November 13, 1931 (8 pages)

~ PYRITE KNOWN AS “FOOLS FRIDAY, NOV. 13, 1931 GOLD” HAS VARIOUS USES —_ Pyrite, which, owing to its yellow, color, has so frequently been mistaken for gold as to earn the name of “fools gold”, has @ number of impor-,. tant. commercial uses, according to the United States Bureau of Mines, Department of Commerce. The prin«cipal uses for pyrite are in the manuture of sulphuric acid and sulphite ood pulp. Pyrite is used in smelters as a fluxing agent to furnish iron for the slag. Minor uses of pyrite are dios, jewelry, vermillion paints “or the manufacture of copperas, which is used in dyes, writing ink, ‘wood preservatives, disinfectant, and certain kinds of fertilizers. In late historic times it was used in some of the old wheelock guns. The term pyrites is the indefinite general trade name for any of the jron-sulphide minerals containing from 25 per cent to over 50 per cent of sulphur, says Robert H. Ridgway, mining engineer, in a report recently published by the Bureau of Mines. The minerals composing this group are chiefly pyrite, marcasite, and pyrrhotite. The name pyrite is derived from a Greek word meannig fire and alludes to the brilliant. sparks produced when the mineral is struck with iron. The most important pyrite deposits occur in the province of Huelva, Spain, and the province of Alemtejo, Portugal. Other important deposits occur in Norway, Japan, Italy, Germany, France and the United States. Spain has been the principal source of pyrite for many years and in 1929 it produced about 50 per cent of the world output. Pyrite deposits are widely distriTHE NEVADA. CITY NUGGET, CALIFORNIA of one ton of native sulphur. The f— technical improvements made in the burners of fine pyrite has helped the position of pyrite some, but where fire burners are employed, a dust chamber to arrest the dust earried forward from the furnaces is necessary. With large reserves of native .: sulphur it is not surprising that pyrite is receiving a diminishing percentage of the sulphur market, ' 1 CAMPTONVILLE NEWS NOTES Grove sisters and was made to run a sewing machine of their mother’s withwhom the inventor boarded in _the early days. The wheel is about two feet in diameter and is made of tin, and encased in a tin casing, with @ wooden pully. It is an object of SD 'much interest and has been sought " GAMPTONVILLE, NOV. 13—Mr.! by several museums and collectors. and Mrs. I. W. Musfield and Mr. and; Dressler, who has a large collection a very favorable price* differential gay evening. per unit of sulphur. The principal market for pyrite in the United States is located along Sheriff W. D. Johnson and Deputy William Carter of Downieville were. hook, jin town Tuesday on official business . the Atlantic seaboard where Spanish going to Pike City. pyrite, mined cheaply and favored by. cheap transportation, can compete with native sulphur in the fertilizer industry. The chief market-. Hector Dyer who spent the sum‘mer at Indian Hill Mine left Tuesday for his home in Los Angeles. Erle Pauly motored to Grass Valing point is New York, but there are ley Saturday returning Sunday. subagents at various points along the Atlantic seaboard. The cost of transportation is a controlling factor in the marketing of pyrites, conséquently, only pyrite produced in close proximity to markets for sulphuric acid can be marketed profitably. Most of the domestic pyrite is produced by consuming companies, so that only a small part enters the open market. Pyrite produced in California is marketed in the San Francisco bay region. Some Canadian pyrite. is marketed in the states. The United States imports large quantities of pyrite. Over half of the domestic consumption is met by foreign material. Further details are given in In-! formation Circular No. 6523, copies of which may be obtained from the United States Bureau of Mines, Washington, D. C. SHOVEL AND DREDGE eastern . Where ‘ H . Fred H. Butz confined with illness at that place. S.J. Scanlon of to the lower country. motored to Nevada \City Saturday to visit his wife who is Indian Hill returned Sunday from a week end visit The mrs. Jos. Young and dajtghter of'of similar relics and historical artiuse of pyrte now depends entirely on!North San Juan were ni town Tues-' cles is interested in adding this wheel to his collection. Dressler is an author, his recent “The Pioneer of Rabbit Creek”, featuring the late J. T. Mason of Wownieville, valuable for historical and general interest, has received some very favorable comment. . He markets his books from his pio;neer environment at Pioneer Place, Berkeley, where he has qa rare and unique setting for such work. He journeyed on to Downieville, where it is said he knows every cob wek in every