September 25, 1933 (4 pages)

~~ ee ONLY “ Hometown scribe for it? This is Nevada City’s Newspaper. It supports things . worth while. Do you sub— Nevada City Nugge Nevada City Nugget is a Member of the United Press And California ia Publishers Association t bal eben Your Hiesitas Newspaper helps build your; advertisers make it a. ‘good builder. Vol. VII, No. 94 The®ounty Seat Paper ' NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The GOLD Center “MONDAY, SEPT. 25, 1933. Chamber Asks Better Road To Downieville, The Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce, carrying into action, highway matters discussed at the dinner at Sierra City during the goodwill tour made in Sierra county by Nevada ’ City and Grass Valley business men, has addressed the following letter to Charles H. Whitmore, District ‘highway -engnieer for this . section whose headquarters. are in Marysville: Dear Mr. Whitmore: sie A’ good-will tour has just been completed by the business men -of Grass Valley and Nevada City and the County Supervisors and Superior Judge of Nevada county, to the yarious towns in Sierra county, as a result. of which the various groups in both counties have determined upon highway. work which today deem essential to the welfare of both counties and to the safety of the tourists. LOSS OF LIFE It is realized, of course, that the department has serious road _problems in every territory throughout the State of California, all of which must be solyed—and it is not the intention to expect a vast amount ef work on this region at the unnecesSary expense of other parts of California. However, there is a definite amount of work on the Nevada CityDownieville highway which must be done if the annually increasing loss of life on this highway and the throttling of Sierra counties mining and tourist possibilities are to be preventFrom Nevada. City to the edge ol the canyon of: the South Fork of the Yuba ‘River there are many shary curves which can weil be eliminated. Dropping into the canyon and back out on the San Juan’ Ridge side are many sharp. iturns.-and narrow stretches that are hazardous and should be corrected this. winter. From just past North San Juan to the Middle Fork of the Yuba River &® number of bad turns ean readily be eliminated. But, from the Middle Fork of the Yuba River over the Camptonville Ridge and down Depot Hill Grade into the canyon -of the North Fork of the Yuba River there are dozens of sharp narrow and serious injury to motorists. This Situation -is aggravated by the faci that Camptonville School District operates all summer and the lives of the school children, who must daily travel this section in the school bus should not be subjected to these unRECcessary hazards. . PRAISE” FOR aie GARRISON This-“Chamber also desires to express its. appreciation of the excellent work done@\by the highway maintenance engineer, Mr. despite Fred Garrison, decreasing maintaining the Wid funds -is surfacing of all the MRS. KITTY KIMBALL ~~ BUYS HOME IN NEV. CITY Mrs. Kitty owner of and quartz mine has purchased a house and lot joining Mr. Ed Schmidt's "home. had the old. hous building inka president and part Placer the Reliance above Alleghany, adShe Sse torn down and is story anda half nOW with Kimball her lived husband married, this they to in when later city were first moving ay district, Her in an auto bus accident about two years ago. Nevada City is pleased to welcome Mrs. Kimball into its conimunity life. husband perished 2 SCOUT COMMITTEE To MEET THIS EVENING The monthly meeting of the Nevada City district Seout Committee will be held this evening Chamber of Commerce. Plans for the coming year willbe discussed and, all members are urged to attend. in the FINDS NUGGET “NEAR KESWICK W. H. Moffitt last week exhibited a nugget worth $3.82 taken for:the North Star gravel mine-at Flat Creek four miles from Keswick, The North Star gravel mine is being worked by Fuaston and Moffitt, partners. John Tognarelli, local sportsmen, déilled a wad Point buck last week, turns . _ that each year cause the loss of life the} } . roads under his jurisdiction in excellent order. The improvement is most notable. We also commend highly the oiling of the new Downieville-Sattley highway and the plans to keep this vital traffic artery open all winter. Thos. Cook and Son—Wagons-Lits Ine., the great international travel and tourist agency has just completed an astonishingly successful experimental-tour through this section and as a result plan to run regular tours from the San Francisco bay districct up through Grass Valley and Nevada City to the Downieville and Sierra highly the improvement is most. nohope the work outlined above will be completed before next spring so that this wonderful opportunity. for Nevada county and Sierra county to profit by the world wide advertisement of its outstanding scenic and historic assets will not be prevented because of the narrowness and sharp turns on: the Nevada City-DownieviHe highway. Yours very truly, Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce