August 20, 1969 (12 pages)

a eenan. itiagiun anacatieubiaandaeet alld pa, OE . PERLODICALS SECTION = Shaan CAL. ST. LIBRARY. ¢ fF SACTO. CAL. 95814 ? s 2 e Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, ‘French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, La Batr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty, Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly ® Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, v Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. Shae 3 VOLUME 49 10Cents ACopy Published Wednesdays, Nevada City WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1969 NUMBER 31 . The Soundi ng Board ~ 100 years of Nevada County WHAT ARE YOU ANTICIPATING ABOUT THE FAIR? Robin Danos, 8 years old, NeHelen Cox, Nevada City: "Two vada City: "The rabbits -I things, Arthur Duncan--because think." I always watch Lawrence Welk, and the booth with all the em' ' broidery." Mrs, Martha Wilcox, Nevada City: "Taking my grandchildren to the fair, and visiting the building where embroidery, canning, cakes, and pies are displayed.” Norman Oates, a member of the Volunteer Fire Department, "Selling lots of-pizza and root _beer at the fire department booth." ae, 9 Who the first white man was to trod the soil of Nevada county is not known. Jedidiah Smith is credited with being the first American to cross the. Sierra Nevada, but his crossing is believed to have been along the middle fork of the Stanislaus river in 1827, Joseph Reddeford and a company of 35 or 40 men left the Green river in Wyoming in 1833 and blazed a trail across the desert and over the Sierras at a place never definitely determined. One member of the party later thought the route was . through a valley between the Merced and Tuolumne rivers, Walker's tombstone bears the inscription ''Camped at Yosemite, Nov. 13, 1833." Richard Henry Dana's trip to California on a hide and tallow vessel was described in "Two Years Before the Mast" and following its publication in 1840 interest began to be whetted in the east about the Pacific paradise. A promise of greater freedom from the restraints of society and the hard times of Martin Van Buren's administration began to stir the restless frontiersmen along. the Missouri river. Here was land to be had for the taking. Missouri settlers aroused enthusiasm for California whenareturning . trapper gave exaggerated accounts of the western territory. In Platte county the Western Emigration Society was organized and in less than a month 500 signatures were obtained. Spring brought waning enthusiasm and only 69 showed at the rendezvous at Sapling Grove in Kansas, and only one of them --John Bidwell--was an original signer. As far as Idaho the only difficulty the party encountered was getting the wheeled vehicles across territory that had previously only known the fur trader's wagon. Utah and Nevada brought days. of untold sufferings and finally the party had to abandon their wagons, In late October the party ascended the Sierras on the north side of -what is:now Walker pass. Over the summit the party became lost in gorges and canyons, and by the time they reached the San Joaquin valley they were so weak they could scarcely travel. The ‘U.S. Government sent out two military exploring expeditions, one in 1841 under Lieutenant. Charles Wilkes of the navy, and the other under Lieutenant John C, Fremont of the army corps of engineers, A third expedition brought Fremont to the Pacific slope in time to play a role in California's participation inthe Mexican WEF sr : The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo formally brought California into the nation _Feb, 2; 1848. Two weeks earlier the discovery of golden flakes in the tail race of Sutter's sawmill at Coloma was the exciting news of fabulous treasure that started First white man to trod Nevada co. soil unknown one of the mightiest migrations the world has ever known, The first great influx of travelers came by sea, but when the mountain passes were opened in the spring of 1849, the wagon trains began to roll! In a three weeks' period 18,000 emigrants crossed the Missouri river. Over the parched plains and the great American deserts endless trains of vehicles of nearly every type and description, the herds of animals and the migrating mass of humanity was a nation on the march. JOHN ROSE WAS FIRST SETTLER IN NEVADA COUNTY John Rose, who gave his name to a bar in the Yuba river near Smartville where he settled, was born in 1817 in Leeds, England. At the age of 16 he signed asa seaman aboard a hide and tallow ship bound for Chile. Two years later his ship stopped at San Francisco, when there were 12 houses there. " Rose obtained permission to leave the ship, and for 15 years he was prominent in the development of the port. He was first treasurer of San Francisco county. In 1843 he purchased a land grant of six-square leagues in the Sacramento valley from Jose Ganteza, His partners were Johnson of Johnson Rancho and a man named Cordue. The land stretched from the Feather to the Bear and included the Smartville district. Rose was helping General Vallejo build a barley mill in Vallejo when news of the dicovery of gold at Coloma reached them. Rose, who was running more than 1,000 head of cattle near Smartville, closed his business in the bay region, loaded his mining equipment and belongings on a wagon and traveled to the bar on the Yuba that bears his name, He had heard Indians tell that years before Chileans mined the gravel bars of the Yuba Narrows, dragging the gold-bearing: gravel to the water on gull hides. ~ Rose did little mining himself, but son had 200 Indians taking out gold for m, He organized pack trains into the mountain mining camps, and in Nevada county built a corral and slaughter house at Pleasant Valley, and an adobe building on the Hartung place. Another slaughter house was built in Penn Valley, located near the cabin of a man named Badeau, who came with John Fremont on one of his first trips over the Sierras, The land is now owned by Roy Van Tiger. Rose anda man named Kimball started a trading post where he built a landing on the Yuba River. The first boat to dock was the “Linda”, and the landing was named Continued on page 11

