May 13, 1949 (6 pages)

er’s Trau Gop DiccScott Haley The Human Race 2—The Nevada City Nugget, Friday, May 13, 1949 On THe piamonn, A PAGE 12, RULE 64, HOMER, HOTROD IS A WALKING PARAGRAPH 6, LINE 2 Charles not see us The bears, running up the creek bottom, did by that time until they reached the brow of the hill, and owed they were still a mile away. They turned and foll ve us, however, with what seemed to us to be locomoti 305 Broad Street, Nevada City—Telephone 36 A legal newspaper, as defined by statute ROBERT H. and DONALD W. WRAY, Publishers speed. There was nothing we could do but run around s the hill, and keep out of sight. Frank said that bear usually got tired after a couple of miles run, and if they KENNETH W. WRAY. Editor and Advertising Manager Member California Newspaper Publishers Association a, and Wublished every Tuesday and Friday at Nevada City, Californi e at Nevada City entered as matter of the second class in the postoffic sander Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES y hoped did not see us, they would forget us. I certainl those bears had poor memories. . netees$3.00 @ne year outside county (in advance) -..----------+-1-----eeeersee tn 250 ent eegernene -----2ese ---------.---) advance (in county in year Qme 1 oo en<Urlastes eusseutensi ueuuuategac be soc lcgas a i s -..---) ‘Geur months (in advance ing In the meantime, we kept legging it along, play our on keep hide and seek: with the bears, and trying to . 4 . course for Martins. Try as we would to keep the hilltops Qne month (in advance) between us, every once in a while we would come in view, and the minute we showed up, the three of them commenced lumbering in or direction at top speed. WHY NOT HERE? ‘Down in Placer county the chambers of commerce ‘of Auburn and Roseville are proposing the formation of a Placer County Development association to conduct a comprehensive survey of and present potential industry. . Burton THe . HIGHWAY— ~ The association proposed in Placer county would be composed of chambers of commerce and civic organizations from all parts of the county. A budget of $12,000 My own reactions, as . can remember them, were BUT GOSH! HOW SHOULD I KNOW trivial. I still had my camera hanging at my belt, and WHAT THE SPEED $4%woes Y, S %, Agoth h KY laa \F ever, . doubt whether the pictures would have been in focus. and nearby the El Dorado board of supervisors appropriated $18,400 for its chambers of commerce for industrial surveys, expansion and promotion. Nevada county is one of the few counties in the state where funds have not been allocated The other thought which was ever recurrent as I ran, was the old childhood poem about the bear went over the mountain ‘to see what he could see. And . could not help but smile to see how we were bending every effort to make sure that ‘The other side of the mountain’ would be all. that they could see It had been about eleven o'clock when we first saw by the board of supervisors to chambers of commerce Nevada county shows a 54 per cent increase in population during the post-war period compared to 34 per cent gm Placer, 27 per cent in El Dorado, and 16 per cent for the state as a whole. ~ : 7 them. By playing hide and go seek around the hills, the last view that we had of the bears must have been about & I Wonder, when the cities of Cibola Shone luringly through Coronado’s dreams, And all their turrets, domes and towers Lay duplicated in the golden streams, ‘Problems that could be considered by the organization If oft’ there came to him a fairer vision, To set his questing soul on fire i}. Can the county be developed into diversified agri And lead him by many a devious pathway aculture? had two films left in the roll, and . had the determinakodak out to one side. If I had been put to the test, how sustaining years Programs and surveys of this type have been carried, for this purpose. A judicial spending of money by a sound promotional organization will go far towards in«creasing the economy of Nevada county and adding payrolls to this area. Nevada county population has grown at a faster rate than any other county in the mountain section of the state and yet lags farthest behind in industrial promotion. them, and leave me alone to face the bears. I knew I tion formed in my mind that I was going to get two pictures of charging glacier bears, and then throw the Gs asked for the first year and approximately $7,000 for ut in many counties of the state, my thought was that if the bears should catch up with us, that both Janin’s and Frank’s horses would bolt with ‘To California, Land of Heart’s Desire. two; and I presume that they gave up in disgust at that time. Nevertheless, it was six o'clock when we were far enough away to stop and eat. And we had been hungry before we saw them, too. Another bout with mosquitos awaited us that night, tas we had to rest our animals without reaching Martins. Next morning, however, we reached the place where we had left our wagon, and about two or three in the afternoon, we greeted our picturesque son of Erin with joy ful relief. 