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Volume 031-4 - October 1977 (8 pages)
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School at Gaston about 1912 shows Ruth Grimes as teacher (L to R
front) Margery Worthington, August Gregori and an unknowyn girl. In the
swing is four youngsters with Stenger Williamson, son of the mine
superintendent standing, the other three are not identified. If anyone can
identify these four, please write the Nevada County Historical Society. The
swing was directly in front of the schoolhouse.
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Othe Mines On The Gaston Ridge
Of all the mines on Gaston Ridge
the Baltic ranked next to the Gaston
with an interesting history of openings
up and closings down. It consisted of
the Baltic, Crown Point, Crown Point
Extension and the Shirley patented
claims. All were above the North
Bloomfield ditch, so steam power was
required for operating the stamp mill.
On this mine the Nevada City
Transcript of April 15, 1884,
commented:
“Two years ago an eastern
company started a really fine prospect,
the Baltic mine. They put in powerful
machinery of the best description, a
mill among the improvements. Like
many others who do not look before
they leap, the Easterners foolishly
imagined that the property would begin
to pour forth a stream of gold
simultaneously as soon as the
machinery was started. Of course the
gold did not begin streaming out with
the building of the first fires under the
boilers and as a result when some bills
were presented the management did
not have the necessary resource--and
finally the Sheriff knocked it down to
the highest bidder.”
In 1888 a small pocket of rich ore
was struck in the Baltic and the jubilant
superintendent sent a man to
Graniteville with a telegram to the
financial backers in San Francisco.
“Have struck $25,000 a ton ore.” The
next day a telegram came in from the
Bit Discouraged Backers, ‘Stop all
work and take out one ton.”
In the 1890s a small group of
miners, all of whom had at one time or
another, worked in the Baltic, leased it.
Short of capital, but very full of energy,
they soon had a small stamp mill
pounding on ore that averaged around
twelve-dollars a ton.
One night the partner, who had
put up most of the cash to start the
operation, and was sleeping in a cabin
near the mill, woke up and not hearing
the stamps pounding, got up and went
to see what was wrong. He foundtwoof
his partners in the act of robbing the
mine by cleaning up the gold on the
plates. He ordered all work stopped and
the Baltic has never ran a day since.
The Worthington family home in Gaston show Frank and Lyla
Worthington and family on the steps with visitors in late winter.
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