October 25, 1961 (14 pages)

* be God is ar ir g; ir id Te ake Ie va 5 “NEVADA COUNTY Ni Published Every Wednesday By NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, INC. 132 Main St., Nevada City, Calif. Dial 265-2471 Alfred E. Heller.» 1.60 e+0+ ++ «Publishes R. Dean Thompson .-.. . Editor-Manager Second class postage paid at Nevada City, Calif. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by » the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960 Decree No. 12,406 F Subscription Rates: One year, $3.00; Two years, $5.00 Three years, $7.00. Printed by Berliner & Mc Ginnis, Nevada City. EDITORIAL County Museum Should Be Open For Tourist Traffic The impact of tourists on the economy of our area is becoming a generally accepted fact during the summer months. We have heard several local businessmenconr. ment on their experience with sales . increases specifically due to the tourist . The value of the tourist is a hard thing “to measure. Some local residents in thel past have claimed the tourist only stop for gasoline, ice and cigarettes. Merch-]} ants in our area know better. But of what value is the tourist during} the fallandspring seasons? That is even harder to measure than the economic impact of summer tourism. We have seen numerous out of state . cars stoppedthis fallin Nevada City. We have talked with tourists from elsewhere in California---some of them in Grass Valley, others scattered throughout our. area. We have seen tourists looking into the Nevada County Museum, and have answered questions regarding the museum--"No, it isn't open this late in the season." Over the past two years we have come to believe that the museum should not be closedas early inthe year as has been the custom. We. believe it should be open as long as there is tourist traffic and the desire of these tourists to visit the historical landmark-museum at the corner of Main and Commercial Streets in Nevada City. Certainly, we have thought, it should be open on weekends. We were going to propose that next year the museum be kept open far beyond the end of the summer tourist season. Now we believe the action should be taken as soonas possible, and the museum should be opened weekends at least until the New Year. The regularity of requests from tourists about museum information, the value of keeping our visitors in the city as long as possible, andthe sudden upsurge of tourist travel to Nevada City being brought about by the Sunset Magazine feature story on Nevada City---all these things convince us that NOW is the time to reopen the museum. If the Nevada County Historical Scciety is lacking in funds to keep the attraction open then help should be sought from the county and the city. . This is a beautiful time of the year in our Sierra Foothills. Let's make sure our visitors have reasonto recommend to their friends: Avisit to Nevada County is worthwhile, any season. the nifty nine-fifty A-HI ON YOUR DIAL 1) Boy 3 (Thisis the continued story of the Malakoff Mine that was, andofthe California State Park that might be, and. of the towns adjoining the world's greatest hydraulic mines the towns of Lake City and Bloomfield) Last week we told of the tremendous system of ditches that brought water down from the higher elevations to be used under pressure to wash away the banks of the Malakoff. This week we write of the mine itself: It was here that most eminent of early engineers, Hamilton Smith, Jr., ranan 8000 ft. tunnel from Humbug canyon through the rimrock to the bedrock of the gamous mine, to enable the diggings to be drained so that hydraulic operations would be possible. For the first time in history, shafts were sunk down onto the line of a tunnel so it might be worked along a larger number of faces. Sinking eight shafts, Smith worked 16 headings simultaneously. It increased the cost but it accomplished what they were after, the hastening of the tunnel's completion. It was also at the Malakoff that probably for the first time in history industrial use was made of the industrial arc lamp. Andtherein lies a story. It is said Mrs, Mark Hopkins had heard about the electric arc lamp, and in order to impress her San Francisco friends with its novelty , had a set consisting of generator, wires and lamps shipped to San Francisco. Soon her home on Nob Hill was all aglow. She must have been quite happy to see the furor those lights created. But as a steady diet, she did not care for them, They sputtered and fluttered, whereas gas lights were much more satisfactory. So the manager of Woodward's Gardens bought the lights for the edification of his guests. WO Ay pn fypon. One evening, H. Pinchoir, secretary -treasurer of th, North Bloomfield Gravel Company (The Malakoff) happened to see them there. He bought them, shipped them over the Nevada County Narrow Gauge R. R, to Nevada City and freighted them to the mine where they were installed for night operations. They were a vast improvement over the old method of lighting the faces of the cliffs with pitch-pine fires and uptherethe sputter of the lamps was not noticeable, The pictures this week are of-the Lake City scene. A good deal of