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

CONCERNING A FEW MINE HERS, Cont'd Toba — moved a mountain by hydrauloing All contained the precious metal we seek and orave for. The Compiler might mention a good mine that he is interested in, in Trinity County. “The Keno,” that has much gold and a rich promising mine. Wuch goid taken out of the same vein across the road from the Keno. Ready for development. Gold vein reached. William H. Davey moved into the Anthony House. Married Miss Monk. D.F.Douglass, Sheriff, and shot-gun messenger for Wells Fargo. John Schroeder owned the Rough and Ready Hotel; sold it to E.H.Fowler in 1860. Upon Fowler's death, Schroeder purchased the hotel and groceries back. Both were Postmasters. SLAVE GIRL TREE Frank Allen, colored slave, who came on a chartered slave ship from the plantations, to work in a mine located on Deer Creek, between Rough and Ready and Newtown Mine, owned by Abel, Porter and Col. William English, 1850, called Slave Mine. Saroline » daughter of Frank Allen, parked her riding pony at the old blacksmith shop;on a wet day stuck her cottonwood riding switch in the ground, which grew into a glant cottonwood tree, about 75 feet high. Another early “Hangman's Tree" was on the Morrison Ranch, adjoining where the Rough and Ready Post Office is now. A hole remained some time where the tree once stood. Slave Girl, Caroline Allen, who planted the famous Slave Girl Tree that proudly stands alongside of Highway Twenty in 1950, was a colored girl. She would come into the hotel and drink whiskey, and stand up at the par like a man. She would not pay for her arinks; on demand to pay up she would say to the bartender, “We are of the same black blood," and walk out. The bartender was of part Tnaien blood. She worked for a family, and this same femily later had Caroline work at their home in San Francisco. Caroline became blind, and when her dress caught fire, she jumped into a well and was drowned. An Irishman was on the Jury, and did not show up on a Monday for Jury duty at a trial. On Tuesday, the Judge gave the Irishman a lecture for getting drunk and delaying the court. Quick-witted Irishman replied, "Judge you can't get drunk, as it is against the law to sell liquor to Indians. The two Walling boys ran away from home to join the Union Arny. : At dances, with ladies scarce, the questfon of partners was solved by a ruling that those with most patches in their pants were to take the ladies role. The Odd Fellows building for awhilé was used as a school. Fifty cents per week for pupils. MOB IN CHARGE OF HOWARD In 1650, Studley and Wither's store was loaned a #360.00 nugget for exhibition. The nugget was stolen. Withers,the real thief, seized Studley out of the orowd end had him tied to a tree, and proceeded to have fifty lashes on Studley's bare back while the hounds stood by urging the men on. Judge Roberts and several gentlemen, arriving to see the bleeding man, rushed the crown, threw men right and left, and forced the hounds to stop whipping an innocent man. Google Bag of gold dust stolen from H. Ously. ' John Barnett was given fifty lashes, and in twenty-four hours another fifty lashes. Three days later, another fifty, and in four days, fifty again. Restitution of said gold dust and contents was made. Jim Lundy--famous duel. He was also mixed up in strange court incidents. The old road from Grass Valley to Marysville ran through Rough and Ready, paying toll here end then again paid toll at Pet Hill, through Union Ranch, Empire Ranch, Toland Ranch, Brady, O'Brien Lanes Ranch, then crossing the bridge at Marysville and paying toll again. Rough and Ready Mining Company was incorporated, April 19, 1856. A fight of two miners at Rough and Ready, Captain Bitney started to stop the fight. Roberts, Justice of the Peace of Rough and Ready, said, “Let them fight it out." Roberts also said to Bitney, “You are Justice of the Peace of Spencerville, and now out of your jurisdiction.® SAMPLES OF OLD TIMERS WRITING "I write home--1 fell biley gratified to hear from you people " "fe have wholesome vittuls--Here we do not keep the sabeth--* “I live comertable and saving--Yestiddy was pretty--Hope you are well~-wold you come--I though--I har Gild discovery-I rase a family--Gold allroud--She is prety--Wh are here--First clas mail-I writ home--Thar‘s still heap'’s gold in them thar hilis--P ard--Letters with no paragraphs." Sourdough-Hardrock minersMule SkinnersCousins Jacks-Cowpokes-High Graders-SnipersOld Timer. : . Mr. and Mrs. V.K.Warren; Father Doc Waerren, sailed to the Isthmus, crossed the charges trail to here. Freighted with a team of 36 animals in 1852. A funeral in early days would wind up across the school house, then the coffin. carried up the hill to the graveyard. TOM TROPIE'S RECOLLECTIONS The miners had a bab © come to Tom's mother with their troubles, and where their gold was buried. Joe Thomas sent for her to come and see him, but he died before he had a chance to tell of his buried gold. Cache not known to have been uncovered. Another old miner had a cabin on Frank Trophe's place. He told Mrs. Tropie, “I want to show you where my gold is buried, $1500.00 in gold." Mra. Tropie replied, "No, I don't want to know where it is. If some one gets it, you will blame me." Miner said, “I am going to die,” and so he did die. The cache . was supposed to be buried 100 feet from an oak tree near his cabin. At San Francisco, a fortune teller was appealed to, and with his crystal ball said the $1500.00 in gold was buried in a4 oorner of an orchard 200 feet. Now the sum known to be $1600.00, and an orchard was on the place and other facts proved true. The fortune teller was so confident that he came to Rough and Ready, to spend five days digging. ‘No gold. Yet 1/8 of an acre was mined off. Some years after a $20.00,1850 gold piece was ‘picked up. But the gold pot still is suppos.ed to be buried. 33

