November 19, 1928 (6 pages)

. > 4 Electric. Power rune: esl A New * ’ some three months ago. ah evada City Nugget Rea a eS a ey VOLUME Il NUMBER . ee sn THE GOLD CENTER NEVADA ‘CITY, ‘NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, THE COUNTY SEAT PAPEs 2 ps HOGE IS IN INSTALLING NEW EQUIPMENT GRAND JURY AUDIT GIVES FINANCIAL CONDITION COUNTY PAST TWO YEARS Report Report Released to the Press Reveals Seinices of the County Income For Past Biennium And Expenditures Grand Jury To Complete Labors The Coming Month Compressor Being Added To Facilitate Operations The Hoge Development’ Company are busily engaged at present in the installation of electric power, on their new properties in order to operate their work of development, with greater speed and efficiency. They are just completing a compressor building and blacksmith shop which is of ample’ proportions to house all equipment necessary for the company’s present needs. This coming week, they expect to put in the necessary concrete foundations for the compressor, motor, ete., which is already for installation as soon as the foundations are in place, and properly hardened to stand the strain. The development of this Company up to date, has been of a very satisfactory nature, and for that reason, the management decided upon the installation of mod2rn up-to-date equipment in order’ to prosecute their development work with economy and efficiency. Mr. floge the president of the Company is authority for the statement that there shall probablv not be any public offering of this stock ashe and his associates have got all matters pertaining to finances practically settled and disposed of. Mr. Hoge has hadbut very little to say for the past several weeks. But all of the time he and his crew of men under the’ supervision of Billy Genasci, have been busily engaged in the necessary work, preparatory to a large operation that The Editor of this paper has heretofore stated, that it was his opinion that this Company would develop one of the outstanding big’ producers of this famous camp, and in the light of present developments together with moredn_ up-to-date electric equipment being installed,’ he is more than ever convinced that this mine will eventually be a proven fact. The best wishes of the entire community are with Hoge and the Hoge Development Company. Because he makes every dollar count, that is entrusted to his care and backs ‘up ' his company with his: own personal standing and credit, to the full limit. These are the class of nen that count in any industry, and the more we have, the better for all concerned. pon eon ee FIRST HEAVY STORM OF _. WINTER BRINGS SNOW The heavy storm last week did inestimable benefit to the and laid) a foundation for snows ‘county pasturage the winter hich will make for an abundant (water supply the coming year. There was considerable “wind but beyond uprooting trees and causing disturbance to telephone and yower lines it did little damage. Nearly two feet of snow fell at Graniteville and the Victory Highway over the summit was closed to travel as were the other passes to the south. The Yuba Pass is in good travelable condition which proves its efficacy as a cross Sierra route. The Yuba Pass Association has not announced its plans for: handiins the snow this winter. W. M. SELL BUSINESS VISITOR W. M. Sell, Jr., one of the proprietors of the popular Hotel Turpin of San Francisco was a business vi-' sitor in. Nevada City last week ‘in the interest of his hostlery. The Turpin under the “ownership of Sell; and E. T. Farrow has thoroughly reestablished itself as one of the leading hotels of the coast and enjoys a large patronage. Many new improvements are 2 being planned ‘according to Mr. Sell: : Emil Unger, who was injured in a powder explosion last week Sunday,’ is slowly reeovering at the county hospital. The body of Arnold Unger. was sent to Medford, Oregon for intermient. Another brother was killed Jim Tosi of the Chicao Pgark section used a string tied to his shot .gun to end his life last week. Judge Byron Lyons of Washington visited friends here last week, ‘Aubury, O. Adams, structions as to when to obey the ordinance ‘Showing the buildings MINING LOCATIONS ARE PLACED COUNTY RECORD: The following mining claims have been recorded the past week: The Extention placer claim in Washington Mining District. NE% NEY, Sec. 20, TI7N, R11E., by T. L. Larsen and Charles A. Kaas. Colorado quartz location in the », North Columbia Hill Mining District by 0. J. Thompkins and E. J. Frost. Big Bend No. 3 placer location by F. J. Nash, J. L. Coyle, Amy Cc, Eric Lyders, J. W. Harner, Wynn M. Pond and John EB. Pond. Yuba Mother Lode No. 3 in Moores Flat Mining District by Andy Fitz Mining and Milling Company. CITY TRUSTEES TO PUT TEETH IN TRAFFIC LAW Tightening up of the enforcement of the recently enacted traffic ordinance was the principal item of business discussed by the city trustees at the adjourned meeting held Friday night. In the absence of Mayor Holmes, Trustee Bennetts acted in the capacity of chairman in an efticient manner. The officers reported that they had made around 100 citations for violations of the ordinance so far but the amount of fines levied had been infinitessimal in court. Judge Dow in conversation stated to The Nugget that there. had been conflicting inenforcement . was actually to commence and for that reason he had been’ turning offenders loose. He stated that he was not