September 1, 1941 (4 pages)

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1941. NEVADA CITY NUGGET No Trespassing, For Rent, Roun for Rent and For Sale Placards on Sale At The Nugget Office. LO JAPANESE PROUD State Fair Script Books FOR SALE $5.00 Book for $2.50 SUPPLY LIMITED GET YOURS EARLY NEVADA CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE H. FE. SOFGE, Secretary LINOLEUM REMNANTS At a price JENSEN & THOMAS FURNITURE COMPANY 256 S. Auburn St., Grass Valley HOOPER & WEAVER MORTUARY, INC. 246 So. Church Street Grass Valley Phone 364 24-hour Ambulance Service Nevada City . Laundry QUALITY WORK SKILLFULLY DONE BY HAND Prompt Courteous Service Free Delivery All our work {is priced right, Phone 577 241°Commercial St. Nevada City FINE ¢ WATCH REPAIRING Radio Service & Repairing Work Called for and Delivered Clarence R. Gray 520 Coyote Street a Phone 152 MEAT is one of our most valuable foods DAVE RICHARDS, Prop. 218 Commercial Street Phone 67 Nevada City @ We supply our patrons with the meat from the best cattle, sheep and hogs that money can buy. We have built our reputation on service and quality and reasonable prices. Ask your neighbors about us. They will tell you. OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP . . SACRAMENTO, Sept. 1.—There ‘can be but one answer to the pres-. ently existing strained relations be-. tween the United States and Japan' for diminutive Frank Tomahelo Seto. . That answer is. ‘I am an Ameri“ean.” Seto, a professional fighter, re-' ‘eently appeared before a local ag } ive service board at Torrance, California, with the request that he be inducted into the armed forces of the United States at the earliest possible moment, He was examined the same day, and, passing the exgmination; was inducted August 20. Indicative of the fact that perhaps . Americanism is gauged not by .race or by creed, but by patriotic deeds . done, is the story of Frank Tomoheko Seto. According to the letter, written by Carl D. Steele, chairman of local SAFE. AND LOCKSMITH Keys Made While You Wait Bicycles, Steel Tapes, Vacuum (‘leaners, Washing Machines, Electric Irons, Stoves, Etc. Repaired. SAWS, AXES, KNIVES, SCISSORS, ETC., SHARPENED Gunsmith, Light Welding -RAY’S FIXIT SHOP 1409) West Main St., Phone 602 GRASS VALLEY 4 — If it’s soiled, we clean it. If you need a new one we supply it. Ed Burtner GRASS VALLEY CLEANERS 111 Main Street, Phone 375 Grass Valley Portree terre eer ee etseeesey » $ YOU WILL BE PLEASED t WITH OUR COFFEE SHOP b NATIONAL HOTEL AND COFFEE SHOP NEVADA CITY ‘CALIFORNIA . Bedding Plants Roses, Shrubs, etc. Largest selection in this district. Prize Dahlia Bulbs. Gold Fish, Canaries and Pet supplies. Garden Sprays and Plant Foods. Hills Flat Bird Store Grass Valley NEVADA CITY ASSAY Paras Practical mining tests from 75 to 1000 pounds, giving the free gold percentages of sulphurets, value of sulphurets and tailings. Mail order check work promptly attended to. . Assays made for gold, Agent for New York-California Underwriters, Westchester and Delaware Underwriters Insurance Companies. _Automobile Insurance BUM OTT «6 > 5 4 AND REFINING OFFICE silver, lead and copper. jcedar timber, No bid of . Mining selective service board 280, Seto’s two point claim to fame is a pride fin his prize fighting prowess and in the fact that he is an American. The letter reads: “At the Hollywood Legion Stadium last Friday evening, a boy named Frankie Seto crawled through the ropes to do battle. He took a licking. He had a skin, the build, the flat features and the eyes of 4 Japanese. Racially he is a Japanese. Yet, as he again crawled through. the ropes, this time battered and bleeding, across the back of his robe was to be seen the embroidered motLEGAL NOTICES NATIONAL FORFST TIMBER FOR SALE Sealed bids will be received by the Forest Supervisor, Nevada City, Califovria un to and ineliding October 1. $941, for all ot o> oat ne eh live merchantable timber mar'ed 0” designated for cutting and all thmerchantable dead timber, loca*ed on an area embracing about 1,000 acres of National Forest land in of Sections: 7, 8; 13,.17, 18, and 19; T. 19 N., R. 8 E., M.D.M., Tahoe National Forest, Ca‘ifornia, estimated to be 5,000 M. feet b. m., more or less, of sugar