November 14, 1932 (4 pages)

aa . NEVADA CITY . Where Climate, Good ‘Water and Gold Invite the World. Nevada ity Nugget Published i in The Best Little City in the Mother Lode District s fa re nm Nevada City. Nugget _ LIVE. NEWSPAPER published in a live town. _——— en VOL. VII, No. 7 The GOLD Centér _ NEVADA CITY, CALIF ORNIA eaneiaeneameete WORK STARTS — TODAY ON NEW LABOR CAMP Surveying and Other Preliminary Work is Under Way Today Work has been started today on the new Unemployed Camp on the outskirts of Nevada City. The camp is located on the Grass Valley highway. between Nevada City and Town Talk. Surveying work and preliminary details are being done now and in a day or tWo actual construction work will begin. At that time from 12. to 14 men will be employed in the actual. construction of the camp buildings. 2 William Sharp, fire chief of the Nevada County district, is in charge of work being done and will continue to supervise the work of the unemployed in their work on the highways and timber roads. The ‘buildings being put up now at the Unemployed Camp are to be -wooden structures of mammoth proportoins. The two buildings, according to plans now in possession of Sharp, will be 18 feet wide by 96 feet long and will have 8 foot high walls. One of the buildings will be a dormatory and will accomodate 100 men during the night time. Bunks will be built two high and which is equal to doubling the floor space. The other buildnig of the same proportions will be a cook house and @ining room. It will: be divided into the two sections: and the necessary built-ins will be installed. At the completion of the construction work on the camp, about 100 unemployed single men will be put to work from those headquarters. Although some of the men will come from Nevada County, it is expected that most of the men will hail from around Sacramento, where the percentage of unemployed men is very much greater than it is in this county. The men will be put to work on the maintainence of the Tahoe-Uhiah highway and on the construction of several timber roads around Nevada “County. This work will last until probably the first of April, next year. Work done by the same group last year, lasted until April and the same quitting time is expected for 1932 and 1933. WELL KNOWN GRASS VALLEY RESIDENT DIES After an illness lingering over the past few months, William R. Jefford of Grass Valley passed away at his home yesterday afternoon. His death had been expected for some time due to his sinus-asthmatic condition. The deceased was born in 1875 in Cornwall, England. For the past 5 years he was a resident of Grass Valley and was the head of the Jefford and Son Funeral Parlors. Prior to the moving of the Jefford family to Grass Valley, they had lived for 27 years in Idaho and Utah. Besides his widow, three daughters and a son. Jefford leaves 6 grand-children in Grass Valley. He also has a brother, three sisters and numerous nieces and nephews in Engtand. The funeral services were private and were held this mornings at 10 o'clock from the chappel of the Jefford Funeral Parlors. JOHN J. FORTIER WINS FIRST PRIZE IN CONTEST John’J. Fortier, Assistant Cashier, Nevada City Branch Bank of Americay has just recently: received congratulations from San ° Francisco Headquarters with a Cashier’s Check for $10.00 for being selected as the wwinner of First Prize in District No. 2 under the ‘“‘True Story’’ Contest, conducted by the Business Extension Department of the Bank. District No. 2 comprises some 36 branches with a large personnel and the honor of receiving first prize is considered a signal accomplishment. A copy of the ‘‘True Story”’ as presented by Mr. Fortier, will appear in the “Bank of America,” a monthly paper issued by the Bank te use the constructive thoughts in inspiring and helping others in. the Deposit Building Campaign. _/ ARMISTICE DAY DRAWS CROWD TO THIS CITY. Starting their Armistice Day celebration with a parade through the streets of Nevada City last Friday morning shortly after 10:30, the Banner Mountain Post No. 2655 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars staged a real successfull day. It was the first celebration for Armistice Day held in Nevada City for several yearn. At the head of the parade ,Max Weiss of this City led his brother Vets from upper Broad street down through town to the Plaza. Following the Vets. came the High school band under Mr. Sweeny, High School instructor. The band is composed of both girls and boys. Their playing was enjoyed by the many residents and visitors that lined the streets. _. After the band came the grammar school students They marched with teachers in the order of the grades. That is. the first grade first, then the second grade and so on ‘through to the eighth grade. It was interesting to note how the children incréased in size and height as the higher grades came on. After gaining the plaza, the parade turned left and came up: Commercial street to Pine street and then marched up to Broad and. down to the front of the Odd Fellows hall. The parade was a huge success in every way and showed some fine civic spirit. _The participants joined with a will and their efforts were heartily approved of by the hundreds that lined the streets. Perhaps the only dissenting was given out by two old women gossipérs. They had no comment