November 18, 1938 (6 pages)

<r sauna NO :-MBER MINING DEVELOPMENT IS Thinking: Out Loud By H. M. L. 1 ‘ CV ada City Nugget. COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA in the right to publish the Truth, with good motives and for justifiable ends. — Alexander Hamilton ; From the Californian, March :15, 1848:.The Liberty of the Press consists Looking ‘back over the swift flying months of 1938, ‘with only few weeks of the year left, one is im-’ pressed iby the fact that at home and abroad the world -seems to have been moved chiefly by hatred. For the first time in the history of this country the people have been marshalled into two groups and_ industriously exhorted to hate, one group the other. The alignment of two major parties has broken down, under -the preachment and action of the ad‘ministration. The radical forces of the country have rallied to the New Deal chanting hymns of hate. Conservative labor and conservative capital are allied against the leftist trend, and at the moment-it looks as if the pendulum of public sentiment were swinging again to the right. We surmise that the time is approaching for compromise, both -in world and national affairs. The good that has been gained under the New Deal will (be preserved, and the waste sand corruption eliminated. Abroad the. dictatorships, perhaps by such action as President Roosevelt has taken in recalling the ambassador to Germany, may finally conclude that outraging the world’s standards of decency and justice is not only unprofitable but dangerous. Hatred activates the German, people. Downtrodden, overwhelmed by the result of their defeat twenty years ago, they have found a leader who again ‘marshalls them for war. The nation again iy throwing off the inferiority complex and reveling the joys of hatred. The Jews, we suspect, are but ‘whipping ‘boys for the pent up fury of a people, which was first ‘beaten in war .and then needlesly humiliated in the treaty of peace, : : Whether Germany’s hatred has run its course is questionalble. This people, industrious, normally religious, possessing so many sterling virtues, whose blood strain has done much to lift the standards of ths country in agriculture, industry, scieénee and all learning, is so immersed in its delusion of grandeur, that the world begins to think of . Germany as suffering from -a—mass psychopathic disease. Were it not for. the ‘counter ence of the Papacy we doubt if Italy would show a much better condition than Germany. Christianity, however, does apparently moderate the brutality of the Italian dictatorship. Italy, too, seeks revenge for’ the wrongs done her in the World War peace. However, the Italian dictator can ipoint to some excellent achievements. He has brought water to the Libyan desert and is_ settling thousands of Italian families on reclaimed land there. He has drained the ancient Pontine marshes and made rural homes for ‘thousands. of Italians. Of these constructive ‘achievements, the world takes little heed. Attention is ‘focused upon the cruelties of the Bthiopian seizure and influ_Italy’s part in the Spanish Civil war, and lately upon oppressive measures against the Jews in Italy. There are signs, however, that Italian hatreds are moderating under Mussolini's adriot management. In other words Italy is finding ‘‘appeasement.’’ It is suspected that the Spanish adventure is not popular ‘with the Italjan people and that Il Duce is gradually turning toward the proffered friendship of England. Whether or not Japan affects the complete subjugation of China, the Japanese will be tremendous. losers. Already the Japanese military masters are issuing fiat money in China, which means simply confiscation of Chinese and foreign property, since the paper yen used has nothing whatever back of it by which it can he redeemed. Years of poverty and near starvation face the Japanese as the result of chewing off more of China than a pauper nation can digest. Always there is a threat of world war arising from their insults and injurjes to other -and greater poiwers. Greed and hatred of the Chinese are motivating the Japanese. Hatred recoils upon those who hate. History affords many and many an instance of this. Napoleon, master militarist, hating all nations but his own, was finally overborne by the combined forces of nations he had -City Saturday. The third robber ‘. The election of November 8 certainVol. 12, No. 90. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1938. a MANY HUNTERS BAG LIMITS OF COCK PHEASANTS The six day season of pheasant hunting is proving quite fascinating this week and many local sportsmen are making trips into the Gridley, Biggs and Colusa county rice fields particularly for the brilliant gamey dirds. : © Supervisors C. S, Arbogast, Alex Robertson, Jay Coughlan, Frank Rowe and Warren O’Dell enjoyed an early morning pheasant hunt on the Coughlan ranch near Smartville on Wednesday. Supervisor Rowe killed the limit and Deputy County Clerk R. N. McCormack also in the party killed one. Dick Lane, Chief of Police Garfield Robson and Frank Ghidotti made up a party that hunted in the Biggs district yesterday. Deputy Sheriff Will Woods and Dr Walter P. Hawkins hunted pheasants in the Biggs district. Will C. Buffington, Carl Foote, Louis Savio of Nevada City and Dick Hales of Grass Valley hunted pheasants over an 800 acre ranch near Princeton, Colusa county, Tuesday. They brought home limits of beautiful birds but did a lot of hiking. A pheasant hunting party composed of Frank Ghidotti, his father, J. Ghidotti, Ed Berger and Attorney F. Finnegan ‘brought home some fine birds from the Biggs district Tues-. day. Frank Ghidotti besides getting his limit of pheasants killed two wild ducks. WELDON TO ANSWER IN SUPERIOR COURT City Judge Miles Coughlin, acting or Judge W. L. Mobley, who is il], yesterday morning at a preliminary hearing bound A. Weldon, alleged robber, over to the superior. court. Weldon» was arrested in Sacramento . last week and brought to Nevada . of the Fox-Farm Service Station near Soda Springs is at-large. Nick Gari, alias (Moran, was killed instantly by Phil Treverthick owner of the Soda Springs Station when the attempted theft was made some three months ago. It is alleged that Weldon was a companion of Cori on that occasion. PAROLE BOARD LETS CIRCLE OUT Cc. E. Cirele, who played the role of “‘big shot’”’ in rioting on the Murchie road January 20, was released from jail Wednesday iby the county parole board consisting of Sheriff Tobiassen, District Attorney Stoll and Chief of Police Robson. It was Circle who headed the mob_ that blocked the road to the mine and shouted: ‘‘For God’s sake don’t let them pass! President Roosevelt. is back of us!” ‘Circle still had 40 see to serve in the county jail. When he and four others were found guilty, Judge Raglan Tuttle sentenced him to two months’ more jail than his fellows, because the judge considered Circle a leader of the rioters. Henry Yuen recently completed his sentence. Staton Zdrich and Vasion are out on bail, pending an appeal. Circle was released on condition that he leave the county and never return. It is reported that he has gone to Redding to seek a job on the Central Valleys project. long ‘beaten separately. The class hatreds excited by the New Deal are recoiling upon those who aroused them. This democracy stands ready to restore the ‘balances of power prescribed in the Constitution. Attempts to upset this balance through arousing hatreds of one group against another, have failed. ly indicates this trend of public Sentiment. If the Republiean party can only devise a practicable formula for industrial peace and justice to all factors in industry, it will easily . buildings, MRS. SKALLO GOES TO PRISON AT TEHACHIPI Deputy Sheriff Will \Woods and Mrs. Frank Williams, jail matron, yesterday took Mrs. Mary Skallo to the womens prison at Tehachipi. Mrs. Skallo was found guilty about three months ago of leading her-own minor daughter into a life of shame and will serve an indeterminate term of from one to five years. Three or four men were tried inthis ¢ase. Mike Kendrick was found guilty and fined $600 and given a six months county jail term; Bob Ware is serving nine months. James Personini, charged with rape and contributing to the delinquency: of a minor was freed of the charge Wednesday upon motion of District Attorney Vernon Stoll. Personini was tried in the superior court and the jury disagreed 8 to 4. Judge Tuttle-in dismissing the case agreed with the district attorney. Adell Atkinson was given 90 days on the same case and has served his time and is out. RICH PICKIN’S ON SITE OF EARLY DAY GOLD BUYER Where the forty niner once sluiced the gravel, and, over a few blocks in the heart of Nevada City, took out something like $17,00,000, according to report, his successors in interest are today busy in giving part of the ground another sluicing. This is a small plot lying ‘beneath two buildings, recently demolished, which were once used for assay and gold buying offices by the thrifty Chinese. Perhaps the word “thrifty’’ is misused here, for the long dead assayers and gold buyers inadvertently lost a considerable fraction of their gold through cracks in the rought board floor. : The ground now going threugh the sulice bov, lies beneath the old bricn belonging to Lee Leong, who is tearing down the old strucACCOUNTANT IS CRITIC OF NEV. CO. SUPERVISORS The question of whose judgement was best arose when the L. M. Straine Company, public accountants, criticised the Board of Supervisors for selling $40,000 worth of bonds. Perhaps Straine Company is right, and perhaps not. In their report it was stated “during the months of May and June, 1938, $40,000 of the county’s’ own Acquisition and Improvement District 6 per cent bonds, which previously had been a part of the treasury’s cash, had {been sold by the treasurer but no authority for the sale was found in the. minutes.” County Clerk R. N. McCormack stated that this criticism had been met by the iboard’s ratification of the sale subsequent thereto. He also stated that Acquisition and Improvement District No.