September 2, 1970 (12 pages)

ORLA ENE IEEE ILLITE PY BREE SERS ERIE: 1D ALA ET RET ITI 0 “hn scenario 40 mero aati) eee oor PERLODICALS ‘SECTION ‘5/6/71 GAL. ST. LIBRARY SACTO. CAL. 95824 Serving the communities of Nevada’ City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Littlé°WorkgsCherokee Mooney Flat, Sweetland : French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, “Blue Tent, La Batr venaaws, "Cale Wane Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell-Hill, Baqurbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columibia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore’s Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony. House, Delirium Tremens, ‘ : : Sg SE 8S VOLUME 49 WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2, 1970 i I f Ls f } t . ji it } ee ee ee nrc . a) 4 AAR 09,8 8, ES ROD ea Se 2 bs Ps ocak ! NUMBER 90 10 Cents A Copy Published Wednesdays, Nevada City Men and mi (Editor’s note: Another in the A. B. Foote series of-Nevada County mines.) Stanley Arnot, after being in . charge of the Plymouth, has . been in charge of mining and . burning lime near Sonora, and the last I heard he was in Neva— da, William Boericke went into . lead and zinc ‘mining. Errol . who among other . MacBoyle, things was in partnership with @ Caetani, had been in Mexico,. . and in the Philippines for Fred} Bradley before he came back to : Grass Valley. R. P. McLaugh. lin very soon went into the oil ; business in California and has { been doing very important work -is right at the top. Ed Barker was gli over the world until the“ ; back, Thomas Reeves, I hear of occasionally as a consulting Byron Eastman until he came back and. can now speak for himself, Gordon Walker has been with the Oliver Filter Company, most of the time in New York, ; NEW DRILLS AND DIFFICULTIES To go back to mining, it may “be of interest to note that acetylene lamps took the place of candies in 1906; in 1910, we were trying out Leyner drills ‘and hollow steel, which meant drill sharpening machines, because we found that hand sharpening was not accurate.enough for the delicate Leyner. George Starr said he brought the one he was trying up for lunch every day. But they drilled fast when they were working well. For a. while we picked out the best men and paid them $3.25 for the Leyners. When we started using drill sharpeners, we soon found: s twice as fast as by hand, they had to sharpen twice as many. But by experimenting the troubles were overcome, drill sharpeners are new used, CROCKERS TRY PRESCOTT HILL ‘About 1905, J. M, O’Brien opened up ‘the Sultana-Prescott Hill-Orleans'. group for the Crockers of San Francisco. A fine headframe was built. and Hills school will be constructed. mill that was then at the Alliabapee g= be Zee Ee ata é é Boas i a7 5 : g g i é i : 3 i & i ge ERe¢ bite the Prescott Hill shaft sunk to har 1700 feet, with Charley Brockafotatetetetetetetetetetetesecnzonseeescenscoasseneatanetenanneaeataas iS 2°. HS Pap ena a LDA SAE UPL Seem TT ca racer ea RETO et THE CHAMPION ass saighecevees SADT ALON _¥OS OR : pov the company by Messrs. Howe and Sizer. Their reports were not. very favorable, but the Champion had been stopped down to the 2300 foot level close with the old crew, Roy Tremoureux was given the job of superintendent, and after things were organized, drifts were being at the rate of 350 feet per ~and back on the ‘other side, down THE CHAMPION Mine as it stood. A. B. Foote writes about this Nevada City pr Nevada County Supervisors Report operty on nes of Nevada County © which the new Seven The fate of the Nevada County Chamber of Commerce was much in doubt Tuesday as a result of criticisms about the legality of its organization raised by a supervisor a week earlier. Dean Lawrence had scored the chamber on several counts, including its legal structure as a non profit corporation. The county provides most of the chamber's financing but exercises no control over its activities other than budgetary, she charged, — Auditor John Trauner subsent quently asked County CounselNevada County Home Health ~ Leo Todd to obtain a court test to determine the validity of the. chamber. organization because of the questions raised by Mrs. Lawrence. At Tuesday's meeting, Todd attempted to resolve the situation because the chamber cannot receive funds to pay its staff ever, no solution was reached by the board, so Todd indicated he will proceed with the court test which could take up tothree months, However, Board Chairman Willie Curran, upset that the lack of chamber funds may de© stroy the organization, called a discussion of the subject for 2 p.m. next Tuesday and promised that numerous representatives from chambers will attend. Other business handled by the board Tuesday included: --All three employes of the Agency resigned, and two indicated . displeasure with the method this nursing assistance service is being operated. For their part, the supervisors indicated the home health agency will be eliminated and its functions absorbed by the cainene Ean nerteea DSRS ST SS UE

