March 4, 1932 (8 pages)

~ PAINEISTAKENBY “* VOL. VI, NO. 17 « ALLEGHANY BOOM * The Nugget Is California’= ‘Leading soe ~ Nevada City . en ee eee ed i ea oe mae e fs wim: te Se ety eet et ae THE — CENTER “THE NEVADA pa NUGGET, CALIFORNIA — The intone d Seat Paper, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1932 IS INDICATED BY MANY ACTIVITIES SAN ‘FRANCISCO, March 3,—In the light of recent developments, it ig expected in local mining. circles that unusual mining activity will break out in the Alleghany district @inis spring and for this reason he eyes of mining men here are focused om this section of the California Mother Lode. The entry of the Black Bear Consolidated Mining Company and the Park City Consolidated Miinng Company into the district has created quite a stir while reports that “megotiations for Alleghany proper' ties have been started or completed by such large concerns as the Ahumada and Howe Sound Mining companies have intensified local intereat. Official announcement has been made that the Black Bear Consolidated Mining Company has taken ever the Gold Streak olaim which adjoins the property of the Park @Gity Consolidated, which, in turn, sidelines the Sixteen-to-One holdings. The Gold Streak is approximately 1000 feet from the workings. ef the Sixteen-to-One; a producer and dividend payer of long record, which has beensuccessful in rejuyenating the famous old Tightner SoS SEES SPRING ISHERE . 4 useles gold i tes. mine and adding millions of dotiars te its production figures. The tunnel on the Gold Streak property, it is stated, was started Wat never driven to its objective. The Black Bear Company plans to eontinue the adit to intersect the downward extension of a highgrade oreshoot that has been exposed on the surface. This work is expected to provide 120 feet of backs. Mining men here declare that the Ajleghany district has always been a rich field for gold mining enterprise but that it has.taken the existing shortage of the yellow metal to bring about the activity that is warranted by the profitable operatlons of companies that have developed the region’s network of goijdbearing veins in a systematic man Nok At the local headquarters of the Black Bear Company it was learnea that all arrangements have been completed for the resumption of development of the Gold Streak, under the new management, and that work will start as soon as weather eonditions permit. It is understood that several other mining companies backed principally by San Francisco capital will resume operations at their properties in the Alleghany and Downieville districts this eves -Q—~, FIRST NATIONAL The First National Gorporation of Los Angeles, which has been operating oil in that section, has bonded the Mine, eleven miles north of Nevada @ity on the Bloomfield and Alieghany highway. The. property is loeated in the Kenebec district. Frank S. Powell, secretary-treasurer of the company spent several days in Nevada City drawing up the necessary papers, completing the negotiations for the property. A crew of men are to be put to work immediately on the property. This is one of the most promising propPaine Bros. Wicties in that district and should he on a production basis before many months, There is a porphyry dyke on this property. and all gold traced in the ravines lead to this dyke. The general formation is Calaveras or Delhi slate. In the first location $1400 was taken out in‘a 55 foot shaft. Paine Brothers have a 345 foot tunnel on the property that cut a ‘number of ledges, one of the largest being five feet in width. There are eight claims in the group. Last year Paine Brothers installed a tramway down hill to the new Huntington mill. Mr. Powell was pleased with the looks of the property. CO. vv Mr. and Mrs, A. McAllister of North Columbia visited in Nevada City for a few days recently with Mfelatives. Development . . eration. elected. the rest of the year. which will be,enviable. will increase steadily. “source of revenue needed, the summer. dations. . placer line that In the valley the early fruit trees and blooming and 3 ae, ee z the wild-flowers are beginning to bloom. Spring, however, is evidenced in the Nevada City-Grass Valley mining district in another way. With other metals so low that the miines are shut down, we have another incentive to turn to gold mining . While local people were somewhat discouraged during the winter months a comparison between the number of stores now and five years ago indicates the very beneficial effect upon the little community. _ In the last week it has been noticeable in the mining talk. Street rumors of large mining deals have been “prevalent, and within 30 days, it is freely predicted, several large mining deals are to be consumated. Every few days some smaller deal