November 21, 1946 (8 pages)

_ times in the rear, evolving into the ,session of ten year old boys or girls, ‘ faster than a’ horse could gallop. ‘the better class of cars, provided the ‘demand. is sufficient to justify the “ge, that were perfected in war time. '4And,°a number inventors and adventurous capitalists are now workPER MONTH NEVADA CITY NUGGET GRASS VALLEY. A TWICE#4A-WEEK NEWSPAPER MONDAY AND THURSDAY , 1946 Vol. 20, No. 91 aa Reng SATE THINKING OUT LOUD By H.M, L. To oldsters who remember when bicycles were a high wheetT and a low wheel contraption, with the low wheel sometimes in front and somefinal type, called the “safety” bicycle which now is the prized posthe new locomotion of winging through: the air, has a certain coinpelling logic that is inescapable. [For after the bicycle came the miotor car. Very clumsy, to be sure, were those first motor cars, and not Yes, we have heard the derisive cry: “Get a horse,’’ Well, nowadays horses are: more of a luxury and much rarer than cars. (Now we are entering the flying ege, when planes are propelled at speeds approaching that of sound The County Seat Paper born in Nevada City. You get cards and flowers and gifts. from neighbors and friends, hardly ‘know.’’ Spicklemier, wife of the 1947 vicepresident elect of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, presented Ray with their first child last month. Spicklemier had spoken her thoughts about Nevada City. The ‘first was when, Spicklemiers spent a week end here one October as guests of the John Collins’. over, to buy a business, and to stay and Spicklemier with Harry Meet Ray Spicklemier 1947 Chamber Officer “It’s wonderful to have your baby some whom you So said Mrs. Ray when she It ‘was; the seond time that Mrs. during the war years, the On the way back to Los Angeles she coaxed Ray into coming to Nevada ,City when ‘the war was here for always. And come they did, his friend *“Slim”’ Thompson. purchased _ NEVADA CITY-GRASS VALLEY; CALIFORNIA watha, Kansas, where he went to high school. Latter he attended Oklahoma A & M College majoring in finance and accounting. Like every one who comes here and works a spell in the mines, Spicklemier did his turn in the Oklahoma Osage Oil Fields. Coming to California ten years ago he developed an excellenit business record as assistant manager for Thrifty Drug Stores in Los Angeles. In 1941 he went into war work, first for Calship at Terminal Island in Los Angeles and later with the} Santa Fe Raliroad Company. Ray has been a dependable spark plug in the Chamber of Commerce for the past year. He’s got many a scheme’ for the 1947 program which includes the development of Pioneer Park with a grand plan for financing the program, Suicklemier and his Winter f— ‘ ~ Merry Christmas GRASS VALLEY: The Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce has arranged to deliver a Christmas tree to every business house in Grass Valley and Hills Flat within a fortnight. The trees are to be used for decorative effect in the front of each store. The chamber hopes that all mezThe Twin Cities Paper THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2] Arrives with . Wind, Rain and Snow Winter arrived in Nevada County this week in the full panoply of wind, rain and snow. The rainy blustering storm that began early Monday morning rattled windows, clogged drains and soaked the populace until it tapered off Tuesday night with a flurry of snow. Wednesday morning at--L.1:40 it began again with light snow flurries in Nevada City. Aristocracy Hill and Town Talk both drew a light perere of white flakes Tuesday night. Keith MacDonald of the forest service reported that it was still snowing at 11 a. m. Wednesday morning in Downieville, where 4 fallen. inches had already Truckee reported a four inch snowfall and a foot of snow blanketed Donner Summit. . The heavy rainfall (8.71 inches in Downieville, 7.13 inches in Camptonville, and 6:43 in Nevada City) definitely terminated the fire fighting program of the forest service for this . year. Fire permits, however, will be necessary until December . . Fire fighting crews have been laid off, though maintenance personnel is still at work newly elected chamber president, 1 rn *1) 1 5 eee CNANTS Witt GQecorate ther The weather bureau reported no prospect of flood condifornia. Well, when we think back to tue old high and low wheeled biercle, Wwe! just wonder whether we should go a bit slowly with these hiige road improvements programs and consider what air minded people are doing and what plane manufacturers