May 13, 1932 (4 pages)

qx nts. & @ 4 / ies + z Ps : r ‘ HERE. AND Nevada City The Nugget Is California’s Leading Mining Weekly t N ug Se al aa RD ace Bd. 3 "@ VOL. VI, No. 27 The GOLD Center NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The County Seat Paper FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1932 CHIR Fo CBY Wi. D,, Jr.) You can blame the Lindbergh kidnaping tragedy upon the speed laws: of 1910. It was the universal breaking of speed iaws that broke down the respect of the country for law— that made lawbreaking a general institution. When the upright and average citizen of 1900 or thereabouts found he violated the speed laws so-easily—and got away with it —a precedent was established which has made it possible by degrees for a highly organized criminal element to virtually control the country. The prohibition law didn’t help much, either. And you and I and our relatives and neighbors are responsible for the whole condition. We cannot laugh that one off. A Southern Pacific official recently said: “If private carriers for hire, using publicly owned facilities are not to be regulated, then ‘all regulation now applicable to the common earrier railroads should. be repealed and the rails given complete freedom from. regulation.’’ Now I am not a “corporation man” but I am inclined to agree. The railroads did reap a harvest at the time,, but the fact remains they DID, alone almost, make possible the: rapid development of the west. And today’ they pay a huge percent of the cost of government, local and national. On the other hand, the stages. for a few dollars in taxes and licenses, cost the automobile owner and the average citizen much more than necessary for his own. use in the building of roads. Highways’ have to be built much heavier for their use and that of heavy freight trucks. And the toll of lives and property is much heavier due to truck hauling than is causedby the railroads. There are many accidents on any main artery that carries a large amount of trucking, The defeat of the Sharkey oil bill proves that you “can’t fool all the people all the time.’ A lot of us don’t know entirely what it -was all about, but we think we have a faint idea, , LATEST NEWS ITEMS — Shell Union has cut down it deficit ‘in March quarter, being only $2,742,300 vs. $10,453,472. in like quarter of 1931". Pacific Tel &: Tel: earned $1.49 a share in first three months of 1932 . Clande Neon electrical products earned its dividend . Auburn is said to be planning a new low-priced car to sell at $450 .A new radio without tubes is announced. Angels Camp will pay 12¢ each for 100 frogs over five inches long, according to an ‘ad. in the Calaveras Prospect. Proving there can be. romance even in frogs. The celebration there tomorrow and Sunday will draw thousands . Oroville is also staging a gold celebration; headed by California’s official ‘‘opener’’, Jim Rolph . .Frogs or governors —anything to make us forget there is supposed to be a ‘‘repression.”’ Incidentally, the frogs will probably draw as many to Angels Camp as the governor will to Oroville. Frogs over five inches long are not so common, Stanley “Bailey, Portola “editor, says ‘When the Reporter wants to attack an individual or an issue it will do so, either in front page editorials or in its editorial columns.’’ Just a dash of the old. west. And we'll bet people read his paper. Editor George R. Burris of Burris Publications (The, Mojave-Randsburg Record-Times) in “discussing price of silver and the Pittman Bill wants to know “how. long; oh, how long will we kid along with a twobit dollar.””’ When we get a silver dollar that is actually worth a dollar, instead of two-bits, we will have gone a long ways toward an even better prosperity. : There will be a brand-new silver quarter out of the mint June 1, bearing the face of George Washington. But in doing this, the government is slandering the immortal George, who cannot defend himself. He was taken at his face value. But a silver quarter is only worth about seven One of the biggest weekly newspapers in the state is the neighboring Auburn Journal. But Auburn advertisers support it, making a big paper and a good paper. Most editors know how to produce a really worthwhile newspaper, but are handicapped by lack of sufficent local support. Advertisers who support a local newspaper aid themselves to a greater degree than they do the newspaper. Non-advertisers merely exist, as a rule. Mrs Elsie P. Willoughby, publisher of The California Mining Journal, has sold a half interest to B. M. Kester. We wish the new firm: success. They are producing a really excellent periodical devoted to California mining. : Modoc paper says the supervisors should fix the budget We sometimes think there has been too much “‘fixing” of budgets already. We read an item in a Sausalito aper whcih gives food for thought Party wants to know, in regard to the agitation _ against hoarded tS THE AMERICAN GOLD DOLLAR “When England went off the gold standard and dragged a nuinber of smaller nations along with hier, doubts were .expressed as _ to the ability of the United States to retain her, gold standard. These doubts were due to the knowledge that (1) European owned securities were being heavily pressed for sale in American markets, (2) the. United States was faced with the. necessity of balancing its budget, and (3) thatFrance was virtually raiding our gold holdings, while all Europe was engaged,at the same time in making heavy withdrawals of our metal. After months of the severest kind of a drain on our stock ot: gold, the Amercian Gold Dollar stands forth as impregnable and unshaken. Its position is, now recognized throughout.the world as unshakable. : So strong is it regarded, that in France—that country. of hardheaded jnvestors—the: American $20 gold piecés commands, a 5% premium. Frenchmen are glad of the opportunity to pay the equivalent of $21 for an American $20 coin. That premium is a conscious tribute to our fundamentally sound financial structure and to our unassailable gold position. It recognizes the enormous gold reserves in back of our dollars and our ability to maintain the gold standard under all possible conditions and contingencies. It is now conceded that’ no other nation in the history of the world could have stood such a_ severe strain on its resources as this country-was obliged to withstand in the last six months of Yet, our Federal. Reserve Bank System continued to hand over all thegold to which Europe could establish any legitimate claim, and calmly announced its intention and ability to keep on doing so. As a result, the United States emerged a pillar of strength in a storm-tossed economic world, and raised the hopes of: terror-stricken Kurope which had firmly expected to