October 18, 1961 (16 pages)

ae NEVADA er”. ie Published Every Wednesday ie. NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, INC. 132 Main St., Nevada City, Calif. Dial 265-2471 Alfred E. Heller. Pe R. Dean Thompson . . » . Editor-Manager Second class postage paid at Nevada City, Calif. Adjudicateda legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960 Decree No, 12,406 Subscription Rates: One year, $3.00; Two years, $5.00 Three years, $7.00. Printed by Berliner & Mc Ginnis, Nevada City. EDITORIAL: Forest Products In Our County This is one of those weeks during the year when several observances coincide, each worthy of comment. It is National Newspaper Week. Friday begins Patriotic Education Week, dating from the Battle of Yorktown in the days of the revolution. But it is Forest Products Week thatrecuires local consideration. The forest products industry in Nevada County furnishes an annual payroll in excess of $5,000, 000. More than 1100 localresidents depend directly on forest products for their ‘ncome. It would be conservative to esti.aate that an additional 2500 localresidents depend on forest products indirectly for a large portion of their income. Nevada County depends on loggers, lumbermen andtruckers. They are a basic segment of our community. We must under stand the problems of the forest products industry, because those problems must be considered ours, too. It takes only a surface glance at the forest industry in Nevada County to realize that allis not well withthe industry. Many saw mills have closed. Others profess to be near the end of their road unless business conditions change in the immediate future. Leaders of the lumbering industry here are quickto point out problems they face. “Zoggers face additional problems in finding andremoving timber. They face mae active antagonism of new residents who object to the removal of what they consider scenery. They face enforcement of fish and game rules about water pollution. They must abide by good forestry practices or face state actionto revoke their licenses. Truckers face more traffic in moving timber to the mills. They find more weight checks, andatightening of rules concerning their use of the highways. Lumbermen find more objections voided . tothe operation of saw mills throughout the ~ounty as newresidents move into the area oretire or get away from the smog of the valleys and metropolitan areas. In addition, they face more sce . from non-lumber building materials. And for local forest products industry . members there isthe added burden of having to ship the finished product by truck rather than byrail. This is an expense that might be the final blow for some local lumbering firms. These are the problems. Many ofthem can be solved only by the industry realizing it is living in a era of county growth. Loggers must expect increased pressure for better logging practices. They are a seqment of a growing diversified county, and they must learn to live with other land uses in harmony, The same is true of the truckers. Tumbermen, too, must adjusttothe multiple use of conty property. But other seqments of our conty must at the sametime realize the problems of this county industry. Others share the respon. sibility of making it possible for our forest products industry tocontinwueto live as a neighbor in the county of our choice, Our chambers of commerce and the county Roard of Trade share in this responsibility. They should be actively seeking new outlets for the sale of local lumber. They should be working hand in hand with industry leaders totry tosolve some of these problems that face this basic mextion of the county economy. An excellent starting eclae would be for the chambers and county promotional agency tojoin in seeking a solution to the transportation problem that faces the local in_ dustry---the extra expense of shipping by In the beautiful Nevada County area 12 20 miles above Nevada City the Lake City, North Bloomfield, Graniteville, Bowman Lake country, two big stories are developing each a separate story yet intermingling. One is the 12,000 acre proposed State Park tobe known as the Malakoff Diggin's State Park and the other is the building of new dams by the Nevada Irrigation District in the area above the Malakoff. Both progressive steps are dependent on the passage of bond issues one at local level and the other a state-wide ballot. The ditches and dams necessary for the hydraulic mines are the pioneer water system of today's NID. This isthe Malakoll StOtVi Feces oie: I have been past the Malakoff many times: with my father, Lon, on the Graniteville stage, with my uncle George Hegarty on the freight wagon to the Snow Point Mine, and with Rose Hegarty and my cousin Tuck Hegarty ina horse and