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

stake miners. Bidwell was sent to Washington to present a gold quartz, honoring George Washington. The gold block was California’s share. An old miner said that he wouldn't give the gold to them until they admitted California into the Union. Bidwell, upon arriving, was worried about the admitting into the union, as Zachary Taylor, (014 Rough and Ready) was a California booster, and he died. Bidwell had another important mission to perform. He was to bring back a Colonel's wife and daughter. The Colonel's wife and daughter performed a great deed, by returning to California via the Isthmus, with the official paper, admitting California into the Union. Jonas Spect Credited with the first gold discovery on the Yuba River. Spect was born in Berks County, March 4th, 1817; came to California at the time of the Mexican War in 1847, He took a job to drive a team of oxen for Isaac Buley, a member of one of the first emigrent trains to leave Independence, Missouri. The Company consisted of eighteen wagons, forty persons, and a large pand of cattle bound for Oregon. Spect left the wagon train at the Cascahe Mountains, as the train was going to wait before going further. Spect struck out on foot six hundred miles, reaching California. He went back to Ohio to settle up affairs and again returned to California, landing at Johnson Ranch, near Bear River vbelow Rough and Ready. Spect came across the finest kind of a Valley, which he found after that they called Penn Valley, named from a Pen or corral there. John and Ferdinand Montgomery settled on six hundred acres, four miles below Rough and Ready. They came to California in 1849 and settled here in 1850. In the picture showing John Montgomery driving the horse and buggy, Ferdinand, his prother, is shown near the corner of the barn, leaning on a cane which contains a sword. With the dog is Slave Tom, and the colored Slave between the buildings and carrying in wood, is Slave Ned. Tom ran away and became a barber. Ned is buried on the ranch, in a small cemetery alongside of his master. Driving the freight wagon is Rube Herrod (O14 Finer in our famous Old Timer's Conference. The stage is on the road, going towards Rough and Ready, from Marysville. The old Telegraph (the first) line used to send messages to ditch operations. The two brothers were southerners from Mississippi. Rustic on the house, and brick in the chimney, came around the Horn; the brick came from England as ballast in a ship. Indian tribe known to have had a camp on the ranch. The non-religious John, would give dances on the porch, and religious Ferdinand, would lock himself in his room to keep the devil away. Digging a well on the place, gold was seen all the way down, and $20.00 nuggets dug out. Montgonerys just fenced in the land without a survey. Squatters started to take the land away, and Montgomerys got on to aeoure Google 87 themselves, and proved up on the land. Ferdinand sold three acres of the land to a church, and John being non-religious, refused to sign the deed. However, the abstract 0.K.'d the deed. When Montgomerys sold the ranch to Simon Henry Dikeman, Dikeman contested the churches claim when the three acres was to be sold for a dance hall or roadhouse, and Dikeman won out, and sold the three acres to one of his sons. Ferdinand got into a quarrel with a man, Tobiassen, and stabbed him with his cane sword. Grandfather's name was Simon Henry Dikeman, he was born at a place in Prussia that sounds like Stutigrat. His name at birth was spelled Diechmann; he was educated at a local personage until he was sixteen, when he ran away from home. He got a box of black bread to live on, on the trip over, and shipped steerage to America, living on that loaf of bread. He arrived in New York and worked there long enough to get to Chicago, where he got in gort of drayage business. He went to California by ship to Panama, walked across the Isthmus, because he couldn't pay the rice to be taken across by regular method, horse, mule-back, or camel.) He took ship there to California. Arriving at California, he went to Marysville, then to Rough and Ready, mining district, and mined gold with a pardner by placer method. He would say that he and his pardner would never work a deposit which did not pay at least $50.00 per day. After a time, he went back to Chicago, around the Horn, and married Anamaria Krause, in 1852 or 1857. He and his bride then returned to California by Cape Horn. Dikeman and Montgomery hired 100 Chinamen and did a great engineering feat in constructing the Excelsior Ditch and flume. The two were not engineers. Simon first owned the Hill Ranch and sold it to James Niles in 1864. Dikeman had four sons and one daughter. Young Dikeman was superintendent of The Excelsior Water Company, and built the Rough and Ready School. His children, Marilad, Waldo, Henry and George. Dikeman paid $1,000.00 for a piano in Sacramento, and had it shipped to Rough and Ready. Early at one time, Dikeman's ranch was to be subdivided, and father Dikeman was to lose out, but he contested it and won out. He had his troubles in money matters. One of Young Dikeman’s sons invented the Western House Brake, and went east on the deal, but lost out on his invention for lack of money, and having it taken from him. Judge Jones would visit the ranch and read to the two slaves from the Bible, and if he left out a verse, the slaves would call him on it, and yet they could not read. Judge wanted to get through to fish in the stream on the ranch. Grandfather Dikeman owned much land near Rough and Ready. People squatted on it and another party tried to get it by taxes, but Dikeman won out, and gave the land to partfies at no cost. A visitor was told how easy it was to gold on the ranch, and walking towards ranch, five dollars was kicked up. A wash-woman, Mrs. Silve, would come to the ranch to do the washing. She was from Rough and Ready, and wore a fine set of gold nuggets taken from Squirrel Creek. get the

