The Ditches of Nevada City - Bibliography and Notes

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Preface and Introduction

Books and Documents
"Sketch of Nevada County," Brown & Dallison's Directory of Nevada, Grass Valley and Rough and Ready (1856) by Aaron A. Sargent from HathiTrust Digital Library
A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) by Lewis Publishing Company from Google Books
California Gold Rush (2004) by Linda Thompson from Google Books
Geologic Structure and History of the Sierra Nevada (1968) from Paul C. Bateman from Missouri University of Science and Technology
Gold Districts of California (1970) by William B. Clark from Google Books
History of Nevada County, California (1880) by Harry L. Wells from The Internet Archive
History of Placer and Nevada Counties California (1924) by William B. Lardner & Michael J. Brock from The Internet Archive
Hutchings' Illustrated California Magazine (1856) by Hutchings & Rosenfield from Google Books
Hydraulicking : A brief history of hydraulic mining in Nevada County, California (1962) by Robert M. Wyckoff from California State Library
Mines and Mineral Resources of Nevada county (1919) by Errol MacBoyle from HathiTrust Digital Library
Nevada County Historical Society Bulletin, #2-8, July 1950 from Nevada County Historical Society
Profit, Plots and Lynching - The Creation of Nevada Territory (1995) by C.W. Bayer from Nevada Music and Histories
Statistical Report (1886) by California State Board of Agriculture from Google Books
Water Use in the Yuba and Bear River Basins, California (1969) by Thomas H. Pagenhart
Way sketches; Containing incidents of travel across the plains from St. Joseph to California in 1850... (1926) by Lorenzo Sawyer from HathiTrust Digital Library
Zack and the Validators: Good as Gold (2011) by Wayne Hunt from Google Books

Newspaper Articles from California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California, Riverside
Marysville Daily Herald: 28 December 1855
Sacramento Daily Union: 27 May 1876

Newspaper Articles from Newspaper.com
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Newspaper Articles from Chronicling America, Library of Congress, List of Digitized Newspapers
Genealogy Records from Ancestry.com
About Ancestry.com Records

Google & Other Maps
1850 California by William A. Jackson from Boston Public Library, Digital Public Library of America

Wikipedia Articles
Bonanza; California Gold Rush; California Republic; Daniel Webster; Federal tax revenue by state; Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; History of California; James W. Marshall; List of U.S. states and territories by population; Mexican–American War; Monterey, California; Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; Republic of Texas; Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; United States Navy

Webpages
American Music of the California Gold Rush by Ballad of America
Map of the mining districts of California by Digital Commonwealth
What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books? from EdSurge Education Technology
Tertiary Volcanic Domes in California from Geocaching
15 years of Google Books by
Nevada City, The “Queen City of the Northern Mines” from Historical Marker Database
Discovery of Gold (1848) by John A. Sutter from Museum of the City of San Francisco
Eyewitness to the Discovery of Gold at Sutter's Mill (1848) from Museum of the City of San Francisco
Impact of the Gold Rush by Theodore H. Hittell from Museum of the City of San Francisco
William T. Sherman and the Gold Rush (1848) from Museum of the City of San Francisco
Magma's Role in the Rock Cycle from National Geographic Society
Nevada City Rancheria from Nevada City Rancheria
Nisenan from Nisenan.org
Sulfur radical species form gold deposits on Earth (2015) by Gleb S. Pokrovski, Maria A. Kokh, Damien Guillaume, et al. from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Sulfur proves important in the formation of gold mines from ScienceDaily
A Field Trip Transect of the Northern Sierra Via Interstate 80 from Sierra College
Empire Mine State Historic Park by Sierra Gold Parks Foundation
Site of Quartz Gold Discovery by California Historical Landmarks from Sierra Nevada Geo-Tourism
Google Books - There Are Exactly 129,864,880 Books in the World by The Atlantic
A Golden State from UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004
Pacific Ocean Subduction Zones from US Geological Survey
U.S. Inflation Calculator, Department of Labor Data from US Inflation Calculator

Notes
Quote - "To the victor belong the spoils" from Grammarist
Value of gold based on Nevada County gold production from hydraulic mining of between $138 to $175 million, at $20.67 per ounce

Chapter 1 - The Need for Water

Books and Documents
"Sketch of Nevada County," Brown & Dallison's Directory of Nevada, Grass Valley and Rough and Ready (1856) by Aaron A. Sargent from Google Books
California Gold Rush Research Materials (2011) from Elrie Robinson Collection from Louisiana State University Libraries
California Place Names (1960) by Erwin G. Gudde from Google Books
District Court Case #226 - Kidd et al. vs. Laird et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
Gold Cities: Grass Valley and Nevada City (1965) by Jim Morley & Doris Foley from The Internet Archive
Gold Rush Days in Nevada City (1948) by Harold P. Davis from Google Books
History And Directory Of Nevada County (1867) by Edwin Bean from US Gen Web Archives
History of Nevada County, California (1880) by Harry L. Wells from The Internet Archive
John Wesley Jones Pantoscope of California Collection (1852) by California Historical Society
Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of Norfolk County, Massachusetts (1898) by Boston Biographical Review from eBooks Online Library
Lives of Nevada County Pioneers, v4 by David Comstock from Comstock Bonanza Press
Nevada City (2012) by Maria E. Brower from Scribd.com
One of a Thousand - A Series of Massachusetts Biographical Sketches (1890) by John Clark Rand from Google Books
The Diaries of Peter Decker (1966) by Peter Decker from Google Books
The Experiences of a Forty-Niner (1888) by Charles D. Ferguson from Google Books
The First Sixty Years of the Milton Public Library, 1870-1931 (1932) by Nathaniel T. Kidder from Amazon.com
The Gold Rush: California Transformed from California State University, Northridge
The History of Milton, Mass., 1640 to 1877 (1887) by Albert Kendall Teele from The Internet Archive
The Pioneers of '49, A History of the Excursion of the Society of California Pioneers of New England (1891) by Nicholas Ball from Google Books
The Rush: America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853 (2014) by Edward Dolnick from Google Books
Three Years in California (1854) from John D. Borthwick from Library of Congress
Wadsworth Bequest in 1915, Milton from State Library of Massachusetts
Water Use in the Yuba and Bear River Basins, California (1969) by Thomas H. Pagenhart
Way sketches; Containing incidents of travel across the plains from St. Joseph to California in 1850... (1926) by Lorenzo Sawyer from HathiTrust Digital Library

