May 12, 1939 (6 pages)

FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1939. PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY NEW DAY DAWNING (Continued jfrom Page One) GRASS VALLEY NEVADA CITY CARL POWER JONES, M.D. DENTISTS otties Hours: 1 to8; 7 to ® >. m. DR. WALTER J. HAWKINS Sundays 11: 30. to 12:30° DENTIST 129 South Auburn St., Grass Valley S. F. TOBIAS, M. D. PHYSICIAN * AND SURGEON 214 Neal St., Grass Valley Office Hours: 12-3 and 7-8. Phone: Office 429. DR. ROBT. W. DETTNER DENTIST X-RAY Facilities Available Hours: 9:00-5:00. Evening appointmeuts. 120% Mill Street. Phone 77 Grass Valley, Calif. DANIEL L. HIRSCH, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Offices and Receiving Hospital, 118 Bush St. Hours: 10-12; 2-5, evenings . 7-8 P. M. Day or night phone 71. BURT SPICER PHONE G. V. 918 FURNITURE REFINSHING SPECIAL RATES FOR SPRING— Any color or tone, Waterproof. 20 year's experience. Homes, offices, apartments, hospitals. Colfax Highway, Cedar Ridge. EET Valley Grill WELCO Y ES YOU ‘Whenever you are in GRASS VALLEY We specialize in a 50 cent Sunday Dinner Excellent Meals at all times 103 MILL ST., GRASS VALLEY SAFE AND LOCKSMITH KEYS Made While You Wait Bicycles, Steel Tapes, Vacuum Cleaners, Washing Machines, Electric Irons Stoves, Ete. Repaired SAWS, AXES, KNIVES, SCISSORS, ETC., SHARPENED Gunsmith, Light Welding RAY’S FIXIT SHOP 220 East Main St., Phone 602 GRASS VALLEY Residence 311-J 312 Broad Street. Hours 9:00 a. m to 6:00 p. m. Evenings by appointment. Complete X-Ray Service. Phone 95 DR. JOHN R. BELL DENTIST Office Hours 8:30 to 5:30 Evenings by Appointment Morgan & Powell Bldg. Phone 321 DOCTORS B. W. HUMMELT, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 400 Broad Street Office Hours: 10-12 a. m.; 2-5 p. m. Evenings 7-8. Phone 395 X-RAY W. W. REED, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Nevada City, Calif. Office 418 Broad Street Hours: 1 te 3 and 7 to 8 p. wm Residence Phone 2. Office Phone 362 E. L, ARMSTRONG, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 312 BROAD STREET Hours: 10-12 A. M. 2-6 P. M. Evenings by appointment. Phone 23-W FUNERAL DIRECTORS HOLMES FUNERAL HOME The Holmes Funeral.Home service is priced within the means of all. Ambulance service at all hours. -Phone 203 246 Sacramento Street, Nevada City MINING ENGINEERS J. F. O°;CONNOR Mining and Civil Engineer United States Mineral Surveying Licensed Surveyor 203 West Main St Grass Valley ATTORNEYS UARRY M. Mc KEE ATTORNEY AT LAW 205 Pine St., opposite courthouse Nevada City, Calif. FRANK G. FINNEGAN : ATTORNEY AT LAW 207 North Pine Street, Nevada City, California. Telephone 273. H. WARD SHELDON ATTORNEY AT LAW Union Building, Broad Street. Nevada City Telephone 28 THOMAS O. McCRANEY ATTORNEY AT LAW Masonic Building 108% Pine Street, Nevada City. Telephone 165° a Ba ASSAYER . HAL D. DRAPER, Ph. D. ‘ASSAYER AND CONSULTING CHEMIST Nevada City, California Phones: Office: 364-W. Home 246Box 743% New Deal Under Management of Pauline and Johnnie 108 W. Main Street, Grass Valley BEER WINES, LIQUORS Delicious Mixed Drinks to Please Every Taste omnes FRATERNAL AND . CLUB DIRECTORY ew ee WOMAN'S CIVIC CLUB Regular meetings the 2nd and fourth Mondays of the month, at the Brand Studio. . Mrs. H. E. KJORLIE, Pres. Mrs. Belnap Goldsmith, Sec. ee —_—— Quartz and Placer claim location notice blanks at the Nugget Office. FINE WATCH REPAIRING Radio Service and ‘REPAIRING Work Called tor aad Delivered Clarence R. Gray B20 Coyote Strees Phone 16 —VvisiT— NEVADA CITY. Visitors welcome. Any information regarding Nevada City cheerfully given. . H. F. SOFGE, Secretary —_ CHAMBER OF COMMERCE} ane ‘For VENETIAN BLINDS and LATEST PATTERNS IN WALL PAPER SEE — John W. Darke ~ “No Hunting or i NEVADA CITY LODGE, No. 518 B. P. O. Elks Meets second and fourth Friday. } evenings in Elks home, Pinejf Street. Phone 108. Visiting Elke welcome. FRANK G. FINNEGAN, Exalted Ruler. HYDRAULIC PARLOR NO. 56, N. 8. G. W. Meets every Tuesday evening at Pythian Castle, 282 Broad Street. Visiting Native Sons welcome. CLARENCE E. MARTZ, Pres. DR, C. W. CHAPMAN, Rec. Sec’y. Oustomah Lodge, No. 16, L0.0.F. Meets every Tuesday evening at 7:30, Odd Fellows Hall. '. ROMAN ROZYNGKI, N. G. JONATHAN PASCOE, Rec. Sec’y. JOHN W. DARKE, Fin, Sec’y. YOU WILL BE PLEASED WITH OUR COFFEE SHOP