Newspaper Notes - 1850s (NN-18.5)(1850s) (336 pages)

UB Oa disgruntled and bilter, eventually a township in ’58, and Lake City ending up buck in Coloma, close by was laid out that same Others Came, Stayed That suminer 110 years ago, year as a resort and residence 1958 Marks 110 Years in County's other gold scekers came to our place for the Malakoff and North country, panning our streams with Columbiadiggings, Recorded Hiistory 'good The year of 1858 opened with the! yield, One of the first ones was a Jonas Spect, who prospectWith 1958 Nevada county roun ds . ed along Yuba river. He came out the first decade of another cen-' ‘here on June 2 and moved leistury of recorded history. In reality a lustrum could be’/urely from place to place. He was the roving kind, roaming as far as added to that because it is of rec-' — and then out of the Penn Valley ord that five years earlier a white” picture. trapper wus active in the eastern corner of the county: Stephen H. Meek set his traps along Truckee River ir in 1843. And even he was not the first, It is told, but without specific data given, that the Dons sent expeditions up the vari ous rivers long before Captain Sutter in 1839 founded his New Helvetia domain on the Sacramento River. There is not much doubt that one of these expeditions up the Yuba river. touched the territory which later became forming on January 1 of the Ne vada. City Library. Association, in July the Grass Valley National was published, in September the Met-. ropolitanTheater in Nevada City. openedand. Hamilton Hall in Grass . Valley was built. St. ~ Patrick's : church at the corner of ee aN and Chapel streets in Grass Valley . was also built, the Christian. Church organized in Grass Va Tley and the African Methodist_ Episco Later that memoraple summer of '48 the first party of gold diggers appeared here. It was a party of three, coming down from Oregon, a David Stump, a man pal church in NevadaCity. ‘The known only as Berry and a third first perfect and permanent fire one whose name hasnot been preorganization was effected June 7, served. It is said that they camp/1858, this first company being ed on Wolf Creek on what is now. ‘known as the Grass Valley Fire, Idaho-Maryland ground. They did . Hook and Ladder Company. very well, even found some heavy. First Chlorination nuggets, but got frightened away The first practical attempt on at the first indications of winter. the West Coast to reduce auriThat was the beginning. But Nevada county. But there is no! even more noteworthy is that this: ferous sulphurets by the chlorinarecord. ; tion process was done the latter ‘ summer of '48 also saw the first Records Run from 1848 part of ’58 by Oscar Maltman, who 4 sign of permanent settling. Ac-) From 1848 the records do, howbuilt a sulphurets reduction works cording to Bean's Directory of, ever, run in continual and ever ina mile from Nevada City on the Nevada county, a visionary trader) creasing tempo and could, as it’ Grass Valley road. f put up an adobe building on a spot, seems at the present moment, be The Northern Diggings had a andl Anthony House 4 between said to span the beginning and end} setback that was felt rather deeply . Bridgeport, which place came to . of the gold era. all around because quite a number be called Rose’s Corral. of local citizens took off for the It was in January of 1848 that} Thus 1848 was the opening year James Marshall confirmed the of Nevada county, a prologue to, far north and joined the wild FraOf this gold discovery at Coloma. The’ _the hectic drama that unfolded ser River Excitement. actual discovery was undoubtedly© with the following spring when Bean’s history says: “The Fraser River Excitement in done by the inquisitive Wimmer both Grass Valley and Nevada 1857-58 had a telling effect upon children as has been earlier menCity became established. the population of our county as tioned in the Trail and further Active Decade well as upon the valuation of proptestified to in this column only a In the decade that followed, few months ago by the North great strides were made and when jerty. Hundreds sold out their Bloomfield grand old man Kallen. 1858 cume around both communipossessions for what they could berger. Marshall discovered the ties were permanently settled and get and hurried off to British Cochildren playing with the yellow acknowledged as the hub of the lumbia, to a cold and inhospitable pebbles and took over from there. _gold industry in California and the region, not one of whom can we But he was trom the very start of center of the Northern Diggings recall to recollection who was his tie-in with the Gold Country. with scores of towns and camps in gainer by the step. Many returned to their old haunts sadder if history, dogged by misfortune and . : a widening circle. not wiser men; many are yet bufthwarted by his own disgruntled In that. first decade the placer. nature. He didn’t get a strangle-} mining was crowded out by hard feting the waves of fortune in hold on the Coloma discovery no rock and hydraulic mining, the these northern climes, and many matter how hard he tried, nor did county established, the cities of are beyond the reach of excitement forevermore.” he get a hold of himself. Nevada City and Grass Valley in(To Be Continued) Only a few months after his epic corporated, schools and churches raindrenched ride from Coloma to organized and full scale communSutter's Fort in a frenzy of wild ity life founded securely. This dreams did he feel cheated and growth kept on in 1858 and the crowded out of Coloma and left roster of happenings during that the ungrateful camp hoping to find year, now a hundred years in the richer fields elsewhere. He struck ‘past, reflects this many-faceted out north, panning the creeks as evolution, North Bloomfield — he encountered them. Some time originally ealled Humbug and of 748 he came into “Gn the summer this country, found our streams gold bearing, all right, especially Deer Creek. But the “takes” didn’t satisfy him so he moved on more founded in '51 — was formed into.

