January 13, 1948 (8 pages)

. Diary of a 49 er FROM THE BOOK EDITED BY C. L. CANFIELD be —~j _ March 16, 1852—A miner from Auburn was telling me the other day of a case that happened there last summer. A man named Jenkins was working at the head of Missouri Gulch, “tomming.” , His diggings were just fair, about Kalf an ounce a day. He had was, which was very scarce. The gulch headed in a built a little dirt reservoir to catch what water there flat and up at the end of it, where it rose up to the hills, there was a running spring, the water seeping into the flat and going to waste. In order to make his own supply hold out, he dug a narrow trench and ran the seepage into his reservoir. It worked all right for a few days and he paid no further attention to it, not even going up on the flat for a week. One morning he noticed that the water was not running in the ditch and, supposing that a gopher had tapped it, he put his shovel on his shoulder and walked along the trench to see what the trouble might be. Wheri about half way ditch for twenty feet or more was one yellow mass : of gold. It was an immense rotten quartz deposit, and inside of a month he had taken out forty-one thousand dollars. That was surely blind luck; still, there was another phase of it that was luckier. That flat was unclaimed ground. open to location ‘by anybody. The gold must have been there in plain view day and night for a week or more. Miners were tramping around in every direction hunting diggings, yet by pure chance not one happened to cross that flat that week. Fortune started in to favor Jenkins and did not make any half work of it. As my friends said, “It just shows that when you've got the luck, it’s with you from start to finish."’ Then he rounded off with what he called a ‘hard luck story. The mountains are-full of miners . tramping around from one séction to another, wandering over the country, men/ leaving with their piles or hunting better diggings, and there are numerous holdups and murders on the trails that become known only when somebody runs across the bodies. As we are all strangers to each other outside of our immediate neighborhoods, the identity of the murdered man is rarely discovered and but little interest is taken in apprehending the murderers. Development of the each industry in California has led to a high degree of specialization, one group of varities being used for canning, another for drying, and a third for fresh fruit. Twelve judges handled more than 687,000 ‘individual cases in the municipal courts of hte City and County of San Francisco last year. . Funeral For Miss Alice ‘E. Cooper NEVADA CITY: Funeral services for. Miss Alice E. Cooper, 84, will be held at 2 P.M. Wednesday in Holmes Funeral Home, under the auspices of the Order of Eastern Star, f Miss—Cooper,_who died Monday, January 12th, was the daughter of. George F. and Anna Web Cooper, who were pioneers in the Selby Flat district north of Nevada City. She graduated. from the Nevada City High School, and for many years taught school in Bear Valley. At one time she owned a part interest in the old Nevada City Hardware Store. Miss Cooper was secretary of the Evangeline: Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, for 34 years, and was a Past Matron of that organization. : She is survived by a grandnephew, Harrison Randall of Colfax, and by Mrs. Claire Holbrook, Mrs. Alice Orzalli, Mrs. Ruth Swendsen, Mrs. Doris Cheroh, all grandnieces, of this city. GOLD MINERS CHORUS GRASS VALLEY: The Grass Valley Gold Miners Chorus has resumed rehearsals, meeting in the Episcopal Parish Hall. During the recent holidays the chorus discontinued its practice inorder to give most of its members an opportunity to sing with ANT A S NUGGET Ads Bring Results” FOR THE BEST USED CAR BARGAINBUY, SELL OR TRADE See JIM ERSKINE Erskine Automotive Electric 401 East Main St., Grass Valley — 474 ‘ WANTED—Good used cars. Highest prices paid. Drive in with: car. Leave with eash. EARL COVEY GARAGE, 143 Bast Main St,, Grass Valley. tf ~ "TELEPHONE. OPERATORS Interesting Work You Can Stay With . Earn $31 for a 40 hour week at-~* the start. Regular pay increases Apply The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company 318 BROAD STREET NEVADA CITY G. E. Golvin PLASTERING Box 771 Phone Grass Valley 101-J before 6 p. m. CLASSIFIED CLASSIFIED = A COMPLETE LINE of all types of fire extinguishers, fire hose, etc. Recharging including co2. POOLE FIRE EQUIPMENT CO. 135 So. Church St. G. V. Ph. 1032 SPECIAL—25 Ib. bag Cousins Meal $2.75. 