March 19, 1969 (12 pages)

california By MIKE ABRAMSON When most Californians tote their e out to the can the house to await collector, se times hh as in the mornforget it. Th seldom think about what happens to it until civilization in some form encroathes upon the local disosal area, and refuse has to give way, usually after a bitter public controversy. Even then most le don’t equate their own contribution — an average of from three to five aa of refuse person day— to thé coinmuntirs solid Ww lem. partment of Public Heal which says that one year ‘would, if stacked in a w 100 feet high and 30 feet wide, ea from Oregon to Mex4 acco: to ev exas and the expenditure of millions of do! by public and private agencies across the coun frantic search for new methods. In the meantime, as the experts are e g the various exotic processes — like maybe rocketing garbage to the moon—which crop u from day to day but whic so far don’t work, the people who handle garbage now can only burn it or bury it. Burning with its potential of air pollution regardless of incinerator technology seems to have been out in California but the state’s garbagemen are the best buriers around. The Los Angeles area has long relied on sanitary. landfill as its prime method of refuse and has used its carefully engineered dump sites to provide ks and recreational facilities for the regor Tiny Colusa in the north as a ma cent recreational area fronting the Sacramento River where its old pe Gump used to be, and an Francisco has_ created hundreds of industrial from sanitary landfill. P er San Prenereso, bas ound a new and exciting wrinkle to the landfill technique which could solve that community’s waste disposal ‘problem—and that of its Bay Area neighbors — for several cen E San Francisco’s two privately owned scavenger companies—nationally known pioneers in Tr technolo, —have joined forces with the Western Pacific Railroad to propose a waste-haul “Cannon ” to transport the city’s refuse bg hap for burial on an unused 350-square mile desert site in Lassen County. Still a sanitary landfill operation to be sure, but Sunset Scavenger Company and 1d is:oe menact 10 be getting rid of garbage for a long time acres ele ey > cipitated a spate of research é et ae ae err ever / tee Washington District yielded a lot of gold in its time By Rye Slye River from Gaston Ridge. This ravine was never worked until last year. (Nevada Daily Gazette, August M4, 1866) Clean-ups are being made at the hydraulic claims of the Hathaway Co.; Place & Co.; Omega Co,; and the Alpha Hydraulic Co.; near Washington. It is estimated that an aggregate of between $60,000 and $70,000 in bullion will be realized. (Nevada City Daily Transcript, August 29, 1880) * * * An $1,800 bar of bullion was made at the Citizens Bank, Nevada City, yesterday. It was composed of coarse gold mined in Washington Township. (NCDT, October 13, 1880) ** * Jerry Gordon made awonderful discovery in his claim on Devil's Canyon, Poorman Creek. From: within a space a foot square and not six inches below the surface of the ground, he took out several chunks of gold ageregating $1,300 in value. (NCDT, October. 22, 1880) A Chinese miner, who came down from Omega today, brought with him a five ounce gold nugget which he found the other day in a gravel claim. He sold it to the Citizens Bank for close to $100. (NCDT, January 21, 1891) E, E. Mattison, who was not the first man in Nevada County to introduce hydraulic mining, was in town yesterday. He said he first used hydraulic mining power on American Hill, near Nevada City in 1852. He is still mining and makes his home at Diamond Creek, above Washington. (Note. Mr. Mattison died February 19, 1895. Age 80.). ’ Charles Fisk brought to this city a few days ago a Ict of gold nuggets taken from his gravel near Washington. These nuggets vary in size and range in value from one to two dollars. Mr. Fisk has arranged them in the shape of a bell, on a piece of cardboard, the bell being about a foot across the mouth and perhaps ten inches long. The center is composed of a solid mass of pretty nuggets. A photograph of the bell will be taken, after which the nu s will probably be sold, (NCDT, September 30, 1895.) , ~ (Note. A copy of this photograph may be seen on exhibit in the California Mining Bureau, Ferry Bldg., San Francisco.) ek * A reporter on the Transcript, December 11, 1895, tells of meeting a woman miner in God's Le ga ae eee a . SO S¢ ‘ eee e Country, above Washington, "In a region honeycombed with. old shafts, tunnels and deserted diggings, she obtained each year at least $200 in gold by pounding up quartz in a hand mortor. She is the mother of grown sons and daughters, She willingly showed her collection of float quartz that was very rich in gold, She had worn out several hand mortors," : (The reporter failed to give the woman miner's name.) KKK . The Transcript of July 8, 