July 17, 1973 (12 pages)

2 The Nevada County Nugget: Wed., Jan. 17,1973 “Notes off the Cuff’’ Hough By P. L. Smith Ou, 3uw I wish we could see the return of the good old reliable, dependable and — rapid (!) — Pony Express Mail Service. Let’s face it, our present Postal Service just isn’t ‘““with it’ in all respects. Take, \ and lost his grip on the oranges . four of which rolled out of the bag. Quick as a wink, the gentleman neatly flipped the shovel around, caught three of the oranges with it while tucking the open top of the bag up under his chin. He stood there for a incidents of recent dates: moment, then walked carefully In the Nugget’s mail for over to a handy ‘pickup truck Tudsday, January 9, there iparked at the curb«. held the arrived the Wednesday, shovel against the side of the January’ 3, 1973 issue of the htruck while he lowered the bag weekly: Folsom Telegraph. of fruit into the bed of the vehicle Much later and that copy would — and_then plucked. the three have qualified as some kind of oranges off the shovel, dropped “antique”. It certainly wasn’t them into the bag and walked to “fresh, news’’ by anyone's the next-car in the row . opened standards by the time we hada the trunk and deposited the chance to eyeball it! Where DO shovel therein. Then he returned you suppose it wandered whilst to the pickup and retrieved his getting from there to here? oranges which he also put into There was the case of ‘the the truck of the sedan. He * Christmas gift sent to me by a started up the street, turned -friend down in Salinas. The around and walked back to the package contained a book I very truck, reached down beside it much wanted, so she had _it and picked up the fourth orange insured and mailed it shortly which he placed in his pocket after noon on December 15. If before going on about his packages could talk . what a business elsewhere on Broad story it might have to tell about Street . with a happy smile on its journey of 13: days between his face! od ; Salinas and Nevada City. That’s exactly how long it took that My little Chihuahua has “‘pack package to travel a mere 260 rat”’ instincts I do believe. When miles from point to point. If f-eome in from work each “memory serves properly, I’ve evening he usually greets me réad that the .Pony Express with a house slipper in his frequently made better mileage mouth. I take it from him with than that .20 miles a day! much praise for being such a I’ve received mail‘ from ‘good dog’’ and he runs quickly distant. overseas: points in ‘as to the closet and brings the other little as 48 hours many times . slipper to me and then wants to and on some occasions letters play games. At least, he’s been for instance, the following fwo and small parcels have come to doing this quite regularly since me from London or HongKong in as little as 36 hours . via air he was so tiny the little trick was rather amazing. But last mail from point of origin. Why evening he changed the routine should in-State mail suffer such terrific delays? It boggles the and I’m wondering what to expect next. He met me at the mind. door with one slipper as usual . then started to bark wildly at the _Closet door.I went-over there _ week happened in front of Alpha Hardware the other day. Aman walked out the front door carrying a snow shovel in one and found the other slipper — loaded with a pair of gloves that I'd carelessly left within his reach, two book matches, a nail NWew cs By Fay M. Dunbar Most of the old timers, 10 years, of the Community will remember Mr. and Mrs. Charles (Marian) daughter grew up here with Rough and Ready Grange. Now this young daughter and Marian are taking their little two year old daughter and granddaughter to U. t Medical Center at Berkeley for tests and observation of a very serious health complication.Doctors here encourage them: to hope the tests will prove the condition can be handled with treatment rather than surgery. But whichever, and in spite of all the controversy about what it costs the taxpayer, isn’t it wonderful that we have such a place. I do not know what is best about Berkeley ' Medical Center, bu<:f do know that it would be -more costly, in fact actually impossible, for every hospital in the country to have the qualified staff of doctors and technicians to man the even more costly and complicated testing and treatment equipment they have there. Let us hope and pray that it can help little Linda Barnes over this trying time. R&R Mr. and Mrs. Michael Litchfield» have moved to Yuba City to be near Mike’s work. I met the new bride, the former Kathy Trauner, in town recently and she was unhappy about the fog in the valley and ‘the snow here that made getting to and from work very difficult for Mike. Mike has a growing business in Yuba City which means long hours and with the difficult trip home added it didn’t leave enough time. We shall miss them. R&R ownies’ Mr. and Mrs. Orin Brown of Service took off for a brief vacation the day ‘efter Christmas. They took Highway 1 down the caast _absence. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY Dawn Wiegman PUBLISHING €O. Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California. Adjudicated a leggl newspaper of High School Vegas. They saw beautiful ocean country along Highway 1 and enjoyed desert country on their way home plus the mountains and trees crossing the ladies of the Grange, was delicious. It isn’t often you get baked potato and apple pie for placed third in the American Legion 6th District Oratorical Contest held in Sacramento. Dawn, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Wiegman, represented igr Court, June 3, 1960.7 . . Decreé No. 12,406. Subscription Rates: One Year . $3.00 Two Years . $5.00 the Grass Valley American Legion Post 130. , Dr. Betty A. Wieland, Professor Emerita of Psychology, University of ' Houston, a:rural Grass Valley resident, served as one of the judges. Dr. . Wieland stated, “‘Dawn is to be commended for _ Member of her excellent performance and knowledge of the United . CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER © her States Constitution, the subject PUBLISH RS ASSOCIATION . , Of her speech.” To show Rough and Ready as the hub of transportation into Nevada county seems im possible today. But from 1849 through 1857 it was just that, the most important link between the -big. express centers of San Francisco, Sacramento, and Marysville and the mining camps. By 1880 there wer¢ two. di8tinct established routes. The original route through Rough and Ready and a second route through Mooney Flat, French Corral, Sweetland, and Birchville to North San Jan. These lines connected at the Empire Ranch near Smartville. Langton’s Pioneer Express started the company which serviced the Ridge. This latter route was added in the late 1850s because of the hydraulic mining along the Ridge. Later, Nevada City became the dispersal point for other points in the vast mining area. Rough and Ready remained the strategic link for all traffic not going into the hydraulic mining country. One of the reasons for Rough and Ready’s importance was the need, at this point in their climb up the Sierras,.to prepare for heavy weather and for the first really bad grade into the bad wather area. I have-told you before of the big corral established here in Rough and Ready to take Care of the additional mules and horses needed in winter weather, it was necessary to build have a marvelous time greeting old friends senior, R&R avoided all freeways and towns, including Las during the open house hour. Dinner, served by Dawn Wiegman, a Nevada Her grandmother, Mrs: Lisetta Scheave says she is an extra good one, too. -horth through. the desert.-Brownie-said they --The corrals took in the area of the chapel. Here dinner Union Last week's news went in with Miss Kathy Kelly listed as -Gretchen. Gretchen, that is Kathy, has recently returned from a year in Germany and I had meant to develop a play on Irish Kathy Kelly versus Gretchen who loved Germany very much. Sorry Kathy Kelly, R.N.!! to go on into the mountain mining camps. The. barn stood just to the east of Brownies Station. dinner last Saturday was well attended in spite of the flu and the weather. Everyone seemed to is contest winner R&R to the Los Angeles ‘area. Crossed over Southarn California to Nevada Highway 95 and came ba hand and a big grocery bag full file that I’d been hunting for out own Sierras. He says he is going to write a of oranges in the other. He acseveral days, and a strip of fried book about trips we can take weekends within 25 ‘cidentally bumped a passerby. bacon which had been part of-his miles of home. Someone will have to do a sequal breakfast that morning! He on 75 miles from home to include the interesting fairly danced up and down while places along the crest of the Sierras. I do believe pulling these items out of the ‘a person could spend a fascinating year in our 301 Broad Street slipper and lining them up onthe . _beautiful country just enjoying such weekends. Nevada City, Ca. floor in front of me. At least he is R&R easily ‘entertained’ in my 95959 The Chamber of Commerce Installation telephone 265-2471 derson. With a cast like this, 1973 will surely provide a good performance. Willert. Even though they lived in Glenbrook they were a faithful and happy addition to our grange. Their young . NEVADAWOUNTT NUGGET . . . 