to make that was not of a critical nature. Catch a load o fthis: ‘‘There goes Mr. Blank, doesn’t he look funny in that, trick coat. He’s Mrs. so and so’s step son, He’s way out of step. And -there’s that new lady-up-thestreet’s daughter. Just look at the paint. She looks like she’s been up all night too. Look, here comes that what cha-macallemgirl. Imagine, using high heels for a parade. I hope they hurt-her feet. ’ Ete, etc, untii far down the street. The writer could not stand it any longer and being a gentleman left without comment. It was just just a case of jealousy; those two gossipers knew how funny they looked andthey wanted to bring someone else down to ‘their level. In front of the Odd Fellows hall Judge Raglan Tuttle then gave an address. He commended thev. F. W. for it’s splendid endeavor. Giving a brief outline of events from prior to the war up untill today, he told of our position in the world powers at the present time. An emphasis was given to the fact that to preserve our peace;-we must maintain adequate standing war forces. Reverend Buckley led the crowd in prayer and floral offerings were given the rembrance of/ departed veterans. Their roll call was given also, which was followed by taps. The high school band rendered several selections and the congregated people’ Joined in icucss “America.”’ The Roseville post under Commander Helmers aided materially in the successful staging of events. District Commander Williams of the United States Navy was also in attendance, although suffering from .a broken leg. He took charge of the open meeting in the afternoon where the two candidates were initiated. Gold buttons were presented to Wm. Zanocco and John Marks for the honor of getting five or more new members for the post. The ladies auxiliary gave a lunch fo: the veterans. That was followed by an open meeting at which the public attended, from 1 till 2 o’clock. Following the meeting came the publie¢ card party until 4. A supper was given for the public at 6 o’clock and at 7:30 another card party was given until 10 o’clock. The card parties were well attended and were enjoyed by many. The whole day was a huge success and more like it are looked forward to in years to come. A telegram received this noon from Bill. Rodda. of Minneapolis, states that with his family he will visit Nevada ‘City for a vacation period starting sometime during the latter part of this week. They will be accompanied by Bill’s brother, John Rodda and his wife from Berkeley. Both men were former residents of Nevada County for. many years,-John being born in Nevada City and Bill in Grass Valley. on a large scale or not. MUCH ACTIVITY IN QUAKER HILL DISTRICT Hydraulic gold mining is being tehtatively developed on a number of properties in the Quaker Hill district several miles east of Nevada City. Although a large portion of the gravel has been washed away in the old days, there are still many millions of virgin gold-bearing gravel waiting to be mined. There is more activity there now than there has been for many years. Some of the properties though net being worked at this time, have changed hands or been let ouf oa option, and.the whole district has good possibilities of having a very busy mining section next year. It is understood that an option on the nearly 180 acres owned by Martin Delali on the north side of the Greenhorn River, has been sold last week to a group -of Los Angeles people. There is no work being done on the piece at this time, but preliminary sampling and prospecting has been done and it is expected that development work will be started by next spring. Near the Delali property but on the other side of the Greenhorn River, is the Scott’s Flat Hydraulic mine. John W. Scott, mining engineer in charge has put a few men to work on that piece. Work is proare just feeling their way along and will later decide whether to go ahead Work is being done at a minimum expense while the men are preparing to run through a certain number of yards of gravel. The worth of gold recovered from the specified amount. of gravel will give the average gold valuse contained in the property. By the time this test run of gravel has been made, Scott will have figured out the average production cost per cubic yard. With that knowledge at hand he will then decide whether to go ahead with hydraulic plans or not. An ample supply of water is available for piping and power purposes. It is known that two brothers are preparing for sluicing work in the Scott’s Flat section next spring. They have obtained ground and water rights. At present they are buying working equipment and will spend a part of the winter in preparing for the contemplated work. Prospecting work has been completed and the boys are well satisfied with their probable returns. Above the’ Scott’s Flat district and to the north-east, is a _ hydraulic mine being developed by Lincoln Brodt of Piedmont, California. For the past several months, Brodt, an experienced mining man, has been developing his property. It is understood that he is now engaged in building water flumes to the property. Brodt left yesterday for his home in the bay region where he will spend several weeks before returning to active work on the mine. Another mine in the Quaker Hill district that has great possibilities, is the Tom and Jerry hydraulic mine