NATIONAL HOTEL AND COFFEE SHOP NEVADA CITY _. Where once had been streets filled 41Houlders and rocks polsihed smooth of a river centuries ago. Here, as nojwhere else in the world, one may . gtand on. the rim and look directly . tion to envision red-shirted miners, shadows with the rattle and clatter of our old automobile. SILENCE IN BUSY STREETS Where once was the hum of'town life ts now only a dreaming silence. with homes are now grass-covered vacant lots. The remaining houses and stores are mostl inhabited by ghosts of their former owners. In gulches, beside streams and in tunnels are rusted picks, shovels, gold pans and the rotting wood of sluice boxes. In the early days, after the excitement of the gold rush fever had somewhat abated and ibusiness was settling down to a steady hum, North! San Juan became the queen city of the Ridge. The mining, business and intellectual section of that part of Nevada County centered at this thriving town lying at the foot of San Juan Hill. This town, in its prime, was many times larger than French Corral in its business section. North of the town of North San Juan is the ancient pliocene river channel filled to the brim with rich gold-bearing gravel that was once the main support of this hydraulicking center. But the town began to shrink when hydraulic mining was forbidden and all: business:ended and the people moved ‘away! First one fire then another swept away the homes and wooden business houses and the once lively mining center became but a faint shadow of its former glory. The remains of the town, as it is today, are a florified study in red. A STUDY IN RED It is situated on the red soil of the San Juan Ridge among the green pine and fir trees and numerous incense cedars with soft red bark, The bright red breasts of the robbins flash through aged fruit orchards and the rusty red of the thrushes flit in the tangled. vineyards. At the close of each day the western horizon becomes a crimson sea as the rays of the sun slowly drop behind tthe foothills. (Many of the old-red brick buildings remain butt most of them are roofless and the iron doors sag on rustry hinges. CLEVER BRICK LAYERS On one corner of the town there isa fine example of the skill of the early day bricklayers. The building has arched. doorways and windows. The ornamentation was obtained by moulded bricks projecting, course over course. There is also an interesting frieze around the building of dental ornamentation, also obtained by projecting arrangements of _the red bricks. * The larger stores, banks, newspaper office; and postoffice were constructed of very narrow bright red bricks that were molded on the site before actual building began. The windows and doors were shuttered with sheets of iron, painted a vivid green, with great cumbersome bars and locks. The entire architecture is a mixture of ‘Boston conservatism and western self protection, producing a type of building that is entirely original and as a whole, véry unique. RICH PLIOCENE RIVERS A visit to North San Juan is a complete failure if one does not leave the automobile and walk a short distance up to the rim of the plioceneage river channel where once 'was the scene of the hydraulic mining. Here one may look sixty, in some places sevenity feet down into this immense pliocene river bed, the walls of which possess all the awe-inspiring splendor of the Grand Canyon in Colorado. This mysterious ‘anctent river at North San Juan was many times wider than the present Sacramento river and the colorful walls begin with a bright red and fade down the scale to a light pink. The whole pattern is veined with hbiu clay, black carbonized wood and a purple mud that dries harder than cement. The crimson of the channel walls accent the green of the tall pine ‘trees that have grown on the bed and walls since the Supreme Court injunction stopped the mining activity. THE OLD DIGGIN’S The bed of the river is a mass of and slippery by the swirling rapids down into bird’s nests builtin the limbs of fifty foot trees. And to this thrill may be added the fact that the very ground upon which one’s feet is resting is still rich with “‘channel’’ gold. IN THE HALCYON DAYS The San Juan Ridge is said to have been the richest of the hydraulic regions in all California. It requires no unusually active imaginagamblers, stage