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NEVADA GAZETTE JANUARY 1 & 3, 1866 1
MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1866
LOCATING QUARTZ CLAIMS.—We publish in our issue to-day the bill introduced in the
Legislature by Assemblyman Pattison, to regulate the location of quartz claims and keeping up the title in
the same. This is of more importance to the people of this section than any measure that will be brought
before the Legislature, excepting the resolutions and memorial relative to the Pacific Railroad grants.
The future prosperity of this and most of the other mining counties of the State depend upon the quartz
mines, and it is time some general law was enacted on the subject. The author of the bill, though he has
given the subject much study, and has had some experience in the business, does not claim that the bill
is perfect, and would be glad to receive suggestions on the subject, with the view to its modification and
improvement... . [Full text of bill appears on page 2.]
AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING.—The only demonstrations in the way of amusements for this
evening, as far as we have heard, is the ball to be given by Mrs. Blum, at Temperance Hall, and a surprise
(?) party, the exact locality of which we are not at liberty to mention.
BALL AT GRASS VALLEY.—A ball comes off this evening at the Orphan Asylum building, Grass
Valley. It has been got up by the lady managers of the Asylum, and the proceeds will be appropriated for
the benefit of the institution.
NO PAPER.—To-day being New Year’s, and very generally observed as a holiday, we shall issue no
paper to-morrow.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1866
THE SURPRISE PARTY.—On Monday evening a party of forty or more ladies and gentlemen,
congregated at the home of Jas. Whartenby—each bringing a basket or package containing some choice
edibles, as contribution toward the necessary refreshments for the entertainment. After spending a
pleasant hour in social chat and a thorough examination of the elegantly furnished apartments of our
bachelor friend, the party started, baskets in hand, to carry out the object for which they had met.
Considerable speculation and curiosity was manifested by most of the party, who had been kept in utter
ignorance of their destination, but their anxiety was relieved by their file leader, after a circuitous march,
halting in front of the main entrance to the National Exchange, and the exclamation of astonishment at
their long delay—by one of the proprietors. Tables, etc., were reserved, and very soon Mr. Lancaster’s
uninvited guests were whirling around his dining room in the graceful dance. At this stage of the
proceedings the real surprise of the evening occurred, by the arrival of a large delegation of ladies
and gentlemen from Grass Valley, who by some means had got an inkling of what was going on, and
determined to assist their friends in Nevada in carrying out their designs. . . .
SALUTES.—The colored people of Nevada engaged Z. P. Davis to fire salutes on New Year’s
Day in commemoration of the emancipation proclamation. The arrangement was to fire twelve guns at
sunrise, twelve at noon and twelve in the evening. Davis remarked that he would fire one gun for the
whites. The gun was accordingly charged again, and Eldridge, a little son of Davis, touched it off, when
the cannon burst into a hundred pieces. Davis had directed Eldridge to stand in a position quartering
from the breech of the gun, while himself and Stevens, his assistant, stood on the opposite quarter, these
being deemed the safest positions. The pieces flew in every direction except those in which the men and
boy were standing. One piece was thrown upon the house of Judge Niles, some two hundred and fifty