see a complete breakdown of" our financial system, : That amazing display of equanimity and strength on the part of this mation dispelled the gloom that hung over the. earth last year, based on the belief that a complete economic chaos was about to descend upon mankind. Timid and doubting Americans should take well to heart the lesson implied by America’s courageous stand—a lesson that has been thoroughly learned by Europeans—that The American Gold. Dollar Is Supreme, and will remain so,”’ For the benefit of our readers we will gladly furnish information, free, on any and all subjects relating to economic’ and financial situations or particular securities and also supply analyses and interpretations of news developments as affecting such issues. PACIFIC COAST SECURITIES LTD. Sansome 2nd Bush Streets, San Francisco, California. CITY OFFICERS ELECTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL “Ata recent’ nieetiige: Ri-Je Bs netts was re-elected president of the city council of Nevada City, which carries the title of mayor. The board appointed Herbert Hallet, driver of the city fire truck, as chief of police, this position heretofore being held by L W. Jennings. Mr Jennings will act as tax collector He has been in poor health for several weeks. Miss Ada Rich was reappointed city water collector, and W C. Jeffrey night watchman. FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION LOOMS Last Tuesday night’s meeting of the Nevada City Chamber of Com-. merce was turned into a mass meeting of a large group of citizens who attended to attest their interest in the celebration of July Fourth. George Calanan was appointed chairman of the Celebration Committee and the following members of the committee were selected: E. W. Schreiber, C W Leiter, George W Gildersleeve and H E. Kjorlie. Financial support was readily promised by the business houses of Nevada. City. A sum of $300 remains bank from the celebration of two years ago. This. brings the total pledged and in the bank to over $800. It is felt that this will stage a very creditable celebration. The general.committee will interview those who had floats two years ago and ascertain if they will enter floats this year in the Vv Uncle—‘‘What are you going to be when you grow up, John?” Nephew—‘'The same as uncle—an insulting engineer.” you, wealth, how much, bootleggers and gangsters all over the country are hiding because of fear of banking it. Probably many millions in the aggregate. , Snow is melting fast In the back country, and soon there will be much activity in gravel and ledge. ‘first act was J.operated LINDBERGH BABE FOUND DEAD The body of the long-lost son of Colonel and Mrs. Charles Lindberg, the most famous couple, perhaps, of all history, was found badly decomposed in the woods near their home yesterday, radio messages revealed just before going to press. Details: will follow later. 0 Vv LIGHTS, POWER OFF TODAY According to advices received last night from the Pacific Gas and Electric company, lights and power will be shut off between} 1:30 and 3:00 p. m. today in the Nevada City district. This action is necessitated by certain changes in the line system, it was stated. to The Nugget. OLD SHANGHAI MINE Is NOW LUCKY STRIKE The old Shanghai mine, located a half mile south east of Nevada City was recently leased: by John Solaro, George Bradfield and Frank Smith from Mr. Alexander, the owner, and is now about ready to again begin producing California’s antidote for the depression—GOLD. After acquiring the, préperty the to chang the name Shanghai to the Lucky Strike’, and from indications, the name is appropriate, for each car load of gravel contains a high vaiue in heavy gold, making it certain tuo be a very well paying proposition. About seventy feet of incline shafting goes. directly down to the gold bearing gravel channel. The vein of the Pittsburgh and the New England runs through the property and as the Lucky Strike is very ideal for drifting and for hoisting, the venture will probably. exceed the most far-fetched dreams of the three young argonauts. The mill, hoist,and pump are ali at the most nominal of costs by water pressure An eight inch pipe-line has been -run up: the hill from the miine to the Nevada Irrigation District ditch to bring down the necessary horse. power. to make the hoist turn. -The—verticle . drop from. the -ditth tothe mine is; roughly, a hundred feet giving them plenty of pressure for their machinfrom oid ery with a very wide margin to spare, The boys are installing a drum type mill for breaking and pulverizing the gravel before running it through the sluices. : The shaft is about 70 feet deep and after they have cleaned it out plans are to drift to the northwest or toward Nevada City on:this rich old Town Talk channel. The channel in a northease by south east direction. They are: installing a mill that will be run by water and handle about 30-tons of gravel daily Over fifty-seven years ago, the old Shanghai diggings was pecked and scratched by the _ original owner, and twenty thousand dollars in gold was. extracted. Later Hobart and Lord worked it and ran in a tunnel. In a few years they sold out to Jim Kitts and wandered away to enjoy a life of leisure and, freedom from financial worries. How long they managed to enjoy themselves is not on record, but the money-sacks propably remained heavy for a considerable time Jim Kitts remained on the property and hydraulicked nearly twenty thousand dollars for himself and then Warren and Henry Kitts decided to take a fling at mining, and with a few others (names unknown) . bought the property and set up a two. stamp.mill crushing gravel. The partners worked there making only small wages and later became discouraged and quit. Since then the mine has lain idle for years. Now Solaro, Bradfield and Smitn have begun another era in the history.of the old Shanghi ,and everyone is wishing them the best of luck in their search for the golden fleece in their staunch new vessel, ‘the Lucky Strike. The Lucky Strike will begin proving its worth in about a week and will possibly afford employment. for a few extra men. Although the three boys are not experienced miners they are highly enthusiastic over their prospects, and are impatiently awaiting the day they. begin operations. ENGLEBRIGHT FAVORS THE PRESENT ARMY STANDARD The army appropriation bill was before the house recently and efforts to retain in the measure the estimates made by the war department for the Reserve Officers Training Corps and the Citizens Military Training Camps were made by Representatives Englebright and Barbour of California. They look upon the slashes suggested as being false economy and agree with the views exprssed in the telegram sent from President Hoover’s ‘brother