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June 18, 1948 (8 pages)

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or ge ENE rei se working. a ae just in. from: Massachusetts; 2—The Nugget Shopper, Nevada City, June 18, 1948 ~ Cherry Carnival NORTH SAN JUAN: The Cherry Carnival, an annual event for North San Juan, \will open this evening for a three-day celbration. Camptonville, Yuba County, joining with North San Juan and other little towns along San Juan Ridge is expected to swell attendance. The North San Juan Camptonville Chamber of Commerce. which is directing the celebration, states there will be plenty of free cherries this year. There will be dancing every night, a big parade Sunday afternoon at 1 o’clock, . concessions, games, and a queen contest, the winner of which will . be announced in time for her to mount her float in the parade. Her name will be announced Saturday night at 9’ o'clock. Candidates for queen are Kathleen. McQuinn and Jeannie Innis, both of North San Juan; Vera McAllister of Downieville, Sierra County; Wilma Clemens, Alleghany, Sierra County; Doris Tur-. ner, and Eva Olsen. both of Oak Valley; Nellie Lea, North Columbia; and Patricia Kessler of Camptonville. ‘ mm historical BEGINNINGS OF ROUGH AND READY “ROUGH AND READY,” whose mame became the inspiration of Bret Harte: for his story, ‘‘The Millionaire of Rough and Ready,” is like that of many a mining town in California. A discovery of rich diggings, an influx of prosperity.and. importance as long as the mines continued to yield. The ‘first settlement was made in the fall of 1849 by the Rough and Ready Company, from which the town derived its name. The Teadeér of this Company was Captain A. A. Townsend,.who.had served under ‘“‘Rough and Ready” Zachary Taylor, Commander of the American Forces in the Mexican War at Winnebago, and for this reason the company. was styled Rough ani Ready. They crossed the mountains by the Truckee route, and arrived on Deer Creck, near the mouth of Slate Creeh, September 9, 1849. Here they mined im the bed of the creek for several weeks with good success. Grizzlies and deer were plentiful, and while one of the company was out on a foraging expedition after made him a ,“sporting offer.’’ He would dig the plot one day; if he got $200 worth of gold or more he would give it to Joe, if he got less, he would Keep it. Joe,. confident the land was rich, took him up, and even insisted on a contract. The “‘Yankee’ dug up $180 worth in three hours and then quit, keeping the ‘‘dust.’’ He maintained he hadn't agreed to work : full day. Furious, Joe arranged a me:ting .of ‘“‘leading citizens’’ and nearly all of them were strong for running the “‘slicker’’ out’ of town. But someone questioned their right to do it, pointing out that the man was an American citizen and hadn't committed any crime. Then a spellbinder proposed that they secede and establish a. nation of their own, so they could “run Mr. Massachusetts out of town regaraiess.’’ There wasn’t a single “no”’ vote. E. F. Brundage was chosen president ad appointed a cabinet. game, he came to the ravine below Randolph Flat. Being thirsty he] stooped to drink from the clear stream at his feet, and in doing so discovered a piece of gold lying . exposed upon the bed rock. They . prospected here, and finding: rich ground, removed their camp from Slate Creek to this place. A short time after the settlement of the Rough and Ready . Company, the Randolph Company . appeared and located on Randolph Flat. The Rough and Ready Com] ' { pany had endeavored to keep their suceess a secret. They had located . the whole ravine, and had even . taken up claims that were known . to be of no value, in order to keep . others. away. They maintained . their monoply and whenever any) miners began prospecting in the neighborhood, by going to the place they were at work and. claiming the ground. This was the state of affairs when the Randelph Co. appeared and located on some ground claimed by the othrs. This proceeding threatened to result in difficulty between the two companies, but a compromise was effected, and. the two parties divided the ravine between them. So successful were—these companies in their mining operations that Captain Townsend returned East in the spring to procure more men. He made up a company of forty, whom he had under contract to work for him one year for the wages that then prevailed in the States. All are familiar with the magical growth of mining localities in the summer of 1850, and when Townsend arrived with his new party in