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16 JANUARY 16 & 23, 1857 NEVADA JOURNAL
title, and will make their first appearance Saturday evening at the Theatre. The amusements will consist
of burlesques, duets, solos, reels, fancy dances, &c. As this company is composed of young men of the
place, we hope they may have a full house, as they no doubt deserve.
Notice.
ALL persons indebted to the undersigned are requested to call upon R. McMuRRAY No. 5 Main street, and
settle their accounts before the 15th day of February next, as they will leave for the Atlantic States on the 26th of
that month. HIRST, RUSSELL & CO., TURKLE & Co.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1857.
MAMMOTH RESERVOIRS.—During a short period of the year, there is more water running in the
streams and ditches than can be used, and the attention of miners and ditchmen has been turned lately to
the construction of large reservoirs, or artificial lakes, in which the surplus water can be retained for the
dry season. Among the largest of these in Nevada county, is the reservoir of the “Shady Creek Ditch Co.”
near French Corral, which will flood two hundred acres from five to twenty feet deep, and the reservoir of
Mr. A. T. Laird, a few miles above Nevada city. The latter is constructed in the bed of Deer creek,
immediately below a wide strip of bottom land. The dam is forty feet high, and will, it is estimated, flood
over two hundred acres with an average depth of twenty-five feet.
Some few persons are fearful that the immense mass of water will break the dam, and sweeping
down the creek, carry off the lower portion of the city, and all mining operations below it, but from
conversation with those who have examined it, we feel satisfied that there is no danger. The dam was
constructed by Mr. Moore, of this city, and is said to be a most excellent and substantial piece of
workmanship. If it should break one of these fine nights, the slumberers in the lower part of the city
would, undoubtedly, have rather a moist time. Trusting in the promise of Noah, and the strength of the
dam timbers (and the additional fact that we sleep in the upper part of the town) we shall continue to go to
bed with our usual feelings of security.
ICE.—The unusual cold of this winter ensures us an abundant supply of ice for the coming warm
season. Good, solid frozen water will be a great improvement on the snow we have heretofore been
forced to use to cool our parched tongues during the sultry months. We are informed that Mr. Haven has
already laid up over 300 tons of clear solid ice, taken from the dam at the head of the Snow Mountain
Ditch. During the late severe cold, the water of that dam was frozen to the depth of fifteen inches. This
fact is remarkable in California.
FOUND DEAD.—On Friday the 16th inst. the body of a man named Thomas Burke was found
lying in the Snow Mountain Ditch five or six miles above this town. It seems the deceased
started from his cabin, a few miles above the place where he was found, to walk to Nevada, in
the midst of a severe snow storm. Not returning as soon as he was expected, his partners
started in search of him, and after tracing him some distance, lost sight of the trail. The body
was accidentally discovered by a person living near the spot. As there were no marks of
violence on his person, he undoubtedly perished from cold. [See Journal of April 10, for notice
of “Michael Burke,” same death. ]
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday last, a man named Wm. Richards, at Gold Flat, while carrying a
heavy load of lumber upon his back, stumbled and fell. The lumber fell upon him compressing
the spine at the back of the neck, and causing instant paralysis from the neck down. He died