cellar and attic of the Sierran County seat. 0 . and Mrs. J. E. Paul d ; Weaeren, iil ‘teland: a ae: ree! TONOPAH EXTENSION age Williams motored to Marysville Saturday. Eldred Jones, machinery. ' L. F. Lorenz, Los Angeles mining man, arrived a few days ago from the south enroute to his mining property near here. Evan W. Thomas was in visit. Albert Hamilton and Lee BullingAltaview Mine ton have gone to where they will be employed. Mrs. Kate Hope Livingston, mem Fred H. Butz, and M. R. Carlson of the saw mill crew returned Saturday from Poker Flat they took some big mining town from Alleghany Saturday on a brief SILVER MINE REOPENS The Tonopah Extension, the lar‘gest of Nevada's silver-producing mines resumed ber 9th, for the first time since January, when sliver dropped below 30 cents an ounce. Thos. F. Cole, managing director, said that the mine had been ordered ;reopened ‘‘on account of the improvement in prospects for silver’, which reached a new high for 1951 on November,9th of 35%. Work was started in the MeKane shaft at the 1,200 foot level, where there is con~. siderable tonnage of ore ready to be ber of the Yuba County Board of operations Novenia CLARENCE R. GRAY 520 Coyote St. Phone 15 FINE WATCH REPAIRING RADIO SERVICE AND REPAIR Work Called for and Deliveres WINTER DAYS ARE COMING W. H. Osborne NEVADA CITY CLEANERS Cleaning,— Pressing,— Repairing LET US HAVE YOUR WINTER COAT WHILE YOU CAN SPARE IT GRASS VALLEY CLEANERS BEAUTY SHOPPE Toilet Articles. LOUISE MARTIN THE ROSE LEE Hair Dressing and Beauty Work. Famous Adele Miller your phone charges. ED BURTNER, Proprieter. . Phone 375—111 W Main St. Will call Monday and Thursday afternoons at your home and deliver on the next trip over. We will credit EDBIE LEONG Fresh Fruits and eobeoenfesfendesdesbeofediaerdesteobeserfertesteabedtedtestesesfesoe PINE STREET TAMALE PARLOR . extracted. Vegetables 'Bdueation, motored to ieevoriie. ; : ma buted in the United States. No de. ; = Finest o i and posits of commercial importance are T0 BE USED IN WORK ona to attend a meeting of that! j,4se George L. Jones spent a few FRESH FISH f Enchiladas known or are likely to be found in Connecticut, Deleware, Florida, Towa, Kansas, Louisana, Michigan, tons of drag-line shovel, destined for gold dredging work in the old AltCounty Surveyor Jason R, Meek, days in San Francisco on business. Karl Kopp, who has been quite ill accompanied by his grandson, Wm. C All Kinds of Mellons Tamales Always on Hand with pneumonia for several days is INI AT. -have been lost in the past. Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Rhode Island, or Texas. All other states could furnish pyrite under suitable market conditions, although . in Arkansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, and Vermont the probable reserves are small. ‘The world reserves of pyrite are large and widely distributed. Spain, . Japan, Norway, Canada and the Sov-. jet Union are all plenteously supplied with this material. Definite figures concerning the pyrite reserves of the United StSates are not available, but the total amount that could be utilized is very large. os the western states there are large, reserves of pyrite which contain too little gold and silver to be mined at present, but which could be made available should conditions change. The application of selective flotation to base metal sulphide oresin making available quantities of pyrite whicn Pyrites also has been recovered commercially as coal brasses from the washing and cleaning of coal, and is being recovered from the sands at certain gold mines of the Rand, South Africa. { Pyrite as mined is never chemicalj ly pure but contains admixtures of other base metal sulphides. Consequently, pyrite is produced either as a primary mine product or as a byproduct in other minnig operations, depending upon the kind of content of the base metal sulphides or other constituents. As a primary mine product, pyrite must necessarily come large tonnage of ore which is rela-. tively free from worthless or deleterious materials and which can be cheaply mined and transported to, market. Copper, zinc, calcium, magnesium, and sometimes lead are objectionable from the point of view of the acid maker, as they retani sulphur which oxidizes to sulphate and is not available for burning. The lead and zinc otherwise interfere by vovolatilizing. By-product pyrite is usually in the form of fine concentrates produced by selective flotation of base metal ores, although in the past some use has been made of the pyrite and marcasite removed in the treatment of coal. In Spain where the pyrite is cupriferous, the material is often leached after a period of atmospheric weathering. This method recovers a lange percentage of the copper, and