September, he was both surprised and disappointed to find four or five hundred people in a town composed. of a motley eoellection of tents and shanties, where but a few months before stood only the cabins of the two companies. He was obliged to hire his men out to the owners of claims, and to buy an interest in a claim for himself. The first family at Rough and Ready was that of a Scotchman named Riddle who came here witu his wife from South America. In April, 1850, James S. Dunleavy came with his wife and built the first frame house paying $200 per thousamd feet for the lumber at Holt's ; sawmill near Grass Valley. Mr. Dunleavy had come to this coast as a minister, and had for several years previously resided in San Francisco, where he was élected by the inhabitants of that place in 1847 to represent them in the Gouncil called by Fremont, the acting Governor. The _ reverend . gentleman got drunk on the night of. the election, and seems to have retrograded rapidly, for upon his appearance in Rough and Ready he opened the first saloon in the sew town, and a few months later dedicated the first ten-pin alley in?the county. The following anecdote about him is‘quoted from Robert Welles Ritehie’S book “‘The Hell Roarin’ Forty Niners.’’ It’s about a funeral in Rough and Ready. During the service at the cemetery the reverend delivered a lengthy _prayer while the mourners stood with Bowed heads. One of them noticed something’ shiny in the freshly dig earth beside the grave. He turned it over with his toe. It was a nugget—a whopper. When the minister completed the prayer and opened his eyes he saw all the mourners pacing off claims in the graveyard. A second after his ; Union Encampment, No. 11, IOOF, . Temperance. “Amen’’ he called out: ‘‘Hey, boys, you must: give-me a show after J finish with our brother. here.’ On an April morning in 1850, one of the Wisconsin men that founded Rough. and Ready, was}: on, a -new. claim ; when A few minutéS Tater he and his Secretary of State called the *“‘Yankee’’ out of a saloon and gave him the order: “On your way.” That excitement over. the secession was practically forgotten until the same “‘leading citizéns’’ met in June to plan a celebration on July 4th. ‘“‘Why celebrate the Fourth,’” asked a member of the group, “when we're no longer a part of the United States?’’ President Brundage called for a vote— and the crowd. decided unanimously to dissolve the State of Rough and Ready and return to the Union. The population of Rough and
Ready increased rapidly in 1859, and at the election in October there were nearly 100 votes cast. The question of a new county was agitated, and Rough and Ready aspired te the honor of being the county seat, giving way, however, to the claims of Nevada City. The following organizations were formed in the fifties: The Christian Association, Rough and Ready Lodge, No. 52, F. & A. M.; Mountain Rose Lodge, No. 20, IOOF; divisions of Sons of and two The size of claims at first limited to fifteen feet square, was’ extended to thirty feet square, and all the long, dry season, the miners threw up heaps of dirt, awaiting the time when the rains of winter should provide the water for washing their treasure. They waited in vain, for the wet season of 1850-51 was a dry one, as it were, and-consequent lack of water led to the construction of ditches to supply the deficiency. In November a party’ commenced a ditch from Squirrel »Creek to run to Rich Flat, which they completed before the end of the year. Another party surveyed a _ line from Deer Creek but found a party of Nevada City men bent on the same purpose. They united and eonstructed the Rough and Ready ditch, which was completed in the fall of 1851. The quantity thus furnished would be about six or eight inches of miner’s measure, and one tom head of water would supply half a dozen or more companies successively. The cost of $16 per day during the first season for the first head comany, the price being graduated to each company succeeding, at a discount of $2 each, until the price would come down to $4, after which there was no deduction. The scarcity as well as the excessive cost of water therefore caused men to crowd closely as their numbers and location would allow, and most cheering and animated sights were thus presented on Butte Flat, Rich Flat, Squirrel Creek, Texas Flat, —Pert Photo WAYNE BROWN HEADS LEGION 7RASS VALLEY: Wayne 3rown was chosen unanimously Tuesday night to head the HagueThomas-Hegarty Post of the Am-! erican Legion. . Other officers elected were John . 