August 6, 1975 (8 pages)

2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., August 6, 1975 Rick _ CORNELIUS HILLS Cornelius Hills came west with a wagon train in 1847 and settled in.a remote part of the Cascades. Then lured by gold two years later, he scurried to California. He happened to reach the American River before it had been overrun by miners and gathered himseif a pretty fairsized poke before the year was out. Cornelius took his gold to San Francisco and put the biggest share down to buy farm machinery and furniture. These . things, he figured, he could resell in the Oregon Territory and make more money than he ever could mining. But on the way north his ship ran aground on a sand spit. The ship and its cargo couldn’t be saved. The 27 men who made up the crew and passengers only made it to shore by swimming. Cornelius wasn’t one to be discouraged by a run of bad luckand thought of a pretty little girl that he had left behind in Missouri. He rode his horse Dolly back to Missouri and married his sweetheart shortly after her 18th birthday. They joined a wagon train west that same year and since Cornelius had made the trip before, he was asked to lead the train. “The trip went without much excitement,” said Cornelius, ” that is, it went without excitement until we hit the Black Rock Desert on the Lassen Cutoff.’’ On the east side of the Black Rock Desert they cleaned a spring and filled everything that would hold water. Cornelius began the train at midnight so that they would be part way across by sunup. With the first light of day they passed the bleached bones of oxen and skeltons of abandoned wagons from trains before them. By midday their own oxen NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET 301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. 95959 Telephone 265-2559 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California. Adjudicated a legal” newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960. Decree No. 12,406. Subscription Rates: . $3.00 . $5.00 _ Member of CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPEROne Year . Two Yeors . California Country -his wife, ' Sacramento, and PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION . * relatives. Steber were refusing to move and their thirsty tongues hung low. But Cornelius Hills was not one to give up. He took a wagon on ahead and brought back enough water to coax the oxen on. The little wagon train made it through. Camptonville News CAMPTONVILLE, July 26. Mr. and Mrs. Ned Kissig made a trip to the Sacramento Metropolitian Airport Thursday to meet his brother Vernon Kissig, of Los Angeles, who willspend his vacation here. Mr. and Mrs. Earl W. Davis, Ill, and children, of Castro Valley spent the past week end visiting relatives here. Alex Hume left Wednesday for Burbank after spending the past few weeks at his summer home here. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Frankovich made a_ brief business visit to Oroville Tuesday. _ Mr. and Mrs. Paul Walton of Marysville were in town Sunday visiting friends. Larry E. Smeltzley left last week for Los Angeles on a visit to his mother. Mrs. Marge Simmons arrived from Castro Valley a few days ago to spend a couple of weeks here. New campground facilities planned The U.S. Forest Service reports construction of new campground facilities in the Jackson Meadows Recreation Area is underway. Two campgrounds will be expanded from 30 to 46 units in the East Meadow Campground and six units will be added at the Pass Creek Campground. Two new campgrounds with a total of 27 units will be built adjacent to the Woodcamp Campground. During the East Meadow. phase of construction, that campground will be closed through the remainder of the recreation season, ending sometime in late October. Heavy construction equipment presents a safety hazard to recreationists in this area. Cycle mishap kills Sacramento man Gerald Allen Barkman, 23, Sacramento, died Sunday as a result of a motorcycle accident at Depot Hill on Highway 49 north in Sierra county. Mr. Barkman was a clerk in Raley’s Super Market in Brockerick. He is survived by Christina; a daughter, Heather; his mother, Floy Barkman, of other 4 4 6 oo Cease an d desist order brings suit by developer Lahonton Water Board’s Cease and Desist Order for new connections to the Truckee Sanitary District’s (TSD) sewage disposal ponds has resulted in a complaint being filed in Nevada County Superior Court. imont Land Company, developer of the 2,560 acre Northstar-At-Tahoe _ project, has asked the court for declaratory relief, injunction and damages from the TSD. The complaint contends that TSD “constructed an illegal and clandestine bypass in gross violation of its waste discharge permit, which permitted raw untreated sewage to proceed into the Truckee River, from the ponds serving most of the Truckee and Tahoe-Donner. The violation and subsequent order from the Lahonton board resulted in Trimont being unable to continue its development according to the master plan approved in 1971, according to the complaint. . The complaint cites the sanitation district’s guarantee to handle an avarag daily flow of 300,000 gallons sewage for Northstar as one of the conditions of approval “of the project. It alleges that never has Trimont exceeded the maximum gallonage allowed. Allegations are that in June the Lahonton Water Board