September 13, 1961 (12 pages)

10 . NEVADA COUNTYServing the communities of Nevada Ci Graniteville, North San Juan, North BI Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, , Grass V. , Red You Ti DDomeld, Hurchug, Reet Hil, Weskones Sailor Flat, Lake City’ Selby GG Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, i re Rigenegpe: ag lh hese Flat, Sweetland, Al, Mooney pha, Omega, french Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Wall Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, ‘Bourbon Hill, Scotch H} x Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony Lge ee ee 2 Ea A aA Li Volume 36 Number 37 10 Cents A Copy 3! oe 3396 INION\BL UA 2, ope TUNN, “THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES" . Ny 3 a ‘ \ [ 82.2900 SHAFT’ 8 BLUE LEAD TUNNEL A Twist Of Fate — SSS MAP OF THE DEEP PLACER MINES NEAR NORTH BLOOMFIELD AND AFTER A. D. GASSAWAY: The map herewith reproduced is from Professional paper seventy three, U.S. Geological Survey, "The Tertiary Gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California." This is?the most authorative report on the auriferous gravels of this state, by the eminent geologist Waldemar Lindgren, whogave it to H.P. Davis in 1936, and with it much of the data now included in Davis's voluminous notes on the titanic hydraulic operation on the San Juan Ridge. In the lower left hand corner of the map is shown the drain tunnel described by Rossiter Raymond. It was extroardinary feat of engineering for whichHamilton Smith, the engineer in charge, much credit from the mining profession in general “It Would Take 50 Years. High To Wash Malakoff Gold (Exerpts from "Statistics of Mines and Mining” by Rossiter W. Raymond, Government Printing Office, Wash. D.C. ; 1875) Within the limits of Nevada County, however, are found the works of greatest magnitude in this class of mining, among which may be enumerated those of the North Bloomfield and Milton Companies, which were fully described in my report for 1874, The North Bloomfield Company owns more than fifteen hundred acres of auriferous gravel, situated on the ridge between the Middle and South Yuba Rivers. The depth of ground, as demonstrated by numerous prospecting -shafts, is from 200 to 300 feet; and the quality of the gravel, ascertained by numerous and careful tests, is equal to the average of the most favored hydraulic regions of the State. The lower stratum, being of the character known as “blue gravel," gave large results in coarse gold. Itis estimated that it will take fifty years to wash this large tract of ground which has its outlet, by means of atunnel, into Humbug Creek, and hence into the South Yuba. During the greater portion of the year 1874 the company employed from five hundred to six hundred men on the tunnel and ditches. It has taken this company eight years of steady work to perfect its operations, During this time it has acquired not only all the vast extate at Bloomfield, but also onehalf of the large property of the Milton Mining and Water Company and one-half of the property of the Union Gravel Mining Company, so that it now virtually owns and controls over seven miles of auriferous channel. It has also constructed two enormous reservoirs, away up near the summit of the Sierras, and built, including the .Milton Company's, over 100 miles of cgnals or ditches, to bring the water to the gravel. These canals and reservoirs have cost over one million of dollars, The Bloomfield Company alone has expended over two millions of dollars. The Union has also expended quite a large sum, andthe Milton has expended about one and a half millions, making a total expenditure by this group of companies of over three and a half millions of dollars, without interest, and yet the stock-holders in the three corporations do not exceed thirty in number, It willtake the Milton Company some two years yet to complete all its deep tunnels. Two of them are now complete, another is about half finished. The Union Company completed its tunnel in July, 1874. When all the works of the three companies are completed, they will have six deep tunnels, of an aggregate length of over 20,000 feet. The combined water supply of the companies is 100,000,000 gallons of water per day throughout the year, The North Bloomfield Company's tunnel was commenced April 25, 1872, and was prosecuted without interruption until its completion, on November 15, 1874. Eight shafts, averaging 200 feet in depth, were sunk to expedite the work, (See map on this page), .The tunnel was run from a point on Humbug Creek, (a tributary of ; (Continued on Page 2) -. 3649 rT Lo) LAST CHANCE INCL) S ie) oo 2 \ rr as < ra 0 ff \p.2.3703 TUNNEL RELIEF HILL % 96: ae eS 3 * asi / 12 7 8 10 . ‘ 2 vs Yuba River . 