buggy. My grandmothers Waldron and Paine catered to the Malakoff: miners at their hotels in Lake City. One of our antique treasures is a gold simulated vase, givenusby Jean(Mrs. A. B.) Innis when she operated the New York Hotel. The vase was a golden wedding gift to Mr. and Mrs. H. Pinchoir when he was secretary-treasurer of the Malakoff, and later found its way into NC's antique dealers stores. The Malakoff story covers the use of several inventions given to practical use on the property but invented far from the mine. The Malakoff story is the story of all the mountain ditches forerunners of the . important Nevada Irrigation District. The Malakoff storyis the story of illicit mining long after the Federal Government by the SawyerAct stilled the monitors. It was gold that made the towns of San Juan, Lake City, Columbia Hill, Bloomfield, Moore's Flat and Graniteville, Mén came tothe “northern mines" from every-state in the Union; from every civilized nation on earth andsome that were not so civilized. As soon as Marshall had discovered gold at Coloma, men began to scatter up the various streams that headed into the Sierra. In the latter part of 1848 a few stragglers started up the Yuba river, and by 1849 they had penetrated the San Juan Ridge section in large numbers, But in 1850 the real flood of prospectors set in. the men who had come across the plains, around the Horn and across the Isthmus at the beckon on untold wealth awaiting them on the banks of California's gold-lined rivers. As the gold gradually disappeared from the main streams inthe bottom of the canyons, they worked the tributaries and followed the ravines that carried them well up onto the backs of the ridges. It was just back of Nevada City that the first hydraulic mining took place. Quickly this method spread. Men commenced to go upstream to dig ditches that would bring the water down under pressure to the groundthat wasto be washed. They formedcompanies and went further upstream to bring down larger quantities of water and finally these companies became large corporations that spent as much as a half million dollars on the construction of a truck rather than by rail. We have not founda hea!thy situation as we have discussed the local forest products industry. But would not be hones if we were toindicate that all was black in this industry. Great progress has been made in timber . management within our area, Tahoe National Forest has been able in recent months to increase the annual yield within its boundaries. Private forest land owners also expanding their management techniques, either through the hiring of private forestry consultants or through cooperative efforts with leading local lumbering firms. With proper land management, local industrial leaders can be assured that the timber will be here to continue their industry in future years. With the cooperation of local leaders, we trust the industry can recover its stability and prosper in future years, Our county will prosper as a by-product. The Malakoff Mine between Lake City and Bloomfield in full operation--at the edge of North Bloomfield rise the exquisitely molded pinnacles and minarets, touched with vivid colors like a place enchanted, In the Malakoff Mine Office gold was reduced to bars for transportation to the San Francisco Mint, The largest bar weighed a quarter of a ton and was valued at $114, 000. In flumes such as this the water was brought down from the high Nevada County elevations clinging precariously to sheer mountain cliffs. Gardens flourished at the Malakoff--so did babies. In the covered wagon is Walter Warnecke. single ditch to bring down vast supplies of water from the very headwaters of the Yuba watershed. a The Eureka Lake and Yuba Canal company, with headquarters at North Columbia Hill, had a 200-mile system of ditches and four reservoirs that cost in excess of $1,500,000; the North Bloomfield Gravel Mining company (The Malakoff) had 43 miles of ditches that cost over $700,000; then there was the Milton Mining and Water company of French Corral with its 80 miles of ditches and one reservoir that represented an investment of $670,000, x These three companies were the giants of the San Juan ridge. They owned and operated vast mines. Their reservoirs in the high Sierra 6000 feet above sea level supplied the water that was led down the San Juan ridge to hundreds of mines, through canals and flumes that are marvels The Malakoff, pr Serbians working in the area, was the obably named by greatest hydraulic mine of all time. Here at the Malakoff mine we find inventions taken up and utilized before. the very regions in which the inventions occurred knew what it was all about. These hydraulic mining men were big, their minds were big, they