November 13, 1931 (8 pages)

eV . The Nugget Is California’s Leading Mining Weekly Nevada City ugget VOLUME V, NUMBER 44. ~ THE GOLD CENTER THE NEVADA CITY NUGGET, CALIF ORNIA THE COUNTY SEAT PAPER FRIDAY, NOV. 13, 1931 ENING KEW oF "OF OUR SECTION VON HUMBOLDT MINE jFrank Williams was in Graiteville, Nevada County, recently from the Von Humboldt Mine. He reports development on a 7 foot vein on the}: property that assays from $100 to $200% ton. TWIN QUARTZ MINING CO, LTD. L. F. Lorenz, Los Angeles mining man, who arrived a few days ago is spending a week visiting his property here, the Twin Quartz Mine, nine miles north of town. He has formea a corporation to work the property, the Twin Quartz Mining Co., Ltd., and has a crew from. Los Angeles which will winter there, driving the tunnel and doing other development work. In the spring he expects to erect a good sized quartz mill and start milling the ore, many tons of which is already out and plenty more in sight. The ore so far tested is of good values and with fine prospects of the making of a very good property. SCOTCH GRAVEL MINE B. Hines, of Nevada State, has two men opening up the old gravel tunnel that topped’ the old Scotch gravel mine in Chaparral Hill east of Graniteville. O'GARA DIRFT GRAVEL Colligan and Tibbits are opening up the O’Gara drift gravel property north of the town of Graniteville. ALTA VIEW MINE Two large truck loads of mining ' maachinery including a new air compressor, arrived at the Alta View Mine five miles north of Camptonville, and is being installed. The mine is being operated by Dr. Clyde Wayland of San Jose. C. N. Chatfield of Pike City is superintendent. LOHMAN RANCH The Lohman Ranch gold property near Camptonville, in Yuba County, has been leased by Roscoe Downs and associates of Los Angeles, who have commenced preliminary work. Surface showings of good ore give bright promise of a producing mine. NEVADA COUNTY SHIPS TOMATOES TO NEW YORK ‘Mr. and Mrs. Joesehke went for a drive lastSunday down in the Spenceville District and told of seeing a beautiful sight in two large bright, green, fields of tomatoes. At the Frank Hunt and old Austin Ranches they saw these beautiful tomato plants, which are irrigated by N. I. D. water. The first field cantained 100 aeres and the second 40 acres. ‘Mr. Phillips, who is raising the 100 acres field, stated that the tomatoes are picked before they are ripe hauled in trucks to Lincola to pack-' ing houses. There they are graded for a certain size, and each wrapped in a paper, packed in boxes and shipped to New York City markets. A number of cars will be shipped. Tomatoes color up quickiy when the car is opened and bring good prices in the market at this timeaf the year. INCENDIARISTS GET SIX MONTHS IN COUNTY JAIL Jack Wright and Bain Crawford, Aprrere found guilty of setting fires in the vieinity of North San Juan during last July by Judge W. L. Mobley. He remarked : that there have been too many fires in this section with many of them undoubtedly of ineen— diary origin, and sentenced them to six months in the county jail. SUBSCRIBER MAKES INQUIRY ON BLACK SAND Dear Sir: I am writing to ask about how to handle black sand, or the best way _ to go about it? I take the Nevada City Nugget, other mining papers, and one mining journal: MISS ROSE GINTHER, 1307 John Adams Street, Oregon City, Oregon. . SATISFACTORY PROGRESS . AT HOGE DEV. CO. MINE The Hoge Development Company has sunk to the 590 foot level with work ‘progressing as per schedule. A station was cut at the 450 foot level and they are now drifting on this level to a known rich ledge. The mine will be 600 feet deep when the contract is done and a station will-cut at that depth. “Ore at the 300 level run $200 a ton. A large sample of this ore is on display at The Nugget office. Shipments ‘of ore to Selby’s in the past months averaged $98. a ton. The company has developed about } 10,000 tons of ore that will average, about $28. a ton, or a gross value of more than half a million dollars. Probabilities are that there will be ‘a developed tonnage of at least 40,000 tons of ore when the program is completed. Plans are going ahead at this time for purchasing the mill early in 1932. OPEN MONDAY children of The ahe Grammar ‘School are looking forward to the opening of the library on Monday. 