being held by William Fenton, Dr. R. F. Werger and the Bickel interests. Actual mining progress on the mine has been held up of late due to litigation difficulties. The mine is fully equipped and ready to go as soon as Waster rights are established and legal differqnces straightened out. ‘LANTERN SHOP OPENED TO PUBLIC SATURDAY Are you looking for a gift and do not know just what to givé? That doubt can be dispelled by a visit to the Lantern Shop, the new gift store and Circulating Library opend by Lloyd Penrose at 108 Pine Street, Saturday. Lloyd has displayed much originality and taste in the selection and arrangement of the shop and this new addition to the business section . of Nevada City has a very promising future. On the opening day many expressed their surprise at the many artistic things to be found there. “Mr. Penrose is well known here, as he has lived here all his life and is a graduate of the Nevada City high school and the Nugget joins With his many friends in wishing him much success in this new business venture. Mt. Shasta—Mr. and Mrs. W._P. Geisendorfer, opened gift shop i 7 northern section of town. gressing slowly as Scott says they . . *. making a total burned acreage of ‘thre times in Yuba County and four The County Seat Paper MONDAY, NOV ie 932 Here’s a Flying Steam Roller — ee Cn ares mes, you can or not, here’s a picture Can you imagine a steam roller dangling in the air? the ground—a sight that would make an imbiber sign the: pledge. When this giant steam roller was hoisted into a Los Angeles steamer, it was claimed to be one of the heaviest lifts on record. "Whether of one swaying some feet above . ground as Tamblyn rolled over the for the Nevada City team over one NEVADA cry VICTOR OVER SAN JUAN HL Hard Fought Ga Game Goes ta Local Team Last Friday Afternoon Six times last Friday afternoon passes were thrown in the general direction of Bob Tamblyn and five times Tamblyn snared passes without a bobble. One of those passes was scooped just inches off of the goal line hugging the pigskin to hig chest. That bit of play gave Neé= vada City a 7 to 6 lead over San ~— Juan high school by converting — Oates’ touchdown. Another pass grabbed out of the blue sky by Nevada City’s right end was responsible for the local eens second touchdown. <In all it Was a wonderful victory CONSIDERABLE DECREASE IN FIRES HERE THIS YEAR Figures just released by William Sharp, State Fire Chief in charge of Nevada County, show that the number of firers and the damage done during 1932 was very much less than for the \year of 1931. Corres< pondingly low was the fire cost to the state for this district. ~ During the.1932 season, fire rangers from the Nevada City office were4 sent’ out to a total of only 68 fires. Of this number 12’ were false alarms and so the number\of fires actually worked on was but. 56 for the year. This compares very ‘favorably with the 138 fires of last year. The season this ‘year was from May thé 24th until October the 31st During that period the\56 actual fires burned a total of 116 acres of timber land and 1611 acres of brush and range land in Nevada\ County, 1727 for the year. This seems an extremely low figure when stacked up against the over 21,000 acres that were burned in Nevada County last year. A total of $271.00 damage was done by the fires this year. $35.00 of that was done to the timber land, while the balance, $236.00, was done to the brush and range land. Costs for additional help during the past season, amounted to only $18.25 for labor and $21.70 for transportation. The cost for the regular fire crew was $2250.00. This latter figure covers the cost of food, salaries and incidentals for the average crew of 15 men kept in the Nevada City headquarters during the regular season. It does not include Fire Chief Sharp nor his Assistant Chief, Howe. Again a favorable comparison can be made witn the 1931 figures. Last year the total cost went over $11,000.00. From the above figures it appears that many of last year’s fires were set by men for mercenary reasons. In 1931, the state paid men _ for their fire fighting work when they were pressed into service. This year that has been done away with and except in extreme cass, only the regular crew is used for fire fighting. Their work has been very satisfactory from a fire fighting standpoint as the figures prove. In all, the system now employed seems to be achieving the desired result—Smaller fires and less of them. Besides the efficient work done in Nevada County, Sharp reports that his men aided in fire fighting work times in Placer County, during 1932. CRACKS IN BATTERY Presence of moisture on top of the storage battery and container is evidénce of a crack in the compound used to seal the jars, according to the Free Emergency Road Service of the California State Automobile Association. Unless such leaks are remedied quickly the gravity of the leaky cell will be lowered, as théy permit loss of acid which is replaced by distilled water. ee Burlingame—Shell Oil Company to. erect néw service station at Budlingame Avenue and El Camino Real SKI CLUB BENEFIT CARD PARTY TOMORROW NITE The Nevada City and Grass Valley Ski ¢lub hds' made: final plans for areal lively card party at the Elks Hall in Nevada City tomorrow hight. Miss Bernice Clemo and Mrs. Lola Worth, both of this city, have spent