drivers, camp-followjens, sheriffs and outlaws, for on the}~ . same identical streets of North San sigue tor wae st tho Ngee Often % egies ‘Juan of today they “moved—their NEVADA CITY NUGGET ter where I placed kerosene lamps deaths with vivid incident and glamorous romiance. We found a house in North San‘ Juan which we rented and lived in’ for a period of ‘three fascinating’ years. Our dwelling had once been a! combination of doctor’s office and living quarters. The room which I° rigged up for a studio was at one! time the town’s dispatch office. TIME’S DEPREDATIONS When we rented this building the doors had not been opened for many years. The coal oil burning chandeliers with their crystal pendants still hung from the ceilings where they. had been suspended forty’ or fifty years before. The furniture had dried out until it fell apart when we moved it and the rugs and drapes were ruined ‘by rats and moths. Even in the early days of the town’s greatest glory it never knew th ecomfort of electric lighits. As the town continued to decline the idea, if it was entertained at all, was dubbed ‘‘far fetched’’ or ridiculous. At one time the town boasted of splendid fire-fighting equipment and the world’s first. long distance telephone line had its main office here but electricity was not even dreamed of then. ¢ During the three years I have lived in my house by the side of the road in North San Juan I tried to manage through the long evenings with coal oil lamps for household illumination. But no matter how large my lamps might be’ they always cast gloomy shadows on (the floor. No mathe house was always: darkness. THE HORROR OF DARKNESS My dog is black and I was forever stepping on him if he stretched out on the floor for a nap. My husband threatened to give him a coat of radium paint so we could see him after nightfall—like the face of our alarm clock. ‘If someone pounded on our front door in the middle of the night we struggled into wakefulness and fumbled under pillows and*on night stands for a flashlight. Then there was a scramble to find matches, remove the glass chimney and light the lamp. If I stood in the draughit while I answered the door the flame flared up and blackened the chimney with soot., The lamps, not only being a. nuisance in every other respect, have the chimneys washed daily, the bowls filled with coal oil and the wicks trimmed. Nott even for one day I dared not forget the lamps. If I did I soon found darkness had crept upon my household and we must go to bed with the chickens or peer at one anotlier in the soot-smoked glow of the lamps. If NING A SAD DRUDGERY Every week I ironed a basket of starched drysses and men’s shirts with flat ironsheated on the top of a wood. burning stove! In the hot summer ‘time this became an unbearable task. Each time I have had to get up in the middle of the night due to sudden illness. or a toothache the flashlight batteries invariably chose that moment to run down. In pain and darkness I have fumbled for matches and a fragile glass chimney. If, in my haste, I knocked it over it would break in a thousand pieces and I would tread in broken glass while searching for my bedroom slippers. Deep down within me I knew there was no need for such a primitive existence and I began to look about me for a remedy. Here the story of hydraulic mining again comes back into my narrative with the introduction of our congressman Harry L. Englebright. ENGLEBRIGHT’S HELP A mining engineer by profession who understands mining procedure and technique, Congressman Englebright has proved to be a wizard who was able to touch the half-centuryold miner’s dream and make it an enduring reality. That dream was the resumption of hydraulic mining. No longer merely a dream, it is now a solid reality, greater and richer with the passing years, Through Congressman Engle bright’s efforts more than that of any other single individual either in or out of congress ap,propriations have been made for the construction of three debris restraining dams to impound the talings which result from hydraulicking and which were tthe cause of agitation which resulted in the seeming death of hydraulic mining, but Englebright proved that the industry is not Gendt, It was only sleeping. To awaken that industry was a fight that lasted’ ten years. A strong fight, a fight up-hill—but Englebright won