October 15, 1937 (8 pages)

nr jitures against ’ terest and the advantage of “forms” will take years to ripen. We “the vested right to be supported by pubss ining Development — A Issue Thinking . . Out Loud evada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD ARE IN CALIFORNIA v= ali it in “This newspaper tries to be helpful in community enterprises that tend to make this a better.place to live. It seeks to stimulate a healthful growth in business. Those who subscribe to, or advertise in the Nevada City Nugget join with this endeavor. Vol 1 >No. 81, The County Seat Paper _NEVADA CITY, CAL JFORNIA "The Gold C Center FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, £937. H. M? Lh. This is the third year and” about “the fifth time; the President has either promised outright or indicated that in the following year the national budget would be balanced. Of course it must be done sometime. The present fiscal and political drift every day brings nearer a treasury crisis that may only be avoided by increasing taxes and curtailing expenditures. Most people ‘whe talk of an approaching treasury crisis, we notice, are hard shelled Republicans. And they forget that . ‘while the:leaks in the treaury, made} by groups determined to get theirs! while the getting is good, are draining its credit contents, there is an ace in the hole. This consists of the unemployment and old age security taxes, which are piling up a tremendous reserve for what Opper used to designate as the plunderbund. There are no strings or restraints Edward Hall, miner of Grass Val-. ley, was killed at noon yesterday in the Brunswick When a hanging wall gave way spraying him with a shower of rocks. The accident occurred on the 1300 foot level. His ; partner, Robert Walker was injured and was taken to “Jones Memorial ‘hospital in Grass Valley. It is not expected his injuries will prove sericus. The Brunswick mine is a part of the Idaho-Maryland properties northeast of Grass Valley. NEVADA CITY BOYS ON NEVADA TREE? 35 on this fund which, with the tax rate increased next year and for sev-/ eral years, will roll. up like a snowball tumbling down Mt. Whitney in . the dead of Winter. The Treasurer} may and if necessity arises, unquestionalbly will, drop U. S. bonds into this fund and use the cash. And at the rate we are going the necessity: will inevitably arise. Ask a hundred people. on the street what a budget is and not more: than sixty will be able to define it. . That it is simply a plan © formally! adopted: by any fiscal authority der which it balances its a conservative mate of its income for the year to come, is a kind of an abstraction to most people. That is why the President can afford to make these pre. mises from time to time. He knows, . shrewd politician that he that} half of the people don’t know what a budget is, and that by and large, 75. per cent knowing or unknowing don’t give a dern. The only thing that will spur him really to Dalance . the budget is the imminence of an-, other crash. Uull. expend-. esti. ° Jt would be humiliating after all the obliquy that has been heaped on Herbert Hoover, if after an eight-'. year try the New Deal had pulled us . out of one bog only to land us in an-! other. The leaders of the Mormon . church are advising their members to put up ware-houses, can fruits, process meats, dry vegetables, and along with grain, store them, for ‘they foresee another national twister coming over the horizon. This may ‘be a gesture, but it is costing the Mormens real money. We doubt if the Mormon elders and ‘bishops are able to see further into the future than other groups. The reasons we think the Mormons are mistaken is that there now resides in the President more authority than was ever before reposed in a President:in peace time. He should know and be able to interpret the signs of storm. He has the. power to act quickly and decisively to ward off another!such calamity as that of 1929. Furthermore, it is to his inhis party to prevent another collapse of the economic structure. No administration wants ‘to pull its house down around its ears. And despite stock market slump, labor quarrels, railroad worries, one first ¢lass war in Asia:and another in Europe, with possibilities of wider battle fields involving your Uncle Sam, we do not +h believe the crash is coming while President Roosevelt rules. The dreadful fruit of some of his ‘‘reonly hope he lives to eat some of it himself, Some of this fruit is already mel-. lowing. For instance: The jeers that greet another promise of balancing budget. The cynicism that columnists express over Senator Black’s shift from a white to a black robe. The organization on a national scale of a WPA union, that assumes a lic taxation. The payment of a $500,000 campaign debt to John L. Lewis who demands and receives special governmental favors for his . communistie organization, The waste of hundreds of millions of dollars on such projects as the. Nebraska irrigation schemes and such Federal enterprises as Tugwell town. "Ad infinitum. RAINFALL