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92 JANUARY 1 & 3, 1852 NEVADA JOURNAL
direction of our esteemed friend N. H. Garretson, are of an admirable character. Mr. Garretson is a
complete workman, as his success in erecting mill testifies.
DIED. At Grass Valley of erysipelas, Dec. 25th, Mrs. [John] West, formerly from England, aged
about 40 years. [Her husband had died on November 29 from the same cause. ]
In this city, Dec. 29, John E. Porter, late of New London, Conn., aged about 50 years.
A SCHOOL will be opened in this city at the Odd Fellows Hall, on Monday next by Miss [Caroline]
Bowers.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1852
WATER COMPANIES.
It is very singular that lynx eyed as men are generally in all matters in which they are
personally interested, that the great field which has been opened for the employment of capital
in the introduction of water into rich auriferous placers, which have remained unproductive
only because of their distance from that indispensable element, has so far escaped the attention
of capitalists.
Nevada took the lead, and while the immense fortunes which will be realized from quartz
veins are yet “in futoro,” if not “in nu bibus,” the Deer Creek and Cayote Water Companies
have not only paid for their construction, (although the labor on their excavation was carried
on at an expense of six dollars per day to the man,) but have also divided enormous dividends.
The Rough and Ready Canal has proved equally profitable; and, indeed, so far as our
knowledge extends, every enterprise of this nature has been crowned with
success. . .—. [Sacramento] Union.
The following admirable article is from the Editorial Correspondence of the Sunday Dispatch:
NEVADA CITY.
Over a rough road we reached Nevada, four miles further into the mountains, at about
sunset. The city is upon the hill-sides and on the ridges, among the streams and over them, the
muddy water rushing beneath houses, stores and hotels, and through the streets, splashing and
gurgling as if uttering self-congratulating hymns for their escape from man’s torturing
interruptions, cradles, long-toms, sluices, flumes, mills, canals, and tunnels.. .
Some of the works in process of erection are upon a grand scale. The Bunker Hill Company
have a splendid mill, embracing a smelting as well as crushing apparatus. The mill is propelled
by water power. Some idea of its force may be formed from the fact that the overshot wheel is
36 feet in diameter, and when put in motion, which is readily done by a very thin stream, it
moves with a dignity and power that seems to say it could crush a mountain without disturbing
the even tenor of its way. . .
Progress of Improvement at Nevada.
There is probably no portion of California that has improved so rapidly, or undergone such great
changes, as has Nevada city and contiguous places. In March last, a sweeping fire destroyed the heart of
our city, and the fruits of the industry and [perseverance] of many a long day of our merchants. Since that
time, our city has been rebuilt in a more substantial and beautiful style, and now far exceeds its value
before the fire. But the alterations in the appearance of the city are but slight compared with the