January 28, 1898 (4 pages)

SATE “THE TRANSCRIPT. THE GO Se PS A NHSTORY OF A GOLDEN COUNTY —— ee river to a small distance above North peaceful siambers or bronght The San Juan, when it turns to the southto drivethem hence. nd ard the acquisition of west, passing through Sweéetla ie v was le to French Corral. From and then away over the hills Birchvil place all trace of the channel is this ds. frien and home to 2 ocean here NiVADA CITY, NEVADA CO. CALIFORNI. . lost Hntil Mooney.Flat isreached, at “But they builded better than they which point it reappears and muy be the were théy sly sciou Uncon knew.” traced to Smartsville and ‘Limbcotoo Published every evening except architects of a commonwealth and a be lost in the receding hills of the to naas ing Sundays and Lewa! Hoiidays by endur fame which will be as valley. rse:s precu ture itself. They were the “At Blue Tent, just south of the So: th dof a civilizations on the sinnes of the Yuba river, may be found another, val{ ic which has astonished and Pacif L, 8. CALKINS. uable channel which takes. its course ¥. PF. RROWN. aroused the admiration of the old from this point south through ‘cott’s > world and which is destined to be the Fiat, Quaker Hill, Hunt’s H. 1, You Bet a broader and a nobler. The discovery of gold in California . the precinc's of the South Yuba river clover. I prospected on the Bar and the early ’60’s were drawn from various . harbinger of Entered at the Postoffise at Nevada City aand Little York to Duteh 1.1, from . civilization. in the sammer of 1848 und did some be to ediough not but goid, some found diarked an epoch in the history of, the . econd-class matter. professions and industries. ‘They were setwhich place it-is supposed 1o continue intrepid the stated, already As prospecting for gold. His personal temunerative. Greatly discouraged I men who had never previously seen a wortd and advanced the cause of civili-} account devoid of a south “through Placer and: El Doradé.” ; of this aud other incidents is started on my return home. When I mineral deposit and probably many of tlers of this State were i knowledge-of thé nature of gold décounties. ‘I'he direction of the chan. zation—in an immeasurable manner. . interesting enough to‘be reproduced: utrived at a point on the Yuba rivera them had never seen gold iu its native FeLRP ions No. 4. their atnel above this city, where the ancient turned naturally “Up to this time (April, 1848) there little above Timbuctooravine, 1 washed State. Whar is. more uatural then . posits and Who can-say what the status quo of} and efforts to the districts gravel deposits’ were tirst discovcred tention had been but little excitement about some of the dirt and found three lumps thau that they should eschew the dewhere the gold could be most. readily aud worked on old Coyote Hill, is not our civilization, with its universities; Tie SAN. 28, 1898 and schools of advanced thought, with tthe gold diggings; but at Knights’ of gold worth about seven dollars. I velopment of quartz ledges until after obtained and where the method of mincertain, according toauthorities, but Landing we were overtaken by Spanpitched my-tent here on the night of very other process of easy and simple ing was.the eusiest. This developed: ‘8 presumed to be a section of this its sciences and arts, with its steam iards who were on their way to Sutter's June 2d.and sent the Indian home for mining had been exhausted ? Thus it great channel. A branch runs from ind electricity, with its telepbones and . mill to dig gold, and they reported supplies. In about a week I moved on was that whefever placers were found, what has since been known as the sysneur Quaker Hill iu a wesiery course, tem of placer mining. These plucers A WONDERFUL COUNTY, Stories of febnioasly rich diggings. down the creek. and remained there there the prospectors gathered iike élégraphs, with its improved methods were distributed throughout the rivers, south of and parallel to Deer creek, After discussing the matter we changed yf homeopathy and surgery, with its vur course to the gold mines and hbhuruntil November 20th, when I left the mosquitos around a spring of water in creeks and ravines contiguous to the passing south ot Nevada City and norta. mines forever. June 3d, the On Saturday evening last the TRaNssummertime. And this accounts.for gold regions of the great Sierra Neof Grass Valiey and Rou sh ant thouay, abor-savipg appliances and with its ried on, arriving at the mill on April after the location of’ my cam next day +, M. -. he fact that villagés’ and districts vada mountains. They were caused at which point trace or it islcs . it is ©. crier published a detailed and comshousand and one other benefits would B0th. It was trua that several rich Nye and William Foster came up the which in the early years of our existas previously noticed, by disintegracommonly accepted as a tux, that it prehensive story of the active mining 96 today were the treasuries of the strikes had been made, but the miners creek prospecting for gold.” ence as a county were thickly popution and erosion and were the source merges into the Suan uan chin el at : then at work did not average $2.50 a It is ulso recorded that what is : operations in Nevada county today. vorld bereft of the hundreds of milday. .Marshall and Sutter claimed the now known as Grass Valley was first lated have since fallen into innocuous from which the great gold supply of Mooney Fiat. desuetade or have been abandoned enStill another channel may be found ions of dollars which the auriferous land and renied the oines. Every iuvaded by white men in. 1848. ‘The tirely, not'because people entertained California was obtained for many years lying and it wade a truly remarkable showbetween Bear river aid Gréen-. veins of this State have poured into one supposed that gold was confinei men-came from the Willamette Valley aly particular dislike for the immediafter its bang: nah by white people. norn creek. Apparently it had itis° John Hays a mmond. states in an ing—one indeed that has never before ‘heir vaults? Theacquisition of wealth to that particuiar locality. We did in Oregon on heariug of the discovery ate locality but for the reason that article written for the S'ate mineraiogenesis in Wasb.ngton tow:ship. It been equalled in any other gold minin; s the object, par excellence, of every not engage in mining, and concluded of gold and fora short while camped when the placers became exhausted wist’s report in 1889 “that nine-tenths crosses Bear river at right an.les. near _to resume—ourjéurney across: the on Bear river. Bacoming — fascinuted tbeir means for subsistence had vanof the gold production of Californix Liberty Hill, and also rans southwest