July 9, 1975 (8 pages)

f 2 The Nevada County Nugget’ Wed., July 9, 1975 California Country Kristi Ottoman ALEXANDER McLEOD A handful of trappers led by Alexander McLeod left Fort Vancouver on the north bank of the Columbia River and headed south to California. They found their way over the Siskiyou Mountains and entered the state by way of the Sacramento River. They trapped along the streams that coursed through the valley and paca with the Indians they found. inter came early and caught the hapless party unprepared. They were finally forced to hole up on one of the tributaties of the Sacramento near Mt. Shasta. They had‘planned on returning to Vancouver before winter set in but now they stayed where they ‘were, : Supplies ran out quickly and the men ate only what they could kill. To make matters worse, one night during a blinding blizzard the horses wandered off and were never seen again. The company was in a sad, desperate plight. : At last they decided that help was their only salvation. Joe McLaughlin, son of the chief factor at Vancouver, volunteered to walk back to Vancouver. Along with a companion, Joe headed north, on foot and in the dead of winter, across.unfamiliar country. McLeod did not wait for help to return. The weather broke for a few days and the band of trappers decided to try and make a run for it. McLeod cached his valuable furs in the safest spot he could find and struggled through to Vancouver with the remainder of his men. _ _Hesentareturn company in early spring to recover his fortune in furs. But upon their locating the cache they discovered them spoiled. The stream beside the cache which witnessed his misfortune has ever after been called McLeod, although it is now spelled, McCloud. PG&E plans huge Yuba county plant A $1.2 million Pacific Gas and Electric Co. materials distribution center will be constructed on a 20-acre parcel off state highway 65 in Yuba county. = The land will be purchased by Yuba River Lumber Co., which will build the plant for PG&E under a land exchange t reached last year. The plant will replace a similar facility on McGowan Road under lease to PG&E. The first phase of the project will be the development of an eight-acre area to house hardware and materials needed to maintain electric ‘and gas systems within a 50NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET 301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. 95959. Telephone 265-2559 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California. Adjudicated a legal ‘newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960. Decree No. 12,406. Subscription Rates: One Yeor . .$3.00 Two Yeors . $5.00 _ Member of “pe eas 27s 8 ee 06 eae a ee 2 . CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER -. mile radius according to Radford. Construction of the plant is to begin this summer with the facility scheduled to begin operations by midOctober, Radford said. Yuba River Lumber Co. has contracted with Paul Young Construction Co. of Yuba City to build two structures with a total of about 20,000 square an administrative center and shops for servicing transformers, electric and gas meters and other hardware. Requirements are changed for veterans People should be aware of a change in the residency requirement for blind or disabled veterans exemption claims according to Nevada ‘County Assessor E. A. ‘‘Bub”’ Tobiassen. Previously the veteran had to be a resident of California on Nov. 5, 1974 and needed a U.S. Veterans Administration letter regarding or unemployability. Now the requirement regarding residency is that the veteran must have been a California resident on Jan. 1, 1975. Any blind or disabled vet who may have been rejected previously by the county assessor’s office because of the residency requirement and who feels they may qualify because of the new date, should immediately check with the assessor’s office in the. covrthouse annex in ‘<S % Ds a ee ae a ee 7 aoteRe Leeman sz eseeeee eT eser ees Rough and Ready News By Fay’ My kid brother (61-years-old now) and his wife came Thursday to spend the long weekend with me. This is the brother who underwent open heart surgery last spring my only brother. They are lots of fun and naturally, after Southern California, a weekend here is immensely enjoyable for them. They like the excitement of Reno and spent Saturday there. They came home tired; maybe because they didn’t win but I expect it was the changes of altitude which flatlanders aren’t used to having. We all like Mexican food and Saturday night they took me to the Villa for dinner. It was my first dress up dinner out since I have been ill. Now that I know I can do it