anaheim-gazette 1948-12-30

Looking Backward C. E. Holcomb GOLDFIELD, RHYOLITE AND SKIDCO Gold was discovered in Goldfield about 1902, two or three years after the strike at Tonapah, 30 miles north of Goldfield. Peak production at Goldfield 1910-11 was about ten million dollars a year. The Goldfield mines had bitter labor trouble in 1906. Federal troops under General Funston, sent by President Theodore Roosevelt on an appeal from Governor Sparks, were stationed in the town to maintain order and the strike was broken. I had a friend who had gone to Goldfield on account of poor health and he told me about the camp at that time and it was certainly b-a-d. I do not know whether there were other religious organizations represented. I presume there were but there was a Christian Science practitioner there and she was conducting a Sunday school. During one of my trips to Beatty, I met a prospector who had worked in the Goldfield mines. At the time that I met him, he was developing some claims of his own in the Beatty district. He sent samples from his claims from time to time to an assayer in Goldfield and the assays rendered very low, traceable. This prospector believed the claims assayed much higher than the assays reported to him. So as he had a friend working in one of the rich mines in Goldfield, sent him a small amount of the black sand from that mine and he put it in with several that he took from his claims, numbered each sample, sent them to this assayer and immediately got a letter from the assayer congratulating him on making a rich strike saying that one sample numbered so and so was as rich as the best dirt in Goldfield. This prospector found the number of the rich sample was the sample from the Goldfield mine. The assayer had not been cheating him. There was a very illiterate man in Goldfield, so my friend told me who had some very good claims portions of which he would lease on shares for a specified time, at the end of which time all improvements and the mine reverted to him. Doubtless papers were drawn up, but this man's memory retained every provision of the leases and the exact time that repossession would occur, and it is needless to say that these leased claims were very rapidly developed. Goldfield was a very tough mining camp. While in Los Angeles in the thirties, two men used to had worked in the Goldfield mines. At the time that I met him, he You get 1½% interest on savings deposits with Bank of America Start an account for any amount 1½% interest is paid on all regular savings accounts, no matter how large the balance. Deposits made on or before January 10th earn interest from January 1st. Goldfield was a very tough mining camp. While in Los Angeles in the thirties, two men used to come into our office and one day we got to talking about Nevada and the early days. One of these men was elderly, walked with difficulty using his cane to steady himself. The younger man whose name as I remember was Organ had introduced me to the old man whose name was McDonald, and Mr. Organ said to me, "Mac was the man who brought the law to Goldfield." He then told me substantially as follows: Goldfield had been taken over by the rougher element and the saloon and gambling interests; the law abiding people had tried to bring about a semblance of order by organizing and electing a peace officer to main order. The rowdy element would overpower the officer appointed, pin his badge to the seat of his trousers, kick the badge a few times and ride the officer out of town on a rail. Finally, this man told me, the law abiding citizens went to this man, MacDonald, and got his consent and elected him sheriff. After the election Mac served notice to the lawless element that the law had come to Goldfield and the law would be enforced; that he would be on a certain street in the center of the town at noon and if any one questioned his authority, to meet him there and see who was the best man. MacDonald was at the appointed place at the appointed time and a crowd from "skidoo row" started to come to get him. Mac warned them to stop. They kept coming and he dropped two or three of the leaders and the crowd of toughs scurried back to the places whence they came. The law had come to Goldfield. The sheriff was the "quickest on the draw." Sheriff MacDonald was absolutely fearless. Later when the Bullfrog, Rhyolite and Beatty district got into the limelight as a mining district there was plenty of "shootings" and a hanging. The man who was hung was taken on shares for a specified time, at the end of which time all improvements and the mine reverted to him. Doubtless papers were grown up, but this man's memory retained every provision of the leases and the exact time that repossession would occur, and it is needless to say that these leased claims were very rapidly developed. Goldfield was a very tough mining camp. While in Los Angeles in the thirties, two men used to come into our office and one day we got to talking about Nevada and the early days. One of these men was