June 15, 1948 (4 pages)

or i= [= ia =] Si ie i Si Sic oe all 4 “3 tet, >" 4 S >.< Sao a ms >< yt, + SC + +>, Sa SaeS * o Ss et, INS Kar * + OGG ie ie ac i ae ae es ee eee eee Oe OTT Seer eT TTT eee Oe eee. eee eT y —_ = = ea ee he . eter \ ———— gre ag nis BRS. gine rs "4 pres: a _ Volume 22 — No. 24 NEVADA CITY-GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA Scott’s Flat Dedicated GENERAL W. T. HANNUM . SPEAKS AT OPENING RITES NEVADA CITY: Scott’s Flat Dam was dedicated unday afternoon by the Nevada Irrigation District. There were some 500 spectators at the ceremony. They came from all parts of Nevada and Placer Counties which the 26,300 acre feet of water behind the dam will serve. At noon they spread their ee of food on the tables under the deep shade of the forest. To the south they could see the deep blue of water already impounded behind the great earth-filled dam. Due:to the sudden illness of Forrest F. Varney, manager and chief engineer of the district, William Durbrow, who retired as manager last year after 18 years of service, acted as master o First came the call to colors sounded by bugler Ike Harris,:Jr., assistant scoutmaster of Troop 4. The color guard of Troop 15 raised the flag to the masthead. The poard of directors of Nevada Irrigation district were introduced. They consist of Thomas Mulcahy, president, Harlan E. Wheeler, G. O. Griffith, Edgar E. Burnet, and 'b A. Gleason. Greetings of one minute each were extended by George Hallock, president of the California Hydraulic Mining Assn., State Senator Allen G.Thurman, Judge George I. Jones, Mayor Alison Simmons, of Grass Valley, Art Innis, City Councilman of Nevada City, speaking for Mayor Albert S. Bates who could not be present, Mrs. Audrey Montre, president of the Grass Valley Business and Professional Women, Louis Hartman, president of the Grass Val2y Chamber of Commerce, Paul ‘Bergemann,.president of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, Hugh Brown, secretary-manager of the Sierra Nevada Chamber of Commerce, speaking -for its president, George C. Hansen, and Mrs. H. A, Sturtevant ,president of the Nevada County Girl Scout Council. William Durbrow then gave a brief history of Scott’s Flat Dem He mentioned the old flume that formerly brought logs down from the big basin, now filled) with “ater. The flume ended at Town Talk, between Nevada City and Grass Valley. Where it ended there were sawmills and a big planing mill. In those days Town Talk was a large and thriving community. He said that the first expenses of clearing the damsite was paid for out of the gold recovered by a dredger contractor. This amounted to $125,000, of which the irrigatioy district received: 12144. percent. The buildings erected along the lake #znore and at the dam were paid for by the lumber. sold from Seott’s Flat, se that-clearing.the damsite virtually cost the district nothing. C. W. A. labor was used in the clearing. General Warren T. Hannum, director of the State Division of Natural resources, chief speaker of the day, said that development of hydraulic mining in the gold rush days was a preliminary: to the state’s present great systems of water control] and distribution in irrigation, and manufacture of electrical energy. Nearly all the ditches of Argonaut days are again in use. “In fact,’ said General Hannum, ‘water is California’s greatest refor upon it depend many of source, our most important industries, especially agriculture. Water is indeed=our principle~resource.—In this district there are some 286,+ 000 acres, of which 136,000 acres are susceptible to irrigation. But only 30,000 acres are actually under irrigation, so there is still room for a great expansion of irrigation in this district. Each new unit of impounded water, said the speaker, is one more safe guard against drought, Avom which we have recently had fortunate escape. Cc. F. Metteer of San Francisco, attorney for the district since its inception in 1921, unveiled the plaque on its monument of granite. He said that he hoped the time would come when the monument would be fifty feet under water, because of a new addition to the dam, to impound a much greater water suppply. When it did come, he said, the Wlistrict could un«doubtedly afford a new monument amd placard. BATES RESIGNS AS MAYOR NEVADA CITY: Mayor Albert S. Bates has tendered his resignation to the city council effective immediately. He has been prowg noted from his present post as q manager of the Nevada City Pacific Gas and Electric Company to be district agent in the Lincoln office of the Company in Placer County. A successor will be named by the city council soon. Usually the senior member on the board is made mayor, which in this case would be Arthur B. Innis. es % San Francisco’s second street survey. was made in 1845 by Jas4a O’Farrell. TROUT KILLED f ceremonies. DEER CREEK NEVAD ITY: Game Warden Earl Hisco! eportsthat aproximately 10,000 trout have been poisoned by chlorine dumped. inti Deer Creek from the municipal swimming pool in Pioneers Park. Hiscox said that, after receiving reports from angry sportsmen of thousands of dead fish downstream from the confluence of Little Deer Creek and Deer Creek as far as Newtown, he made an investigation. A city crew, cleaning up the municipal pool preparatory to its cpening, according to Hiscox, had let the water run slowly over a deposit of chlorine which had flowed into Little Deer Creek in a concentrated solution. The game warden said that ancBart Photo ie Auditorium. Pictured above in a statuesque replica of famed Donner Monument-whose-construction was spurred by Dr. Chester W. Chapman, are (from left to right) Mrs. Elza Kilroy, Elza