December 2, 1949 (8 pages)

2—The Nevada City Nugget, F riday, December 2, 1949 . . 2 EVACUATION ORDERS Tales of Nevada County Z From Long Ago to Now H. P. DAVIS 305 Broad Street, Nevada City—Telephone 36 A legal newspaper, as defined by statute BOOKS, Reviewed by H. P. Davis ROBERT H. and DONALD W. WRAY, Publishers KENNETH W. WRAY, Editor and Advertising Manager “The ELEPHANT AS THEY SAW IT,” a.collection of contemporary pictures and statesments of gold mining ; in California, assembled by Elisabeth L. Egenhoff as Member California Newspaper Publishers Aégsociation Published every Friday at Nevada City, California, and emtered as as matter of the second class in the postoffice at Nevada City under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. : a centennial supplement of the California Journal of Mines and Geology for October, 1949, this 128 page SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year outside county (in advance) One year in county (in advance) Four months (in advance) ; . One month (in advance) e : : book, illustrated with more than-sixty reproductions of $3.00 2.50 ss contemporary drawings and daguerreotypes, 1s unques 1 tionably a bargain at the purchase price of 75c. Of particular interest to residents of this town and £5 former residents, is a reproduction of an old print of Sugar Loaf Hill entitled ““Coyota Diggings and depicting the various activities of the gravel miners, thousands FOR A PENNY, IT’S A BARGAIN! _ For a single penny, we can drop a postcard in any of the green boxes scattered around town, or let a carrier pick it up for us, or deliver it ourselves to the postoffice. For that single penny, it will be cancelled by one of Bill Wasley’s clerks or even the boss himself, transported by truck to Colfax, placed on a train to ¢ross the high Sierras of whom were engaged here in 1850-51 on. the slopes above the town recovering gold from placer formed eons ago in the channel of an ancient river which drained this area. ; It was the fancied resemblance of the innumerable and Rockies, the burning desert and central plains and over the Appalachians into Washington, D. €., there to be sorted again and delivered to a congressman’s desk, or in a similar manner to anywhere in the U. S. or its territories. That is excellent service for a penny. The point was exemplified by Senator:Sheridan Downey in a recent speech before the senate. Downey was relating-an incident whereby one of his. constituents had mailed him a penny postcard saying ‘““My Dear Senator Downey, I hope you roast a thousand years in hell: for every minute . have wasted over my income tax report.” It is a perfect example of the magnificent service rendered by the post office department, not only of its un questioned efficiency, but also of true greatness of our democracy, ey: little pits along these slopes to the burrows made by coyotes which gave the name, ‘coyoting’’ to this unique and. here initiated form of gold mining. Interesting also are extracts from J. D. Borthwick’s books, ‘“Three Years in California,” which is, in the opinion of this writer, by long odds the most informative and readable of the books on the gold rush by writers who actually participated Just Wonderin ED I Wonder if it’s really true, As Lady Astor said. That women are by Hollywood therein. It is my purpose to devote a future “Long Ago to Now” column to Borthwick’s book and particularly to his description of a visit to Nevada City as seen by him in Consistently misled. the fall of 1852: If from that maelstrom of the south, We take our fads and fancies, * Our clothing ‘and our’ hairdos too, Our gestures and our dances. : ‘In her foreword to the ‘Elephant’? Elisabeth Egenhoff, the compiler and editor of publications of the division of mines says that in gold rush days literature, much has been written about the romance and adventure That stormy petrel, Lady Astor, has arisen to charge of this fascinating period but comparatively little atten¥ In how many nations of the world would a citizen tell to Hollytion has been devoted to the purposes which inspired the his representative to go to hell in an open message for all that American women are slavishly addicted. wood and all of Hollywood's vagaries. I think she may emigrants to brave the hardships entailed in this advento read? : ture. have something there. Let’s examine the record. : The well chosen extracts from participants in, and In the matter of clothing for instances, we were a rathHOW ABOUT GOVERNMENT TERMINOLOGY? er conservative people until Hollywood began setting writers of, the gold rush and the illustrations presented The board of supervisors of Sierra county has taken fashions. Some of our garments were far from being in this volume have, says Miss Egenhoff, been gathered an action which, if it establishes a trend, may revolutionartistic, but others were beautiful, becoming and useful. and here reproduced to call attention to this phase of the Hollywood claimed our attention with bizarre effects gold rush, to present, chiefly through the words and ize our language. The board has changed the official name of the Midwhich American women copied without reservation and drawings of contemporary writers and artists, a picture dle Fork of the North Fork of the North Fork of the Yuba now whether our garments are artistic, becoming or useof conditions existing in the “diggings” in the ealy days river to just plain Lavezzola creek and has similarly tinful or not, they are almost sure to have that Hollywood and to pay tribute to “those whose efforts a century ago gave purpose to the centennial we now celebrate.”’ look, ; kered with the names of other streams of the county. In February of this year I reviewed a publication of the I sometime think, though I am probably wrong, that » The pioneers of 1849, it seems, let their imaginations California Division of Mines of particular interest to run hog wild when it came to naming their settlements— American women are not very original. Few of us are those of us who live in the area tributary to highway 49. as Red Dog and You Bet bear witness. But when it came courageous enough to dictate what we shall wear and to identifying the creeks whose gravels they panned, they what styles of hairdo, or facial makeup we shall adopt. This book entitled ““A Geologic Guide Book Along HighNot so many years ago, a Hollywoodish star clipped her way 49,"’ issued as Bulletin No. 141 of the Division ‘of * were downright lazy. But the Sierra county board of supervisors has changed flowing locks and immediately we began doing the same. Mines, is of extraordinary value at the purchase price of all that. The South Fork of the South Fork of the North Now it is almost as rare to find a long haired lady as it $1. Many people of this town and county who ordered Fork henceforth will be known as Haypress creek and would be to find a long haired man. In the list of good this book on my recommendation were, and are, greatly Little North Fork of the Middle Fork of the North Fork of things which have come from Hollywood, I would inpleased with their purchase. I am confident that every one-who gets a copy of the the North F on is going to be Empire creek, and that’s scribe the short hair fad; it emancipated women from the most recent publication of the Division, ‘The Elephant burden of long dangling hair and the tasks of keeping that. as They Saw It,” will be equally pleased. Now if the Sierra county board will just go to work on it up and looking chic. However, some of the fads and Withou t some form of subsidy no publishing house simplifying government terminology and income tax and fancies which our women have copied are not so concould afford to produce such costly volumes as Bulletin structive. other instructions . ; 141 and the Elephant book. The division of mines is Why, oh why must we wear blood-red finger’ nails, to be congrat ulated making avaliable at such low prices when finger nails au natural can be made so attractive? CALLING A SPADE A SPADE two such Why-must we pluck our eye brows? The operation is interesting and valuable publications. These books may be obtained by writing to the Divi We received criticism recently for publishing a state painful and the results are far from satisfactory; plucked report indicating Nevada county was very low on the eye brows make the average woman resemble the rag sion of Mines, Ferry Building, San Francisco. SEEING THE ELEPHANT—Of the early songs popladder of prosperity in relation to other counties of the dolls of grandmother's day; but it’s Hollywood. The ular in the diggings in the early fifties, ‘Seeing the Elestate. We channot change our condition by hiding our flair for discarding clothing surely came from the south phant” was, says Joseph Henry Jackson,’ perhaps ghe heads in sand and refusing to look a fact in the face. It —south California. Time was when modesty dictated most symbolic of them all. a song into which the is up to us to correct the situation to the best of our abilthe extent to which we might undress in public and we miner put the whole of his disillusionment with the grand ity. In the same manner calling our water utility ‘‘vast wore clothing for the purpose of comfort, and in some inbonanz a fairy-tale." Seeing the Elephant had, for and valuable” won't hide a stances, concealment. situation created’ by incomAll this is changed—bow legs, petence and mismanagement and the need of a tough knock knees, freckles and tan, moles and pigeon -toes about ten years prior to the gold rush, been in the east and determined effort at economy. are all out in society, and we may consider aurselves a popular expression of a somewhat humorous acceptance of a situation or condition far less roseate than Economy is an apparently forgotten item in governlucky until some glamour girl of that same Hollywood one had been led, by questionable promotion, to ‘anticipate. ment or its subdivisions. The current theory of always begins going to grand opera clad in short shorts and half In other words, a tolerant acceptance that one had increasing assessments or taxes will some day topple by a bandanna handkerchief. been stung. ‘ sheer weight of pyramiding. Yes, on the: whole, . think that Lady Astor has placed Although the “greatest show on earth” her admonitory finger on our weakness as independent duced until many years later and Barn was not proum’s white eledressers. We are led by Hollywood, but. the good sense phant CHIEF OF POLICE had not been born, or created, P. T. Barnum was, —the inherent good sense of American women will some in the early fifties, well on his way The duties of ‘Max Solaro as chief of police and driver day assert itself and we shall design for towa rds fooling most ourselves things of the people much of the of the fire department trucks precludes