2. Can our other natural resources be more fully de The river had gone down very much in the two weeks The days and months of California’s Centennial years ~weloped? are drifting by ‘and with the passage of time, enthusiasm since we had crossed it, and next morning we ferried 3. Can the county’s economic position in transportaincreases and more and more legends and stories of the across with our much lightened load, with little difficulty. ‘tion be improved and exploited? Can -state highway 20 past come to light. Many of us are realizing for the first Frank took charge of his faithful Model T again, and as be developed into the natural way of travel for the time, that our treasury of tradition is inexhaustible and the roads had considerably dried up, we were not long a valley? ento «commiunities of the upper Sacram that no other land can boast of a more wonderful and in reaching Fairbanks. _ 4. Can more production of this county be processed thrilling heritage of historic and romantic values. After a few days rest here, we took steamer to DawJhere providing more local payrolls? son, and arrived after a much slower trip upstream than It profits ‘us to turn back the pages and begin at the 5. Can the county’s recreation facilities and potentialvery beginning of California's enthralling story—back we had had coming down. The only thing of interest ities be more extensively developed? to the days of Cabrillo, Drake and Coronado, even particularly was the upstream passage of the Five Fingers 6. Can water sources of the county be impounded farther back to the time when the word California was —rocks which practically bridge the Yukon and divide s benefit? and economically used for Nevada county' 7. Can Nevada county take advantage of industry's trend toward decentralization? The proposed economic and industrial survey in Placer county calls for a program that could advantageously de executed in Nevada county. The proposed survey in our neighbor county would study the way the county's people makes its living, population facts, trends and make-up; employment trends; individual income sources and amounts; chief points of strength and weakness in the county's “weconomy. _ Appraisal of advantages and limitations of economic evelopment would show the geographical location of ‘raw materials, climate and topography, markets, labor ‘resources and conditions, available plant sites and costs, ‘industrial fuel, power, water and waste disposal, transyportation, government services, taxes and regulations, housing and living conditions, educational and recrea coined and given to an imaginary island, fabulous as its navigable passage into four parts which are barely “the Seven Cities of Cibola or the lost continent of Atwide enough to permit the passage of a steamer. In Dawson we caught.a boat for White Horse and lantis. In the places of first things,’ magic lingers and Skagway, and were just in time to catch the Canadian the seeker is ever discovering something new. steamer Princess Sophia for Vancouver. This boat was San Diego is often spoken of as the place of “‘first things,” for it is there the drama of Junipero Serra and later ill-fated, having run on a rocky shore near Prince the Mission began—a chapter of unexcelled beauty and Rupert. We had’ a very pleasant voyage down in the adventure, which no Californian should pass by lightly. warm September weather, and magnificent Northern The present day Centennial is in honor of the disLights at night. From Seattle, we took train again for San Francisco, and were soon at our. accustomed posts covery of gold, the gold rush and the subsegent con quering of a vast wilderness by the intrepid pioneers and again. argonauts of 1849, and as we consider the progress made by our towns and cities since that glamorous day, INCLUDING A WAR In the winter before the United States entered the we feel a well founded sense of pride and a sure conWorld War, . went up in the snow country back of viction that further advancements will be made and that Mount Whitney, in California, to locate a molybdenum our California will in time be developed to the fullest property. Two friends accompanied me—Douglas Lawextent of its possibilities. son and Kent Castle. The reason for tackling the job How many of us realize that the lumber industry gave at that hazardous time was that we had heard some other . the first impetus to the the growth and fame of northern people were going to try and locate it the following Rional facilities, and existing industries. Opportunities for expansion, substitution and diversiCalifornia? Indeed, gold might have leng remained a summer Also, we had a plan. fication of agriculture production would be included in, hidden resource if the lumbermen of 1848 had not Like many other plans, it sounded fine. We were the study, along with industrial possibilities relating to ‘erected a saw mill at Coloma, and manya little mining going in on the Kaweah River by truck to Three Rivers, agriculture, and present and relative importance of prescommunity began as a “saw mill town” and functioned in that capacity until some one found a trace of gold ent agriculture. The survey could also study wholesale and retail and raised a hue and cry about it. Indeed, in reviewing trade, its present volume and classification, comparison the history of this old world from the days of Mr. with similar localities, and probable trends Neanderthal to the present, I just don’t know what would . A summary of the survey could include statistical have become of Mother Earth had it not ben for lumber: Hs, data, maps, charts, lists of\ desirable industries, and men. sources of information available. _Let’s do something. ers and have a pack train meet us there. We had a sled prepared with runners for snow use, and when we got into snow that was too deep for the mules, we planned to unload and drag our camp equipment through