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14 JANUARY 23, 1866 NEVADA GAZETTE
TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1866
THE LATE STORM.—The storm, which commenced on Friday evening, was the heaviest, we
believe, that has occurred for some years, the rainfall here in the course of forty-eight hours being about
six inches. In consequence of the interruption of communications we have not been able to get any
particulars of the effects below; but we learn that the country around Marysville is all overflowed. The
operator at Marysville telegraphed yesterday morning that the only land visible from there were the
Buttes and the mountains in the distance. He stated, however, that the town was not overflowed, it being
protected by a levee, but the whole country around was a waste of waters. At that time the Yuba and
Feather rivers must have been rising at Marysville. The Colfax stage of Sunday arrived late that evening,
but brought no mail from below, the cars having failed to arrive. We learn that the railroad between
Newcastle and Colfax is in terrible condition, and some days will probably be required before it will be
safe for the cars to pass over it. The embankments have settled very much in some places, and in others,
where cuts have been made, the road is obstructed by earth caving upon it. We have heard nothing as to
the condition of the road below Newcastle. Arrangements have been made to send the stages to Auburn to
bring up the mails and passengers. The telegraph line is not working below Colfax, consequently we have
heard nothing from Sacramento since Saturday. The country around the Capital is doubtless all under
water, but with the present strong and high levee there is little danger of an overflow in the city.
DUTCH FLAT ROAD.—We learn from the Dutch Flat Enquirer, of Saturday last, that the road
between that place and Colfax was impassable for stages, which had been suspended and a saddle train
substituted. Under the new arrangement they manage to get through, but the drivers unite in saying
that it is the worst piece of road that ever laid out of doors. The mails were two days in coming from
Sacramento to Dutch Flat. This was the condition of the road before the storms of Saturday and Sunday,
and of course it must be much worse now. Passengers are conveyed all the way from Dutch Flat to
Virginia City in sleighs. That part of the road, last week, was excellent for sleighing.
THE STORM IN THE MOUNTAINS.—We learn from Thomas Marker, who came down from
Washington yesterday, with the stage, that the storm has been very severe in the mountains. The bridges
across the South Yuba and other streams had all been carried off by the high water, and the rain extended
as far above as had been heard from. During Sunday night the Yuba fell about four feet at Washington.
The snow has all be carried off this side of the Six Mile House, but above there it had been packed so
good that this rain appeared to have made but little impression on it. It is believed, however, that another
day’s rain, such as Sunday’s would have carried off all the snow on the ridge... .
RAINFALL.—The rainfall at this place during the last storm, according to the guage [sic] kept by
Mr. Whartenby, was 6.31 inches. Nearly all of this amount fell in the course of forty-eight hours, from
about six o’clock Friday evening to the same time Sunday evening. The rainfall for this month, up to
yesterday morning, has been 13.85 inches. This is more than usually falls in January, but we had less than
the usual amount in December.
MOORE?’S FLAT.—We learn from John S. Gregory that nearly all the cellars under the buildings at
Moore’s Flat are filled with water, which will result in considerable loss to the residents of that place. One
man lost some six or eight hundred dollars worth of tobacco and cigars which he had stored in his cellar.
BORN. At North Bloomfield, on Sunday, January 21st, to the wife of J. Bonney—a son.