1896, again reports on "the Lady Miner. Her name was Mrs, Sta, ples. (No first name or initials 7 given). A middle-aged lady, mother of a comely family of grown sons and daughters," The Rocky Bar mine, above the Washington bridge, belongs to Hayes Bros, From a spot almost as big as the top of an ordinary kitchen table, $638 was picked up. Most of the pieces were worth over ten dollars each, One chunk was valued at $38. Another at $32, In another place, about as large as a saucer and about as deep, $263 was Picked up. This was all rough, free gold, not washed or worn very much, (NCDT, January 9, 1897) * * ‘ The last shipment of gold from the U. S. Post Office in Washington was made when the District was "snowed-in" during the winter of 1937--1938. Twentysix pounds of gold was shipped by the Spanish mine. (Bradley Mining Co.). The postal rate was three-cents an ounce. Shipment was to San Francisco, Bernadette Crowley, Washington postmaster 1930's-50's, and still a resident, * "In 1852 the main street of Washington reminded one of Montgomery Street in SanFrancisco, The river had been worked, with little system, in patches. Derricks hauled the boulders, which were hard to keep out of the way, being so numerous, On the hills good shakes and cord-wood are cut. In summer troops of donkeys start from here, loaded for the mines on the heights above. Everything was redolent of John T, Wicks rum! (NCDT, April 12, 1890) AH, SPRING! After what-.has been happe winter it would be no wonder to California this practically every water-logged Golden Stater starts going around chant. ing the A pas James Thomson’s “Come, gentle Spring! Ethereal mildness, come!” What they’ve been saying these past months sounds more like that line from Thomas Nashe’s tribute to the sweet season: “Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!” And after all the wet-weather sniffles and aches and the creakings of the rpc. Sager A accelerated aging process most of us will greet e vernal equinox on the somewhat lugubrious note of Jean Paul Richter’s “Spring makes everything young again, save man.” Saint Pat Sticklers for historical accuracy have long denied that Saint Patrick was Irish, or that he drove the snakes from the Auld Sod. They even say there weren’t any snakes to start with. But Saint Pat is alive, and living in the hearts of millions, whether they be true Irish or self-adopted. Shamrocks and harps are harbingers of his anniversary. ane this world needs. especially good, now and then, to honor one who out such an expansive friendliness in so many of us. pam. scstsuarabelitIten Nevada( County Rainfall Gauge NEVADA CITY Max, . Min, R, Mar, 12 48 28 00 Mar. 13 45 25 06 Mar, 14 51 24 -0C Mar, 15 58 24 00 Mar, 16 56 26 00 Mar, 17 59 30 20 Mar. 18 52 39 .06 Rainfall to date 73.06 Rainfall last year 33.37 GRASS VALLEY Max, Min. R, Mar, 12 48 34 trace Mar. 13 45 27 .03 Mar. 14 56 27 .00 Mar, 15 63 28 00 Mar. 16 GE 8g -00 Mar. 17 59 40. .16 Mar. 18 52 42 06 Rainfall to date Rainfall last year Letters iKditor, Nevada County Nugget Nevada City, Ca. 95959 Dear Sir: Some of your readers might be interested to know that the average rainfall in Nevada City figures out to be 51.96 inches per year. I added your figures a ee ak Me eee ee ar ae GAMA EAP EES CEPPHREPPD ERO CS SEM SIRS ENTERS, Ak LG in the Nugget from the years 1864 through 1968 giving a to. tal of 5,455.42 inches during that period and divided by 105 years, Very truly yours, LLOYD H, TRUMAN Piedmont, Calif, Everybody is getting cited for something or other nowadays and the news is full of accom. plishments of this or that person. Such being the case, we hast. en to inform you of an honor that has come our way membership in the Men’s Auxiliary of the League of Unbiased Women, thanks to that outstanding servant of mankind and president of the LOUW, Lizzie Glotzmier. The League’s motto is ‘To Bring Light Where Only Darkness Was Before,’’ and its emblem is The Lighted Candle. Armed with membership card} No. 850 we join this select group to live up to its high and lofty aims, and-we promise always to be equipped with a supply of kitchen matches to keep that candle burning. With apologies to Lizzie, poetess renowned, we dare to write: Fame comes to some men early, to others late. But however it comes, when it does it’s great. "Real education comes after we leave school; and there is no reason it should stop before our death." (Dewey) NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO, 318 Broad Street, ~Nevada City, Ca, 95959 Telephone 265-2471 Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California, Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court , Juce. 8, 1960, Decree No, 12,406, . Subscription Rates: one year, $3.00; two years, $5, 00, 1967. PRIZE WINNING NEWSPAPER ras Hea i eS i With bowed head . CSSPESPISBESESFESRS FSYRSESEEGESS FESSsesss SREB& Bi nm. ak QgRrSRe Hseeeroaeaskescwme Serer

