October 20, 1939 (6 pages)

os ae oe Out Loud By H. M. L. ada > Gity N eel . COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA in the right to publish the Truth, with good motives and for justifiable ends. ton. From the Californian, March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press’ consists —Alexander Hamilcy A huge school bus is parked out‘ gide the Nugget office as this is written. It will seat 51 high school or 67 grammar school students. School children nowadays have much done for. them that a half century ago no one dreamed of doing, A half century ago schools were attended by students who provided their own conveyance. It might be a ragged sorry looking nag with a blanket strapped over its serrated spine, on which brother and his little sister were mounted for the five or six mile ride to the school at the _ crossroads. It might be a_ decrepit phaeton or piano box buggy, attached to an old mustang which had passed its useful farm days, or a Concord roadster with a pair of shaggy Indian ponies hitched thereto, or it might be just plain old-fashioned Shank’s mare. As a matter of fact most children trudged two or three miles and played tau in the summer time along the dusty road to school. They straggled into the school yard in little family or tribal groups, at least half of them barefoot in the spring and fall. The teaching in those days was done by men, young men as a rule, with high. faultin‘ ideas about discipline. When the children were not reciting their lessons, they were studying, or he knew the reason why. In his desk was a strap and a limber hickory rod, specially imported from the Hast, and on top of it was a big flat ruler. Each had its well accustomed uses. As a rule, when children had “home work’’ to do, parents looked upon it as a sign they were shirking their work in school, and took appropriate “steps.”’ Speaking generally, schooling was a privilege, more than a right. If a child did not “‘take holt of larnin’”’ with vigor and vim, it was just too bad, for there was no special coddling. Laziness and deviltry were besetting sins that all youth must overcome. When their zeal to . rid themselves of these sins lagged, they were helped with the hickory rod. Out of that country school of fifty years ago, we recall one boy who has grown to be president of a great junior college, another who has been state banking commissioner, a third who has accumulated a large fortune, and there were many who. achieved local prominence in law, medicine and the pulpit. It may well be that those that failed in this hard school may not have gotten as far along the road to success, as those who lag behind in the schools today, but we suspect that they did. There were no handicraft course, to be sure, to teaeh those adept with their hands to use them purposefully, but on the other hand in a farming community every youngster got a great deal of manual exercise and training at home. Times and customs change but in the back of our head we still carry a firm conviction that harder conditions for youngsters produced hardier men and women. We are often proved wrong. This conviction may also be wrong. At any rate it is a far cry from Sfiank’s mare, plodding four miles to school to the stream-lined bus that carries a half hundred children on cushions and’ soft springs, one mile or less to school. hanging the subject abruptly. At hand is the address of Bishop Shiel on “America’s Catholic Youth and the Buropean War.” An excerpt from it, should be wide-ly read and appreciated. It follows: “~The greatest asset of this democracy is the intangible mutual respect that lets live here in productive peace the very same races ‘and people that in Europe seek for each other‘s blood, In other countries ties of common race, common culture, common form of religion: reconcile internal conflicts. We have no such bonds. These are the only ties which we are bound together in a free nation, capable of a united will for self-defense, for self-preservation, our tradition of live and let live; our conscious appreciation of-the necessity of friendship and trust in each other; ‘liquor Vol. 13,.No. 84. The psa Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA . The Gold Center FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1939, — OFFICER DAVIES OVERTAKES FAST AUTO THIEF Jack Hubbard allegedly stole a Ford V-8 automobile Wednesday shortly after midnight, belonging to F. Thurston at Hills Flat. Officer Lionel Davies, Nevada City police department, picked up the short wave radio notice of a stolen car. A few minutes before the call he had seen a car cross the Plaza in this city and head up Nevada street driving at a rapid rate of speed. The officer thought it might be the car and followed. Although he was a few minutes behind he overtook it at the White Cloud CCC camp; the fleeing machine, ‘traveling at 70 miles per hour. The officer noted the number was the same as the stolen car, stopped the