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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada County Nugget

July 3, 1974 (8 pages)

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Pp RP MN gta gee gen NU Serv 1g the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, ed. Dog, Town Talk, Glenbrook. Little York, Gherokee, 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, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill. Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Plat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon 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. VOLUME 49 : Phyllis L. Smith — More answ The earliest attempts. to produce useable oil products in California were made during the 1850’s. An example or two may . be cited as when, in 1856, Charles Morrel of San Francisco erected a small kerosene distillation plant close to Carpinteria, near Santa Barbara. But all that this ambitious pharmacist got for his efforts was a foul-smelling smokey fuel which caused more—problems than it would ever solve. About a year later, another San Franciscan, George B. Gilbert by name, constructed a modest refinery down in Ventura. There he created a sticky about 1900, these two itemskerosene and grease were Gold Country Stage tours beginning Gold Country Stage will begin historic and scenic tours of the local area beginning Sunday at 10 a.m. and again at 2 .m. 6 The tour program is a joint effort of Grass Valley downtown merchants, Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce and the Nevada County Historical Society. Each tour will take tely two and one-half hours and includes the Grass Valley Mining Museum, Empire Mine grounds, Holbrooke -puilding, Cultural Museum in Nevada City and other points of interest. Local historians will conduct and narrate each trip, For reservations and further in-, formation, call the cham office, 273-4667. t all that California’s oil industry had to show for its
labors. In 1833, soon after the “rulers’’ of California (i.e. Governors Jose Maria Echeandia of -Southern California .and Augustin Zamorano of Northern California) began -to hand out ‘and grants” so j one Narcisso Botello, a Mexican soldier, asked for and was given the Santa Maria Rancho in Southern California. But he failed to hold onto it and in 1843 it was regranted to Jose Joquin Ortega and his son-in-law, Capt. Edward Stokes. In 1844, they most interesting book entitled “Ghost Towns and Mining a recent query in this way: ; ‘Wednesday, July 3,1974 . GT “10 Cents A Copy ers for readers “California’s Northern Mines extended northward to the stampede to California from were served by stage coaches . Feather River and took in some 1848 to 1853. from the Feather River port of of the finest scenery in . “Tf California. ever had any Marysville and :. from California. “ee frontier, it was this untamed Sacramento City as well. Often among the Northern Mines was country North and West of the Central Mines, located on a whole empire of camps in the Sacramento Valley. For a time, the forks of the American River, upper end of California's coast to paraphrase an od Texas were: included by popular Yange. Founded between 1849 saying there was no law north useage with the Northern and 181, they represent a of the Pit River and no God Diggins. In any case, the latter second rush within the bigger north of the Trinity!” ~ ARTIFICIAL SUN: Aesthetically it's no match for the Sun, but.in performance, at least over a four-foot squaro area, this solar simulator duplicates the Sun’ radiation on a clear day. The low-cost simulator, developed at NASA's Lewi. Research Center in Cleveland, ysed 143 tungsten-halogen 300-watt lamps to simulate the sun radiation. The simulator is used to test new designs of solar collectors which trap the Sun's radiation to heat water for such uses as heating or cooling buildings and homes. 2 RS a ACE “¥O OLNENYBOVS HOIIOAS SIVOTCOTESS: ‘¥tSS6 puveer? givis *1¥9 SL-9T-S Pen Sawt deee et RBI a ting 5" gc? ee sed Sai iS ~ 3 ees t $ ee ete ges a SS on