grain andhay were grown here for the stable trade. Lake City was a center and a stopping place for the big six -horse freighters carrying supplies from Nevada City into the mountains. For many years after the decline of hydraulic mining, Lake City was a ghost town., In a few years, even the ghosts left. Prin P The only reminder that this hotei once stoou 1 Lake City are a few hand forged square nails and some decay_ ing hand-hewn timbers, This famous stage stop was built in 1855 by Henry Arnold when the town was known as Arnold's Ranch. On Nov. 5, 1866, it was purchased by my grandfather, Philander A, Paine. Horace Greeley, who corresponded with my grandfather for many years, was presumed to have been a guest here. Philander lost the hotel by foreclosed mortgage. Paine's Hotel was purchased by F, M, Pridgeon (Albert O'Connor's grandIt was readin’ and ritin’ and ‘rithmetic when this picture of the Lake City school was taken in 1882, Six sisters and one brother of Mae Reynolds of 309 Cross Street, Nevada City, who loaned this picture to the Nugget, are in the photo Richard Williams, Rose Quick,Lyle Pascoe, Clara Robinson, Minnie Woodruff, Suste ee ee eee ss . eR ORL ind 5 tN A A ae ea rs mis she NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET.Wednesday, October 25, 1961.Page 7 This is my grandmother, Rebecca Huston Paine, a real Nevada County Pioneer. Rebecca walked acrossthe , Isthmus of Panama with her friend Mrs, Leland Stanford in her determination to get to the Nevada County gold fields. Mrs. Stanford (I do not know her maiden name) stayed in Sacramento, Rebecca married Philander, many years her senior, and together they started the Zinc Hotel at Spenceville, a stage stop. Of this union one son remains, Herbert Paine in Sacramento, Rebecca knew well the trials and tribulations of the world of hydraulic mining and the legends of the Malakoff near Lake City. My mother, Annie Waldron Paine: “Stories first heard at a mother's knee are never wholly forgotten, ~ a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years." -Ruffini. My mother, in the hard life of Lake City, could, if need be, plow the fields and shovelsnow. Andifthere wasa dance at Columbia Hill, or North Bloomfield, or Graniteville, she could dance and'sing all night. She lived her times. ‘Tahoe Forest In Major Tree Planting Project NEVADA CITY, , .The Tahoe National Forest has recently started another major land clearing and tree planting project_on Highway 20, An 88 acre plot of level land, with deeprich soil, just west of the Omega Historical Marker is being cleared of its worthless brush cover. It willbe planted to Ponderosa ' Pine early next spring. The clearing job is under contract to Frank Fowler of Colfax, who was the low bidder for the job. Forest Service crews will plant the area just as soon as thesnow melts in the spring of 1962. The Tahoe Forest has many brushfields that can be put to better use by producing commercial timber, It has Letter To The Editor Going over some old newspapers, I found your Editorial dated May 31, 1961, in which you very bravely question the ethics of the Highway Department intear-' ing up Nevada City just’ because they areinthe mood. Hooray for you! f However, . feel that it is. only fair to them to say, that there is an element in’ Nevada City, and Grass Valley too, no doubt, who are ‘agin ‘ anything charming, historical or of public value. . ‘Either they “don't want any changes," (i.e. no strangers, only those whose grandparent came here, to be socially, acceptable,) or they want change for the sakeo change. These latter people are some. . of them quite wholesome, . but completely lacking in taste. : I wasnot in favor of the last successful politicalregimebut I am certainly most de~ Ne 5 ke wy" : fon ‘ + . . father) who had owned a sawmill in the area. At the same time, Mr. Pridgeon also operated the Kennebec House near Lake City. In its last years before collapse , it was known as O'Connor's Hotel. The only momentoes we have area couple of wine goblets, two sterling napkin rings and a multi-colored flower vase, which were in the hotel 95 years ago. These items will be donated to California Parks and Beaches if and when a historical museum is built at the Malakoff Diggins. “peg * * lind a iba Sb GillandKateRobinson, My mother, Annie Waldron, in white pinafore and straw hat, arm akimbo, leans against the porch post, Getting your picture taken was a rare event, and my mother and others who had previously graduated showed up to have their pictures taken. Pa ifacts of our past. fe SET. Tt ie f-a such as she for the preseree pf = Bg: it will be hash if the! m modern-day vandals are per . ‘a mitted their way. 5 Pal w as it Dicken's characte lightedwith Mrs. Kennedy's excellent feeling for the artWeare no doubt indebted to vation of Monticello, Mount Vernon--and Williamsburg. long been the dream of Professional Foresters that funds would be made available to convert these fields to producing timber. Congress has recently recognizedthis need and is appropriating sufficient sums to permit noticeable progress to be made, In addition to this work of converting the