-2-had-been created several years ago and bonds in the amount of $87,000 issued to pay for the “construction of the Grass Valley-Colfax highway. The lines of the district were so drawn that they did not include the big mines of Grass Valley district whose owners protested the issuance of bonds if they were to become a lien .on the mining properties, So that the road might be built the Board of Supervisors agreed to purchase $40,000 of the bonds and the money was taken from the county treasury to pay for them, but with this agreement went a stipulation that whenever the board could sell the bonds for the amount paid for them, $40,000, it should be done. The Board of Supervisors, in accordance with this plan, recently sold the bonds for their face value plus accrued interest. This sale was made so that the treasury might have the $40,000 in cash rather than the bonds, the security for which was properties which might not be worth the amount of the bonds outstanding. The sale of the bonds was considtures to make way for a modern drive-in market at the corner. of York and Commercial street in this section, once a ‘part of a thriving Argonaut Chinatown, John €: Calhoun and Clarence OI. son are the two miners who are putting the pay dirt through<a ‘sluice . box, using a hose from a nearby tap_. to wash out. the gold. They have already recovered several small nuggets and a considerable amount of finer gold. The old board floors, used in the original (building, permitted much of the gold purchased by the early day Chinese gold dealers to slip through into the soil beneath, enriching it again. For all the ground on which the old Chinatown stood had, in a still earlier time, been run through the sluice boxes of the pioneer miners. Calhoun and Olson are working the ground on a royalty basis. LOUIS GIROT SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES FROM FALL Louis Alfred Girot, resident of Log Cabin, Yuba county, 48 years old, passed away at (Nevada City Wednesday. night from the effects of a fall while working as a carpenter on a building. He was taken to the sanitarium shortly.after the accident. The body was at Holmes. Hooper Funeral Home in Grass Valley until last evening when it was sent to San Francisco where services will be held tomorrow morning. Left to mourn his passing are his wife, Blanche O., Edgar Girot, Sacramento, brother; Henry J. Girot, Oakland and sister, Mrs. Stanley Doyle, Redwood City. He was born in San Francisco September 13, 1890,-and was a contractor and puilder. P. T. A. WILL DISCUSS BOOKS FOR CHILDREN The Nevada City Elementary Parent Teacher Association’ will meet ‘at 2:30 o’clock today in the auditorium of the grammar school. The program will carry out the theme for this month, “Your Child and Books.’’ Refreshments will be servreturn to power in 1940. ed. . meet obligatiéns that ered necessary so that the county might have money in its treasury to would become due before installments of taxes were paid into the county treasury, it having been considerably depleted by the expenditure of $33,217.57 a part of the reconstruction cost_of the court house. Criticism—for the sale of bonds was based on the ~feHowing factors. “There were 6 per cent bends and any obligations of such a high interest yield, if they were sound, should have commanded a handsome premium, It is our contention that the bonds are sound ‘because the State of (California, Waving taken over the Grass Valley-Colfax road, permitted the redemption of both bonds and interest coupons out of the gas ‘tax money apportioned to the county. The county actually was making $2,400 per annum by saving the interest on the bonds. This saving must now be lost because the banks are not at the present time allowing interest on deposits. The county could have ‘tborrowed”’ $40,000 for six months through the medium of registering general fund warrants and the cost would have been only $1,000. Unless the county can acquire these bonds or purchase the same amount of other (bonds at a like interest yield the ultimate interest cost will be $38,500.” In answering these criticisms McCormack stated that no valuation of the property of the Acquisition and Improvement district has ever been made from the gas funds interest on the bond and redeeming three bonds every year there is no certainty that a change in legislau.— might change all this, and the county would be left in ‘possession of bonds that it could not sell. ARCTIC MINE Development work continues at the Arctic mine northeast of Washington. The mill has been treating ore mined during the summer and as soon as sufficient water rises in the nearby streams the mill will be on a steadier program. D. C. Billick is in charge of the mill while A. Barnhart is managing the mine for L.’ F, Utter and others interested in the property. . every club member CONCENTRATES SHIPPED TO BAKERSFIELD PLANT Hal D. Draper, local assayer who is purchasing concentrates for the special plant at Bakersfield has been quite busy the last two weeks moving shipments to the new plant. He has shipped 14 lots in the last two weeks averaging from 60 pounds to a ton and a half. Five new lots were in the assay office on Commercial street Wednesday in process of shipping. (Mr. Draper has ‘made a bid on between 30 and 40 tons of concentrates at the Ruby mine and he has purchased around $300 worth of concentrates from mill cleanups on Deer Creek. i W. F. Buaas, president of the Taft Well Drilling company at Bakersfield is owner and operator of the new gold recovery plant to which all concentrates are being shipped. The new plant is a boon to many small mine operators and snipers along the mountain streams. ROTARY HEARS CHORUSES CED BY MRS. LIBBY The choral pidasee of the high school under the inspirational dir-ectorship of (Mrs, Marian Libby sang for the Rotary club at luncheon yesterday. First the girls chorus sang: “Vank’n Tanka’’, “Cousin Jedediah’’ and “Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes.”’ The club was very appreciative of this musical treat. The high school boys and girls gave a very wonderful performance under the baton of Mrs. Libby. Following the singing who has a son or daughter enrolled in the high school was required to contribute to the charity fund, and.all those with out children in the high school were required to pay: double. Charles Elliott was chairman of the day. TWO SCHOOLS FOR MINE CHILDREN ARE OPERATED. County Puperintendent Ele MO M. Austin has two schools in areas where children are living near mines and it is not possible to bring them to the larger schools on account of deep snow in winter. One is at the Spanish mine at Washington, the mine company supplying ‘the building. Mrs. Florence Harper teaches the 14 pupils of the mine employes. The other school fer the convenience of children of snipers and the small mine operators is in the ghost and is taught ‘by Mrs; Rose, Smart. There are about 14 pupils in the school, which is in the Nevada City school district. ORIENTAL MINE F, F. Casidy, local Alpha Store Manager yesterday gave a sub-lease on the Oriental mine at Alleghany to Florence V. Dickey. The deal has ‘been pending about two months, The new lease is to last until 1944 and it property for $800,000. It is understood the option to Mr. Cassidy was for $150,000 on the Oriental . and $10,000 on the Gold Star group. Plans are to operate the mine on a large tonnage basis mining much low grade ore, The high ‘grade pockets when found will add .to the profits. ‘Since Cassidy and the late Raymond Hawkins have been operating the found. Owners of theOriental mine are Kleinsorge, Monterey; H. B. Drescher, Sacramento; George Gamble, Pasadena and W. P: -Walworth, New York, Charles B: Foster, be it charge for Mrs. Dickey. Nevada County Mines Employ 2527 Workers . erease in . . which form five separate vein sys. tems, the Chicago, the Gold Flat, the . covery on the Banner system in 1866 . town section of You (Bet-Red Dosg. . also carries an option to purchase the . ‘ine some rich pockets have ‘been . }. mining man of much experience, will . ‘Bradley Mining activity ‘tor the past month reveals but slight slackening. The ~ Nugget’s survey reveals 2,527 men employed in Nevada county mines, with a monthly payroll that totale $379,050. It is expected, however, that with freezinz weather in the higher mountains there will be a dethe number ~employed through the winter. Stockton Hill reports an inerease of men employed. The Norambagua thas closed down tourer. and the Omega, among the’Placer mines, is also closed for the winter. The following reports have been received from many of the operating companies: BANNER MT. MINES James Penrose of Nevada City re. cently completed a deal leasing his ground to H. C. Dudley of Duluth, Minn., giving the Dudley interests, altogether about 2000 acres of mining property situated between the Idaho Maryland: and Lava Cap mines. The Taylor and Clark properties were leased several weeks ago. G. E. Gallagher has done some preliminary work on the property on Town Talk ridge west of the Lava Cap property. The mineral belt embraced by the group contains a network of fissures Jefferson Hill, the Banner and‘*the © Sharp, all of which carry values in gold. Ore mined on four different places on the Chicago system has been milled and returns varied from $12 to $200 per ton. An original disproduced ore that milled $11.75 to $21 per ton. BULLION MINE Seventy tons of ore per day are being trucked to the Idaho Maryland custom mill from the Bullion mine south of Grass Valley and operated by the Idaho Maryland interests. Mining is being done on the 2200 foot level through a 500 foot winze from the 1700 foot level. Howard Dennis is foreman. LAVA CAP MINES The sinking program which has. been under way the last two months in the Central shaft of the Lava Cap property southeast of Nevada City is now down to the 12th level. The cross cut being driven from the Banner to the Tip Top claim vein to the . east is progressing slowly. The cross cut will be completed in the early part of next year. Otto E. Schiffner, general. manager states the company ~~~ . now employs 265 men. a Rae es No.« LODE MINES "—~_Men — _ Payroll Newmont Empire North. Star Pennsylvania Zeibright Murchie Idaho-Maryland New Brunswick Idaho $61,500 39,900 16,650 22,500: 21,000 78,150 249 5:21: Lava Cap Banner— Central Spanish Others Golden Center . Spring Hill Great Northern . Stockton Hill Hot Water 13022

