December 20, 1972 (12 pages)

~~ ST * SERVING THE NEVADA COUNTY COMMUNITIES OF NEVADA CITY, GRASS VALLEY, RE OMEGA, FRENCH CORRAL, ROUGH AND READY, GRANITEVILLE, NORTH SAN JUAN, NORTH BLOOMFIELD, HUMBUG, ay Wednesday Dec. 20, 1972 The Nevada County Nugget 5 Support Your 1953 Nevada County Red Cross Drive Ce ee Og a as “We ] D DOG, YOU BET, TOWN TALK, GLENBROOK, LITTLE YORK, CHEROKEE, SWEETLAND, ALPHA, RELIEF HILL, WASHINGTON, BLUE TENT, LaBARR 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, QUAKER HILL, WILLOW VALLEY, NEWTOWN. INDIAN FLAT. BRIDGEPORT, BIRCHVILLE, MOORE'S FLAT, ORLEANS FLAT, SOGGSVILLE, GOLD BAR, LOWELL HILL, BOURBON HILL, SCOTCH HILL, NORTH COLUMBIA, COLUMBIA HILL, BRANDY FLAT, SEBASTOPOL, REMINGTON HILL, ANTHONY HOUSE, DELIRIUM TREMENS. Volume 27, No. 11 ~ “Nevada City, Nevada County, California, Thursday, ome March 12, 1953 Price Five Cents. They Left Their Mark In the fabulous era of Nevada County's development from 1850 to the turn of the century, there was a steady procession of the great and the near-great, the noted and the notorious, who left their mark on the pages of the county’s history. This is another ' chapter of a series telling of the accomplishments of thes@ personages. ‘ LESTER PELTON PERFECTED A NEW TYPE OF WATER WHEEL WHICH SPEEDED HYDROELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT THROUGHOUT THE WORLD Lester Allen Pelton, like thousands of other youths from the East, packed his carpet bag and carpenter tools and headed West in 1850. His objective was gold. He found gold, the records show, but not in the dark stopes of @ quartz mine or on the gold bearing gravel bars. He found it on a workbench in Camptonville, Yuba County,.and in the shops of the Nevada City foundry. There are those who will rise to contend that Pelton was not a . : Nevada County man and that we have no proper right to claim him as one who left his mark on Nevada County. It is true, he was not a regular resident of Nevada County, but certainly he left his mark on this county. The first twenty years of Pelton’s life in California were comparatively uneventful. He worked only briefly in the mines and . , then took up carpentry. The records are a bit obscure but it is probable he built many houses, bridges, mine buildings and water wheels. ; . But it was waterwheels which captured his attention. He studied the cumbersome and inefficient overshot wheels then in vogue. He journeyed to Nevada City to take a look at the wheels which drove a flour mill on Gold Run and a sawmill on Deer Creek. He was more intrigued, however, with the socalled “hurdy gurdy” wheel which was used where high pressure water sources were available. ‘ His desire to learn more about water wheels became a mania. . He bought books on the subject but few volumes had been writgen which shed light on what he had in mind. He talked to New Englanders about the water powered devices used to turn the grist mills of the East. Wherever men built water wheels in this area, Pelton was there asking questions, making suggestions and taking notes. Meanwhile water wheel designing was becoming epidemic. Knight, Coleman, Moore, Dodd and others were building various types of impact wheels all based on the principal of a jet of water striking paddles or cups placed around the rim of a wheel. Up in Oregon an ingenious miner fabricated a huge’ water wheel to run an arrastra. The wheel was secured to the vertical shaft which actuated the cross bars pulling the heavy drag stones. A jet of water under high pressure was directed against the buckets around the wheel’s rim. The device became known as the “sidewinder.” Pelton heard about it from visiting miners and regretted he couldn’t get up to Oregon for a close look. , By the middle Seventies, one definite point had emerged from the tangle of theories and experiments. The overshot water whee! was outmoded and many of them were discarded or abandoned. The impact wheel was the thing of the hour. * If you wanted water power to turn your machinery you must have a contrivance in which a powerful jet of water struck a circle of paddles or buckets around the rim of a wheel. Then came the big moment when the “splitter” principal was born. The splitter (actually the only distinctive feature of the Pelton Wheel) can best be described as a jet of water striking a wedgeshaped partition between two curved cups. The stream divided ‘and the two parts of the