did things on a big scale, Here at the Malakoff was probably the first time in history use was made of the electric arc lamp. Here at the Malakoff the Burleigh air drill was first used. Before its discovery all drilling was by hand, The real practical use of the first long distance telephone from French Corral was to protect and forewarn thé illegal operations at the Malakoff of spies, better known as the ageats after the mines were ordered closed down. grandmothers at Lake City were a part of a vast " ground’ information system, Feds the US government My underi of engineering, tremendous canals windThe Malakoff Story Continued next week. Letter To The. Editor ing their.way down through the rugged, Sierra; immense flumes ‘that clung to the . faces of rocky precipes, carrying their loads of hundreds of tons of water 4a. thousand feet above the canyon floor; structures built in the 50's, 60's and 70's that modern engineers would be unable to improve upon. During prehistoric times the drainage system on the western slope of the Sierra~Nevada was entirely different than it is to-day, These rivers cut through rich quartz ledges and the gold was washed down the streams. This continued for thousands of years until volcanic action flooded the land with lava and volcanic matter, The molten lava followed the ancient river channels and covered the gravel beds. As the lava cooled it formed a hard lava cap that resisted erosion and turned the flood waters into other channels. Through the thousands of years since that time, new channels have been cut deeper and deeper into the earth's crust and have left the ancient river beds high on the mountain sides above them, These gravel beds were sometimes more than a hundred feet in depth and perhaps covered with another hundred feet oftopdirt. Against these banks the nozzles of the hydraulic monitors were turned -and steadily washed away the mountain sides. Imagine, if you can, the Malakoff mine at North Bloomfield, where four and five monitors at a time worked against the great cliffs of cemented gravel; monitors with nozzles from7 to 9 inches in diameter throwing water under a 300 foot head. A stream of water that might carry a 50 pound boulder like an arrow for a hundred feet. Its roaring force was hurled against the gravel cliff more than 200 feet away, and wherever it hit, the rocks were hurled skyward and sideways. The flow of water carried the gravel down through the sluice boxes, where the gold was recovered, to the sides of the canyon into one of the various forks of the Yuba river. The peach orchards of Yuba county grow on the top soil of North Bloomfield and Lake City. Dear friends: I can't tell you how surprised and pleased I was to receivethe beautiful George Mathis sketch notes from The Nugget. They are beautifully done. Being one of a family of artists, I know fine art work when I see it. My brother is Gordon Grant of N.Y., Marine artist who not only is famous for his water colors and oils, but etchings and pencil sketches. Another brother, Douglas Grant in North Carolina is an artist, and Campbell Grant, a nephew of Santa Barbara was with Walt Disney and now doing illustrating on. his own. The subjects of Mr, Mathis‘ sketches are so interesting and I would like to know what he charges for his groups of sketches. I would liketo make Christmas gifts of them, If there are more views, would he send mea group, giving his price, and I will send a check, Then later on, I can order more. I expect toreceivea phone call tonight or tomorrow from my son and his wife, about The Nugget subscription, They will be so pleased, I ama The Wilderness Society and continually speak my mind on the preservation of our precious wilderness and the “cease highway or freeways” in the high country, such as recently was put through at Tioga Pass, Well, I won'‘trun on, Again, manythanks for your gift. Most sincerelyMrs, Fred G, Shaw Oakland Editor: Our place is in N, Bloomfield. We enjoy the Nugget for all except your pushing so hard to take our places ‘away from us and turn them into a state park. Take Malakoff --but please! Hands off North Bloomfield! !! R, E, Rhode North Bloomfield a.” Cycling News By Charles Allert Oct. 15 the first time trials were held at Pioneer Park. Fast time winner was Chris Buchanan, with a time of 2 min 7.5 seconds for the one lap around the park. Second place went to Rick Worth. His time,2 minutes 11 seconds. Third place was taken by Dick Hawkins with 2 minutes 16 seconds~” Sunday afternoon some more time trials will be held, as well as a few group runs. The meeting place will be in front of the Seamans Lodge at 2:30 p.m. Dave Waco won the Southern California 1961 all-around road championship with 810 points, . Dave Sharp was second with 780 points,