machine and made the arrest. ‘Emil Allen traveling with Officer Davies drove the allegedly stolen car back to Nevada City and Hubbard was brought back in the police car and locked up in the city jail. Thurston came to Nevada City yesterday forenoon and stated he would file a complaint against Hubbard. It is thought Hubbard was heading toward Reno, with the automobile, NEVADA COUNTY SHARE, LIQUOR FEES IS $7,715 SACRAMENTO, Oct. 19. — California cities and counties were listed to receive a total of $1,368,619.29 as their share of liquor license fees for the first six month period of 1939, it was announced by Richard E. Collins, chairman of the State Board of Equalization, The allocation represents 50 per cent ofthe total fees earned from licenses during the first half of the current year. Collections from this source amounted to $2,737,238.59 the state’s half of which goes into the general fund.’ On the basis of actual licenses issued, Nevada county will receive a total of $7,715 of which $3,758.75 will be paid to the unincorporated areas and $1,640 to Nevada City. Board members pointed out that the current allocation of liquor license fees is $620,563.22 under the distribution announcefl for the first half of 1938. This reduction was attributed to the fact that June licenses were upheld because the legislature had not determined whether the changes should be made in the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act. As a result a large portion of the license fee revenue ordinarily included in the first half allocation report necessarily will be listed in the second half distribution of fees. Of the current allocation, the largest amount was to be distributed to Los Angeles County and its cities with a total of $350,109.15. The City and County of San Francisco was second with $306,881.70. Alpine, the smallest county in the state, received $99.37. STEERS STOLEN Two dressed steers. were stolen from the Abrahams slaughter house near Grass Valley some time Monday night. A truck was driven to the slaughter. house and the beeves loaded on it and carted away. Sheriff C. J. Tobiassen is investigating the case, There have been a series of these robberies throughout Northern California recently. our belief in a common future as a new people greater than ever the world has seen. We are—and never forget it—-a composite people. “In the depths of the titanic struggle across the water many attemps will be made to turn our minorities against one another, to turn all of them against. our leaders, and to destroy those slender bonds of the united will of a free people. : “Those who preach race a world at war are traitors t democracy.”’ NEW CCC CAMP FOR FOREST HILL Robert \Fechner director of the Civilian Conservation Corps, ‘has approved the construction of a new CCC camp at Forest Hill and build-. ing materials are now being delivered to the camp site by the office of C. I. Dennis, district quartermaster of the corps, at Sacramento. An attractive and convenient site has been selected just off the Baker ranch road about one half mile northeast of the town of Forest Hill, and with the construction of the latest type CCC buidings, this should be one of the most attractive and_ efficient camps in the state in the opinion of Tahoe national forest officials who are cooperating and. will have sup-: ervision over the conservation work to be done by the ‘CCC enrollees. E. E. Galvan, camp commander, has made a commendable record in camp mahagement at Bradley and Forbes camp in the vicinity of Forest Hill. Leon G. Johnson, project superintendent in .charge of the field work, started with the CCC program at its inception in 1933 as project superintendent on the Tahoe and was later assigned ‘to inspection work throughout the state for a period of approximately three years. Upon elimination of that position, he returned to Camp Bradley and Forbes as the project superintendent. The work program includes the construction of a considerable mileage of the truck trails for fire protection, telephone line work, range water development, stock trails, lookout house construction, and public camp ground development. One very important project will be reforestation of the area destroyed by the disastrous 1936 fire. The Forest Hill camp will be a year round camp and will replace Camp Bradley and _ Forbes. Previously, it has been necessary to move back and forth each _ year, Camp Bradley being the winter camp and Camp Forbes occupied during the summer. The work programs from the two camps. have been completed to the extent that there is considerable travel time involved and_ the new camp will be more centrally located besdes eliminating the loss of time involved in: two moves’ each year.