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Title: Historical Clippings Book (HC-12) Collection Type: Directories and Documents Collection Name: Historical Clippings Catalog #: HC-12 # of Pages: 520 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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Original Held At: Searls Historical Library Location: 161 Nevada City Hwy, Nevada City, CA 95959

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This system phased out in the late 1930's with the dwindling of the pdpulation and the town returned to kerosene lights until the P. G. & E. @ Fale in to supply the newly constructed Tahoe Sugar Pine lumber mill in At the height of mining activity the town had a post office, three hotels, six saloons, two-provision stores, two-dry goods stores, a butcher shop, a slaughter house, two-blacksmith shops, a shoe shop a barber shop, a brwgery,a coffing making shop and in 1904 a hospital. Except during the snow months mail service into Washington was very good. From the completion of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Kk. R. into Nevada City until W. W. I. a letter or package placed in the post office in San Francisco by 6 P. M. would be usl the town the next day on the "Noon Stage" Many of the larger stores in Sacramento had mail order departments and an order sent out of Washington by the "Morning Stage" would be received the next day ob the "Evening Stage’ Located at the junction of the Washington Creek with the South Yuba River, the slaughter house supplied meat for the butcher shops of Washington, Omega, Relief Hill and the many camps and mine boarding houses in the surrounding area. The meat was mostly selected from the sheep and cattle driven through the town each spring, to pastures in the higher mountains. With the exception of a mention of the brewery in The Nevada Daily Transcript's report on one of the town's fires and the notation-"John Schlachter, occupation brewer"--in Bean's Washington Township Directory of 1867, no information on this industry has been found. é This brewery could'nt have been in existence, one heavy snow winter, a few years later, when the great clamity occurred. Washington ran out of beer. A Word of this disaster was gotten through the snow to the Nevada City brewery. The proprietor hurried to a local foundry and by working far into the nicht a large metal sleigh was built. By daylight it was loaded and powered by the best four-horse teanj;ayeukable took off on the relief mission. AYALLY BLE A change of horses was waiting at the Central House and before another winter night set in the famished men of Washington had beer. The Nevada Daily Transcript, in the next day's pu&ication, loudly praised the ability ?f the business men of Nevada City to take care of any emergency. The first thing to attract the attention of strangers entering the town was the three horse troughs in the center of the Main street. As each hotel had "a saloon in connection" a trough was located in front of each hotel, thus offering liqyid refreshment for man and beast. The many apple trees, naw masses of dead wood, scattered around the town, besides having been planted for their fruit, also provided a-huice, which, when allowed to alternately freeze and thaw, while fermenting, in the early winter, became a potent product called "Jack". A "jolt" of which, taken occasionally, while mining, sometimes in knee-deep icy river water, was said to be a sure preventive of chills and rheumatism. Care had to be taken in the use of this, as several cases of drowning were said to have @ occurred from it's excessive use. Pace 4. W73.