November 22, 1935 (8 pages)

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1935. NEVADA CITY Brod +. DECALCOMANIA LIQUOR STAMPS ON SALE TODAY SACRAM ENTO, Nov decalcomania Nov. stamps, > a eee which will the state with the new highly-pro. tected stamps, has selected Los geses as, the site for a California branch factory which will handle its business on the West Coast. The statement issued by the Board . of Equalization follows: “Sale of the new decalcomania stamps, ordered by the Board to ale of . supplant paper stamps used in collection of the liquor excis tax, will supplant paper stamps as the medium . begin today at all district offices of collecting California’s liquor tax, will begin today, it was announced by the State Board of Equalization. ‘\ The new stamps, which have been adopted by ‘many states throughout the country as a safeguard against counterfeiting or. re-use of tax stamps, will be available at all district offices of the Board, The Board's statement predicted that increased collections under the liquor tax, due to elimination of the present abuse of ‘‘sweating’’ stamps from empty bottles and_ re-using them on bootleg liquor, will qnickly cancel the additional cost of buying high-grade stamps to replace the cheap paper stamps now in use. Simultaneously; the Board announced that the American Decalcomania Company of Chicago, which was awarded the contract to provide “These stamps, we beliéve; fully comply with the provision in the Liquor Control charging the Board with the responsibility of providing stamps which offer the maximum protection against counterfeiting aid re-use. The same type of stamp-is in use in the great majority the states employing a stamp tax to collect beverage and cigarette taxes and has thus far stood the test of every attempt at counterfeiting or re-use. “The American Decalcomania Company, which manufactures the stamps, has agreed to post.a $50,000 bond with the state, guaranteeing that the stamps cannot be “sweated” from bottles, or removed and re-used in any. other “In view disgruntled companies, of manner.”’ of the fact that certain printing and lithograph whose products failed to AnNEVADA CO. TEACHERS TO ATTEND INSTITUTE Nevada County } . . school teachers} the . eighteén other counties, in institute . to be held ; will convene with teachers of} Sacramento the first . three days of next week. At Mondays — session Gov fa Frank F. Merriam of California wil) . @ive his views on educational problems Monday when he speaks before . the 3000 teachers from nineteen . Northern California counties at the annual Northern California Teachinstitute in Sacramento. Merriam will be the first speaker on the Monday morning program. Merriam will be followed by Dr. Vierling Kersey, state superintendent of public instruction, who ‘will speak on the subjecf ‘Education Never Stands Still.’’ in ers’ afford the desired protection against counterfeiting and re-use, have waged a deliberate campaign of misrepresentation against this contract, the Board is happy to announce that its stamp contract, instead of taking business out of the state, will bring new business and new employment . Grass Valley . ; on Tuesday to our state.’’ EDWARD CH WHITING . = GRASS VAL. COUNCILMAN. Edward C. Whiting of Grass Valley was appointed city councilman of the by Mayor . } and Councilman Matt Laity and took oath of office’ Tuesday morning. . Edward C. Whiting serve until present term, was . to succeed his late father . Whiting. His appointment was made jat a special meeting of the council morning and the completion June 30, 1935. John Harris appointed Edward F. will the he of SACRED MOUND MINE It is reported that the Sacred Mound Mine ‘above Sierra City, California, is being reopened with a crew of 14 men engaged in opening old tunnels, retimbering and starting the ball mill. The Sacred® Mound is controlled by the Edgehili Mining and Milling Company. Turkeys Roasted! stuffed. We furnish dressing, $1.50. Kopps Bakery. 