pine, ponderosa p‘ne Douglas fir ,white fire, and incense less than. $2.25 per M feet for sugar pine. $1.75 per M feet for ponderosa pine. $1.00 per M feet for Douglas fir. $.75 per M feet for incense cedar, and $.50 per M feet ‘for white fir. will be conhsidered. In addition to such stumpage payments, the purchaser will ‘be required to make deposits for the stand improvement of this area at the rate of 50 cents per M feet for all timber cut and scaled from said area. $500.00 must e deposited with each bid to be = applied on the purchase price, refinded or retained in part as liauidated d>™ages according to conditions 9% sa’e. The right to reject any and all bids is reserved. Before bids are submitted, full information concerning the timber, the conditions of sale and the submission of bidse, should be obtained from the Forest Supervisor, Nevada City, California. ~ Sept. 1-15. +e narts UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, GENERAL LAND OFFICE, DISTRICT LAND OFFICE AT SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA. MINERAL APPLICATION NO. 033504 i July 18, 1941. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Empire Star Mines Company, Limited, by its attorney in fact, William A, Simkins, whose postoffice address is Grass Valley, California, has made application for patent tor three (3) mining claims, the N. No. 1 and the N. No. 2. piacer= mining claims and the Mawwee quartz mining claim, situate in the Willow Valley Mining District, Nevada County, California, .and more _ particularly described as follows, to wit: (1) MAWWEE QUARTZ MINING CLAIM, described as follows: Commencing at Corner No. 1, from which the quarter section corner common o Sections 7 and 8, in Township 16 North, of Range 9 East, Mount Diabla Base and Meridian, bears South 1° 29’ East 436.37 feet; thence North 1° 34’ 25” West 600 feet to corner No. 2, thence South 88° 43’ West 1324.00 feet to corner No. 3; thence South 1° 34’ 25” East 600 feet to corner No, 4; thence North 88° 43’ East 1324 feet to corner No. 1, the place of beginning. (2). N. No. 1 PLACER MINING CLAIM, consisting of the East half of the Southeast quarter of the Northeast quarter of Section 7, in Township 16, North, of Range 9 East, Mount Diablo Base and Meridian; EXCEPTING THEREFROM those portions of said claim in conflict with the Mawwee Quartz Mining Claim. The lands adjoining this claim on the North, East and South are patented and the lands adjoining. this claim on the West are unpatented. (3) N. NO. 2 PLACER MINING CLAIM, consisting of the West’ half of the Southeast quarter of the Northeast quarter of Section 7, in Township 16 North, of Range 9 East, Mount Diablo ‘Base and Meridian; EXCEPTING THEREFROM those portions of said claim in conflict with the Mawee Quartz Mining Claim. The lands adjoining this claim on the North, South and West are patented and the lands adjoining on the East are unpatented. The conflict with the Southwest quarter of the Northeast quarter (or lot 6) in Section 7, Township 16 North, of Range 9 East, M. D. B. & M., and the conflict with the Southwest quarter of the Northwest quarter of Section 8, Township 16 North, Range 9 East, M. D. B. & M., is expressly excluded from this application. That the loeation notice for the Mawwee Quartz Mining Claim is recorded: in Book ‘'32”’ of Mining Claims at pages 363, that the location notice for the N. No. 1 Placer Mining Claim is recorded m Book ‘29’’ of Mining Claims at page 227, that the location notice for the N. No. 2 Placer Mining Claim is recorded in (Book “29” of Mining Claims at. page 228, and that the amended location notice for the-N, No. 2 Placer Mining Claim is revorded in Book “31” of Mining Claims at page 429, the amended location notice of the N. No. 1 Placer Claim is recorded in Book “33” of Mining Claims, at page 137, and the second amended location notice of thé N. No. 2 Placer Mining Claim is recorded in Book ‘33” of Mining Claims at page 138, Records of Nevada County, California. There are no other conflicting claims. Ellis Purlee, Register. Date of First Publication 1941., : July 21, Proprietor ei ct RSAC AAA NEES EE TOT . Date of Last Publication: ber 22, 1941. Septem-. a en — ‘ FORD COMPLETES FIRST PLASTIC AUTO BODY . Henry Ford’s intensive