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Historical Clippings Book (HC-12) (520 pages)
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Page: of 520
WILL BUILD A DAM.
\Work to Be Resumecd on the
Old Omega Mine.
Tho Tully family are making arrangements to resume operations on
the Omega mince. Thisold hydraulic mine was a famous “diggins” in
its day, but has lain idle fora oumyor of years by the decress of the
courts. Now the owners ure preparing to build a dam to rostrain the:
dobris, so that they can m‘ne once>
more.
The dam will bo 62 fect high, andi
192 feet loug on the top, and wil! be:
built according (o plaus approved’
by tho Debris Commissionors. Work
will be commenced in about a week,
says the Nevada Herald.
Alpha and Omega
Two miles south of Washington and about
14 miles east of Nevada City are the sites of
two old California towns, Alpha and Omega
according to*the files of the Nevada Count;
Historical Society. Alpha was at its height as
a mining camp in 1854 and 1855 and at one
time Dibblé Masonic Lodge No. 109 was located there. About a mile east was Omega, the
scene of extensive mining operations in 1852
and 1852, and it was there that a lodge of the .
Sons of Temperance was organized in 1855."A
fire destroyed the town, August 24, 1861,” the
society reports, “but with the energy usually
displayed under those circumstances
quickly rebuilt, only to be again laid .
November 12, 1863, Again it was rebuil
would appear that On a had its boom yeat
in 1858 when it contained “four provisiot
stores, one clothing store, two meat
three blacksmith shops, four saloons, one
shop and a population of about 200," Tod
} there is nothing left of the old camp, no
society adds, “was there much left of
years ago. Snow slides ca d it away by
ments. Nothing but second
cover the spot where onc
: aa.