May 11, 1936 (4 pages)

a ter re ery f ce 4 ad y few homes have running water we” Dn R tion projects which the New Deal is \# Thinking Out Loud — Ne REESE ee Nevada = Nu COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA I IN CALIFORNIA Th adver you help yourself. e Nevada City Nugget helps your city and county to grow in population and prosperity. By subscribing to, and tising in the Nugget, therefore, . (By H. M. L.) The Mountain regions, this section especially, produce many things of value to California, and the nation beside gold. Our altitude and falling water produces power that is use for many miles among the farms and cities in the valley below. Our climate cures many people of i We that ails them. Our mountain ears, peaches, apples and grapes ~though yielding small tonnages per acre as compared with the fat valley lands, have a flavor that only our soil, sun and snow can give them. of But .after all the most important thing the mountains produce are the men and women who often approxiee the magnitude on the human orizon that the mountains attain on the physical horizon. For instance in yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle was the story of Miss Edith White, 81 years old and still happily active and busy, born in Iowa, who came to live at French Corral when a child. Miss White, a painter of California wild flowers for some fifty years, is now launching upon a word picture of pioneer days in her mountain -home. It is to be written for archives of the Bancroft Library, which forms an important historcal division of the University of California Library. From ‘French Corral her‘ parents sent her to. Mills College in Oakland where she. was. educated. She returned to North San Juan afgraduating and taught school here for several years. On the ronoval of her family to. Los Angeles she devoted herself to painting wild flowers and in a very short time won 92 niche for herself in the halls of “fame \for her wonderful talent In depicting California’s wealth of wale blooming things. We shal) be interested in reading what Miss \ White writes about, French’ Corral, as it was some sixty . years ago, that she lived there, We! only serve to emphasize the fact that . so far as living conditions the tidge are concerned they have changed very little from those shé Witiow in her girlhood, That is to say. the people still use kerosene lamps s and lenterns to a great extént, that on them, that excepting the county and state highways,the roads are RO better than they’were in the Seventies. In other words modern advantages of living have very largely passed the Ridge by. Communications to and from the Ridge are better. The state highway running across it and the automobile have aecomplished that, and the telephone and radio. bring the Ridge dwellers into the great community of the nation. But water is not so plentiful as it was even a few years ago. It is a real chore to go out to the well, draw water, heat it and fill a tub, and the majority of families on the. Ridge have to: do that very thing. If Miss White were to return to the Ridge, ticulars, she in many parwould find it as she left it some sixty years" ago. . This is only preliminary to calling attention once again to the wonderful possibilities of establishing the Ridge one of those on rehabilitaso vigorously pushing elsewhere. The first need of the Ridge is an abundant supply of water. The second is the installation of an electric power and light system. While Nevada City folks think of their climate as . of the Vol. 10: No. 52. Ue County Seat Paper_ oo CITY, CALIFORNIA The GOLD Center MONDAY, MAY 11, 1936. Old Gold And Crimson Conifers Editorial Note: of four installments of the story by WHISKERINOS PUT Katherine Braithwaite,’ author of é North San Juan, who has won fame r i by writing historical and travel PEP IN NOR. § AN sketches of the Sierra country. (By KATHERINE BRAITHWAITE) Volumes have been printed of the romantic characters and incomparable beauty of California’s natural scenery, Spanish dons, priests, captains of the early wars. smooth beaches, of mountains and valleys. Snappy heel-clicking martial actsun-drugged siestas and the slow penitent steps of the across the stage of memory in a setting more But it is The mind may not be able to grasp it all as a whole, but. the eyes behold a sunset more gorgeous than fragrance far sweeter than the lotus blossoms accompanies every breeze and the nerves tingle to the indefinable voice of Nature which is the lure of this ivity, languid barefoot padres march fairylike than realistic. real,. an artist can paint; marvelous state. Much less has been written in recent years of the forty niners and the formidable hills that demanded their adventurous spirit and dauntout the yellow wealth of the: green grass carpeted foothills Satiated by the siren charms Missions inditference by the murmur of a blue ‘and . white ocean one is apt to overlook ee eater she; writes, will) ithe Mother Lode country. and fail to appreciate its interesting history and humanity less courage to dig Spanish into blissful colorful epoch or lulled the cosmoplite mass of who enacted a drama of unquestion able importance in the early con struction of the state of California. all parts of the globe, bent hands grubbed for tiches and auto geographical monument of thei own. A rugged stone, this monumen the hard sharp rocks and release th ly guarding their wealth and sceni wonders with perpetual frown an It may be that the Mother Lod Country is the most famous gol belt in the world’s fluent. “fifties” in California ined that the great, gold bearin duartz vein had an ancestral relatio to the smaller ones. Millions an millions of dollars have been take Lode and when ple annually to the district.” the best this si maven, Fr . Ghreeie sone ie = a ase er markers along the way. Mark The ; sae iH He cpp . it.l myain’s: “Roughing It’ and Bret sie ek cigaequngetae ite ae aaa rarely Harte’s stories, for the most part, . } ss Hae sit falls there. The land is generally xt ‘ ‘ ] . ! . : , Y. nave California settings, and they] . 