held hearings to consider charges of the sanitation district’s . mismanagement, pollution and violation of its waste discharge permit. The Membership sales in recreation areas Want to buy a share in a dude ranch or ski club — or just a chance to pitch the family tent near recreation facilities and a quiet fishing lake? Be cautious. Recreation clubs currently offering such attractions may be a good alternative to public recreation areas, but prospective buyers should keep in mind that what they don’t know can hurt them. This warning comes from David Hansen, — assistant professor of agricultural economics on the University of California’s Davis campus. “Buyers do not know how many memberships will be sold, what the future costs will be, or whether there will be overcrowding,’ Hansen said. “And the managerial ability of the owners’ association that will be left behind when the developer has departed the scene is also uncertain.” Hansen and Thomas Dickinson, assistant professor of environmental studies at U.C. Davis, have recently completed a study of undivided interest recreation developments in California. According to Hansen the number of remote recreational developments in which all members share equally in-use and ownership has increased rapidly in the past five years. He noted that final approval for such projects has been granted in 11 Northern California counties, and. approval was pending last winter in six more. “They offer everything from simple camping facilities to a. chance to ‘own. a piece of the ranch,’ complete with access to barn, horses, cattle, and riding trails,” he said. He added that projects range in size from 160 to 14,000‘acres, with’ the projected erre cee number .of owners ‘varying from approximately 400 to 2,500. “Many are located a considerable distance from the urban centers where marketing efforts are concentrated,’’ Hansen said. “The sales techniques are fairly standard — mass media, visitation incentives, information distributed at sporting goods shows —. and they frequently appeal to the ‘running out of land’ emotion.” Hansen identified five potential problems inherent in undivided interest developshould consider carefully. These include: —Overpricing. Prices range from $3,000 to $10,000, and are generally higher than the buyer’s proportionate share of land and improvements. Annual dues range from $100 to $360, but can be increased if expenses go up or too few memberships are sold. -Difficulty in reselling. Buying for price appreciation may not be a good idea. Those who want to resell may compete with the developer’s high-powered sales campaign, or later may have to get approval from the directors of an owners’ association that is still trying to dispose of unsold shares. -Overcrowding. As. an example, Hansen calculated for one ski club that if there were only two members in each family to which shares were sold, the ski lift would accommodate only onefourteenth of the projected , total membership. In general, the spacious quality of the developments’ tends to disappear as memberships are sold. ‘Consider that the five fishermen now around the lake may soon become five hundred,”” he warned. board subsequently found the staff report true and entered the cease and desist order, according “to the complaint. Trimont asks that the court order .TSD to remove the illeg ss and to establish meter rmine flows in various rtions of the district’s system. It also requests the court to require the TSD to seal off other subdivision areas, where no residential connections have occurred, other than Northstar, until metering, during a season of runoff, can establish the actual infiltration in such subdivisions: take reasonable action to assure control of TSD’s infiltration problem; reduction of flows to not exceed the design capacity of facilities and restoration to Trimont of the flow capacity guaranteed to it under the 1971 agreement. The complaint also seeks to prohibit the TSD from making any statement accusing Trimont of causing flows in excess of those. permitted in the 1971 agreement; or to indicate that Trimont was a contributing cause to the cease and desist order. Howard N. Ellman of San Francisco and Harold A. Berliner of Nevada City are Trimont Land attorneys. Nevada City Rotary Club outlines year Nevada City Rotarians welcomed their district governor, Ted Slokes, outlined service plans for the fiscal year and heard of long range Rotary International hopes for the coming year recently. Service plans, as explained by president Jim Kendrick, include a hose dryer for the Nevada City fire department, apictorial map of Nevada City to be made available to down town business locations, and a bicycle safety program. Youth activity has high priority under international service. A youth from Australia soon will arrive here and during the beginning of his stay will live with the Bob McMasters Sr. family. Other international interests are helping clubs in developing nations. The golf tournament will be continued to help the scholarhsip fund. Rotarians held an evening barbecue at Pioneer Park. Wives and friends were guests so they would have an opportunity to meet the district governor and his wife. The luncheon meeting Thursday will be held in the American Victorian Dining Room when the program will be the world flight of an S-R-71 plane making a round trip from Beale Air Force Base to London: . bat aes >

