June 27, 1973 (12 pages)

PEXLODICALS LIBRARY SACTO. CAL. gECTION. ee 95314 veuncoun NET QEK 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 Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, So Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, gesville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Moore’s Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. VOLUME 49 Seer ; 10 Cents A Copy Published. Wednesdays, Nevada City Marko Puppet Neayadg Count Theater in Nevada City The Marko Puppet Theatre will present four performances in the old Nevada Theatre Friday June 29 and Saturday, June 30. The company furnishes stage and special lighting and sound effects. An original comedy production ‘‘What’s Cookin’’?? will offer hilarious good humor and high jinks that will delight young audiences and adults who are young in heart. The Marko company of four puppeteers has a background of wide and varied experience including training with the famous Baird Puppets of New York. This spring the company demonstrated hand and rod puppets in the Mills College Puppet Seminar. The company will present a. 2:30 p.m. matinee and a 7:30 evening ‘show each day. All shows run approximately 55 minutes. George Says: TRY IT. RENT A TRAILER MOTOR HOME When you make up your mind where you're gonna roam this summer! WE’VE GOT ‘EM All sizes and kinds! . MEIER Chev.-Olds Hiway 49 at Brunswick Rd. . Grass Valley — 273-9535 Mon.-Sat — 8 to dark! In two preceding installments we have covered the sections of a booklet published by the ‘‘Nevada County Promotion Committee’ sometime between 1899 and 1903. Gold mining in the county and descriptive matter relating to the three principle municipalities, Grass Valley, Nevada City and Truckee, were covered in those segments. The chapter devoted to railroads is very interesting and tells the story as follows: “The Central Pacific Railroad enters Nevada County east of Truckee and runs thence westward, close to its south boundary, for a distance of sixty miles to Colfax Junction, below Cape Horn. Colfax is the south terminus of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad. This road makes four trips daily -between Colfax and Nevada City, via Grass Valley. “At Colfax Junction all passengers. on the Central Pacific Railroad are allowed five days’ stop-over privileges to visit the gold mines of Grass Valley, Nevada City and other districts. Passengers leaving ‘San Francisco in the morning . arrive the same day in time for dinner in Grass Valley or Nevada City. These two towns, four miles apart, are also connected by an electric railroad, said to be one of the best-equipped in the State, making half-hour trips. ‘*At. Truckee, the Lake Tahoe . Railroad makes daily trips to Lake Tahoe, one of the scenic wonders of the State. Nearby Boca is the south terminus of the Boca and Loyalton Railroad.” Nevada County’s water supply was given considerable space in the brochure and from that section we quote the following: ‘‘Nevada County is unusually favored in its water supply. The eastern end of the county is crossed by the Sierra Nevadas, © with peaks from 8,000 to 9,000 feet in height and an annual snowfall from 10 to 20 feet in depth. From these snow-clad mountains flow the Bear, South Yuba and the Middle Yuba Rivers, traversing and bounding ~ the county on the western slope of the mountains. The rainfall averages from 45 inches in the lower portion of the county to 75 inches in the higher parts. “Years ago, principally for hydraulic purposes, large and extensive systems of canals were constructed, which have since been extended and cover all portions of the county, and supply water for all the purposes of power, mining and irrigation. The supply of water during the dry season is kept up by large reservoirs which have been constructed in the mountains for the storage of water; they have an average capacity on the western slope of forty billions (40,000,000,000) of gallons. These lakes furnish the purest of water sufficient to supply a city twenty times as large as San Francisco. ‘This large and reliable supply of water, being used for power under high pressure, has assisted in making mining profitable and has been a great factor in the development of deep mining in the county. Advantage has been taken of the above to put in large electrical plants to furnish energy for all purposes, and the mining districts of Grass Valley and Nevada have an unlimited source of cheap power, which can be furnished at all points. “In the county are the great canal systems of the South Yuba Water Company, North Bloomfield Company, Excelsior Water Company, Summit Water Company and one of the plants of the Bay Counties Power Company. The eastern portion of the county is crossed by the Truckee River, outlet of Lake Tahoe. The water from this river is used for power, lumbering and manufacturing, and also by the Truckee River General Electric Company, which transmits power to Reno, Virginia City and other towns in the state of Nevada.” As to agricultural interests in Nevada County.the booklet almost ‘“‘waxed rhapsodic’’ in its attempts to describe the-output Wed., June 27.1973 y’s Golden Era of the area.saying: ‘It would be impossible in these limits to go into detail as to all of its agricultural products. The cereals of California flourishabundantly and itS*foothills and mountains constitute some of the best grazing ground in the State.one of the best known creameries in the State is located in Penn Valley and the dairy industry is growing in importance. The agricultural and horticultural industries of the county are still in their infancy, the result being that land is still cheap in fact cheaper far than in parts of the State not as well favored. For this reason it affords excellent opportunities for actual settlers with some capital, as fruit lands and plenty of pasture land can be purchased for from five to twenty dollars per acre.’’ Ah, those were indeed ‘‘the good old days!” Frank Knuckey honored — A RETIREMENT party was held for Grass Valley Police Chief Frank Knuckey at Scheidel’'s Moniday:. The long time police chief will retire on July 31. Over 100 persons attended the banquet including Assemblyman Géne Chappie (right) who is presenting Knuckey a resolution from the state assembly for his years of city service. Friends and fellow law officers also gave Knuckey a new Set of golf clubs and a fishing outfit to aid his retirement. A