E. R. BURTNER President. WHITE PALACES, NEGRO SLUMS IN WASHINGTON D.C WASHINGTON, De C. Sept. 25— (UP)—Washington, D. C., is the melting pot of the nation. It’s also a city of strange contrasts. The mansions: of the diplomats and of the “400 present one picture. Quite a “different picture is to seen in those sections of the city where -Washington’s negro population lives. It‘is reported that there are more than 275,000 negroes living in Washington. I have walked many a milé through these negro residential’ sections. In using the word “residential’ I am trying to be literal. For sheer squaldidness and abject poverty, I have never like it anywhere else; St. Louis, Philadelphia, New Orleans, American city seen anything in York, large not even New or_in anyother where teneme nt conditions prevail. Only one other city Baltimore, presents somewhat the same dismal picture of human beings living like rats that one sees in Washington, our fair tinue capitol city. to live under Carnot How they conthose conditions surmise. Where there’s life there’s hope, the old saying goes, and perhaps that’s the answer. one even Take hot, any one of those steaming humidity-depressed, sweltering, alive, weltering, burn-you-upWashington are blistering, typical There plenty can’t miss out. schedules them the. whole summer, mer, ~ summer of them. The weather regularly for for sumnights. You man every of those through You'll see On one nights start walk-' ing the, districts. won't forget Squalid dumps of: to be exact, nHeLTO a sight you time. shacks, and rows of then, .of them, a long houses for or rows blocks and blocks the other, all knocked no one against * windews half no wlike, out, screens, the. doors flowers, of gone, no of the al] the world &rass, no kind, entrances sidewalks—it looks for like No Man’s Land. The why. someone hasn't worked out a plan whereby the Federal could step in and clean out tenement districts in large cities, replacing them with modern facilities where human beings could live decently, Think of the amount. of good it would do. Think of the amount of work it. would provide. Think of the amount_of lumber,-steel all other. necessafy would. provide. i Think of the amount of food that would be required to fill the dinner pails of those who did the work. Think of the shoes, overalls, shirts, gloves, socks that would be required by those doing the work. Think af the white-collared help that would be vegetation any right off question arises Government cement, materials and it required to draw the plans and spe: cifications, keep books, make out pay-rolls. ROLPH ILLNESS VOIDS FORECAST OF DOPESTERS SACRAMENTO, Sept. 25.—(UP) —Governor Rolph’s_ serious illness —a sickness that almost claimed hig life—has given rise to a double-ed? EARL LEE KELLY Public Works Director, who may be _Rolph’s candidate for governor ged question throughout the state. . Will the governor run for reelection; and, if not, who’ will be the ‘administration candidate? The governor undoubtedly wants to run again. But whether he will, depends largely upon the rapidity of his reeovery. Twice during the past six months sickness has laid Rolph low, First time was a month’s Ulness last February. If he hasn’t recovered by campaign time, the governor’s political advisers will urge him to abandon reelection plans and throw his support behind some strong member of the administration, according to reliable reports. This man, is said to be none ether than Earl Lee Kelly, director of the department of public works. Kelly is in preferred position for carrying the administration’s standard during the gubernatorial campaign. He is the cornerstone of the gsreate st reemployment drive in the state’s history—a highway construc. tion program inv volving contract lettings at a million-dollar-a-week pace until January 1. “He has announced It is apparent Kelly is isan ideal spot for a candidacy buildu R. He would reports say, the logical man to fill Rolph’s shoes if “Sun Ly Jim’s’’ poor form running be, for reelection. The feeling is general that the governor would have to effect a complete recovéry and-be-his-rebust self again, to weather succh.a campaign as he would face in 1934. Campaign SIXTY MEN EMPLOYED BY YOU BET MINING CO. You Bet Mining the ‘mining ef Nevada City, 60 men employed Sravel property about. 500 acres. Electricity the workings trically men The Company You crew near town of Bet, east has: a in developing the which consists of is being broug into 1] eleecrew of sht in order to-insta run machinery. A are busy stringing wires telephone. The building ins a company § is to stilts flumes in order flow draulie operations. C.