effort to agriculture into pattnership too ward with the completion at D August 13 of the world’s first body. Mr. Ford is shown here Robert A. Boyer, Ford Motor chemist in charge of plastic development. Several months earlier the pioneer automobile manufacturer bring Industry and k a long step forearborn,' Mich., on plastic automobile with the car and scruce pulp. The Company research a produciion scale promised that someday he would “grow an automobile from the soil.” The plastic panels used in this body design have an impact st-cngth 10 times greater than steel. They were made from such ordinary farm crops as wheat, flax, raimi, hemp and company emphasized that the plastic body is still in an experimental stage and that substitution for the conventicnal steel body on may take months. to: “I am an American.” Seto wore that robe with shoulders squared, even though he had just . been licked. He couldn’t do other-. wise, that little fellow, not with that! robe which he proudly displayed that “T am an American.”’ j Seto is now attached to one of the United States army trai camps located in Souhern California where he is now training to be a soldier. He is training for the regimental bouis on which occasions he still wears the . robe bearing the motto, “IJ am an Am-, erican.”’ y . . Visiting In Oakland— Mr. and Mrs, Charles Ninnis are visiting friends and relatives in Oak. ; land for a short while. Visitors From Bryte— Mr. and Mrs. Ed Clunes and Geo. Jones all of Bryte, Yolo County, . FALL FASHIONS RISLEY’S Dresses, Hats, Hosiery, Slips, Blouses, Sweaters, Skirts, Belts, Formals, Costume Jewelry, Tre Lur and Beautee-tit Bras, Cleaning, Pressing, Tailoring 106 N. Pine Street, Nevada City were weekend guests of Mrs. Rose Jones of this city, Ed Clunes and George Jones are sons of Mrs. Jones. . TRAILEREVAGAROND By WARREN BAYLEY TRAVEL be VAGABOND— Golden, British Columbia,Canada. This is the birth place of the mighty Columbia River. . Making a mild start from Colum-, bia Lake, in the western foothills, , of the Canadian Rockies, its waters . are roaring within a hundred miles. They remain a surging torrent until they pour into the Pacific, after a tortuous, thouasnd mile journey. Shunning a 100-mile short-cut} south to the U. S. border, the river . heads north past Golden to make a . 200-mile swing around the _ Big! Bend, This dangerous curve of swift . white water was for years the only means of travel between Golden and Revelstoke, actually separated by a) . mere 70-mile stretch of nearly impassable Glacier National Park. . Gathering weight and momentum from many joining streams, the Columbia sweeps through the narrow, treacherous Rock Slide canyon at a noisy thrashing, 20-mile an hour, clip: It twists a full 460 miles} through British Columbia before thundering into the U. S.and on to the sea. Golden is a jumping off place to Canada’s Glacier National Park, to the west. Half a dozen other National Parks are within striking distance, of this pleasant little mining and lumber town, as most of Canada’s 35,00 square miles of parks lfe~in and around the rugged Rockies. A colony of Swiss guides lives here on the western edge of town in a pictruesque replica of a Swiss village, named ‘“Edelweiss.’’ Guides are usually needed for a_ trek through Glacier’s 468 square miles of 11,000 foot peaks,, gleaming ice-fields and Alpine meadows. Golden ac‘ruired its name from the early history—the vold rush era of 1866. Prospectors flocked hee for the gold that lay openly in the river’ bed and on the sand bars o* the Big Bend. Short lived, the boom collapsed a year later when the go'’d supply dwindled. June of 1940 saw‘the opening of a much needed road between here and Revelstoke ‘folowing the tyurbnlent Colombia uv and throuch the deen canvons. of the Big Bend, A welvams ‘an +o the Naminion’s 13.0.0C0 miles of surfaced high-. aaaty wavs. this rew road completed. the! "rst and anlv Al-Canadian antomo-. hile rote from.the Pacifie to the! Great Lakes from where it is ex-. nected to soon continue on to the . Atlantic. . We fol'owed this new Big Bend} highway today through some of the. ° most impressive of Canada’s million! sauare miles of timbered land. The} roar of the river was constant land) marks little changed from the day . David Thompson, great geographer . of western Canada, first saw them in . 