ae NEVADA er”. ie Published Every Wednesday ie. NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, INC. 132 Main St., Nevada City, Calif. Dial 265-2471 Alfred E. Heller. Pe R. Dean Thompson . . » . Editor-Manager Second class postage paid at Nevada City, Calif. Adjudicateda legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960 Decree No, 12,406 Subscription Rates: One year, $3.00; Two years, $5.00 Three years, $7.00. Printed by Berliner & Mc Ginnis, Nevada City. EDITORIAL: Forest Products In Our County This is one of those weeks during the year when several observances coincide, each worthy of comment. It is National Newspaper Week. Friday begins Patriotic Education Week, dating from the Battle of Yorktown in the days of the revolution. But it is Forest Products Week thatrecuires local consideration. The forest products industry in Nevada County furnishes an annual payroll in excess of $5,000, 000. More than 1100 localresidents depend directly on forest products for their ‘ncome. It would be conservative to esti.aate that an additional 2500 localresidents depend on forest products indirectly for a large portion of their income. Nevada County depends on loggers, lumbermen andtruckers. They are a basic segment of our community. We must under stand the problems of the forest products industry, because those problems must be considered ours, too. It takes only a surface glance at the forest industry in Nevada County to realize that allis not well withthe industry. Many saw mills have closed. Others profess to be near the end of their road unless business conditions change in the immediate future. Leaders of the lumbering industry here are quickto point out problems they face. “Zoggers face additional problems in finding andremoving timber. They face mae active antagonism of new residents who object to the removal of what they consider scenery. They face enforcement of fish and game rules about water pollution. They must abide by good forestry practices or face state actionto revoke their licenses. Truckers face more traffic in moving timber to the mills. They find more weight checks, andatightening of rules concerning their use of the highways. Lumbermen find more objections voided . tothe operation of saw mills throughout the ~ounty as newresidents move into the area oretire or get away from the smog of the valleys and metropolitan areas. In addition, they face more sce . from non-lumber building materials. And for local forest products industry . members there isthe added burden of having to ship the finished product by truck rather than byrail. This is an expense that might be the final blow for some local lumbering firms. These are the problems. Many ofthem can be solved only by the industry realizing it is living in a era of county growth. Loggers must expect increased pressure for better logging practices. They are a seqment of a growing diversified county, and they must learn to live with other land uses in harmony, The same is true of the truckers. Tumbermen, too, must adjusttothe multiple use of conty property. But other seqments of our conty must at the sametime realize the problems of this county industry. Others share the respon. sibility of making it possible for our forest products industry tocontinwueto live as a neighbor in the county of our choice, Our chambers of commerce and the county Roard of Trade share in this responsibility. They should be actively seeking new outlets for the sale of local lumber. They should be working hand in hand with industry leaders totry tosolve some of these problems that face this basic mextion of the county economy. An excellent starting eclae would be for the chambers and county promotional agency tojoin in seeking a solution to the transportation problem that faces the local in_ dustry---the extra expense of shipping by In the beautiful Nevada County area 12 20 miles above Nevada City the Lake City, North Bloomfield, Graniteville, Bowman Lake country, two big stories are developing each a separate story yet intermingling. One is the 12,000 acre proposed State Park tobe known as the Malakoff Diggin's State Park and the other is the building of new dams by the Nevada Irrigation District in the area above the Malakoff. Both progressive steps are dependent on the passage of bond issues one at local level and the other a state-wide ballot. The ditches and dams necessary for the hydraulic mines are the pioneer water system of today's NID. This isthe Malakoll StOtVi Feces oie: I have been past the Malakoff many times: with my father, Lon, on the Graniteville stage, with my uncle George Hegarty on the freight wagon to the Snow Point Mine, and with Rose Hegarty and my cousin Tuck Hegarty ina horse and buggy. My