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Volume 032-1 - January 1978 (6 pages)
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Page: of 6
The Fourth of July parade, held in Grass Valley in 1878, had as one of its treats, the Nevada
County Light Guard, Company C.
Mark Hopkins is, in great part, the
history of the Central Pacific
Railroad.”
TIGHT WIRE PERFORMER
An immense crowd gathered
at Broad and Commercial to
watch Professor Vertelli wheel a
barrow along a wire cord
stretched from the top of Brown
and Morgan’s Block to the upper
window of Beckman’s. Cheers
and several pieces of silver
greeted the performance.
The Butts case continued to take
precedence in the news, overshadowing the opening of Uncle Tom’s Cabin at
the Nevada Theater and the good word
that hydraulic mining on the ridge was
extraordinarily favorable. Late in
April, Dick Gentry, who had officiated
at many hangings, examined the rope
that had been selected for Butts’
execution. “‘Too thick,” he pronounced.
“Can’t be more’n three-eighths inch.”
And three-eighths it was to be if Butts
failed to procure a new trial.
In May, the International
Exposition opened in Paris and it was
said that the American section
compared favorably with the others, a
comment that set pride to burbling in
local breasts since quartz from Nevada
County was part of the exhibit.
The County was experiencing
rapid growth without the usually
accompanying pains. The turnpike
between Grass Valley and Nevada City,
linking an aggregate population of
12,000, was near completion and gave
evidence of being one of the model
roads in the state. Prospectors who had
panned and sluiced and shivered and
sworn and made it and lost it a quarter
of a century earlier, watched the area
an ae
of their initial efforts with parental
interest. One of them wrote the
Transcript from New York. “I have the
honor of saying that I founded Nevada
City. In 1850, I pitched my tent on Deer
Creek Dry Diggings. There sold the
first pound of goods. Afterwards built
the first house and named Nevada City
when I opened the first store, a log
house. The name of our firm was Truex
and Blackman. Please favor me with
one of your papers and oblige an old
Forty-Niner.” The letter was signed
Edward H. Truex.
BATTLING COCKS
A match between game cocks
owned by Daly and Ryan, drewa
big attendance at Brighton
House, below Grass Valley.
Daly’s rooster won.
Further word on the Butts case
was not heard until mid June and that,
carried on the bat wing of rumor, failed
to shed light on Butts’ eventual fate.
Two Supreme Court judges thought
Butts deserved a new trial. Two were
opposed to such a move, and one
reserved judgment. Stalemate.
The approach of July’s glorious
Fourth had stirred carpenters, artists
and entertainers to prepare for the big
parade to be held in Grass Valley. On
the appointed date, a colorful
procession marched the length of town,
headed by a triumphal chariot graced
with 38 ladies, each representing a
state in the Union, and one as the
Goddess of Liberty. There were
singers, the Light Guard from Nevada
City, and a splendid show put on by
Cornish wrestlers. For 50 cents, one
could make the round trip by train from
Installation of a telephone connecting the South Yuba Canal Company Office
with the Big Tunnel, was cause for one joker to test the line with the question:
“Would there be any real satisfaction in sparking a girl through a telephone?”
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