1807. Gone from the river are the) chants of the early-day voyagers, but . their render7vous is still there at the . top of Big Bend's curve—Boat En-. campment, where boatmen used to} pull up for a rest and camp. fire . chats. : The surrounding canyon walls are . furrowed by countless streams whose . small trickles add‘ their quota of} power to the mighty Columbia River . and eventually help spin the gigantic . generators at Grand Coulee and the Bonneville Dams down in our own) U. S.A. : . Get them started right 7 with good that mean better marks. See our complete assortment of School Needs for students of 2ll ages, New improved type notebooks, binders, fountain pens, ete, Our prices are RIG 5 R. F. HARRIS oar Phone 100 DRUG STORE . New Deal Under Management of Pauline and Johnnie 108 W. Main. Street, Grass Valley BEER WINES, LIQUORS Delicious Mixed Drinks to Please Kvery Taste Prepare Now For The U. S. Civil Service Examinations Mount St. Mary's Business School, conducted by the Sisters of Mercy, . offers a complete secretarial course in ten months. Open to high schoo! graduates, junior college and college students only. Registration, August 14, 1941 Classes Start, August 18, 1941. Grass Valley, Calif. materials . ? WHEN FATHER IS KING in the home MOTHER is QUEEN t the Queen may be ree family drudgery and reign appiness the King sends all the washing to In o} lieve ‘Page Three ee

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1941. NEVADA CITY NUGGET No Trespassing, For Rent, Roun for Rent and For Sale Placards on Sale At The Nugget Office. LO JAPANESE PROUD State Fair Script Books FOR SALE $5.00 Book for $2.50 SUPPLY LIMITED GET YOURS EARLY NEVADA CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE H. FE. SOFGE, Secretary LINOLEUM REMNANTS At a price JENSEN & THOMAS FURNITURE COMPANY 256 S. Auburn St., Grass Valley HOOPER & WEAVER MORTUARY, INC. 246 So. Church Street Grass Valley Phone 364 24-hour Ambulance Service Nevada City . Laundry QUALITY WORK SKILLFULLY DONE BY HAND Prompt Courteous Service Free Delivery All our work {is priced right, Phone 577 241°Commercial St. Nevada City FINE ¢ WATCH REPAIRING Radio Service & Repairing Work Called for and Delivered Clarence R. Gray 520 Coyote Street a Phone 152 MEAT is one of our most valuable foods DAVE RICHARDS, Prop. 218 Commercial Street Phone 67 Nevada City @ We supply our patrons with the meat from the best cattle, sheep and hogs that money can buy. We have built our reputation on service and quality and reasonable prices. Ask your neighbors about us. They will tell you. OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP . . SACRAMENTO, Sept. 1.—There ‘can be but one answer to the pres-. ently existing strained relations be-. tween the United States and Japan' for diminutive Frank Tomahelo Seto. . That answer is. ‘I am an Ameri“ean.” Seto, a professional fighter, re-' ‘eently appeared before a local ag } ive service board at Torrance, California, with the request that he be inducted into the armed forces of the United States at the earliest possible moment, He was examined the same day, and, passing the exgmination; was inducted August 20. Indicative of the fact that perhaps . Americanism is gauged not by .race or by creed, but by patriotic deeds . done, is the story of Frank Tomoheko Seto. According to the letter, written by Carl D. Steele, chairman of local SAFE. AND LOCKSMITH Keys Made While You Wait Bicycles, Steel Tapes, Vacuum (‘leaners, Washing Machines, Electric Irons, Stoves, Etc. Repaired. SAWS, AXES, KNIVES, SCISSORS, ETC., SHARPENED Gunsmith, Light Welding -RAY’S FIXIT SHOP 1409) West Main St., Phone 602 GRASS VALLEY 4 — If it’s soiled, we clean it. If you need a new one we supply it. Ed Burtner GRASS VALLEY CLEANERS 111 Main Street, Phone 375 Grass Valley Portree terre eer ee etseeesey » $ YOU WILL BE PLEASED t WITH OUR COFFEE SHOP b NATIONAL HOTEL AND COFFEE SHOP NEVADA CITY ‘CALIFORNIA . Bedding Plants Roses, Shrubs, etc. Largest selection in this district. Prize Dahlia Bulbs. Gold Fish, Canaries and Pet supplies. Garden Sprays and Plant Foods. Hills Flat Bird Store Grass Valley NEVADA CITY ASSAY Paras