it. He was a magician, but his magic potion was work—hard work in season and out of season, in congress and out of congress. HYDRAULIC MINERS _ Less dramatic; but equally effective, ‘were the step-by-tep campaign ‘prosecu by a on, group of elt in partial lives filled to the very hour of their gi must which will ‘grow. ’ ' draulic Mining Kistetadion. Theirs was a campaign for the revival of the hydraulic industry that had lain dor‘mant for all of fifty years, corroded from disuse, and ground under the heel of adverse public sentiment. That the twisted parts of such a ; wreckage could. within three years by reassembling by this association ,. and made into a going concern capable of meeting exacting government mining, requirements borders on he! me ulous. MONEY FOR DEBRIS DAMS. ope Cooperating at all times with the California Hydraulic Mining Assage iation and those who were fighting — in the state legislature and elem where for resumption of hydranlie Congressman Englebright (Continued on Page Four) . Sat. Eve. A Sunday Eve. May 14th NORTH SAN JUAN Mid’s Radio Stars Orchestra Floor Show Miniature Door Prizes May 13th Sunday 3:00 P.M. Personal Appearance Vaudeville and Movies a TURN ° N nor Bite “nf Esdrecthe SPEC IAL LTR RADEtT O doesn’t like to make a bargain? Here is one. It is like saving Twelve Dollars. Good j just this month. After May 31 the bargain is off. You turn in your present non-automatic water heater on the modern Automatic Gas that qualifies for this offer. ! You receive Twelve Dollars trade-in allowance for water heater. credit of Twelve Dollars that is from the price of your new Jere < Gas Water Heater. es During the summer months ever home needs MORE HOT WATER and should have PLENTY OF HOT WATER. There is one.way to be certain ofan ample supply—one-sure way—your ru amar “a AUTOMATIC, No strik— ing of matches—no waiting. Hot ‘water Ones oe thabe used an Automatic GasWater Heater you will wonder how. you, ever got along without dsl. ater Heater e our old#on-automatic hat means you have a Lo ap ge there when you~ é TER AT

FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1939. PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY NEW DAY DAWNING (Continued jfrom Page One) GRASS VALLEY NEVADA CITY CARL POWER JONES, M.D. DENTISTS otties Hours: 1 to8; 7 to ® >. m. DR. WALTER J. HAWKINS Sundays 11: 30. to 12:30° DENTIST 129 South Auburn St., Grass Valley S. F. TOBIAS, M. D. PHYSICIAN * AND SURGEON 214 Neal St., Grass Valley Office Hours: 12-3 and 7-8. Phone: Office 429. DR. ROBT. W. DETTNER DENTIST X-RAY Facilities Available Hours: 9:00-5:00. Evening appointmeuts. 120% Mill Street. Phone 77 Grass Valley, Calif. DANIEL L. HIRSCH, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Offices and Receiving Hospital, 118 Bush St. Hours: 10-12; 2-5, evenings . 7-8 P. M. Day or night phone 71. BURT SPICER PHONE G. V. 918 FURNITURE REFINSHING SPECIAL RATES FOR SPRING— Any color or tone, Waterproof. 20 year's experience. Homes, offices, apartments, hospitals. Colfax Highway, Cedar Ridge. EET Valley Grill WELCO Y ES YOU ‘Whenever you are in GRASS VALLEY We specialize in a 50 cent Sunday Dinner Excellent Meals at all times 103 MILL ST., GRASS VALLEY SAFE AND LOCKSMITH KEYS Made While You Wait Bicycles, Steel Tapes, Vacuum Cleaners, Washing Machines, Electric Irons Stoves, Ete. Repaired SAWS, AXES, KNIVES, SCISSORS, ETC., SHARPENED Gunsmith, Light Welding RAY’S FIXIT SHOP 220 East Main St., Phone 602 GRASS VALLEY Residence 311-J 312 Broad Street. Hours 9:00 a. m to 6:00 p. m. Evenings by appointment. Complete X-Ray Service. Phone 95 DR. JOHN R. BELL DENTIST Office Hours 8:30 to 5:30 Evenings by Appointment Morgan & Powell Bldg. Phone 321 DOCTORS B. W. HUMMELT, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 400 Broad Street Office Hours: 10-12 a. m.; 2-5 p. m. Evenings 7-8. Phone 395 X-RAY W. W. REED, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Nevada City, Calif. Office 418 Broad Street Hours: 1 te 3 and 7 to 8 p. wm Residence Phone 2. Office Phone 362 E. L, ARMSTRONG, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 312 BROAD STREET Hours: 10-12 A. M. 2-6 P. M. Evenings by appointment. Phone 23-W FUNERAL DIRECTORS HOLMES FUNERAL HOME The Holmes Funeral.Home service is priced within the means of all. Ambulance service at all hours. -Phone 203 246 