I will try it again sometime. My reason for telling you all this tale about company is that I just had to clean house a little and I misplaced all my ‘‘news notes’’. The only thing I can remember is that I hada nice column planned. With my total lack of recall that doesn’t help a bit. My family saw the fourth of July parade and I thought they would be able to tell me all about it. They enjoyed it but without knowing the people or organizations involved they couldn’t tell me the things I wanted to know. They did see and * hear and remember the Rough and Ready Fats. They didn’t remember who their sponsors were. It will be nice to do things first hand again. —R&RKen and Leona Wright brought me a big bag of assorted lettuces (wonder if that is the correct way to say it) and a gallon of boysenberries their garden just in time for company. My sister-in-law made the salads which was a real treat. I get in a rut with salad She did most of the cooking too so I’m suffering now with getting used to my own cooking again. We were going to have the berries in a cobbler but they ate them fresh and at mealtime with cream and sugar and they just disappeared. -R&R—Mrs. Baer has been having some real busy ’ times. During the Secession Day rush her niece and nephew, Greg and Hedy Miller of Santa Ana, stopped by for a few days of their vacation. They went on to visit at Lake Tahoe while they are in our beautiful country. Conne’s daughter Susan Gage and her two children Visantha and Christopher spent a few days with her while their father Mike boned up for his bar exams. Mike graduated from the John Kennedy school of Law at Martinez with the highest average in his class; bar exams should not prove too difficult for him. The Gages have purchased property over in the Lime Kiln area and hope to make their home here one day soon. —_R&R Rough and Ready Chamber of Commerce will meet Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. to hear reports on Secession Days. They may meet at the firehouse this time so check before you go. —R&R Those of you who are collecting “wooden nickels” should get on the ball and let Conne Baer, chamber president, know. They were iven away to show for your chuck wagon breakfast on Secession Day. You could purchase them on the big day for five cents. Now they are collectors’ items and will cost you 50 cents. My aunt saw a couple of them displayed in a jewelry store window in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with a really good collection a couple of years ago. —R&R— One entry in the fourth of July parade that proved interesting was the Native Daughters ‘Pioneer Mother’. The Native Daughters feel, and rightly so, that she really is ‘How the West was Won’”’. The three local chapters and the past presidents association participated in the entry. Three pioneer women walked behind their covered wagon float for the entire distance of the parade. and Beryl Granholm and Marie Kohler, Laurel Parlor. Seems there were no Columbia Parlor " members present. The children who rode on the ae ‘ SPROSTSSHSHSSSESSSSEHHHEFSFAEASEHEE BAKE EE ESS Dunbar back of the wagon were the grandchildren of a Laurel Parlor member. The oxen were strictly cardboard but clever. Mrs. Baer is also a native _ daughter and has been working on that float in her spare time. The Baer family live back a ways from the ighway and have a deer that they see regularly from their long driveway. Each year for the six years they have lived there she has presented them with twin fawns. So now this year they have two sets of twins-their family cow and the wild doe both had babies. Conne says they are not positive it is the same deer; she didn’t think deer produced that long. It looks just like her but it could possibly be one of her earlier offspring following in their mother’s footsteps. My “Storer and Usinger Natural History Handbook” says fawns usually come in pairs. To quote them “Hunters shoot many deer annually under legal control, and an unknown number are removed by poarchers. Some deer die of starvation, and some are lost through accidents.” It doesn’t say a word about how long they normally live and produce. My company stirred up our little deer family one day down by the creek. We used to have seven. They usually spend their time up on the hill but maybe found the creek more tasty lately. The ditch has been treated for weeds and smells awful. If there are new fawns they didn’t see them. The handbook says they are born in June. —RER—— When you are planning your upcoming weekends remember the Historical Society Tour on Saturday July 19. The society will be guests of the Kenton Mine and have the opportunity