goes through, but the larger properties are mostly being handled by eastern capital and these deals take longer to complete. RRS HS There has been a considerable number of mining men from various parts of the state, as well“as from the eastern metropolises, who have visited this district in the last week to make examinations of property. Capital has been much encouraged to invest in mining _ property in this district through the fame of the JdahoMaryland and the success of the Murchie and Empyess of Newtown. These three mines, once abandoned as have proven.to the investor that there is still these hills only waiting for the digging. And since the world is demanding gold, and the demand must be supplied, and the source can be found in this district, more than any other district in the United \ At Columbia Hill preparations have been made during the winter for large placer operations. Red Dog-You Bet district will also see much placer mining. done this summer, as a heavy snowfall in the mountains assures plenty of water for this kind of op” At Columbia Hill a dam has just been com” pleted for impounding purposes. ‘ if several of the deals which are now veidic. are successfully closed Nevada City will have no need for complaining of hard times this coming year, regardless of whether the Democratic or Republican president is £24 sy \ While the merchants may feel that the summer business is not worth while, as it only lasts a short time, the writer knows from experience in reality sev. eral communities in California depend alone on their summer trade to carry them through the year. writer lived for many years on the Russian River in Sonoma county and spent several summers in the Santa Cruz mountains, and in both of these places the little communities along the rivers were able to live comfortably throughout the year on the business they took in through their summer trade. two or three months and then enjoy ease and comfort It will not be long until the demand for summer cottages and accommodations will be supplied and the future will see Nevada City enjoying summer trade With the roads being constant” ly improved the travel time between the valley and this community cut down appreciably, the week end travel i I a SS od Nevada City need not depend alone on her mines. In the past when the mines were running and the lit tle community enjoyed prosperity there was no other wonderful opportunity nature has given us. an ideal climate, beautiful scenery and the purest water in the state, people have been turning more and more to this section for summer vacations. -highway from the Sacramento valley makes it easily accessible to that section and it is within five hours of the bay regions, making possible for a wide range of visitors to spend week ends here.-But it is most desirable as a place where the entire family can spend In the bay regions an increasing number of people are suffering from sinus trouble and the doctors aré strong in recommending this section as ideal for that affliction; but no great effort has been made to attract these people and literally hundreds were turned away last summer through lack of accommoNevada City has a future, and it is up to the people of this community, and especially to the merchants, to believe in her future and to do all they can to bring this prosperous condition about.—E. P. W. The The They work hard for and people neglected the With The paved C. B. Calkins of Chatsworth, California, has written The Nugget to learn if he can seeure a gravel bank or tailings or anything in the will average anywhere from 75 cent to $1 or more a ton. He has“a big outfit.and wants something on the percentage basis. D. VU H.\¥. Snider, forest ranger of Truckee, was a Nevada City visitor recently. Kiff Brothers, who are from the southern part of California, spent the winter above Camptonville placering for gold on the North Yuba river. They were in Nevada. City yesterday to sell gold. They stated that the river is too high at present to make much money, and it will be summer time before much gravel can be worked. There is quite a lot of snow on the ground where their camp is esate: oe [BIGELOW MINE AT. SIERRA CITY WILL SEE REOPENING The well known Bigelow Mine at Sierra City, the management of Smith & Dutton, has started the under development of the property and the preparation of the miil for early ‘production. Smith & Dutton plan to install in the mili certain additional equipment to make recovery on the ground of all values contained in ihe large tonnage of sulphide ores. In recent tests ores found in a heretofore undeveloped ore-shoot showed values ranging from $76 to $125. The Bigelow Mine. adjoins tne Sierra Buttes Mine which is the largest mine in this section and one of the earliest