75c already NUGGET ADS PAY store, bought by R. sale Sat. Nov. 23, 8 unheard of in Nevad ® > a County18,000 dollar stock of S. Lee Leiter ller, to go on ae M. at prices ett. 4 { Also 250 of Up To Date Ladies Garments F rom * Ruby Miller Frock Shop of Oakland. Business to Be Continued As Before at Same Location Under The Children’s 207 Broad Wear. The Lace House 6 Nevada City S. Lee Leiter Firm Name of S. Lee Leiter, The Lace House. Under The Direction of R. Miller With A Complete New Line of Men, Women And Phone 89)' oo Will ‘Rogers’ Memorial. S* NTA MONICA:—Where I sit writing this, I can see his home across the canyon. There’s still ht top, but the folds in the friendly hills are turiing purple. sunlight on the The most typical humorist since Mark Swain, the mest beloved com moner since Abraham Lincoln, the most: popular private-—eitizen since 3enjamin Franklin, his fame is an everlasting rock. Why, : then, a monument of our fashioning to one who was a_ national institution whilst he lived, who became a national tradition almost before the breath left his body? . Nevertheless it is fitting that on his birthday. this copntry should launch this memorial. ‘or to help perpetuate the bright glory of that name is an obligation we owe to ourselyes—a testimony otf gratitude for a man amongst us who Irvin S. Cobd poured ‘out so freely the precious gifts of sanity and sweetness, generOsity and gallantry, a philosophy that was kindly, a wit that was salty -but never was sour. You gave us so much, Bill, we’re just figuring on paying a little something back on account. ¥ * ok a Signs of Normalcy. \ EK MUST be headed for normalcy. Im back on somebody's sucker list. As a charter member of the original motheld lodge, I belong there. I'm a boob Ben Adhem whose name Jed all the rest. not a list of come Today I received, selected foreign’ bonds—thatll later—but a prospectus about a gorgeous gold mining proposition with all the regular by-preducts guaranteed, such as quicksilver, lead, copper, mothballs and, I think, amalgam fillings. Sorry I can't invest in this new bonanza. But I'm saving up to go into an egually timely enterprise. It’s a buggy-whip factory, and on the side we're going to turn out flintlock muskets for the United States army. . * ae * Selectine a Candidate. found out who the forgotten It's any Republican officethe grade of assistant state geologist who hasn't been proposed by <elf or friends for next year’s Presidential nomination, : On every disinterested patroits feverishly deathless name that nobody outside the immediate family ever heard of and, lo, a national figure whose fame doesn’t cover much territory as a milk route is in the running. Almost anybody who can read and wrife appears to be eligible, especially if he lithographs well, and, if he has also the firm yet clinging handshake, his stock goes right up. ‘VE man is. holder above side, suzgest some as The concern is for a czrdidate only. When it comes to a platform, the Demécrats exn Jend them one which has been used hardly any, if at all. x * * Return to Prchibition. LI else aside, Some of us contend there were two main underlying reasons why this country went “dry” the way it did One reason was brewers. ‘The other was distillers. If aperson of dubious repute opened a saloon in a neighborhood already over-provided, where, in order to live, he must break the liquor laws, there was, too often, a type of brewer ready to put up for the license and a type of distiller to help out with the rest. Basically, it was the inarticulate resentment of orderly people against such practices which plunged us into £0. ' §(ob>. Swi ° thinks = MINING NEWS: ZEIBRIGHT MINE hh fiom, near vada City to the Zeibright about 25 miles east of this city, cement foundations for the big ton mill, was completed about ten days ago. All material for the big plant is on the ground. The old mill is handling oye mined from long tunnels being ya into the mountain,As the mining progresses the whole mountain, which is for the most part low grade ore, will be milled. Win-ter supplies were taken to the prop erty in’ the last few weeks. E. Bennett manager, Hauling 0: Nemine fori 400 £Trave MISFORTUNE CLOSES TWO PROPERTIES Two mining properties near Columbia Hill north’ of Nevada City were closed in recent weeks through mishaps to the operators. F. E. Bigelow, operating the Morning ‘Star mine on a lease, was taken ill and was forced to close down. At the Siberia’ mine in the same district, one — of the two men working the property received a badly crushed. leg ina mine accident, necessjtating the closing of the property. CHECK PAINE