the residual ore known as washed pyrite is avaliable for acid making. Pyrites has long been. a competitor of native sulphur in th manufactur of acid and sulphit wood pulp. At present there is a distinct preference for native sulphur because of the ease of obtaining a constant flow of clean sulphur-dioxide gas, and, where necessary, of obtaining higher eoncenrtations of the gas. It is necessary to handle and transport more than two tons of pyrite in order to obtain the equivalent sulphur content FECTIVE house Mining Co., grounds a mile up Meek was in town. on official busiAlthouse creek from Holland,, were being unloaded recently at Waters creek, on the end of the C. and O. C. railroad and treads attached for the start of its journey westward on the Redwood highway. The shovel is one of the two units of massive machinery which will form the dredge of the Josephine Dredge and Mining company, according to Fred MacFarlane, with George L. Marsh, owner of the mining concern. : Both of the owensr of the mining . company are from Chehalis, Washington, where the washing machine unit of the dredge was manufactured. This machinery was shipped directly to the mine by truck and is being assembled. The two units, the shovel and the Covington dredge which includes the washing machine and is operated by two gasoline engines, when mining begins about December ist, will travel along the ground about 35 feet apart, MacFarlane said, cutting and handling gravel in a strip. 60 feet wide and about 300 feet. deep. The! mine runs 600 to 700 feet wide, and the gravel at this point is much shallower than in the Holland vicinity. The bottom of the hole will be dry, premitting hand work in cleaning up the top of the bed-rock, where the best gold values would be expected. In addition the shovel has a small bucket to permit cleaning operations. The large shovel for the major excavation handles 1% yards. Gravel taken from the pit is handeled by the Covington machines and the tailings conveyed back to the hole again, filling it as the two machines proceed. Testing of the gold: property was made over a period of two months, MacFarlane said, and the property taken over on October 1st. One more month will see the dredge in operation. Around 14 or 15 men will be employed, he said, and he declared that except for two or three old hands there would be plenty of experienced miners available in the Holland section to make up the dredge crew. About $40,000 has been invested in the dredging machines by the company. PERSONALS Emil J. Ott received word of the marriage of his sister, Mrs. Emma Blasauf to Dan Murray in San Franesico last Thursday. She resided in Nevada City many years later moving to San Francisco. They will tour the United States on their honeymoon settling in Los Angeles on their return. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Englebright spent the latter part of last week in Jackson. While on his tour of the lode counties he investigated various federal appropriations and the possibilities of further appropriation. ness Monday. A truck load of hay operated by much improved. Dr. Swayze is the attending physician. Free Delivery Guy Robinson of Lime Kiln collided with the touring car of Louie E. Bullington Wednesday on the high“way about four miles south of town, considerable damage being done to the touring car. Bullington’s car was brought to Lang’s Garage for repair, the accident was unavoidable. Mrs. F. S. Labadie motored to Ne(vada City Thursday on a short busi. nes visit. . Hotricultural-Commissoined H. A. {Crane of Marysville was in town ; Thursday. Rev. H. H. Buckner of Nevada City pased through town Thursday enroute to Alleghany. Fred H. Butz and wife motored to Nevada City Wednesday evening where Mrs. Butz remained for a few days, she is suffering from a plural attack. H. C. Kateerhorn of Sacramento arrived Tuesday with a small crew ol men to start the annual Christmas tree business. , Horace Wilson had the misfortune of spraining his ankle Tuesday while coming from work at Indian Hill Mine. Reno A. Zerga and sister, Miss iEva Zerga, motored to Nevada City Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hamilton motored to Nevada City Wednesday on a short business visit. Lawrence Minor and wife of Wenetchee, Washington, were in town Wednesday, guests of Mrs. M. J. Cunningham. Game Warden Carpenter of Yuba City was in town Thursday. Albert Dressler, the world famous “Millionaire Tramp” of Berkeley, . was in town on a short visit Thursday renewing old acquaintances and incidentally looking over the original Pelton Water Wheel with the expectations of buying same, for his large and complete collection of Wheel is the first water wheel of that type that was made by the