in favor of making a revenue producer out of the ordinance in any event. The trustees instruct ed special Police Officer Hallett to proceed with the marking of the streets for parking and traffic lanes and that if people did not propose as enacted that they should be made to pay for the delinquency and were in favor of having nominal fine atleast on offenders. More stop and no-parking signs have been ordered from the auto association and will be installed, one more at the corner of Pine and Commercial, one at the head of Winter street and on eat the Methodist church corner. The no parking ,sicr in front of the court house is to be moveu +o the opposite side of the street but the trustees éxpress— ed themselves as being in favor of no parking at all in front of the . headquarters. « The street ' alongside the Theatre is to be kept clear. With the covering of the gutter along the’ south side of Broad . street below Pine it is expected that: the present practiceof the bus backing around at the corner be stopped and a new bus stop drranged. The covering of the “deep gutter which has been a bugbear to motorists brought out a lot of discussion street ‘and the trustees went over the mata6: Dee eee agreement with the records of Audi:the county books by the ‘various $5088.85 The report of the audit made of firm of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Company has been submitted to the Nevada County Grand Jury and_ has been released by F. F. Cassidy, foreman. The prelude recites that the examination was confined to the verification of the monies collected and disbursed and the preparation of the, statements of receipts and disburse! ments, Treasurer’s fund balances, and other data. A balance sheet was not prepared setting forth the assets, liabilities and surplus of the Coun. ty, as the present accounting system is, on a cash basis and does not. provide for such records. The total cash on hand June 30, 1926 was $183,697.12. The cash balance on June 30, 1928 was $222,-, 355.51, or an increase of nearly . $40,000 during the;two year period. During the past year the county spent $6,306.43 more than it took in while during the previous year thére ; was an excess of receipts of; $32,151.98. By going through the. detailed figures below the comparison of receipts and disbursements for the two year period may be readily compared. ; The tax collections, real and personal for the biennium , was but a few hundred dollars short of a half} ‘million. Real property taxes in. jereased nearly $2000 during 1928 ; while personal property taxes de. creased nearly $5000. The delinquent tax roll in 1927 was $7,727.79 and for 1928 it was $6,609.81. The records show that every penny of unsecured personal property taxes were collected during both years by Assessor Henry C. Schroeder, amounting to $18,137.80 in 1927 and $19,110.60 the past year. The records of Tax Collector Frank , Steel were examined in detail and i found to be accurately kept and in or George Coughlan. The total feés collected by the officers dropped fron! in 1927 to $4346.69 in . These will be found in detail 1928. RECEIPTS AND. DISBURSEMENTS The following is a condensed sattement of receipts and disbursements for the two years ending June 30, 1928: ‘ . main in the business district will ; . General and Special Taxes ...-:----4 Redemptions ‘Sale of State Tax Properties po ees » i Fines and Penalties ... Interest From the State of California . For the State of California...; Trust Funds Miscellaneous High School Receipts Miscellaneous Elementary School Receipts Tuition Collection Fire Insuranse Miscellaneous Sales County Farm Produce Pay Patients County Hospital Private Donations for Road Miscellaneous General Miscellaneous CollecDE os Sargon cites cas cgicxcmonchaencasnennee Sale of Bonds—Truckee San. Dist. . ter Saturday morning. to decide the ‘Sanitantion and Promotion of best method and this will be followed out this week. With this covered Legialative and the parking lines marked out, traffic control on Broad street will Law Officers and, Accounts Other Executive Officers and Aecounts be followed out more closely. A set of maps gotten out in 1883 in Nevada City, was presented to the — board by William Landrigan. W. H. Osborne presented a request that he be permitted to edect a small building to house his cleaning plant in back of his present quarters. He proposes to erect the building with eonerete floor, corrugated iron sides and roof and -0 by 18 feet in size. The matter was referred to the’ board of fire delegates as the proposed : within the fire zone. Water collections for the past month were $1087.25, taxes $395.68 and fines $56. on the general fund last month $6297.40, fire fund $151.65 and library fund $97.97. Included in the ‘general fund payment was the judgment obtained by William McKean on his rock crushing equipment during the street paving operations. The swmiming pool problem erept usual in again during the meeting but as dealing. structure is 1 There was paid out. "Potal REGCIDCG sssccou eck scenes -e<navcsucnanes Finance Officers and Accounts Elections Court House and Grounds Protection to. Person and Property. ‘Conservation of Health Cleanhness: . 