September 17, 1969 (12 pages)

CAL. SsacjTo. PERLODICALS SECTION ST. LIBRARY CAL. 95814 NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Baqurbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill . Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue’ Tent, La Batr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, . Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Delirium Tremens, NUMBER 35 . VOLUME 49 10 Cents ACopy Published Wednesdays, Nevada City WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1969 The Soundin g: Board 100 years of Nevada County Did you see the Constitution Day Parade in Nevada City Sunten: day and what did you think of it? June Seeberg Nevada City Ginger Covert, beauty operator: "I liked it. It was marvelous. I took my little two year old daughter, .she. loved the little clown and the Milhous float with all the animals, _housewife; "It was very nice, better than last year. I liked it all.” The African mountain, Kilmandjaro, is called the father of the Nile and the creator of Egypt. The high Sierras could be likened to the lofty equatorial peak through the snows that forever feed an artificial Nile--the South Yuba canal--the creator ‘of the wealth of Nevada county, first, through the great hydraulic mines of the nineteenth century, and today, through the vast network of canals and flumes that served the Nevada Irrigation District. This is the story, as well as we have been able to compile it, of the builders of the South Yuba canal. The canal has slaked the thirst, and bathed the bodies of countless thousands, washed out gold, turned the wheels of industry, and nourished the vines and trees of the agriculturist. _ Apparently the leading figures in the early days of the South Yuba Canal Company were the Whartenby brothers--Jim and Tom, Charles Marsh, Dr, William. Knox, Daniel A. Rich, John S. Dunn and his brother Tom and Capt. George W. Kidd were other leading figures in early days of the company. Jim -Whartenby was secretary and treasurer. Hailing from Philadelphia, he sailed around the Horn into San Francisco in 1849, He was small in size, dark brown hair and a full medium length beard. Quiet in speech and manner he had few friends and was cold and reserved. Clear-headed in business, keeper of his own counsel, and calculatingly careful with money, he became a wealthy man. A silversmith by trade, yet he made his gold from the water. ‘Although he was not robust in health he lived to a ripe old age, Tom was about the same size as his brother but didn't measure up to Jim in mental stature. The two were inseparable throughout the first decade of Nevada City’s existence--a companionship that ended only in mysterious.death, when Tom was lost overboard off the Jersey coast in 1860. : The two were a familiar sight in their comings and goings between the office of Coyoteville spur of Sugar Loaf ridge, and the main business area of Nevada City. High Sierras source of water for Valley’s below construction days and occasionally president of the company. He hailed from Nashville, Tenn., and crossed the plains with his wife in 1849. Kidd was quite small in stature with thin sandy hair, clean shaven, and quick in mind and action. He purchased a $65,000 house in San Francisco in five minutes. And in anger his words blistered. Kidd ran away from home when he was 13, and became a cabin boy on a Mississippi river steamer. The experience resulted in his stating he would rather be a "captain of a steamboat than president of the United States." In later years Kidd gratified that wish when he spent $100,000 on the construction of a steamboat named the 'Nevada" and ran it in opposition to the California Steam Navigation Co. between San Francisco and Sacramento until it ‘blew up one day on the "Hog'’s Back." Kidd made and lost several fortunes before he came to Nevada City. Once he went to bed in Texds with $8,000 worth of wheat threshed and.ready for market. Mexican raiders burned it in the night and he awoke unable to buy breakfast. His first venture in Nevada City was the selling of hay on the corner of Broad and Pine at eight pounds for the dollar. Kidd later became a banker in Nevada City and Stockton, and was remembered principally for his interest, especially the two and three per cent per month, and preferably compounded. Charlie Marsh, a native of Canada, crossed the plains from Milwaukee in 1849. A surveyor by profession he served Nevada county in that capacity for a while. He was engineer of the canal company and a major stockholder. He also owned the Nevada City Water Works, and shared in the promotion of the Central Pacific Railroad, ; Large in stature, burdened with flesh, straight back hair and whiskers, he kept his upper lip clean-shaven, some said to show off his fine white teeth. Marsh remained a bachelor until he was middle age, when he married a widow. He was for it he could qualify as a mule-skinner. Dr. Knox was a featherweight from St. Louis. The manner of his coming was never known, He was principally a stockholder and had little to do with operation of the company beyond an occasional inspection. Rich came from Ohio to California by way of Panama. With no connections on the Pacific side, Rich and others who had traveled thus far, set in a store of provisions to wait for a ship that might come (Continued on Page 12)

