March 3, 1930 (6 pages)

et anaueameaal oo VOLUME IV, NUMBER 16 THE GOLD CENTER NEVADA CITY, NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, JERRY SEAWELL ANNOUNCES HIS _ CANDIDACY NOW Mr. Arthur Willoughby Publisher of the Nevada City Nugget Nevada City, California Dear Mr. Willoughby: as In my endeavor to express to the people of this Assembly District my appreciation for the support bie have given to me as their Representative, I am asking for the privilege of the use of the columns of your valuable paper: that I might convey to them my sincere gratitude for the confidence they have placed in me. Under the terms of the reapportionment . measure approved by the people at the General Hléction held ini November, 1929, this Assembly District has been enlarged considerably, and now consists of five counties instead of two as heretofore. The new District will consist of Placer, Nevada,s;gierra, Plumas and ‘Lassen counties the second jargest Assembly District in total area in the State. As a Representative of the present District T have always put forth minmy best e:foris for anything that would have been of benetit to the people of the District and have always opposed anything that would have been detrimental to the District. ° I Believe my record. as an Assemblyman will vindicate this statement and after careful consideration I have decided to again submit my name to the people of this District that they might pass judgment upon my qualifications to act as their Representative, as a Member of the Assembly of the State of California, for the term of 1931-1932 as a candidate on the Democratic and Republican tickets at the August Primary election to be held this year. Very sincerely yours, Jerry Seawell. ANDY HOLMES CHAPEAU IN RING FOR CORONER With the formal announcement of Ainslie M. Holmes, well known as Andy everywhere, that he will seek the post of county coronér. at. the coming county election, interest in county politics will begin to warm up. Andy is the first one officially to shy his chapeau into the ring. For the past 17 years, he has been prominently connected with the civic and business life of this community. At that time he took up his duties as manager of the Lane undertaking parlors, later he purchased the business which he has since conducted under his name. Several So a a a AAI Le MINING CHAPTER ‘spacious offices of James D. Stewibeen added to the rolls the Jerry Seawell Nevada County’s Friend Who Made Good on The Job at Sacramento HOLDS A LARGE MEET, AUBURN In a-meeting attended by nearly 100 mining men and those interested in the industry, the local mining chapter of the Mining Association of California held its fourth, meeting in its comparatively brief existence at Auburn aSturday afternoon in the art. The meeting was largely given Over to addresses, the leading ones be-, ing by R. Llye Kimmel, state secretary, on the history of the state body ,and Charles L. Gilmore of Sacramento, on the new mutuial insurance company which will be ready to function as soon as it has secured the requisite number of ‘members. Resolutions deploring the proposed legislation taking away the surface rights of mining property within forest sererves were unanimously passed and ordered sent to our repesentatives and senators at Washington. A committee of four to assist in securing applications from operators for the insurance company comprises A. R. Archibald of Grass Valley, Martin Costello of Forest Hill for Placer couty, Charles Moor eof Yuba City for Yuba county, and Ross F. Taylor of Downieville for Sierra county. Committees were named to select a name and constitution and bylaws for the chapter, to report at the next meeting. A number of new members have past week. NUGGET GETS PRAISE FROM MARIPOSA MAN Mlevada City Nugget, Nevada City, Calif., Gentlemen: I have just read inthe MARIPOSA GAZETTE, an article quoted from your paper, telling of the fight that Congressman Englebright made against that vicious and outrageous bill that was up before the Senate to limit the activities of the mining industry, trying to take the years ago he entered the Grass Valley field and last year constructed a handsome mortuary on Auburn street. Mr. Holmes has always taken” an active part in the civic life of Nevada City and for the past four years has honorably filled the post of city trustee and is at present the mayor. He has been secretary of the Chamber of Commerce and for the last four years has been the efficient secretary of one of our leading fraternal orders. He is a charter membe of the Nevada City Lions Club and is its vice’ president. Many friends have given tenders ! of their active support over the county already. NORTH STAR TRIBUTIN _ISNOW / The tributing produced loeal district in by. gone days i again being put in force on the upNorth Star property with a block of ground assigned to a group headed by Murdock per levels of the Morrison of Alleghany. Tim Field BEING STARTED system which has so much wealth in the surface rights away from future mining claims. We are fortunate in having a Congressman with guts to