October 10, 1947 (10 pages)

ity . j agen da, paid eighty dollars for him, and the first time =F. him . wished mustangs had never been invented. He LY FROM THE BOOK EDITED BY C. L. CANFIELD . J UST 24, 1851.—I have lazed around all the week * Na Z--abin and town. I picked up a pretty good mused. meal. over Main Street. The town turned out to see peer 4 1 could hear them yell: “Go it, Yank; go it, ut I stick to him until . got up on the trail and f'and made a few remarks so hot that they burned naral. Gracious, my backbone still aches! Queer then I led him up on the flat and got on again: he teady as a plow horse. ¢14 . was in town Thursday the crowd tied up three «to the bridge over Deer Creek and gave them twenty-five es apiece, On the bare back, then turned them loose and hed them from the place with a threat to hang them if ‘came back. All three were petty thieves, who had been ht stealing. I could not help pitying the poor devils. sof them howled for mercy, but one gritted his teeth and ed the crowd with every: stroke. There were but a few i and it would be hard to get together a worse lot javages than the ones who stood around gloating over. the iches. ‘The chances are that.nine out of ten of the lookersif they got their deserts, deserved the same sort of punishat that was being dealt out-to the culprits: The trouble is tmost of the men are too ready to set themselves ap as bes and,, swayed by their passions, inflict penalties, even entences of death; on insufficient evidence. Only three . } stealing and the next day the horse he was accused of stealing . on the bed-rock, and it was-around these and in the crevices was found in the hills above French Corral. that we got most of the gold.There was one big pot hole that 3 oven down to the river camp, and . will nail ‘up the old place d 49 e r and join the crowd in the morning. I sort of hate to leave it, although we will come back in the fall when we get through with our new enterprise. . Looking back on the year past, . . have had a pretty good time on the creek and have been more than lucky. Theré is no better companion than Pard, we have made money, our neighbors are mostly good, fellows and, while it has been hard work and rough living, we have had health and appetities that would breed a famine. I have spent the day writing letters, one to Marie and a long one home to the folks. Won't have much time for writing for the next month or two. at as rks ago the mob hung a Chilean at ‘Rose's. Bar for horse OPEC NIE NG BRITE IH . _ SPECIAL oe yular_ Regular $36.50 . ‘ ce me nn sp SPECIAL 8398 SPECIAL see $995 5 i } SPECIAL" 34395 SPECIAL . $9p.50 *% « * e : :: ’ La , ’ rockers steady, wheeling dirt to the Toms and using the rockLEGAL NOTICE _ hr iota Pager Pape en s : ° 8a xecutor a e office oO < a ers wherever we found gravel. There were a lot of big boulders NOTICE By CREDITORS Wright, Union’ Building, Nevada City, : : , : al 0. 4758 California, the same being his place NEVADA CITY-GRAS S VALLEY NUGGET sa “ ie as hard work as ever mortal man did, but am through with it and have made . It cost us for} . ree : a . material, including everything, ae yeas Sine, : ad guard it, and deposited it in Mulford’s bank. I was mighty. we paid out four thousand dollars for labor. We took out twenty-nine ‘thousand dollars in twenty-one days’ work for t ithe fourteen men, or nearly fourteen hundred doll day. W * ‘ . : worked both day and ate eight men in daylight saa xa aii worked nights—and I did the same at night. There was not about twenty-seven hundred and fifty dollars for each one of the company. That is not bad,’ but it did not pay as much well satisfied. It as great work. First we built a flume close up on the north side of the river and about three hundred feet from the head of-our claims, five hundred feet long, eight feet wide, and sides three and one-half feet high. We put a dam diagonally from the head of the, claim to the head of the flume, turning all the water in the river through the flume. Then we built another dam at the foot of the flume,to keep the back water out, and that gave us a stretch of five hundred feet of the river bed fairly dry. We ran two Toms and three neiateeaaaninniati i —— ’ we thought would be full of dust, but we did not get an ounce.out of it. The richest spots were down stream in front of the boulders. We got one pan under a five-ton. rock that had fourteen ounces. The most of the gold was fine. The biggest piece we found weighed a little less than an ounce and quite a lot from a dollar to three dollars. At night we built big wood fires and used pitch pine torches to work by and the canon made a pretty picture, lit up by the blaze. On the 14th it began to cloud up and looked like it was storming up in the mountains and on the 15th it rained hard. The river began to raise and we got our tools out and by night the waterwas coming over the dam. At midnight she was booming, and in the morning it was a rushing torrent and there was no sign of dam. flume, or anything else to show where we had. been at work. so we broke-camp and took the trail for town: We packed the gold in on the old horse with four of us to. We have’ packed our pots, kettles, tin plates and Dutch OCTOBER 19, 1851.