May 2, 1973 (12 pages)

; ; x . a ay te CR NONE et W ) u PEL I DICALS SBOTIOQN . (5-16-73 CAL. ST. LIBRARY SACTN. CAL. 95814 NEVADA COUNTY : Serving the communities of Nevada City, San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, R Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville. Gold Bar, ‘Lowell Hill;-Bourbon Hill-Sc Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's SEES Grass Valley, Red Dog, Town Talk, Glenbrook. Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetlund, Alpha, elief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, é ; f re, a t Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, W alloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas otch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Flat, Orteans-Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. NUMBER 102 VOLUME 49 10 Cents A Copy Published Wednesdays Nevada CityWed. May 2, 1973 Question: What's in a name? Appeal Court to decide pot issue The Third District Court of Appeal will decide whether or not the 1972 Nevada county grand jury should testify in a pot case. The appelate court set June 21 for a hearing in the Stephen Peter Dean case. Dean, 27, of Berkeley is charged with cultivating an acre of marijuana in the North San Juan area. His Berkeley attorney, Brian Sax, subpeonaed the grand jury, who had indicted Dean, but the prosecution filed a writ of prohibition to prevent the jurors’ testimony. sic: Sax’s action stems from an earlier charge by then District Attorney Harold Berliner that the grand jury selected by Superior Court Judge Harold Wolters did not represent a cross section of the county’s population. The appelate court declined to review Berliner’s charge. We have the finest George. Says: Are You In The Market for A USED CAMPER or TRAILER? GO NO FURTHER — stock at the greatest SAVINGS for Miles Around. (MEIER Chev.-Olds Hiway 49 at Brunswick Rd. Grass Valley — 273-9535 Mon.-Sat — 8 to dark! BY PHYLLIS L. SMITH Question: Hardly a week passes without ::: the mail bringing the Nugget =: anywhere from three to a dozen =: inquiries for information about =: people, places and events in the history of Nevada County. Recently we published two articles on place names in response to a number of such = requests and those articles, in =: turn, have brought us a batch of :: new questions. So that there may be no 3 question as to the validity of our *: sources for these answers, we :: wish to cite the following as our <: references and authorities for :: igs the earlier and this week’s ar::@ ticles: “California Place Names” by *: Erwin G. Gudde, published by the University of California =: Press, Berkeley, 1949. “History of California” by H. % H. Bancroft, published in San :: Francisco between 1884-1890 in =: seven volumes. “California Mining Journal’, =: August.1931 issue dealing with :: Nevada and Sierra County :: Mines; specifically. “Thompson and West”’ their renowned History of Nevada County, published in Oakland in 1880. “Historic Spots in California”’ by Hoover, Rensch & Rensch, = third edition as revised by =: William N. Abeloe, published by =: Stanford University Press ‘in :: 1966; originally copyrighted in =: 1932 by the Board of Trustees of :: Junior =: Leland University. Stanford Other, lesser known, sources ::: have been used for comparison’s ::: sake in some instances but we ::: rely upon the five major works : listed above as certainly more =: reliable than the somewhat =: legendary ‘‘tales” often cited by =: those who have perhaps not =: researched our area at first =: hand. first to challenge any new writer on the scene.with sometimes amusing results. Such results are generally not worth specific debate because that could only serve to embarass the critic. So, we shall continue to base any material published in these columns on long recognized authorities and try to give our readers that which they seek in the most concise and simple Such “critics” are always the “= taken at a 1969 winter ca terms. Several readers asked for a bit of history about the settlement known as ‘Graniteville’. To begin with, it is located about 25 miles northeast of Nevada City over a breathtakingly beautiful route leading one up, up, up to a point near the summit of the mountains. Originally it was known as mp at Silver Beaver Lodge. ‘Eureka South”’ to distinguish it from. Humboldt County’s ‘Eureka and a speck on the map of Sierra County named Eureka North. When the post office was established there in 1867, the name was. changed _ to Graniteville to avoid further confusion. The post office served the area for nearly a century before the department ordered 650.0000 6.6. 020 0.0.6 0,0. 6 4.0 Weis Sie ois eis so SPP Pe EO Dee Oe ht eh eh eth ee tt DD CPPS PS DEB ED ae a a hat a ah a LG ee te Oe Se nt Se ae eae hee hee ee hr hee a a LC Se Re ee he ee NB EO BO BOY SCOUT Troop 4 in Grass Valley celebrates its 50th anniversary this week. Over the years the troop has been a leader in providing recreational activities and leadership training for the young men of the community. This picture was it closed. Gold was mined there as early as 1850, but shallow diggings attracted such a rush to the area that Graniteville was threatened with early oblivion by rapidly exhausted diggings. In the mid60’s new strikes were made nearby and the town gained a (Con’t on pagell) \

