November 7, 1973 (8 pages)

4 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., Nov. 7, 1973 Oe IO I II tae ae ee he he hee ht hh Capitol Comment aver terere etctaretatet seit. 0 00:6 9.0 eine O18 tS ie ele ere we 6 6 boo eae se ene sere by Earl G. Waters Ray Arnett, the state’s chief of fish and game wardens, was widely quoted the other day in a “news” interview condemning a surge of hunting and fishing activity he attributed to increased living costs. Reporting an increase in deer tag sales of 10,000 over last year and a doubling of bear tag sales, he said fishing license sales had also nearly doubled. Arnett was critical of the fact that many apparently have taken to hunting and fishing ‘‘just to beat the high cost of meat, hoping to fill their larders with venison and trout’’. He said the influx of meat hunters has resulted in more trespassing, poaching and roadside shooting and that hunters were complaining of thefts of game from their camps. He called the meat hunters ‘‘slob hunters” and said they and the poachers give all sportsmen a bad name. “The point of h unting and fishing,” he declared, is not seeing how much fish and.game you can bring home. The true sportsman is more interested in the chance to get away, to commune with nature and to pit himself against the animal.” Now, really, Ray! Isn’t it a fact that every ‘“‘sportsman’’ is given to boring everyone within earshot of his great prowess as a hunter? Don’t they all delight in bragging about how they got the limit? Don’t the “sports” magazines love to feature pictures of fishermen standing by their catches, holding up the “‘big one’”’, and otherwise showing with their lures? off their great abilities in fooling the poor fish As for the hunter “‘pitting himself against the animals”, it has always seemed it would be much fairer if you gave the animal a gun with which to shoot back. And, as for trespassing and poaching, there is nothing new. about that. Each hunting down the hunters without licenses year fish and game wardens are kept busy and answering trespassing complaints from irate property owners. The true hunters were. the primitive men. They, like the predatory animals, killed only for food. And it is hardly fitting to condemn those today who are reverting to the only real justification for killing wildlife. Arnett knows studies and experi history of hunting. all this. " : is a geologist by profession. His ence in ti._. field assure his awareness of the Arnett also has a solid background as both a sportsman and aconservationist. Before he was appointed director of fish and game, he had long been organizations. active in both sportsmen and conservation. Because of this he has been an outstanding director. Until his appointment, the department had a long history of controversy. The many sportsmen grou » not content to just fight commercial fishermen, were constantly quarrelling among themselves and all were blaming everything on the state department. This has all disappeared under Arnett who has great ability in getting along with people, making the right decisions, and administering fairly. For these reasons the story of Arnett’s criticism of those hunting just to beat misquoted or his statements. high meat costs doesn’t ring true. He was either quotes were out of context with his full It is understandable that Arnett would be out of sorts with people who fail to get licenses, who trespass and steal, but it is most unlikely that he would begrudge those whose hunting is motivated by a need for food rather than just the sheer pleasure of killing a defenseless animal. ( BUSINESS > BILLBOARD Sit back and sified ads do the selling, renting for you. let clasLon Gilbert FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP HEFFREN INSURANCE AGENCY 111 W. Main P.O Box 1034 or buying Grass Valley. Ca. 265-6166 LITTLE THE CIPSON’S 6 BAKE SHOP _' 429 E. Ridge Rd. Grass Valley Park At The Door Of The Friendly Store Cedar Ridge 273-2561 te Ladies Shop Colfax Hiway — 273-4664 By Fay Deer season must be over. One of the littte herd of three, that used to live on the hill, is . back. We lost the baby to a car on the highway and hunters must have killed the mother. This one was the yearling and it came right down to the garden fence. Experienced hunters tell me deer really don’t eat much grass. It seems they prefer to munch on interesting kinds of foliage. I .guess this explains why we don’t have them in our garden. There is such a wide expanse of just grass all around it. This young lady (I think she was our families’ last year’s baby) must have found something munchie along the ditch bank. That is where I first saw her. It’s interesting that we never see the papa yet each year (for 4 or 5 years) there has been new babies. Madame Anna Bishop sang The Last Rose of Summer and Juanita to great acclaim, from members and friends of the Historical Society, last Thursday evening. Madame Bishop was portrayed by Mrs. Josephine Webb of Rough and Ready Road. She was accompanied on the piano by Mrs. Esther Ross of Grass Valley. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hattox were hosts for the meeting. The prime concern of the Webbs, at the moment, is Mrs. Webbs little mare. Sounds to me like the little rascal enjoyed munching on things she shouldn’t. Such as oak, the poison variety. Our cows clean it right out of any pasture I leave them in for a while. It doesn’t seem to bother them a bit. They even eat wild blackberries right into the ground. That doesn’t seem to bother them either. Maybe it has something to do with the fact they have three stomachs. You’d think they would hurt three times as much. Josephine and Mrs. Donna Pierson of Prospector: Way often ride together in our back country. Mrs. Pierson, who is quite knowledgeable about horses, says this is not an unusual thing to happen. Our little old mare Lady was never bothered. But she was very wise. She selected her food with much care. Anyone who can live to be 111 (37 horse years) human years old must have been wise. Mrs. Mary Lee has been out for at least one small junket in her car. One of our beautiful days last week was just too enticing. She had to get out and explore the colorful countryside. She carried her crutches along. It’s been a very long hard year for Mary. She expects soon now to be able to exchange the cruthces for a walker. Sorry to have been negligent for a couple of months about birthdays. One I cannot forget is Mrs. Martina Paull who celelbrates her natal day on November 11. : Martina is at Glenwood Guest Home in Grass Valley. She is scheduled for eye surgery a couple of days after her birthday. A cataract has begun to cloud her vision. She will be at Sierra Memorial. Oops! Put my foot in it again. Mrs. Mary Burns was chairman of the Grange Ladies Bazaar held last Saturday at the hall. Mary made a beautiful, Afghan which was won by Richard Tolle. Scott Licht won a lap Afghan. Donnas Davis.won the beautiful Quilt. All of the ladies worked on the quilt under the direction of Mrs. Rose Hodge. Sandwiches were served in the dining room. My sister and I managed to spend a few very enjoyable minutes there. A bus load of Chico State College students were here, seeing our colorful countryside, last Saturday. Daniel Beatie, who is a student at Chico State, talked them into a brief visit in Rough and Ready. He explained to them just a bit about our history and the few remaining old buildings and then took them on a tour of the old Bunker Hill Mine. If any of you have not seen it just hold out a little time on next Secession Day, and take the conducted tour. Dan and his family and some of his friends have reopened the old Rough and Ready News thing of beauty. Dunbar ie mine tunnel back a ways into the mountain. They are very conscious of safety and are moving slowly and shoring very carefully as they go. I heartily recommend it as an interesting and enlightening experience. After the tour left here I helped them with information about the rest of our area. We did the Empire mine in Grass Valley. It is fascinating but there is little more to see than Daniel has at the Bunker Hill. You can still see the tracks and the platform where the miners climbed into the cars that carried:them down to the level or stope where they were working on that particular day. You can see into the windows of the old Blacksmith Shop which they maintained. It also became a Machine Shop and looks quite exciting. One thing that interested the group about the Empire was the peculiar group of miners they used one year. If you haven’t heard the story you will be interested. One year they lowered 40 donkeys into the mine. They were left there all the time and cared for by the miners. It turned out to be a very profitable year for the mine and the particular level on which they were working. The donkeys were sewn into canvas bags to be lowered. There is a picture of this at the Mining Museum. I thought they were surely kidding me when I first heard the story but it actually happened. They say one of the mules learned to chew tobacco that year. Wonder if he became proficient at the art chewers excelled in. Since they didn’t continue the operation in this manner I