Newspaper Articles from Chronicling America, Library of Congress
Nevada Democrat: March 2, 1859, Page 3
Nevada Journal: November 13, 1851, Page 2; February 20, 1857, Page 2

Newspaper Articles from David Comstock, News & Advertising in the Early Gold Camps of Nevada County, California (1850-1878)
Grass Valley Union: July 8, 1876
Nevada Transcript: April 20, 1869

Newspaper Articles from Newspaper.com
Boston Globe: February 22, 1901, Page 4; 3 Apr 1920, Page 12
New York Daily Herald: 27 September 1848, Page 4

Genealogy Records from Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com: Ancestry Search for Charles Fox Stamps
California State Library: C. S. Stamps California State Census, 1852, Charles Fox Stamps in 1879 Voter Registration, Charles Fox Stamps in 1884 Voter Registration
Massachusetts County, District and Probate Courts: Ellen M Wadsworth in Massachusetts Probate Records, 1635-1991
National Archives and Records Administration: C. F. Stamps 1860 U.S. Census, Charles F. Stamps 1880 U.S. Census; Edward D. Wadsworth New Orleans, Passenger Lists, 1813-1963; Edwin D Wadsworth, U.S. Citizenship Affidavits of US born Seamen, 1851, Edwin D. Wadsworth 1870 U.S. Census, Edwin D. Wadsworth 1880 U.S. Census, J S Reed 1860 U.S. Census, John P Reed 1850 U.S. Census
National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution: John Stamps, U.S. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
New England Historic Genealogical Society: Edwin D. Wadsworth in Massachusetts Death Records, 1841-1915; Edwin D. Wadsworth Massachusetts, U.S. State Census, 1855; Edwin D. Wadsworth Massachusetts, U.S. State Census, 1865; Edwin Dexter Wadsworth Massachusetts Mason Membership Cards, 1733-1990; Ellen M Emerson Wadsworth Massachusetts Death Records, 1841-1915

Genealogy Records - User Created Family Trees from Ancestry.com
Michael Grimes: Edwin Dexter Wadsworth
jjjj52: Cathmor Ceasar Stamps, Charles F.C.Stamps, John Stamps, Mary Elizabeth Stamps, Matilda Cord, Nancy Jane Stamps, Pacific Nestor Stamps
plainskeeter: J. Sewall Reed, John Reed, Samuel Barker Reed

Other Genealogy Records
Find A Grave Memorial: Edwin D. Wadsworth (1832-1901), Ellen M. Emerson Wadsworth (1839-1915)
Richmond Passenger List 2 November 1849 from California Bound from SF Genealogy
Early Firemen, San Francisco History from SF Genealogy

Google & Other Maps
From map Downtown Map v12 from Created by Author; Gallatin, TN; Milton, near Boston MA; Nevada St, Nevada City, CA; Panama Canal

Wikipedia Articles
2nd Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment; 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry; California Gold Rush; California Republic; Central Overland Route; James Sewall Reed; James W. Marshall; Massachusetts; Milton, Massachusetts; Nevada Territory; Panama Canal Railway; Rose's Corral, California; San Francisco; Second Battle of Dranesville; Siege of Yorktown (1781); Sierra Nevada

Webpages
Gold Mining Reefs and Leads by Ballarat and District Industrial Heritage Project
First Light Dragoons (San Francisco) from California State Military Museums Program
Fraser River Gold Rush by Canadian Encyclopedia
Town of Milton vs. Attorney General, 314 Mass. 234 by Trial Court Law Libraries from Commonwealth of Massachusetts
The California Gold Rush, 1849 by Eye Witness to History
Letters of George Henry Moulton by Milton Historical Society
Gold Rush Chronology, 1846 by Museum of the City of San Francisco
San Francisco - Before the Gold Rush by Museum of the City of San Francisco
J. Sewall Reed, Second Mass and Its Fighting Californians by Mike Sorenson from Second Mass and Its Fighting Californians
Travel Routes by The California Gold Rush Blog
San Francisco Newspapers Report on Gold Discovery by Theresa Hupp Blog

Notes
From the text written below the picture of Edwin Wadsworth and J. Sewall Reed (#PC-GS_00847) from California Historical Society

Newspaper Articles from the Grass Valley Union
In The Beginning by Ed Tyson

Chapter 2 - After the Initial Rush

Chapter 3 - Mining Techniques

Books and Documents
A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) by Lewis Publishing Company from Google Books
An Informal Account of Precious-Metals Prospecting, Placering, Lode Mining, and Milling on the American Frontier from Spanish Times to 1893 (1977) by Otis E. Young & Robert Lenon from Google Books
Annual Report of the State Mineralogist (1882) by California State Mining Bureau from Google Books
Bancroft's Tourist's Guide: Yosemite. San Francisco and Around the Bay (1871) by A.L. Bancroft & Company from Google Books
California Debris Commission History from Joseph J. Hagwood from Sacramento District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
De Re Metallica (1556) by Georg Agricola from Google Books
District Court Case #226 - Kidd et al. vs. Laird et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
Gold and Silver (1908) by Walter Richard Crane from Google Books
Gold vs. grain, the hydraulic mining controversy in California's Sacramento Valley (1959) by Robert L. Kelley from HathiTrust Digital Library
Hydraulicking : A brief history of hydraulic mining in Nevada County, California (1962) by Robert M. Wyckoff from California State Library
Lives of Nevada County Pioneers, v4 by David Comstock from Comstock Bonanza Press
Mining Industry of the States and Territories of the Rocky Mountains (1874) by Rossiter Worthington Raymond from Google Books
Mining Magazine: An International Monthly Review of Current Progress in Mining and Metallurgy · Volume 7 (1903) by W.J. Johnston from Google Books
Mining and Scientific Press from The Internet Archive
Mining and Scientific Press (1871) from The Internet Archive
Origins of Hydraulic Mining in California (1970) by Philip Ross May from Google Books
Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains (1872) by Rossiter Worthington Raymond from Google Books
The California Debris Commission (1981) from Joseph J. Hagwood from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
The Little Giant Controversy - Mechanical and Legal History of Hydraulic Nozzles from Mining and Scientific Press, Volume 44, p264 from Placer County Historical Society
The Rush: America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853 (2014) by Edward Dolnick from Google Books
The Water King: Anthony Chabot, His Life and Times (1992) by Sherwood D. Burgess from Google Books
Water Use in the Yuba and Bear River Basins, California (1969) by Thomas H. Pagenhart
Way sketches; Containing incidents of travel across the plains from St. Joseph to California in 1850... (1926) by Lorenzo Sawyer from HathiTrust Digital Library