-L. Chase is superintendent ana J. W. Seott is engineer. larger of water hy——$—)-—_—__ __._. MUSIC DIRECTOR HURT AT BAD TURN IN ROAD, and friend, J, Green, were making the turn on top of Town Talk last week, when Mr. Sweeney’s car struck the rough edge of the pavement, swerving the car so that the back Swung part way around striking pole. Mr. Sweeney received a cut on the forehead and Mr. Greer a cut on the head and one on his hand. This is a bad turn and there’ has-been seyeral accidents on it. Herbert Paine, part owner of the Kennebec Cons. mine, near Lake City health prevents him of 1930, according to present indica-! tions, will be -child’s play by com-' parison. bring . —— 0. — —MOUNTAIN TOWNS BACK NR A 100 PCT. \ Are the mining communities of ‘this section 100 per cent behnd the NRA? Yes, all of that, and if it were possible they would be 101 per cent back of ‘the whole Roosevelt program Here is what happened in North jan Juan, A-few consumer pledge cards were received in that little community, and, as it turned out they were far too few. For every. housewife who did not receive the printed pledge card, obtained the use of one for a little while,. copied® the pledge in her own handwriting on the back of whatever card came handy and mailed it in to Postmaster Phil Seadden, NRA general for Nevada City. Some of them cut up old cigarette placards and used the reverse side upon which to write their pledge to i President Roosevelt. STATEHIGHWAY GOAL, 50,000 AT WORK BY JAN.1 By MELVIN LORD : SACRAMENTO, Sept. 25—(UP)— If a theme song were to, be written of this week's news at the state capitol it would be entitled: ‘We'll Put 50,000 Baek to Work by January 1.” That is the objective. of the tremendous reemployment drive launched by the department of public works. Highway contracts involving well over $2,000,000 were let this week; there’ll be,about two million more next wea another two “million the week “foHowing and one million a week thereafter until January 1. The state has seen nothing like it before. Red tape has been flung aside. ~ Bids are opened one day; contracts let the next. Speed is the watchword. Money is being poured into highway building in a steady stream, and in its wake march thousands of men glad to get back to work. California stepped gingerly intu the objective of hi, department is unchartered tax fields this week. The creation of 50,000 newjobs by : “split-penny” system of sales tax colChristmas. ; lections is something. never tried before in this nation. After a prolonged hearing with exasperated retail merchants, the board of equalization decided to establish and supervise .establishment of the oken’ method of collecting the tax. The state, however, would not back the oney with its’ credit. Thase tokens will be of one-eighta \ The the cent denomination. would buy from house-wife merchant so imMany tokens. Each five cent purchase would require one. This System will do away with the penny tax on such small\purehases as 15 cents} As I. E. Sweeney, music instructor . time and again—this last time at the A was a Nevada City ar r today. OLD STAGE OF NEVADA CITY SOLD TO COLLECTOR Last. Friday morning another of Nevada City’s heirlooms ,in the form of an old stage coach, was taken to Redwood City by J. H. Pierce for T. C. Wohbruck, who tas a museum of old horse drawn vehicles and out of date automobiles. Mr. Wohlbruck bought the old stage from Jack Grissel of Grissel and Dolan’s clothing store. Grissel was formerly a stage driver, starting in the work with his well known George Grissel. When Jack was only 17 years of age and driving for 45 years. This {old qgight passenger stage coach was last driven in 1914, after being on the road for fully 35 years. It had changed hands two or three. by Jim Tully and Henry Kohler. . As far as we can ascertain, this old stage coach did not figure in any of the notorious hold-ups and robberlhe known Wells Fargo boxes. But ies committed for gold, carried in the it did‘carry many a good sized shipment of bullion brought: in by the mine. 5 Mr. Grissel still has one old coach an eight passenger one, which he prizes very highly: About five years ago he sold three large ‘eleevn passenger top seat coaches, two being’ used for years on the Downieville passenger and mail route, while the other was used on the Washington route. Sometime ago when Martin Van Berg was in Los Angeles he went in back of a theatre after the performance and there he saw the Washington stagé with Jack Grissel’s on it. MANY MEN AT WORK IN ALLEGHANY MINES Alleghany mines are making good progress. The Sixteen-to-One mine, near Alleghany, is working about 95 men steadily. C. A. Bennett ig. manager, The Oriental has'a small crew of men at work. A diamond drill is to be used in making tests of funderground veins and ledges. ; The Rainbow, another rich old producer, has a payroll of ten men and perparing to start ‘sinking on a name is Two men are now engaged in clea. \ ning upon the El Dorado ¢laim. Morga n Huntington, has sixteen men at work at present working two shifts in a placer claim and is taking out concentrates. P. G. E. SPENDS $36,000 TO EXPAND SERVICE. Pacific Gas and fig Electric Company will spend approximately—$36,000 in reconstructing its electric “distribution facilities in Grass Valley. According to H. M. sion manager the company this reconstruction Was made necessa increased use of electricity in the vicinity of Gra diviat work of the Cooper, for Auburn, ry