Kilroy, and little Karren Tucker. The picture was taken Saturday, June 5, at the gala reception for Dr. Chapman in the Grammar School fishing for this year will be ruined in Deer Creeek. He stated that 25,000 fish had been planted in the stream this year. % -:PERSONALS =-:GRASS VALLEY; Mr. and Mrs. Elks Have Queen Candidate For Fourth NEVADA CITY: Individual members of the Elks Lodge, and the lodge. itself contributed $61 toward the Fourth of July fund Ben wittuxon; after a trip Bast, . during, Thursday night's meeting. during which they visited their The lodge will sponsor a can-' son and daughter in law, Mr. and] didate for queen in the contest Mrs. Benton Wilcoxon of Hunts-. for the Fourth ‘Committee’ in the contest consists of Charles Veale, Ray Strange, R. V. Conrad and Frank Duffy. The lodge will also sponsor a fine float for the parade on the Fourth. ville, Alabama, have returned to their home here. Mrs. Alex McCabe has returned from a vacation in the San Franeisco Bay region. charge of ‘THE. Diary of a 49’er CONCLUSION (So we bid good-bye to Pard and Jackson, Marie and ‘Hetty, Jack, the dog, and the donkey, to “ze good boys” of Rock and Brush Creeks. The days of placer mining, as depicted in the dieary, came to an end long ago,' the glory of Selby Flat, that once “beat Nevada City in a Fourth of July celebration” has departed; even the patient Chinamen glean no more from the workedout creeks, gulches and ravines. The romance and the sordid facts are but dim memories and the Argonauts have gone to seek the golden fleece in the land just beyond the sunset. They were good old days and when Jackson forgot to! put his diary i in the saddle bags he left for posterity a record unique and invaluable. We have hada surfeit of stoic gambler, uncouth miner, draggle-tailed courtesans, and impossible school-mistresses. These were inventions touched, distorted and illuminated by Bret Harte’s genius. The later-day writers who attempt to reproduce this early life with their sentimental pathos are as far away from the spirit of the ’’Fifties’” as mush and molasses from “‘Lobster a la Newburg.’ While Jackson's narrative may not rank high as literature, he has given in his diary a faithful, accurate, and vivid picture, from the miner's point of view, of foothill mining life. As he was writing it for his own amusement and not for posterity, the weaving into it of his romance is to be pardoned. For myself, I confess that to me.this has been one of its chief fascinations. Its great interest, however, is the details we glean of the everday life, of how much yellow dust the claim yielded, the growth of mining camps, the queer theories as to the genesis of gold, the incidents and happenings in town and country, the comedies and tragedies; these constitue history. not to be found elsewhere. Yet, to note the gradual development and mental growth of this New England Puritan, the intrusion of “the eternal feminine,’’ ‘the hesitation and doubt, the surrender and final culmination of it at the point most novelists end the final chapter, the marriage altar, surely that was a romance of the foothills. However, all this had best be left to the reader. I trust that he has been as much entertained in following Jackson’s fortunes as . in deciphering and transcribing them from.the blotted pages and faded ink of his old diary. ite ae sensed Nevada County Long AgoFloy-Margaret Reynolds . 20 YEARS AG@ Pupils of the Nevada City Elementary School-whose names appeared on the honor roll fer being neither tardy nor absent for the year were: First Grade, Elton Tobiassen; Second Grade, Virgil Roseborough; Third Grade, Max Santinelli, Carl] Tobiassen, Walter Warnecke, Clemens Organ; Fourth Grade, Audrey Davis, Susan Del Raoulls, Charlotte Phariss, Pauline Rozynski, Gertrude Schreiber, Mary Sing, Lorene Smith, Elizabeth Werry, Amelio Angolini, Dick Bennett, Everett Crabbe, Raymond Crabbe, Raymond Dent, Dickie James, Alf Netz, Peter Orzalli, Jim Stephens, Ray Worthley and Donald Jones; Sixth: Grade, Alice Marie Day, Robert Kistle, Rosie Pellegrini; Seventh Grade, Angiolina Alaria, Aldo Casci, Warren Chapman, Alice Peard, Katie Macari, Antoinette Pelligrini; Eighth Grade, Ida Fradelizio, Nadine Neagle, Eleanor Schreiber, Elda . Santinella, Jessie Smart, Jack Raynor and Bill Tamblyn. The forty-ninth annual commencement of the Nevada City High School was held at the Nevada Theatre with the Rev. John Telfer delivering. the invocation. Others on the program were: Senior Class. President Elzear Foley, Miss Ruth Tamblyn who presented the Salutatory, Valedictorian Katherine McClish and Scott Rundy in a violin solo. Prot. A. F. Tsensee presented the speaker of the evening Dr. John F. Engle, principal of Placer Union High School. Although, it was Pennsylvania Engine Company’s year to name the chief of the fire department from among their own members, they unanimously waived their privelege in appreciation of the splendid service renderd by Miles Coughlin of Nevada Hose Company and nominated him to succeed himself. Other officers chosen were Forrest Penrose, assistant chief; Herbert Hallet, foreman; A. A. Willoughby; Ist assistant chief; R. C. Rossen, 2nd assistant chief; W. M® Gracey, treasurer and E. J. Kilroy, secretary. e & 50 YEARS AGO William Tyrell, a transient who got drunk and attempted to capture the town of Washington at the point of his pistols, was brought to Nevada City by: Constable Self and committed to the county jail for ten days by Justice Redmayne. At the State League of RepublicanClubs in session in San Francisco, Nat P. Brown of the Nevada City Transcript was chosen a member of the committee on constitution and