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Title: February 4, 1970 Collection Type: Newspapers Collection Name: Nevada County Nugget Published: February 4, 1970 Copyright: In the public domain or published before 1925 Physical Format: Newspaper # of Pages: 12 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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Original Held At: Doris Foley Library Location: 211 North Pine Street, Nevada City, CA 95959

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more PEATODICALS SECTION CAL. ST. LIBRARY ~ S$ACTO. CAL. 95814 ‘Hill, Gold’ Flat, Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass-Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, .French Corral, ‘Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill; Washington, Bl Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Suggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bqurbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens, , Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, ue" Tent, La Batr Meadows, Cedar Ridge Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly AY, FEBRUARY 4, 1970 “NUMBER 55 al Bek ee A et a8 was called the Nevada County Traction Company. ‘VOLUME 49 : 10 Gents A Copy. ‘Published Wednesdays, Nevada City WEDNESD = oa ae “ie satin “CAR NO, 3 prepares to go down Broad Street to the Plaza and in Nevada City and start the — a... tough: climb to Town Talk:summit, The -trolley service between Grass Valley.and Nevada City (EDITOR'S NOTE: The Nugget carried an historically important series of articles in 1951 titled "100 Years of Nevada County." These vignettes of our Golden Empire then were compiled into a book, only a few of which remain today. Because of local interest in things historical, the Nugget has been and will. continue to republish those articles in ensuing weeks and encourages its readers to clip the stories and keep them for future reference and recollection." Nevada City once had a trolley line with four street cars running on its rails. The line ran to Grass Valley, and you could travel to the quartz city for 20 cents. ~The Nevada County Traction company, its official name, was definitely no Toonerville trolley, although it had its quota of power failures, derailments, and overloads. At the time it was built in 1901 plans indicated the line would be extended iat See ae ‘ to Marysville, with connections to the bay FROSTY THE snowman is one of the winter scenes that area, , greets the traveler as he approaches Squaw Valley. This ‘End of line in Nevada City was in front large Snowman has beer. cans for buttons, Record crowds of the building now occupied by the Bottle ° : hit the ski areas during the perfect weekend conditions, — Shop, Larsen's barber shop, and Broadway seme . 100 years of Nevada County ‘Nevada County trolly line lives only in nostalgia chise granted by Nevada City called for right-of-way to "one foot west of Pine street on Broad." The track was swerved to the curb for its parking place at end of line, At the intersection of Pine and Broad the rails swung to the center of the street, passed down Broad to ithe Plaza, up Sacramento street and the Lower Grass Valley road. The track climbed the hill behind the Snell home and crossed over the Gold Flat tunnel of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge railway. Here the tracks left the Grass -Valley turnpike, as the road was known atthe turn of the century, and followed the slope of the hill to Glenbrook. Its route is near the grade of the present highway past the Yuba River Lumber. company. Evidence of the old grade is still visible as you go down the highway from Town Talk. The track reached the turnpike at about the present location of the Fowler. home. The company built passing tracks and a spur to the car barn located at Glenbrook. Swerving back onto the turnpike the line went over the hill on the same route the modern highway take§ into Hills Flat and Grass Valley. Inside the city limits of. (Continued : on page 2) ve Mk tf