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3 JANUARY 3 & 5, 1886 GRASS VALLEY UNION
The late frosty weather to a great extent, cut off the new grass started by the warm rains, and
grazing cattle are suffering in consequence. The farmers are anticipating a considerable loss of
cattle from this cause.
Great excitement at Camptonville on Monday last over the discovery of a rich quartz mine. The
vein is fifteen inches in width and of fabulous richness. —San Juan Times.
Personal.
I. J. Rolfe and A. Isoard of Nevada City, and Supervisor Schroeder of Rough and Ready were in
town yesterday.
Wm. Smitham is up from San Francisco on a visit to his relatives.
Granted Certificates to Teach.
The Board of Education have granted teachers’ certificates to the following persons:
First Grade —Mrs. Emma Hathaway, 86 per cent; Miss Eliza Thomas, 86 per cent.
Second Grade—Mrs. Emma Herrod, [79] per cent; Fannie Edwards, 79; Nettie Burnett, 78; Wm.
H. Jenkins, 76; Mary Mulcahy, 76; Laura Walker, 75.
Miss Frances Conn was given a first grade certificate on a California Normal School diploma.
Miss Garton was granted a first grade certificate upon a life diploma.
Arthur D. Gassaway was recommended to the State Board for an educational diploma.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1886
Persons and Things.
The highest and lowest register of the thermometer on Sunday was 24° and 44°, and on
yesterday 44° and 52°.
The number of delinquent taxpayers in this county are about the same as last year.
The Mikado troupe gave a second performance at Empire Hall on Sunday night to a good house.
The Board of Supervisors met yesterday for the January term.
The Chinese of Truckee are reported to have received two boxes of muskets and a box of
cartridges for the purpose, it is supposed, of defending themselves from any attack of the
white citizens. The Chinese continue to leave Truckee. The whites have ordered them all to
leave by the 15th inst.
More Quartz Prospecting.
As was predicted, the success of the Rising Sun quartz mine has stimulated further
prospecting in the foothills of this county. A company of thirty-six members, thirty-two
of whom are solid citizens of this place and four of Smartsville, has been formed to run a
tunnel in the hills near Timbuctoo in the quartz belt in that neighborhood. The country is
rich in mineral and will one day furnish a large source of revenue for this section. In going
from this place to Smartsville three distinct mineral belts are passed over. The first is the
copper belt in which is located the Spenceville copper mine. Then comes the auriferous
gravel belt, above which is the quartz belt. The latter is several miles long and three miles
wide and contains a large number of gold-bearing lodes which only await capital and
enterprise to be developed. —Marysville Appeal.
Truckee Items.
The Truckee Lumber Co.’s factory was to start up yesterday with only white laborers.
A cold wave has struck the Truckee basin, and the nights are severely cold.