3 Igouth) Fork 2 . = . . . R.9E R.10 E. 1 YW fe) 1Mile 8.F. 3643 = Bed rock UAT . RELIEF, NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA \ and mining engineers in particular. As production was necessarily delayed until means of disposal of debris was provided, it was decided by the management that no expense was received to be spared in completion of this tunnel. Sinking these eight shafts, No. 1 to No. oy. provided 16 faces underground at which conas Raymond remarks, the accuracy of Smith's’ surveys and the speed with which the tunnel was constructed was a truly remarkable achievement. achievement. From the bottom of shaft No. 1 (See Map), drifts run both East and West for.a distance of 500 feet,. all in pay gravel, demonstrating that the channel atthis point was no less than 1000 feet width. ~ North Bloomfield Mine Couldn't Regain Capital NEVADA CITY. Historian H.P, Davis told the Nugget today that the Malakoff mining venture was one that lost money for its investors. Hydraulic mining required a massive water supply, and laws turned off the faucet before the bucket was filled. Although the North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company was able to show mount-~ ing profitable operations during its final working years , the restrictions placed on hydraulic mining made it impossible for the owners to regain their capital investment, Davis said that more than $3,000,000 was invested in the operation, and that the owners could have recovered their full investment ina few More years had restrictions not been placed on hydraulic mining because of pollution of rivers and streams, Davissaid he has a history of Malakoff in preparation, and made available to the the Nugget some of his backSchool And Jr. High Filled To Near Capacity GRASS VALLEY. Western . Nevada County school at. tendance boomed over 4000 this week as 1700 students in junior and senior high school began classes Monday. First day attendance at the new Ridge Road -plant of the Nevada Union High School was 873 students, Principal William G eorge predicted that within 20 days enrollment in the new school would be above the 900 mark. The School was designed for 900 students, At the old high school plant, junior high school students filled the school to near capacity with one of the largest ninth graders in Nevada County history. There were 827 students, nearly gtade as last year's eighth graders movedin from all the elementary schools to the only ninth grade in western Nevada County, Superintendent Gerald Gelatt said both schools were full and that the double move half of them in the ninth . Weather Nevada City Max. Min, Rain Sept. 6 88 45 -Sept. 7 $7--— 39 ad Sept. 8 78 39 -Sept. 9 -79 41 -Sept. 10 82 44 ee Sept. 11 85 44 se Sept. 12 87 43 °° Rain to date. o>. S18 Rain last year . .16 Grass Valley Sept. 6 91 58 as Sept, 7 88 50 -Sent. 8 12 51 i Sept. 9 80 51 a Sept. 10 84 48 ae Sept. 11 87 56 bis Sept. 12 90 57 = Rain to date. =. <2 Rain last year. . 35 seemed to have worked smoothly.” He.said bus schedule problems were minor and were being ironed out.Principal George said high school students have settled down to routine, and that there were no real problems _in the school's opening. Two classes are using the school's multi-purpose room , while three classes of Latin are being taught in the Library work-room, George said, PEANUTS? .Not yet but soon. Johnson checks the delicate roots of his peanutCrop for the first signs of small peanuts. See story on page 4 tion this week, . Davis said that Rossiter Raymond, one of the ground material for publica-. authorities, in a report on the North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company said it was a San Francisco corporation composed of "some of the wealthiest residents of that city." In another report he wrote that the shares of this company were held by no more than thirty individuals. Of these thrity individuals, W . C, Ralston, organizer of the Bank of California, was unquestionably the most promient. The North Bloomfield Company was one of the few Mir “1g organizations to be financed by outside capital . Raymond was United States Commissioner of Mining Statistics, His annual report to the Secretary of the Treasury covered mines and mining in the state and tertitoriés west of the Rocky . Mountains, Raymond sycceeded J. Ross Brown in this position in 1868, Davis said his reports for those years through 1876 had infinite importance tothe min-. _ing industry in-general-and even greater importance to the then rapidly developing (Continued on Page 3) ing Office, 1911.) Lindgren Reports ~-(Exerpts from "T he Tertiary Gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California" by Waldemar Lindgen, Government Print= Hydraulic mining has been carried on at North Bloomfield on a very large scale. The excavations extend for 5,000 feet and are 500 to 600 feet in width, with banks as much as 500 feet in height. The deposit has been opened by a bedrock tunnel 7,874 feet long, starting from Humbug Canyon. The sum of $3,000,000 is said to have been expended on this tunnel, the water supply, and OBACCO (Continued on Page 4) LAND, U.S.A «-Walter L. "Bud" Johnson displays a