Nevada County Records
Land Deeds: Book #43, Page 506

Newspaper Articles from Chronicling America, Library of Congress
Daily National Democrat: November 17, 1860, Page 3
Nevada Democrat: May 9, 1860, Page 2
Nevada Journal: April 19, 1851, Page 2; December 18, 1851, Page 3; December 28, 1860, Page 3; April 26, 1861, Page 3

Newspaper Articles from Newspaper.com
Oakland Tribune: 11 February 1888, Page 8; 1 January 1922, Page 51; 1 January 1922, Page 51; 1 January 1922, Page 52
Sacramento Bee: 15 January 1935, Page 9

Newspaper Articles from California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California, Riverside
Marysville Daily Appeal: 18 September 1860, 8 November 1867, 16 April 1872
Morning Union: 28 November 1867, 18 March 1871, 27 October 1874, 24 January 1875, 6 October 1878, 10 December 1878, 24 December 1893
Sacramento Daily Union: 31 May 1856, 29 February 1860, 28 September 1860, 11 December 1871, 27 June 1882
San Francisco Call: 28 June 1904
San Joaquin Republican: 4 February 1855

Genealogy Records from Ancestry.com
California State Library: Edward Eddy Matteson California Voter Registers, 1866-1898;
National Archives and Records Administration: Clarisa Matteson 1880 U.S. Census, Clorrissa Maddison 1860 U.S. Census; Edward E Matteson 1870 U.S. Census

Genealogy Records - User Created Family Trees from Ancestry.com
Hmcmkmjm2: Charles E Mathewson, Edward E Mathewson, Silas Mathewson

Other Genealogy Records
Find A Grave Memorial: Anthony Chabot (1813-1888), Charles E. Matteson (1846-1867), Clarissa Sweet Matteson (1824-1905), Edward Eddy Matteson (1823-1903), Ellen G Matteson (Unknown-1866)
New York Herald, Ships, 15 April 1849 from California Bound from SF Genealogy

Google & Other Maps
Nevada County; Sterling, Connecticut

Wikipedia Articles
Anthony Chabot; File:Hydraulic Mining Water Cannon at Malakoff Diggins State Park in California.JPG by Wikimedia Commons from Wikipedia; Fire hose; Gold mining; Gold panning; Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park

Webpages
Got a Revolution: The Beginning of the California Gold Rush – 1848 by The Fern Hill Times from California History Press
Business 432 Course by Harvard University from Course Hero
The History of Rubber Hoses by Ezine Articles
Anthony Chabot by Flickr
Revenue of the United States - Official Report (1874) by British Library from Flickr
For the Love of History, November 2011 by For the Love of History Blog
Gold: History of Use, Mining, Prospecting, Assay & Production by Geology and Earth Science
Patent US43468A - Improved hydraulic machine for washing ore by Joseph M. Allenwood Patents
Feet Of Water to Pounds Per Square Inch by Kyle's Converter
Gold Panning - History of a Prospecting Method & Tools by Metallurgist & Mineral Processing Blog
Nevada City Mining District, Nevada Co., California, USA by Mindat.org - Mines & Minerals
Gold mining with a rocker or cradle by My Gold Rush Tales Blog
Hydraulic Mining - Gold Fever Giant Gold Machines by Oakland Museum of California
Double Jacket Fire Hose Comparisons by Quick Response Fire Supply
What year was mercury known to be toxic? by Quora from Quora
How the Early Miners Found Gold with a Tool that is Rarely Used Today by RareGoldNuggets.com
Do you know what a miner's inch is? (2009) by LeRoy W. Hooton from Salt Lake City Public Utilities
Mining Techniques of the Sierra Nevada and Gold Country by Sierra College
Pumps - Head vs. Pressure from The Engineering Tool Box
Use of Rockers and Long-Toms During the California Gold Rush by Theresa Hupp Blog
About Dental Amalgam Fillings by U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Hydraulic mining by Wikiwand
North Bend to Leavenworth by Yellow Leaf
The New South and the Old West 1866-1890 by Discovering U.S. History from ePDF Publishing

Notes
Google Search for "wooden stave culvert" by Google

Newspaper Articles from Doris Foley Library
Nevada Daily Transcript: 10 January 1879

Chapter 4 - The First Ditches

Books and Documents
"Sketch of Nevada County," Brown & Dallison's Directory of Nevada, Grass Valley and Rough and Ready (1856) by Aaron A. Sargent from HathiTrust Digital Library
A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) by Lewis Publishing Company from Google Books
Annals of Philosophy, Volume 10 (1817) by C. Baldwin, New Bridge St from Google Books
Brides of the Gold Rush, 1851-1859 (1999) by David A. Comstock from Amazon.com
California Journal of Mines and Geology, Volume 2 (1882) by California. State Mining Bureau from Google Books
California Water Codes, Section 1-26 from The Internet Archive
Current Irrigation Water Rates (2015) by NID Water
Directory of people and places in Nevada County 1848-1856 from Christine Freeman
District Court Case #226 - Kidd et al. vs. Laird et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
Financial Records, 1880-1893 from South Yuba Canal Company from California State Library
Gladding, McBean & Co., Catalogue No. 30 (1904) by California State Library from The Internet Archive
Gold Diggers & Camp Followers, 1845-1851 (1982) by David A. Comstock from Comstock Bonanza Press
Historic Context for Irrigation and Water Supply Ditches and Canals in Colorado (2005) from Michael Molleran from City of Fort Collins
History & Directory of Nevada County, California (1867) by Edwin Bean from US Gen Web Archives
History of California (1888) by Hubert Howe Bancroft from Google Books
History of Nevada County, California (1880) by Harry L. Wells from The Internet Archive
Hydraulics, the Flow of Water Through Orifices, Over Weirs, and Through Open Conduits and Pipes (1886) by Hamilton Smith from Google Books
John Wesley Jones Pantoscope of California Collection (1852) by California Historical Society
Letters from John Dunn to his brother Tom, dated October 22, 1854 and March 12, 1855 from UC Davis, Shields Library
Lives of Nevada County Pioneers, v4 by David Comstock from Comstock Bonanza Press
Map of the Harmony Channel and Mines (1903) - Map G4364.N4H1 1903.U7 from UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Nevada County Historical Society Bulletin, December 1948 from Nevada County Historical Society
Nevada County Historical Society Bulletin, Vol 24, No. 5, October 1969 from Nevada County Historical Society
Nevada County Tax Assessment Records from Searls Historical Library
News & Advertising in the Early Gold Camps of Nevada County, California (1850-1878) by David Comstock from Comstock Bonanza Press
Pacific Service Magazine, Volume 5 (1913) by Pacific Gas and Electric Company from Google Books
South Yuba Water Company 1894 Pamphlet, PAM 20584 from California Historical Society
South Yuba Water Company Records (1894-1904) from the Patterson Mining Collection from W.F. Englebright from Society of California Pioneers
The Diaries of Peter Decker (1966) by Peter Decker from Google Books
The Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) by Chauncey L. Canfield from Google Books
The Experiences of a Forty-Niner (1888) by Charles D. Ferguson from The Internet Archive
Water Right Application on Sailor Ravine, Little Deer Creek from California Water Boards
Water Supply Irrigation Papers (1898) from U.S. Geological Survey
Water Use in the Yuba and Bear River Basins, California (1969) by Thomas H. Pagenhart