Practical mining tests from 75 to 1000 pounds, giving the free gold percentages of sulphurets, value of sulphurets and tailings. Mail order check work promptly attended to. . Assays made for gold, Agent for New York-California Underwriters, Westchester and Delaware Underwriters Insurance Companies. _Automobile Insurance BUM OTT «6 > 5 4 AND REFINING OFFICE silver, lead and copper. jcedar timber, No bid of . Mining selective service board 280, Seto’s two point claim to fame is a pride fin his prize fighting prowess and in the fact that he is an American. The letter reads: “At the Hollywood Legion Stadium last Friday evening, a boy named Frankie Seto crawled through the ropes to do battle. He took a licking. He had a skin, the build, the flat features and the eyes of 4 Japanese. Racially he is a Japanese. Yet, as he again crawled through. the ropes, this time battered and bleeding, across the back of his robe was to be seen the embroidered motLEGAL NOTICES NATIONAL FORFST TIMBER FOR SALE Sealed bids will be received by the Forest Supervisor, Nevada City, Califovria un to and ineliding October 1. $941, for all ot o> oat ne eh live merchantable timber mar'ed 0” designated for cutting and all thmerchantable dead timber, loca*ed on an area embracing about 1,000 acres of National Forest land in of Sections: 7, 8; 13,.17, 18, and 19; T. 19 N., R. 8 E., M.D.M., Tahoe National Forest, Ca‘ifornia, estimated to be 5,000 M. feet b. m., more or less, of sugar pine, ponderosa p‘ne Douglas fir ,white fire, and incense less than. $2.25 per M feet for sugar pine. $1.75 per M feet for ponderosa pine. $1.00 per M feet for Douglas fir. $.75 per M feet for incense cedar, and $.50 per M feet ‘for white fir. will be conhsidered. In addition to such stumpage payments, the purchaser will ‘be required to make deposits for the stand improvement of this area at the rate of 50 cents per M feet for all timber cut and scaled from said area. $500.00 must e deposited with each bid to be = applied on the purchase price, refinded or retained in part as liauidated d>™ages according to conditions 9% sa’e. The right to reject any and all bids is reserved. Before bids are submitted, full information concerning the timber, the conditions of sale and the submission of bidse, should be obtained from the Forest Supervisor, Nevada City, California. ~ Sept. 1-15. +e narts UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, GENERAL LAND OFFICE, DISTRICT LAND OFFICE AT SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA. MINERAL APPLICATION NO. 033504 i July 18, 1941. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Empire Star Mines Company, Limited, by its attorney in fact, William A, Simkins, whose postoffice address is Grass Valley, California, has made application for patent tor three (3) mining claims, the N. No. 1 and the N. No. 2. piacer= mining claims and the Mawwee quartz mining claim, situate in the Willow Valley Mining District, Nevada County, California, .and more _ particularly described as follows, to wit: (1) MAWWEE QUARTZ MINING CLAIM, described as follows: Commencing at Corner No. 1, from which the quarter section corner common o Sections 7 and 8, in Township 16 North, of Range 9 East, Mount Diabla Base and Meridian, bears South 1° 29’ East 436.37 feet; thence North 1° 34’ 25” West 600 feet to corner No. 2, thence South 88° 43’ West 1324.00 feet to corner No. 3; thence South 1° 34’ 25” East 600 feet to corner No, 4; thence North 88° 43’ East 1324 feet to corner No. 1, the place of beginning. (2). N. No. 1 PLACER MINING CLAIM, consisting of the East half of the Southeast quarter of the Northeast quarter of Section 7, in Township 16, North, of Range 9 East, Mount Diablo Base and Meridian; EXCEPTING THEREFROM those portions of said claim in conflict with the Mawwee Quartz Mining Claim. The lands adjoining this claim on the North, East and South are patented and the lands adjoining. this claim on the West are unpatented. (3) N. NO. 2 PLACER MINING CLAIM, consisting of the West’ half of the Southeast quarter of the Northeast quarter of Section 7, in Township 16 North, of Range 9 East, Mount Diablo ‘Base and Meridian; EXCEPTING THEREFROM those portions of said claim in conflict with the Mawee Quartz Mining Claim.

