June 30, 1950 (16 pages)

? 4 4 ,° 100 Years of History July 1-4 Help Celebrate Our Centennial Subscription, Year $2.50; Single Copy: 5c Nevada City (Nevada County ) Caliiornia, Fane 30,4950 Twenty-Third Year, No: 26 Nevada City Observes Cen " ‘NEVADA CITY 1s DELIGHTFULLY PICTURESQUE Picturesque Community Is Above the Fog and Below the Deep Snows Nevada City is a delightfully picturesque town of 2,500 inhabitants within -its city limits and approximately the same in its suburbs, and is located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada at an altitude of 2,500 feet. Situated as it is, at sufficient elevation to escape the fogs of the valley, Nevada City is well below the harsh winter wedther that prevails in the high Sierras. The climatic conditions here are cormparable with those of famous health resorts in the Appalachian mountains. There are few days in summer when the thermometer registers over 85 degrees, and during the short winter months below freezing weather is rare. Although Nevada City has been a famous mining center for more than a century, and many of its residences are yet enjoying incomes from mining. enterprises, there is none of the objectionable features of the typical mining town. In all northern California it is impossible to find a more orderly, peaceful and home-loving’community or one in which the value of cultural and educational attainments are more appreciated ,and liberally encouraged. Nevada City is a community of homes, attractive gardens,, clean, well-paved streets, most excellent schools, and amply supported churches. The naturally picturesque atmosphere of this town is enhanced by the many old buildings and residences of noted men yet preserved and reminiscent of the days when Nevada City was the teeming center of the most productive gold mining area of California. Nevada City is bisected by Deer creek, famous for the wealth gleaned from its auriferous bed, which will yet yield color even for the amateur panner. This stream is regularly. stocked with trout, although luck has not been too good this year. Often good fishing is obtained from within the city limits. Among sports for which familities are available are golf, tennis and baseball, and many delightful trails are available for either hiking. or horseback riding. Nevada City is served by two paved state highways—20 and 49 —and many county roads. It. is within two hour’s drive from Sacramento, and less than a hour and a half from Donner pass, % JIM WEBSTER WAS BOLD. BAD MAN OF EARLY DAY Jim Webster, a miner of Timbuctoo and Washington who had indifferent luck hunting for gold in the earth, started looking for it on the persons of other men, and became the most notorious of the early Highway men of Nevada county. He continued his career as an outlaw for two years and was so bold in his operations that he often entered town where he was well known although there was a price on his head. Although . many attempted to collect the . prize and waited for him to be! caught off guard, none would. molest him’ openly. During a dispute over a claim at-Timbuctoo he shot and killed three men. He was. finally captured in 1856 and tossed in the county calaboose. He escaped during the fall, and while the sheriff's posse was searching for . him two groups mistook each oth, er for the bandit and his confed. erates, and opened fire on each’ other. Sheriff W. W. Wright and: one deputy were killed. While on the coast Webster quarreled with one of his men and ordered him from the camp' before daylight or be shot. Dur-, ing the night the bandit withdrew the bullet from Webster’s rifle,. and replaced it with a blank. When Webster saw the man still in camp at daylight he seized the rifie and fired the blank charge. The bandit cooly raised his gun and shot Webster dead. SWEETLAND Sweetland was an early day trading post on the ridge, located in 1850 by H. P. Sweetland. It was a bustling little community in the days of hydraulicking._ WASHINGTON WAS A LARGE CITY IN 1850 ne arby . had a Washington, and_ its community of Jefferson, population of approximately thousand in August, 1850, and gave them yan importance they have never regained. The miners had gathered there since the spring with the hope of rich rewards when the water fell .far enough to turn the river and ‘prospect their claims. Dams and canals were built with prodigious labor, but when the river was drained the unsatisfactory results depopulated the area. one Cut Courtesy