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Volume 054-1 - January 2000 (8 pages)
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NCHS Bulletin January 2000
The house is now finished and for the mountains it is
a wonder. Travellers frequently express not only gratification, but surprise at finding a house of its style and
magnitude here. It is on the main road up the Yuba on the
south side of the river and a mile from it.
I have three private rooms joining each other and if
you come here, we shall probably take our choice of two
of them and make one of the two, reserving the other for
families who occasionally travel by. I have bought out
Fobes and this house, The Eureka, is my pride. I will
have it painted outside and inside in the spring. Will it
not be a beauty then?
I want you partly for your company and partly because I shall be obliged to remain here for several years
in order to make a good pile. The fact of being settled
here and having a wife will draw custom to the house
and increase business. There are two families near here,
within sight, so that you will have some female society.
Things are fast changing in this country. No country has
ever improved as California has within the past year. My
opinion is that the improvements will mainly be permanent and . have full confidence that there will be mining on a large scale for a long time longer than I expect
to live.
He then discusses the various ways by which she might
make the trip out, what to bring and with whom she might
travel. He reassures her of the life she could expect to find
if she does join him.
You have rather exaggerated impressions of this
country when you speak of living in “jeopardy here all of
the time.” A woman of good standing is respected here as
much as in the States. In fact, an insult to a woman here
would be resented and punished more certainly and
severely than in the old states. A woman is stared at here,
but this is for the same reason that children are petted
and presents made to them by everyone on account of
their rarity. But such things occur everywhere as there
are vulgar people everywhere and no more of them in
this country than in any other.
HOUSE,
At Deer Greek,
LOWER CROSSING.
The subscriber respectfully informs the travelling public that he has the sole management of
this establishment, and is prepared to furnish
regular accommodations OF A SUPERIOR
KIND. Said Mouse is 30 by 40 ft, WITH AN
AMPLE CHAMBER FOR LODGING, WITH
MATTRASSES, BUNKS, &c.
S. MATHEWS.
“Transcript” Press —K Street.)
Remembrance Campbell
(From memoirs written for his grandson covering the
years 1853-1923.)
A. THE AGE OF FOURTEEN, Remembrance Campbell
and his father and mother and five brothers and sisters
arrived in Nevada City on August 16, 1853. His father had
purchased a plot of ground near the Junction of Rock and
Brush Creeks about two and one-half miles north of
Nevada City in the area called Selby Flat. It was the intent
of Mr. Campbell to grow garden produce, which was in
great demand at high prices.
At the time it was supposed that the bottom land of Rock
Creek did not contain enough gold to pay for mining it.
However, the following year the mine owners, whose laws
were the only laws in force at the time, refused to recognize
his possession of the land and Campbell’s $5,000, which he
had paid for the land, was lost. But with the oxen they
possessed, the small sawmill they had built on Rock Creek
and cows and chickens enabled them to make a good living.
Remembrance describes Nevada City of 1853 as a very
live town. While the business houses that lined each side of
Broad Street were not very pretentious, the business activity and the number of people on the streets made up for any
lack of tall buildings. In the upper part of town were a number of very pretty residences, and there the few families of
the town lived.
Among the most enterprising of the early miners was
Amos T. Laird, who owned the deeper and larger portions of Coyote Hill. When the hydraulic system came
into [widespread] use in 1856, I was attending school in
Nevada City. As soon as school was dismissed, I would
make a break for Laird’s mine and sit on the bank until
dark watching the men in the pit using hydraulic water
blast.
A. A. Sargent was a great friend of my father’s. He
had a claim located on Round Mountain and would stay
at our house while he did his prospecting. Mr. Laird also
stayed at our house often.
Many claims were right on our ranch and we could
have had [one] at one time by simply locating, but we
did not understand the matter at the time. However, our
saw mill did very well. The miners needed lumber for
cabins and sluices and the price was high. After the 1856
fire in Nevada City, I had to quit school to go to work
hauling lumber to rebuild the town.
Remembrance discusses at length the Rock Creek neighborhood, their neighbors, the Scotts and Dunns, the high cost
of living, the entertainers who found their way to Nevada
City, the coming of the Chinese, the troubles between
northerners and Southerners just prior to the Civil War and
other prominent men of the day: A. B. Gregory, a leading
grocer; Charlie Kent, the jolly and popular butcher; Charles
Young, the jeweler, who pulled off a big jewelry raffle with
a grand prize of $50,000 in gold coin; Charlie Marsh who