Historical Clippings Book (HC-11) (314 pages)

. Resiunk During Boyhood, Coghlan Recalls Decision on “The Hill” I read one of Axel Gravander’s second, Several monitors were worked, night and day. The levels, ditches and mines.” ~ on which they worked were bril-Vian tly iMuminated by electric * he Sawyer Decision One of my earliest recollections; light, wencsated by water power. is that of hearing my father and To quote Judge Sawyer “a night, > North other miners discussing “Judge seene of the kind in ‘the Sawyer’s decision.” I couldn't Bloomfield mine is in the highest then make out what the decision degree weird and stuvtting ani “Trail” columns. meant, but I felt there was someMemories of spring take me thing evil and foreboding about it. to years, sixty than back more Agents of the *Anti-Debris Asanother morning in May, when I sociation were coming out of the It was a bright, left Columbia Hill. cannot fail to aes Vatton with wonder and admiration. ~~ According to Judge Sawyer, so much debris: was carried into {he on Yuba River, that land upon which to check on the operati sunny morning. The flowers were valléys mines and on our side were situated some of the finest the of the bud; in in bloom; the trees comat ed farms, orchards.-and vineyards in, watchmen were station hillsides fresh and green. manding points to give warnings ‘the state were covered with. tailJim Hughes, from his ranch of their coming. Spies, those Antivings and destroyed, near Cherokee, called for us in Debris agents were called, and I Judge Sawyer’s decision ran far his spring wagon long before dawn remember how odious their cal‘and wide, as T learned long after bromy sister, my , my mother ling seemed to be. And it was odI left Columbia Hill. It enjoined’ thers and myself. (my father had jous to us for Judge Sawyer’s the mining companies from dumpsome sco Franci San for Jeff decision spelled the end of hymonths before). Bundling us and draulice mining and for many ing in the Yuba and its branches Deer Creek, Sucker Flat Ravine, spring his into ings ’ our little belong marked the end of the free open Humbug Creek. and Scotcaman’s awagon, Hughes drove off to Nevlife in the mountains. _ . Creek and-made unworkable an f ada City and the early: morning which in his As Mr. Stellman says in his. “guriferous deposit” train for Colfax and Sah Fran-. the largest I had occasion the other day to It’s spring time, along the’ San Juan Ridge --a fact which escaped my mind until the other day when 000 cubie feet of water in an hour with a velocity of 150 feet per was cut own words “is much cisco. It was a long. and lonesome} took, ‘a great industry. look up the taxes paid by P, G. i. in Nevada County. This the company’s taxes totaled $284,895, which was more than the total taxes paid in the county in 1884, the year of Judge Sawyer’s decision. In that year the total of all county taxes was only } $132,645 which of course was a time when assessments and tax rates were low and few services were required of local government, : By John FP. Coghlan 20,1953 May co, Francis _. San eight inch nozzle discharged 185, Full Effeet of Judge Sawyer’s’ 3a aS in he state.” important anq mostRost short by one stroke ofa Judge’s. M pen, a decision whose justice one . . Seiwa oyhood As I wrote some years later, “t cannot successfully impugn, but ride, 29 Years to Get Back. remember how wer watched hills rt valléys “aropaway. ‘and “how we speculated when we would see the old place again. I was for;going back in a year or two, or at a any rate: as soon as I became, man, but it-todk me twenty-nine years to get back. Such Js the I never think of my boyhood whose practical wisdom is perhaps _that my mind does not run to the; debatable.” It was to me . . . According to Mr. Stellman, CalEureka Lake Ditch, , running accomplishment great a° jj rewere assets workable ifornia’s and across duced by many millions and many around mountain sides indeed thousands of men were deprived] ravines and gulches. And it was a great accomplishment -} of a livelihood. long and sup-. “In my day there was Only one; more than 200 miles b mines and towns from: the issue and that was our. plying Hill. way of the.world; and sohe-world side toBut the record shows there; Snow Point to Columbia of rautine s and side. us victim makes There could be said of this ditch day’s work.” . WS another side, Filled ties us down to the River Beds’ nreniys Gretta. ta . 