Nevada County Records
Land Deeds: Book #1, Page 411; Book #1, Page 54; Book #28, Page 428; Book #6, Page 531 and Book #36, Page 161

Newspaper Articles from Chronicling America, Library of Congress
Grass Valley Telegraph: November 24, 1853, Page 3
Nevada Democrat: March 2, 1859, Page 3; November 30, 1859, Page 2
Nevada Journal: February 26, 1852, Page 3; July 31, 1852, Page 4; June 10, 1853, Page 2; October 26, 1855, Page 2; February 29, 1856, Page 2; May 9, 1856, Page 2; November 21, 1856, Page 3; November 23, 1860, Page 5

Newspaper Articles from Newspaper.com
Morning Union: 14 Jan 1922, Page 4
Record Union: 12 June 1899, Page 1
Sacramento Bee: 14 Sep 1935, Page 10; 23 September 1944, Page 16
San Francisco Call: 15 June 1899, Page 12
San Francisco Examiner: 5 August 1923, Page 76

Newspaper Articles from California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California, Riverside
Daily Alta California: 21 June 1851, 18 September 1856, 16 August 1885
Los Angeles Herald: 18 August 1905
Morning Press: 13 August 1885
Morning Union: 15 April 1868, 7 February 1874, 4 March 1877, 11 December 1890, 19 July 1895, 23 November 1911, 26 September 1916
Nevada Journal: 21 December 1855
Sacramento Daily Union: 17 February 1854, 9 September 1868, 12 May 1874, 15 February 1875, 19 October 1893
Sacramento Transcript: 31 December 1850, 24 January 1851, 11 February 1851
Sacramento Union: 17 June 1920
San Jose Mercury News: 9 January 1875
Sierra Citizen: 25 February 1854

Genealogy Records from Ancestry.com
California State Roster: Timothy Guy Phelps California State Military Records, 1909
Confederate Pension Applications, 1880-1940: Charlotte E Whitworth Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958
Michigan Department of Community Health: Harry Thomas Dunn Michigan, U.S. Death Records, 1867-1952
National Archives and Records Administration: C. Carroll 1860 U.S. Census, Charlota Whitworth 1900 U.S. Census, Charlutta Whitworth 1880 U.S. Census, Chas Carrol 1850 U.S. Census, Chas Carroll 1850 U.S. Census, Harry T. Dunn 1880 U.S. Census, J. S. Dunn 1850 U.S. Census, J. S. Dunn 1870 U.S. Census, T. G. Phelps 1860 U.S. Census, Timothy G. Phelps 1870 U.S. Census, Timothy Guy Phelps 1880 U.S. Census, W. D. Whitworth 1850 U.S. Census, William D. Whitworth 1870 U.S. Census; William D. Whitworth Confederate Soldiers Service Records, 1861-1865

Genealogy Records - User Created Family Trees from Ancestry.com
Barbara Warren: Gilmore Cooper
KarenLAnderson_1: Annis More, Evalina Caroline Chapman, John Smith Dunn, Leonora Evalina Dunn, Malcom Dunn, Mary E. Dunn
SharonScott56: Timothy Guy Phelps
StuartREMorgan: Abram M Dunn, Margaret Dunn, Thomas O Dunn
ggmodoc: Charles F. Carroll, Crawford Calvin Clarke, Isabella J Donovan, Mary "Mamie" Carroll
rodandsheri: Crawford C. Clarke

Other Genealogy Records
Find A Grave Memorial: Calvin Rutter Clarke (1831-1912), Charles Carroll (Unknown-1863), Helen Augusta Cooper Dunn (1832-1908), John S. Dunn (1810-1885), Mary E. Dunn (1839-1854), Timothy Guy Phelps (1824-1899)

Google & Other Maps
Dutch Flat, California

Wikipedia Articles
Andrew Johnson; Degree of Pocahontas; Fontainier; Freeboard (Nautical Term); Improved Order of Red Men; Ortona Prehistoric Village; Thomas Bard McFarland;

Webpages
Hohokam Canal System by American Society of Civil Engineers
Ancient American Canals by Ancient-Wisdom Foundation
Erie Canal by Britannica
Nevada County Pioneer's Reunion from CA GenWeb
Search for "cubic meter in cubic feet" by Google
The San Luis People’s Ditch by Inkstain Blog
History of Irrigation in Utah by Issuu Digital Publications
Irrigation Water - Frequently Asked Questions by NID Water
Acequia de la Jolla by New Mexico Acequia Association
Calvin Rutter Clarke by Once a Hoosier, Always a Hoosier
What is the unit called a pouce d'eau? by Sizes Inc.
Canals in American History from Social Studies for Kids
Old Recipes & Obscure Ingredients Saleratus by The Examiner
Stevensville by Ultimate Montana from Ultimate Montana
Utah History by Utah Education Network
Kennedy Ditch by Utah Historical Markers

Newspaper Articles from California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California, Riverside
Search for "Ragon & Grove"