guess they must have found something more efficient. The donkeys were used to pull the quartz laden ore cars to a central lift point. centennial celebration of the Trinity Episcopal Church in Nevada City is worth a few words. I didn’t see any Rough and Ready people there but I know of several of our families who do attend there. The dedication was done by the Grand Parlor Native Sons and the local parlor and the plaque was blessed by the visiting Bishop The Right Reverend Clarence Haden. The plaque noted the fact that the church is on the previous site of Caldwells Upper Store. So it too is historic. Trinity Parish opened in 1855, but the present building was erected by shipwrights, working in the mines, in 1873. Take a minute and visit Trinity Episcopal. You can observe from the outside how tall and steep the roof line is. From the inside you will note there is no ceiling and there are no beams. It is built with some of the same principles the shipwrights were familiar with in building ships. What beams there are extend about 6 feet in from the sides of the building with a brace down to the side walls and then this whole thing is tied to the rafters. It’s the most unusual bit of craftsmanship I have ever seen. You would find it worth a little effort. The Nave is built as the upended keel of the ship.Don’t forget the Rough and Ready Chamber meeting on the 8th of November. It’s annual election night. Now is a good time to plant a tree to help beautify our Jittle town. The maples and liquid ambers which show so much red color can be planted now and almost double the growth achieved by waiting until spring to plant. Mrs. Alice Perry has a red oak in her garden that is a “No one likes chlorinated drinking water but everyone hopes it’s safe. A young Michigan doctor is sure that chlorinated water is not safe at all and instead should be sterilized with ultra violet light, not with chemicals.” — Tests have been made on chickens with quite disastrous results. ‘‘Chlorine, incidentally, was the principal poison gas of World War I.” (Review of the News 6-27). Isn’t that a cheerful bit of information to end my news with today. But it is important we know about such things. Information, of course, is always available but certainly doesn’t get much circulation. \ { The dedication of the plaque Fy

4 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., Nov. 7, 1973 Oe IO I II tae ae ee he he hee ht hh Capitol Comment aver terere etctaretatet seit. 0 00:6 9.0 eine O18 tS ie ele ere we 6 6 boo eae se ene sere by Earl G. Waters Ray Arnett, the state’s chief of fish and game wardens, was widely quoted the other day in a “news” interview condemning a surge of hunting and fishing activity he attributed to increased living costs. Reporting an increase in deer tag sales of 10,000 over last year and a doubling of bear tag sales, he said fishing license sales had also nearly doubled. Arnett was critical of the fact that many apparently have taken to hunting and fishing ‘‘just to beat the high cost of meat, hoping to fill their larders with venison and trout’’. He said the influx of meat hunters has resulted in more trespassing, poaching and roadside shooting and that hunters were complaining of thefts of game from their camps. He called the meat hunters ‘‘slob hunters” and said they and the poachers give all sportsmen a bad name. “The point of h unting and fishing,” he declared, is not seeing how much fish and.game you can bring home. The true sportsman is more interested in the chance to get away, to commune with nature and to pit himself against the animal.” Now, really, Ray! Isn’t it a fact that every ‘“‘sportsman’’ is given to boring everyone within earshot of his great prowess as a hunter? Don’t they all delight in bragging about how they got the limit? Don’t the “sports” magazines love to feature pictures of fishermen standing by their catches, holding up the “‘big one’”’, and otherwise showing with their lures? off their great abilities in fooling the poor fish As for the hunter “‘pitting himself against the animals”, it has always seemed it would be much fairer if you gave the animal a gun with which to shoot back. And, as for trespassing and poaching, there is nothing new. about that. Each hunting down the hunters without licenses year fish and game wardens are kept busy and answering trespassing complaints from irate property owners. The true hunters were. the primitive men. They, like the predatory animals, killed only for food. And it is hardly fitting to condemn those today who are reverting to the only real justification for killing wildlife. Arnett