him, like \1Mr. Englebright, and the mining industry is also fortunate in having splendid publications, like the NEVADA CITY NUGGET MARIPOSA GAZETTE who are real boosters of mning. If it is possible, just what me know be greatly appreciated. In closing I feel know of this almost (but not the people that was pector. I thank you again. Yours very respectfully, H. B. Brinham. QUEEN LIL MILL the next three weeks operations erty just west of town, to the present schedule of progress. This property adjoins the Champion ground Nevada City ground lies just to the north. It was a part pion holdings at one time but was purchased by the Buffington interand the I would appreclate df you would write me and let Senator or Senators advocated and pushed this bill as far as it went. Anything that you can tell me along that line will that it is my duty to thank you again for letting outrage quite) slipped over on the American prosSTAMPS T0 DROP IN THREE WEEKS Ten stamps will be dropping in on the new at -the Queen Lil propaccording on the west and the rich of the Chamests and has since been held by them. The ore bins and two batteries are now being installed, the conerete block for the batteries having been poured some days since. — A fine surface-~ plant has been erected at the property which fs electrically equipt throughout. The headframe adjoinh the mill structure. The milling plant was formerly at the Sierra Queen mine just below the foundry and has been moved in its entirety. The drifts are now out 100 feet from the shaft on the bottom level and as soon as the mill is. ready to start quartz from the lower workings will be run through. Indications are excellent for large production. as operations get fully under way. Much rich ground is known to exist in the adjoining Nevada City ground and this will be sought. Gordon M. Bettles, general manager of the Yellow Tiger Consolidated interests has been financing the operations at the Queen Lil and expresses himself as highly pleased at the showing thus for made. If the extensive Champion holdings could be brought back to something of their former activity and there is reason to believe that they can be, Nevada City can confidently look forward to another era of mining prosperity such as she once enjoyed. Bettles holds options from the North Star interests to their entfre holdings. north of Deer creek -together with other properties which will give him abundant opportunity to inaugurate an extensive program of development in the next few years. : With Hoge to the north, the Murchie to the east and the Telluric to the south, Nevada City will be well surrounded with mining operations. BAHLS PROPERTY NOW WASHING GOOD GRAVEL Gravel washing operations are now under way at the new Bahls property at. the west end of Cement Hill and a good showing is being made. Extensive surface works consisting of ore bins and washing plant have been installed. Two gravel channels are being black. done in the bedrock under the nels which were picked up in run. of ten to fifteen veloping a real producer. SIERRA COUNTY BOOSTERS Ross F. Taylor and George R. Costa, two of Sierra county’s leading bossters, were Nevada City visiti\ors Friday while on their way to Sacramento for a brief stay. They exnected to stop in Auburn Satur‘day afternoon to take in the mining meeting before returning home. They have been active in promotMINING PERSONALS Peter Lassen Angeles during last week. spected the property of the Pionee was up from Lo 8\for new work. . He inGold Mines company and prepared ing the well being of the new state mining association. in Sierra couna\ ty and the past week sent out { nearly 200 letters to mning men of ‘that section to become affiliated with the statewide movement. Sierra county already has a number of r and W.H. Daley are associated Mr. and Mrs. Charles ml Rohm ar-. members in the state association with Mr. Morrison. rived from Los Angeles /to remain, 2"4@ 80 far has been affiliated with Work has commenced on the! for several days. He is_ interested . ‘¥¢ local group. 2700 level of the property and thelin mining property near Stevadn old incline shaft of the North Star) City.) : Mrs. C. B. Schwartz visited her will be used. New _ cable to the Read The Nugget mining news. . sister; Mrs. Charles A. Deeble in amount ° of 4000 feet has been — jAubutn recently, Mrs. Deeble was placed on the hoist drums. The ore . seriovsly injured in an auto aectlextracted by the leasers will be run: be taken on the Massachusetts Hill dent a through ten stamps~ of the North. dump and possibly other portions of! mill, It is reported that leases will} the property, K few days ago. {Sacrameato on business. IDAHO HITS RICH ing on the 1600 level at the Idaho Maryland where a six foot vein has been cut phides which will per ton. has been solid ribbon quartz running 4 to 11 feet opened up at the present time, one of the white variety and the other Quite a bit of drifting , has ben carried on the past year, being ree aises The operators are running a crew men at the property and prospects are good for de‘J. #. Taylor left