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GRASS VALLEY UNION AUGUST 25 & 28, 1866 265
SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1866
THE HOWSON OPERA TROUPE.—This company, which, we believe, is the first legitimate opera
troupe by which Grass Valley has been visited, will open Hamilton Hall on next Monday evening with
[William Vincent] Wallace’s beautiful opera of “Maritana.” The Howson troupe has given a series of
operatic entertainments during the week at Nevada, and competent musical critics assure us that the
Howson’s have given the fullest satisfaction. We feel satisfied that the opera will be well patronized in
Grass Valley.
WARM WEATHER.—The “hot spell” is still with us. Sweltering weather has become so common
during the past ten weeks that a zephyr is magnified into a tornado, and a passing breeze is suggestive of
colds and other pulmonary diseases. Lo, who justly claims to be “the old inhabitant” of this part of the
country, assured us on his honor that this is a very warm Summer—the warmest within his recollection.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1866
Our Title-Regulators—No. 1.
This paper on a former occasion alluded, and in plain terms, too, to a class of men who have done
much toward retarding the quartz developments of Grass Valley, and who are now industriously at work
in the unprincipled business of throwing questionable titles about every quartz ledge they can in any
manner trump up a spurious claim to. The sooner these fellows are stopped in their nefarious schemes
the better it will be for the permanent prosperity of Grass Valley. Faro patrons will scarcely need to be
reminded that there is a very low grade of gamblers known as “sleeper sharps,” who hang around faro
tables, waiting for a chance to pick up some unclaimed bet. These fellows are not a particle lower in our
estimation than the men who have loafed around Grass Valley for years, never having done one honest
day’s labor toward opening our mines—never in any manner assisting in advancing the interests of the
town—but who are now ready on all occasions to come in as marplots to any proposition having in view
the developing of our mining interests. They are ready to pronounce on the title of any quartz mine in
this Township. No lawyer need be put to the trouble of preparing an abstract of title to a mine while
these title-keepers are about. They are always on the look-out for San Francisco or Eastern capitalists,
“coppering” moneyed men on sight. If not on the inside where a trade is about to take place, they are
ready to swear the title is as worthless as themselves, or if the title be unquestionable, they are then
prepared to pronounce the mine worthless. Listen to these fellows—and somehow they do manage to be
occasionally heard and heeded—and not a mine in Grass Valley Township, unless some wildcat concern
they are interested in, has a clear title. The Eureka title is not worth a cent—Fricot, hambugged those
innocent fellows at San Francisco and in New York; Lee and Houston have no just claim to the Ophir
Hill mine; Peachy, Hoffman & Co. have been victimized by the late owners of the Norambagua, and
even the Rocky Bar title is shaky. These miserable loafers have at various times claimed every prominent
quartz vein about this place. They seldom or never go through even the form of working, and they are in
extraordinary luck in being able to board two successive weeks at the same restaurant or hotel. Life with
them is a series of most successful sportings. We have not sufficient space in one number of the UNION
to show these fellows up as we wish to; hence we will have to attend to them in a “to be continued”
manner.
EDWARDS & CO.—These gentlemen have rented the building owned by John Cashin, South side
of Main street near Auburn, and will open with a fine steak of books, stationery, fancy goods, etc., on