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360 DECEMBER 21 & 22, 1866 NEVADA TRANSCRIPT
still remains will be covered over with shingles also,and the work will be completed today. The plastering
was saturated and the water continues to drop from it, but it is not thought that any of it will come
down. Yesterday morning two stoves were placed in the building, and a good fire kept up all day. In the
afternoon a large charcoal furnace was set up, and the work of drying out went on first rate. Mr. Munro
thinks the building will be all right by this evening. The managers have gone to work with great energy
to repair the building and are succeeding in their work.
THE STORM.—Old residents say the present season so far resembles those of 1849 and 1852. The
winter that was signalized by the first general immigration to the State was perhaps the severest that has
ever been seen by the mass of American residents. For month after month the rain fell incessantly, and
snows piled up in the mountains. As late as March, 1850, we are informed, the snow was ten feet deep
on the banks of Deer Creek not far above the town. In September of that year Deer Creek ran a good deal
of water which was used to work long-toms to wash the drift dirt of the famous Coyote lead, hauled in
wagons from the range of hills back of the town.
Such a fearful winter, with abundant water supply through the summer gave an exaggerated idea of
what was to be expected the following winter; and so miners dug up the dirt in all the dry ravines, and
put it in piles ready for washing as soon as the rains should come. They laid in large stocks of provisions,
paying high freights from Sacramento, confidently anticipating impassable roads and famine scarcity.
The disgust of the residents may be imagined when the winter came and passed, and not until late in the
spring did enough rail fall to lay the dust. The dry ravine dirt was not washed that year or the next, and
all kinds of goods could be bought in the mines at a less rate per pound than the cost of freighting them in
the fall.
The winter of 1852 was nearly as severe as that of 1849, and caught the mining communities entirely
unprepared. Freighting by teams became utterly impossible. At one time there were in all the stores in
this place but two sacks of flour and one of corn meal; and people began to think of emigrating, when a
pack train got through from Marysville with a supply. The suffering from famine in some of the upper
camps was very great, and men made their way out through the deep snows at imminent risk of life,
while some perished in the attempt. It seemed as if the clouds would never break for weeks,and rain and
snow fell continually.
The winter of 1866 promises to be equally memorable. We have never known a heavier storm of
wind and rain than that of Tuesday night. Perhaps the one which carried away Laird’s reservoir in Deer
Creek equalled it. The fall of rain has been almost continual for over a week, and we believe the amount
of water-fall for the length of time exceeds any of which a record has been kept.
THE RAIN FALL.—The rain fall during twenty-four hours, ending at 10 o’clock yesterday
[Thursday], was 2.20 inches, according to the guage [sic] at the office of the South Yuba Canal company.
The fall from 10 o’clock Monday morning up to the same hour yesterday was 7.75 inches.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.—The Public Schools of this city will close today, for vacation, until after
the holidays. The next session will commence on the first Monday in January. The school for colored
children will also be opened at that time.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1866
DIED. In this city, on the 20th inst., Susanna F. Pattison, daughter of John Pattison.
Asa [Mudd], of San Francisco, well known in this city, is seriously ill, according to the Times, in
New York city.