273-2934 away from home. Our master of ceremonies, Mr. Wm. Lock, supt. of Ready Springs School, presented a most interesting resume of 1972 in Rough and Ready. Guest speaker, Mr. Ivan Branson,-’spoke on the ac tivities and interesting sights along the Golden Chain, Hwy. 49. Ed Scofield, president of the Jaycees, installed the officer for 1973. Our new president, Mrs. Constance’ Baer, made her great teams of from 16 to 24 horses and mules. I , have seen these great teams, through the eyes of the late Maud Calvert, as they struggled to get their load up the grade. Maud told marvelous Stories of these incidents from her youth. She had a knack for details. One thing I found interesting was that everyone in town followed the trains in bad weather. with their axes and Shovels to help get the wagons up that grade. The maintenance work on the wagons, and for . that matter the horses themselves, was done at the Fippin Blacksmith Shop. It brought lots of extra work to our community who at that time were themselves a “‘Rip Roaring”’ mining camp. Men came through earlier of course but the first organized express line came in December of 1849. It was mainly a mule team owned and run by Bowers brothers. There were 1500 pices of mail on that first train. You lined up to get yours and it cost you $1.00. The train came through Johnsons Ranch and Rose Bar to Rough and Ready and thence into the Sierras. Three major companies ran express lines and stage coaches through here in 1851, Freeman and Co., Adams and Co., and Wells Fargo and Co. By 1855 it had been whittled down to Pacific ExpressCo. and Wells Fargo and Co. and by 1857 it was mainly speech brief and to the point. She promised to pursue present projects to a successful con Wells Fargo and ce They continued without any continuous opposition for the next 20 years. clusion and to add some ‘different’? new ones. R&R: She did not explain ‘‘different’’ so she left us each hoping for our own pet project. Harold Brown is taking over for Allan Brown as vice president and Mary Ann Tanger will take over New Chamber president Conne Baer has called a meeting for the newly organized Chamber Board of Directors on Thursday at treasurer’s duties from Don Long. Irene Lanzendorfer is remaining as Chamber secretary. 7:30 p.m. at the Grange Hall. The regular Wm. Bursill and John Schuster are the hold over dinner preceeding at 6:30 p.m. The fire district firemen will hold their regular work meeting Tuesday, Jan. 23 at the fire house at 7:30 p.m. directors and new directors installed were: Margaret Grown, Jack Bixler, and Jack Hen< grange meeting is Friday at 8 p.m. with potluck _-

2 The Nevada County Nugget: Wed., Jan. 17,1973 “Notes off the Cuff’’ Hough By P. L. Smith Ou, 3uw I wish we could see the return of the good old reliable, dependable and — rapid (!) — Pony Express Mail Service. Let’s face it, our present Postal Service just isn’t ‘““with it’ in all respects. Take, \ and lost his grip on the oranges .. four of which rolled out of the bag. Quick as a wink, the gentleman neatly flipped the shovel around, caught three of the oranges with it while tucking the open top of the bag up under his chin. He stood there for a incidents of recent dates: moment, then walked carefully In the Nugget’s mail for over to a handy ‘pickup truck Tudsday, January 9, there iparked at the curb«. held the arrived the Wednesday, shovel against the side of the January’ 3, 1973 issue of the htruck while he lowered the bag weekly: Folsom Telegraph. of fruit into the bed of the vehicle Much later and that copy would — and_then plucked. the three have qualified as some kind of oranges off the shovel, dropped “antique”. It certainly wasn’t them into the bag and walked to “fresh, news’’ by anyone's the next-car in the row .. opened standards by the time we hada the trunk and deposited the chance to eyeball it! Where DO shovel therein. Then he returned you suppose it wandered whilst to the pickup and retrieved his getting from there to here? oranges which he also put into There was the case of ‘the the truck of the sedan. He * Christmas gift sent to me by a started up the street, turned -friend down in Salinas. The around and walked back to the package contained a book I very truck, reached down beside it much wanted, so she had _it and picked up the fourth orange insured and mailed it shortly which he placed in his pocket after noon on December 15. If before going on about his packages could talk .. what a business elsewhere on Broad story it might have to tell about Street .. with a happy smile on its journey of 13: days between his face! od ; Salinas and Nevada City. That’s exactly how long it took that My little Chihuahua has “‘pack package to travel a mere 260 rat”’ instincts I do believe. When miles from point to point. If f-eome in from work each “memory serves properly, I’ve evening he usually greets me réad that the .Pony Express with a house slipper in his frequently made better mileage mouth. I take it from him with than that ..20 miles a day! much