elderly, walked with difficulty using his cane to steady himself. The younger man whose name as I remember was Organ had introduced me to the older man whose name was McDonald, and Mr. Organ said to me, "Mac was the man who brought the law to Goldfield." He then told me substantially as follows: Goldfield had been taken over by the rougher element and the saloon and gambling interests; the law abiding people had tried to bring about a semblance of order by organizing and electing a peace officer to main order. The rowdy element would overpower the officer appointed, pin his badge to the seat of his trousers, kick the badge a few times and ride the officer out of town on a rail. Finally, this man told me, the law abiding citizens went to this man, MacDonald, and got his consent and elected him sheriff. After the election Mac served notice to the lawless element that the law had come to Goldfield and the law would be enforced; that he would be on a certain street in the center of the town at noon and if any one questioned his authority, to meet him there and see who was the best man. MacDonald was at the appointed place at the appointed time and a crowd from "skidoo row" started to come to get him. Mac warned them to stop. They kept coming and he dropped two or three of the leaders and the crowd of toughs scurried back to the places whence they came. The law had come to Goldfield. The sheriff was the "quickest on the draw." Sheriff MacDonald was absolutely fearless. Later when the Bullfrog, Rhyolite and Beatty district got into the limelight as a mining district there was plenty of "shootings" and a hanging. The man who was hung was taken on shares for a specified time, at the end of which time all improvements and the mine reverted to him. Doubtless papers were grown up, but this man's memory retained every provision of the leases and the exact time that reposession would occur, and it is needless to say that these leased claims were very rapidly developed. Goldfield was a very tough mining camp. While in Los Angeles in the thirties, two men used to come into our office and one day we got to talking about Nevada and the early days. One of these men was elderly, walked with difficulty using his cane to steady himself. The younger man whose name as I remember was Organ had introduced me to the older man whose name was McDonald, and Mr. Organ said to me, "Mac was the man who brought the law to Goldfield." He then told me substantially as follows: Goldfield had been taken over by the rougher element and the saloon and gambling interests; the law abiding people had tried to bring about a semblance of order by organizing and electing a peace officer to main order. The rowdy element would overpower the officer appointed, pin his badge to the seat of his trousers, kick the badge a few times and ride the officer out of town on a rail. Finally, this man told me, the law abiding citizens went to this man, MacDonald, and got his consent and elected him sheriff. After the election Mac served notice to the lawless element that the law had come to Goldfield and the law would be enforced; that he would be on a certain street in the center of the town at noon and if any one questioned his authority, to meet him there and see who was the best man. MacDonald was at the appointed place at the appointed time and a crowd from "skidoo row" started to come to get him. Mac warned them to stop. They kept coming and he dropped two or three of the leaders and the crowd of toughs scurried back to the places whence they came. The law had come to Goldfield. The sheriff was the "quickest on the draw." Sheriff MacDonald was absolutely fearless. Later when the Bullfrog, Rhyolite and Beatty district got into the limelight as a mining district there was plenty of "shootings" and a hanging. The man who was hung was taken on shares for a specified time, at the end of which time all improvements and the mine reverted to him. Doubtless papers were grown up, but this man's memory retained every provision of the leases and the exact time that repossession would occur, and it is needless to say that these leased claims were very rapidly developed. Goldfield was a very tough mining camp. While in Los Angeles in the thirties, two men used to come into our office and one day we got to talking about Nevada and the early days. One of these men was elderly, walked with difficulty using his cane to steady himself. The younger man whose name as I remember was Organ had introduced me to the older man whose name was McDonald, and Mr. Organ said to me, "Mac was the man who brought the law to Goldfield." He then told me substantially as follows: Goldfield had been taken over by the rougher element and the saloon and gambling interests; the law abiding people had tried to bring about a semblance of order by organizing and electing a peace officer to main order. The rowdy element would overpower the officer appointed, pin his badge to the seat of his trousers, kick the badge a few times and ride the officer out of town