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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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20 JANUARY 24, 25, 26, 1865 NEVADA GAZETTE SEE HIM.—George Reese, well and favorably known at North San Juan, has opened the Miners’ Saloon on Broad street, in this city... . CATHOLIC CHURCH.—The spire of this new church is now completed, and the edifice is quite an ornament to the city. The finishing touches are being rapidly added to the building. We understand the Archbishop of the Diocese will be present at the dedication. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1865 THEATER.—A large force of workmen are engaged on this building, and the work is being pushed rapidly forward. The walls are being repaired, new supports put in, and so far as the work has progressed it give evidence of strength and durability. THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1865 Notice to Our Patrons. On and after Monday next, January 30th, the terms of the Nevada Daily Gazette will be thirty-seven and a-half cents per week, by carrier, and one dollar and a-half per month, or fifteen dollars per annum, by mail or express. We are compelled to ask this advance in consequence of the great expense of full Eastern telegraphic news, which we intend to furnish hereafter to the people of Nevada county in advance of all competitors, if our patrons will sustain us in the enterprise. Owing to the unusual pressure upon our columns of legal advertising, we are compelled to restrict the quantity and variety of our reading matter for the present. That pressure will soon be removed, however; and we shall furnish thenceforth a more complete and readable newspaper than has ever before been published in Nevada county. N.B.—Those of our subscribers who have paid in advance for the paper will be furnished with it at former rates until the time for which they have paid expires. WASTE. The people of California are proverbially prodigal, reckless and unthrifty in all their industrial pursuits. Their besetting evil is waste. Many of them are intelligent, industrious, energetic; but they cannot bring themselves to the pettiness of saving, to the smallness of details, to the littleness of heed and care which would prevent their earnings and their substance from frittering away in wanton waste. The farmer, having reaped his harvest, burns his straw and stubble, which should go to feed his stock and renew his land exhausted by cropping. Or he invests heavily in fancy breeds of stock and expensive farming machinery, which he loses for lack of care and attention. The fruit and vine-grower crowds his trees and vines to their utmost bearing capacity, neglects to foster and nourish them, prunes them, if at all, by the least troublesome instead of the best method, and exhausts their strength in three or four years.The manufacturer, reckless of expense and careless of details, wastes a handsome income yearly in the debris of his workshop. The miner washes his dirt through his sluices, apparently careless whether he saves all the gold it contains or only a small portion of it. The quartz-mill owner selects the style of machinery that suits his fancy, without regard to its fitness, and having set it in motion crushes away, utterly heedless of the fact that he habitually loses from one-quarter to one-third of the gold that passes through his batteries. There are but few exceptions to the general rule. All seem to be eager to make money by the easiest and speediest mode, and to be careless about saving it. Everything is conducted in the happy-go-lucky style, with a recklessness to consequences which is at once absurd and alarming. The result is, that the wealthy