2: :.25.25.5525 Highways, Bridges, ete., Charities and Corrections BAYT ET Pa. ag eg DOy i Pe ene eR Miscellarieous Trust Funds Payments of Interest Payments for FOOT RO SUA UO as ca crete ns aces cena tonacacescoueacee Tcachers Retirement Fund ah ot 2 Py Roisacesate i Snean Src se es eo ee pate Excess of Receipts ... Excess of Disbursements Redemption of Bonds The inmates at the county farm were treated to a series of travel pictures taken in Northern Africa, last week, by Rev. H. H. Buckner Mrs. M. M. Coughlan left Tuesday for Red Bluff to be with her mother, who is very ill. Mrs. Edith Solari of Vallejo came up for the funeral’of ‘her mother, Mrs. Amanda J. Rapp. laid . $222,355.51 consisted of the follow‘$100,000 and it was ‘that in view ‘of the large amount. of . cash to the , that these bonds should be increasee ee GERMAN BAR MINES 7 INSTALL A PILOT mL MONARCH MINE Figu in interest from bank deposits, erty Bonds and Treasury Notes. LibALTA HILL LAWSUIT IS HEARD SUPREME COURT The funds on hand amounting to ,ing cash in banks and _ on hand, ——— and investments as follows: Central The Alta Hill mines which have Bank of California $15,000.00; have been in court for some months . %3° and are under option to the Butler interests of Los Angeles, fizured in a supreme court hearing the past week at Sacramento, the case . being carried up. on appeal from the ,; superior court. . Angle and London Paris National Bank, $20,000.00; Capital Natioral Bank, $20,000.00; Wells Fargo and Union Trust Company, $20,000.00; First National Bank in Grass Valley, $36,202.53. United Security Bank and Trust” Company, $49,044.15; coin and_ currency. on hand, $12,108.83; Liberty Bonds, $10,000.00; Cooley BIGELOW COME COMPLE LEFES 20 . : . ‘Treasury Notes, $5000.00; State of ‘California Veterans Welfare = YEARS FAITHEUL DUT q. $35,000.00. ————— . The bonds of the Treasurer and R. L. P. last. Tuesday Tax Collector were found to be rounded out twenty years of service recommended . 28 supervisor of the Tahoe Nationa! ‘Forest, a record truly to be proud . of. Probably one of the outstand achievements of his . Rigelow credit of the--county. years. of ser ed. vice aside from his administrative The records of the officials were . duties has been the building of the found to be neatly and accurately Yuba Pass Highway from Sierra City eastward and with the completion . kept with the exception noted. tof the work Downieville City, Sierra county and California will have a broad year way that will be an ment to the man who had : and Sierra It was recommended that a new form of disbursement warrant be : adopted, with a detachable check for presentation tethe Treasurer by the payee, in order that warrants ihe persieionee ta koe du theauel: ‘it will not pass out of the Auditors the face of many difficu!tie. hands, as in the present system. around highenduring monuvision and When Mr. Bigelow came to Neva ‘da City in 1908 the TWorest Service _ offices were in the Daniels Building 9 ‘on Pine street,but these were soon ers BA 2 8 geen ee outgrown and the Service has sinee . soeee 8,908.22 woke been housed in the Bennetts Riotk ee eee —o Vee on Broad street. The foree employed Se 20,535.00 13,178.30 in this district has been growing Peo 5,112.72 6,087.01 until it represents a sizeable comsesececscme 87,992.91 92,407.13 munity in itself. With fire proteeou ‘repair within the forest aréas, the . Be eee ea 1,234.73 352.89 headquarters administers a growing . . business. 2,750.00 2,750.00 . “Dick’’ Bigelow is Gne of Neva. 1,000.00 ‘\. da City’s leading and best eee Se 5 191.28 1 on0.89 citizens. 1,310.15 3,065.30 . — . wyew ee 2,000.00 DO YOUR BIT FOR Bee ees ie 2,030.63 676.99 At Tae poet 20,000.00 RED CROSS Re OLE C! oO sncterncesecceneees 421,505.79 390,619.44 Another Red Cross Annual R oll . . 13,200.43 16.344.75 Call is now under. way and Neve sell 12,470.18 12,144.94 City may be counted. on to do her . ear errs ren 4,628.98 4,234.11] usual generous bit for this great hu. . aeerececesenceee §56.65 1,266.46 . manitarian\ work. One of its outa ee ea Hehe standing aclNevements of the past eee 24,644.74 23,721.11} year was the rescue work in the eee hes A hurricane area \in Florida and the ee , : 0a ~-°* . West Indies. \ . see oe rea peere eee Wherever there\is suffering, fam. 190,595.83 198,511.32 ine, pestilence -or ‘plague, the Red . ee eee eee Cross is first onthe\job to minister . eta aes 12,088.75 10,266.68 . to the wounded and \alleviate con. .-. 2,800.00 2,800.00 . ditions, to furnish food. and shelter. nae 1 ig ina te That is where your dollars go, 389,353.81 396,925.87 Chairman George L. Jones of the 32,151.98 local chapter announces that subnevareentesn be 6,306.43 scriptions may be made at The Miss Clara Angiolini returned to United Seevirty Bank, The Nugget San Francisco after spending the office and the Morning Union, where week end here with her parents, Mr. receipts will be issued for all payand Mrs. M. Angiolini. A chicken . ents. dinner was served at her home on] . ae oe RES ae RSH Armistice Day in her.honor. A num. . Alfred Whittell of San Francisco ber of friends were present for the was up from San_ Francisco several occasion. days last week visiting his friend, Gordon M. Bettles and family. William H. Young principal of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Breese spent Gold Flat school, was able to resume ja few days in San Francisco. his duties at school Tuesday, after Mrs. F. F. Cassidy is in San Franan absence of a few days on ac-. sico visiting relatives and friends. vas over for future count of illness. a2 Subscribe For The Nugget ! ‘est in the power plant on the North Luba below Sierra City owned by Galifornia Buttes” interests and installing a power line to the smach. The present 342.ft. shaft at mil! is to be sunk to the 559 “tevel at onee on the Monarch vein and the mill will be operated throughout the winter on ore al. ready biocked out. The present mill ‘edpacity is to be increased to 90 tons. There. is said to be around . 