July 18, 1973 (12 pages)

FE<LUDICALS SECTION CAL. ST. (5-16-74 LIBRARY SACTO. CAL. 95814 nevapa county NET GT Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, Town Talk, Glenbrook. Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, W alloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore’s Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anth VOLUME 49 10 Cents A Copy Publisheg Wednesdays, Nevada City y House, Delirium Tremens. Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Wed., July 18,1973 County chamber 1873 in Nevada county working toward consolidation At the regular monthly meeting of the Nevada County Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, ‘the Board of Directors hired Bill Williams of The Greater Marysville Yuba City Chamber of Commerce to help the Chambers of Nevada County unify and become part of the Nevada County Chamber of Commerce. Williams is the present Executive Manager of the Marysville Yuba City Chamber and will spend his vacation time helping Nevada county and all of the local chambers in working out all of the problems in creating a workable county chamber. He has been very successful in the past in helping both Sutter and Yuba counties in creating one very workable chamber that serves both counties. A questionnaire will be mailed to all of the directors of all the chambers of our county to find out the wishes and needs of each chamber. George Says: CLOSE-OUT PRIC NOW!! fC NEW ° HEVR TS : oes OLDSMOBILES COME IN NOW! Good selection from Good Inventory y at: IMEIER Chev.-Olds Hiway 49 at Brunswick Rd. Grass Valley — 273-9535 Mon.-Sat — 8 to dark! es By PHYLLIS L. SMITH It was a long, hot summer in 1873 and Nevada County, particularly the western side, was a busy place. Some of the items appearing in the Daily Transcript of that era were particularly interesting from various points of view.so we shall attempt to picture the scene here at that point in time. *“The Prospect Mining Company made a rich strike in the West Idaho ledge owned by . that concern. The ledge was located two miles below Nevada City on Deer Creek and: looked ‘“‘splendid’”’. When this discovery was told.in Grass Valley, it created great excitement. The ledge was found in a-tunnel at 250 feet, near the ‘‘Finley’’, and could be worked at very little expense according to company spokesmen.” North San Juan’s alert correspondent to the Transcript furnished this succinct report: “The sanitary condition of San . Juan is satisfactory. This may well be attributed to the care with which our citizens have medicated the water consumed during our recent heat wave. They generally resorted to brandy, whisky, wine or lemons.when the latter were obtainable.for that: allimportant purpose. The weather is alittle cooler right now, but it is not considered safe to leave the medicine out of our beverages just yet!” ‘“‘Some person or persons unknown placed a large quantity of sulphur, gunpowder and oil beneath the Nevada City Skating Rink flooring and ignited it. The fumes penetrated the flooring into the rink which was at that time filled with joyful people. A_ general stampede was the result, many believing that an explosion was about to occur.while others thought that the building was afire. No real damage was done, but.a search was immediately instituted for the responsibles.”’ “The North San Juan and Eurida stages brought reports to Nevada City regarding extensive: fires raging along the Ridge, with the most formidable being totally out of controi near North San Juan for several Summer scene 100 years ago ee ., 8 a3¢ Newly created agency — my piviowsA CHANGE to the newly created Department of Transportation took place July 1 at the Division of Highways’ maintenance station where Vick Engstrom, left, is Highway Superintendent in charge. He is assisted in placement of the new sign by Assistant Superintendent Hobert Baker. Shift in agency name means mass transit and highways will be included with other forms of transportation in future planning. Nevada City station has responsibility for about 270 miles of highways and freeways including part of Interstate 80. days. The North San Juan newspsper reports to us thusly: “The citizens turned out en masse to fight the blazes and tried to get the Celestials living in the Chinese Quarter to assistbut to no avail. The Americans then instituted martial law, arrested all the Chinamen they could find, marched them to the scene of action.:.and made these deciples of Joss fight fire until the threat of danger to San Juan was averted.” Further along in the lengthy account of the Ridge fires there appeared this paragraph: ‘‘The reported sudden exodus of Celestials from the area, some probably never to be seen again in these parts, might be blamed on the fact that good, hard labor is known to ke involved in protecting one’s property, life and limb from the Demon Fire.”’ That might-well be termed a bit of biased feeling towards a minority, but was quite common among the earlier miners of the Northern Region. The “Celestials’’ did not, however, remove themselves from this area.but remained to give a good account of themselves and to establish long-respected families in Nevada County. The oft-times poor treatment and castigation they received at the hands of some of our early settlers has long been deeply and sincerely regretted. Son Rees eae ER Ty In a later issue of the Transcript is found this brief ‘‘explosion of indignation” by the editor: ‘‘Scarcely a day passes without some horseman is seen rushing his animal to its utmost speed through some of the streets on the outskirts of Nevada City. It is high time that such foolhardy and _ reckless riding was stopped! There is an ordinance against it and_ our officers will receive the thanks of the community by putting a stop to it. We have beard of many narrow escapes of little children from being run down by this class of rider, and unless something is done to prevent it, we may yet be called upon to record some serious results.”’