150 new books were received last last week and Miss Nightengale and a corps of assistana librarians have been busy marking the books and putting them in place. The library is a most attractive one and is a credit to: the school as well as the community. A hitherto unused room was uailized for this purpose. Very little work was needed to put it in condiaion, outside of repair work on the ceiling. (The room was fohmerly used to store obselete text books so there were already book shelves. .Once a year an exhibit was held in this:room and there were several very creditable pieces of work done by former classes used as @ permanent exhibit among them a frieze depicting California History and a nols house. Both James Reed an: experienced mining man, has the contract for sinking ' to the 600 level. Arthur Hoge is‘ superintendent of the mine, while O. E. Schiffner is general manager. About 20 men are employed at the property. FROM OUR READERS Dear Mrs. Willoughby: I am enclosing herewith.my check in your favor in the sum. of $2.25 for a year’s subscription to the Nevada City Nugget and twenty-five ‘cents for five copies of the issue of the Nugget of November 7th. I was very much interested in reading your article on the Diadem Mine which appeared in the above issue and Iam somewhat interested in knowing who wrote this article as the writer seems to be unusually well posted on the history of this mine. : Of thes pieces of work were done by ‘classes under the direction of Miss Alice Noyes one of: the former LIBRARY WILL ‘LEGION HONORS teachers. to 5 o’clock and in the veening from } 7 to 9 so that the parents and interested friends may vieww the new library. ‘The credit for the project is due to Miss Doris Nightengale who has devoted many hours outside of school to the work and has volunteered to act as librarian. She will be assisted by members of the 7th and 8th grades. LOOKOUTS OF TAHOE FOREST FINISH SEASON Ben F. Howe, “Lookout” of Banner Tower for more than 20 years, closed in the Probate Court but you than I could have stated them. article which has come to my attention prompts me to act at once. pects of this trust it may activity in and about Forest. I think you should be very proud of the work which you are doing and ing towards a revival of interest jin mining. Cc. S. MORBLO, ‘Attorney at Law, Call Building, San Francisco. . Dear. Mrs. Willoughby: I wonder if your people really appreciate what you are doing for them in the way of putting Nevada City and all of California on the mining map. I think you are doing a very fine work, and I enjoy reading your paper more than anything I read during the month. I read it from page to page and every word is of great interest to me, and I get lots of information from iit, as well as lots of pleasure. York state, Ridge Gravel Mine near North ColumbDia._ BIG SHIPMENT ORE STIRS INTEREST IN OLD CAMP Fort Jones, Calif—The owners of! the Gum Boot mine, on Mill Creek, . in the Scott Bar region, have made‘a big deposit of gold at the mint. Excitement ran high in Fort Jone) when it was learned of this large shipment. A crew of only five men is employed at the property, and using . avery small mill. This mine like many others in Siskiyou county, was abandoned for lack of intelligence by I intended to send you this item [closed his station last week. just as soon as the transaction was; . tional and State Forest Service. The seem to have secured the facts better, tower is io i really am very hopeful over the Pros. Diadem Mine and r stimulate a revival of . the contribution which you are mak-_ This lookout is maintained by the Nasixty feet high and on a ~1clear day 21 of the 58 counties are I have wanted to subscribe to The} discernable. Nugget for some time but the above! More than a thousand people visit the tower eacn year to view the beautiful panorama of scenery. . 'W. E. Maxwell has been the “lookout” on Grouse Ridge for the last two years. This station is at a 6000 foot elevation. Many miles of beautiful scenery with nearly 100 smali llakes in the foreground are a never ‘ending source of pleasure. Frank Maher, who has been ‘‘look10 years in the eastern end of Nevamonths. Mr. Maher tors and pet animals help . the quiet nours. These men are on duty during the season of forest fires. They are to pass cating fires State Forests. in the National] and 0). v George A. Legg and Mr. and Mrs, . JOSEPH FE. MERRIAM,, week anl attended Mr. Merriam is of Mt. Kisco, New. football game held Wednesday which and owns the Grizzly . R. D. Steger went to Berkeley this the Army-Navy was held in the University of California Stadium. The library committee of the Paran auxiliary banquet at the New York ent Teachers Association plan to hold hotel in’ Nevada City at the> —_— a tea next Friday afternoon from3:30 hour. in the morning parade, formed on' ‘Alarid of Mariposa and A. T. Alarid ‘as the Contreras mine and was a ‘mill is om the property. QC). RAPID DEVELOPMENTOF OLD IRONSIDE MINE The Obra. Mining company is maklac ,goo0d progress in development of _its ‘ronsides Mine property at Alle-; ‘ghany. The company has ample fi-! jmanees for a iarge development program that they have mapped out. ARMISTICE DAY