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Historical Clippings Book (HC-11) (314 pages)
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Page: of 314
Yuba Canal “Company, with thelr
vast mining interesss, particularly:
in the vicinity of Columbia ;
and the Milton Water and Mining Company who controlled the
longest continuous ditch of the
three companies-the Milton Ditch,
80 miles in length, with their extensive operations at Sweetland
and French Corral, had brought
up the multitude of mining locations along the San Juan Ridge
for thei: particular interests. —
The question may be appropriately asked again: What became of these early French settlers or their progeny? It is
scarcely likely that one would
find the names of these Frenchmen on the roster of a Potter’s
Field. The French are not like
that. Generations of frugality does
not breed a race destined for a
Potter’s Field. Names such as
Fauchery, who was instrumental
in producing one of the’ finest
engineering features in our state.
I refer to the Magenta flume of
the Bureka Lake Company, 4
flume 126 feet in height, requiring
no splicing of timber in the bents.
This situation wasnot to be}
found anywhere else on earth
where single trees, from which
poles 126 feet in length could be
hewn right on the ground for
these bents. No scaffolding was
needed, as each bent was finished
as a single unit and raised into.
place complete. ;
Learned Men
Learned men such as Poquillon,
a linguist of note, and one of the
original Frenchmen referred to
in this article; Chabot, the Frenchman working at Buckeye Hill .at
Nevada City and who came within a hair of becoming the originator of hydraulic mining and beating to the line by one year the
distinction bestowed upon E. E.
Matteson for the discovery; Chav-:
anne, who was the inventor of
the needle nozzle here in our,
county which revolutionized the
important part of “peak” load
and “low” load: for the generators
of’ electricity, do not end up in a)
Potter’s Field.
’ One answer to the query of,
what became of these early French
in Nevada County and why the
land was not settled in vineyards,
orchards and gardens may stem
from the fact. that the craze in
France, after the tumultuous
times of revoltings around 1848,
for the founding of “associations”
in order to rid itself of undesirables, the unemployed, the revolutionists, by: the emigration of
these elements to French Colonies,
This did not materalize in containing enough of the farm, element for such undertakings. And
again, probably, in the very fact
that these same emigrants had
been at civil war during this period and as a consequence their
adjustment in a new land needed
dime. The speed with which these
people fraternized on a foreigu
soil would make quite a tale itself in the telling, It is nice to
dwell upon the assumption that
if men of distinction and foresight such as can be found in the
records of the ’50’s could only
have carried on, possibly the demoralization of a rich portion of
our county would not have been
so final, and the robbing of one
section of the terrain for the aggrandizement of another section
might have ‘been avoided, The
eternal wrangling which affords
ils. amusement in these times
jmight have been prevented.