* ICOUGHLAN RITES WILL BE HELD 10 A.M. TODAY Funeral services for the late Daniel J. Coughlan, lifetime resident of North Columbia who passed away at his home early Tuesday evening after an extended illness, will be held this morning at 10 o’clock at the Tyler Catholic church. Interment will be made in the Catholic cemetery in North San Juan. He was stricken several years ago and all attempts to effect a cure were in vain. Death came as he was surrounded by two sisters and six brothers in the same house in which he was born 62 years ago. He went to school in .the schoolhouse opposite his home and when he finished started to work in the mines. Later he learned mill working and was employed in that capacity most of his active life. Surviving him are the following sisters and brothers: Miss Margaret Coughlan and ‘Mrs. May Campbell; Michael, James, Dennis, William, Francis and Supervisor J. C. Coughlan. Me 2 oeeare His, mother, Mrs. Ellen Coughlan, passed away a little more than a month ago. LADIES NIGHT AT ELKS Saturday night—ladies night—at the Elks Club will feature the famed buck stew of chef Fred Garrison, Sr. Arrangements are in charge of Bob Tamblyn, chairman of the entertainment committee, James Allen, has returned from a several month’s leave of absence and will return ‘to work as officer on the Nevada City police department. about the first of the month. Frank Misner has substituted for him while he was away. MRS. H. P. DAVIS TELLS ROTARY OF WAR EXPERIENCE The Rotary club yesterday listened with rapt attention to the story of Mrs. H. P. Davis, author of ‘The Year’s a Round Thing,” who described ther experience jin coming home across the Atlantic on a blacked-out Holland liner, sailing from Rotterdam and landing in Hoboken. During her recent visit abroad, Mrs, Davis first visited her daughter, son in law, and grandchildren in Amsterdam, then visited Tromso, a little town north of the Arctic Circle in Norway, where she was born and reared. In June she returned to Amsterdam and found that even then there was great fear of impending war. But for a few weeks, she said, Herr Hitler ceased his screaming, bawling and kicking over in Germany and the Dutch breathed freer for a time. In July, however, there was a recurrence of war alarms from across the border. The home of her daughter was provided with gas masks and other precautions were taken against air attacks, despite the fact that the Dutch are whole-heartedly and determinedly neitral, as are all the little countries bordering Germany. The third of September rolled around and on that day the family had declared a holiday and all were enroute to a bathing resort on the North Sea, when they learned quite casually from a Dutch acquaintance that war‘had begun at 11 o’clock that morning. The American consul in Amsterdam at.once notified all Am(Continued on Page Six) COUNTY SUPERVISORS CONDEMN HAM-EGGS Nevada county supervisors met in special session yesterday and during the day adopted the following resolution in regard to the Number One proposition on the ballot in the coming election on November 7. Resolved that ¢hey were opposed to Ham and Eggs proposition or No. 1 for the reason it would interfere with the proper functions of the county government. It would also stop payment on old age benefits aid to needy blind and orphans, and would cripple the schools. Signed, C. 8S. Arbogast, F. J. Rowe, Alex Robertson, J. E. Odell. Supervisor J. C. Coughlan was absent. TOM LEWIS IS CALLED TO REST Tom Lewis, aged about 51 years, passed away in his sleep sometime Wednesday night from a heart attack. He was found by relatives with whom he lived on the Tahoe Ukiah highway. Known for many kindly deeds and great love of flower culture the news of his sudden passing brought many an expression of sympathy to the bereaved. He leaves several relatives in the community. Although it is believed Lewis dfed of a heart attfck Coroner A. M. Holmes will perform an autopsy later. His daughter, Mrs. Helen Wulff of Alameda’ arrived Wednesday to attend the funeral services. tra ‘Costa county. Lewis came to Nevada City when a youth and attended the local schools. He left here for a number of years and returned eight years ago ‘to assist his sister in law, Mrs. Will Lewis, after the death of her husband. ‘ Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon in the chapel at Holmes Funeral Home. The body was taken to Clayton and interment will. be made in the family plot. _ Mr, and Mrs. Walter Butz motored to Sacramento early Thursday morning upon receiving a message Mrs. Butz’ mother, Mrs. Artz, had just died in the Sisters Hospital. She was also the mother of Mrs. Harold Hendricks formerly of this city and He was a native of Clayton, Con-. Mine Employment In County Totals 2924; Payroll $378,600 DREDGER SET UP ON SCOTT'S FLAT GRAVEL DEPOSIT George and Andres (Carey report that on Wednesday they saw a dredger in Scotts Flat on the huge gravel ‘deposit which it is believed is the Bloomfield channel. Workmen were doing preliminary work in getting the dredger settled for operation. It is stated two more dredgers will be brought in by the Oroville mining company which holds a three year ledse on the property. The