a delegate to the Republican National League at Omaha. a The Rev. J. Sims celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of his pastorate of the Congregational Church in Nevada City with a grand concert of solos, duets and choir recitations in which the following ersons took active part: Miss Martha Sims, Miss Edith Edwards, Miss Eliza Davey, Mrs. Waggoner, Migs Hook, Miss Aleen Cooper, ‘Mr: Robb, Mrs. Ed McKinley, Mr, Rice, Mrs, Matls, Mr. “¢Please Turn to Page 4) — -of— the READY P. 0. OPENING GRASS VALLEY: Rough and Ready has prepared a fine program for the re-opening of its postoffice on Wednesday. The little historic village is on tiptoe with excitement. The residents and visitors will gather at the new postoffice building and store, where Mrs. Andrew Rogers, postmaster, will await the mail at 10:30 A.”M. Mrs. Martina Paull, through Whose efforts the postoffice was resumed, is chhirman of the program. George ~ Rolfe, postoffice inspector will dedicate the postJudge George I. Lones 01 Nevada City will introduce visiting postmasters and officials. Elmer Stevens, former president Nevada City Historical Will deliver the principal office. Society, address. Tom Coan, Indian Flat resident, will play some old time dance tunes on his violin. As the first mail-comes-in,there will -be-appropriate music. Frank Lopes, dramatie student and a graduate of the Grass Valley High School, will give a reading. The stage coach, belonging to Hydraulic Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West, has been loaned to the Nevada County Historical Society and the mail will arrive in it. Ed Granholm will drive the stage and Frank Fippin, as messenger,will guard it with his sawed-off shotgun. Pat Shannon has loaned his new wayside inn, for the day. 4th Gets Under Way! ROUGH AND & NEVADA CITY: At an enthusiastic meeting Friday night in the City Hall, members of the Chamber of Commerce pitched in and volunteered their services for making the Fourth of July celebration the best yet. The meeting was called by the President and Board of Dirictors, who were discouraged by lack of interest so far shown by the public in Fourth preparations. About 75 citizens attended the meeting, each anxious to do his part in various phases of Fourth activity. The chamber room was so crowded that a handfulof members had to stand. MANY ENTRIES IN RACE FOR N.S. J. CHERRY QUEEN +. Al Irby, Fourth chairman, was absent, and his place was taken by assistant chairman Mrs. Harold Deeter. She outlined general plans for the Fourth, which will include: the queen contest, street dancing, NORTH SAN JUAN: The fam. folk. dancing, band concert, games ed Cherry Carnival and Centennial . on Saturday, July 3, Memorial Festival of this area, slated for . Church ‘Service, a baseball game, June 18th and 19th will feature . aquacade, and hoe-down dance on a spirited contest for Queen. Sunday, the Grand, Parade, the traditional fire department water Contestants‘iso far entered include: North San Juan, Kathleen. fight, a kids-wagon race, final McQuinn and. Jeannie Ennis, . athletic contests, on Monday. Camptonville, Patricia Kessler, Any profits from the Fourth June’ Kessler, Frieda Olsen, Eva. celebration, after expenses are j Olsen, and Dorris Turner; Tyler} paid, will go to the Girl Scouts. Nellie Leal; Alleghany, Wilma Word of mdny. organizaions Clemens; Downieville, Vera Mc-. planning to enter-a queen in the AHister: eontest was annoeunced._at— the The Queen Contest is sponsored . Meeting: by the Chamber of Commerce of Among them are the Elks, the North San Juan, Camptonville and. Lions, the National Guard, the vicinity, as*is the Cherry Carnival. . Veterans -of--Foreign.Wars,—the E. J. Kohler is president of the or. Tavern Owner’s Association and ganization and Fred Conner is. the Sheriff's Posse. publicity chairman. Secretary Harry F. Sofge anA huge parade with a large. nounced that arrangements for number of floats from various] completely decorating the town business organizations on. the. with flags at a cost of $235 had Ridge is planned for Sunday. The} been completed. Ted Sigourney queen contest will draw to an of. announced that the fire departficial close at 10 A. M. Sunday. ment had available suitable benches for the use of aged people and mother’s with children during Tickets will be sold at the mammoth dance Saturday night in last minute efforts-to elect favJessie Galleto, head of the Rough orites as Queen. and Ready Home Department and $ : The queen and all the candia COLERE of Rough and Ready dates will ride in state in the housewives, will serve luncheon parade consisting of chicken pot pie, tossTicket selling for the queen ed green salad, hot rolls, farm] .ontest has proceeded at a terrific eream and =~butter, pastry and j aa {Dace coffee for $1.00. The proceeds will go towards restoring the ancient Odd Fellows Hall. After lunch, Frank Fippin will lead the visitors on a tour of the town’s historic land marks. The first stop will be the Odd Fellows Hall where William Bursill’s display of relics of the gold rush days will be shown. Next will come the eee See NOTHING ILLEGAL HERE SAYS STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ~ NEVADA CITY: Sheriff Richard W. Hoskins yesterday received a letter from Attorney General Slave Girl cottonwood tree, the Fred W. Howser, stating that as os +4 i =z " ‘3 ee e , s Fippin blacksmith shop, where a result of survey made by inLotta Crabtree once tap danced vestigators from his office in 39 on the big anvil, and last the site : counties, Nevada County “was where the flag of the Republic of . found to be free of illegal activiRough and Ready was raised. ties. 32 Another