The Ditches of Nevada City
Title | The Ditches of Nevada City PDF eBook |
Author | Dom Lindars |
Publisher | Nevada City History |
Pages | 884 |
Release | 2023-04-07 |
Genre | History |
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This book tells the history of Nevada City, California, through the eyes of the men that built it. For its first 100 years, everything in Nevada City revolved around gold. But this is not another book about finding gold. To get gold, you needed water — to pan for it, to wash it in a sluice, to blast away a hillside with an immense water cannon, or to turn the water wheel of a quartz-ore stamp mill. This book instead asks: How did they get the water? It reveals the engineering marvels that brought water to Nevada City’s dry hills from tens of miles away. But what if all the water in every ravine, creek and valley around Nevada City was controlled by just three men? Well, for three decades, every miner, farmer or business could only buy water from the powerful South Yuba Canal Company. What would happen if you got into an argument with them? Or couldn’t afford to pay their water bill? Or even dared to compete with them? The book traces the ingenuity and hard work of the town’s miners and ditch builders, highlighting in detail the history and origins of various local neighborhoods, including Nevada City itself, Hirschman's Pond, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Deer Creek, Scotts Flat, Manzanita Diggings, Gold Flat and various mining camps along Washington Ridge. This vivid portrayal follows the area’s evolution from the chaos of thousands of miners scratching out a living in clusters of muddy tents to a genteel town with hotels, stores, banks, theaters and libraries. What began as a search to uncover a sprawling network of old ditches, turned into a collection of never-before-told stories of the gold miners, the ruthless and greedy ditch company, and the rivals that it crushed. The domineering ditch company later enabled the next generation of monopoly to provide electrical power. The story of PG&E also started in Nevada City. This, in turn, led to the now more forward-looking stewardship of the Nevada Irrigation District. The unique format of this book blends beautiful archival images with more than 35 in-depth biographies of key figures in Nevada City. This 884 page hardcover book includes over 600 photos and illustrations, including 200 historic photographs and 75 hand-crafted maps based on modern lidar technology that reveal the locations of the old mining ditches, flumes, mines and tunnels.
Gold Cities: Grass Valley and Nevada City
Title | Gold Cities: Grass Valley and Nevada City PDF eBook |
Author | James M. Morley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | California |
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Photographic survey of the area's past and present.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Title | Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series PDF eBook |
Author | Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
Publisher | Copyright Office, Library of Congress |
Pages | 1206 |
Release | 1949 |
Genre | Copyright |
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Includes Part 1A: Books and Part 1B: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
The Red Angel
Title | The Red Angel PDF eBook |
Author | Vivian McGuckin Raineri |
Publisher | INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780717806867 |
A fast moving, vibrant biography of an outstanding communist activist for labor's rights, civil rights, peace and justice. Rich anecdotes as well as facts. 27 photos. Bibliog., Appendix, Index.
Love and Nuggets
Title | Love and Nuggets PDF eBook |
Author | Roland D. Crandall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | California |
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Journals and letters of Henry Crandall (who accompanied the first gold rush to California in 1849) and his sweetheart in Calesville, New York.
Hearings
Title | Hearings PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1306 |
Release | 1946 |
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Hearings
Title | Hearings PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress Senate |
Publisher | |
Pages | 2170 |
Release | 1940 |
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