region of the world. We showed ir nan, from the highest to the. lowest plains. On our raturn trip we learned with the beauty and richness ‘of the ished. It also accounts for the name was yielded by the auriferous gravel.” teriy north of Bear river to Cbak that issae how Nevada county, whore This seems ‘a rather exaggerated stateBluff, joining the great channel run-ment at this time but it must be rening south. When we cousider the: mines have yielded up to this time membered by those unacquainted with fact that eminent authority aud past $212,009,000 worth of the royal metal,.o: the facts and circumstances that. prior development. piace tre value of these to the suppression of hydraulic mingravei channels at $3,000,000 per mile, in other words nearly one-sixth of the ing in 1884, through the famous Sawyer and that in.this couuiiy alove there are total production of the State since decision, hydraulic mining was the dity miles of such chunne:s, it is not principal source from which the gold to be wondered at that energy and in-«. Marshall’s memorable discovery at gene <r of this State was obtained. I genuity have been earnestly ex roised . Coloma fifty yeurs ago, is still yielding ave before me a table of the gold proin recent years looking to the renabilid _ction of this county by townships tation of bydraulic mining in a manut the rate of $2,590,000 a year. frum 1849 to 1880. It will be ‘interestner which would not be injurious. to Today-we lay before our readers a ing'as showing the immense product the valley interests. All hail the: day. of the districts where the great grave) when the gladsome roar of the moni-.:. sketch of the county's miuiag history channels of this couuty are to be found. tor shall-again reverberate througn ihe from its beginning up to the present. Butthe reader will observe that it does mountuins, and the towns and villages not. substantiate in its entirety the how deserted and desolate through It is front the pen of Mr. Samuel Butier statement of Mr. Hammond that “niuethe unjust discrimination of courts: of this city who has brought into its}: tenths of the gold of this State’ was and leyislatures shall again ring with childisn glee aud thé hum of ‘industry ~. yielded by the auriferous gravels.” preparation the resulis of much careful shall fill thousands of hearts with ‘joy. Township. Placer. Quartz. Totals. inquiry and research, and is uuquesIt may be well to briefly notice the.: proportions to which this industry has.: r AS x = tionably the most compiete and valureached—or: to be more correct to able contribution of the kind that our Grass Valley: 7,000,000 45,-00,000 — 52,000,0 0 which it had reached at thetime of its ‘ ~ Little York. 20,000,000. ————-20,000, 00 suppression—seeing that unis article is local atinals can show. Meadow Lake 300,000 30}),000 Ratablished Sept. 8, 1340. by Nat. P. Buows & Cu. “BROWN & CALKINS. chief o Bridgeport." 1500-000 It. is ho wonder that 0 this’county—not only the banner go'd I . to these pipe 6 to 9 incues tor is 8u con manipulated operation. . course‘of th may be chan ‘The force ot ujne-inches . i nagined ‘th prohibition tors have bei _mines; Thr tritus is imp works of the to the rivers the height of constructed to 80. degrees rocks. are f elevators raz as though t! Ww 7 y Eureka La South Yub: 275 miles; co: Little Yor! iutended for the delectation of :those. living outside of the coguty aod who are ignorant of its great possibilities, pany—Lengt Sargent a miles; cost,$ It should b of these dite! use since thi mining: ~ Another 33 greater prom mining. Go! covered in . in September value of the sold it for $100, but the oped in mini or no attenti covery. In¢ a@ man nemec ore yielding rapidly thre news service mit, and tho the scene of that time Gr her position ing district « . Shortly aft discovered it _ citement be wheén.it. beca isted throug sion. In 186 Valley, whic tinuously ev in 1851 the I Gold ‘Tunne. city. From time quartz nent indust every other It bas had it prosperity, . time when it cious metul. were muny ¢ ments on ac edge of the 1 ores: Butia peared, a lar attended ths much so t Grass Valle; dition while provements to 1862 the r in a very de 1866, per J. were 548 sta of ore, with $80 to $35, stamps, cro averaging $1 sorry that t prevented fi the geologic as such des essential in of the vario: tor’s manda times unbea the descript rinted rec ustry of N 4 more pros water and motor pow ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE . a equally fay ducements other count AT THE Nevada Cc THE BRANCH WONDER STORE, Japan has not yet returned to the Tne ee a ee ee ene Pe Shaw’s Ma vitalizing . worth livin ; janb-tt eee PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDING, NEVADA CiTy. Grove’s a perfect Blood pur ’ without pa Syrup. It we itin his pan. Apparently. it did not struck the Yuba near Long Bar. After in the placers.: They cared nothing for the white métal last summer. .mpress him that the creek was phea good deal of prospecting I succesded the auriferous veins directly beneath homes of these searchers of natare’s —_—_—_—_ iomenally rich, and with his party he in raising a color, That night I camped their noses and, which were, by the pt . ng sombrely Tuat dull thud the other day war} gassed jassed over the mountains. In leas on Timbuctoo ravine, a little above rocess of disintegration and erosion, . t at eee han two years after his visit over where we first found the gold. The cause of those very rich placers. when the New York Journal, with its 10,000 sturdy pioneers were engaged in next day, June 2d, I continued prosIt was not until the shallow placers becirculation up in the bundred thousniniug and prospecting on’ that same pecting up the stream, finding a little came exhausted that earnest and coninera we : sreek, and the town of Nevada became gold bat nut enough to pay. The Inscientous attention was paid to the lating‘a “stake” car tninie ders ts » snd, dropped Mr. Bryan: 4n established fact in one of the richdian was well «acquainted, and he system of quartz mining which is now the old home to wise their we ; pe ast mineral sections of this State. iloted me up to the location of Rose’s ~ 7 . And thisiyPage pean rest of their dave Lonte aadioe History again records that one Jonas vortractors f ar, where we meta large number of Corcoran & Wit11ans, : ‘or. majority « ose who made’ ury. No thought ofa permanenthome all entirely nude and eating and builders, de first-class werk cheap. Spect, an adventurous pioneer, invaded Indians, ? who visited that country in bebalf of some gravel from the creek and washed ae LEVY & KLEINE,Proprietors, visited the section on which Nevada Oity now stands in 1848. It is stated that. Marshall, while conducting a silver standard despite the advice of party of emigrants over the Sierra pitched his camp on Deer those aposties of free coinage, Senamountains, sreek close to where this city now ‘tors Pettigrew, Mantel and Dubois, stands. As was his wont when traveling through the mountains he selected ComMERcIAL Sines When yo ready to th am : As showing pany—Lengt struction, $1, Milton Mir miles; cost 0! Excelsior . 