ground was formerly owned by the InterCounty Land Company with ‘headquarters in Smartville, W. D. Allen, is the agent. It was stated yesterday that the negotiations have been handled by the Nevada Irrigation District under Manager W. Durbrow. The channel is rich in gold and several fortunes were taken out in hydraulic operations in early days. According to a local engineer the gravel channel, exposed at this site, is about 300 feet deep. A considerable sum was spent in trying to hydraulic the gravel five years ago but satisfactory recoveries were never made. Sixty years ago Ramos Laird of Washington, tried to find bedrock and mine the gravel but under early day methods he was unable to control the water. It proved impossible to sink a shaft. If the operations succeed it is stated there will be enough gold recovered to partly pay for the erection of the new dam planned by the Nevada Irrigation District. The gravel deposit is between the present dam and proposed new dam. LAVA CAP MINE Otto E. Schiffner, superintendent of the Lava Cap Mines, stated yesterday a pilot cyanide plant.is being built below the mill, It will be used to determine if it is practical to construct a large cyanide plant to treat the ore. The mill and new pilot plant are at the Central Shaft. The Banner shaft is being sunk to the sixth level. The sinking program will be completed by January 1 and crews will start drifting on the vein. Enough steel has been purchased by Mr. Schiffner to last the mine a year. The company will be protected“from higher prices for this much needed ‘material if war affects it. GREEN MOUNTAIN MINE. The small mill at the Green Mountain mine is treating 24. tons of ore per day. The vein is abet four feet in width where development has been done, Some mining is being done and considerable ore left from previous operations is _ being put through the mill. is running between $7.00 and Be 0 per ton. The property adjoins the Murchie mine on the east and lies along Deer Creek for some distance. Jim Kistle and two brothers, Everett and Albert Jr., father and uncle, Albert, Sr., and Chas. Kistle and Charles Hoskins, all local men, are working the property. DOWNIEVILLE ROAD TOUR IS POSTPONED It was announced yesterday by H. of commerce, that the visit of two members of the State Highway Commission to Downieville, scheduled for day, November 4. missioners who wish to make a personal tour over the “road of thousand curves,” also known ; as_ the “Mae West” road, are Hiner Chas. Kitts who resides at F, Sofge, secretary of the chamber. today, has been postponed untfl Fri-} ‘The two com-. The October reviéw of mining employment throughout the county, asurvey made each month by the Nevada City Nugget, reveals that employment has increased. Dredger operations at Scott’s Flat begun recently, and details of which will be found in another column, resumption of work in the Green Mountain, Liberty, Mary Jane and“Hot Water quartz properties and in other mines have added notably to county mining employment to make a total of 2,524 men employed. The payroll now stands $378,600 monthly as against $373,050 in September. : Zeibright is now employing twenty more miners than last month. Murchie mine now employs but forty men. Lava Cap'has increased its working forces to 275, against 250 last month. Boundary mine now employs but two men. Despite rains and a more abundant water supply, placer operations have increased but little, though the prospect is good for further deyelopment of gravel deposits. : Following are reports from various mining properties: GREYSTONE PROPERTY Three men are employed at the Grgystone mine in the Washington . district. Supplies have been taken in for the winter and development will continue throughout the cold stormy months. Portland, Ore. interests took over the property this spring. A 50 ton ball mill is being installed at the Arrowhead mine in the Greenhorn district southeast of Nevada City. It is expected the mill will be in operation about November 1. J. L. Nielsen, mining man of Grass Valley, leased the property from Town Talk south of Nevada City. Three men are employed. ATLAS DREDGING COMPANY H. J. Ackley is superintendent of the Atlas Dredging company. Gravel (Continued On Page Five) No. LODE MINES Men _— Payroll Newmont PMODIGG © oe cs eck ve en 410 $61,500 Worth Sterio oS 266 Pennsylvania ... 111 ZOMTIght 5605.5. 183 BRUT ORIG oc 40 ig Idaho-Maryland New Brunswick » ee 320 42,550 a os gear ae PRR DS ESS 79,500 Bullion 6,300 Lava Cap Banner— i: Montreal 355255 ee 276 41,250 Bradley z Spanish .64.5).059 car 15 2,250 Golden Center .. 115 = 17,250 Spring “Hill .2.0.205. 140.8 Great Northern .. 22 Stockton Hill ... 10 Keller Ancho-Erie Williams Boundary Jim Giant King Greystone Arrowhead Sunflower Green Mountain see eee ene enwmewee Innes Dreg. Co, TOW FG oes Yuba Gold Snyd. ..10 Greenhorn ....,. Dawson Optimo on ene ncenenseowne has visited here on several occasions. son and L G. paieaicinwe 4