jet followed the curve of the two cups and emerged at the outer edge. These double cups were placed as close together as possible around the rim of the wheel. It was the splitter principal through which a patent was granted to Pelton on October 26, 1880. Historians differ as to how the sliines peneles) pees o more plausible explanations is by Dr. W. F. Duran ° edly ‘University in his manograph “The Pelton Water Wheel.” Dr. Durand’s version indicates that the idea was born while Pelion was watching a Knight wheel with a single row of half round cups in which the jet struck directly into the bottom of the cups. . ; The Knight Wheel shifted slightly on the shaft and the jet struck the inner edge of the bucket rather than the center. Pelton noted that the wheel gained speed. Thus, according to the Stanford savant, a great idea was born. Other chroniclers claimed Pelton discovered the principal while experimenting with a wheel near his Camptonville shop. There is still another fanciful tale. which would have us believe that the splitter principal was born when Lester Pelton was chasing a stray cow from his landlandy’s cabbage patch. As the cow (Continued on Page 4) . In the.towering, gaunt the Red Castle, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Adding(ea as ton, aged 74, died Sunday night. that overlooks Nevada City. Addingt had Y rooms of the upstairs quarters Mistress of Famed Red Castle zmansion now. known 43 years in the 90-year-old house on Prospect Hill In recent years the d only one portion of the giant house; ballroom, library. and the endless been blocked off and left to dust and gloom. Mrs. Addington met her husband, who now survives her, when he came as a boarder to the household She had lived original family Placer County, long since had Dies in Towering Mansion in 1016. Between them, they told countless thousands of tourists the romantic story of the Red Castle—as when in pioneer times a son of the would play his trumpet from a third floor balcony, entertaining the entire town. She was the sister of Emily Wall of Gold Run, and Herbert C. Townsend of San Jose. Funeral services will be held today at ll am at the Bergemann Funeral Chapel, with graveside rites at the Gold Run Cemetery at 1 pm. Sketch By George Mathis MAYOR CARTER HERE FOR OFFICIAL CALL O. C. Carter, mayor of Lake City, paid an official visit to Ne-. vada City yesterday. Carter also holds the positions of president of the Chamber of Commerce of Lake City, chief of police, superintendent of streets, and all other elective jobs. This is in part because he and his three dogs and one cat are the town’s only residents. “They'll never put Lake City off the map but they’re trying to,” said Carter. He has been a resident of Lake City for 10 years and a Nevada Countyan for 60 years. His age is somewhere around 80 but his spirit is at least 20 years younger. “Lake City in the gold days had 700 residents,” he recollects. Carter says that of his dogs, Dudie is his pet. “He’s a good boy. He goes farther back here than I do.” His other dogs are Cockie and Rudie. Bonie is the cat. “I own the town and the Malekoff Diggings,” he concluded. LOUISE RANKIN CHAMBER DIRECTOR The ladies held their own this week at the Chamber of Commerce as President “Dutch” Melton announced the appointment as a member of the board of directors Louis Rankin to succeed Rubye Paulos, who resigned. Mrs. Rankin is president of the Nevada City Business and Professional Womens’ club and an ardent Nevada City booster. A brand new proposition will be offered Nevada Union High School district voters when they go to the polls this May 15th. Instead of voting on a $1,300,000 bond issue for construction of a four year high school, they will be asked to approve an overall school plan under which the existing schools in Grass Valley and Nevada City will be converted into junior high schools. The plan came as a result of a visit to the board of trustees last night by Dr. Charles Bursch, chief of the Division of School Planning of the State Department of Education. Dr. Bursch, an expert in this field, set forth the state school planning recommendations. At the present time, no decisions have been made as to when the vote will be called for a bond issue to build a new high school. CITY COUNCIL VISITED BY CAP Things were pretty peaceful Monday night at the City Council meeting when all of a sudden the Civil Air Patrol, properly