; ; x . a ay te CR NONE et W ) u PEL I DICALS SBOTIOQN . (5-16-73 CAL. ST. LIBRARY SACTN. CAL. 95814 NEVADA COUNTY : Serving the communities of Nevada City, San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, R Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville. Gold Bar, ‘Lowell Hill;-Bourbon Hill-Sc Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's SEES Grass Valley, Red Dog, Town Talk, Glenbrook. Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetlund, Alpha, elief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, é ; f re, a t Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, W alloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas otch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Flat, Orteans-Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. NUMBER 102 VOLUME 49 10 Cents A Copy Published Wednesdays Nevada CityWed. May 2, 1973 Question: What's in a name? Appeal Court to decide pot issue The Third District Court of Appeal will decide whether or not the 1972 Nevada county grand jury should testify in a pot case. The appelate court set June 21 for a hearing in the Stephen Peter Dean case. Dean, 27, of Berkeley is charged with cultivating an acre of marijuana in the North San Juan area. His Berkeley attorney, Brian Sax, subpeonaed the grand jury, who had indicted Dean, but the prosecution filed a writ of prohibition to prevent the jurors’ testimony. sic: Sax’s action stems from an earlier charge by then District Attorney Harold Berliner that the grand jury selected by Superior Court Judge Harold Wolters did not represent a cross section of the county’s population. The appelate court declined to review Berliner’s charge. We have the finest George. Says: Are You In The Market for A USED CAMPER or TRAILER? GO NO FURTHER — stock at the greatest SAVINGS for Miles Around. (MEIER Chev.-Olds Hiway 49 at Brunswick Rd. Grass Valley — 273-9535 Mon.-Sat — 8 to dark! BY PHYLLIS L. SMITH Question: Hardly a week passes without ::: the mail bringing the Nugget =: anywhere from three to a dozen =: inquiries for information about =: people, places and events in the history of Nevada County. Recently we published two articles on place names in response to a number of such = requests and those articles, in =: turn, have brought us a batch of :: new questions. So that there may be no 3 question as to the validity of our *: sources for these answers, we :: wish to cite the following as our <: references and authorities for :: igs the earlier and this week’s ar::@

ticles: “California Place Names” by *: Erwin G. Gudde, published by the University of California =: Press, Berkeley, 1949. “History of California” by H. % H. Bancroft, published in San :: Francisco between 1884-1890 in =: seven volumes. “California Mining Journal’, =: August.1931 issue dealing with :: Nevada and Sierra County :: Mines; specifically. “Thompson and West”’ their renowned History of Nevada County, published in Oakland in 1880. “Historic Spots in California”’ by Hoover, Rensch & Rensch, = third edition as revised by =: William N. Abeloe, published by =: Stanford University Press ‘in :: 1966; originally copyrighted in =: 1932 by the Board of Trustees of :: Junior =: Leland University. Stanford Other, lesser known, sources ::: have been used for comparison’s ::: sake in some instances but we ::: rely upon the five major works : listed above as certainly more =: reliable than the somewhat =: legendary ‘‘tales” often cited by =: those who have perhaps not =: researched our area at first =: hand. first to challenge any new writer on the scene..with sometimes amusing results. Such results are generally not worth specific debate because that could only serve to embarass the critic. So, we shall continue to base any material published in these columns on long recognized authorities and try to give our readers that which they seek in the most concise and simple Such “critics” are always the “= taken at a 1969 winter ca terms. Several readers asked for a bit of history about the settlement known as ‘Graniteville’. To begin with, it is located about 25 miles northeast of Nevada City over a breathtakingly beautiful route leading one up, up, up to a point near the summit of the mountains. Originally it was known as mp at Silver Beaver Lodge. ‘Eureka South”’ to distinguish it from. Humboldt County’s ‘Eureka and a speck on the map of Sierra County named Eureka North. When the post office was established there in 1867, the name was. changed _ to Graniteville to avoid further confusion. The post office served the area for nearly a century before the department ordered 650.0000 6.6. 020 0.0.6 0,0. 6 4.0 Weis Sie ois eis so SPP Pe EO Dee Oe ht eh eh eth ee tt DD CPPS PS DEB ED ae a a hat a ah a LG ee te Oe Se nt Se ae eae hee hee ee hr hee a a LC Se Re ee he ee NB EO BO BOY SCOUT Troop 4 in Grass Valley celebrates its 50th anniversary this week. Over the years the troop has been a leader in providing recreational activities and leadership training for the young men of the community. This picture was it closed. Gold was mined there as early as 1850, but shallow diggings attracted such a rush to the area that Graniteville was threatened with early oblivion by rapidly exhausted diggings. In the mid60’s new strikes were made nearby and the town gained a (Con’t on pagell) \