grandmothers Waldron and Paine catered to the Malakoff: miners at their hotels in Lake City. One of our antique treasures is a gold simulated vase, givenusby Jean(Mrs. A. B.) Innis when she operated the New York Hotel. The vase was a golden wedding gift to Mr. and Mrs. H. Pinchoir when he was secretary-treasurer of the Malakoff, and later found its way into NC's antique dealers stores. The Malakoff story covers the use of several inventions given to practical use on the property but invented far from the mine. The Malakoff story is the story of all the mountain ditches forerunners of the . important Nevada Irrigation District. The Malakoff storyis the story of illicit mining long after the Federal Government by the SawyerAct stilled the monitors. It was gold that made the towns of San Juan, Lake City, Columbia Hill, Bloomfield, Moore's Flat and Graniteville, Mén came tothe “northern mines" from every-state in the Union; from every civilized nation on earth andsome that were not so civilized. As soon as Marshall had discovered gold at Coloma, men began to scatter up the various streams that headed into the Sierra. In the latter part of 1848 a few stragglers started up the Yuba river, and by 1849 they had penetrated the San Juan Ridge section in large numbers, But in 1850 the real flood of prospectors set in. the men who had come across the plains, around the Horn and across the Isthmus at the beckon on untold wealth awaiting them on the banks of California's gold-lined rivers. As the gold gradually disappeared from the main streams inthe bottom of the canyons, they worked the tributaries and followed the ravines that carried them well up onto the backs of the ridges. It was just back of Nevada City that the first hydraulic mining took place. Quickly this method spread. Men commenced to go upstream to dig ditches that would bring the water down under pressure to the groundthat wasto be washed. They formedcompanies and went further upstream to bring down larger quantities of water and finally these companies became large corporations that spent as much as a half million dollars on the construction of a truck rather than by rail. We have not founda hea!thy situation as we have discussed the local forest products industry. But would not be hones if we were toindicate that all was black in this industry. Great progress has been made in timber . management within our area, Tahoe National Forest has been able in recent months to increase the annual yield within its boundaries. Private forest land owners also expanding their management techniques, either through the hiring of private forestry consultants or through cooperative efforts with leading local lumbering firms. With proper land management, local industrial leaders can be assured that the timber will be here to continue their industry in future years. With the cooperation of local leaders, we trust the industry can recover its stability and prosper in future years, Our county will prosper as a by-product. The Malakoff Mine between Lake City and Bloomfield in full operation--at the edge of North Bloomfield rise the exquisitely molded pinnacles and minarets, touched with vivid colors like a place enchanted, In the Malakoff Mine Office gold was reduced to bars for transportation to the San Francisco Mint, The largest bar weighed a quarter of a ton and was valued at $114, 000. In flumes such as this the water was brought down from the high Nevada County elevations clinging precariously to sheer mountain cliffs.

Gardens flourished at the Malakoff--so did babies. In the covered wagon is Walter Warnecke. single ditch to bring down vast supplies of water from the very headwaters of the Yuba watershed. a The Eureka Lake and Yuba Canal company, with headquarters at North Columbia Hill, had a 200-mile system of ditches and four reservoirs that cost in excess of $1,500,000; the North Bloomfield Gravel Mining company (The Malakoff) had 43 miles of ditches that cost over $700,000; then there was the Milton Mining and Water company of French Corral with its 80 miles of ditches and one reservoir that represented an investment of $670,000, x These three companies were the giants of the San Juan ridge. They owned and operated vast mines. Their reservoirs in the high Sierra 6000 feet above sea level supplied the water that was led down the San Juan ridge to hundreds of mines, through canals and flumes that are marvels The Malakoff, pr Serbians working in the area, was the obably named by greatest hydraulic mine of all time. Here at the Malakoff mine we find inventions taken up and utilized before. the very regions in which the inventions occurred knew what it was all about. These hydraulic mining men were big, their minds were big, they did things on