March 26, 1941 (6 pages)

MARCH MINING DEVELOPMENT ISSUE ————— i The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month Nevada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA ieee (= The This paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, neighbors, your read Nugget. 4 Vol. 15. No; 23. 2 NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA, The Gold Catitns THU RSDAY, MARCH 20, 1941. ET ‘ E. B. Dudley Miners Leave To Accept Defense Industry Work; County Payroll Drops HYDRAULIC MINING, HOWEVER, GAINS BACK SOME OF QUARTZ MINING EMPLOYMENT LOSS The call to the defense industries has effected the en ployment in Nevada County. mines, this month’s survey by The Nugget shows. Many miners are leaving for other areas Where work commands higher wages, and the mine operators are finding it difficult to hire experienced men to take the place of the departing workers. oe While employment dropped* off slightly at most of the larg-. Three Monitors er operating properties during. the month, smaller properties, . USed At Omega principally gravel mines, reOperations are proceeding full port an increase in their pay-, blast at the Omega Hydraulic Mine, rolls. !one of the two properties operating The Relief Hill and Omega Mines. . behind the recently completed UpThe County Seat Paper first ‘hydraulic properties to start! operating behind the Upper Narrows! Debris Dam, increased their payroil! during the month: The Omega em-. ploys 22 men and the Relief Hill 29.) The Washington district is experiencing a mining revival, ae Besides the Omega Mine, the Arctic is operating in that area and work is due to start soon on _ the; famous Gaston Mine. The Arctic employs 14 men. The Murchie Mine of the Nevada City district suffered an employment decrease during the month. The report of the Empire-Star Mines, Ltd., indicates the Murchie may be abandoned during the year. Employment at the Idaho-Maryland properties decreased by 32 during the past month. The Idaho, lead-: ing gold producer of the state, is, employing 941, compared to 973 a! month ago, (Additional mining news on Page Five and Six) Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. ns sts What will our young men, skilled and unskilled, with common school or college educations, who are giving a year of their lives to their country, in military training ¢amps, think of these other men who are staying at home, earning not $30, and found, a month, but $150 to $250 a month, and even with that striking for still higher wages and obstructing their country’s effort to. defend itself? There is something fundamentally wrong with this picture, and the sooner the labor and political leaders in this country find it out and cure it, the better for the country. We recall too clearly the tremendous disparity between wages in the-army and the wages received by industrial workers during the first world war. All the pensions, bonuses and other favors heaped on the veterans of the first world war, after the war was ended, never equalled the huge benefits received by ship workers, airplane mechanics, and farmers, The fact thatthe bonanza wages of war days ruined many a good man, does not lessen the injustice done the men in the armed forces. One million or more men are drafted to serve their country for one year at little wages, while some six or séven million union workérs are paid big wages to make the one million — effective per Narrows Dam. Three monitors are being used in the Omega work on three shifts. Theodore Larsen is the superintendent at the mine and Jack Little is general manager. The preparations for the Omega operations were made during ‘the summer and fall months. Lava Cap Donates $265 Toward Goal For Boy Scouts The Lava Cap Mine with a donation_of $265 started the ball rolling for funds to carry on the Boy Scout work here during the coming year. The goal ‘has been set at $1,000. John Fortier is the general chairman of the drive committee. Approximately 30 attended a scout dinner at the National Hotel here last night, at which time the drive for funds was officially opened. The drive will continue until March 26th. The drive has the support of all civic organizations. Res Don’t Accept The Resignation The Supervisors are divided on the question.of accepting the resignation of E. B. Dudley, County Welfare Administrator, who resigned suddenly last evening as a result of a disagreement with the Board of Supervisors concerning appointment of an assistant