this morning for SHOOT OF ORE ON 1600 LEVEL Things are looking pretty promisinto showing heavy sulrun over $2000 Over 1000 feet of shoot exposed already with wide. The large rich shoot was first picked up on the 1900 level and raises have been run at strategic points to the 1600 level to open up the ore body which is proving one of the most extensive yet uncovered in this famous property which in its heydey produced nearly thirty millions and paid over seven . million dividends. It is the expectaton of the company to mill out this shoot through the present Idaho plant before attempting connections with the Brunswick property which is now owned by the Idaho company along with the Union Hill. A new system of classifying and double concentration is now in effect in the 20 stamp mill which is working satisfactorily. General Manager MacBoyle reports that $1000 was saved last month by the new system. The mill is working continuously and the values are very satisfactory. The Idaho crew and is the industrial trict. PIONEER IS PLANNING ON MANY IMPROVEMENTS With the installing of a larger compressor it is expected that work of sinking the winze at the Pioneer mine will be resumed. Operations were halted at the property recently as the depth reached in the winze had reached the maximum capacity of the surface equipment to handle safely. The company proposes /to sink the winze another 100 feet and then do 500 feet of drifting which it is estimated will gve at least 75,000 tons of fne milling ore ready for extraction. If the shoot of fine sulphid e ore already exposed in the winze, holds up, the winze will be upraised on a 55° pitch to the surface to provide a new working hhaft for the property. A new shaft is neeled as the present one is inadequate for economical operations and with a new working shaft and surface equipment, the company will be in a splendid position to go onto a producton basis with sufficient ore is running a large adding materially to activity of the dison an extensive milling program. The Pioneer in th enext few years. SEATTLE MINING MEN Cc. J. Durwachler, all and former Hill belonging Colfax. Owing to the tion and expressed highly pleased with looks of this visitors at. fund ’ M. Flint of Oakland is here f TH MINING LOCATIONS and Beauchamp placer Yuba Co. Ltd., in Washington Mining district and W. E. Plank, Charles H. Shaw, company. BRUSH CREEK IN blocked out to warrant theinstalmore attention and much larger nition ct als ees Ts on Pe Se anes. pany has proceeded along conserva— than to the mining distve lines in developing the propersg : ty to date and in this particular Ht la. proposed that & One ane is to be highly commended as that sweepstakes prizes of $100, there are too many monuments $76 and $50 be ewarded inthe me: about the country to over-ambitious companies who did not do sufficient development work before engaging interests are in an excellent location from a geological standpoint to set’ up one of the distriet’s large and profitable prducers INSPECT PROPERTIES Ww. C. Hall, Charles Petersen and of Seattle, Alaska miningmen, have been inspecting gravel properties the past week with a view to bonding them. They came primarily to look over properties at Quaker to A. H. Turner of inclement weather they were unable to get in at the present time but looked at several other properties of this secthemselves as the mineral district. They were The Nugget office and complimented the publisher on the of information -available on the mining industry of the county. a bref visit with his grandmother, COUNTY SEAT PAPER _ MARCH 3, 1930 FILED COUNTY RECORD The following mining claims have’ been filed for county record. . Whiting, Shaw, Bridge, Simpson, by South by F. A. Beauchamp engineers and secretary of the RICH SHOOT GETS ~ SPECIMEN ORE Many rumors have been prevalent as to the value of the rich strike made recently at the Brush Creek mine, the estimates running as high as $50,000. The information given The Nugget officially is that it was approximately $1000. The pocket was struck in the side of the drift in the footwall and furnished a powder box of specimen ore. At the time the drift “was run last July there was some color showing at the spot but it was left at the time. Supt. Lichtenberg the other day put in two holes to open up the place and a lot of rich rock came tumbling out. This was run through the mill and showed excellent returns. The ledge is about ZH feet wide at that point. The specimens were well clustered and showeda lot of arsenical sulphides. The ore shoot at point of strike has been proven for a distance of 200 feet and shows values the full width of the ledge. All the ore from the ledge is being milled ‘and the mill heads are showing good returns. The mill is running one shift and the ore is remarkably free from outside metals. There is ample ore on the present level to keep the nill running for a long time. The com-~pany contemplates running upraises into the old workings and throughly explore the upper level before sinking to greater depth. Pesident Ben F. Ballard and Director ©. Opland of Santa Rosa were here last week checking up on the strike and conferring with Supeintendent Lichtenberg. : MORE MONEY DEMANDED FOR MINERAL DISPLAYS The Northern California, and Sacramento Chapters of the Mining Association of California have taken the lead in demanding that the state fair officials put the mineral displays at the exposition on a little higher plane hereafter. Heretofore WEADOWLAKEIS TO GET STARTED ~ COMING SPRING Plans have been completed for. ‘extensive operations in the famous Meadow Lake district north of Cisco this spring as soon as the snow has suffciently disappeared to enable the moving in. of machinery and supplies. The work of, consolidating a large number of claims on Old Man Mountain have been earried on the past year or so and will be developed under one central plan of operation. Financing of the operations with Eastern capital is sad to ote been completed so that that the\_work can proceed with celerity aS soon as the weather permits. The Meadow Lake district has been one of the world’s great mining disappointments up to the coming of improved metallurgy which will make possble the saving of the values in the ore which have hith‘rto escaped ordinary processes of xtraction. At-one time there were many thousand people in-the Meadow Lake camp but the primitive methods of metallurgy used soon caused its abandonment and for years past there has been but desultory prospecting and relocating of claims. A meallurgical process is said to have been developed which insures a high percentage of extraccon of values from this type of ore and installation of a unit of 350 tons daily capacity is said to be contemplated. A group. of 24,claims taking in practically the entire mineralized area of Old Man Mountain have been taken over by the Metal Products Holding Corporation. The five principal veins on the Carlisle property are fissures with a northwest strike and bold outcrops running from the base to the crest of the mountain. The veins are said to range in width trom five to 30 feet and indicate marked uniformity in character and value throughout. With the precipitous slopes tunnels . at the base will give backs from 800 to 2300 feet, making for economical handling of the ore between the stopes and the mill. The sulphides ore of the Carlisle highly ‘siliceous, carrying gold and silver and heavily impregnated wth iron pyrites and chalecjyrite. The gangue is silica and finely disintefgrated country rock. Fictation tests tests which have been eonducted on the ore, indicate a com;iete separation of the various meials and high reeovery of gold, copper and silver with minimum. loss in the tailings. Tuniiels run on the Eagle vein indicate values running ‘rom $14.60 tallies and a cup and sweepstakes { ral mineral display dustries. COUNTY CLERK COUGHLAN Coughlan i after th and auditor, planninghis George retirement has been chief deputy in the offic Monday. or take the lead in sponsoring a cenit will. go a long ways toward bringing to the thousands of state fair visitors the importance of one of our great inRETIRES AFTER 24 YEARS After 24 years of public service for Nevada county as county clerk present year. R. N. McCormack who during Mr. Coughlan’s incumbency will make formal announcement of his candidacy in these columns next Mr. Coughlan has but one superior in the court house in the point of length of service, being exceeded only by County Assessor Henry C. Schroeder. He has myriad friends who will extend him best wishes on the to $20.00 per ton in gold while workings on the Falcoa, TellurideMother Lode and Free milling veins show values of from $10.00 to $20.00 per ton in gold. Large tonnage is indicated in ali the workings. Preliminary development plans of $25 and $20 be given in the non-metallics. eall for running or extending at One year the state fair gave least three of the tunnels and as $1000 prizes for pitching ringers soon as sufficient tonnage has been and the same year only $70 for developed, to erect milling facilimineral prizes. ties. Electric power is but two miles . If the Sacramento Chapter will distant from the property and water for power ‘and milling is available from Phoenix Lake creek. There is an abundance of timber. 2 Harry D. Ramsay has. been in ty. Fletcher Hamilton, former state The projected operations will be watched with a great. deal of interest. Should the flotation process prove adequate to handle the type of ore in that district it will m the reviving of a_once gre L us s. try n that section of Nevada coun e Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ray . e. Franciseo -have been visiting t ter’s. parents, Mr. and Mrs, Breese. eerie: Mr. and Mrs, C J Temby of. land have been the guests and Mrs. C. H. Ninnis. Mrs. and Mrs. Temby are : Mr. and Mrs. George ' keley, Mr. and Mrs. . Francisco : ise Mrs. Bessie Nickless, ——_ _— — eee Sa Tee. Mrs. M. Grimes, tury of publie service. completion of nearly a quarter cen Ignition Paris Miner's Foundr group is«a:fire grained-primary Ore; and Fordyce . charge of operations at the proper. mineralogist, is consulting engineer.