PROPERTY Alfred Nicholson of Nevada City is developing and mining the Check Payne mine west of this.city, adjoining the old Champion mine* on Deer Creek. Ten men are employed on two shifts and have a new shaft down 48 feet on the ledge, and will eontinue to sink for some time to develop a iarge ore body. A tunnel ve also driven 170 feet on, the ledge which averages two feet, and carries good gold values. A small ~ mill on. the prone’ treats two tons . of ore per hour. Harry Spears is A foreman. The Check Payne mine is — the old Nicholson ranch of 100 acres which is now owned by Mr. Nicholson's brother, H. C. Nicholson of Union, Nevada. was MACK MINE 5 Bruce Wallace of Los Angeles,. ~ who spent the summer unwatering and doing development work at the Mack Mine in the Canada Hill dis-trict, southeast of Nevada City drew all the pumps and closed the mine for the winter this week. TRUE DRIFT GRAVEL PROPERTY G. A. Bigelow has a lease on the True Drift gravel property located not far from the True @rit gravel mine above Badger Hill. A shaft. has been sunk 80 feet and cross cutting to an’ ancient channel is underway, the men are working two shifts. SHOVEL PLACER Thomas Bigelow of North Columbia was.a Nevada City visitor last Wednesday and stated his company is operating a drag line shovel on the Shovel Placer property. Large gravel deposits in the stream bed are being worked. JIM MINE Last Sunday, when the Jim Mine closed for the winter, a big tractor was used to break road through 20 inches of snow from near Graniteville to Washington a distance of about 20 miles. They arrived during the afternoon and the tractor was stored in Washington. Charles Col~ umbus and three sons haye beet working at the property. It will reopen in the spring when it is possible to get to the mine. The company composed of Southern Califor= the ghastly legislative error miscalled prohibition. Now, with that mistake so nearly cured, one hears it directiy charged that certain producers of alcoholic drinks are greedily back at: the same old tricks. Well, the’ next time the people of this country vote liquor out—and there'll be a next time, unless the sane men in the industry can curb the offenders within their own ranks—it'll be for keeps, no matter how deplorable the results in bootleggery and graft and crime and corruption. You can tell a lunk-headed profiteer as far as you can see—but you can’t tell him anything else. * * * Upholding the Constitution. O HEATED is the controversy over the imperiled Constitution that professional politicians are all agog, many, going out of one severe gog right into another, .accompanied by chills, fever and high blood pressure. Everywhere you look, you disputants, all lathered up with exc ment, who wouldn’t recognize that i mortal document if they ran into it sitting in the middle of the big road, laying eggs. Ps I am offering a suitabl srize— namely, Grimm’s Fairy Tal Sin, puede f one syllable—to the first > national chumitteeman, Democratic or Repubcan, who can tell offhand whether the Constitution starts off, “When in the course of human events,” or, “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.” ~ Besides, I'd like*te know myself. IRVIN S. COBB, 3 h American Newspaper Alliance, — Inc.—_WNU Service. [Finn NUGGET ADS PAY nia men, had had a splendid season ~ having drifted to a paying ledge: of ; ore, brought in and installed a mill and other equigment. During thepast few weeks two shifts were employed in operating the mill. From reliable sources it is learned this is” to be one of the new producers ofthe Nevada County field. Between fifteen and twenty men were em=ployed at the property. GERMAN BAR MINE It is understood there are eigh men at the German Bar property” above North Bloomfield. Mining and development continue with the ne ly installed mill treating the . or The property will be worked all winter. Thomas Stephens is supel ss intendent. GRUENWALD. PROPERTY Willis E. Bell and two sons ha’ lease on a part of the Otto G wald property in the Indian® district west of Nevada o_ F, rest of the ground. is also — lease to. other parties. Two are down 50 and 75. feet and cutting has started toward a that carries good values in gold. local men are employed on property. RAGON MINE — Drifting and raising ; teen men are emplo: intendent O. :

