Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-21
EEYsDA CITY.
GOSSIP ABOUT THE QUEEN CITY OF THE
SIERRA NEVADA.
The Surrounding Hills Rich in Gold
Bearing Quartz-wars of the Local
Newspaper Men and How They End.

Nevada City, or, as the citizens of the
place would say, "The Queen City of the Sic
ezra Nevada," is now rather quiet, owing tc
the fact that since left the sanctum sancto
roarem of the Herald the citizens have
had nobody to lick, and the local officers
and J. P's have had nobody to arrest, fine
and imprison. When / was going full
blast in Nevada City, there was alway:
some little diversion going on to amuse
the people. Scarcely day passed during
which somebody did not come into the
Herald office and look for the reporter
| They would scrutinize the furniture and
look into the cuspidor, and when they
found me they would beat me severely
Sometimes they would beat me until they
/ could not see, and sometimes they would
beat me until Constable Dillon and night.
watehman Scott came and carried them
| home On a shutter. In this way nearly
all the shutters on the Herald Office gradu.
ally became missing, and special private
detective from San Francisco was employed
to hunt them up. He found them doing
duty as springs in the bedrooms Of pri-
vate house. The matter was kept out OF
| the Courts and skillfully hushed up.
| At other times the solid citizens would
congregate en- masse in the street and take
up collection for me, said collection be-
ing generally composed Of miscellaneous
articles OF wearing apparel, mostly strayed,
lost or stolen in the behindest part.
Nevada City is beautiful little city,
and those who reside there never grow
weary of describing its virtues. They also
invite capitalists TO come in and invest
their money in their midst. There is an
abundance of energy in the town, and a
very large quantity of undeveloped enter
prise There are mines beyond conjecture,
and a splendid opening for any man who
would like a chance for comparatively
safe investment Recently there has been
quite boom there. The bank has Sc
cured another block of real estate and two
| streets have had concrete pavements be-
slowed upon them. 1t is perfectly aston
ishing.
| Nevada City is situated in the most
salubrious climate of the Sierra Nevada,
and the doctors would soon become vag-
rants but for the assistance rendered by
| the planked streets, which always gather
enough malaria, angle-worms, guano, and
so on to keep few cases of typhoid on
hand during the summer months. All
around Nevada City there are hills. To-
ward the south they are not high, but east
west and north range runs around the
city like horseshoe. This range con.
tains huge beds of auriferous gravel, and
some of the most beautiful bits of scenery
that can be found anywhere are scattered
here and there along and beyond this
range.
! East of the town is old Banner Noun.
tain, rich in gold bearing quartz, and tc
the north is Sugar Loaf Mountain, honey
combed with tunnels. At the foot of this
mountain is the famous Manzanita mine
in state of indignant repose since the
stoppage of hydraulic mining. From the
top of Sugar Loaf Mountain one may OBJ
tain a good bird's-eye view of the towr
and circumiacent country, and, if he is moi
near-sighted, he may see beyond the south
ern hills and discover the dim outline o.
the Coast Range.
The hum of milling machinery is moi
heard in and about Nevada City so much
now as in former years, principally because
there is very little enterprise shown by
local capitalists. All, or nearly all, the
advancement that has been made withir
the last few years has been through out.
side capital. Grass Valley, four miles
away, has, in very great measure, made
use of home capital, and the little town i;
quite lively, and likely to remain so.
One reason why Nevada City is nov
rather dull and stagnant, and has not re
ceived any of the benefits of mining
boom and outside capital, is that in tina
little city reside a great many chuckle
headed old silurians who do nothing better
than croak and howl against the town, ane
make it point, when a would-be investor
comes, to 60 to him and advise him to stee
clear of all Nevada county mines. The,
tell him that he will get out nothing bet
ter than pyrites of poverty, protoxide
assessments, chlorate of bankruptcy, ano
sulphurets of death.
And vet, if you should tell one of thes
consummate asses that he had better leave
the town and find a better place he woult
!, fairly explode with horror, indignation
amazement and other things peculiar to ;
scared donkey or pole-cat ON hot trail
The best thing the sober citizens o
Nevada City, and the majority are gener-
ally sober, could do, would be to hold
meeting, round up and corral the indigen
Gus eroakers and hang them on the Dee
Creek suspension bridge.
Deer Creek is the natural sewer OF tn
town. In it Marshall discovered gold il
the long ago, when he was plotting part
of emigrants across the Sierra Nevada:
but he did not consider the find as being G
much Importance A year later a thou
sand miners were at work there, and tn
bed of the stream yielded enormous fol
! tunes.
One may pass away spare hour yer
comfortably by going up on Sacrament
street and reading the choice literatur
that has been daubed over the bowlder
in the creek. Every patent medicine tn
world has ever known has been writer
there with all the colors Of the rainbol
attached, and the Salvation Army has ha
: an artist or two at work now and ther
: Several painters have used the same bow
2 ders, and here and there one may happe
upon such choice passages as these:
"Take Ratty's Purgative Pellets"
Il prepare for Death!'
"Use Rough ON Rats"
"Flee From the Wrath to Come"
''They Never Die in the House."
"Halleluiahl"
! Nevada City has two daily papers, tn
= Euening Herald and the Daily Iranscrip
. Both are lively sheets, and their editor
are lively men. B. J. Watson, the pre-
prietor of the Herald, is genial, big
5 hearted man, who is always willing to do
/. good deed, and, if nobody wants him to d
, favor he gets the blues, and, lockin
| himself up in his sanctum, he weeps yer
long and bitterly. There is not man i
: Nevada City who does not love and re
: spect Hon. B. j. Watson, and if they d
J not pay him for his paper they like hin
! Just the same.
The busiest man in Nevada county
t happy, bustling L. S. Calkins, editor of tn
Transcript He is not so big as Mr.. Wat
| son, but he is concentrated energy all ovel
and when he is on a hot trail after al
: item one can hear him whiz long before h
appears upon the ground. Lenord S. Cal
kins is royalty good fellow, too, and h
is always ready to lend helping hand, o
accept a communication from ''Vo.
{ Populi.n "Veritas," "Enraged Citizen" 0
5 any other reliable authority, and every
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