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Nevada County, California - The home of deep producing gold mines and prolific fruit orchards (1915) (36 pages)
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PLANTING A NEW ORCHARD.
Through the efforts of the Truckee Chamber of Commerce, the
Truckee Ice Carnival and Winter Sports Company was organized
for the purpose of furnishing to the thousands of Californians, living
along the coast and in the great valleys, who never knew before
what real winter sport was, the opportunity of enjoying the rigors
of winter; which set their blood tingling, envigorating their systems
and sending them back to their work with a new color in their checks.
The carnival opens about Christmas, and continues well into
March, during which time the railroad offers special rates. The
venture is proving very successiul, large crowds attending throughout the season. A large ice palace is devoted to ice skating and dancing, while a long toboggan slide, skieing, and sleighing to different
places of interest, form the principal outdoor amusements.
Truckee being a ireight division point, offers exceptional opportunities to the lumber industry. One mill, the Sierra Nevada
Lumber and Wood Company, at Overton, cuts 30 million feet a
vear and employes 800 men; while the Crown Paper Company,
located a few miles from Truckee, at Floriston, consumes vast
quantities of timber in the manufacture of paper. This company employs a large number of men. With the advent of refrigeration of
fruit shipments to the eastern markets, the ice industry was rapidly
developed and the section now cuts over 200,000 tons of ice a year.
The population of Truckee is 1700 and its public schools would
be a credit to a town of much larger population.
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