Newspaper Notes - 1850s (NN-1850)(1850) (313 pages)

3L° THE GOLDEN FIFTIES As Sketched by the Pen Of x : ! 1) TALLMAN HATHAWAY ROLFE } EDITED BY BELLE ROLFE DOUGLASS 4 (nstallment Number Thirteen) a NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, i : July 8, 1857. To Sam. Rolfe, San Bernardino, California. Dear Sam: . } . The 4th of July passed off quietly. . " ‘Aside from laying the corner stone of) ‘the brick church the patriotic pro. scheduled. There were a great many /people in town and some of the boys dressed in fancy costumes and paraded through the streets, They hauled up gram was the only genuine attractionlthe march of progress and ts counteracting sounds that infest the air, Now we have the voices of children at play, the church bells and other ‘progressive vibrations to clutter up the atmosphere. Our schoolhouse is finished. You: iknow perhaps, that it is located in the rear of Warren's lot. There is. . Sse acre of ground, and the building is 48x30 feet divided in two rooms, each capable of seating fifty pupils. ips designed to have a male and a female in front of the platform to listen to) gepartment. Mrs, Parton has charge Dave Belden’s speech but he came! down on them so hard for making . that sort of a display that the “windy : i of the young ladles. . hi -_ Community Development PlanA movement is started toward a fguards” left at once. There was TiS) ra renieth Mining’ Company to prosintantion on their part, I am sure, to: ‘yidioule the day but patriotism is exemplified in various ways and in ac, cordance with the character of the individual. To date, I have not seen the sentiment ridiculed. Belden’s interpretation received a rude shock ‘by the act of the boys who probably regard the occasion as important as he does. . The Celebration of 751 I was here July 1851 and the celetbration began with as much fervor, but with the equipment at hand—sixshooters! As the sun peeped over the mountain on the East Side, it must have shone directly into the eyes of a sturdy patriot in his cabin out by the Sugar’ Loaf and his impulse was to sieze his Colt’s revolver and bang away. One slope after another answered the signal. From Mesquite Creek, Willow Valley, Big and Little Deer Creeks, Gold Flat, came answering shots, echoing through Coyoteville, making 2 complete chain, linking heart and soul of the loyal gang in one long loud explosion, We, in . town, helped along, sometimes with a single shot, maybe a dozen or more, followed by a perfect fusilade, breaking out in new places and reenforced by shouts and songs. _ The “Oh, Joe” Call How changed we are! We may he ‘proud of progress but the old days ; ‘before civilization are happy memorfes. Often on a Sunday evening, iwhen a calm seemed to pervade the land, a shout of ‘Oh, Joe!" would be from slope to slope to die out at the started the circle and Toften think fof him as T sit on the poreh of a Sun‘day evening, and wonder if he is still ‘in these parts, his shouts shut off by heard from the Bastern Hill, taken up} as were the July 4th shots, passing} starting point in a walling echo. .1t . was a big voiced Irishman that usually , peet the territory “hereabout. The Company will number one hundred or more and the object is to prospect! the section thoroughly. No one will be allowed more than one! share of stock. An executive committee will hire laborers, locate claims, appoint managers and officers and when a good lead is struck, ‘with the consent of the majority, it will be ‘sold to the highest bidder. The experience of miners in.this vicinity assures us that millions of dollars of gold lie buried in the hills and capital is required to get it. Individuals are not equipped for the enterprise but a company such as this can combine capital and labor with results. The surface diggings are about worked out and a. union of strength as proposed is the . only resort open for a continuance of, the main industry of the community. . T have no doubt as to the success aaut the undertaking. 1 Otherwise there is little news unless , you want to know that. Madame Hun-! . ter, the notorious -proprietress of the Robbers Den on Dutch Ravine in Placer, closed her worse than useless ca‘yeer recently. ‘he coffin was six and a’half feet long, three and a third wide and ovey two feet high. According! to her dying wish the grave was leveled off smooth and has no tablet to mark it, pa Hope to see you soon. Let us hear! from you. \ TT, H. ROLIE. How Dan Rice, the famous minstrel, made literal application of one of his jokes while filling an engagement in Nevada will be told.in the next issue.