brushfields to timber producing, isthe great amount of land clearing being done in the large 1961 burned over areas. In excess of 2000 acres are being cleared and cleaned up preparatory to planting next spring. Planting today will not yieldharvestable timber crops for 75 to 100 years. But with the growth of the United States, the demands of future generations will be so great that it is essential ‘that this cropbe planted now for use in the next century. Lack of foresight by great forested nations of the past have led those nations to a serious status of decay and their recovery is very doubtful for thousands of years hence. Mainland China is an outstanding example of this. Bert See Gets Plaque KANSAS CITY,.A handsome plaque recognizing 15 years of service to his community has been awarded to Bert A. See, owner of the Western Auto Associate Store. in Nevada City. The walnut and bronze wall plaque, engraved with his name, has been forwarded from Western Auto Supply Company's general offices. Recognition of community service by local Western Auto Associate store owners is given by the company at five-year intervals, The honor indicates the dealer has completed a specified period of merchandising service to his customers and ‘ community. The Western Auto AssoTobe sure, our town is 19th. Century not 18th Century-*: A whosaid, “Never say die! "? A And was it John Paul Jone who said, "Don't give u the ship!"? Or Decator? Anyway, whoever said thes things -those are my sentiments, too, and of ho many other citizens of Nev = ada County. Caroline A. Hartley ciate store in Nevada City is one of morethan 4, 000 home owned and operated retail stores and agencies ‘throughout the U.S. inch= i uding Alaska and Hawaii. The store distributes Western Auto's nationally advertised company-owned and other national brands in this trade area, The company serves similar dealerships in Mexico, PuertoRico, and Guam. Thedealer program, started in 1935, will account for more than half of the company's quarter billion dollar sales volume this year. California greeted the 20th century with a “new look” in fashi GOLDEN MOMENTS n California history—as business boomed in 1900, society expressed prosperity with new ideas in gracious living. n California life—today’s ideal of gracious living includes beer, the beverage of moderation. Beer means enjoyment . . . prosperity. Last year, for example, brewers purchased over 68,000 tons of our farm products—another reason why beer means better living for all in the “Golden State.” \ Ye UNITED 31ATES BREWERS ASSOCIATION, INC. Chartered 18£2

* be God is ar ir g; ir id Te ake Ie va 5 “NEVADA COUNTY Ni Published Every Wednesday By NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, INC. 132 Main St., Nevada City, Calif. Dial 265-2471 Alfred E. Heller..» 1.60 e+0+ ++ «Publishes R. Dean Thompson ..-... . Editor-Manager Second class postage paid at Nevada City, Calif. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by » the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960 Decree No. 12,406 F Subscription Rates: One year, $3.00; Two years, $5.00 Three years, $7.00. Printed by Berliner & Mc Ginnis, Nevada City. EDITORIAL County Museum Should Be Open For Tourist Traffic The impact of tourists on the economy of our area is becoming a generally accepted fact during the summer months. We have heard several local businessmenconr. ment on their experience with sales . increases specifically due to the tourist . The value of the tourist is a hard thing “to measure. Some local residents in thel past have claimed the tourist only stop for gasoline, ice and cigarettes. Merch-]} ants in our area know better. But of what value is the tourist during} the fallandspring seasons? That is even harder to measure than the economic impact of summer tourism. We have seen numerous out of state . cars stoppedthis fallin Nevada City. We have talked with tourists from elsewhere in California---some of them in Grass Valley, others scattered throughout our. area. We have seen tourists looking into the Nevada County Museum, and have answered questions regarding the museum--"No, it isn't open this late in the season." Over the past two years we have come to believe that the museum should not be closedas early inthe year as has been the custom. We. believe it should be open as long as there is tourist traffic and the desire of these tourists to visit the historical landmark-museum at the corner of Main and Commercial Streets in Nevada City. Certainly, we have thought, it should be open on weekends. We were going to propose that next year the museum be kept open far beyond the end of the summer tourist season. Now we believe the action should be taken as soonas possible, and the museum should be opened weekends at least until the New Year. The regularity of requests from tourists about museum information, the value of keeping our visitors in the city as long as possible, andthe sudden upsurge of tourist travel to Nevada City being brought about by the Sunset Magazine feature story on Nevada City---all these things convince us that NOW is the time to reopen the museum. If the Nevada