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Willow balley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport. Birchrille, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Dalivisss Tieeehe: op ink eat ieginaite mee ene
By PHYLLIS L. SMITH
California’s emergence as a
center of manufacturing and
other industrial activities soon
_ invited the curious and the
‘covetous to her shores.
San -Francisco had the enviable status of the main port on
the Pacific Coast for raw and
finished materials and items.
Soon the founderies, canneries,
wagon and carriage factories,
potteries and powder plants,
tanneries and textile mills were
’ advertising in the Eastern
United States and abroad as
well, for skilled craftsmen and
laborers alike in all trades and
at wage scales which would not
be entirely unimpressive today.
1860..just one short decade
after California achieved
statehood..revealed that there
were 1,450 manufacturing
establishments within its borders, with a capital of $11
million, paying $5.5 million in
wages and producing foods to
the tune of $23.5 million!
A really drastic change came
about as a result of the Civil
War, which was the “shot in the
arm’ needed to boost business
in the Golden State.
Imports virtually came to a
halt from Eastern sources but
the demand for manufactured
items certainly did not. If
anything, the demand continued
a oer to surprising propor: The State and its increasing
population was beginning to
realize that all the “‘gold” to be greater use of concrete and ano 9
reali tone was not that which petroleum products was felt in . RAGEN GUNDERIGY = © £
must be dug out of the earth. financial centers. But by 1939 Attorney Karen Gunderson of Grass spector in the Berniece Glasson Keegan a oa 7
In 1870, which was considered Cone manufa had Valley is soon to become the first legally home on West Main St. Mr. and Mrs. mo
a “leveling off” period after the expe enced a shattering 21.4 trained Judge in the history of the Nevada Gunderson’s avocation is restoring Gold a
sounds of war had faded, there percent decrease in product Judicial Court. Rush homes. Judge Gunderson was raised 3s 3. 4
were’ almost 4,000 manufacoutput over the ten year period She will assume her position in the busy in Sutter Creek, Amador County and or 8
turing plants in California. They following the ‘crash’. ©. justice court with technical clearance graduated from high school with a class of iat
were employing more*than Depressing. as itwas, this from the California Judicial Council, %6 students. F om
95,000 workers and producing noticable downward trend was Attorney Gunderson was chosen Tuesday Mrs. Gunderson considers the Nevada > FH @
about $66.5 million in goods of all to be short-lived because of the by the Board of Supervisors to fill the Judicial a full time position and will not ee @ x
kinds. This output was almost impending World War remaining two year term of deceased gage in any private legal practice to m 5
doubled in the next ten years Il... which stopped it cold in its Judge Verle Gray. avoid any conflict of interest. She will oO «
and after that...until the tracks before the end of that ~ Judge Karen Gunderson is a graduate of inherit a court clogged with a backlog of = aad
depression era of the “Day of Infamy” in December, Lincoln University School of Law, Magna C888 and problems. Jury cases are XD1930’s..the race was on to see 1941. From that point on, ‘things Cum Laude, Class ’71, San Jose. Previous scheduled into October. r
who could produce what the
fastest!
The manufacturing census of.
_A California story .
simply falling over its own feet,
so to speak, in the attempts to be
all things to all people all at the
same time. Then came that
“Great War.”
If anything was to make the
average manufacturer’s eye
“bug out” it was looking over
the shoulders of those responsible for the logistics of wartime. And ambitious, avaricious
men took long hard looks at the
picture presented and acted
accordingly..in California as
elsewhere across our nation.
In 1919 the manufacturing
output in California, as
measured by value added, was
$742,493,000 from a total of 10,282
plants employing 276,381 paid
workers. Out here the principle
sources of wartime economy
were shipbuilding and oil
refining, with food processing
and related industry falling in
close behind.
The eastern states were
stymied by World War I just as
they had been by the Civil War
when it came to supplying the
West with many products..so it
was up to the population of our
state to develop new industries
and ideas during and after the
‘war years.
By 1929..the year of the great
“market crash’’..there were
more than 12,000 manufacturing
plants out here with nearly
353,000 employees and an annual
output ‘of something like $1.4
billion. The advent of the motion
picture industry a few years
earlier had some impact on later
events, of course, and the
were never quite the same”’ in
California..to a far greater
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___ VOLUME 49 .— . Wednesday, June 12,1974. -10 Cents A Copy
Conclusion Bos :
Karen Gunderson
to receiving her law degree, she served the
Santa Clara Municipal Court as court
In the past 11 months Nevada Judicial
Court has processed 53 felonies, 609 non
Helping this astounding degree than at any time before it reporter for eight years. For the past two traffic misdemeanors, 594 small claims,
growth along, prior to World its history. years her responsibility was deputy 1°6 tort and civil cases, and 4,796 illegal
War I, was the entrance of the _In next week’s Nugget there district attorney of Santa Clara county. parking tickets. In all, there is an average
railroads into the story, (in 1869 shall be published a story of an ae Hivek wilh teer bins , of 900 filings a-month. In the 1974 fiscal
1887) and the opening of the altogether Wifferent She lives er husband, Eric Gun_ year the court will collect $180,000 in fines
long-await« . Panama Canal in
1914, Those events hed industry
“nature.;.about another time and
another place in California.
derson, Nevada County Agriculture Inand fees.
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