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Volume 048-1 - January 1994 (8 pages)
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Corporation, which offered the airfield to the county for use
as a public airport. The board of supervisors accepted the
present airport site and access roads on July 31, 1957. Shortly
before the airport was completed in late 1965, the Grass
Valley Union remarked that “Cal-Nat Airways will fly a
World War B-17 Flying Fortress being remodeled to carry
borate.” On October 8, 1968 the name was changed from
Loma Rica Field to “Nevada County Airpark.”
A magnanimous person, MacBoyle was noted for his
generosity and philanthropy. Jack Clark, a long-time safety
engineer at the Idaho-Maryland Mine, stated that MacBoyle
was “an individual who did a tremendous amount for the
local citizens, providing jobs—however menial—for the locally unemployed, high school students, and the like.” According to Clark, MacBoyle also financially supported the
construction of Saint Patrick’s Catholic Church in Grass
Valley, and donated the land on East Main Street where the
Califomia Highway Patrol office once stood (now the home
of Cranmer Engineering).
Within a year or two after MacBoyle suffered his disabling
stroke, there was a movement to oust MacBoyle from his
position as executive vice president and general manager of
the Idaho-Maryland properties. Before that could happen,
MacBoyle voluntarily relinquished the management reins because of his illness. MacBoyle died on November 4, 1949 at
his beloved Loma Rica Rancho. “Mac was a square shooter, a
friendly adviser, verily a partner on the job,” said the Union.
On the day of his funeral “every wheel will be stilled, every
activity suspended” at the Idaho-Maryland and the New
Brunswick mines. The funeral service was attended by state
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officials and noted industrialists, and most Grass Valley businesses were closed for the day.
After his death, his widow Gwendolyn was appointed ~~
executor of his estate, originally appraised at $980,883.46. .
Among his personal and real properties were 449,686 shares
of Idaho-Maryland Mine stock; a claim against he Bank of
Califomia and the Grass Valley Memorial Hospital for the
recovery of 18,750 Idaho-Maryland shares; the Loma Rica
Breeding Farm; the Loma Rica Rancho; a half interest in the
Champion Group of mining claims; the business and assets
of the Fountain Grove Winery; and a half interest in the
Fountain Grove Vineyard in Sonoma.
Ten months after MacBoyle died, Gwendolyn married
Siegfried Bechhold. On July 6, 1851, she leased the 166-acre
Loma Rica Rancho to H. F. LeSage of Canoga Park for three
years at $500 per month, and gave him an option to purchase
the property for $135,000. When the estate was appraised
again in May 1954 at $709,909.79, the records showed that
Gwendolyn Bechhold had paid out $38,000 for inheritance
taxes and $70,000 to a team of seven lawyers. In addition,
she had disposed of nearly 300,000 shares of Idaho-Maryland
stock, sold 134 acres of land, and pledged another 125,000
shares as security for a $50,000 loan.
The Idaho-Maryland Mine Company tried to carry on in
the absence of MacBoyle, but “the inflexible price of gold
and the old story of increased costs,” led to its demise in
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1956. The company suspended operations, and the machinery on
and other assets were sold; shareholders donated ten acres of ‘
land for the site of the Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital.
Siegfried Bechhold passed away in that same year, followed
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