are turning out, the way.of flying machinies. the Bottle Shop a year. ago and have} ~ tre ith l a ] . i it j i Eee oe Geor , alread ot eS WI colored electric : We are entering it just at ssa ae successfully operated it since then. © haha Hansen web r : y ge . i ht tions. Streams are at low siananier levela. when the State Highway Commission }: ; their heads together for active 1947 . } lig s. after the summer season : : and the legislature are much con-}: Ray Spicklamier was born in Hia. chamber year. ' . Ae eh : * cerned about huge road improveWY Gee ————————— ments, freeways to take us whizzing . c tm U . } from one place to another in CaliLOCAL GIRLS H SBAND It was back 1912. or matter, that we watched one of the . pioneer planes the track at Tanforan near San and circle around the track 30 feet above the heads of a great gaping audience. De thought what 4a dare fellow the pilot was sitting out in front with a little gasoline engine turning the propeller. Believo it,. cr not, he was a dare devil, taking his fe in his hands in the miserable biplane with wire braces that sing gently in the wind of his 25 miles an hour speed. in Suen al rise from raee Mateo about Now if any considerable number ‘or car owners should take to the air it would relieve the road congestion ‘a great deal. If for instance, half the ear owners take wings and fly instead of crawling along at 70 per hour on the roads, traffic congestion everywhere would ‘be greatly relieved. And we think that's not only possible but quite likely. Planes will grow cheaper just as cars declined in price. We are referring, of course, to normal. values. From a purely mechanical point of view we believe planes can be manufactured for less money than assembly line: methods for civilian fy ing on a combination car and plane, a flying car that can take off and perhaps land on the highiwys ag we have them now. Our own present view, is however, that the helicopter may be the winming type of plane in the long run, due to its simplicity in rising and for the entertainment of their guests. They will be the bulwark of the celeLet’s Get Going on Centennial Celebration . Plans for Nevada County By H. F. Sofge ; . Secretary, Nevada City Chamber of Commerce The Sacramento Region Secretary-Man held it’s regular monthly meeting in the Senator Hotel, Tues. day, November 19th. The principal subiect for discussion was the coming Centennia! Celebrations—1946-50. speaker was Mr. Steve Paxton, manager of the Sacramento District, State Chamber of Commece. Mr. Paxton explained the duties and responsibilities of many of the state-wide cormittees having charge of the various phases of the celebrations. The Centennial Celebrations is of great interest to those residing in the gold mining counties. Of these, Nevada County is one ‘of the most important. On this account a lively interest should be displayed by our local residents. During the years 1949-50 particularly, hundreds of thousands of tourists will visit California and of these, many thousands will come to Nevada County. They will'come to visit our historical sites —the mines, the hydraulicing of gold—even the lowly sniper will come in for his share of interest as he pans the gold out of our streams. They will come to see and enjoy our recreational area—to camp, fish and hunit, or just to camp and relax. Many camps will be available in the Tahoe national orest for. these visitors. During and preceding this period it is inevitable ‘that local chambers of commerce will be called upon to bear a large portion of the burden in maping out & workable program Naturally they will be expected to, cafry out the proposed program. brations. Some have started to function—notably our sister town of Auburn in Placer County. El Dorado county is well organized and working on their program. One of the essential things to be accomplished. prior to the coming: celebrationg is the marking of. the many historical sites that abound in famding, without need of airports. However, for freighting, mail carrying and fast passenger traffic, the wide winged planes now engaged in these services will undoubtedly be retained. But for private use, to supplant automobiles, we think the future-.for the helicopter is extremely bright. That brings back to back to a consideration of roads and“the question of why make a tremendous and costly expansion in road facilities at a time when many people are thinking of soaring overhead far above of monuments and plaques needed and other needed information, While the final celebrations carry 4 great