because oa a tax which Actually is between 6 and 7 per cent. \ Supporters s the Great Central . Valley Water roi cE are resigned . to an election fight to\save their enterprise. The referend\ym movement . against the legislation qualifying the . project for inclusion in whe federal . public works program has apparently “succeed d. In fact, there will probably be close to 100;000 ames on thé petitions whereas only 64,000 are needed, Governor Rolph has indicated he will call a special election to -settie the issue once and for all. -It might transpire within the next few months. Fromthe governgr’s sick-bed_ in San Francisco, came another reprieve for Jack PB. Green, Los Angeles slayer, for whem a tremendous battie for commutation has -betn waged. Phe governor has reprieved Green express petition of the doomed man’s father. The execution date was set ahead from September 15 to November 17. State Treasurer Charles G. Johnson and Finanee Director Vandegrift engaged in another one’of their periodic clashes this ‘week. Johnson, potential candidate for governor, issued a statement recommending abolution of the department of finance, Vandegrift came back fast veh the observation ‘Jo ass, Valley. It consists of rebuilding the company’s Grass Valle substation to greater capacity ae the erection of a new garage Duilding. The company will also extend its line from Carpenter Street in Valley. along the Marysville highway to serve said consumers, CC. C. BOYS HALT FIRES NEAR CAMPTONVILLE CAMPTONVILLE, service Grass Sept. 26:—A forest fire of apparent. incendiary origin, starting at three different places, broke out Saturday noon near the Lohman Ranch, two miles seutheast of this place: The Forest Service . . office soon had dispatched 100 C. C. . C.-boys from three different nearby camps, and by Sunday morning the fire was .under control. Burned over about 300 acres. Phe large Lohman House and barn’ took fire several . times but was extinguished by the . ! men .on the fire line. A strong south wind aided the fire in making headway. Mrs. Isabelle Ratto of Oakland arMs rived In Neavda City Wednesday for . a visit of a few weeks with Mrs. Tr Tognarelli. father and brother, the latter-the-late-. —quartz vein. a fie ‘churth, the Rey, ‘Charles FL U. S. GOLD MINERS TO CONVENE IN $. F. OCT 24 Telegram Of Thanks is Sent — To President For Lifting — Embargo on Gold Following the sending of a telegram by President George W. Starr ,of the Mining Association of Califor. times being owned at different times . ! ‘nia in behalf of the mining industry of the state thanking President Roosevelt for his modification order on _ newly mined gold, the association has decided to call a national meeting of gold producers of the United States and its territories. Notices are . being sent. representatives of the gold industry calling for a meeting on Tuesday, October 24, 1933, in _ Franeiseo. The telegram sent tie president said: : : ~My Dear Mr. President: Through the Mining Association of California, the gold producers express to you their deep appreciation of-your recognition of the gold mining industry in the modification of the embargo on newly mined gold by your executive order of August 29, 1933. 3 We have. this day issued a eal] toa — the gold producers ef these United States and its pessessions to meet in the city ef San Francisee, on Octo. ber 24, 1933, te form an association representative of the gold mining in-_ dustry, whereby the gold mining indusiry’ may most effectively co-ope-_ rate with the policies of your administration to the benefit of our industry and our Nation. ie. Most sincereley and faithfully yours, . MINING ASSOCIATION OF CALIF. ' GEORGE W. STARR _ PRESIDENT. ~_— The following is the call that is being issued: eae TO THE GOLD PRODUCERS OF THH UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND ITS POSESSIONS The President of these United States has given heed .to the appeal of the gold producers .of this Nation and to them has sranted relief from the paralysing effects of rising commodity prices. Having been granted — that which is equivalent to a free market for their product. in in direct response to their ap— peal, gold producers have expressed their earnest desire to reciprocate with the President. To that end, the Mining Association of California -hereby. extends an invitation to all gold producers and organizations and associations of, or respresenting sold producers. within ‘the United States and its possesssions to assemble in meeting ~ at the city of San Franeisego; State of California, on Tuesday, the 24th day of October, 1933, for the express purpose of form— ing a national .association ofsold. producers, truly representative “of the industry, designed ~ to promote closer cooperation — and expedite concerted “action by and in behalf ofthe gold — mining TINIAN MINING nidustry ss oy ASSACIATION OF CALIF. f GEORGE W. STARR os : 3 FLOWER SUNDAY TO BE CELEBRATED AT TRIN ——— ae Flower Sunday will be ce next Sunday in the Trinity Ep burn reverses said. The. chu eamps of Piel oot and Nevada City have-