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1935. NEVADA CITY Brod +. DECALCOMANIA LIQUOR STAMPS ON SALE TODAY SACRAM ENTO, Nov decalcomania Nov. stamps, > a eee which will the state with the new highly-pro. tected stamps, has selected Los geses as, the site for a California branch factory which will handle its business on the West Coast. The statement issued by the Board . of Equalization follows: “Sale of the new decalcomania stamps, ordered by the Board to ale of . supplant paper stamps used in collection of the liquor excis tax, will supplant paper stamps as the medium . begin today at all district offices of collecting California’s liquor tax, will begin today, it was announced by the State Board of Equalization. ‘\ The new stamps, which have been adopted by ‘many states throughout the country as a safeguard against counterfeiting or. re-use of tax stamps, will be available at all district offices of the Board, The Board's statement predicted that increased collections under the liquor tax, due to elimination of the present abuse of ‘‘sweating’’ stamps from empty bottles and_ re-using them on bootleg liquor, will qnickly cancel the additional cost of buying high-grade stamps to replace the cheap paper stamps now in use. Simultaneously; the Board announced that the American Decalcomania Company of Chicago, which was awarded the contract to provide “These stamps, we beliéve; fully comply with the provision in the Liquor Control charging the Board with the responsibility of providing stamps which offer the maximum protection against counterfeiting aid re-use. The same type of stamp-is in use in the great majority the states employing a stamp tax to collect beverage and cigarette taxes and has thus far stood the test of every attempt at counterfeiting or re-use. “The American Decalcomania Company, which manufactures the stamps, has agreed to post.a $50,000 bond with the state, guaranteeing that the stamps cannot be “sweated” from bottles, or removed and re-used in any. other “In view disgruntled companies, of manner.”’ of the fact that certain printing and lithograph whose products failed to AnNEVADA CO. TEACHERS TO ATTEND INSTITUTE Nevada County } . . school teachers} the . eighteén other counties, in institute . to be held ; will convene with teachers of} Sacramento the first . three days of next week. At Mondays — session Gov fa Frank F. Merriam of California wil) . @ive his views on educational problems Monday when he speaks before . the 3000 teachers from nineteen . Northern California counties at the annual Northern California Teachinstitute in Sacramento. Merriam will be the first speaker on the Monday morning program. Merriam will be followed by Dr. Vierling Kersey, state superintendent of public instruction, who ‘will speak on the subjecf ‘Education Never Stands Still.’’ in ers’ afford the desired protection against counterfeiting and re-use, have waged a deliberate campaign of misrepresentation against this contract, the Board is happy to announce that its stamp contract, instead of taking business out of the state, will bring new business and new employment . Grass Valley . ; on Tuesday to our state.’’ EDWARD CH WHITING . = GRASS VAL. COUNCILMAN. Edward C. Whiting of Grass Valley was appointed city councilman of the by Mayor . } and Councilman Matt Laity and took oath of office’ Tuesday morning. . Edward C. Whiting serve until present term, was . to succeed his late father . Whiting. His appointment was made jat a special meeting of the council morning and the completion June 30, 1935. John Harris appointed Edward F. will the he of SACRED MOUND MINE It is reported that the Sacred Mound Mine ‘above Sierra City, California, is being reopened with a crew of 14 men engaged in opening old tunnels, retimbering and starting the ball mill. The Sacred® Mound is controlled by the Edgehili Mining and Milling Company. Turkeys Roasted! stuffed. We furnish dressing, $1.50. Kopps Bakery. 