March 7, 1973 (12 pages)

PERITIDICALS LIBRARY SACTO. CAL. CAL. ST. SECTION ) (5-16-73 95814 NEVADA COUNTY Bat Serving the communities of Nevada City. Grass Vi ile vy. Red Dog. Town Talk. Glenbrook. Lutle York. Cherokee. Mooney I thand, Alpha, Omega Pe nach Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield. Humbug, Relief Hi Wl, Washington, Blug Tent, LaBare Me adows, Ce dar Ridge, Union tne be mn t Cay. We alloupa, Gouse bye. Lime Kiln. Chicago [’ ark, Boll, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold F lat, So ile. Gold Bar, Low9lt Hill, Fe urbon Nil 1, Seote eH North abet Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebast« spol. Quaker Hill, Willow bulley, Newtown, Indian Flot, Bridgeport, Birchville. Moore's Flat. Or nlc ns Flat. Reminets sia Na aka my Hike ~ De lini tum Dre mens NUMBER 102 VOLUME 49 10 Cents A Copy Published Wednesdays. Nevada City Wed. Mar. 7, 1973 -Four finalists for awards at Sierra Sierra College’s four Bank of _America scholarship ‘finalists were selcted last week from a field of 24 applicants. Each of the finalists received a $150 award and were selected to represent one of the other areas of competition. Receiving the honor in the business. field was Catherine Swift, 19, of Roseville. William Barnickol, 19 of Nevada City was selected for the scienceengineering distinction. Garth Weaver, 30, of Grass Valley was named the choice for social science humanities. Barbara Jean Thomas, 19, of Lincoln was selected for technical vocational competition. The four Sierra College finalists will compete with finalists from 10 other community colleges from Sacramento to Siskiyou counties, in their area selection event before the final Bank of America scholarships will be awarded in the statewide selection event. FOR THE GREATEST RECREATIONAL VEHICLES We Are Your WESTERN NEVADA COUNTY HEADQUARTERS We offer the practical solution for your vacation travel requirements — at the lowest possible prices! MEIER Chev.-Olds ' Hiway 49 at Brunswick Rd. ' . mon. Valley — 273-9535 MON. thru SAT. = 8t06 J ——. at an era from Sea to Sierra Development of Santa Cruz By PHYLLIS L. SMITH One of the mainstays of the early gold miners’ diet was the lowly ‘‘spud’’ and in the 18950’s, when the demand for that % particular vegetable began to :: strain production, the coastal =: flatlands near Santa Cruz took :: importance as a 7: principle source of supply for =: the camps and communities of :: on great the higher Sierra. A God-fearing man was Elihu * who came to Santa =: Cruz: from Santa Clara in 1847, =: He it was who laid out the first =: two real estate subdivisions in °:: he expanded his =: blacksmith ‘shop into ‘a large he was the city’s :: first postmaster and was larglyfounding the =: Anthony, the coast city; iron foundry; instrumental in first Protestant chureh there. So, Penfield and Edwin S. their business. was actually a plank chute, steep enough to let sacks of :: potatoes slide into rowboats at =: _ the base of the steep cliff at the =: end of what is now known as Bay =: Avenue. Until the first railroad linked Santa Cruz with the Southern Pacific lines ‘‘on the other side of the mountain” (Santa Cruz _ Mountains) in 1876, fleets of small schooners’ carried produce, foundry products, lime ‘from the nearby quarries, fish salted down in barrels, and numerous other items to the ' Port of San Francisco. There, this merchandise was tran_ shipped, in many instances, to i smaller craft plying the Sacramento River to ports serving the Mother Lode and Northern Mines areas. In some other instances, whole cargo consignments were loaded onto large horse or mule-drawn freighter wagons destined to the more remote settlements in the very high Sierra. Time, in all cases, was of the essence and with experience developing it was not at all out of = character that in 1853, when he =: were *: operating a small store on the =: side, that building a wharf was =: decided upon as an adjunct to =: The structure *: relatively sophisticated scheduling . an era of empire building came into being for the early California ‘‘merchant princes.”’ In 1850, Elihu Anthony and three associates chartered the schooner-‘‘General Morgan”’ in San Francisco harbor, sailed it down the caost and loaded it with potatoes, which brought 15 cents per pound in The City. and three to five times that much per pound in the mining camps several weeks later. A highly lucrative business enterprise was born! A few less ethical men . promoter types found a golden harvest in the operation of what might be called a black market in potatoes and other fresh produce up in ‘‘them thar hills.”.Some historians have documanted sales of single potatoes, heads of cabbage, single oranges and the like at utterly incredible prices up in the more remote mines. One instance, cited by several prominent writers of the day, was the sale of a single ‘‘spud’’, weighing one and a quarter pounds, to a miner near Sierra City for $3 in gold dust! As coastal shipping from the port of Santa Cruz increased, lumber became a coveted stock in trade for many would-be tycoons of those days. John D. Chase, a New Yorker who had come in the gold rush period prior to 1850, fifteen years later owned the brig ‘‘Wolcott’’ which plied to San Francisco from William’s Landing with high A BRANCH with leaves shows that spring is just around the corner in western Nevada county. Unfortunately the rain has made it difficult to get out and enjoy the lovely trees in our area. (Photo by Craig Kasnoff) priority lumber cargos much needed mine shoring! During the Mexican periodand as far back as Spanish times in the state, the only facilities for loading ocean-going freight were cables strung from the edge of the cliffs to vessels anchored beyond the breakers. More than a century later, traces of one of these was to, be seen in a huge iron bolt set ina cliff a mile west of the Santa Cruz City limits. This was the primitive method which Elihu Anthony’s first ‘‘wharf”’ quickly put out of business. So . from the Sea to the Sierra a new era was born what made many men richer than their wildest dreams; and added a precedent shattering page to the State’s history.

PERITIDICALS LIBRARY SACTO. CAL. CAL. ST. SECTION ) (5-16-73 95814 NEVADA COUNTY Bat Serving the communities of Nevada City. Grass Vi ile vy. Red Dog. Town Talk. Glenbrook. Lutle York. Cherokee. Mooney I thand, Alpha, Omega Pe nach Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield. Humbug, Relief Hi Wl, Washington, Blug Tent, LaBare Me adows, Ce dar Ridge, Union tne be mn t Cay. We alloupa, Gouse bye. Lime Kiln. Chicago [’ ark, Boll, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold F lat, So ile. Gold Bar, Low9lt Hill, Fe urbon Nil 1, Seote eH North abet Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebast« spol. Quaker Hill, Willow bulley, Newtown, Indian Flot, Bridgeport, Birchville. Moore's Flat. Or nlc ns Flat. Reminets sia Na aka my Hike ~ De lini tum Dre mens NUMBER 102 VOLUME 49 10 Cents A Copy Published Wednesdays. Nevada City Wed. Mar. 7, 1973 -Four finalists for awards at Sierra Sierra College’s four Bank of _America scholarship ‘finalists were selcted last week from a field of 24 applicants. Each of the finalists received a $150 award and were selected to represent one of the other areas of competition. Receiving the honor in the business. field was Catherine Swift, 19, of Roseville. William Barnickol, 19 of Nevada City was selected for the scienceengineering distinction. Garth Weaver, 30, of Grass Valley was named the choice for social science humanities. Barbara Jean Thomas, 19, of Lincoln was selected for technical vocational competition. The four Sierra College finalists will compete with finalists from 10 other community colleges from Sacramento to Siskiyou counties, in their area selection event before the final Bank of America scholarships will be awarded in the statewide selection event. FOR THE GREATEST RECREATIONAL VEHICLES We Are Your WESTERN NEVADA COUNTY HEADQUARTERS We offer the practical solution for your vacation travel requirements — at the lowest possible prices! MEIER Chev.