two weeks of endevour in preparation work for the event. They have secured many prizes from loeal firms and individuals. The successful staging of the party is a forgone conclusion. Bridge games, whist games and Mah Jjong games will be held so that folks may chose their favorite indoor sport. They will even be permitted to change around if their luck does not come up to expectations in their chosen game. The prizes to be donated for the most skillful have been given by the following: Mrs. W. E. Wright, The Betty,, Jean Shoppe, Keystone Market, National Miarket, George Hitchens, Alpha Hardware and Supply Company, H. E. Bolton‘s Variety Store, Miss Minnie Brand, Colley’s Candy Store, Foley’s_ Dickerman’s Drug _ Store, Harris Pharmacy, Lantern Shop, Kopp’s Bakery, Nevada City Garage, Rose Lee Beauty Shoppe, Parson’s Barren Hill Nursery, Plaza Grocery, Penrose Grocery, The Lace House; Twit Cities Clothing Store, Jackson’s Grocery and BE. W. Schreiber. Home made cakes will be served with the refreshments that people attending will have access to. Ladies interested in the well fare of the Ski Club have made these cake donations and they are guaranteed to.make your mouth water. ‘The door prize a huge turkey, will be given by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Worth and Miss Bernice M. Clemvu. Added attractions not enumerated here will. be sprung on the unsuspecting public and a whale of a good time is guaranteed for all. The admission price is. only 50 cents. Don’t forget—Tomorrow Night at The Elks Hall! OPEN SEASON ON BAND TAILED PIGEONS SOON CAMPTONVILLE, Nov. 12.—The Fish and Game Commission has made an. announcement that there will be an open season on band-tailed pigeons from December 1 to 15 inclusive, in California this year. The bag limit is placed at 10 per day and any person at any one time may possess not to exceed 10, thus the daily limit and number of pigeons in possession at one time are the same, Candy Store, While the state game laws do not ed pigeons the federal game laws allow the season and bag limit as above defined. The state game wardens will enforce the season and limit as they all hold appointment as federal gamé wardens. There are quite a large number of these pigeons inthis section, feeding at this time upon madrone berties. -In-the spring and summer atc f $6,00. chards. 'school last week and had to be con~ provide an open season on band-tail-}. months they infest local cherry or: of the strongest high school teams in the valley. San Juan High school of Fair Oaks is said to have been the only team to hold the strong undefeated Cortland high eleven ta a tie game in the last three seasons. And then coming up here Armistice day after an early season 13 to 2@ victory over the local team, San Juan high was presented with as neat a@ pasting to the tune of 13 to 6 as you would want to see. “Playing without the services of their star back, Ralph Pierce, the — light but fast local team played their — 17 pounds to the man heavier opponents practically off their feet. The game was clean and hard fought throughout and showed the towns-= folk here that we have a mighty good football team for the first —— turnout. Ralph Pierce suffered a smashed finger in moving rock at the high tent with watching proceedings from the sidelines. With him in there, Nevada City might well have run up another touchdown. Starting the game by receiving and bringing the ball back to the 26 yard line, in three downs Nevada City made 6 yards. Pulling a fast one, instead of punting, Chapman passed to Tamblyn for a 24 yaré gain. For the rest of the quarter Nevada City was continually on the offense in San Juan territory. Buz Chapman, flashy halfback for the locals, made the mistake early in. the game of running too far back with the ball on end runs. He was usually downed for.a loss on those attempts ,one time for 17 yards. Early in the second quarter, Ne~ vada City on her own 16-yard line was forced to punt .on fourth down. Between Chapman’s getting the ball away too slowly and a San Juan end breaking . through, the punt was blocked. The ball bounded over the goal line and a San Juan player fell on it for a touchdown. The place kick for extra point went wild. San Juan 6, Nevada City 0. That was a discouraging break and many thought the locals were licked. But not so. Instead the boys came back twice as hard and pushed San Juan all over the field. A reverse, a spin play, two line plunges, a pass and another reverse, Nevada City had the ball in San Juan territory. Starting an end run, passed far to the right side of the field to Chapman. Running in full stride, Nevada .City’s fast back stretched to the utmost and barely picked the ball out of the air with — his finger tips. Running around two San Juan players, Chapman was finally out of bounds on the . yard line for a gain of 34 yards. Aided by a five yard penalty, Oates plunged the ball over in three” downs. Score, 6 up. : Lining up for the try San’ extra, point, Elmer Oates ran back to pass. A San Juan player chasing hi i nally grabbed him by the left arm. As he was being swung aound, Oates let the ball fly with his free arm in the direction of iblyn That player scooped the ball as before described and Nevada was leading by a point, 6 . The balance of the half w even, with, Nevada City slight edge due to su fa. 34-3