2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., August 6, 1975 Rick _ CORNELIUS HILLS Cornelius Hills came west with a wagon train in 1847 and settled in.a remote part of the Cascades. Then lured by gold two years later, he scurried to California. He happened to reach the American River before it had been overrun by miners and gathered himseif a pretty fairsized poke before the year was out. Cornelius took his gold to San Francisco and put the biggest share down to buy farm machinery and furniture. These . things, he figured, he could resell in the Oregon Territory and make more money than he ever could mining. But on the way north his ship ran aground on a sand spit. The ship and its cargo couldn’t be saved. The 27 men who made up the crew and passengers only made it to shore by swimming. Cornelius wasn’t one to be discouraged by a run of bad luckand thought of a pretty little girl that he had left behind in Missouri. He rode his horse Dolly back to Missouri and married his sweetheart shortly after her 18th birthday. They joined a wagon train west that same year and since Cornelius had made the trip before, he was asked to lead the train. “The trip went without much excitement,” said Cornelius, ” that is, it went without excitement until we hit the Black Rock Desert on the Lassen Cutoff.’’ On the east side of the Black Rock Desert they cleaned a spring and filled everything that would hold water. Cornelius began the train at midnight so that they would be part way across by sunup. With the first light of day they passed the bleached bones of oxen and skeltons of abandoned wagons from trains before them. By midday their own oxen NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET 301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. 95959 Telephone 265-2559 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California. Adjudicated a legal” newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960. Decree No. 12,406. Subscription Rates: .. $3.00 . $5.00 _ Member of CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPEROne Year . Two Yeors . California Country -his wife, ' Sacramento, and PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION . * relatives. Steber were refusing to move and their thirsty tongues hung low. But Cornelius Hills was not one to give up. He took a wagon on ahead and brought back enough water to coax the oxen on. The little wagon train made it through. Camptonville News CAMPTONVILLE, July 26. Mr. and Mrs. Ned Kissig made a trip to the Sacramento Metropolitian Airport Thursday to meet his brother Vernon Kissig, of Los Angeles, who willspend his vacation here. Mr. and Mrs. Earl W. Davis, Ill, and children, of Castro Valley spent the past week end visiting relatives here. Alex Hume left Wednesday for Burbank after spending the past few weeks at his summer home here. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Frankovich made a_ brief business visit to Oroville Tuesday. _ Mr. and Mrs. Paul Walton of Marysville were in town Sunday visiting friends. Larry E. Smeltzley left last week for Los Angeles on a visit to his mother. Mrs. Marge Simmons arrived from Castro Valley a few days ago to spend a couple of weeks here. New campground facilities planned The U.S. Forest Service reports construction of new campground facilities in the Jackson Meadows Recreation Area is underway. Two campgrounds will be expanded from 30 to 46 units in the East Meadow Campground and six units will be added at the Pass Creek Campground. Two new campgrounds with a total of 27 units will be built adjacent to the Woodcamp Campground. During the East Meadow. phase of construction, that campground will be closed through the remainder of the recreation season, ending sometime in late October. Heavy construction equipment presents a safety hazard to recreationists in this area. Cycle mishap kills Sacramento man Gerald Allen Barkman, 23, Sacramento, died Sunday as a result of a motorcycle accident at Depot Hill on Highway 49 north in Sierra county. Mr. Barkman was a clerk in Raley’s Super Market in Brockerick. He is survived by Christina; a daughter, Heather; his mother, Floy Barkman, of other 4 4 6 oo Cease an d desist order brings suit by developer Lahonton Water Board’s Cease and Desist Order for new connections to the Truckee Sanitary District’s (TSD) sewage disposal ponds has resulted in a complaint being filed in Nevada County Superior Court. imont Land Company, developer of the 2,560 acre Northstar-At-Tahoe _ project, has asked the court for declaratory relief, injunction and damages from the TSD. The complaint contends that TSD “constructed an illegal and clandestine bypass in gross violation of its waste discharge permit, which permitted raw untreated sewage to proceed into the Truckee River, from the ponds serving most of the Truckee and Tahoe-Donner. The violation and subsequent order from the Lahonton board resulted in Trimont being unable to continue its development according to the master plan approved in 1971, according to the complaint. . The complaint cites the sanitation district’s guarantee to handle an avarag daily flow of 300,000 gallons sewage for Northstar as one of the conditions of approval “of the project. It alleges that never

