October 7, 1970 (12 pages)

wilh eta ar 2m Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, ee PERIODICALS SACTO. CAL. French Corral, Rough and Ready, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Ki Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Baqurbon Hill, Scotch Hill, ‘SECTION. 95814 Graniteville, North ‘San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, La Batr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, In, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly ‘North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens, NUMBER 95 VOLUME 49 10 Cents A Copy. Published Wednesdays, Nevada City WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1970 Willow Vailey, Men and mines. of Nevada Cou nty t+ ee ee ae ea The men and mines of Nevada County as written by A. B, Foote, a well known miner in the days of the past. Foote was mostly associated with the North Star Mine, but in this series reveals much information on most of the Golden Empire area mines. The. tower was not high. . enough, but I planned to build: an embankment out of the tailings transported by it and lay. -Girection Me 7 nD bey at it: back ay ano i Orta high enough. Because it was too small for the job, it was.fre— quently breaking down, but. by replacing the cast iron gears with cast ‘steel, we finally got ~ it to work pretty steadily. This was only one of the extra expenses. Taxes kept going up until they amounted to as much as forty cents per ton of ore; as much.as it cost to put the ore through the stamp mill. MUCKER HOISTS The only way of overcoming high costs is. to increase the production per man. The only producers in a gold mine are the miners and shovelers -all of. the rest of the men are waiting on these. The production of the shovelers was increased by using "mucker hoists," which were coming into use at this time in other parts of the country, dragging the ore down from the stopes to the cars with scrapers pulled back and forth by the hoists instead of being hand shoveled. The hoists. on the market were: too big and heavy for our small _stopes, and they pulled such a big load that the waste could not besort-. ed out, I designed a small light one by putting two drums on @ shaft operated by a pneumatic drill. A pneumatic drill is the name of a machine for boring holes in: wood or iron and not a rock drill. to go up, to 1930, the tonnage per man in stopes, was increased from 5-1/2 tons per man in 1915 about 9-1/2 tons in 1928. Unfortunately on account of MINERS PREPARE to go down the cage at the North Star Mine. A; B,-Foote in this week's issue talks about increase in production when ore was lacking. $8,000,000 was not produced at a profit. In Nevada County, I believe the only mines that continued running were the North Star, Empire and Idaho Maryd. ; high taxes and prices and the ‘lan necessity of handling the ore through more than one shaft, this increase in tons per man employed in stoping did not — keep the over all costs down ‘much, Only about one third of the men were working in the stopes. From 1918 on until 1930 was a difficult period for gold oor: . ducts at prices that would pay TONNAGE PER MAN them a. profit in spite of high INCREASED _ costs deonacemr Nyy SA 5 From 1915, when wages began veiguaioosuet bh gh i a 2 Northern Mines: dectined trom: about $24,000,000 ; Hets TT “in 1918 = to a little over = Page 6& = $8,000,000 in 1929, and I am SPEND OR QUIT? In 1923 it became apparent that a very much more extensive development plan must be when we found this impossible in any other way, development work had been curtailed until there were only two alternatives left, either spenda large money to develop or close the mine a Nevada County Supervisors Report Now that Nevada county's historical landmarks commission is gathering together old records, it needs aplace to store +them. An’ old building in keeping with the historical nature of the overall effort is being sought, ‘and. the group has hopes of obtaining one such structure on a. $1 yearly lease for. 99 years. This was explained to the board of supervisors Tuesday because if the building is secured to hold historic records, the county will be responsible’ for maintenance. and other destructive occurrences, The commission's primary and. marking. old landmarks, which requires that "a great deal of historic data be assembled and authenticated," Ruess said, For this reason, the commission secured the services of Doris Foley as county historian, a position for which she receives no pay from the county. . Items such as old letters, magazines, papers and manuscripts should be preserved to “authenticate old landmarks, buildings and colorful people in our past" and to "be used by writers which would generate much publicity for our county," Ruess said. pital death and birth records back to the 1850s and maps and mining records of the late his-