in his office. It would be a great pity in the view of many citizens, including this writer, if after approximately four years of careful, wise, capable administration of the Welfare Administration, the Supervisors were to accept Mr. Dudley's resignation. The office grows yearly in importance to all those who receive relief and to the tax payers of this county. To put a new person in Mr. Dudley's place will result in losing to the county practically all the value of his experience, proved ability, and careful handling of the many problems which myst be solved in the administratars office. oS eee We know of no man “who knows Nevada County better than Mr. Dudley, who has devoted more years to its service, both as chairman of the Board of Supervisors and in later years as County Welfare Administrator. His able service in these offices have saved the tax payers thousands of dollars. We feel strongly that the Board of Supervisors will render this county a disservice if they accept the resignation of Mr. Dudley. MINING SUMMARY Lode Mines Name No. Men PayGen. Manager or roll Superintendent Emp. Newmont Empire North Star Pennsylvania Zeibright Grass. ValleyGrass Valley . Murchie Idaho-Maryland Idaho Brunswick Bullion Grass Valley Grass Valley Grass Valley Lava Cap Central Banner Others Golden Center Spring Hill G. Northern Stockton Hill . Boundary Coan Anchoe Erie Arctic Washington Mary Jane . Fall Creek Sadie Dee 2 Moore’s Flat Sleeping Beauty .-Moore’s Flat Baker Graniteville Greely-Blackman .Newtown Big Pine Wolf District Spanish Washington Nevada “City Nevada City .Grass Valley Nevada City Graniteville Grass Valley .. ..William Jeffrey Bear Valley +.. J. R. C. Mann Gen. Manager J. R. C. Mann M. E. Newlove 61,200 45,000 17,250. R. J. Hendricks 16,500 Gen. Manager Arthur Swanson Superintendent RJ. BMendricks -. Albert Crase Gen, Manager Fred Pinch Fred Denton 6,000 78,550 60,450 6,150 O. E. Schiffner Gen. Manager John Chandler John ‘Chandler 30,000 19,650 19,500 1,500 1,050 4,200 1,650 300 1,500 2,100 300 300 309 450 750 900 600 Kemmerer Ex. Robert Beck Carl Larsen Clyde Foster Luke Williams . W. J. Bathhurst -. D. K. Ribble Placer Operations (Continued on Page Two) Richter & Sons . Relief Hill Lucky Day Eloro Planet E. New York Homestake Shovel Placers Blue Point Blood Kennebec Wyandotte Quaker Hill Steephollow Steephollow .Columbia Hill Mooney Flat Fall Creek S. R. Miller Burlington Ridge. 3,300 1,500 3,000 600 1,200 600 300 2,700 900 300 450 900 2,588 $388,200 Don McGinnis M. Donnelly Wm. Granholm Kaufield Asa Fippin Bill Blood Paine Bros: ..:.3. N. M. Gibson igns Welfar % % Action FollowsAppointm Supervisors Met At Courthouse Today In Special Session To Resignation; Possibility Dudley May Be Induced To Reconsider extraordinary session of the board of supervisors. in an effort to induce him to reconsider. Dudley’s resignation followed the appointment by the board yesterday Dudley, who was chairman of the board of supervisors at the time he of an assistant in his office. He said the supervisors had never given him proper cooperation. j this morning’s session of the board . that. the supervisors were ‘100 per ; : Second Monitor ; 100 . . ne oe nee Rtas Pasa ion and sai a e welfare agent} Will Be Operate . should have been consulted before! . . + Supervisor Frank Rowe stated ate . Plans are being made at the Re-. } lief Hill Hydraulic Mine for the op-! erating of a second monitor. . One giant is already working on. a 24 hour basis. The second is ex-. pected to be ready for use by the’ middle of April. Manager C, E, Clark here yester-. mine has acquired the pipe which: had been used in the Malakoff oper-. ations years ago. While the hydraulicking is being carried on at the Relief Hill pit, opof the hydraulicking season. Officers Of PTA Will Be Installed At Meeting Tomorrow The Elementary Parent Teachers Association will meet tomorrow at 2:30 0’ clock for a general business session and the installation of new officers. Mrs. Leland Smith will be the installing officer. The officers to be seated are Mrs. Marian Jones, President; Mrs, Wanda lLageson, first vice president; Mrs. Popovitch, second vice president; Mrs. Jane TatMan, treasurer and Mrs. Helen Berger, secretary. There will be a demonstration by the Girls Scouts under the direction of Mrs. Pat Jackson, Mrs. Bates and ‘Mrs. Odgers. The Boy Scouts, under the direction of Cecil Klee, will give a demonstration. Tea will be served by