in California, protesting the doing away with these training camps. Theodore Hoover holds that, ‘‘the chief and almost only antidote to Communism and its allied forces in our social structure today is with the few thousand young men with proper dieas, turned out every years by these means.” : President Hoover made an appeal to the people of the United States regarding lobbying’ holding up the efforts of the government to pass many bills. His brother was the first to send a protest after the appeal was made. ‘ Nye Johnson, of the Bret Harte. Guernsey dairy of Nevada City, spent Mother’s Day or last Sunday in Hamilton City with his parents. . the following: ‘KELLEY RECOMMENDS LOCAL ROAD BUILDING The following is a copy of the letter received by Assemblyman Jerry Seawell from Earl Lee Kelley: chairman of the state highway commission: Honorable Jerrold L. Roseville, California, Dear Jerry: Several days ago you talked to me concerning possible appropriations and allocations of funds for the Tahoe Ukiah highway, and I find that probably we will not be able to com'plete the Tahoe-Ukiah highway clear to Emigrant Gap by reason of the fact that we ‘will not have sufficient funds in the secondary highway system. However, I am going to recommend to the Highway Commission Starting in at Emigrant Gap on route 37 back as far as the Spaulding canal a distance of 4.01 miles, the cost will be $190,000. I.am going to recommend that project. to the Highway Commission Also,-from Washington road:to about one-haif emile east of the Summit there is* 7.04 miles that has been constructed that.avill need surfacing and.the estimated cost is-abont $110,000. F am also going to recommend that project, and also from Nevada City to about one mile west of Washington road isa distan¢ée of about 12.07 miles of surfacing. The engineer’s estimate is about $140,000, and: I am also going to ask for that appropriation In other words, that_will be about $440,000. right in your. immediate district on the Tahoe-Ukiah road and in addition to that there will be other smaller projects. These that I have just enumerated have the approval of engineers, and if our money lasts out I amgoing to try to get all of them and I stand a very. good chance I ‘am sure, of those appropriations’ going through. This will leave a small gap in the Tahoe-Ukiah: road from Spaulding eanal ,back to the end of the present Seawell construction, and a bottle-neck: will ‘ill exist there, but it will probably be possible for us to put that road 1a very good condition with our maintenance money. This information is tentative only, but I hope to be able: to secure favorable consideration for it, and I am sure that with your assistancé we will go a long way towards accomplishing that purpose. With my very warmest personal regards to you as always, I am, Sincerely yours, EARL LEE KELLEY. OROVILLE ATTRACTING Many.real miners, the men who handle pick, shovel, rockers; sluice boxes, and know ‘‘color’’? whenthey see it, have been arriving in Oroville for some time in anticipation of the celebration of the second annual state mining celebration which ‘will be held for four days, commencing yesterday. Many of these men have walked in some of them coming long distances, while some of the more successful are accompanied by one or two, plodding faithful, burros carrying all their masters possess. Regulation camps are springing up along the river and cronies of other years are aagin talking things over. The ‘‘regulars’’ are bringing in gold dust and nuggets in varying quantities. Oroville banks and other buyers of the yellow metal will make sizeable shipments to the mint and smelters during the next ten days. Merchants and business men are displaying an almost _ incredible amount of pioneer relics tools, implements and souvenirs in their windows, and the modern equipment some of it in action, will attract the attention of he large mine operators as well as the leasers, prospectors, and the pick and shovel mne. Displays of nuggets and _ richly impregnated quartz pieces are numerous, with some of the collections being valued at thousands of dollars. So valuable is the Plumas county display: that the possibility of loss is covered by a bond and the custodian will also be under bonds. This valuable collection will be in the bank of America building, and at night it will rest in the valuts of the bank. The Butte mining exchange will have valuable exhibits of gold, silver platinum and other metals on display. Other percious metal specimens will be displayed at the reoms of the Oroville Chamber of Commerce. There will be gold exhibits from sources as widely separated as Mariposa and Siskiyou counties. 0. vi “You say that you are the sole support of a widowed mother, your father having recently been killed in an explosion. How did the explosion happen?” — “Mother says it was too much yeast, but Uncle Jim thinks it was too little sugar.” y MANY REAL MINERS. READ THIS AGAIN—THEN "For 75 fat and lean California years I have lived in the United States of America. I have sojourmed in Europe. I have visited other American countries. There is no country on God's green’ earth where men, women and children are as well off as with us. [ am an optimist in this, another of our periods of distress.” This was the statement of former Governor George C. Pardee, president of the Kast Bay Utility District in a radio address recently in the “Back to Good Times” program ‘of Bank of America. Former Governor Pardee spoke from California Hall at: the University of California, the address being broadcast over stations KGO and KFI. His message scanned 150 years-of recurring American business depression and prosperity. : “We all of us are financially ill; but believe me; our present illness is nowhere near to benig fatal as many of the others through which our predecessors and we have safely passed,’™ former Governor Pardee comtinued. ‘‘And, from. it we shall recover. as surely as we have recovered from all the others and recovering we shall soon forget, as we have always forgotten, -our present trials and_ tribulations. : ‘In times of war we have been always self-sadrificing. 