February 5, 1969 (12 pages)

.e SO i ate gE EE Fe x Fp Pee According to a timber industry. official, 62.8 per cent of the commercial forest land inthe 12 western. states is government owned, and single-use withdrawals of land for wilderness in the West now amount to over 9 million acres,: with another 4.5 million acres scheduled for review and possible withdrawal by 1974, Not only in the West, but in all sections of the United States’ productive land-productive either for wood products for food output-is disappear°ing beneath the metropolitan sprawl or behind the borders of single-use recreation areas. For a long time now, the avail-able land for food and fiber production has been shrinking while our population has been soaring. This deadly converging of courses between land and population must inevitably have a meeting point, 3 Admittedly, food output and high-rise apartments on the same land aré an incompatible proposition. Such is not the case with timberlands and wilderness areas.Major timber companies have been urging multiple use, wherever feasible, of the nation's forest lands--and they are practicing what they preach, Millions of acres of private timberlands are open to public use for recreation, Leaders in’ the timber industry have also become a great deal like tliemodern farmer. They are making every acre of land produce more trees, just as the farmer has stepped up food production per acre, Major timber companies have PUBLISHED EVERY . WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO, 318 Broad Street, Nevada City, Ca. Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court , Juce 3, 1960. Decree No; 12,406, Subscription Rates: one year, $3,00; two years, $5. 00. 1LeSs'7 PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION © i atemaene tate dae eae ceanmee ae, Oldtimers harvested nuggets _ by pound in Washington By Rye Slye Twenty-three ounces of washed nuggets were taken from a few feet of gravel in Grisse] & Wing's claim at Washington last week and brought to the Citizens Bank in Nevada City. Such finds have a flavor of ye olden times about them. (Nevada City Daily Transcript, September 27, 1879.) **** Last Saturday morning, Grissell & Wing (Conrad Grissel & William Wing) made another strike at their Claims in the bed of the South Yuba River at Washington, extracting five pounds of coarse nuggets. The next morning they returned and got twenty ounces more, making a yield of eighty ounces in two days. (NCDT, September 30, 1879) ** * The Grissel & Wing claims can only be worked for a short season while the river is at The publication, NATO'S FIFTEEN NATIONS, gives some ees Ee gw hg Eke cre Heh g Ba 8 panhee ite ch tk x = 8 ® i r i £ . [=. : + : 5 e EE a ! -! i t fy aT SEEESE EER sgl Wetter see cE ccaae ay pee tte pbabesies as es ll F3 F ‘“ the lowest, The water is then flumed by a canal dug on one side to a point below the claims, when the river bed is mined out, the gravel being thrown into the sluice boxes extending from the dam at the head of the flume, The larger nuggets of gold are generally found in the crevices of the” bedrock. After the rainy season sets in the claims fill up with gravel and the following summer work is again resumed, commencing at the dam built the previous “year. (NCDT, October 7, 1879) A twenty-four ounce bar "of the root: of all evil" was brought to Nevada City yesterday from asmall gravel claim in Canyon Creek, near Washington, (NCDT1 October 8, 1879) s * * Grissel, Wing & Worthley, have completed their dam and flume in the river at Washington and on Thursday raised the derrick mast. The flume is 100 feet long, 12 feet wide and three (i jee i sé g ir sé g ithe i E E i rE 325 geil” bf Baa ae t2i 3 4 5 HH Hee § ul 7 : Hi rte si : 2 8 . gE Penny Saved It always .is heartwarming to the taxpayer to learn of a governmental agency that is cutting the cost of operation: So, a warm, h salute to the State Board of Equalization, which has just revealed that during the fiscal year 1967-1968-it spent less than a penny for every dollar of revenue it. collected, and there were 3 billion of those dollars. The Board’s newly elected Chairman, John W. Lynch of Fresno, undoubtedly took pardonable pride in announcing that this was the first time that costs had ig! below the penny »mark. been member of the Board “for 10 years, and has had much to do with the agency’s increased efficiency. The reason for this economy? According to the new Chairman it rests on the fact that although the revenues handled have risen, the Board has fewer employees now than it-did a decade ago and has “found chea ways of doing things and passed the