April 28, 1971 (8 pages)

eae xRAINIER 2 TO ' 1S Se TEI yet , Histori pect ROT Xx HERN MINES nund Kinyon edivivus" into its literature; Hundreds of rts of the state and the west were enrolled version continues as a strong and active nember of the revised order and attended mplifications of its mysteries, one at Sutat Sonora, the last at Mariposa, But through { my saying "yes" when I should have said g initiated. My confused reply was in answer n, "Have you been initiated?" ‘der retains all of the original nomenclature rlier practices, That it should suffer through onfidence is most unfortunate, When ECV, tempts to tell the truth it is not believed. A the recovery of Sir Francis Drake's "platte had been lost from Drake's Bay for a couple hig day many insist that it was just ‘another f the revised order have reopened numerous omparative Ovation of the earlier order and records and paraphernalia, From such this s is compiled: jumbug, Clamps Petrix, Clamps Vitrix, Royal itrix, Grand Surgeon, Grand Farmer, Grand ool Doorkeeper, Noble Grand Chiseler, Noble ble Grand Treasurer, Grand Noble Recorder. aring Forty-niners by Robert Wells Ritchie. HN ROSE: . PIONEER OF 1834 of Panama with its raging fevers was for ort of gantlet to be run by Californians who y to travel to and from the east, Many surothers succumbed to the miasmatic vapors. ied there at the height of his great engineering jent to platting the course of the Central A lesser known catastrophe was the death e representative of a firm of lawyers of San vas on his way to Washington to attempt to what was known as the Guiterrez Land Grant ada Counties. Incident to his death the vital he carried were lost. In that manner John re-gold pioneer of California, lost title to a lity. It was stated to have totaled 100,000 . is that John ‘Rose was the first settler of His Rose Corral, "situated between Anthony seport", built in 1848, has been cited by a ‘iters as the first civilized habitation of the e was a resident of California for fourteen he gold era, very little has been written and ning himy as an original settler. That he foln of sailors who left their ships, is known. ring the intervening years is sketched by a Frank Rose, who at an age past fourscore to operate a business at Stockton, California. SON'S SKETCH OF FATHER yas born at Leeds, Scotland, in 1817, At the ;, the death of his father having set him adrift, imself to a shipbuilder. At sixteen he felt that d his trade and wert to Liverpool where he araiso in a tallow and hide sailing vessel. A year later, 1834, he landed at Yerba Buena, a rude settlement of eleven shacks built along the water front. The youth was attracted to the place and was granted permission by his captain to remain until the ship made a return call, which was expected to be in about one year. But three years passed before the ship returned, and by that time John Rose had acquired many interests. He engaged in building and was foremost in the civic affairs of the great port. Later he served as the first treasurer of San Francisco. (The young John Rose appears to have had a decided bent: building houses, an early example, perhaps, of the ubiquideveloper. Reference is made. to for tous California real estate his building operations in Yerba Buena, Los Angeles, San Pedro and Monterey.) In 1843 John Rose went to the Yuba River, Nye's Ranch, the future Marysville. There he purchased the east half of the Pablo Guiterrez land grant of four square leagues. The Rose purchase was about nine miles by eighteen miles, aggreg about 100,000 acres in what was known as the Erle District, extending into present Nevada County and now a part of Beale Cantonment. ‘But, despite his principality, John Rose had to make a living at his building trade. Thus it turned out that he was constructing a barley mill for General Vallejo when the big day came, the Marshall discovery of gold at Coloma. With the first news of the find, Rose dropped his tools and started for Sutter's Fort. There he bought a team and wagon anda few tools and headed for his land-holdings on the Yuba, He crossed Bear River at the Johnson's Ranch ford, and traveled north toward the Yuba, Retracing his route in after years, he said he marked the course of what is known as the old Marysville Road, passing within one hundred yards of where he later built his home, the "Top O' the Hill," The country was completely. virgin, News of the gold strike had scarcely penetrated the great expanse. At a point close to historic Timbuctoo he staked his first claim and Rose Bar came into existence. It was the start of the saturnalia of placer mining on the Yuba River. This would appear to give John Rose title to being the first miner on the Yuba River, aside, perhaps, from those fleeting crevicers, However Yuba County historians divide that distinction between Michael Nye and Jonas Spect. But since specific dates are lacking the identity of the original miners of the river bars to be known as Parks Bar and Rose Bar must remain clouded. In any event, John Rose was sufficiently early on the scene to give his name to one of the two fabulous bars of the Yuba which figure importantly in the annals of Yuba and Nevada Counties. Nor are the transactions relative to that Guiterrez land grant as simple as indicated in the above narrative. Involved is a certain George Patterson, none other than the individual whom John Rose, using a light boat, attempted to aid amid the currents of Goat Island, Patterson, a deserting sailor, apparently escaped the island to make his way to the Yuba and to participate in the ownership of the divided Guiterrez tract. Under the circumstances, the surmise that there must have been some affiliation between Rose and Patterson appears