on a rail. Finally, this man told me, the law abiding citizens went to this man, MacDonald, and got his consent and elected him sheriff. After the election Mac served notice to the lawless element that the law had come to Goldfield and the law would be enforced; that he would be on a certain street in the center of the town at noon and if any one questioned his authority, to meet him there and see who was the best man. MacDonald was at the appointed place at the appointed time and a crowd from "skidoo row" started to come to get him. Mac warned them to stop. They kept coming and he dropped two or three of the leaders and the crowd of toughs scurried back to the places whence they came. The law had come to Goldfield. The sheriff was the "quickest on the draw." Sheriff MacDonald was absolutely fearless. Later when the Bullfrog, Rhyolite and Beatty district got into the limelight as a mining district there was plenty of "shootings" and a hanging. The man who was hung was taken on shares for a specified time, at the end of which time all improvements和the mine revertedtohim.AchairmanshipoftheassoccommitteeonmunicipalcountygovernmentwillgoassemblymanEarlStanleyNewportBeachwhowillbedwhenthelegislatureconservationandplanning,fineandinsurance,andmanufacturingandmining. drunk wantedto“shootup”townthe residentswouldkeepthestreetwhilethedrunkmakinghis“gunplay.”Menarmed;menwereshotintheandtherewerenumerousmysteriesinDeathValley. Ifa drunk shot upa townoftenhewaspresentedwithcanteenafterhehad soberedThenhewaswalkedtotheofthetownsurroundedbyarsortWhentheyarrivedatedge,theescortsaid，“GoodNevermindcomingback,”notoneevercamebacktotownorcamp.Rhyolite,Skidoooandotherbiningcampsissuedmanyteens.Rhyolitehadcalled“Diamond-FieldJack,”hadbeentsentencedtohangeraltimes.Hewasab-a-dbree.他gotdrunk，shotupmainstreet，stoodoncetheandinvitedthissoandsothatsoandsoto stick theirhoutsohecould shootthemandhewasnot foolingaboutbuthe didit once too often.SheriffMacDonaldwasinandcamedownthestreet.WJack sawhimhe said，“comeanynearer,Mac.orIyou sure.”Mac said，“Giveyourgun,you'redrunk,"andthegunawayfromhim.Aminerwentona drunkwantedtochange things.Hwedeadanew wife,sоhekillewifeafterputtingherthings To One and All ... A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR We will be open New Year's Eve Until 2 a.m. and New Year's Day 11 a.m.-2 a.m. NEW CHUNGKING CAFE 327 E. CENTER ST. ANAHEIM 4519 New Automobile Registration Cards Use of either of the two types of 1949 potential automobile registration cards shown above in slightly reduced size will make renewal of a motor vehicle registration as simple as paying a water bill. On the left is a machine-prepared potential, issued in duplicate, bearing a typical example of new lower fees to be collected during the renewal period, January 3 through February 4, 1949. At the right is a manually typed potential stapled to any 1948 white registration card issued subsequent to November 1, 1948. Most motorists will receive the machine-prepared variety. The Department of Motor Vehicles urges careful preservation of potentials and their presentation IN PERSON at any of the Department's branch offices during the renewal period. Upon payment of fees, the top copy will be validated and returned to the registered owner along with his 1949 tabs. Validation converts the potential into the 1949 white registration card. The same procedure is followed in case of the manually-prepared version. In neither case will anything be mailed later to the applicant. Renewal by mail is being discouraged by the Department because more time is required. Potential registration cards in various shades of paper, denoting trucks, trailers and motorcycles also are issued. Renewal procedure for them is identical with that for automobiles. 1948 Family Doc "HANK" SAYS ... Staff Sergeant Harry Beason paid me a visit the other day while home on a furlough. He had reenlisted in his old grade of S/Sgt in July of 1947 as an automobile mechanic, with duty station at Hamilton Field which is about 23 miles north of San Francisco. Taxpayers For $327 Million Tax Increase Although Californians be taxed out of their year, the inevitable consequence that the state will have about $327 million for state expenditures, over what could be classed as tax increases. And that, says Legislator Rolland A. Vandegrift made the computation, is somebody's money. Ordinarily, says Vandegrift budget would be about lion. Add to that, about lion for a 15 per cent which pre-budget hearing indicated will be requested the total to $1,038 m. Vandegrift figures that tion to the $135 million there will be a $15 million it; $90 million to finance pensions; $55 million for ed school districts; about lion for the state's education program; and about $22 in special appropriation total of another $292 m. All of this, he says, with the staggering total million dollars for open the state for a single year which will cause no joy ready hard-pressed taxpay return to the pre-war on sales, corporations, comes, says the auditor, sult in taxes of