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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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NEVADA COUNTY’S EXHIBIT AT SAN FRANCISCO LAND SHOW’, 1913.
county. At the edge of the city is situated the county hospital and
farm, an institution “where the indigent sick are given proper care and
treatment.
Among the public buildings of note are a modern high school
building, just erected at a cost of $40,000, handsome Elk’s Tome,
Carnegie Library, large grammar school, four churehes and numerous
fraternal buildings. The principal streets of the town are paved and
cement sidewalks are now being pushed into every section. Electric
lighting, gas, telephone, municipal water and street car systems were
long since established.
Nevada City is the northern terminal of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railway and is the distributing and outfitting point for
a large portion of Nevada and Sierra Counties. Here, too, is located
the headquarters of the Tahoe National Forest.
GRASS VALLEY.
Grass Valley has a population of about 5,500, making it the largest
foot-hill city of Northern California. TIlere the Federal Government is
now engaged in the erection of a postoffice building at a cost of
$75,000. An Elk’s Home, recently completed at a cost of $50,000 and
devoted exclusively to the uses of that order, four churches, six
school buildings and several fraternal buildings are of the present,
while the near iuture gives promise of high school and public library
buildings and a city hall. An excellent municipal library is now in
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