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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.
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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]
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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 .
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Hickok Belts, $1.50 to $3.50
Hendon Sport Shirts, $5.95, $6.50, $6.95
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Crosby Square Shoes, $12.50 and up
Pajamas by BVD, $3.95 to $5.50.
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