A Hundred Years of Rip and Roarin Rough and Ready By Andy Rogers (1952)(Hathitrust) (117 pages)

Peter Martel came and settled in San Francisco, in 1849, then mined on Morman Island. In 1854 went to Hangtown; 1862 at Rough and Ready. In October, 1880, Alexander Martel married Miss Virginia Ennor. Findley, in August, 1849, had a store on Strong's Ranch, on Bear River. Later sold out to Brooks. Iscard had a sore back and thought varnish would cure it. His wife applied a good coat of it over his back, and his shirt stuck so tight he had to wait until the shirt rotted off before he could get rid of it. Alta Theater opened at Grass Valley and Rough and Ready, in the spring of 1852. E.W.Maslin and his brother were mining, claims were jumped. Case was tried at the Rough and Ready Hotel, before Sir Brown, Justice of the Peace. Four tables were used to play Faro in the hotel room, and the game went right on. From time to time, ten minutes recess were allowed by the Justice of the Peace, to go to the Bar. On February 8, 1850, the legislation, then meeting in San Jose, divided California into seven counties, which Yuba was one, when Yuba embraced all the present Sierra, Yuba and Nevada, and part of Placer counties. Marysville was selected as the county seat. The most important of many mining camps in this area was Rough and Ready, which missed by one vote. Difficulties and delays in transacting affairs, legal matters, and transportation, led to a demand for subdivisions of the area, and in 1851, Yuba County was divided ani formed into the Nevada and Placer Countdes. Rough and Ready strived for the county seat. Following year, Sierra County was created. The saloons were the regular meeting places, and.for loafing. Fights would start, pistols drawn, place shot up, go outside and shoot it out, return to the bar, and renew their fun as if nothing had happened. Owners of a nugget got in an argument in a@ saloon as how to divide the nugget. However, they took it across the street to the blacksmith shop, who put the gold on an anvil, and cut it in half. The nugget was valued in the thousands. Bodeau, who came with John Freeman on his first trip over the Sierras, built on the place, now Roy Van Tigers Ranch. Hornspoons were a device made from the horn of an Oxen, with it several ounces of pay dirt at a time could be scraped up, to be washed for gold. It helped the miners to find gold. Digging for gold costed lots of lives. Gold pans yielded as high as $400.00 per day, enabled men to gamble, drink, @ance, and make whoopee. Stakes as high as $500.00 bet on a louse race at the Rough and Ready Hotel. Old money has been dug up here and much still remains uncovered. Spanish coins dated 1805, and American half-dollars, dated 1832, have been dug up. Google 30 Miners struck it rich in one hole, and took three trips back east with gold from the same hole, travelling the hard way. Rough and Ready diggings so accessable, and so easily worked and interwoven with a rich surface. There are other undeveloped mines and places that are yet of major gold finding when the price of gold is increased, which has to come to help prosperity, employment, and stop Ghost Towns. In Amerioa, gold is dug up and then puried again, and the administration spends it like it was water, and with them, it goes over the Dan. In talks with 01d Timers, there are sti1i many mines, creeks, and diggings that have not been scratched. Gold worked with a pick and shovel, water through sluice boxes, boxes, nozzles, pipes, hose, and wooden boxes with whipples, rock oradles, panning, crevices worked out with a knife and spoon in cracks of Hard pen, in the roots of trees, air drills, roliing screens with a blower and even now with bulldozers. Dynamite used. GOLD IS WHERE YOU FIND IT Whisky, fifty cents a shot, bacon, $2.00 er pound, newspapers cost $1.00, boots, 10.00 or more per pair, shovels, $16.00 each. The first township in which settlement was made, and one of the first to become known to the outside world was Rough and Ready. At an election in October, 1850, over 100 votes were polled. Much talk of Rough and Ready being the County Seat. In 1850, had three or four compactly built streets, and about 4,000 to 6,000 inhabitants. The hard way of the “Hey Days," the 49ers thought nothing of it. Miners were paying $50.00 for fifty pounds of flour, and then carrying it home on his shoulder, walking three or four niles. With a large supply, they would load it on horseback, getting back home, would turn the horse loose and the horse would go back to the stable. Rough and Ready climate, without a doubdt, the most equal, healthy, and delightful, found in the State. Very little wind and fog, just a flurry of snow. First school was organized in 1851, by Miss Franklin. Fire broke out in Rough and Ready, in the house of Mr. Brundage, on Tuesday, June 28th, 1853, at three o'clock in the morning. So destructive, that it spread rapidly through the vooden buildings. Four stores, hotels, and houses burned. The business part of the town was almost entirely destroyed. The fire resulted from carelessness. A person placed a lighted candle too near a cloth partition when he went to sleep. The loss was estimated at $59,700.00. The people at once rebuilt the town, widening the main street, and putting up handsomer and better business buildings. Rough and Ready has a quiet and orderly population, and the even tenor in its ways is seldom disturbed by excitement, regardless of its name. The Odd Fellows, Masons, and Sons of Temperance, have each an organization in the place. The vote cast in the November election of 1855 was 304. In a picture of Rough and Ready of 1857, it shows in the upper end of the town, along the winding street, near the water wheel, a.