uniformed, made their appearance. Led by Captain Jim Stoddard, the airmen (and one attractive lady lieutenant) asked the council for permission to do some much needed building at the airrt. The Council agreed with them but pointed out that the present lease is held by one William Swain, who has left the community. Before any construction can be done, that lease must be satisfactorily settled. Junior High Proposal Before Voters APPRECIATION DAY STARTS TUESDAY IN NEVADA CITY Thirty-four Nevada City merchants will play host to Western Nevada County next Tuesday for the first “Appreciation Day” program. ’ The show will begin at 3 p. m. on South Pine street in front of the Elks hall. To back up Appreciation Day, the participating merchants are offering special one-day bargains. Merchants participating are: Western Auto Supply, Nevada City Garage, Shirley Chevron Service, Melton’s Red & White, Painter’s Market, Dilley’s Market, Knee’s Radio Electric, G and H Pharmacy, R. J. Berggren, Specialty Shop, Central Food Store, Novak’s Department Store, Save More Variety Store, Harris Drug Store, Wm. Home Men’s Wear, Bolton’s Variety Store, Hartman Nash, The Bootery, Dickerman Drug Store, Style Shop, Food Palace, M’Lady’s Shop, Plaza Tire Shop, Keystone Meat Market Milton's Confectionery, Plaza Grocery, Alpha Hardware, News and Novelty Shop, Hilpert Pet-Garden Supply, Success Cafe, The Nugget, Deer Creek Inn, The Bottle Shop. Go Ahead Given New Small Fry Railroad Construction of the miniature railroad at Pioneer Park, Nevada City, will be resumed, the . Say Council agreed Monday. Possibly it will be in operation . some time this summer. STIS aor . NOW HEAR TH annual spring meeting City 22-25. fe a weekly column by (Editor’s Note: Admiral Ray’s policy of getting the news about municipal government to the citizens through their newspapers received a resounding vote of confidence at Monday night's City Council meeting.) The city manager attended the of the Managers’ Department of the League of California Cities held at Monterey on February The purpose of the trip was two-fold: first, to discuss with other city managers such problems of city government which were of mutual interest; secondly, to bring the name and advantages of Nevada City before a state-wide group. City managers and administrative officers from all over California were present at the conference. A surprising number knew of Nevada City and some had been here at one time or another. One of the principal advantages derived from the conference was the uplift in morale experienced by everyone. After listening to the other fellow’s troubles everyone felt better about his own. Strikingly enough we found that our troubles were alike—our problems were the same except in magnitude and emphasis. However, a discussion brought out one important difference between the small and large towns —the smaller towns were unable to afford experienced and highsalary men in key positions. Further, the younger men had their eyes on the bigger and betterpaying jobs in the larger towns. Some of the problems discussed included personnel, annexation and_ subdivision, utilities, off-street parking, traffic congestion and traffic safety, insurance, and training. A very dynamic delegation from the chambers of commerce of Berkeley, Glendale, San Francisco and San Leandro formed a panel to disuss the topic, “The Chamber of Commerce Looks at the City Manager.” It was pointed out that the city government and the chamber of commerce were both spending the people’s money for the same purpose—a better community in which to live. Various methods by which the efforts of the chamber of commerce and the city administration could be coordinated to obtain greater returns were discussed. Other speakers spoke on the national economy and the effect it will have on the city budget, and pending legislation affecting the cities. The youngest city manager attending the conference was 28 years old; the oldest, in his 70's. The annual salary range extended from $4200 to over $20,000. After all, city management is big business when budgets run from above+$100,000 into the millions. Emma Graham Emma Graham, a native of Blue Tent, died early Wednesday morning at the Sutter hospital in Sacramento. A graduate of the Nevada City High School, she spent most of her 68 years in this city. She was a 50 year member of the Methodist Church here. NEVADA CITY’S FIRST APPRECIATION DAY IS TUESDAY