175,000 . mill and start a long drainage and haulage tunnel to get into the pre. lower than the present workings and 'will provide about 1800 feet of i backs. This will make for extremely . low costs of operation. A 60 stamp mill will be erected at the new site ‘and the present mill abandoned, With its own power. supply to the property makes an attractive feaAssays made on a_ number of samples show excellent returns .On Sample No. 1 taken over 800 feet of the vein showed. gold value $6.80 per ton. No; :2,° $21.60; No. 3, $1253:603) No. 4 $122.40; No. 5, Mr, Dutton who is general manings. He was accompanied by Mra. Duiton. J: W. Platt” of. New Haven, Coninecticut, who is secretary of the new colapanyis expected shortly at the . property . WRIGHT SHOWS PROWESS j attorney, ihome in San Francisco after a short) teacher here, her mother, 1 Agnes Welch, all of Berkeley. — _NOVEN BER 19, 1928 RESIN NEW DEAL D. H. Dutton To Superintend Large Operations At This Noted Sierra City MineOne of the bigg est gold mining The German Bar Gold Mines ‘ ; ; 5 Noli ‘ : operations in this section of CaliCompany will continue development ies! Se ra > ; 5 : SS fornia eheduled to get under way at its mines in the Snow Point disHi aE t the Mc ch property £ : P r af t 8: Wi era the Monaren p below. The fi trict, and install a pilot mill ef 50 . gon ; niaw & hoon bee z Sierra -City which has See Le pI saa ce nes agreed with the . : 75 tong capacity. The property 1 ra : : : Rees over VY -G@HSLCF! pitha@iCtal nverests ac oh ae the Justices of the Peace, adjoining the Plumbago mine and adj ee t { — 1 in the neigh : ; who expec Oo spenc 1 é gnash . a « paren runyRe es jacent to the Gold Canyon and fre: ne . f i : Hiss doling i x = orhood ¢ a hali mihior ¢ ctions, with the exception of the . jan Mines all of which haye been Pi re fee pee Justice Court at Grass’ Valley. 4 j 5 develop this famous property adjoin: large producers of rich eold ore.};, : ‘ <i ape See ae We understand that separate records ie Cech hak< ae eeaiciion . ing the noted Sierra Buttes property re t 2aT Tass ITEGHRUCTIO ren = 2 ‘ . will be kept. in future. The Fines] o¢ spout. 200.600. from Soe ~ twhich hes a production record. of . : : * d y pz { Prony a HOCKEL . 2113 ? around twenty millions. turned over to the Treasurer but has been idle. fer many years : eas 4 f lamounted to . $33.713.30,and< in-. 3113) it has acquired’ for the con The Monarch which is owned by { H . nas ¢ 1 *f 19 ne ee ocek Tee of Sierra City is e clude Justice Court Fines $30,347.30, pany by Mr. Thomas BE. Stephens, Jack Lee of Sierra City is one of th Superior Court fines $2366.00 and ae = ; Soe . . promising: “preperties with a. large bail forfel t Auburn, California,-a mining’ ensi-. * ; i ” : Gi ‘ OLy ana three large ? orfeiture of $1000.00. ,; meer native: of the district; who: has (97° 72 a FEES COLLECTED been for a long time engaged in oil VOM S7Stems. digs Seo a at ae eae : ‘ of fine milling > has 8 i e asad : eke , PAG and mining in the Argentine. The E fine Lune ee ee gaet ere re : j » past few ¢ inineing ( Renoeder : eae 35 ete = property was recently examined by ade eee a — se Se : ; 5 ae Shore "130.14 196.49 . Kirby Thomas of New York for the. a Sere it Sel sheet tgp be pe School Supt. .. ‘50.00 $6.00) eastern associates. in the Company . Pee? lacking unth recently when D, i I tt id g pror j 3) 7 a. yea ous soos eed wee oe mostly in Camden, N. J. Louis w. 4 desea heading . prominent eae es : Sr MacCloskey of Camden is‘ president. . eR tHLerests, BVRReS ities The County collected $11,099.73 wind are preparing ‘to open it up, The company has taken an interblocked out which shows assay values averaging tons of ore in excess of $14. per ton. The program for the coming spring is to develop a promising mill sige at the south end of the proper: iy two miles south from the present This will be an eleyme 1200 to: 2000 feet sent workings. vation. of sx charge of operations was in Nevada City azer in Saturday afternoon with a number of high workspecimens of grade quartz taken from. the on a tour of inspection. AT ANCIENT GAME district of his occomcorrect stance, tim-. and putting which are listed as ihe eaeccoutrements of — the ancient and game of golf. Last week he stroked the local course in 39 strokes tieing the course record some time since by Al Stuart Hosking with an 18 hole record of 83 also set up a mark to shoot at by some of the local club wringerfs. Wright, erstwhile has plishments the W. E. as one ing, honorbale established Abrahams. Mrs. Mary Stenger from her 1 is recovering recent illness. Harry. Sandow left Tuesday for his with Mrs. W. i visit here’ H. Warnecke; Miss Elaine Mobler. teacher in the _ Auburn high school, spent the week end here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. lL. Mobley. ; Mrs. erintendent of schools, visited her sister, Mrs. A. Anderson of Spence-_ ville, over the week-end. Herbert and Henry Paine, mining men of Lake City, spent last week end in Nevada City. Guests -over the week end : the Charles Ninnis home were, Miss ‘Doris Rice, a former high schoo and C9 ala a a ~e Ella M. Austin, county sup.