TOTAL . brought U. GRID TEAM Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen and Mrs. Tobiassen° and Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hoff will motor to Reno, Saturday to see their sons play on the University of Nevada football team. Carl Jr., whose knee was severely injured in a game reéently still has a stiff leg but it is expected he will be alright shortly. It is the same knee he hurt in the Nevada City-Auburn foot ball game at Auburn last vear, while plavine with the local high school team, IS 2.32 INCHES The rain fall for the month of October as estimated by the rain gauge home of Mrs. Jennie Preston on upper Boulder stréet, yesterday evening is 2.32 T re last storm So far the at the inches. -92of an: ineh. rain has done no harm AGED GOLD FLAT MAN SUCCUMBS TO BURNS Jack Baldwin, who was between 65 and 70 vears of age and who suffered fatal burns about head, arms and body supposedly by an exploded lantern, passed away at the county hospital at 9 o’clock vesterday morning. Jack Baldwin was born and reared in Gold Flat and . followed wood cutting practically all his . life. He leaves three yrothers, Ed} and Daniel Baldwin of Grass Valley and Charles Baldwin of the bay dis-. trict. Funeral arrangements have not} been completed. The remains are at the Holmes Funeral Home in Nevada City. GAME WARDEN SEEKS GRAY SQUIRREL SLAYERS CAMPTONVILLE, Oct. 14.—Game Warden Alvin Granndstrom of Downieville was here Saturday looking for gray squirrel killers. Having information that such violations were going on here, he obtained a search warrant in the local justice court and searched a premises but was unable to find any evidence. Gray squirrels are, or were qtite plentiful in this section, and were coming into town in large numbers to gather nuts, and it is alleged ‘that they were being feasted upon. FUNERAL SATURDAY FOR MRS. BECKWITH Funeral services for the late Mrs. L. A. Beckwith, 80 years of age of Downieville who passed away. on Coyote street this city Wednesday evening will be held in the Downieville Catholic chureh at 10 o’clock Saturday morning, Father P. O’Reilly of Nevada City will officiate. Interment will be in. the Downieville cemetery with Holmes Funeral Home in charge of arranngements, his Mes. Ella Himes, postmaster of Hammonton, and party of friends were Nevada ‘City visitors Tuesday. Mrs. Himes is a sister in law of Mrs. M. Himes and aunt of Miss Madeline Himes, stenographer for District At‘Monday evening. Miner Killed When Hanging Wall Breaks NEVADA CITY SHARE IN AUTO ORE DISCOVERY ON DAIRY RANCH James R. Maben, dairyman living of Grass highway, south Valley on the Auburn brought a samplet of. ore from a rich vein on ‘his property to the Nugget office yesterday. The ore is on display in the Nugget window. He stated in an 80 foot shaft a two foot vein runs $37.50 to $400, and a four foot vein runs $7.50 in assays. The vein is on.the.west of the 300 acre property and dips east a good indication for rich yields in gold. There are four veins running parallel through the property. The shaft is one half mile from the road and there is plenty of water. CRIPPLED CHILD PASSES AWAY Barl Winney, 12 years old,, who had been crippled several years and in a wheel chair for two years, passed away at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. EB. Winney at 9 o'clock Wednesday evening. from double pneumonia. He had been ill about a week. Funeral services wi 1) be urday afternoon at 2 o'clock in Holmes Funeral Hom hanel with Rev. H. H., Buckner officiating. Interment will be in Pine Grove cemetery. CIVIC CLUB AIDS PURCHASE At the regular meeting of the Civic Club Monday night the business meeting.was followed by a short proSram consisting of a short talk on the Neutrality Act by Mrs. RB. C. Goldsmith and 2 *'talk on the China-Japanese situation by Mrs. B. Rebinson. In the business meeting a letter was read from the Nevada City Firemen requesting a donation. toward an inhalator for the city to be ‘in charge of the firemen. After discussion the ladies voted to donate $20 towards the purchase. The ladies ‘ whole-heartedly agreed that it was proper that. Nevada City should have an inhalator as it might at some time be the means of saving a life here. MRS. DAVIS TELLS OF LIFE IN NORWAY AND TAHITI St. Agnes Guild held a very pleasant meeting yesterday afternoon at 'the E. M. Rector home. A.short business meeting was held presided over by the president, Mrs. E. M. Rector. Following the business meeting Mrs. H. P. Davis sketched her experiences in some of the countries she has lived in including her native country Norway, and Tahaiti, where she resided for about ten years. It was a long jump from Northern Norway to sub-tropical Tahaiti. Mrs. Davis, with her zest for living seemed to get the best out of life in both countries:-The vigorous skiing of the north and the gay social life of the tropical country each intrigued her so that, she was able to present a vivid picture of each with humorous side lighis of