FE<LUDICALS SECTION CAL. ST. (5-16-74 LIBRARY SACTO. CAL. 95814 nevapa county NET GT Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, Town Talk, Glenbrook. Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, W alloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore’s Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anth VOLUME 49 10 Cents A Copy Publisheg Wednesdays, Nevada City y House, Delirium Tremens. Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Wed., July 18,1973 County chamber 1873 in Nevada county working toward consolidation At the regular monthly meeting of the Nevada County Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, ‘the Board of Directors hired Bill Williams of The Greater Marysville Yuba City Chamber of Commerce to help the Chambers of Nevada County unify and become part of the Nevada County Chamber of Commerce. Williams is the present Executive Manager of the Marysville Yuba City Chamber and will spend his vacation time helping Nevada county and all of the local chambers in working out all of the problems in creating a workable county chamber. He has been very successful in the past in helping both Sutter and Yuba counties in creating one very workable chamber that serves both counties. A questionnaire will be mailed to all of the directors of all the chambers of our county to find out the wishes and needs of each chamber. George Says: CLOSE-OUT PRIC NOW!! fC NEW ° HEVR TS : oes OLDSMOBILES COME IN NOW! Good selection from Good Inventory y at: IMEIER Chev.-Olds Hiway 49 at Brunswick Rd. Grass Valley — 273-9535 Mon.-Sat — 8 to dark! es By PHYLLIS L. SMITH It was a long, hot summer in 1873 and Nevada County, particularly the western side, was a busy place. Some of the items appearing in the Daily Transcript of that era were particularly interesting from various points of view..so we shall attempt to picture the scene here at that point in time. *“The Prospect Mining Company made a rich strike in the West Idaho ledge owned by . that concern. The ledge was located two miles below Nevada City on Deer Creek and: looked ‘“‘splendid’”’. When this discovery was told.in Grass Valley, it created great excitement. The ledge was found in a-tunnel at 250 feet, near the ‘‘Finley’’, and could be worked at very little expense according to company spokesmen.” North San Juan’s alert correspondent to the Transcript furnished this succinct report: “The sanitary condition of San . Juan is satisfactory. This may well be attributed to the care with which our citizens have medicated the water consumed during our recent heat wave. They generally resorted to brandy, whisky, wine or lemons..when the latter were obtainable..for that: allimportant purpose. The weather is alittle cooler right now, but it

is not considered safe to leave the medicine out of our beverages just yet!” ‘“‘Some person or persons unknown placed a large quantity of sulphur, gunpowder and oil beneath the Nevada City Skating Rink flooring and ignited it. The fumes penetrated the flooring into the rink which was at that time filled with joyful people. A_ general stampede was the result, many believing that an explosion was about to occur..while others thought that the building was afire. No real damage was done, but.a search was immediately instituted for the responsibles.”’ “The North San Juan and Eurida stages brought reports to Nevada City regarding extensive: fires raging along the Ridge, with the most formidable being totally out of controi near North San Juan for several Summer scene 100 years ago ee ., 8 a3¢ Newly created agency — my piviowsA CHANGE to the newly created Department of Transportation took place July 1 at the Division of Highways’ maintenance station where Vick Engstrom, left, is Highway Superintendent in charge. He is assisted in placement of the new sign by Assistant Superintendent Hobert Baker. Shift in agency name means mass transit and highways will be included with other forms of transportation in future planning. Nevada City station has responsibility for about 270 miles of highways and freeways including part of Interstate 80. days. The North San Juan newspsper reports to us thusly: “The citizens turned out en masse to fight the blazes and tried to get the Celestials living in the Chinese Quarter to assistbut to no avail. The Americans then instituted martial law, arrested all the Chinamen they could find, marched them to the scene of action.:.and made these deciples of Joss fight fire until the threat of danger to San Juan was averted.” Further along in the lengthy account of the Ridge fires there appeared this paragraph: ‘‘The reported sudden exodus of Celestials from the area, some probably never to be seen again in these parts, might be blamed on the fact that good, hard labor is known to ke involved in protecting one’s property, life and limb from the Demon Fire.”’ That might-well be termed a bit of biased feeling towards a minority, but was quite common among the earlier miners of the Northern Region. The “Celestials’’ did not, however, remove themselves from this area..but remained to give a good account of themselves and to establish long-respected families in Nevada County. The oft-times poor treatment and castigation they received at the hands of some of our early settlers has long been deeply and sincerely regretted. Son Rees eae ER Ty In a later issue of the Transcript is found this brief ‘‘explosion of indignation” by the editor: ‘‘Scarcely a day passes without some horseman is seen rushing his animal to its utmost speed through some of the streets on the outskirts of Nevada City. It is high time that such foolhardy and _ reckless riding was stopped! There is an ordinance against it and_ our officers will receive the thanks of the community by putting a stop to it. We have beard of many narrow escapes of little children from being run down by this class of rider, and unless something is done to prevent it, we may yet be called upon to record some serious results.”’