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Title: Nevada City and its Resources Mining Interests and Business Firms, 1893 (PH 1-2)(1893) Collection Type: Directories and Documents Collection Name: Pamphlets Catalog #: PH 1-2 Author: J. E. Poingdestre Publisher: The Daily Herald Related Items: Pamphlets > Grass Valley and Vicinity (PH 1-4)(Circa 1895) Directories > Nevada County Mining and Business Directory, 1895 (650.025.POI)(1895) Published: 1893 Copyright: In the public domain or published before 1925 Subjects: Nevada City, Mining, Economy, Boosterism, Nevada County, Daily Herald, National Exchange Notes: J. E. Poingdestre compiled the booklet while employed as the manager of the Grass Valley office of the Nevada County Gas and Electric Company. This is one of three publications he compiled in the mid 1890s to draw attention to Nevada County and its major towns, Nevada City and Grass Valley, as good investments. # of Pages: 39 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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Original Held At: Searls Historical Library Location: 161 Nevada City Hwy, Nevada City, CA 95959

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prosperity and depression, During its early history, from 1850 to 1860, it was a typical mining camp. To those who are familiar with the history of the State it is needless to remark, that the mining camps wielded an influence in the social and economic functions of the commonwealth which has not been equalled by any other interest at any period in the history of the State. It is hard to realize, but for several years subsequent to the discovery of gold, in a radius of three miles from the center of the present town, there was a population of over 15,000 people, every one of whom depended for a livelihood either directly or indirectly on the industry of gold mining. As the accessible gold in the shallow places was exhausted the town gradually declined in population and importance. The necessity of substituting capital as a means of developing the mines instead of the pick and shovel and the brawny arm of the industrious miner, necessarily forced the emigration of the men who had no capital but their strong arms with which to drag the hidden treasures of the earth to light. With the exhaustion of the shallow placers soon followed the development of the ancient gravel leads and ina measure of the quartz leads. For a few years the ancient gravel leads yielded abundantly and kept the town in the front rank of the important centers of the State. The quartz leads, owing to the ignorance of the proper methods of working them, and also to expense, were hardly a factor in the welfare of the town. The discovery of the Comstock lode also had the effect of withdrawing many of the progressive element which for a number of years had kept up the prosperity of the ie are aee ae ae ee alps eaige SOIIEIORS dee Since me May Of course it has suffered all the ai 5 it om oe raat end different Icind of existend®a community whose product has t on ees Sonus which naturally are attendant a ) as to be dug out of the ground, One fact is patent, how-