popular appeal through their motion and staging require but commost important and difficult part of these celebrations is in laying the our vicinity. For this we must look to our local Historical Society, the} Native Sons, Daughters of the Golden West and similar organizations. We must look to these groups for the completion and registration of historical land marks, the erection where entertainment ‘features, their proparatively few people. By far the the roads and above the clouds, for that matter. As we see it the country is entering a new era in transportation. We shall need better and bigger airports almost certainly, more road facilities much less certainly. Oceasionally we visit the Nevada groundwork -—the preparations for the full enjoyment of our historical heritage and a complete understanding .of the events and life of the period which these celebrations will based there. Today. there are eleven. This may be a slender straw in the wind, but we do believe it truly points to the time when, a great pro. City Airport. A few months ago, just; portion of U. S. population will Ay after war’s'end there were no planes . Nather than roll. ager’s Association . The cuest coming Dortray. “The Centennial Celebrations Committee will furnish leadership and welcome the opportunity to assist all communities through advice of experts, publicity and full cooperation within the scope of their facilities. They do not think it advisable to entering into the finamcing of the cq@mmittee work of any individual celebration. Communities must take the initiative in developing their own celebrations. : Nevada County cannot allow other Continued on page 5, Col. 6 fr —-J Nugeet Names of 75 Years Ago Still Make News Today Lt Frequently names that we know appear in the Nugget’s popular “Fifty Years Ago” but seldom does one show up that is-still around from “Nevada City 75 Years Ago.”’ But last Thursday the column carried the name of Maggie Kelly as having a perfect attendance record in the second grade of the Nevada City Elementary School. Maggie Kelly is now Mrs. Margaret Nolan of East Bennett Street, Grass Valley and the mother of John and Alice Nolan. Mrs. Nolan's attendance records have rehydraulic pit is 3300 feet in length mained pretty steady down through three cmarters of a century for seldom has she. missed a meetine of her be-. loved Native Daughters or the St. Patricks Catholic’ Parish Association. -. S y et Pe 4S ‘gin for profit. FRENCH CORRAL By ED. C. UREN It is reliably reported that E. A. Wiltsee will start drag line operations on the unworked gravels along the channel between French Corral and. Birchville.~ Wiltsee has been operating quite extenisively on the North Fork of the American east of Auburn. At Birchville the old Kate Hayes and over a thousand feet in width and about. 4 11-2 million. yards of gravel has been tailed into the main Yuba: Between the Esperance ground ut French Corral and the Birchville pit lies practically 3500 lineal feet of unworked gravel which, at a rough estimate, should embrace at least eight million yards of washable gravel. Hydraulic tailings from the Esperance were carried through bed rock tunnels and shaft connections into the South Yuba, but much 2f the lower and richer gravels toward the northern end of the pit could not ‘be hydraulicked on account of the trade. As a result only the upper portion of the gravel beds has been worked, leaving in some places as much as 50 feet of higher grade gravels along the bed rock. According to Petties figures, the gravels below North Gan Juan, which were being worked in 1858, showed an average value of 30 cents per yard from top to bottom. At Smartville further down the channel, hydraulic operations up to’1877 had. yielded 13 million dollars. in gold, with gravel averaging 37 cents per yard. Using the present $35 price of gold, this would mean then 51 and 63 cent gravel, which would be considered a real bonanza as a hydraulic operation. In drag line work before the war, with gravel beds easy to dig, the costs were from 7 to 16 cents per yard but in line with everything else these costs have risen to perhaps 25 cents and these costs will be augmented of course by the necessity of blasting ¢emented gravel. However, with such values‘as are in-! dicated there should be a nice marThese operations on the ridge will . be watched by mining men ‘with a great deal of interest, for there are literally millions: of yards af acces. sible gravels in Nevada County that} Continued on Page §'Col. 3 ‘. Phis week they can admire ‘PAINTS “POST” COVERS . . Nevada Cityans can gen-. ierally pick up tthe Saturday . ‘Evening Post and _ point! pride to a story by either) ‘David or Ruth Lamson. ithe cover, painted by Johr Atherton, husband of Max: ine Breese, whose mother Mrs. Francis Breese makeher home on Commercial ‘Street. Atherton with hi-. covers is as a regular con . ‘ributor to the Post as are. the Lamsons. . Artist Atherton’s cover! is his impressions of Pitts burg, the steel city, showine it’s flames at night as though some one had opened a crack to hell. . According to the Post it was the first time he and his wife Maxine had witnessed the . making of . . steel, and the process filled the Athertons with awe. Going through the ‘plant te gather atmopshere for his cover, and where Mrs. Ath erton was allowed to pull a lever which dumped 250 tons of the molten metal. Atherton was struck by “‘the . terrific activity, with so few people to do it. Just a few guys in little glass houses who pushed and pulled things. ‘‘Altogether,” he said, “‘it scared the wits out of both of us.” L Edwards Croatine Resident Succumbs yy GRASS VALLEY: Funeral servic-. es will take place in the Hooper and} Weaver Mortuary tomorrow at 10 a. m. for Clifford C. Bennett placer miner, who died Wednesday at his home at Edward's Crossing on the North Bloomfield Road. The remains will go to East Lawn, Sacramento for cremation. Bennett was born in England’ 69 years ago. He had resided alt “Edward's Crossing where he had placer mining claims. for 17 years. He left a will in which all his possessions were bequeathed to a neighbor, Walter Delameter. For~mionitths. he had suffered from a heart malady. He leaves no known relatives. CAROL CHOIR GRASS VALLEY: The Carol Choir met for practice Wednesday night at the Emmanuel Episcopval. Church. ‘Present plans of the singing group include an. engagement in Oakland on December ?9th and a date in Woodland on January 5th. The famous old group of vocalists which in past years broadcast every holiday season from the Idaho-Maryland mine, numbers 50 singers. Run off will be slight A clogged culvert on the Downieville Highway resvited in a. traffic stoppage for an hour-Monday. The same storm swept up the Cali. fornia coast, disabling three ships at sea and damaging others. A mu@ Slide in San Francisco washed out . the Geary Street street car tracks . and disabled 32 trolley cars. In Sace . ; ramento, two fatal auto accidents were attributed to the heavy raim '#n the San Francisco bay two men, . duck hunting in_a skiff, were swamfi. ed, and rescued in the nick of time by a harbor rescue boat. The heavy wet wind blew down the huge tent over the Cow Palace . livestock pavilion, injured one mam, flurry of and trapped a bunch of prize beef in a mesh of soggy canvas, Wednesday, weatherman in Nevada appeared City, the unable te -make up his mind. The day dawned cold and dark, and the light film of snow was nearly melted by full daylight. Although the heavy rains cease ed, occasional streaks of sunshine and patches of blue sky were overe powered just before noon by the snow—a very unusuak phenomenon in Neyada City an@® Grass Valley in November, --——~ NATIONAL GUARD INIT PLANS REORGANIZATION GRASS VALLEY: A meeting to reorganize the Grass Valley-Nevad& City, California’ National Guard’ unit, Company F. will be held ‘this evening in the Veterans Memoria Building. Lt. Col. John F. Hawk, commanding officer of the 2nd Bat. 184th Infamtry conduct the reorganization program. : Hawk will explain the opportunities. offered by the National Guard. Walter R. Ediwards, local veteran, ‘will assist him. Enrollments by veterans between the ages of 18 and 45, and non-veterans between 18 and 3b are sought. As a part of the 184th regiment, Company F will be in the ‘52nd Natiénal. Guard Infantry Div ision. = eo, The 184th regiment, now reverting to peace time status, was cited for its part in the campaigns of the Philippines, Okinawa, Aleutians, Kiwajalein and Korea. FATHER-SON BANQUET AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEVADA CITY: A father and sons banqtet was held Wedmesday evening in the elementary sclYool auditorium for\boys in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades and their dads. Guests inclided Lioyd Geist, principal of the school, Ed Frantz, principal of the high School and George Abbott, teacher and ‘roach, John L. Lewis, teacher and Pon arranged the dimner. — 2 ’ MARRIAGE LICENSE e Armstrong-MeGill — In NevadaCity November 19, Robert Armstrong _ 29, Nevada City and Pauline Me-) Gill 29, San Francisco. % te