justified. But John Rose was apparently more interested in land and trade than hewas in the golden bar of the Yuba to which he gave his name. The swarming miners were hungry for beef. To supply them, Rose engaged extensively in the cattle business, The rapid expansion of his trade probably accounts for the outpost which he established in Pleasant Valley in 1848, -But sinister forces were working. The newcomers had —d $$ S cal Scrap Book in such litigation offered to defend the title on the contingent 2 — a si little respect for land grant titles and oftentimes openly flouted them, The successors to the Guiterrez Grant. were threatened: = with the same despoilation that engulfed General Sutter. Rosé: = prepared to defend his title before the governmental depart“= ments in Washington, A Washington attorney who specialized. basis of one-half interest in the Rose land holdings, The Scot = considered the terms excessive. on In San Francisco, John Rose consulted the law firmof = Thornton and Thornton and entrusted all of his evidence, documents, letters, and affidavits, to their keeping. A member of — the firm, equipped with the evidence, took shop for Washington, ~~" In Panama he sickened and died and in the resultant confusion ~ the documentary evidence was lost. John Rose was left with no case and his claim to the Guiterrez Tract was nullified, = By the middle of the 1850s decade John Rose had lived ~ here and there in California for twenty years, His home had 3 been wherever night chanced to overtake him, But in 1856 he married Ann Dougherty and the couple settled in Smartville. From the wreckage of his land grant he somehow managed = to salvage a small ranch site on the original road to Marysville. There he built a home which he called the "Top O' the Hill." True to his name, he made the spot a bower of roses . with the Gold of Ophir species flowering gloriously. There as = the century waned the super-pioneer was to die atthe age of . fourscore and two years. ae From the time that the-law came to Nevada County in ~1851, thirty men have served as the county's sheriff. Three of these met violent and probably instantaneous deaths in‘: line of duty. A similarity of detail marks each. of the fatali= ties and each in turn has been clouded with a veil of uncer-_ tainty which has never been lifted. These the three sacrifices to the dignity of the law: W. W. Wright (1856); William F, Douglas (1896). — During the decade of the 1850s the Nevada County jail : appears to have been surprisingly sieve-like, for notorious * criminals as well as lesser offenders effected. escapes all -= too frequently, Many references to the lax methods of con~ fining prisoners may be found in the files of the newspapers of that period. _ ; H; Pascoe (1893); David “= / (TO BE CONTINUED) Se & — STE A) " La * <= ———a Rights reserved by the _ Nevada County Publishing Company SS — —

eae xRAINIER 2 TO ' 1S Se TEI yet , Histori pect ROT Xx HERN MINES nund Kinyon edivivus" into its literature; Hundreds of rts of the state and the west were enrolled version continues as a strong and active nember of the revised order and attended mplifications of its mysteries, one at Sutat Sonora, the last at Mariposa, But through { my saying "yes" when I should have said g initiated. My confused reply was in answer n, "Have you been initiated?" ‘der retains all of the original nomenclature rlier practices, That it should suffer through onfidence is most unfortunate, When ECV, tempts to tell the truth it is not believed. A the recovery of Sir Francis Drake's "platte had been lost from Drake's Bay for a couple hig day many insist that it was just ‘another f the revised order have reopened numerous omparative Ovation of the earlier order and records and paraphernalia, From such this s is compiled: jumbug, Clamps Petrix, Clamps Vitrix, Royal itrix, Grand Surgeon, Grand Farmer, Grand ool Doorkeeper, Noble Grand Chiseler, Noble ble Grand Treasurer, Grand Noble Recorder. aring Forty-niners by Robert Wells Ritchie. HN ROSE: . PIONEER OF 1834 of Panama with its raging fevers was for ort of gantlet to be run by Californians who y to travel to and from the east, Many surothers succumbed to the miasmatic vapors. ied there at the height of his great engineering jent to platting the course of the Central A lesser known catastrophe was the death e representative of a firm of lawyers of San vas on his way to Washington to attempt to what was known as the Guiterrez Land Grant ada Counties. Incident to his death the vital he carried were lost. In that manner John re-gold pioneer of California, lost title to a lity. It was stated to have totaled 100,000 . is that John ‘Rose was the first settler of His Rose Corral, "situated between Anthony seport", built in 1848, has been cited by a ‘iters as the first civilized habitation of the e was a resident of California for fourteen he gold era, very little has been written and ning himy as an original settler. That he foln of sailors who left their ships, is known. ring the intervening years is sketched by a Frank Rose, who at an age past fourscore to operate a business at Stockton, California. SON'S SKETCH OF FATHER yas born at Leeds, Scotland, in 1817, At the ;, the death of his father having set him adrift, imself to a shipbuilder. At sixteen he felt that d his trade and wert to Liverpool where he araiso in a tallow and hide sailing vessel. A year later, 1834, he landed at Yerba Buena, a rude settlement of eleven shacks built along the water front. The youth was attracted to the place and was granted permission by his captain to remain until the ship made a return call, which was expected to be in about one year. But three years passed before the ship returned, and by that time John Rose