about lion, leaving a total to rabalanced budget of $327 dollars. With this outlook, Californians beginning to wonder the tax blow will hit Vandegrift said, but so... Dr. William L. (Buck) Pressly, of Due West, S. C., is the nation's "Family Doctor of the Year." A former baseball player who dropped his sports career to become a horse-and-buggy doctor, he was selected at the American Medical Association's meeting in St. Louis, Mo. In his 33 years of practice he has delivered 4200 babies. PUC Denies Hay Transport Rate Rise Denial of the request of approximately 175 highway carriers for a general upward revision of rates for the transportation of hay was contained in a decision of the California Public Utilities Commission at San Francisco last week. The Hay Truckers Association, Inc., had sought the increases on the basis of a partial study of operating costs which the commission held was insufficient to justify granting the rate increase. At the same time, the commission designated an area surrounding Barstow as a hay producing area, and revised the boundaries of the hay producing area near Bakersfield and of the consuming area lying between Los Angeles and Hynes. These changes place competitive producers and consumers in the same rate brackets. Charges for hay transportation to the Los Angeles market area from northern Kern county points were increased about $8.00 per truckload and were reduced from southern Kern county points by about $4.00 per truckload as a re- SAYS Staff Sergeant Harry Beason paid me a visit the other day while home on a furlough. He had reenlisted in his old grade of S/Sgt in July of 1947 as an automobile mechanic, with duty station at Hamilton Field which is about 23 miles north of San Francisco. Shortly after being assigned to the latter field, Harry had an opportunity to apply for Radar school at Keesler Field, Mississippi. He was accepted for that training and has just completed nine months at the school. He is very enthused about the training received and says that there isn't much about radar that he now doesn't know. He is going to stay with radar and allied subjects and make it his life's work. After his furlough, Harry will be stationed at McChord Field near Tacoma and will be assigned to an Air Sea Rescue Squadron. He is trained to operate the Ground Control Approach equipment which is used to talk down planes that are caught in heavy fog. He was also trained in the maintenance of radar equipment. In short, he can handle any phase of radar operation and repair. Radar schooling is just one good example of the many fine technical schools that can be had in the Army or Air Force. In the latest issue of the Army Life Magazine, Major General Edward F. Witzell, The Adjutant General of the U.S. Army gives his New Year Greetings in the following message: "The safety and freedom of our country depend on all its citizens—military and civilian. In 1949, a very considerable number of young men and women will be entering the Military Service and thus fulfilling in the highest degree their obligation to their country. Present plans provide that this service will be worth while as career training and guidance for the soldier and sound insurance for the security, standards of living, and stability of our form or government. Every practicable step is being taken to make military service as interesting and comfortable as is compatible with efficiency." Never before have conditions Miner went on a drunk and wanted to change things. He wanted a new wife, so he killed his sister after putting her things out of the house after she had put up a battle. MacDonald, the sheriff of it and said he would down and get him; and when friend told him to be sure and give his gun, Mac said he did not do so as they were old friends. Friends insisted that they have been old friends but the man was crazed with drink had just killed his wife and now tearing down his house. Quoting from an old account, write a crowd went along to see what would happen." One of the sheriffs brought a shotgun stood beside the sheriff when stopped outside the miners' house and called "It's me, Tim." Come along with me and no trouble. I'm coming in Tim and I won't got a gun." "I got one," Tim, "and you stay the H—of here." Mac said, "I'm comin" and walked into the house. Got just inside the door and crazed miner jumped at him. Man behind the sheriff with shotgun blew the crazy man half. MacDonald was a good sheriff, but he did foolish things. Seems to me that some times secret is the better part of horror but the present generation sees a great debt to the pioneers the past. A baby daughter was born to Mrs. Henry Lemos, Eve street, Placentia, Wednesday, Fullerton General hospital. Charges for hay transportation to the Los Angeles market area from northern Kern county points were increased about $8.00 per truckload and were reduced from southern Kern county points by about $4.00 per trackload as a result of this action. Minor changes result from the establishment of the Barstow rate