a eenan. itiagiun anacatieubiaandaeet alld pa, OE . PERLODICALS SECTION = Shaan CAL. ST. LIBRARY. ¢ fF SACTO. CAL. 95814 ? s 2 e Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, ‘French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, La Batr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty, Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly ® Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, v Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. Shae 3 VOLUME 49 10Cents ACopy Published Wednesdays, Nevada City WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1969 NUMBER 31 . The Soundi ng Board ~ 100 years of Nevada County WHAT ARE YOU ANTICIPATING ABOUT THE FAIR? Robin Danos, 8 years old, NeHelen Cox, Nevada City: "Two vada City: "The rabbits -I things, Arthur Duncan--because think." I always watch Lawrence Welk, and the booth with all the em' ' broidery." Mrs, Martha Wilcox, Nevada City: "Taking my grandchildren to the fair, and visiting the building where embroidery, canning, cakes, and pies are displayed.” Norman Oates, a member of the Volunteer Fire Department, "Selling lots of-pizza and root _beer at the fire department booth." ae, 9 Who the first white man was to trod the soil of Nevada county is not known. Jedidiah Smith is credited with being the first American to cross the. Sierra Nevada, but his crossing is believed to have been along the middle fork of the Stanislaus river in 1827, Joseph Reddeford and a company of 35 or 40 men left the Green river in Wyoming in 1833 and blazed a trail across the desert and over the Sierras at a place never definitely determined. One member of the party later thought the route was . through a valley between the Merced and Tuolumne rivers, Walker's tombstone bears the inscription ''Camped at Yosemite, Nov. 13, 1833." Richard Henry Dana's trip to California on a hide and tallow vessel was described in "Two Years Before the Mast" and following its publication in 1840 interest began to be whetted in the east about the Pacific paradise. A promise of greater freedom from the restraints of society and the hard times of Martin Van Buren's administration began to stir the restless frontiersmen along. the Missouri river. Here was land to be had for the taking. Missouri settlers aroused enthusiasm for California whenareturning . trapper gave exaggerated accounts of the western territory. In Platte county the Western Emigration Society was organized and in less than a month 500 signatures were obtained. Spring brought waning enthusiasm and only 69 showed at the rendezvous at Sapling Grove in Kansas, and only one of them --John Bidwell--was an original signer. As far as Idaho the only difficulty the party encountered was getting the wheeled vehicles across territory that had previously only known the fur trader's wagon. Utah and Nevada brought days. of untold sufferings and finally the party had to abandon their wagons, In late October the party ascended the Sierras on the north side of -what is:now Walker pass. Over the summit the party became lost in gorges and canyons, and by the time they reached the San Joaquin valley they were so weak they could scarcely travel.

The ‘U.S. Government sent out two military exploring expeditions, one in 1841 under Lieutenant. Charles Wilkes of the navy, and the other under Lieutenant John C, Fremont of the army corps of engineers, A third expedition brought Fremont to the Pacific slope in time to play a role in California's participation inthe Mexican WEF sr : The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo formally brought California into the nation _Feb, 2; 1848. Two weeks earlier the discovery of golden flakes in the tail race of Sutter's sawmill at Coloma was the exciting news of fabulous treasure that started First white man to trod Nevada co. soil unknown one of the mightiest migrations the world has ever known, The first great influx of travelers came by sea, but when the mountain passes were opened in the spring of 1849, the wagon trains began to roll! In a three weeks' period 18,000 emigrants crossed the Missouri river. Over the parched plains and the great American deserts endless trains of vehicles of nearly every type and description, the herds of animals and the migrating mass of humanity was a nation on the march. JOHN ROSE WAS FIRST SETTLER IN NEVADA COUNTY John Rose, who gave his name to a bar in the Yuba river near Smartville where he settled, was born in 1817 in Leeds, England. At the age of 16 he signed asa seaman aboard a hide and tallow ship bound for Chile. Two years later his ship stopped at San Francisco, when there were 12 houses there. " Rose obtained permission to leave the ship, and for 15 years he was prominent in the development of the port. He was first treasurer of San Francisco county. In 1843 he purchased a land grant of six-square leagues in the Sacramento valley from Jose Ganteza, His partners were Johnson of Johnson Rancho and a man named Cordue. The land stretched from the Feather to the Bear and included the Smartville district. Rose was helping General Vallejo build a barley mill in Vallejo when news of the dicovery of gold at Coloma reached them. Rose, who was running more than 1,000 head of cattle near Smartville, closed his business in the bay region, loaded his mining equipment and belongings on a wagon and traveled to the bar on the Yuba that bears his name, He had heard Indians tell that years before Chileans mined the gravel bars of the Yuba Narrows, dragging the gold-bearing: gravel to the water on gull hides. ~ Rose did little mining himself, but son had 200 Indians taking out gold for m, He organized pack trains into the mountain mining camps, and in Nevada county built a corral and slaughter house at Pleasant Valley, and an adobe building on the Hartung place. Another slaughter house was built in Penn Valley, located near the cabin of a man named Badeau, who came with John Fremont on one of his first trips over the Sierras, The land is now owned by Roy Van Tiger. Rose anda man named Kimball started a trading post where he built a landing on the Yuba River. The first boat to dock was the “Linda”, and the landing was named Continued on page 11