. > 4 Electric. Power rune: esl A New * ’ some three months ago. ah evada City Nugget Rea a eS a ey VOLUME Il NUMBER . ee sn THE GOLD CENTER NEVADA ‘CITY, ‘NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, THE COUNTY SEAT PAPEs 2 ps HOGE IS IN INSTALLING NEW EQUIPMENT GRAND JURY AUDIT GIVES FINANCIAL CONDITION COUNTY PAST TWO YEARS Report Report Released to the Press Reveals Seinices of the County Income For Past Biennium And Expenditures Grand Jury To Complete Labors The Coming Month Compressor Being Added To Facilitate Operations The Hoge Development’ Company are busily engaged at present in the installation of electric power, on their new properties in order to operate their work of development, with greater speed and efficiency. They are just completing a compressor building and blacksmith shop which is of ample’ proportions to house all equipment necessary for the company’s present needs. This coming week, they expect to put in the necessary concrete foundations for the compressor, motor, ete., which is already for installation as soon as the foundations are in place, and properly hardened to stand the strain. The development of this Company up to date, has been of a very satisfactory nature, and for that reason, the management decided upon the installation of mod2rn up-to-date equipment in order’ to prosecute their development work with economy and efficiency. Mr. floge the president of the Company is authority for the statement that there shall probablv not be any public offering of this stock ashe and his associates have got all matters pertaining to finances practically settled and disposed of. Mr. Hoge has hadbut very little to say for the past several weeks. But all of the time he and his crew of men under the’ supervision of Billy Genasci, have been busily engaged in the necessary work, preparatory to a large operation that The Editor of this paper has heretofore stated, that it was his opinion that this Company would develop one of the outstanding big’ producers of this famous camp, and in the light of present developments together with moredn_ up-to-date electric equipment being installed,’ he is more than ever convinced that this mine will eventually be a proven fact. The best wishes of the entire community are with Hoge and the Hoge Development Company. Because he makes every dollar count, that is entrusted to his care and backs ‘up ' his company with his: own personal standing and credit, to the full limit. These are the class of nen that count in any industry, and the more we have, the better for all concerned. pon eon ee FIRST HEAVY STORM OF _. WINTER BRINGS SNOW The heavy storm last week did inestimable benefit to the and laid) a foundation for snows ‘county pasturage the winter hich will make for an abundant (water supply the coming year. There was considerable “wind but beyond uprooting trees and causing disturbance to telephone and yower lines it did little damage. Nearly two feet of snow fell at Graniteville and the Victory Highway over the summit was closed to travel as were the other passes to the south. The Yuba Pass is in good travelable condition which proves its efficacy as a cross Sierra route. The Yuba Pass Association has not announced its plans for: handiins the snow this winter. W. M. SELL BUSINESS VISITOR W. M. Sell, Jr., one of the proprietors of the popular Hotel Turpin of San Francisco was a business vi-' sitor in. Nevada City last week ‘in the interest of his hostlery. The Turpin under the “ownership of Sell; and E. T. Farrow has thoroughly reestablished itself as one of the leading hotels of the coast and enjoys a large patronage. Many new improvements are 2 being planned ‘according to Mr. Sell: : Emil Unger, who was injured in a powder explosion last week Sunday,’ is slowly reeovering at the county hospital. The body of Arnold Unger. was sent to Medford, Oregon for intermient. Another brother was killed Jim Tosi of the Chicao Pgark section used a string tied to his shot .gun to end his life last week. Judge Byron Lyons of Washington visited friends here last week, ‘Aubury, O. Adams, structions as to when to obey the ordinance ‘Showing the buildings MINING LOCATIONS ARE PLACED COUNTY RECORD: The following mining claims have been recorded the past week: The Extention placer claim in Washington Mining District.. NE% NEY, Sec. 20, TI7N, R11E., by T. L. Larsen and Charles A. Kaas. Colorado quartz location in the », North Columbia Hill Mining District by 0. J. Thompkins and E. J. Frost. Big Bend No. 3 placer location by F. J. Nash, J. L. Coyle, Amy Cc, Eric Lyders, J. W. Harner, Wynn M. Pond and John EB. Pond. Yuba Mother Lode No. 3 in Moores Flat Mining District by Andy Fitz Mining and Milling Company. CITY TRUSTEES TO PUT TEETH IN TRAFFIC LAW Tightening up of the enforcement of the recently enacted traffic ordinance was the principal item of business discussed by the city trustees at the adjourned meeting held Friday night. In the absence of Mayor Holmes, Trustee Bennetts acted in the capacity of chairman in an efticient manner. The officers reported that they had made around 100 citations for violations of the ordinance so far but the amount of fines levied had been infinitessimal in court. Judge Dow in conversation stated to The Nugget that there. had been conflicting inenforcement . was actually to commence and for that reason he had been’ turning offenders loose. He stated that he was not in favor of making a