-Olds ' Hiway 49 at Brunswick Rd. ' . mon. Valley — 273-9535 MON. thru SAT. = 8t06 J ——. at an era from Sea to Sierra Development of Santa Cruz By PHYLLIS L. SMITH One of the mainstays of the early gold miners’ diet was the lowly ‘‘spud’’ and in the 18950’s, when the demand for that % particular vegetable began to :: strain production, the coastal =: flatlands near Santa Cruz took :: importance as a 7: principle source of supply for =: the camps and communities of :: on great the higher Sierra. A God-fearing man was Elihu * who came to Santa =: Cruz: from Santa Clara in 1847, =: He it was who laid out the first =: two real estate subdivisions in °:: he expanded his =: blacksmith ‘shop into ‘a large he was the city’s :: first postmaster and was larglyfounding the =: Anthony, the coast city; iron foundry; instrumental in first Protestant chureh there. So, Penfield and Edwin S. their business. was actually a plank chute, steep enough to let sacks of :: potatoes slide into rowboats at =: _ the base of the steep cliff at the =: end of what is now known as Bay =: Avenue. Until the first railroad linked Santa Cruz with the Southern Pacific lines ‘‘on the other side of the mountain” (Santa Cruz

_ Mountains) in 1876, fleets of small schooners’ carried produce, foundry products, lime ‘from the nearby quarries, fish salted down in barrels, and numerous other items to the ' Port of San Francisco. There, this merchandise was tran_ shipped, in many instances, to i smaller craft plying the Sacramento River to ports serving the Mother Lode and Northern Mines areas. In some other instances, whole cargo consignments were loaded onto large horse or mule-drawn freighter wagons destined to the more remote settlements in the very high Sierra. Time, in all cases, was of the essence and with experience developing it was not at all out of = character that in 1853, when he =: were *: operating a small store on the =: side, that building a wharf was =: decided upon as an adjunct to =: The structure *: relatively sophisticated scheduling .. an era of empire building came into being for the early California ‘‘merchant princes.”’ In 1850, Elihu Anthony and three associates chartered the schooner-‘‘General Morgan”’ in San Francisco harbor, sailed it down the caost and loaded it with potatoes, which brought 15 cents per pound in The City.. and three to five times that much per pound in the mining camps several weeks later. A highly lucrative business enterprise was born! A few less ethical men .. promoter types found a golden harvest in the operation of what might be called a black market in potatoes and other fresh produce up in ‘‘them thar hills.”.Some historians have documanted sales of single potatoes, heads of cabbage, single oranges and the like at utterly incredible prices up in the more remote mines. One instance, cited by several prominent writers of the day, was the sale of a single ‘‘spud’’, weighing one and a quarter pounds, to a miner near Sierra City for $3 in gold dust! As coastal shipping from the port of Santa Cruz increased, lumber became a coveted stock in trade for many would-be tycoons of those days. John D. Chase, a New Yorker who had come in the gold rush period prior to 1850, fifteen years later owned the brig ‘‘Wolcott’’ which plied to San Francisco from William’s Landing with high A BRANCH with leaves shows that spring is just around the corner in western Nevada county. Unfortunately the rain has made it difficult to get out and enjoy the lovely trees in our area. (Photo by Craig Kasnoff) priority lumber cargos much needed mine shoring! During the Mexican periodand as far back as Spanish times in the state, the only facilities for loading ocean-going freight were cables strung from the edge of the cliffs to vessels anchored beyond the breakers. More than a century later, traces of one of these was to, be seen in a huge iron bolt set ina cliff a mile west of the Santa Cruz City limits. This was the primitive method which Elihu Anthony’s first ‘‘wharf”’ quickly put out of business. So .. from the Sea to the Sierra a new era was born what made many men richer than their wildest dreams; and added a precedent shattering page to the State’s history.