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Nevada City and its Resources Mining Interests and Business Firms, 1893 (PH 1-2)(1893) (39 pages)
Nevada City and its Resources Mining Interests and Business Firms, 1893 is very much an attempt to showcase the town and some of its businesses, apparently for the purpose of attracting investors.
J. E. Poingdestre, compiler
Nevada City and its Resources Mining Interests and Business Firms, 1893
Nevada City: Printed by The Daily Herald, 1893
As presented here, the pamphlet has 35 numbered pages, including 18 full-page photographs, most of places in Nevada City, a few of other places in the county. Texts include a 5-page unsigned sketch of Nevada City, and 1-page descriptions of The National Exchange hotel and The Evening Herald, aka The Daily Herald, which also had a weekly edition. Another page lists The other pages are devoted to ads, practically all for Nevada City businesses, but a few for San Francisco firms. A page is given to Nevada County officers, but there is no list of Nevada City officials.
The sketch of Nevada City ends with this rather cryptic observation of the economic condition of gold towns gold mines in terms of labor supply and demand.
The town is prosperous beyond a doubt. Its resources are being developed as fast as capital can be obtained and as fast as the necessary labor can be supplied. While business is good, its population busy and money is comparatively easy, it would not be just to say that labor is in any extraordinary demand. The town is prospering as fast as consistent with a good healthy growth, but no faster. If any person imagines for a moment that the demand for labor exceeds the supply he is mistaken, / The prosperity of the place is only making up for the stagnation of former years. / The present prosperity of the town only marks an epoch in its history. It serves to demonstrate the falsity of the idea that the gold mines of the country have been exhausted.
John Edmund Poingdestre (1854-1931), an Englishman-turned-American, managed the Grass Valley office of the Nevada County Gas and Electric Company. Two years later, he compiled two other publications, which similarly aimed to attract capital to finance the development and growth of Nevada County's gold mines at a time when the economy appears to have been somewhat less than strong. See also Grass Valley and Vicinity (circa 1895), and Nevada County Mining and Business Directory, 1895 (1895).
J. E. Poingdestre, compiler
Nevada City and its Resources Mining Interests and Business Firms, 1893
Nevada City: Printed by The Daily Herald, 1893
As presented here, the pamphlet has 35 numbered pages, including 18 full-page photographs, most of places in Nevada City, a few of other places in the county. Texts include a 5-page unsigned sketch of Nevada City, and 1-page descriptions of The National Exchange hotel and The Evening Herald, aka The Daily Herald, which also had a weekly edition. Another page lists The other pages are devoted to ads, practically all for Nevada City businesses, but a few for San Francisco firms. A page is given to Nevada County officers, but there is no list of Nevada City officials.
The sketch of Nevada City ends with this rather cryptic observation of the economic condition of gold towns gold mines in terms of labor supply and demand.
The town is prosperous beyond a doubt. Its resources are being developed as fast as capital can be obtained and as fast as the necessary labor can be supplied. While business is good, its population busy and money is comparatively easy, it would not be just to say that labor is in any extraordinary demand. The town is prospering as fast as consistent with a good healthy growth, but no faster. If any person imagines for a moment that the demand for labor exceeds the supply he is mistaken, / The prosperity of the place is only making up for the stagnation of former years. / The present prosperity of the town only marks an epoch in its history. It serves to demonstrate the falsity of the idea that the gold mines of the country have been exhausted.
John Edmund Poingdestre (1854-1931), an Englishman-turned-American, managed the Grass Valley office of the Nevada County Gas and Electric Company. Two years later, he compiled two other publications, which similarly aimed to attract capital to finance the development and growth of Nevada County's gold mines at a time when the economy appears to have been somewhat less than strong. See also Grass Valley and Vicinity (circa 1895), and Nevada County Mining and Business Directory, 1895 (1895).
Catalog #: PH 1-2
Author: J. E. Poingdestre
Publisher: The Daily Herald
Published: 1893
Subjects: Nevada City, Mining, Economy, Boosterism, Nevada County, Daily Herald, National Exchange
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Author: J. E. Poingdestre
Publisher: The Daily Herald
Published: 1893
Subjects: Nevada City, Mining, Economy, Boosterism, Nevada County, Daily Herald, National Exchange
Related Items:
- Pamphlets > Grass Valley and Vicinity (PH 1-4)(Circa 1895)
- Directories > Nevada County Mining and Business Directory, 1895 (650.025.POI)(1895)
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