habits, manners, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE . Nevada City Chamber of Commerce This will be the first meeting of the chamber in its new quarters in the City Hall. President Fred Conner states that there are several important matters to be discussed and the fall program will torney V. Stoll. come up for debate. held Sat-. . OF INFALATOR customs and! TO. MEET MONDAY NIGHT. There will be a big meeting of the . FEE FUND, $1626 SACRAMENTO, Oct. ; tions of $1,447,259:75 to cities and counties as their share of liquor fees for licenses issued during the first six month period of 1937, was announced today by R. KE. . Collins, chairman of the state oard equalization. : The allocation represents 50 per cent of the total fees earned during the first’ half of the year, totaling $2,894,519.51, the state’s share of which goes into the general fund. On the basis of actual licenses issued, Nevada county will recéive a total of $7,430, of which $3,530 will go to the unincorporatedi‘reas, $1,626 to Nevada City and $2,273' to Grass Valley. . The change in the awe to provide for allocations twice a year instead .of annually was made at the request of members of the board of equalization so that these funds would not remain idle fof such a long period. Payments of the variou8 allocations will be made in the near future, officials said. In pointing out that these funds are collected entirely by the state and represent income derived exclusively from liquor licenses’, Collins called attention to a recent opinion of Attorney General U. S. Webb in which it was held that a proper expenditure of this money would be the fulfilling of the obligation imposed upon cities and counties by section 66:5 of the Alcoholic ‘Beverage Control Act, which provides as follows: of “Tt is hereby made the duty of every peace officer and every district attorney in this state to en‘force the provisions of this act, and to inform against and diligently prosecute persons whom they have reasonable cause-to believe offenders‘ against the provisions hereof. Every such officer refusing or neglecting to do so is guilty of a misdemeanor.” . FLOWER SALE NETS $16; GOES TO. BUTLDING FUND The flbwer sale held last Saturday morning by the Camp Fire Girls and Boy Scouts netted a total of $16 which will be devoted to the building fund, The flowers came from the garden of Mr.and Mrs. U. S. N. Johnson on Piety Hill and not only were generously donated by ‘Mr. and Mrs. Johnson but were conveyed in Bret Harte dairy trucks in pails filled with ice water to the flower market in front of Alpha Stores. Satisfactory progress is being made on the addition to Seaman’s Lodge in Pioneers Park. Partitions are up and the roofing is now being placed on the building. The new addition will contain three rooms, one for the use ‘of the Scouts, another for the Camp Fire Girls and a third to be used as a kitehen. There. will also be a room for the storage of fuel. The Nevada County Lumber Company is supplying materials for this addition building fund. PLUMBAGO MINE: Another report has reached Nevada ‘City of a rich strike in the Plumbago mine shaft. The property lies east of Alleghany. J. J. O’Brien, ; owner, passed through Nevada City . Tuesday enroute to his home near Detroit. Ralph Yount, superintendent, was in this city this week also. . Aptee Carey of this city. is mill man at the Plumbago which has a rich past production record, the ,records showing production up to 1924 of $8,000,000. “Tug’’ Wilson, employed at the Omega mine east of Washington, was a business visitor in Nevada City Thursday. Mrs. Fred Develey, Sr., of Alleghany is spending severat days this week in Nevada City visiting Mrs. 14.—Allocaat cost as its contribution toward ther ENGINEER TELLS ROTARY CLUB OF MINING FAKES. Waldemar Dietri ch, Mining and; metallurgical engineer on the Sacthe speaker yesterday at the Rotary luncheon. He complimented Nevada county by stating that this district has been unusually free ofthe frauds which are perpetrdted in opening up Many new mining camps. Prior to Mr. Dietrich’s address the Rotary club responded to an appeal of the Shanghai club for relieve the vast suffering of great influx of people who sought'a hazardous refuge in city well as the residents who have been innocent victims of the war deluge. The club voted to send the Shanghai club the sum of $25. “Wakes and frauds involve the. deliberate attempt to deceive said Mr. Dietrich. “FPalacies in another category, including! all impractical schemes founded on . illogical reasoning, ignorance, in-! complete data, or poor judgment. to the had that funds as ors. are “Salting mines as a means of ha’ ts, ing imvestors has. now practically . passed out of the picture, for th reason that all competent engin: eers can detect it without any difficulty. today is the issuing of false assay . reports.” Mr. Dietrich told of his own exin which he divided the pulp of his . samples with those of a local assay-. er, and then had the assay geen by a San Francisco assayer. The lo. times that of