November 28, 1930 (4 pages)

is <:) id LS ee en ne Bg teeny a Og: Sy rt sass + a RT E & The Nugget is California's Leading Mining Weekiy ugget VOLUME _V, NUMBER a THE GOLD CENTER NEVADA CITY, NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, THE COUNTY SEAT PAPER NOVEMBER 28, 1930 ‘INSTALLING NEW PLANT ON THE. HOGE PROPERTY. Compressor, Electric Motors and Other Equipment for 2,000 Foot Shaft The Hoge Development Company, said Mr. Hoge yesterday, are very busy just now. Among other things in the way of activities out at the property, we are installing a modern, up-to-date 1050 ew. ft. compressor with a direct. drive of 185 h. p., Synchranous motor and we expect to have the same ready for operation by the middle of December, at which time the P. G. & E. Company are expected to be connected up and able te furnish them with the necessary increased power for the operation of! their new compressor and _ other “equipment already in operation. This new compressor will mean that the Hoge company will have the best equipped new surface plant in the camp and a hoisting and compressor equipment that will enable them to operate on an economical and systematic basis to a depth of 2,000 feet. They are planning upon sinking their three-compartment main shaft, which is at present down to a depth of 327 feet to a new depth . of 600 feet and have stations on the 300, 450 and 600 foot. levels. During the period of sinking which: they plan upon starting Jauary first, They are also planning on extensive Eastern developments on their 300 foot level) which has a‘very prom ising outlook for opening up import-. ant ore bodies that will surpass the one already opened up. (hey have at présent a develoned oré body on the 300 foot level that lies in the granite parallel to the contact that is 325 feet in length and “which from a Careful sampling “every 4 to 5 feet and consisting of 74 checked assay samples which shows an average in excess of $40 per ton. -Milling returns from the New England mill, from the prospect surface shaft on this ore shoot averages $45 per ton and shipments to Selbys smel ter on this same ore shoot, on the 300 foot level showed an average of $60 per ton. ‘ There is at present about one thousand tons of ore on the dump that has accumulated from their previous development work and after making a few more tests they plan se ge peepee of a modern flotatiorf mill which will be installed early next spring after they have completed their shaft to a depth of 600 feet and have opened additional new ore bodies. ee MAN STUBS TOE ON A $350 GOLD NUGGET SEDRO-WOOLLEY, Wash. Nov. 25. __There is still “gold in them thar hills’? in Alaska, and -Will Fritsch of this city has the proof in a $350 gold nugget taken recently from his diggings at Eagle. The nugget was found by a miner who stubbed his toe on this chunk of concentrated wealth and thought it was an autumn leaf until the unusual weight gave him other ideas. The nugget weighs 2144 ounces. pe (We eae THREE CARLOADS MACHINERY FOR COMET GOLD MINE Three carloads of machinery arrived in Le Grand last week. for the Comet Gold Mining Company, according to the Le Grande: Advoj three heating stoves.installed and WANTED-SNOW AND COLD BY SKI CLUB Sixty of the Nevada City huskies turned out last Sunday, to use their brawn and muscle on the ski course . which is being built west of town. Grass Valley contributed five workers. : As a reSult of last.Sunday’s work and the worb. done on previous Sundays the bob sled course which is 500 yards long has been conipleted and all that it needs now is. some snow and a little cold weather to put in shape for use. The-amateur ski course is also finished and all it now needs to be in perfect condition is plenty of snow ‘and cold weather. The course allows of a jump of about twenty feet. The end of the week will see the finish of the prefessional course. Work is being started to put the barn in condition for warming purposes, The barn is to be floored and tables on which lunches can be eaten will also be placed in the barn. It is hoped that the road, leading from the Ukiah-Tahoe road to the course will be. graveled and estimates of the cost is being secured. The local membership committee are well pleased with the results of the drive, over $1,200 having been raised. Forty three life memberships at $25 each were received, the remainder of the money being raised in yearly memberships at $1.00 each. (Reports from Sacramento and Marysville are to the effect that conTWIN SISTERS NEW PROCESS COMPLETE SUCCESS FRENCH CORRAL YOUTH . DIES AT SANITARIUM FLOTATION ‘ New Mill and Process Doing Everything that Could be Desired in Way of Saving the Values and Increases Efficiency Fully Eighty Per Cent. R. O. Foster, president of the Twin Sisters Mining Company, was in the city the fore part of the week wearing a smile that simply would not wear off and the cause of all this, we finally learned, was the feeling of intense satisfaction on the part of Mr. Foster over the completion and highly successful operation of the new Twin Sisters mine and flotation plant recently installed by that compan “We'll soon be running 16 hours a day with two shifts’ said Mr. a day with two shifts’ he stated. “The ore in the Twin Sisters property is like all that of the other mines on the Alleghaney ledge, running heavy to iron and making it almost impossible to miil and-concentrate to a degree where it would prove profitable.’’ For this reason Mr. Foster set; out to find a process of concentration wherein the black sand, or iron, could be eliminated from the ore, values, and finally, after making a thorough study, of all known methods decided that the flotation method would do the work, if-anything would. The new plant was ordered and installed and the results being achieved daily has shown that his. judgment was sound and spells success, not only for the Twin Sisters Mining Company but for the entire and being crushed to a fine mesh is conducted to receptables in the shape «of conical tanks, or vats, tom of which revolves at a high rate? metal worms. which causes the slime, and to raise from the bottom upAlbert R. Moynier of French Corral, passed away Wednesday morning at the Nevada City Sanitarium after an illness of several months. For the greater part of his illness he was tenderly nursed and. cared for by Mrs. Kate Sullivan with whom he has made his home the past seven years. When his condition became . acute he was brought to Nevada i City. si : : Albert was born in French Corral April 6, 1906. He attended sehool in Freneh -Corral. 7 He was of a happy cheerful disposition. He was faithful at what ever task he was set to do. The process of separating the gold and silver values from the iron vastly interesting, but simple. The ore, after going through the stamps is in the botof speed agitators in the form of or pulp, to be continually stirred up Between Aunt Kate Sullivan and ward. A small quantity of a certain lard Creek Qpartz Mine, located om HOWARD CREEK — MINE SHOWINGGOOD RESULTS Lidige Estimated at 100 Feet. In Width Showing Good Values -The property known as the HowGold Lake summit, is one of Sierra. counties most promising new mines~Although this property was located . a number of years ago it is new ir comparison with other — of the: county. ‘ During the past summer this prop— a product of our own pine clad hills, eonvert its passage upward these bubbles atchemical oil, which, by the way, is! is placed in the vat which, with the rapid whirling of the agitators soon the content of the vat into a mass of tough air bubbles that continually float to the surface. In: tract and hold all gold and silver particles with which they may come in contact and as more and more of Albert was the imother moruns the loss of the lovable boy. the following Mrs. Kneebone, Mrs. J. Harris, Harry and ' Desire Moynier. erty was borided by George McGee to C. S. Akers and others, with whom George Shubert is now asseciste” Heretofore—previous owners practically confined their efforts. at mining to pocket hunting in a large measure, the present owners have gone to work ina systematic manner and are fast developing a real mine deep affection of and she deeply and son : have Sullivan he leaves : aunts and uncles: Browning, Mrs. Lucy Besides” Mrs. -Arno The funeral will be held Saturday morning from St. Canice Catholic Church where a mass will be celethe metal values are gathered up by} brated for the repose of his soul. Inthese bubbles, they finally become: terment will be made in Pine Grove loaded, as it were, and then pass into . cemetery. a receptable prepared for them,taking with them the gold and silver but leaving the iron behind which goes off with the tailings. The installation. of this tion process was very much in the nature of an ‘experiment, but it has! proven to be a very highly successful one, and one that President Foster can well take pride in and feel jusily flota-'. . purchased some months ago by the ‘merly occupied by the Fisher (a= CHAIN GROCERTERIA ENLARGING The Chain QUARTERS Grocerteria which was Smith Packege Store of Marysville, is undergoing considerable .renovation. The adjoining store space forElecsiderable . interest is manifest in Alleghaney lode and means the makthose two cities in local winteT/ ins of that entire district, as it has sports. and it is expected thata number of memperships will be 8€-. for the Alleghaney lode, which has NORTH COLUMBIA STORE Previous to the installation of the or iron, from the metal values to! o'clock the general store at North jUnder the old system the beat! gether with a storage building that a ton which hardly paid for mining The fire was discovered by Mrs. ‘per cent higher and _ successfully saw the roof in the rear of the buen concentrate of high metalic value. originated near the chimney~and it: values but in addition to these two cured in these syeek always been a stumbling block in AND POST OFFICE BURNED flotation process it was found imee extent where it would make the! Columbia owned by John C. Duffey,1 ino: could be done was a concentrate stood only a few feet west of the and shipping. Concentrates from the W. H. Hustler, who, glancing from } throws down practically all of the ing in flames. As near as could 0€;The Twin Sisters ore content conis believed that a defective chimney} . solved the problem of ore treatment {the development of that district. possible to separate the biack sand, ! Wednesday. morning at about 8:30 . concentrates of a high value content. ! was completely destroyed by fire to. with a value of from $16 to $20 a main building. new flotation process run fully 80 the window of her home, near bY. iron, or black sand and produces