Wsdiendes-‘Neaweuiti November 11, just 13° years after the end of warfare in Europe, the Hague-Thomas-Hegarty, Post, No. 130, American Legion of Grass Valley and Nevada City observed the day as a complete holiday.; The Ironsides has a good past proThe program consisted of the pa-: duction record in placer gold and rade of Grass Valley and Nevada iTich ore, many years ago, and has City band units, school children and "eopened recently after many years citizens forming at the Columbus/ °f idleness. school yard before 10 o’elock. After It is located in the vein structures a short parade through the business! made famous by the Tightner, +$2,-. section it ended at the shrine at Me-'.000,000; Sixteen-To-One, many milmorial park for exercises. This conlions to its credit; Plumbago, $8,sisted of selections by the Grass Val-. 000,000; Ireland, $400,000; nley band, the American Legion, Fath-' bow, $1,500,000, ete. +t 4 er James O’Meara and an address ‘by The Obra Mining company al Congressman -Engelbright. n holds an option on eight adjoinin The second parade, which included ‘mining claims. Auburn units in addtiion to the units . 4 South School street at 1:30 o’cloce./SK1 CLUB MEMBERS HOLD GOOD MEETING’ They marched through the business section and to the athletic field. A football game’was played at the field before a large crowd. An American Legion banquet was . held at the Elks’ hall. “at 6:30 ce A number of the members and directors of the Ski Course met at the, Chamber of Commerce rooms Monday afternoon. Plans were made for a camp stew picnic at the course Sun. . day. A toboggan slide is also plan-. cned. There wiil be a turkey shoot. and a_keno game. . {The “Affair is to be free to all and the entire “public of Nevada City-. Grass Valiey and _ the surrounding countryside are invited to attend. The camp stew will be. served from the noon hour on. ~ Volunteer crews will do\ some work on the amateur ski hill and the professional jump, in the forenoon and afternoon. George R. Carter and William &. Griffith who were on the member; ship committee met with a 100% To. response in renewing memberships . and gained 23 new members. Next Monday evening a meeting: will be held in Grass Valley to map . out pians for the winter events. aS WILL DEVELOP MINE IN QUARTZBERG DISTRICT eee ee The San Gabriel gold mine in the Quartzberg district, owned by M. 8S. and Abe Sanchez of Hornitos, has been bonded to Merced and Amador County men. The property was formerly known heavy producer a_few. years ago, It is expected that development work will start at an early date. . There is a shaft 125 feet deep which shows good values, with several hundred tons of ore on the dump that will mill around $10 per ton. There is also another shaft down 50 feet that exposes a two-foot vein assaying $15 per ton. A three-stamp Arrangements have been made wi install an electric lighting plant on the grounds and in the club house. Tentative plans are to dig a shallow pond on top of the hill for skating. ARMISTICE DAY PROGRAM BY SCHOOL GROUP A large crowd of pupils and their parents gathered at the Washington grammar school: Wednesday to listen PLACER MINE PROGRESSES NEAR BRIDGEPORT Mr. Gregory, who recently took ‘over the claims of Mr. Donnelly a mile and a half west of Bridgeport were visitors at The Nugget office out” on Martis Peak foi wore than! Mr. beautiful Lake Tahoe and also other: Rivers. scenery that cannot be excelled inl any other place in the werld. Visiin the gravel. equipped witn powerful Tied glasses ; hose that assist them in spotting and lo-! sluicing. Thursday. He was accompanied by F. C. Culver. to a splendid Armistice Day program ; ‘which was presented by the younger . The claims are situated at the! pupils under the direction of Miss da County, is home for the winter , old townsite of Defiance at the junc-. Doris Nightengale. has a view of tion of the North and Middle Yuba; gyoward Bennetts of HagueThomas-Hegatry Post of the American Legion, and a district comman-; der of the legion, delivered a splen-; did talk touching somewhat on the horrors of war as he saw it, as an argument in favor of world peace. The following is the program: Four selections by the Grammar School Orchestra under the direction . of Mr. Sweeney. Recitation, ‘‘In Flanders Fields,”’ by Carol Van Loben Sels, answered He has run an open cut 125 feet Some values in gold are beginning to show, which gives encouragement to the work. They have installed machinery which consists of motor, pump, pipe and are in shape now for Plans are to cut under the gravel bar taking out the gold carrying’ gravels on the bottom of the river. ment 'MANY ARE SLUICING . taking out the precious yellow SUNRISE SHOWS MUCH PROGRESS At the Sunrise Mining and De— elopment. Company’s