150 diiles; co: ‘Tent] 80 miles; cos: Omega Dit miles; cost, ¢ Total.. $105,000,000 $54,800,000 $159,800,000 ‘The tirst mining was done with wooden mining county of California, but of the From this table we notice that the bowls, a .Mexican,,custom, and with wide world as well—are proud of its greater part of the gold product of the ipans. The inadeguacy of these appli‘was early apparent and soon. the aurifeous gravels ef this county is de‘abGes past and present and hopeful! for its furived from the. channel which’ skirts rocker-mude its appeardnce. se inture. They realize that for each active, the San Juan Ridge and on which the ‘strumental was.this coutrivance in exmost fameus hydranlic mines in the tracting the gold from the gravel, that: producing mine there are hundreds of world are situated. This channel 6xfit soon became universal. 1n time:;the. prospecisthat only need the quickentends for a distance of twenty-five useful rocker becauie inadequate and miles and in width is from one to one ‘was supplanted by the “long tom.” ing influences of capital and energy to A BIT OF ‘NEVADA CITY. and a half miles. In certain sections Some time in 1850 siuicé boxes were instart golden streams from their lodes it is phenomenally rich and has been troduced and proved their superiority highly Lae “apne ae From 1870 to 1874 over all the earlier Goutrivances. ‘I'nis ‘tation, and when we recognize the [ that gold had been found on Mormon and leads. Here our people live in surrounding country they wended their. Centreville which was given to Grass the old Mulakoff Company washed sysiem luid the foundutiontor the loug ‘act that all wealth is measured by} Island. .But we took no further notice way north until they reached the spot Valley touneis and in 1850. . Letters were addressed about 3,000,000 cubic yards prosperity and bappiness surround d of surface jm bydfatlicflames uow in operation sold, we are able in a small measure to!}of gold, and on the 12th of May arwhere the Maryland, once ‘the famous “Centreville near Boston Ravine” or gravel which yielded about mines throughout the 2 9-10 cents by influences uf the bighest civilizaticn. ‘omprehend the beneficent influence . rived at Johnson’s ranch. We found . {daho, mine now stands.—It-is-said “Oeutrévillenear Rough and Ready.” per cubic faine But even ground siuivcing beyard. The Bloomfield Com: one man awaiting our arrival, but we me a slow and tedious process in ., Law and order are dominant in their of this State upon the progress of} expected many others ina short time: ‘hat here they extracted gold in large Which. proves that. in the very days, pany from ‘November, 1876, to October, ‘quantities-frum the crevices in the when Nevada City and Rough and 877, washed one million five hundred iéw of the miles of chaunéls that’ We waited until about the 25th, when sroppings of the richest gold vein ‘ever midst. They have the best of schools sivilization. awaited disintegration throuzh some. _ dy (the latter place is now nearly and nimety-one thousand cubic yards mightier It is computed that prior to 1848 the. we learned that there was another rush discovered in California—the .celedeserted) were.teeming with their of top gravel, which yielded 3 ‘Chen came into -existaid society. Their climate is equal to 9-10 cents oe the force. to the mines, and then. vanished al} brated. Eureka=Idaho-Maryland vein, thousands, Grass’ Valley was not reprocesses of hydraulic mip-, -: ytire amount of gold in the world was. prospect of any company crossing the cubic yard. During the sume pewhich has given to the world $20,000,000. garded favorably by prospectors. And per that of any part of the world, Here riod that company washed seven bauapproximately $2,590,000,000. Since that . mountains that summer. My partner in round numbers. They prospected ; fn 1851-2, while ground stpicing om .yet today, after half a century of exare magnificent forests and great luma pr i teen ee a, ia this vicinity for°severat weeks, bat }istence of a varied character, Grasé dred and two thousand cubic yards of the Coyote range, A. Chabot imtrod bottom gravel which yielded 32 9-10 ‘winter approaching they departedfor: Valley boasts of being the “Quartz vents berivg industries flourish. The mounhie diggings a hose 40 tect loug he valley fearing the rigors of the cliCrowned Empress of the Sierras” and gravel per cubic yard. The bottom into tor the purpose of sluicing off the dirt. ~ extended’ tains store up the snows of winter ard from the bedrock toa mute. With the exception of these the richest and most populous -miniog height atter it, was: pickéd down froni the of 65 feet. “At the Milton hypobank. three men no one is known to have town ih California. send down sparkling streams of purest .here wus’ no nozze. attached isis a -splenine in French Corral 4,200,000 visited the vicinity of.Grass Valley undid testimonial to the value and permacubic yards of Onno washed to 1, and there is no evid-uce to: show: water for irrigation and domestic pur‘. til it was settled by emigrants in 1849. nence of her quartz veins. that it even occurred to Mr. Chabot : which: yielded $1,i or41.5 cents poses, as well as to keep the wheels o: The first settlement in Nevada county . ’ Various parts of the county were setr cubic 5 sad by fer the richest gravel that anything cou.a ever ve accome plished by . directing the streaais though,was that. made by John Rase, tled simultaneously in the gear 1849. such a industry homming. Beautiful flower: quantity on the ridge. ainst the bank. I. remained for. BE. after whom the famous Rose Bar was Soon: ‘after Rose ~ The, first. big ~Soee of this had. channel established his _ blossom and luscious fruits ripen in ou: Matteson, wnowas develo; ing ‘a?'