9 more fertile than here. With water reading of them before a’ contem. moot tes ment : . rE > 7 4 “ and electricity the whole ridge could ; : : iS aN é : : plated tour of the good fields ‘wi . > ; nO WM! > ard seu c sme selti i i . sai ae 1S . be mate ss pat ere of small: sel add enjoyment to @ journey through . . . (By Francis Bradford) sustaining homes. lthe districts which they describe. . ] I thought the day of the strokable beard Ana dhe people. of the Rides aaa mela iy nar oo 2 “ And the twistable moustache, past ; . j ee . time . mantic, vanished era when the gold . . ) . irying to keep step with the Til" . aigsin’s” were a magnet that drew . . I understood that caressable mugs . n av have a fine pre eyessive organ mist § ‘ as E , . ; ou: : é ae Ee, aa o : 1 i Ridge. Im-. the adventurous. sltizens of the. ]. Should shine with a clean-shaven cast. . ization, the San. Juat Lidge ~ is Stee . . provement League, which has al-. world to thé Pacific Coast, the Mot}. ready built, and issmapidly paying . er Lode country has \a Tha aca . ! thought it true*that the pan to be loved br, Twamley Hall, a community en: traction “That, Tnuines “(Roupene Was the smoothable hairless face, . ; TI League has done much . motorists into old\deserted ghost) . ) B t I er i re 1 cs . rprise 12 League Rts Meh sabe 14) i VV se c stan < e ” Bie oe ction on (oe mene te ater towns located near such thrivins . ut now see tha m standing aione ces dua na ahaaan et aaa Pee communities as Angel’s\Gamp, San . } In-barren and glowing disgrace. .~. ural advantages _ which the Ridge les . : BEATIN . i possesses. We hope, that. with the . ANGTEAS, Saar ahi ang. Puolimine. a . muilding of the great debris dam at cee a lane . i 2 oer But since I'm one of a coaxable type, . ee «. Twain, Bre arte, ant oaguin . } sea : . the Narrows and-the open! ing up of. eps a : he ar a ber. siteh . . And in fear of their heavy hand, . 2 i "ae sosits along . Mater. 190se “who remem } a . ene 4 Des . le: : a Be Wy the immense srave I i sain tales as *Tennessee’s Pardner” loom! i start today in obliging the boys rity . Wi agal ae : i a T we the Ridge, at anne” bod people for places: immortalized in yarns 01) in meeting the local command. come to abide with t Le fate home «. 1849 and the Argonauts, In 19: 18 . re who have clung to ‘ sere A i j Ss wr. aS . ’ ee * rea aegies er pene sood times and bad for 80] a a. a Poi A. oe ae WIRE Me hej}, TU grow a beard and an itchy moustache; Par = ‘ ane ound his way.to California bya ’ ° 3 : * ; many years; that the Ridge may.con’ . devibus route, had obtained-a grant i! And I'll suffer along or die, : iI 3 3 ee © t i‘ € € . vik 3 zi tinue to send forth into the world) (+ jana from the. Spanish govern-. And count the hours 'til the dawn of that day— it men and women who attain distin<. ent and was entrenched in the Sac~ The glorious Fifth of July! \ ih tion in many lines of endeavor. . (Continued .on Page Four) ih This is the first ‘Mission and the brave generals and Songs and poems, reach to the far heavens in praise of the golden sun, the and the grandeur Consumed. with lust for gold the miners, who represented peo ople from their backs and with tender or calloused matically carved an historical and typical of the men needed to erush uggets and yellow dust. Typical of pe cold haughty mountains standing aloof from the beaches and grimseemingly im penetratable wilderness. history. It was called Mother Lode because the miners of the roaring “forties” and afimagfrom the famous mines of the Moththe yield grew sque buildings and other physical reminders that lure thousands of peoTo really enjoy the Mother. Lode country one should know something of the first gold strike and realize the significance of the monument to James Marshall at Coloma and othJUAN DANCE (By KATHERINE INE BRAITHWAITE) The exceptionally large dance hall at North San Juan was filled to overflowing last Saturday night by great crowds that. flocked up to the Ridge from half a dozen counties to attend the Whiskerino dance. Entering into the spirit of fun and en‘tertainment that will be a feature of the big celebration to be held the 3rd and 5th of July at Nevada City, the men from the mountains proved they are capable of raising the world’s finest whiskers. frock coats, and cowhide boots were greatly in evidence and added plenty of color and appropriate atmosphere to the dance. ~ On May 5th in Nevada City enthusiastic “ Whiskerinos from _ all parts of this district met and formed a county chapter of this wellknown order. Officers were elected and the next meeting set for Friday night, May—t5th, at Armory Hall. The’ head mugs motored to North San Juan Saturday night and took charge of the dance and placed into custody any orall of the guided dancers who felt inclined to defi the edicts of the Whiskerinos. Ted Janiss, Boss Whiskerino for the Nevada City Whiskerino Club No. 57, Warren Smith sub-chief of the Grass Valley Whiskerino Club, Jack