October 27, 1971 (12 pages)

~~ ————————— Ms vw, 12. The Nevada County Nugget Wednesday October 27, 1971 History hangs over Silver Lake History hangs over Silver Lake like the afternoon thunderheads that change the color of its clear waters from blue to silver-grey. The lake was once a resting place on the old Carson Pass Emigrant Trail into California. Pioneers cut their names into trees and painted them on rocks. John C. Fremont's published account of his struggles to cress the Sierra while blazing this trail in the winter of 1844 inflamed the imaginations of millions of Americans back home— and set many of them to packing for "Californy.” During the Comstock silver bonanza in Virginia City in the Sixties, freight traffic over the Sierra was so great that laden wagons went eastward over the Placerville Road and returned empty over Carson Pass. Still visible in places near Silver Lake are rust-stained grooves worn in the bare granite by thousands of iron-rimmed wagon wheels, Silver Lake stands at about 7,300 feet levaticn in a big granite basin west of the Sierra summit. Its waters flow down the Silver Fork of the American River, providing energy for hydroelectric powerhouses and water for irrigation and domestic uses, For more than a century, the lake and its surroundFree cards with Nugget subscription Could you use a few boxes of famous line, high quality Christmas cards in time for early mailing this year? Well. . . .all you have to do is come in person to the Nugget office, 301 Broad street, Nevada City, during the first two weeks of November and subscribe or renew. your subscription to the Nugget. . . .and we'll give you a box of 25 beautiful greeting cards, absolutely free! The Nugget has been able to purchase a limited quantity of these fine cards to give to its subscribers from November 1 thru 5 and November 8 thru 12; .and the management reserves the right to cancel this free offer when the supply of cards exhausted, Mail orders will not be accepted. Boxes worth $1.50 will be given for each one-year subscription; and for three-year subscriptions you will receive boxes worth $2.50, while the quantity lasts. The cards are in a variety of designs, and will be given away on a "first come, first served" basis. The same offer applies for those who wish to give "gift subscriptions to friends or relatives, These gift subscriptions will be started, at the giver's option, in. time for arrival! at Christmas or New Year's. So come in on November Ist, r boon after, to obtain your free cards in time for the early -holiday mailing requestd by the J, S. Postal Service. ing forests and meadows have been a noted recreation area. Chilled by falling snow and with supplies perilously low, Fremont and his small band of explorer had camped at the eastern base of the Sierra in January, 1844. Despite warnings by friendly Washoe Indians, Fremont elected to try a winter corssing of the mountains to reach help at Sutter's Fort which, he figured, was only about 75 miles due west in territory that then belonged to Mexico, It was Kit Carson who found the way over the storm-whipped peaks after their Indian guide deserted. By wrapping silk scarves over their eyes against snow-blindness and killing horses for food, the troopers made it safetly to Silver Lake. There, after Carson carved his name on a tree, they turned down the American River Canyon and’ reached Sutter's Fort. After recovering from the effects of their amazing winter crossing of the Sierra Nevada, Fremont and his men headed pack to the States. They rode southward through the San Joaquin Valley and left California _ by way of Tehachapi Pass, ee ee Agee > “te — “Se . * —~ —~a J ie t \ Fremont was to return the following year and become involved in the intrigues and later military campaigns that brought California into the Union, But it was his colorful descriptions of his journeys that did perhaps even more to advance the concept that it was the nation's Manifest Destiny to hold the land from sea to shining sea. Other pioneers blazed variations of Kit Carson's trail and by 1849 Carson Pass was the major—though difficult—route to the California goldfields. An early trading post was established near Silver Lake in 1853 by Raymond Peter Plasse, whose descendants still operate a ranch and resort at the lake. : In 1874 Silver Lake settlers built a quarter-mile horse race track and a three-story log hotel and dance hall. In 1877, the Amador Gold and Gravel Co., which had bought water rights from Plasse, built a dam at the outlet of Silver Lake, raising the lake level and providing the company with a source of water which it sold to miners around