Mine they have: 14 men empioyed in cutting a good sized station at the 400 foot levek which will house a pump to keep thee mine clear of water. There is a good stream of water in the mine at thee present time. The bottom of the shaft was 430 feet from last reports. Plans: are to sink to 1000 feet. iA cross cut is being run to contact several veins on the 400 foot leven. A substantial sev inoager be of 12x12 timbers has been built. electri— {sity has been installed. ora companyhas made many improvements. They have installed hoisting equipment,. cables, and ore:cars all to be operat— ed from an efficient engine room. The machinery is large enough te» carry on to a 2000 foot depth. jAn uptodate blacksmith shop ad= joins the engine house. Plans are for {the erection of an office and dry. house before winter is well advamced. The Sunrise Mining and DevelopCompany property is four miJes south east of Grass Valley im the Forest Springs District. “Charles DeWhite is originator af the company. W.S. Washburn of Seattle is superintendent, Fred Pinch. of Grass Valley is foreman at the mine. \ \ IN YUBA RIVERS Many small outfits are on the . Yuba Rivers at the present time 'sluiting and panning for gold. With— ‘in a mite and a half below Bridge— ‘port there re 8 small outfits alE taking out gold._There are a number to be seen above Saeee also. According to our Ninformant: it looks something like th days of ’49, to see sO Many vaste Gear am tad. All these men are making a litthe better than wages. Some of,4hem ares —.--——making even better returns. Their equipment consists of Long— Toms, sluice boxes, pans etc. NUGGET OFFICE DISPLAYS. TWO FAKE NUGGETS: There are two, beautiful, fietix tious, gold, nuggets on display at the Nugget office. A local man presented them to us: and stated that similar nuggets have= been and are being sold throughout years, They seemingly are made of brass; filings and given a coating of gold. 0 MANY NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS This week The Nugget has receiv= ed four new subscriptions and three: renewals, coming from different: sources, two from San Francise, two» from Sacramento, one from Los An They are situated in a splendid position to secure a rich return for their work. Shis should prove to be a splendid property as many rich igung by the school assembly. ledges have been cut by these/ Introducing the speaker by Princistreams higher up in the mountains. pai w. A. Carlson. “War Experiby Clement Organ. i “Popular Songs sung during the; famous wars of te United States’— How Soon We Forget commander of the Hague-Thomasjences” by Howard Bennetts, past 1} Hegarty Post No. 130 of the American Legion. former operators, but since a practical miner has acquired the property it has developed into a big. paying proposition. —_—_——_—— ) —_—— Miss Eugenie Wright is convalescing at her home from a recent operation for appendicitis, which was performed at the Jones Memorial Hispital at Grass Valley. ARMISTICE DAY 1% (93 L__ (Coprright, W. N.U.) Play, ‘‘When the Mother Speaks’ Characters: Tthe Mother, Catherine Glennon; Betsy Ross, Pauline Rozynski; Minuet Dancers, Bessy Hunte:, j Eugene Sigourney, Lucille Milier, ,Dick Gregory, Betty O’Connor, Bob Farmer*&nna Shrader, Louis Butz, General Grant, Peter Orzalli; General Lee, Paul Hanson; Boys of ’76 Raymond Davis, Donald Thomas, Ellard Gates, Phil Angove, Benny Tamblyn, Melvin Clarke, Elton Tobiassen; Admiral Dewey, Amelio Angelini, Sailor, Lacy Jones; Doughboys, Ray Wilde, Allen Widauf, Carol Van ‘Loben Sels, Clemens Organ; Columbia, Enid Penbernathy (the real mother, for when Columbia speaks, }all mother’s sons go to war; Announcer, Don Jones. (). Vv George Nightengale, mining man of Goodyears Bar, visited in Nevada i ‘City Saturday. 3 7 ‘Santa Rosa, -/MRS, AUSTIN RECEIVES: cordial appreciation ». tesies you extended to me on the oc-~ casion of my presence at instituteyesterday. I again compliment you om: the excellent program which you pre-sented and upon the fine notes em— bodied in your ment. The spirit among the teachers: geles, one each from Escondido,, Ukiah and \Calpella. They are either interested in mining, or in news from home. This week’s mail also brought fournew subscribers for the Californiac Mining Journal. It shows ahat gold mining today is: ahe most imporaant topic before thee public at this time. COMPLIMENTS ON WORKDear Mrs. Austin: I want to express to you my veryfor the cour-— introductory state s excellent and your own work is: certainly deserving of compliment. Vierling Kersey, Superintendent of Public inatraetie and Director of Education. 0—. = this State at present and for manyy COMING INTO NUGGET OFFICE; Mrs. Mary Passen is home fromm an extended visit with Felatives . [oar region.

