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GRASS VALLEY UNION JANUARY 1 & 3, 1874 1
THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1874
DIED. At Boston Ravine, December 31, 1873, JAMES NEVIN, a native of county Galway,
Ireland, aged 45 years. The funeral will take place from the family residence, in Boston
Ravine, to-morrow, at 21/2 o’clock P.M.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—Yesterday a man named Lambert Suelt, who lived in Rough and Ready
township, went to Nevada city to pay his taxes and started to return, riding a horse. It
seems that while in Nevada he became intoxicated and that the horse he was riding is a
spirited animal. After passing the Glenbrook house the horse threw the rider. Suelt’s foot
hung in the stirrup and he was dragged nearly a mile over the roughest kind of a road. The
horse with the man still hanging to the saddle, was stopped near the powder houses, in
the east part of [Grass Valley], by a party of miners who were going to work at the Eureka
and Idaho mines. After the horse was stopped and the body released from the stirrup, the
remains were brought to town, and inquest was held by Justice Davis. An examination
showed that wounds on the head and dislocations of the spine were sufficient to cause
death. The deceased resided on the Grass Valley and Marysville road a little below the Pet
Hill House. He was proprietor of a ranch there and had a large herd of sheep. He leaves a
family; was a native of Germany and aged about 45 years.
A SCRAP OF HISTORY.—As this is New Year’s morning it seems that a scrap of history about
the first house of Grass Valley would be appropriate:
During the month of May, 1850, Dr. John Stotlar, now of North San Juan, left Ohio in company
with a considerable number of people, who were bound for the new gold fields of California. Dr.
Stotlar had made arrangements with two men, Jos. Reed and Samuel Rowe, that they should work
six months for him if he paid their passage out. They arrived from their overland trip at Sacramento
about the ist of September 1850, and after a short stay there came up country and finally landed on
the present site of Grass Valley.
On Sunday, September 22d, 1850, Dr. Stotlar, in company with his two hired men, built a log
cabin under the oak tree that now shades the residence of S. D. Bosworth, Esq., cutting the trees
from Main street hill. Quite a number of miners were using the cradles up and down the creek, but
they all lived in canvas tents. The Dr. then commenced working about where the Dromedary mine
now stands, and after nine days hard labor, he and his two men cleaned up the meagre sum of $8 75.
They then left this part and went to Nevada [city]. The Dr. says that he visited the town a couple of
weeks after this and found twenty-one houses erected.
After twenty-three years Grass Valley is now the site of the richest and best mines in California,
and her census report gives a population of 7,000. If the Dr. could only have seen the future he might
have made a fortune by locating the “grassy valley.”
SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1874
NEW YEAR’S FESTIVE DOINGS.—Despite the raging storm the time-honored custom of
“calling” upon friends and renewing acquaintances, was duly observed on New Year’s Day. As the
man folks have neither act nor part in entertaining visitors on that day, the following ladies opened
their homes for that purpose: Mrs. Reuben Leech; Mrs. William Watt; Mrs. David Watt; Mrs. A. B.
Brady; Mrs. F. Beatty; Miss Lida Dibble and Mrs. William Hamilton.
Among the festive gatherings of the day was that of a New Year’s breakfast given by Charles
Bever, Esq. to his friends. The affair was gotten up at the Barnum Restaurant, and in the best style of
that famous institution. Sixteen ladies and gentlemen were present and remained at the festive board