Jail. Gupat From Sierra County NEVADA ‘CITY Robert M. Gonzalez, ' 23, of ‘Berkeley .was lodged in the county jail yester. day, on a charge of grand theft, . operating a trailer of illegal width, }and the stealing ofa frame and wheels of a motor vehicle in Sierra Betty Mae Waddelow Queen of Job’s Daughters GRASS VALLEY: Miss Betty Mae Waddelow was installed as honored queen of = the Job’s Daughters Bethel in the Masonic Temple Saturday night. She succeeds Beatrice Joyce Bennetts. Other officers installed were: Barbara Belding, senior princess; City, Sierra County. Dorothy Abraham, junior prin . The arrest was made by Highcess; Patty Lou Holt, guide; Bar. way Patrolman A. J. Ponta and bara’ Green, marshall;* Patricia] the prisoner brought to the NeBrown, chaplain; Margerie]. vada County jail, because DownieHoover, treasurer; Elean.or. ] ville, since the courthouse burned Hooper, recqrder; and Phyllis. down some months ago, is without Penaluna, musician. a jail. FIRE REGULATIONS Supervisor Guerdon Ellis of the Tahoe National Forest announces fire closure under Federal Fire Regulations effective June 10. Mr .Ellis reports that. the Regional korester, P. A. Thompson, U. S. Forest Service, Region 5, under authority vested in him by Secretary of Agriculture, for purpose of enforcing Departmental regulation T-l, paragraphs (E), (H), (L) and (O), has declared a period of fire hazard and danger to exist upon all lands of the United States within the Tahoe National Forest beginning June 10, and extending to October 31, 1948, and has authorized me to place the following restrictions in effect which prohibits: Paragraph (E)—Building a campfire on those portions of any National Forest which have, with the approval of the Regional Forester, been designated by the respective Supervisors thereof, without first obtaining a permit from a Forest Officer. Paragraph (H)—Smoking during periods-of fire danger publicly announced by the Regional Forester upon such areas as may be designated by him, which may include roads and trails and improved camping grounds, but shall not include improved places of habitation. Paragraph (L)—The throwing or placing of a burning cigarette, cigar, match, pipe heel, firecracker, or any ignited substance in any place where it may start a fire; and the discharging of any kind of. fireworks on any portion of a National Forest closed by order of the Regional Forester to the discharging of fireworks. Paragraph (O)—Having in possession, or firing or causing;to be fired, any tracer bullet or tracer charge onto or across such lands. Now, therefore public notice is hereby given as follows: 1. A permit for building a campfire will be required. 2. No smoking will be allowed except at places of habitation and especially posted areas. (Campgrounds are considered places of habitation.) a 3. It is unlawful to place or throw any lighted substance on any National Forest land. Fireworks are e 4. evimas in possession or using any tracer bullet is unlawful. the parade. A dance and crazy auction will be held Saturday night, June 19th at Seaman’s Lodge in Pioneers Park, under the auspices of the Deer Creek Dry Diggins Association. A street dance is planned for Saturday night, June 26. Mrs. Doris Foley, preseident of the Historical Society, announced that. the museum would be oper during every tion. Jack Mundt, speaking for the Sheriff's Pesse,—announced that that organizaion would: volunteer for any necessary police work and traffie direction. Various other individuals and organizations volunteerec services and materials befor resident Paul Bergemann concluded the meeting on a note of thanks for the intense, if somewhat belated, interest in the celebration on the part of the townspeole. SWIM POOL PARK, OPENED FOR SUMMER NEVADA CITY: The Municipal swimming pool will open today at 1 o'clock with Leonard. Steinberg in charge. In anticipation of an active and busy summer season, yesterday a large delegation of citizens gave Pioneers Park @ thorough cleaning. Playground equipment was installed for the younger children, such as swings for boys and girls and for’ adults, self propelled merry-go-round, horrizontal bars, a@ maypole, teeter totters, and 1 sand boxes. Luncheon was served to the workers by the park com,; Mission. Many brought food for o potluck supper at the end of the day. GERTRUDE GOYNE HONORED, HAS TAUGHT FOR FIFTY TWO YEARS NEVADA CITY:-:Miss Gertrude Goyne, who retired at the end of this school year after teaching in Nevada City environs. for’ 4 years and 52 years itself, was tendered a dinner last Saturday night by former students in her classes, teachers, and many friends. Judge George L. Jones was the master of ceremonies. He. read several letters from former students in Miss Goyne’s classes and at the appropriate time many rose from their seats to pay tribute to Miss Goyne. John Palmer, superintendent of Yuba County made the ~ehféf address. Vocal solos were renderéd@ by Mrs. Marian. Libby, William Tobiassen, and Lloyd M. Geist with accompaniments played by Mrs. Dorothy Kitts, and Miss Ruth Libbey. Frane Luschen gave a cello selection and the school orchestra under his. direction played several numbers. Miss Goyne expressed her appreciation. Dr. C. W. Chapman and James Colley gave extemporaneous talks. The committee in charge consisted of Lloyd Geist, Miss Savory Ford, and Edward A. Frantz. LIONS’ PICNIC BIG SUCCESS NEVADA CITY: The Lions Club picnine Sunday at Central House was a great success. There was a crowd of 225. youngsters, and there was a ball game between Nevada ‘ and. Grass Valley. Nevada City won With a score of 18 to 8, day of the celebra. in. the. city. Games were enjoyed by the