Sacramento Street, Nevada City MINING ENGINEERS J. F. O°;CONNOR Mining and Civil Engineer United States Mineral Surveying Licensed Surveyor 203 West Main St Grass Valley ATTORNEYS UARRY M. Mc KEE ATTORNEY AT LAW 205 Pine St., opposite courthouse Nevada City, Calif. FRANK G. FINNEGAN : ATTORNEY AT LAW 207 North Pine Street, Nevada City, California. Telephone 273. H. WARD SHELDON ATTORNEY AT LAW Union Building, Broad Street. Nevada City Telephone 28 THOMAS O. McCRANEY ATTORNEY AT LAW Masonic Building 108% Pine Street, Nevada City. Telephone 165° a Ba ASSAYER . HAL D. DRAPER, Ph. D. ‘ASSAYER AND CONSULTING CHEMIST Nevada City, California Phones: Office: 364-W. Home 246Box 743% New Deal Under Management of Pauline and Johnnie 108 W. Main Street, Grass Valley BEER WINES, LIQUORS Delicious Mixed Drinks to Please Every Taste omnes FRATERNAL AND . CLUB DIRECTORY ew ee WOMAN'S CIVIC CLUB Regular meetings the 2nd and fourth Mondays of the month, at the Brand Studio. . Mrs. H. E. KJORLIE, Pres. Mrs. Belnap Goldsmith, Sec. ee —_—— Quartz and Placer claim location notice blanks at the Nugget Office. FINE WATCH REPAIRING Radio Service and ‘REPAIRING Work Called tor aad Delivered Clarence R. Gray B20 Coyote Strees Phone 16 —VvisiT— NEVADA CITY. Visitors welcome. Any information regarding Nevada City cheerfully given. . H. F. SOFGE, Secretary —_ CHAMBER OF COMMERCE} ane ‘For VENETIAN BLINDS and LATEST PATTERNS IN WALL PAPER SEE — John W. Darke ~ “No Hunting or i NEVADA CITY LODGE, No. 518 B. P. O. Elks Meets second and fourth Friday. } evenings in Elks home, Pinejf Street. Phone 108. Visiting Elke welcome. FRANK G. FINNEGAN, Exalted Ruler. HYDRAULIC PARLOR NO. 56, N. 8. G. W. Meets every Tuesday evening at Pythian Castle, 282 Broad Street. Visiting Native Sons welcome. CLARENCE E. MARTZ, Pres. DR, C. W. CHAPMAN, Rec. Sec’y. Oustomah Lodge, No. 16, L0.0.F. Meets every Tuesday evening at 7:30, Odd Fellows Hall. '. ROMAN ROZYNGKI, N. G. JONATHAN PASCOE, Rec. Sec’y. JOHN W. DARKE, Fin, Sec’y. YOU WILL BE PLEASED WITH OUR COFFEE SHOP NATIONAL HOTEL AND COFFEE SHOP NEVADA CITY _. Where once had been streets filled 41Houlders and rocks polsihed smooth of a river centuries ago. Here, as nojwhere else in the world, one may . gtand on. the rim and look directly . tion to envision red-shirted miners, shadows with the rattle and clatter of our old automobile. SILENCE IN BUSY STREETS Where once was the hum of'town life ts now only a dreaming silence. with homes are now grass-covered vacant lots. The remaining houses and stores are mostl inhabited by ghosts of their former owners. In gulches, beside streams and in tunnels are rusted picks, shovels, gold pans and the rotting wood of sluice boxes. In the early days, after the excitement of the gold rush fever had somewhat abated and ibusiness was settling down to a steady hum, North! San Juan became the queen city of the Ridge. The mining, business and intellectual section of that part of Nevada County centered at this thriving town lying at the foot of San Juan Hill. This town, in its prime, was many times larger than French Corral in its business section. North of the town of North San Juan is the ancient pliocene river channel filled to the brim with rich gold-bearing gravel that was once the main support of this hydraulicking center. But the town began to shrink when hydraulic mining was forbidden and all: business:ended and the people moved ‘away! First one fire then another swept away the homes and wooden business houses and the once lively mining center became but a faint shadow of its former glory. The remains of the town, as it is today, are a florified study in red. A STUDY IN RED It is situated on the red soil of the San Juan Ridge among the green pine and fir trees and numerous incense cedars with soft red bark, The bright red breasts of the robbins flash through aged fruit orchards and the rusty red of the thrushes flit in the tangled. vineyards. At the close of each day the western horizon becomes a crimson sea as the rays of the sun slowly drop behind tthe foothills. (Many of the old-red brick buildings remain butt most of them are roofless and the iron doors sag on rustry hinges. CLEVER BRICK LAYERS On one corner of the town there isa fine example of the skill of the early day bricklayers. The building has arched. doorways and windows.