large tobacco leaf grown within the city limits of Nevada City. MALAKOFF TOUR SET . MONDAY State And County Trek Due NEVADA CITY.State and county officials are scheduled to take a look at possible state park sites in western Nevada County Monday . The proposed MalakoffNorth Bloomfield site, Banner Mountain, and the possible use of Manzanita Diggins as a directional center will be explored, it is understood, g Hopes that the group could also take in the Jackson Meadow area where a Nevada Irrigation District dam is scheduled for construction in the future have faded due to transportation problems ex_ isting between Malakoff and Jackson Meadow~beyond Graniteville. State officials will include Charles A, DeT urk, Chief of the Division of Beaches and Parks, and Clyde Newlin, third district supervisor for the division, State Senator Ronald Cameron announced the then tentative date last week and said Assemblyman Paul Lunardi would join him on _ the trip. Since no-change in date has been announced, the tour is expected to start Monday morning. Invitations from the state representativeswent to county siipervisors and members of the county coerdinating committee now studying park sites and investigating . property ownership in the . Malakoff North Bloomfield area, Members of the press are expected tocomplete the tour group. Supervisors are understood to have asked one ortwo other county officials to make the trek, At this timeit isnot known which of the sites will be visited first. Baimas Sent To De Witt NEVADA CITY,.A jury of five men and seven women _ committed to DeWit State Hospital Val D. Baima, Lower Banner Mt, Road, in a sanity trialheld in Nevada County Superior Court. Lilly Belle Baima waived jury trial and was committed by preliminary hearing. Both were charged with being mentally ill persons and in need of treatment in a complaint signed by the Nevada Irrigation District . District Attorney Harold . Berliner presented evidence in the formofletters to various county residents, and charged they contained threats of violence. Baima, in defense, claimed the so-called threats were nothing more than predictions of dire events that , Nature had in store for these people asa result of their ill-treatment of the Baimas, Both Mr, and Mrs. Baima were committed to DeWitt Hospital pending the court hearing. They were, however, released during the Nevada County Fair and walked offwith additional honors to add to a long string of agricultural awards the. couple has won. “ee

10 . NEVADA COUNTYServing the communities of Nevada Ci Graniteville, North San Juan, North BI Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, , Grass V. , Red You Ti DDomeld, Hurchug, Reet Hil, Weskones Sailor Flat, Lake City’ Selby GG Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, i re Rigenegpe: ag lh hese Flat, Sweetland, Al, Mooney pha, Omega, french Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Wall Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, ‘Bourbon Hill, Scotch H} x Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony Lge ee ee 2 Ea A aA Li Volume 36 Number 37 10 Cents A Copy 3! oe 3396 INION\BL UA 2, ope TUNN, “THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES" . Ny 3 a ‘ \ [ 82.2900 SHAFT’ 8 BLUE LEAD TUNNEL A Twist Of Fate — SSS MAP OF THE DEEP PLACER MINES NEAR NORTH BLOOMFIELD AND AFTER A. D. GASSAWAY: The map herewith reproduced is from Professional paper seventy three, U.S. Geological Survey, "The Tertiary Gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California." This is?the most authorative report on the auriferous gravels of this state, by the eminent geologist Waldemar Lindgren, whogave it to H.P. Davis in 1936, and with it much of the data now included in Davis's voluminous notes on the titanic hydraulic operation on the San Juan Ridge. In the lower left hand corner of the map is shown the drain tunnel described by Rossiter Raymond. It was extroardinary feat of engineering for whichHamilton Smith, the engineer in charge, much credit from the mining profession in general “It Would Take 50 Years. High To Wash Malakoff Gold (Exerpts from "Statistics of Mines and Mining” by Rossiter W. Raymond, Government Printing Office, Wash. D.C. ; 1875) Within the limits of Nevada County, however, are found the works of greatest magnitude in this class of mining, among which may be enumerated those of the North Bloomfield and Milton Companies, which were fully described in my report for 1874, The North Bloomfield Company owns more than fifteen hundred acres of auriferous gravel, situated on the ridge between the Middle and South Yuba Rivers. The depth of ground, as demonstrated by numerous prospecting -shafts, is from 200 to 300 feet; and the quality of the gravel, ascertained by numerous and careful tests, is equal to the average of the most favored hydraulic regions of the State. The lower stratum, being of the character known as “blue gravel," gave large results in coarse gold. Itis