UB Oa disgruntled and bilter, eventually a township in ’58, and Lake City ending up buck in Coloma, close by was laid out that same Others Came, Stayed That suminer 110 years ago, year as a resort and residence 1958 Marks 110 Years in County's other gold scekers came to our place for the Malakoff and North country, panning our streams with Columbiadiggings, Recorded Hiistory 'good The year of 1858 opened with the! yield, One of the first ones was a Jonas Spect, who prospectWith 1958 Nevada county roun ds . ed along Yuba river. He came out the first decade of another cen-' ‘here on June 2 and moved leistury of recorded history. In reality a lustrum could be’/urely from place to place. He was the roving kind, roaming as far as added to that because it is of rec-' — and then out of the Penn Valley ord that five years earlier a white” picture. trapper wus active in the eastern corner of the county: Stephen H. Meek set his traps along Truckee River ir in 1843. And even he was not the first, It is told, but without specific data given, that the Dons sent expeditions up the vari ous rivers long before Captain Sutter in 1839 founded his New Helvetia domain on the Sacramento River. There is not much doubt that one of these expeditions up the Yuba river. touched the territory which later became forming on January 1 of the Ne vada. City Library. Association, in July the Grass Valley National was published, in September the Met-. ropolitanTheater in Nevada City. openedand. Hamilton Hall in Grass . Valley was built. St. ~ Patrick's : church at the corner of ee aN and Chapel streets in Grass Valley . was also built, the Christian. Church organized in Grass Va Tley and the African Methodist_ Episco Later that memoraple summer of '48 the first party of gold diggers appeared here. It was a party of three, coming down from Oregon, a David Stump, a man pal church in NevadaCity. ‘The known only as Berry and a third first perfect and permanent fire one whose name hasnot been preorganization was effected June 7, served. It is said that they camp/1858, this first company being ed on Wolf Creek on what is now. ‘known as the Grass Valley Fire, Idaho-Maryland ground. They did . Hook and Ladder Company. very well, even found some heavy. First Chlorination nuggets, but got frightened away The first practical attempt on

at the first indications of winter. the West Coast to reduce auriThat was the beginning. But Nevada county. But there is no! even more noteworthy is that this: ferous sulphurets by the chlorinarecord. ; tion process was done the latter ‘ summer of '48 also saw the first Records Run from 1848 part of ’58 by Oscar Maltman, who 4 sign of permanent settling. Ac-) From 1848 the records do, howbuilt a sulphurets reduction works cording to Bean's Directory of, ever, run in continual and ever ina mile from Nevada City on the Nevada county, a visionary trader) creasing tempo and could, as it’ Grass Valley road. f put up an adobe building on a spot, seems at the present moment, be The Northern Diggings had a andl Anthony House 4 between said to span the beginning and end} setback that was felt rather deeply . Bridgeport, which place came to . of the gold era. all around because quite a number be called Rose’s Corral. of local citizens took off for the It was in January of 1848 that} Thus 1848 was the opening year James Marshall confirmed the of Nevada county, a prologue to, far north and joined the wild FraOf this gold discovery at Coloma. The’ _the hectic drama that unfolded ser River Excitement. actual discovery was undoubtedly© with the following spring when Bean’s history says: “The Fraser River Excitement in done by the inquisitive Wimmer both Grass Valley and Nevada 1857-58 had a telling effect upon children as has been earlier menCity became established. the population of our county as tioned in the Trail and further Active Decade well as upon the valuation of proptestified to in this column only a In the decade that followed, few months ago by the North great strides were made and when jerty. Hundreds sold out their Bloomfield grand old man Kallen. 1858 cume around both communipossessions for what they could berger. Marshall discovered the ties were permanently settled and get and hurried off to British Cochildren playing with the yellow acknowledged as the hub of the lumbia, to a cold and inhospitable pebbles and took over from there. _gold industry in California and the region, not one of whom can we But he was trom the very start of center of the Northern Diggings recall to recollection who was his tie-in with the Gold Country. with scores of towns and camps in gainer by the step. Many returned to their old haunts sadder if history, dogged by misfortune and . : a widening circle. not wiser men; many are yet bufthwarted by his own disgruntled In that. first decade the placer. nature. He didn’t get a strangle-} mining was crowded out by hard feting the waves of fortune in hold on the Coloma discovery no rock and hydraulic mining, the these northern climes, and many matter how hard he tried, nor did county established, the cities of are beyond the reach of excitement forevermore.” he get a hold of himself. Nevada City and Grass Valley in(To Be Continued) Only a few months after his epic corporated, schools and churches raindrenched ride from Coloma to organized and full scale communSutter's Fort in a frenzy of wild ity life founded securely. This dreams did he feel cheated and growth kept on in 1858 and the crowded out of Coloma and left roster of happenings during that the ungrateful camp hoping to find year, now a hundred years in the richer fields elsewhere. He struck ‘past, reflects this many-faceted out north, panning the creeks as evolution, North Bloomfield — he encountered them. Some time originally ealled Humbug and of 748 he came into “Gn the summer this country, found our streams gold bearing, all right, especially Deer Creek. But the “takes” didn’t satisfy him so he moved on more founded in '51 — was formed into.