CAL. SsacjTo. PERLODICALS SECTION ST. LIBRARY CAL. 95814 NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Baqurbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill . Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue’ Tent, La Batr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, . Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Delirium Tremens, NUMBER 35 . VOLUME 49 10 Cents ACopy Published Wednesdays, Nevada City WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1969 The Soundin g: Board 100 years of Nevada County Did you see the Constitution Day Parade in Nevada City Sunten: day and what did you think of it? June Seeberg Nevada City Ginger Covert, beauty operator: "I liked it. It was marvelous. I took my little two year old daughter, .she. loved the little clown and the Milhous float with all the animals, _housewife; "It was very nice, better than last year. I liked it all.” The African mountain, Kilmandjaro, is called the father of the Nile and the creator of Egypt. The high Sierras could be likened to the lofty equatorial peak through the snows that forever feed an artificial Nile--the South Yuba canal--the creator ‘of the wealth of Nevada county, first, through the great hydraulic mines of the nineteenth century, and today, through the vast network of canals and flumes that served the Nevada Irrigation District. This is the story, as well as we have been able to compile it, of the builders of the South Yuba canal. The canal has slaked the thirst, and bathed the bodies of countless thousands, washed out gold, turned the wheels of industry, and nourished the vines and trees of the agriculturist. _ Apparently the leading figures in the early days of the South Yuba Canal Company were the Whartenby brothers--Jim and Tom, Charles Marsh, Dr, William. Knox, Daniel A. Rich, John S. Dunn and his brother Tom and Capt. George W. Kidd were other leading figures in early days of the company. Jim -Whartenby was secretary and treasurer. Hailing from Philadelphia, he sailed around the Horn into San Francisco in 1849, He was small in size, dark brown hair and a full medium length beard. Quiet in speech and manner he had few friends and was cold and reserved. Clear-headed in business, keeper of his own counsel, and calculatingly careful with money, he became a wealthy man. A silversmith by trade, yet he made his gold from the water. ‘Although he was not robust in health he lived to a ripe old age, Tom was about the same size as his

brother but didn't measure up to Jim in mental stature. The two were inseparable throughout the first decade of Nevada City’s existence--a companionship that ended only in mysterious.death, when Tom was lost overboard off the Jersey coast in 1860. : The two were a familiar sight in their comings and goings between the office of Coyoteville spur of Sugar Loaf ridge, and the main business area of Nevada City. High Sierras source of water for Valley’s below construction days and occasionally president of the company. He hailed from Nashville, Tenn., and crossed the plains with his wife in 1849. Kidd was quite small in stature with thin sandy hair, clean shaven, and quick in mind and action. He purchased a $65,000 house in San Francisco in five minutes. And in anger his words blistered. Kidd ran away from home when he was 13, and became a cabin boy on a Mississippi river steamer. The experience resulted in his stating he would rather be a "captain of a steamboat than president of the United States." In later years Kidd gratified that wish when he spent $100,000 on the construction of a steamboat named the 'Nevada" and ran it in opposition to the California Steam Navigation Co. between San Francisco and Sacramento until it ‘blew up one day on the "Hog'’s Back." Kidd made and lost several fortunes before he came to Nevada City. Once he went to bed in Texds with $8,000 worth of wheat threshed and.ready for market. Mexican raiders burned it in the night and he awoke unable to buy breakfast. His first venture in Nevada City was the selling of hay on the corner of Broad and Pine at eight pounds for the dollar. Kidd later became a banker in Nevada City and Stockton, and was remembered principally for his interest, especially the two and three per cent per month, and preferably compounded. Charlie Marsh, a native of Canada, crossed the plains from Milwaukee in 1849. A surveyor by profession he served Nevada county in that capacity for a while. He was engineer of the canal company and a major stockholder. He also owned the Nevada City Water Works, and shared in the promotion of the Central Pacific Railroad, ; Large in stature, burdened with flesh, straight back hair and whiskers, he kept his upper lip clean-shaven, some said to show off his fine white teeth. Marsh remained a bachelor until he was middle age, when he married a widow. He was for it he could qualify as a mule-skinner. Dr. Knox was a featherweight from St. Louis. The manner of his coming was never known, He was principally a stockholder and had little to do with operation of the company beyond an occasional inspection. Rich came from Ohio to California by way of Panama. With no connections on the Pacific side, Rich and others who had traveled thus far, set in a store of provisions to wait for a ship that might come (Continued on Page 12)