'This depression, like all others through which we have passed, is a war against invasion of hard times. We have won every other war. We shall win this one. “During our 150 odd years as a nation, we have had a number of seious panics or depressions—on the average one every 18 years. “The first began in ,Jj790. The next in 1819, twenty-nine years” later. Eighteen years later came 1837. Eifteen years later came 1857. BKifteen years later 1873. Twenty years later 1893. Fourteen years later 1907. Twenty-two years later the present one. “Six of these depressions came after wars—the Revolution, the War. of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Spanish War, the World War. All followed yexurs of great prosperity, ending in wild speculation. During each it was prophesied that there could be no recovery. But,’ between each ‘two the wealth of the country doubled, 0 A CAPPELLA CHOIR TO BE HEARD HERE SATURDAY Great interest is being aroused by the coming concert to be given in Nevada City at the Methodist church by the A Cappella Choir of the College of the Pacific. .This program is Sponsored by the Epwroth League. Tickets are on sale at both drug stores and Colley’s for the event, at 8 o’clock Saturday evening, May 14. This choir was organized 16 years ago and up until now was the only choir singing without accompaniment west of the Rockies. <A’ Sspecial feature of this year’s trip is the appearance of Glen Haiik, the violinist of the faculty, as soloist. OROVILLE MINE NEWS Several teams of hard-rock miners are being sought by G. E.Brown to enter.the drilling cantest.to.be hela each day in the Oroville mintng celebration, $50 is offered as a first prize and a $100 purse is held fo: the awards. The Nevada City band will play on rodeo day, May 14th The American Legion drum and bugle corps contest for two prizes of $100 and $50 will be held Sunday. Hague-Thomas-Hegarty post drum and bugle corps of Nevada City and Grass Valley are among the twelve teams entered. i LOCAL MINE TESTS MECHANICAL LOADER R. P. Finlay of Salt Lake City, and one of the inventors of the HKimcoFinlay loading machines, héld a demonstration in the Idaho-Mlaryland Monday. The mining company pronounced the machine a success. It will handle ore in a 4x7 foot stope being only 30x40 inches. It will make possible the handling of ores of much lower grade than heretofore. SISKIYOU CO. MINES ARE MAKING GOOD SHOWING A force of men are at work cleaning out the fallen rock from the tunnels in the White Bear mine in the Slamon Mountain section of Sis‘kiyou county. It is reported that a compressor will soon be installed in the mine to send air to the drills in the lower level tunnels. George Bros. are now operating one of the largest hydraulic mines in the Salmon section, on the east fork of the Salmon river. They have a large head of water and the crew of men are constantly at work. Rolph and Farnsworth struck a very promising ledge of gold ore in Crosby Gulch. The Parker and Smith hydraulic mines on the south fork of the Salmon river now have three lar, giants working. Farnsworth Bros/ ed have}. . PROMISING OUTLOOK FORMINES OF TWO COUNTIES While there is not much of @ newsy nature in the “mines of the two counties at this time, but nevertheless they are working steadily. Since the snows have melted many men have gone to their properties to work. In the larger mines of Sierra county, such as the Standard, Ruby, 16-to-1, Brush Creek, and several others the mills are working and mueh development work is being done. The Attaview Kirkpartick and Depot Hill, besides several nearby gravel pr@perties’ are sluicing or hydraulicking. At the Depot Hill mine. near Camptonville they have had a lohs season of hydraulicking in this rich old producer. The lowering of the cost of storage of the debris behind Bullards Bar dam from the hydraulic mines has ‘been an added incentive to work also. In’ the Nevada. county mines the Boss mine, Empress Mining company, Murchie, North Star-Empire, Idaho-Maryland, are all running mills, while the Murchie, and Golden Center are doing development work from last reports. Some of these mines have several hundred men. employed. Many smaller mines are prospects are being opened with fair sized crews of men. In the Washington district at present three or four mines are busily engaged in doing development work. Many men are doing their assessment work all through the mountains, and hundreds of men are engaged in prospecting or washing the gravels of the Bear’ river, Deer Creek and the South, Middle and North Yuba rivers. From now on until fall mining will proceed steadily, increasing as the months go by. Some:of the new properties will be far enough advanced to proceed through the winter. Among: these will be the Paine Bros. mine eleven miles north of Nevada City. This property is listed on the stock market at the present time under the name of Broken Hills Mining company. It is expected that this wil lbe the has experienced since -before the World War. There has been an almost normal rainfall .in the mountains and it gives more. opportunity to develop many surface propositions. : The most important factor is the idea that there is more moneysto be had for mining than there has been for many years, due principally, ‘to the stock market crash and the low prices of silver and copper. TAX COMMITTEE NAMED TO TRY LOWER RATE The Nevada County Chamber of Commerce requested that a tax committee be named. to study «ways and means of securing a lower government cost and tax rate for the county. The following eleven organizations named members to a county tax committee. The following the committees: Rotary—Judge Raglan Tuttle; A. Moser, J. A Curnow. sues Mining Association—A B Foote. Grass Valley “Chamber of Commerce—Harold Biggs, Vernon Stoli, Frank Eldredge. Lions Club—H. “B Stennett: o Womans’ Improvement Club—Mrs H J Campbell, Farm Bureau—-Judge George L, Jones, H B Cox, C J Rolph. : Nevada City Chamber of Commerce and Grand Jury—E Schrieber, Charles Leiter, F F Cassidy, R J Bennetts, Jim Penrose, Lola Worth. Land Owners Protective League —W Odell, Chandler Church, HE. Breckenridge. ' San Juan—wWilliam Clerkin. Truckee—W. H Laity. This organization is to meet Wednesday,May 18 at 7:30 in the Nevada Irrigation district offices in Grass Valley. NO SESSION OF GRAND JURY HELD NECESSARY Judge Ragland Tuttle announced in the superior court that no séssion of the grand jury would be called to investigate the charge against Ernest Ferguson, who is. held in ths county jail accused of being an ac. ecessory after the fact of the murder of John Weeks by the latter’s son, Henry. Weeks. : Fer Winburn’s court in Grass Valley re~ cently on preliminary’ examination. Young Henry Weeks, who made a statement to the authorities that Ferguson had helped him in carrying the body of his father to the abandoned shaft where it lay a month before being found, appeared in court, but would not repeat there the statement he had made to the officers. ‘ names appear on H. W Westbrook, J ticipating in the crime Winburn, with Ferguson’s continued the hearing first to give the grand j an opportunity to ae pipet R. L Rgenhoff of the U § Debris commission of Sacramento on the eas business visitor ridge Wednesda: of Névada and Sierrabest mining season that this sectionson was in Judge Ow. Wa es Ferguson persistently denies Par-; and Judge — rane x &