3L° THE GOLDEN FIFTIES As Sketched by the Pen Of x : ! 1) TALLMAN HATHAWAY ROLFE } EDITED BY BELLE ROLFE DOUGLASS 4 (nstallment Number Thirteen) a NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, i : July 8, 1857. To Sam. Rolfe, San Bernardino, California. Dear Sam: . } . The 4th of July passed off quietly. . " ‘Aside from laying the corner stone of) ‘the brick church the patriotic pro. scheduled. There were a great many /people in town and some of the boys dressed in fancy costumes and paraded through the streets, They hauled up gram was the only genuine attractionlthe march of progress and ts counteracting sounds that infest the air, Now we have the voices of children at play, the church bells and other ‘progressive vibrations to clutter up the atmosphere. Our schoolhouse is finished. You: iknow perhaps, that it is located in the rear of Warren's lot. There is. . Sse acre of ground, and the building is 48x30 feet divided in two rooms, each capable of seating fifty pupils. ips designed to have a male and a female in front of the platform to listen to) gepartment. Mrs, Parton has charge Dave Belden’s speech but he came! down on them so hard for making . that sort of a display that the “windy : i of the young ladles. . hi -_ Community Development PlanA movement is started toward a fguards” left at once. There was TiS) ra renieth Mining’ Company to prosintantion on their part, I am sure, to: ‘yidioule the day but patriotism is exemplified in various ways and in ac, cordance with the character of the individual. To date, I have not seen the sentiment ridiculed. Belden’s interpretation received a rude shock ‘by the act of the boys who probably regard the occasion as important as he does. . The Celebration of 751 I was here July 1851 and the celetbration began with as much fervor, but with the equipment at hand—sixshooters! As the sun peeped over the mountain on the East Side, it must have shone directly into the eyes of a sturdy patriot in his cabin out by the Sugar’ Loaf and his impulse was to sieze his Colt’s revolver and bang away. One slope after another answered the signal. From Mesquite Creek, Willow Valley, Big and Little Deer Creeks, Gold Flat, came answering shots, echoing through Coyoteville, making 2 complete chain, linking

heart and soul of the loyal gang in one long loud explosion, We, in . town, helped along, sometimes with a single shot, maybe a dozen or more, followed by a perfect fusilade, breaking out in new places and reenforced by shouts and songs. _ The “Oh, Joe” Call How changed we are! We may he ‘proud of progress but the old days ; ‘before civilization are happy memorfes. Often on a Sunday evening, iwhen a calm seemed to pervade the land, a shout of ‘Oh, Joe!" would be from slope to slope to die out at the started the circle and Toften think fof him as T sit on the poreh of a Sun‘day evening, and wonder if he is still ‘in these parts, his shouts shut off by heard from the Bastern Hill, taken up} as were the July 4th shots, passing} starting point in a walling echo. .1t . was a big voiced Irishman that usually , peet the territory “hereabout. The Company will number one hundred or more and the object is to prospect! the section thoroughly. No one will be allowed more than one! share of stock. An executive committee will hire laborers, locate claims, appoint managers and officers and when a good lead is struck, ‘with the consent of the majority, it will be ‘sold to the highest bidder. The experience of miners in.this vicinity assures us that millions of dollars of gold lie buried in the hills and capital is required to get it.. Individuals are not equipped for the enterprise but a company such as this can combine capital and labor with results. The surface diggings are about worked out and a. union of strength as proposed is the . only resort open for a continuance of, the main industry of the community. . T have no doubt as to the success aaut the undertaking. 1 Otherwise there is little news unless , you want to know that. Madame Hun-! . ter, the notorious -proprietress of the Robbers Den on Dutch Ravine in Placer, closed her worse than useless ca‘yeer recently. ‘he coffin was six and a’half feet long, three and a third wide and ovey two feet high. According! to her dying wish the grave was leveled off smooth and has no tablet to mark it, pa Hope to see you soon. Let us hear! from you. \ TT, H. ROLIE. How Dan Rice, the famous minstrel, made literal application of one of his jokes while filling an engagement in Nevada will be told.in the next issue.