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_The,Nevada County Nugget . Wednesday, Jan. 17, 1968
EMPLOYMENT REPORT 2
The number of jobholders in
California last month exceeded
Survey Is
all previous Decembers, and pat il der Wa
fewer persons were unemployed ;
than in any December since n y
1959, These highlights of the Aerial Photography is now uneconomic! picture in the closing der way for aawaiined planting on
month of 1967 were reported Rattlesnake Road and McCourtjointly today by the departments ney Road announced Jack M,
sd owmrgio “ie age
Meade, Director of Public Works
;. today.
At a December record of 7,This work is being undertaken
609,000, total civilian employment was above the year-earlier
level by 249,000, or 3.4 per
cent, according to Albert C.
Beeson,
Complete Selection
Of Fine Wallpapers
AUTO PAINTS
Phone 273-4856 FORESTER RETIRES
146 Mill St.
Grass Valley
William Robert Howden, in
charge of Timber Management
Planning and Inventory for the
Forest Service in California,
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Sutter’s Mill To Live Again
Coloma, El Dorado County-This toric Park.
In 1964 work began. on the reCAR SERVICE OFFER
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small Mother Lode mining community, between Auburn and Placerville, will be the scene on
Sunday, January 21, of the most
important historic event since
the California Gold Rush, For
on that date Sutter's Mill will
live again.
It was in 1848 that a New
Jersey carpenter named James
Marshall began constructing a
sawmill for Capt. John Sutter in
the Valley of the Coloma Indians,
He saw something glittering in
the sand and picked up the first
golden flake, Within a year the
California Gold Rush was on,
construction of Sutter's Mill.
Each timber was hand cut and
hand hewn and put together with
wooden pegs, Eventually a giant
water wheel waspainstakingly
constructed under the structrure.
It took 36 months of work
to complete the building, Now
it is finished. Sutter's Mill stands
once again in Coloma near the
Gold Discovery Site,
Sunday, January 21, is the
Discovery Day. Celebration in
Coloma. After an old fashioned
parade at 1 p.m. Lt.-Governor
Robert Finch will release the
in order to prepare for possible
reconstruction of McCourtney
Road, The field work is being
done by the County Survey Crew
and the aerial photography is
being done by a private consultant. The design work is to be
KNIGHTS done by the Engineering DiviZ sion of the Department of Public
Paint Store Works, Federal Aid Secondary
and select System monies will
be used for this project.
The aerial photography and
survey work on Rattlesnake Road
is also being done for possible
reconstruction in the future, The
Engineering Division will do the
design work. Select. System
Funds _ will be used to accomplish this work,
Mooney Flat Road is being
surveyed by the Engineering Division for future improvements
which will consist of straightening the alignment and paving.
Construction may be done sometime in the next fiscal year.
The design work is being done
by the Engineering Division of
the Department of Public Works,
Only Road Funds are used for
the above-described work, Nevada County residents' property
taxes are not used for roads,
The Corral
ena ORES TR LY ea RS ee Me ghee
Saf : By
Sutter's Mill soon fellintodisholding lever the water wheel . g
use = the bearded miners were Will slowly begin to turn and At Peterson $s .
more interested in digging gold once again Sutter's Mill will
than working in a sawmill, Withcut Jack-Pine , Lumber just as Corner Sold
in 10 years all traces of the
structure disappeared and the
Gold Discovery site seemed lost
forever. ;
Then in 1924 a Coloma resident
spied a timber sticking out of
the American River bed, Investigation located the original mill
foundation. The State-purchased
this land and most of the town
of Coloma and established Marshall Gold Discovery Staté HisDaisy
e Challenge the U.S.
Jaycee International
B-B Gun Champions.
e 501 big sweepstakes
prizes.
e Open to boys and girls
7 to 14,
e Secure your Official
Entry Kit and Free
it did 120 years ago.
« Guiding light behind the reconstruction has been California
Assemblyman Eugene A, Chappie
(R. Cool) and the El Dorado
County Historical Society. Half
the cost was raised by public
subscription and California
Beaches. & Parks furnished the
balance,
The State plans to operate the
Mill at regular intervals during
the tourist season and upon request of tour groups. It is the
only Undershot Water Wheel Mill
on the West Coast.
For more. information call
John Hassler, 916-622-5856,
Melvin K. and Carrie R,
Maish have sold "The Corral,"
formerly known as Peterson's
Corner, located on the west side
of State Highway 49 about two
and one-half miles south of North
San Juan,
The new owners are Paul B,
Jarvis and Ruth E, Jarvis, of
San Francisco and Lyle M, and
Aaron E. Jones of Richmond,
Calif,
A legal notice of intended bulk
transfer and transfer of liquor
license in printed in today's Nevada County Nugget.
Water Rights Applications Filed
. The Division of Water Rights,
State Water Resources Control
Board, reports that two applications were filed in December
land Creek thence to Yuba river,
Estimated cost of the project,
calling for 0.15 cubic feet per
second for mining and domestic
purposes, is $5,000.
And Kenneth L, and Virginia
R. Evans, San Gabriel, filed for E Bian for water rights in Nevada
per ee nae s] gz ce ‘‘Beat the County, : erie eres "teiiaey to
NO TRADE-IN NEEDED . 60>) . BaBCh 9 TF oradlen Bechebee Men ie neck cheek thence to the South
All Sizes Plus Fed. Excise Tax $2.37 to $2.55 ” MPs weer 10 De cIRacind eo unk, Ritee. Eetinsated coat tn es F . IX $2, 5 Swee tak water to be diverted from a obtaining 5,000 galions a day
pstakes mine tunnel, tributary to Sweetfor irrigation, domestic and fire
protection purposes is $3,000.
Administration . backs stiffer
meat bill.
LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE
DOG LICENSES for 1968 ARI SUE AD r ARE DUE AND PAYABLE JANUARY 2. 1968 TO MARCH 1, 1968, DOG LICENSES BECOME
DELINQUIENT AT 5:00 PM March 1, 1968, AMT. OF LICENSE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
968 ARE DUE AND P
JANUARY 2, 1968 to DECEMBER 3lst, 1968, AMT, OF LICENSE
me SAM HOOPER i
<n Cre CLeeE {
mer Dates of Publication: Jan, 3,.17, Feb, 6, 20, 1968,
Targets today.
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VALLEY ROAD 265-4642
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