or i= [= ia =] Si ie i Si Sic oe all 4 “3 tet, >" 4 S >.< Sao a ms >< yt, + SC + +>, Sa SaeS * o Ss et, INS Kar * + OGG ie ie ac i ae ae es ee eee eee Oe OTT Seer eT TTT eee Oe eee. eee eT y —_ = = ea ee he . eter \ ———— gre ag nis BRS. gine rs "4 pres: a _ Volume 22 — No. 24 NEVADA CITY-GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA Scott’s Flat Dedicated GENERAL W. T. HANNUM . SPEAKS AT OPENING RITES NEVADA CITY: Scott’s Flat Dam was dedicated unday afternoon by the Nevada Irrigation District. There were some 500 spectators at the ceremony. They came from all parts of Nevada and Placer Counties which the 26,300 acre feet of water behind the dam will serve. At noon they spread their ee of food on the tables under the deep shade of the forest. To the south they could see the deep blue of water already impounded behind the great earth-filled dam. Due:to the sudden illness of Forrest F. Varney, manager and chief engineer of the district, William Durbrow, who retired as manager last year after 18 years of service, acted as master o First came the call to colors sounded by bugler Ike Harris,:Jr., assistant scoutmaster of Troop 4. The color guard of Troop 15 raised the flag to the masthead. The poard of directors of Nevada Irrigation district were introduced. They consist of Thomas Mulcahy, president, Harlan E. Wheeler, G. O. Griffith, Edgar E. Burnet, and 'b A. Gleason. Greetings of one minute each were extended by George Hallock, president of the California Hydraulic Mining Assn., State Senator Allen G.Thurman, Judge George I. Jones, Mayor Alison Simmons, of Grass Valley, Art Innis, City Councilman of Nevada City, speaking for Mayor Albert S. Bates who could not be present, Mrs. Audrey Montre, president of the Grass Valley Business and Professional Women, Louis Hartman, president of the Grass Val2y Chamber of Commerce, Paul ‘Bergemann,.president of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, Hugh Brown, secretary-manager of the Sierra Nevada Chamber of Commerce, speaking -for its president, George C. Hansen, and Mrs. H. A, Sturtevant ,president of the Nevada County Girl Scout Council. William Durbrow then gave a brief history of Scott’s Flat Dem He mentioned the old flume that formerly brought logs down from the big basin, now filled) with “ater. The flume ended at Town Talk, between Nevada City and Grass Valley. Where it ended there were sawmills and a big planing mill. In those days Town Talk was a large and thriving community. He said that the first expenses of clearing the damsite was paid for out of the gold recovered by a dredger contractor. This amounted to $125,000, of which the irrigatioy district received: 12144. percent. The buildings erected along the lake #znore and at the dam were paid for by the lumber. sold from Seott’s Flat, se that-clearing.the damsite virtually cost the district nothing. C. W. A. labor was used in the clearing. General Warren T. Hannum, director of the State Division of Natural resources, chief speaker of the day, said that development of hydraulic mining in the gold rush days was a preliminary: to the state’s present great systems of water control] and distribution in irrigation, and manufacture of electrical energy. Nearly all the ditches of Argonaut days are again in use. “In fact,’ said General Hannum, ‘water is California’s greatest refor upon it depend many of source, our most important industries, especially agriculture. Water is indeed=our principle~resource.—In this district there are some 286,+ 000 acres, of which 136,000 acres are susceptible to irrigation. But only 30,000 acres are actually under irrigation, so there is still room for a great expansion of irrigation in this district. Each new unit of impounded water, said the speaker, is one more safe guard against drought, Avom which we have recently had fortunate escape. Cc. F. Metteer of San Francisco, attorney for the district since its inception in 1921, unveiled the plaque on its monument of granite. He said that he hoped the time would come when the monument would be fifty feet under water, because of a new addition to the dam, to impound a much greater water suppply. When it did come, he said, the Wlistrict could un«doubtedly afford a new monument amd placard. BATES RESIGNS AS MAYOR NEVADA CITY: Mayor Albert S. Bates has tendered his resignation to the city council effective immediately. He has been prowg noted from his present post as q manager of the Nevada City Pacific Gas and Electric Company to be district agent in the Lincoln office of the Company in Placer County. A successor will be named by the city council soon. Usually the senior member on the board is made mayor, which in this case would be Arthur B. Innis. es % San Francisco’s second street survey. was made in 1845 by Jas4a O’Farrell. TROUT KILLED f ceremonies. DEER CREEK NEVAD ITY: Game Warden Earl Hisco! eportsthat aproximately 10,000 trout have been poisoned by chlorine dumped. inti Deer Creek from the municipal swimming pool in Pioneers Park. Hiscox said that, after receiving reports from angry sportsmen of thousands of dead fish downstream from the confluence of Little Deer Creek and Deer Creek as far as Newtown, he made an investigation. A city crew, cleaning up the municipal pool preparatory to its cpening, according to Hiscox, had let the water run slowly over a deposit of chlorine which had flowed into Little Deer Creek in a concentrated solution. The game warden said that ancBart Photo ie Auditorium. Pictured above in a statuesque replica of famed Donner Monument-whose-construction was spurred by Dr. Chester W. Chapman, are (from left to right) Mrs. Elza Kilroy, Elza Kilroy, and