County Historical Scciety is lacking in funds to keep the attraction open then help should be sought from the county and the city. . This is a beautiful time of the year in our Sierra Foothills. Let's make sure our visitors have reasonto recommend to their friends: Avisit to Nevada County is worthwhile, any season. the nifty nine-fifty A-HI ON YOUR DIAL 1) Boy 3 (Thisis the continued story of the Malakoff Mine that was, andofthe California State Park that might be, and. of the towns adjoining the world's greatest hydraulic mines the towns of Lake City and Bloomfield) Last week we told of the tremendous system of ditches that brought water down from the higher elevations to be used under pressure to wash away the banks of the Malakoff. This week we write of the mine itself: It was here that most eminent of early engineers, Hamilton Smith, Jr., ranan 8000 ft. tunnel from Humbug canyon through the rimrock to the bedrock of the gamous mine, to enable the diggings to be drained so that hydraulic operations would be possible. For the first time in history, shafts were sunk down onto the line of a tunnel so it might be worked along a larger number of faces. Sinking eight shafts, Smith worked 16 headings simultaneously. It increased the cost but it accomplished what they were after, the hastening of the tunnel's completion. It was also at the Malakoff that probably for the first time in history industrial use was made of the industrial arc lamp. Andtherein lies a story. It is said Mrs, Mark Hopkins had heard about the electric arc lamp, and in order to impress her San Francisco friends with its novelty , had a set consisting of generator, wires and lamps shipped to San Francisco. Soon her home on Nob Hill was all aglow. She must have been quite happy to see the furor those lights created. But as a steady diet, she did not care for them, They sputtered and fluttered, whereas gas lights were much more satisfactory. So the manager of Woodward's Gardens bought the lights for the edification of his guests. WO Ay pn fypon. One evening, H. Pinchoir, secretary -treasurer of th, North Bloomfield Gravel Company (The Malakoff) happened to see them there. He bought them, shipped them over the Nevada County Narrow Gauge R. R, to Nevada City and freighted them to the mine where they were installed for night operations. They were a vast improvement over the old method of lighting the faces of the cliffs with pitch-pine fires and uptherethe sputter of the lamps was not noticeable, The pictures this week are of-the Lake City scene. A good deal of grain andhay were grown here for the stable trade. Lake City was a center and a stopping place for the big six -horse freighters carrying supplies from Nevada City into the mountains. For many years after the decline of hydraulic mining, Lake City was a ghost town., In a few years, even the ghosts left. Prin P The only reminder that this hotei once stoou 1 Lake City are a few hand forged square nails and some decay_ ing hand-hewn timbers, This famous stage stop was built in 1855 by Henry Arnold when the town was known as Arnold's Ranch. On Nov. 5, 1866, it was purchased by my grandfather, Philander A, Paine. Horace Greeley, who corresponded with my grandfather for many years, was presumed to have been a guest here. Philander lost the hotel by foreclosed mortgage. Paine's Hotel was purchased by F, M, Pridgeon (Albert O'Connor's grandIt was readin’ and ritin’ and ‘rithmetic when this picture of the Lake City school was taken in 1882, Six sisters and one brother of Mae Reynolds of 309 Cross Street, Nevada City, who loaned this picture to the Nugget, are in the photo Richard Williams, Rose Quick,Lyle Pascoe, Clara Robinson, Minnie Woodruff, Suste ee ee eee ss . eR ORL ind 5 tN A A ae ea rs mis she NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET..Wednesday, October 25, 1961..Page 7 This is my grandmother, Rebecca Huston Paine, a real Nevada County Pioneer. Rebecca walked acrossthe , Isthmus of Panama with her friend Mrs, Leland Stanford in her determination to get to the Nevada County gold fields. Mrs. Stanford (I do not know her maiden name) stayed in Sacramento, Rebecca married Philander, many years her senior, and together they started the Zinc Hotel at Spenceville, a stage stop. Of this union one son remains, Herbert Paine in Sacramento, Rebecca knew well the trials and tribulations of the world of hydraulic mining and the legends of the Malakoff near Lake City. My mother, Annie Waldron Paine: “Stories first heard at a mother's knee are never wholly forgotten, ~ a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years." -Ruffini. My mother, in the hard life of Lake City, could, if need be, plow the fields and shovelsnow. Andifthere wasa dance at Columbia Hill, or North Bloomfield, or Graniteville, she could dance and'sing all night. She lived her times. ‘Tahoe Forest In Major Tree Planting Project NEVADA CITY, , .The Tahoe National Forest has recently started another major land clearing and tree planting project_on Highway 20, An 88 acre plot of level land, with deeprich soil, just west of the Omega Historical