knows studies and experi history of hunting. all this. " : is a geologist by profession. His ence in ti._. field assure his awareness of the Arnett also has a solid background as both a sportsman and aconservationist. Before he was appointed director of fish and game, he had long been organizations. active in both sportsmen and conservation. Because of this he has been an outstanding director. Until his appointment, the department had a long history of controversy. The many sportsmen grou » not content to just fight commercial fishermen, were constantly quarrelling among themselves and all were blaming everything on the state department. This has all disappeared under Arnett who has great ability in getting along with people, making the right decisions, and administering fairly. For these reasons the story of Arnett’s criticism of those hunting just to beat misquoted or his statements. high meat costs doesn’t ring true. He was either quotes were out of context with his full It is understandable that Arnett would be out of sorts with people who fail to get licenses, who trespass and steal, but it is most unlikely that he would begrudge those whose hunting is motivated by a need for food rather than just the sheer pleasure of killing a defenseless animal. ( BUSINESS > BILLBOARD Sit back and sified ads do the selling, renting for you. let clasLon Gilbert FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP HEFFREN INSURANCE AGENCY 111 W. Main P.O Box 1034 or buying Grass Valley. Ca. 265-6166 LITTLE THE CIPSON’S 6 BAKE SHOP _' 429 E. Ridge Rd.. Grass Valley Park At The Door Of The Friendly Store Cedar Ridge 273-2561 te Ladies Shop Colfax Hiway — 273-4664 By Fay Deer season must be over. One of the littte herd of three, that used to live on the hill, is . back. We lost the baby to a car on the highway and hunters must have killed the mother. This one was the yearling and it came right down to the garden fence. Experienced hunters tell me deer really don’t eat much grass. It seems they prefer to munch on interesting kinds of foliage. I .guess this explains why we don’t have them in our garden. There is such a wide expanse of just grass all around it. This young lady (I think she was our families’ last year’s baby) must have found something munchie along the ditch bank. That is where I first saw her. It’s interesting that we never see the papa yet each year (for 4 or 5 years) there has been new babies. Madame Anna Bishop sang The Last Rose of Summer and Juanita to great acclaim, from members and friends of the Historical Society, last Thursday evening. Madame Bishop was portrayed by Mrs. Josephine Webb of Rough and Ready Road. She was accompanied on the piano by Mrs. Esther Ross of Grass Valley. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hattox were hosts for the meeting. The prime concern of the Webbs, at the moment, is Mrs. Webbs little mare. Sounds to me like the little rascal enjoyed munching on things she shouldn’t. Such as oak, the poison variety. Our cows clean it right out of any pasture I leave them in for a while. It doesn’t seem to bother them a bit. They even eat wild blackberries right into the ground. That doesn’t seem to bother them either. Maybe it has something to do with the fact they have three stomachs. You’d think they would hurt three times as much. Josephine and Mrs. Donna Pierson of

Prospector: Way often ride together in our back country. Mrs. Pierson, who is quite knowledgeable about horses, says this is not an unusual thing to happen. Our little old mare Lady was never bothered. But she was very wise. She selected her food with much care. Anyone who can live to be 111 (37 horse years) human years old must have been wise. Mrs. Mary Lee has been out for at least one small junket in her car. One of our beautiful days last week was just too enticing. She had to get out and explore the colorful countryside. She carried her crutches along. It’s been a very long hard year for Mary. She expects soon now to be able to exchange the cruthces for a walker. Sorry to have been negligent for a couple of months about birthdays. One I cannot forget is Mrs. Martina Paull who celelbrates her natal day on November 11. : Martina is at Glenwood Guest Home in Grass Valley. She is scheduled for eye surgery a couple of days after her birthday. A cataract has begun to cloud her vision. She will be at Sierra Memorial. Oops! Put my foot in it again. Mrs. Mary Burns was chairman of the Grange Ladies Bazaar held last Saturday at the hall. Mary made a beautiful, Afghan which was won by Richard Tolle. Scott Licht won a lap