Placerville. The present dam was built in 1906 by the American River —~ “a “a Electric Co. In 1923, it was rebuilt and enlarged by Western States Gas and Electric Co., which had acquired various mountain nydroelectric properties including Silver and Twin Lakes (now Caples Lake). Western States, in turn, was merged into the PG&E system in 1927 and Silver Lake today is a power reservoir serving hydro plants downstream. Today PG&E has developed two picnic units at Silver Lake, a roadside rest and offers a total of 37 camping units operated in conjunction with U. S. Forest Service camp units, Also around the lake and resorts, summer homes and camps for Boy Scouts and Campfire Girls and the Stockton Municipal Camp. More than ever, recreation is an important by-product of hydroelectricity. Mental health forum Oct. 28 A forum on mental health entitled Future Shock will be held Oct. 28 in the training department at DeWitt State Hospital. Mrs, Rebecca EughesHartogs, will be chairman and program director for the event. Registration will commence at 9 a.m. with a panel discussion following at 9:15. Moderator for the panel will be Dr. Ivan Kraft, Professor in the School of Social Work at Sacramento State College. The panel includes Mrs, Dorothy Perry, Placer County Public “Pe a Santa Says. Subscribe. or Renew Your NUGGET Between Nov. Ist — 12th And Receive A Big Box of Christmas Cards FREE! Beautiful Christmas Cards Free! Offer good only from November Ist thru 5th and November 8th thru 12th. 1 YEAR. $2 2 YEARS. $5 “Bonus” Boxes will be given with each. “Gift” Subscription also. Guardian; Mrs, Maria Hicks, active in Women's caucus NOW and other feminist groups; Mrs. Lillian Stillwell, psychologist Auburn School District and Mr. Gerald Hughes, Contra Costa Mental Health Services: A discussion based cn the Alvin Toffler book, "Future Shock" which has been_on the bestseller lists for more than 35 weeks, will follow the panel, The forum is sponsored by the National Institute of .Mental Health, Hospital Staff Development Program. e * te, a <a P 4 ‘fT Pe A ee he A A Very Special Purchase of High Quality, Boxed Christmas Greeting Cards Makes This Offer Possible . For A Limited Time Only! PLACE YOUR SUBSCRIPTION ORDER IN PERSON . . At The Nugget Office, 301 Broad Street, Nevada City, To Obtain A Big Box Of Very 3 YEARS. $7

~~ ————————— Ms vw, 12. The Nevada County Nugget Wednesday October 27, 1971 History hangs over Silver Lake History hangs over Silver Lake like the afternoon thunderheads that change the color of its clear waters from blue to silver-grey. The lake was once a resting place on the old Carson Pass Emigrant Trail into California. Pioneers cut their names into trees and painted them on rocks. John C. Fremont's published account of his struggles to cress the Sierra while blazing this trail in the winter of 1844 inflamed the imaginations of millions of Americans back home— and set many of them to packing for "Californy.” During the Comstock silver bonanza in Virginia City in the Sixties, freight traffic over the Sierra was so great that laden wagons went eastward over the Placerville Road and returned empty over Carson Pass. Still visible in places near Silver Lake are rust-stained grooves worn in the bare granite by thousands of iron-rimmed wagon wheels, Silver Lake stands at about 7,300 feet levaticn in a big granite basin west of the Sierra summit. Its waters flow down the Silver Fork of the American River, providing energy for hydroelectric powerhouses and water for irrigation and domestic uses, For more than a century, the lake and its surroundFree cards with Nugget subscription Could you use a few boxes of famous line, high quality Christmas cards in time for early mailing this year? Well. . . .all you have to do is come in person to the Nugget office, 301 Broad street, Nevada City, during the first two weeks of November and subscribe or renew. your subscription to the Nugget. . . .and we'll give you a box of 25 beautiful greeting cards, absolutely free! The Nugget has been able to purchase a limited quantity of these fine cards to give to its subscribers from November 1 thru 5 and November 8 thru 12; .and the management reserves the right to cancel this free offer when the supply of cards exhausted, Mail orders will not be accepted. Boxes worth $1.50 will be given for each one-year subscription; and for three-year subscriptions you will receive boxes worth $2.50, while the quantity lasts. The cards are in a variety of designs, and will be given away on a "first come, first served" basis. The same offer applies for those who wish to give "gift subscriptions to friends or relatives, These