CONCERNING A FEW MINE HERS, Cont'd Toba — moved a mountain by hydrauloing All contained the precious metal we seek and orave for. The Compiler might mention a good mine that he is interested in, in Trinity County. “The Keno,” that has much gold and a rich promising mine. Wuch goid taken out of the same vein across the road from the Keno. Ready for development. Gold vein reached. William H. Davey moved into the Anthony House. Married Miss Monk. D.F.Douglass, Sheriff, and shot-gun messenger for Wells Fargo. John Schroeder owned the Rough and Ready Hotel; sold it to E.H.Fowler in 1860. Upon Fowler's death, Schroeder purchased the hotel and groceries back. Both were Postmasters. SLAVE GIRL TREE Frank Allen, colored slave, who came on a chartered slave ship from the plantations, to work in a mine located on Deer Creek, between Rough and Ready and Newtown Mine, owned by Abel, Porter and Col. William English, 1850, called Slave Mine. Saroline » daughter of Frank Allen, parked her riding pony at the old blacksmith shop;on a wet day stuck her cottonwood riding switch in the ground, which grew into a glant cottonwood tree, about 75 feet high. Another early “Hangman's Tree" was on the Morrison Ranch, adjoining where the Rough and Ready Post Office is now. A hole remained some time where the tree once stood. Slave Girl, Caroline Allen, who planted the famous Slave Girl Tree that proudly stands alongside of Highway Twenty in 1950, was a colored girl. She would come into the hotel and drink whiskey, and stand up at the par like a man. She would not pay for her arinks; on demand to pay up she would say to the bartender, “We are of the same black blood," and walk out. The bartender was of part Tnaien blood. She worked for a family, and this same femily later had Caroline work at their home in San Francisco. Caroline became blind, and when her dress caught fire, she jumped into a well and was drowned. An Irishman was on the Jury, and did not show up on a Monday for Jury duty at a trial. On Tuesday, the Judge gave the Irishman a lecture for getting drunk and delaying the court. Quick-witted Irishman replied, "Judge you can't get drunk, as it is against the law to sell liquor to Indians. The two Walling boys ran away from home to join the Union Arny. : At dances, with ladies scarce, the questfon of partners was solved by a ruling that those with most patches in their pants were to take the ladies role. The Odd Fellows building for awhilé was used as a school. Fifty cents per week for pupils. MOB IN CHARGE OF HOWARD In 1650, Studley and Wither's store was loaned a #360.00 nugget for exhibition. The nugget was stolen. Withers,the real thief, seized Studley out of the orowd end had him tied to a tree, and proceeded to have fifty lashes on Studley's bare back while the hounds stood by urging the men on. Judge Roberts and several gentlemen, arriving to see the bleeding man, rushed the crown, threw men right and left, and forced the hounds to stop whipping an innocent man. Google

Bag of gold dust stolen from H. Ously. ' John Barnett was given fifty lashes, and in twenty-four hours another fifty lashes. Three days later, another fifty, and in four days, fifty again. Restitution of said gold dust and contents was made. Jim Lundy--famous duel. He was also mixed up in strange court incidents. The old road from Grass Valley to Marysville ran through Rough and Ready, paying toll here end then again paid toll at Pet Hill, through Union Ranch, Empire Ranch, Toland Ranch, Brady, O'Brien Lanes Ranch, then crossing the bridge at Marysville and paying toll again. Rough and Ready Mining Company was incorporated, April 19, 1856. A fight of two miners at Rough and Ready, Captain Bitney started to stop the fight. Roberts, Justice of the Peace of Rough and Ready, said, “Let them fight it out." Roberts also said to Bitney, “You are Justice of the Peace of Spencerville, and now out of your jurisdiction.® SAMPLES OF OLD TIMERS WRITING "I write home--1 fell biley gratified to hear from you people " "fe have wholesome vittuls--Here we do not keep the sabeth--* “I live comertable and saving--Yestiddy was pretty--Hope you are well~-wold you come--I though--I har Gild discovery-I rase a family--Gold allroud--She is prety--Wh are here--First clas mail-I writ home--Thar‘s still heap'’s gold in them thar hilis--P ard--Letters with no paragraphs." Sourdough-Hardrock minersMule SkinnersCousins Jacks-Cowpokes-High Graders-SnipersOld Timer. : . Mr. and Mrs. V.K.Warren; Father Doc Waerren, sailed to the Isthmus, crossed the charges trail to here. Freighted with a team of 36 animals in 1852. A funeral in early days would wind up across the school house, then the coffin. carried up the hill to the graveyard. TOM TROPIE'S RECOLLECTIONS The miners had a bab © come to Tom's mother with their troubles, and where their gold was buried. Joe Thomas sent for her to come and see him, but he died before he had a chance to tell of his buried gold. Cache not known to have been uncovered. Another old miner had a cabin on Frank Trophe's place. He told Mrs. Tropie, “I want to show you where my gold is buried, $1500.00 in gold." Mra. Tropie replied, "No, I don't want to know where it is. If some one gets it, you will blame me." Miner said, “I am going to die,” and so he did die. The cache . was supposed to be buried 100 feet from an oak tree near his cabin. At San Francisco, a fortune teller was appealed to, and with his crystal ball said the $1500.00 in gold was buried in a4 oorner of an orchard 200 feet. Now the sum known to be $1600.00, and an orchard was on the place and other facts proved true. The fortune teller was so confident that he came to Rough and Ready, to spend five days digging. ‘No gold. Yet 1/8 of an acre was mined off. Some years after a $20.00,1850 gold piece was ‘picked up. But the gold pot still is suppos.ed to be buried. 33