Peter Martel came and settled in San Francisco, in 1849, then mined on Morman Island. In 1854 went to Hangtown; 1862 at Rough and Ready. In October, 1880, Alexander Martel married Miss Virginia Ennor. Findley, in August, 1849, had a store on Strong's Ranch, on Bear River. Later sold out to Brooks. Iscard had a sore back and thought varnish would cure it. His wife applied a good coat of it over his back, and his shirt stuck so tight he had to wait until the shirt rotted off before he could get rid of it. Alta Theater opened at Grass Valley and Rough and Ready, in the spring of 1852. E.W.Maslin and his brother were mining, claims were jumped. Case was tried at the Rough and Ready Hotel, before Sir Brown, Justice of the Peace. Four tables were used to play Faro in the hotel room, and the game went right on. From time to time, ten minutes recess were allowed by the Justice of the Peace, to go to the Bar. On February 8, 1850, the legislation, then meeting in San Jose, divided California into seven counties, which Yuba was one, when Yuba embraced all the present Sierra, Yuba and Nevada, and part of Placer counties. Marysville was selected as the county seat. The most important of many mining camps in this area was Rough and Ready, which missed by one vote. Difficulties and delays in transacting affairs, legal matters, and transportation, led to a demand for subdivisions of the area, and in 1851, Yuba County was divided ani formed into the Nevada and Placer Countdes. Rough and Ready strived for the county seat. Following year, Sierra County was created. The saloons were the regular meeting places, and.for loafing. Fights would start, pistols drawn, place shot up, go outside and shoot it out, return to the bar, and renew their fun as if nothing had happened. Owners of a nugget got in an argument in a@ saloon as how to divide the nugget. However, they took it across the street to the blacksmith shop, who put the gold on an anvil, and cut it in half. The nugget was valued in the thousands. Bodeau, who came with John Freeman on his first trip over the Sierras, built on the place, now Roy Van Tigers Ranch. Hornspoons were a device made from the horn of an Oxen, with it several ounces of pay dirt at a time could be scraped up, to be washed for gold. It helped the miners to find gold. Digging for gold costed lots of lives. Gold pans yielded as high as $400.00 per day, enabled men to gamble, drink, @ance, and make whoopee. Stakes as high as $500.00 bet on a louse race at the Rough and Ready Hotel. Old money has been dug up here and much still remains uncovered. Spanish coins dated 1805, and American half-dollars, dated 1832, have been dug up. Google 30 Miners struck it rich in one hole, and took three trips back east with gold from the same hole, travelling the hard way. Rough and Ready diggings so accessable, and so easily worked and interwoven with a

rich surface. There are other undeveloped mines and places that are yet of major gold finding when the price of gold is increased, which has to come to help prosperity, employment, and stop Ghost Towns. In Amerioa, gold is dug up and then puried again, and the administration spends it like it was water, and with them, it goes over the Dan. In talks with 01d Timers, there are sti1i many mines, creeks, and diggings that have not been scratched. Gold worked with a pick and shovel, water through sluice boxes, boxes, nozzles, pipes, hose, and wooden boxes with whipples, rock oradles, panning, crevices worked out with a knife and spoon in cracks of Hard pen, in the roots of trees, air drills, roliing screens with a blower and even now with bulldozers. Dynamite used. GOLD IS WHERE YOU FIND IT Whisky, fifty cents a shot, bacon, $2.00 er pound, newspapers cost $1.00, boots, 10.00 or more per pair, shovels, $16.00 each. The first township in which settlement was made, and one of the first to become known to the outside world was Rough and Ready. At an election in October, 1850, over 100 votes were polled. Much talk of Rough and Ready being the County Seat. In 1850, had three or four compactly built streets, and about 4,000 to 6,000 inhabitants. The hard way of the “Hey Days," the 49ers thought nothing of it. Miners were paying $50.00 for fifty pounds of flour, and then carrying it home on his shoulder, walking three or four niles. With a large supply, they would load it on horseback, getting back home, would turn the horse loose and the horse would go back to the stable. Rough and Ready climate, without a doubdt, the most equal, healthy, and delightful, found in the State. Very little wind and fog, just a flurry of snow. First school was organized in 1851, by Miss Franklin. Fire broke out in Rough and Ready, in the house of Mr. Brundage, on Tuesday, June 28th, 1853, at three o'clock in the morning. So destructive, that it spread rapidly through the vooden buildings. Four stores, hotels, and houses burned. The business part of the town was almost entirely destroyed. The fire resulted from carelessness. A person placed a lighted candle too near a cloth partition when he went to sleep. The loss was estimated at $59,700.00. The people at once rebuilt the town, widening the main street, and putting up handsomer and better business buildings. Rough and Ready has a quiet and orderly population, and the even tenor in its ways is seldom disturbed by excitement, regardless of its name. The Odd Fellows, Masons, and Sons of Temperance, have each an organization in the place. The vote cast in the November election of 1855 was 304. In a picture of Rough and Ready of 1857, it shows in the upper end of the town, along the winding street, near the water wheel, a.