Williams, seribbler, and L. V. Johnson, assistant scribbler, were on -. hand to obtain new members for the -. Nevada City Whiskerino Club and to invite all bewhiskered gents of North San ‘Juan and_= surrounding towns to attend the big Whiskerino meeting next Friday evening. Janiss reported that fifty new members -. joined and expected many more would follow suit by the end of the r. week. Among those attending from t. Nevada City were: Jack Clark and party; Jack Woods who was awarde. ed prize for best set of whiskers. misTHIS LAW SUSPENDS Red shirts, . MINE ASSESSMENT WORK From Congressman Harry L. Englebright yesterday. came a _ letter stating that Congress had again enacted the law suspending assessment. work, under certain conditions, on mining claims. Enclosed was a copy of the law which follows: Be it enacted by. the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the provision ‘of section 2324 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which requires on each mining claim located, and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than $100 worth of labor-to be performed or improvements aggregating such amount to be made each year, be,-and the same is hereby, suspended as to all mining claims in the United States during the year beginning at 12 o’clock meridian July 1, 1936, and ending at 12 o’clock meridian July 1, 1936: Provided, That the provisions of this Act shall not apply in the case of any claimant not entitled to exemption from the payment of a Federal income tax for the taxable year, 1936: Provided further, That every claimant of any such mining claim, in order to obtain the benefits, of this Act, shall file, or cause to be filed, in the office where the location notice or certificate is recorded, on or before 12--0’clock meridian July 1, 1936, a notice of his desire to hold said mining claim under this Act, which notice shall state that the claimant, or claimants, were entitled to exemption from the payment of a Federal income tax for the taxable year 1935: And providea further. That such suspension of assessment work shall not apply to more than six lode-mining claims held by the same person, nor to more than twelve lode-mining claims held by the same partnership, association, or corporation; And provided further, That such suspension of assessment work shall not apply to more than six placer-mining claims not to exceed one hundred and twenty acres (in all) held by the same person, nor to more than twelve placer mining claims not to exceed two hundred and forty acres (in all) held by the same partnership, association or corporation. Approved April 24, 1936. PINE STREET PROPERTY SOLD Andy Jones ,Joe Moody, Glenn Cleland, Wm. Steve Matildia, Stanley Davidson, c. Ross Flattey and many others. dad When it comes to successful festival, e. ture dance it takes the North San dj Juan Tmprovement League’s president Frank Miller to put it on in grand style. Mr. Miller has been eral months and gj} one up to ful capacity to see d. his unlimited energy n. throng ed the valuable by er or EP e ‘ slender the miners deserted their . Orrin’ Thompson, Nevada City Nug towns, leaving behind them pictureget, W. E. Moulton, Mr. Mike DenCities. Mr. won the ‘whiskers. prize Nevada City. Mr. details of the Ridges’ Jones, Everett McCollom, ! delivering a carnival or feaown unable to attend the dances for sevit pepped everyhis n. smiling face and feel the power of among the Saturday night. He supervisprizes. given away the Alpha Hardware company, ike and other merchants of the Twin Jack Woods of Nevada City for the best set of This was a case of beer donated by the Whiskerino Club of Miller reports that Cherry Carnival slated for 13 and 14 of June are W. B. Celio of Nevada City, pur,chased the Tamale House on Pine street from J. Srerman Costello of this city and Mrs. Yeronica Pimental of Camino, The property also has a two story frame building on it, Mr. Celio bought the property as an investment. Mr. Jack Woods, business man of this city, has a two years lease on the property. Yyapidly taking shape and will be one of the best events staged since the beginning of this Ridge celebration many years ago. North San Juan and Nevada City Whiskerinos are going to attend a meeting of Grass Valley Whiskerinos ‘Tuesday night in Memorial Hall;’Grass Valley. Every Whiskerino is cordially invited to attend this great rally of hairy faces. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Johnson, arrived in Nevada City Saturday having returned from a motor trip to Chicago They are spending a few days in this city with Mrs. Johnson’s. mother, Mrs. Mary Guenther, and other family members. ‘. down the Apburn Tiree Grass Valley People Drown In Boat Crash On Sacramento Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hamilton, both 35 years of age, and Mr. Harold R. “Dick’’ Trathen, aged 28 years, all of Grass Valley, lost their lives yesterday when a row boat with an outboard motor they had hired ‘to fish. from was demolished at the I street bridge on the Yolo county side at Sacramento. Mrs. Dorothy Dunn, of Sacramento, who was in the party miraculously escaped. It is claimed that Hamilton must have lost control of the boat and it crashed the big barge Minnesota and slid under it. Mrs. Dunn was the only one to come up and a boatman nearby rushed to her rescue and she was taken to a hospital. It was reported she died last evening but news from there this morning ‘states she is still alive, but “delirious, It. is not known how seriously she is injured. The river is being dragged for the bodies of those drowned. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hamilton lived in Willow Valley east of Nevada City until about a year ago when they bought a home and moved to Grass Valley. They leave to mourn their. passing two children six and eight years of age, and. Mr. Hamilton has two brothers living in the Grass Valley section. Mr. Trathen was widely known as a semi professional: baseball player. Both: men were employed at the Idaho-Maryland mine at Grass Valley. Mr. Trathen being timberman. Mr. Trathen is from a well known Grass Valley fantily and several family members are left to mourn his untimely passing. BULL TRAMPLES WOMAN TO DEATH Mrs. Paulina Silicani, about 50, was trampled to death by a bull on Thursday night on the _ Silicani ranch, three miles west of here on Cement Hill. A. L. Silicani, the husband of the deceased, told the authorities his wife was attempting to drive the bull from one field tg another when he turned on her and knocked her down with his head and then began trampling her with his feet. The bull has no horns. Silicani did not witness the accident. He was milking at the time, heard the dogs barking and when he investigated found the prostrate body of his wife. The woman died a few minutes later in their home, Deputy Coroner Merritt Smith said no inquest will be held. The funeral services will be held 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon under the direction of Holmes Funeral Home of this city. ROY MATTOX IS ARRESTED AGAIN Roy ‘Mattox, miner, who is charged with stealing a Chevrolet car from a fellow employe at the Zeibright mine on Wednesday, was apprehended Saturday in Merced: Sheriff Carl Tobiassen, sent a deputy to pring the man back. The car allegedly stolen belonged to a friend. Mattox’ was recently given a sentence of sixty days in jail by Justice of the Peace Moorehouse in ‘Grass Valley, which was suspended on condition that he return to work in the Zeibright mine. On Wednesday morning he reported for work in an allegedly drunken condition and was promptly discharged. He took the car, the sheriff states, and went back by way of Emigrant Gap and road to avoid meeting with officers in this county. ‘BURNT DISTRICT . Cheim, ad, Waeinoss man of ! Marysville, completed a deal SaturTsador has leased a part of the property tc os Nevada City Chevrolet company eompany for the balance of the lot. Cheim being’ a brother in law IS SOLD AGAIN and is negotiating with a large oil The Chevrolet agency is to be known as the Nevada City Motor Company, a firm under the management of the Grass »Valley Motor Company, Mr. of NOTED MINING . MAN SUCCUMBS Charles A. Sreckineron. 79, credited with opening ten mines in this section during his long mining career, died Friday afternoon at his home here following two years of illness. The noted Grass Valley mining man began his career aS a toolnipper in the Empire Mine ‘here when 14 years old. After working eight years in the Empire Mine, Brockington spent five years at the Old Idaho Mine. In 1880 he went to Alaska, returning in 1881 to. again accept employment at the Empire Mine. In 1884 he worked at the Total Wreck Mine in Arizona. Returning in a short time to trass Valley he with his two brothers, A. J. and Ed Brockington and three others, W. J. ‘Connors and Patrick and John Feeney, or‘ganized the W. Y. O. D. Mine. They worked the mine at a profit for six years. When the mine was sold, Brockington took charge of the Sultana mine. Probably his most soueie achievement was the organization and development of the Golden Center mine, now owned by Cooley Butler, one of the heaviest producers in the Grass Valley district. ean. Other mines in which he had charge of the reopening included the Prescott Hill, the Inkmarque and the Orleans. After retiring in 1920, Brockington was again called into service. when operations started at the Bullion mine, He was forced by illness to quit work. ‘several years ago and for the last-two years had been unable to leave his home. Zach month since his retirement as superintendent of the Bullion hine, he had received a check from the company. Surviving relatives include his niece, Martha Brockington, who has eare of him during his long taken illness. Funeral servives were held under. direction of Holmes-Hooper Funeral Home. ANOTHER ACCIDENT . iho has been emCafe at difinjured Earl Barker, ployed at Schreiber’s ‘ferent times, Was severely -. yet, Sanerintenen odes state Ger ald Brust, pecreliey. of the Valley firm. “4 ON DOWNIEVILLE ROAD rey Shiny > as paronayss 9 . Saturday evening when the Car: in “Rurnt Distrie”’ near the Plaza in : Nevada City from the Empire Star lwhich he and several companions . ines, Ltd., who: purchased the prop-ywere riding, is reported to have gone . erty nearly a-year ago from the An-. over the bank whilé the party wet . giolini estate. The property lies be-. coming from North San Juan. Bats Sines jroad and Main streets with ker was moved tram thee scene : 1a frontage of about, 150. feet on each ae : . street. It is boundedwon the north the accident by Holmes FRM re . hy the brick building of Mr. A. M. . Home. ambulance service to the . Holmes and extends to the middle of . county hospital where’ Dr. Ay . Deer Creek. Mekell found he bad suffered. fr Mr. Cheim purchased the proper-. ® badly torn left arm and severe ty as an investment, believing Ne-. wrenched knee. He is resting wi vada City. has-a bright future. He cording to latest reports, but od ssults.can not be determ med