~~ ST * SERVING THE NEVADA COUNTY COMMUNITIES OF NEVADA CITY, GRASS VALLEY, RE OMEGA, FRENCH CORRAL, ROUGH AND READY, GRANITEVILLE, NORTH SAN JUAN, NORTH BLOOMFIELD, HUMBUG, ay Wednesday Dec. 20, 1972 The Nevada County Nugget 5 Support Your 1953 Nevada County Red Cross Drive Ce ee Og a as “We ] D DOG, YOU BET, TOWN TALK, GLENBROOK, LITTLE YORK, CHEROKEE, SWEETLAND, ALPHA, RELIEF HILL, WASHINGTON, BLUE TENT, LaBARR 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, QUAKER HILL, WILLOW VALLEY, NEWTOWN. INDIAN FLAT. BRIDGEPORT, BIRCHVILLE, MOORE'S FLAT, ORLEANS FLAT, SOGGSVILLE, GOLD BAR, LOWELL HILL, BOURBON HILL, SCOTCH HILL, NORTH COLUMBIA, COLUMBIA HILL, BRANDY FLAT, SEBASTOPOL, REMINGTON HILL, ANTHONY HOUSE, DELIRIUM TREMENS. Volume 27, No. 11 ~ “Nevada City, Nevada County, California, Thursday, ome March 12, 1953 Price Five Cents. They Left Their Mark In the fabulous era of Nevada County's development from 1850 to the turn of the century, there was a steady procession of the great and the near-great, the noted and the notorious, who left their mark on the pages of the county’s history. This is another ' chapter of a series telling of the accomplishments of thes@ personages. ‘ LESTER PELTON PERFECTED A NEW TYPE OF WATER WHEEL WHICH SPEEDED HYDROELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT THROUGHOUT THE WORLD Lester Allen Pelton, like thousands of other youths from the East, packed his carpet bag and carpenter tools and headed West in 1850. His objective was gold. He found gold, the records show, but not in the dark stopes of @ quartz mine or on the gold bearing gravel bars. He found it on a workbench in Camptonville, Yuba County,.and in the shops of the Nevada City foundry. There are those who will rise to contend that Pelton was not a . : Nevada County man and that we have no proper right to claim him as one who left his mark on Nevada County. It is true, he was not a regular resident of Nevada County, but certainly he left his mark on this county. The first twenty years of Pelton’s life in California were comparatively uneventful. He worked only briefly in the mines and . , then took up carpentry. The records are a bit obscure but it is probable he built many houses, bridges, mine buildings and water wheels. ; . But it was waterwheels which captured his attention. He studied the cumbersome and inefficient overshot wheels then in vogue. He journeyed to Nevada City to take a look at the wheels which drove a flour mill on Gold Run and a sawmill on Deer Creek. He was more intrigued, however, with the socalled “hurdy gurdy” wheel which was used where high pressure water sources were available. ‘ His desire to learn more about water wheels became a mania. . He bought books on the subject but few volumes had been writgen which shed light on what he had in mind. He talked to New Englanders about the water powered devices used to turn the grist mills of the East. Wherever men built water wheels in this area, Pelton was there asking questions, making suggestions and taking notes. Meanwhile water wheel designing was becoming epidemic. Knight, Coleman, Moore, Dodd and others were building various types of impact wheels all based on the principal of a jet of water striking paddles or cups placed around the rim of a wheel. Up in Oregon an ingenious miner fabricated a huge’ water wheel to run an arrastra. The wheel was secured to the vertical shaft which actuated the cross bars pulling the heavy drag stones. A jet of water under high pressure was directed against the buckets around the wheel’s rim. The device became known as the “sidewinder.” Pelton heard about it from visiting miners and regretted he couldn’t get up to Oregon for a close look. , By the middle Seventies, one definite point had emerged from the tangle of theories and experiments. The overshot water whee! was outmoded and many of them were discarded or abandoned. The impact wheel was the thing of the hour. * If you wanted water power to turn your machinery you must have a contrivance in which a powerful jet of water struck a circle of paddles or buckets around the rim of a wheel. Then came the big moment when the “splitter” principal was born. The splitter (actually the only distinctive feature of the Pelton Wheel) can best be described as a jet of water striking a wedgeshaped partition between two curved cups. The stream divided ‘and the two parts of the jet followed the