Historical Clippings Book - Nevada County Citizens (HC-07) (296 pages)

“In summer I hired one of John nie Nolan’s horses and rode home,; ; y turning the animal loose to wander’ back to the stable, I jwould tie the reins up short so he could not eat or drink and he would go home Mh all right. In winter I used snowshoes to the snow line and walked . the rest of the way. I was husky i tay Edmund G. Kinyon Deadwood elps Miner in those days’and full of vim.and. did not tire easily. After that I' . went, to railroading and helped to builu-the W. P., running engines handing the track+laying ma chines. I am retired now, but Hiked 16 Miles ~ still find plenty to doaround. on Grub. Trail home.” Wants Columbia Hill Photos A decade or more of correSpondence acquaintanceship . Mr. McKellips was also familiar with D, O. (Daniel) McKellips with the Columbia Hill section, of Oakland on historica em apparently attended school there became a reality last week when . for an interval. He would like old my shadowy friend arrived in or new photographs of that region Grass Valley to join the field . for copying and return and will trip of The Historical Society to pay for the service. He is also the Moore’s Flat country. Mr, anxious to obtain pictures of the McKellips is a retired locoNevada County Narrow Gauge enmotive fireman and engineer gines 3, 4 and 6 on the same basis. whose run as fireman was or~) He is a collector of such material iginally out of Rocklin over the and his accumulation of railroad Sierra on the Central Pacific, items is very large. He may be but who transferred to the addressed at 4734 Edgewood Ave., Western Pacific in 1904 and in Oakland 2, California, * * 1911 became 2a full time loco. motive engineer. . ‘ 'Moore’s Flat Camps Intermixed with such activities was considerable schooling in the Rediscovered by 26 East Bay Region Perhaps the intrepid twenty-six and finally a period of mining in association who braved the heat and dust of with his father, Stephen Horace ‘last Sunday to the Moore’s Flat McKellips, in Sierra County. His section of Western Nevada County birth was in Madison, Wisconsin, should be voted special medals by It was not June 21, 1868. His first railroadthe Historical Society. ing experience was on what was exactly a pleasant trip, due to the known as the Coal Road at Antijheat and dust-laden roads out of och, where he became a fireman. . Graniteville, but the excursionists This reference to his mining ex[returned well satisfied with their trip into the wilds of the Middle perience is of interest: Yuba, tired and dusty, but happy. Dan MeKellips, Miner George Legg, who knew the coun“From 1894 to 1897 I was worktry well in its productive years, ing in a mine at a place 16 miles was able to give much valuable in; north of Downieville called Deadformation. wood, one mile from, old Poker More or less isolated though it Flat, where we run a tunnel in is, the thought abides that persolid serpentine bedrock for over . manent markers should be placed 800 feet to try to tap a back chanat sites historically important. nel of pay dirt. The company fin. These would include the banditally refused to finance the work infested Edwards Grade, where further, so in 1897 we had to leave. _three travelers were murdered in “My father and I had nearly . separate holdups. The flight of $10,000 in that mine, but as things . time may soon eradicate all firstworked out we lost all of it and I] ,hand memory of those occurrences had later to pay all unpaid ex. as well as knowledge of the exact penses. I sued the company and Sites. It would appear that at finally got most of what I paid out least temporarymarkings should for bad debts. Sixteen Mile Hike not be longer delayed and !arrangements that be completed for 20 pounds load on my back, ' California. The Trail hopes to preserve such data as soon as practicable. raw permanent marking. The facts of “The trail to the mine above the slaying of Banker Cummings Poker's Flat was 16 miles from are fairly well known, but few are Downieville to the mine. To Big familiar with the killing of Silvis Oak Tree Flat and the Bee Tree Galiyotte, a mine superintendent, was 12 miles, right up the hill back and an unnamed Chinese, of Downieville. Via North Fork Moreover, traditions relative to it was 12 miles. I used to come to some of the early business places town in four hours, walking, of should be preserved. One such is course, and back in five hours with. said to link a prominent family of.