os ae oe Out Loud By H. M. L. ada > Gity N eel . COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA in the right to publish the Truth, with good motives and for justifiable ends. ton. From the Californian, March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press’ consists —Alexander Hamilcy A huge school bus is parked out‘ gide the Nugget office as this is written. It will seat 51 high school or 67 grammar school students. School children nowadays have much done for. them that a half century ago no one dreamed of doing, A half century ago schools were attended by students who provided their own conveyance. It might be a ragged sorry looking nag with a blanket strapped over its serrated spine, on which brother and his little sister were mounted for the five or six mile ride to the school at the _ crossroads. It might be a_ decrepit phaeton or piano box buggy, attached to an old mustang which had passed its useful farm days, or a Concord roadster with a pair of shaggy Indian ponies hitched thereto, or it might be just plain old-fashioned Shank’s mare. As a matter of fact most children trudged two or three miles and played tau in the summer time along the dusty road to school. They straggled into the school yard in little family or tribal groups, at least half of them barefoot in the spring and fall. The teaching in those days was done by men, young men as a rule, with high. faultin‘ ideas about discipline. When the children were not reciting their lessons, they were studying, or he knew the reason why. In his desk was a strap and a limber hickory rod, specially imported from the Hast, and on top of it was a big flat ruler. Each had its well accustomed uses. As a rule, when children had “home work’’ to do, parents looked upon it as a sign they were shirking their work in school, and took appropriate “steps.”’ Speaking generally, schooling was a privilege, more than a right. If a child did not “‘take holt of larnin’”’ with vigor and vim, it was just too bad, for there was no special coddling. Laziness and deviltry were besetting sins that all youth must overcome. When their zeal to . rid themselves of these sins lagged, they were helped with the hickory rod. Out of that country school of fifty years ago, we recall one boy who has grown to be president of a great junior college, another who has been state banking commissioner, a third who has accumulated a large fortune, and there were many who. achieved local prominence in law, medicine and the pulpit. It may well be that those that failed in this hard school may not have gotten as far along the road to success, as those who lag behind in the schools today, but we suspect that they did. There were no handicraft course, to be sure, to teaeh those adept with their hands to use them purposefully, but on the other hand in a farming community every youngster got a great deal of manual exercise and training at home. Times and customs change but in the back of our head we still carry a firm conviction that harder conditions for youngsters produced hardier men and women. We are often proved wrong. This conviction may also be wrong. At any rate it is a far cry from Sfiank’s mare, plodding four miles to school to the stream-lined bus that carries a half hundred children on cushions and’ soft springs, one mile or less to school. hanging the subject abruptly. At hand is the address of Bishop Shiel on “America’s Catholic Youth and the Buropean War.” An excerpt from it, should be wide-ly read and appreciated. It follows: “~The greatest asset of this democracy is the intangible mutual respect that lets live here in productive peace the very same races ‘and people that in Europe seek for each other‘s blood, In other countries ties of common race, common culture, common form of religion: reconcile internal conflicts. We have no such bonds. These are the only ties which we are bound together in a free nation, capable of a united will for self-defense, for self-preservation, our tradition of live and let live; our conscious appreciation of-the necessity of friendship and trust in each other; ‘liquor Vol. 13,.No. 84. The psa Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA . The Gold Center FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1939, — OFFICER DAVIES OVERTAKES FAST AUTO THIEF Jack Hubbard allegedly stole a Ford V-8 automobile Wednesday shortly after midnight, belonging to F. Thurston at Hills Flat. Officer Lionel Davies, Nevada City police department, picked up the short wave radio notice of a stolen car. A few minutes before the call he had seen a car cross the Plaza in this city and head up Nevada street driving at a rapid rate of speed. The officer thought it might be the car and followed. Although he was a few minutes behind he overtook it at the White Cloud CCC camp; the fleeing machine, ‘traveling at 70 miles per hour. The officer noted the number was the same as the stolen car, stopped the machine and made the