*:): named. He and a man named Reytrading post at Pleasant Valley a man is at Snow t, Eureka township, claim on America n. Hill, nolds engaged -in trading with the: to inveut the houseyards, while the soil beneath then. named Finlay opened a store on Bear where it crosses the Middle Yuba from miners and Indians, their store being river near the mouth of Greenhorn points in Sierra county. From here system of hydraulic wining vy means is sprinkled with of a nozzle. He uitached a uozzie to ‘a: at Rose Bar. They also supplied the creek. A store was also opened in its course is southwesterly through piece o1 hose, aud found tnat by direct_. mines with meat, being the owners of a Rough and Ready in September. The Moore’s Flat to North Bloomfie “Gold ! gold ! gold !. gold ! ld, ing the large Mexican grant ou the south bank Rough and Ready company abont. this where itis su; Bright and yellow, hard and éold.” @ tributary stream it wouldstream agaiust u bauk of grivel accomjuish the work cf many of the Yuba river, just above Marystime settled the town of that name. joins it from Relief Hill and, possibly, men. ‘Phe’superiority cf tis mavuu4 ville. Rose built a cattle corral at Badger Hill it Grass Valley and Bostrom. points in Washington township. -over all others became so obvicus that MONEY MAKES 1HE MARE GO Pleasant Valley in the early part of ton Ravine -were-settled the Fall. It then courses west to Columbia Hiil, it was universally 1849. It not being evident that -he was Operations commenced onin Gold adopted when tus und just before reaching this point it Run conditions engaged in mining, any farther referAbout 125 citizens of Nevada Citys and Dr. Caldwell opened a store on the receives another tributary from the di1853, great were -advantageous. Since improvemenis jure been ence to him in this. mining review sitewhere this city now stands. A rection -of Grizzly Ridge. From Oomade in the went to San Francisco last week, taksystem of hydraulic mitiwould be extraneous. Mr. Rose still party of Oregonians populated Jefferlumbia. Hill it continaes its westeriy ing. Iron pipes, lives near Smartsville. ’ son, a now defunct settlement, ing advantage ofthe reduced railroad while a course to Cherokee where it turns abinches in diametesome of them eighteen r, bave. bsen su bstiThe first settlement of a permanent company from Indiana settled the ruptly to the north until it strikes the fires, and the town has since been “as character began in 1849 and extended town of Washingtou. During the auMiddle Yuba at Badger Hill. It then tuted for the primitive hose. At tached dead as a door nail,’ for the reason from the grassy slopes of the sunny footfumn of 1849 miners were scattered follows the sume channel used by the ‘Continued on thira Puge. hills to the snow-capped peaks. of the along the Middle and South Yuba HYDRAULIC MINING SCENE. thit the most of the excursionists are mighty Sierras. Men of all characters, rivers, Deer creek, Bear river and the ———————_—_——— ee men who are in evidence more or less nationalities and professions wended tributaries to those streams. Many year California has added the approxileft for the American riyer‘and I prohither in search of gold, and subsewho came in the autumn left when the about-the business districts. Many of mate sum of $1,500,000,000 to the real posed to Johnson that we should prosquent events have proved that they lohorizon gave signs of approaching winthem went down for pleasure, and to wealth of the world, In other words pect for gold on Bear river. We went cated chiefly where the gold‘ was most ter, while hundreds of others spent:the some distance up the stream and spent see the sights, some on business, and this magnificent State has produced in three days in the search without any profuse. This is demonstrated by the winter domiciled in their mountain nalf a century three-fifths of -the satisfactory result. I then suggested fact that while the now rich and popuhomes, which consisted chiefly of log some on basiness and pleasure comtous town of Grass Vailey was a strug-. cabins, anxiously awaiting the return imount of gold which it previously to Johnson: that he should send his bined. It isa moderate estimate to rook 6000 and more years to produce. Indian with me and I would prospect gling hamlet other portions of the of gentle Spring when they would again county had their. thousands of hardy be enabled to ransack the treasure say that their expenditures will average (herein lies the justification of the the Yuba river, as that stream was prospectors, which proves that the vaults of mother earth and drag thereabout the same size as the south fork pioneers of that time, like those now from the precious metals which they $50 ispidce. Some of them will get grand semi-centennial anniversary of ofthe American river. We prepared infected with the Klondyke craze, contained. The mountain sides were the outfit and on the first of June we the discovery of gold now in progress’ aimed only tosecure the gold imbedded dotted with the radely constructed along On a good deal less, but there are throughout the State. No wonder that { — others who will “blow in” several banvivilization has advanced by leaps and dred dollars and thus help to maintain bounds! One billion five hundred mil. at least the average mentioned. Thus lion (the approximate estimate) is a when they are all home Nevada City production of which any State or nawill be at least $6250 poorer than she tion might justly feel proud, and we are prone to believe that if any other was before they left. But that is all country or State had such a producright. Money was made to spend. tion to thejr,credit their zeal and enThe man who deprives himself of thusiasm would exceed even that of ours. For where gold is produced the luxuries, to say nothing of the comthere will be no lack of that commodforts, of life in order that he may ity or its equivalent—a fact strongly demonstrated in Culifornia during the hoard up wealth for others to wrangle recent great financial crisis. Apropos over when he is dead, isa fool of the of which we might justly remark’ that if the nation has reason, and everyone deepest dye. That is the prevalent knows it bas, to be prond of California, view of the financial question in the California bas still greater reason to be proud of Nevada county, for of all gold mines of California, and though rhe gold-producing counties in the it may have its weak points in the 3tate none have-been so prolific in the production of gold as grand old Nevada. eyes of the sordid and grasping peoJust when gold was discovered in this county is a matter of conjecture by ples of other parts, it is a good doehistorians and laymen, no very definite trine for those who want to get what information being obtainable. History it, though it is not generally known, goud there is in the brief span of » bas that James W. Marshall, the now famous discoverer of gold at Coloma, mortal’s life. a vod ‘ this system o this county v ative to len; tion of the supply the of the ‘mines: North Bloc < eee on, $7U 3 150,009 dear sy Thies Washington. 10,000,000 eas "500000 ig 10°300'000 the people of Contin tonic and GENUINE as vad ehiedars Chien etn sconce S. 4 Le 7% a SY TC TTS { —e f ne a That is GROVE’S TA! ‘laria, Chill Iron and ¢ Children to bitter, 25 cents.