Afghan. Donnas Davis.won the beautiful Quilt. All of the ladies worked on the quilt under the direction of Mrs. Rose Hodge. Sandwiches were served in the dining room. My sister and I managed to spend a few very enjoyable minutes there. A bus load of Chico State College students were here, seeing our colorful countryside, last Saturday. Daniel Beatie, who is a student at Chico State, talked them into a brief visit in Rough and Ready. He explained to them just a bit about our history and the few remaining old buildings and then took them on a tour of the old Bunker Hill Mine. If any of you have not seen it just hold out a little time on next Secession Day, and take the conducted tour. Dan and his family and some of his friends have reopened the old Rough and Ready News thing of beauty. Dunbar ie mine tunnel back a ways into the mountain. They are very conscious of safety and are moving slowly and shoring very carefully as they go. I heartily recommend it as an interesting and enlightening experience. After the tour left here I helped them with information about the rest of our area. We did the Empire mine in Grass Valley. It is fascinating but there is little more to see than Daniel has at the Bunker Hill. You can still see the tracks and the platform where the miners climbed into the cars that carried:them down to the level or stope where they were working on that particular day. You can see into the windows of the old Blacksmith Shop which they maintained. It also became a Machine Shop and looks quite exciting. One thing that interested the group about the Empire was the peculiar group of miners they used one year. If you haven’t heard the story you will be interested. One year they lowered 40 donkeys into the mine. They were left there all the time and cared for by the miners. It turned out to be a very profitable year for the mine and the particular level on which they were working. The donkeys were sewn into canvas bags to be lowered. There is a picture of this at the Mining Museum. I thought they were surely kidding me when I first heard the story but it actually happened. They say one of the mules learned to chew tobacco that year. Wonder if he became proficient at the art chewers excelled in. Since they didn’t continue the operation in this manner I guess they must have found something more efficient. The donkeys were used to pull the quartz laden ore cars to a central lift point. centennial celebration of the Trinity Episcopal Church in Nevada City is worth a few words. I didn’t see any Rough and Ready people there but I know of several of our families who do attend there. The dedication was done by the Grand Parlor Native Sons and the local parlor and the plaque was blessed by the visiting Bishop The Right Reverend Clarence Haden. The plaque noted the fact that the church is on the previous site of Caldwells Upper Store. So it too is historic. Trinity Parish opened in 1855, but the present building was erected by shipwrights, working in the mines, in 1873. Take a minute and visit Trinity Episcopal. You can observe from the outside how tall and steep the roof line is. From the inside you will note there is no ceiling and there are no beams. It is built with some of the same principles the shipwrights were familiar with in building ships. What beams there are extend about 6 feet in from the sides of the building with a brace down to the side walls and then this whole thing is tied to the rafters. It’s the most unusual bit of craftsmanship I have ever seen. You would find it worth a little effort. The Nave is built as the upended keel of the ship.Don’t forget the Rough and Ready Chamber meeting on the 8th of November. It’s annual election night. Now is a good time to plant a tree to help beautify our Jittle town. The maples and liquid ambers which show so much red color can be planted now and almost double the growth achieved by waiting until spring to plant. Mrs. Alice Perry has a red oak in her garden that is a “No one likes chlorinated drinking water but everyone hopes it’s safe. A young Michigan doctor is sure that chlorinated water is not safe at all and instead should be sterilized with ultra violet light, not with chemicals.” — Tests have been made on chickens with quite disastrous results. ‘‘Chlorine, incidentally, was the principal poison gas of World War I.” (Review of the News 6-27). Isn’t that a cheerful bit of information to end my news with today. But it is important we know about such things. Information, of course, is always available but certainly doesn’t get much circulation. \ { The dedication of the plaque Fy