~~ ee ONLY “ Hometown scribe for it? This is Nevada City’s Newspaper. It supports things . worth while. Do you sub— Nevada City Nugge Nevada City Nugget is a Member of the United Press And California ia Publishers Association t bal eben Your Hiesitas Newspaper helps build your; advertisers make it a. ‘good builder. Vol. VII, No. 94 The®ounty Seat Paper ' NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The GOLD Center “MONDAY, SEPT. 25, 1933. Chamber Asks Better Road To Downieville, The Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce, carrying into action, highway matters discussed at the dinner at Sierra City during the goodwill tour made in Sierra county by Nevada ’ City and Grass Valley business men, has addressed the following letter to Charles H. Whitmore, District ‘highway -engnieer for this . section whose headquarters. are in Marysville: Dear Mr. Whitmore: sie A’ good-will tour has just been completed by the business men -of Grass Valley and Nevada City and the County Supervisors and Superior Judge of Nevada county, to the yarious towns in Sierra county, as a result. of which the various groups in both counties have determined upon highway. work which today deem essential to the welfare of both counties and to the safety of the tourists. LOSS OF LIFE It is realized, of course, that the department has serious road _problems in every territory throughout the State of California, all of which must be solyed—and it is not the intention to expect a vast amount ef work on this region at the unnecesSary expense of other parts of California. However, there is a definite amount of work on the Nevada CityDownieville highway which must be done if the annually increasing loss of life on this highway and the throttling of Sierra counties mining and tourist possibilities are to be preventFrom Nevada. City to the edge ol the canyon of: the South Fork of the Yuba ‘River there are many shary curves which can weil be eliminated. Dropping into the canyon and back out on the San Juan’ Ridge side are many sharp. iturns.-and narrow stretches that are hazardous and should be corrected this. winter. From just past North San Juan to the Middle Fork of the Yuba River &® number of bad turns ean readily be eliminated. But, from the Middle Fork of the Yuba River over the Camptonville Ridge and down Depot Hill Grade into the canyon -of the North Fork of the Yuba River there are dozens of sharp narrow and serious injury to motorists. This Situation -is aggravated by the faci that Camptonville School District operates all summer and the lives of the school children, who must daily travel this section in the school bus should not be subjected to these unRECcessary hazards. . PRAISE” FOR aie GARRISON This-“Chamber also desires to express its. appreciation of the excellent work done@\by the highway maintenance engineer, Mr. despite Fred Garrison, decreasing maintaining the Wid funds -is surfacing of all the MRS. KITTY KIMBALL ~~ BUYS HOME IN NEV. CITY Mrs. Kitty owner of and quartz mine has purchased a house and lot joining Mr. Ed Schmidt's "home. had the old. hous building inka president and part Placer the Reliance above Alleghany, adShe Sse torn down and is story anda half nOW with Kimball her lived husband married, this they to in when later city were first moving ay district, Her in an auto bus accident about two years ago. Nevada City is pleased to welcome Mrs. Kimball into its conimunity life. husband perished 2 SCOUT COMMITTEE To MEET THIS EVENING The monthly meeting of the Nevada City district Seout Committee will be held this evening Chamber of Commerce. Plans for the coming year willbe discussed and, all members are urged to attend. in the FINDS NUGGET “NEAR KESWICK W. H. Moffitt last week exhibited a nugget worth $3.82 taken for:the North Star gravel mine-at Flat Creek four miles from Keswick, The North Star gravel mine is being worked by Fuaston and Moffitt, partners. John Tognarelli, local sportsmen, déilled a wad Point buck last week, turns . _ that each year cause the loss of life the} } . roads under his jurisdiction in excellent order. The improvement is most notable. We also commend highly the oiling of the new Downieville-Sattley highway and the plans to keep this vital traffic artery open all winter. Thos. Cook and Son—Wagons-Lits Ine., the great international travel and tourist agency has just completed an astonishingly successful experimental-tour through this section and as a result plan to run regular tours from the San Francisco bay districct up through Grass Valley and Nevada City to the Downieville and Sierra highly the improvement is most. nohope the work outlined above will be completed before next spring so that this wonderful opportunity. for Nevada county and Sierra county to profit by the world wide advertisement of its outstanding scenic and historic assets will not be prevented because of the narrowness and sharp turns on: the Nevada City-DownieviHe highway. Yours very truly, Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce E. R. BURTNER