The lands adjoining this claim on the North, South and West are patented and the lands adjoining on the East are unpatented. The conflict with the Southwest quarter of the Northeast quarter (or lot 6) in Section 7, Township 16 North, of Range 9 East, M. D. B. & M., and the conflict with the Southwest quarter of the Northwest quarter of Section 8, Township 16 North, Range 9 East, M. D. B. & M., is expressly excluded from this application. That the loeation notice for the Mawwee Quartz Mining Claim is recorded: in Book ‘'32”’ of Mining Claims at pages 363, that the location notice for the N. No. 1 Placer Mining Claim is recorded m Book ‘29’’ of Mining Claims at page 227, that the location notice for the N. No. 2 Placer Mining Claim is recorded in (Book “29” of Mining Claims at. page 228, and that the amended location notice for the-N, No. 2 Placer Mining Claim is revorded in Book “31” of Mining Claims at page 429, the amended location notice of the N. No. 1 Placer Claim is recorded in Book “33” of Mining Claims, at page 137, and the second amended location notice of thé N. No. 2 Placer Mining Claim is recorded in Book ‘33” of Mining Claims at page 138, Records of Nevada County, California. There are no other conflicting claims. Ellis Purlee, Register. Date of First Publication 1941., : July 21, Proprietor ei ct RSAC AAA NEES EE TOT . Date of Last Publication: ber 22, 1941. Septem-. a en — ‘ FORD COMPLETES FIRST PLASTIC AUTO BODY . Henry Ford’s intensive effort to agriculture into pattnership too ward with the completion at D August 13 of the world’s first body. Mr. Ford is shown here Robert A. Boyer, Ford Motor chemist in charge of plastic development. Several months earlier the pioneer automobile manufacturer bring Industry and k a long step forearborn,' Mich., on plastic automobile with the car and scruce pulp. The Company research a produciion scale promised that someday he would “grow an automobile from the soil.” The plastic panels used in this body design have an impact st-cngth 10 times greater than steel. They were made from such ordinary farm crops as wheat, flax, raimi, hemp and company emphasized that the plastic body is still in an experimental stage and that substitution for the conventicnal steel body on may take months. to: “I am an American.” Seto wore that robe with shoulders squared, even though he had just . been licked. He couldn’t do other-. wise, that little fellow, not with that! robe which he proudly displayed that “T am an American.”’ j Seto is now attached to one of the United States army trai camps located in Souhern California where he is now training to be a soldier. He is training for the regimental bouis on which occasions he still wears the . robe bearing the motto, “IJ am an Am-, erican.”’ y . . Visiting In Oakland— Mr. and Mrs, Charles Ninnis are visiting friends and relatives in Oak. ; land for a short while. Visitors From Bryte— Mr. and Mrs. Ed Clunes and Geo. Jones all of Bryte, Yolo County, . FALL FASHIONS RISLEY’S Dresses, Hats, Hosiery, Slips, Blouses, Sweaters, Skirts, Belts, Formals, Costume Jewelry, Tre Lur and Beautee-tit Bras, Cleaning, Pressing, Tailoring 106 N. Pine Street, Nevada City were weekend guests of Mrs. Rose Jones of this city, Ed Clunes and George Jones are sons of Mrs. Jones. . TRAILEREVAGAROND By WARREN BAYLEY TRAVEL be VAGABOND— Golden, British Columbia,Canada. This is the birth place of the mighty Columbia River. . Making a mild start from Colum-, bia Lake, in the western foothills, , of the Canadian Rockies, its waters . are roaring within a hundred miles. They remain a surging torrent until they pour into the Pacific, after a tortuous, thouasnd mile journey. Shunning a 100-mile short-cut} south to the U. S. border, the river . heads north past Golden to make a . 