estimated that it will take fifty years to wash this large tract of ground which has its outlet, by means of atunnel, into Humbug Creek, and hence into the South Yuba. During the greater portion of the year 1874 the company employed from five hundred to six hundred men on the tunnel and ditches. It has taken this company eight years of steady work to perfect its operations, During this time it has acquired not only all the vast extate at Bloomfield, but also onehalf of the large property of the Milton Mining and Water Company and one-half of the property of the Union Gravel Mining Company, so that it now virtually owns and controls over seven miles of auriferous channel. It has also constructed two enormous reservoirs, away up near the summit of the Sierras, and built, including the .Milton Company's, over 100 miles of cgnals or ditches, to bring the water to the gravel. These canals and reservoirs have cost over one million of dollars, The Bloomfield Company alone has expended over two millions of dollars. The Union has also expended quite a large sum, andthe Milton has expended about one and a half millions, making a total expenditure by this group of companies of over three and a half millions of dollars, without interest, and yet the stock-holders in the three corporations do not exceed thirty in number, It willtake the Milton Company some two years yet to complete all its deep tunnels. Two of them are now complete, another is about half finished. The Union Company completed its tunnel in July, 1874. When all the works of the three companies are completed, they will have six deep tunnels, of an aggregate length of over 20,000 feet. The combined water supply of the companies is 100,000,000 gallons of water per day throughout the year, The North Bloomfield Company's tunnel was commenced April 25, 1872, and was prosecuted without interruption until its completion, on November 15, 1874. Eight shafts, averaging 200 feet in depth, were sunk to expedite the work, (See map on this page), .The tunnel was run from a point on Humbug Creek, (a tributary of ; (Continued on Page 2) -. 3649 rT Lo) LAST CHANCE INCL) S ie) oo 2 \ rr as < ra 0 ff \p.2.3703 TUNNEL RELIEF HILL % 96: ae eS 3 * asi / 12 7 8 10 . ‘ 2 vs Yuba River . 3 Igouth) Fork 2 . = . . . R.9E R.10 E. 1 YW fe) 1Mile 8.F. 3643 = Bed rock UAT . RELIEF, NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA \ and mining engineers in particular. As production was necessarily delayed until means of disposal of debris was provided, it was decided by the management that no expense was received to be spared in completion of this tunnel. Sinking these eight shafts, No. 1 to No. oy. provided 16 faces underground at which conas Raymond remarks, the accuracy of Smith's’ surveys and the speed with which the tunnel was constructed was a truly remarkable achievement. achievement. From the bottom of shaft No. 1 (See Map), drifts run both East and West for.a distance of 500 feet,. all in pay gravel, demonstrating that the channel atthis point was no less than 1000 feet width. ~ North Bloomfield Mine Couldn't Regain Capital NEVADA CITY.. Historian H.P, Davis told the Nugget today that the Malakoff mining venture was one that lost money for its investors. Hydraulic mining required a massive water supply, and laws turned off the faucet before the bucket was filled. Although the North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company was able to show mount-~ ing profitable operations during its final working years , the restrictions placed on hydraulic mining made it impossible for the owners to regain their capital investment, Davis said that more than $3,000,000 was invested in the operation, and that the owners could have recovered their full investment ina few More years had restrictions not been placed on hydraulic mining because of pollution of rivers and streams, Davissaid he has a history of Malakoff in preparation, and made available to the the Nugget some of his backSchool And Jr. High Filled To Near Capacity GRASS VALLEY.. Western . Nevada County school at. tendance boomed over 4000 this week as 1700 students in junior and senior high school began classes Monday. First day attendance at the new Ridge Road -plant of the Nevada Union High School was 873 students, Principal William G eorge predicted that within 20 days enrollment in the new school would be above the 900 mark. The School was designed for 900 students, At the old high school plant, junior high school students filled the school to near capacity with one of the