eV . The Nugget Is California’s Leading Mining Weekly Nevada City ugget VOLUME V, NUMBER 44. ~ THE GOLD CENTER THE NEVADA CITY NUGGET, CALIF ORNIA THE COUNTY SEAT PAPER FRIDAY, NOV. 13, 1931 ENING KEW oF "OF OUR SECTION VON HUMBOLDT MINE jFrank Williams was in Graiteville, Nevada County, recently from the Von Humboldt Mine. He reports development on a 7 foot vein on the}: property that assays from $100 to $200% ton. TWIN QUARTZ MINING CO, LTD. L. F. Lorenz, Los Angeles mining man, who arrived a few days ago is spending a week visiting his property here, the Twin Quartz Mine, nine miles north of town. He has formea a corporation to work the property, the Twin Quartz Mining Co., Ltd., and has a crew from. Los Angeles which will winter there, driving the tunnel and doing other development work. In the spring he expects to erect a good sized quartz mill and start milling the ore, many tons of which is already out and plenty more in sight. The ore so far tested is of good values and with fine prospects of the making of a very good property. SCOTCH GRAVEL MINE B. Hines, of Nevada State, has two men opening up the old gravel tunnel that topped’ the old Scotch gravel mine in Chaparral Hill east of Graniteville. O'GARA DIRFT GRAVEL Colligan and Tibbits are opening up the O’Gara drift gravel property north of the town of Graniteville. ALTA VIEW MINE Two large truck loads of mining ' maachinery including a new air compressor, arrived at the Alta View Mine five miles north of Camptonville, and is being installed. The mine is being operated by Dr. Clyde Wayland of San Jose. C. N. Chatfield of Pike City is superintendent. LOHMAN RANCH The Lohman Ranch gold property near Camptonville, in Yuba County, has been leased by Roscoe Downs and associates of Los Angeles, who have commenced preliminary work. Surface showings of good ore give bright promise of a producing mine. NEVADA COUNTY SHIPS TOMATOES TO NEW YORK ‘Mr. and Mrs. Joesehke went for a drive lastSunday down in the Spenceville District and told of seeing a beautiful sight in two large bright, green, fields of tomatoes. At the Frank Hunt and old Austin Ranches they saw these beautiful tomato plants, which are irrigated by N. I. D. water. The first field cantained 100 aeres and the second 40 acres. ‘Mr. Phillips, who is raising the 100 acres field, stated that the tomatoes are picked before they are ripe hauled in trucks to Lincola to pack-' ing houses. There they are graded for a certain size, and each wrapped in a paper, packed in boxes and shipped to New York City markets. A number of cars will be shipped. Tomatoes color up quickiy when the car is opened and bring good prices in the market at this timeaf the year. INCENDIARISTS GET SIX MONTHS IN COUNTY JAIL Jack Wright and Bain Crawford, Aprrere found guilty of setting fires in the vieinity of North San Juan during last July by Judge W. L. Mobley. He remarked : that there have been too many fires in this section with many of them undoubtedly of ineen— diary origin, and sentenced them to six months in the county jail. SUBSCRIBER MAKES INQUIRY ON BLACK SAND Dear Sir: I am writing to ask about how to handle black sand, or the best way _ to go about it? I take the Nevada City Nugget, other mining papers, and one mining journal: MISS ROSE GINTHER, 1307 John Adams Street, Oregon City, Oregon. . SATISFACTORY PROGRESS . AT HOGE DEV. CO. MINE The Hoge Development Company has sunk to the 590 foot level with work ‘progressing as per schedule. A station was cut at the 450 foot level and they are now drifting on this level to a known rich ledge. The mine will be 600 feet deep when the contract is done and a station will-cut at that depth. “Ore at the 300 level run $200 a ton. A large sample of this ore is on display at The Nugget office. Shipments ‘of ore to Selby’s in the past months averaged $98. a ton. The company has developed about } 10,000 tons of ore that will average, about $28. a ton, or a gross value of more than half a million dollars. Probabilities are that there will be ‘a developed tonnage of at least 40,000 tons of ore when the program is completed. Plans are going ahead at this time for purchasing the mill early in 1932. OPEN MONDAY children of The ahe Grammar ‘School are looking forward to the opening of the library on Monday. 