gift subscriptions will be started, at the giver's option, in. time for arrival! at Christmas or New Year's. So come in on November Ist, r boon after, to obtain your free cards in time for the early -holiday mailing requestd by the J, S. Postal Service. ing forests and meadows have been a noted recreation area. Chilled by falling snow and with supplies perilously low, Fremont and his small band of explorer had camped at the eastern base of the Sierra in January, 1844. Despite warnings by friendly Washoe Indians, Fremont elected to try a winter corssing of the mountains to reach help at Sutter's Fort which, he figured, was only about 75 miles due west in territory that then belonged to Mexico, It was Kit Carson who found the way over the storm-whipped peaks after their Indian guide deserted. By wrapping silk scarves over their eyes against snow-blindness and killing horses for food, the troopers made it safetly to Silver Lake. There, after Carson carved his name on a tree, they turned down the American River Canyon and’ reached Sutter's Fort. After recovering from the effects of their amazing winter crossing of the Sierra Nevada, Fremont and his men headed pack to the States. They rode southward through the San Joaquin Valley and left California _ by way of Tehachapi Pass, ee ee Agee > “te — “Se . * —~ —~a

J ie t \ Fremont was to return the following year and become involved in the intrigues and later military campaigns that brought California into the Union, But it was his colorful descriptions of his journeys that did perhaps even more to advance the concept that it was the nation's Manifest Destiny to hold the land from sea to shining sea. Other pioneers blazed variations of Kit Carson's trail and by 1849 Carson Pass was the major—though difficult—route to the California goldfields. An early trading post was established near Silver Lake in 1853 by Raymond Peter Plasse, whose descendants still operate a ranch and resort at the lake. : In 1874 Silver Lake settlers built a quarter-mile horse race track and a three-story log hotel and dance hall. In 1877, the Amador Gold and Gravel Co., which had bought water rights from Plasse, built a dam at the outlet of Silver Lake, raising the lake level and providing the company with a source of water which it sold to miners around Placerville. The present dam was built in 1906 by the American River —~ “a “a Electric Co. In 1923, it was rebuilt and enlarged by Western States Gas and Electric Co., which had acquired various mountain nydroelectric properties including Silver and Twin Lakes (now Caples Lake). Western States, in turn, was merged into the PG&E system in 1927 and Silver Lake today is a power reservoir serving hydro plants downstream. Today PG&E has developed two picnic units at Silver Lake, a roadside rest and offers a total of 37 camping units operated in conjunction with U. S. Forest Service camp units, Also around the lake and resorts, summer homes and camps for Boy Scouts and Campfire Girls and the Stockton Municipal Camp. More than ever, recreation is an important by-product of hydroelectricity. Mental health forum Oct. 28 A forum on mental health entitled Future Shock will be held Oct. 28 in the training department at DeWitt State Hospital. Mrs, Rebecca EughesHartogs, will be chairman and program director for the event. Registration will commence at 9 a.m. with a panel discussion following at 9:15. Moderator for the panel will be Dr. Ivan Kraft, Professor in the School of Social Work at Sacramento State College. The panel includes Mrs, Dorothy Perry, Placer County Public “Pe a Santa Says.. Subscribe.. or Renew Your NUGGET Between Nov. Ist — 12th And Receive A Big Box of Christmas Cards FREE! Beautiful Christmas Cards Free! Offer good only from November Ist thru 5th and November 8th thru 12th. 1 YEAR.. $2 2 YEARS.. $5 “Bonus” Boxes will be given with each. “Gift” Subscription also. Guardian; Mrs, Maria Hicks, active in Women's caucus NOW and other feminist groups; Mrs. Lillian Stillwell, psychologist Auburn School District and Mr. Gerald Hughes, Contra Costa Mental Health Services: A discussion based cn the Alvin Toffler book, "Future Shock" which has been_on the bestseller lists for more than 35 weeks, will follow the panel, The forum is sponsored by the National Institute of .Mental Health, Hospital Staff Development Program. e * te, a <a P 4 ‘fT Pe A ee he A A Very Special Purchase of High Quality, Boxed Christmas Greeting Cards Makes This Offer Possible .. For A Limited Time Only! PLACE YOUR SUBSCRIPTION ORDER IN PERSON . . At The Nugget Office, 301 Broad Street, Nevada City, To Obtain A Big Box Of Very 3 YEARS.. $7