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100 APRIL 30, 1872 GRASS VALLEY UNION
That these outsiders will be eventually plucked there can be no doubt. Mining stocks will
not and can not go up for ever. Even now the inflated bubble may be pricked and the many may be
ruined. After the ruin will come more legitimate business. Our mountaineers will cast about them
for legitimate mines in which to invest, and for some time they will dread that fire of excitement
which has raged in California street. Meanwhile much money has been withdrawn from savings
banks and has fund its way into the hands of parties who will use it in mining. The stock operator
is always a venturous miner. He does not let his money rest. When he can find stocks to bull and
bear with his coin he will do that, but when stocks will not go up or down on fictions he will hunt
for places with dividends. That kind of miners exists all over the mineral belt of California; and the
shrewd men of the Bay are aware of the fact.
Another help to mining will soon occur. The large gravel claims now being worked with such
energy will be cleaned up within from three to five months. Just at the present the owners have not
time to clean up. They wash every moment night and day, Sundays and weekdays, in order to take
advantages of the water season. When they “clean up” it will be demonstrated that they have been
wise in working and refraining from gambling. The results they obtain will call attention to the gold
mines, and in the dry days extensive preparations will be made to open diggings for the next Winter.
In the whole prospect we see nothing discouraging. We can even stand a North wind or two in this
State and not be ruined. We do not think that the Golden State is in danger of becoming a second
Mud Flat because Goat Island may be grabbed.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.—Last year the question of building a new church
was considerably agitated and subscriptions were taken up to see what money could be raised.
Considerable money was pledged but not enough to justify the building of the church that was then
contemplated. This church was to have cost about $15,000.
The matter was left [sic] drop after this unsuccessful effort until within the last few weeks,
when the matter has again been revived with renewed energy. Subscription s papers are once more
out, and parties are now canvassing for money to build the new church, which is very much needed.
An examination of the old church has had the effect to press this matter more forcibly upon
the people than any amount of argument could have done. The foundation is found to be positively
unsafe. The pillars are all rotted out with dry rot and scarce any remain but could be picked apart
with the fingers easily. The gallery is very unsafe, owing to a lack of a proper support, and the walls
and paper are in a wretched condition. At least $1,000 would be necessary to repair this old edifice,
and even if this outlay were made it would last only two or three years.
With these facts so painfully apparent, the congregation think it pre-eminently necessary to
build an entirely new church and demolish the old structure. The foundation of the old church has
stood for about nineteen years (since 1854). The dimensions of the old church are 30 feet 10 inches
wide by 66 feet long, and all who attend this church can see for themselves that it is too small to
accommodate the audiences that there assemble. The new church is to be 50 feet wide by 80 feet long
and will be two stories. The basement is to be 12 feet high and will be used as a Sunday School room.
This story will contain two ante-rooms to be used as class rooms, etc. The upper story will be the
church proper, and will have an arched roof. The hight of this room will be, at the sides 20 feet high,
and in the middle 27 feet high.
After a careful estimation it is calculated the proposed building will cost in the neighborhood
of $7,000. This will build the church entirely of wood. With the number of church-goers that Grass
Valley has it ought to be no very hard matter to erect this church with but little effort. As soon as
$4,000 is subscribed the work will be commenced. Other communities, with congregations no larger
than the Methodist Church here has, have churches that cost $20,000. We surely ought to have one
that will cost hardly one-third as much. Let us have the new church, we say, and that very soon.