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NEVADA JOURNAL FEBRUARY 20, 1857 43
Now this may be a very pretty site for a city, (we have not examined the whole route) but we fear it
will be a long time before there are many houses in it—especially brick. The inhabitants of American
Hill, Wood’s Ravine, and all that quarter of the globe, had better be good boys, or they will have the
Marshal upon them. As for us—we live in the country—that’s all. Well, we never liked a city life—no
how!
The Board of Trustees of what used to be the City of Nevada, met the other night and tried to get
over the difficulty by resolving that the point heretofore considered west by the citizens of Nevada, shall
hereafter be considered east and vice versa. Martin Van Buren once said that “east and west were
conventionable terms,” and we can’t see why we might not have a convention and change them.
Otherwise, we must lose all our city polish.
COURT OF SESSIONS.—On Tuesday, Joseph Batchelder was found guilty of the crime of forgery,
committed upon Allen Tichorst in passing upon him a fraudulent bill of sale for a horse, with the name of
John C. Parker forged upon it. His sentence is fixed for Saturday at 10 o’clock.
On Wednesday John Senner was convicted of gaming in the Columbus Saloon in this town.
Sentence on Saturday. A. Zeffer plead guilty of the same offence committed at Grass Valley. Sentence to
be rendered the same day. The cases of Farish and Gleason, and of Lawson are fixed for Saturday. That of
Ashhmore for Monday next. The bond of T. Sisk of Grass Valley, under an indictment for gambling was
declared forfeited on Wednesday.
NEW CONTROLLER.—We learn that the Hon. E. F. Burton of Nevada has received the
appointment of state controller to fill the vacancy occasioned by the impeachment of Mr. Whitman. The
bill introduced by Senator Waite, which lately passed the legislature provides that the impeachment of any
state officer by the assembly, shall create a vacancy of his office until the impeachment is tried by the
senate. Mr. Burton is every way worthy of the position. If the controller’s books do not present a clear
record at the close of his term, we shall lose our last lingering remnant of confidence in California
honesty.
THE FLOOD—MORE CALAMITIES.
The heavy rains of the last week, and the melting of the snow in the mountains, has raised the water
of the creeks to an almost unprecedented height. Deer Creek is said to have been eighteen inches higher
than at any time since the flood of [1851-1852]. Throughout the county, the streams have risen in the
same proportion. Little or no damage would have occurred to our citizens from the natural rise of water.
The breakage of Mr. Laird’s large reservoir on Sunday morning last has involved Nevada again in a
serious calamity.
We have heretofore had occasion to speak of this reservoir, and to express some fears of its capacity
to withstand the pressure of the immense mass of water confined by it. The dam however was said to be
substantially built, and we did not then expect that our fears would be so soon and so unhappily realized.
The reservoir was situated upon Deer Creek about seven miles above Nevada. The dam was forty
feet high, constructed of timbers, and when full would have flooded an area of two hundred acres, with an
average depth of twenty-five feet. At the time of the breakage, it was not entirely completed, but was
filled with water to within about ten feet of the top. We have been informed that on Saturday fears were
entertained of its safety and that workmen were employed in cutting holes for the escape of the water.
Unfortunately the flood gate was so choked as to render it useless for that purpose. On Saturday evening
word was sent to some of the residents along the banks of the stream to put them on their guard. But the