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Title: 1865 Collection Type: Directories and Documents Collection Name: Nevada County News & Advertisments # of Pages: 627 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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100 FEBRUARY 7 & 9, 1865 GRASS VALLEY UNION chest had been bursted in from the outside, so that a man’s hand could be inserted through the aperture. The chest was evidently prepared to hold treasure, and was of capacity sufficient to contain many thousands of dollars. No one now living in that vicinity has any knowledge of the party who may have made the safe, and it would seem from all the circumstances that the owner was not the party who cut it open. When the sea gives up its dead then, too, will a thousand deeds of horror, committed among the hills of California be brought to light. THE GRASS VALLEY SCHOOLS.—The Transcript says we are glad that the Trustees at Grass Valley are determined to make their school equal to any in the county. During the past year they have erected a fine house and have three schools in successful operation, but ungraded. The population of the place is rapidly increasing, and in a short time new homes will have to be built, and with proper management the schools can be made equal to any in the State. We hope the press and the people of that town will help to sustain and build up the Public Schools located there. Let every child have the benefit of an education. All good citizens, whether directly interested or not, should help in the good cause. GEN. McDOWELL has ordered the batteries and fortifications at Monterey to be remounted and repaired. They were dismantled, and all the guns taken to Benicia, immediately before the rebellion commenced. The rebs thought they had “a good thing” on California. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1865 THE WATER WORKS. The question before the citizens of the corporation, as we understand it, which is to be decided by their votes on next Wednesday, is simply that of water, or no water. No particular plan of introducing the water is proposed by the Trustees; but they desire, in this election, an expression of opinion from the people, which will instruct or inform the Corporate authorities whether they shall or shall not incur the expense necessary to supply the town with water... . [H]eretofore at an enormous expense, not less than $1,500 per annum, we have had a precarious and insufficient supply, which, from the weakness of the pipes, and their inability to stand the pressure, was, and is, most likely to fail us in the time of need. It is high time that this state of affairs was remedied; for it is not the part of wise or prudent men to leave $500,000 worth of taxable property, rated at the low valuation placed upon it for revenue purposes, to the danger of destruction by fire when one per cent a year for five years would save the property itself, and the cost also, by the difference in insurance. We understand that the Trustees have made a general estimate of the expense of laying down 4-inch iron pipe through all the principal streets, and of carrying them to the corporation line wherever the population might render it necessary—and the whole expense will not exceed $20,000. These pipes can be supplied from two sources only. One is the Empire Ditch, which already has a reservoir at the head of Auburn street, and the water from which can be carried to the highest point of Church Hill, where another reservoir might be easily constructed. The pressure from either of these reservoirs, we are informed, would be about fifty feet greater than that of the present supply, would furnish water for irrigation and domestic purposes to every house in town, and would protect all property below a line drawn half way between School street and the summit of Church Hill; as for property above that line, the houses are all dwellings, standing at some distance from each other, and, in case of fire, any amount of water could be furnished for hand-work with buckets. The Empire Company also propose to build another reservoir on Kate Hayes Hill at an additional height of thirty feet above those spoken of, and to be supplied with clear water the year round. The system of pipes would be connected with all these reservoirs, and water could be supplied from any or all, as occasion required. We understand that the owners of the Empire Ditch are willing to furnish all the water that may be required for all purposes, either by the year, or from month