Chapter 5 - The Twin Ditches

Books and Documents
District Court Case #19 - Butler et al. vs. Laird et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
District Court Case #226 - Kidd et al. vs. Laird et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
District Court Case #226 - Kidd et al. vs. Laird et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
History of the State of California and Biographical Record of Coast Counties, California (1904) by James M. Guinn from Google Books
Lives of Nevada County Pioneers, v4 by David Comstock from Comstock Bonanza Press
Nixon Family Memorials, Published for the Descendants of William Nixon and His Wife Yanacha Ayers (1970) by Jean W. Cox from Google Books
South Yuba Water Company Records (1894-1904) from the Patterson Mining Collection from W.F. Englebright from Society of California Pioneers
Testimony from A.J. House, from District Court Case #226 - Kidd et al. vs. Laird et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
Testimony from O.M. Tomlinson, from District Court Case #226 - Kidd et al. vs. Laird et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
Testimony from Reuben Moore, from District Court Case #226 - Kidd et al. vs. Laird et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California (2019) by Mark Arax from Amazon.com
The Life of Bret Harte by Henry Childs Merwin from The Internet Archive

Nevada County Records
Land Deeds: Book #1, Page 54

Newspaper Articles from Chronicling America, Library of Congress
Iowa Territorial Gazette & Advertiser: April 4, 1846, Page 3
Nevada Journal: April 19, 1851, Page 2; September 13, 1851, Page 1; December 13, 1851, Page 2; December 18, 1851, Page 3; December 20, 1851, Page 2; December 25, 1851, Page 3; January 3, 1852, Page 1; March 11, 1852, Page 3; June 5, 1852, Page 3; July 3, 1852, Page 2; January 28, 1853, Page 2; April 22, 1853, Page 3; September 2, 1853, Page 3; January 20, 1854, Page 3; March 24, 1854, Page 3
New York Herald: March 1, 1853, Page 3

Newspaper Articles from California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California, Riverside
Blue Lake Advocate: 3 August 1907, 26 January 1924, 3 March 1955, 12 March 1964, 23 April 1964, 30 April 1964, 7 April 1966
Daily Alta California: 25 October 1857
Morning Union: 19 July 1895
Sacramento Transcript: 17 April 1851

Genealogy Records from Ancestry.com
California Wills and Probate Records, 1850-1953: Isaac Nixon in Humboldt County Probate Case Files, 1853-1972

Genealogy Records - User Created Family Trees from Ancestry.com
PEACH406: William H. Folsom, William Harrison Folsom
avilleneuve123: Marianna Hatch, Moses French Hoyt
chomp88: George Jeremiah Ellsworth (1855–)

Other Genealogy Records
Find A Grave Memorial: Capt Isaac Nixon (1801-1857), William Harrison Folsom (1815-1901)
New York Herald Ships, February 26, 1849 from California Bound from SF Genealogy

Google & Other Maps
Council Bluffs, Iowa; Farmington, Iowa

Wikipedia Articles
Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints); Miles Park Romney; Moroni Tabernacle; Nauvoo Legion; Nauvoo, Illinois; Niagara River; Provo Theater;

Webpages
Object Record for a Circumferentor, or Surveyor's Compass by American Philosophical Society
Hoyt Trail from Bear Yuba Land Trust
Isaac [Capt. Black Ike] Nixon by ttg13 from Becky's Genealogy Family Tree
William Harrison Folsom, Architect (1815-1901) by Andrew J. Smith from Geni.com
Circumferentor, by Benjamin Cole, London, about 1750 by History of Science Museum
William Harrison Folsom, Pioneer Architect from Issuu Digital Publications
Transit Levels by Johnson Level & Tool Mfg Company from Johnson Level & Tool Manufacturing Company
Political Parties, 1820 by North Carolina History
Captain Isaac Nixon & Sarah Hook by Dorais Family from Rootsweb Community Genealogy
The Great Republic of Rough and Ready from Rough and Ready Chamber of Commerce
A History of William Harrison Folsom by Ann-Marie Shaltes from Shaltes Family
The Surveyor's Basic Tools by Virtual Museum of Surveying
Mormon Battle for Nauvoo, Illinois from War History Online

Chapter 6 - The Other Early Ditches

Books and Documents
1897 Nevada City & Grass Valley Map & 1909 Nevada County Mining Map from Nevada County
Chronological Chart of Excelsior Water and Power Company Ditches (1922) from Searls Historical Library from Excelsior Water and Power Company
District Court Case #19 - Butler et al. vs. Laird et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
District Court Case #226 - Kidd et al. vs. Laird et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
Flowers from Mediæval History (1910) by Minerva Delight Kellogg from Google Books
History & Directory of Nevada County, California (1867) by Edwin Bean from The Internet Archive
History of Nevada County, California (1880) by Harry L. Wells from The Internet Archive
History of Placer and Nevada Counties California (1924) by William B. Lardner & Michael J. Brock from Google Books
Letters from John Dunn to his brother Tom, dated October 22, 1854 and March 12, 1855 from UC Davis, Shields Library
Lives of Nevada County Pioneers, v4 by David Comstock from Comstock Bonanza Press
News & Advertising in the Early Gold Camps of Nevada County, California (1850-1878) by David Comstock from Comstock Bonanza Press
Origins of Hydraulic Mining in California (1970) by Philip Ross May from Google Books
Raw Water Master Plan Update: Phase II (2011) from Nevada Irrigation District
Seeking the Golden Fleece by Jacob Davis Babcock Stillman from Google Play
The California State Register and Year Book of Facts (1859) by Henry G. Langley & Samuel A. Mathews from The Internet Archive
The Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) by Chauncey L. Canfield from Google Books
Water Use in the Yuba and Bear River Basins, California (1969) by Thomas H. Pagenhart
Western Architect and Engineer, Volumes 62-63 (1920) by McGraw-Hill Company from Google Books

Nevada County Records
Land Deeds: Book #1, Page 193; Book #1, Page 193; Book #10, Page 106; Book #10, Page 49; Book #12, Page 247; Book #13, Page 561; Book #28, Page 428; Book #3, Pages 193, 213, 251, and 255; Book #30, Page 222; Book #4, Page 103; Book #4, Page 56; Book #5, Page 52; Book #5, Page 56-58; Book #50, Page 410; Book #50, Page 572; Book #6, Page 229; Book #7, Page 97; Book #8, Page 356; Book #8, Page 375 and Book #17, Page 363
Unrecorded County Maps