revenue savings on to local and state government.” A pretty good policy for all governmental agencies: “Find cheaper ways of doing things” ~ Letters Mr, Editor: It is one of those days again and I am stuck in the house. I _ when the blew up on the fork-of road on Zion Street, It left a big hole there but you in Nevada City. The magazine . belonged to Turner Hardware — store, A little ways from the Turner magazine was the one that belonged to Legg and Shaw. No one knew why the thing blew up and Legg and Shaw's magazine didn't. I think there was about 20 tons of powder in Legg and. Shaw's and it would have wrecked the town, Poe gs. panied ag otal magazine? Well, I helped Red Sandow who drove the delivery truck for Legg and Shaw haul it out of there down GHD velent He g ily a2 ae gs ge Be Hy 1 better i , SO cheers, On BS bal a nch has. FFA Week The week of February 15 to 22 has been set aside as National Future Farmers of America Week, The theme of this observance is "FF A--An Opportunity For Youth.” The Future Farmers of America is a national organization of high school students studying vocational agriculture in our public schools, It is an educational, nonprofit, nonpolitical organization of, by and for these students, The foundation upon which it is built includes leadership, character development, sportsmanship, cooperation, community service, thrift, scholarship, improved agriculture, organized recreation, citizenship and patriotism, The FFA itself does not make its members outstanding. Young people in FFA learn the meaning of local initiative, Local FF A chapters provide the strength.of the organization. In the local chapters, “student officers and members . develop into agricultural leadAs long as we have youth organizations such as the FFA, we may rest assured that the violence and lawlessness of the dissenters, whose only aim is destruction, will represent the acts of a minority--and a small minority at that. A publication of the Arizona Farm _Bureau Federation obmillion Americans in this counNEVADA CITY Jan, 29 & C3 . aaa Jan, 30 = 38 16 .32 Jan, 31 36 13 Feb, 1 = 38 13 ~=— 09 Feb. 2 37 2 ~—C(«C«dM Feb, 3° 45 pees Feb.4 48. a Rainfall to date ~ §1.97 Rainfall last year 20,32 GRASS VALLEY Max. Min, R Jan, 29 86: "18 29 Jan,-30* $3 20. 37 Jan, 31 oe. Feb, 1 45° 18. .~:,10 Feb, 2 39 29.27

.e SO i ate gE EE Fe x Fp Pee According to a timber industry. official, 62.8 per cent of the commercial forest land inthe 12 western. states is government owned, and single-use withdrawals of land for wilderness in the West now amount to over 9 million acres,: with another 4.5 million acres scheduled for review and possible withdrawal by 1974, Not only in the West, but in all sections of the United States’ productive land-productive either for wood products for food output-is disappear°ing beneath the metropolitan sprawl or behind the borders of single-use recreation areas. For a long time now, the avail-able land for food and fiber production has been shrinking while our population has been soaring. This deadly converging of courses between land and population must inevitably have a meeting point, 3 Admittedly, food output and high-rise apartments on the same land aré an incompatible proposition. Such is not the case with timberlands and wilderness areas.Major timber companies have been urging multiple use, wherever feasible, of the nation's forest lands--and they are practicing what they preach, Millions of acres of private timberlands are open to public use for recreation, Leaders in’ the timber industry have also become a great deal like tliemodern farmer. They are making every acre of land produce more trees, just as the farmer has stepped up food production per acre, Major timber companies have PUBLISHED EVERY . WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO, 318 Broad Street, Nevada City, Ca. Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court , Juce 3, 1960. Decree No; 12,406, Subscription Rates: one year, $3,00; two years, $5. 00. 