President. WHITE PALACES, NEGRO SLUMS IN WASHINGTON D.C WASHINGTON, De C. Sept. 25— (UP)—Washington, D. C., is the melting pot of the nation. It’s also a city of strange contrasts. The mansions: of the diplomats and of the “400 present one picture. Quite a “different picture is to seen in those sections of the city where -Washington’s negro population lives. It‘is reported that there are more than 275,000 negroes living in Washington. I have walked many a milé through these negro residential’ sections. In using the word “residential’ I am trying to be literal. For sheer squaldidness and abject poverty, I have never like it anywhere else; St. Louis, Philadelphia, New Orleans, American city seen anything in York, large not even New or_in anyother where teneme nt conditions prevail. Only one other city Baltimore, presents somewhat the same dismal picture of human beings living like rats that one sees in Washington, our fair tinue capitol city. to live under Carnot How they conthose conditions surmise.. Where there’s life there’s hope, the old saying goes, and perhaps that’s the answer. one even Take hot, any one of those steaming humidity-depressed, sweltering, alive, weltering, burn-you-upWashington are blistering, typical There plenty can’t miss out. schedules them the. whole summer, mer, ~ summer of them. The weather regularly for for sumnights. You man every of those through You'll see On one nights start walk-' ing the, districts. won't forget Squalid dumps of: to be exact, nHeLTO a sight you time. shacks, and rows of then, .of them, a long houses for or rows blocks and blocks the other, all knocked no one against * windews half no wlike, out, screens, the. doors flowers, of gone, no of the al] the world &rass, no kind, entrances sidewalks—it looks for like No Man’s Land. The why. someone hasn't worked out a plan whereby the Federal could step in and clean out tenement districts in large cities, replacing them with modern facilities where human beings could live decently, Think of the amount. of good it would do. Think of the amount of work it. would provide. Think of the amount_of lumber,-steel all other. necessafy would. provide. i Think of the amount of food that would be required to fill the dinner pails of those who did the work. Think of the shoes, overalls, shirts, gloves, socks that would be required by those doing the work. Think af the white-collared help that would be vegetation any right off question arises Government cement, materials and it required to draw the plans and spe: cifications, keep books, make out pay-rolls. ROLPH ILLNESS VOIDS FORECAST OF DOPESTERS SACRAMENTO, Sept. 25.—(UP) —Governor Rolph’s_ serious illness —a sickness that almost claimed hig life—has given rise to a double-ed? EARL LEE KELLY Public Works Director, who may be _Rolph’s candidate for governor ged question throughout the state. . Will the governor run for reelection; and, if not, who’ will be the ‘administration candidate? The governor undoubtedly wants to run again. But whether he will, depends largely upon the rapidity of his reeovery. Twice during the past six months sickness has laid Rolph low, First time was a month’s Ulness last February. If he hasn’t recovered by campaign time, the governor’s political advisers will urge him to abandon reelection plans and throw his support behind some strong member of the administration, according to reliable reports. This man, is said to be none ether than Earl Lee Kelly, director of the department of public works. Kelly is in preferred position for carrying the administration’s standard during the gubernatorial campaign. He is the cornerstone of the gsreate st reemployment drive in the state’s history—a highway construc. tion program inv volving contract lettings at a million-dollar-a-week pace until January 1. “He has announced It is apparent Kelly is isan ideal spot for a candidacy buildu R. He would reports say, the logical man to fill Rolph’s shoes if “Sun Ly Jim’s’’ poor form running be, for reelection. The feeling is general that the governor would have to effect a complete recovéry and-be-his-rebust self again, to weather succh.a campaign as he would face in 1934. Campaign SIXTY MEN EMPLOYED BY YOU BET MINING CO. You Bet Mining the ‘mining ef Nevada City, 60 men employed Sravel property

about. 500 acres. Electricity the workings trically men The Company You crew near town of Bet, east has: a in developing the which consists of is being broug into 1] eleecrew of sht in order to-insta run machinery. A are busy stringing wires telephone. The building ins a company § is to stilts flumes in order flow draulie operations. C.