SATE “THE TRANSCRIPT. THE GO Se PS A NHSTORY OF A GOLDEN COUNTY —— ee river to a small distance above North peaceful siambers or bronght The San Juan, when it turns to the southto drivethem hence. nd ard the acquisition of west, passing through Sweéetla ie v was le to French Corral. From and then away over the hills Birchvil place all trace of the channel is this ds. frien and home to 2 ocean here NiVADA CITY, NEVADA CO.. CALIFORNI. . lost Hntil Mooney.Flat isreached, at “But they builded better than they which point it reappears and muy be the were théy sly sciou Uncon knew.” traced to Smartsville and ‘Limbcotoo Published every evening except architects of a commonwealth and a be lost in the receding hills of the to naas ing Sundays and Lewa! Hoiidays by endur fame which will be as valley. rse:s precu ture itself. They were the “At Blue Tent, just south of the So: th dof a civilizations on the sinnes of the Yuba river, may be found another, val{ ic which has astonished and Pacif L, 8. CALKINS. uable channel which takes. its course ¥. PF. RROWN. aroused the admiration of the old from this point south through ‘cott’s > world and which is destined to be the Fiat, Quaker Hill, Hunt’s H. 1, You Bet a broader and a nobler. The discovery of gold in California . the precinc's of the South Yuba river clover. I prospected on the Bar and the early ’60’s were drawn from various . harbinger of Entered at the Postoffise at Nevada City aand Little York to Duteh 1.1, from . civilization. in the sammer of 1848 und did some be to ediough not but goid, some found diarked an epoch in the history of, the . econd-class matter. professions and industries. ‘They were setwhich place it-is supposed 1o continue intrepid the stated, already As prospecting for gold. His personal temunerative. Greatly discouraged I men who had never previously seen a wortd and advanced the cause of civili-} account devoid of a south “through Placer and: El Doradé.” ; of this aud other incidents is started on my return home. When I mineral deposit and probably many of tlers of this State were i knowledge-of thé nature of gold décounties. ‘I'he direction of the chan. zation—in an immeasurable manner. . interesting enough to‘be reproduced: utrived at a point on the Yuba rivera them had never seen gold iu its native FeLRP ions No. 4. their atnel above this city, where the ancient turned naturally “Up to this time (April, 1848) there little above Timbuctooravine, 1 washed State. Whar is. more uatural then . posits and Who can-say what the status quo of} and efforts to the districts gravel deposits’ were tirst discovcred tention had been but little excitement about some of the dirt and found three lumps thau that they should eschew the dewhere the gold could be most. readily aud worked on old Coyote Hill, is not our civilization, with its universities; Tie SAN. 28, 1898 and schools of advanced thought, with tthe gold diggings; but at Knights’ of gold worth about seven dollars. I velopment of quartz ledges until after obtained and where the method of mincertain, according toauthorities, but Landing we were overtaken by Spanpitched my-tent here on the night of very other process of easy and simple ing was.the eusiest. This developed: ‘8 presumed to be a section of this its sciences and arts, with its steam iards who were on their way to Sutter's June 2d.and sent the Indian home for mining had been exhausted ? Thus it great channel. A branch runs from ind electricity, with its telepbones and . mill to dig gold, and they reported supplies. In about a week I moved on was that whefever placers were found, what has since been known as the sysneur Quaker Hill iu a wesiery course, tem of placer mining. These plucers A WONDERFUL COUNTY, Stories of febnioasly rich diggings. down the creek. and remained there there the prospectors gathered iike élégraphs, with its improved methods were distributed throughout the rivers, south of and parallel to Deer creek, After discussing the matter we changed yf homeopathy and surgery, with its vur course to the gold mines and hbhuruntil November 20th, when I left the mosquitos around a spring of water in creeks and ravines contiguous to the passing south ot Nevada City and norta. mines forever. June 3d, the On Saturday evening last the TRaNssummertime. And this accounts.for gold regions of the great Sierra Neof Grass Valiey and Rou sh ant thouay, abor-savipg appliances and with its ried on, arriving at the mill on April after the location of’ my cam next day +, M. -. he fact that villagés’ and districts vada mountains. They were caused at which point trace or it islcs . it is ©. crier published a detailed and comshousand and one other benefits would B0th. It was trua that several rich Nye and William Foster came up the which in the early years of our existas previously noticed, by disintegracommonly accepted as a tux, that it prehensive story of the active mining 96 today were the treasuries of the strikes had been made, but the miners creek prospecting for gold.” ence as a county were thickly popution and erosion and were the source merges into the Suan uan chin el at : then at work did not average $2.50 a It is ulso recorded that what is : operations in Nevada county today. vorld bereft of the hundreds of milday. .Marshall and Sutter claimed the now known as Grass Valley was first lated have since fallen into innocuous from which the great gold supply of Mooney Fiat. desuetade or have been abandoned enStill another channel may be found ions of dollars which the auriferous land and renied the oines. Every iuvaded by white men in. 1848. ‘The tirely, not'because people entertained California was obtained for many years lying and it wade a truly remarkable showbetween Bear river aid Gréen-. veins of this State have poured into one supposed that gold was confinei men-came from the Willamette Valley aly particular dislike for the immediafter its bang: nah by white people. norn creek. Apparently it had itis° John Hays a mmond. states in an ing—one indeed that has never before ‘heir vaults? Theacquisition of wealth to that particuiar locality. We did in Oregon on heariug of the discovery ate locality but for the reason that article written for the S'ate mineraiogenesis in Wasb.ngton tow:ship. It been equalled in any other gold minin; s the object, par excellence, of every not engage in mining, and concluded of gold and fora short while camped when the placers became exhausted wist’s report in 1889 “that nine-tenths crosses Bear river at right an.les. near _to resume—ourjéurney across: the on Bear river. Bacoming — fascinuted tbeir means for subsistence had vanof the gold production of Californix Liberty Hill, and also rans southwest region of the