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Volume 028-1 - January 1974 (10 pages)
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Page: of 10
CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS YEAR OF 1874
and to French Corral by the 30th,
This is the most beautiful ditch ever
constructed in the State. It shows
what engineering and mechanical skill
can do. Hamilton Smith Esq. of the
N. Bloomfield Gravel Mining Co. was
the engineer, and that company constructed the ditch under contract. Its
capacity is 2500 inches of water, miner’s measure,
DECEMBER:
CONGREGATIONAL PARSONAGE
COMPLETED! It will be occupied
on Monday Dec. 7th. A _ donation
party is to be given to pay for debt.
Felix Gellet advertises fruit and
ornamental trees, flowers, shrubs. Orders are to be left at his barber shop
on Pine Street.
Annual election of Royal Arch Chapter, No. 6, Thomas Mein is the
High Priest. ‘
Hamilton Smith, Superintendent of
the N. Bloomfield Gravel Mining Co.,
and chief engineer of the survey of
the hard rock tunnel, estimated the
cost at $500,000. It only fell short
of $6000.
South Yuba Canal Company is running 120,960,000 inches of water to
mines in the eastern part of the county,
The plastering of the new Methodist Church in Nevada City commenced,
Work is also being done on the heater,
The pulpit will be of solid black walnut, Gas fixtures ordered and 250
yards of carpet. Seats are being made
by C.M. Hughes manufactory. It is
estimated the church will seat between
450 to 500 people, and will be ready in
four weeks,
Dibble and Byrne, attorneys for the
Narrow Guage ‘Railroad sent Senator
Sargent the proper certificates and
maps of the line of the road in order
to secure the right of way over the
public land. The telegraph has brought the information that the survey and
the documents have been approved by
the Secretary of the Interior, and filed in
his office,
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(Continued from Page 11.)
Truckee Item: Lumber sawed in 1872
totaled 48,000,000 feet from the
Truckee Area.
Poems were popular in the daily newspapers in 1874, Too many to give any.
January 22, 1874 News Item:seeeeA wedding was recently broken up.
The preacher asked if any one has an
objection. The young lady said, ‘‘Yes,
I don’t want to marry him,’’
Advertisements were placed on the
front page to remind people who paid
the publisher. The news and legal
advertising was on the inside. Advertising was often short readers,
as follows:
The Best Photographs for the very
best go to Abel Grass Valley.
We Invite Every Man, Woman and
Child in the County to buy their groceries during the year 1874 of LESTER
AND MOBLEY. .
Go to B. Schwatz and Buy Your
Clothes Opposite Masonic Hall.
Large Ads on Page 1 for two
Competitive Merchants:HAMS, BACON AND LARD
Cashin & Co,
Jacob Naffziger,
One adv by Cashin & Co. read:
“The Lard is put up in Eight Lb.
cans and warranted good’’, The cans
are well made of the Best Tin.
Engine #9 at Town Talk on spur of the
Standard Oil plant. In background is
where the Yuba River Lumber Co. is
today.
ROMAN ROZYNSKI_ the 1974 President receives the gavel from Mrs.
Fay Dunbar Past President 1973 from
Rough and Ready.
Nevada County Historical Society.
Old Number 9 of the Nevada County
Narrow Gauge Railroad is supposedly
rusting away in Hawii, according to a
local afficianado. If the Navy has no
further use for it, maybe we could
get it back.
Two pictures of the large gathering of
the Nevada County Historical Society
to witness the Installation of Officers
by Elmer Stevens the Society’s first
President. The man standingis Robert
A, Gates, a past president and Chairman
of the Nominating Committee.
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