July 29, 1970 (12 pages)

NUMBER 80 PERIODICALS SECTION 5/26/71 ST. LIBRARY So: SACTO. CAL. 95914 VOLUME 49 -10 Cents ACopy Pu blished Wednesdays, Nevada City ~ WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1 Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Moon ; pee ¢ dc : Bet, i ‘ ey Flat, Sweetland, Al French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug,’ Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, La Batr Mondoles. Cale. Ridge’ i Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill. Willow Valley Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore‘s Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. y ; 970 edhe Four settled by county — Four planning matters were handled by Nevada county's supervisors Tuesday with the re-sults differing in each case. Here are the items and their --A request to have a mobile home on Banner Mountain was denied as the supervisors upheld the planning commission's denial . of a use permit to William and Elizabeth Skalisky.The Skaliskys felt their modern mobile home would not deteriorate from the area which already has several small --All of unit 21 of AltaSierra Estates will be zoned to singlefamily residential although the developer wanted certain lots commercial and an adjacent land owner wanted other lots commercial. — The supervisors reasoned that if a commercial shopping center is needed iin that area, it should be located:in proximity to Highway 49 to attract highway traffic as well as subdivision dwellers. --A proposal to limit lot sizes ‘to 10 acres minimum across Road from Lake of the Pines was returned to the planning commission for study. Harry Wolters, attorney for the land owners, asked. that five-acre minimums be con(EDITOR'S NOTE: The Nevada County Nugget is reprinting in series form this story printed in the old files, July 3, 1936, It pertains to the men and mines of Nevada County and adjacent territory. It was written by Ar“thur B. Foote with George Starr collaborating. Both were well known in the golden days of this area.) By ARTHUR B, FOOTE NON-OUTCROPPING VEINS The property finally comprised over 1,400 acres of surface and mineral rights, on which had » Which ‘of the vein, two of them below 1500 feet, and none below 6000 feet. However, anumber of viens were discovered that did not outcrop, and it is some of these The possiblity that this week's North San Juan area forest fires were set by anarsonist in an airplane is being studied seriously by state investigators. The investigation is not complete, but officials: have found no probable cause for the sudden. ontbreak of fires Sunday And some of the blazes were too far from roads to have been ignited by someone stopsidered, contending it is the ping along a road starting a same as required in Lake of fire and then speeding away. the Pines Ranchos in the same larger than most people want or can maintain adequately. --By a 3-2 vote, the board did approve commercial zoning for all four corners of Highway 49 -at its junction with Combie and Wolf Roads. Dean Lawrence where a trail had been gouged out by bulldozers to move equipment to the fire scene. The distance would seem to have discouraged @ normal pyromaniac, although it was possible to drive most of the distance, And if the fires were set Supervisor ‘protested the approval, saying from the ground, it would have it is intended to allow continubeen necessary for eight arsonation of signs in the area such ists to have been at work in as the one pointing to Lake of eight separate and mainly rethe Pines. mote spots. Seer siuremeeece Arson from Plane r planning matters is possibility -Ted Waddell, head of the California Division of Forestry here, admits the possibility that the fires were set from a plane. Waddell also saw the chance that’ a low-flying military jet emitted particles from its exhaust which caused sparks to ignite in dry-grass. : However, CDF checked with the U.S. Air Force's western operations headquarters, the unit which keeps track of the location of all military aircraft. That unit reported that no military planes were in this region during the time the fires started, Dick -Goings, CDF’ information officer, told The Union. Of arsonisits operating from an airplane, Goings said: "It's. happened before,"’ Goings said arson is being considered so strongly because eight small fires broke out in such a short time here, and, perhaps not by coincidence, eight fires were set in Calaveras county Saturday. (See Photos p. 12) it ‘was fourid: that only four of these veins were of commercial “yalue below 1000 feet on the dip Men and mines of Nevada County — veins that are now being worked below the 8600 level ofthe North Star Mine. In 1895, Mr. Hague brought A, D. Foote to Grass Valley to construct a power plant for the purpose of developing the whole property. Hague's idea was to install a gydro-electric plant, but electric power was then in its infancy and Foote, after a trip to Lake Superior and a few other places where there wereelec_ tric plants, decided that it could not be relied upon underground -no one knew how it was going to work. He, therefore, decided upon compressed air, and Ithink wisely. ‘ HUGE PELTON WHEEL When I came here in 1897, a pipe line to supply water under a head of 775 feet had been completed, to drive an air com-pressor for pumping out the Massachusetts Hill mine. Compressed air was used for hoisting, pumping, and drilling. The Pelton water wheel was the largest ever. built at that time, was mounted directly on the crankshaft of the compressor and the whole plant built of masonry for permanence, E, A. Rix, of San Francisco, designed the compressor, hoist, and a great deal of the compressed air machinery used later on, The air was heated before going tothe hoist, for greater economy, -and to prevent freezing, In 1926, this hoist was converted to electric drive and used to deepen the Central Shaft. The Massachusetts Hill was pumped out, and from 1897 to 1901, the North Star was actively stoping ore from the mine and hauling it to the North Star mill. William B. Fisher was superintendent for a time, and then A, Hall. One-man machine drills were being used there for the first time in this district for stoping. An old steam traction engine, bought from a logging company, was used for hauling ore when it would run, but it was continually breaking down and being made over, and then Pete Smith with his 6-horse team would be called upon to haul the ore. THOSE CORNISH PUMPS One of the things that impressed me most when I first came here was the-old Cornish (Continued on page 12) ose 4