curve of the two cups and emerged at the outer edge. These double cups were placed as close together as possible around the rim of the wheel. It was the splitter principal through which a patent was granted to Pelton on October 26, 1880. Historians differ as to how the sliines peneles) pees o more plausible explanations is by Dr. W. F. Duran ° edly ‘University in his manograph “The Pelton Water Wheel.” Dr. Durand’s version indicates that the idea was born while Pelion was watching a Knight wheel with a single row of half round cups in which the jet struck directly into the bottom of the cups. . ; The Knight Wheel shifted slightly on the shaft and the jet struck the inner edge of the bucket rather than the center. Pelton noted that the wheel gained speed. Thus, according to the Stanford savant, a great idea was born. Other chroniclers claimed Pelton discovered the principal while experimenting with a wheel near his Camptonville shop. There is still another fanciful tale. which would have us believe that the splitter principal was born when Lester Pelton was chasing a stray cow from his landlandy’s cabbage patch. As the cow (Continued on Page 4) . In the.towering, gaunt the Red Castle, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Adding(ea as ton, aged 74, died Sunday night. that overlooks Nevada City. Addingt had Y rooms of the upstairs quarters Mistress of Famed Red Castle zmansion now. known 43 years in the 90-year-old house on Prospect Hill In recent years the d only one portion of the giant house; ballroom, library. and the endless been blocked off and left to dust and gloom. Mrs. Addington met her husband, who now survives her, when he came as a boarder to the household She had lived original family Placer County, long since had Dies in Towering Mansion in 1016. Between them, they told countless thousands of tourists the romantic story of the Red Castle—as when in pioneer times a son of the would play his trumpet from a third floor balcony, entertaining the entire town. She was the sister of Emily Wall of Gold Run, and Herbert C. Townsend of San Jose. Funeral services will be held today at ll am at the Bergemann Funeral Chapel, with graveside rites at the Gold Run Cemetery at 1 pm. Sketch By George Mathis MAYOR CARTER HERE FOR OFFICIAL CALL O. C. Carter, mayor of Lake City, paid an official visit to Ne-. vada City yesterday. Carter also holds the positions of president of the Chamber of Commerce of Lake City, chief of police, superintendent of streets, and all other elective jobs. This is in part because he and his three dogs and one cat are the town’s only residents. “They'll never put Lake City off the map but they’re trying to,” said Carter. He has been a resident of Lake City for 10 years and a Nevada Countyan for 60 years. His age is somewhere around 80 but his spirit is at least 20 years younger. “Lake City in the gold days had 700 residents,” he recollects. Carter says that of his dogs, Dudie is his pet. “He’s a good boy. He goes farther back here than I do.” His other dogs are Cockie and Rudie. Bonie is the cat. “I own the town and the Malekoff Diggings,” he concluded. LOUISE RANKIN

CHAMBER DIRECTOR The ladies held their own this week at the Chamber of Commerce as President “Dutch” Melton announced the appointment as a member of the board of directors Louis Rankin to succeed Rubye Paulos, who resigned. Mrs. Rankin is president of the Nevada City Business and Professional Womens’ club and an ardent Nevada City booster. A brand new proposition will be offered Nevada Union High School district voters when they go to the polls this May 15th. Instead of voting on a $1,300,000 bond issue for construction of a four year high school, they will be asked to approve an overall school plan under which the existing schools in Grass Valley and Nevada City will be converted into junior high schools. The plan came as a result of a visit to the board of trustees last night by Dr. Charles Bursch, chief of the Division of School Planning of the State Department of Education. Dr. Bursch, an expert in this field, set forth the state school planning recommendations. At the present time, no decisions have been made as to when the vote will be called for a bond issue to build a new high school. CITY COUNCIL VISITED BY CAP Things were pretty peaceful Monday night at the City Council meeting when all of a sudden the Civil Air Patrol, properly uniformed, made