any time to be that are suitable, artistic, comfo time. Whil e a few of the emirtable, and becoming. We grants to the early gold rush struck it rich.and succeede driving bulldozers for the city street crew. Solaro should shall not return to the atrocious d bathing suits of yesterin holding on to it, the great majority failed dismally in ‘be taken from the bulldozer and returned to city hall year, the bustles, hop skirts and mountains of hair which realizing their hope s. where he belongs. « It is. false economy on the part of the bedeviled grandmother's day, but I’m thinking that in Eigh t to ten dollars a day was good pickings city to combine one man’s time into so many tasks. He matters concerning our appearance for most we shall at long last of the men of gold rush” era and exorbitant living may not be called often to answer a fire but when he’s find the golden mean and come forth costs attractively and apin the diggings prec luded any appreciable accumulation needed Solaro should be available immediately. In addipropriately garbed. A denouement devoutly to we of gold or cash by workers who produced tion in takes a-legitimate job for someone who undoubtwished for. ‘twice this amou nt or more . edly needs it. Meanwhile let Lady Astor rant; she always has you — pec writer gladly recommends the purchase of know. Mayhap she always will. But, I think her reit ‘bap as no adverse criticism of the text or If a man runs after money, he’s money-mad; if he marks might give us pause; sometimes self examinations make-up he cannot but ques tion the valid ity of its title. keeps it, he’s a capitalist; if he spends it he’s a playboy; are not out of order, sometimes they bring about quite The Elephant as They Saw It” d oes not convey to m if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition; if he gets desirable results. the average reader of this generatio ; n it without working for it he’s a parasite; and if he accuADELINE MERRIAM CONNER. all about. ™ any idea of what it is mulates it after a lifetime of hard work, people call him When you flatter a man, you're just telling him what a fool who never got anything from life.” he already thinks about himself. ‘WHAT'S THE ANSWER? — Two trains going in It’s easy to call a spade a spade—until you stumble get office. opposite directions meet at a passing track. One train over one in the dark. f ' has 25 cars and the other-has 30. The side track will only One ef ouie r women subscriber hold 20 cars and a locomotive. How do the trains get s told A modern girl is one who sticks by the spinning wheel pin money in the Bible—it's Perfectlus she k past each other? y at —until her chips give out. ° a her as her husband there. ot No g .¥ 0 a/

2—The Nevada City Nugget, F riday, December 2, 1949 . . 2 EVACUATION ORDERS Tales of Nevada County Z From Long Ago to Now H. P. DAVIS 305 Broad Street, Nevada City—Telephone 36 A legal newspaper, as defined by statute BOOKS, Reviewed by H. P. Davis ROBERT H. and DONALD W. WRAY, Publishers KENNETH W. WRAY, Editor and Advertising Manager “The ELEPHANT AS THEY SAW IT,” a.collection of contemporary pictures and statesments of gold mining ; in California, assembled by Elisabeth L. Egenhoff as Member California Newspaper Publishers Aégsociation Published every Friday at Nevada City, California, and emtered as as matter of the second class in the postoffice at Nevada City under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. : a centennial supplement of the California Journal of Mines and Geology for October, 1949, this 128 page SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year outside county (in advance) One year in county (in advance) Four months (in advance) ; . One month (in advance) e : : book, illustrated with more than-sixty reproductions of $3.00 2.50 ss contemporary drawings and daguerreotypes, 1s unques 1 tionably a bargain at the purchase price of 75c. Of particular interest to residents of this town and £5 former residents, is a reproduction of an old print of Sugar Loaf Hill entitled ““Coyota Diggings and depicting the various activities of the gravel miners, thousands FOR A PENNY, IT’S A BARGAIN! _ For a single penny, we can drop a postcard in any of the green boxes scattered around town, or let a carrier pick it up for us, or deliver it ourselves to the postoffice. For that single penny, it will be cancelled by one of Bill Wasley’s clerks or even the boss himself, transported by truck to Colfax, placed on a train to ¢ross the high Sierras of whom were engaged here in 1850-51 on. the slopes above the town recovering gold from placer formed eons ago in the channel of an ancient river which drained this area. ; It was the fancied resemblance of the innumerable and Rockies, the burning desert and central plains and over the Appalachians into Washington, D. €., there to be sorted again and delivered to a congressman’s desk, or in a similar manner to anywhere in the U. S. or its territories. That is excellent service for a penny. The point was exemplified by Senator:Sheridan Downey in a recent speech before the senate. Downey was relating-an incident whereby one of his. constituents had mailed him a penny postcard saying ‘““My Dear Senator Downey, I hope you roast a thousand years in hell: for every minute . have wasted over my income tax report.” It is a perfect example of the magnificent service rendered by the post office department, not