arrest. ‘Emil Allen traveling with Officer Davies drove the allegedly stolen car back to Nevada City and Hubbard was brought back in the police car and locked up in the city jail. Thurston came to Nevada City yesterday forenoon and stated he would file a complaint against Hubbard. It is thought Hubbard was heading toward Reno, with the automobile, NEVADA COUNTY SHARE, LIQUOR FEES IS $7,715 SACRAMENTO, Oct. 19. — California cities and counties were listed to receive a total of $1,368,619.29 as their share of liquor license fees for the first six month period of 1939, it was announced by Richard E. Collins, chairman of the State Board of Equalization, The allocation represents 50 per cent ofthe total fees earned from licenses during the first half of the current year. Collections from this source amounted to $2,737,238.59 the state’s half of which goes into the general fund.’ On the basis of actual licenses issued, Nevada county will receive a total of $7,715 of which $3,758.75 will be paid to the unincorporated areas and $1,640 to Nevada City. Board members pointed out that the current allocation of liquor license fees is $620,563.22 under the distribution announcefl for the first half of 1938. This reduction was attributed to the fact that June licenses were upheld because the legislature had not determined whether the changes should be made in the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act. As a result a large portion of the license fee revenue ordinarily included in the first half allocation report necessarily will be listed in the second half distribution of fees. Of the current allocation, the largest amount was to be distributed to Los Angeles County and its cities with a total of $350,109.15. The City and County of San Francisco was second with $306,881.70. Alpine, the smallest county in the state, received $99.37. STEERS STOLEN Two dressed steers. were stolen from the Abrahams slaughter house near Grass Valley some time Monday night. A truck was driven to the slaughter. house and the beeves loaded on it and carted away. Sheriff C. J. Tobiassen is investigating the case, There have been a series of these robberies throughout Northern California recently. our belief in a common future as a new people greater than ever the world has seen. We are—and never forget it—-a composite people. “In the depths of the titanic struggle across the water many attemps will be made to turn our minorities against one another, to turn all of them against. our leaders, and to destroy those slender bonds of the united will of a free people. : “Those who preach race a world at war are traitors t democracy.”’ NEW CCC CAMP FOR FOREST HILL Robert \Fechner director of the Civilian Conservation Corps, ‘has approved the construction of a new CCC camp at Forest Hill and build-. ing materials are now being delivered to the camp site by the office of C. I. Dennis, district quartermaster of the corps, at Sacramento. An attractive and convenient site has been selected just off the Baker ranch road about one half mile northeast of the town of Forest Hill, and with the construction of the latest type CCC buidings, this should be one of the most attractive and_ efficient camps in the state in the opinion of Tahoe national forest officials who are cooperating and. will have sup-: ervision over the conservation work to be done by the ‘CCC enrollees. E. E. Galvan, camp commander, has made a commendable record in camp mahagement at Bradley and Forbes camp in the vicinity of Forest Hill. Leon G. Johnson, project superintendent in .charge of the field work, started with the CCC program at its inception in 1933 as project superintendent on the Tahoe and was later assigned ‘to inspection work throughout the state for a period of approximately three years. Upon elimination of that position, he returned to Camp Bradley and Forbes as the project superintendent. The work program includes the construction of a considerable mileage of the truck trails for fire protection, telephone line work, range water development, stock trails, lookout house construction, and public camp ground development. One very important project will be reforestation of the area destroyed by the disastrous 1936 fire. The Forest Hill camp will be a year round camp and will replace Camp Bradley and _ Forbes. Previously, it has been necessary to move back and forth each _ year, Camp Bradley being the winter camp and Camp Forbes occupied during the summer. The work programs from the two camps. have been completed to the extent that there is considerable travel time involved and_ the new camp will be more centrally located besdes eliminating the loss of time involved in: two moves’ each year.* ICOUGHLAN RITES WILL BE HELD 10 A.M. TODAY Funeral services for the late Daniel J. Coughlan, lifetime resident of North Columbia who passed away at his home early Tuesday evening after an extended illness, will be held this morning at 10 o’clock at the Tyler Catholic church. Interment will be made in the Catholic cemetery in North San Juan. He was stricken several years ago and all attempts to effect a cure were in vain. Death came as he was surrounded by two sisters and six brothers in the same house in which he was born 62 years ago. He went to school in .the schoolhouse opposite his home and when