NUMBER 80 PERIODICALS SECTION 5/26/71 ST. LIBRARY So: SACTO. CAL. 95914 VOLUME 49 -10 Cents ACopy Pu blished Wednesdays, Nevada City ~ WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1 Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Moon ; pee ¢ dc : Bet, i ‘ ey Flat, Sweetland, Al French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug,’ Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, La Batr Mondoles. Cale. Ridge’ i Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill. Willow Valley Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore‘s Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. y ; 970 edhe Four settled by county — Four planning matters were handled by Nevada county's supervisors Tuesday with the re-sults differing in each case. Here are the items and their --A request to have a mobile home on Banner Mountain was denied as the supervisors upheld the planning commission's denial . of a use permit to William and Elizabeth Skalisky.The Skaliskys felt their modern mobile home would not deteriorate from the area which already has several small --All of unit 21 of AltaSierra Estates will be zoned to singlefamily residential although the developer wanted certain lots commercial and an adjacent land owner wanted other lots commercial. — The supervisors reasoned that if a commercial shopping center is needed iin that area, it should be located:in proximity to Highway 49 to attract highway traffic as well as subdivision dwellers. --A proposal to limit lot sizes ‘to 10 acres minimum across Road from Lake of the Pines was returned to the planning commission for study. Harry Wolters, attorney for the land owners, asked. that five-acre minimums be con(EDITOR'S NOTE: The Nevada County Nugget is reprinting in series form this story printed in the old files, July 3, 1936, It pertains to the men and mines of Nevada County and adjacent territory. It was written by Ar“thur B. Foote with George Starr collaborating. Both were well known in the golden days of this area.) By ARTHUR B, FOOTE NON-OUTCROPPING VEINS The property finally comprised over 1,400 acres of surface and mineral rights, on which had » Which ‘of the vein, two of them below 1500 feet, and none below 6000 feet. However, anumber of viens were discovered that did not outcrop, and it is some of these The possiblity that this week's North San Juan area forest fires were set by anarsonist in an airplane is being studied seriously by state investigators. The investigation is not complete, but officials: have found no probable cause for the sudden. ontbreak of fires Sunday And some of the blazes were too far from roads to have been ignited by someone stopsidered, contending it is the ping along a road starting a same as required in Lake of fire and then speeding away. the Pines Ranchos in the same larger than most people want or can maintain adequately. --By a 3-2 vote, the board did approve commercial zoning for all four corners of Highway 49 -at its junction with Combie and Wolf Roads. Dean Lawrence where a trail had been gouged out by bulldozers to move equipment to the fire scene. The distance would seem to have discouraged @ normal pyromaniac, although it was possible to drive most of the distance, And if the fires were set Supervisor ‘protested the approval, saying from the ground, it would have it is intended to allow continubeen necessary for eight arsonation of signs in the area such ists to have been at work in as the one pointing to Lake of eight separate and mainly rethe Pines. mote spots. Seer siuremeeece Arson from Plane r planning matters is possibility -Ted Waddell, head of the California Division of Forestry

here, admits the possibility that the fires were set from a plane. Waddell also saw the chance that’ a low-flying military jet emitted particles from its exhaust which caused sparks to ignite in dry-grass. : However, CDF checked with the U.S. Air Force's western operations headquarters, the unit which keeps track of the location of all military aircraft. That unit reported that no military planes were in this region during the time the fires started, Dick -Goings, CDF’ information officer, told The Union. Of arsonisits operating from an airplane, Goings said: "It's. happened before,"’ Goings said arson is being considered so strongly because eight small fires broke out in such a short time here, and, perhaps not by coincidence, eight fires were set in Calaveras county Saturday. (See Photos p. 12) it ‘was fourid: that only four of these veins were of commercial “yalue below 1000 feet on the dip Men and mines of Nevada County — veins that are now being worked below the 8600 level ofthe North Star Mine. In 1895, Mr. Hague brought A, D. Foote to Grass Valley to construct a power plant for the purpose of developing the whole property. Hague's idea was to install a gydro-electric plant, but electric power was then in its infancy and Foote, after a trip to Lake Superior and a few other places where there wereelec_ tric plants, decided that it could not be relied upon underground -no one knew how it was going to work. He, therefore, decided upon compressed air, and Ithink wisely. ‘ HUGE PELTON WHEEL When I came here in 1897, a pipe line to supply water under a head of 775 feet had been completed, to drive an air com-pressor for pumping out the Massachusetts Hill mine. Compressed air was used for hoisting, pumping, and drilling. The Pelton water wheel was the largest ever. built at that time, was mounted directly on the crankshaft of the compressor and the whole plant built of masonry for permanence, E, A. Rix, of San Francisco, designed the compressor, hoist, and a great deal of the compressed air machinery used later on, The air was heated before going tothe hoist, for greater economy, -and to prevent freezing, In 1926, this hoist was converted to electric drive and used to deepen the Central Shaft. The Massachusetts Hill was pumped out, and from 1897 to 1901, the North Star was actively stoping ore from the mine and hauling it to the North Star mill. William B. Fisher was superintendent for a time, and then A, Hall. One-man machine drills were being used there for the first time in this district for stoping. An old steam traction engine, bought from a logging company, was used for hauling ore when it would run, but it was continually breaking down and being made over, and then Pete Smith with his 6-horse team would be called upon to haul the ore. THOSE CORNISH PUMPS One of the things that impressed me most when I first came here was the-old Cornish (Continued on page 12) ose 4