territory. The commission in the same decision modified the rules under which hay is first transported from field to market and subsequently diverted to the final destination. The changes were designed to encourage the most efficient use of the carrier's equipment. Separate charges formerly assessed for this service were included in the rates. Orange Woman Dies Tuesday Mrs. Ethel I. Youtsey, 61, died at her home, corner of Pearl and Main streets, Orange, Tuesday afternoon following a prolonged illness. A native of California, she has resided in that city for the past ten years. Surviving are her husband, F. L. Youtsey of the family home; one son, Delbert L. Youtsey of San Diego; one daughter, Mrs. Lois Dillard of Roseburg, Oregon; two sisters, Mrs. Sadie McNew and Miss Phoebe Bowlsby of Oregon; three brothers, Ray Bowlsby of Arizona, Stacy Bowlsby of Oregon and Robert Bowlsby of Los Angeles, and five grandchildren. Funeral services will be announced later by Hilgenfeld Mortuary, Anaheim. Taxpayers Face $327 Million Tax Increase (Western News Service) Although Californians may not be taxed out of their sox next year, the inevitable conclusion is that the state will have to dig up about $327 million for 1949-50 state expenditures, over and above what could be classed as ordinary tax increases. And that, says Legislative Auditor Rolland A. Vandegrift, who made the computation, is a lot of somebody's money. Ordinarily, says Vandegrift, the budget would be about $903 million. Add to that, about $135 million for a 15 per cent increase, which pre-budget hearings have indicated will be requested, bringing the total to $1,038 million. Vandegrift figures that in addition to the $135 million increase, there will be a $15 million deficit; $90 million to finance old age pensions; $55 million for distressed school districts; about $107 million for the state's educational program; and about $25' million in special appropriations, for a total of another $292 million. All of this, he says, ends up with the staggering total of $1,330 million dollars for operation of the state for a single year, a fact which will cause no joy to the already hard-pressed taxpayer. Return to the pre-war tax rates on sales, corporations, and incomes, says the auditor, will result in taxes of about $100 million, leaving a total to raise for a balanced budget of $327 million dollars. With this outlook, Californians are beginning to wonder where the tax blow will hit next year, Vandegrrift said, but so far Gov- Bumped Off Game, but unsuccessful, in his attempt to win the 1000-lire prize (about two dollars) offered to any Italian youngster able to sit for ten seconds on the back of unfriendly "Yo-Yo," this little Roman heads for the ground to the amusement of two American cowboys. The bucking donkey and cowboys are with the Texas Rodeo Company, first show of its kind to visit Italy in 40 years. Smog Hinders Fire Fighters In Southland The possibility that state forest fire detection systems may have to be revamped within four southern California counties was disclosed today by the SUGAR AND SPICE A baby daughter was welcomed by Mr. and Mrs. Hilmer Heitman, 9052 Harding avenue, Anaheim, last Thursday, at Fullerton Cottage hospital. The newcomer tipped the scales at eight pounds and 14 ounces. Smog Hinders Fire Fighters In Southland The possibility that state forest fire detection systems may have to be revamped within four southern California counties was disclosed today by the state division of forestry. The four affected counties are San Diego, Riverside, Orange and San Bernardino. A spokesman for the division said that initial studies by the department have revealed that lookout stations within the counties are not covering the areas originally assigned to them. Each lookout was originally designed to cover a radius of 15 miles but increased industrial smoke and "smog" in the area has cut the 15-mile visibility zone to a marked degree. As a possible alternative to the lookouts, division officials are studying the use of helicopters and airplanes. Daily air patrols carried on jointly by northern California lumbermen and state forest rangers have proved successful and were a factor in the decrease of forest fires in northern areas, the division spokesman said. W. L. Fairbanks, division fire prevention officer pointed out that the use of airplanes has, in the past, acted as a deterrent to people planning to set fires. He said that persons burning brush and other materials in isolated areas have been more cooperative in getting burning permits and obeying fire regulations when they knew a patrol plane might visit the sector at any time. California's public school system embraces all public schools in the state with the exception of the University of California. Printing That Is A Credit TO YOU The printed matter that goes out of your offices reflects your standards. We do a good job for you. Stock, ink and design in the modern manner — at moderate cost. Anaheim Gazette 259 E. Center St., Anaheim Ph. 2206