he finished started to work in the mines. Later he learned mill working and was employed in that capacity most of his active life. Surviving him are the following sisters and brothers: Miss Margaret Coughlan and ‘Mrs. May Campbell; Michael, James, Dennis, William, Francis and Supervisor J. C. Coughlan. Me 2 oeeare His, mother, Mrs. Ellen Coughlan, passed away a little more than a month ago. LADIES NIGHT AT ELKS Saturday night—ladies night—at the Elks Club will feature the famed buck stew of chef Fred Garrison, Sr. Arrangements are in charge of Bob Tamblyn, chairman of the entertainment committee, James Allen, has returned from a several month’s leave of absence and will return ‘to work as officer on the Nevada City police department. about the first of the month. Frank Misner has substituted for him while he was away. MRS. H. P. DAVIS TELLS ROTARY OF WAR EXPERIENCE The Rotary club yesterday listened with rapt attention to the story of Mrs. H. P. Davis, author of ‘The Year’s a Round Thing,” who described ther experience jin coming home across the Atlantic on a blacked-out Holland liner, sailing from Rotterdam and landing in Hoboken. During her recent visit abroad, Mrs, Davis first visited her daughter, son in law, and grandchildren in Amsterdam, then visited Tromso, a little town north of the Arctic Circle in Norway, where she was born and reared. In June she returned to Amsterdam and found that even then there was great fear of impending war. But for a few weeks, she said, Herr Hitler ceased his screaming, bawling and kicking over in Germany and the Dutch breathed freer for a time. In July, however, there was a recurrence of war alarms from across the border. The home of her daughter was provided with gas masks and other precautions were taken against air attacks, despite the fact that the Dutch are whole-heartedly and determinedly neitral, as are all the little countries bordering Germany. The third of September rolled around and on that day the family had declared a holiday and all were enroute to a bathing resort on the North Sea, when they learned quite casually from a Dutch acquaintance that war‘had begun at 11 o’clock that morning. The American consul in Amsterdam at.once notified all Am(Continued on Page Six) COUNTY SUPERVISORS CONDEMN HAM-EGGS Nevada county supervisors met in special session yesterday and during the day adopted the following resolution in regard to the Number One proposition on the ballot in the coming election on November 7. Resolved that ¢hey were opposed to Ham and Eggs proposition or No. 1 for the reason it would interfere with the proper functions of the county government. It would also stop payment on old age benefits aid to needy blind and orphans, and would cripple the schools. Signed, C. 8S. Arbogast, F. J. Rowe, Alex Robertson, J. E. Odell. Supervisor J. C. Coughlan was absent. TOM LEWIS IS CALLED TO REST Tom Lewis, aged about 51 years, passed away in his sleep sometime Wednesday night from a heart attack. He was found by relatives with whom he lived on the Tahoe Ukiah highway. Known for many kindly deeds and great love of flower culture the news of his sudden passing brought many an expression of sympathy to the bereaved. He leaves several relatives in the community. Although it is believed Lewis dfed of a heart attfck Coroner A. M. Holmes will perform an autopsy later. His daughter, Mrs. Helen Wulff of Alameda’ arrived Wednesday to attend the funeral services. tra ‘Costa county. Lewis came to Nevada City when a youth and attended the local schools. He left here for a number of years and returned eight years ago ‘to assist his sister in law, Mrs. Will Lewis, after the death of her husband. ‘ Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon in the chapel at Holmes Funeral Home. The body was taken to Clayton and interment will. be made in the family plot. _ Mr, and Mrs. Walter Butz motored to Sacramento early Thursday morning upon receiving a message Mrs. Butz’ mother, Mrs. Artz, had just died in the Sisters Hospital. She was also the mother of Mrs. Harold Hendricks formerly of this city and He was a native of Clayton, Con-. Mine Employment In County Totals 2924; Payroll $378,600 DREDGER SET UP ON SCOTT'S FLAT GRAVEL DEPOSIT George and Andres (Carey report that on Wednesday they saw a dredger in Scotts Flat on the huge gravel ‘deposit which it is believed is the Bloomfield channel. Workmen were doing preliminary work in getting the dredger settled for operation. It is stated two more dredgers will be brought in by the Oroville mining company which holds a three year ledse on the property. The ground was formerly