Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-08
THIRTY YEARS AGO.
OLSON WAS REGARDED AS A FUTURE
MANUFACTURING CENTER.
Charley Bolts journalistic Failure
Thad. Stevens Estimate of John
Bigler's Caliber.


great results in the near future in the way
of utilizing the vast water power for manu-
featuring purposes, are not the outgrowth
of a recent discovery of the great value of
that water power. As far back as thirty
years ago the public were alive to the great
natural advantages possessed by that local
ity for manufacturing enterprises. In the
UNION of June 8. 1860, appeared an edi-
torial on the subject, from which the fol-
lowing extract is taken: "Slate Bar is
located few hundred yards above the wire
bridge across the American river at Fol.
som, and Immediately in the canyon
formed by the river as it breaks through
the foothills into the valley. 1t contains
about five or six acres of land suitable for
foundations for buildings, and some day
will be covered by mills, machine shops
and factories. II is so situated that in the
summer season all the water in the river
may be conveyed in canal from the head
of the bar the entire length of it, leaving
plenty of space between the canal and
the river for an indefinite number of
mills and factories. At present the bar and
water privilege is owned by Stockton &
Coover, who have built fine Touring mill
near the upper end of the bar. The dam,
which turns as much of the river into the
race as is needed, is about one hundred
yards above and so situated as to permit
the surplus water in winter to flow down
the channel, leaving the mill free from the
disadvantages sometimes caused in other
localities by high water. A firm
in San Francisco has pretty much COM
nlo iofia 60 90
power for paper mill. Material for build
ing, in the shape of granite, is found at
hand in inexhaustible quantities. y
At some future time Slate Bar-the 100
acres of land which includes it, with the
immense water power belonging thereto
will become very valuable property. Fol-
som may yet become one of the great man
utacturing points in California" From
present indications that day is near at
hand.
......... Reference was made week ago to
the escapade of two young Marysville
girls, who stole couple of mustangs in
Suffer county and rode them to Chico in
one night. A paragraph in Marysville
paper few days after the affair occurred
explained it. 1t appears that Marysville
woman started with her two daughters for
Yreka. On their way they stopped at
Lowery's ranch on Butte creek, where the
mother took leave of her two daughters
and went on alone. One of the girls was
IA years of age and the other r. They
determined to join their mother at all haz-
ards, stole two colts belonging to Maxey
and Mum of Lowerys ranch and struck
out for Red Bluff. At that point they
were overtaken and brought back. The
horses went to grass and the girls to crying
The juvenile bareback riders were returned
to their mother. Their names were Curr
or Carr.
........ Earthquakes were seemingly more
frequent in those days than at present; at
all events they caused more general alarm.
The fact was then published that the
Japanese had a way of being warned of
the approach of earthquakes. They claimed
to have discovered that few seconds be-
fore shock the magnet temporarily loses
its power. In many houses, therefore,
magnets were kept suspended above cup
of bell-metal. A steel weight was at
tached to each magnet, and when the latter
became paralyzed, as it were by the APP
proach of an earthquake, the weight
would drop upon the bell and sound an
alarm. This gave the inmates of house
an opportunity to escape to the street be-
fore the shock came. Whether or not it
was ever tried in this country does not ap.
pear, but there may be something in the
idea.
.........O On the 4th of June, 1860, the DEM
0cratic Standard died natural death in
this city, leaving Charles T. Bolts to mourn
the loss of many dollars and the realization
of his fond aspirations. He announced
that he had sunk in the paper all the
money he had made out of the State print
ing, and was beside overwhelmed with
debt" He admitted that he could not
compete with the UNION as a newspaper,
whose facilities enabled it to distance all
competitors" that thousands read it for its
news, and that his brains could not sue
cessfully compete with its dollars and en-
terprise.
........Then, as now, some of the side
walks of the city were used by merchants
and manufacturers for storage-places and
workshops, and 1t was suggested by local
paper that the tiremen run their hose carts
and engines over the sidewalks, in going to
fires, and thus clear them of all rubbish.
The firemen took the hint, and one day
the south side of street looked as if
cyclone had struck it after the iremen had
passed.
.........A white rancher living on Van
Duzen river, Humboldt county, boosted of
having killed SIXTY infants with his Ratchet
at the terrible massacres of inoffensive In
dian women and children that had taken
went to an Indian camp near his place
and butchered whole family, six in num-
Der. because an Indian boy in his employ
had gone 10 his parents camp without his
permission.
.........John Bigier was one of the Cali
fornia delegates to the Charleston Conven-
ton in 1860, and when it was announced
that on the tenth ballot Douglas received
1904 votes, Thad. Steven was heard to re-
mark, in as low and deliberate manner :
"One-hundred- and fifty-and- one half. votes
well, l reckon that one-half vote means
Bigler ~
go. The volunteers under Colonel Hays
had sharp fight with the Indian hostiles at
Pyramid Lake on the I'd of June, in which
Captain Storey of Virginia City latter whom
the county was subsequently named) was
MORALLY wounded. A number of Indians
were killed.
........On the 10th of May Timothy F.
Derrick, aged Is years, and Caiharine Wigin-
ton, aged ID, were married by Rev. N. l.
Fowler at Franklin. There were no flies
on the young people in those days, when
matrimonially inclined.
.........An over enthusiastic correspondent
of a San Francisco paper, in writing of
General Josh Ravens march from Placer
vile TO Carson during the Indian troubles.
compared the trip to the famous march of
Bonaparie across the Alps.
.........H. P. Haun, who had just served
in one session of the United States Senate
as the successor of David c. Broderick,
died at his residence in .Marysville on the
9Th of June. 1850.
.......The railroad between here and
Folsom lin 1902 paid as high as is per
cent per annum on the investment This
was owing to the heavy freights for the
Washoe country.
.......0n the ID of June the elegant
steamer Chrysopolis, which had been built
for the Sacramento river trade, was
launched in San Francisco.
.........The county roads south of the city
were made exceedingly muddy by heavy
shower of rain on the first day of June.
ORDER OF B'NAI BIRTH.