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Title: October 10, 1947 Collection Type: Newspapers Collection Name: Nevada City Nugget Published: October 10, 1947 Copyright: In the public domain or published before 1925 Physical Format: Newspaper # of Pages: 10 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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oe —————— ——— NEVADA CITY-GRAS S VALLEY NUGGET sangria : PAGE.SEVEN —_—SE a RET Oe saieeeeacicoielie— decane FE — ; } stealing and the next day the horse he was accused of stealing . on the bed-rock, and it was around thesé 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 he ’ We have packed our pots, kettles, tin plates and Dutch . we thought would be full of dust, but we did'not get an ouncewh, oven down to the river camp, and . will nail up the old place . out of it. The richest spots were down stream in front of the ary O d 49 e r and join the crowd in the morning. I sort of hate to leave it,. boulders. We got one pan under a five-ton rock that had although we will come back in the fall when we get through . fourteen ounces. The most of the gold was fine. The bigprom THE BOOK EDITED BY C. L. CANFIELD . with our new enterprise. . Looking back on the year past, I. gest Piece we found weighed a little less than an ounce and ; ) have had a pretty good time on the creek and have been more quite a lot from a dollar to three dollars. At night we built a : ; than lucky. Theré is no better companion than Pard, we have. ig wood fires and used pitch pine torches to work by and AUGUST 24, 1851.—I have lazed around all the week made money, our neighbors are mostly good fellows and, the canon made a pretty picture, lit up by the blaze. On the Pr ibe‘cabin an d town. I picked up a pretty good muswhile it has been hard work and rough living, we have had 14th it began to cloud up and looked like it was storming up ’ in Nevada, paid eighty dollars for him, and the first time health and appetities that would breed a famine. . have spent . i? the mountains and on the . 5th it rained hard. The river SP in . wished mustangs had never been invented. He the day writing letters, one to Marie and a long one home to began to raise and we got our tools out and by night the water « alt corr is Geet Tha Melons turned oat in an the folks. Won't have much time for writing for the next. WS coming over the dam. At midnight she was booming,,. ‘. could ‘hear them yell: “Go it, Yank; go it, month or two. and in the morning it was a rushing torrent and there was no tI stick to him until I got up on the trail and OCTOBER 19, 1851.—1 certainly have put in. eight . 22" of dam. flume, or anything else to show. where we had. and made a few remarks so hot that they burned . Weeks of about as hard work as ever mortal man did, but am been at work. 80 we broke-camp and took the ‘trail for town: I. Gracious, my backbone still aches! Queer through with it and have made some money. It cost us for we erg ked the gold eae the old horse with four of et.. that when . Jed him up on the flat and got on again he material, including everything, three thousand dollars, and prea He ane erates e for Mermer ts epee Twas mighty. # off as steady as a plow horse. ; ate out = thousand dollars for labor. We took out ese fe at ts pee ice tis cee oe she mere wore” ile I was in town Thursday the crowd tied up three pahin ae pen oa one ee alters Pe andy — a Pard took charge of it during the day, slept on top of it—he _ ato the bridge over Deer Creek and gave them twenty-five . worked both day and night eight men a daylight «aa oa Dit worked nights—and I did the same at night. There was not ys apiece, ON the bare back, then turned them loose and . at hight. We will divide twenty-two thousand dollars, or much danger, however, as there were fifteen of us, including” hed them from the place with a’threat to hang them if . about twenty-seven hundred and fifty dollars for each dies of the cook—a pretty big gang for thieves to tackle. We have jcame back. All three were petty thieves, who had been . the company. That is not bad ‘but it did not as much agreed to lay off for = couple’ of weeks, Alm hss Si emo cht stealing: I could: not help pitying the poor devils. . as the flat on the creek. Pard = disappointed bar . ve then is uncertain. Pard talks of taking a trip to the Bay to sof them howled for mercy, but one gritted his teeth and . well satisfied. It as great work First we built ‘. Saat ia be gone about ten days, to look after matters there, and-wants. ed the crowd with every stroke. There were but a few. up on the north ‘side of the river and about three hundred feet . 7° °° 8° slog, but don't believe J-wif Tt he tines Sieage gers there and it would be hard to get together a worse lot from the head of our claims, five hundred feet long, eight feet favorable he will buy:some more real eltate ane 4 Sah Wemee javages than the ones who stood around gloating over the. wide, and sides three and one-half feet high. We ‘put a dam . ‘0 invest some more on his judgment. He tells me many of » iches. The chances are-that nine out of ten of the lookers-. diagonally from the head of the claim to the head of the flume, re ream valley sath actuee fub with farmers, wha are rere ifthey got. their deserts, deserved the same sort of punish-. turning all the water in the river through the flume. Then hay and grain and are getting. big a for their crops. Tt nt that was being dealt out-to the culprits: The trouble is} we built another dam at the foot of the flume. to keep the may be & good farming osha dy but a looks pretty uncertain tmost of the men are too ready to set themselves up as. back-water out, and that gave'us a stretch of five hundred feet ed where there isn’t a particle of moisture for seven months = yes and, swayed by their passions, inflict penalties, even. of the river bed fairly dry. We ran two Toms and three in the yen. eka entences of death; on insufficient evidence. Only three. rockers steady, wheeling dirt to the Toms and using the rockLEGAL NOTICE ‘. first publication’ of this notice.to the ks ago the mob hung a Chilean at Rose's. Bar for horse : said Executor at the office of W. BE. ers wherever we found gravel. There were a lot of big boulders ere CAPpInees Wright, Union’ Building, Nevada City, . e California, the same being his place . . os ’ “ In 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. _ ‘3 i oie: . the undersigned, Philip Dignan, as} Dated September, 1947. ! ‘Executor of the Last Will and TestaPHILIP DIGNAN; ~ m : @) even ; i ies s ment of Ruth Jane Graves, deceased, Executor of. the Estate of Ruth . to the Creditors of and all persons Jane Graves, Deceased, First publication October 10.. © a dent to file them with the necessary . Chico on Will “a Gi £ V Ihe es W t d vouchers within six months after the pasweld ths Sal ie ‘ ¥ ; oF g : : irst, publicati hi i h : sate if i ; yey ows pater rass a ey sd es woo oiricd. 0 ce che of por ouperidy Great men. are known. by their — s Wee : ; Ch 6 ad, Sa oat Court of the State of California, in. deeds.. the rest of us by our mort= — : ester mab Gridley oe : Marysville and for the County of Nevada, or to} gages. : : exhibit them, with the necessary Idle rumors soon become very -inNe having claims against the said: decevouchers within six months after-the dustrious. Sth A NNUAL sc ee. a NEVADA COUNTY LUMBER COMPANY “THE PIONEBR. LUMBER YARD” FLOOR LAMP . -00 Ye SALE! 7 Way Lamps Bitdsé’ Lene. ..6 Wa dame . 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