discoveries of quartz in Sierra county. The Buttes is credited with a production of over $40,000,000. The Ariel Vein extending from the Buttes through the Bigelow claim is over 30 feet in width -at places. One ten-foot open cut known as the Morrison discovery produced over $40,000 by a short-distance deyelgpment, a number of years agu. The Monumental Nugget, the second largest quartz nugget ever four largest in the World, was found at the northwes@gorner of the Bigeiow \claim. This weighed 106 “‘pounds\ and sold for over $21,000. The nugget was part of a shoot of solid gold that yielded $66,000 in total. Another pocket was found that produced $13,000. The Bigelow Mill, compressor and all equipment \in the shop is operated by water-powered units. FAMOUS DIADEM AT FORREST IS TO BE REOPENED Once more the pages of Calitornia’s history, written in gold were thumbed in retrospection when Kirk Whitmore foreman for the Shamrock Gold Mining Company, passed through Nevada City, on his way to Forrest, to reopen the DiaJem Mine. This property has been closed down for twenty years due to litigation and probate. Unanimous agreement amongst warring owners makes possible the resumption of operations. With every: commodity produced in the entire Nation a drug on the market at thie time, this State of Gold reverts. to-its infaney: and the stampedes unequalled in hiktory,.ase which formed the background for the fortunes responsible for the development of today: The years, 1852 to 1932, one short span of life, has seen the production of untold wealth from the mines of California. This was made possible by the unflinching valor and determipation of the pyospectors from the old school. The passing of this element which had a temperment distinctive to a marked degree is emphasized in the history of the Diadem Mine. The closing down of this property in a manner which amounted to abandonment on the ’ part of the ownership was the result of this old temperment. Many sacks of high giade ore were thrown into the shaft and the workings were abandoned to the elements at a period '. in operations when the Diadem could have been a producing property ot the first magnitude. The clearing of this shaft and the recovery of the high grade ore abandoned in wrath and defiance will be watched closely by the mining world of the Pafific Slope. If the last ton of gold has been extracted from the soil and rock of this State then this work will have been in vain. On the other hand, if this area is still a vast storehouse of the yellow metal then the operations of the Old Diadem may form another page in the mining history of California. Located as it is, on the conteet vein and just north of that famous producer, 16 to 1, old time operators of this district are in accora that the mine will be numbered with the famous producers of this State. (Whitman Symmes, president of found in California and. one of the} ‘eral thousand dollars.of gold were LONG BEACH COUPLES FIND PLACERING PAYS Tuesday forcnocm a walked into The Nugget quiring ag te where he gold. Upon questioning him as to returns from his work he remarkei that ‘they were making a living and that was better than they could do In Long’ Beach, where they came from. Mr. stranger office inDaily, our visitor, and pariner, Mr. Woodruff with their wives, came up from Long Beach September and filed on a@ elaim on the Yuba River 814 south of Downieville. Both men have built cabins and have been working the gravel deposits by sulicing. When they have completed work where ‘they “are they will proceed to open up two large banks of gravel that. appear to be virgin. e The Yuba River . is about a foot higher than it was at this time last year. » : ' FOWLER RANCH TO BE OFFERED FOR SUMMER CABINS ~ Through Samuel S. Beber, representing # large syndicate, the Fowler last graver miles ranch was purchased last week-.from L. E. Stine. 80 acres were considered’ in the transaction _ of — the} property. The syndicate intends to subdivide could seik . the property into quarter-acre. lots to be put on the market at a reason able price-for those who desire to buiid simple cottag for vacations and week ends among the beautiful pines. The property (is situated the Banner Mountain road abet two} end a half miles from the m ain . highway donnecting Grass Vahey . and Nevada City Besides the subdivision the com-. pany intends to put up commedious log cabins: for family use and also . smaller catins. These they plan to} rent at a price that a family of moderate means can afford. Engineers ground for the past two weeks ing necessary surveys. _About 26 . acres have. been cleared to date. A. pumping plant is to be instalied pipes will be taid to nach fot of the subdivision and each cabin. Other im-. provements artificial . lake for