their appearance. Led by Captain Jim Stoddard, the airmen (and one attractive lady lieutenant) asked the council for permission to do some much needed building at the airrt. The Council agreed with them but pointed out that the present lease is held by one William Swain, who has left the community. Before any construction can be done, that lease must be satisfactorily settled. Junior High Proposal Before Voters APPRECIATION DAY STARTS TUESDAY IN NEVADA CITY Thirty-four Nevada City merchants will play host to Western Nevada County next Tuesday for the first “Appreciation Day” program. ’ The show will begin at 3 p. m. on South Pine street in front of the Elks hall. To back up Appreciation Day, the participating merchants are offering special one-day bargains. Merchants participating are: Western Auto Supply, Nevada City Garage, Shirley Chevron Service, Melton’s Red & White, Painter’s Market, Dilley’s Market, Knee’s Radio Electric, G and H Pharmacy, R. J. Berggren, Specialty Shop, Central Food Store, Novak’s Department Store, Save More Variety Store, Harris Drug Store, Wm. Home Men’s Wear, Bolton’s Variety Store, Hartman Nash, The Bootery, Dickerman Drug Store, Style Shop, Food Palace, M’Lady’s Shop, Plaza Tire Shop, Keystone Meat Market Milton's Confectionery, Plaza Grocery, Alpha Hardware, News and Novelty Shop, Hilpert Pet-Garden Supply, Success Cafe, The Nugget, Deer Creek Inn, The Bottle Shop. Go Ahead Given New Small Fry Railroad Construction of the miniature railroad at Pioneer Park, Nevada City, will be resumed, the . Say Council agreed Monday. Possibly it will be in operation . some time this summer. STIS aor . NOW HEAR TH annual spring meeting City 22-25. fe a weekly column by (Editor’s Note: Admiral Ray’s policy of getting the news about municipal government to the citizens through their newspapers received a resounding vote of confidence at Monday night's City Council meeting.) The city manager attended the of the Managers’ Department of the League of California Cities held at Monterey on February The purpose of the trip was two-fold: first, to discuss with other city managers such problems of city government which were of mutual interest; secondly, to bring the name and advantages of Nevada City before a state-wide group. City managers and administrative officers from all over California were present at the conference. A surprising number knew of Nevada City and some had been here at one time or another. One of the principal advantages derived from the conference was the uplift in morale experienced by everyone. After listening to the other fellow’s troubles everyone felt better about his own. Strikingly enough we found that our troubles were alike—our problems were the same except in magnitude and emphasis. However, a discussion brought out one important difference between the small and large towns —the smaller towns were unable to afford experienced and highsalary men in key positions. Further, the younger men had their eyes on the bigger and betterpaying jobs in the larger towns. Some of the problems discussed included personnel, annexation and_ subdivision, utilities, off-street parking, traffic congestion and traffic safety, insurance, and training. A very dynamic delegation from the chambers of commerce of Berkeley, Glendale, San Francisco and San Leandro formed a panel to disuss the topic, “The Chamber of Commerce Looks at the City Manager.” It was pointed out that the city government and the chamber of commerce were both spending the people’s money for the same purpose—a better community in which to live. Various methods by which the efforts of the chamber of commerce and the city administration could be coordinated to obtain greater returns were discussed. Other speakers spoke on the national economy and the effect it will have on the city budget, and pending legislation affecting the cities. The youngest city manager attending the conference was 28 years old; the oldest, in his 70's. The annual salary range extended from $4200 to over $20,000. After all, city management is big business when budgets run from above+$100,000 into the millions. Emma Graham Emma Graham, a native of Blue Tent, died early Wednesday morning at the Sutter hospital in Sacramento. A graduate of the Nevada City High School, she spent most of her 68 years in this city. She was a 50 year member of the Methodist Church here. NEVADA CITY’S FIRST APPRECIATION DAY IS TUESDAY