little Karren Tucker. The picture was taken Saturday, June 5, at the gala reception for Dr. Chapman in the Grammar School fishing for this year will be ruined in Deer Creeek. He stated that 25,000 fish had been planted in the stream this year. % -:PERSONALS =-:GRASS VALLEY; Mr. and Mrs. Elks Have Queen Candidate For Fourth NEVADA CITY: Individual members of the Elks Lodge, and the lodge. itself contributed $61 toward the Fourth of July fund Ben wittuxon; after a trip Bast, . during, Thursday night's meeting. during which they visited their The lodge will sponsor a can-' son and daughter in law, Mr. and] didate for queen in the contest Mrs. Benton Wilcoxon of Hunts-. for the Fourth ‘Committee’ in the contest consists of Charles Veale, Ray Strange, R. V. Conrad and Frank Duffy. The lodge will also sponsor a fine float for the parade on the Fourth. ville, Alabama, have returned to their home here. Mrs. Alex McCabe has returned from a vacation in the San Franeisco Bay region. charge of ‘THE. Diary of a 49’er CONCLUSION (So we bid good-bye to Pard and Jackson, Marie and ‘Hetty, Jack, the dog, and the donkey, to “ze good boys” of Rock and Brush Creeks. The days of placer mining, as depicted in the dieary, came to an end long ago,' the glory of Selby Flat, that once “beat Nevada City in a Fourth of July celebration” has departed; even the patient Chinamen glean no more from the workedout creeks, gulches and ravines. The romance and the sordid facts are but dim memories and the Argonauts have gone to seek the golden fleece in the land just beyond the sunset. They were good old days and when Jackson forgot to! put his diary i in the saddle bags he left for posterity a record unique and invaluable. We have hada surfeit of stoic gambler, uncouth miner, draggle-tailed courtesans, and impossible school-mistresses. These were inventions touched, distorted and illuminated by Bret Harte’s genius. The later-day writers who attempt to reproduce this early life with their sentimental pathos are as far away from the spirit of the ’’Fifties’” as mush and molasses from “‘Lobster a la Newburg.’ While Jackson's narrative may not rank high as literature, he has given in his diary a faithful, accurate, and vivid picture, from the miner's point of view, of foothill mining life. As he was writing it for his own amusement and not for posterity, the weaving into it of his romance is to be pardoned. For myself, I confess that to me.this has been one of its chief fascinations. Its great interest, however, is the details we glean of the everday life, of how much yellow dust the claim yielded, the growth of mining camps, the queer theories as to the genesis of gold, the incidents and happenings in town and country, the comedies and tragedies; these constitue history. not to be found elsewhere. Yet, to note the gradual development and mental growth of this New England Puritan, the intrusion of “the eternal feminine,’’ ‘the hesitation and doubt, the surrender and final culmination of it at the point most novelists end the final chapter, the marriage altar, surely that was a romance of the foothills. However, all this had best be left to the reader. I trust that he has been as much entertained in following Jackson’s fortunes as . in deciphering and transcribing them from.the blotted pages and faded ink of his old diary. ite ae sensed Nevada County Long AgoFloy-Margaret Reynolds . 20 YEARS AG@ Pupils of the Nevada City Elementary School-whose names appeared on the honor roll fer being neither tardy nor absent for the year were: First Grade, Elton Tobiassen; Second Grade, Virgil Roseborough; Third Grade, Max Santinelli, Carl] Tobiassen, Walter Warnecke, Clemens Organ; Fourth Grade, Audrey Davis, Susan Del Raoulls, Charlotte Phariss, Pauline Rozynski, Gertrude Schreiber, Mary Sing, Lorene Smith, Elizabeth Werry, Amelio Angolini, Dick Bennett, Everett Crabbe, Raymond Crabbe, Raymond Dent, Dickie James, Alf Netz, Peter Orzalli, Jim Stephens, Ray Worthley and Donald Jones; Sixth: Grade, Alice Marie Day, Robert Kistle, Rosie Pellegrini; Seventh Grade, Angiolina Alaria, Aldo Casci, Warren Chapman, Alice Peard, Katie Macari, Antoinette Pelligrini; Eighth Grade, Ida Fradelizio, Nadine Neagle, Eleanor Schreiber, Elda . Santinella, Jessie Smart, Jack Raynor and Bill Tamblyn. The forty-ninth annual commencement of the Nevada City High School was held at the Nevada Theatre with the Rev. John Telfer delivering. the invocation. Others on the program were: Senior Class. President Elzear Foley, Miss Ruth Tamblyn who presented the Salutatory, Valedictorian Katherine McClish and Scott Rundy in a violin solo. Prot. A. F. Tsensee presented the speaker of the evening Dr. John F. Engle, principal of Placer Union High School. Although, it was Pennsylvania Engine Company’s year to name the chief of the fire department from among their own members, they unanimously waived their privelege in appreciation of the splendid service renderd by Miles

