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_ NEVADA COUNTY
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Sert ng the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, sed Dog,
San. Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relie} Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hil,
Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Griazly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill; Bour
LA “alley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore’s Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens.
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‘VOLUME 49°
‘Lake Tahoe wagon road
Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Moo
‘Wednesday, May 22,1974
-pERIODICALS SECTION 16-74
“GAL. ST.. LIBRARY
SACTO. CAL.. 95914
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bon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy
Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North
Peardale, Summit City, W alloupe, Gouge Eye, Lime. Kiln, Cheste Park, Wolf, Christmas
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, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill,
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was the earliest state highway.
By PHYLLIS L. SMITH
It. was in about 1895 that the:
‘Department of Transportation....was founded to
build the very first state highway across the Sierra Nevadathe ‘“‘Lake Tahee Wagon Road.”
vehicles and in use in
California. a
And, it was during the busy
1920’s_ that hway transportation out
aates
over San Francisco Bay and the _
great, and problem-cursed
Ridge Route over Southern. ™.
Calffornia’s. Tehachapi
Then, in the 1940's construction of the noted Pasadena .
Freeway...a ‘‘first’’ in
California, demonstrated
marked improvements in
miles of state highways, county
roads, city streets and a percentage of roads also under
federal jurisdiction.
Most recent figures available
show that the state highway
2 of California’s highway construction ©
program. For these travel
‘tisk
:
:
registra
reach 18.7 million....with about
14.6 of those. being passenger
vehicles, mostly privately
owned!
In next week’s Nugget we
shall take a look, in cameo, at
the State’s water and the
problems created and solved by
that most necessary commodity
within California’s boundaries.
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NEVADA COUNTY Health Officer Bob Roberts thanks Willie Shephard, branch
chairman of the American Can
PAP screening clinic.
cer Society for a grant which enables this month's
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