Newspaper Articles from Chronicling America, Library of Congress
Grass Valley Telegraph: November 24, 1853, Page 3; February 2, 1854, Page 2; May 25, 1854, Page 3
Nevada Democrat: March 2, 1859, Page 3
Nevada Journal: January 3, 1852, Page 1; August 14, 1852, Page 1; February 18, 1853, Page 2; January 20, 1854, Page 3; July 7, 1854, Page 3; February 23, 1855, Page 1; May 11, 1855, Page 3
The Placer Herald: September 4, 1858, Page 3

Newspaper Articles from David Comstock, News & Advertising in the Early Gold Camps of Nevada County, California (1850-1878)
Morning Transcript: June 10, 1861
Nevada Democrat: June 4, 1861
Nevada Journal: May 17, 1861

Newspaper Articles from Newspaper.com
Lansing State Journal: 13 Mar 1949, Page 26
Morning Union: 12 Oct 1916, Page 5; Page 7 Dec 1917, Page 5

Newspaper Articles from California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California, Riverside
Daily Alta California: 23 August 1859, 29 April 1868
Daily National Democrat: 13 August 1859, 30 August 1859
Daily National Gazette: 30 October 1855
Hydraulic Press: 7 January 1860
Marysville Daily Appeal: 12 February 1862, 3 December 1865, 2 March 1872, 14 March 1896, 26 February 1904
Morning Union: 27 September 1867, 18 October 1871, 20 February 1878, 17 October 1880, 17 March 1887, 20 March 1887, 21 April 1887, 21 May 1892, 27 July 1892, 5 May 1894, 19 June 1895, 1 February 1912, 27 July 1912, 5 June 1915, 26 April 1916, 11 August 1916
Nevada Democrat: 17 December 1856, 17 December 1856, 13 May 1857, 2 September 1857, 15 September 1858, 22 February 1860, 15 August 1860, 30 May 1861
Nevada Journal: 3 September 1852, 10 September 1852, 10 September 1852, 5 August 1853, 2 June 1854, 21 July 1854, 30 March 1855, 20 April 1855, 10 August 1855, 6 February 1857, 24 April 1857, 1 January 1858, 1 July 1859, 15 July 1859, 23 November 1860
Oroville Weekly Mercury: 20 March 1896
Pacific Rural Press: 30 April 1887
Sacramento Daily Union: 16 May 1851, 16 April 1852, 7 March 1853, 9 December 1854, 14 September 1858, 11 July 1859, 16 August 1859, 14 May 1861, 4 June 1861, 14 June 1861, 27 February 1868, 8 November 1872, 19 March 1886
Sacramento Transcript: 12 May 1851
San Francisco Call: 27 October 1901, 24 November 1910

Genealogy Records from Ancestry.com
American Antiquarian Society: Levi M Kellogg U.S. School Catalogs, 1765-1935
Ancestry.com: Andrew Lake Slack California, U.S. Pioneer and Immigrant Files, 1790-1950; Levi M Kellogg U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley: Levi M Kellogg Berkeley Public Library Obituary Index, 1894-1979
California State Library: Delight L Kellogg in Funeral Home Records, 1850-1931; Levi Merriam Kellogg in California Voter Registers, 1866-1898
Find A Grave Memorial: Delight L. Kellogg
National Archives and Records Administration: A L Slack 1860 U.S. Census, Andrew L Slack 1870 U.S. Census, Levi M Kellogg 1870 U.S. Census, Minerva D Kellogg 1910 U.S. Census
Sacramento State Library: Levi M. Kellogg Sacramento Bee, 1859, Obituaries
San Francisco County, Biographies: Tay & Company

Genealogy Records - User Created Family Trees from Ancestry.com
Will Willson: Delight L. Wickes, Levi Merriam Kellogg
genie3450: Frederick Kellogg, Levi M. Kellogg
hoskinsterry: David Lawson Bovyer
primus433: David L. Bovyer

Other Genealogy Records
Find A Grave Memorial: Delight L. Kellogg (Unknown-1869), Minerva D. Kellogg (-1910)

Google & Other Maps
Deer Creek, southwest of Nevada City; Rough & Ready Ditch in use on County Assessor Plat Map in July 1947 by Nevada County from Doris Foley Library

Wikipedia Articles
American Civil War; Corn flakes; List of US States by date of admission to the Union; Panic of 1857; Randolph County, Missouri; Second Seminole War; Territorial evolution of California; Zachary Taylor

Webpages
The Great Republic of Rough & Ready by 5th World News Blog
Biography of Minerva D. Kellogg from Ask Art
Kenny Ranch Trails by Bear Yuba Land Trust
George H. Tay Co. (1901) by Collectors Weekly
Metal drain cover by George H. Tay & Co. by Flickr
Mill Description and Tour by Kubich Lumber Company
The Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) by Chauncey L. Canfield from Library of Congress
The Great Republic of Rough and Ready from Rough and Ready Chamber of Commerce
Alfred Leonzo Williams (1808-) by Social Networks and Archival Context

Newspaper Articles from Nevada City Nugget
Nevada City Nugget: July 1, 1938 - Selby Flat Was Once Bustling Town

Newspaper Articles from Doris Foley Library
Nevada Daily Transcript: 10 January 1879

Newspaper Articles from the Grass Valley Union
The Great Republic of Rough and Ready rejoins Union, after 3-month ‘secession’ in 1850 by

Chapter 7 - The Willow Valley Ditches

Books and Documents
A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) by Lewis Publishing Company from Google Books
American Street Railway Investments by Street Railway Publishing Company from Google Books
Congressional Edition (1871), Volume 1470 - The Gravel Mines of Nevada City and Grass Valley from House of Representatives
District Court Case #19 - Butler et al. vs. Laird et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
District Court Case #226 - Kidd et al. vs. Laird et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
Historigrams, May 2012 from Perinton Historical Society
History of Nevada County, California (1880) by Harry L. Wells from The Internet Archive
Hutchings' illustrated California magazine by Hutchings & Rosenfield from The Internet Archive
Letters from John Dunn to his brother Tom, dated October 22, 1854 and March 12, 1855 from UC Davis, Shields Library
Lives of Nevada County Pioneers, v4 by David Comstock from Comstock Bonanza Press
N.A.C.A. Bulletin, August 1931 from Strategic Finance Magazine
News & Advertising in the Early Gold Camps of Nevada County, California (1850-1878) by David Comstock from Comstock Bonanza Press
Notes on Oliver Tomlinson from Bill Poray
People's National Union Constitution Association Manifest by Oliver Tomlison
William Maltman letters to his wife, Statira Maltman, BANC MSS 2008/13 from UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