75c already NUGGET ADS PAY store, bought by R. sale Sat. Nov. 23, 8 unheard of in Nevad ® > a County18,000 dollar stock of S. Lee Leiter ller, to go on ae M. at prices ett. 4 { Also 250 of Up To Date Ladies Garments F rom * Ruby Miller Frock Shop of Oakland. Business to Be Continued As Before at Same Location Under The Children’s 207 Broad Wear. The Lace House 6 Nevada City S. Lee Leiter Firm Name of S. Lee Leiter, The Lace House. Under The Direction of R. Miller With A Complete New Line of Men, Women And Phone 89)' oo Will ‘Rogers’ Memorial. S* NTA MONICA:—Where I sit writing this, I can see his home across the canyon. There’s still ht top, but the folds in the friendly hills are turiing purple. sunlight on the The most typical humorist since Mark Swain, the mest beloved com moner since Abraham Lincoln, the most: popular private-—eitizen since 3enjamin Franklin, his fame is an everlasting rock. Why, : then, a monument of our fashioning to one who was a_ national institution whilst he lived, who became a national tradition almost before the breath left his body? . Nevertheless it is fitting that on his birthday. this copntry should launch this memorial. ‘or to help perpetuate the bright glory of that name is an obligation we owe to ourselyes—a testimony otf gratitude for a man amongst us who Irvin S. Cobd poured ‘out so freely the precious gifts of sanity and sweetness, generOsity and gallantry, a philosophy that was kindly, a wit that was salty -but never was sour. You gave us so much, Bill, we’re just figuring on paying a little something back on account. ¥ * ok a Signs of Normalcy. \ EK MUST be headed for normalcy. Im back on somebody's sucker list. As a charter member of the original motheld lodge, I belong there. I'm a boob Ben Adhem whose name Jed all the rest. not a list of come Today I received, selected foreign’ bonds—thatll

later—but a prospectus about a gorgeous gold mining proposition with all the regular by-preducts guaranteed, such as quicksilver, lead, copper, mothballs and, I think, amalgam fillings. Sorry I can't invest in this new bonanza. But I'm saving up to go into an egually timely enterprise. It’s a buggy-whip factory, and on the side we're going to turn out flintlock muskets for the United States army. . * ae * Selectine a Candidate. found out who the forgotten It's any Republican officethe grade of assistant state geologist who hasn't been proposed by <elf or friends for next year’s Presidential nomination, : On every disinterested patroits feverishly deathless name that nobody outside the immediate family ever heard of and, lo, a national figure whose fame doesn’t cover much territory as a milk route is in the running. Almost anybody who can read and wrife appears to be eligible, especially if he lithographs well, and, if he has also the firm yet clinging handshake, his stock goes right up. ‘VE man is. holder above side, suzgest some as The concern is for a czrdidate only. When it comes to a platform, the Demécrats exn Jend them one which has been used hardly any, if at all. x * * Return to Prchibition. LI else aside, Some of us contend there were two main underlying reasons why this country went “dry” the way it did One reason was brewers. ‘The other was distillers. If aperson of dubious repute opened a saloon in a neighborhood already over-provided, where, in order to live, he must break the liquor laws, there was, too often, a type of brewer ready to put up for the license and a type of distiller to help out with the rest. Basically, it was the inarticulate resentment of orderly people against such practices which plunged us into £0. ' §(ob>. Swi ° thinks = MINING NEWS: ZEIBRIGHT MINE hh fiom, near vada City to the Zeibright about 25 miles east of this city, cement foundations for the big ton mill, was completed about ten days ago. All material for the big plant is on the ground. The old mill is handling oye mined from long tunnels being ya into the mountain,As the mining progresses the whole mountain, which is for the most part low grade ore, will be milled. Win-ter supplies were taken to the prop erty in’ the last few weeks. E. Bennett manager, Hauling 0: Nemine fori 400 £Trave MISFORTUNE CLOSES TWO PROPERTIES Two mining properties near Columbia Hill north’ of Nevada City were closed in recent weeks through mishaps to the operators. F. E. Bigelow, operating the Morning ‘Star mine on a lease, was taken ill and was forced to close down. At the Siberia’ mine in the same district, one — of the two men working the property received a badly crushed. leg ina mine accident, necessjtating the closing of the property. CHECK PAINE PROPERTY