wilh eta ar 2m Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, ee PERIODICALS SACTO. CAL. French Corral, Rough and Ready, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Ki Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Baqurbon Hill, Scotch Hill, ‘SECTION. 95814 Graniteville, North ‘San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, La Batr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, In, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly ‘North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens, NUMBER 95 VOLUME 49 10 Cents A Copy. Published Wednesdays, Nevada City WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1970 Willow Vailey, Men and mines. of Nevada Cou nty t+ ee ee ae ea The men and mines of Nevada County as written by A. B, Foote, a well known miner in the days of the past. Foote was mostly associated with the North Star Mine, but in this series reveals much information on most of the Golden Empire area mines. The. tower was not high. . enough, but I planned to build: an embankment out of the tailings transported by it and lay. -Girection Me 7 nD bey at it: back ay ano i Orta high enough. Because it was too small for the job, it was.fre— quently breaking down, but. by replacing the cast iron gears with cast ‘steel, we finally got ~ it to work pretty steadily. This was only one of the extra expenses. Taxes kept going up until they amounted to as much as forty cents per ton of ore; as much.as it cost to put the ore through the stamp mill. MUCKER HOISTS The only way of overcoming high costs is. to increase the production per man. The only producers in a gold mine are the miners and shovelers -all of. the rest of the men are waiting on these. The production of the shovelers was increased by using "mucker hoists," which were coming into use at this time in other parts of the country, dragging the ore down from the stopes to the cars with scrapers pulled back and forth by the hoists instead of being hand shoveled. The hoists. on the market were: too big and heavy for our small _stopes, and they pulled such a big load that the waste could not besort-. ed out, I designed a small light one by putting two drums on @ shaft operated by a pneumatic drill. A pneumatic drill is the name of a machine for boring holes in: wood or iron and not a rock drill. to go up, to 1930, the tonnage per man in stopes, was increased from 5-1/2 tons per man in

1915 about 9-1/2 tons in 1928. Unfortunately on account of MINERS PREPARE to go down the cage at the North Star Mine. A; B,-Foote in this week's issue talks about increase in production when ore was lacking. $8,000,000 was not produced at a profit. In Nevada County, I believe the only mines that continued running were the North Star, Empire and Idaho Maryd. ; high taxes and prices and the ‘lan necessity of handling the ore through more than one shaft, this increase in tons per man employed in stoping did not — keep the over all costs down ‘much, Only about one third of the men were working in the stopes. From 1918 on until 1930 was a difficult period for gold oor: . ducts at prices that would pay TONNAGE PER MAN them a. profit in spite of high INCREASED _ costs deonacemr Nyy SA 5 From 1915, when wages began veiguaioosuet bh gh i a 2 Northern Mines: dectined trom: about $24,000,000 ; Hets TT “in 1918 = to a little over = Page 6& = $8,000,000 in 1929, and I am SPEND OR QUIT? In 1923 it became apparent that a very much more extensive development plan must be when we found this impossible in any other way, development work had been curtailed until there were only two alternatives left, either spenda large money to develop or close the mine a Nevada County Supervisors Report Now that Nevada county's historical landmarks commission is gathering together old records, it needs aplace to store +them. An’ old building in keeping with the historical nature of the overall effort is being sought, ‘and. the group has hopes of obtaining one such structure on a. $1 yearly lease for. 99 years. This was explained to the board of supervisors Tuesday because if the building is secured to hold historic records, the county will be responsible’ for maintenance. and other destructive occurrences, The commission's primary and. marking. old landmarks, which requires that "a great deal of historic data be assembled and authenticated," Ruess said, For this reason, the commission secured the services of Doris Foley as county historian, a position for which she receives no pay from the county. . Items such as old letters, magazines, papers and manuscripts should be preserved to “authenticate old landmarks, buildings and colorful people in our past" and to "be used by writers which would generate much publicity for our county," Ruess said. pital death and birth records back to the 1850s and maps and mining records of the late his-