200-mile swing around the _ Big! Bend, This dangerous curve of swift . white water was for years the only means of travel between Golden and Revelstoke, actually separated by a) . mere 70-mile stretch of nearly impassable Glacier National Park. . Gathering weight and momentum from many joining streams, the Columbia sweeps through the narrow, treacherous Rock Slide canyon at a noisy thrashing, 20-mile an hour, clip: It twists a full 460 miles} through British Columbia before thundering into the U. S.and on to the sea. Golden is a jumping off place to Canada’s Glacier National Park, to the west. Half a dozen other National Parks are within striking distance, of this pleasant little mining and lumber town, as most of Canada’s 35,00 square miles of parks lfe~in and around the rugged Rockies. A colony of Swiss guides lives here on the western edge of town in a pictruesque replica of a Swiss village, named ‘“Edelweiss.’’ Guides are usually needed for a_ trek through Glacier’s 468 square miles of 11,000 foot peaks,, gleaming ice-fields and Alpine meadows. Golden ac‘ruired its name from the early history—the vold rush era of 1866. Prospectors flocked hee for the gold that lay openly in the river’ bed and on the sand bars o* the Big Bend. Short lived, the boom collapsed a year later when the go'’d supply dwindled. June of 1940 saw‘the opening of a much needed road between here and Revelstoke ‘folowing the tyurbnlent Colombia uv and throuch the deen canvons. of the Big Bend, A welvams ‘an +o the Naminion’s 13.0.0C0 miles of surfaced high-. aaaty wavs. this rew road completed. the! "rst and anlv Al-Canadian antomo-. hile rote from.the Pacifie to the! Great Lakes from where it is ex-. nected to soon continue on to the . Atlantic. . We fol'owed this new Big Bend} highway today through some of the. ° most impressive of Canada’s million! sauare miles of timbered land. The} roar of the river was constant land) marks little changed from the day . David Thompson, great geographer . of western Canada, first saw them in . 1807. Gone from the river are the) chants of the early-day voyagers, but . their render7vous is still there at the . top of Big Bend's curve—Boat En-. campment, where boatmen used to} pull up for a rest and camp. fire . chats. : The surrounding canyon walls are . furrowed by countless streams whose . small trickles add‘ their quota of} power to the mighty Columbia River . and eventually help spin the gigantic . generators at Grand Coulee and the Bonneville Dams down in our own) U. S.A. : . Get them started right 7 with good that mean better marks. See our complete assortment of School Needs for students of 2ll ages, New improved type notebooks, binders, fountain pens, ete, Our prices are RIG 5 R. F. HARRIS oar Phone 100 DRUG STORE . New Deal Under Management of Pauline and Johnnie 108 W. Main. Street, Grass Valley BEER WINES, LIQUORS Delicious Mixed Drinks to Please Kvery Taste Prepare Now For The U. S. Civil Service Examinations Mount St. Mary's Business School, conducted by the Sisters of Mercy, . offers a complete secretarial course in ten months. Open to high schoo! graduates, junior college and college students only. Registration, August 14, 1941 Classes Start, August 18, 1941. Grass Valley, Calif. materials . ? WHEN FATHER IS KING in the home MOTHER is QUEEN t the Queen may be ree family drudgery and reign appiness the King sends all the washing to In o} lieve ‘Page Three ee