revenue producer out of the ordinance in any event. The trustees instruct ed special Police Officer Hallett to proceed with the marking of the streets for parking and traffic lanes and that if people did not propose as enacted that they should be made to pay for the delinquency and were in favor of having nominal fine atleast on offenders. More stop and no-parking signs have been ordered from the auto association and will be installed, one more at the corner of Pine and Commercial, one at the head of Winter street and on eat the Methodist church corner. The no parking ,sicr in front of the court house is to be moveu +o the opposite side of the street but the trustees éxpress— ed themselves as being in favor of no parking at all in front of the . headquarters. « The street ' alongside the Theatre is to be kept clear. With the covering of the gutter along the’ south side of Broad . street below Pine it is expected that: the present practiceof the bus backing around at the corner be stopped and a new bus stop drranged. The covering of the “deep gutter which has been a bugbear to motorists brought out a lot of discussion street ‘and the trustees went over the mata6: Dee eee agreement with the records of Audi:the county books by the ‘various $5088.85 The report of the audit made of firm of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Company has been submitted to the Nevada County Grand Jury and_ has been released by F. F. Cassidy, foreman. The prelude recites that the examination was confined to the verification of the monies collected and disbursed and the preparation of the, statements of receipts and disburse! ments, Treasurer’s fund balances, and other data. A balance sheet was not prepared setting forth the assets, liabilities and surplus of the Coun. ty, as the present accounting system is, on a cash basis and does not. provide for such records. The total cash on hand June 30, 1926 was $183,697.12. The cash balance on June 30, 1928 was $222,-, 355.51, or an increase of nearly . $40,000 during the;two year period. During the past year the county spent $6,306.43 more than it took in while during the previous year thére ; was an excess of receipts of; $32,151.98. By going through the. detailed figures below the comparison of receipts and disbursements for the two year period may be readily compared. ; The tax collections, real and personal for the biennium , was but a few hundred dollars short of a half} ‘million. Real property taxes in. jereased nearly $2000 during 1928 ; while personal property taxes de. creased nearly $5000. The delinquent tax roll in 1927 was $7,727.79 and for 1928 it was $6,609.81. The records show that every penny of unsecured personal property taxes were collected during both years by Assessor Henry C. Schroeder, amounting to $18,137.80 in 1927 and $19,110.60 the past year. The records of Tax Collector Frank , Steel were examined in detail and i found to be accurately kept and in or George Coughlan. The total feés collected by the officers dropped fron! in 1927 to $4346.69 in . These will be found in detail 1928. RECEIPTS AND. DISBURSEMENTS The following is a condensed sattement of receipts and disbursements for the two years ending June 30, 1928: ‘ . main in the business district will ; . General and Special Taxes ......-:----4 Redemptions ‘Sale of State Tax Properties po ees » i Fines and Penalties ..... Interest From the State of California .. For the State of California......; Trust Funds Miscellaneous High School Receipts Miscellaneous Elementary School Receipts Tuition Collection Fire Insuranse Miscellaneous Sales County Farm Produce Pay Patients County Hospital Private Donations for Road Miscellaneous General Miscellaneous CollecDE os Sargon cites cas cgicxcmonchaencasnennee Sale of Bonds—Truckee San. Dist. .. ter Saturday morning. to decide the ‘Sanitantion and Promotion of best method and this will be followed out this week. With this covered Legialative and the parking lines marked out, traffic control on Broad street will Law Officers and, Accounts Other Executive Officers and Aecounts be followed out more closely. A set of maps gotten out in 1883 in Nevada City, was presented to the — board by William Landrigan. W. H. Osborne presented a request that he be permitted to edect a small building to house his cleaning plant in back of his present quarters. He proposes to erect the building with eonerete floor, corrugated iron sides and roof and -0 by 18 feet in size. The matter was referred to the’ board of fire delegates as the proposed : within the fire zone. Water collections for the past month were $1087.25, taxes $395.68 and fines $56. on the general fund last month $6297.40, fire fund $151.65 and library fund $97.97. Included in the ‘general fund payment was the judgment obtained by William McKean on his rock crushing equipment during the street paving operations. The swmiming pool problem erept usual in again during the meeting but as dealing. structure is