“In summer I hired one of John nie Nolan’s horses and rode home,; ; y turning the animal loose to wander’ back to the stable, I jwould tie the reins up short so he could not eat or drink and he would go home Mh all right. In winter I used snowshoes to the snow line and walked . the rest of the way. I was husky i tay Edmund G. Kinyon Deadwood elps Miner in those days’and full of vim.and. did not tire easily. After that I' . went, to railroading and helped to builu-the W. P., running engines handing the track+laying ma chines. I am retired now, but Hiked 16 Miles ~ still find plenty to doaround. on Grub. Trail home.” Wants Columbia Hill Photos A decade or more of correSpondence acquaintanceship . Mr. McKellips was also familiar with D, O. (Daniel) McKellips with the Columbia Hill section, of Oakland on historica em apparently attended school there became a reality last week when . for an interval. He would like old my shadowy friend arrived in or new photographs of that region Grass Valley to join the field . for copying and return and will trip of The Historical Society to pay for the service. He is also the Moore’s Flat country. Mr, anxious to obtain pictures of the McKellips is a retired locoNevada County Narrow Gauge enmotive fireman and engineer gines 3, 4 and 6 on the same basis. whose run as fireman was or~) He is a collector of such material iginally out of Rocklin over the and his accumulation of railroad Sierra on the Central Pacific, items is very large. He may be but who transferred to the addressed at 4734 Edgewood Ave., Western Pacific in 1904 and in Oakland 2, California, * * 1911 became 2a full time loco. motive engineer. . ‘ 'Moore’s Flat Camps Intermixed with such activities was considerable schooling in the

Rediscovered by 26 East Bay Region Perhaps the intrepid twenty-six and finally a period of mining in association who braved the heat and dust of with his father, Stephen Horace ‘last Sunday to the Moore’s Flat McKellips, in Sierra County. His section of Western Nevada County birth was in Madison, Wisconsin, should be voted special medals by It was not June 21, 1868. His first railroadthe Historical Society. ing experience was on what was exactly a pleasant trip, due to the known as the Coal Road at Antijheat and dust-laden roads out of och, where he became a fireman. . Graniteville, but the excursionists This reference to his mining ex[returned well satisfied with their trip into the wilds of the Middle perience is of interest: Yuba, tired and dusty, but happy. Dan MeKellips, Miner George Legg, who knew the coun“From 1894 to 1897 I was worktry well in its productive years, ing in a mine at a place 16 miles was able to give much valuable in; north of Downieville called Deadformation. wood, one mile from, old Poker More or less isolated though it Flat, where we run a tunnel in is, the thought abides that persolid serpentine bedrock for over . manent markers should be placed 800 feet to try to tap a back chanat sites historically important. nel of pay dirt. The company fin. These would include the banditally refused to finance the work infested Edwards Grade, where further, so in 1897 we had to leave. _three travelers were murdered in “My father and I had nearly . separate holdups. The flight of $10,000 in that mine, but as things . time may soon eradicate all firstworked out we lost all of it and I] ,hand memory of those occurrences had later to pay all unpaid ex. as well as knowledge of the exact penses. I sued the company and Sites. It would appear that at finally got most of what I paid out least temporarymarkings should for bad debts. Sixteen Mile Hike not be longer delayed and !arrangements that be completed for 20 pounds load on my back, ' California. The Trail hopes to preserve such data as soon as practicable. raw permanent marking. The facts of “The trail to the mine above the slaying of Banker Cummings Poker's Flat was 16 miles from are fairly well known, but few are Downieville to the mine. To Big familiar with the killing of Silvis Oak Tree Flat and the Bee Tree Galiyotte, a mine superintendent, was 12 miles, right up the hill back and an unnamed Chinese, of Downieville. Via North Fork Moreover, traditions relative to it was 12 miles. I used to come to some of the early business places town in four hours, walking, of should be preserved. One such is course, and back in five hours with. said to link a prominent family of.