owned by the InterCounty Land Company with ‘headquarters in Smartville, W. D. Allen, is the agent. It was stated yesterday that the negotiations have been handled by the Nevada Irrigation District under Manager W. Durbrow. The channel is rich in gold and several fortunes were taken out in hydraulic operations in early days. According to a local engineer the gravel channel, exposed at this site, is about 300 feet deep. A considerable sum was spent in trying to hydraulic the gravel five years ago but satisfactory recoveries were never made. Sixty years ago Ramos Laird of Washington, tried to find bedrock and mine the gravel but under early day methods he was unable to control the water. It proved impossible to sink a shaft. If the operations succeed it is stated there will be enough gold recovered to partly pay for the erection of the new dam planned by the Nevada Irrigation District. The gravel deposit is between the present dam and proposed new dam. LAVA CAP MINE Otto E. Schiffner, superintendent of the Lava Cap Mines, stated yesterday a pilot cyanide plant.is being built below the mill, It will be used to determine if it is practical to construct a large cyanide plant to treat the ore. The mill and new pilot plant are at the Central Shaft. The Banner shaft is being sunk to the sixth level. The sinking program will be completed by January 1 and crews will start drifting on the vein. Enough steel has been purchased by Mr. Schiffner to last the mine a year. The company will be protected“from higher prices for this much needed ‘material if war affects it. GREEN MOUNTAIN MINE. The small mill at the Green Mountain mine is treating 24. tons of ore per day. The vein is abet four feet in width where development has been done, Some mining is being done and considerable ore left from previous operations is _ being put through the mill. is running between $7.00 and Be 0 per ton. The property adjoins the Murchie mine on the east and lies along Deer Creek for some distance. Jim Kistle and two brothers, Everett and Albert Jr., father and uncle, Albert, Sr., and Chas. Kistle and Charles Hoskins, all local men, are working the property. DOWNIEVILLE ROAD TOUR IS POSTPONED It was announced yesterday by H. of commerce, that the visit of two members of the State Highway Commission to Downieville, scheduled for day, November 4. missioners who wish to make a personal tour over the “road of thousand curves,” also known ; as_ the “Mae West” road, are Hiner Chas. Kitts who resides at F, Sofge, secretary of the chamber. today, has been postponed untfl Fri-} ‘The two com-. The October reviéw of mining employment throughout the county, asurvey made each month by the Nevada City Nugget, reveals that employment has increased. Dredger operations at Scott’s Flat begun recently, and details of which will be found in another column, resumption of work in the Green Mountain, Liberty, Mary Jane and“Hot Water quartz properties and in other mines have added notably to county mining employment to make a total of 2,524 men employed. The payroll now stands $378,600 monthly as against $373,050 in September. : Zeibright is now employing twenty more miners than last month. Murchie mine now employs but forty men. Lava Cap'has increased its working forces to 275, against 250 last month. Boundary mine now employs but two men. Despite rains and a more abundant water supply, placer operations have increased but little, though the prospect is good for further deyelopment of gravel deposits. : Following are reports from various mining properties: GREYSTONE PROPERTY Three men are employed at the Grgystone mine in the Washington . district. Supplies have been taken in for the winter and development will continue throughout the cold stormy months. Portland, Ore. interests took over the property this spring. A 50 ton ball mill is being installed at the Arrowhead mine in the Greenhorn district southeast of Nevada City. It is expected the mill will be in operation about November 1. J. L. Nielsen, mining man of Grass Valley, leased the property from Town Talk south of Nevada City. Three men are employed. ATLAS DREDGING COMPANY H. J. Ackley is superintendent of the Atlas Dredging company. Gravel (Continued On Page Five) No. LODE MINES Men _— Payroll Newmont PMODIGG © oe cs eck ve en 410 $61,500 Worth Sterio oS 266 Pennsylvania ...... 111 ZOMTIght 5605.5. 183 BRUT ORIG oc 40 ig Idaho-Maryland New Brunswick » ee 320 42,550 a os gear ae PRR DS ESS 79,500 Bullion 6,300 Lava Cap Banner— i: Montreal 355255 ee 276 41,250 Bradley z Spanish .64.5).059 car 15 2,250 Golden Center .... 115 = 17,250 Spring “Hill .2.0.205. 140.8 Great Northern .... 22 Stockton Hill ..... 10 Keller Ancho-Erie Williams Boundary Jim Giant King Greystone Arrowhead Sunflower Green Mountain see eee ene enwmewee Innes Dreg. Co, TOW FG oes Yuba Gold Snyd. ....10 Greenhorn .......,. Dawson Optimo on ene ncenenseowne has visited here on several occasions. son and L G. paieaicinwe 4