et anaueameaal oo VOLUME IV, NUMBER 16 THE GOLD CENTER NEVADA CITY, NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, JERRY SEAWELL ANNOUNCES HIS _ CANDIDACY NOW Mr. Arthur Willoughby Publisher of the Nevada City Nugget Nevada City, California Dear Mr. Willoughby: as In my endeavor to express to the people of this Assembly District my appreciation for the support bie have given to me as their Representative, I am asking for the privilege of the use of the columns of your valuable paper: that I might convey to them my sincere gratitude for the confidence they have placed in me. Under the terms of the reapportionment . measure approved by the people at the General Hléction held ini November, 1929, this Assembly District has been enlarged considerably, and now consists of five counties instead of two as heretofore. The new District will consist of Placer, Nevada,s;gierra, Plumas and ‘Lassen counties the second jargest Assembly District in total area in the State. As a Representative of the present District T have always put forth minmy best e:foris for anything that would have been of benetit to the people of the District and have always opposed anything that would have been detrimental to the District. ° I Believe my record. as an Assemblyman will vindicate this statement and after careful consideration I have decided to again submit my name to the people of this District that they might pass judgment upon my qualifications to act as their Representative, as a Member of the Assembly of the State of California, for the term of 1931-1932 as a candidate on the Democratic and Republican tickets at the August Primary election to be held this year. Very sincerely yours, Jerry Seawell. ANDY HOLMES CHAPEAU IN RING FOR CORONER With the formal announcement of Ainslie M. Holmes, well known as Andy everywhere, that he will seek the post of county coronér. at. the coming county election, interest in county politics will begin to warm up. Andy is the first one officially to shy his chapeau into the ring. For the past 17 years, he has been prominently connected with the civic and business life of this community. At that time he took up his duties as manager of the Lane undertaking parlors, later he purchased the business which he has since conducted under his name. Several So a a a AAI Le MINING CHAPTER ‘spacious offices of James D. Stewibeen added to the rolls the Jerry Seawell Nevada County’s Friend Who Made Good on The Job at Sacramento HOLDS A LARGE MEET, AUBURN In a-meeting attended by nearly 100 mining men and those interested in the industry, the local mining chapter of the Mining Association of California held its fourth, meeting in its comparatively brief existence at Auburn aSturday afternoon in the art. The meeting was largely given Over to addresses, the leading ones be-, ing by R. Llye Kimmel, state secretary, on the history of the state body ,and Charles L. Gilmore of Sacramento, on the new mutuial insurance company which will be ready to function as soon as it has secured the requisite number of ‘members. Resolutions deploring the proposed legislation taking away the surface rights of mining property within forest sererves were unanimously passed and ordered sent to our repesentatives and senators at Washington. A committee of four to assist in securing applications from operators for the insurance company comprises A. R. Archibald of Grass Valley, Martin Costello of Forest Hill for Placer couty, Charles Moor eof Yuba City for Yuba county, and Ross F. Taylor of Downieville for Sierra county. Committees were named to select a name and constitution and bylaws for the chapter, to report at the next meeting. A number of new members have past week. NUGGET GETS PRAISE FROM MARIPOSA MAN Mlevada City Nugget, Nevada City, Calif., Gentlemen: I have just read inthe MARIPOSA GAZETTE, an article quoted from your paper, telling of the fight that Congressman Englebright made against that vicious and outrageous bill that was up before the Senate to limit the activities of the mining industry, trying to take the years ago he entered the Grass Valley field and last year constructed a handsome mortuary on Auburn street. Mr. Holmes has always taken” an active part in the civic life of Nevada City and for the past four years has honorably filled the post of city trustee and is at present the mayor. He has been secretary of the Chamber of Commerce and for the last four years has been the efficient secretary of one of our leading fraternal orders. He is a charter membe of the Nevada City Lions Club and is its vice’ president. Many friends have given tenders ! of their active support over the county already. NORTH STAR TRIBUTIN _ISNOW / The tributing produced loeal district in by. gone days i again being put in force on the upNorth Star property with a block of ground assigned to a group headed by Murdock per levels of the Morrison of Alleghany. Tim Field BEING STARTED system which has so much wealth in the surface rights away from future mining claims. We are fortunate in having a Congressman with guts to him, like \1Mr. Englebright, and the mining industry is also fortunate in having splendid publications, like the NEVADA CITY NUGGET MARIPOSA GAZETTE who are real boosters of mning. If it is possible, just what me know be greatly appreciated. In closing I feel know of this almost (but not the people that was pector. I thank you again. Yours very respectfully, H. B. Brinham. QUEEN LIL MILL the next three weeks operations erty just west of town, to the present schedule of progress. This property adjoins the Champion ground Nevada City ground lies just to the north. It was a part pion holdings at one time but was purchased by the Buffington interand the I would appreclate df you would write me and let Senator or Senators advocated and pushed this bill as far as it went. Anything that you can tell me along that line will that it is my duty to thank you again for letting outrage quite) slipped over on the American prosSTAMPS T0 DROP IN THREE WEEKS Ten stamps will be dropping in on the new at -the Queen Lil propaccording on the west and the rich of the Chamests and has since been held by them. The ore bins and two batteries are now being installed, the conerete block for the batteries having been poured some days since. — A fine surface-~ plant has been erected at the property which fs electrically equipt throughout. The headframe adjoinh the mill structure. The milling plant was formerly at the Sierra Queen mine just below the foundry and has been moved in its entirety. The drifts are now out 100 feet from the shaft on the bottom level and as soon as the mill is. ready to start quartz from the lower workings will be run through. Indications are excellent for large production. as operations get fully under way. Much rich ground is known to exist in the adjoining Nevada City ground and this will be sought. Gordon M. Bettles, general manager of the Yellow Tiger Consolidated interests has been financing the operations at the Queen Lil and expresses himself as highly pleased at the showing thus for made. If the extensive Champion holdings could be brought back to something of their former activity and there is reason to believe that they can be, Nevada City can confidently look forward to another era of mining prosperity such as she once enjoyed. Bettles holds options from the North Star interests to their entfre holdings. north of Deer creek -together with other properties which will give him abundant opportunity to inaugurate an extensive program of development in the next few years. : With Hoge to the north, the Murchie to the east and the Telluric to the south, Nevada City will be well surrounded with mining operations. BAHLS PROPERTY NOW WASHING GOOD GRAVEL Gravel washing operations are now under way at the new Bahls property at. the west end of Cement Hill and a good showing is being made. Extensive surface works consisting of ore bins and washing plant have been installed. Two gravel channels are being black. done in the bedrock under the nels which were picked up in run. of ten to fifteen veloping a real producer. SIERRA COUNTY BOOSTERS Ross F. Taylor and George R. Costa, two of Sierra county’s leading bossters, were Nevada City visiti\ors Friday while on their way to Sacramento for a brief stay. They exnected to stop in Auburn Satur‘day afternoon to take in the mining meeting before returning home. They have been active in promotMINING PERSONALS Peter Lassen Angeles during last week. spected the property of the Pionee was up from Lo 8\for new work. . He inGold Mines company and prepared ing the well being of the new state mining association. in Sierra couna\ ty and the past week sent out { nearly 200 letters to mning men of ‘that section to become affiliated with the statewide movement. Sierra county already has a number of r and W.H. Daley are associated Mr. and Mrs. Charles ml Rohm ar-. members in the state association with Mr. Morrison. rived from Los Angeles /to remain, 2"4@ 80 far has been affiliated with Work has commenced on the! for several days. He is_ interested . ‘¥¢ local group. 2700 level of the property and thelin mining property near Stevadn old incline shaft of the North Star) City.) : Mrs. C. B. Schwartz visited her will be used. New _ cable to the Read The Nugget mining news. . sister; Mrs. Charles A. Deeble in amount ° of 4000 feet has been — jAubutn recently, Mrs. Deeble was placed on the hoist drums. The ore . seriovsly injured in an auto aectlextracted by the leasers will be run: be taken on the Massachusetts Hill dent a through ten stamps~ of the North. dump and possibly other portions of! mill, It is reported that leases will} the property, K few days ago. {Sacrameato on business. IDAHO HITS RICH ing on the 1600 level at the Idaho Maryland where a six foot vein has been cut phides which will per ton. has been solid ribbon quartz running 4 to 11 feet opened up at the present time, one of the white variety and the other Quite a bit of drifting , has ben carried on the past year, being ree aises The operators are running a crew men at the property and prospects are good for de‘J. #. Taylor left this morning for SHOOT OF ORE ON 1600 LEVEL Things are looking pretty promisinto showing heavy sulrun over $2000