a ter re ery f ce 4 ad y few homes have running water we” Dn R tion projects which the New Deal is \# Thinking Out Loud — Ne REESE ee Nevada = Nu COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA I IN CALIFORNIA Th adver you help yourself. e Nevada City Nugget helps your city and county to grow in population and prosperity. By subscribing to, and tising in the Nugget, therefore, . (By H. M. L.) The Mountain regions, this section especially, produce many things of value to California, and the nation beside gold. Our altitude and falling water produces power that is use for many miles among the farms and cities in the valley below. Our climate cures many people of i We that ails them. Our mountain ears, peaches, apples and grapes ~though yielding small tonnages per acre as compared with the fat valley lands, have a flavor that only our soil, sun and snow can give them. of But .after all the most important thing the mountains produce are the men and women who often approxiee the magnitude on the human orizon that the mountains attain on the physical horizon. For instance in yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle was the story of Miss Edith White, 81 years old and still happily active and busy, born in Iowa, who came to live at French Corral when a child. Miss White, a painter of California wild flowers for some fifty years, is now launching upon a word picture of pioneer days in her mountain -home. It is to be written for archives of the Bancroft Library, which forms an important historcal division of the University of California Library.. From ‘French Corral her‘ parents sent her to. Mills College in Oakland where she. was. educated. She returned to North San Juan afgraduating and taught school here for several years. On the ronoval of her family to. Los Angeles she devoted herself to painting wild flowers and in a very short time won 92 niche for herself in the halls of “fame \for her wonderful talent In depicting California’s wealth of wale blooming things. We shal) be interested in reading what Miss \ White writes about, French’ Corral, as it was some sixty . years ago, that she lived there, We! only serve to emphasize the fact that . so far as living conditions the tidge are concerned they have changed very little from those shé Witiow in her girlhood, That is to say. the people still use kerosene lamps s and lenterns to a great extént, that on them, that excepting the county and state highways,the roads are RO better than they’were in the Seventies. In other words modern advantages of living have very largely passed the Ridge by. Communications to and from the Ridge are better. The state highway running across it and the automobile have aecomplished that, and the telephone and radio. bring the Ridge dwellers into the great community of the nation. But water is not so plentiful as it was even a few years ago. It is a real chore to go out to the well, draw water, heat it and fill a tub, and the majority of families on the. Ridge have to: do that very thing. If Miss White were to return to the Ridge, ticulars, she in many parwould find it as she left it some sixty years" ago. . This is only preliminary to calling attention once again to the wonderful possibilities of establishing the Ridge one of those on rehabilitaso vigorously pushing elsewhere. The first need of the Ridge is an abundant supply of water. The second is the installation of an electric power and light system. While Nevada City folks think of their climate as . of the Vol. 10: No. 52. Ue County Seat Paper_ oo CITY, CALIFORNIA The GOLD Center MONDAY, MAY 11, 1936. Old Gold And Crimson Conifers Editorial Note: of four installments of the story by WHISKERINOS PUT Katherine Braithwaite,’ author of é North San Juan, who has won fame r i by writing historical and travel PEP IN NOR. § AN sketches of the Sierra country. (By KATHERINE BRAITHWAITE) Volumes have been printed of the romantic characters and incomparable beauty of California’s natural scenery, Spanish dons, priests, captains of the early wars. smooth beaches, of mountains and valleys. Snappy heel-clicking martial actsun-drugged siestas and the slow penitent steps of the across the stage of memory in a setting more But it is The mind may not be able to grasp it all as a whole, but. the eyes behold a sunset more gorgeous than fragrance far sweeter than the lotus blossoms accompanies every breeze and the nerves tingle to the indefinable voice of Nature which is the lure of this ivity, languid barefoot padres march fairylike than realistic. real,. an artist can paint; marvelous state. Much less has been written in recent years of the forty niners and the formidable hills that demanded their adventurous spirit and dauntout the yellow wealth of the: green grass carpeted foothills Satiated by the siren charms Missions inditference by the murmur of a blue ‘and . white ocean one is apt to overlook ee eater she; writes, will) ithe Mother Lode country. and fail to appreciate its interesting history and humanity less courage to dig Spanish into blissful colorful epoch or lulled the cosmoplite mass of who enacted a drama of unquestion able importance in the early con struction of the state of California. all parts of the globe, bent hands grubbed for tiches and auto geographical monument of thei own. A rugged stone, this monumen the hard sharp rocks and release th ly guarding their wealth and sceni wonders with perpetual frown an It may be that the Mother Lod Country is the most famous gol belt in the world’s fluent. “fifties” in California ined that the great, gold bearin duartz vein had an ancestral relatio to the smaller ones. Millions an millions of dollars have been take Lode and when ple annually to the district.” the best this si maven, Fr . Ghreeie sone ie = a ase er markers along the way. Mark The ; sae iH He cpp . it.l myain’s: “Roughing It’ and Bret sie ek cigaequngetae ite ae aaa rarely Harte’s stories, for the most part, . } ss Hae sit falls there. The land is generally xt ‘ ‘ ] . ! . : , Y. nave California settings, and they] . 