a determined the fire seems to have. tains gold and silver of about even was the cause of the fire. Duffy oceupied rooms in the rear! of the building and it was in this! quarter where the fire originated ! the front of the structure. front portion of the building and some of the postoffice fixtures were saved along with the postoffice books but the money which had been received for money orders was in a safe in the forward end of the building and was destroyed. The burned building -was owned by Mrs. Phil Curnow and Duffey was renting the property as a general merchandise store. * Loss on the building will amount . to about $2,500 which was only part-; ly covered by insurance. It is understood that Duffey had some insur-} tanee on his stock of goods but the amount is unknown. . Postmaster P. G. Seadden, representing the postoffice department, and H. A. Curnow, representing his mother went to North Columbia Wednesday afternoon. Postmaster Scadden arranged to handle the mail for the people of that section wales through the Nevada City postoffice. —— ~ OLD KENNEDY RANCH AT GOODYEAR BAR T0 BE WORKED The old Kennedy, place at Goodyear Bar, which in the early days was known as the prettiest ranch in the mountains and which has long been considered a rich gravel deposit may soon. be the scene of active dredger operations. Some months ago it was_ reported that Mrs. H. L. Johnson, formerly of Alleghaney, had bought the property and intended making a resort out of it, for which it is admirably adapted. This week, however, four local men were hired by a party of San Francisco engineers to dig a number of prospect holes on the place under their supervision. The said that dredger operations are contemplated in the immediate future. « . iridium is present, but not as yet in and then burned its way forward to/ @()[D) RUSH TRAILS TO BE . The postoffice, of which Duffey was postmaster, was located in the . results. obtained are said to have been highly satisfactory and it is metals considerable platinum ard sufficient quantity to make them commercially peerren ie: proud of his Success. Mr. Foster stat. trical store has been secured and ed that he had the assistance andithe partition removed between the. advice of. Mr. Elliott, from the Mur-!two rooms more than doubling the, chie mine, who is an authority onjsize of the store room proper. The flotation methods. ‘; . business will continue under the “Work in the mine,’”. he said,; Management of the genial Frank “is progressing in fine shape. the. Ghedotti. jJedge recently opened on the No. 3} The enlarged quarters are being levél varies in width from two to! provided for the purpose of installfourteen feet with an average of ing a complete meat department and . over four feet and values run from} general market. from the property. They have run am open crosscut which extends 50 feet. across the ledge and which gives in— dications of extending fully fifty feet further which will make the ledge a hundred feet in width. The formation of the ledge iinrier is decomposed yellow porphyry which can be removed with pick and shovel and which carries values clear across the face of the ledge which ranges from $5.50 a ton in gold upThe ore is free milling. The ledge gives evidence of being. tremendously large and can be trac— ed for a distance of four miles. The: New York Placer diggings worke@ some 30 years ago and from which $900,000 is said to have been taker were the result of glacial daction, scraping off the top of this ledge and depositing its rich burden on the flat below. Evidence of this is plainly visible tothe naked eye. : The ledge runs due north ang south with granite contact and lime . stone dyke ere “CGEtRCE, 5 sixty cents to over two hundred dol-; lars to the ton with a fairly high average throughout. Drifting been done to approximately 500 pe on the number three level and the! showing in values are highly satis-. factory. In the south drift of this level the ledge averages more than! : A four feet wide for over one Min Ave A call han pen ieeven Oy President . . C. Kempvanee, Jr., of the Califeet and the values are satisfactory. ' fornia Mining Association to meet pone Bienen Wee Fe are wore / Lin Sacramento at the Travelers Hotel ing fifteen men, but thi if Bumber wi :on December 5th and 6th. This meetbe increased as necessity demands. ‘ : A ing is to be also the annual member,Prospecting is being carried on Rin act and the fest vat with encouraging results and may, fete sie eee ye pene ees . Mining Congress of California. In result in the opening up of virgin F : i sending out notice of the meeting, —————————— ground before long.” : ‘ President Kempvanee takes occasion TRAVELED BY CARAVAN Plans are being laid b ythe State Chamber of Commerce for an immense automobile pilgramage next June over the old pioneer traily to the old gold camps founded during the gold rush days. The itinery will include the Sacramento valley—the old gold camps of Nevada county, Placer county ‘and other counties of the northern part of the state. ‘The pilgramage will start from Salt Lake City, Utah and will be under the immediate charge of A. B. Gray iof Sacramento, manager of the Calii fornia Tourists . Association. From ‘Salt Lake the caravan will come westward stopping at all the scene4 of old Indian battles and inspecting the old early day mining camps enroute. A day will be spent at the “Days of °49 Celebration at Placerville and the scenes that made old Hangtown famous will be reinacted at that place. A stop will be made in Nevada City and Grass Valley. and while at the latter place some of the caravan crowd will be presented a “honest to goodness” gold mine0. uv BODY IS FOUND IN MINE SHAFT “On November 20th, the body of Henry Savage, 70 year old Virginia City resident was found at the bottom of an abandoned mine shaft located near the county hospital. The old man had been missing for twelve days and it is thought he had wandered into the old shaft without preceiving it. . 