only of its un questioned efficiency, but also of true greatness of our democracy, ey: little pits along these slopes to the burrows made by coyotes which gave the name, ‘coyoting’’ to this unique and. here initiated form of gold mining. Interesting also are extracts from J. D. Borthwick’s books, ‘“Three Years in California,” which is, in the opinion of this writer, by long odds the most informative and readable of the books on the gold rush by writers who actually participated Just Wonderin ED I Wonder if it’s really true, As Lady Astor said. That women are by Hollywood therein. It is my purpose to devote a future “Long Ago to Now” column to Borthwick’s book and particularly to his description of a visit to Nevada City as seen by him in Consistently misled. the fall of 1852: If from that maelstrom of the south, We take our fads and fancies, * Our clothing ‘and our’ hairdos too, Our gestures and our dances. : ‘In her foreword to the ‘Elephant’? Elisabeth Egenhoff, the compiler and editor of publications of the division of mines says that in gold rush days literature, much has been written about the romance and adventure That stormy petrel, Lady Astor, has arisen to charge of this fascinating period but comparatively little atten¥ In how many nations of the world would a citizen tell to Hollytion has been devoted to the purposes which inspired the his representative to go to hell in an open message for all that American women are slavishly addicted. wood and all of Hollywood's vagaries. I think she may emigrants to brave the hardships entailed in this advento read? : ture. have something there. Let’s examine the record. : The well chosen extracts from participants in, and In the matter of clothing for instances, we were a rathHOW ABOUT GOVERNMENT TERMINOLOGY? er conservative people until Hollywood began setting writers of, the gold rush and the illustrations presented The board of supervisors of Sierra county has taken fashions. Some of our garments were far from being in this volume have, says Miss Egenhoff, been gathered an action which, if it establishes a trend, may revolutionartistic, but others were beautiful, becoming and useful. and here reproduced to call attention to this phase of the Hollywood claimed our attention with bizarre effects gold rush, to present, chiefly through the words and ize our language. The board has changed the official name of the Midwhich American women copied without reservation and drawings of contemporary writers and artists, a picture dle Fork of the North Fork of the North Fork of the Yuba now whether our garments are artistic, becoming or useof conditions existing in the “diggings” in the ealy days river to just plain Lavezzola creek and has similarly tinful or not, they are almost sure to have that Hollywood and to pay tribute to “those whose efforts a century ago gave purpose to the centennial we now celebrate.”’ look, ; kered with the names of other streams of the county. In February of this year I reviewed a publication of the I sometime think, though I am probably wrong, that » The pioneers of 1849, it seems, let their imaginations California Division of Mines of particular interest to run hog wild when it came to naming their settlements— American women are not very original. Few of us are those of us who live in the area tributary to highway 49. as Red Dog and You Bet bear witness. But when it came courageous enough to dictate what we shall wear and to identifying the creeks whose gravels they panned, they what styles of hairdo, or facial makeup we shall adopt. This book entitled ““A Geologic Guide Book Along HighNot so many years ago, a Hollywoodish star clipped her way 49,"’ issued as Bulletin No. 141 of the Division ‘of * were downright lazy. But the Sierra county board of supervisors has changed flowing locks and immediately we began doing the same. Mines, is of extraordinary value at the purchase price of all that. The South Fork of the South Fork of the North Now it is almost as rare to find a long haired lady as it $1. Many people of this town and county who ordered Fork henceforth will be known as Haypress creek and would be to find a long haired man. In the list of good this book on my recommendation were, and are, greatly Little North Fork of the Middle Fork of the North Fork of things which have come from Hollywood, I would inpleased with their purchase. I am confident that every one-who gets a copy of the the North F on is going to be Empire creek, and that’s scribe the short hair fad; it emancipated women from the most recent publication of the Division, ‘The Elephant burden of long dangling hair and the tasks of keeping that. as They Saw It,” will be equally pleased. Now if the Sierra county board will just go to work on it up and looking chic. However, some of the fads and Withou t some form of subsidy no publishing house