Mrs. Buffington, Mrs. Kilroy, Mrs. Popovitch, Mrs. Moore, Mrs, Sharp and Mrs. e ° the selection of an assistant made. . At Relief Hill — Schiffner. Rowe said the board had ed’ Dudley at almost every while in the meantime his work’! piled ‘higher and higher every day as the result of increased demands upon his office. The -board morning for the enlarging “buck; turn, . discussed steps this’ of the . welfare office and possibly the naming of another assistant in addition . Mday said 20 men are émployed at the; to the one to succeed the late Mrs. ' Relief Hill Mine. He announced the. Henwood. The present welfare office, on the! second floor of the courthouse, is not even sufficiently large to accomodate the present working force. . The supervisors reached a decis-' on the third floor. . The Selective Service Board office in the general meeting room would be moved to-the present janitor’s room on the second floor. Rites Held For Late John Martin Cooper Funeral services for . John M. Cooper, pioneer resident of this district, were conducted at the Holmes Funeral Home yesterday afternoon under the direction of the Nevada City Lodge of Blks. The organ was played by Mrs, Thomas White. Burial was in the Pine Grove Cemetery. “~ The ‘pallbearers for} the funeral were: f Charles Graham, William Graham, Cary~S. Arbogast, Elwell Goering, Dr. C. W. Chapman and P. G. Scadden. Mrs. Max Lantz was a visitor in e Position % ent By Bas rd . Of Supervisors Of Mary J. Campbell As Assistant In Welfare Office Here Consider The abrupt resignation last night of E. B. Dudley, county welfare agent, resulted today in the calling of an Board members apparently are reluctant to accept the resignation and this afternoon called at Dudley’s home afternoon of Mary Joan Campbell, niece of Supervisor Jay Coughlan, as an assistant in the welfare agent’s office. When the board convened this morning, Supervisor Coughian said Miss.Campbell has resigned, allegedly because of a ‘‘cool reception” in the welfare office. The post to which Miss-Campbell was appointed pays $75 per month. She was to have filled the vacancy caused by the death of Mrs. Imogene Henwood. was appointed to the welfare agent post four years ago, took the position the supervisors should have consulted him before making the appointment S ROTARIANS AND GUESTS HEAR © TULLY KNOLES Dr. Tully Knoles, president of the College of the Pacific, was guest speaker at the Rotary club luncheon today. Wives of the members and many guests filled the banquet room of the National hotel. The Rotary club voted to take out ,five sustaining memberships in the — Boy Scouts organization of this area, The motion to do so was made by Chester Scheemer, member of the local scout council. Dr. Knoles, past president of Stockerations at the Lucky Jane, a gravel ion to convert the justice court into tom Rotary, and in past years several tunnel proposition, have been sus-. headquarters for the welfare agent, times a delegate to International pended. Work on the Lucky Jane; Who has more work than possibly any, Rotary SPR VER ONE gave a moving will be resumed after the completion. Other county officer, and to transfer, #¢count of Rotary’s evolution from ; Justice of the Peace Gildersleeve’s the small group organized in Chica‘office to the general meeting room! 8° by Paul Harris to its present world-wide scope and activity. At the outset he delivered a gentle rebuke to the clubs of Grass Valley and Nevada City for their attendance records, which fall into the 80s. He stated that in his club with some 145 members, the average over many years has been an attendance of better than 97 per cent. Rotary, said Dr. Knoles, has come a long way in its evolution from the closed corporation of a few friends which gathered with Paul Harria in 1909 in Chicago. The name itself, ag. explained to Dr. Knoles by Mr. Harris, merely meant originally that the club met in rotation. The symbolisnr of Rotary’s wheel at that time had little of its modern significance. And beside the president and secretary of Rotary as originally conceived, there was a third officer of which many later day Rotarians have never even heard, This officer’s duty was to sit in the ante-room of the meeting place, and as each member entered Nevada City this afternoon. (Continued on Page Two) in California is in operation at the properties. The cyanide plant is located at the Central Mine of Lava Cap Mines mine chemist. Until the cyanide Lava Cap Cyanide Plant Finest In