world. We showed ir nan, from the highest to the. lowest plains. On our raturn trip we learned with the beauty and richness ‘of the ished. It also accounts for the name was yielded by the auriferous gravel.” teriy north of Bear river to Cbak that issae how Nevada county, whore This seems ‘a rather exaggerated stateBluff, joining the great channel run-ment at this time but it must be rening south. When we cousider the: mines have yielded up to this time membered by those unacquainted with fact that eminent authority aud past $212,009,000 worth of the royal metal,.o: the facts and circumstances that. prior development. piace tre value of these to the suppression of hydraulic mingravei channels at $3,000,000 per mile, in other words nearly one-sixth of the ing in 1884, through the famous Sawyer and that in.this couuiiy alove there are total production of the State since decision, hydraulic mining was the dity miles of such chunne:s, it is not principal source from which the gold to be wondered at that energy and in-«. Marshall’s memorable discovery at gene <r of this State was obtained. I genuity have been earnestly ex roised . Coloma fifty yeurs ago, is still yielding ave before me a table of the gold proin recent years looking to the renabilid _ction of this county by townships tation of bydraulic mining in a manut the rate of $2,590,000 a year. frum 1849 to 1880. It will be ‘interestner which would not be injurious. to Today-we lay before our readers a ing'as showing the immense product the valley interests. All hail the: day. of the districts where the great grave) when the gladsome roar of the moni-.:. sketch of the county's miuiag history channels of this couuty are to be found. tor shall-again reverberate througn ihe from its beginning up to the present. Butthe reader will observe that it does mountuins, and the towns and villages not. substantiate in its entirety the how deserted and desolate through It is front the pen of Mr. Samuel Butier statement of Mr. Hammond that “niuethe unjust discrimination of courts: of this city who has brought into its}: tenths of the gold of this State’ was and leyislatures shall again ring with childisn glee aud thé hum of ‘industry ~. yielded by the auriferous gravels.” preparation the resulis of much careful shall fill thousands of hearts with ‘joy. Township. Placer. Quartz. Totals. inquiry and research, and is uuquesIt may be well to briefly notice the.: proportions to which this industry has.: r AS x = tionably the most compiete and valureached—or: to be more correct to able contribution of the kind that our Grass Valley: 7,000,000 45,-00,000 — 52,000,0 0 which it had reached at thetime of its ‘ ~ Little York. 20,000,000. ————-20,000, 00 suppression—seeing that unis article is local atinals can show. Meadow Lake 300,000 30}),000 Ratablished Sept. 8, 1340. by Nat. P. Buows & Cu. “BROWN & CALKINS. chief o Bridgeport." 1500-000 It. is ho wonder that 0 this’county—not only the banner go'd I . to these pipe 6 to 9 incues tor is 8u con manipulated operation. . course‘of th may be chan ‘The force ot ujne-inches . i nagined ‘th prohibition tors have bei _mines; Thr tritus is imp works of the to the rivers the height of constructed to 80. degrees rocks. are f elevators raz as though t! Ww 7 y Eureka La South Yub: 275 miles; co: Little Yor! iutended for the delectation of :those. living outside of the coguty aod who are ignorant of its great possibilities, pany—Lengt Sargent a miles; cost,$ It should b of these dite! use since thi mining: ~ Another 33 greater prom mining. Go! covered in . in September value of the sold it for $100, but the oped in mini or no attenti covery. In¢ a@ man nemec ore yielding rapidly thre news service mit, and tho the scene of that time Gr her position ing district « . Shortly aft discovered it _ citement be wheén.it. beca isted throug sion. In 186 Valley, whic tinuously ev in 1851 the I Gold ‘Tunne. city. From time quartz nent indust every other It bas had it prosperity, . time when it cious metul. were muny ¢ ments on ac edge of the 1 ores: Butia peared, a lar attended ths much so t Grass Valle; dition while provements to 1862 the r in a very de 1866, per J. were 548 sta of ore, with $80 to $35, stamps, cro averaging $1 sorry that t prevented fi the geologic as such des essential in of the vario: tor’s manda times unbea the descript rinted rec ustry of N 4 more pros water and motor pow ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE . a equally fay ducements other count AT THE Nevada Cc THE BRANCH WONDER STORE, Japan has not yet returned to the Tne ee a ee ee ene Pe Shaw’s Ma vitalizing . worth livin ; janb-tt

eee PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDING, NEVADA CiTy. Grove’s a perfect Blood pur ’ without pa Syrup. It we itin his pan. Apparently. it did not struck the Yuba near Long Bar. After in the placers.: They cared nothing for the white métal last summer. .mpress him that the creek was phea good deal of prospecting I succesded the auriferous veins directly beneath homes of these searchers of natare’s —_—_—_—_ iomenally rich, and with his party he in raising a color, That night I camped their noses and, which were, by the pt . ng sombrely Tuat dull thud the other day war} gassed jassed over the mountains. In leas on Timbuctoo ravine, a little above rocess of disintegration and erosion, . t at eee han two years after his visit over where we first found the gold. The cause of those very rich placers. when the New York Journal, with its 10,000 sturdy pioneers were engaged in next day, June 2d, I continued prosIt was not until the shallow placers becirculation up in the bundred thousniniug and prospecting on’ that same pecting up the stream, finding a little came exhausted that earnest and coninera we : sreek, and the town of Nevada became gold bat nut enough to pay. The Inscientous attention was paid to the lating‘a “stake” car tninie ders ts » snd, dropped Mr. Bryan: 4n established fact in one of the richdian was well «acquainted, and he system of quartz mining which is now the old home to wise their we ; pe ast mineral sections of this State. iloted me up to the location of Rose’s ~ 7 . And thisiyPage pean rest of their dave Lonte aadioe History again records that one Jonas vortractors f ar, where we meta large number of Corcoran & Wit11ans, : ‘or. majority « ose who made’ ury. No thought ofa permanenthome all entirely nude and eating and builders, de first-class werk cheap. Spect, an adventurous pioneer, invaded Indians, ? who visited that country in bebalf of some gravel from the creek and washed ae LEVY & KLEINE,Proprietors, visited the section on which Nevada Oity now stands in 1848. It is stated that. Marshall, while conducting a silver standard despite the advice of party of emigrants over the Sierra pitched his camp on Deer those aposties of free coinage, Senamountains, sreek close to where this city now ‘tors Pettigrew, Mantel and Dubois, stands. As was his wont when traveling through the mountains he selected ComMERcIAL Sines When yo ready to th am : As showing pany—Lengt struction, $1, Milton Mir miles; cost 0! Excelsior . 