the San Francisco asay, due it was supposed to the fact that the Nevada assayer was receiving his remuneration in stock in the company and therefore wanted to see} the deal completed. The false assay report, the speaker declared was also -a _ favorite means of parting investors with their hard earned money in Southern California during the depths of the depression. Other swindles are based on lost mines and worked out mines. . The well worn device of a desert rat! who comes staggering into a mining; camp with samples of highgrade and! a story of having discovered a mountain of ‘24 carat gold’’ is often the spring board for a whole series of frauds. “However, Mr. Dietrich said, “‘much of the mining revival of the last four years has been the resumption of mining in properties that were closed down when gold was valued at $20.67, but worked out mines seem to have an immortal life. T. J. Hoover calls them ‘“‘mines that never die.” Some of these attemps at revival are flagrant frauds, others are an honest gamble and a few are actually in the class jof legitimate ventures. The ideal property for the purpose of a crook is one that has been ¢losed down for about 20 tunnel caved in, Sometimes that only requires the expenditure of $15,000 or $20,000 to oper up. and look at. “The true ‘antiguas’ or mines dedeveloped in South America under the old Spanish regime belong in this class, but matiy°of them have been re-opened in recent years and a great many of them are on a paying basis. ; “In the way of falacies, one of the greatest I believe is that sea water can be made to yield profitable quantities of gold. It is true that sea water does contain from 1-4 cent to I cent in gold per ton. But the difficulty is that:no one has yet. ges ages process by which the gold can b covered at,a profit.” Miss Margaret Wyant, sophomore at rem ib of California, will. in Nevada (City. Miss Wyant % majCarl Johnson of Park avenue. Mine Employment Shows Sharp Uptren rame > s nento Junior College faculty was lin Nevada county in . Last invest. © . installed and will be completed in The more common fraud in mining . tion of 50 tons and constructing @ . tons perience in sampling a Nevada mine, . 'is superintendent of the mine. cal assay ran about two and a half} thern mine on Harmony Ridge north During the past -month emploeymert ‘in mines chas increased in the county approximately by 50 more The total now employed ac. Cot ine to the Nugget’s monthly sur. vey is now 2,577 men, who receive an. average of $150 per month in wages. This compares with 2,518 a . month ago. The total nionthiy pay. toll for) the. county now stands at $3 86,550. This is close to the payroll peak recent years. Navember the payroll amount‘ ed to $387,980 but the number of men employed was 2,772 or almost 200 more than now empleved. -The increase in men employed during the past few days is’ attributed to the abundant rain which permits preparations to be begun on several placer properties that oper—ate when water is available. men "RELIEF HILL GRAVEL MINE C. E. Clark, superintendent of the Relief Hill gravel property near North Bloomfield, was a Nevada City visitor yesterday. Four men are employed repairing ditches and flumes and carrying out a general program ;of rehabilitation. With the erection of the Narrows dam this will be one of the first properties to take advantage -of the tailings dam, with ydraulie operations. LAVA CAP MINE The new. hoist at the Lava Cap mine is still: in the process of being e about a month. A program is in hand ifor enlarging the mill by the addinew tailings dam. The additional 50 will give the mine a 350 ton ; daily capacity mill. Otto E. Schiffner GREAT NORTHERN MINE Leasors are mining ore on the 200 foot level in the Hoge or Great: Noreast of Nevada City. Retimbering is alsoi. being done and a cross cut is being driven to contact a new vein. OMEGA GRAVEL MINE Under the supervision of Theodore Larsen crews are building new flume ‘and “repairing portions of the old: . ‘when completed. It is expected the years, filled with water or with aj. spend the coming week end with her} parents; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wyant} oripg in archeology. ; # 1 DMP RR os one for active hydraulic operations.as soon as sufficient rain has fallen. ~ The flume will be several miles long (Continued on Page Five ) No. ' LODE MINES Men Payroll Employed Empire Star POMPiTe North Star .... 830 $124,500 Pennsylvania .-. Prescott Hill 15 2,150 Murchie ... 34,500 Feiprient 36 18,650 Idaho-Maryland New Brunswick Tdaho ccs: 96,900 Boulton. .2.03 4.950 Lava Cap Banner: .:.:.< : Wentral 2. Ge 36,000 Bradley SPANISH 2.0.65 sy 9,000 Copper Corral Others Golden Center Norambagua Spring Hill Great Northern -. Valley ‘Mines Daisy Blue Stockton Hill Jim Mine Giant King Treasure Box Lady Bue. Sunflower ' Mt. View Golden TriangleHot Water Boreham Morning Star . Secret Golden Star Gracey 2,150 19,500 6,000 2,150 2,150 2,150 1,200 1,200 — . Atlas Middle Yuba Lowell Hill Ridge Mines ..:. Rattlesnake Bar. . Planet. ..

