February 11, 1970 (12 pages)

Serving the communities of Nevada City, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Union Hill, Peardale, Hill, Gold Flat, afin, THIS PICTURE like scene on the Yuba River near Washington shows the summer like. conditions which now exist. A log left. on rock below reminds one that the January rains made this a rampaging river. See photos on page 12 for damage scenes to a century old bridge on Canyon Creek, Financial crisis hint A oem inGV school district artist without a peer A financial crisis in the Grass Valley Elementary School District was hinted by two actions Monday night. ; First, the board agreed to hold ‘a special. meeting next Monday at 7:30 p.m. on the current year's budget. Second, the contract to leasepurchase two portable classroom buildings was cancelled "on the ground of lack of funds," according to the motion. Supt. .Vernon Bond said he will provide a full explanation of the district's. financial situation at the special meeting and will suggest methods of correcting'the problem. He said stateand federalmoney has not been arriving in the amounts he had expected when the fiscal budget was drafted last summer. One major reason is that.average daily attendance is 56 under expectations, losing the district more than $20,000 in anticipated revenues, The state provides $355 in support for all school children in kindergarten and grades four through eight and $385 in support for students in grades one through three, Two items of federal income also will be below expectations, The “impact'' money paid to help educated students whose parents work at federal installations such as McClellan will be cut about in half by Nixon administration policy. Bond said he had: expected $16,000 from this source, but will receive about $8,000. Less federal money also will be provided for educationally instead of $52,000, handicapped students -$35,000. PERLODICALS SECTION (GAL. ST. LIBRARY -gaetO, tat. 95814 ; 100 years of Nevada County © ee sctaniadeaatiemdadeal ceceaeaeaiet manne aot cia: talent aaa aeaeaaae Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook Little York, Cherokee Sieone Flat, Sweetland 1 ia: Beng Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue: T y la Batt Meadows; coher Mane Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Ki Suggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, id Ba . , North Columbia, Columbia Hi i pol, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Re . et i ean tee On Valley, Mmington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremehs, NUMBER 56 VOLUME 49 10 Cents ACopy. Published Wednesdays, Nevada City WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1970 Few tales of early day Nevada City are more diverting than the story of the "Great Bunker Hill Fiasco," also known to some as the "Deer Creek Folly," It is a story of almost unbelievable mass. gullibility in an age of strong and ‘able men famed for knowledge and wisdom which took several of them to high seats of state and national government. But in this particular instance their prudence was dissolved by a honey tongued little scientist (so-called) who lives in the pages of Nevada county history as Dr. Rogers, Dr, Rogers, according to best information from. dusty archives, was a dapper littlé felow who hit. the diggin's in early 1852 and without delay allowed ‘it to become known that Nevada’ City was now blessed with the presence of a chemist, a physicist, a mineralogist and a metallurgist, all rolled up in one person Dr. Rogers, . Chroniclers of the time neglected to jot CEERI EN EN REDE Die NR CRORE mmm Dr. Rogers was bunco down his given name or initials during ‘his stay here.-After the great fiasco his disappearance was so thorough that later historians were unable to shed new light upon him, After the fiasco Dr. Rogers quickly saddled his white mare and disappeared into history as completely as the stock holders' dollars disappeared into the magnificent enterprise one mile down Deer Creek. The Bunker Hill story goes like this: Dr. Rogers, after a preliminary period of making himself agreeable to the local: bigwigs, revealed a theory that quartz was of a porous and cellular nature and that the free gold was entrapped in tiny pockets in the quartz, By application of heat the quartz would expand and the gold” would be freed, the savant explained. Ponderous scientific pronouncements rolled from his glib tongue and soon he had sufficient support both moral and — ‘Continued on page 2) co SEWN Ir EES CA AER TRE NRE TIE OF : n € ‘Tent, La Batr Meadows, Cedar Rid fie we Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Gri Vy

Serving the communities of Nevada City, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Union Hill, Peardale, Hill, Gold Flat, afin, THIS PICTURE like scene on the Yuba River near Washington shows the summer like. conditions which now exist. A log left. on rock below reminds one that the January rains made this a rampaging river. See photos on page 12 for damage scenes to a century old bridge on Canyon Creek, Financial crisis hint A oem inGV school district artist without a peer A financial crisis in the Grass Valley Elementary School District was hinted by two actions Monday night. ; First, the board agreed to hold ‘a special. meeting next Monday at 7:30 p.m. on the current year's budget. Second, the contract to leasepurchase two portable classroom buildings was cancelled "on the ground of lack of funds," according to the motion. Supt. .Vernon Bond said he will provide a full explanation of the district's. financial situation at the special meeting and will suggest methods of correcting'the problem. He said stateand federalmoney has not been arriving in the amounts he had expected when the fiscal budget was drafted last summer. One major reason is that.average daily attendance is 56 under expectations, losing the district more than $20,000 in anticipated revenues, The state provides $355 in support for all school children in kindergarten and grades four through eight and $385 in support for students in grades one through three, Two items of federal income also will be below expectations, The “impact'' money paid to help educated students whose parents work at federal installations such as McClellan will be cut about in half by Nixon administration policy. Bond said he had: expected $16,000 from this source, but will receive about $8,000. Less federal money also will be provided for educationally instead of $52,000, handicapped students -$35,000. PERLODICALS SECTION (GAL. ST. LIBRARY -gaetO, tat. 95814 ; 100 years of Nevada County © ee sctaniadeaatiemdadeal ceceaeaeaiet manne aot cia: talent aaa aeaeaaae Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook Little York, Cherokee Sieone Flat, Sweetland 1 ia: Beng

Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue: T y la Batt Meadows; coher Mane Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Ki Suggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, id Ba . , North Columbia, Columbia Hi i pol, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Re . et i ean tee On Valley, Mmington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremehs, NUMBER 56 VOLUME 49 10 Cents ACopy. Published Wednesdays, Nevada City WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1970 Few tales of early day Nevada City are more diverting than the story of the "Great Bunker Hill Fiasco," also known to some as the "Deer Creek Folly," It is a story of almost unbelievable mass. gullibility in an age of strong and ‘able men famed for knowledge and wisdom which took several of them to high seats of state and national government. But in this particular instance their prudence was dissolved by a honey tongued little scientist (so-called) who lives in the pages of Nevada county history as Dr. Rogers, Dr, Rogers, according to best information from. dusty archives, was a dapper littlé felow who hit. the diggin's in early 1852 and without delay allowed ‘it to become known that Nevada’ City was now blessed with the presence of a chemist, a physicist, a mineralogist and a metallurgist, all rolled up in one person Dr. Rogers, . Chroniclers of the time neglected to jot CEERI EN EN REDE Die NR CRORE mmm Dr. Rogers was bunco down his given name or initials during ‘his stay here.-After the great fiasco his disappearance was so thorough that later historians were unable to shed new light upon him, After the fiasco Dr. Rogers quickly saddled his white mare and disappeared into history as completely as the stock holders' dollars disappeared into the magnificent enterprise one mile down Deer Creek. The Bunker Hill story goes like this: Dr. Rogers, after a preliminary period of making himself agreeable to the local: bigwigs, revealed a theory that quartz was of a porous and cellular nature and that the free gold was entrapped in tiny pockets in the quartz, By application of heat the quartz would expand and the gold” would be freed, the savant explained. Ponderous scientific pronouncements rolled from his glib tongue and soon he had sufficient support both moral and — ‘Continued on page 2) co SEWN Ir EES CA AER TRE NRE TIE OF : n € ‘Tent, La Batr Meadows, Cedar Rid fie we Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Gri Vy