1 eee made what Mr. Stellman said of the} fommd that the) mining ditches In general: “the Hill? since; but none touched Judge Sawyer: its). «ajl manner of difficulties were me _more.than. my -first return river beds of the: Yuba and Many} overcome in the construction of ' of: twenty-nine ‘branches had been filled aftér an absence were built deep with debris‘from the} these canals. Theysecond years, The--house where I was . feet only to mountains, through . of depth a to places Som 7h MPCs born, near tie lower reservoir of 150 feet, He himself yisited the . the Rockies themselves, over deep Columbia Hill. had long disap lofty and beetling” Dew and the mines along/ yavines, alongtimes peared. The: old. hydraulic mine, biverridge. the acqueducts; The country “WAS ee . cliffs. Some ow backyard, the which was almost: the crags by among up hung were Lae ned was overgrown. with pine and. new Co iy forse iron brackets.” manzanita. There was hardly. a ay in Nevada Sank un ens Nain great trace of. the old company: black ape: ae the Torre ete ate mine, Judge Sawyer noted smith shop across the road. What an interesting place that These ditches and canals, says that an . \7," steliman, “ranjg among the of history.” great engineering feats No shop was in my boyhood, men rol Vision of Future J left Columbia Hill,by way of / { Purdon’s bridge. Little did I think ling pine. mending tools, distribut. . to the miners. And ~ ing ‘stpplies on the wall one of the marvels ‘e 2 then that just above the bridge tion on the.Milton-French Corral line, ets. "Sie ts {/the pioneer power houses of the Pacific Gas and Electric System of the day, the telephone, 2 sta “In his book “Mother Lode, the Ra A ' there was in the making one of Rome power house built by Eu SEG Ae car akan Story of the Gold Rush, Days”, Louis J. Stellman says this was *.,, Pa aA 2 ; the first. long distance telephone Mee Ng gti asa, gene DeSabla and his associates ‘. for the Nevada. County Electric _. Power Company. But it came to yy Se We ead A, line in the world. “It was called 54 3" : yen es the Ridge Telephone Company gy oe eke S and was built in 1878 for inter© oR IFDyadic communication between Milton <> © FT pase 2 * >) and’ French’ Corral. The principal @§ J. Pigs office was in) North Sdn Juan ine staand there were twenty-two fions on the old line, which wes NAS ae “) pass that I became associated with ,. the P. G. and E. and through long 4 ve .years of service have seen power a4, houses and dams of its construc<= tion take over ditches and canals ~ of the*old mining companies and Ma, wd put them to the service of the ~.-) mountains and the valleys in a way ‘that would please the venand daring builders of Pyramids in the Columbia pit. . jised mostly for the operation of ‘turesome another day. ir + . { {.

. Resiunk During Boyhood, Coghlan Recalls Decision on “The Hill” I read one of Axel Gravander’s second, Several monitors were worked, night and day. The levels, ditches and mines.” ~ on which they worked were bril-Vian tly iMuminated by electric * he Sawyer Decision One of my earliest recollections; light, wencsated by water power. is that of hearing my father and To quote Judge Sawyer “a night, > North other miners discussing “Judge seene of the kind in ‘the Sawyer’s decision.” I couldn't Bloomfield mine is in the highest then make out what the decision degree weird and stuvtting ani “Trail” columns. meant, but I felt there was someMemories of spring take me thing evil and foreboding about it. to years, sixty than back more Agents of the *Anti-Debris Asanother morning in May, when I sociation were coming out of the It was a bright, left Columbia Hill. cannot fail to aes Vatton with wonder and admiration. ~~ According to Judge Sawyer, so much debris: was carried into {he on Yuba River, that land upon which to check on the operati sunny morning. The flowers were valléys mines and on our side were situated some of the finest the of the bud; in in bloom; the trees comat ed farms, orchards.-and vineyards in, watchmen were station hillsides fresh and green. manding points to give warnings ‘the state were covered with. tailJim Hughes, from his ranch of their coming. Spies, those Antivings and destroyed, near Cherokee, called for us in Debris agents were called, and I Judge Sawyer’s decision ran far his spring wagon long before dawn remember how odious their cal‘and wide, as T learned long after bromy sister, my , my mother ling seemed to be. And it was odI left Columbia Hill. It enjoined’ thers and myself. (my father had jous to us for Judge Sawyer’s the mining companies from dumpsome sco Franci San for Jeff decision spelled the end of hymonths before). Bundling us and draulice mining and for many ing in the Yuba and its branches Deer Creek, Sucker Flat Ravine, spring his into ings ’ our little belong marked the end of the free open Humbug Creek. and Scotcaman’s awagon, Hughes drove off to Nevlife in the mountains. _ . Creek and-made unworkable an f ada City and the early: morning which in his As Mr. Stellman says in his. “guriferous deposit” train for Colfax and Sah Fran-. the largest I had occasion the other day to It’s spring time, along the’ San Juan Ridge --a fact which escaped my mind until the other day when 000 cubie feet of water in an hour with a velocity of 150 feet per was cut own words “is much cisco. It was a long. and lonesome} took, ‘a great industry. look up the taxes paid by P, G. i. in Nevada County. This the company’s taxes totaled $284,895, which was more than the total taxes paid in the county in 1884, the year of Judge Sawyer’s decision. In that year the total of all county taxes was only } $132,645 which of course was a time when assessments and tax rates were low and few services were required of local government, : By John FP. Coghlan 20,1953 May co, Francis _. San eight inch nozzle discharged 185, Full Effeet of Judge Sawyer’s’ 3a aS in he state.” important anq mostRost short by one stroke ofa Judge’s. M pen, a decision whose justice one . . Seiwa oyhood As I wrote some years later, “t cannot successfully impugn, but ride, 29 Years to Get Back. remember how wer watched hills rt valléys “aropaway. ‘and “how we speculated when we would see the old place again. I was for;going back in a year or two, or at a any rate: as soon as I became, man, but it-todk me twenty-nine years to get back. Such Js the I never think of my boyhood whose practical wisdom is perhaps _that my mind does not run to the; debatable.” It was to me . . . According to Mr. Stellman, CalEureka Lake Ditch, , running accomplishment great a° jj rewere assets workable ifornia’s and across duced by many millions and many around mountain sides indeed thousands of men were deprived] ravines and gulches. And it was a great accomplishment -} of a livelihood. long and sup-. “In my day there was Only one; more than 200 miles b mines and towns from: the issue and that was our. plying Hill. way of the.world; and sohe-world side toBut

the record shows there; Snow Point to Columbia of rautine s and side. us victim makes There could be said of this ditch day’s work.” . WS another side, Filled ties us down to the River Beds’ nreniys Gretta. ta . 1 eee made what Mr. Stellman said of the} fommd that the) mining ditches In general: “the Hill? since; but none touched Judge Sawyer: its). «ajl manner of difficulties were me _more.than. my -first return river beds of the: Yuba and Many} overcome in the construction of ' of: twenty-nine ‘branches had been filled aftér an absence were built deep with debris‘from the} these canals. Theysecond years, The--house where I was . feet only to mountains, through . of depth a to places Som 7h MPCs born, near tie lower reservoir of 150 feet, He himself yisited the . the Rockies themselves, over deep Columbia Hill. had long disap lofty and beetling” Dew and the mines along/ yavines, alongtimes peared. The: old. hydraulic mine, biverridge. the acqueducts; The country “WAS ee . cliffs. Some ow backyard, the which was almost: the crags by among up hung were Lae ned was overgrown. with pine and. new Co iy forse iron brackets.” manzanita. There was hardly. a ay in Nevada Sank un ens Nain great trace of. the old company: black ape: ae the Torre ete ate mine, Judge Sawyer noted smith shop across the road. What an interesting place that These ditches and canals, says that an . \7," steliman, “ranjg among the of history.” great engineering feats No shop was in my boyhood, men rol Vision of Future J left Columbia Hill,by way of / { Purdon’s bridge. Little did I think ling pine. mending tools, distribut. . to the miners. And ~ ing ‘stpplies on the wall one of the marvels ‘e 2 then that just above the bridge tion on the.Milton-French Corral line, ets. "Sie ts {/the pioneer power houses of the Pacific Gas and Electric System of the day, the telephone, 2 sta “In his book “Mother Lode, the Ra A ' there was in the making one of Rome power house built by Eu SEG Ae car akan Story of the Gold Rush, Days”, Louis J. Stellman says this was *.,, Pa aA 2 ; the first. long distance telephone Mee Ng gti asa, gene DeSabla and his associates ‘. for the Nevada. County Electric _. Power Company. But it came to yy Se We ead A, line in the world. “It was called 54 3" : yen es the Ridge Telephone Company gy oe eke S and was built in 1878 for inter© oR IFDyadic communication between Milton <> © FT pase 2 * >) and’ French’ Corral. The principal @§ J. Pigs office was in) North Sdn Juan ine staand there were twenty-two fions on the old line, which wes NAS ae “) pass that I became associated with ,. the P. G. and E. and through long 4 ve .years of service have seen power a4, houses and dams of its construc<= tion take over ditches and canals ~ of the*old mining companies and Ma, wd put them to the service of the ~.-) mountains and the valleys in a way ‘that would please the venand daring builders of Pyramids in the Columbia pit. . jised mostly for the operation of ‘turesome another day. ir + . { {.