nr jitures against ’ terest and the advantage of “forms” will take years to ripen. We “the vested right to be supported by pubss ining Development — A Issue Thinking . . Out Loud evada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD ARE IN CALIFORNIA v= ali it in “This newspaper tries to be helpful in community enterprises that tend to make this a better.place to live. It seeks to stimulate a healthful growth in business. Those who subscribe to, or advertise in the Nevada City Nugget join with this endeavor. Vol 1 >No. 81, The County Seat Paper _NEVADA CITY, CAL JFORNIA "The Gold C Center FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, £937. H. M? Lh. This is the third year and” about “the fifth time; the President has either promised outright or indicated that in the following year the national budget would be balanced. Of course it must be done sometime. The present fiscal and political drift every day brings nearer a treasury crisis that may only be avoided by increasing taxes and curtailing expenditures. Most people ‘whe talk of an approaching treasury crisis, we notice, are hard shelled Republicans. And they forget that . ‘while the:leaks in the treaury, made} by groups determined to get theirs! while the getting is good, are draining its credit contents, there is an ace in the hole. This consists of the unemployment and old age security taxes, which are piling up a tremendous reserve for what Opper used to designate as the plunderbund. There are no strings or restraints Edward Hall, miner of Grass Val-. ley, was killed at noon yesterday in the Brunswick When a hanging wall gave way spraying him with a shower of rocks. The accident occurred on the 1300 foot level. His ; partner, Robert Walker was injured and was taken to “Jones Memorial ‘hospital in Grass Valley. It is not expected his injuries will prove sericus. The Brunswick mine is a part of the Idaho-Maryland properties northeast of Grass Valley. NEVADA CITY BOYS ON NEVADA TREE? 35 on this fund which, with the tax rate increased next year and for sev-/ eral years, will roll. up like a snowball tumbling down Mt. Whitney in . the dead of Winter. The Treasurer} may and if necessity arises, unquestionalbly will, drop U. S. bonds into this fund and use the cash. And at the rate we are going the necessity: will inevitably arise. Ask a hundred people. on the street what a budget is and not more: than sixty will be able to define it. . That it is simply a plan © formally! adopted: by any fiscal authority der which it balances its a conservative mate of its income for the year to come, is a kind of an abstraction to most people. That is why the President can afford to make these pre. mises from time to time. He knows, . shrewd politician that he that} half of the people don’t know what a budget is, and that by and large, 75. per cent knowing or unknowing don’t give a dern. The only thing that will spur him really to Dalance . the budget is the imminence of an-, other crash. Uull. expend-. esti. ° Jt would be humiliating after all the obliquy that has been heaped on Herbert Hoover, if after an eight-'. year try the New Deal had pulled us . out of one bog only to land us in an-! other. The leaders of the Mormon . church are advising their members to put up ware-houses, can fruits, process meats, dry vegetables, and along with grain, store them, for ‘they foresee another national twister coming over the horizon. This may ‘be a gesture, but it is costing the Mormens real money. We doubt if the Mormon elders and ‘bishops are able to see further into the future than other groups. The reasons we think the Mormons are mistaken is that there now resides in the President more authority than was ever before reposed in a President:in peace time. He should know and be able to interpret the signs of storm. He has the. power to act quickly and decisively to ward off another!such calamity as that of 1929. Furthermore, it is to his inhis party to prevent another collapse of the economic structure. No administration wants ‘to pull its house down around its ears. And despite stock market slump, labor quarrels, railroad worries, one first ¢lass war in Asia:and another in Europe, with possibilities of wider battle fields involving your Uncle Sam, we do not +h believe the crash is coming while President Roosevelt rules. The dreadful fruit of some of his ‘‘reonly hope he lives to eat some of it himself, Some of this fruit is already mel-. lowing. For instance: The jeers that greet another promise of balancing budget. The cynicism that columnists express over Senator Black’s shift from a white to a black robe. The organization on a national scale of a WPA union, that assumes a lic taxation. The payment of a $500,000 campaign debt to John L. Lewis who demands and receives special governmental favors for his . communistie organization, The waste of hundreds of millions of dollars on such projects as the. Nebraska irrigation schemes and such Federal enterprises as Tugwell town. "Ad infinitum. RAINFALL TOTAL . brought U. GRID TEAM Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen and Mrs. Tobiassen° and Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hoff will motor to Reno, Saturday to see their sons play on the University of Nevada football team. Carl Jr., whose knee was severely injured in a game reéently still has a stiff leg but it is expected he will be alright shortly. It is the same knee he hurt in the Nevada City-Auburn foot ball game at Auburn last vear, while plavine with the local high school team, IS 2.32 INCHES The rain fall for the month of October as estimated by the rain gauge home of Mrs. Jennie Preston on upper Boulder stréet, yesterday evening is 2.32 T re last storm So far the at the inches. -92of an: ineh. rain has done no harm AGED GOLD FLAT MAN SUCCUMBS TO BURNS Jack Baldwin, who was between 65 and 70 vears of age and who suffered fatal burns about head, arms and body supposedly by an exploded lantern, passed away at the county hospital at 9 o’clock vesterday morning. Jack Baldwin was born and reared in Gold Flat and . followed wood cutting practically all his . life. He leaves three yrothers, Ed} and Daniel Baldwin of Grass Valley and Charles Baldwin of the bay dis-. trict. Funeral arrangements have not} been completed. The remains are at the Holmes Funeral Home in Nevada City. GAME WARDEN SEEKS GRAY SQUIRREL SLAYERS CAMPTONVILLE, Oct. 14.—Game Warden Alvin Granndstrom of Downieville was here Saturday looking for gray squirrel killers. Having information that such violations were going on here, he obtained a search warrant in the local justice court and searched a premises but was unable to find any evidence. Gray squirrels are, or were qtite plentiful in this section, and were coming into town in large numbers to gather nuts, and it is alleged ‘that they were being feasted upon. FUNERAL SATURDAY FOR MRS. BECKWITH Funeral services for the late Mrs. L. A. Beckwith, 80 years of age of Downieville who passed away. on Coyote street this city Wednesday evening will be held in the Downieville Catholic chureh at 10 o’clock Saturday morning, Father P. O’Reilly of Nevada City will officiate. Interment will be in. the Downieville cemetery with Holmes Funeral Home in charge of arranngements, his Mes. Ella Himes, postmaster of Hammonton, and party of friends were Nevada ‘City visitors Tuesday. Mrs. Himes is a sister in law of Mrs. M. Himes and aunt of Miss Madeline Himes, stenographer for District At‘Monday evening. Miner Killed When Hanging Wall Breaks NEVADA CITY SHARE IN AUTO ORE DISCOVERY ON DAIRY RANCH James R. Maben, dairyman living of Grass highway, south Valley on the Auburn brought a samplet of. ore from a rich vein on ‘his property to the Nugget office yesterday. The ore is on display in the Nugget window. He stated in an 80 foot shaft a two foot vein runs $37.50 to $400, and a four foot vein runs $7.50 in assays. The vein is on.the.west of the 300 acre property and dips east a good indication for rich yields in gold. There are four veins running parallel through the property. The shaft is one half mile from the road and there is plenty of water. CRIPPLED CHILD PASSES AWAY Barl Winney, 12 years old,, who had been crippled several years and in a wheel chair for two years, passed away at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. EB. Winney at 9 o'clock Wednesday evening. from double pneumonia. He had been ill about a week. Funeral services wi 1) be urday afternoon at 2 o'clock in Holmes Funeral Hom hanel with Rev. H. H., Buckner officiating. Interment will be in Pine Grove cemetery. CIVIC CLUB AIDS PURCHASE At the regular meeting of the Civic Club Monday night the business meeting.was followed by a short proSram consisting of a short talk on the Neutrality Act by Mrs. RB. C. Goldsmith and 2 *'talk on the China-Japanese situation by Mrs. B. Rebinson. In the business meeting a letter was read from the Nevada City Firemen requesting a donation. toward an inhalator for the city to be ‘in charge of the firemen. After discussion the ladies voted to donate $20 towards the purchase. The ladies ‘ whole-heartedly agreed that it was proper that. Nevada City should have an inhalator as it might at some time be the means of saving a life here. MRS. DAVIS TELLS OF LIFE IN NORWAY AND TAHITI St. Agnes Guild held a very pleasant meeting yesterday afternoon at 'the E. M. Rector home. A.short business meeting was held presided over by the president, Mrs. E. M. Rector. Following the business meeting Mrs. H. P. Davis sketched her experiences in some of the countries she has lived in including her native country Norway, and Tahaiti, where she resided for about ten years. It was a long jump from Northern Norway to sub-tropical Tahaiti. Mrs. Davis, with her zest for living seemed to get the best out of life in both countries:-The vigorous skiing of the north and the gay social life of the tropical country each intrigued her so that, she was able to present a vivid picture of each with humorous side lighis of habits, manners, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE . Nevada City Chamber of Commerce This will be the first meeting of the chamber in its new quarters in the City Hall. President Fred Conner states that there are several important matters to be discussed and the fall program will torney V. Stoll. come up for debate. held Sat-. . OF INFALATOR customs and! TO. MEET MONDAY NIGHT. There will be a big meeting of the . FEE FUND, $1626 SACRAMENTO, Oct.