_ times in the rear, evolving into the ,session of ten year old boys or girls, ‘ faster than a’ horse could gallop. ‘the better class of cars, provided the ‘demand. is sufficient to justify the “ge, that were perfected in war time. '4And,°a number inventors and adventurous capitalists are now workPER MONTH NEVADA CITY NUGGET GRASS VALLEY. A TWICE#4A-WEEK NEWSPAPER MONDAY AND THURSDAY , 1946 Vol. 20, No. 91 aa Reng SATE THINKING OUT LOUD By H.M, L. To oldsters who remember when bicycles were a high wheetT and a low wheel contraption, with the low wheel sometimes in front and somefinal type, called the “safety” bicycle which now is the prized posthe new locomotion of winging through: the air, has a certain coinpelling logic that is inescapable. [For after the bicycle came the miotor car. Very clumsy, to be sure, were those first motor cars, and not Yes, we have heard the derisive cry: “Get a horse,’’ Well, nowadays horses are: more of a luxury and much rarer than cars. (Now we are entering the flying ege, when planes are propelled at speeds approaching that of sound The County Seat Paper born in Nevada City. You get cards and flowers and gifts. from neighbors and friends, hardly ‘know.’’ Spicklemier, wife of the 1947 vicepresident elect of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, presented Ray with their first child last month. Spicklemier had spoken her thoughts about Nevada City. The ‘first was when, Spicklemiers spent a week end here one October as guests of the John Collins’. over, to buy a business, and to stay and Spicklemier with Harry Meet Ray Spicklemier 1947 Chamber Officer “It’s wonderful to have your baby some whom you So said Mrs. Ray when she It ‘was; the seond time that Mrs. during the war years, the On the way back to Los Angeles she coaxed Ray into coming to Nevada ,City when ‘the war was here for always. And come they did, his friend *“Slim”’ Thompson. purchased _ NEVADA CITY-GRASS VALLEY; CALIFORNIA watha, Kansas, where he went to high school. Latter he attended Oklahoma A & M College majoring in finance and accounting. Like every one who comes here and works a spell in the mines, Spicklemier did his turn in the Oklahoma Osage Oil Fields. Coming to California ten years ago he developed an excellenit business record as assistant manager for Thrifty Drug Stores in Los Angeles. In 1941 he went into war work, first for Calship at Terminal Island in Los Angeles and later with the} Santa Fe Raliroad Company. Ray has been a dependable spark plug in the Chamber of Commerce for the past year. He’s got many a scheme’ for the 1947 program which includes the development of Pioneer Park with a grand plan for financing the program, Suicklemier and his Winter f— ‘ ~ Merry Christmas GRASS VALLEY: The Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce has arranged to deliver a Christmas tree to every business house in Grass Valley and Hills Flat within a fortnight. The trees are to be used for decorative effect in the front of each store. The chamber hopes that all mezThe Twin Cities Paper THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2] Arrives with . Wind, Rain and Snow Winter arrived in Nevada County this week in the full panoply of wind, rain and snow. The rainy blustering storm that began early Monday morning rattled windows, clogged drains and soaked the populace until it tapered off Tuesday night with a flurry of snow. Wednesday morning at--L.1:40 it began again with light snow flurries in Nevada City. Aristocracy Hill and Town Talk both drew a light perere of white flakes Tuesday night. Keith MacDonald of the forest service reported that it was still snowing at 11 a. m. Wednesday morning in Downieville, where 4 fallen. inches had already Truckee reported a four inch snowfall and a foot of snow blanketed Donner Summit. . The heavy rainfall (8.71 inches in Downieville, 7.13 inches in Camptonville, and 6:43 in Nevada City) definitely terminated the fire fighting program of the forest service for this . year. Fire permits, however, will be necessary until December . . Fire fighting crews have been laid off, though maintenance personnel is still at work newly elected chamber president, 1 rn *1) 1 5 eee CNANTS Witt GQecorate ther The weather bureau reported no prospect of flood condifornia. Well, when we think back to tue old high and low wheeled biercle, Wwe! just wonder whether we should go a bit slowly with these hiige road improvements programs and consider what air minded people are doing and what plane manufacturers are turning