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Title: 1872 Collection Type: Directories and Documents Collection Name: Nevada County News & Advertisments # of Pages: 281 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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GRASS VALLEY UNION FEBRUARY 20 & 21, 1872 A1 and lot at the east end of Main street sold for $535, and a lot back of the house sold for $215. The house and lot were purchased by John Thomas and the lot back of it was purchased by Thomas Crase. The prices paid for the property were fair considering the situation of the times. FIREMAN’S BALL.—Thomas Canfield handed us a ticket, the other day which admits us to the Fireman’s ball at Nevada city, on the 22nd. We return thanks to the Committee and to Canfield for the polite attention shown us, and we promise to have a Jenkins present on the occasion. The Firemen of Nevada always give a first class party. SAD NEWS.—The Transcript of Sunday says: “Judge Searls, of this city, yesterday received a dispatch announcing the death of the father of Judge A. C. Niles at his home in New York. The telegram was sent to the wife of Judge Searls who is a sister of Judge Niles.” BEHIND TIME.—The stage from Nevada and Grass Valley failed to reach Marysville on Saturday in time to connect with the cars, the delay being caused by the stage when near Simpson’s bridge getting into a bad place and in getting out breaking the whiffletrees. DANCING.—Mr. McDonald will give another of his highly appreciated Soirees at the Skating Rink to-morrow, Wednesday evening. In addition to the regular music provided by Mr. McDonald there will be a piano accompaniment. Price of admission $1 50. RAINFALL.—The rainfall for the 48 hours ending yesterday morning at 9 o’clock was 0.73 inch. Total for the season was 52:96 inches. The weather is still damp. THAT CHALLENGE.—The black powder men will see that they have a chance to make some money. If they can beat that Giant Powder crew in running a drift the money comes. The coin is deposited at Delano’s bank. The Giant Powder crew can work underground but shooting at a man on the outside, from behind a bush, is another matter. CHALLENGE. THE GIANT POWDER CREW WHO have been working in the Eureka mine will bet $500 that with six men they can run 40 feet of cross cut, in a month, in the same drift from which they ceased work Saturday night last. This challenge is offered with the full knowledge that with black powder and double hand drills only from 13 to 17 feet of drift have been run at the west end of the 5th level of the Eureka mine. The Giant Powder crew offer to put up the same amount, or twice the amount, that six men of the Giant Powder crew can run in a month more than twice the distance of any crew of the same number using black powder have run in the same drift in the past two months. The money is at Delano’s bank. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1872 DUTY OF MINE OWNERS. The first duty of the mine owners and the managers of mines is to declare in the most emphatic and flat-footed manner that they will not be dictated to by the men employed in the mines. This declaration should refer not only to the way the mines are to be worked, but also to the material used in working. If a mine owner thinks he can make his property pay better by using Giant Powder and single hand drills, it is his duty to use those things. In this course the law abiding men of the country, of every creed, nationality and belief will sustain the mine owner or the mining superintendent. .. . Grass Valley must let it be known that her mining industry, her almost only actual resource, is not governed and directed by terrorists; that law, justice and right are upheld here, and that the place is free from dictation which come from assassins.