California; Equipment Includes Twenty-Eight Huge Tanks What is considered the most modern cyanide plant The plant was designed and built under the supervision of Manager Otto Schiffner and Bert Hardin, plant definitely proves it can the Lava Cap group. It consists of twenty eight huge steel tanks, ranging from fifty feet in diameter and sixteen feet deep to fourteen feet in diameter and eight feet deep. The concentrates go through a bull classifier, which separates the finer material from the coarser, The fines go to a huge filter, believed to be the largest at any mine in the state. The filter takes the water from the material, which is in solution and sends it to the cyanide agitation tanks, thence to counter current thickeners and then to a final filter. The material coming from the last filter has lost virtually all of its gold content in the cyanide solution tanks, where it is precipitated. The cyanide plant tailings are then pumped in two storage reservoirs on a hilltop above the cyanide plant for-future recovery processes, if any can be found. The tailings are pumped up the hill to the storage reservoirs. The plant will handle in excess of twenty five tons of mill concentrates daily and probably could even be operated on a larger tonnage basis. handle the concentrates, the plant is operating on tailings and flotation middlings with the mill concentrates_being shipped to the smelter at Selby . General Manager Schiffner reports an extensive diamond dril program is under way at the Lava Cap properties by the Mitchel Diamond Drill Company of San Francisco. The diamond drill firm is how running a drill core 1,500 feet southwest of the 800 foot level at the Banner Mine, after completing tests-to the east, northeast, north and west. Original contract for 7,000 feet of prospecting granted by the Lava Cap last April was extended in December for an additional 5,000 feet, completion of which is expected within the next month. Production is being maintained at a steady pace while the drill prospecting is. under way, with more than 400 tons of mill ore produced daily. a The. Lava Cap a few years ago was virtually a pros-~ pect hole. Under the management of Schiffner, it has grown to be the third largest gold producer in the state and employs 300 men, —s_— ee

MARCH MINING DEVELOPMENT ISSUE ————— i The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month Nevada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA ieee (= The This paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, neighbors, your read Nugget. 4 Vol. 15. No; 23. 2 NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA, The Gold Catitns THU RSDAY, MARCH 20, 1941. ET ‘ E. B. Dudley Miners Leave To Accept Defense Industry Work; County Payroll Drops HYDRAULIC MINING, HOWEVER, GAINS BACK SOME OF QUARTZ MINING EMPLOYMENT LOSS The call to the defense industries has effected the en ployment in Nevada County. mines, this month’s survey by The Nugget shows. Many miners are leaving for other areas Where work commands higher wages, and the mine operators are finding it difficult to hire experienced men to take the place of the departing workers. oe While employment dropped* off slightly at most of the larg-. Three Monitors er operating properties during. the month, smaller properties, . USed At Omega principally gravel mines, reOperations are proceeding full port an increase in their pay-, blast at the Omega Hydraulic Mine, rolls. !one of the two properties operating The Relief Hill and Omega Mines. . behind the recently completed UpThe County Seat Paper first ‘hydraulic properties to start! operating behind the Upper Narrows! Debris Dam, increased their payroil! during the month: The Omega em-. ploys 22 men and the Relief Hill 29.) The Washington district is experiencing a mining revival, ae Besides the Omega Mine, the Arctic is operating in that area and work is due to start soon on _ the; famous Gaston Mine. The Arctic employs 14 men. The Murchie Mine of the Nevada City district suffered an employment decrease during the month. The report of the Empire-Star Mines, Ltd., indicates the Murchie may be abandoned during the year. Employment at the Idaho-Maryland properties decreased by 32 during the past month. The Idaho, lead-: ing gold producer of the state, is, employing 941, compared to 973 a! month ago, (Additional mining news on Page Five and Six) Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. ns sts What will our young men, skilled and