has Trimont exceeded the maximum gallonage allowed. Allegations are that in June the Lahonton Water Board held hearings to consider charges of the sanitation district’s . mismanagement, pollution and violation of its waste discharge permit. The Membership sales in recreation areas Want to buy a share in a dude ranch or ski club — or just a chance to pitch the family tent near recreation facilities and a quiet fishing lake? Be cautious. Recreation clubs currently offering such attractions may be a good alternative to public recreation areas, but prospective buyers should keep in mind that what they don’t know can hurt them. This warning comes from David Hansen, — assistant professor of agricultural economics on the University of California’s Davis campus. “Buyers do not know how many memberships will be sold, what the future costs will be, or whether there will be overcrowding,’ Hansen said. “And the managerial ability of the owners’ association that will be left behind when the developer has departed the scene is also uncertain.” Hansen and Thomas Dickinson, assistant professor of environmental studies at U.C. Davis, have recently completed a study of undivided interest recreation developments in California. According to Hansen the number of remote recreational developments in which all members share equally in-use and ownership has increased rapidly in the past five years. He noted that final approval for such projects has been granted in 11 Northern California counties, and. approval was pending last winter in six more. “They offer everything from simple camping facilities to a. chance to ‘own. a piece of the ranch,’ complete with access to barn, horses, cattle, and riding trails,” he said. He added that projects range in size from 160 to 14,000‘acres, with’ the projected erre cee number .of owners ‘varying from approximately 400 to 2,500. “Many are located a considerable distance from the urban centers where marketing efforts are concentrated,’’ Hansen said. “The sales techniques are fairly standard — mass media, visitation incentives, information distributed at sporting goods shows —. and they frequently appeal to the ‘running out of land’ emotion.” Hansen identified five potential problems inherent in undivided interest developshould consider carefully. These include: —Overpricing. Prices range from $3,000 to $10,000, and are generally higher than the buyer’s proportionate share of land and improvements. Annual dues range from $100 to $360, but can be increased if expenses go up or too few memberships are sold. -Difficulty in reselling. Buying for price appreciation may not be a good idea. Those who want to resell may compete with the developer’s high-powered sales campaign, or later may have to get approval from the directors of an owners’ association that is still trying to dispose of unsold shares. -Overcrowding. As. an example, Hansen calculated for one ski club that if there were only two members in each family to which shares were sold, the ski lift would accommodate only onefourteenth of the projected , total membership. In general, the spacious quality of the developments’ tends to disappear as memberships are sold. ‘Consider that the five fishermen now around the lake may soon become five hundred,”” he warned. board subsequently found the staff report true and entered the cease and desist order, according “to the complaint. Trimont asks that the court order .TSD to remove the illeg ss and to establish meter rmine flows in various rtions of the district’s system. It also requests the court to require the TSD to seal off other subdivision areas, where no residential connections have occurred, other than Northstar, until metering, during a season of runoff, can establish the actual infiltration in such subdivisions: take reasonable action to assure control of TSD’s infiltration problem; reduction of flows to not exceed the design capacity of facilities and restoration to Trimont of the flow capacity guaranteed to it under the 1971 agreement. The complaint also seeks to prohibit the TSD from making any statement accusing Trimont of causing flows in excess of those. permitted in the 1971 agreement; or to indicate that Trimont was a contributing cause to the cease and desist order. Howard N. Ellman of San Francisco and Harold A. Berliner of Nevada City are Trimont Land attorneys. Nevada City Rotary Club outlines year Nevada City Rotarians welcomed their district governor, Ted Slokes, outlined service plans for the fiscal year and heard of long range Rotary International hopes for the coming year recently. Service plans, as explained by president Jim Kendrick, include a hose dryer for the Nevada City fire department, apictorial map of Nevada City to be made available to down town business locations, and a bicycle safety program. Youth activity has high priority under international service. A youth from Australia soon will arrive here and during the beginning of his stay will live with the Bob McMasters Sr. family. Other international interests are helping clubs in developing nations. The golf tournament will be continued to help the scholarhsip fund. Rotarians held an evening barbecue at Pioneer Park. Wives and friends were guests so they would have an opportunity to meet the district governor and his wife. The luncheon meeting Thursday will be held in the American Victorian Dining Room when the program will be the world flight of an S-R-71 plane making a round trip from Beale Air Force Base to London: . bat aes >