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76 APRIL 12 & 13, 1877 GRASS VALLEY UNION
The Evening Post of the same date has this:
The lot on the southwest corner of Battery and California, 137 by 137, was yesterday sold
by Robert F. Morrow to Mary A. Church for $325,000. There was also mortgaged by him to
D. O. Mills property principally on California, Sansome and Sutter streets, for $450,000.
WATER NOTICE.—We are requested by J. J. Dorsey, Superintendent of the Grass Valley Water
Works, to notify all who take water from the town pipes, that this afternoon from one o’lock until
four o’clock the water will be turned off from the pipes. This will be done for the purpose of tapping
the pipe in one of the upper sections.
FRUIT AND MEAT SHIPPING.—This is from the New York Tribune:
A load of fruit brought all the way from California to the Centennial Exhibition in a
refrigerator car created much astonishment there. The company which made this and other
shipments last year has now been enlarged and intends going into the business on a large scale.
It is called the California Fruit and Meats Shipping Company and has a capital of $500,000. The
California fruit made a good impression in the Eastern market last year, and it is gratifying to
learn that generous shipments of it are to be made the present season.
Green peas has been gathered every day this year in Dr. Archer’s garden at Santa Rita,
Los Angeles county.—Nevada Transcript.
What of that? We have had macaroni and cheese every Sunday for the last two years, Winter
and Summer, and we are getting tired of that dish as well as of those greenpeas items.
FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1877
THE HOODOO.
This instrument is again receiving the attention of Nevada county gold hunters. It is a simple
instrument, to all appearances, and finds gold, copper or silver. The hoodoo is made by tying two
parallel whalebones together at one end of the two. On that tied end a ball of mysteriousness,
covered with chamois skin, is placed. The untiled ends are then taken in each hand and the hoodoo
thus becomes spread apart, and like unto a forked stick. When spread apart the hoodoo somewhat
resembles this figure: oO
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The way to operate it is to hold one prong in each hand, palms up, and the little fingers on the
inside. The ball of leather and mystery must point toward the zenith. Thus fixed with the hoodoo
the gold hunter walks around, and awaits the action of the hoodoo. When the operator comes over a
place where the metal lies hid the ball turns down and no power can prevent its turning. It is a dead
sure indicator, as is claimed, of the place where the metal is hidden.
It may be so. There more things in heaven and earth than was dreamt of in Horatio’s
philosophy, and we never had so many dreamings in that direction as had Horatio. We fear however
that the hoodoo can be used for very bad purposes. Armed with it a garroter can tell in advance
whether a coming man has coin in his pockets and whether it is worth while to tackle him. The
burglar has only to know how to use the instrument to ascertain whether a crib is worth cracking or
whether it is better to break into the next house.
There is also danger in the thing. A man with one of them in his hand, in passing along by
the Idaho mine’s office, on melting day, would be jerked right through the wall of the house by the
hoodoo, and would be hurt by the splinters.
We don’t know what to think—the thing may find untold wealth, and yet it furnishes the
dangerous classes with a means of finding where our twenty dollar pieces are kept. Every Assessor of
taxes should have “one of them things” and be safe in swearing to a false return in that particular.