swimming and boating and a. large, dance and The work is being as. trapidly.as posible pected to be ready within 90 days. ae . Mman. have —dbeen—-on and . planed are an reereation hail rushed through . and it is ex-; for the market . eee a Nena JEWELRY ROCK IS. EXHIBITED HERE Two prospectors, Messrs. Dan Canavan and Charles Jeep, came into The Nugget office with soimiething worthmentioning in the shape of four beautiful pieces of white quartz freely shot with gold of the ‘“Sewelry rock’? type. These Speci . mens were taken from an open cut . on a lead which averages from ftliree and a half to eight feet in width. Agsays from. ore the same as the samples runs from $8 to $40,000 a ton. It also carries some copper sulphides. The men have done considerabie development work on the property. They have run an open cut for a dio: tance of 400 feet. Part of the cut is about 30 feet deep. There are i ably at least seven leads on the same hiil all running parallel. Water is taken from one of the N I D ditches for washing of gravel. At one place on the property seyvtaken out by the placering process. The property is situated one half mile from the Osceola; one haif mile of the Ironclad; one haif mile from the Mystery Mine and about three quarters of a mile from the Empress Mige gf Newtown. The pr is owned by Mrs. Edith Caggy @® Rough and Ready and cont@%® 153 acres. are the Shamrock Gold Mining Company, formerly superintendent of the Con-Virginia, Ophir, Mexican and Union Copmsolidated mining companies of Virginia City, eNvada, will leave for the property shortiy. ; *mile, has TOWLE CELEBRATE to take active charge, ry FUNDS COMING TO AND OF FEDERAL, RUMORS DECLARE It is York pay all wage claims and outstanding bills of the Federal Gonsolidated Mines Ltd. Plans are to start operations in a short sum of money is to be used-to develop the that New are to rumored capitalists former Corporation, large time -and a ¥ property. Mining have examined the property recently and engineers the reports were satisfactory to the new company. This group of in the Willow Valley City about . two miles. Among the mines are the Bellefonmines are located Section east of Nevada taine, St. Louis, Constitution, ane, Jackson, Federal Loan and Le Compton. : Ore reduction was centered at. the St. Louis plant which was rebuilt from an ordinary stamp mill into a combined stamp and ball mill flotation cells as principal agent. Lack of water hampered the work at the properties last season, but an’ abundance is to be had this year. This property months ago on account of finaneial difficulties and this will be a welcome anouncement We are pleased to be able to report. this good. news as the properties are situated in a fine Murchie Mine being to the south? of the properties. “MINERS WORRIED recovery «7 was closed a: few to our district. © district, the . Cy BY BUREAU SLASH IN Y BA = ~ hod Bee ce Mining try are men Sirducvelt the counseriously ‘worried over the the house of the department of commerce appropriation bill, passaee by contending that it-slashes the money : for the bureau of mines to saeh att extent that it is apparent that — its wor will be greatly imparied. While the estimates of money jneede for 1933 had already been reduced in ihree instances the erowning blow eame when the house pted amendments made by Rep. resentative Lewis W. Douglas, Jemocrat of $194,615 California wil!’ suffer perhaps more than any other state. If the bill is passed in its t will ~ méan that the bureau’s experiment station in Berkeley will probably cease aitogether, the three employees in the economic section in San Francisco will the gas and petroleum office in*that city will probbe eliminated, with the discharge of twelve employees. The California end of the fight is being taken up by C. B. Dodds, representthe Yrancisco Chamber of Garimecec: who is working to present a united front of all the western. mini states amendments:-He expects to have the full support of the delegations from Washington, Oregon, Montana, Dakota, Utah and Colorado nucleus of the — GRACEY-GLENCOE WATER IS PUMPED 10 190 FEET. The Gracey OlekeaeMine, south east of Nevada City about a half which cut: out * Arizona, more. the activities of be cut to one, ing San 190 foot level uncovered. They are now waiting for engi-. neers of the new company to make whaes the ledge is an inspuection and report, Several of the men interested in com= pany are here from Los Angeles and — 3 others are expected at the end of the week, oO. Vv * Ernest Towle Avho was born on February 29, 872, has only celebrated urteen birthdays — _during his lifetime. He celebratedlast one Sanday. Mr. Towle practicaly raised in Net bis many frie JASTINCTON present form, « against the Douglas. as the. been unwatered to the * S BIRTHDAY .