0 > Ignition Parts and Accessories at Miner’s Foundry. 24t! “Mining in Caltonys face: the A long list of noted speakers will Martin Gorovieh met death at the, se present including Governor Rolph, Eureka mine at Sutter Creek last’ and will address the meeting. The week when he lost his balance and. Meeting will convene at 5 o’clock on fell from a ladder a distance of some’! Friday, December 5th and the board twenty-five feet. Death is thought to ‘of director swill meet one hour later been instentanious resulting from a! at dinner at the Travelers hotel. broken neck sustained in the fall. (The membership meeting will take He was a newcomer at the mine, havlee at 10 a. m. Saturday, Deceming started work on the morning of; ber 6 at the same hotel. with Presihis death. The accident occurred ag . dent J. C. KempVanEe presiding. he. wa sstanding on a ladder while First will come the election of ofEUREKA MINER KILLED F remark: : CALIF ORNIA MINING ASSOCIATION MEET IN SACRAMENTO DEC 5,6 In this state, Governor-Elect Rolph has spoken in no uncertain terms concerning the deplorable state that mining is in at the present time. Radical changes are admittedlyessential, dnd legislation to bring: about those changes is admittedly necessary. With leading financiers publicly voicing their apprehension, and with a Governor who understands and ap— preciates the mining situation, an opportunity is thus presented to theminers of California to obtain the, relief so essentially necessary to their very existence. ; By a united band, and with de— mands based upon the actual re— quirements of the industry, success. is assured. This call for our annual meeting= and our first Mining Congress, is. your opportunity to participate in the preparation of a complete pro-—gram of revision of law as it affects the mining of metallics and. working in a ,raise in th mine. There! ficers with Charles L. Gilmore prewas no witnesses to the accident but . lsiding by request of the president. ! all indications point to the fact that . This will be followed by an address! th eman lost his balance and plung-. by Governor Rolph; presentation for ed downward to his death. adoption of resolutions adopted at! He was burried -on . Wednesday . Mariposa conference in October;dismorning at Sutter Creek. : cussion; presentation for adoption : =) of resolution adopted at Northern MINER INJURED IN AUTO . California Chapter’ Mining Associa‘ACCIDENT NEAR JACKSON! tion cf Northern California, NovemPaul Trabucco and Verne Kim-; ber 22, 1930 ball of the Pioneer district, figured{ Presentation for adoption of resoin an automobile accident last week! lutions. proposed by San Francisco while on their way from their mine at Pioneer to Jackson. The accident occurred when they turned out to pass a truck, thei rmachine striking a culvert and overturning. Trabucco ; sustained injuries that caused his removal to a hospital where he is being treated for a fractured spine and. severe lacerations. Kimball was more fortunate aan his partner, sustaining only lacerations and severe bruises. The two men have been operating amining prospect in the Pioneer viefhity and recently uncovered some excellent ore from surface workings on the property. Several tons of the ore isbeing milled at the Carrie Mining Exchange followed by a dis: non -metallics in this state. Wherefore, This call is made farj all members of this Association and. ‘all others interested in the mining: ‘of metallics or nonmetallics in, thiss state, to attend upon this First An-nual Mining Congress, December6th, 1930, at the hour of 10 o’clock. in the forenoon, at the Travelers Ho-~ tel,in the City of Sacramento:. f). uv LOS ANGELES MEN SEEK MARIPOSA MINES: cussion. Presentation for adoption of resolutions proposed by State Camber of Commerce followed by discussion. Presentation of resolutions proposed by other organizations or chapters of the Association. The meeting “will recess promptly at 12 o’clock noon for lunch, and reconvene at 1:30 in the afternoon. On a steady decline years; the butt of-adverse legislation; the victim of extortionate taxes; the pawn of sordid politics— it: has, particularly in the case of gold, caused leading financiers to i'view its condition with considerable Rush T. Sill, a prominent mining engineer of Los Angeles who has, been operating lead and copper pro— erties in Arizona, accompanied by R. C. Jamison and D. C. Peacock of the same city, spent several days in this county looking over the gold mining properties this week. Sill is interested in the Mother Lode district and expects to take over or or more properties that make f: able showings. The group inspected the Merced Gold Mines and never in recent mine. : . See INS . concern, —' j, AlN