to see a real working quartz mine. The Kenton goes more or less directly into the hill at its base, not down from the top. Mr. and Mrs. Weiss, who now own the Kenton, will be our hosts. There will be instructions in gold panning in Kanaka Creek. You must provide your own transportation and make reservations ahead for meals, lunch and or dinner; call Becky Miller, 273-9874, for further details and reservations. R&R Graduation has been past so long that you probably have forgotten this important milestone in our young peoples lives. Rough and Ready was so full of Secession Day that I put . graduation aside. Now without my motes I will surely miss some of our new graduates. Just let me know and we will think up something special. Ready Springs students of our local area that were named for the fourth quarter honor roll were Joe Guzek, Darin McCosker, Maria Purvis, Barbara Walter, and David Williams for the fourth grade. I don’t know David but I have been told he lives in ‘‘our town’’. For the fifth grade our local area can proudly claim Shawn Kirby and Carol Zufelt. Sixth graders were Lawrence Crane, Rhonda Prochaska, Raymond Purvis, and Anna Walter. Rough and Ready seventh grade honor roll included Vince Barnett, Bill Gore, Scott Jonte, Cathy McCosker, Craig McVey, Bob Purvis, and James Vaars. Graduating with honors were Catherine Baer, Veronica Barnett, James Brown, Sandra Cline, Darlene Hill, and Kathleen Zufelt. Cathy Baer won “top girl” honors in athletics for most sportsmanlike and Sandy Cline for the most improved athlete. Rough and Ready boys seem to wait until they are a little older to bring honors home; I arh thinking of Mark Tinsley. Charles Baer is beginning to follow in his brother Stan’s footsteps in FFA. He is sentinel in their new line up of officers. Paul Rocco, Diane Stevens, Ron Prochaska and Craig McVey go in for winning in the fun things such as contests at picnics and on skiing junkets that Ready Springs’ parents and teachers promote. Ready Springs graduated 55 ents this year-its largest class ever. Among them locally were Catherine Baer, Veronica Barnett, James Brown, Sandy Cline, Darlene Hill, Jeffrey Hockett, Carl McCosker, Kevin Pharis, Ronald Prochaska, Paul Rocco, Diane Stevens, and Kathleen Zufeit. Kevin Pharis was one of the two student speakers. Please let me know if I missed

f 2 The Nevada County Nugget’ Wed., July 9, 1975 California Country Kristi Ottoman ALEXANDER McLEOD A handful of trappers led by Alexander McLeod left Fort Vancouver on the north bank of the Columbia River and headed south to California. They found their way over the Siskiyou Mountains and entered the state by way of the Sacramento River. They trapped along the streams that coursed through the valley and paca with the Indians they found. inter came early and caught the hapless party unprepared. They were finally forced to hole up on one of the tributaties of the Sacramento near Mt. Shasta. They had‘planned on returning to Vancouver before winter set in but now they stayed where they ‘were, : Supplies ran out quickly and the men ate only what they could kill. To make matters worse, one night during a blinding blizzard the horses wandered off and were never seen again. The company was in a sad, desperate plight. : At last they decided that help was their only salvation. Joe McLaughlin, son of the chief factor at Vancouver, volunteered to walk back to Vancouver. Along with a companion, Joe headed north, on foot and in the dead of winter, across.unfamiliar country. McLeod did not wait for help to return. The weather broke for a few days and the band of trappers decided to try and make a run for it. McLeod cached his valuable furs in the safest spot he could find and struggled through to Vancouver with the remainder of his men. _ _Hesentareturn company in early spring to recover his fortune in furs. But upon their locating the cache they discovered them spoiled. The stream beside the cache which witnessed his misfortune has ever after been called McLeod, although it is now spelled, McCloud. PG&E plans huge Yuba county plant A $1.2 million Pacific Gas and Electric Co. materials distribution center will be constructed on a 20-acre parcel off state highway 65 in Yuba county. = The land will be purchased by Yuba River Lumber Co., which will build the plant for PG&E under a land exchange t reached last year. The plant will replace a similar facility on McGowan Road under lease to PG&E. The first phase of the project will be the development of an eight-acre area to house hardware and materials needed to maintain electric ‘and gas systems within a 50NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET 301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. 