aa . NEVADA CITY . Where Climate, Good ‘Water and Gold Invite the World. Nevada ity Nugget Published i in The Best Little City in the Mother Lode District s fa re nm Nevada City. Nugget _ LIVE. NEWSPAPER published in a live town. _——— en VOL. VII, No. 7 The GOLD Centér _ NEVADA CITY, CALIF ORNIA eaneiaeneameete WORK STARTS — TODAY ON NEW LABOR CAMP Surveying and Other Preliminary Work is Under Way Today Work has been started today on the new Unemployed Camp on the outskirts of Nevada City. The camp is located on the Grass Valley highway. between Nevada City and Town Talk. Surveying work and preliminary details are being done now and in a day or tWo actual construction work will begin. At that time from 12. to 14 men will be employed in the actual. construction of the camp buildings. 2 William Sharp, fire chief of the Nevada County district, is in charge of work being done and will continue to supervise the work of the unemployed in their work on the highways and timber roads. The ‘buildings being put up now at the Unemployed Camp are to be -wooden structures of mammoth proportoins. The two buildings, according to plans now in possession of Sharp, will be 18 feet wide by 96 feet long and will have 8 foot high walls. One of the buildings will be a dormatory and will accomodate 100 men during the night time. Bunks will be built two high and which is equal to doubling the floor space. The other buildnig of the same proportions will be a cook house and @ining room. It will: be divided into the two sections: and the necessary built-ins will be installed. At the completion of the construction work on the camp, about 100 unemployed single men will be put to work from those headquarters. Although some of the men will come from Nevada County, it is expected that most of the men will hail from around Sacramento, where the percentage of unemployed men is very much greater than it is in this county. The men will be put to work on the maintainence of the Tahoe-Uhiah highway and on the construction of several timber roads around Nevada “County. This work will last until probably the first of April, next year. Work done by the same group last year, lasted until April and the same quitting time is expected for 1932 and 1933. WELL KNOWN GRASS VALLEY RESIDENT DIES After an illness lingering over the past few months, William R. Jefford of Grass Valley passed away at his home yesterday afternoon. His death had been expected for some time due to his sinus-asthmatic condition. The deceased was born in 1875 in Cornwall, England. For the past 5 years he was a resident of Grass Valley and was the head of the Jefford and Son Funeral Parlors. Prior to the moving of the Jefford family to Grass Valley, they had lived for 27 years in Idaho and Utah. Besides his widow, three daughters and a son. Jefford leaves 6 grand-children in Grass Valley. He also has a brother, three sisters and numerous nieces and nephews in Engtand. The funeral services were private and were held this mornings at 10 o'clock from the chappel of the Jefford Funeral Parlors. JOHN J. FORTIER WINS FIRST PRIZE IN CONTEST John’J. Fortier, Assistant Cashier, Nevada City Branch Bank of Americay has just recently: received congratulations from San ° Francisco Headquarters with a Cashier’s Check for $10.00 for being selected as the wwinner of First Prize in District No. 2 under the ‘“‘True Story’’ Contest, conducted by the Business Extension Department of the Bank. District No. 2 comprises some 36 branches with a large personnel and the honor of receiving first prize is considered a signal accomplishment. A copy of the ‘‘True Story”’ as presented by Mr. Fortier, will appear in the “Bank of America,” a monthly paper issued by the Bank te use the constructive thoughts in inspiring and helping others in. the Deposit Building Campaign. _/ ARMISTICE DAY DRAWS CROWD TO THIS CITY. Starting their Armistice Day celebration with a parade through the streets of Nevada City last Friday morning shortly after 10:30, the Banner Mountain Post No. 2655 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars staged a real successfull day. It was the first celebration for Armistice Day held in Nevada City for several yearn. At the head of the parade ,Max Weiss of this City led his brother Vets from upper Broad street down through town to the Plaza. Following the Vets. came the High school band under Mr. Sweeny, High School instructor. The band is composed of both girls and boys. Their playing was enjoyed by the many residents and visitors that lined the streets. _. After the band came the grammar school students They marched with teachers in the order of the grades. That is. the first grade first, then the second grade and so on ‘through to the eighth grade. It was interesting to note how the children incréased in size and height as the higher grades came on. After gaining the plaza, the parade turned left and came up: Commercial street to Pine street and then marched up to Broad and. down to the front of the Odd Fellows hall. The parade was a huge success in every way and showed some fine civic spirit. _The participants joined with a will and their efforts were heartily approved of by the hundreds that lined the streets. Perhaps the only dissenting was given out by two old women gossipérs. They had no comment to make that