H. P. Davis _ OFFICIAL TABULATION OF CENSUS IN CITY HASN’T CHANGED MUCH © The 1850 census of Nevada City on which preliminary figures were recently released, is 2,479. U.S. military authorities made a census of the gold camp in 1850 and produced a figure of 2,683. This was admittedly a rough estimate as A: A. Sargent, in 1856, population of Nevada City -Covoteville exceeded 6,000. However, the same 1850 tabulation gave:San Francisco 24,870, rte Angeles 1,610, and and Grass . tools and mining cradles. Valley 454. <————. Known miner, EARLY DAY MINING SCENE HAD MANY INVENTIONS . is the hydraulic process of gold writing . the state for years until the Sawstated that the combined yer decision in 1884 enjoined the and, hydraulickers from dumping the . . . NEVADA COUNTY HAS Nevada county has contributed more than its share of inventions to the world, principally in the field. of mining. Foremost of all mining by which whole mountains were literally uprooted’ and moved into the lower valleys creating a controversy that rocked debris into streams. When the miners first came into the Sierras they used hand The long tom, discovered by an unreplaced the cradle, in 1851, and in the following A. Chabot, a sailmaker, developed ground sluicing by using ditch water by means of a canvas hose, and the theory of hydraulicking was born. The location of Chabot’s experiments, has been disputed, H. P. Davis, in his book, . “Gold Rush Days in Nevada City,” claiming Buckeye ravine in Nevada City, and Elmer Poor of Quaker Hill locating it on the: Buckeye hill in the Greenhorn area. : E. E. MattéSon and Eli Miller, , while working a gravel claim for . Dr. A. B. Caldwell, developed a: rawhide hose and tapered nozzle and hydraulicking grew in efficiency and size until the traveler today can see huge pits and ravines made by the force of powerful water. The more powerful nozzles could throw a stream that would disintegrate a brick wall at 400 yards. Discovery of gold in quartz called for mills and the major parts were invented in the Grass Valley area. The Pelton wheel was invented in the Camptoville area. tennial IFIRST SETTLERS ARRIVED HERE IN FALL OF 1849 City: of Nevada Inco rporated March 13, 1851, But Was. ‘Repealed in 11 Months The City of Nevada, its official name, was first settled in September, 1849, by Capt. John Pennington, Thomas Cross and William McCaig. The _ following month Dr. A. B. Caldwell built a log store on Nevada street, back of Main street ravine (now identified by historical marker) and for some time the town was known as Caldwell’s Upper Store. He had previously built a store at Beckville, four miles down the creek. The same month a man named Stamps brought his wife and several children here and built a cabin on the forks of the ravine back. of Coyote street. .His wife was the first woman to live in Nevada City. The first building on Broad’ street dates back to the end of September, when John Truesdale built-in the area of the present Cardinal building. The following spring, Truex and Blackman built a log store on Main street. Robert Gordon built another log store on Commercial. The first board building was built by Madame Penn in the spring of 1850, near the foot of Main, where the Union Hotel now stands. Womack and Kenzie built -the first hotel in the spring of 1850, and in April, J. N. Turner built the Nevada Hotel of rifted pine boards. Turner’s Hotel, according to early day reports, was built from one monarch of the forest, the tree furnishing all the lumber for rafters, beams, flooring, etc., for a building 38 feet wide and 48 feet long. Turner opened his boarding house on May 1, with 40.boarders, at the moderate rate . of $25 a week. The first winter of 1849-50 was very severe, the snow measuring 10 feet deep on the banks of Deer Creek. settlers paid that first winter include fresh beef or pork, 80 cents . !a pound; molasses, $7.50 a gallon; . flour, 44 cents a pound; potatoes, 75 cents a pound; onions, $1.50; boots, $20 to $40; long-handled shovels, $16. The physicians here that winter had only three drugs—calomel, laudanum and opium.The Bowers brothers started 1849, charging a moderate rate of $2.50 for letters and $1 for papers conveyed between Nevada City and Sacramento. Lewis and Son built the first sawmill on Deer Creek, just above the thriving settlement, in August, 1850, using a water wheel (Continued on page: 11) lity Celebrates JULY 1.4 Some of the prices the.the first express office here in © *

