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NEVADA DEMOCRAT APRIL 15 & 22, 1857 73
interesting themselves in the matter. The construction of a railroad to Nevada is known to be practicable,
and if sufficient capital can be raised to build it there is no doubt that it would pay a good percentage
upon the investment.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1857 .
Municipal Election.
For Trustees: —TRACY STROUD, T. H. ROLFE, JOHN GRIER, W. P. HARRINGTON, JACOB KOHLMAN,
For Recorder:—GEO. S. HUPP,
For Marshal: —HENRY PLUMER,
For Treasurer:—MaAT. FUNSTON,
For Assessor:—t. P. VAN HAGAN.
Our Ticket.
Above we present the names of the gentlemen nominated by the Democratic Convention, for City
officers to serve for the ensuing year. They are all so well known in this community that it is useless for
us to say anything in regard to their qualifications. Mr. Plumer has served one year as marshal, and has
made an efficient and reliable officer. The immense majority which he received in the primary election for
re-nomination, is a flattering tribute of which he may well be proud, and shows plainly his great
popularity with the masses of the party. Should the opposition attempt to run a ticket, the Democratic
candidates will be elected by an unprecedented majority.
South Yuba Ditch.
We learn that the work upon the South Yuba Ditch is progressing rapidly, and there is now a fair
prospect that it will be completed by the time the water gives out to the other ditches leading into this
locality. The great difficulty attending the construction of this ditch has been the length of time
necessarily consumed in running the tunnel through the divide between Steep Hollow and Deer Creek.
The whole length of the tunnel when completed will be 3247 feet, mostly through solid rock which had to
be blasted. The ground was first carefully surveyed, and workmen commenced running the tunnel from
each end. A shaft was also sunk on the summit, and the tunnel driven in opposite directions from the
shaft, a steam engine having been erected to pump the water. The work on the tunnel has thus been
carried on from four different points, night and day, for two years. Last Saturday the workmen engaged on
the Deer Creek side broke through and joined the two sections together, and several of the men who had
been at work on it for many months, being somewhat elated, came into town on Sunday to have a “time.”
On the Deer creek side, the tunnel is now opened a distance of 2067 feet, and on the Steep Hollow side
950 feet, leaving about 230 feet still to be run. By making a curve, so as to pass round the rim of the rock,
it is thought that the balance of the tunnel can be excavated with little blasting. On the Steep Hollow side
they were under the necessity of raising the grade a trifle to that the water would run back; after getting
through a few days work will be required to cut down this grade, and the tunnel will then be completed.
The grade, or fall, in the whole distance is eight and a half feet [in the tunnel]. . . .
The Ditch is six feet wide on the bottom, twelve feet on the top, about six feet deep, and has an
average grade of eight feet to the mile. It takes the water out of the South Yuba, at a point higher up,
which affords a large and constant supply. The owners are confident that after the ditch is completed, a
sufficient quantity of water can be obtained to run it full both winter and summer. . . .