; tions of $1,447,259:75 to cities and counties as their share of liquor fees for licenses issued during the first six month period of 1937, was announced today by R. KE. . Collins, chairman of the state oard equalization. : The allocation represents 50 per cent of the total fees earned during the first’ half of the year, totaling $2,894,519.51, the state’s share of which goes into the general fund. On the basis of actual licenses issued, Nevada county will recéive a total of $7,430, of which $3,530 will go to the unincorporatedi‘reas, $1,626 to Nevada City and $2,273' to Grass Valley. . The change in the awe to provide for allocations twice a year instead .of annually was made at the request of members of the board of equalization so that these funds would not remain idle fof such a long period. Payments of the variou8 allocations will be made in the near future, officials said. In pointing out that these funds are collected entirely by the state and represent income derived exclusively from liquor licenses’, Collins called attention to a recent opinion of Attorney General U. S. Webb in which it was held that a proper expenditure of this money would be the fulfilling of the obligation imposed upon cities and counties by section 66:5 of the Alcoholic ‘Beverage Control Act, which provides as follows: of “Tt is hereby made the duty of every peace officer and every district attorney in this state to en‘force the provisions of this act, and to inform against and diligently prosecute persons whom they have reasonable cause-to believe offenders‘ against the provisions hereof. Every such officer refusing or neglecting to do so is guilty of a misdemeanor.” . FLOWER SALE NETS $16; GOES TO. BUTLDING FUND The flbwer sale held last Saturday morning by the Camp Fire Girls and Boy Scouts netted a total of $16 which will be devoted to the building fund, The flowers came from the garden of Mr.and Mrs. U. S. N. Johnson on Piety Hill and not only were generously donated by ‘Mr. and Mrs. Johnson but were conveyed in Bret Harte dairy trucks in pails filled with ice water to the flower market in front of Alpha Stores. Satisfactory progress is being made on the addition to Seaman’s Lodge in Pioneers Park. Partitions are up and the roofing is now being placed on the building. The new addition will contain three rooms, one for the use ‘of the Scouts, another for the Camp Fire Girls and a third to be used as a kitehen. There. will also be a room for the storage of fuel. The Nevada County Lumber Company is supplying materials for this addition building fund. PLUMBAGO MINE: Another report has reached Nevada ‘City of a rich strike in the Plumbago mine shaft. The property lies east of Alleghany. J. J. O’Brien, ; owner, passed through Nevada City . Tuesday enroute to his home near Detroit. Ralph Yount, superintendent, was in this city this week also. . Aptee Carey of this city. is mill man at the Plumbago which has a rich past production record, the ,records showing production up to 1924 of $8,000,000. “Tug’’ Wilson, employed at the Omega mine east of Washington, was a business visitor in Nevada City Thursday. Mrs. Fred Develey, Sr., of Alleghany is spending severat days this week in Nevada City visiting Mrs. 14.—Allocaat cost as its contribution toward ther ENGINEER TELLS ROTARY CLUB OF MINING FAKES. Waldemar Dietri ch, Mining and; metallurgical engineer on the Sacthe speaker yesterday at the Rotary luncheon. He complimented Nevada county by stating that this district has been unusually free ofthe frauds which are perpetrdted in opening up Many new mining camps. Prior to Mr. Dietrich’s address the Rotary club responded to an appeal of the Shanghai club for relieve the vast suffering of great influx of people who sought'a hazardous refuge in city well as the residents who have been innocent victims of the war deluge. The club voted to send the Shanghai club the sum of $25. “Wakes and frauds involve the. deliberate attempt to deceive said Mr. Dietrich. “FPalacies in another category, including! all impractical schemes founded on . illogical reasoning, ignorance, in-! complete data, or poor judgment. to the had that funds as ors. are “Salting mines as a means of ha’ ts, ing imvestors has. now practically . passed out of the picture, for th reason that all competent engin: eers can detect it without any difficulty. today is the issuing of false assay . reports.” Mr. Dietrich told of his own exin which he divided the pulp of his . samples with those of a local assay-. er, and then had the assay geen by a San Francisco assayer. The lo. times that of the San Francisco