ORLA ENE IEEE ILLITE PY BREE SERS ERIE: 1D ALA ET RET ITI 0 “hn scenario 40 mero aati) eee oor PERLODICALS ‘SECTION ‘5/6/71 GAL. ST. LIBRARY SACTO. CAL. 95824 Serving the communities of Nevada’ City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Littlé°WorkgsCherokee Mooney Flat, Sweetland : French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, “Blue Tent, La Batr venaaws, "Cale Wane Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell-Hill, Baqurbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columibia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore’s Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony. House, Delirium Tremens, ‘ : : Sg SE 8S VOLUME 49 WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2, 1970 i I f Ls f } t . ji it } ee ee ee nrc . a) 4 AAR 09,8 8, ES ROD ea Se 2 bs Ps ocak ! NUMBER 90 10 Cents A Copy Published Wednesdays, Nevada City Men and mi (Editor’s note: Another in the A. B. Foote series of-Nevada County mines.) Stanley Arnot, after being in . charge of the Plymouth, has . been in charge of mining and . burning lime near Sonora, and the last I heard he was in Neva— da, William Boericke went into . lead and zinc ‘mining. Errol . who among other . MacBoyle, things was in partnership with @ Caetani, had been in Mexico,. . and in the Philippines for Fred} Bradley before he came back to : Grass Valley. R. P. McLaugh. lin very soon went into the oil ; business in California and has { been doing very important work -is right at the top. Ed Barker was gli over the world until the“ ; back, Thomas Reeves, I hear of occasionally as a consulting Byron Eastman until he came back and. can now speak for himself, Gordon Walker has been with the Oliver Filter Company, most of the time in New York, ; NEW DRILLS AND DIFFICULTIES To go back to mining, it may “be of interest to note that acetylene lamps took the place of candies in 1906; in 1910, we were trying out Leyner drills ‘and hollow steel, which meant drill sharpening machines, because we found that hand sharpening was not accurate.enough for the delicate Leyner. George Starr said he brought the one he was trying up for lunch every day. But they drilled fast when they were working well. For a. while we picked out the best men and paid them $3.25 for the Leyners. When we started using drill sharpeners, we soon found: s twice as fast as by hand, they had to sharpen twice as many. But by experimenting the troubles were overcome, drill sharpeners are new used, CROCKERS TRY PRESCOTT HILL ‘About 1905, J. M, O’Brien opened up ‘the Sultana-Prescott Hill-Orleans'. group for the Crockers of San Francisco. A fine headframe was built. and Hills school will be constructed. mill that was then at the Alliabapee

g= be Zee Ee ata é é Boas i a7 5 : g g i é i : 3 i & i ge ERe¢ bite the Prescott Hill shaft sunk to har 1700 feet, with Charley Brockafotatetetetetetetetetetetesecnzonseeescenscoasseneatanetenanneaeataas iS 2°. HS Pap ena a LDA SAE UPL Seem TT ca racer ea RETO et THE CHAMPION ass saighecevees SADT ALON _¥OS OR : pov the company by Messrs. Howe and Sizer. Their reports were not. very favorable, but the Champion had been stopped down to the 2300 foot level close with the old crew, Roy Tremoureux was given the job of superintendent, and after things were organized, drifts were being at the rate of 350 feet per ~and back on the ‘other side, down THE CHAMPION Mine as it stood. A. B. Foote writes about this Nevada City pr Nevada County Supervisors Report operty on nes of Nevada County © which the new Seven The fate of the Nevada County Chamber of Commerce was much in doubt Tuesday as a result of criticisms about the legality of its organization raised by a supervisor a week earlier. Dean Lawrence had scored the chamber on several counts, including its legal structure as a non profit corporation. The county provides most of the chamber's financing but exercises no control over its activities other than budgetary, she charged, — Auditor John Trauner subsent quently asked County CounselNevada County Home Health ~ Leo Todd to obtain a court test to determine the validity of the. chamber. organization because of the questions raised by Mrs. Lawrence. At Tuesday's meeting, Todd attempted to resolve the situation because the chamber cannot receive funds to pay its staff ever, no solution was reached by the board, so Todd indicated he will proceed with the court test which could take up tothree months, However, Board Chairman Willie Curran, upset that the lack of chamber funds may de© stroy the organization, called a discussion of the subject for 2 p.m. next Tuesday and promised that numerous representatives from chambers will attend. Other business handled by the board Tuesday included: --All three employes of the Agency resigned, and two indicated . displeasure with the method this nursing assistance service is being operated. For their part, the supervisors indicated the home health agency will be eliminated and its functions absorbed by the cainene Ean nerteea DSRS ST SS UE