Over 1000 feet of shoot exposed already with wide. The large rich shoot was first picked up on the 1900 level and raises have been run at strategic points to the 1600 level to open up the ore body which is proving one of the most extensive yet uncovered in this famous property which in its heydey produced nearly thirty millions and paid over seven . million dividends. It is the expectaton of the company to mill out this shoot through the present Idaho plant before attempting connections with the Brunswick property which is now owned by the Idaho company along with the Union Hill. A new system of classifying and double concentration is now in effect in the 20 stamp mill which is working satisfactorily. General Manager MacBoyle reports that $1000 was saved last month by the new system. The mill is working continuously and the values are very satisfactory. The Idaho crew and is the industrial trict. PIONEER IS PLANNING ON MANY IMPROVEMENTS With the installing of a larger compressor it is expected that work of sinking the winze at the Pioneer mine will be resumed. Operations were halted at the property recently as the depth reached in the winze had reached the maximum capacity of the surface equipment to handle safely. The company proposes /to sink the winze another 100 feet and then do 500 feet of drifting which it is estimated will gve at least 75,000 tons of fne milling ore ready for extraction. If the shoot of fine sulphid e ore already exposed in the winze, holds up, the winze will be upraised on a 55° pitch to the surface to provide a new working hhaft for the property. A new shaft is neeled as the present one is inadequate for economical operations and with a new working shaft and surface equipment, the company will be in a splendid position to go onto a producton basis with sufficient ore is running a large adding materially to activity of the dison an extensive milling program. The Pioneer in th enext few years. SEATTLE MINING MEN Cc. J. Durwachler, all and former Hill belonging Colfax. Owing to the tion and expressed highly pleased with looks of this visitors at. fund ’ M. Flint of Oakland is here f TH MINING LOCATIONS and Beauchamp placer Yuba Co. Ltd., in Washington Mining district and W. E. Plank, Charles H. Shaw, company. BRUSH CREEK IN blocked out to warrant theinstalmore attention and much larger nition ct als ees Ts on Pe Se anes. pany has proceeded along conserva— than to the mining distve lines in developing the propersg : ty to date and in this particular Ht la. proposed that & One ane is to be highly commended as that sweepstakes prizes of $100, there are too many monuments $76 and $50 be ewarded inthe me: about the country to over-ambitious companies who did not do sufficient development work before engaging interests are in an excellent location from a geological standpoint to set’ up one of the distriet’s large and profitable prducers INSPECT PROPERTIES Ww. C. Hall, Charles Petersen and of Seattle, Alaska miningmen, have been inspecting gravel properties the past week with a view to bonding them. They came primarily to look over properties at Quaker to A. H. Turner of inclement weather they were unable to get in at the present time but looked at several other properties of this secthemselves as the mineral district. They were The Nugget office and complimented the publisher on the of information -available on the mining industry of the county. a bref visit with his grandmother, COUNTY SEAT PAPER _ MARCH 3, 1930 FILED COUNTY RECORD The following mining claims have’ been filed for county record. . Whiting, Shaw, Bridge, Simpson, by South by F. A. Beauchamp engineers and secretary of the RICH SHOOT GETS ~ SPECIMEN ORE Many rumors have been prevalent as to the value of the rich strike made recently at the Brush Creek mine, the estimates running as high as $50,000. The information given The Nugget officially is that it was approximately $1000. The pocket was struck in the side of the drift in the footwall and furnished a powder box of specimen ore. At the time the drift “was run last July there was some color showing at the spot but it was left at the time. Supt. Lichtenberg the other day put in two holes to open up the place and a lot of rich rock came tumbling out. This was run through the mill and showed excellent returns. The ledge is about ZH feet wide at that point. The specimens were well clustered and showeda lot of arsenical sulphides. The ore shoot at point of strike has been proven for a distance of 200 feet and shows values the full width of the ledge. All the ore from the ledge is being milled ‘and the mill heads are showing good returns. The mill is running one shift and the ore is remarkably free from outside metals. There is ample ore on the present level to keep the nill running for a long time. The com-~pany contemplates running upraises into the old workings and throughly explore the upper level before sinking to greater depth. Pesident Ben F. Ballard and Director ©. Opland of