asay, due it was supposed to the fact that the Nevada assayer was receiving his remuneration in stock in the company and therefore wanted to see} the deal completed. The false assay report, the speaker declared was also -a _ favorite means of parting investors with their hard earned money in Southern California during the depths of the depression. Other swindles are based on lost mines and worked out mines. . The well worn device of a desert rat! who comes staggering into a mining; camp with samples of highgrade and! a story of having discovered a mountain of ‘24 carat gold’’ is often the spring board for a whole series of frauds. “However, Mr. Dietrich said, “‘much of the mining revival of the last four years has been the resumption of mining in properties that were closed down when gold was valued at $20.67, but worked out mines seem to have an immortal life. T. J. Hoover calls them ‘“‘mines that never die.” Some of these attemps at revival are flagrant frauds, others are an honest gamble and a few are actually in the class jof legitimate ventures. The ideal property for the purpose of a crook is one that has been ¢losed down for about 20 tunnel caved in, Sometimes that only requires the expenditure of $15,000 or $20,000 to oper up. and look at. “The true ‘antiguas’ or mines dedeveloped in South America under the old Spanish regime belong in this class, but matiy°of them have been re-opened in recent years and a great many of them are on a paying basis. ; “In the way of falacies, one of the greatest I believe is that sea water can be made to yield profitable quantities of gold. It is true that sea water does contain from 1-4 cent to I cent in gold per ton. But the difficulty is that:no one has yet. ges ages process by which the gold can b covered at,a profit.” Miss Margaret Wyant, sophomore at rem ib of California, will. in Nevada (City. Miss Wyant % majCarl Johnson of Park avenue. Mine Employment Shows Sharp Uptren rame > s nento Junior College faculty was lin Nevada county in . Last invest. © . installed and will be completed in The more common fraud in mining . tion of 50 tons and constructing @ . tons perience in sampling a Nevada mine, . 'is superintendent of the mine. cal assay ran about two and a half} thern mine on Harmony Ridge north During the past -month emploeymert ‘in mines chas increased in the county approximately by 50 more The total now employed ac. Cot ine to the Nugget’s monthly sur. vey is now 2,577 men, who receive an. average of $150 per month in wages. This compares with 2,518 a . month ago. The total nionthiy pay. toll for) the. county now stands at $3 86,550. This is close to the payroll peak recent years. Navember the payroll amount‘ ed to $387,980 but the number of men employed was 2,772 or almost 200 more than now empleved. -The increase in men employed during the past few days is’ attributed to the abundant rain which permits preparations to be begun on several placer properties that oper—ate when water is available. men "RELIEF HILL GRAVEL MINE C. E. Clark, superintendent of the Relief Hill gravel property near North Bloomfield, was a Nevada City visitor yesterday. Four men are employed repairing ditches and flumes and carrying out a general program ;of rehabilitation. With the erection of the Narrows dam this will be one of the first properties to take advantage -of the tailings dam, with ydraulie operations. LAVA CAP MINE The new. hoist at the Lava Cap mine is still: in the process of being e about a month. A program is in hand ifor enlarging the mill by the addinew tailings dam. The additional 50 will give the mine a 350 ton ; daily capacity mill. Otto E. Schiffner GREAT NORTHERN MINE Leasors are mining ore on the 200 foot level in the Hoge or Great: Noreast of Nevada City. Retimbering is alsoi. being done and a cross cut is being driven to contact a new vein. OMEGA GRAVEL MINE Under the supervision of Theodore Larsen crews are building new flume ‘and “repairing portions of the old: . ‘when completed. It is expected the years, filled with water or with aj. spend the coming week end with her} parents; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wyant} oripg in archeology. ; # 1 DMP RR os one for active hydraulic operations.as soon as sufficient rain has fallen. ~ The flume will be several miles long (Continued on Page Five ) No. ' LODE MINES Men Payroll Employed Empire Star POMPiTe North Star ....... 830 $124,500 Pennsylvania .-. Prescott Hill 15 2,150 Murchie ..... 34,500 Feiprient 36 18,650 Idaho-Maryland New Brunswick Tdaho ccs: 96,900 Boulton. .2.03 4.950 Lava Cap Banner: .:..:..< : Wentral 2.. Ge 36,000 Bradley SPANISH 2.0.65 sy 9,000 Copper Corral Others Golden Center Norambagua Spring Hill Great Northern -. Valley ‘Mines Daisy Blue Stockton Hill Jim Mine Giant King Treasure Box Lady Bue.. Sunflower ' Mt. View Golden TriangleHot Water Boreham Morning Star .. Secret Golden Star Gracey 2,150 19,500 6,000 2,150 2,150 2,150 1,200 1,200 — . Atlas Middle Yuba Lowell Hill Ridge Mines ...:. Rattlesnake Bar. .. Planet. ...