150 new books were received last last week and Miss Nightengale and a corps of assistana librarians have been busy marking the books and putting them in place. The library is a most attractive one and is a credit to: the school as well as the community. A hitherto unused room was uailized for this purpose. Very little work was needed to put it in condiaion, outside of repair work on the ceiling. (The room was fohmerly used to store obselete text books so there were already book shelves. .Once a year an exhibit was held in this:room and there were several very creditable pieces of work done by former classes used as @ permanent exhibit among them a frieze depicting California History and a nols house. Both James Reed an: experienced mining man, has the contract for sinking ' to the 600 level. Arthur Hoge is‘ superintendent of the mine, while O. E. Schiffner is general manager. About 20 men are employed at the property. FROM OUR READERS Dear Mrs. Willoughby: I am enclosing herewith.my check in your favor in the sum. of $2.25 for a year’s subscription to the Nevada City Nugget and twenty-five ‘cents for five copies of the issue of the Nugget of November 7th. I was very much interested in reading your article on the Diadem Mine which appeared in the above issue and Iam somewhat interested in knowing who wrote this article as the writer seems to be unusually well posted on the history of this mine. : Of thes pieces of work were done by ‘classes under the direction of Miss Alice Noyes one of: the former LIBRARY WILL ‘LEGION HONORS teachers. to 5 o’clock and in the veening from } 7 to 9 so that the parents and interested friends may vieww the new library. ‘The credit for the project is due to Miss Doris Nightengale who has devoted many hours outside of school to the work and has volunteered to act as librarian. She will be assisted by members of the 7th and 8th grades. LOOKOUTS OF TAHOE FOREST FINISH SEASON Ben F. Howe, “Lookout” of Banner Tower for more than 20 years, closed in the Probate Court but you than I could have stated them. article which has come to my attention prompts me to act at once. pects of this trust it may activity in and about Forest. I think you should be very proud of the work which you are doing and ing towards a revival of interest jin mining. Cc. S. MORBLO, ‘Attorney at Law, Call Building, San Francisco. . Dear. Mrs. Willoughby: I wonder if your people really appreciate what you are doing for them in the way of putting Nevada City and all of California on the mining map. I think you are doing a very fine work, and I enjoy reading your paper more than anything I read during the month. I read it from page to page and every word is of great interest to me, and I get lots of information from iit, as well as lots of pleasure. York state, Ridge Gravel Mine near North ColumbDia._ BIG SHIPMENT ORE STIRS INTEREST IN OLD CAMP Fort Jones, Calif—The owners of! the Gum Boot mine, on Mill Creek, . in the Scott Bar region, have made‘a big deposit of gold at the mint. Excitement ran high in Fort Jone) when it was learned of this large shipment. A crew of only five men is employed at the property, and using . avery small mill. This mine like many others in Siskiyou county, was abandoned for lack of intelligence by I intended to send you this item [closed his station last week. just as soon as the transaction was; . tional and State Forest Service. The seem to have secured the facts better, tower is io i really am very hopeful over the Pros. Diadem Mine and r stimulate a revival of . the contribution which you are mak-_ This lookout is maintained by the Nasixty feet high and on a ~1clear day 21 of the 58 counties are I have wanted to subscribe to The} discernable. Nugget for some time but the above! More than a thousand people visit the tower eacn year to view the beautiful panorama of scenery. . 'W. E. Maxwell has been the “lookout” on Grouse Ridge for the last two years. This station is at a 6000 foot elevation. Many miles of beautiful scenery with nearly 100 smali llakes in the foreground are a never ‘ending source of pleasure. Frank Maher, who has been ‘‘look10 years in the eastern end of Nevamonths. Mr. Maher tors and pet animals help . the quiet nours. These men are on duty during the season of forest fires. They are to pass cating fires State Forests. in the National] and 0). v George A. Legg and Mr. and Mrs, . JOSEPH FE. MERRIAM,, week anl attended Mr. Merriam is of Mt. Kisco, New. football game held Wednesday which and owns the Grizzly . R. D. Steger went to Berkeley this the Army-Navy was held in the University of California Stadium. The library committee of the Paran auxiliary banquet at the New York ent Teachers Association plan to hold hotel in’ Nevada City at the> —_— a tea next Friday afternoon from3:30 hour. in the morning parade, formed on' ‘Alarid of Mariposa and A. T. Alarid ‘as the Contreras mine and was a ‘mill is om the property. QC). RAPID DEVELOPMENTOF OLD IRONSIDE MINE The Obra. Mining company is maklac ,goo0d progress in development of