~ PAINEISTAKENBY “* VOL. VI, NO. 17 « ALLEGHANY BOOM * The Nugget Is California’= ‘Leading soe ~ Nevada City . en ee eee ed i ea oe mae e fs wim: te Se ety eet et ae THE — CENTER “THE NEVADA pa NUGGET, CALIFORNIA — The intone d Seat Paper, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1932 IS INDICATED BY MANY ACTIVITIES SAN ‘FRANCISCO, March 3,—In the light of recent developments, it ig expected in local mining. circles that unusual mining activity will break out in the Alleghany district @inis spring and for this reason he eyes of mining men here are focused om this section of the California Mother Lode. The entry of the Black Bear Consolidated Mining Company and the Park City Consolidated Miinng Company into the district has created quite a stir while reports that “megotiations for Alleghany proper' ties have been started or completed by such large concerns as the Ahumada and Howe Sound Mining companies have intensified local intereat. Official announcement has been made that the Black Bear Consolidated Mining Company has taken ever the Gold Streak olaim which adjoins the property of the Park @Gity Consolidated, which, in turn, sidelines the Sixteen-to-One holdings. The Gold Streak is approximately 1000 feet from the workings. ef the Sixteen-to-One; a producer and dividend payer of long record, which has beensuccessful in rejuyenating the famous old Tightner SoS SEES SPRING ISHERE . 4 useles gold i tes. mine and adding millions of dotiars te its production figures. The tunnel on the Gold Streak property, it is stated, was started Wat never driven to its objective. The Black Bear Company plans to eontinue the adit to intersect the downward extension of a highgrade oreshoot that has been exposed on the surface. This work is expected to provide 120 feet of backs. Mining men here declare that the Ajleghany district has always been a rich field for gold mining enterprise but that it has.taken the existing shortage of the yellow metal to bring about the activity that is warranted by the profitable operatlons of companies that have developed the region’s network of goijdbearing veins in a systematic man Nok At the local headquarters of the Black Bear Company it was learnea that all arrangements have been completed for the resumption of development of the Gold Streak, under the new management, and that work will start as soon as weather eonditions permit. It is understood that several other mining companies backed principally by San Francisco capital will resume operations at their properties in the Alleghany and Downieville districts this eves -Q—~, FIRST NATIONAL The First National Gorporation of Los Angeles, which has been operating oil in that section, has bonded the Mine, eleven miles north of Nevada @ity on the Bloomfield and Alieghany highway. The. property is loeated in the Kenebec district. Frank S. Powell, secretary-treasurer of the company spent several days in Nevada City drawing up the necessary papers, completing the negotiations for the property. A crew of men are to be put to work immediately on the property. This is one of the most promising propPaine Bros. Wicties in that district and should he on a production basis before many months, There is a porphyry dyke on this property. and all gold traced in the ravines lead to this dyke. The general formation is Calaveras or Delhi slate. In the first location $1400 was taken out in‘a 55 foot shaft. Paine Brothers have a 345 foot tunnel on the property that cut a ‘number of ledges, one of the largest being five feet in width. There are eight claims in the group. Last year Paine Brothers installed a tramway down hill to the new Huntington mill. Mr. Powell was pleased with the looks of the property. CO. vv Mr. and Mrs, A. McAllister of North Columbia visited in Nevada City for a few days recently with Mfelatives. Development . . eration. elected. the rest of the year. which will be,enviable. will increase steadily. “source of revenue needed, the summer. dations. . placer line that In the valley the early fruit trees and blooming and 3 ae, ee z the wild-flowers are beginning to bloom. Spring, however, is evidenced in the Nevada City-Grass Valley mining district in another way. With other metals so low that the miines are shut down, we have another incentive to turn to gold mining . While local people were somewhat discouraged during the winter months a comparison between the number of stores now and five years ago indicates the very beneficial effect upon the little community. _ In the last week it has been noticeable in the mining talk. Street rumors of large mining deals have been “prevalent, and within 30 days, it is freely predicted, several large mining deals are to be consumated. Every few days some smaller deal goes through, but