was not of a critical nature. Catch a load o fthis: ‘‘There goes Mr. Blank, doesn’t he look funny in that, trick coat. He’s Mrs. so and so’s step son, He’s way out of step. And -there’s that new lady-up-thestreet’s daughter. Just look at the paint. She looks like she’s been up all night too. Look, here comes that what cha-macallemgirl. Imagine, using high heels for a parade. I hope they hurt-her feet. ’ Ete, etc, untii far down the street. The writer could not stand it any longer and being a gentleman left without comment. It was just just a case of jealousy; those two gossipers knew how funny they looked andthey wanted to bring someone else down to ‘their level. In front of the Odd Fellows hall Judge Raglan Tuttle then gave an address. He commended thev. F. W. for it’s splendid endeavor. Giving a brief outline of events from prior to the war up untill today, he told of our position in the world powers at the present time. An emphasis was given to the fact that to preserve our peace;-we must maintain adequate standing war forces. Reverend Buckley led the crowd in prayer and floral offerings were given the rembrance of/ departed veterans. Their roll call was given also, which was followed by taps. The high school band rendered several selections and the congregated people’ Joined in icucss “America.”’ The Roseville post under Commander Helmers aided materially in the successful staging of events. District Commander Williams of the United States Navy was also in attendance, although suffering from .a broken leg. He took charge of the open meeting in the afternoon where the two candidates were initiated. Gold buttons were presented to Wm. Zanocco and John Marks for the honor of getting five or more new members for the post. The ladies auxiliary gave a lunch fo: the veterans. That was followed by an open meeting at which the public attended, from 1 till 2 o’clock. Following the meeting came the publie¢ card party until 4. A supper was given for the public at 6 o’clock and at 7:30 another card party was given until 10 o’clock. The card parties were well attended and were enjoyed by many. The whole day was a huge success and more like it are looked forward to in years to come. A telegram received this noon from Bill. Rodda. of Minneapolis, states that with his family he will visit Nevada ‘City for a vacation period starting sometime during the latter part of this week. They will be accompanied by Bill’s brother, John Rodda and his wife from Berkeley. Both men were former residents of Nevada County for. many years,-John being born in Nevada City and Bill in Grass Valley. on a large scale or not. MUCH ACTIVITY IN QUAKER HILL DISTRICT Hydraulic gold mining is being tehtatively developed on a number of properties in the Quaker Hill district several miles east of Nevada City. Although a large portion of the gravel has been washed away in the old days, there are still many millions of virgin gold-bearing gravel waiting to be mined. There is more activity there now than there has been for many years. Some of the properties though net being worked at this time, have changed hands or been let ouf oa option, and.the whole district has good possibilities of having a very busy mining section next year. It is understood that an option on the nearly 180 acres owned by Martin Delali on the north side of the Greenhorn River, has been sold last week to a group -of Los Angeles people. There is no work being done on the piece at this time, but preliminary sampling and prospecting has been done and it is expected that development work will be started by next spring. Near the Delali property but on the other side of the Greenhorn River, is the Scott’s Flat Hydraulic mine. John W. Scott, mining engineer in charge has put a few men to work on that piece. Work is proare just feeling their way along and will later decide whether to go ahead Work is being done at a minimum expense while the men are preparing to run through a certain number of yards of gravel. The worth of gold recovered from the specified amount. of gravel will give the average gold valuse contained in the property. By the time this test run of gravel has been made, Scott will have figured out the average production cost per cubic yard. With that knowledge at hand he will then decide whether to go ahead with hydraulic plans or not. An ample supply of water is available for piping and power purposes. It is known that two brothers are preparing for sluicing work in the Scott’s Flat section next spring. They have obtained ground and water rights. At present they are buying working equipment and will spend a part of the winter in preparing for the contemplated work. Prospecting work has been completed and the boys are well satisfied with their probable returns. Above the’ Scott’s Flat district and to the north-east, is a _ hydraulic mine being developed by Lincoln Brodt of Piedmont, California. For the past several months, Brodt, an experienced mining man, has been developing his property. It is understood that he is now engaged in building water flumes to the property. Brodt left yesterday for his home in the bay region where he will spend several weeks before returning to active work on the mine. Another mine in the Quaker Hill district that has great possibilities, is the Tom and Jerry hydraulic mine being held by William Fenton, Dr. R. F. Werger and the Bickel interests. Actual mining progress on the mine has been held up of late due to litigation difficulties. The mine is fully equipped and ready to go as