—I certainly have put in eight glad when we got it there for it has been a trial ever since we, started to take it out, and the more we got, the more worry. — Pard took charge of it during the day, slept on top o much danger, however, as there were fifteen of ‘us, including” the.cook—a pretty big gang for thieves to tackle. We have — se to lay off for a couple of weeks, and what we will do — sheet : then is uncertain. Pard talks of taking a trip to the Bay to the flat on the creek. Pard is disappointed, but . am very. },. gone about ten days, to look after matters there; and wants me to go along; -but I don’t believe I will. If he finds things favorable he will buy some more real estate and I am, willing to invest some more on his judgment. He tells me many of » the coast valleys are settling ‘up with farmers, who are raising hay and grain and are getting big prices for their crops. It may be a good farming couritry, but it looks pretty uncertain — to me where there isn’t a particle 6f moisture for seven months _ in the year. we pee cS hight. We will divide twenty-two thousand dollars, or . The Sale of Seven Cities! EP Chico : Willows =: Grass Valley :_ Westwood oe _ : Chester « Gridley : Marysville FLOOR LAMP . . 7 Way Lamps. . Bridge Lamps 6 Way : Lamps In the past years our October Floor Lamp Sale has been received with: such great interest that once again we bring you this wonderful opporIn the Matter of the, Estate of] of business in all matters connected” —— RUTH JANE GRAVES, Deceased. with ‘the estate of said Ruth Jane NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by] Graves, deceased. ; the: undersigned, Philip Dignan, as Dated September, 1947. ‘Executor of the Last Will and TestaPHILIP DIGNAN; — ment of Ruth Jane Graves, deceased, . Executor of the Estate of Ruth to the ‘Creditors of and all persons Jane Graves, Deceased.having claims against’ the said dece-. First publication October 10. i dent to file them with the necessary. Oct. 10, 17, 24, 31; Nov. 7 vouchers within six months after the ; first publication of this notice in the ‘ 5 ahi office. of the Clerk of the Superior} Great men, are known by their . Court of the State of California, in. deeds. the rest of us by our mort= and for the County of Nevada, or to. sages. : p a exhibit them, with the necessary. Idle rumors soon become very ‘inq vouchers -within six months after the dustrious. NEVADA COUNTY LUMBER COMPANY “THE PIONEBR LUMBER YARD” BUILDING MATERIALS, 244 Bomder Street. Telephone 500 Nevada City, Calif. i SALE! . . . tunity to save on your Floor Lamp needs! nes : ‘ KNOWS THE DISTRICT LIKE AB _ : Py nee Ice aves ~~ THE FUAMITVAE CENTER ia Se ee WORLD WAR VETERAN WITH THE VETERAN'S PROBLEMS AT HEART! Pledged to serve you willingly, faithfully and . ney — . 4 ve: ) ek ae Ua coe steers ATRESIA CREAT SE OOK! «

ity . j agen da, paid eighty dollars for him, and the first time =F. him . wished mustangs had never been invented. He LY FROM THE BOOK EDITED BY C. L. CANFIELD . J UST 24, 1851.—I have lazed around all the week * Na Z--abin and town. I picked up a pretty good mused. meal. over Main Street. The town turned out to see peer 4 1 could hear them yell: “Go it, Yank; go it, ut I stick to him until . got up on the trail and f'and made a few remarks so hot that they burned naral. Gracious, my backbone still aches! Queer then I led him up on the flat and got on again: he teady as a plow horse. ¢14 . was in town Thursday the crowd tied up three «to the bridge over Deer Creek and gave them twenty-five es apiece, On the bare back, then turned them loose and hed them from the place with a threat to hang them if ‘came back. All three were petty thieves, who had been ht stealing. I could not help pitying the poor devils. sof them howled for mercy, but one gritted his teeth and ed the crowd with every: stroke. There were but a few i and it would be hard to get together a worse lot javages than the ones who stood around gloating over. the iches. ‘The chances are that.nine out of ten of the lookersif they got their deserts, deserved the same sort of punishat that was being dealt out-to the culprits: The trouble is tmost of the men are too ready to set themselves ap as bes and,, swayed by their passions, inflict penalties, even entences of death; on insufficient evidence. Only three . } stealing and the next day the horse he was accused of stealing . on the bed-rock, and it was-around these and in the crevices was found in the hills above French Corral. that we got most of the gold..There was one big pot hole that 3 oven down to the river camp, and . will nail ‘up the old place d 49 e r and join the crowd in the morning. I sort of hate to leave it, although we will come back in the fall when we get through with our new enterprise. . Looking back on the year past, . . have had a pretty good time on the creek and have been more than lucky. Theré is no better companion than Pard, we have made money, our neighbors are mostly good, fellows and, while it has been hard work and rough living, we have had health and appetities that would breed a famine. I have spent the day writing letters, one to Marie and a long one home to the folks. Won't have much time for writing for the next month or two. at as rks ago the mob hung a Chilean at ‘Rose's. Bar for horse OPEC NIE NG BRITE IH . _ SPECIAL oe yular_ Regular $36.50 . ‘ ce me nn sp SPECIAL 8398 SPECIAL see $995 5 i } SPECIAL" 34395 SPECIAL . $9p.50 *% « * e : :: ’ La , ’ rockers steady, wheeling dirt to the Toms and using the rockLEGAL NOTICE _ hr iota Pager Pape en s : ° 8a xecutor a e office oO < a ers wherever we found gravel. There were a lot of big boulders NOTICE By CREDITORS Wright, Union’ Building, Nevada City, : : , : al 0. 