qx nts. & @ 4 / ies + z Ps : r ‘ HERE.. AND Nevada City The Nugget Is California’s Leading Mining Weekly t N ug Se al aa RD ace Bd. 3 "@ VOL. VI, No. 27 The GOLD Center NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The County Seat Paper FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1932 CHIR Fo CBY Wi. D,, Jr.) You can blame the Lindbergh kidnaping tragedy upon the speed laws: of 1910. It was the universal breaking of speed iaws that broke down the respect of the country for law— that made lawbreaking a general institution. When the upright and average citizen of 1900 or thereabouts found he violated the speed laws so-easily—and got away with it —a precedent was established which has made it possible by degrees for a highly organized criminal element to virtually control the country. The prohibition law didn’t help much, either. And you and I and our relatives and neighbors are responsible for the whole condition. We cannot laugh that one off. A Southern Pacific official recently said: “If private carriers for hire, using publicly owned facilities are not to be regulated, then ‘all regulation now applicable to the common earrier railroads should. be repealed and the rails given complete freedom from. regulation.’’ Now I am not a “corporation man” but I am inclined to agree. The railroads did reap a harvest at the time,, but the fact remains they DID, alone almost, make possible the: rapid development of the west. And today’ they pay a huge percent of the cost of government, local and national. On the other hand, the stages. for a few dollars in taxes and licenses, cost the automobile owner and the average citizen much more than necessary for his own. use in the building of roads. Highways’ have to be built much heavier for their use and that of heavy freight trucks. And the toll of lives and property is much heavier due to truck hauling than is causedby the railroads. There are many accidents on any main artery that carries a large amount of trucking, The defeat of the Sharkey oil bill proves that you “can’t fool all the people all the time.’ A lot of us don’t know entirely what it -was all about, but we think we have a faint idea, , LATEST NEWS ITEMS — Shell Union has cut down it deficit ‘in March quarter, being only $2,742,300 vs. $10,453,472. in like quarter of 1931".. Pacific Tel &: Tel: earned $1.49 a share in first three months of 1932 . Clande Neon electrical products earned its dividend .. Auburn is said to be planning a new low-priced car to sell at $450 ..A new radio without tubes is announced. Angels Camp will pay 12¢ each for 100 frogs over five inches long, according to an ‘ad. in the Calaveras Prospect. Proving there can be. romance even in frogs. The celebration there tomorrow and Sunday will draw thousands .. Oroville is also staging a gold celebration; headed by California’s official ‘‘opener’’, Jim Rolph . .Frogs or governors —anything to make us forget there is supposed to be a ‘‘repression.”’ Incidentally, the frogs will probably draw as many to Angels Camp as the governor will to Oroville. Frogs over five inches long are not so common, Stanley “Bailey, Portola “editor, says ‘When the Reporter wants to attack an individual or an issue it will do so, either in front page editorials or in its editorial columns.’’ Just a dash of the old. west. And we'll bet people read his paper. Editor George R. Burris of Burris Publications (The, Mojave-Randsburg Record-Times) in “discussing price of silver and the Pittman Bill wants to know “how. long; oh, how long will we kid along with a twobit dollar.””’ When we get a silver dollar that is actually worth a dollar, instead of two-bits, we will have gone a long ways toward an even better prosperity. : There will be a brand-new silver quarter out of the mint June 1, bearing the face of George Washington. But in doing this, the government is slandering the immortal George, who cannot defend himself. He was taken at his face value. But a silver quarter is only worth about seven One of the biggest weekly newspapers in the state is the neighboring Auburn Journal. But Auburn advertisers support it, making a big paper and a good paper. Most editors know how to produce a really worthwhile newspaper, but are handicapped by lack of sufficent local support. Advertisers who support a local newspaper aid themselves to a greater degree than they do the newspaper. Non-advertisers merely exist, as a rule. Mrs Elsie P. Willoughby, publisher of The California Mining Journal, has sold a half interest to B. M. Kester. We wish the new firm: success. They are producing a really excellent periodical devoted to California mining. : Modoc paper says the supervisors should fix the budget We sometimes think there has been too much “‘fixing” of budgets already. We read an item in a Sausalito aper whcih gives food for thought Party wants to know, in regard to the agitation _ against hoarded tS THE AMERICAN GOLD DOLLAR “When England went off the gold standard and dragged a nuinber of smaller nations along with hier, doubts were .expressed as _ to the ability of the United States to retain her, gold standard. These doubts were due to the knowledge that (1) European owned securities were being heavily pressed for sale in American markets, (2) the. United States was faced with the. necessity of balancing its budget, and (3) thatFrance was virtually raiding our gold holdings, while all Europe was engaged,at the same time in making heavy withdrawals of our metal. After months of the severest kind of a drain on our stock ot: gold, the Amercian Gold Dollar stands forth as impregnable and unshaken. Its position is, now recognized throughout.the world as unshakable. : So strong is it regarded, that in France—that country. of hardheaded jnvestors—the: American $20 gold piecés commands, a 5% premium. Frenchmen are glad of the opportunity to pay the equivalent of $21 for an American $20 coin. That premium is a conscious tribute to our fundamentally sound financial structure and to our unassailable gold position. It recognizes the enormous gold reserves in back of our dollars and our ability to maintain the gold standard under all possible conditions and contingencies. It is now conceded that’ no other nation in the history of the world could have stood such a_ severe strain on its resources as this country-was obliged to withstand in the last six months of Yet, our Federal. Reserve Bank System continued to hand over all thegold to which Europe could establish any legitimate claim, and calmly announced its intention and ability to keep on doing so. As a result, the United States emerged a pillar of strength in a storm-tossed economic world, and raised the hopes of: terror-stricken Kurope which had firmly expected to see a