the snow to our objective. The snow was hard at that time, and we anticipated little trouble, as there had been no rain for several weeks. In other words; it was to be one of those California does well to remember the heroes of old dash-in, dash-out, affairs. So we thought. who, in one way or another contributed to her present We carried out the first part of our plan, and took <a et day face and prosperity; the dauntless voyagers and adour pack train in to Panther Creek, -which is about 2500" lands, Father Serra and his band feet elevation. Here the snow stopped them mules, and 1 would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility venturers from distant of brown robed Franciscans, the pioneers and argonauts we unloaded on our sled and blithely dismissed the «of the measure of danger, and a mental: willingness to of '49, the builders of railroads, the founders of cities packers. endure it. —W. T. Sherman and towns, the authors, reporters and ‘publishers who _ They had not been long gone, however, before we extolled her fame—and now, today? discovered elements in the situation which were dis‘That courage is poorly housed which dwells in —Adeline Merriam Conner tinctly disturbing. To begin with, including tent, food, mumbers. \—Aaron Hill and blankets we had about 500 pounds on the sleigh. A great deal of talent is lost in this world for the want . While reason is puzzling herself about the mystery, Also, when we arrived on the ridge above Panther Creek, wof a little courage. —Sydney Smith faith is turning it into her daily bread and feeding on it the trail was narrow and the snow had softened to a sludge about two feet deep. We dragged that accursed thankfully in her heart of hearts. sled just half a mile that first day, and lay down to sleep —Frederick D. Huntington “Truth comes from a deep sincerity that must always in the snow, too exhausted to-do anything else. Next «characterize heroic hearts; it is the better side of man’s day we made a mile, after twelve hours of grueling tmature developing itself. —lMary Baker Eddy Faith does nothing alone—nothing of itself, but everywork. Next day, two miles, because we were going down thing under God, by God, through God. —Stoughton hill into Bucks Canyon. From there on, it was a case ‘Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but of struggle up about half a mile a day until we reached §—Plutarch Ubeing resolutely minded in a just cause. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that the canyon below River Valley, where we intended to The steps of faith fall on the seeming: void, but find faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we undercamp. the rock beneath. . es _ —Whittier . stand it. —Abraham Lincoln . (to be continued)

er’s Trau Gop DiccScott Haley The Human Race 2—The Nevada City Nugget, Friday, May 13, 1949 On THe piamonn, A PAGE 12, RULE 64, HOMER, HOTROD IS A WALKING PARAGRAPH 6, LINE 2 Charles not see us The bears, running up the creek bottom, did by that time until they reached the brow of the hill, and owed they were still a mile away. They turned and foll ve us, however, with what seemed to us to be locomoti 305 Broad Street, Nevada City—Telephone 36 A legal newspaper, as defined by statute ROBERT H. and DONALD W. WRAY, Publishers speed. There was nothing we could do but run around s the hill, and keep out of sight. Frank said that bear usually got tired after a couple of miles run, and if they KENNETH W. WRAY. Editor and Advertising Manager Member California Newspaper Publishers Association a, and Wublished every Tuesday and Friday at Nevada City, Californi e at Nevada City entered as matter of the second class in the postoffic sander Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES y hoped did not see us, they would forget us. I certainl those bears had poor memories. . netees$3.00 @ne year outside county (in advance) -...----------+-1-----eeeersee tn 250 ent eegernene -----2ese ---------..---) advance (in county in year Qme 1 oo en<Urlastes eusseutensi ueuuuategac be soc lcgas a i s -....---) ‘Geur months (in advance ing In the meantime, we kept legging it along, play our on keep hide and seek: with the bears, and trying to . 4 . course for Martins. Try as we would to keep the hilltops Qne month (in advance) between us, every once in a while we would come in view, and the minute we showed up, the three of them commenced lumbering in or direction at top speed. WHY NOT HERE? ‘Down in Placer county the chambers of commerce ‘of Auburn and Roseville are proposing the formation of a Placer County Development association to conduct a comprehensive survey of and present potential industry. . Burton THe . HIGHWAY— ~ The association proposed in Placer county would be composed of chambers of commerce and civic organizations from all parts of the county. A budget of $12,000 My own reactions, as . can remember them, were BUT GOSH! HOW SHOULD I KNOW trivial. I still had my camera hanging at my belt, and WHAT THE SPEED $4%woes Y, S %, Agoth h KY laa \F ever, . doubt whether the pictures would have been in focus. and nearby the El Dorado board of supervisors appropriated $18,400 for its chambers of commerce for industrial surveys, expansion and promotion. Nevada county is one of the few counties in the state where funds have not been allocated The other thought which was ever recurrent as I ran, was the old childhood poem about the bear went over the mountain ‘to see what he could see. And . could not help