Volume 023-5 - October 1969 (4 pages)

Hotel). on lower Broad Street, June 6, 1856, for $760, The building burned the following month in the fire of July 19. Dr. Knox was principally a stockholder in the South Yuba Canal Company, having little to do with its-operation. The death of his beautiful daughter, Virginia,. wife of T. Ellard Beans, in July 1861, after the birth of their third child, was a blow from which the doctor never fully recovered. He moved to Santa Clara County, where he died. in 1869, His wife, Sarah, sold their interest in the South Yuba Canal to the company on February 5, 1870. CHARLES MARCH, born in Canada, was living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the time of the California gold discovery. He crossed the plains in 1849, arriving in Nevada (City) in 1850. A surveyor, he served Nevada County in that capacity from 1851-54, He owned the Nevada City water works in 186l, and pipe shipped around the Horn was laid within the city limits. One of the major stockholders of the South Yuba Canal Company, he served as its engineer. When news of gold discoveries at Squirrel Hill reached Nevada City in 1852, Marsh, along with others, rushed to the spot and staked off claims. They surveyed and laid out a town, calling it Walloupa, after a chief in Wemah’s tribe of Indians. Forty houses were erected, and after a few months of prospertiy, it was deserted for the richer diggings just discovered at Red Dog. Charles March, had straight black hair and whiskers. Proud of his fine white teeth, he showed them to advantage by keeping his upper lip shaven. A large, overweight, gregarious fellow, he enjoyed the sociability of the lodges in the community, especially their overladen banquet tables. He held such titles as Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge, Grand Commander of the Knight Templars, Past Grand High Priest, and Grand Representative of the Supreme Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F. He was instrumental in naming the Nevada City I. O. O. F. lodge after Chief Oustamah of the tribe at Indian Flat. When thefirstlibrary association faltered, its services were continued by the Odd Fellows Lodge. In August, 1860, Marsh and David Belden, a lawyer, went to San Francisco to purchase books, and while there enjoyed the hospitality of the city. They escorted two young ladies to the top of a hotel to get a better view of the growing metropolis. The girls, dressed in tne height of fashion, wore hoop skirts. It was necessary to climb a ladder and ascend through a hole in the roof. The men went first, lending a hand to the young women, The hoops were compressed within the small space, but on reaching the surface, again burst forth and expanded into their original rounded shapes, The descent was not so easy! The hoops had to go feet first and when one side was pressed through, the other side stayed out; when the front was gathered together, the back remained obstinate. There was only one way! Marsh and Belden were ordered to descend and cautioned not to come until called, With the given signal, they again mounted the ladder found the girls looking much slimmer in dainty undergarments, while nearby lay two hugh skeletons of bones and sinews. Descent was accomplished, and the young women made a rush to their rooms, where a maid was despatched to bring in the wreckage. It was said that when Marsh returned to Nevada City, he was still laughing. He remained a bachelor until middle aged, when he married a_ widow. Their home still stands at 123 Nevada Street, (Haley’s Antique Shop). Charles Marsh died in San Francisco, April 28, 1876, leaving his wife, Elinor, and a young daughter, Louisa. DAN RICH crossed the Isthmus in the spring of 1850 from Ohio, and waited on the Pacific side for aship coming around the Horn to put in at Panama. He finally secured passage on the whaling bark ‘‘Anna, arriving in San Francisco June 5.* The ship never left her moorings in San Francisco bay. Deserted by her goldfevered crew, she lies buried today under Montgomery Street, scuttled with many another, Of average height, Dan Rich had black hair and a partially shaven beard. Energetic and resourceful, he soon took advantage of the need for water to the hydraulic mines around Nevada City, by organizing the South Yuba and Snow Mountain Ditch Company. It was his dream in !853 of bringing water from the 1igh mountain lakes by way of the South Yuba River to Deer Creek. This induced the others to join with him in forming the unincorporated association known as _ the Rock Creek, Deer Creek and South Yuba Canal Company in 1854. Rich served first as its agent, surveyed water routes, and made legal claims to water rights for his company. GeoKidd suggested that the waters of