9 more fertile than here. With water reading of them before a’ contem. moot tes ment : . rE > 7 4 “ and electricity the whole ridge could ; : : iS aN é : : plated tour of the good fields ‘wi . > ; nO WM! > ard seu c sme selti i i . sai ae 1S . be mate ss pat ere of small: sel add enjoyment to @ journey through . . . (By Francis Bradford) sustaining homes. lthe districts which they describe. . ] I thought the day of the strokable beard Ana dhe people. of the Rides aaa mela iy nar oo 2 “ And the twistable moustache, past ; . j ee . time . mantic, vanished era when the gold . . ) . irying to keep step with the Til" . aigsin’s” were a magnet that drew . . I understood that caressable mugs . n av have a fine pre eyessive organ mist § ‘ as E , . ; ou: : é ae Ee, aa o : 1 i Ridge. Im-. the adventurous. sltizens of the. ]. Should shine with a clean-shaven cast. . ization, the San. Juat Lidge ~ is Stee . . provement League, which has al-. world to thé Pacific Coast, the Mot}. ready built, and issmapidly paying . er Lode country has \a Tha aca . ! thought it true*that the pan to be loved br, Twamley Hall, a community en: traction “That, Tnuines “(Roupene Was the smoothable hairless face, . ; TI League has done much . motorists into old\deserted ghost) . ) B t I er i re 1 cs . rprise 12 League Rts Meh sabe 14) i VV se c stan < e ” Bie oe ction on (oe mene te ater towns located near such thrivins . ut now see tha m standing aione ces dua na ahaaan et aaa Pee communities as Angel’s\Gamp, San . } In-barren and glowing disgrace. .~. ural advantages _ which the Ridge les . : BEATIN . i possesses. We hope, that. with the . ANGTEAS, Saar ahi ang. Puolimine. a . muilding of the great debris dam at cee a lane . i 2 oer But since I'm one of a coaxable type, . ee «. Twain, Bre arte, ant oaguin . } sea : . the Narrows and-the open! ing up of. eps a : he ar a ber. siteh . . And in fear of their heavy hand, . 2 i "ae sosits along . Mater. 190se “who remem } a . ene 4 Des . le: : a Be Wy the immense srave I i sain tales as *Tennessee’s Pardner” loom! i start today in obliging the boys rity . Wi agal ae : i a T we the Ridge, at anne” bod people for places: immortalized in yarns 01) in meeting the local command. come to abide with t Le fate home «. 1849 and the Argonauts, In 19: 18 . re who have clung to ‘ sere A i j Ss wr. aS . ’ ee * rea aegies er pene sood times and bad for 80] a a. a Poi A. oe ae WIRE Me hej}, TU grow a beard and an itchy moustache; Par = ‘ ane ound his way.to California bya ’ ° 3 : * ; many years; that the Ridge may.con’ . devibus route, had obtained-a grant i! And I'll suffer along or die, : iI 3 3 ee © t i‘ € € . vik 3 zi tinue to send forth into the world) (+ jana from the. Spanish govern-. And count the hours 'til the dawn of that day— it men and women who attain distin<. ent and was entrenched in the Sac~ The glorious Fifth of July! \ ih tion in many lines of endeavor. . (Continued .on Page Four) ih This is the first ‘Mission and the brave generals and Songs and poems, reach to the far heavens in praise of the golden sun, the and the grandeur Consumed. with lust for gold the miners, who represented peo ople from their backs and with tender or calloused matically carved an historical and typical of the men needed to erush uggets and yellow dust. Typical of pe cold haughty mountains standing aloof from the beaches and grimseemingly im penetratable wilderness. history. It was called Mother Lode because the miners of the roaring “forties” and afimagfrom the famous mines of the Moththe yield grew sque buildings and other physical reminders that lure thousands of peoTo really enjoy the Mother. Lode country one should know something of the first gold strike and realize the significance of the monument to James Marshall at Coloma and othJUAN DANCE (By KATHERINE INE BRAITHWAITE) The exceptionally large dance hall at North San Juan was filled to overflowing last Saturday night by great crowds that. flocked up to the Ridge from half a dozen counties to attend the Whiskerino dance. Entering into the spirit of fun and en‘tertainment that will be a feature of the big celebration to be held the 3rd and 5th of July at Nevada City, the men from the mountains proved they are capable of raising the world’s finest whiskers. frock coats, and cowhide boots were greatly in evidence and added plenty of color and appropriate atmosphere to the dance. ~ On May 5th in Nevada City enthusiastic “ Whiskerinos from _ all parts of this district met and formed a county chapter of this wellknown order. Officers were elected and the next meeting set for Friday night, May—t5th, at Armory Hall. The’ head mugs motored to North San Juan Saturday night and took charge of the dance and placed into custody any orall of the guided dancers who felt inclined to defi the edicts of the Whiskerinos. Ted Janiss, Boss Whiskerino for the Nevada City Whiskerino Club No. 57, Warren Smith sub-chief of the Grass Valley Whiskerino Club, Jack Williams, seribbler, and L. V. Johnson, assistant scribbler, were on -. hand to obtain new members for the -. Nevada City Whiskerino Club and to invite all bewhiskered gents of North San ‘Juan and_= surrounding towns to attend the big Whiskerino meeting next Friday evening. Janiss reported that fifty new members