the larger properties are mostly being handled by eastern capital and these deals take longer to complete. RRS HS There has been a considerable number of mining men from various parts of the state, as well“as from the eastern metropolises, who have visited this district in the last week to make examinations of property. Capital has been much encouraged to invest in mining _ property in this district through the fame of the JdahoMaryland and the success of the Murchie and Empyess of Newtown. These three mines, once abandoned as have proven.to the investor that there is still these hills only waiting for the digging. And since the world is demanding gold, and the demand must be supplied, and the source can be found in this district, more than any other district in the United \ At Columbia Hill preparations have been made during the winter for large placer operations. Red Dog-You Bet district will also see much placer mining. done this summer, as a heavy snowfall in the mountains assures plenty of water for this kind of op” At Columbia Hill a dam has just been com” pleted for impounding purposes. ‘ if several of the deals which are now veidic. are successfully closed Nevada City will have no need for complaining of hard times this coming year, regardless of whether the Democratic or Republican president is £24 sy \ While the merchants may feel that the summer business is not worth while, as it only lasts a short time, the writer knows from experience in reality sev. eral communities in California depend alone on their summer trade to carry them through the year. writer lived for many years on the Russian River in Sonoma county and spent several summers in the Santa Cruz mountains, and in both of these places the little communities along the rivers were able to live comfortably throughout the year on the business they took in through their summer trade. two or three months and then enjoy ease and comfort It will not be long until the demand for summer cottages and accommodations will be supplied and the future will see Nevada City enjoying summer trade With the roads being constant” ly improved the travel time between the valley and this community cut down appreciably, the week end travel i I a SS od Nevada City need not depend alone on her mines. In the past when the mines were running and the lit tle community enjoyed prosperity there was no other wonderful opportunity nature has given us. an ideal climate, beautiful scenery and the purest water in the state, people have been turning more and more to this section for summer vacations. -highway from the Sacramento valley makes it easily accessible to that section and it is within five hours of the bay regions, making possible for a wide range of visitors to spend week ends here.-But it is most desirable as a place where the entire family can spend In the bay regions an increasing number of people are suffering from sinus trouble and the doctors aré strong in recommending this section as ideal for that affliction; but no great effort has been made to attract these people and literally hundreds were turned away last summer through lack of accommoNevada City has a future, and it is up to the people of this community, and especially to the merchants, to believe in her future and to do all they can to bring this prosperous condition about.—E. P. W. The The They work hard for and people neglected the With The paved C. B. Calkins of Chatsworth, California, has written The Nugget to learn if he can seeure a gravel bank or tailings or anything in the will average anywhere from 75 cent to $1 or more a ton. He has“a big outfit.and wants something on the percentage basis. D. VU H.\¥. Snider, forest ranger of Truckee, was a Nevada City visitor recently. Kiff Brothers, who are from the southern part of California, spent the winter above Camptonville placering for gold on the North Yuba river. They were in Nevada. City yesterday to sell gold. They stated that the river is too high at present to make much money, and it will be summer time before much gravel can be worked. There is quite a lot of snow on the ground where their camp is esate: oe [BIGELOW MINE AT. SIERRA CITY WILL SEE REOPENING The well known Bigelow Mine at Sierra City, the management of Smith & Dutton, has started the under development of the property and the preparation of the miil for early ‘production. Smith & Dutton plan to install in the mili certain additional equipment to make recovery on the ground of all values contained in ihe large tonnage of sulphide ores. In recent tests ores found in a heretofore undeveloped ore-shoot showed values ranging from $76 to $125. The Bigelow Mine. adjoins tne Sierra Buttes Mine which is the largest mine in this section and one of the earliest discoveries of