soon as Waster rights are established and legal differqnces straightened out. ‘LANTERN SHOP OPENED TO PUBLIC SATURDAY Are you looking for a gift and do not know just what to givé? That doubt can be dispelled by a visit to the Lantern Shop, the new gift store and Circulating Library opend by Lloyd Penrose at 108 Pine Street, Saturday. Lloyd has displayed much originality and taste in the selection and arrangement of the shop and this new addition to the business section . of Nevada City has a very promising future. On the opening day many expressed their surprise at the many artistic things to be found there. “Mr. Penrose is well known here, as he has lived here all his life and is a graduate of the Nevada City high school and the Nugget joins With his many friends in wishing him much success in this new business venture. Mt. Shasta—Mr. and Mrs. W._P. Geisendorfer, opened gift shop i 7 northern section of town. gressing slowly as Scott says they . . *. making a total burned acreage of ‘thre times in Yuba County and four The County Seat Paper MONDAY, NOV ie 932 Here’s a Flying Steam Roller — ee Cn ares mes, you can or not, here’s a picture Can you imagine a steam roller dangling in the air? the ground—a sight that would make an imbiber sign the: pledge. When this giant steam roller was hoisted into a Los Angeles steamer, it was claimed to be one of the heaviest lifts on record. "Whether of one swaying some feet above . ground as Tamblyn rolled over the for the Nevada City team over one NEVADA cry VICTOR OVER SAN JUAN HL Hard Fought Ga Game Goes ta Local Team Last Friday Afternoon Six times last Friday afternoon passes were thrown in the general direction of Bob Tamblyn and five times Tamblyn snared passes without a bobble. One of those passes was scooped just inches off of the goal line hugging the pigskin to hig chest. That bit of play gave Neé= vada City a 7 to 6 lead over San ~— Juan high school by converting — Oates’ touchdown. Another pass grabbed out of the blue sky by Nevada City’s right end was responsible for the local eens second touchdown. <In all it Was a wonderful victory CONSIDERABLE DECREASE IN FIRES HERE THIS YEAR Figures just released by William Sharp, State Fire Chief in charge of Nevada County, show that the number of firers and the damage done during 1932 was very much less than for the \year of 1931. Corres< pondingly low was the fire cost to the state for this district. ~ During the.1932 season, fire rangers from the Nevada City office were4 sent’ out to a total of only 68 fires. Of this number 12’ were false alarms and so the number\of fires actually worked on was but. 56 for the year. This compares very ‘favorably with the 138 fires of last year. The season this ‘year was from May thé 24th until October the 31st During that period the\56 actual fires burned a total of 116 acres of timber land and 1611 acres of brush and range land in Nevada\ County, 1727 for the year. This seems an extremely low figure when stacked up against the over 21,000 acres that were burned in Nevada County last year. A total of $271.00 damage was done by the fires this year. $35.00 of that was done to the timber land, while the balance, $236.00, was done to the brush and range land. Costs for additional help during the past season, amounted to only $18.25 for labor and $21.70 for transportation. The cost for the regular fire crew was $2250.00. This latter figure covers the cost of food, salaries and incidentals for the average crew of 15 men kept in the Nevada City headquarters during the regular season. It does not include Fire Chief Sharp nor his Assistant Chief, Howe. Again a favorable comparison can be made witn the 1931 figures. Last year the total cost went over $11,000.00. From the above figures it appears that many of last year’s fires were set by men for mercenary reasons. In 1931, the state paid men _ for their fire fighting work when they were pressed into service. This year that has been done away with and except in extreme cass, only the regular crew is used for fire fighting. Their work has been very satisfactory from a fire fighting standpoint as the figures prove. In all, the system now employed seems to be achieving the desired result—Smaller fires and less of them. Besides the efficient work done in Nevada County, Sharp reports that his men aided in fire fighting work times in Placer County, during 1932. CRACKS IN BATTERY Presence of moisture on top of the storage battery and container is evidénce of a crack in the compound used to seal the jars, according to the Free Emergency Road Service of the California State Automobile Association. Unless such leaks are remedied quickly the gravity of the leaky cell will be lowered, as théy permit loss of acid which is replaced by distilled water. ee Burlingame—Shell Oil Company to. erect néw service station at Budlingame Avenue and El Camino Real SKI CLUB BENEFIT CARD PARTY TOMORROW NITE The Nevada City and Grass Valley Ski ¢lub hds' made: final plans for areal lively card party at the Elks Hall in Nevada City tomorrow hight. Miss Bernice Clemo and Mrs. Lola Worth, both of this city, have spent two weeks