1 There was paid out. "Potal REGCIDCG sssccou eck scenes -e<navcsucnanes Finance Officers and Accounts Elections Court House and Grounds Protection to. Person and Property.. ‘Conservation of Health Cleanhness: . 2: :.25.25.5525 Highways, Bridges, ete., Charities and Corrections BAYT ET Pa. ag eg DOy i Pe ene eR Miscellarieous Trust Funds Payments of Interest Payments for FOOT RO SUA UO as ca crete ns aces cena tonacacescoueacee Tcachers Retirement Fund ah ot 2 Py Roisacesate i Snean Src se es eo ee pate Excess of Receipts ...... Excess of Disbursements Redemption of Bonds The inmates at the county farm were treated to a series of travel pictures taken in Northern Africa, last week, by Rev. H. H. Buckner Mrs. M. M. Coughlan left Tuesday for Red Bluff to be with her mother, who is very ill. Mrs. Edith Solari of Vallejo came up for the funeral’of ‘her mother, Mrs. Amanda J. Rapp. laid . $222,355.51 consisted of the follow‘$100,000 and it was ‘that in view ‘of the large amount. of . cash to the , that these bonds should be increasee ee GERMAN BAR MINES 7 INSTALL A PILOT mL MONARCH MINE Figu in interest from bank deposits, erty Bonds and Treasury Notes. LibALTA HILL LAWSUIT IS HEARD SUPREME COURT The funds on hand amounting to ,ing cash in banks and _ on hand, ——— and investments as follows: Central The Alta Hill mines which have Bank of California $15,000.00; have been in court for some months . %3° and are under option to the Butler interests of Los Angeles, fizured in a supreme court hearing the past week at Sacramento, the case . being carried up. on appeal from the ,; superior court. . Angle and London Paris National Bank, $20,000.00; Capital Natioral Bank, $20,000.00; Wells Fargo and Union Trust Company, $20,000.00; First National Bank in Grass Valley, $36,202.53. United Security Bank and Trust” Company, $49,044.15; coin and_ currency. on hand, $12,108.83; Liberty Bonds, $10,000.00; Cooley BIGELOW COME COMPLE LEFES 20 . : . ‘Treasury Notes, $5000.00; State of ‘California Veterans Welfare = YEARS FAITHEUL DUT q. $35,000.00. ————— . The bonds of the Treasurer and R. L. P. last. Tuesday Tax Collector were found to be rounded out twenty years of service recommended . 28 supervisor of the Tahoe Nationa! ‘Forest, a record truly to be proud . of. Probably one of the outstand achievements of his . Rigelow credit of the--county. years. of ser ed. vice aside from his administrative The records of the officials were . duties has been the building of the found to be neatly and accurately Yuba Pass Highway from Sierra City eastward and with the completion . kept with the exception noted. tof the work Downieville City, Sierra county and California will have a broad year way that will be an ment to the man who had : and Sierra It was recommended that a new form of disbursement warrant be : adopted, with a detachable check for presentation tethe Treasurer by the payee, in order that warrants ihe persieionee ta koe du theauel: ‘it will not pass out of the Auditors the face of many difficu!tie. hands, as in the present system. around highenduring monuvision and When Mr. Bigelow came to Neva ‘da City in 1908 the TWorest Service _ offices were in the Daniels Building 9 ‘on Pine street,but these were soon ers BA 2 8 geen ee outgrown and the Service has sinee . soeee 8,908.22 woke been housed in the Bennetts Riotk ee eee —o Vee on Broad street. The foree employed Se 20,535.00 13,178.30 in this district has been growing Peo 5,112.72 6,087.01 until it represents a sizeable comsesececscme 87,992.91 92,407.13 munity in itself. With fire proteeou ‘repair within the forest aréas, the . Be eee ea 1,234.73 352.89 headquarters administers a growing . . business. 2,750.00 2,750.00 . “Dick’’ Bigelow is Gne of Neva. 1,000.00 ‘\. da City’s leading and best eee Se 5 191.28 1 on0.89 citizens. 1,310.15 3,065.30 . — . wyew ee 2,000.00 DO YOUR BIT FOR Bee ees ie 2,030.63 676.99 At Tae poet 20,000.00 RED CROSS Re OLE C! oO sncterncesecceneees 421,505.79 390,619.44 Another Red Cross Annual R oll . . 13,200.43 16.344.75 Call is now under. way and Neve sell 12,470.18 12,144.94 City may be counted. on to do her . ear errs ren 4,628.98 4,234.11] usual generous bit for this great hu. . aeerececesenceee §56.65 1,266.46 . manitarian\ work. One of its outa ee ea Hehe standing aclNevements of the past eee 24,644.74 23,721.11} year was the rescue work in the eee hes A hurricane area \in Florida and the ee , : 0a ~-°* . West Indies. \ . see oe rea peere eee Wherever there\is suffering, fam. 190,595.83 198,511.32 ine, pestilence -or ‘plague, the Red . ee eee eee Cross is first onthe\job to minister . eta aes 12,088.75 10,266.68 . to the wounded and \alleviate con. .-. 2,800.00 2,800.00 . ditions, to furnish food. and shelter. nae 1 ig ina te That is where your dollars go, 389,353.81 396,925.87 Chairman George L. Jones of the 32,151.98 local chapter announces that subnevareentesn be 6,306.43 scriptions may be made at The Miss Clara Angiolini returned to United Seevirty Bank, The Nugget San Francisco after spending the office and the Morning Union, where week end here with her parents, Mr. receipts will be issued for all payand Mrs. M. Angiolini. A chicken . ents. dinner was served at her home on] . ae oe RES ae RSH Armistice Day in her.honor. A num. . Alfred Whittell of San Francisco ber of friends were present for the was up from San_ Francisco several occasion. days last week visiting his friend, Gordon M. Bettles and family. William H. Young principal of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Breese spent Gold Flat school, was able to resume ja few days in San Francisco. his duties at school Tuesday, after Mrs. F. F. Cassidy is in San Franan absence of a few days on ac-. sico visiting relatives and friends. vas over for future count of illness. a2 Subscribe For The Nugget ! ‘est in the power plant on the North Luba below Sierra City owned by Galifornia Buttes” interests and installing a power line to the smach. The present 342.ft. shaft at mil! is to be sunk to the 559 “tevel at onee on the Monarch vein and the mill will be operated throughout the winter on ore al. ready biocked out. The present mill ‘edpacity is to be increased to 90 tons. There. is said to be around . 