Alfred Nicholson of Nevada City is developing and mining the Check Payne mine west of this.city, adjoining the old Champion mine* on Deer Creek. Ten men are employed on two shifts and have a new shaft down 48 feet on the ledge, and will eontinue to sink for some time to develop a iarge ore body. A tunnel ve also driven 170 feet on, the ledge which averages two feet, and carries good gold values. A small ~ mill on. the prone’ treats two tons . of ore per hour. Harry Spears is A foreman. The Check Payne mine is — the old Nicholson ranch of 100 acres which is now owned by Mr. Nicholson's brother, H. C. Nicholson of Union, Nevada. was MACK MINE 5 Bruce Wallace of Los Angeles,. ~ who spent the summer unwatering and doing development work at the Mack Mine in the Canada Hill dis-trict, southeast of Nevada City drew all the pumps and closed the mine for the winter this week. TRUE DRIFT GRAVEL PROPERTY G. A. Bigelow has a lease on the True Drift gravel property located not far from the True @rit gravel mine above Badger Hill. A shaft. has been sunk 80 feet and cross cutting to an’ ancient channel is underway, the men are working two shifts. SHOVEL PLACER Thomas Bigelow of North Columbia was.a Nevada City visitor last Wednesday and stated his company is operating a drag line shovel on the Shovel Placer property. Large gravel deposits in the stream bed are being worked. JIM MINE Last Sunday, when the Jim Mine closed for the winter, a big tractor was used to break road through 20 inches of snow from near Graniteville to Washington a distance of about 20 miles. They arrived during the afternoon and the tractor was stored in Washington. Charles Col~ umbus and three sons haye beet working at the property. It will reopen in the spring when it is possible to get to the mine. The company composed of Southern Califor= the ghastly legislative error miscalled prohibition. Now, with that mistake so nearly cured, one hears it directiy charged that certain producers of alcoholic drinks are greedily back at: the same old tricks. Well, the’ next time the people of this country vote liquor out—and there'll be a next time, unless the sane men in the industry can curb the offenders within their own ranks—it'll be for keeps, no matter how deplorable the results in bootleggery and graft and crime and corruption. You can tell a lunk-headed profiteer as far as you can see—but you can’t tell him anything else. * * * Upholding the Constitution. O HEATED is the controversy over the imperiled Constitution that professional politicians are all agog, many, going out of one severe gog right into another, .accompanied by chills, fever and high blood pressure. Everywhere you look, you disputants, all lathered up with exc ment, who wouldn’t recognize that i mortal document if they ran into it sitting in the middle of the big road, laying eggs. Ps I am offering a suitabl srize— namely, Grimm’s Fairy Tal Sin, puede f one syllable—to the first > national chumitteeman, Democratic or Repubcan, who can tell offhand whether the Constitution starts off, “When in the course of human events,” or, “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.” ~ Besides, I'd like*te know myself. IRVIN S. COBB, 3 h American Newspaper Alliance, — Inc.—_WNU Service. [Finn NUGGET ADS PAY nia men, had had a splendid season ~ having drifted to a paying ledge: of ; ore, brought in and installed a mill and other equigment. During thepast few weeks two shifts were employed in operating the mill. From reliable sources it is learned this is” to be one of the new producers ofthe Nevada County field. Between fifteen and twenty men were em=ployed at the property. GERMAN BAR MINE It is understood there are eigh men at the German Bar property” above North Bloomfield. Mining and development continue with the ne ly installed mill treating the . or The property will be worked all winter. Thomas Stephens is supel ss intendent. GRUENWALD. PROPERTY Willis E. Bell and two sons ha’ lease on a part of the Otto G wald property in the Indian® district west of Nevada o_ F, rest of the ground. is also — lease to. other parties. Two are down 50 and 75. feet and cutting has started toward a that carries good values in gold. local men are employed on property. RAGON MINE — Drifting and raising ; teen men are emplo: intendent O. :