california By MIKE ABRAMSON When most Californians tote their e out to the can the house to await collector, se times hh as in the mornforget it. Th seldom think about what happens to it until civilization in some form encroathes upon the local disosal area, and refuse has to give way, usually after a bitter public controversy. Even then most le don’t equate their own contribution — an average of from three to five aa of refuse person day— to thé coinmuntirs solid Ww lem. partment of Public Heal which says that one year ‘would, if stacked in a w 100 feet high and 30 feet wide, ea from Oregon to Mex4 acco: to ev exas and the expenditure of millions of do! by public and private agencies across the coun frantic search for new methods. In the meantime, as the experts are e g the various exotic processes — like maybe rocketing garbage to the moon—which crop u from day to day but whic so far don’t work, the people who handle garbage now can only burn it or bury it. Burning with its potential of air pollution regardless of incinerator technology seems to have been out in California but the state’s garbagemen are the best buriers around. The Los Angeles area has long relied on sanitary. landfill as its prime method of refuse and has used its carefully engineered dump sites to provide ks and recreational facilities for the regor Tiny Colusa in the north as a ma cent recreational area fronting the Sacramento River where its old pe Gump used to be, and an Francisco has_ created hundreds of industrial from sanitary landfill. P er San Prenereso, bas ound a new and exciting wrinkle to the landfill technique which could solve that community’s waste disposal ‘problem—and that of its Bay Area neighbors — for several cen E San Francisco’s two privately owned scavenger companies—nationally known pioneers in Tr technolo, —have joined forces with the Western Pacific Railroad to propose a waste-haul “Cannon ” to transport the city’s refuse bg hap for burial on an unused 350-square mile desert site in Lassen County. Still a sanitary landfill operation to be sure, but Sunset Scavenger Company and 1d is:oe menact 10 be getting rid of garbage for a long time acres ele ey > cipitated a spate of research é et ae ae err ever / tee Washington District yielded a lot of gold in its time By Rye Slye River from Gaston Ridge. This ravine was never worked until last year. (Nevada Daily Gazette, August M4, 1866) Clean-ups are being made at the hydraulic claims of the Hathaway Co.; Place & Co.; Omega Co,; and the Alpha Hydraulic Co.; near Washington. It is estimated that an aggregate of between $60,000 and $70,000 in bullion will be realized. (Nevada City Daily Transcript, August 29, 1880) * * * An $1,800 bar of bullion was made at the Citizens Bank, Nevada City, yesterday. It was composed of coarse gold mined in Washington Township. (NCDT, October 13, 1880) ** * Jerry Gordon made awonderful discovery in his claim on Devil's Canyon, Poorman Creek. From: within a space a foot square and not six inches below the surface of the ground, he took out several chunks of gold ageregating $1,300 in value. (NCDT, October. 22, 1880) A Chinese miner, who came down from Omega today, brought with him a five ounce gold nugget which he found the other day in a gravel claim. He sold it to the Citizens Bank for close to $100. (NCDT, January 21, 1891) E, E. Mattison, who was not the first man in Nevada County to introduce hydraulic mining, was in town yesterday. He said he first used hydraulic mining power on American Hill, near Nevada City in 1852. He is still mining and makes his home at Diamond Creek, above Washington. (Note. Mr. Mattison died February 19, 1895. Age 80.). ’ Charles Fisk brought to this city a few days ago a Ict of gold nuggets taken from his gravel near Washington. These nuggets vary in size and range in value from one to two dollars. Mr. Fisk has arranged them in the shape of a bell, on a piece of cardboard, the bell being about a foot across the mouth and perhaps ten inches long. The center is composed of a solid mass of pretty nuggets. A photograph of the bell will be taken, after which the nu s will probably be sold, (NCDT, September 30, 1895.) , ~ (Note. A copy of this photograph may be seen on exhibit in the California Mining Bureau, Ferry Bldg., San Francisco.) ek * A reporter on the Transcript, December 11, 1895, tells of meeting a woman miner in God's Le ga ae eee a . SO S¢ ‘ eee e Country, above Washington, "In a region honeycombed with. old shafts, tunnels and deserted diggings, she obtained each year at least $200 in gold by pounding up quartz in a hand mortor. She is the mother of grown sons and daughters, She willingly showed her collection of float quartz that was very rich in gold, She had worn out several hand mortors," : (The reporter failed to give the woman miner's name.) KKK . The Transcript of July 8, 1896, again reports on "the Lady Miner. Her name was Mrs, Sta, ples. (No first name or initials 7 given). A middle-aged lady, mother of a comely family of grown sons and daughters," The Rocky Bar mine, above the Washington bridge, belongs to Hayes Bros, From a spot almost as big as the top of an ordinary kitchen table, $638 was picked up. Most of the pieces