unskilled, with common school or college educations, who are giving a year of their lives to their country, in military training ¢amps, think of these other men who are staying at home, earning not $30, and found, a month, but $150 to $250 a month, and even with that striking for still higher wages and obstructing their country’s effort to. defend itself? There is something fundamentally wrong with this picture, and the sooner the labor and political leaders in this country find it out and cure it, the better for the country. We recall too clearly the tremendous disparity between wages in the-army and the wages received by industrial workers during the first world war. All the pensions, bonuses and other favors heaped on the veterans of the first world war, after the war was ended, never equalled the huge benefits received by ship workers, airplane mechanics, and farmers, The fact thatthe bonanza wages of war days ruined many a good man, does not lessen the injustice done the men in the armed forces. One million or more men are drafted to serve their country for one year at little wages, while some six or séven million union workérs are paid big wages to make the one million — effective per Narrows Dam. Three monitors are being used in the Omega work on three shifts. Theodore Larsen is the superintendent at the mine and Jack Little is general manager. The preparations for the Omega operations were made during ‘the summer and fall months. Lava Cap Donates $265 Toward Goal For Boy Scouts The Lava Cap Mine with a donation_of $265 started the ball rolling for funds to carry on the Boy Scout work here during the coming year. The goal ‘has been set at $1,000. John Fortier is the general chairman of the drive committee. Approximately 30 attended a scout dinner at the National Hotel here last night, at which time the drive for funds was officially opened. The drive will continue until March 26th. The drive has the support of all civic organizations. Res Don’t Accept The Resignation The Supervisors are divided on the question.of accepting the resignation of E. B. Dudley, County Welfare Administrator, who resigned suddenly last evening as a result of a disagreement with the Board of Supervisors concerning appointment of an assistant in his office. It would be a great pity in the view of many citizens, including this writer, if after approximately four years of careful, wise, capable administration of the Welfare Administration, the Supervisors were to accept Mr. Dudley's resignation. The office grows yearly in importance to all those who receive relief and to the tax payers of this county. To put a new person in Mr. Dudley's place will result in losing to the county practically all the value of his experience, proved ability, and careful handling of the many problems which myst be solved in the administratars office. oS eee We know of no man “who knows Nevada County better than Mr. Dudley, who has devoted more years to its service, both as chairman of the Board of Supervisors and in later years as County Welfare Administrator. His able service in these offices have saved the tax payers thousands of dollars. We feel strongly that the Board of Supervisors will render this county a disservice if they accept the resignation of Mr. Dudley. MINING SUMMARY Lode Mines Name No. Men PayGen. Manager or roll Superintendent Emp. Newmont Empire North Star Pennsylvania Zeibright Grass. ValleyGrass Valley . Murchie Idaho-Maryland Idaho Brunswick Bullion Grass Valley Grass Valley Grass Valley Lava Cap Central Banner Others Golden Center Spring Hill G. Northern Stockton Hill . Boundary Coan Anchoe Erie Arctic Washington Mary Jane . Fall Creek Sadie Dee 2 Moore’s Flat Sleeping Beauty .-Moore’s Flat Baker Graniteville Greely-Blackman .Newtown Big Pine Wolf District Spanish Washington Nevada “City Nevada City .Grass Valley Nevada City Graniteville Grass Valley .... ...William Jeffrey Bear Valley +.... J. R. C. Mann Gen. Manager J. R. C. Mann M. E. Newlove 61,200 45,000 17,250. R. J. Hendricks 16,500 Gen. Manager Arthur Swanson Superintendent RJ. BMendricks -.. Albert Crase Gen, Manager Fred Pinch Fred Denton 6,000 78,550 60,450 6,150 O. E. Schiffner Gen. Manager John Chandler John ‘Chandler 30,000 19,650 19,500 1,500 1,050 4,200 1,650 300 1,500 2,100 300 300 309 450 750 900 600 Kemmerer Ex. Robert Beck Carl Larsen Clyde Foster Luke Williams .. W. J. Bathhurst -. D. K. Ribble Placer Operations (Continued on Page Two) Richter & Sons .