a big scale, Here at the Malakoff was probably the first time in history use was made of the electric arc lamp. Here at the Malakoff the Burleigh air drill was first used. Before its discovery all drilling was by hand, The real practical use of the first long distance telephone from French Corral was to protect and forewarn thé illegal operations at the Malakoff of spies, better known as the ageats after the mines were ordered closed down. grandmothers at Lake City were a part of a vast " ground’ information system, Feds the US government My underi of engineering, tremendous canals windThe Malakoff Story Continued next week. Letter To The. Editor ing their.way down through the rugged, Sierra; immense flumes ‘that clung to the . faces of rocky precipes, carrying their loads of hundreds of tons of water 4a. thousand feet above the canyon floor; structures built in the 50's, 60's and 70's that modern engineers would be unable to improve upon. During prehistoric times the drainage system on the western slope of the Sierra~Nevada was entirely different than it is to-day, These rivers cut through rich quartz ledges and the gold was washed down the streams. This continued for thousands of years until volcanic action flooded the land with lava and volcanic matter, The molten lava followed the ancient river channels and covered the gravel beds. As the lava cooled it formed a hard lava cap that resisted erosion and turned the flood waters into other channels. Through the thousands of years since that time, new channels have been cut deeper and deeper into the earth's crust and have left the ancient river beds high on the mountain sides above them, These gravel beds were sometimes more than a hundred feet in depth and perhaps covered with another hundred feet oftopdirt. Against these banks the nozzles of the hydraulic monitors were turned -and steadily washed away the mountain sides. Imagine, if you can, the Malakoff mine at North Bloomfield, where four and five monitors at a time worked against the great cliffs of cemented gravel; monitors with nozzles from7 to 9 inches in diameter throwing water under a 300 foot head. A stream of water that might carry a 50 pound boulder like an arrow for a hundred feet. Its roaring force was hurled against the gravel cliff more than 200 feet away, and wherever it hit, the rocks were hurled skyward and sideways. The flow of water carried the gravel down through the sluice boxes, where the gold was recovered, to the sides of the canyon into one of the various forks of the Yuba river. The peach orchards of Yuba county grow on the top soil of North Bloomfield and Lake City. Dear friends: I can't tell you how surprised and pleased I was to receivethe beautiful George Mathis sketch notes from The Nugget. They are beautifully done. Being one of a family of artists, I know fine art work when I see it. My brother is Gordon Grant of N.Y., Marine artist who not only is famous for his water colors and oils, but etchings and pencil sketches. Another brother, Douglas Grant in North Carolina is an artist, and Campbell Grant, a nephew of Santa Barbara was with Walt Disney and now doing illustrating on. his own. The subjects of Mr, Mathis‘ sketches are so interesting and I would like to know what he charges for his groups of sketches. I would liketo make Christmas gifts of them, If there are more views, would he send mea group, giving his price, and I will send a check, Then later on, I can order more. I expect toreceivea phone call tonight or tomorrow from my son and his wife, about The Nugget subscription, They will be so pleased, I ama The Wilderness Society and continually speak my mind on the preservation of our precious wilderness and the “cease highway or freeways” in the high country, such as recently was put through at Tioga Pass, Well, I won'‘trun on, Again, manythanks for your gift. Most sincerelyMrs, Fred G, Shaw Oakland Editor: Our place is in N, Bloomfield. We enjoy the Nugget for all except your pushing so hard to take our places ‘away from us and turn them into a state park. Take Malakoff --but please! Hands off North Bloomfield! !! R, E, Rhode North Bloomfield a.” Cycling News By Charles Allert Oct. 15 the first time trials were held at Pioneer Park. Fast time winner was Chris Buchanan, with a time of 2 min 7.5 seconds for the one lap around the park. Second place went to Rick Worth. His time,2 minutes 11 seconds. Third place was taken by Dick Hawkins with 2 minutes 16 seconds~” Sunday afternoon some more time trials will be held, as well as a few group runs. The meeting place will be in front of the Seamans Lodge at 2:30 p.m. Dave Waco won the Southern California 1961 all-around road championship with 810 points, . Dave Sharp was second with 780 points,