The ornamentation was obtained by moulded bricks projecting, course over course. There is also an interesting frieze around the building of dental ornamentation, also obtained by projecting arrangements of _the red bricks. * The larger stores, banks, newspaper office; and postoffice were constructed of very narrow bright red bricks that were molded on the site before actual building began. The windows and doors were shuttered with sheets of iron, painted a vivid green, with great cumbersome bars and locks. The entire architecture is a mixture of ‘Boston conservatism and western self protection, producing a type of building that is entirely original and as a whole, véry unique. RICH PLIOCENE RIVERS A visit to North San Juan is a complete failure if one does not leave the automobile and walk a short distance up to the rim of the plioceneage river channel where once 'was the scene of the hydraulic mining. Here one may look sixty, in some places sevenity feet down into this immense pliocene river bed, the walls of which possess all the awe-inspiring splendor of the Grand Canyon in Colorado. This mysterious ‘anctent river at North San Juan was many times wider than the present Sacramento river and the colorful walls begin with a bright red and fade down the scale to a light pink. The whole pattern is veined with hbiu clay, black carbonized wood and a purple mud that dries harder than cement. The crimson of the channel walls accent the green of the tall pine ‘trees that have grown on the bed and walls since the Supreme Court injunction stopped the mining activity. THE OLD DIGGIN’S The bed of the river is a mass of and slippery by the swirling rapids down into bird’s nests builtin the limbs of fifty foot trees. And to this thrill may be added the fact that the very ground upon which one’s feet is resting is still rich with “‘channel’’ gold. IN THE HALCYON DAYS The San Juan Ridge is said to have been the richest of the hydraulic regions in all California. It requires no unusually active imaginagamblers, stage drivers, camp-followjens, sheriffs and outlaws, for on the}~ . same identical streets of North San sigue tor wae st tho Ngee Often % egies ‘Juan of today they “moved—their NEVADA CITY NUGGET ter where I placed kerosene lamps deaths with vivid incident and glamorous romiance. We found a house in North San‘ Juan which we rented and lived in’ for a period of ‘three fascinating’ years. Our dwelling had once been a! combination of doctor’s office and living quarters. The room which I° rigged up for a studio was at one! time the town’s dispatch office. TIME’S DEPREDATIONS When we rented this building the doors had not been opened for many years. The coal oil burning chandeliers with their crystal pendants still hung from the ceilings where they. had been suspended forty’ or fifty years before. The furniture had dried out until it fell apart when we moved it and the rugs and drapes were ruined ‘by rats and moths. Even in the early days of the town’s greatest glory it never knew th ecomfort of electric lighits. As the town continued to decline the idea, if it was entertained at all, was dubbed ‘‘far fetched’’ or ridiculous. At one time the town boasted of splendid fire-fighting equipment and the world’s first. long distance telephone line had its main office here but electricity was not even dreamed of then. ¢ During the three years I have lived in my house by the side of the road in North San Juan I tried to manage through the long evenings with coal oil lamps for household illumination. But no matter how large my lamps might be’ they always cast gloomy shadows on (the floor. No mathe house was always: darkness. THE HORROR OF DARKNESS My dog is black and I was forever stepping on him if he stretched out on the floor for a nap. My husband threatened to give him a coat of radium paint so we could see him after nightfall—like the face of our alarm clock. ‘If someone pounded on our front door in the middle of the night we struggled into wakefulness and fumbled under pillows and*on night stands for a flashlight. Then there was a scramble to find matches, remove the glass chimney and light the lamp. If I stood in the draughit while I answered the door the flame flared up and