complete breakdown of" our financial system, : That amazing display of equanimity and strength on the part of this mation dispelled the gloom that hung over the. earth last year, based on the belief that a complete economic chaos was about to descend upon mankind. Timid and doubting Americans should take well to heart the lesson implied by America’s courageous stand—a lesson that has been thoroughly learned by Europeans—that The American Gold. Dollar Is Supreme, and will remain so,”’ For the benefit of our readers we will gladly furnish information, free, on any and all subjects relating to economic’ and financial situations or particular securities and also supply analyses and interpretations of news developments as affecting such issues. PACIFIC COAST SECURITIES LTD. Sansome 2nd Bush Streets, San Francisco, California. CITY OFFICERS ELECTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL “Ata recent’ nieetiige: Ri-Je Bs netts was re-elected president of the city council of Nevada City, which carries the title of mayor. The board appointed Herbert Hallet, driver of the city fire truck, as chief of police, this position heretofore being held by L W. Jennings. Mr Jennings will act as tax collector He has been in poor health for several weeks. Miss Ada Rich was reappointed city water collector, and W C. Jeffrey night watchman. FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION LOOMS Last Tuesday night’s meeting of the Nevada City Chamber of Com-. merce was turned into a mass meeting of a large group of citizens who attended to attest their interest in the celebration of July Fourth. George Calanan was appointed chairman of the Celebration Committee and the following members of the committee were selected: E. W. Schreiber, C W Leiter, George W Gildersleeve and H E. Kjorlie. Financial support was readily promised by the business houses of Nevada. City. A sum of $300 remains bank from the celebration of two years ago. This. brings the total pledged and in the bank to over $800. It is felt that this will stage a very creditable celebration. The general.committee will interview those who had floats two years ago and ascertain if they will enter floats this year in the Vv Uncle—‘‘What are you going to be when you grow up, John?” Nephew—‘'The same as uncle—an insulting engineer.” you, wealth, how much, bootleggers and gangsters all over the country are hiding because of fear of banking it. Probably many millions in the aggregate. , Snow is melting fast In the back country, and soon there will be much activity in gravel and ledge. ‘first act was J.operated LINDBERGH BABE FOUND DEAD The body of the long-lost son of Colonel and Mrs. Charles Lindberg, the most famous couple, perhaps, of all history, was found badly decomposed in the woods near their home yesterday, radio messages revealed just before going to press. Details: will follow later. 0 Vv LIGHTS, POWER OFF TODAY According to advices received last night from the Pacific Gas and Electric company, lights and power will be shut off between} 1:30 and 3:00 p. m. today in the Nevada City district. This action is necessitated by certain changes in the line system, it was stated. to The Nugget. OLD SHANGHAI MINE Is NOW LUCKY STRIKE The old Shanghai mine, located a half mile south east of Nevada City was recently leased: by John Solaro, George Bradfield and Frank Smith from Mr. Alexander, the owner, and is now about ready to again begin producing California’s antidote for the depression—GOLD. After acquiring the, préperty the to chang the name Shanghai to the Lucky Strike’, and from indications, the name is appropriate, for each car load of gravel contains a high vaiue in heavy gold, making it certain tuo be a very well paying proposition. About seventy feet of incline shafting goes. directly down to the gold bearing gravel channel. The vein of the Pittsburgh and the New England runs through the property and as the Lucky Strike is very ideal for drifting and for hoisting, the venture will probably. exceed the most far-fetched dreams of the three young argonauts. The mill, hoist,and pump are ali at the most nominal of costs by water pressure An eight inch pipe-line has been -run up: the hill from the miine to the Nevada Irrigation District ditch to bring down the necessary horse. power. to make the hoist turn. -The—verticle . drop from. the -ditth tothe mine is; roughly, a hundred feet giving them plenty of pressure for their machinfrom oid ery with a very wide margin to spare, The boys are installing a drum type mill for breaking and pulverizing the gravel before running it through the sluices. : The shaft is about 70 feet deep and after they have cleaned it out plans are to drift to the northwest or toward Nevada City on:this rich old Town Talk channel. The channel in a northease by south east direction. They are: installing a mill that will be run by water and handle about 30-tons of gravel daily Over fifty-seven years ago, the old Shanghai diggings was pecked and scratched by the _ original owner, and twenty thousand dollars in gold was. extracted. Later Hobart and Lord worked it and ran in a tunnel. In a few years they sold out to Jim Kitts and wandered away to enjoy a life of leisure and, freedom from financial worries. How long they managed to enjoy themselves is not on record, but the money-sacks propably remained heavy for a considerable time Jim Kitts remained on the property and hydraulicked nearly twenty thousand dollars for himself and then Warren and Henry Kitts decided to take a fling at mining, and with a few others (names unknown) . bought the property and set up a two. stamp.mill crushing gravel. The partners worked there making only small wages and later became discouraged and quit. Since then the mine has lain idle for years. Now Solaro, Bradfield and Smitn have begun another era in the history.of the old Shanghi ,and everyone is wishing them the best of luck in their search for the golden fleece in their staunch new vessel, ‘the Lucky Strike. The Lucky Strike will begin proving its worth in about a week and will possibly afford employment. for a few extra men. Although the three boys are not experienced miners they are highly enthusiastic over their prospects, and are impatiently awaiting the day they. begin operations. ENGLEBRIGHT FAVORS THE PRESENT ARMY STANDARD The army appropriation bill was before the house recently and efforts to retain in the measure the estimates made by the war department for the Reserve Officers Training Corps and the Citizens Military Training Camps were made by Representatives Englebright and Barbour of California. They look upon the slashes suggested as being false economy and agree with the views exprssed in the telegram sent from President Hoover’s ‘brother in California, protesting the doing away with these training camps. Theodore Hoover holds that, ‘‘the chief and almost only antidote to Communism and its allied forces in our social structure today is with the few thousand young men with proper dieas, turned out every years by these means.” : President Hoover made an appeal to the people of the United States regarding lobbying’ holding up the efforts of the government to pass many bills. His brother was the first to send a protest after the appeal was made. ‘