stake miners. Bidwell was sent to Washington to present a gold quartz, honoring George Washington. The gold block was California’s share. An old miner said that he wouldn't give the gold to them until they admitted California into the Union. Bidwell, upon arriving, was worried about the admitting into the union, as Zachary Taylor, (014 Rough and Ready) was a California booster, and he died. Bidwell had another important mission to perform. He was to bring back a Colonel's wife and daughter. The Colonel's wife and daughter performed a great deed, by returning to California via the Isthmus, with the official paper, admitting California into the Union. Jonas Spect Credited with the first gold discovery on the Yuba River. Spect was born in Berks County, March 4th, 1817; came to California at the time of the Mexican War in 1847, He took a job to drive a team of oxen for Isaac Buley, a member of one of the first emigrent trains to leave Independence, Missouri. The Company consisted of eighteen wagons, forty persons, and a large pand of cattle bound for Oregon. Spect left the wagon train at the Cascahe Mountains, as the train was going to wait before going further. Spect struck out on foot six hundred miles, reaching California. He went back to Ohio to settle up affairs and again returned to California, landing at Johnson Ranch, near Bear River vbelow Rough and Ready. Spect came across the finest kind of a Valley, which he found after that they called Penn Valley, named from a Pen or corral there. John and Ferdinand Montgomery settled on six hundred acres, four miles below Rough and Ready. They came to California in 1849 and settled here in 1850. In the picture showing John Montgomery driving the horse and buggy, Ferdinand, his prother, is shown near the corner of the barn, leaning on a cane which contains a sword. With the dog is Slave Tom, and the colored Slave between the buildings and carrying in wood, is Slave Ned. Tom ran away and became a barber. Ned is buried on the ranch, in a small cemetery alongside of his master. Driving the freight wagon is Rube Herrod (O14 Finer in our famous Old Timer's Conference. The stage is on the road, going towards Rough and Ready, from Marysville. The old Telegraph (the first) line used to send messages to ditch operations. The two brothers were southerners from Mississippi. Rustic on the house, and brick in the chimney, came around the Horn; the brick came from England as ballast in a ship. Indian tribe known to have had a camp on the ranch. The non-religious John, would give dances on the porch, and religious Ferdinand, would lock himself in his room to keep the devil away. Digging a well on the place, gold was seen all the way down, and $20.00 nuggets dug out. Montgonerys just fenced in the land without a survey. Squatters started to take the land away, and Montgomerys got on to aeoure Google 87 themselves, and proved up on the land. Ferdinand sold three acres of the land

to a church, and John being non-religious, refused to sign the deed. However, the abstract 0.K.'d the deed. When Montgomerys sold the ranch to Simon Henry Dikeman, Dikeman contested the churches claim when the three acres was to be sold for a dance hall or roadhouse, and Dikeman won out, and sold the three acres to one of his sons. Ferdinand got into a quarrel with a man, Tobiassen, and stabbed him with his cane sword. Grandfather's name was Simon Henry Dikeman, he was born at a place in Prussia that sounds like Stutigrat. His name at birth was spelled Diechmann; he was educated at a local personage until he was sixteen, when he ran away from home. He got a box of black bread to live on, on the trip over, and shipped steerage to America, living on that loaf of bread. He arrived in New York and worked there long enough to get to Chicago, where he got in gort of drayage business. He went to California by ship to Panama, walked across the Isthmus, because he couldn't pay the rice to be taken across by regular method, horse, mule-back, or camel.) He took ship there to California. Arriving at California, he went to Marysville, then to Rough and Ready, mining district, and mined gold with a pardner by placer method. He would say that he and his pardner would never work a deposit which did not pay at least $50.00 per day. After a time, he went back to Chicago, around the Horn, and married Anamaria Krause, in 1852 or 1857. He and his bride then returned to California by Cape Horn. Dikeman and Montgomery hired 100 Chinamen and did a great engineering feat in constructing the Excelsior Ditch and flume. The two were not engineers. Simon first owned the Hill Ranch and sold it to James Niles in 1864. Dikeman had four sons and one daughter. Young Dikeman was superintendent of The Excelsior Water Company, and built the Rough and Ready School. His children, Marilad, Waldo, Henry and George. Dikeman paid $1,000.00 for a piano in Sacramento, and had it shipped to Rough and Ready. Early at one time, Dikeman's ranch was to be subdivided, and father Dikeman was to lose out, but he contested it and won out. He had his troubles in money matters. One of Young Dikeman’s sons invented the Western House Brake, and went east on the deal, but lost out on his invention for lack of money, and having it taken from him. Judge Jones would visit the ranch and read to the two slaves from the Bible, and if he left out a verse, the slaves would call him on it, and yet they could not read. Judge wanted to get through to fish in the stream on the ranch. Grandfather Dikeman owned much land near Rough and Ready. People squatted on it and another party tried to get it by taxes, but Dikeman won out, and gave the land to partfies at no cost. A visitor was told how easy it was to gold on the ranch, and walking towards ranch, five dollars was kicked up. A wash-woman, Mrs. Silve, would come to the ranch to do the washing. She was from Rough and Ready, and wore a fine set of gold nuggets taken from Squirrel Creek. get the