_its ‘ronsides Mine property at Alle-; ‘ghany. The company has ample fi-! jmanees for a iarge development program that they have mapped out. ARMISTICE DAY Wsdiendes-‘Neaweuiti November 11, just 13° years after the end of warfare in Europe, the Hague-Thomas-Hegarty, Post, No. 130, American Legion of Grass Valley and Nevada City observed the day as a complete holiday.; The Ironsides has a good past proThe program consisted of the pa-: duction record in placer gold and rade of Grass Valley and Nevada iTich ore, many years ago, and has City band units, school children and "eopened recently after many years citizens forming at the Columbus/ °f idleness. school yard before 10 o’elock. After It is located in the vein structures a short parade through the business! made famous by the Tightner, +$2,-. section it ended at the shrine at Me-'.000,000; Sixteen-To-One, many milmorial park for exercises. This conlions to its credit; Plumbago, $8,sisted of selections by the Grass Val-. 000,000; Ireland, $400,000; nley band, the American Legion, Fath-' bow, $1,500,000, ete. +t 4 er James O’Meara and an address ‘by The Obra Mining company al Congressman -Engelbright. n holds an option on eight adjoinin The second parade, which included ‘mining claims. Auburn units in addtiion to the units . 4 South School street at 1:30 o’cloce./SK1 CLUB MEMBERS HOLD GOOD MEETING’ They marched through the business section and to the athletic field. A football game’was played at the field before a large crowd. An American Legion banquet was . held at the Elks’ hall. “at 6:30 ce A number of the members and directors of the Ski Course met at the, Chamber of Commerce rooms Monday afternoon. Plans were made for a camp stew picnic at the course Sun. . day. A toboggan slide is also plan-. cned. There wiil be a turkey shoot. and a_keno game. . {The “Affair is to be free to all and the entire “public of Nevada City-. Grass Valiey and _ the surrounding countryside are invited to attend. The camp stew will be. served from the noon hour on. ~ Volunteer crews will do\ some work on the amateur ski hill and the professional jump, in the forenoon and afternoon. George R. Carter and William &. Griffith who were on the member; ship committee met with a 100% To. response in renewing memberships . and gained 23 new members. Next Monday evening a meeting: will be held in Grass Valley to map . out pians for the winter events. aS WILL DEVELOP MINE IN QUARTZBERG DISTRICT eee ee The San Gabriel gold mine in the Quartzberg district, owned by M. 8S. and Abe Sanchez of Hornitos, has been bonded to Merced and Amador County men. The property was formerly known heavy producer a_few. years ago, It is expected that development work will start at an early date. . There is a shaft 125 feet deep which shows good values, with several hundred tons of ore on the dump that will mill around $10 per ton. There is also another shaft down 50 feet that exposes a two-foot vein assaying $15 per ton. A three-stamp Arrangements have been made wi install an electric lighting plant on the grounds and in the club house. Tentative plans are to dig a shallow pond on top of the hill for skating. ARMISTICE DAY PROGRAM BY SCHOOL GROUP A large crowd of pupils and their parents gathered at the Washington grammar school: Wednesday to listen PLACER MINE PROGRESSES NEAR BRIDGEPORT Mr. Gregory, who recently took ‘over the claims of Mr. Donnelly a mile and a half west of Bridgeport were visitors at The Nugget office out” on Martis Peak foi wore than! Mr. beautiful Lake Tahoe and also other: Rivers. scenery that cannot be excelled inl any other place in the werld. Visiin the gravel. equipped witn powerful Tied glasses ; hose that assist them in spotting and lo-! sluicing. Thursday. He was accompanied by F. C. Culver. to a splendid Armistice Day program ; ‘which was presented by the younger . The claims are situated at the! pupils under the direction of Miss da County, is home for the winter , old townsite of Defiance at the junc-. Doris Nightengale. has a view of tion of the North and Middle Yuba; gyoward Bennetts of HagueThomas-Hegatry Post of the American Legion, and a district comman-; der of the legion, delivered a splen-; did talk touching somewhat on the horrors of war as he saw it, as an argument in favor of world peace. The following is the program: Four selections by the Grammar School Orchestra under the direction . of Mr. Sweeney. Recitation, ‘‘In Flanders Fields,”’ by Carol Van Loben Sels, answered He has run an open cut 125 feet Some values in gold are beginning to show, which gives encouragement to the work. They have installed machinery which consists of motor, pump, pipe and are in shape now for Plans are to cut under the gravel bar taking out the gold carrying’ gravels on the bottom of the river. ment 'MANY ARE SLUICING . taking out the precious yellow SUNRISE SHOWS MUCH PROGRESS At the Sunrise Mining and De— elopment. Company’s