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125 JULY 4, 6, 7, 1877 GRASS VALLEY UNION
THE DAY.
This is the Fourth of July. We don’t propose to make any speech on the occasion. We want all
our readers to celebrate, be happy, and to keep sober on this occasion. Throw out your flags, shoot off
our guns, ring your bells and be merry, for this is Independence Day.
WATT MINE.—San Francisco Alta, July 2nd: “About a mile eastward from North Bloomfield
is the claim of the Watt Company, which intends to work by drifting, this making a great saving
in the matter of water for washing and tunnel for outlet. The expenses for those items are so great
that, in several cases, they have eaten up the entire yield of mines that were very productive in
gross. Between the Watt and the North Bloomfield lie the Derbec claims, which it is proposed to also
work by drifting. The total expense of opening the mine would, in his opinion, be $25,000, but as a
matter of prudence he places it at $50,000, equivalent to $10 a day for interest and sinking fund, and
then allows $190 a day for running expenses. On the other hand, he thinks that 400 tons of gravel,
containing $5 per ton, (though $10 per ton has been reached at North Bloomfield, adjoining on one
side, and Woolsey’s Flat, nearly on the other side, both on the same channel) and this would give a
gross product of $2,000 per day. The power for hoisting would be furnished by water from the North
Bloomfield ditch.”
FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1877
BORN. At Grass Valley, July 3, 1877, to VICTOR GRANHOLM and Wife, a Son [JOHN].
Observations.
The Fourth of July is over, and his reporter now looks forward to Christmas for another full
holiday! Those resting spells do not come along often enough for health.
During the procession of the R.U.S., on the Fourth, a boy was run over by a buggy. Both wheels
of the vehicle passed over the boy[s body, but still he escaped without injury.
To-day it will be very interesting to visit the wrestling arena. The boys yesterday did some good
work—they call it play. The matches will close this afternoon when the prizes will be awarded.
The wrestling is according to rule and the Committee and the Sticklers have carried out the
rules to the letter. The “play” is on the square. We will give an account of the matches in tomorrow morning’s paper.
Placer county people seem to know the right man for Senator from Nevada county: “Mr.
Coleman has many acquaintances in our county who, without regard to party all unite in
pronouncing his nomination one fit to be made.”
PRESERVE THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY.—The County Supervisors should subscribe for,
and file away in the Recorder’s office, regular files of each and every newspaper in the county. This
should be done for two reasons: First there are important legal notices published in each of these
papers, and these notices should be put in places of safety from fires; second, history is making
itself every day, and the newspapers are preserving that history. Twenty years from now a file of the
Grass Valley UNION, all bound and convenient, will be worth a great deal to the man who wants
to write up a history of the county. The cost would be very small in this county and the benefit and
advantages of doing so would be very great.
SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1877
MARRIED. At Grass Valley, July 5, 1877, by Rev. J. L. Trefren, Mr. WM. P. ROGERS and Miss
MARY J. CATRAN, all of Grass Valley.