of endevour in preparation work for the event. They have secured many prizes from loeal firms and individuals. The successful staging of the party is a forgone conclusion. Bridge games, whist games and Mah Jjong games will be held so that folks may chose their favorite indoor sport. They will even be permitted to change around if their luck does not come up to expectations in their chosen game. The prizes to be donated for the most skillful have been given by the following: Mrs. W. E. Wright, The Betty,, Jean Shoppe, Keystone Market, National Miarket, George Hitchens, Alpha Hardware and Supply Company, H. E. Bolton‘s Variety Store, Miss Minnie Brand, Colley’s Candy Store, Foley’s_ Dickerman’s Drug _ Store, Harris Pharmacy, Lantern Shop, Kopp’s Bakery, Nevada City Garage, Rose Lee Beauty Shoppe, Parson’s Barren Hill Nursery, Plaza Grocery, Penrose Grocery, The Lace House; Twit Cities Clothing Store, Jackson’s Grocery and BE. W. Schreiber. Home made cakes will be served with the refreshments that people attending will have access to. Ladies interested in the well fare of the Ski Club have made these cake donations and they are guaranteed to.make your mouth water. ‘The door prize a huge turkey, will be given by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Worth and Miss Bernice M. Clemvu. Added attractions not enumerated here will. be sprung on the unsuspecting public and a whale of a good time is guaranteed for all. The admission price is. only 50 cents. Don’t forget—Tomorrow Night at The Elks Hall! OPEN SEASON ON BAND TAILED PIGEONS SOON CAMPTONVILLE, Nov. 12.—The Fish and Game Commission has made an. announcement that there will be an open season on band-tailed pigeons from December 1 to 15 inclusive, in California this year. The bag limit is placed at 10 per day and any person at any one time may possess not to exceed 10, thus the daily limit and number of pigeons in possession at one time are the same, Candy Store, While the state game laws do not ed pigeons the federal game laws allow the season and bag limit as above defined. The state game wardens will enforce the season and limit as they all hold appointment as federal gamé wardens. There are quite a large number of these pigeons inthis section, feeding at this time upon madrone berties. -In-the spring and summer atc f $6,00. chards. 'school last week and had to be con~ provide an open season on band-tail-}. months they infest local cherry or: of the strongest high school teams in the valley. San Juan High school of Fair Oaks is said to have been the only team to hold the strong undefeated Cortland high eleven ta a tie game in the last three seasons. And then coming up here Armistice day after an early season 13 to 2@ victory over the local team, San Juan high was presented with as neat a@ pasting to the tune of 13 to 6 as you would want to see. “Playing without the services of their star back, Ralph Pierce, the — light but fast local team played their — 17 pounds to the man heavier opponents practically off their feet. The game was clean and hard fought throughout and showed the towns-= folk here that we have a mighty good football team for the first —— turnout. Ralph Pierce suffered a smashed finger in moving rock at the high tent with watching proceedings from the sidelines. With him in there, Nevada City might well have run up another touchdown. Starting the game by receiving and bringing the ball back to the 26 yard line, in three downs Nevada City made 6 yards. Pulling a fast one, instead of punting, Chapman passed to Tamblyn for a 24 yaré gain. For the rest of the quarter Nevada City was continually on the offense in San Juan territory. Buz Chapman, flashy halfback for the locals, made the mistake early in. the game of running too far back with the ball on end runs. He was usually downed for.a loss on those attempts ,one time for 17 yards. Early in the second quarter, Ne~ vada City on her own 16-yard line was forced to punt .on fourth down. Between Chapman’s getting the ball away too slowly and a San Juan end breaking . through, the punt was blocked. The ball bounded over the goal line and a San Juan player fell on it for a touchdown. The place kick for extra point went wild. San Juan 6, Nevada City 0. That was a discouraging break and many thought the locals were licked. But not so. Instead the boys came back twice as hard and pushed San Juan all over the field. A reverse, a spin play, two line plunges, a pass and another reverse, Nevada City had the ball in San Juan territory. Starting an end run, passed far to the right side of the field to Chapman. Running in full stride, Nevada .City’s fast back stretched to the utmost and barely picked the ball out of the air with — his finger tips. Running around two San Juan players, Chapman was finally out of bounds on the . yard line for a gain of 34 yards. Aided by a five yard penalty, Oates plunged the ball over in three” downs. Score, 6 up. : Lining up for the try San’ extra, point, Elmer Oates ran back to pass. A San Juan player chasing hi i nally grabbed him by the left arm. As he was being swung aound, Oates let the ball fly with his free arm in the direction of iblyn That player scooped the ball as before described and Nevada was leading by a point, 6 . The balance of the half w even, with, Nevada City slight edge due to su fa. 34-3