PEXLODICALS LIBRARY SACTO. CAL. gECTION. ee 95314 veuncoun NET QEK 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 Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, So Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, gesville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Moore’s Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. VOLUME 49 Seer ; 10 Cents A Copy Published. Wednesdays, Nevada City Marko Puppet Neayadg Count Theater in Nevada City The Marko Puppet Theatre will present four performances in the old Nevada Theatre Friday June 29 and Saturday, June 30. The company furnishes stage and special lighting and sound effects. An original comedy production ‘‘What’s Cookin’’?? will offer hilarious good humor and high jinks that will delight young audiences and adults who are young in heart. The Marko company of four puppeteers has a background of wide and varied experience including training with the famous Baird Puppets of New York. This spring the company demonstrated hand and rod puppets in the Mills College Puppet Seminar. The company will present a. 2:30 p.m. matinee and a 7:30 evening ‘show each day. All shows run approximately 55 minutes. George Says: TRY IT.. RENT A TRAILER MOTOR HOME When you make up your mind where you're gonna roam this summer! WE’VE GOT ‘EM All sizes and kinds! . MEIER Chev.-Olds Hiway 49 at Brunswick Rd. . Grass Valley — 273-9535 Mon.-Sat — 8 to dark! In two preceding installments we have covered the sections of a booklet published by the ‘‘Nevada County Promotion Committee’ sometime between 1899 and 1903. Gold mining in the county and descriptive matter relating to the three principle municipalities, Grass Valley, Nevada City and Truckee, were covered in those segments. The chapter devoted to railroads is very interesting and tells the story as follows: “The Central Pacific Railroad enters Nevada County east of Truckee and runs thence westward, close to its south boundary, for a distance of sixty miles to Colfax Junction, below Cape Horn. Colfax is the south terminus of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad. This road makes four trips daily -between Colfax and Nevada City, via Grass Valley. “At Colfax Junction all passengers. on the Central Pacific Railroad are allowed five days’ stop-over privileges to visit the gold mines of Grass Valley, Nevada City and other districts. Passengers leaving ‘San Francisco in the morning . arrive the same day in time for dinner in Grass Valley or Nevada City. These two towns, four miles apart, are also connected by an electric railroad, said to be one of the best-equipped in the State, making half-hour trips. ‘*At. Truckee, the Lake Tahoe . Railroad makes daily trips to Lake Tahoe, one of the scenic wonders of the State. Nearby Boca is the south terminus of the Boca and Loyalton Railroad.” Nevada County’s water supply was given considerable space in

the brochure and from that section we quote the following: ‘‘Nevada County is unusually favored in its water supply. The eastern end of the county is crossed by the Sierra Nevadas, © with peaks from 8,000 to 9,000 feet in height and an annual snowfall from 10 to 20 feet in depth. From these snow-clad mountains flow the Bear, South Yuba and the Middle Yuba Rivers, traversing and bounding ~ the county on the western slope of the mountains. The rainfall averages from 45 inches in the lower portion of the county to 75 inches in the higher parts. “Years ago, principally for hydraulic purposes, large and extensive systems of canals were constructed, which have since been extended and cover all portions of the county, and supply water for all the purposes of power, mining and irrigation. The supply of water during the dry season is kept up by large reservoirs which have been constructed in the mountains for the storage of water; they have an average capacity on the western slope of forty billions (40,000,000,000) of gallons. These lakes furnish the purest of water sufficient to supply a city twenty times as large as San Francisco. ‘This large and reliable supply of water, being used for power under high pressure, has assisted in making mining profitable and has been a great factor in the development of deep mining in the county. Advantage has been taken of the above to put in large electrical plants to furnish energy for all purposes, and the mining districts of Grass Valley and Nevada have an unlimited source of cheap power, which can be furnished at all points. “In the county are the great canal systems of the South Yuba Water Company, North Bloomfield Company, Excelsior Water Company, Summit Water Company and one of the plants of the Bay Counties Power Company. The eastern portion of the county is crossed by the Truckee River, outlet of Lake Tahoe. The water from this river is used for power, lumbering and manufacturing, and also by the Truckee River General Electric Company, which transmits power to Reno, Virginia City and other towns in the state of Nevada.” As to agricultural interests in Nevada County..the booklet almost ‘“‘waxed rhapsodic’’ in its attempts to describe the-output Wed., June 27.1973 y’s Golden Era of the area..saying: ‘It would be impossible in these limits to go into detail as to all of its agricultural products. The cereals of California flourishabundantly and itS*foothills and mountains constitute some of the best grazing ground in the State..one of the best known creameries in the State is located in Penn Valley and the dairy industry is growing in importance. The agricultural and horticultural industries of the county are still in their infancy, the result being that land is still cheap in fact cheaper far than in parts of the State not as well favored. For this reason it affords excellent opportunities for actual settlers with some capital, as fruit lands and plenty of pasture land can be purchased for from five to twenty dollars per acre.’’ Ah, those were indeed ‘‘the good old days!” Frank Knuckey honored — A RETIREMENT party was held for Grass Valley Police Chief Frank Knuckey at Scheidel’'s Moniday:. The long time police chief will retire on July 31. Over 100 persons attended the banquet including Assemblyman Géne Chappie (right) who is presenting Knuckey a resolution from the state assembly for his years of city service. Friends and fellow law officers also gave Knuckey a new Set of golf clubs and a fishing outfit to aid his retirement. A