inventor Lester Allen Pelton, who made the invention on the spot marked by the Pelton monument, erected a few years ago by the local Masonic Lodge of which Pelton was a member. The original wheel is owned by the 0 Subscribe for the Nugget. Hee ——— ;early day relices. The original Pelton . ’ FRATERNAL CARDS NEVADA CITY LODGE, NO. 518 B. P. O. ELKS Meets second and fourth Friday evening in in Elk’s Home, Pine Street, HORACE A. CURNOW. Exalted Ruler A. M. Holmes Secretary. MILO LODGE, No. 48, K. of P. Meets the Ist and 3d Friday nights at Pythian Hall, Morgan and Powell Bldg. Visiting Knights always Welcome. CARL LARSEN. C. GC. J. GO. B. FOSS. K. of R. & 8. : ep 4 Phone 108. Visiting Elks welcome. . Get or that old heater on a new Electric Heater/ OU need a portable electric heater for quick, convenient warmth. Our low electric ' rates make portable electric heating economical.50 Trade in your old heater Your old coal, wood, oil, or portable electric heater is worth $2.50 when you turn it in on a new Wesix Cent-a’Watt electric heater. The Cent-a-Watt sells for $12.50. You obtain it for $10 by turning in your old heater NOW. . The Cent-a-Watt is made especially for heat: ing the air in the bath room, breakfast nook, or : any small room. It is absolutely safe in the children’s room. It is fine for drying hair. Approved by the National Board of Fire Underwriters. Now while this offer is still open, come into our office or a dealer’s store and obtain a heater. Or, better still, telephone your order. Then no matter how many persons take advantage of this offer, you will be sure of your heater immediately. It HEATS Remember, this is not a sale. But it is an offerthat ~people snap up quickly. Those who turn in an old heater will get a new heater for $10. The $10 is pay able in easy payments of $1 a month. Price of Cent-aWatt where old heater is NOT turned in, is $12.50. This offer is also available at your dealer. Paciric GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY Owned Operated Managed by CaliforniansTune in-on General Electric “Home Circle”-KGO 9 a.m. daily except Saturday. “Twilight Hour,” 2:30 Sunday, KPO. 122-1131 20NB 25750 GOOD CLEAN SERVICE . Nevada City California MODERN GLASSES Eye, Ear, Nose and Ott Bldg. . Nevada City Hours 2 to 4 TRY THE. TERMINAL HOTE 60 Market St., SAN FRANCISC \% block from Terminal Station an Ferry Building $ ;' Lte

~ PYRITE KNOWN AS “FOOLS FRIDAY, NOV. 13, 1931 GOLD” HAS VARIOUS USES —_ Pyrite, which, owing to its yellow, color, has so frequently been mistaken for gold as to earn the name of “fools gold”, has @ number of impor-,. tant. commercial uses, according to the United States Bureau of Mines, Department of Commerce. The prin«cipal uses for pyrite are in the manuture of sulphuric acid and sulphite ood pulp. Pyrite is used in smelters as a fluxing agent to furnish iron for the slag. Minor uses of pyrite are dios, jewelry, vermillion paints “or the manufacture of copperas, which is used in dyes, writing ink, ‘wood preservatives, disinfectant, and certain kinds of fertilizers. In late historic times it was used in some of the old wheelock guns. The term pyrites is the indefinite general trade name for any of the jron-sulphide minerals containing from 25 per cent to over 50 per cent of sulphur, says Robert H. Ridgway, mining engineer, in a report recently published by the Bureau of Mines. The minerals composing this group are chiefly pyrite, marcasite, and pyrrhotite. The name pyrite is derived from a Greek word meannig fire and alludes to the brilliant. sparks produced when the mineral is struck with iron. The most important pyrite deposits occur in the province of Huelva, Spain, and the province of Alemtejo, Portugal. Other important deposits occur in Norway, Japan, Italy, Germany, France and the United States. Spain has been the principal source of pyrite for many years and in 1929 it produced about 50 per cent of the world output. Pyrite deposits are widely distriTHE NEVADA. CITY NUGGET, CALIFORNIA of one ton of native sulphur. The f— technical improvements made in the burners of fine pyrite has helped the position of pyrite some, but where fire burners are employed, a dust chamber to arrest the dust earried forward from the furnaces is necessary. With large reserves of native .: sulphur it is not surprising that pyrite is receiving a diminishing percentage of the sulphur market, ' 1 CAMPTONVILLE NEWS NOTES Grove sisters and was made to run a sewing machine of their mother’s withwhom the inventor boarded in _the early days. The wheel is about two feet in diameter and is made of tin, and encased in a tin casing, with @ wooden pully. It is an object of SD 'much interest and has been sought " GAMPTONVILLE, NOV. 13—Mr.! by several