<r sauna NO :-MBER MINING DEVELOPMENT IS Thinking: Out Loud By H. M. L. 1 ‘ CV ada City Nugget. COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA in the right to publish the Truth, with good motives and for justifiable ends. — Alexander Hamilton ; From the Californian, March :15, 1848:.The Liberty of the Press consists Looking ‘back over the swift flying months of 1938, ‘with only few weeks of the year left, one is im-’ pressed iby the fact that at home and abroad the world -seems to have been moved chiefly by hatred. For the first time in the history of this country the people have been marshalled into two groups and_ industriously exhorted to hate, one group the other. The alignment of two major parties has broken down, under -the preachment and action of the ad‘ministration. The radical forces of the country have rallied to the New Deal chanting hymns of hate. Conservative labor and conservative capital are allied against the leftist trend, and at the moment-it looks as if the pendulum of public sentiment were swinging again to the right. We surmise that the time is approaching for compromise, both -in world and national affairs. The good that has been gained under the New Deal will (be preserved, and the waste sand corruption eliminated. Abroad the. dictatorships, perhaps by such action as President Roosevelt has taken in recalling the ambassador to Germany, may finally conclude that outraging the world’s standards of decency and justice is not only unprofitable but dangerous. Hatred activates the German, people. Downtrodden, overwhelmed by the result of their defeat twenty years ago, they have found a leader who again ‘marshalls them for war. The nation again iy throwing off the inferiority complex and reveling the joys of hatred. The Jews, we suspect, are but ‘whipping ‘boys for the pent up fury of a people, which was first ‘beaten in war .and then needlesly humiliated in the treaty of peace, : : Whether Germany’s hatred has run its course is questionalble. This people, industrious, normally religious, possessing so many sterling virtues, whose blood strain has done much to lift the standards of ths country in agriculture, industry, scieénee and all learning, is so immersed in its delusion of grandeur, that the world begins to think of . Germany as suffering from -a—mass psychopathic disease. Were it not for. the ‘counter ence of the Papacy we doubt if Italy would show a much better condition than Germany. Christianity, however, does apparently moderate the brutality of the Italian dictatorship. Italy, too, seeks revenge for’ the wrongs done her in the World War peace. However, the Italian dictator can ipoint to some excellent achievements. He has brought water to the Libyan desert and is_ settling thousands of Italian families on reclaimed land there. He has drained the ancient Pontine marshes and made rural homes for ‘thousands. of Italians. Of these constructive ‘achievements, the world takes little heed. Attention is ‘focused upon the cruelties of the Bthiopian seizure and influ_Italy’s part in the Spanish Civil war, and lately upon oppressive measures against the Jews in Italy. There are signs, however, that Italian hatreds are moderating under Mussolini's adriot management. In other words Italy is finding ‘‘appeasement.’’ It is suspected that the Spanish adventure is not popular ‘with the Italjan people and that Il Duce is gradually turning toward the proffered friendship of England. Whether or not Japan affects the complete subjugation of China, the Japanese will be tremendous. losers. Already the Japanese military masters are issuing fiat money in China, which means simply confiscation of Chinese and foreign property, since the paper yen used has nothing whatever back of it by which it can he redeemed. Years of poverty and near starvation face the Japanese as the result of chewing off more of China than a pauper nation can digest. Always there is a threat of world war arising from their insults and injurjes to other -and greater poiwers. Greed and hatred of the Chinese are motivating the Japanese. Hatred recoils upon those who hate. History affords many and many an instance of this. Napoleon, master militarist, hating all nations but his own, was finally overborne by the combined forces of nations he had -City Saturday. The third robber ‘. The election of November 8 certainVol. 12, No. 90. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1938. a MANY HUNTERS BAG LIMITS OF COCK PHEASANTS The six day season of pheasant hunting is proving quite fascinating this week and many local sportsmen are making trips into the Gridley, Biggs and Colusa county rice fields particularly for the brilliant gamey dirds. : © Supervisors C. S, Arbogast, Alex Robertson, Jay Coughlan, Frank Rowe and Warren O’Dell enjoyed an early morning pheasant hunt on the Coughlan ranch near Smartville on Wednesday. Supervisor Rowe killed the limit and Deputy County Clerk R. N. McCormack also in the party killed one. Dick Lane, Chief of Police Garfield Robson and Frank Ghidotti made up a party that hunted in the Biggs district yesterday. Deputy Sheriff Will Woods and Dr Walter P. Hawkins hunted pheasants in the Biggs district. Will C. Buffington, Carl Foote, Louis Savio of Nevada City and Dick Hales of Grass Valley hunted pheasants over an 800 acre ranch near Princeton, Colusa county, Tuesday. They brought home limits of beautiful birds but did a lot of hiking. A pheasant hunting party composed of Frank Ghidotti, his father, J. Ghidotti, Ed Berger and Attorney F. Finnegan ‘brought home some fine birds from the Biggs district Tues-. day. Frank Ghidotti besides getting his limit of pheasants killed two wild ducks. WELDON TO ANSWER IN SUPERIOR COURT City Judge Miles Coughlin, acting or Judge W. L. Mobley, who is il], yesterday morning at a preliminary hearing bound A. Weldon, alleged robber, over to the superior. court. Weldon» was arrested in Sacramento . last week and brought to Nevada . of the Fox-Farm Service Station near Soda Springs is at-large. Nick Gari, alias (Moran, was killed instantly by Phil Treverthick owner of the Soda Springs Station when the attempted theft was made some three months ago. It is alleged that Weldon was a companion of Cori on that occasion. PAROLE BOARD LETS CIRCLE OUT Cc. E. Cirele, who played the role of “‘big shot’”’ in rioting on the Murchie road January 20, was released from jail Wednesday iby the county parole board consisting of Sheriff Tobiassen, District Attorney Stoll and Chief of Police Robson. It was Circle who headed the mob_ that blocked the road to the mine and shouted: ‘‘For God’s sake don’t let them pass! President Roosevelt. is back of us!” ‘Circle still had 40 see to serve in the county jail. When he and four others were found guilty, Judge Raglan Tuttle sentenced him to two months’ more jail than his fellows, because the judge considered Circle a leader of the rioters. Henry Yuen recently completed his sentence. Staton Zdrich and Vasion are out on bail, pending an appeal. Circle was released on condition that he leave the county and never return. It is reported that he has gone to Redding to seek a job on the Central Valleys project. long ‘beaten separately. The class hatreds excited by the New Deal are recoiling upon those who aroused them. This democracy stands ready to restore the ‘balances of power prescribed in the Constitution. Attempts to upset this balance through arousing hatreds of one group against another, have failed. ly indicates this trend of public Sentiment. If the Republiean party can only devise a practicable formula for industrial peace and justice to all factors in industry, it will easily . buildings, MRS. SKALLO GOES TO PRISON AT TEHACHIPI Deputy Sheriff Will \Woods and Mrs. Frank Williams, jail matron, yesterday took Mrs. Mary Skallo to the womens prison at Tehachipi. Mrs. Skallo was found guilty about three months ago of leading her-own minor daughter into a life of shame and will serve an indeterminate term of from one to five years. Three or four men were tried inthis ¢ase. Mike Kendrick was found guilty and fined $600 and given a six months county jail term; Bob Ware is serving nine months. James Personini, charged with rape and contributing to the delinquency: of a minor was freed of the charge Wednesday upon motion of District Attorney Vernon Stoll. Personini was tried in the superior court and the jury disagreed 8 to 4. Judge Tuttle-in dismissing the case agreed with the district attorney. Adell Atkinson was given 90 days on the same case and has served his time and is out. RICH PICKIN’S ON SITE OF EARLY DAY GOLD BUYER Where the forty niner once sluiced the gravel, and, over a few blocks in the heart of Nevada City, took out something like $17,00,000, according to report, his successors in interest are today busy in giving part of the ground another sluicing. This is a small plot lying ‘beneath two buildings, recently demolished, which were once used for assay and gold buying offices by the thrifty Chinese. Perhaps the word “thrifty’’ is misused here, for the long dead assayers and gold buyers inadvertently lost a considerable fraction of their gold through cracks in the rought board floor. : The ground now going threugh the sulice bov, lies beneath the old bricn belonging to Lee Leong, who is tearing down the old strucACCOUNTANT IS CRITIC OF NEV. CO. SUPERVISORS The question of whose judgement was best arose when the L. M. Straine Company, public accountants, criticised the Board of Supervisors for selling $40,000 worth of bonds. Perhaps Straine Company is right, and perhaps not. In their report it was stated “during the months of May and June, 1938, $40,000 of the county’s’ own Acquisition and Improvement District 6 per cent bonds, which previously had been a part of the treasury’s cash, had {been sold by the treasurer but no authority for the sale was found in the. minutes.” County Clerk R. N. McCormack stated that this criticism had been met by the iboard’s ratification of the sale subsequent thereto. He also stated that Acquisition and Improvement District No.-2-had-been created several years ago and bonds in the amount of $87,000 issued to pay for the “construction of the Grass Valley-Colfax highway. The lines of the district were so drawn that they did not include the big mines of Grass Valley district whose owners protested the issuance of bonds if they were to become a lien .on the mining properties, So that the road might be built the Board of Supervisors agreed to purchase $40,000 of the bonds and the money was taken from the county treasury to pay for them, but with this agreement went a stipulation that whenever the board could sell the bonds for the amount paid for them, $40,000, it should be done. The Board of Supervisors, in accordance with this plan, recently sold the bonds for their face value plus accrued interest. This sale was made so that the treasury might have the $40,000 in cash rather than the bonds, the security for which was properties which might not be worth

