Volume 028-1 - January 1974 (10 pages)

CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS YEAR OF 1874 Aen rs : e Grass Valley Foot Hill Weekl Tidings has its first issue, oe An icicle about eighteen feet long and six feet in thickness, fell and smashed a portion of the flume of the Truckee Lumber Company. The Legislature donated $1000 tc the Ladies Benevolent Society for the Grass Valley orphans. Articles of Incorporation of the Nevada County Narrow Guage railroad filed in the office of the County Clerk on April 3rd 1874, THEATER: Josh Billings to lecture at the Nevada City Theater. Dr. J. Earl Brown of the South Yuba Canal Co., challenged the Billard Champion, Charles McElvey and won. (Dr. Brown was the brother-in-law of Charles Marsh.) The new shaft in the Idaho Mine is down 800 feet. The Temperance Society is becoming more of a social gathering than its original purpose in assisting the downfallen. Senator Sargent introduced bill to grant right of way to the Nevada County Narrow Guage between Colfax and Nevada City. Judge Searls has taken to himself a horse and carriage. In the Court House yard there is a private gymnasium where the athletes of the town congregate each evening, A ledge known as the Italian Ledge Cresses Summit Burma Road area. 6, in the rear of the National Hotel, found to be rich in specimens some years ago, has been found to continue ecross Deer Creek near Temperance Hall at the foot of the steps leading up to Prospect Hill. Streets no longer lighted with gasi Problems with the gas company. __ Woolsey’s Flat is siiding! The inhabitants are tearing down and moving their houses. John Spelting’s Hotel was torn down last week and Cornelius Sullivan has commenced cearing down his hotel this morning. At Jerusulum, a building is beinz put up that was moved from Woolsej’s Flat. Some of the Wooiseyites wil! build at Jerusulum, some at Jerico and some at Gemorrah; the three towns being on a line of road from Moore’s Flat to Woolsey’s. April 18: The new Grass Valley M.E. Church is completed at a cost of $16,000. The old edifice used by the Methodist was found to be unsafe and too small. George Jacobs (Theater proprietor) will go east next month to be gone two or three months and will be .accompanied by his trainer A, Lewis, They will probably take along the pacing horse, Defiance, and the Trotters, May Howard, Sweetbriar and Jerome. The Daughters of Rebekah at Grass Valley will celebrate the anniversary of the introduction of Odd Fellowship into the United States, at Hamilton Hall with oration, instrumental music, tableaus, supper and dance, The Nevada Ice Company has had two winter scenes painted on their ice wagon. They will be a pleasure to look at when the hot weather comes. April 22: A Church Guild or Mite Society has been organized by the ladies of Trinity Church. The first meeting will be held at the residence of Mrs. R.M. Hunt to pay off the indebtedness on their church edifice. CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS YEAR OF 1874 MAY: Ninety kegs of powder were used to fire off a blast in the Manzanita Diggings the other night, which made the ground tremble in town. (These are the diggings seen north of Nevada City.) The Nevada Light Guard looking so brave and grand marched through the principal streets yesterday on their way to the target shoot. Alexander Gualt will furnish the lunch. Nevada City has twenty to thirty gas lights in town, and none of them lighted due to troubles between the Board of Trustees and the gas company. Shouldn’t we have an ordinance making it a penal offence for a person to walk the streets without a lantern? Moore’s Flat mining at a stand still due to the Eureka Lake Company’s refusal to furnish mines with water for less than 12 1/2¢ an inch. This also effects Snow Point and Woolsey’s, Rough and Ready Mines: Miller and Rex are hydraulicingon Grab Creek, one mile south of town. A.D. Early is on Randolph Hill putting in a bedrock flume. John Thomas is on Butte Flat. Eberlin and Diamond are on Sugar Loaf Hill, engaged in drifting. The Picayune Co. is still driving ahead and the Brown Brothers are mining at the head of Squirrel Creek. Deer Creek Mines are active. The Providence Mine is about 1 1/2 miles from town. The present company commenced work in November 1872, and expanded improvements amounting to $140,000. The Wyoming Mine on Deer Creek is being worked by tunnel to the depth of 225 feet. The shaft in the Schmidt Mine is 100 feet and the ledge is 4 feet thick. The Nevada Mine across the creek from the Providence was bought by J. S. Van Winkle at a sheriff’s sale. Hoisting is done by a Hurdy Gurdy wheel with Collin’s patent buckets. (This mining was done before the famous Champion Mine was located on Deer Creek.) The Grass Valley Club, a social organization, received two handsome solid silver tea sets. There are four pieces to each set; a tea pot, sugar bowl, milk jug, and silver sugar tongs. They were presented by Mons. Jules Fricot now in France, who was one of the founders of the club twenty years ago. (Jules Fricot, pronounced Freeco, owned the famous Eureka Mine in Grass Valley from 1857 to 1865.) The musical talent of Grass Valley propose getting up a benefit for G. Hamilton, proprietor of Hamilton Hall, Omega is snowbound. Prescott with the help of fourteen Chinese shoveled a trail three feet deep from Omega to Skillman’s Mill. The snow is from 5 1/2 to 7 feet deep, and it is hoped by means of the trail, teams will get into Omega by June. Mr. H. Cooper is going ahead with the V-flume. A route has been surveyed from his mill up Deer Creek at the head of the Snow Mountain Ditch, to Chapman’s Mill, and will soon be extended to a point near the Murchie Mine. Dr. R.M. Hunt receiveda fine carriage and new harness from New York. The carriage was made to order for him. The Court House yard’s 1/8 of an acre has been sown with alfalfa and clover. The Nevada Foundry of Thom and Allan has added new machinery; one Scene at the Nevada City Depot,

CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS YEAR OF 1874 Aen rs : e Grass Valley Foot Hill Weekl Tidings has its first issue, oe An icicle about eighteen feet long and six feet in thickness, fell and smashed a portion of the flume of the Truckee Lumber Company. The Legislature donated $1000 tc the Ladies Benevolent Society for the Grass Valley orphans. Articles of Incorporation of the Nevada County Narrow Guage railroad filed in the office of the County Clerk on April 3rd 1874, THEATER: Josh Billings to lecture at the Nevada City Theater. Dr. J. Earl Brown of the South Yuba Canal Co., challenged the Billard Champion, Charles McElvey and won. (Dr. Brown was the brother-in-law of Charles Marsh.) The new shaft in the Idaho Mine is down 800 feet. The Temperance Society is becoming more of a social gathering than its original purpose in assisting the downfallen. Senator Sargent introduced bill to grant right of way to the Nevada County Narrow Guage between Colfax and Nevada City. Judge Searls has taken to himself a horse and carriage. In the Court House yard there is a private gymnasium where the athletes of the town congregate each evening, A ledge known as the Italian Ledge Cresses Summit Burma Road area. 6, in the rear of the National Hotel, found to be rich in specimens some years ago, has been found to continue ecross Deer Creek near Temperance Hall at the foot of the steps leading up to Prospect Hill. Streets no longer lighted with gasi Problems with the gas company. __ Woolsey’s Flat is siiding! The inhabitants are tearing down and moving their houses. John Spelting’s Hotel was torn down last week and Cornelius Sullivan has commenced cearing down his hotel this morning. At Jerusulum, a building is beinz put up that was moved from Woolsej’s Flat. Some of the Wooiseyites wil! build at Jerusulum, some at Jerico and some at Gemorrah; the three towns being on a line of road from Moore’s Flat to Woolsey’s. April 18: The new Grass Valley M.E. Church is completed at a cost of $16,000. The old edifice used by the Methodist was found to be unsafe and too small. George Jacobs (Theater proprietor) will go east next month to be gone two or three months and will be .accompanied by his trainer A, Lewis, They will probably take along the pacing horse, Defiance, and the Trotters, May Howard, Sweetbriar and Jerome. The Daughters of Rebekah at Grass Valley will celebrate the anniversary of the introduction of Odd Fellowship into the United States, at Hamilton Hall with oration, instrumental music, tableaus, supper and dance, The Nevada Ice Company has had two winter scenes painted on their ice wagon. They will be a pleasure to look at when the hot weather comes. April 22: A Church Guild or Mite Society has been organized by the ladies of Trinity Church. The first meeting will be held at the residence of Mrs. R.M. Hunt to pay off the indebtedness on their

church edifice. CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS YEAR OF 1874 MAY: Ninety kegs of powder were used to fire off a blast in the Manzanita Diggings the other night, which made the ground tremble in town. (These are the diggings seen north of Nevada City.) The Nevada Light Guard looking so brave and grand marched through the principal streets yesterday on their way to the target shoot. Alexander Gualt will furnish the lunch. Nevada City has twenty to thirty gas lights in town, and none of them lighted due to troubles between the Board of Trustees and the gas company. Shouldn’t we have an ordinance making it a penal offence for a person to walk the streets without a lantern? Moore’s Flat mining at a stand still due to the Eureka Lake Company’s refusal to furnish mines with water for less than 12 1/2¢ an inch. This also effects Snow Point and Woolsey’s, Rough and Ready Mines: Miller and Rex are hydraulicingon Grab Creek, one mile south of town. A.D. Early is on Randolph Hill putting in a bedrock flume. John Thomas is on Butte Flat. Eberlin and Diamond are on Sugar Loaf Hill, engaged in drifting. The Picayune Co. is still driving ahead and the Brown Brothers are mining at the head of Squirrel Creek. Deer Creek Mines are active. The Providence Mine is about 1 1/2 miles from town. The present company commenced work in November 1872, and expanded improvements amounting to $140,000. The Wyoming Mine on Deer Creek is being worked by tunnel to the depth of 225 feet. The shaft in the Schmidt Mine is 100 feet and the ledge is 4 feet thick. The Nevada Mine across the creek from the Providence was bought by J. S. Van Winkle at a sheriff’s sale. Hoisting is done by a Hurdy Gurdy wheel with Collin’s patent buckets. (This mining was done before the famous Champion Mine was located on Deer Creek.) The Grass Valley Club, a social organization, received two handsome solid silver tea sets. There are four pieces to each set; a tea pot, sugar bowl, milk jug, and silver sugar tongs. They were presented by Mons. Jules Fricot now in France, who was one of the founders of the club twenty years ago. (Jules Fricot, pronounced Freeco, owned the famous Eureka Mine in Grass Valley from 1857 to 1865.) The musical talent of Grass Valley propose getting up a benefit for G. Hamilton, proprietor of Hamilton Hall, Omega is snowbound. Prescott with the help of fourteen Chinese shoveled a trail three feet deep from Omega to Skillman’s Mill. The snow is from 5 1/2 to 7 feet deep, and it is hoped by means of the trail, teams will get into Omega by June. Mr. H. Cooper is going ahead with the V-flume. A route has been surveyed from his mill up Deer Creek at the head of the Snow Mountain Ditch, to Chapman’s Mill, and will soon be extended to a point near the Murchie Mine. Dr. R.M. Hunt receiveda fine carriage and new harness from New York. The carriage was made to order for him. The Court House yard’s 1/8 of an acre has been sown with alfalfa and clover. The Nevada Foundry of Thom and Allan has added new machinery; one Scene at the Nevada City Depot,