Nevada County Records
Land Deeds: Book #3, Page 17; Book #4, Page 122; Book #4, Page 130; Book #5, Page 192; Book #5, Page 352; Book #5, Page 352; Book #5, Page 620 and Book #6, Page 159; Book #6, Page 636; Book #6, Page 637

Newspaper Articles from Chronicling America, Library of Congress
Nevada Democrat: December 17, 1856, Page 4; March 18, 1857, Page 2; July 8, 1857, Page 1; August 26, 1857, Page 1; April 28, 1858, Page 4; July 14, 1858, Page 1; August 11, 1858, Page 4; June 22, 1859, Page 2; November 23, 1859, Page 3; February 9, 1861, Page 3; December 10, 1861, Page 2; April 15, 1862, Page 3; July 3, 1862, Page 3
Nevada Journal: May 15, 1852, Page 3; December 10, 1852, Page 2; December 24, 1852, Page 2; March 11, 1853, Page 3; March 18, 1853, Page 3; April 1, 1853, Page 3; June 30, 1854, Page 2; September 22, 1854, Page 1; December 7, 1855, Page 2; June 20, 1856, Page 2; November 14, 1856, Page 2; March 13, 1857, Page 2; July 30, 1858, Page 1; November 25, 1859, Page 3; April 27, 1860, Page 4; June 15, 1860, Page 2; September 14, 1860, Page 3
The Morning Call: June 30, 1891, Page 6, Page 6; September 22, 1893, Page 2, Page 2
The Placer Herald: June 23, 1860, Page 3
The Record-Union: August 23, 1892, Page 5, Page 5
The San Francisco Call: December 29, 1906, Page 13, Page 13; December 30, 1906, Page 45, Page 45; September 25, 1907, Page 11, Page 11; October 18, 1908, Page 41, Page 41

Newspaper Articles from Newspaper.com
Buffalo Courier: 21 Sep 1864, Page 3; 28 Mar 1866, Page 3
San Francisco Chronicle: 9 Jun 1918, Page 4
San Francisco Examiner: 11 Nov 1887, Page 6; 11 November 1887, Page 6
The Buffalo Commercial: 18 Apr 1851, Page 1
The New York Times: 14 Nov 1862, Page 8; 24 Mar 1866, Page 4

Newspaper Articles from California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California, Riverside
Daily Alta California: 21 September 1864, 18 September 1865, 21 October 1887, 22 October 1887, 3 February 1888, 23 August 1888
Los Angeles Herald: 1 February 1888, 5 February 1888, 29 April 1893, 20 September 1909
Marysville Daily Appeal: 25 October 1887
Morning Union: 2 August 1871, 12 April 1877, 4 February 1888, 16 January 1916
Nevada Democrat: 23 December 1857, 4 July 1860, 15 August 1860, 19 September 1860, 27 October 1860, 2 April 1861, 30 May 1861, 15 June 1861, 9 July 1861, 12 September 1861, 15 July 1862
Nevada Journal: 11 February 1853, 14 October 1859, 1 June 1860, 15 June 1860, 15 June 1860, 29 June 1860, 6 July 1860, 24 August 1860, 17 May 1861, 7 June 1861, 7 June 1861, 14 June 1861
Press Democrat: 5 February 1888, 3 April 1888
Sacramento Daily Union: 11 July 1860, 14 June 1861, 26 June 1863, 19 September 1866, 19 April 1867, 7 June 1867, 24 August 1867, 27 May 1876
Sacramento Union: 25 September 1907
San Diego Union, And Daily Bee: 7 August 1887, 5 February 1888
San Francisco Call: 20 July 1893, 1 October 1899, 7 August 1901, 2 March 1909, 17 September 1909, 22 February 1913
San Jose Herald: 2 February 1888
San Jose Mercury-News: 23 October 1887, 5 August 1901, 4 May 1906
Sonoma Democrat: 19 March 1892, 19 March 1892

Genealogy Records from Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com: Ann Tomlinson New York, U.S. State Census, 1855; Moses Mc Ara Iowa, U.S. State Census Collection, 1836-1925; Moses McAra Iowa, U.S. Cemetery Records, 1662-1999; Oliver M Tomlinson New York, U.S. State Census, 1865; Robert Fulton Morrow San Francisco Area, Funeral Home Records, 1850-1931
California Department of Public Health: M. McAra in California, U.S. County Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1849-1980
California State Library: Robert Fulton Morrow California Voter Registers, 1866-1898; Robert Fulton Morrow California, U.S. Voter Registers, 1866-1890; Robert Fulton Morrow California, U.S. Voter Registers, 1866-1898; Robert Fulton Morrow California, U.S. Voter Registrations, 1900-1968; Robert Morrow in California, U.S. Voter Registers, 1866-1898
Index to Deaths in Buffalo. City of Buffalo, New York: Annie E Cobb New York, U.S. Death Index, 1852-1956
National Archives and Records Administration: Ann Tomlinson 1850 U.S. Census; Moses McAra U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918, Moses McArra 1850 U.S. Census, Moses Mcara 1870 U.S. Census, Moses Mcara 1880 U.S. Census; O M Tomlinson 1860 U.S. Census; Robert Morrow in Federal Census Non-Population Schedules, 1850-1880, Robt F Morrow 1870 U.S. Census, Robt Marrow 1850 U.S. Census, Robt. F. Morrow 1880 U.S. Census, Victory L Tomlinson 1850 U.S. Census
joanna_fountain: Notes on Ellen's death, Mrs Robert F Morrow from Sacramento Daily Union 25 Jan 1879

Genealogy Records - User Created Family Trees from Ancestry.com
25May53: Amanda Belle Parton McAra
Craig Race: Joseph Bowers Tomlinson
George Beavis: William Morrow
Melissa Whitehead: Robert Morrow,
Stefanie Daniel:
SuComerford: Oliver Mead Tomlinson
joanna_fountain: Eliza Ellen Gummer, Robert Fulton Morrow, Sarah Davis

Other Genealogy Records
Find A Grave Memorial: Elizabeth Roberts Morrow (1807-1892), Moses McAra (1836-1901)
SS Star of the West, Passenger list, 20 October 1853 from California Bound from SF Genealogy