-. joined and expected many more would follow suit by the end of the r. week. Among those attending from t. Nevada City were: Jack Clark and party; Jack Woods who was awarde. ed prize for best set of whiskers. misTHIS LAW SUSPENDS Red shirts, . MINE ASSESSMENT WORK From Congressman Harry L. Englebright yesterday. came a _ letter stating that Congress had again enacted the law suspending assessment. work, under certain conditions, on mining claims. Enclosed was a copy of the law which follows: Be it enacted by. the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the provision ‘of section 2324 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which requires on each mining claim located, and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than $100 worth of labor-to be performed or improvements aggregating such amount to be made each year, be,-and the same is hereby, suspended as to all mining claims in the United States during the year beginning at 12 o’clock meridian July 1, 1936, and ending at 12 o’clock meridian July 1, 1936: Provided, That the provisions of this Act shall not apply in the case of any claimant not entitled to exemption from the payment of a Federal income tax for the taxable year, 1936: Provided further, That every claimant of any such mining claim, in order to obtain the benefits, of this Act, shall file, or cause to be filed, in the office where the location notice or certificate is recorded, on or before 12--0’clock meridian July 1, 1936, a notice of his desire to hold said mining claim under this Act, which notice shall state that the claimant, or claimants, were entitled to exemption from the payment of a Federal income tax for the taxable year 1935: And providea further. That such suspension of assessment work shall not apply to more than six lode-mining claims held by the same person, nor to more than twelve lode-mining claims held by the same partnership, association, or corporation; And provided further, That such suspension of assessment work shall not apply to more than six placer-mining claims not to exceed one hundred and twenty acres (in all) held by the same person, nor to more than twelve placer mining claims not to exceed two hundred and forty acres (in all) held by the same partnership, association or corporation. Approved April 24, 1936. PINE STREET PROPERTY SOLD Andy Jones ,Joe Moody, Glenn Cleland, Wm. Steve Matildia, Stanley Davidson, c. Ross Flattey and many others. dad When it comes to successful festival, e. ture dance it takes the North San dj Juan Tmprovement League’s president Frank Miller to put it on in grand style. Mr. Miller has been eral months and gj} one up to ful capacity to see d. his unlimited energy n. throng ed the valuable by er or EP e ‘ slender the miners deserted their . Orrin’ Thompson, Nevada City Nug towns, leaving behind them pictureget, W. E. Moulton, Mr. Mike DenCities. Mr. won the ‘whiskers. prize Nevada City. Mr. details of the Ridges’ Jones, Everett McCollom, ! delivering a carnival or feaown unable to attend the dances for sevit pepped everyhis n. smiling face and feel the power of among the Saturday night. He supervisprizes. given away the Alpha Hardware company, ike and other merchants of the Twin Jack Woods of Nevada City for the best set of This was a case of beer donated by the Whiskerino Club of Miller reports that Cherry Carnival slated for 13 and 14 of June are W. B. Celio of Nevada City, pur,chased the Tamale House on Pine street from J. Srerman Costello of this city and Mrs. Yeronica Pimental of Camino, The property also has a two story frame building on it, Mr. Celio bought the property as an investment. Mr. Jack Woods, business man of this city, has a two years lease on the property. Yyapidly taking shape and will be one of the best events staged since the beginning of this Ridge celebration many years ago. North San Juan and Nevada City Whiskerinos are going to attend a meeting of Grass Valley Whiskerinos ‘Tuesday night in Memorial Hall;’Grass Valley. Every Whiskerino is cordially invited to attend this great rally of hairy faces. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Johnson, arrived in Nevada City Saturday having returned from a motor trip to Chicago They are spending a few days in this city with Mrs. Johnson’s. mother, Mrs. Mary Guenther, and other family members. ‘. down the Apburn Tiree Grass Valley People Drown In Boat Crash On Sacramento Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hamilton, both 35 years of age, and Mr. Harold R. “Dick’’ Trathen, aged 28 years, all of Grass Valley, lost their lives yesterday when a row boat with an outboard motor they had hired ‘to fish. from was demolished at the I street bridge on the Yolo county side at Sacramento. Mrs. Dorothy Dunn, of Sacramento, who was in the party miraculously escaped. It is claimed that Hamilton must have lost control of the boat and it crashed the big barge Minnesota and slid under it. Mrs. Dunn was the only one to come up and a boatman nearby rushed to her rescue and she was taken to a hospital. It was reported she died last evening but news from there this morning ‘states she is still alive, but “delirious, It. is not known how seriously she is injured. The river is being dragged for the bodies of those drowned. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hamilton lived in Willow Valley east of Nevada City until about a year ago when they bought a home and moved to Grass Valley. They leave to mourn their. passing two children six and eight years of age, and. Mr. Hamilton has two brothers living in the Grass Valley section. Mr. Trathen was widely known as a semi professional: baseball player. Both: men were employed at the Idaho-Maryland mine at Grass Valley. Mr. Trathen being timberman. Mr. Trathen is from a well known Grass Valley fantily and several family members are left to mourn his untimely passing. BULL TRAMPLES WOMAN TO DEATH Mrs. Paulina Silicani, about 50, was trampled to death by a bull on Thursday night on the _ Silicani ranch, three miles west of here on Cement Hill. A. L. Silicani, the husband of the deceased, told the authorities his wife was attempting to drive the bull from one field tg another when he turned on her and knocked her down with his head and then began trampling her with his feet. The bull has no horns. Silicani did not witness the accident. He was milking at the time, heard the dogs barking and when he investigated found the prostrate body of his wife. The woman died a few minutes later in their home, Deputy Coroner Merritt Smith said no inquest will be held. The funeral services will be held 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon under the direction of Holmes Funeral Home of this city. ROY MATTOX IS ARRESTED AGAIN Roy ‘Mattox, miner, who is charged with stealing a Chevrolet car from a fellow employe at the Zeibright mine on Wednesday, was apprehended Saturday in Merced: Sheriff Carl Tobiassen, sent a deputy to pring the man back. The car allegedly stolen belonged to a friend. Mattox’ was recently given a sentence of sixty days in jail by Justice of the Peace Moorehouse in ‘Grass Valley, which was suspended on condition that he return to work in the Zeibright mine. On Wednesday morning he reported for work in an allegedly drunken condition and was promptly discharged. He took the car, the sheriff states, and went back by way of Emigrant Gap and road to avoid meeting with officers in this county. ‘BURNT DISTRICT . Cheim, ad, Waeinoss man of ! Marysville, completed a deal SaturTsador has leased a part of the property tc os Nevada City Chevrolet company eompany for the balance of the lot. Cheim being’ a brother in law IS SOLD AGAIN and is negotiating with a large oil The Chevrolet agency is to be known as the Nevada City Motor Company, a firm under the management of the Grass »Valley Motor Company, Mr. of NOTED MINING . MAN SUCCUMBS Charles A. Sreckineron. 79, credited with opening ten mines in this section during his long mining career, died Friday afternoon at his home here following two years of illness. The noted Grass Valley mining man began his career aS a toolnipper in the Empire Mine ‘here when 14 years old. After working eight years in the Empire Mine, Brockington spent five years at the Old Idaho Mine. In 1880 he went to Alaska, returning in 1881 to. again accept employment at the Empire Mine. In 1884 he worked at the Total Wreck Mine in Arizona. Returning in a short time to trass Valley he with his two brothers, A. J. and Ed Brockington and three others, W. J. ‘Connors and Patrick and John Feeney, or‘ganized the W. Y. O. D. Mine. They worked the mine at a profit for six years. When the mine was sold, Brockington took charge of the Sultana mine. Probably his most soueie achievement was the organization and development of the Golden Center mine, now owned by Cooley Butler, one of the heaviest producers in the Grass Valley district. ean. Other mines in which he had charge of the reopening included the Prescott Hill, the Inkmarque and the Orleans. After retiring in 1920, Brockington was again called into service. when operations started at the Bullion mine, He was forced by illness to quit work. ‘several years ago and for the last-two years had been unable to leave his home. Zach month since his retirement as superintendent of the Bullion hine, he had received a check from the company. Surviving relatives include his niece, Martha Brockington, who has eare of him during his long taken illness. Funeral servives were held under. direction of Holmes-Hooper Funeral Home. ANOTHER ACCIDENT . iho has been emCafe at difinjured Earl Barker, ployed at Schreiber’s ‘ferent times, Was severely -. yet, Sanerintenen odes state Ger ald Brust, pecreliey. of the Valley firm. “4 ON DOWNIEVILLE ROAD rey Shiny > as paronayss 9 . Saturday evening when the Car: in “Rurnt Distrie”’ near the Plaza in : Nevada City from the Empire Star lwhich he and several companions . ines, Ltd., who: purchased the prop-ywere riding, is reported to have gone . erty nearly a-year ago from the An-. over the bank whilé the party wet . giolini estate. The property lies be-. coming from North San Juan. Bats Sines jroad and Main streets with ker was moved tram thee scene : 1a frontage of about, 150. feet on each ae : . street. It is boundedwon the north the accident by Holmes FRM re . hy the brick building of Mr. A. M. . Home. ambulance service to the . Holmes and extends to the middle of . county hospital where’ Dr. Ay . Deer Creek. Mekell found he bad suffered. fr Mr. Cheim purchased the proper-. ® badly torn left arm and severe ty as an investment, believing Ne-. wrenched knee. He is resting wi vada City. has-a bright future. He cording to latest reports, but od ssults.can not be determ med