Coughlin of Nevada Hose Company and nominated him to succeed himself. Other officers chosen were Forrest Penrose, assistant chief; Herbert Hallet, foreman; A. A. Willoughby; Ist assistant chief; R. C. Rossen, 2nd assistant chief; W. M® Gracey, treasurer and E. J. Kilroy, secretary. e & 50 YEARS AGO William Tyrell, a transient who got drunk and attempted to capture the town of Washington at the point of his pistols, was brought to Nevada City by: Constable Self and committed to the county jail for ten days by Justice Redmayne. At the State League of RepublicanClubs in session in San Francisco, Nat P. Brown of the Nevada City Transcript was chosen a member of the committee on constitution and a delegate to the Republican National League at Omaha. a The Rev. J. Sims celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of his pastorate of the Congregational Church in Nevada City with a grand concert of solos, duets and choir recitations in which the following ersons took active part: Miss Martha Sims, Miss Edith Edwards, Miss Eliza Davey, Mrs. Waggoner, Migs Hook, Miss Aleen Cooper, ‘Mr: Robb, Mrs. Ed McKinley, Mr, Rice, Mrs, Matls, Mr. “¢Please Turn to Page 4) — -of— the READY P. 0. OPENING GRASS VALLEY: Rough and Ready has prepared a fine program for the re-opening of its postoffice on Wednesday. The little historic village is on tiptoe with excitement. The residents and visitors will gather at the new postoffice building and store, where Mrs. Andrew Rogers, postmaster, will await the mail at 10:30 A.”M. Mrs. Martina Paull, through Whose efforts the postoffice was resumed, is chhirman of the program. George ~ Rolfe, postoffice inspector will dedicate the postJudge George I. Lones 01 Nevada City will introduce visiting postmasters and officials. Elmer Stevens, former president Nevada City Historical Will deliver the principal office. Society, address. Tom Coan, Indian Flat resident, will play some old time dance tunes on his violin. As the first mail-comes-in,there will -be-appropriate music. Frank Lopes, dramatie student and a graduate of the Grass Valley High School, will give a reading. The stage coach, belonging to Hydraulic Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West, has been loaned to the Nevada County Historical Society and the mail will arrive in it. Ed Granholm will drive the stage and Frank Fippin, as messenger,will guard it with his sawed-off shotgun. Pat Shannon has loaned his new wayside inn, for the day. 4th Gets Under Way! ROUGH AND & NEVADA CITY: At an enthusiastic meeting Friday night in the City Hall, members of the Chamber of Commerce pitched in and volunteered their services for making the Fourth of July celebration the best yet. The meeting was called by the President and Board of Dirictors, who were discouraged by lack of interest so far shown by the public in Fourth preparations. About 75 citizens attended the meeting, each anxious to do his part in various phases of Fourth activity. The chamber room was so crowded that a handfulof members had to stand. MANY ENTRIES IN RACE FOR N.S. J. CHERRY QUEEN +. Al Irby, Fourth chairman, was absent, and his place was taken by assistant chairman Mrs. Harold Deeter. She outlined general plans for the Fourth, which will include: the queen contest, street dancing, NORTH SAN JUAN: The fam. folk. dancing, band concert, games ed Cherry Carnival and Centennial . on Saturday, July 3, Memorial Festival of this area, slated for . Church ‘Service, a baseball game, June 18th and 19th will feature . aquacade, and hoe-down dance on a spirited contest for Queen. Sunday, the Grand, Parade, the traditional fire department water Contestants‘iso far entered include: North San Juan, Kathleen. fight, a kids-wagon race, final McQuinn and. Jeannie Ennis, . athletic contests, on Monday. Camptonville, Patricia Kessler, Any profits from the Fourth June’ Kessler, Frieda Olsen, Eva. celebration, after expenses are j Olsen, and Dorris Turner; Tyler} paid, will go to the Girl Scouts. Nellie Leal; Alleghany, Wilma Word of mdny. organizaions Clemens; Downieville, Vera Mc-. planning to enter-a queen in the AHister: eontest was annoeunced._at— the The Queen Contest is sponsored . Meeting: by the Chamber of Commerce of Among them are the Elks, the North San Juan, Camptonville and. Lions, the National Guard, the vicinity, as*is the Cherry Carnival. . Veterans -of--Foreign..Wars,—the E. J. Kohler is president of the or. Tavern Owner’s Association and ganization and Fred Conner is. the Sheriff's Posse. publicity chairman. Secretary Harry F. Sofge anA huge parade with a large. nounced that arrangements for number of floats from various] completely decorating the town business organizations on. the. with flags at a cost of $235 had Ridge is planned for Sunday. The} been completed. Ted Sigourney queen contest will draw to an of. announced that the fire departficial close at 10 A. M. Sunday. ment had available suitable benches for the use of aged people and mother’s with children during Tickets will be sold at the mammoth dance Saturday night in last minute efforts-to elect favJessie Galleto, head of the Rough orites as Queen. and Ready Home Department and $ : The queen and all the candia COLERE of Rough and Ready dates will ride in state in the housewives, will serve luncheon parade consisting of chicken pot pie, tossTicket selling for the queen ed green salad, hot rolls, farm] .ontest has proceeded at a terrific eream and =~butter, pastry and j aa {Dace coffee for $1.00. The proceeds will go towards restoring the ancient Odd Fellows Hall. After lunch, Frank Fippin will lead the visitors on a tour of the town’s historic land marks. The first stop will be the Odd Fellows Hall where William Bursill’s display of relics of the gold rush days will be shown. Next will come the eee See NOTHING ILLEGAL HERE SAYS STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ~ NEVADA CITY: Sheriff Richard W. Hoskins yesterday received a letter from Attorney General Slave Girl cottonwood tree, the Fred W. Howser, stating that as os +4 i =z " ‘3 ee e , s Fippin blacksmith shop, where a result of survey made by inLotta Crabtree once tap danced vestigators from his office in 39 on the big anvil, and last the site : counties, Nevada County “was where the flag of the Republic of . found to be free of illegal activiRough and Ready was raised. ties. 32 Another Jail. Gupat