? 4 4 ,° 100 Years of History July 1-4 Help Celebrate Our Centennial Subscription, Year $2.50; Single Copy: 5c Nevada City (Nevada County ) Caliiornia, Fane 30,4950 Twenty-Third Year, No: 26 Nevada City Observes Cen " ‘NEVADA CITY 1s DELIGHTFULLY PICTURESQUE Picturesque Community Is Above the Fog and Below the Deep Snows Nevada City is a delightfully picturesque town of 2,500 inhabitants within -its city limits and approximately the same in its suburbs, and is located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada at an altitude of 2,500 feet. Situated as it is, at sufficient elevation to escape the fogs of the valley, Nevada City is well below the harsh winter wedther that prevails in the high Sierras. The climatic conditions here are cormparable with those of famous health resorts in the Appalachian mountains. There are few days in summer when the thermometer registers over 85 degrees, and during the short winter months below freezing weather is rare. Although Nevada City has been a famous mining center for more than a century, and many of its residences are yet enjoying incomes from mining. enterprises, there is none of the objectionable features of the typical mining town. In all northern California it is impossible to find a more orderly, peaceful and home-loving’community or one in which the value of cultural and educational attainments are more appreciated ,and liberally encouraged. Nevada City is a community of homes, attractive gardens,, clean, well-paved streets, most excellent schools, and amply supported churches. The naturally picturesque atmosphere of this town is enhanced by the many old buildings and residences of noted men yet preserved and reminiscent of the days when Nevada City was the teeming center of the most productive gold mining area of California. Nevada City is bisected by Deer creek, famous for the wealth gleaned from its auriferous bed, which will yet yield color even for the amateur panner. This stream is regularly. stocked with trout, although luck has not been too good this year. Often good fishing is obtained from within the city limits. Among sports for which familities are available are golf, tennis and baseball, and many delightful trails are available for either hiking. or horseback riding. Nevada City is served by two paved state highways—20 and 49 —and many county roads. It. is within two hour’s drive from Sacramento, and less than a hour and a half from Donner pass, % JIM WEBSTER WAS BOLD. BAD MAN OF EARLY DAY Jim Webster, a miner of Timbuctoo and Washington who had indifferent luck hunting for gold in the earth, started looking for it on the persons of other men, and became the most notorious of the early Highway men of Nevada county. He continued his career as an outlaw for two years and was so bold in his operations that he often entered town where he was well known although there was a price on his head. Although . many attempted to collect the . prize and waited for him to be! caught off guard, none would. molest him’ openly. During a dispute over a claim at-Timbuctoo he shot and killed three men. He was. finally captured in 1856 and tossed in the county calaboose. He escaped during the fall, and while the sheriff's posse was searching for . him two groups mistook each oth, er for the bandit and his confed. erates, and opened fire on each’ other. Sheriff W. W. Wright and: one deputy were killed. While on the coast Webster quarreled with one of his men and ordered him from the camp' before daylight or be shot. Dur-, ing the night the bandit withdrew the bullet from Webster’s rifle,. and replaced it with a blank. When Webster saw the man still in camp at daylight he seized the rifie and fired the blank charge. The bandit cooly raised his gun and shot Webster dead. SWEETLAND Sweetland was an early day trading post on the ridge, located in 1850 by H. P. Sweetland. It was a bustling little community in the days of hydraulicking._ WASHINGTON WAS A LARGE CITY IN 1850 ne arby . had a Washington, and_ its community of Jefferson, population of approximately thousand in August, 1850, and gave them yan importance they have never regained. The miners had gathered there since the spring with the hope of rich rewards when the water fell .far enough to turn the river and ‘prospect their claims. Dams and canals were built with prodigious labor, but when