museums and collectors. and Mrs. I. W. Musfield and Mr. and; Dressler, who has a large collection a very favorable price* differential gay evening. per unit of sulphur. The principal market for pyrite in the United States is located along Sheriff W. D. Johnson and Deputy William Carter of Downieville were. hook, jin town Tuesday on official business . the Atlantic seaboard where Spanish going to Pike City. pyrite, mined cheaply and favored by. cheap transportation, can compete with native sulphur in the fertilizer industry. The chief market-. Hector Dyer who spent the sum‘mer at Indian Hill Mine left Tuesday for his home in Los Angeles. Erle Pauly motored to Grass Valing point is New York, but there are ley Saturday returning Sunday. subagents at various points along the Atlantic seaboard. The cost of transportation is a controlling factor in the marketing of pyrites, conséquently, only pyrite produced in close proximity to markets for sulphuric acid can be marketed profitably. Most of the domestic pyrite is produced by consuming companies, so that only a small part enters the open market. Pyrite produced in California is marketed in the San Francisco bay region. Some Canadian pyrite. is marketed in the states. The United States imports large quantities of pyrite. Over half of the domestic consumption is met by foreign material. Further details are given in In-! formation Circular No. 6523, copies of which may be obtained from the United States Bureau of Mines, Washington, D. C. SHOVEL AND DREDGE eastern . Where ‘ H . Fred H. Butz confined with illness at that place. S.J. Scanlon of to the lower country. motored to Nevada \City Saturday to visit his wife who is Indian Hill returned Sunday from a week end visit The mrs. Jos. Young and dajtghter of'of similar relics and historical artiuse of pyrte now depends entirely on!North San Juan were ni town Tues-' cles is interested in adding this wheel to his collection. Dressler is an author, his recent “The Pioneer of Rabbit Creek”, featuring the late J. T. Mason of Wownieville, valuable for historical and general interest, has received some very favorable comment. . He markets his books from his pio;neer environment at Pioneer Place, Berkeley, where he has qa rare and unique setting for such work. He journeyed on to Downieville, where it is said he knows every cob wek in every cellar and attic of the Sierran County seat. 0 . and Mrs. J. E. Paul d ; Weaeren, iil ‘teland: a ae: ree! TONOPAH EXTENSION age Williams motored to Marysville Saturday. Eldred Jones, machinery. ' L. F. Lorenz, Los Angeles mining man, arrived a few days ago from the south enroute to his mining property near here. Evan W. Thomas was in visit. Albert Hamilton and Lee BullingAltaview Mine ton have gone to where they will be employed. Mrs. Kate Hope Livingston, mem Fred H. Butz, and M. R. Carlson of the saw mill crew returned Saturday from Poker Flat they took some big mining town from Alleghany Saturday on a brief SILVER MINE REOPENS The Tonopah Extension, the lar‘gest of Nevada's silver-producing mines resumed ber 9th, for the first time since January, when sliver dropped below 30 cents an ounce. Thos. F. Cole, managing director, said that the mine had been ordered ;reopened ‘‘on account of the improvement in prospects for silver’, which reached a new high for 1951 on November,9th of 35%. Work was started in the MeKane shaft at the 1,200 foot level, where there is con~. siderable tonnage of ore ready to be ber of the Yuba County Board of operations Novenia CLARENCE R. GRAY 520 Coyote St. Phone 15 FINE WATCH REPAIRING RADIO SERVICE AND REPAIR Work Called for and Deliveres WINTER DAYS ARE COMING W. H. Osborne NEVADA CITY CLEANERS Cleaning,— Pressing,— Repairing LET US HAVE YOUR WINTER COAT WHILE YOU CAN SPARE IT GRASS VALLEY CLEANERS BEAUTY SHOPPE Toilet Articles. LOUISE MARTIN THE ROSE LEE Hair Dressing and Beauty Work. Famous Adele Miller your phone charges. ED BURTNER, Proprieter. . Phone 375—111 W Main St. Will call Monday and Thursday afternoons at your home and deliver on the next trip over. We will credit EDBIE LEONG Fresh Fruits and eobeoenfesfendesdesbeofediaerdesteobeserfertesteabedtedtestesesfesoe PINE STREET TAMALE PARLOR . extracted. Vegetables 'Bdueation, motored to ieevoriie. ; : ma buted in the United States. No de. ; = Finest o i and posits of commercial importance are T0 BE USED IN WORK ona to attend a meeting of that! j,4se George L. Jones spent a few FRESH FISH f Enchiladas known or are likely to be found in Connecticut, Deleware, Florida, Towa, Kansas, Louisana, Michigan, tons of drag-line shovel, destined for gold dredging work in the old AltCounty Surveyor Jason R, Meek, days in San Francisco on business. Karl Kopp, who has been quite ill accompanied by his grandson, Wm. C All Kinds of Mellons Tamales Always on Hand with pneumonia for several days is INI AT. -have been lost in the past. Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Rhode Island, or Texas. All other states could furnish pyrite under suitable market conditions, although . in Arkansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, and Vermont the probable reserves are small. ‘The world reserves of pyrite are large and widely distributed. Spain, . Japan, Norway, Canada and the Sov-. jet Union are all plenteously supplied with this material. Definite figures concerning the pyrite reserves of the United StSates are not available, but the total amount that could be utilized is very large. os the western states there are large, reserves of pyrite which contain too little gold and silver to be mined at present, but which could be made available should conditions change. The application of selective flotation to base metal sulphide oresin making available quantities of pyrite whicn

Pyrites also has been recovered commercially as coal brasses from the washing and cleaning of coal, and is being recovered from the sands at certain gold mines of the Rand, South Africa. { Pyrite as mined is never chemicalj ly pure but contains admixtures of other base metal sulphides. Consequently, pyrite is produced either as a primary mine product or as a byproduct in other minnig operations, depending upon the kind of content of the base metal sulphides or other constituents. As a primary mine product, pyrite must necessarily come large tonnage of ore which is rela-. tively free from worthless or deleterious materials and which can be cheaply mined and transported to, market. Copper, zinc, calcium, magnesium, and sometimes lead are objectionable from the point of view of the acid maker, as they retani sulphur which oxidizes to sulphate and is not available for burning. The lead and zinc otherwise interfere by vovolatilizing. By-product pyrite is usually in the form of fine concentrates produced by selective flotation of base metal ores, although in the past some use has been made of the pyrite and marcasite removed in the treatment of coal. In Spain where the pyrite is cupriferous, the material is often leached after a period of atmospheric weathering. This method recovers a lange percentage of the copper, and the residual ore known as washed pyrite is avaliable for acid making. Pyrites has long been. a competitor of native sulphur in th manufactur of acid and sulphit wood pulp. At present there is a distinct preference for native sulphur because of the ease of obtaining a constant flow of clean sulphur-dioxide gas, and, where necessary, of obtaining higher eoncenrtations of the gas. It is necessary to handle and transport more than two tons of pyrite in order to obtain the equivalent sulphur content FECTIVE house Mining Co., grounds a mile up Meek was in town. on official busiAlthouse creek from Holland,, were being unloaded recently at Waters creek, on the end of the C. and O. C. railroad and treads attached for the start of its journey westward on the Redwood highway. The shovel is one of the two units of massive machinery which will form the dredge of the Josephine Dredge and Mining company, according to Fred MacFarlane, with George L. Marsh, owner of the mining concern. : Both of the owensr of the mining . company are from Chehalis, Washington, where the washing machine unit of the dredge was manufactured. This machinery was shipped directly to the mine by truck and is being assembled. The two units, the shovel and the Covington dredge which includes the washing machine and is operated by two gasoline engines, when mining begins about December ist, will travel along the ground about 35 feet apart, MacFarlane said, cutting and handling gravel in a strip. 60 feet wide and about 300 feet. deep. The! mine runs 600 to 700 feet wide, and the gravel at this point is much shallower than in the Holland vicinity. The bottom of the hole will be dry, premitting hand work in cleaning up the top of the bed-rock, where the best gold values would be expected. In addition the shovel has a small bucket to permit cleaning operations. The large shovel for the major excavation handles 1% yards. Gravel taken from the pit is handeled by the Covington machines and the tailings conveyed back to the hole again, filling it as the two machines proceed. Testing of the gold: property was made over a period of two months, MacFarlane said, and the property taken over on October 1st. One more month will see the dredge in operation. Around 14 or 15 men will be employed, he said, and he declared that except for two or three old hands there would be plenty of experienced miners available in the Holland section to make up the dredge crew. About $40,000 has been invested in the dredging machines by the company. PERSONALS Emil J. Ott received word of the marriage of his sister, Mrs. Emma Blasauf to Dan Murray in San Franesico last Thursday. She resided in Nevada City many years later moving to San Francisco. They will tour the United States on their honeymoon settling in Los Angeles on their return. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Englebright spent the latter part of last week in Jackson. While on his tour of the lode counties he investigated various federal appropriations and the possibilities of further appropriation. ness Monday. A truck load of hay operated by much improved. Dr. Swayze is the attending physician. Free Delivery Guy Robinson of Lime Kiln collided with the touring car of Louie E. Bullington Wednesday on the high“way about four miles south of town, considerable damage being done to the touring car. Bullington’s car was brought to Lang’s Garage for repair, the accident was unavoidable. Mrs. F. S. Labadie motored to Ne(vada City Thursday on a short busi. nes visit. . Hotricultural-Commissoined H. A. {Crane of Marysville was in town ; Thursday. Rev. H. H. Buckner of Nevada City pased through town Thursday enroute to Alleghany. Fred H. Butz and wife motored to Nevada City Wednesday evening where Mrs. Butz remained for a few days, she is suffering from a plural attack. H. C. Kateerhorn of Sacramento arrived Tuesday with a small crew ol men to start the annual Christmas tree business. , Horace Wilson had the misfortune of spraining his ankle Tuesday while coming from work at Indian Hill Mine. Reno A. Zerga and sister, Miss iEva Zerga, motored to Nevada City Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hamilton motored to Nevada City Wednesday on a short business visit. Lawrence Minor and wife of Wenetchee, Washington, were in town Wednesday, guests of Mrs. M. J. Cunningham. Game Warden Carpenter of Yuba City was in town Thursday. Albert Dressler, the world famous “Millionaire Tramp” of Berkeley, . was in town on a short visit Thursday renewing old acquaintances and incidentally looking over the original Pelton Water Wheel with the expectations of buying same, for his large and complete collection of Wheel is the first water wheel of that type that was made by the inventor Lester Allen Pelton, who made the invention on the spot marked by the Pelton monument, erected a few years ago by the local Masonic Lodge of which Pelton was a member. The original wheel is owned by the 0 Subscribe for the Nugget. Hee ——— ;early day relices. The original Pelton . ’ FRATERNAL CARDS NEVADA CITY LODGE, NO. 518 B. P. O. ELKS Meets second and fourth Friday evening in in Elk’s Home, Pine Street, HORACE A. CURNOW. Exalted Ruler A. M. Holmes Secretary. MILO LODGE, No. 48, K. of P. Meets the Ist and 3d Friday nights at Pythian Hall, Morgan and Powell Bldg. Visiting Knights always Welcome. CARL LARSEN. C. GC. J. GO. B. FOSS. K. of R. & 8. : ep 4 Phone 108. Visiting Elks welcome. . Get or that old heater on a new Electric Heater/ OU need a portable electric heater for quick, convenient warmth. Our low electric ' rates make portable electric heating economical.50 Trade in your old heater Your old coal, wood, oil, or portable electric heater is worth $2.50 when you turn it in on a new Wesix Cent-a’Watt electric heater. The Cent-a-Watt sells for $12.50. You obtain it for $10 by turning in your old heater NOW. . The Cent-a-Watt is made especially for heat: ing the air in the bath room, breakfast nook, or : any small room. It is absolutely safe in the children’s room. It is fine for drying hair. Approved by the National Board of Fire Underwriters. Now while this offer is still open, come into our office or a dealer’s store and obtain a heater. Or, better still, telephone your order. Then no matter how many persons take advantage of this offer, you will be sure of your heater immediately. It HEATS Remember, this is not a sale. But it is an offerthat ~people snap up quickly. Those who turn in an old heater will get a new heater for $10. The $10 is pay able in easy payments of $1 a month. Price of Cent-aWatt where old heater is NOT turned in, is $12.50. This offer is also available at your dealer. Paciric GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY Owned Operated Managed by CaliforniansTune in-on General Electric “Home Circle”-KGO 9 a.m. daily except Saturday. “Twilight Hour,” 2:30 Sunday, KPO. 122-1131 20NB 25750 GOOD CLEAN SERVICE . Nevada City California MODERN GLASSES Eye, Ear, Nose and Ott Bldg. . Nevada City Hours 2 to 4 TRY THE.. TERMINAL HOTE 60 Market St., SAN FRANCISC \% block from Terminal Station an Ferry Building $ ;' Lte