praise for being such a I’ve received mail‘ from ‘good dog’’ and he runs quickly distant. overseas: points in ‘as to the closet and brings the other little as 48 hours many times .. slipper to me and then wants to and on some occasions letters play games. At least, he’s been for instance, the following fwo and small parcels have come to doing this quite regularly since me from London or HongKong in as little as 36 hours .. via air he was so tiny the little trick was rather amazing. But last mail from point of origin. Why evening he changed the routine should in-State mail suffer such terrific delays? It boggles the and I’m wondering what to expect next. He met me at the mind. door with one slipper as usual .. then started to bark wildly at the _Closet door.I went-over there _ week happened in front of Alpha Hardware the other day. Aman walked out the front door carrying a snow shovel in one and found the other slipper — loaded with a pair of gloves that I'd carelessly left within his reach, two book matches, a nail NWew cs By Fay M. Dunbar Most of the old timers, 10 years, of the Community will remember Mr. and Mrs. Charles (Marian) daughter grew up here with Rough and Ready Grange. Now this young daughter and Marian are taking their little two year old daughter and granddaughter to U. t Medical Center at Berkeley for tests and observation of a very serious health complication.Doctors here encourage them: to hope the tests will prove the condition can be handled with treatment rather than surgery. But whichever, and in spite of all the controversy about what it costs the taxpayer, isn’t it wonderful that we have such a place. I do not know what is best about Berkeley ' Medical Center, bu<:f do know that it would be -more costly, in fact actually impossible, for every hospital in the country to have the qualified staff of doctors and technicians to man the even more costly and complicated testing and treatment equipment they have there. Let us hope and pray that it can help little Linda Barnes over this trying time. R&R Mr. and Mrs. Michael Litchfield» have moved to Yuba City to be near Mike’s work. I met the new bride, the former Kathy Trauner, in town recently and she was unhappy about the fog in the valley and ‘the snow here that made getting to and from work very difficult for Mike. Mike has a growing business in Yuba City which means long hours and with the difficult trip home added it didn’t leave enough time. We shall miss them. R&R ownies’ Mr. and Mrs. Orin Brown of Service took off for a brief vacation the day ‘efter Christmas. They took Highway 1 down the caast _absence. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY Dawn Wiegman PUBLISHING €O. Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California. Adjudicated a leggl newspaper of High School Vegas. They saw beautiful ocean country along Highway 1 and enjoyed desert country on their way home plus the mountains and trees crossing the ladies of the Grange, was delicious. It isn’t often you get baked potato and apple pie for placed third in the American Legion 6th District Oratorical Contest held in Sacramento. Dawn, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Wiegman, represented igr Court, June 3, 1960.7 . .. Decreé No. 12,406. Subscription Rates: One Year .. $3.00 Two Years .. $5.00 the Grass Valley American Legion Post 130. , Dr. Betty A. Wieland, Professor Emerita of Psychology, University of ' Houston, a:rural Grass Valley resident, served as one of the judges. Dr. . Wieland stated,

“‘Dawn is to be commended for _ Member of her excellent performance and knowledge of the United . CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER © her States Constitution, the subject PUBLISH RS ASSOCIATION . , Of her speech.” To show Rough and Ready as the hub of transportation into Nevada county seems im possible today. But from 1849 through 1857 it was just that, the most important link between the -big. express centers of San Francisco, Sacramento, and Marysville and the mining camps. By 1880 there wer¢ two. di8tinct established routes. The original route through Rough and Ready and a second route through Mooney Flat, French Corral, Sweetland, and Birchville to North San Jan. These lines connected at the Empire Ranch near Smartville. Langton’s Pioneer Express started the company which serviced the Ridge. This latter route was added in the late 1850s because of the hydraulic mining along the Ridge. Later, Nevada City became the dispersal point for other points in the vast mining area. Rough and Ready remained the strategic link for all traffic not going into the hydraulic mining country. One of the reasons for Rough and Ready’s importance was the need, at this point in their climb up the Sierras,.to prepare for heavy weather and for the first really bad grade into the bad wather area. I have-told you before of the big corral established here in Rough and Ready to take Care of the additional mules and horses needed in winter weather, it was necessary to build have a marvelous time greeting old friends senior, R&R avoided all freeways and towns, including Las during the open house hour. Dinner, served by Dawn Wiegman, a Nevada Her grandmother, Mrs: Lisetta Scheave says she is an extra good one, too. -horth through. the desert.