out, the way.of flying machinies. the Bottle Shop a year. ago and have} ~ tre ith l a ] . i it j i Eee oe Geor , alread ot eS WI colored electric : We are entering it just at ssa ae successfully operated it since then. © haha Hansen web r : y ge . i ht tions. Streams are at low siananier levela. when the State Highway Commission }: ; their heads together for active 1947 . } lig s. after the summer season : : and the legislature are much con-}: Ray Spicklamier was born in Hia. chamber year. ' . Ae eh : * cerned about huge road improveWY Gee ————————— ments, freeways to take us whizzing . c tm U . } from one place to another in CaliLOCAL GIRLS H SBAND It was back 1912. or matter, that we watched one of the . pioneer planes the track at Tanforan near San and circle around the track 30 feet above the heads of a great gaping audience. De thought what 4a dare fellow the pilot was sitting out in front with a little gasoline engine turning the propeller. Believo it,. cr not, he was a dare devil, taking his fe in his hands in the miserable biplane with wire braces that sing gently in the wind of his 25 miles an hour speed. in Suen al rise from raee Mateo about Now if any considerable number ‘or car owners should take to the air it would relieve the road congestion ‘a great deal. If for instance, half the ear owners take wings and fly instead of crawling along at 70 per hour on the roads, traffic congestion everywhere would ‘be greatly relieved. And we think that's not only possible but quite likely. Planes will grow cheaper just as cars declined in price. We are referring, of course, to normal. values. From a purely mechanical point of view we believe planes can be manufactured for less money than assembly line: methods for civilian fy ing on a combination car and plane, a flying car that can take off and perhaps land on the highiwys ag we have them now. Our own present view, is however, that the helicopter may be the winming type of plane in the long run, due to its simplicity in rising and for the entertainment of their guests. They will be the bulwark of the celeLet’s Get Going on Centennial Celebration . Plans for Nevada County By H. F. Sofge ; . Secretary, Nevada City Chamber of Commerce The Sacramento Region Secretary-Man held it’s regular monthly meeting in the Senator Hotel, Tues. day, November 19th. The principal subiect for discussion was the coming Centennia! Celebrations—1946-50. speaker was Mr. Steve Paxton, manager of the Sacramento District, State Chamber of Commece. Mr. Paxton explained the duties and responsibilities of many of the state-wide cormittees having charge of the various phases of the celebrations. The Centennial Celebrations is of great interest to those residing in the gold mining counties. Of these, Nevada County is one ‘of the most important. On this account a lively interest should be displayed by our local residents. During the years 1949-50 particularly, hundreds of thousands of tourists will visit California and of these, many thousands will come to Nevada County. They will'come to visit our historical sites —the mines, the hydraulicing of gold—even the lowly sniper will come in for his share of interest as he pans the gold out of our streams. They will come to see and enjoy our recreational area—to camp, fish and hunit, or just to camp and relax. Many camps will be available in the Tahoe national orest for. these visitors. During and preceding this period it is inevitable ‘that local chambers of commerce will be called upon to bear a large portion of the burden in maping out & workable program Naturally they will be expected to, cafry out the proposed program. brations. Some have started to function—notably our sister town of Auburn in Placer County. El Dorado county is well organized and working on their program. One of the essential things to be accomplished. prior to the coming: celebrationg is the marking of. the many historical sites that abound in famding, without need of airports. However, for freighting, mail carrying and fast passenger traffic, the wide winged planes now engaged in these services will undoubtedly be retained. But for private use, to supplant automobiles, we think the future-.for the helicopter is extremely bright. That brings back to back to a consideration of roads and“the question of why make a tremendous and costly expansion in road facilities at a time when many people are thinking of soaring overhead far above of monuments and plaques needed and other needed information, While the final celebrations carry 4 great popular appeal