Nye Johnson, of the Bret Harte. Guernsey dairy of Nevada City, spent Mother’s Day or last Sunday in Hamilton City with his parents. . the following: ‘KELLEY RECOMMENDS LOCAL ROAD BUILDING The following is a copy of the letter received by Assemblyman Jerry Seawell from Earl Lee Kelley: chairman of the state highway commission: Honorable Jerrold L. Roseville, California, Dear Jerry: Several days ago you talked to me concerning possible appropriations and allocations of funds for the Tahoe Ukiah highway, and I find that probably we will not be able to com'plete the Tahoe-Ukiah highway clear to Emigrant Gap by reason of the fact that we ‘will not have sufficient funds in the secondary highway system. However, I am going to recommend to the Highway Commission Starting in at Emigrant Gap on route 37 back as far as the Spaulding canal a distance of 4.01 miles, the cost will be $190,000. I.am going to recommend that project. to the Highway Commission Also,-from Washington road:to about one-haif emile east of the Summit there is* 7.04 miles that has been constructed that.avill need surfacing and.the estimated cost is-abont $110,000. F am also going to recommend that project, and also from Nevada City to about one mile west of Washington road isa distan¢ée of about 12.07 miles of surfacing. The engineer’s estimate is about $140,000, and: I am also going to ask for that appropriation In other words, that_will be about $440,000. right in your. immediate district on the Tahoe-Ukiah road and in addition to that there will be other smaller projects. These that I have just enumerated have the approval of engineers, and if our money lasts out I amgoing to try to get all of them and I stand a very. good chance I ‘am sure, of those appropriations’ going through. This will leave a small gap in the Tahoe-Ukiah: road from Spaulding eanal ,back to the end of the present Seawell construction, and a bottle-neck: will ‘ill exist there, but it will probably be possible for us to put that road 1a very good condition with our maintenance money. This information is tentative only, but I hope to be able: to secure favorable consideration for it, and I am sure that with your assistancé we will go a long way towards accomplishing that purpose. With my very warmest personal regards to you as always, I am, Sincerely yours, EARL LEE KELLEY. OROVILLE ATTRACTING Many.real miners, the men who handle pick, shovel, rockers; sluice boxes, and know ‘‘color’’? whenthey see it, have been arriving in Oroville for some time in anticipation of the celebration of the second annual state mining celebration which ‘will be held for four days, commencing yesterday. Many of these men have walked in some of them coming long distances, while some of the more successful are accompanied by one or two, plodding faithful, burros carrying all their masters possess. Regulation camps are springing up along the river and cronies of other years are aagin talking things over. The ‘‘regulars’’ are bringing in gold dust and nuggets in varying quantities. Oroville banks and other buyers of the yellow metal will make sizeable shipments to the mint and smelters during the next ten days. Merchants and business men are displaying an almost _ incredible amount of pioneer relics tools, implements and souvenirs in their windows, and the modern equipment some of it in action, will attract the attention of he large mine operators as well as the leasers, prospectors, and the pick and shovel mne. Displays of nuggets and _ richly impregnated quartz pieces are numerous, with some of the collections being valued at thousands of dollars. So valuable is the Plumas county display: that the possibility of loss is covered by a bond and the custodian will also be under bonds. This valuable collection will be in the bank of America building, and at night it will rest in the valuts of the bank. The Butte mining exchange will have valuable exhibits of gold, silver platinum and other metals on display. Other percious metal specimens will be displayed at the reoms of the Oroville Chamber of Commerce. There will be gold exhibits from sources as widely separated as Mariposa and Siskiyou counties. 0. vi “You say that you are the sole support of a widowed mother, your father having recently been killed in an explosion. How did the explosion happen?” — “Mother says it was too much yeast, but Uncle Jim thinks it was too little sugar.” y MANY REAL MINERS. READ THIS AGAIN—THEN "For 75 fat and lean California years I have lived in the United States of America. I have sojourmed in Europe. I have visited other American countries. There is no country on God's green’ earth where men, women and children are as well off as with us. [ am an optimist in this, another of our periods of distress.” This was the statement of former Governor George C. Pardee, president of the Kast Bay Utility District in a radio address recently in the “Back to Good Times” program ‘of Bank of America. Former Governor Pardee spoke from California Hall at: the University of California, the address being broadcast over stations KGO and KFI. His message scanned 150 years-of recurring American business depression and prosperity. : “We all of us are financially ill; but believe me; our present illness is nowhere near to benig fatal as many of the others through which our predecessors and we have safely passed,’™ former Governor Pardee comtinued. ‘‘And, from. it we shall recover. as surely as we have recovered from all the others and recovering we shall soon forget, as we have always forgotten, -our present trials and_ tribulations. : ‘In times of war we have been always self-sadrificing. 