is <:) id LS ee en ne Bg teeny a Og: Sy rt sass + a RT E & The Nugget is California's Leading Mining Weekiy ugget VOLUME _V, NUMBER a THE GOLD CENTER NEVADA CITY, NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, THE COUNTY SEAT PAPER NOVEMBER 28, 1930 ‘INSTALLING NEW PLANT ON THE. HOGE PROPERTY. Compressor, Electric Motors and Other Equipment for 2,000 Foot Shaft The Hoge Development Company, said Mr. Hoge yesterday, are very busy just now. Among other things in the way of activities out at the property, we are installing a modern, up-to-date 1050 ew. ft. compressor with a direct. drive of 185 h. p., Synchranous motor and we expect to have the same ready for operation by the middle of December, at which time the P. G. & E. Company are expected to be connected up and able te furnish them with the necessary increased power for the operation of! their new compressor and _ other “equipment already in operation. This new compressor will mean that the Hoge company will have the best equipped new surface plant in the camp and a hoisting and compressor equipment that will enable them to operate on an economical and systematic basis to a depth of 2,000 feet. They are planning upon sinking their three-compartment main shaft, which is at present down to a depth of 327 feet to a new depth . of 600 feet and have stations on the 300, 450 and 600 foot. levels. During the period of sinking which: they plan upon starting Jauary first, They are also planning on extensive Eastern developments on their 300 foot level) which has a‘very prom ising outlook for opening up import-. ant ore bodies that will surpass the one already opened up. (hey have at présent a develoned oré body on the 300 foot level that lies in the granite parallel to the contact that is 325 feet in length and “which from a Careful sampling “every 4 to 5 feet and consisting of 74 checked assay samples which shows an average in excess of $40 per ton. -Milling returns from the New England mill, from the prospect surface shaft on this ore shoot averages $45 per ton and shipments to Selbys smel ter on this same ore shoot, on the 300 foot level showed an average of $60 per ton. ‘ There is at present about one thousand tons of ore on the dump that has accumulated from their previous development work and after making a few more tests they plan se ge peepee of a modern flotatiorf mill which will be installed early next spring after they have completed their shaft to a depth of 600 feet and have opened additional new ore bodies. ee MAN STUBS TOE ON A $350 GOLD NUGGET SEDRO-WOOLLEY, Wash. Nov. 25. __There is still “gold in them thar hills’? in Alaska, and -Will Fritsch of this city has the proof in a $350 gold nugget taken recently from his diggings at Eagle. The nugget was found by a miner who stubbed his toe on this chunk of concentrated wealth and thought it was an autumn leaf until the unusual weight gave him other ideas. The nugget weighs 2144 ounces. pe (We eae THREE CARLOADS MACHINERY FOR COMET GOLD MINE Three carloads of machinery arrived in Le Grand last week. for the Comet Gold Mining Company, according to the Le Grande: Advoj three heating stoves.installed and WANTED-SNOW AND COLD BY SKI CLUB Sixty of the Nevada City huskies turned out last Sunday, to use their brawn and muscle on the ski course . which is being built west of town. Grass Valley contributed five workers. : As a reSult of last.Sunday’s work and the worb. done on previous Sundays the bob sled course which is 500 yards long has been conipleted and all that it needs now is. some snow and a little cold weather to put in shape for use. The-amateur ski course is also finished and all it now needs to be in perfect condition is plenty of snow ‘and cold weather. The course allows of a jump of about twenty feet. The end of the week will see the finish of the prefessional course. Work is being started to put the barn in condition for warming purposes, The barn is to be floored and tables on which lunches can be eaten will also be placed in the barn. It is hoped that the road, leading from the Ukiah-Tahoe road to the course will be. graveled and estimates of the cost is being secured. The local membership committee are well pleased with the results of the drive, over $1,200 having been raised. Forty three life memberships at $25 each were received, the remainder of the money being raised in yearly memberships at $1.00 each. (Reports from Sacramento and Marysville are to the effect that conTWIN SISTERS NEW PROCESS COMPLETE SUCCESS FRENCH CORRAL YOUTH . DIES AT SANITARIUM FLOTATION ‘ New Mill and Process Doing Everything that Could be Desired in Way of Saving the Values and Increases Efficiency Fully Eighty Per Cent. R. O. Foster, president of the Twin Sisters Mining Company, was in the city the fore part of the week wearing a smile that simply would not wear off and the cause of all this, we finally learned, was the feeling of intense satisfaction on the part of Mr. Foster over the completion and highly successful operation of the new Twin Sisters mine and flotation plant recently installed by that compan “We'll soon be running 16 hours a day with two shifts’ said Mr. a day with two shifts’ he stated. “The ore in the Twin Sisters property is like all that of the other mines on the Alleghaney ledge, running heavy to iron and making it almost impossible to miil and-concentrate to a degree where it would prove profitable.’’ For this reason Mr. Foster set; out to find a process of concentration wherein the black sand, or iron, could be eliminated from the ore, values, and finally, after making a thorough study, of all known methods decided that the flotation method would do the work, if-anything would. The new plant was ordered and installed and the results being achieved daily has shown that his. judgment was sound and spells success, not only for the Twin Sisters Mining Company but for the entire and being crushed to a fine mesh is conducted to receptables in the shape «of conical tanks, or vats, tom of which revolves at a high rate? metal worms. which causes the slime, and to raise from the bottom upAlbert R. Moynier of French Corral, passed away Wednesday morning at the Nevada City Sanitarium after an illness of several months. For the greater part of his illness he was tenderly nursed and. cared for by Mrs. Kate Sullivan with whom he has made his home the past seven years. When his condition became . acute he was brought to Nevada i City. si : : Albert was born in French Corral April 6, 1906. He attended sehool in Freneh -Corral. 7 He was of a happy cheerful disposition. He was faithful at what ever task he was set to do. The process of separating the gold and silver values from the iron vastly interesting, but simple. The ore, after going through the stamps is in the botof speed agitators in the form of or pulp, to be continually stirred up Between Aunt Kate Sullivan and ward. A small quantity of a certain lard Creek Qpartz Mine, located om HOWARD CREEK — MINE SHOWINGGOOD RESULTS Lidige Estimated at 100 Feet. In Width Showing Good Values -The property known as the HowGold Lake summit, is one of Sierra. counties most promising new mines~Although this property was located . a number of years ago it is new ir comparison with other — of the: county. ‘ During the past summer this prop— a product of our own pine clad hills, eonvert its passage upward these bubbles atchemical oil, which, by the way, is! is placed in the vat which, with the rapid whirling of the agitators soon the content of the vat into a mass of tough air bubbles that continually float to the surface. In: tract and hold all gold and silver particles with which they may come in contact and as more and more of Albert was the imother moruns the loss of the lovable boy. the following Mrs. Kneebone, Mrs. J. Harris, Harry and ' Desire Moynier. erty was borided by George McGee to C. S. Akers and others, with whom George Shubert is now asseciste” Heretofore—previous owners practically confined their efforts. at mining to pocket hunting in a large measure, the present owners have gone to work ina systematic manner and are fast developing a real mine deep affection of and she deeply and son : have Sullivan he leaves : aunts and uncles: Browning, Mrs. Lucy Besides” Mrs. -Arno The funeral will be held Saturday morning from St. Canice Catholic Church where a mass will be celethe metal values are gathered up by} brated for the repose of his soul. Inthese bubbles, they finally become: terment will be made in Pine Grove loaded, as it were, and then pass into . cemetery. a receptable prepared for them,taking with them the gold and silver but leaving the iron behind which goes off with the tailings. The installation. of this tion process was very much in the nature of an ‘experiment, but it has! proven to be a very highly successful one, and one that President Foster can well take pride in and feel jusily flota-'. . purchased some months ago by the ‘merly occupied by the Fisher (a= CHAIN GROCERTERIA ENLARGING The Chain QUARTERS Grocerteria which was Smith Packege Store of Marysville, is undergoing considerable .renovation. The adjoining store space forElecsiderable . interest is manifest in Alleghaney lode and means the makthose two cities in local winteT/ ins of that entire district, as it has sports. and it is expected thata number of memperships will be 8€-. for the Alleghaney lode, which has NORTH COLUMBIA STORE Previous to the installation of the or iron, from the metal values to! o'clock the general store at North jUnder the old system the beat!

gether with a storage building that a ton which hardly paid for mining The fire was discovered by Mrs. ‘per cent higher and _ successfully saw the roof in the rear of the buen concentrate of high metalic value. originated near the chimney~and it: values but in addition to these two cured in these syeek always been a stumbling block in AND POST OFFICE BURNED flotation process it was found imee extent where it would make the! Columbia owned by John C. Duffey,1 ino: could be done was a concentrate stood only a few feet west of the and shipping. Concentrates from the W. H. Hustler, who, glancing from } throws down practically all of the ing in flames. As near as could 0€;The Twin Sisters ore content conis believed that a defective chimney} . solved the problem of ore treatment {the development of that district. possible to separate the biack sand, ! Wednesday. morning at about 8:30 . concentrates of a high value content. ! was completely destroyed by fire to. with a value of from $16 to $20 a main building. new flotation process run fully 80 the window of her home, near bY. iron, or black sand and produces a determined