25 Ib. bag Cousins Kibbled Blend $3.05, 4 flavors in. each bag. Nevada City Feed and Fuel, 201.E. Spring Street, Telephone Nevada City 562-J. tf16 be i anal McCourtney Road_.__ en the Grass Valley Carol Choir. i Prices have been slashed in this sweeping drive to clear out odd lots and window display merchandise. We have added a large stock of new furniture—new shipments are arriving and we must have room to display our new stock. When. you visit our showrooms you will be amazed at the reductions offered—true values and great savings will be noticed in every department. Yes, the Grass Valley Furniture Company gives CREDIT. Now is the time to dress up the BED ROOM —Can you imagine a beautiful full sized Bed, Chest, Night Stand, Vanity and Bench for only $298.50. . . That’s what it normally would sell for. Now, it’s been reduced to only219.50 “Ee #; KNEEHOLE: DESKS wutiful in Colonial, period, or modern style. . Reduced from 69.50 to 39.50 @ Solid hardwood frame. @ 100 per cent spring construction. @ Durable tapestry velour mohair covering. _ Reduced from DINETTE TABLE AND CHAIRS Eat in gay surroundings—it’s good for digestion. This Dinette table and four chairs has been reduced from $59.50 to only 39.50 ma All the merchandise in our store is marked to move “now! Our departments are well stocked with the finest of popular furniture. You will find values never dreamed of in Tables and Occasional pieces: Bargains in Nursery Furniture; Floor Coverings; Sofa and Studio Beds, and many more too numerous to mention. Terms available! 149.50 “MODERN TWOPIECE VELOUR Regular $189.50 Here is a value you won't forget, one that will bring pleasure to everyone in the family. u nitur _ GRASS VALLEY PUBLIC MARKET BUILDING PHONE 1087 .

. Diary of a 49 er FROM THE BOOK EDITED BY C. L. CANFIELD be —~j _ March 16, 1852—A miner from Auburn was telling me the other day of a case that happened there last summer. A man named Jenkins was working at the head of Missouri Gulch, “tomming.” , His diggings were just fair, about Kalf an ounce a day. He had was, which was very scarce. The gulch headed in a built a little dirt reservoir to catch what water there flat and up at the end of it, where it rose up to the hills, there was a running spring, the water seeping into the flat and going to waste. In order to make his own supply hold out, he dug a narrow trench and ran the seepage into his reservoir. It worked all right for a few days and he paid no further attention to it, not even going up on the flat for a week. One morning he noticed that the water was not running in the ditch and, supposing that a gopher had tapped it, he put his shovel on his shoulder and walked along the trench to see what the trouble might be. Wheri about half way ditch for twenty feet or more was one yellow mass : of gold. It was an immense rotten quartz deposit, and inside of a month he had taken out forty-one thousand dollars. That was surely blind luck; still, there was another phase of it that was luckier. That flat was unclaimed ground. open to location ‘by anybody. The gold must have been there in plain view day and night for a week or more. Miners were tramping around in every direction hunting diggings, yet by pure chance not one happened to cross that flat that week. Fortune started in to favor Jenkins and did not make any half work of it. As my friends said, “It just shows that when you've got the luck, it’s with you from start to finish."’ Then he rounded off with what he called a ‘hard luck story. The mountains are-full of miners . tramping around from one séction to another, wandering over the country, men/ leaving with their piles or hunting better diggings, and there are numerous holdups and murders on the trails that become known only when somebody runs across the bodies. As we are all strangers to each other outside of our immediate neighborhoods, the identity of the murdered man is rarely discovered and but little interest is taken in apprehending the murderers. Development of the each industry in California has led to a high degree of specialization, one group of varities being used for canning, another for drying, and a third for fresh fruit. Twelve judges handled more than 687,000 ‘individual cases in the municipal courts of hte City and County of San Francisco last year. . Funeral For Miss Alice ‘E. Cooper NEVADA CITY: Funeral services for. Miss Alice E. Cooper, 84, will be held at 2 P.M. Wednesday in Holmes Funeral Home, under the auspices of the Order of Eastern Star, f Miss—Cooper,_who died Monday, January 12th, was the daughter of. George F. and Anna Web Cooper, who were pioneers in the Selby Flat district north of Nevada City. She graduated. from the Nevada City High School, and for many years taught school in Bear Valley. At one time she owned a part interest in the old Nevada City Hardware Store. Miss Cooper was secretary of the Evangeline: Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, for 34 years, and was a Past Matron of that organization. : She is survived by a grandnephew, Harrison Randall of Colfax, and by Mrs. Claire Holbrook, Mrs. Alice Orzalli, Mrs. Ruth Swendsen, Mrs. Doris Cheroh, all grandnieces, of this city. GOLD MINERS CHORUS GRASS VALLEY: The Grass Valley Gold Miners Chorus has resumed rehearsals, meeting in the Episcopal Parish Hall. During the recent holidays the chorus discontinued its practice inorder to give most of its members an opportunity to sing with ANT A S NUGGET Ads Bring Results” FOR THE BEST USED CAR BARGAINBUY, SELL OR TRADE See JIM ERSKINE Erskine Automotive Electric

401 East Main St., Grass Valley — 474 ‘ WANTED—Good used cars. Highest prices paid. Drive in with: car. Leave with eash. EARL COVEY GARAGE, 143 Bast Main St,, Grass Valley. tf ~ "TELEPHONE. OPERATORS Interesting Work You Can Stay With . Earn $31 for a 40 hour week at-~* the start. Regular pay increases Apply The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company 318 BROAD STREET NEVADA CITY G. E. Golvin PLASTERING Box 771 Phone Grass Valley 101-J before 6 p. m. CLASSIFIED CLASSIFIED = A COMPLETE LINE of all types of fire extinguishers, fire hose, etc. Recharging including co2. POOLE FIRE EQUIPMENT CO. 135 So. Church St. G. V. Ph. 1032 SPECIAL—25 Ib. bag Cousins Meal $2.75. 25 Ib. bag Cousins Kibbled Blend $3.05, 4 flavors in. each bag. Nevada City Feed and Fuel, 201.E. Spring Street, Telephone Nevada City 562-J. tf16 be i anal McCourtney Road_.__ en the Grass Valley Carol Choir. i Prices have been slashed in this sweeping drive to clear out odd lots and window display merchandise. We have added a large stock of new furniture—new shipments are arriving and we must have room to display our new stock. When. you visit our showrooms you will be amazed at the reductions offered—true values and great savings will be noticed in every department. Yes, the Grass Valley Furniture Company gives CREDIT. Now is the time to dress up the BED ROOM —Can you imagine a beautiful full sized Bed, Chest, Night Stand, Vanity and Bench for only $298.50. . . That’s what it normally would sell for. Now, it’s been reduced to only219.50 “Ee #; KNEEHOLE: DESKS wutiful in Colonial, period, or modern style. . Reduced from 69.50 to 39.50 @ Solid hardwood frame. @ 100 per cent spring construction. @ Durable tapestry velour mohair covering. _ Reduced from DINETTE TABLE AND CHAIRS Eat in gay surroundings—it’s good for digestion. This Dinette table and four chairs has been reduced from $59.50 to only 39.50 ma All the merchandise in our store is marked to move “now! Our departments are well stocked with the finest of popular furniture. You will find values never dreamed of in Tables and Occasional pieces: Bargains in Nursery Furniture; Floor Coverings; Sofa and Studio Beds, and many more too numerous to mention. Terms available! 149.50 “MODERN TWOPIECE VELOUR Regular $189.50 Here is a value you won't forget, one that will bring pleasure to everyone in the family. u nitur _ GRASS VALLEY PUBLIC MARKET BUILDING PHONE 1087 .