but smile to see how we were bending every effort to make sure that ‘The other side of the mountain’ would be all. that they could see It had been about eleven o'clock when we first saw by the board of supervisors to chambers of commerce Nevada county shows a 54 per cent increase in population during the post-war period compared to 34 per cent gm Placer, 27 per cent in El Dorado, and 16 per cent for the state as a whole. ~ : 7 them. By playing hide and go seek around the hills, the last view that we had of the bears must have been about & I Wonder, when the cities of Cibola Shone luringly through Coronado’s dreams, And all their turrets, domes and towers Lay duplicated in the golden streams, ‘Problems that could be considered by the organization If oft’ there came to him a fairer vision, To set his questing soul on fire i}. Can the county be developed into diversified agri And lead him by many a devious pathway aculture? had two films left in the roll, and . had the determinakodak out to one side. If I had been put to the test, how sustaining years Programs and surveys of this type have been carried,

for this purpose. A judicial spending of money by a sound promotional organization will go far towards in«creasing the economy of Nevada county and adding payrolls to this area. Nevada county population has grown at a faster rate than any other county in the mountain section of the state and yet lags farthest behind in industrial promotion. them, and leave me alone to face the bears. I knew I tion formed in my mind that I was going to get two pictures of charging glacier bears, and then throw the Gs asked for the first year and approximately $7,000 for ut in many counties of the state, my thought was that if the bears should catch up with us, that both Janin’s and Frank’s horses would bolt with ‘To California, Land of Heart’s Desire. two; and I presume that they gave up in disgust at that time. Nevertheless, it was six o'clock when we were far enough away to stop and eat. And we had been hungry before we saw them, too. Another bout with mosquitos awaited us that night, tas we had to rest our animals without reaching Martins. Next morning, however, we reached the place where we had left our wagon, and about two or three in the afternoon, we greeted our picturesque son of Erin with joy ful relief. 2. Can our other natural resources be more fully de The river had gone down very much in the two weeks The days and months of California’s Centennial years ~weloped? are drifting by ‘and with the passage of time, enthusiasm since we had crossed it, and next morning we ferried 3. Can the county’s economic position in transportaincreases and more and more legends and stories of the across with our much lightened load, with little difficulty. ‘tion be improved and exploited? Can -state highway 20 past come to light. Many of us are realizing for the first Frank took charge of his faithful Model T again, and as be developed into the natural way of travel for the time, that our treasury of tradition is inexhaustible and the roads had considerably dried up, we were not long a valley? ento «commiunities of the upper Sacram that no other land can boast of a more wonderful and in reaching Fairbanks. _ 4. Can more production of this county be processed thrilling heritage of historic and romantic values. After a few days rest here, we took steamer to DawJhere providing more local payrolls? son, and arrived after a much slower trip upstream than It profits ‘us to turn back the pages and begin at the 5. Can the county’s recreation facilities and potentialvery beginning of California's enthralling story—back we had had coming down. The only thing of interest ities be more extensively developed? to the days of Cabrillo, Drake and Coronado, even particularly was the upstream passage of the Five Fingers 6. Can water sources of the county be impounded farther back to the time when the word California was —rocks which practically bridge the Yukon and divide s benefit? and economically used for Nevada county' 7. Can Nevada county take advantage of industry's trend toward decentralization? The proposed economic and industrial survey in Placer county calls for a program that could advantageously de executed in Nevada county. The proposed survey in our neighbor county would study the way the county's people makes its living, population facts, trends and make-up; employment trends; individual income sources and amounts; chief points of strength and weakness in the county's “weconomy. _ Appraisal of advantages and limitations of economic evelopment would show the geographical location of ‘raw materials, climate and topography, markets, labor ‘resources and conditions, available plant sites and costs, ‘industrial fuel, power, water and waste disposal, transyportation, government services, taxes and regulations, housing and living conditions, educational and recrea coined and given to an imaginary island, fabulous as its navigable passage into four parts which are barely “the Seven Cities of Cibola or the lost continent of Atwide enough to permit the passage of a steamer. In Dawson we caught.a boat for White Horse and lantis. In the places of first things,’ magic lingers and Skagway, and were just in time to catch the Canadian the seeker is ever discovering something new. steamer Princess Sophia for Vancouver. This boat was San Diego is often spoken of as the place of “‘first things,” for it is there the drama of Junipero Serra and later