4758 California, the same being his place NEVADA CITY-GRAS S VALLEY NUGGET sa “ ie as hard work as ever mortal man did, but am through with it and have made . It cost us for} . ree : a . material, including everything, ae yeas Sine, : ad guard it, and deposited it in Mulford’s bank. I was mighty. we paid out four thousand dollars for labor. We took out twenty-nine ‘thousand dollars in twenty-one days’ work for t ithe fourteen men, or nearly fourteen hundred doll day. W * ‘ . : worked both day and ate eight men in daylight saa xa aii worked nights—and I did the same at night. There was not about twenty-seven hundred and fifty dollars for each one of the company. That is not bad,’ but it did not pay as much well satisfied. It as great work. First we built a flume close up on the north side of the river and about three hundred feet from the head of-our claims, five hundred feet long, eight feet wide, and sides three and one-half feet high. We put a dam diagonally from the head of the, claim to the head of the flume, turning all the water in the river through the flume. Then we built another dam at the foot of the flume,to keep the back water out, and that gave us a stretch of five hundred feet of the river bed fairly dry. We ran two Toms and three neiateeaaaninniati i —— ’ we thought would be full of dust, but we did not get an ounce.out of it. The richest spots were down stream in front of the

boulders. We got one pan under a five-ton. rock that had fourteen ounces. The most of the gold was fine. The biggest piece we found weighed a little less than an ounce and quite a lot from a dollar to three dollars. At night we built big wood fires and used pitch pine torches to work by and the canon made a pretty picture, lit up by the blaze. On the 14th it began to cloud up and looked like it was storming up in the mountains and on the 15th it rained hard. The river began to raise and we got our tools out and by night the waterwas coming over the dam. At midnight she was booming, and in the morning it was a rushing torrent and there was no sign of dam. flume, or anything else to show where we had. been at work. so we broke-camp and took the trail for town: We packed the gold in on the old horse with four of us to. We have’ packed our pots, kettles, tin plates and Dutch OCTOBER 19, 1851.—I certainly have put in eight glad when we got it there for it has been a trial ever since we, started to take it out, and the more we got, the more worry. — Pard took charge of it during the day, slept on top o much danger, however, as there were fifteen of ‘us, including” the.cook—a pretty big gang for thieves to tackle. We have — se to lay off for a couple of weeks, and what we will do — sheet : then is uncertain. Pard talks of taking a trip to the Bay to the flat on the creek. Pard is disappointed, but . am very. },. gone about ten days, to look after matters there; and wants me to go along; -but I don’t believe I will. If he finds things favorable he will buy some more real estate and I am, willing to invest some more on his judgment. He tells me many of » the coast valleys are settling ‘up with farmers, who are raising hay and grain and are getting big prices for their crops. It may be a good farming couritry, but it looks pretty uncertain — to me where there isn’t a particle 6f moisture for seven months _ in the year. we pee cS hight. We will divide twenty-two thousand dollars, or . The Sale of Seven Cities! EP Chico : Willows =: Grass Valley :_ Westwood oe _ : Chester « Gridley : Marysville FLOOR LAMP . . 7 Way Lamps. . Bridge Lamps 6 Way : Lamps In the past years our October Floor Lamp Sale has been received with: such great interest that once again we bring you this wonderful opporIn the Matter of the, Estate of] of business in all matters connected” —— RUTH JANE GRAVES, Deceased. with ‘the estate of said Ruth Jane NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by] Graves, deceased. ; the: undersigned, Philip Dignan, as Dated September, 1947. ‘Executor of the Last Will and TestaPHILIP DIGNAN; — ment of Ruth Jane Graves, deceased, . Executor of the Estate of Ruth to the ‘Creditors of and all persons Jane Graves, Deceased.having claims against’ the said dece-. First publication October 10. i dent to file them with the necessary. Oct. 10, 17, 24, 31; Nov. 7 vouchers within six months after the ; first publication of this notice in the ‘ 5 ahi office. of the Clerk of the Superior} Great men, are known by their . Court of the State of California, in. deeds.. the rest of us by our mort= and for the County of Nevada, or to. sages. : p a exhibit them, with the necessary. Idle rumors soon become very ‘inq vouchers -within six months after the dustrious. NEVADA COUNTY LUMBER COMPANY “THE PIONEBR LUMBER YARD” BUILDING MATERIALS, 244 Bomder Street. Telephone 500 Nevada City, Calif. i SALE! . . . tunity to save on your Floor Lamp needs! nes : ‘ KNOWS THE DISTRICT LIKE AB _ : Py nee Ice aves ~~ THE FUAMITVAE CENTER ia Se ee WORLD WAR VETERAN WITH THE VETERAN'S PROBLEMS AT HEART! Pledged to serve you willingly, faithfully and . ney — . 4 ve: ) ek ae Ua coe steers ATRESIA CREAT SE OOK! «