quartz in Sierra county. The Buttes is credited with a production of over $40,000,000. The Ariel Vein extending from the Buttes through the Bigelow claim is over 30 feet in width -at places. One ten-foot open cut known as the Morrison discovery produced over $40,000 by a short-distance deyelgpment, a number of years agu. The Monumental Nugget, the second largest quartz nugget ever four largest in the World, was found at the northwes@gorner of the Bigeiow \claim. This weighed 106 “‘pounds\ and sold for over $21,000. The nugget was part of a shoot of solid gold that yielded $66,000 in total. Another pocket was found that produced $13,000. The Bigelow Mill, compressor and all equipment \in the shop is operated by water-powered units. FAMOUS DIADEM AT FORREST IS TO BE REOPENED Once more the pages of Calitornia’s history, written in gold were thumbed in retrospection when Kirk Whitmore foreman for the Shamrock Gold Mining Company, passed through Nevada City, on his way to Forrest, to reopen the DiaJem Mine. This property has been closed down for twenty years due to litigation and probate. Unanimous agreement amongst warring owners makes possible the resumption of operations. With every: commodity produced in the entire Nation a drug on the market at thie time, this State of Gold reverts. to-its infaney: and the stampedes unequalled in hiktory,.ase which formed the background for the fortunes responsible for the development of today: The years, 1852 to 1932, one short span of life, has seen the production of untold wealth from the

mines of California. This was made possible by the unflinching valor and determipation of the pyospectors from the old school. The passing of this element which had a temperment distinctive to a marked degree is emphasized in the history of the Diadem Mine. The closing down of this property in a manner which amounted to abandonment on the ’ part of the ownership was the result of this old temperment. Many sacks of high giade ore were thrown into the shaft and the workings were abandoned to the elements at a period '. in operations when the Diadem could have been a producing property ot the first magnitude. The clearing of this shaft and the recovery of the high grade ore abandoned in wrath and defiance will be watched closely by the mining world of the Pafific Slope. If the last ton of gold has been extracted from the soil and rock of this State then this work will have been in vain. On the other hand, if this area is still a vast storehouse of the yellow metal then the operations of the Old Diadem may form another page in the mining history of California. Located as it is, on the conteet vein and just north of that famous producer, 16 to 1, old time operators of this district are in accora that the mine will be numbered with the famous producers of this State. (Whitman Symmes, president of found in California and. one of the} ‘eral thousand dollars.of gold were LONG BEACH COUPLES FIND PLACERING PAYS Tuesday forcnocm a walked into The Nugget quiring ag te where he gold. Upon questioning him as to returns from his work he remarkei that ‘they were making a living and that was better than they could do In Long’ Beach, where they came from. Mr. stranger office inDaily, our visitor, and pariner, Mr. Woodruff with their wives, came up from Long Beach September and filed on a@ elaim on the Yuba River 814 south of Downieville. Both men have built cabins and have been working the gravel deposits by sulicing. When they have completed work where ‘they “are they will proceed to open up two large banks of gravel that. appear to be virgin. e The Yuba River . is about a foot higher than it was at this time last year. » : ' FOWLER RANCH TO BE OFFERED FOR SUMMER CABINS ~ Through Samuel S. Beber, representing # large syndicate, the Fowler last graver miles ranch was purchased last week-.from L. E. Stine. 80 acres were considered’ in the transaction _ of — the} property. The syndicate intends to subdivide could seik . the property into quarter-acre. lots to be put on the market at a reason able price-for those who desire to buiid simple cottag for vacations and week ends among the beautiful pines. The property (is situated the Banner Mountain road abet two} end a half miles from the m ain . highway donnecting Grass Vahey . and Nevada City Besides the subdivision the com-. pany intends to put up commedious log cabins: for family use and also . smaller catins. These they plan to} rent at a price that a family of moderate means can afford. Engineers ground for the past two weeks ing necessary surveys. _About 26 . acres have. been cleared to date. A. pumping plant is to be instalied pipes will be taid to nach fot of the subdivision and each cabin. Other im-. provements artificial . lake for swimming