3unch, first vice commander; . William Carey, Jr., second vice commander; Marvin Kitts, historian; Vincent: Verlod, chaplain; . Roy Berriman, finance officer; . Douglas Toy, color bearer; George . Brewer, sergeant at. arms; and Edward Bawden, adjutant. . Gilbert Tennis reported that the . Boys State will open next week. . Boys chosen to represent Grass . ! Valley were James Abraham, . sponsored by the American Legion . post; Carl Jones, sponsored by . the Grass Valley Lions Club; Don . Cornell, by the Grass Valley Ro. tary Club. The Boys State meets . at the State Fair Grounds in ac. ramento. The boys will leave Sat. urday accomanied by Tennis and . return the following Friday. * INCREASED MOTOR VEHICLE PRDUCTION American factories turned out almost 10 percent more motor vehicles during the first four months of 1948 than they did during the first four months of 1947, reports National Automobile Club. By the end of April of this year they had produced 1,718,737. total units as compared with 1,565,635 units produced during-the same period last year. where twenty and thirty companies of men numbering from 100 to 300 persons could bé seen at one view, busily engaged in “sluicing surface.” And as another and more fatal, as well as more irremediable result, the diggings around Rough and Ready being so accessible and so easily worked, were very soon worked out. Deer Creek, and other places, REALE “Cafeteria of or business? 22’ x 80° SHOP BUILDINGS, 3 bedroom, smaller bedrooms, cement, rock and petrified 3-ROOM LOG CABIN, partly Grass Valley Nevada City Why spend days or weeks looking for that home Here are a few of our choice listings: BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY -bedroom house, 2 garages and other buildings on one acre level ground. Good location. Price reduced to $12,500 for quick sale. Term. HOMES 4-BEDROOM STUCCO HOME, large living room and dining room with hardwood floors. Grand rock fireplace, one master Price $12,000, terms. See pictures in our window. mately, fruit. trees, spring water in house. 5 miles from Grass Valley. $3,500, $1,000 down. STINSON COMPANY TERIA Real Estate” Lot 10% x 200. terraced with wood, 2 fish ponds in front. furnished. 1% acres approxiPictured above is a recent, important job done by Clifford Shepherd, painting contractor. Before the Holbrook Hotel and Main Street in Grass Valley, we see, from left to right: George Hirschberger, Clarence Gant, Marcel Woods, Sam Hendon, Jack O’Donnell, Clifford Shepherd, Don Rademaker, book-keeper, Roy Brown, paper hanger, and Kirt Upthegrove. GRASS VALLEY: The Nugget Shopper salutes Clifford Shepherd, painting contractor, today, because his expanding and forward-looking business is a typical success story in the American saga of artisan-becomesbusinessman. Shepherd has just opened a very active branch of his painting-contracting business in Auburn. Born in Fort Scott, Kansas on September 24, 1909, the local businessman went to the public schools in Pittsburgh, Kansas. : Asa lad, he became an apprentice painter. He pro'gressed to journeyman and, in 1937, entered the contracting business. In 1940 he came to Grass Valley and since then, has operated a steadily growing concern. Cliff Shepherd was married in 1929, and the Shepherds have four daughters, Patsy, 18, Margaret Anne, 16, Billie Darlene, 14, and Sue Pauline, 12. They reside at 314 Henderson Street, Grass Valley. Shepherd’s hobbies are fishing, hunting and flying. He is a member of the Eagles and the Grass Valley Rod and Gun Club. was used, and on the trim, and windows, Boysen’s paint. The hotel pictured above got its first full coat of . paint in 60 years. Morewear cement and stucco paint . EVERY DAD KNOWS MORE FUN BEST EQUIPMENT oo WITH THE From Nevada City Electric * REELS . DAD WILL LIKE THE QUALITY OF OUR SOUTH BEND, OCEAN CITY AND MARTIN AUTOMATIC MODELS * RODS STRONG SPRINGY AND RUGGED * LURES WITHOUT THE RIGHT LURE YOU’RE LOST, SO BETTER FIND YOUR WAY TO NEVADA CITY ELECTRIC FAST ” SWIM TRUNKS WE’VE THE BEST ADAMS AND FROM ONLY 3.00 IF DAD NEEDS A Pocket Knife — See Us _ NEVADA CITY % "*. ELECTRIC _ in Father’s aS Stetson Hats HICKOK JEWELRY — Cuff Links, $3.50 White Arrow Shirts, $3.50 Tie Chains, $1.00 to $3.50 Day-June 20th and ennetts and Steel PRESENTS ollyvogue Ties 1.50, 2.00 2.90, 3.50 +9 eletre $10 to $12.50 (Jewelry subject to 20% Federal Excise Tax) Hickok Belts, $1.50 to $3.50 Hendon Sport Shirts, $5.95, $6.50, $6.95 \ Crosby Square Shoes, $12.50 and up Pajamas by BVD, $3.95 to $5.50. BENNETTS (+ P 102 West Main Street......Phgne GeVo 101-J . * Grass Valley