1LeSs'7 PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION © i atemaene tate dae eae ceanmee ae, Oldtimers harvested nuggets _ by pound in Washington By Rye Slye Twenty-three ounces of washed nuggets were taken from a few feet of gravel in Grisse] & Wing's claim at Washington last week and brought to the Citizens Bank in Nevada City. Such finds have a flavor of ye olden times about them. (Nevada City Daily Transcript, September 27, 1879.) **** Last Saturday morning, Grissell & Wing (Conrad Grissel & William Wing) made another strike at their Claims in the bed of the South Yuba River at Washington, extracting five pounds of coarse nuggets. The next morning they returned and got twenty ounces more, making a yield of eighty ounces in two days. (NCDT, September 30, 1879) ** * The Grissel & Wing claims can only be worked for a short season while the river is at The publication, NATO'S FIFTEEN NATIONS, gives some ees Ee gw hg Eke cre Heh g Ba 8 panhee ite ch tk x = 8 ® i r i £ . [=. : + : 5 e EE a ! -! i t fy aT SEEESE EER sgl Wetter see cE ccaae ay pee tte pbabesies as es ll F3 F ‘“ the lowest, The water is then flumed by a canal dug on one side to a point below the claims, when the river bed is mined out, the gravel being thrown into the sluice boxes extending from the dam at the head of the flume, The larger nuggets of gold are generally found in the crevices of the” bedrock. After the rainy season sets in the claims fill up with gravel and the following summer work is again resumed, commencing at the dam built the previous “year. (NCDT, October 7, 1879) A twenty-four ounce bar "of the root: of all evil" was brought to Nevada City yesterday from asmall gravel claim in Canyon Creek, near Washington, (NCDT1 October 8, 1879) s * * Grissel, Wing & Worthley, have completed their dam and flume in the river at Washington and on Thursday raised the

derrick mast. The flume is 100 feet long, 12 feet wide and three (i jee i sé g ir sé g ithe i E E i rE 325 geil” bf Baa ae t2i 3 4 5 HH Hee § ul 7 : Hi rte si : 2 8 . gE Penny Saved It always .is heartwarming to the taxpayer to learn of a governmental agency that is cutting the cost of operation: So, a warm, h salute to the State Board of Equalization, which has just revealed that during the fiscal year 1967-1968-it spent less than a penny for every dollar of revenue it. collected, and there were 3 billion of those dollars. The Board’s newly elected Chairman, John W. Lynch of Fresno, undoubtedly took pardonable pride in announcing that this was the first time that costs had ig! below the penny »mark. been member of the Board “for 10 years, and has had much to do with the agency’s increased efficiency. The reason for this economy? According to the new Chairman it rests on the fact that although the revenues handled have risen, the Board has fewer employees now than it-did a decade ago and has “found chea ways of doing things and passed the revenue savings on to local and state government.” A pretty good policy for all governmental agencies: “Find cheaper ways of doing things” ~ Letters Mr, Editor: It is one of those days again and I am stuck in the house. I _ when the blew up on the fork-of road on Zion Street, It left a big hole there but you in Nevada City. The magazine . belonged to Turner Hardware — store, A little ways from the Turner magazine was the one that belonged to Legg and Shaw. No one knew why the thing blew up and Legg and Shaw's magazine didn't. I think there was about 20 tons of powder in Legg and. Shaw's and it would have wrecked the town, Poe gs. panied ag otal magazine? Well, I helped Red Sandow who drove the delivery truck for Legg and Shaw haul it out of there down GHD velent He g ily a2 ae gs ge Be Hy 1 better i , SO cheers, On BS bal a nch has. FFA Week The week of February 15 to 22 has been set aside as National Future Farmers of America Week, The theme of this observance is "FF A--An Opportunity For Youth.” The Future Farmers of America is a national organization of high school students studying vocational agriculture in our public schools, It is an educational, nonprofit, nonpolitical organization of, by and for these students, The foundation upon which it is built includes leadership, character development, sportsmanship, cooperation, community service, thrift, scholarship, improved agriculture, organized recreation, citizenship and patriotism, The FFA itself does not make its members outstanding. Young people in FFA learn the meaning of local initiative, Local FF A chapters provide the strength.of the organization. In the local chapters, “student officers and members . develop into agricultural leadAs long as we have youth organizations such as the FFA, we may rest assured that the violence and lawlessness of the dissenters, whose only aim is destruction, will represent the acts of a minority--and a small minority at that. A publication of the Arizona Farm _Bureau Federation obmillion Americans in this counNEVADA CITY Jan, 29 & C3 . aaa Jan, 30 = 38 16 .32 Jan, 31 36 13 Feb, 1 = 38 13 ~=— 09 Feb. 2 37 2 ~—C(«C«dM Feb, 3° 45 pees Feb.4 48. a Rainfall to date ~ §1.97 Rainfall last year 20,32 GRASS VALLEY Max. Min, R Jan, 29 86: "18 29 Jan,-30* $3 20. 37 Jan, 31 oe. Feb, 1 45° 18. .~:,10 Feb, 2 39 29.27