the river was drained the unsatisfactory results depopulated the area. one Cut Courtesy H. P. Davis _ OFFICIAL TABULATION OF CENSUS IN CITY HASN’T CHANGED MUCH © The 1850 census of Nevada City on which preliminary figures were recently released, is 2,479. U.S. military authorities made a census of the gold camp in 1850 and produced a figure of 2,683. This was admittedly a rough estimate as A: A. Sargent, in 1856, population of Nevada City -Covoteville exceeded 6,000. However, the same 1850 tabulation gave:San Francisco 24,870, rte Angeles 1,610, and and Grass . tools and mining cradles. Valley 454. <————. Known miner, EARLY DAY MINING SCENE HAD MANY INVENTIONS . is the hydraulic process of gold writing . the state for years until the Sawstated that the combined yer decision in 1884 enjoined the and, hydraulickers from dumping the . . . NEVADA COUNTY HAS Nevada county has contributed more than its share of inventions to the world, principally in the field. of mining. Foremost of all mining by which whole mountains were literally uprooted’ and moved into the lower valleys creating a controversy that rocked debris into streams. When the miners first came into the Sierras they used hand The long tom, discovered by an unreplaced the cradle, in 1851, and in the following A. Chabot, a sailmaker, developed ground sluicing by using ditch water by means of a canvas hose, and the theory of hydraulicking was born. The location of Chabot’s experiments, has been disputed, H. P. Davis, in his book, . “Gold Rush Days in Nevada City,” claiming Buckeye ravine in Nevada City, and Elmer Poor of Quaker Hill locating it on the: Buckeye hill in the Greenhorn area. : E. E. MattéSon and Eli Miller, , while working a gravel claim for . Dr. A. B. Caldwell, developed a: rawhide hose and tapered nozzle and hydraulicking grew in efficiency and size until the traveler today can see huge pits and ravines made by the force of powerful water. The more powerful nozzles could throw a stream that would disintegrate a brick wall at 400 yards. Discovery of gold in quartz called for mills and the major parts were invented in the Grass Valley area. The Pelton wheel was invented in the Camptoville area. tennial IFIRST SETTLERS ARRIVED HERE IN FALL OF 1849 City: of Nevada Inco rporated March 13, 1851, But Was. ‘Repealed in 11 Months The City of Nevada, its official name, was first settled in September, 1849, by Capt. John Pennington, Thomas Cross and William McCaig. The _ following month Dr. A. B. Caldwell built a log store on Nevada street, back of Main street ravine (now identified by historical marker) and for some time the town was known as Caldwell’s Upper Store. He had previously built a store at Beckville, four miles down the creek. The same month a man named Stamps brought his wife and several children here and built a cabin on the forks of the ravine back. of Coyote street. .His wife was the first woman to live in Nevada City. The first building on Broad’ street dates back to the end of September, when John Truesdale built-in the area of the present Cardinal building. The following spring, Truex and Blackman built a log store on Main street. Robert Gordon built another log store on Commercial. The first board building was built by Madame Penn in the spring of 1850, near the foot of Main, where the Union Hotel now stands. Womack and Kenzie built -the first hotel in the spring of 1850, and in April, J. N. Turner built the Nevada Hotel of rifted pine boards. Turner’s Hotel, according to early day reports, was built from one monarch of the forest, the tree furnishing all the lumber for rafters, beams, flooring, etc., for a building 38 feet wide and 48 feet long. Turner opened his boarding house on May 1, with 40.boarders, at the moderate rate . of $25 a week. The first winter of 1849-50 was very severe, the snow measuring 10 feet deep on the banks of Deer Creek. settlers paid that first winter include fresh beef or pork, 80 cents . !a pound; molasses, $7.50 a gallon; . flour, 44 cents a pound; potatoes, 75 cents a pound; onions, $1.50; boots, $20 to $40; long-handled shovels, $16. The physicians here that winter had only three drugs—calomel, laudanum and opium.The Bowers brothers started 1849, charging a moderate rate of $2.50 for letters and $1 for papers conveyed between Nevada City and Sacramento. Lewis and Son built the first sawmill on Deer Creek, just above the thriving settlement, in August, 1850, using a water wheel (Continued on page: 11) lity Celebrates JULY 1.4 Some of the prices the.the first express office here in © *