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Nevada City and its Resources Mining Interests and Business Firms, 1893 (PH 1-2)(1893) (39 pages)
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Nevada City
EVADA CITY, the County Seat of Nevada County, is one of the oldest mining
camps in the State. It is now nearly half a century since the present site of the
town was trod by the feet of white men. Originally nothing but a trading post,
the discovery of immense deposits of gold in the adjacent streams and gulches
soon made the town the center of a busy swarm of gold diggers.
The shallow placers were soon exhausted and if it had not been for the discovery of
the great deposits of gold in the primeval streams, followed subsequently by the unexpected discovery of wealth in the numerous quartz lodes which intersect the site of the
town itself, as well as the surrounding country, the town of Nevada would long ago have
passed into a mere tradition.
Itis hardly possible, in a short sketch, to give more than a cursory glance at the
past history of Nevada City.
Like all mining towns, it has passed through all the various shades and phases of