175,000 . mill and start a long drainage and haulage tunnel to get into the pre. lower than the present workings and 'will provide about 1800 feet of i backs. This will make for extremely . low costs of operation. A 60 stamp mill will be erected at the new site ‘and the present mill abandoned, With its own power. supply to the property makes an attractive feaAssays made on a_ number of samples show excellent returns .On Sample No. 1 taken over 800 feet of the vein showed. gold value $6.80 per ton. No; :2,° $21.60; No. 3, $1253:603) No. 4 $122.40; No. 5, Mr, Dutton who is general manings. He was accompanied by Mra. Duiton. J: W. Platt” of. New Haven, Coninecticut, who is secretary of the new colapanyis expected shortly at the . property . WRIGHT SHOWS PROWESS j attorney, ihome in San Francisco after a short) teacher here, her mother, 1 Agnes Welch, all of Berkeley. — _NOVEN BER 19, 1928 RESIN NEW DEAL D. H. Dutton To Superintend Large Operations At This Noted Sierra City MineOne of the bigg est gold mining The German Bar Gold Mines ‘ ; ; 5 Noli ‘ : operations in this section of CaliCompany will continue development ies! Se ra > ; 5 : SS fornia eheduled to get under way at its mines in the Snow Point disHi aE t the Mc ch property £ : P r af t 8: Wi era the Monaren p below. The fi trict, and install a pilot mill ef 50 . gon ; niaw & hoon bee z Sierra -City which has See Le pI saa ce nes agreed with the . : 75 tong capacity. The property 1 ra : : : Rees over VY -G@HSLCF! pitha@iCtal nverests ac oh ae the Justices of the Peace, adjoining the Plumbago mine and adj ee t { — 1 in the neigh : ; who expec Oo spenc 1 é gnash . a « paren runyRe es jacent to the Gold Canyon and fre: ne . f i : Hiss doling i x = orhood ¢ a hali mihior ¢ ctions, with the exception of the . jan Mines all of which haye been Pi re fee pee Justice Court at Grass’ Valley. 4 j 5 develop this famous property adjoin: large producers of rich eold ore.};, : ‘ <i ape See ae We understand that separate records ie Cech hak< ae eeaiciion . ing the noted Sierra Buttes property re t 2aT Tass ITEGHRUCTIO ren = 2 ‘ . will be kept. in future. The Fines] o¢ spout. 200.600. from Soe ~ twhich hes a production record. of . : : * d y pz { Prony a HOCKEL . 2113 ? around twenty millions. turned over to the Treasurer but has been idle. fer many years : eas 4 f lamounted to . $33.713.30,and< in-. 3113) it has acquired’ for the con The Monarch which is owned by { H . nas ¢ 1 *f 19 ne ee ocek Tee of Sierra City is e clude Justice Court Fines $30,347.30, pany by Mr. Thomas BE. Stephens, Jack Lee of Sierra City is one of th Superior Court fines $2366.00 and ae = ; Soe . . promising: “preperties with a. large bail forfel t Auburn, California,-a mining’ ensi-. * ; i ” : Gi ‘ OLy ana three large ? orfeiture of $1000.00. ,; meer native: of the district; who: has (97° 72 a FEES COLLECTED been for a long time engaged in oil VOM S7Stems. digs Seo a at ae eae : ‘ of fine milling > has 8 i e asad : eke , PAG and mining in the Argentine. The E fine Lune ee ee gaet ere re : j » past few ¢ inineing ( Renoeder : eae 35 ete = property was recently examined by ade eee a — se Se : ; 5 ae Shore "130.14 196.49 . Kirby Thomas of New York for the. a Sere it Sel sheet tgp be pe School Supt. ... ‘50.00 $6.00) eastern associates. in the Company . Pee? lacking unth recently when D, i I tt id g pror j 3) 7 a. yea ous soos eed wee oe mostly in Camden, N. J. Louis w. 4 desea heading . prominent eae es : Sr MacCloskey of Camden is‘ president. . eR tHLerests, BVRReS ities The County collected $11,099.73 wind are preparing ‘to open it up, The company has taken an interblocked out which shows assay values averaging tons of ore in excess of $14. per ton. The program for the coming spring is to develop a promising mill sige at the south end of the proper: iy two miles south from the present This will be an eleyme 1200 to: 2000 feet sent workings. vation. of sx charge of operations was in Nevada City azer in Saturday afternoon with a number of high workspecimens of grade quartz taken from. the on a tour of inspection. AT ANCIENT GAME district of his occomcorrect stance, tim-. and putting which are listed as ihe eaeccoutrements of — the ancient and game of golf. Last week he stroked the local course in 39 strokes tieing the course record some time since by Al Stuart Hosking with an 18 hole record of 83 also set up a mark to shoot at by some of the local club wringerfs. Wright, erstwhile has plishments the W. E. as one ing, honorbale established Abrahams. Mrs. Mary Stenger from her 1 is recovering recent illness. Harry. Sandow left Tuesday for his with Mrs. W. i visit here’ H. Warnecke; Miss Elaine Mobler. teacher in the _ Auburn high school, spent the week end here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. lL. Mobley. ; Mrs. erintendent of schools, visited her sister, Mrs. A. Anderson of Spence-_ ville, over the week-end. Herbert and Henry Paine, mining men of Lake City, spent last week end in Nevada City. Guests -over the week end : the Charles Ninnis home were, Miss ‘Doris Rice, a former high schoo and C9 ala a a ~e Ella M. Austin, county sup.