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Volume 055-3 - July 2001 (8 pages)
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NCHS Bulletin July 2001
TCWACK BLUFF. 2.HYDRAULIGC MINE. J.P\PE FOR CONVEYING WATER TO THE MINE. 4 DUTLET NO) S.CANUN FLUME N°? O.RETUAT HOUSE,
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Residence and Mine of John Hussey, You Bet, Nevada County. (From History of Nevada County, published by Thompson and
West in 1880.)
district. However, all did not work out well in the beginburst out and came foaming and roaring down Deer
ning. The Thompson and West History of Nevada County creek in an irresistible wave fifteen feet above the high
reported this account: water mark. Main and Broad street bridges were
washed away and even Pine street bridge, high above
the stream, was so badly injured as to be impassable
for some time.
Boswell & Hanson’s store, Ely’s feed store, Wait’s
blacksmith shop, half of the Monumental Hotel, a few
miners cabins and the Gold Tunnel Quartz Mill went
sailing down on the crest of the wave. Great injury
was inflicted upon the mining claims along the stream.
Boswell and Hanson were sleeping in their store, when
the roar of the approaching flood aroused them. They
rushed into the street in their nightclothes just in time
to escape being carried down with the building The
water came rushing down the creek at its full height
for half an hour and then began to rapidly to lower.
The damage to flumes, mining claims, cabins, etc.
In June 1856, Amos T. Laird & Co., the most extensive gravel miners of Nevada City, entered upon the
construction of a dam six miles above Nevada City for
the purpose of making a reservoir. The contract was let
to Moore & Foss, who had nearly completed the work,
when the winter rains so filled the reservoir that the
dam began to indicate symptoms of giving way. The
contractors sent word to Mr. Laird, but as he had not
accepted it he declined to exercise any authority that
would render him liable in case of accident. The dam
was forty feet high and the water was thirty feet deep
and backed up over an area of 200 acres.
An attempt was made on Saturday, February 14,
1857, to draw the water gradually off, but between
four and five o’clock on Sunday morning the water