-Brownie-said they --The corrals took in the area of the chapel. Here dinner Union Last week's news went in with Miss Kathy Kelly listed as -Gretchen. Gretchen, that is Kathy, has recently returned from a year in Germany and I had meant to develop a play on Irish Kathy Kelly versus Gretchen who loved Germany very much. Sorry Kathy Kelly, R.N.!! to go on into the mountain mining camps. The. barn stood just to the east of Brownies Station. dinner last Saturday was well attended in spite of the flu and the weather. Everyone seemed to is contest winner R&R to the Los Angeles ‘area. Crossed over Southarn California to Nevada Highway 95 and came ba hand and a big grocery bag full file that I’d been hunting for out own Sierras. He says he is going to write a of oranges in the other. He acseveral days, and a strip of fried book about trips we can take weekends within 25 ‘cidentally bumped a passerby. bacon which had been part of-his miles of home. Someone will have to do a sequal breakfast that morning! He on 75 miles from home to include the interesting fairly danced up and down while places along the crest of the Sierras. I do believe pulling these items out of the ‘a person could spend a fascinating year in our 301 Broad Street slipper and lining them up onthe . _beautiful country just enjoying such weekends. Nevada City, Ca. floor in front of me. At least he is R&R easily ‘entertained’ in my 95959 The Chamber of Commerce Installation telephone 265-2471 derson. With a cast like this, 1973 will surely provide a good performance. Willert. Even though they lived in Glenbrook they were a faithful and happy addition to our grange. Their young . NEVADAWOUNTT NUGGET . . . 273-2934 away from home. Our master of ceremonies, Mr. Wm. Lock, supt. of Ready Springs School, presented a most interesting resume of 1972 in Rough and Ready. Guest speaker, Mr. Ivan Branson,-’spoke on the ac tivities and interesting sights along the Golden Chain, Hwy. 49. Ed Scofield, president of the Jaycees, installed the officer for 1973. Our new president, Mrs. Constance’ Baer, made her great teams of from 16 to 24 horses and mules. I , have seen these great teams, through the eyes of the late Maud Calvert, as they struggled to get their load up the grade. Maud told marvelous Stories of these incidents from her youth. She had a knack for details. One thing I found interesting was that everyone in town followed the trains in bad weather. with their axes and Shovels to help get the wagons up that grade. The maintenance work on the wagons, and for . that matter the horses themselves, was done at the Fippin Blacksmith Shop. It brought lots of extra work to our community who at that time were themselves a “‘Rip Roaring”’ mining camp. Men came through earlier of course but the first organized express line came in December of 1849. It was mainly a mule team owned and run by Bowers brothers. There were 1500 pices of mail on that first train. You lined up to get yours and it cost you $1.00. The train came through Johnsons Ranch and Rose Bar to Rough and Ready and thence into the Sierras. Three major companies ran express lines and stage coaches through here in 1851, Freeman and Co., Adams and Co., and Wells Fargo and Co. By 1855 it had been whittled down to Pacific ExpressCo. and Wells Fargo and Co. and by 1857 it was mainly speech brief and to the point. She promised to pursue present projects to a successful con Wells Fargo and ce They continued without any continuous opposition for the next 20 years. clusion and to add some ‘different’? new ones. R&R: She did not explain ‘‘different’’ so she left us each hoping for our own pet project. Harold Brown is taking over for Allan Brown as vice president and Mary Ann Tanger will take over New Chamber president Conne Baer has called a meeting for the newly organized Chamber Board of Directors on Thursday at treasurer’s duties from Don Long. Irene Lanzendorfer is remaining as Chamber secretary. 7:30 p.m. at the Grange Hall. The regular Wm. Bursill and John Schuster are the hold over dinner preceeding at 6:30 p.m. The fire district firemen will hold their regular work meeting Tuesday, Jan. 23 at the fire house at 7:30 p.m. directors and new directors installed were: Margaret Grown, Jack Bixler, and Jack Hen< grange meeting is Friday at 8 p.m. with potluck _-