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PERLODICALS SECTION 5/16/71
CAL. ST. LIBRARY “
SACTO. CAL. 95814
NUGGET
rving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red D You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega,
Panel Cortal, Rough and Ready, Giantrevilte, North ‘Sen Tua, Mort Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, La Batr Meadows, Cedar Ridge,
Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, ‘Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly
Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley,
Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Ofleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1971
NUMBER 16 VOLUME 49 10 Cents ACopy Published Wednesdays, Nevada City
Trolley plaque placed ©
THE TROLLEY LINE which formerly ran:between Nevada.
City and Grass Valley was commemorated Saturday by E
Clampus Vitus, William Bull Meek William Morris Stewart
Chapter. The bronze plaque was placed on the old Bank of
America building, the. northernmost. terminus .of. the. Nevada.. +
trolley are (left to right) Jim Emmons, builder of the scale
model trolley which ran along a 20-foot track along Broad
Street on Saturday; Roy Stauffer, Bob : Paine, Elza Kilroy,
Tom: Motter .and.Hal-Goodyear.: ‘ .
Pelton Wheel
dedication set
for Saturday .
A commemorative plaque will
be placed at the Pelton Wheel
Mining Museum. at a ceremony
at 12:30 p.m. Saturday.
Arthur D. Wint Foote, a civil
engineer, was brought to Grass
Valley in. 1895 to design and
construct an electrical generating plant and for the supply
Of water on the premises of the
Empire Co,
The first Pelton wheel was 18
feet 6 inches in diameter and
was replaced in 1896 by tho
Pelton wheel now standing at
the museym, which is 30 feet
it diameter. It is constructed
entirely of steel except the hub,
= Which is of cast iron and the
buckets. were made of bronze,
Some of the buckets have had
to be replaced and are made
of cast iron.
This is a local historical
landmark and the museum is
filled with mining artifacts, most
of which were donated by Arthur
Dowdell, a long time employe of
the Empire Mine.
On July-22, 1896, A. D, Foote
was named superintendent of the
North Star Mining Co, and remained in that position until tts
closing of the mine by a government order.
Lone grave
: spring gets
renovation
The Grass Valley 4-Wheei
Drive Club recently completed
a conservation work project at
the Lone Grave approximately
“seven miles east of Nevada City
“on Highway 20,
The project involved the
renovation of the spring at the
gravesite by constructing two
redwood spring boxes, laying
140 feet of pipeline and building
. a mortared rock retaining wall, .
slab and fountain, The fountain
is constructed in such a ‘manner
as to provide for easy filling
4 Of containers or for drinking
fountain style. es
The project’ was’ done in cooperation with the Nevada City
Rotary Club which furnished the
needed materials. A. total of
80 man hours were spent by the
_ 4-wheelers .to.complete:the: job, --