150 diiles; co: ‘Tent] 80 miles; cos: Omega Dit miles; cost, ¢ Total.... $105,000,000 $54,800,000 $159,800,000 ‘The tirst mining was done with wooden mining county of California, but of the From this table we notice that the bowls, a .Mexican,,custom, and with wide world as well—are proud of its greater part of the gold product of the ipans. The inadeguacy of these appli‘was early apparent and soon. the aurifeous gravels ef this county is de‘abGes past and present and hopeful! for its furived from the. channel which’ skirts rocker-mude its appeardnce. se inture. They realize that for each active, the San Juan Ridge and on which the ‘strumental was.this coutrivance in exmost fameus hydranlic mines in the tracting the gold from the gravel, that: producing mine there are hundreds of world are situated. This channel 6xfit soon became universal. 1n time:;the. prospecisthat only need the quickentends for a distance of twenty-five useful rocker becauie inadequate and miles and in width is from one to one ‘was supplanted by the “long tom.” ing influences of capital and energy to A BIT OF ‘NEVADA CITY. and a half miles. In certain sections Some time in 1850 siuicé boxes were instart golden streams from their lodes it is phenomenally rich and has been troduced and proved their superiority highly Lae “apne ae From 1870 to 1874 over all the earlier Goutrivances. ‘I'nis ‘tation, and when we recognize the [ that gold had been found on Mormon and leads. Here our people live in surrounding country they wended their. Centreville which was given to Grass the old Mulakoff Company washed sysiem luid the foundutiontor the loug ‘act that all wealth is measured by} Island. .But we took no further notice way north until they reached the spot Valley touneis and in 1850. . Letters were addressed about 3,000,000 cubic yards prosperity and bappiness surround d of surface jm bydfatlicflames uow in operation sold, we are able in a small measure to!}of gold, and on the 12th of May arwhere the Maryland, once ‘the famous “Centreville near Boston Ravine” or gravel which yielded about mines throughout the 2 9-10 cents by influences uf the bighest civilizaticn. ‘omprehend the beneficent influence . rived at Johnson’s ranch. We found . {daho, mine now stands.—It-is-said “Oeutrévillenear Rough and Ready.” per cubic faine But even ground siuivcing beyard. The Bloomfield Com: one man awaiting our arrival, but we me a slow and tedious process in ., Law and order are dominant in their of this State upon the progress of} expected many others ina short time: ‘hat here they extracted gold in large Which. proves that. in the very days, pany from ‘November, 1876, to October, ‘quantities-frum the crevices in the when Nevada City and Rough and 877, washed one million five hundred iéw of the miles of chaunéls that’ We waited until about the 25th, when sroppings of the richest gold vein ‘ever midst. They have the best of schools sivilization. awaited disintegration throuzh some. _ dy (the latter place is now nearly and nimety-one thousand cubic yards mightier It is computed that prior to 1848 the. we learned that there was another rush discovered in California—the .celedeserted) were.teeming with their of top gravel, which yielded 3 ‘Chen came into -existaid society. Their climate is equal to 9-10 cents oe the force. to the mines, and then. vanished al} brated. Eureka=Idaho-Maryland vein, thousands, Grass’ Valley was not reprocesses of hydraulic mip-, -: ytire amount of gold in the world was. prospect of any company crossing the cubic yard. During the sume pewhich has given to the world $20,000,000. garded favorably by prospectors. And per that of any part of the world, Here riod that company washed seven bauapproximately $2,590,000,000. Since that . mountains that summer. My partner in round numbers. They prospected ; fn 1851-2, while ground stpicing om .yet today, after half a century of exare magnificent forests and great luma pr i teen ee a, ia this vicinity for°severat weeks, bat }istence of a varied character, Grasé dred and two thousand cubic yards of the Coyote range, A. Chabot imtrod bottom gravel which yielded 32 9-10 ‘winter approaching they departedfor: Valley boasts of being the “Quartz vents berivg industries flourish. The mounhie diggings a hose 40 tect loug he valley fearing the rigors of the cliCrowned Empress of the Sierras” and gravel per cubic yard. The bottom into tor the purpose of sluicing off the dirt. ~ extended’ tains store up the snows of winter ard from the bedrock toa mute. With the exception of these the richest and most populous -miniog height atter it, was: pickéd down froni the of 65 feet. “At the Milton hypobank. three men no one is known to have town ih California. send down sparkling streams of purest .here wus’ no nozze. attached isis a -splenine in French Corral 4,200,000 visited the vicinity of.Grass Valley undid testimonial to the value and permacubic yards of Onno washed to 1, and there is no evid-uce to: show: water for irrigation and domestic pur‘. til it was settled by emigrants in 1849. nence of her quartz veins. that it even occurred to Mr. Chabot : which: yielded $1,i or41.5 cents poses, as well as to keep the wheels o: The first settlement in Nevada county . ’ Various parts of the county were setr cubic 5 sad by fer the richest gravel that anything cou.a ever ve accome plished by . directing the streaais though,was that. made by John Rase, tled simultaneously in the gear 1849. such a industry homming. Beautiful flower: quantity on the ridge. ainst the bank. I. remained for. BE. after whom the famous Rose Bar was Soon: ‘after Rose ~ The, first. big ~Soee of this had. channel established his _ blossom and luscious fruits ripen in ou: Matteson, wnowas develo; ing ‘a?'