through their motion and staging require but commost important and difficult part of these celebrations is in laying the our vicinity. For this we must look to our local Historical Society, the} Native Sons, Daughters of the Golden West and similar organizations. We must look to these groups for the completion and registration of historical land marks, the erection where entertainment ‘features, their proparatively few people. By far the the roads and above the clouds, for that matter. As we see it the country is entering a new era in transportation. We shall need better and bigger airports almost certainly, more road facilities much less certainly. Oceasionally we visit the Nevada groundwork -—the preparations for the full enjoyment of our historical heritage and a complete understanding .of the events and life of the period which these celebrations will based there. Today. there are eleven. This may be a slender straw in the

wind, but we do believe it truly points to the time when, a great pro. City Airport. A few months ago, just; portion of U. S. population will Ay after war’s'end there were no planes . Nather than roll. ager’s Association . The cuest coming Dortray. “The Centennial Celebrations Committee will furnish leadership and welcome the opportunity to assist all communities through advice of experts, publicity and full cooperation within the scope of their facilities. They do not think it advisable to entering into the finamcing of the cq@mmittee work of any individual celebration. Communities must take the initiative in developing their own celebrations. : Nevada County cannot allow other Continued on page 5, Col. 6 fr —-J Nugeet Names of 75 Years Ago Still Make News Today Lt Frequently names that we know appear in the Nugget’s popular “Fifty Years Ago” but seldom does one show up that is-still around from “Nevada City 75 Years Ago.”’ But last Thursday the column carried the name of Maggie Kelly as having a perfect attendance record in the second grade of the Nevada City Elementary School. Maggie Kelly is now Mrs. Margaret Nolan of East Bennett Street, Grass Valley and the mother of John and Alice Nolan. Mrs. Nolan's attendance records have rehydraulic pit is 3300 feet in length mained pretty steady down through three cmarters of a century for seldom has she. missed a meetine of her be-. loved Native Daughters or the St. Patricks Catholic’ Parish Association. -. S y et Pe 4S ‘gin for profit. FRENCH CORRAL By ED. C. UREN It is reliably reported that E. A. Wiltsee will start drag line operations on the unworked gravels along the channel between French Corral and. Birchville.~ Wiltsee has been operating quite extenisively on the North Fork of the American east of Auburn. At Birchville the old Kate Hayes and over a thousand feet in width and about. 4 11-2 million. yards of gravel has been tailed into the main Yuba: Between the Esperance ground ut French Corral and the Birchville pit lies practically 3500 lineal feet of unworked gravel which, at a rough estimate, should embrace at least eight million yards of washable gravel. Hydraulic tailings from the Esperance were carried through bed rock tunnels and shaft connections into the South Yuba, but much 2f the lower and richer gravels toward the northern end of the pit could not ‘be hydraulicked on account of the trade. As a result only the upper portion of the gravel beds has been worked, leaving in some places as much as 50 feet of higher grade gravels along the bed rock. According to Petties figures, the gravels below North Gan Juan, which were being worked in 1858, showed an average value of 30 cents per yard from top to bottom. At Smartville further down the channel, hydraulic operations up to’1877 had. yielded 13 million dollars. in gold, with gravel averaging 37 cents per yard. Using the present $35 price of gold, this would mean then 51 and 63 cent gravel, which would be considered a real bonanza as a hydraulic operation. In drag line work before the war, with gravel beds easy to dig, the costs were from 7 to 16 cents per yard but in line with everything else these costs have risen to perhaps 25 cents and these costs will be augmented of course by the necessity of blasting ¢emented gravel. However, with such values‘as are in-! dicated there should be a nice marThese operations on the ridge will . be watched by mining men ‘with a great deal of interest, for there are literally millions: of yards af acces. sible gravels in Nevada County that} Continued on Page §'Col. 3 ‘. Phis week they can admire ‘PAINTS “POST” COVERS . . Nevada Cityans can gen-. ierally pick up tthe Saturday . ‘Evening Post and _ point! pride to a story by either) ‘David or Ruth Lamson. ithe cover, painted by Johr Atherton, husband of Max: ine Breese, whose mother Mrs. Francis Breese makeher home on Commercial ‘Street. Atherton with hi-. covers is as a regular con . ‘ributor to the Post as are. the Lamsons. . Artist Atherton’s cover! is his impressions of Pitts burg, the steel city, showine it’s flames at night as though some one had opened a crack to hell. . According to the Post it was the first time he and his wife Maxine had witnessed the . making of . . steel, and the process filled the Athertons with awe. Going through the ‘plant te gather atmopshere for his cover, and where Mrs. Ath erton was allowed to pull a lever which dumped 250 tons of the molten metal. Atherton was struck by “‘the . terrific activity, with so few people to do it. Just a few guys in little glass houses who pushed and pulled things. ‘‘Altogether,” he said, “‘it scared the wits out of both of us.” L Edwards Croatine Resident Succumbs yy GRASS VALLEY: Funeral servic-. es will take place in the Hooper and} Weaver Mortuary tomorrow at 10 a. m. for Clifford C. Bennett placer miner, who died Wednesday at his home at Edward's Crossing on the North Bloomfield Road. The remains will go to East Lawn, Sacramento for cremation. Bennett was born in England’ 69 years ago. He had resided alt “Edward's Crossing where he had placer mining claims. for 17 years. He left a will in which all his possessions were bequeathed to a neighbor, Walter Delameter. For~mionitths. he had suffered from a heart malady. He leaves no known relatives. CAROL CHOIR GRASS VALLEY: The Carol Choir met for practice Wednesday night at the Emmanuel Episcopval. Church. ‘Present plans of the singing group include an. engagement in Oakland on December ?9th and a date in Woodland on January 5th. The famous old group of vocalists which in past years broadcast every holiday season from the Idaho-Maryland mine, numbers 50 singers. Run off will be slight A clogged culvert on the Downieville Highway resvited in a. traffic stoppage for an hour-Monday. The same storm swept up the Cali. fornia coast, disabling three ships at sea and damaging others. A mu@ Slide in San Francisco washed out . the Geary Street street car tracks . and disabled 32 trolley cars. In Sace . ; ramento, two fatal auto accidents were attributed to the heavy raim '#n the San Francisco bay two men, . duck hunting in_a skiff, were swamfi. ed, and rescued in the nick of time by a harbor rescue boat. The heavy wet wind blew down the huge tent over the Cow Palace . livestock pavilion, injured one mam, flurry of and trapped a bunch of prize beef in a mesh of soggy canvas, Wednesday, weatherman in Nevada appeared City, the unable te -make up his mind. The day dawned cold and dark, and the light film of snow was nearly melted by full daylight. Although the heavy rains cease ed, occasional streaks of sunshine and patches of blue sky were overe powered just before noon by the snow—a very unusuak phenomenon in Neyada City an@® Grass Valley in November, --——~ NATIONAL GUARD INIT PLANS REORGANIZATION GRASS VALLEY: A meeting to reorganize the Grass Valley-Nevad& City, California’ National Guard’ unit, Company F. will be held ‘this evening in the Veterans Memoria Building. Lt. Col. John F. Hawk, commanding officer of the 2nd Bat. 184th Infamtry conduct the reorganization program. : Hawk will explain the opportunities. offered by the National Guard. Walter R. Ediwards, local veteran, ‘will assist him. Enrollments by veterans between the ages of 18 and 45, and non-veterans between 18 and 3b are sought. As a part of the 184th regiment, Company F will be in the ‘52nd Natiénal. Guard Infantry Div ision. = eo, The 184th regiment, now reverting to peace time status, was cited for its part in the campaigns of the Philippines, Okinawa, Aleutians, Kiwajalein and Korea. FATHER-SON BANQUET AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEVADA CITY: A father and sons banqtet was held Wedmesday evening in the elementary sclYool auditorium for\boys in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades and their dads. Guests inclided Lioyd Geist, principal of the school, Ed Frantz, principal of the high School and George Abbott, teacher and ‘roach, John L. Lewis, teacher and Pon arranged the dimner. — 2 ’ MARRIAGE LICENSE e Armstrong-MeGill — In NevadaCity November 19, Robert Armstrong _ 29, Nevada City and Pauline Me-) Gill 29, San Francisco. % te