Santa Rosa were here last week checking up on the strike and conferring with Supeintendent Lichtenberg. : MORE MONEY DEMANDED FOR MINERAL DISPLAYS The Northern California, and Sacramento Chapters of the Mining Association of California have taken the lead in demanding that the state fair officials put the mineral displays at the exposition on a little higher plane hereafter. Heretofore WEADOWLAKEIS TO GET STARTED ~ COMING SPRING Plans have been completed for. ‘extensive operations in the famous Meadow Lake district north of Cisco this spring as soon as the snow has suffciently disappeared to enable the moving in. of machinery and supplies. The work of, consolidating a large number of claims on Old Man Mountain have been earried on the past year or so and will be developed under one central plan of operation. Financing of the operations with Eastern capital is sad to ote been completed so that that the\_work can proceed with celerity aS soon as the weather permits. The Meadow Lake district has been one of the world’s great mining disappointments up to the coming of improved metallurgy which will make possble the saving of the values in the ore which have hith‘rto escaped ordinary processes of xtraction. At-one time there were many thousand people in-the Meadow Lake camp but the primitive methods of metallurgy used soon caused its abandonment and for years past there has been but desultory prospecting and relocating of claims. A meallurgical process is said to have been developed which insures a high percentage of extraccon of values from this type of ore and installation of a unit of 350 tons daily capacity is said to be contemplated. A group. of 24,claims taking in practically the entire mineralized area of Old Man Mountain have been taken over by the Metal Products Holding Corporation. The five principal veins on the Carlisle property are fissures with a northwest strike and bold outcrops running from the base to the crest of the mountain. The veins are said to range in width trom five to 30 feet and indicate marked uniformity in character and value throughout. With the precipitous slopes tunnels . at the base will give backs from 800 to 2300 feet, making for economical handling of the ore between the stopes and the mill. The sulphides ore of the Carlisle highly ‘siliceous, carrying gold and silver and heavily impregnated wth iron pyrites and chalecjyrite. The gangue is silica and finely disintefgrated country rock. Fictation tests tests which have been eonducted on the ore, indicate a com;iete separation of the various meials and high reeovery of gold, copper and silver with minimum. loss in the tailings. Tuniiels run on the Eagle vein indicate values running ‘rom $14.60 tallies and a cup and sweepstakes { ral mineral display dustries. COUNTY CLERK COUGHLAN Coughlan i after th and auditor, planninghis George retirement has been chief deputy in the offic Monday. or take the lead in sponsoring a cenit will. go a long ways toward bringing to the thousands of state fair visitors the importance of one of our great inRETIRES AFTER 24 YEARS After 24 years of public service for Nevada county as county clerk present year. R. N. McCormack who during Mr. Coughlan’s incumbency will make formal announcement of his candidacy in these columns next Mr. Coughlan has but one superior in the court house in the point of length of service, being exceeded only by County Assessor Henry C. Schroeder. He has myriad friends who will extend him best wishes on the to $20.00 per ton in gold while workings on the Falcoa, TellurideMother Lode and Free milling veins show values of from $10.00 to $20.00 per ton in gold. Large tonnage is indicated in ali the workings. Preliminary development plans of $25 and $20 be given in the non-metallics. eall for running or extending at One year the state fair gave least three of the tunnels and as $1000 prizes for pitching ringers soon as sufficient tonnage has been and the same year only $70 for developed, to erect milling facilimineral prizes. ties. Electric power is but two miles . If the Sacramento Chapter will distant from the property and water for power ‘and milling is available from Phoenix Lake creek. There is an abundance of timber. 2 Harry D. Ramsay has. been in ty. Fletcher Hamilton, former state The projected operations will be watched with a great. deal of interest. Should the flotation process prove adequate to handle the type of ore in that district it will m the reviving of a_once gre L us s. try n that section of Nevada coun e Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ray . e. Franciseo -have been visiting t ter’s. parents, Mr. and Mrs, Breese. eerie: Mr. and Mrs, C J Temby of. land have been the guests and Mrs. C. H. Ninnis. Mrs. and Mrs. Temby are : Mr. and Mrs. George ' keley, Mr. and Mrs. . Francisco : ise Mrs. Bessie Nickless, ——_ _— — eee Sa Tee. Mrs. M. Grimes, tury of publie service. completion of nearly a quarter cen Ignition Paris Miner's Foundr group is«a:fire grained-primary Ore; and Fordyce . charge of operations at the proper. mineralogist, is consulting engineer.