95959. Telephone 265-2559 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California. Adjudicated a legal ‘newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960. Decree No. 12,406. Subscription Rates: One Yeor . .$3.00 Two Yeors .. $5.00 _ Member of “pe eas 27s 8 ee 06 eae a ee 2 . CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER -. mile radius according to Radford. Construction of the plant is to begin this summer with the facility scheduled to begin operations by midOctober, Radford said. Yuba River Lumber Co. has contracted with Paul Young Construction Co. of Yuba City to build two structures with a total of about 20,000 square an administrative center and shops for servicing transformers, electric and gas meters and other hardware. Requirements are changed for veterans People should be aware of a change in the residency requirement for blind or disabled veterans exemption claims according to Nevada ‘County Assessor E. A. ‘‘Bub”’ Tobiassen. Previously the veteran had to be a resident of California on Nov. 5, 1974 and needed a U.S. Veterans Administration letter regarding or unemployability. Now the requirement regarding residency is that the veteran must have been a California resident on Jan. 1, 1975. Any blind or disabled vet who may have been rejected previously by the county assessor’s office because of the residency requirement and who feels they may qualify because of the new date, should immediately check with the assessor’s office in the. covrthouse annex in ‘<S % Ds a ee ae a ee 7 aoteRe Leeman sz eseeeee eT eser ees Rough and Ready News By Fay’ My kid brother (61-years-old now) and his wife came Thursday to spend the long weekend with me. This is the brother who underwent open heart surgery last spring my only brother. They are lots of fun and naturally, after Southern California, a weekend here is immensely enjoyable for them. They like the excitement of Reno and spent Saturday there. They came home tired; maybe because they didn’t win but I expect it was the changes of altitude which flatlanders aren’t used to having. We all like Mexican food and Saturday night they took me to the Villa for dinner. It was my first dress up dinner out since I have been ill. Now that I know I can do it I will try it again sometime. My reason for telling you all this tale about company is that I just had to clean house a little and I misplaced all my ‘‘news notes’’. The only thing I can remember is that I hada nice column planned. With my total lack of recall that doesn’t help a bit. My family saw the fourth of July parade and I thought they would be able to tell me all about it. They enjoyed it but without knowing the people

or organizations involved they couldn’t tell me the things I wanted to know. They did see and * hear and remember the Rough and Ready Fats. They didn’t remember who their sponsors were. It will be nice to do things first hand again. —R&RKen and Leona Wright brought me a big bag of assorted lettuces (wonder if that is the correct way to say it) and a gallon of boysenberries their garden just in time for company. My sister-in-law made the salads which was a real treat. I get in a rut with salad She did most of the cooking too so I’m suffering now with getting used to my own cooking again. We were going to have the berries in a cobbler but they ate them fresh and at mealtime with cream and sugar and they just disappeared. -R&R—Mrs. Baer has been having some real busy ’ times. During the Secession Day rush her niece and nephew, Greg and Hedy Miller of Santa Ana, stopped by for a few days of their vacation. They went on to visit at Lake Tahoe while they are in our beautiful country. Conne’s daughter Susan Gage and her two children Visantha and Christopher spent a few days with her while their father Mike boned up for his bar exams. Mike graduated from the John Kennedy school of Law at Martinez with the highest average in his class; bar exams should not prove too difficult for him. The Gages have purchased property over in the Lime Kiln area and hope to make their home here one day soon. —_R&R Rough and Ready Chamber of Commerce will meet Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. to hear reports on Secession Days. They may meet at the firehouse this time so check before you go. —R&R Those of you who are collecting “wooden nickels” should get on the ball and let Conne Baer, chamber president, know. They were iven away to show for your chuck wagon breakfast on Secession Day. You could purchase them on the big day for five cents. Now they are collectors’ items and will cost you 