Mine they have: 14 men empioyed in cutting a good sized station at the 400 foot levek which will house a pump to keep thee mine clear of water. There is a good stream of water in the mine at thee present time. The bottom of the shaft was 430 feet from last reports. Plans: are to sink to 1000 feet. iA cross cut is being run to contact several veins on the 400 foot leven. A substantial sev inoager be of 12x12 timbers has been built. electri— {sity has been installed. ora companyhas made many improvements. They have installed hoisting equipment,. cables, and ore:cars all to be operat— ed from an efficient engine room. The machinery is large enough te» carry on to a 2000 foot depth. jAn uptodate blacksmith shop ad= joins the engine house. Plans are for {the erection of an office and dry. house before winter is well advamced. The Sunrise Mining and DevelopCompany property is four miJes south east of Grass Valley im the Forest Springs District. “Charles DeWhite is originator af the company. W.S. Washburn of Seattle is superintendent, Fred Pinch. of Grass Valley is foreman at the mine. \ \ IN YUBA RIVERS Many small outfits are on the . Yuba Rivers at the present time 'sluiting and panning for gold. With— ‘in a mite and a half below Bridge— ‘port there re 8 small outfits alE taking out gold._There are a number to be seen above Saeee also. According to our Ninformant: it looks something like th days of ’49, to see sO Many vaste Gear am tad. All these men are making a litthe better than wages. Some of,4hem ares —.--——making even better returns. Their equipment consists of Long— Toms, sluice boxes, pans etc. NUGGET OFFICE DISPLAYS. TWO FAKE NUGGETS: There are two, beautiful, fietix tious, gold, nuggets on display at the Nugget office. A local man presented them to us: and stated that similar nuggets have= been and are being sold throughout years, They seemingly are made of brass; filings and given a coating of gold. 0 MANY NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS This week The Nugget has receiv= ed four new subscriptions and three: renewals, coming from different: sources, two from San Francise, two» from Sacramento, one from Los An They are situated in a splendid position to secure a rich return for their work. Shis should prove to be a splendid property as many rich igung by the school assembly. ledges have been cut by these/ Introducing the speaker by Princistreams higher up in the mountains. pai w. A. Carlson. “War Experiby Clement Organ. i “Popular Songs sung during the; famous wars of te United States’— How Soon We Forget commander of the Hague-Thomasjences” by Howard Bennetts, past 1} Hegarty Post No. 130 of the American Legion. former operators, but since a practical miner has acquired the property it has developed into a big. paying proposition. —_—_——_—— ) —_—— Miss Eugenie Wright is convalescing at her home from a recent operation for appendicitis, which was performed at the Jones Memorial Hispital at Grass Valley. ARMISTICE DAY 1% (93 L__ (Coprright, W. N.U.) Play, ‘‘When the Mother Speaks’ Characters: Tthe Mother, Catherine Glennon; Betsy Ross, Pauline Rozynski; Minuet Dancers, Bessy Hunte:, j Eugene Sigourney, Lucille Milier, ,Dick Gregory, Betty O’Connor, Bob Farmer*&nna Shrader, Louis Butz, General Grant, Peter Orzalli; General Lee, Paul Hanson; Boys of ’76 Raymond Davis, Donald Thomas, Ellard Gates, Phil Angove, Benny Tamblyn, Melvin Clarke, Elton Tobiassen; Admiral Dewey, Amelio Angelini, Sailor, Lacy Jones; Doughboys, Ray Wilde, Allen Widauf, Carol Van ‘Loben Sels, Clemens Organ; Columbia, Enid Penbernathy (the real mother, for when Columbia speaks, }all mother’s sons go to war; Announcer, Don Jones. (). Vv George Nightengale, mining man of Goodyears Bar, visited in Nevada i ‘City Saturday. 3 7 ‘Santa Rosa, -/MRS, AUSTIN RECEIVES: cordial appreciation ». tesies you extended to me on the oc-~ casion of my presence at instituteyesterday. I again compliment you om: the excellent program which you pre-sented and upon the fine notes em— bodied in your ment. The spirit among the teachers: geles, one each from Escondido,, Ukiah and \Calpella. They are either interested in mining, or in news from home. This week’s mail also brought fournew subscribers for the Californiac Mining Journal. It shows ahat gold mining today is: ahe most imporaant topic before thee public at this time. COMPLIMENTS ON WORKDear Mrs. Austin: I want to express to you my veryfor the cour-— introductory state s excellent and your own work is: certainly deserving of compliment. Vierling Kersey, Superintendent of Public inatraetie and Director of Education. 0—. = this State at present and for manyy COMING INTO NUGGET OFFICE; Mrs. Mary Passen is home fromm an extended visit with Felatives . [oar region.