were worth over ten dollars each, One chunk was valued at $38. Another at $32, In another place, about as large as a saucer and about as deep, $263 was Picked up. This was all rough, free gold, not washed or worn very much, (NCDT, January 9, 1897) * * ‘ The last shipment of gold from the U. S. Post Office in Washington was made when the District was "snowed-in" during the winter of 1937--1938. Twentysix pounds of gold was shipped by the Spanish mine. (Bradley Mining Co.). The postal rate was three-cents an ounce. Shipment was to San Francisco, Bernadette Crowley, Washington postmaster 1930's-50's, and still a resident, * "In 1852 the main street of Washington reminded one of Montgomery Street in SanFrancisco, The river had been worked, with little system, in patches. Derricks hauled the boulders, which were hard to keep out of the way, being so numerous, On the hills good shakes and cord-wood are cut. In summer troops of donkeys start from here, loaded for the mines on the heights above. Everything was redolent of John T, Wicks rum! (NCDT, April 12, 1890) AH, SPRING! After what-.has been happe winter it would be no wonder to California this practically every water-logged Golden Stater starts going around chant. ing the A pas James Thomson’s “Come, gentle Spring! Ethereal mildness, come!” What they’ve been saying these past months sounds more like that line from Thomas Nashe’s tribute to the sweet season: “Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!” And after all the wet-weather sniffles and aches and the creakings of the rpc. Sager A accelerated aging process most of us will greet e vernal equinox on the somewhat lugubrious note of Jean Paul Richter’s “Spring makes everything young again, save man.” Saint Pat Sticklers for historical accuracy have long denied that Saint Patrick was Irish, or that he drove the snakes from the Auld Sod. They even say there weren’t any snakes to start with. But Saint Pat is alive, and living in the hearts of millions, whether they be true Irish or self-adopted. Shamrocks and harps are harbingers of his anniversary. ane this world needs. especially good, now and then, to honor one who out such an expansive friendliness in so many of us. pam. scstsuarabelitIten Nevada( County Rainfall Gauge NEVADA CITY Max, . Min, R, Mar, 12 48 28 00 Mar. 13 45 25 06 Mar, 14 51 24 -0C Mar, 15 58 24 00 Mar, 16 56 26 00 Mar, 17 59 30 20 Mar. 18 52 39 .06 Rainfall to date 73.06 Rainfall last year 33.37 GRASS VALLEY Max, Min. R, Mar, 12 48 34 trace Mar. 13 45 27 .03 Mar. 14 56 27 .00 Mar, 15 63 28 00 Mar. 16 GE 8g -00 Mar. 17 59 40. .16 Mar. 18 52 42 06 Rainfall to date Rainfall last year Letters iKditor, Nevada County Nugget Nevada City, Ca. 95959 Dear Sir: Some of your readers might be interested to know that the average rainfall in Nevada City figures out to be 51.96 inches per year. I added your figures a ee ak Me eee ee ar ae GAMA EAP EES CEPPHREPPD ERO CS SEM SIRS ENTERS, Ak LG in the Nugget from the years 1864 through 1968 giving a to. tal of 5,455.42 inches during that period and divided by 105 years, Very truly yours, LLOYD H, TRUMAN Piedmont, Calif, Everybody is getting cited for something or other nowadays and the news is full of accom. plishments of this or that person. Such being the case, we hast. en to inform you of an honor that has come our way membership in the Men’s Auxiliary of the League of Unbiased Women, thanks to that outstanding servant of mankind and president of the LOUW, Lizzie Glotzmier. The League’s motto is ‘To Bring Light Where Only Darkness Was Before,’’ and its emblem is The Lighted Candle. Armed with membership card} No. 850 we join this select group to live up to its high and lofty aims, and-we promise always to be equipped with a supply of kitchen matches to keep that candle burning. With apologies to Lizzie, poetess renowned, we dare to write: Fame comes to some men early, to others late. But however it comes, when it does it’s great. "Real education comes after we leave school; and there is no reason it should stop before our death." (Dewey) NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO, 318 Broad Street, ~Nevada City, Ca, 95959 Telephone 265-2471 Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California, Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court , Juce. 8, 1960, Decree No, 12,406, . Subscription Rates: one year, $3.00; two years, $5, 00, 1967. PRIZE WINNING NEWSPAPER ras Hea i eS i With bowed head . CSSPESPISBESESFESRS FSYRSESEEGESS FESSsesss SREB& Bi nm. ak QgRrSRe Hseeeroaeaskescwme Serer