*:): named. He and a man named Reytrading post at Pleasant Valley a man is at Snow t, Eureka township, claim on America n. Hill, nolds engaged -in trading with the: to inveut the houseyards, while the soil beneath then. named Finlay opened a store on Bear where it crosses the Middle Yuba from miners and Indians, their store being river near the mouth of Greenhorn points in Sierra county. From here system of hydraulic wining vy means is sprinkled with of a nozzle. He uitached a uozzie to ‘a: at Rose Bar. They also supplied the creek. A store was also opened in its course is southwesterly through piece o1 hose, aud found tnat by direct_. mines with meat, being the owners of a Rough and Ready in September. The Moore’s Flat to North Bloomfie “Gold ! gold ! gold !. gold ! ld, ing the large Mexican grant ou the south bank Rough and Ready company abont. this where itis su; Bright and yellow, hard and éold.” @ tributary stream it wouldstream agaiust u bauk of grivel accomjuish the work cf many of the Yuba river, just above Marystime settled the town of that name. joins it from Relief Hill and, possibly, men. ‘Phe’superiority cf tis mavuu4 ville. Rose built a cattle corral at Badger Hill it Grass Valley and Bostrom. points in Washington township. -over all others became so obvicus that MONEY MAKES 1HE MARE GO Pleasant Valley in the early part of ton Ravine -were-settled the Fall. It then courses west to Columbia Hiil, it was universally 1849. It not being evident that -he was Operations commenced onin Gold adopted when tus und just before reaching this point it Run conditions engaged in mining, any farther referAbout 125 citizens of Nevada Citys and Dr. Caldwell opened a store on the receives another tributary from the di1853, great were -advantageous. Since improvemenis jure been ence to him in this. mining review sitewhere this city now stands. A rection -of Grizzly Ridge. From Oomade in the went to San Francisco last week, taksystem of hydraulic mitiwould be extraneous. Mr. Rose still party of Oregonians populated Jefferlumbia. Hill it continaes its westeriy ing. Iron pipes, lives near Smartsville. ’ son, a now defunct settlement, ing advantage ofthe reduced railroad while a course to Cherokee where it turns abinches in diametesome of them eighteen r, bave. bsen su bstiThe first settlement of a permanent company from Indiana settled the ruptly to the north until it strikes the fires, and the town has since been “as character began in 1849 and extended town of Washingtou. During the auMiddle Yuba at Badger Hill. It then tuted for the primitive hose. At tached dead as a door nail,’ for the reason from the grassy slopes of the sunny footfumn of 1849 miners were scattered follows the sume channel used by the ‘Continued on thira Puge. hills to the snow-capped peaks. of the along the Middle and South Yuba HYDRAULIC MINING SCENE. thit the most of the excursionists are mighty Sierras. Men of all characters, rivers, Deer creek, Bear river and the ———————_—_——— ee men who are in evidence more or less nationalities and professions wended tributaries to those streams. Many year California has added the approxileft for the American riyer‘and I prohither in search of gold, and subsewho came in the autumn left when the about-the business districts. Many of mate sum of $1,500,000,000 to the real posed to Johnson that we should prosquent events have proved that they lohorizon gave signs of approaching winthem went down for pleasure, and to wealth of the world, In other words pect for gold on Bear river. We went cated chiefly where the gold‘ was most ter, while hundreds of others spent:the some distance up the stream and spent see the sights, some on business, and this magnificent State has produced in three days in the search without any profuse. This is demonstrated by the winter domiciled in their mountain nalf a century three-fifths of -the satisfactory result. I then suggested fact that while the now rich and popuhomes, which consisted chiefly of log some on basiness and pleasure comtous town of Grass Vailey was a strug-. cabins, anxiously awaiting the return imount of gold which it previously to Johnson: that he should send his bined. It isa moderate estimate to rook 6000 and more years to produce. Indian with me and I would prospect gling hamlet other portions of the of gentle Spring when they would again county had their. thousands of hardy be enabled to ransack the treasure say that their expenditures will average (herein lies the justification of the the Yuba river, as that stream was prospectors, which proves that the vaults of mother earth and drag thereabout the same size as the south fork pioneers of that time, like those now from the precious metals which they $50 ispidce. Some of them will get grand semi-centennial anniversary of ofthe American river. We prepared infected with the Klondyke craze, contained. The mountain sides were the outfit and on the first of June we the discovery of gold now in progress’ aimed only tosecure the gold imbedded dotted with the radely constructed along On a good deal less, but there are throughout the State. No wonder that { — others who will “blow in” several banvivilization has advanced by leaps and dred dollars and thus help to maintain bounds! One billion five hundred mil. at least the average mentioned. Thus lion (the approximate estimate) is a when they are all home Nevada City production of which any State or nawill be at least $6250 poorer than she tion might justly feel proud, and we are prone to believe that if any other was before they left. But that is all country or State had such a producright. Money was made to spend. tion to thejr,credit their zeal and enThe man who deprives himself of thusiasm would exceed even that of ours. For where gold is produced the luxuries, to say nothing of the comthere will be no lack of that commodforts, of life in order that he may ity or its equivalent—a fact strongly demonstrated in Culifornia during the hoard up wealth for others to wrangle recent great financial crisis. Apropos over when he is dead, isa fool of the of which we might justly remark’ that if the nation has reason, and everyone deepest dye. That is the prevalent knows it bas, to be prond of California, view of the financial question in the California bas still greater reason to be proud of Nevada county, for of all gold mines of California, and though rhe gold-producing counties in the it may have its weak points in the 3tate none have-been so prolific in the production of gold as grand old Nevada. eyes of the sordid and grasping peoJust when gold was discovered in this county is a matter of conjecture by ples of other parts, it is a good doehistorians and laymen, no very definite trine for those who want to get what information being obtainable. History it, though it is not generally known, goud there is in the brief span of » bas that James W. Marshall, the now famous discoverer of gold at Coloma, mortal’s life. a vod ‘ this system o this county v ative to len; tion of the supply the of the ‘mines: North Bloc < eee on, $7U 3 150,009 dear sy Thies Washington. 10,000,000 eas "500000 ig 10°300'000 the people of Contin tonic and GENUINE as vad ehiedars Chien etn sconce S. 4 Le 7% a SY TC TTS { —e f ne a That is GROVE’S TA! ‘laria, Chill Iron and ¢ Children to bitter, 25 cents.