'This depression, like all others through which we have passed, is a war against invasion of hard times. We have won every other war. We shall win this one. “During our 150 odd years as a nation, we have had a number of seious panics or depressions—on the average one every 18 years. “The first began in ,Jj790. The next in 1819, twenty-nine years” later. Eighteen years later came 1837. Eifteen years later came 1857. BKifteen years later 1873. Twenty years later 1893. Fourteen years later 1907. Twenty-two years later the present one. “Six of these depressions came after wars—the Revolution, the War. of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Spanish War, the World War. All followed yexurs of great prosperity, ending in wild speculation. During each it was prophesied that there could be no recovery. But,’ between each ‘two the wealth of the country doubled, 0 A CAPPELLA CHOIR TO BE HEARD HERE SATURDAY Great interest is being aroused by the coming concert to be given in Nevada City at the Methodist church by the A Cappella Choir of the College of the Pacific. .This program is Sponsored by the Epwroth League. Tickets are on sale at both drug stores and Colley’s for the event, at 8 o’clock Saturday evening, May 14. This choir was organized 16 years ago and up until now was the only choir singing without accompaniment west of the Rockies. <A’ Sspecial feature of this year’s trip is the appearance of Glen Haiik, the violinist of the faculty, as soloist. OROVILLE MINE NEWS Several teams of hard-rock miners are being sought by G. E.Brown to enter.the drilling cantest.to.be hela each day in the Oroville mintng celebration, $50 is offered as a first prize and a $100 purse is held fo: the awards. The Nevada City band will play on rodeo day, May 14th The American Legion drum and bugle corps contest for two prizes of $100 and $50 will be held Sunday. Hague-Thomas-Hegarty post drum and bugle corps of Nevada City and Grass Valley are among the twelve teams entered. i LOCAL MINE TESTS MECHANICAL LOADER R. P. Finlay of Salt Lake City, and one of the inventors of the HKimcoFinlay loading machines, héld a demonstration in the Idaho-Mlaryland Monday. The mining company pronounced the machine a success. It will handle ore in a 4x7 foot stope being only 30x40 inches. It will make possible the handling of ores of much lower grade than heretofore. SISKIYOU CO. MINES ARE MAKING GOOD SHOWING A force of men are at work cleaning out the fallen rock from the tunnels in the White Bear mine in the Slamon Mountain section of Sis‘kiyou county. It is reported that a compressor will soon be installed in the mine to send air to the drills in the lower level tunnels. George Bros. are now operating one of the largest hydraulic mines in the Salmon section, on the east fork of the Salmon river. They have a large head of water and the crew of men are constantly at work. Rolph and Farnsworth struck a very promising ledge of gold ore in Crosby Gulch. The Parker and Smith hydraulic mines on the south fork of the Salmon river now have three lar, giants working. Farnsworth Bros/ ed have}. . PROMISING OUTLOOK FORMINES OF TWO COUNTIES While there is not much of @ newsy nature in the “mines of the two counties at this time, but nevertheless they are working steadily. Since the snows have melted many men have gone to their properties to work. In the larger mines of Sierra county, such as the Standard, Ruby, 16-to-1, Brush Creek, and several others the mills are working and mueh development work is being done. The Attaview Kirkpartick and Depot Hill, besides several nearby gravel pr@perties’ are sluicing or hydraulicking. At the Depot Hill mine. near Camptonville they have had a lohs season of hydraulicking in this rich old producer. The lowering of the cost of storage of the debris behind Bullards Bar dam from the hydraulic mines has ‘been an added incentive to work also. In’ the Nevada. county mines the Boss mine, Empress Mining company, Murchie, North Star-Empire, Idaho-Maryland, are all running mills, while the Murchie, and Golden Center are doing development work from last reports. Some of these mines have several hundred men. employed. Many smaller mines are prospects are being opened with fair sized crews of men. In the Washington district at present three or four mines are busily engaged in doing development work. Many men are doing their assessment work all through the mountains, and hundreds of men are engaged in prospecting or washing the gravels of the Bear’ river, Deer Creek and the South, Middle and North Yuba rivers. From now on until fall mining will proceed steadily, increasing as the months go by. Some:of the new properties will be far enough advanced to proceed through the winter. Among: these will be the Paine Bros. mine eleven miles north of Nevada City. This property is listed on the stock market at the present time under the name of Broken Hills Mining company. It is expected that this wil lbe the has experienced since -before the World War. There has been an almost normal rainfall .in the mountains and it gives more. opportunity to develop many surface propositions. : The most important factor is the idea that there is more moneysto be had for mining than there has been for many years, due principally, ‘to the stock market crash and the low prices of silver and copper. TAX COMMITTEE NAMED TO TRY LOWER RATE The Nevada County Chamber of Commerce requested that a tax committee be named. to study «ways and means of securing a lower government cost and tax rate for the county. The following eleven organizations named members to a county tax committee. The following the committees: Rotary—Judge Raglan Tuttle; A. Moser, J. A Curnow. sues Mining Association—A B Foote. Grass Valley “Chamber of Commerce—Harold Biggs, Vernon Stoli, Frank Eldredge. Lions Club—H. “B Stennett: o Womans’ Improvement Club—Mrs H J Campbell, Farm Bureau—-Judge George L, Jones, H B Cox, C J Rolph. : Nevada City Chamber of Commerce and Grand Jury—E Schrieber, Charles Leiter, F F Cassidy, R J Bennetts, Jim Penrose, Lola Worth. Land Owners Protective League —W Odell, Chandler Church, HE. Breckenridge. ' San Juan—wWilliam Clerkin. Truckee—W. H Laity. This organization is to meet Wednesday,May 18 at 7:30 in the Nevada Irrigation district offices in Grass Valley. NO SESSION OF GRAND JURY HELD NECESSARY Judge Ragland Tuttle announced in the superior court that no séssion of the grand jury would be called to investigate the charge against Ernest Ferguson, who is. held in ths county jail accused of being an ac. ecessory after the fact of the murder of John Weeks by the latter’s son, Henry. Weeks. : Fer Winburn’s court in Grass Valley re~ cently on preliminary’ examination. Young Henry Weeks, who made a statement to the authorities that Ferguson had helped him in carrying the body of his father to the abandoned shaft where it lay a month before being found, appeared in court, but would not repeat there the statement he had made to the officers. ‘ names appear on H. W Westbrook, J ticipating in the crime Winburn, with Ferguson’s continued the hearing first to give the grand j an opportunity to ae pipet R. L Rgenhoff of the U § Debris commission of Sacramento on the eas business visitor ridge Wednesda: of Névada and Sierrabest mining season that this sectionson was in Judge Ow. Wa es Ferguson persistently denies Par-; and Judge — rane x &