largest ninth graders in Nevada County history. There were 827 students, nearly gtade as last year's eighth graders movedin from all the elementary schools to the only ninth grade in western Nevada County, Superintendent Gerald Gelatt said both schools were full and that the double move half of them in the ninth . Weather Nevada City Max. Min, Rain Sept. 6 88 45 -Sept. 7 $7--— 39 ad Sept. 8 78 39 -Sept. 9 -79 41 -Sept. 10 82 44 ee Sept. 11 85 44 se Sept. 12 87 43 °° Rain to date. o>.. S18 Rain last year .. .16 Grass Valley Sept. 6 91 58 as Sept, 7 88 50 -Sent. 8 12 51 i Sept. 9 80 51 a Sept. 10 84 48 ae Sept. 11 87 56 bis Sept. 12 90 57 = Rain to date. =.. <2 Rain last year.. . 35 seemed to have worked smoothly.” He.said bus schedule problems were minor and were being ironed out.Principal George said high school students have settled down to routine, and that there were no real problems _in the school's opening. Two classes are using the school's multi-purpose room , while three classes of Latin are being taught in the Library work-room, George said, PEANUTS? ..Not yet but soon. Johnson checks the delicate roots of his peanutCrop for the first signs of small peanuts. See story on page 4 tion this week, . Davis said that Rossiter Raymond, one of the ground material for publica-. authorities, in a report on the North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company said it was a San Francisco corporation composed of "some of the wealthiest residents of that city." In another report he wrote that the shares of this company were held by no more than thirty individuals. Of these thrity individuals, W . C, Ralston, organizer of the Bank of California, was unquestionably the most promient. The North Bloomfield Company was one of the few Mir “1g organizations to be financed by outside capital . Raymond was United States Commissioner of Mining Statistics, His annual report to the Secretary of the Treasury covered mines and mining in the state and tertitoriés west of the Rocky . Mountains, Raymond sycceeded J. Ross Brown in this position in 1868, Davis said his reports for those years through 1876 had infinite importance tothe min-. _ing industry in-general-and even greater importance to the then rapidly developing (Continued on Page 3) ing Office, 1911.) Lindgren Reports ~-(Exerpts from "T he Tertiary Gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California" by Waldemar Lindgen, Government Print= Hydraulic mining has been carried on at North Bloomfield on a very large scale. The excavations extend for 5,000 feet and are 500 to 600 feet in width, with banks as much as 500 feet in height. The deposit has been opened by a bedrock tunnel 7,874 feet long, starting from Humbug Canyon. The sum of $3,000,000 is said to have been expended on this tunnel, the water supply, and OBACCO (Continued on Page 4) LAND, U.S.A «-Walter L. "Bud" Johnson displays a large tobacco leaf grown within the city limits of Nevada City. MALAKOFF TOUR SET . MONDAY State And County Trek Due NEVADA CITY..State and county officials are scheduled to take a look at possible state park sites in western Nevada County Monday . The proposed MalakoffNorth Bloomfield site, Banner Mountain, and the possible use of Manzanita Diggins as a directional center will be explored, it is understood, g Hopes that the group could also take in the Jackson Meadow area where a Nevada Irrigation District dam is scheduled for construction in the future have faded due to transportation problems ex_ isting between Malakoff and Jackson Meadow~beyond Graniteville. State officials will include Charles A, DeT urk, Chief of the Division of Beaches and Parks, and Clyde Newlin, third district supervisor for the division, State Senator Ronald Cameron announced the then tentative date last week and said Assemblyman Paul Lunardi would join him on _ the trip. Since no-change in date has been announced, the tour is expected to start Monday morning. Invitations from the state representativeswent to county siipervisors and members of the county coerdinating committee now studying park sites and investigating . property ownership in the . Malakoff North Bloomfield area, Members of the press are expected tocomplete the tour group. Supervisors are understood to have asked one ortwo other county officials to make the trek, At this timeit isnot known which of the sites will be visited first. Baimas Sent To De Witt NEVADA CITY,.A jury of five men and seven women _ committed to DeWit State Hospital Val D. Baima, Lower Banner Mt, Road, in a sanity trialheld in Nevada County Superior Court. Lilly Belle Baima waived jury trial and was committed by preliminary hearing. Both were charged with being mentally ill persons and in need of treatment in a complaint signed by the Nevada Irrigation District . District Attorney Harold . Berliner presented evidence in the formofletters to various county residents, and charged they contained threats of violence. Baima, in defense, claimed the so-called threats were nothing more than predictions of dire events that , Nature had in store for these people asa result of their ill-treatment of the Baimas, Both Mr, and Mrs. Baima were committed to DeWitt Hospital pending the court hearing. They were, however, released during the Nevada County Fair and walked offwith additional honors to add to a long string of agricultural awards the. couple has won. “ee