From Sierra County NEVADA ‘CITY Robert M. Gonzalez, ' 23, of ‘Berkeley .was lodged in the county jail yester. day, on a charge of grand theft, . operating a trailer of illegal width, }and the stealing ofa frame and wheels of a motor vehicle in Sierra Betty Mae Waddelow Queen of Job’s Daughters GRASS VALLEY: Miss Betty Mae Waddelow was installed as honored queen of = the Job’s Daughters Bethel in the Masonic Temple Saturday night. She succeeds Beatrice Joyce Bennetts. Other officers installed were: Barbara Belding, senior princess; City, Sierra County. Dorothy Abraham, junior prin . The arrest was made by Highcess; Patty Lou Holt, guide; Bar. way Patrolman A. J. Ponta and bara’ Green, marshall;* Patricia] the prisoner brought to the NeBrown, chaplain; Margerie]. vada County jail, because DownieHoover, treasurer; Elean.or. ] ville, since the courthouse burned Hooper, recqrder; and Phyllis. down some months ago, is without Penaluna, musician. a jail. FIRE REGULATIONS Supervisor Guerdon Ellis of the Tahoe National Forest announces fire closure under Federal Fire Regulations effective June 10. Mr .Ellis reports that. the Regional korester, P. A. Thompson, U. S. Forest Service, Region 5, under authority vested in him by Secretary of Agriculture, for purpose of enforcing Departmental regulation T-l, paragraphs (E), (H), (L) and (O), has declared a period of fire hazard and danger to exist upon all lands of the United States within the Tahoe National Forest beginning June 10, and extending to October 31, 1948, and has authorized me to place the following restrictions in effect which prohibits: Paragraph (E)—Building a campfire on those portions of any National Forest which have, with the approval of the Regional Forester, been designated by the respective Supervisors thereof, without first obtaining a permit from a Forest Officer. Paragraph (H)—Smoking during periods-of fire danger publicly announced by the Regional Forester upon such areas as may be designated by him, which may include roads and trails and improved camping grounds, but shall not include improved places of habitation. Paragraph (L)—The throwing or placing of a burning cigarette, cigar, match, pipe heel, firecracker, or any ignited substance in any place where it may start a fire; and the discharging of any kind of. fireworks on any portion of a National Forest closed by order of the Regional Forester to the discharging of fireworks. Paragraph (O)—Having in possession, or firing or causing;to be fired, any tracer bullet or tracer charge onto or across such lands. Now, therefore public notice is hereby given as follows: 1. A permit for building a campfire will be required. 2. No smoking will be allowed except at places of habitation and especially posted areas. (Campgrounds are considered places of habitation.) a 3. It is unlawful to place or throw any lighted substance on any National Forest land. Fireworks are e 4. evimas in possession or using any tracer bullet is unlawful. the parade. A dance and crazy auction will be held Saturday night, June 19th at Seaman’s Lodge in Pioneers Park, under the auspices of the Deer Creek Dry Diggins Association. A street dance is planned for Saturday night, June 26. Mrs. Doris Foley, preseident of the Historical Society, announced that. the museum would be oper during every tion. Jack Mundt, speaking for the Sheriff's Pesse,—announced that that organizaion would: volunteer for any necessary police work and traffie direction. Various other individuals and organizations volunteerec services and materials befor resident Paul Bergemann concluded the meeting on a note of thanks for the intense, if somewhat belated, interest in the celebration on the part of the townspeole. SWIM POOL PARK, OPENED FOR SUMMER NEVADA CITY: The Municipal swimming pool will open today at 1 o'clock with Leonard. Steinberg in charge. In anticipation of an active and busy summer season, yesterday a large delegation of citizens gave Pioneers Park @ thorough cleaning. Playground equipment was installed for the younger children, such as swings for boys and girls and for’ adults, self propelled merry-go-round, horrizontal bars, a@ maypole, teeter totters, and 1 sand boxes. Luncheon was served to the workers by the park com,; Mission. Many brought food for o potluck supper at the end of the day. GERTRUDE GOYNE HONORED, HAS TAUGHT FOR FIFTY TWO YEARS NEVADA CITY:-:Miss Gertrude Goyne, who retired at the end of this school year after teaching in Nevada City environs. for’ 4 years and 52 years itself, was tendered a dinner last Saturday night by former students in her classes, teachers, and many friends. Judge George L. Jones was the master of ceremonies. He. read several letters from former students in Miss Goyne’s classes and at the appropriate time many rose from their seats to pay tribute to Miss Goyne. John Palmer, superintendent of Yuba County made the ~ehféf address. Vocal solos were renderéd@ by Mrs. Marian. Libby, William Tobiassen, and Lloyd M. Geist with accompaniments played by Mrs. Dorothy Kitts, and Miss Ruth Libbey. Frane Luschen gave a cello selection and the school orchestra under his. direction played several numbers. Miss Goyne expressed her appreciation. Dr. C. W. Chapman and James Colley gave extemporaneous talks. The committee in charge consisted of Lloyd Geist, Miss Savory Ford, and Edward A. Frantz. LIONS’ PICNIC BIG SUCCESS NEVADA CITY: The Lions Club picnine Sunday at Central House was a great success. There was a crowd of 225. youngsters, and there was a ball game between Nevada ‘ and. Grass Valley. Nevada City won With a score of 18 to 8, day of the celebra. in. the. city. Games were enjoyed by the