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302 OCTOBER 9, 1866 NEVADA TRANSCRIPT
the county, his place of residence and business, a full and complete history of the county and its various
towns and mining camps, from their earliest settlement down to the present time. . . . The work will also
be supplied with an excellent and accurate map prepared by County Surveyor H. S. Bradley. Such a work
as this is greatly needed, and Bean has the energy and the material necessary to make it accurate and
valuable. For the historical part of the work he has secured the services of the best writers in the county.
Such a work is just what is needed to make known our resources abroad.
STORE ROBBED AT RED DOG.—The store of M. J. Hydeliff [Heydlauff], at Red Dog, was
entered on Saturday night and robbed of goods to the value of about five hundred dollars. The rogues
effected an entrance from the front. The building is of brick and an entrance was made through one of the
columns between the iron doors, after this was done it was an easy matter to unbolt the doors. No attempt
was made to open the safe. About six dozen pairs of pants, a number of coats, a few knives and a small
quantity of tobacco were taken. Mr. McCallum was sleeping in the rear of the building when the robbery
was committed, but heard nothing of it. We are informed that the rogues were tracked as far as the school
house in the direction of You Bet, where the tracks were lost. A store belonging to Hydeliff was robbed
several months since at You Bet.
NATURALIZED.—Hugh McLaughlin, a native of Ireland, was naturalized in the District Court
yesterday.
BEAN’S HISTORY AND DIRECTORY OF NEVADA COUNTY.
Prospectus. The size and importance of Nevada among the mining counties of California; its mines of gold
of enormous product, eclipsing all others in the world; its extensive gravel ranges in which lies imbedded wealth to
enrich the nation; its thousand ledges of gold-bearing rock that stripe its territory, invited the capital of other lands,
and which are destined at no distant day to cause its valleys and mountains to resound with the din and clatter of
machinery; its fertile soil on which can be grown all the productions of the temperate zone; its perfect adaptability
to the production of the generous wines that are to rival those of France or Hungary; its vast extent of surface that
entices the agriculturist to come and clothe its hill-sides with orchards and vineyards; its nearness to the Great
Pacific Railway, rendering it accessible to the commerce and travel of the world, and the attention it is attracting
among the scientific and moneyed circles of the globe all these would seem to call for some compendious exhibit of
its boundless resources, its products and its prospects.
Impressed with this idea, and cheered by the encouragement of friends to whom we have submitted our
project, we have undertaken to gather the statistics and publish a volume of some five hundred pages, embracing a
complete Directory of Nevada County, in which will be contained the name, location and business of every man in
the County, a full and concise History of the County, from its settlement down to the present time. An account of
all the notable mines, their location and yield, as far as can be accurately ascertained. A history of the canals, cost
of construction, capacity, &c., and in brief, full statistics of every branch of industry, whether mining, agricultural,
mechanical or other, that is of interest or profit to men.
We expect to make the book a depository of facts that shall render it invaluable, not only to the citizens of the
county, but to capitalists, merchants, and business men generally, as well as to the reading public wherever it goes.
It will gather up, in a preservable shape, the past history of a portion of the earth’s surface, the wealth of whose
mines and material resources are superior to those of any other territory of like extent on the globe. It will embody
in convenient form every fact bearing upon the present condition of the county, its statistics of every description,
and will present such an array of facts and figures as shall tend to convince families far away of the desirableness
of its soil and climate for permanent homes. County pride in some degree impels us to the work, and we trust
that the same motive power will induce the citizens of Nevada County to help us with zeal in the task we have
undertaken to do.
The name of the work we propose to call “Bean’s Directory and History of Nevada County.” It will be
accompanied with a Map of the County, drawn by H. S. Bradley and engraved expressly for this work.
BEAN & WOLFE.
Nevada, Oct. 9th, 1866.