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Historical Clippings Book - Quartz Mining (HC-09) (375 pages)

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WILLIAM BOURN VINCENT (right) of Ireland and San Francisco describes the scenes of his childhood to his nephew, Lord Burgh of London. The picture was taken in the Bourn Mansion in the Empire gar-dens in spring 1969. The mirrored rosewood sideboard in the background was imported from _ England in 1878. HEADFRAME of the Empire Mine is but a memory. When the mine closed in 1957 most of the wooden structures were removed. The large headframe over the cline shaft dropped “skips” crowded with miners deep into the earth, well below sea level. a 3 GRASS VALLEY’S most famous mine, the Empire, was visited in 1969 by the great-grandson and the grandson of the founder, William B. Bourn Jr. Downey _Clinch toured the extensive mine properties with William Bourn Vincent (left) with his nephew Lord Burgh Peter Leith (right) a distinguished member of the British royal peerage. Mr. Vincent spent much of his youth in Grass Valley at the mine and at Bourn-Vincent estate at the Lakes of Killarney in Ireland. Lord Burgh was on the first visit to America. Clinch and the two members of Grass Valley’s first family of gold mine developers, are standing in front of The Cottage, ” one of three mansions owned by W. B. Bourn Jr. This massive stone built, ivy covered mansion, designed by Willie Polk and constructed in 1894, was the center of the social life of the Gold Cities when the millions were being recovered in the fabulous golden era of Nevada county.