the fire seems to have. tains gold and silver of about even was the cause of the fire. Duffy oceupied rooms in the rear! of the building and it was in this! quarter where the fire originated ! the front of the structure. front portion of the building and some of the postoffice fixtures were saved along with the postoffice books but the money which had been received for money orders was in a safe in the forward end of the building and was destroyed. The burned building -was owned by Mrs. Phil Curnow and Duffey was renting the property as a general merchandise store. * Loss on the building will amount . to about $2,500 which was only part-; ly covered by insurance. It is understood that Duffey had some insur-} tanee on his stock of goods but the amount is unknown. . Postmaster P. G. Seadden, representing the postoffice department, and H. A. Curnow, representing his mother went to North Columbia Wednesday afternoon. Postmaster Scadden arranged to handle the mail for the people of that section wales through the Nevada City postoffice. —— ~ OLD KENNEDY RANCH AT GOODYEAR BAR T0 BE WORKED The old Kennedy, place at Goodyear Bar, which in the early days was known as the prettiest ranch in the mountains and which has long been considered a rich gravel deposit may soon. be the scene of active dredger operations. Some months ago it was_ reported that Mrs. H. L. Johnson, formerly of Alleghaney, had bought the property and intended making a resort out of it, for which it is admirably adapted. This week, however, four local men were hired by a party of San Francisco engineers to dig a number of prospect holes on the place under their supervision. The said that dredger operations are contemplated in the immediate future. « . iridium is present, but not as yet in and then burned its way forward to/ @()[D) RUSH TRAILS TO BE . The postoffice, of which Duffey was postmaster, was located in the . results. obtained are said to have been highly satisfactory and it is metals considerable platinum ard sufficient quantity to make them commercially peerren ie: proud of his Success. Mr. Foster stat. trical store has been secured and ed that he had the assistance andithe partition removed between the. advice of. Mr. Elliott, from the Mur-!two rooms more than doubling the, chie mine, who is an authority onjsize of the store room proper. The flotation methods. ‘; . business will continue under the “Work in the mine,’”. he said,; Management of the genial Frank “is progressing in fine shape. the. Ghedotti. jJedge recently opened on the No. 3} The enlarged quarters are being levél varies in width from two to! provided for the purpose of installfourteen feet with an average of ing a complete meat department and . over four feet and values run from} general market. from the property. They have run am open crosscut which extends 50 feet. across the ledge and which gives in— dications of extending fully fifty feet further which will make the ledge a hundred feet in width. The formation of the ledge iinrier is decomposed yellow porphyry which can be removed with pick and shovel and which carries values clear across the face of the ledge which ranges from $5.50 a ton in gold upThe ore is free milling. The ledge gives evidence of being. tremendously large and can be trac— ed for a distance of four miles. The: New York Placer diggings worke@ some 30 years ago and from which $900,000 is said to have been taker were the result of glacial daction, scraping off the top of this ledge and depositing its rich burden on the flat below. Evidence of this is plainly visible tothe naked eye. : The ledge runs due north ang south with granite contact and lime . stone dyke ere “CGEtRCE, 5 sixty cents to over two hundred dol-; lars to the ton with a fairly high average throughout. Drifting been done to approximately 500 pe on the number three level and the! showing in values are highly satis-. factory. In the south drift of this level the ledge averages more than! : A four feet wide for over one Min Ave A call han pen ieeven Oy President . . C. Kempvanee, Jr., of the Califeet and the values are satisfactory. ' fornia Mining Association to meet pone Bienen Wee Fe are wore / Lin Sacramento at the Travelers Hotel ing fifteen men, but thi if Bumber wi :on December 5th and 6th. This meetbe increased as necessity demands. ‘ : A ing is to be also the annual member,Prospecting is being carried on Rin act and the fest vat with encouraging results and may, fete sie eee ye pene ees . Mining Congress of California. In result in the opening up of virgin F : i sending out notice of the meeting, —————————— ground before long.” : ‘ President Kempvanee takes occasion TRAVELED BY CARAVAN Plans are being laid b ythe State Chamber of Commerce for an immense automobile pilgramage next June over the old pioneer traily to the old gold camps founded during the gold rush days. The itinery will include the Sacramento valley—the old gold camps of Nevada county, Placer county ‘and other counties of the northern part of the state. ‘The pilgramage will start from Salt Lake City, Utah and will be under the immediate charge of A. B. Gray iof Sacramento, manager of the Calii fornia Tourists . Association. From ‘Salt Lake the caravan will come westward stopping at all the scene4 of old Indian battles and inspecting the old early day mining camps enroute. A day will be spent at the “Days of °49 Celebration at Placerville and the scenes that made old Hangtown famous will be reinacted at that place. A stop will be made in Nevada City and Grass Valley. and while at the latter place some of the caravan crowd will be presented a “honest to goodness” gold mine0. uv BODY IS FOUND IN MINE SHAFT “On November 20th, the body of Henry Savage, 70 year old Virginia City resident was found at the bottom of an abandoned mine shaft located near the county hospital. The old man had been missing for twelve days and it is thought he had wandered into the old shaft without preceiving it. . 