Relief Hill Lucky Day Eloro Planet E. New York Homestake Shovel Placers Blue Point Blood Kennebec Wyandotte Quaker Hill Steephollow Steephollow ..Columbia Hill Mooney Flat Fall Creek S. R. Miller Burlington Ridge. 3,300 1,500 3,000 600 1,200 600 300 2,700 900 300 450 900 2,588 $388,200 Don McGinnis M. Donnelly Wm. Granholm Kaufield Asa Fippin Bill Blood Paine Bros: ...:.3. N. M. Gibson igns Welfar % % Action FollowsAppointm Supervisors Met At Courthouse Today In Special Session To Resignation; Possibility Dudley May Be Induced To Reconsider extraordinary session of the board of supervisors. in an effort to induce him to reconsider. Dudley’s resignation followed the appointment by the board yesterday Dudley, who was chairman of the board of supervisors at the time he of an assistant in his office. He said the supervisors had never given him proper cooperation. j this morning’s session of the board . that. the supervisors were ‘100 per ; : Second Monitor ; 100 . . ne oe nee Rtas Pasa ion and sai a e welfare agent} Will Be Operate . should have been consulted before! . . + Supervisor Frank Rowe stated ate . Plans are being made at the Re-. } lief Hill Hydraulic Mine for the op-! erating of a second monitor. . One giant is already working on. a 24 hour basis. The second is ex-. pected to be ready for use by the’ middle of April. Manager C, E, Clark here yester-. mine has acquired the pipe which: had been used in the Malakoff oper-. ations years ago. While the hydraulicking is being carried on at the Relief Hill pit, opof the hydraulicking season. Officers Of PTA Will Be Installed At Meeting Tomorrow The Elementary Parent Teachers Association will meet tomorrow at 2:30 0’ clock for a general business session and the installation of new officers. Mrs. Leland Smith will be the installing officer. The officers to be seated are Mrs. Marian Jones, President; Mrs, Wanda lLageson, first vice president; Mrs. Popovitch, second vice president; Mrs. Jane TatMan, treasurer and Mrs. Helen Berger, secretary. There will be a demonstration by the Girls Scouts under the direction of Mrs. Pat Jackson, Mrs. Bates and ‘Mrs. Odgers. The Boy Scouts, under the direction of Cecil Klee, will give a demonstration. Tea will be served by Mrs. Buffington, Mrs. Kilroy, Mrs. Popovitch, Mrs. Moore, Mrs, Sharp and Mrs. e ° the selection of an assistant made. . At Relief Hill — Schiffner. Rowe said the board had ed’ Dudley at almost every while in the meantime his work’! piled ‘higher and higher every day as the result of increased demands upon his office. The -board morning for the enlarging “buck; turn, . discussed steps this’ of the . welfare office and possibly the naming of another assistant in addition . Mday said 20 men are émployed at the; to the one to succeed the late Mrs. ' Relief Hill Mine. He announced the. Henwood. The present welfare office, on the! second floor of the courthouse, is not even sufficiently large to accomodate the present working force. . The supervisors reached a decis-' on the third floor. . The Selective Service Board office in the general meeting room would be moved to-the present janitor’s room on the second floor. Rites Held For Late John Martin Cooper Funeral services for . John M. Cooper, pioneer resident of this district, were conducted at the Holmes Funeral Home yesterday afternoon under the direction of the Nevada City Lodge of Blks. The organ was played by Mrs, Thomas White. Burial was in the Pine Grove Cemetery.. “~ The ‘pallbearers for} the funeral were: f Charles Graham, William Graham, Cary~S. Arbogast, Elwell Goering, Dr. C. W. Chapman and P. G. Scadden. Mrs. Max Lantz was a visitor in e Position % ent By Bas rd . Of Supervisors Of Mary J. Campbell As Assistant In Welfare Office Here Consider The abrupt resignation last night of E. B. Dudley, county welfare agent, resulted today in the calling of an Board members apparently are reluctant to accept the resignation and this afternoon called at Dudley’s home afternoon of Mary Joan Campbell, niece of Supervisor Jay Coughlan, as an assistant in the welfare agent’s office. When the board convened this morning, Supervisor Coughian said Miss.Campbell has resigned, allegedly because of a ‘‘cool reception” in the welfare office. The post to which Miss-Campbell was appointed pays $75 per month. She was to have filled the vacancy caused by the death of Mrs. Imogene Henwood. was appointed to the welfare agent post four years ago, took the position the supervisors should have consulted