50 cents. My aunt saw a couple of them displayed in a jewelry store window in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with a really good collection a couple of years ago. —R&R— One entry in the fourth of July parade that proved interesting was the Native Daughters ‘Pioneer Mother’. The Native Daughters feel, and rightly so, that she really is ‘How the West was Won’”’. The three local chapters and the past presidents association participated in the entry. Three pioneer women walked behind their covered wagon float for the entire distance of the parade. and Beryl Granholm and Marie Kohler, Laurel Parlor. Seems there were no Columbia Parlor " members present. The children who rode on the ae ‘ SPROSTSSHSHSSSESSSSEHHHEFSFAEASEHEE BAKE EE ESS Dunbar back of the wagon were the grandchildren of a Laurel Parlor member. The oxen were strictly cardboard but clever. Mrs. Baer is also a native _ daughter and has been working on that float in her spare time. The Baer family live back a ways from the ighway and have a deer that they see regularly from their long driveway. Each year for the six years they have lived there she has presented them with twin fawns. So now this year they have two sets of twins-their family cow and the wild doe both had babies. Conne says they are not positive it is the same deer; she didn’t think deer produced that long. It looks just like her but it could possibly be one of her earlier offspring following in their mother’s footsteps. My “Storer and Usinger Natural History Handbook” says fawns usually come in pairs. To quote them “Hunters shoot many deer annually under legal control, and an unknown number are removed by poarchers. Some deer die of starvation, and some are lost through accidents.” It doesn’t say a word about how long they normally live and produce. My company stirred up our little deer family one day down by the creek. We used to have seven. They usually spend their time up on the hill but maybe found the creek more tasty lately. The ditch has been treated for weeds and smells awful. If there are new fawns they didn’t see them. The handbook says they are born in June. —RER—— When you are planning your upcoming weekends remember the Historical Society Tour on Saturday July 19. The society will be guests of the Kenton Mine and have the opportunity to see a real working quartz mine. The Kenton goes more or less directly into the hill at its base, not down from the top. Mr. and Mrs. Weiss, who now own the Kenton, will be our hosts. There will be instructions in gold panning in Kanaka Creek. You must provide your own transportation and make reservations ahead for meals, lunch and or dinner; call Becky Miller, 273-9874, for further details and reservations. R&R Graduation has been past so long that you probably have forgotten this important milestone in our young peoples lives. Rough and Ready was so full of Secession Day that I put . graduation aside. Now without my motes I will surely miss some of our new graduates. Just let me know and we will think up something special. Ready Springs students of our local area that were named for the fourth quarter honor roll were Joe Guzek, Darin McCosker, Maria Purvis, Barbara Walter, and David Williams for the fourth grade. I don’t know David but I have been told he lives in ‘‘our town’’. For the fifth grade our local area can proudly claim Shawn Kirby and Carol Zufelt. Sixth graders were Lawrence Crane, Rhonda Prochaska, Raymond Purvis, and Anna Walter. Rough and Ready seventh grade honor roll included Vince Barnett, Bill Gore, Scott Jonte, Cathy McCosker, Craig McVey, Bob Purvis, and James Vaars. Graduating with honors were Catherine Baer, Veronica Barnett, James Brown, Sandra Cline, Darlene Hill, and Kathleen Zufelt. Cathy Baer won “top girl” honors in athletics for most sportsmanlike and Sandy Cline for the most improved athlete. Rough and Ready boys seem to wait until they are a little older to bring honors home; I arh thinking of Mark Tinsley. Charles Baer is beginning to follow in his brother Stan’s footsteps in FFA. He is sentinel in their new line up of officers. Paul Rocco, Diane Stevens, Ron Prochaska and Craig McVey go in for winning in the fun things such as contests at picnics and on skiing junkets that Ready Springs’ parents and teachers promote. Ready Springs graduated 55 ents this year-its largest class ever. Among them locally were Catherine Baer, Veronica Barnett, James Brown, Sandy Cline, Darlene Hill, Jeffrey Hockett, Carl McCosker, Kevin Pharis, Ronald Prochaska, Paul Rocco, Diane Stevens, and Kathleen Zufeit. Kevin Pharis was one of the two student speakers. Please let me know if I missed