blackened the chimney with soot., The lamps, not only being a. nuisance in every other respect, have the chimneys washed daily, the bowls filled with coal oil and the wicks trimmed. Nott even for one day I dared not forget the lamps. If I did I soon found darkness had crept upon my household and we must go to bed with the chickens or peer at one anotlier in the soot-smoked glow of the lamps. If NING A SAD DRUDGERY Every week I ironed a basket of starched drysses and men’s shirts with flat ironsheated on the top of a wood. burning stove! In the hot summer ‘time this became an unbearable task. Each time I have had to get up in the middle of the night due to sudden illness. or a toothache the flashlight batteries invariably chose that moment to run down. In pain and darkness I have fumbled for matches and a fragile glass chimney. If, in my haste, I knocked it over it would break in a thousand pieces and I would tread in broken glass while searching for my bedroom slippers. Deep down within me I knew there was no need for such a primitive existence and I began to look about me for a remedy. Here the story of hydraulic mining again comes back into my narrative with the introduction of our congressman Harry L. Englebright. ENGLEBRIGHT’S HELP A mining engineer by profession who understands mining procedure and technique, Congressman Englebright has proved to be a wizard who was able to touch the half-centuryold miner’s dream and make it an enduring reality. That dream was the resumption of hydraulic mining. No longer merely a dream, it is now a solid reality, greater and richer with the passing years, Through Congressman Engle bright’s efforts more than that of any other single individual either in or out of congress ap,propriations have been made for the construction of three debris restraining dams to impound the talings which result from hydraulicking and which were tthe cause of agitation which resulted in the seeming death of hydraulic mining, but Englebright proved that the industry is not Gendt, It was only sleeping. To awaken that industry was a fight that lasted’ ten years. A strong fight, a fight up-hill—but Englebright won it. He was a magician, but his magic potion was work—hard work in season and out of season, in congress and out of congress. HYDRAULIC MINERS _ Less dramatic; but equally effective, ‘were the step-by-tep campaign ‘prosecu by a on, group of elt in partial lives filled to the very hour of their gi must which will ‘grow. ’ ' draulic Mining Kistetadion. Theirs was a campaign for the revival of the hydraulic industry that had lain dor‘mant for all of fifty years, corroded from disuse, and ground under the heel of adverse public sentiment. That the twisted parts of such a ; wreckage could. within three years by reassembling by this association ,. and made into a going concern capable of meeting exacting government mining, requirements borders on he! me ulous. MONEY FOR DEBRIS DAMS. ope Cooperating at all times with the California Hydraulic Mining Assage iation and those who were fighting — in the state legislature and elem where for resumption of hydranlie Congressman Englebright (Continued on Page Four) . Sat. Eve. A Sunday Eve. May 14th NORTH SAN JUAN Mid’s Radio Stars Orchestra Floor Show Miniature Door Prizes May 13th Sunday 3:00 P.M. Personal Appearance Vaudeville and Movies a TURN ° N nor Bite “nf Esdrecthe SPEC IAL LTR RADEtT O doesn’t like to make a bargain? Here is one. It is like saving Twelve Dollars. Good j just this month. After May 31 the bargain is off. You turn in your present non-automatic water heater on the modern Automatic Gas that qualifies for this offer. ! You receive Twelve Dollars trade-in allowance for water heater. credit of Twelve Dollars that is from the price of your new Jere < Gas Water Heater. es During the summer months ever home needs MORE HOT WATER and should have PLENTY OF HOT WATER. There is one.way to be certain ofan ample supply—one-sure way—your ru amar “a AUTOMATIC, No strik— ing of matches—no waiting. Hot ‘water Ones oe thabe used an Automatic GasWater Heater you will wonder how. you, ever got along without dsl. ater Heater e our old#on-automatic hat means you have a Lo ap ge there when you~ é TER AT