0 > Ignition Parts and Accessories at Miner’s Foundry. 24t! “Mining in Caltonys face: the A long list of noted speakers will Martin Gorovieh met death at the, se present including Governor Rolph, Eureka mine at Sutter Creek last’ and will address the meeting. The week when he lost his balance and. Meeting will convene at 5 o’clock on fell from a ladder a distance of some’! Friday, December 5th and the board twenty-five feet. Death is thought to ‘of director swill meet one hour later been instentanious resulting from a! at dinner at the Travelers hotel. broken neck sustained in the fall. (The membership meeting will take He was a newcomer at the mine, havlee at 10 a. m. Saturday, Deceming started work on the morning of; ber 6 at the same hotel. with Presihis death. The accident occurred ag . dent J. C. KempVanEe presiding. he. wa sstanding on a ladder while First will come the election of ofEUREKA MINER KILLED F remark: : CALIF ORNIA MINING ASSOCIATION MEET IN SACRAMENTO DEC 5,6 In this state, Governor-Elect Rolph has spoken in no uncertain terms concerning the deplorable state that mining is in at the present time. Radical changes are admittedlyessential, dnd legislation to bring: about those changes is admittedly necessary. With leading financiers publicly voicing their apprehension, and with a Governor who understands and ap— preciates the mining situation, an opportunity is thus presented to theminers of California to obtain the, relief so essentially necessary to their very existence. ; By a united band, and with de— mands based upon the actual re— quirements of the industry, success. is assured. This call for our annual meeting= and our first Mining Congress, is. your opportunity to participate in the preparation of a complete pro-—gram of revision of law as it affects the mining of metallics and. working in a ,raise in th mine. There! ficers with Charles L. Gilmore prewas no witnesses to the accident but . lsiding by request of the president. ! all indications point to the fact that . This will be followed by an address! th eman lost his balance and plung-. by Governor Rolph; presentation for ed downward to his death. adoption of resolutions adopted at! He was burried -on . Wednesday . Mariposa conference in October;dismorning at Sutter Creek. : cussion; presentation for adoption : =) of resolution adopted at Northern MINER INJURED IN AUTO . California Chapter’ Mining Associa‘ACCIDENT NEAR JACKSON! tion cf Northern California, NovemPaul Trabucco and Verne Kim-; ber 22, 1930 ball of the Pioneer district, figured{ Presentation for adoption of resoin an automobile accident last week! lutions. proposed by San Francisco while on their way from their mine at Pioneer to Jackson. The accident occurred when they turned out to pass a truck, thei rmachine striking a culvert and overturning. Trabucco ; sustained injuries that caused his removal to a hospital where he is being treated for a fractured spine and. severe lacerations. Kimball was more fortunate aan his partner, sustaining only lacerations and severe bruises. The two men have been operating amining prospect in the Pioneer viefhity and recently uncovered some excellent ore from surface workings on the property. Several tons of the ore isbeing milled at the Carrie Mining Exchange followed by a dis: non -metallics in this state. Wherefore, This call is made farj all members of this Association and. ‘all others interested in the mining: ‘of metallics or nonmetallics in, thiss state, to attend upon this First An-nual Mining Congress, December6th, 1930, at the hour of 10 o’clock. in the forenoon, at the Travelers Ho-~ tel,in the City of Sacramento:. f). uv LOS ANGELES MEN SEEK MARIPOSA MINES: cussion. Presentation for adoption of resolutions proposed by State Camber of Commerce followed by discussion. Presentation of resolutions proposed by other organizations or chapters of the Association. The meeting “will recess promptly at 12 o’clock noon for lunch, and reconvene at 1:30 in the afternoon. On a steady decline years; the butt of-adverse legislation; the victim of extortionate taxes; the pawn of sordid politics— it: has, particularly in the case of gold, caused leading financiers to i'view its condition with considerable Rush T. Sill, a prominent mining engineer of Los Angeles who has, been operating lead and copper pro— erties in Arizona, accompanied by R. C. Jamison and D. C. Peacock of the same city, spent several days in this county looking over the gold mining properties this week. Sill is interested in the Mother Lode district and expects to take over or or more properties that make f: able showings. The group inspected the Merced Gold Mines and never in recent mine. : . See INS . concern, —' j, AlN