simplifying government terminology and income tax and fancies which our women have copied are not so concould afford to produce such costly volumes as Bulletin structive. other instructions . ; 141 and the Elephant book. The division of mines is Why, oh why must we wear blood-red finger’ nails, to be congrat ulated making avaliable at such low prices when finger nails au natural can be made so attractive? CALLING A SPADE A SPADE two such Why-must we pluck our eye brows? The operation is interesting and valuable publications. These books may be obtained by writing to the Divi We received criticism recently for publishing a state painful and the results are far from satisfactory; plucked report indicating Nevada county was very low on the eye brows make the average woman resemble the rag sion of Mines, Ferry Building, San Francisco. SEEING THE ELEPHANT—Of the early songs popladder of prosperity in relation to other counties of the dolls of grandmother's day; but it’s Hollywood. The ular in the diggings in the early fifties, ‘Seeing the Elestate. We channot change our condition by hiding our flair for discarding clothing surely came from the south phant” was, says Joseph Henry Jackson,’ perhaps ghe heads in sand and refusing to look a fact in the face. It —south California. Time was when modesty dictated most symbolic of them all.. a song into which the is up to us to correct the situation to the best of our abilthe extent to which we might undress in public and we miner put the whole of his disillusionment with the grand ity. In the same manner calling our water utility ‘‘vast wore clothing for the purpose of comfort, and in some inbonanz a fairy-tale." Seeing the Elephant had, for and valuable” won't hide a stances, concealment. situation created’ by incomAll this is changed—bow legs, petence and mismanagement and the need of a tough knock knees, freckles and tan, moles and pigeon -toes about ten years prior to the gold rush, been in the east and determined effort at economy. are all out in society, and we may consider aurselves a popular expression of a somewhat humorous acceptance of a situation or condition far less roseate than Economy is an apparently forgotten item in governlucky until some glamour girl of that same Hollywood one had been led, by questionable promotion, to ‘anticipate. ment or its subdivisions. The current theory of always begins going to grand opera clad in short shorts and half In other words, a tolerant acceptance that one had increasing assessments or taxes will some day topple by a bandanna handkerchief. been stung. ‘ sheer weight of pyramiding. Yes, on the: whole, . think that Lady Astor has placed Although the “greatest show on earth” her admonitory finger on our weakness as independent duced until many years later and Barn was not proum’s white eledressers. We are led by Hollywood, but. the good sense phant CHIEF OF POLICE had not been born, or created, P. T. Barnum was, —the inherent good sense of American women will some in the early fifties, well on his way The duties of ‘Max Solaro as chief of police and driver day assert itself and we shall design for towa rds fooling most ourselves things of the people much of the of the fire department trucks precludes any time to be that are suitable, artistic, comfo time. Whil e a few of the emirtable, and becoming. We grants to the early gold rush struck it rich.and succeede driving bulldozers for the city street crew. Solaro should shall not return to the atrocious d bathing suits of yesterin holding on to it, the great majority failed dismally in ‘be taken from the bulldozer and returned to city hall year, the bustles, hop skirts and mountains of hair which realizing their hope s. where he belongs. « It is. false economy on the part of the bedeviled grandmother's day, but I’m thinking that in Eigh t to ten dollars a day was good pickings city to combine one man’s time into so many tasks. He matters concerning our appearance for most we shall at long last of the men of gold rush” era and exorbitant living may not be called often to answer a fire but when he’s find the golden mean and come forth costs attractively and apin the diggings prec luded any appreciable accumulation needed Solaro should be available immediately. In addipropriately garbed. A denouement devoutly to we of gold or cash by workers who produced tion in takes a-legitimate job for someone who undoubtwished for. ‘twice this amou nt or more . edly needs it. Meanwhile let Lady Astor rant; she always has you — pec writer gladly recommends the purchase of know. Mayhap she always will. But, I think her reit ‘bap as no adverse criticism of the text or If a man runs after money, he’s money-mad; if he marks might give us pause; sometimes self examinations make-up he cannot but ques tion the valid ity of its title. keeps it, he’s a capitalist; if he spends it he’s a playboy; are not out of order, sometimes they bring about quite The Elephant as They Saw It” d oes not convey to m if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition; if he gets desirable results. the average reader of this generatio ; n it without working for it he’s a parasite; and if he accuADELINE MERRIAM CONNER. all about. ™ any idea of what it is mulates it after a lifetime of hard work, people call him When you flatter a man, you're just telling him what a fool who never got anything from life.” he already thinks about himself. ‘WHAT'S THE ANSWER? — Two trains going in It’s easy to call a spade a spade—until you stumble get office. opposite directions meet at a passing track. One train over one in the dark. f ' has 25 cars and the other-has 30. The side track will only One ef ouie r women subscriber hold 20 cars and a locomotive. How do the trains get s told A modern girl is one who sticks by the spinning wheel pin money in the Bible—it's Perfectlus she k past each other? y at —until her chips give out. ° a her as her husband there. ot No g .¥ 0 a/