Hotel). on lower Broad Street, June 6, 1856, for $760, The building burned the following month in the fire of July 19. Dr. Knox was principally a stockholder in the South Yuba Canal Company, having little to do with its-operation. The death of his beautiful daughter, Virginia,. wife of T. Ellard Beans, in July 1861, after the birth of their third child, was a blow from which the doctor never fully recovered. He moved to Santa Clara County, where he died. in 1869, His wife, Sarah, sold their interest in the South Yuba Canal to the company on February 5, 1870. CHARLES MARCH, born in Canada, was living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the time of the California gold discovery. He crossed the plains in 1849, arriving in Nevada (City) in 1850. A surveyor, he served Nevada County in that capacity from 1851-54, He owned the Nevada City water works in 186l, and pipe shipped around the Horn was laid within the city limits. One of the major stockholders of the South Yuba Canal Company, he served as its engineer. When news of gold discoveries at Squirrel Hill reached Nevada City in 1852, Marsh, along with others, rushed to the spot and staked off claims. They surveyed and laid out a town, calling it Walloupa, after a chief in Wemah’s tribe of Indians. Forty houses were erected, and after a few months of prospertiy, it was deserted for the richer diggings just discovered at Red Dog. Charles March, had straight black hair and whiskers. Proud of his fine white teeth, he showed them to advantage by keeping his upper lip shaven. A large, overweight, gregarious fellow, he enjoyed the sociability of the lodges in the community, especially their overladen banquet tables. He held such titles as Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge, Grand Commander of the Knight Templars, Past Grand High Priest, and Grand Representative of the Supreme Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F. He was instrumental in naming the Nevada City I. O. O. F. lodge after Chief Oustamah of the tribe at Indian Flat. When thefirstlibrary association faltered, its services were continued by the Odd Fellows Lodge. In August, 1860, Marsh and David Belden, a lawyer, went to San Francisco to purchase books, and while there enjoyed the hospitality of the city. They escorted two young ladies to the top of a hotel to get a better view of the growing metropolis. The girls, dressed in tne height of fashion, wore hoop skirts. It was

necessary to climb a ladder and ascend through a hole in the roof. The men went first, lending a hand to the young women, The hoops were compressed within the small space, but on reaching the surface, again burst forth and expanded into their original rounded shapes, The descent was not so easy! The hoops had to go feet first and when one side was pressed through, the other side stayed out; when the front was gathered together, the back remained obstinate. There was only one way! Marsh and Belden were ordered to descend and cautioned not to come until called, With the given signal, they again mounted the ladder found the girls looking much slimmer in dainty undergarments, while nearby lay two hugh skeletons of bones and sinews. Descent was accomplished, and the young women made a rush to their rooms, where a maid was despatched to bring in the wreckage. It was said that when Marsh returned to Nevada City, he was still laughing. He remained a bachelor until middle aged, when he married a_ widow. Their home still stands at 123 Nevada Street, (Haley’s Antique Shop). Charles Marsh died in San Francisco, April 28, 1876, leaving his wife, Elinor, and a young daughter, Louisa. DAN RICH crossed the Isthmus in the spring of 1850 from Ohio, and waited on the Pacific side for aship coming around the Horn to put in at Panama. He finally secured passage on the whaling bark ‘‘Anna, arriving in San Francisco June 5.* The ship never left her moorings in San Francisco bay. Deserted by her goldfevered crew, she lies buried today under Montgomery Street, scuttled with many another, Of average height, Dan Rich had black hair and a partially shaven beard. Energetic and resourceful, he soon took advantage of the need for water to the hydraulic mines around Nevada City, by organizing the South Yuba and Snow Mountain Ditch Company. It was his dream in !853 of bringing water from the 1igh mountain lakes by way of the South Yuba River to Deer Creek. This induced the others to join with him in forming the unincorporated association known as _ the Rock Creek, Deer Creek and South Yuba Canal Company in 1854. Rich served first as its agent, surveyed water routes, and made legal claims to water rights for his company. GeoKidd suggested that the waters of