the amount of the bonds outstanding. The sale of the bonds was considtures to make way for a modern drive-in market at the corner. of York and Commercial street in this section, once a ‘part of a thriving Argonaut Chinatown, John €: Calhoun and Clarence OI. son are the two miners who are putting the pay dirt through<a ‘sluice . box, using a hose from a nearby tap_. to wash out. the gold. They have already recovered several small nuggets and a considerable amount of finer gold. The old board floors, used in the original (building, permitted much of the gold purchased by the early day Chinese gold dealers to slip through into the soil beneath, enriching it again. For all the ground on which the old Chinatown stood had, in a still earlier time, been run through the sluice boxes of the pioneer miners. Calhoun and Olson are working the ground on a royalty basis. LOUIS GIROT SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES FROM FALL Louis Alfred Girot, resident of Log Cabin, Yuba county, 48 years old, passed away at (Nevada City Wednesday. night from the effects of a fall while working as a carpenter on a building. He was taken to the sanitarium shortly.after the accident. The body was at Holmes. Hooper Funeral Home in Grass Valley until last evening when it was sent to San Francisco where services will be held tomorrow morning. Left to mourn his passing are his wife, Blanche O., Edgar Girot, Sacramento, brother; Henry J. Girot, Oakland and sister, Mrs. Stanley Doyle, Redwood City. He was born in San Francisco September 13, 1890,-and was a contractor and puilder. P. T. A. WILL DISCUSS BOOKS FOR CHILDREN The Nevada City Elementary Parent Teacher Association’ will meet ‘at 2:30 o’clock today in the auditorium of the grammar school. The program will carry out the theme for this month, “Your Child and Books.’’ Refreshments will be servreturn to power in 1940. ed. . meet obligatiéns that ered necessary so that the county might have money in its treasury to would become due before installments of taxes were paid into the county treasury, it having been considerably depleted by the expenditure of $33,217.57 a part of the reconstruction cost_of the court house. Criticism—for the sale of bonds was based on the ~feHowing factors. “There were 6 per cent bends and any obligations of such a high interest yield, if they were sound, should have commanded a handsome premium, It is our contention that the bonds are sound ‘because the State of (California, Waving taken over the Grass Valley-Colfax road, permitted the redemption of both bonds and interest coupons out of the gas ‘tax money apportioned to the county. The county actually was making $2,400 per annum by saving the interest on the bonds. This saving must now be lost because the banks are not at the present time allowing interest on deposits. The county could have ‘tborrowed”’ $40,000 for six months through the medium of registering general fund warrants and the cost would have been only $1,000. Unless the county can acquire these bonds or purchase the same amount of other (bonds at a like interest yield the ultimate interest cost will be $38,500.” In answering these criticisms McCormack stated that no valuation of the property of the Acquisition and Improvement district has ever been made from the gas funds interest on the bond and redeeming three bonds every year there is no certainty that a change in legislau.— might change all this, and the county would be left in ‘possession of bonds that it could not sell. ARCTIC MINE Development work continues at the Arctic mine northeast of Washington. The mill has been treating ore mined during the summer and as soon as sufficient water rises in the nearby streams the mill will be on a steadier program. D. C. Billick is in charge of the mill while A. Barnhart is managing the mine for L.’ F, Utter and others interested in the property. . every club member CONCENTRATES SHIPPED TO BAKERSFIELD PLANT Hal D. Draper, local assayer who is purchasing concentrates for the special plant at Bakersfield has been quite busy the last two weeks moving shipments to the new plant. He has shipped 14 lots in the last two weeks averaging from 60 pounds to a ton and a half. Five new lots were in the assay office on Commercial street Wednesday in process of shipping. (Mr. Draper has ‘made a bid on between 30 and 40 tons of concentrates at the Ruby mine and he has purchased around $300 worth of concentrates from mill cleanups on Deer Creek. i W. F. Buaas, president of the Taft Well Drilling company at Bakersfield is owner and operator of the new gold recovery plant to which all concentrates are being shipped. The new plant is a boon to many small mine operators and snipers along the mountain streams. ROTARY HEARS CHORUSES CED BY MRS. LIBBY The choral pidasee of the high school under the inspirational dir-ectorship of (Mrs, Marian Libby sang for the Rotary club at luncheon yesterday. First the girls chorus sang: “Vank’n Tanka’’, “Cousin Jedediah’’ and “Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes.”’ The club was very appreciative of this musical treat. The high school boys and girls gave a very wonderful performance under the baton of Mrs. Libby. Following the singing who has a son or daughter enrolled in the high school was required to contribute to the charity fund, and.all those with out children in the high school were required to pay: double. Charles Elliott was chairman of the day. TWO SCHOOLS FOR MINE CHILDREN ARE OPERATED. County Puperintendent Ele MO M. Austin has two schools in areas where children are living near mines and it is not possible to bring them to the larger schools on account of deep snow in winter. One is at the Spanish mine at Washington, the mine company supplying ‘the building. Mrs. Florence Harper teaches the 14 pupils of the mine employes. The other school fer the convenience of children of snipers and the small mine operators is in the ghost and is taught ‘by Mrs; Rose, Smart. There are about 14 pupils in the school, which is in the Nevada City school district. ORIENTAL MINE F, F. Casidy, local Alpha Store Manager yesterday gave a sub-lease on the Oriental mine at Alleghany to Florence V. Dickey. The deal has ‘been pending about two months, The new lease is to last until 1944 and it property for $800,000. It is understood the option to Mr. Cassidy was for $150,000 on the Oriental . and $10,000 on the Gold Star group. Plans are to operate the mine on a large tonnage basis mining much low grade ore, The high ‘grade pockets when found will add .to the profits. ‘Since Cassidy and the late Raymond Hawkins have been operating the found. Owners of theOriental mine are Kleinsorge, Monterey; H. B. Drescher, Sacramento; George Gamble, Pasadena and W. P: -Walworth, New York, Charles B: Foster, be it charge for Mrs. Dickey. Nevada County Mines Employ 2527 Workers . erease in . . which form five separate vein sys. tems, the Chicago, the Gold Flat, the . covery on the Banner system in 1866 . town section of You (Bet-Red Dosg. . also carries an option to purchase the . ‘ine some rich pockets have ‘been . }. mining man of much experience, will . ‘Bradley Mining activity ‘tor the past month reveals but slight slackening. The ~ Nugget’s survey reveals 2,527 men employed in Nevada county mines, with a monthly payroll that totale $379,050. It is expected, however, that with freezinz weather in the higher mountains there will be a dethe number ~employed through the winter. Stockton Hill reports an inerease of men employed. The Norambagua thas closed down tourer. and the Omega, among the’Placer mines, is also closed for the winter. The following reports have been received from many of the operating companies: BANNER MT. MINES James Penrose of Nevada City re. cently completed a deal leasing his ground to H. C. Dudley of Duluth, Minn., giving the Dudley interests, altogether about 2000 acres of mining property situated between the Idaho Maryland: and Lava Cap mines. The Taylor and Clark properties were leased several weeks ago. G. E. Gallagher has done some preliminary work on the property on Town Talk ridge west of the Lava Cap property. The mineral belt embraced by the group contains a network of fissures Jefferson Hill, the Banner and‘*the © Sharp, all of which carry values in gold. Ore mined on four different places on the Chicago system has been milled and returns varied from $12 to $200 per ton. An original disproduced ore that milled $11.75 to $21 per ton. BULLION MINE Seventy tons of ore per day are being trucked to the Idaho Maryland custom mill from the Bullion mine south of Grass Valley and operated by the Idaho Maryland interests. Mining is being done on the 2200 foot level through a 500 foot winze from the 1700 foot level. Howard Dennis is foreman. LAVA CAP MINES The sinking program which has. been under way the last two months in the Central shaft of the Lava Cap property southeast of Nevada City is now down to the 12th level. The cross cut being driven from the Banner to the Tip Top claim vein to the . east is progressing slowly. The cross cut will be completed in the early part of next year. Otto E. Schiffner, general. manager states the company ~~~ . now employs 265 men. a Rae es No.« LODE MINES "—~_Men — _ Payroll Newmont Empire North. Star Pennsylvania Zeibright Murchie Idaho-Maryland New Brunswick Idaho $61,500 39,900 16,650 22,500: 21,000 78,150 249 5:21: Lava Cap Banner— Central Spanish Others Golden Center .. Spring Hill Great Northern . Stockton Hill Hot Water 13022