-L. Chase is superintendent ana J. W. Seott is engineer. larger of water hy——$—)-—_—__ __._. MUSIC DIRECTOR HURT AT BAD TURN IN ROAD, and friend, J, Green, were making the turn on top of Town Talk last week, when Mr. Sweeney’s car struck the rough edge of the pavement, swerving the car so that the back Swung part way around striking pole. Mr. Sweeney received a cut on the forehead and Mr. Greer a cut on the head and one on his hand. This is a bad turn and there’ has-been seyeral accidents on it. Herbert Paine, part owner of the Kennebec Cons. mine, near Lake City health prevents him of 1930, according to present indica-! tions, will be -child’s play by com-' parison. bring . —— 0. — —MOUNTAIN TOWNS BACK NR A 100 PCT. \ Are the mining communities of ‘this section 100 per cent behnd the NRA? Yes, all of that, and if it were possible they would be 101 per cent back of ‘the whole Roosevelt program Here is what happened in North jan Juan, A-few consumer pledge cards were received in that little community, and, as it turned out they were far too few. For every. housewife who did not receive the printed pledge card, obtained the use of one for a little while,. copied® the pledge in her own handwriting on the back of whatever card came handy and mailed it in to Postmaster Phil Seadden, NRA general for Nevada City. Some of them cut up old cigarette placards and used the reverse side upon which to write their pledge to i President Roosevelt. STATEHIGHWAY GOAL, 50,000 AT WORK BY JAN.1 By MELVIN LORD : SACRAMENTO, Sept. 25—(UP)— If a theme song were to, be written of this week's news at the state capitol it would be entitled: ‘We'll Put 50,000 Baek to Work by January 1.” That is the objective. of the tremendous reemployment drive launched by the department of public works. Highway contracts involving well over $2,000,000 were let this week; there’ll be,about two million more next wea another two “million the week “foHowing and one million a week thereafter until January 1. The state has seen nothing like it before. Red tape has been flung aside. ~ Bids are opened one day; contracts let the next. Speed is the watchword. Money is being poured into highway building in a steady stream, and in its wake march thousands of men glad to get back to work. California stepped gingerly intu the objective of hi, department is unchartered tax fields this week. The creation of 50,000 newjobs by : “split-penny” system of sales tax colChristmas. ; lections is something. never tried before in this nation. After a prolonged hearing with exasperated retail merchants, the board of equalization decided to establish and supervise .establishment of the oken’ method of collecting the tax. The state, however, would not back the oney with its’ credit. Thase tokens will be of one-eighta \ The the cent denomination. would buy from house-wife merchant so imMany tokens. Each five cent purchase would require one. This System will do away with the penny tax on such small\purehases as 15 cents} As I. E. Sweeney, music instructor . time and again—this last time at the A was a Nevada City ar r today. OLD STAGE OF NEVADA CITY SOLD TO COLLECTOR Last. Friday morning another of Nevada City’s heirlooms ,in the form of an old stage coach, was taken to Redwood City by J. H. Pierce for T. C. Wohbruck, who tas a museum of old horse drawn vehicles and out of date automobiles. Mr. Wohlbruck bought the old stage from Jack Grissel of Grissel and Dolan’s clothing store. Grissel was formerly a stage driver, starting in the work with his well known George Grissel. When Jack was only 17 years of age and driving for 45 years. This {old qgight passenger stage coach was last driven in 1914, after being on the road for fully 35 years. It had changed hands two or three. by Jim Tully and Henry Kohler. . As far as we can ascertain, this old stage coach did not figure in any of the notorious hold-ups and robberlhe known Wells Fargo boxes. But ies committed for gold, carried in the it did‘carry many a good sized shipment of bullion brought: in by the mine. 5 Mr. Grissel still has one old coach an eight passenger one, which he prizes very highly: About five years ago he sold three large ‘eleevn passenger top seat coaches, two being’ used for years on the Downieville passenger and mail route, while the other was used on the Washington route. Sometime ago when Martin Van Berg was in Los Angeles he went in back of a theatre after the performance and there he saw the Washington stagé with Jack Grissel’s on it. MANY MEN AT WORK IN ALLEGHANY MINES Alleghany mines are making good progress. The Sixteen-to-One mine, near Alleghany, is working about 95 men steadily. C. A. Bennett ig. manager, The Oriental has'a small crew of men at work. A diamond drill is to be used in making tests of funderground veins and ledges. ; The Rainbow, another rich old producer, has a payroll of ten men and perparing to start ‘sinking on a name is Two men are now engaged in clea. \ ning upon the El Dorado ¢laim. Morga n Huntington, has sixteen men at work at present working two shifts in a placer claim and is taking out concentrates. P. G. E. SPENDS $36,000 TO EXPAND SERVICE. Pacific Gas and fig Electric Company will spend approximately—$36,000 in reconstructing its electric “distribution facilities in Grass Valley. According to H. M. sion manager the company this reconstruction Was made necessa increased use of electricity in the vicinity of Gra diviat work of the Cooper, for Auburn, ry because oa a tax