Marker is being cleared of its worthless brush cover. It willbe planted to Ponderosa ' Pine early next spring. The clearing job is under contract to Frank Fowler of Colfax, who was the low bidder for the job. Forest Service crews will plant the area just as soon as thesnow melts in the spring of 1962. The Tahoe Forest has many brushfields that can be put to better use by producing commercial timber, It has Letter To The Editor Going over some old newspapers, I found your Editorial dated May 31, 1961, in which you very bravely question the ethics of the Highway Department intear-' ing up Nevada City just’ because they areinthe mood. Hooray for you! f However, . feel that it is. only fair to them to say, that there is an element in’ Nevada City, and Grass Valley too, no doubt, who are ‘agin ‘ anything charming, historical or of public value. . ‘Either they “don't want any changes," (i.e. no strangers, only those whose grandparent came here, to be socially, acceptable,) or they want change for the sakeo change. These latter people are some. . of them quite wholesome, . but completely lacking in taste. : I wasnot in favor of the last successful politicalregimebut I am certainly most de~ Ne 5 ke wy" : fon ‘ + . . father) who had owned a sawmill in the area. At the same time, Mr. Pridgeon also operated the Kennebec House near Lake City. In its last years before collapse , it was known as O'Connor's Hotel. The only momentoes we have area couple of wine goblets, two sterling napkin rings and a multi-colored flower vase, which were in the hotel 95 years ago. These items will be donated to California Parks and Beaches if and when a historical museum is built at the Malakoff Diggins. “peg * * lind a iba Sb GillandKateRobinson, My mother, Annie Waldron, in white pinafore and straw hat, arm akimbo, leans against the porch post, Getting your picture taken was a rare event, and my mother and others who had previously graduated showed up to have their pictures taken. Pa ifacts of our past. fe SET. Tt ie f-a such as she for the preseree pf = Bg: it will be hash if the! m modern-day vandals are per . ‘a mitted their way. 5 Pal w as it Dicken's characte lightedwith Mrs. Kennedy's excellent feeling for the artWeare no doubt indebted to vation of Monticello, Mount Vernon--and Williamsburg. long been the dream of Professional Foresters that funds would be made available to convert these fields to producing timber. Congress has recently recognizedthis need and is appropriating sufficient sums to permit noticeable progress to be made, In addition to this work of converting the brushfields to timber producing, isthe great amount of land clearing being done in the large 1961 burned over areas. In excess of 2000 acres are being cleared and cleaned up preparatory to planting next spring. Planting today will not yieldharvestable timber crops for 75 to 100 years. But with the growth of the United States, the demands of future generations will be so great that it is essential ‘that this cropbe planted now for use in the next century. Lack of foresight by great forested nations of the past have led those nations to a serious status of decay and their recovery is very doubtful for thousands of years hence. Mainland China is an outstanding example of this. Bert See Gets Plaque KANSAS CITY,..A handsome plaque recognizing 15 years of service to his community has been awarded to Bert A. See, owner of the Western Auto Associate Store. in Nevada City. The walnut and bronze wall plaque, engraved with his name, has been forwarded from Western Auto Supply Company's general offices. Recognition of community service by local Western Auto Associate store owners is given by the company at five-year intervals, The honor indicates the dealer has completed a specified period of merchandising service to his customers and ‘ community. The Western Auto AssoTobe sure, our town is 19th. Century not 18th Century-*: A whosaid, “Never say die! "? A And was it John Paul Jone who said, "Don't give u the ship!"? Or Decator? Anyway, whoever said thes things -those are my sentiments, too, and of ho many other citizens of Nev = ada County. Caroline A. Hartley ciate store in Nevada City is one of morethan 4, 000 home owned and operated retail stores and agencies ‘throughout the U.S.. inch= i uding Alaska and Hawaii. The store distributes Western Auto's nationally advertised company-owned and other national brands in this trade area, The company serves similar dealerships in Mexico, PuertoRico, and Guam. Thedealer program, started in 1935, will account for more than half of the company's quarter billion dollar sales volume this year. California greeted the 20th century with a “new look” in fashi GOLDEN MOMENTS n California history—as business boomed in 1900, society expressed prosperity with new ideas in gracious living. n California life—today’s ideal of gracious living includes beer, the beverage of moderation. Beer means enjoyment . . . prosperity. Last year, for example, brewers purchased over 68,000 tons of our farm products—another reason why beer means better living for all in the “Golden State.” \ Ye UNITED 31ATES BREWERS ASSOCIATION, INC. Chartered 18£2