him before making the appointment S ROTARIANS AND GUESTS HEAR © TULLY KNOLES Dr. Tully Knoles, president of the College of the Pacific, was guest speaker at the Rotary club luncheon today. Wives of the members and many guests filled the banquet room of the National hotel. The Rotary club voted to take out ,five sustaining memberships in the — Boy Scouts organization of this area, The motion to do so was made by Chester Scheemer, member of the local scout council. Dr. Knoles, past president of Stockerations at the Lucky Jane, a gravel ion to convert the justice court into tom Rotary, and in past years several tunnel proposition, have been sus-. headquarters for the welfare agent, times a delegate to International pended. Work on the Lucky Jane; Who has more work than possibly any, Rotary SPR VER ONE gave a moving will be resumed after the completion. Other county officer, and to transfer, #¢count of Rotary’s evolution from ; Justice of the Peace Gildersleeve’s the small group organized in Chica‘office to the general meeting room! 8° by Paul Harris to its present world-wide scope and activity. At the outset he delivered a gentle rebuke to the clubs of Grass Valley and Nevada City for their attendance records, which fall into the 80s. He stated that in his club with some 145 members, the average over many years has been an attendance of better than 97 per cent. Rotary, said Dr. Knoles, has come a long way in its evolution from the closed corporation of a few friends which gathered with Paul Harria in 1909 in Chicago. The name itself, ag. explained to Dr. Knoles by Mr. Harris, merely meant originally that the club met in rotation. The symbolisnr of Rotary’s wheel at that time had little of its modern significance. And beside the president and secretary of Rotary as originally conceived, there was a third officer of which many later day Rotarians have never even heard, This officer’s duty was to sit in the ante-room of the meeting place, and as each member entered Nevada City this afternoon. (Continued on Page Two) in California is in operation at the properties. The cyanide plant is located at the Central Mine of Lava Cap Mines mine chemist. Until the cyanide Lava Cap Cyanide Plant Finest In California; Equipment Includes Twenty-Eight Huge Tanks What is considered the most modern cyanide plant The plant was designed and built under the supervision of Manager Otto Schiffner and Bert Hardin, plant definitely proves it can the Lava Cap group. It consists of twenty eight huge steel tanks, ranging from fifty feet in diameter and sixteen feet deep to fourteen feet in diameter and eight feet deep. The concentrates go through a bull classifier, which separates the finer material from the coarser, The fines go to a huge filter, believed to be the largest at any mine in the state. The filter takes the water from the material, which is in solution and sends it to the cyanide agitation tanks, thence to counter current thickeners and then to a final filter. The material coming from the last filter has lost virtually all of its gold content in the cyanide solution tanks, where it is precipitated. The cyanide plant tailings are then pumped in two storage reservoirs on a hilltop above the cyanide plant for-future recovery processes, if any can be found. The tailings are pumped up the hill to the storage reservoirs. The plant will handle in excess of twenty five tons of mill concentrates daily and probably could even be operated on a larger tonnage basis. handle the concentrates, the plant is operating on tailings and flotation middlings with the mill concentrates_being shipped to the smelter at Selby . General Manager Schiffner reports an extensive diamond dril program is under way at the Lava Cap properties by the Mitchel Diamond Drill Company of San Francisco. The diamond drill firm is how running a drill core 1,500 feet southwest of the 800 foot level at the Banner Mine, after completing tests-to the east, northeast, north and west. Original contract for 7,000 feet of prospecting granted by the Lava Cap last April was extended in December for an additional 5,000 feet, completion of which is expected within the next month. Production is being maintained at a steady pace while the drill prospecting is. under way, with more than 400 tons of mill ore produced daily. a The. Lava Cap a few years ago was virtually a pros-~ pect hole. Under the management of Schiffner, it has grown to be the third largest gold producer in the state and employs 300 men, —s_— ee