dressed pure the others white appropriate to their while wore with a drapes stations. which. made the floor work very. ef. fective. Other outstanding costum were worn by the following: Mrs, Virginia O’Neill, flag bearer, © was stately in green; -the .star points, Adah, Blizabeth Leiter, orchid and blue drape; Ruth, Ruth’ Tamblyn green and vellow; white with Ester, Esther Tresold bands, Martha; Alice Davies, and green; Flecta, Kath. yellow and red drape. maine, crown and flesh slippers: pink erne Celio, Several made short speeches, the Grand Deputy praised the officers for the honor shown her and stated it reminded here of her Eastern Star Sorority at college, in which they wore similar costumes. The Star Points in a pretty, unique little ceremony presented the. grand deputy with a large hammered brass: service tray. cently unwatered. There is another shaft of 200 feet, which has just been cleanedout. The principal shaft is to be sunk 500 feet deeper. it has a rich production record from the shallow workings. Machinery and equipment,is to be enlarged and augmented, A flotation. reduction plant is to be installed. The contact is serpentine and diorite. MISTLETOE MINE A crew of six men’are taking ore out of the shaft at the Mistletoe mine, in the Rough and Ready district. It is being trucked to the Queen Lil custom mill, near Nevada City. The mine is being developed and ore is being milled also. C.E.! Laboyteaux is superintendent. . Sa age a Re j j Oakley Johns, well Valley resident, is recovering severe sprains and bruises to the 18¥t arm received ‘at the Murchie mine: His arm was caught between the skip and a roller. irass from known , Grand Deputy Vera Ingram. The-chapter room was _ prettily lecorated with flowering peach and he dining room was arrayed in a yrofusion of flowering peach and almond. blossoms. ‘Waster novelties were at each plate’ as favors and napkins were adorned with Easter emlems. A. cold some made njoyed after There were plate dinnér, delicious cakes and coffee were the chapter closed. 50 members present with the following visiting from Au‘ora chapter of Grass Valley, Mrs Coflin, Mrs. Alberta Ro lisses Verna Greely, and Dorot Dyke; Walter’ Weiger, patron, ana Minnie 2 Mrs. Lucille Neleon of San Francisco is visiting for a. ‘time at the Bets are beinz ;;made and hands shaken upon thern. Various groups have promised their . . Support to this or that candidate. and i] The’ biennial municipal race is on. . jjan active campaign, marked by humorous’ electioneering, has’ beeninaugurated. © : Those who left the starting post Tuesday are: Mayor R. J. Bennetts and Beénjamin Hall, incumbents, and Karl Kopp and A. H. Haddy, all’seceking . to fill the two seats on the city coun. cil. for which the terms of four years Then there are James Penrose and the unexpired term of Wade city councilman is is canMrs, a cancity opposed. George Erway home -with relatives. Hats were hurled into the ring last . of domestic stock and dogs. They have thus reduced fire and epidemic hazards to a minimum. Be oe They have vigorously prosecuted the work of street improvement, notably on Piety and Prospect Hills, and in Pine, Nevada, Main and West Broad streets, and have also done a’ great deal of work in protecting the streets from drainage in roads during wet weather. CmTryY PARK AND POOL (3) They have purchased ten acres, more or less, for a municipal park'in the most picturesque section of Nevada~City, as a setting for the municipal swimming pool.. The work is well on the way toward successful completion. It is expected to. complete the swimming pool within the next six weeks. When completed, the park and pool, 40 by 130 feet in dimensions, will be one of the most attractive recreational spots’‘in the Sierras. (4) They have co-operated wholeheartedly and energetically -with the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce in: establishing the Nevada City Airport on Cement: Hill. Mayor. Bennetts has made. several trips to San (Cemtinued To Page 6) ARTIST WILL SKETCH HISTORIC SCENES HERE As the result of a special request from Edward Bruce, secretary of-the Ie in of ederal Public Works of Art Project, Washing points of interest in Pictorial record. Ned Hilton, San Francisco artist, commissioned to do.this work, -arrived ca in Nevada City Thursday. fice and was referred to several longtime residents, who will guide ‘him tg. those tore buildings.and scenes of hisinterest hereabouts. One Hundred Attend. ce Va indies de Ivic Club Card Party The Woman’s Civie Club of NeCity. entertained about 10@ WW « afternoon in da sdnesday Crand’s Studio with one of the most ightful son in of the seaform of a card party. tables were placed for aucsocial affairs the Sixteen tion, contract, whist and Mah jonge. Mrs. H. E. Kjorlie won high score in contraet with Mrs. Douglass Farmersecond. Mrs.* Lewis carried high : seore in auction with Mrs,. Agnes _ Taylor winning — second. Whist awards went to Mrs. E. J. Baker and Miss Minnie Brand. Prizes for mah jongg were won by _ Mrs. Ben FEf¥all and Mrs. R;J Bennetts. Mrs. Rider, president for the Northern District Federation of Women’s Clubs, will visit the Civie Club in March 26. Nevada City Monday evening, All members are urged to be present. “A report is te be made on committees for the contention Which is “being held Rare April , la 20.and 21. . Mountain this evening tiation of candidates and a hennyy cial time. ipisecopal church will render a sp sermon on Palm Sunday, Mare at. musician, will sing the special ber ‘‘Palm Branches.” . oO. ‘0 Banner Mt. Auxiliary To Initiate Class ‘ . Auxiliary of “Banner ~ The Ladies’ Post, V. F. W., will meet in Pythian Castie:> -lans are being made for thei PALM SU NDAY_ AT TRINITY Rev. Charles Washburn of. Tr in: 11 o’clock A. M, Mrs. Lyda _ Talbot, acec =ton, a series of drawings Nevada county will be made as part of a permanent Be Ned at the Nevada City Nugget of-_