which Actually is between 6 and 7 per cent. \ Supporters s the Great Central . Valley Water roi cE are resigned . to an election fight to\save their enterprise. The referend\ym movement . against the legislation qualifying the . project for inclusion in whe federal . public works program has apparently “succeed d. In fact, there will probably be close to 100;000 ames on thé petitions whereas only 64,000 are needed, Governor Rolph has indicated he will call a special election to -settie the issue once and for all. -It might transpire within the next few months. Fromthe governgr’s sick-bed_ in San Francisco, came another reprieve for Jack PB. Green, Los Angeles slayer, for whem a tremendous battie for commutation has -betn waged. Phe governor has reprieved Green express petition of the doomed man’s father. The execution date was set ahead from September 15 to November 17. State Treasurer Charles G. Johnson and Finanee Director Vandegrift engaged in another one’of their periodic clashes this ‘week. Johnson, potential candidate for governor, issued a statement recommending abolution of the department of finance, Vandegrift came back fast veh the observation ‘Jo ass, Valley. It consists of rebuilding the company’s Grass Valle substation to greater capacity ae the erection of a new garage Duilding. The company will also extend its line from Carpenter Street in Valley. along the Marysville highway to serve said consumers, CC. C. BOYS HALT FIRES NEAR CAMPTONVILLE CAMPTONVILLE, service Grass Sept. 26:—A forest fire of apparent. incendiary origin, starting at three different places, broke out Saturday noon near the Lohman Ranch, two miles seutheast of this place: The Forest Service . . office soon had dispatched 100 C. C. . C.-boys from three different nearby camps, and by Sunday morning the fire was .under control. Burned over about 300 acres. Phe large Lohman House and barn’ took fire several . times but was extinguished by the . ! men .on the fire line. A strong south wind aided the fire in making headway. Mrs. Isabelle Ratto of Oakland arMs rived In Neavda City Wednesday for . a visit of a few weeks with Mrs. Tr Tognarelli. father and brother, the latter-the-late-. —quartz vein. a fie ‘churth, the Rey, ‘Charles FL U. S. GOLD MINERS TO CONVENE IN $. F. OCT 24 Telegram Of Thanks is Sent — To President For Lifting — Embargo on Gold Following the sending of a telegram by President George W. Starr ,of the Mining Association of Califor. times being owned at different times . ! ‘nia in behalf of the mining industry of the state thanking President Roosevelt for his modification order on _ newly mined gold, the association has decided to call a national meeting of gold producers of the United States and its territories. Notices are . being sent. representatives of the gold industry calling for a meeting on Tuesday, October 24, 1933, in _ Franeiseo. The telegram sent tie president said: : : ~My Dear Mr. President: Through the Mining Association of California, the gold producers express to you their deep appreciation of-your recognition of the gold mining industry in the modification of the embargo on newly mined gold by your executive order of August 29, 1933. 3 We have. this day issued a eal] toa — the gold producers ef these United States and its pessessions to meet in the city ef San Francisee, on Octo. ber 24, 1933, te form an association representative of the gold mining in-_ dustry, whereby the gold mining indusiry’ may most effectively co-ope-_ rate with the policies of your administration to the benefit of our industry and our Nation. ie. Most sincereley and faithfully yours, . MINING ASSOCIATION OF CALIF. ' GEORGE W. STARR _ PRESIDENT. ~_— The following is the call that is being issued: eae TO THE GOLD PRODUCERS OF THH UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND ITS POSESSIONS The President of these United States has given heed .to the appeal of the gold producers .of this Nation and to them has sranted relief from the paralysing effects of rising commodity prices. Having been granted — that which is equivalent to a free market for their product. in in direct response to their ap— peal, gold producers have expressed their earnest desire to reciprocate with the President. To that end, the Mining Association of California -hereby. extends an invitation to all gold producers and organizations and associations of, or respresenting sold producers. within ‘the United States and its possesssions to assemble in meeting ~ at the city of San Franeisego; State of California, on Tuesday, the 24th day of October, 1933, for the express purpose of form— ing a national .association ofsold. producers, truly representative “of the industry, designed ~ to promote closer cooperation — and expedite concerted “action by and in behalf ofthe gold — mining TINIAN MINING nidustry ss oy ASSACIATION OF CALIF. f GEORGE W. STARR os : 3 FLOWER SUNDAY TO BE CELEBRATED AT TRIN ——— ae Flower Sunday will be ce next Sunday in the Trinity Ep burn reverses said. The. chu eamps of Piel oot and Nevada City have-