ill-fated, having run on a rocky shore near Prince the Mission began—a chapter of unexcelled beauty and Rupert. We had’ a very pleasant voyage down in the adventure, which no Californian should pass by lightly. warm September weather, and magnificent Northern The present day Centennial is in honor of the disLights at night. From Seattle, we took train again for San Francisco, and were soon at our. accustomed posts covery of gold, the gold rush and the subsegent con quering of a vast wilderness by the intrepid pioneers and again. argonauts of 1849, and as we consider the progress made by our towns and cities since that glamorous day, INCLUDING A WAR In the winter before the United States entered the we feel a well founded sense of pride and a sure conWorld War, . went up in the snow country back of viction that further advancements will be made and that Mount Whitney, in California, to locate a molybdenum our California will in time be developed to the fullest property. Two friends accompanied me—Douglas Lawextent of its possibilities. son and Kent Castle. The reason for tackling the job How many of us realize that the lumber industry gave at that hazardous time was that we had heard some other . the first impetus to the the growth and fame of northern people were going to try and locate it the following Rional facilities, and existing industries. Opportunities for expansion, substitution and diversiCalifornia? Indeed, gold might have leng remained a summer Also, we had a plan. fication of agriculture production would be included in, hidden resource if the lumbermen of 1848 had not Like many other plans, it sounded fine. We were the study, along with industrial possibilities relating to ‘erected a saw mill at Coloma, and manya little mining going in on the Kaweah River by truck to Three Rivers, agriculture, and present and relative importance of prescommunity began as a “saw mill town” and functioned in that capacity until some one found a trace of gold ent agriculture. The survey could also study wholesale and retail and raised a hue and cry about it. Indeed, in reviewing trade, its present volume and classification, comparison the history of this old world from the days of Mr. with similar localities, and probable trends Neanderthal to the present, I just don’t know what would . A summary of the survey could include statistical have become of Mother Earth had it not ben for lumber: Hs, data, maps, charts, lists of\ desirable industries, and men. sources of information available. _Let’s do something. ers and have a pack train meet us there. We had a sled prepared with runners for snow use, and when we got into snow that was too deep for the mules, we planned to unload and drag our camp equipment through the snow to our objective. The snow was hard at that time, and we anticipated little trouble, as there had been no rain for several weeks. In other words; it was to be one of those California does well to remember the heroes of old dash-in, dash-out, affairs. So we thought. who, in one way or another contributed to her present We carried out the first part of our plan, and took <a et day face and prosperity; the dauntless voyagers and adour pack train in to Panther Creek, -which is about 2500" lands, Father Serra and his band feet elevation. Here the snow stopped them mules, and 1 would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility venturers from distant of brown robed Franciscans, the pioneers and argonauts we unloaded on our sled and blithely dismissed the «of the measure of danger, and a mental: willingness to of '49, the builders of railroads, the founders of cities packers. endure it. —W. T. Sherman and towns, the authors, reporters and ‘publishers who _ They had not been long gone, however, before we extolled her fame—and now, today? discovered elements in the situation which were dis‘That courage is poorly housed which dwells in —Adeline Merriam Conner tinctly disturbing. To begin with, including tent, food, mumbers. \—Aaron Hill and blankets we had about 500 pounds on the sleigh. A great deal of talent is lost in this world for the want . While reason is puzzling herself about the mystery, Also, when we arrived on the ridge above Panther Creek, wof a little courage. —Sydney Smith faith is turning it into her daily bread and feeding on it the trail was narrow and the snow had softened to a sludge about two feet deep. We dragged that accursed thankfully in her heart of hearts. sled just half a mile that first day, and lay down to sleep —Frederick D. Huntington “Truth comes from a deep sincerity that must always in the snow, too exhausted to-do anything else. Next «characterize heroic hearts; it is the better side of man’s day we made a mile, after twelve hours of grueling tmature developing itself. —lMary Baker Eddy Faith does nothing alone—nothing of itself, but everywork. Next day, two miles, because we were going down thing under God, by God, through God. —Stoughton hill into Bucks Canyon. From there on, it was a case ‘Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but of struggle up about half a mile a day until we reached §—Plutarch Ubeing resolutely minded in a just cause. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that the canyon below River Valley, where we intended to The steps of faith fall on the seeming: void, but find faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we undercamp. the rock beneath. . es _ —Whittier . stand it. —Abraham Lincoln . (to be continued)