and boating and a. large, dance and The work is being as. trapidly.as posible pected to be ready within 90 days. ae . Mman. have —dbeen—-on and . planed are an reereation hail rushed through . and it is ex-; for the market . eee a Nena JEWELRY ROCK IS. EXHIBITED HERE Two prospectors, Messrs. Dan Canavan and Charles Jeep, came into The Nugget office with soimiething worthmentioning in the shape of four beautiful pieces of white quartz freely shot with gold of the ‘“Sewelry rock’? type. These Speci . mens were taken from an open cut . on a lead which averages from ftliree and a half to eight feet in width. Agsays from. ore the same as the samples runs from $8 to $40,000 a ton. It also carries some copper sulphides. The men have done considerabie development work on the property. They have run an open cut for a dio: tance of 400 feet. Part of the cut is about 30 feet deep. There are i ably at least seven leads on the same hiil all running parallel. Water is taken from one of the N I D ditches for washing of gravel. At one place on the property seyvtaken out by the placering process. The property is situated one half mile from the Osceola; one haif mile of the Ironclad; one haif mile from the Mystery Mine and about three quarters of a mile from the Empress Mige gf Newtown. The pr is owned by Mrs. Edith Caggy @® Rough and Ready and cont@%® 153 acres. are the Shamrock Gold Mining Company, formerly superintendent of the Con-Virginia, Ophir, Mexican and Union Copmsolidated mining companies of Virginia City, eNvada, will leave for the property shortiy. ; *mile, has TOWLE CELEBRATE to take active charge, ry FUNDS COMING TO AND OF FEDERAL, RUMORS DECLARE It is York pay all wage claims and outstanding bills of the Federal Gonsolidated Mines Ltd. Plans are to start operations in a short sum of money is to be used-to develop the that New are to rumored capitalists former Corporation, large time -and a ¥ property. Mining have examined the property recently and engineers the reports were satisfactory to the new company. This group of in the Willow Valley City about . two miles. Among the mines are the Bellefonmines are located Section east of Nevada taine, St. Louis, Constitution, ane, Jackson, Federal Loan and Le Compton. : Ore reduction was centered at. the St. Louis plant which was rebuilt from an ordinary stamp mill into a combined stamp and ball mill flotation cells as principal agent. Lack of water hampered the work at the properties last season, but an’ abundance is to be had this year. This property months ago on account of finaneial difficulties and this will be a welcome anouncement We are pleased to be able to report. this good. news as the properties are situated in a fine Murchie Mine being to the south? of the properties. “MINERS WORRIED recovery «7 was closed a: few to our district. © district, the . Cy BY BUREAU SLASH IN Y BA = ~ hod Bee ce Mining try are men Sirducvelt the counseriously ‘worried over the the house of the department of commerce appropriation bill, passaee by contending that it-slashes the money : for the bureau of mines to saeh att extent that it is apparent that — its wor will be greatly imparied. While the estimates of money jneede for 1933 had already been reduced in ihree instances the erowning blow eame when the house pted amendments made by Rep. resentative Lewis W. Douglas, Jemocrat of $194,615 California wil!’ suffer perhaps more than any other state. If the bill is passed in its t will ~ méan that the bureau’s experiment station in Berkeley will probably cease aitogether, the three employees in the economic section in San Francisco will the gas and petroleum office in*that city will probbe eliminated, with the discharge of twelve employees. The California end of the fight is being taken up by C. B. Dodds, representthe Yrancisco Chamber of Garimecec: who is working to present a united front of all the western. mini states amendments:-He expects to have the full support of the delegations from Washington, Oregon, Montana, Dakota, Utah and Colorado nucleus of the — GRACEY-GLENCOE WATER IS PUMPED 10 190 FEET. The Gracey OlekeaeMine, south east of Nevada City about a half which cut: out * Arizona, more. the activities of be cut to one, ing San 190 foot level uncovered. They are now waiting for engi-. neers of the new company to make whaes the ledge is an inspuection and report, Several of the men interested in com= pany are here from Los Angeles and — 3 others are expected at the end of the week, oO. Vv * Ernest Towle Avho was born on February 29, 872, has only celebrated urteen birthdays — _during his lifetime. He celebratedlast one Sanday. Mr. Towle practicaly raised in Net bis many frie JASTINCTON present form, « against the Douglas.. as the. been unwatered to the * S BIRTHDAY .