had acquired many interests. He engaged in building and was foremost in the civic affairs of the great port. Later he served as the first treasurer of San Francisco. (The young John Rose appears to have had a decided bent: building houses, an early example, perhaps, of the ubiquideveloper. Reference is made. to for tous California real estate his building operations in Yerba Buena, Los Angeles, San Pedro and Monterey.) In 1843 John Rose went to the Yuba River, Nye's Ranch, the future Marysville. There he purchased the east half of the Pablo Guiterrez land grant of four square leagues. The Rose purchase was about nine miles by eighteen miles, aggreg about 100,000 acres in what was known as the Erle District, extending into present Nevada County and now a part of Beale Cantonment. ‘But, despite his principality, John Rose had to make a living at his building trade. Thus it turned out that he was constructing a barley mill for General Vallejo when the big day came, the Marshall discovery of gold at Coloma. With the first news of the find, Rose dropped his tools and started for Sutter's Fort. There he bought a team and wagon anda few tools and headed for his land-holdings on the Yuba, He crossed Bear River at the Johnson's Ranch ford, and traveled north toward the Yuba, Retracing his route in

after years, he said he marked the course of what is known as the old Marysville Road, passing within one hundred yards of where he later built his home, the "Top O' the Hill," The country was completely. virgin, News of the gold strike had scarcely penetrated the great expanse. At a point close to historic Timbuctoo he staked his first claim and Rose Bar came into existence. It was the start of the saturnalia of placer mining on the Yuba River. This would appear to give John Rose title to being the first miner on the Yuba River, aside, perhaps, from those fleeting crevicers, However Yuba County historians divide that distinction between Michael Nye and Jonas Spect. But since specific dates are lacking the identity of the original miners of the river bars to be known as Parks Bar and Rose Bar must remain clouded. In any event, John Rose was sufficiently early on the scene to give his name to one of the two fabulous bars of the Yuba which figure importantly in the annals of Yuba and Nevada Counties. Nor are the transactions relative to that Guiterrez land grant as simple as indicated in the above narrative. Involved is a certain George Patterson, none other than the individual whom John Rose, using a light boat, attempted to aid amid the currents of Goat Island, Patterson, a deserting sailor, apparently escaped the island to make his way to the Yuba and to participate in the ownership of the divided Guiterrez tract. Under the circumstances, the surmise that there must have been some affiliation between Rose and Patterson appears justified. But John Rose was apparently more interested in land and trade than hewas in the golden bar of the Yuba to which he gave his name. The swarming miners were hungry for beef. To supply them, Rose engaged extensively in the cattle business, The rapid expansion of his trade probably accounts for the outpost which he established in Pleasant Valley in 1848, -But sinister forces were working. The newcomers had —d $$ S cal Scrap Book in such litigation offered to defend the title on the contingent 2 — a si little respect for land grant titles and oftentimes openly flouted them, The successors to the Guiterrez Grant. were threatened: = with the same despoilation that engulfed General Sutter. Rosé: = prepared to defend his title before the governmental depart“= ments in Washington, A Washington attorney who specialized. basis of one-half interest in the Rose land holdings, The Scot = considered the terms excessive. on In San Francisco, John Rose consulted the law firmof = Thornton and Thornton and entrusted all of his evidence, documents, letters, and affidavits, to their keeping. A member of — the firm, equipped with the evidence, took shop for Washington, ~~" In Panama he sickened and died and in the resultant confusion ~ the documentary evidence was lost. John Rose was left with no case and his claim to the Guiterrez Tract was nullified, = By the middle of the 1850s decade John Rose had lived ~ here and there in California for twenty years, His home had 3 been wherever night chanced to overtake him, But in 1856 he married Ann Dougherty and the couple settled in Smartville. From the wreckage of his land grant he somehow managed = to salvage a small ranch site on the original road to Marysville. There he built a home which he called the "Top O' the Hill." True to his name, he made the spot a bower of roses . with the Gold of Ophir species flowering gloriously. There as = the century waned the super-pioneer was to die atthe age of . fourscore and two years. ae From the time that the-law came to Nevada County in ~1851, thirty men have served as the county's sheriff. Three of these met violent and probably instantaneous deaths in‘: line of duty. A similarity of detail marks each. of the fatali= ties and each in turn has been clouded with a veil of uncer-_ tainty which has never been lifted. These the three sacrifices to the dignity of the law: W. W. Wright (1856); William F, Douglas (1896). — During the decade of the 1850s the Nevada County jail : appears to have been surprisingly sieve-like, for notorious * criminals as well as lesser offenders effected. escapes all -= too frequently, Many references to the lax methods of con~ fining prisoners may be found in the files of the newspapers of that period. _ ; H; Pascoe (1893); David “= / (TO BE CONTINUED) Se & — STE A) " La * <= ———a Rights reserved by the _ Nevada County Publishing Company SS — —