Google & Other Maps
Bear Creek Township, Iowa; Idaho Maryland Mines, Maryland Gold Quartz Mine Company, and Eureka Mine Map, Patterson Mining Collection by Samuel Alderman from Society of California Pioneers; Cheektowaga, New York; Leavenworth St, San Francisco; North Bloomfield, New York; Perinton, New York; Moores Flat, California; Ohio, New York

Wikipedia Articles
Comstock Lode; Guernsey County, Ohio; Lick Observatory; Wheat middlings; World tour of Ulysses S. Grant

Webpages
A brief account of the Lick observatory of the University of California by Reading Room 2020 from Alamy Stock Photo
Agricultural machinery - Harris & Son's Patent Smut Machine and Fan by Library Book Collection from Alamy Stock Photo
Search for "Trinity Episcopal Church, Nevada City" by Google
Operations of Mr. Lick's 2nd deed of trust by Publications of Lick Observatory from Harvard University
Forest Fires at Mount Hamilton, July, 1891, Edward S. Holden by Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific from JSTOR
October 2018 Auction Catalog by Cornucopia of Collectibles from PubHTML5

Newspaper Articles from California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California, Riverside
Search Results for "Bob Morrow"

Newspaper Articles from Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections
Tampico Tornado: 10 January 1880

Chapter 8 - The Gold Flat Ditches

Books and Documents
"Sketch of Nevada County," Brown & Dallison's Directory of Nevada, Grass Valley and Rough and Ready (1856) by Aaron A. Sargent from HathiTrust Digital Library
Ansearchin' News, Volume 53, No. 2, Summer 2006 from Tennessee Genealogical Society
District Court Case #19 - Butler et al. vs. Laird et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
District Court Case #19 - Butler et al. vs. Laird et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
District Court Case #226 - Kidd et al. vs. Laird et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
Genealogy of the Child, Childs and Childe families, from 1630 to 1881 by Elias Child from The Internet Archive
History of Nevada County, California (1880) by Harry L. Wells from The Internet Archive
Lives of Nevada County Pioneers, v4 by David Comstock from Comstock Bonanza Press
News & Advertising in the Early Gold Camps of Nevada County, California (1850-1878) by David Comstock from Comstock Bonanza Press
South Yuba Water Company Records (1894-1904) from the Patterson Mining Collection from W.F. Englebright from Society of California Pioneers
Standard Oil Company of California Bulletin (1918) by Google Books
The California State Register and Year Book of Facts by Henry G. Langley & Samuel A. Mathews from Google Books
The Experiences of a Forty-Niner (1888) by Charles D. Ferguson from Google Books

Nevada County Records
Land Deeds: Book #1, Page 149; Book #1, Page 407; Book #12, Page 577; Book #13, Page 451; Book #2, Page 394; Book #2, Page 398; Book #2, Page 454; Book #2, Page 59; Book #24, Page 250; Book #3, Page 316; Book #3, Page 550; Book #3, Page 616; Book #4, Page 105; Book #4, Page 114; Book #4, Page 24; Book #4, Page 304; Book #6, Page 173; Book #6, Page 266 and Book #7, Page 352; Book #7, Page 202; Book #7, Page 250; Book #7, Page 39; Book #9, Page 184; Book #9, Page 266

Newspaper Articles from Chronicling America, Library of Congress
Grass Valley Telegraph: November 24, 1853, Page 3; March 2, 1854, Page 3; October 30, 1855, Page 2
Nevada Democrat: July 8, 1857, Page 2; August 12, 1857, Page 2; September 15, 1858, Page 4; September 5, 1860, Page 2; September 19, 1860, Page 4; February 20, 1862, Page 3
Nevada Journal: October 18, 1851, Page 2; February 26, 1852, Page 3; April 25, 1852, Page 2; April 29, 1853, Page 1; June 24, 1853, Page 1; January 20, 1854, Page 3; June 23, 1854, Page 2; July 7, 1854, Page 1; January 18, 1856, Page 2; January 25, 1856, Page 3; February 8, 1856, Page 1; January 2, 1857, Page 3; May 22, 1857, Page 2; January 8, 1858, Page 2; November 23, 1860, Page 5
Placer Herald: February 21, 1857, Page 3

Newspaper Articles from Newspaper.com
Morning Union: 26 Apr 1918, Page 5; 7 Nov 1918, Page 2; 20 Nov 1918, Page 6
Sacramento Bee: 17 Mar 1936, Page 10

Newspaper Articles from California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California, Riverside
Daily Alta California: 14 February 1851, 12 September 1888
Marysville Daily Appeal: 12 February 1905, 24 January 1909
Morning Union: 28 August 1868, 25 May 1870, 9 March 1873, 25 June 1874, 18 May 1875, 11 September 1875, 27 December 1876, 31 January 1877, 13 January 1880, 6 December 1882, 11 February 1887, 21 May 1891, 18 April 1894, 4 June 1912, 27 January 1914, 8 October 1914, 26 August 1916
Nevada Democrat: 28 July 1858, 19 September 1860
Nevada Journal: 29 November 1851, 17 September 1852, 27 July 1855, 2 November 1855, 5 June 1857, 25 November 1859
Sacramento Daily Union: 10 November 1854, 11 May 1867

Genealogy Records from Ancestry.com
Absalom W. Herring California, U.S. Wills and Probate Records, 1850-1953
Ancestry.com: Rosalina A Mc Charles California Select Marriages, 1850-1945
California State Library: Harrison McCharles California, U.S. Voter Registers, 1866-1898
Indiana State Library: Harrison McCharles Indiana Marriage Index, 1806-1861
National Archives and Records Administration: Eleona Holmes 1880 U.S. Census, Harrison McCharles 1860 U.S. Census, Harrison Mccharles 1870 U.S. Census, Roseline McCharles 1850 U.S. Census

Genealogy Records - User Created Family Trees from Ancestry.com
SharonScott56: Timothy Guy Phelps
USNOnStar: Britain Holmes
Valerie Bohling: F. Harrison Wyman McCharles, Harrison R. McCharles, Rosaline Aseneth Wyman McCharles Ray

Other Genealogy Records
Find A Grave Memorial: Absalom White Herring (1834-1899), Harrison R McCharles (1812-1900), John Harrison (Unknown-1891), Joseph Harrison, Phebe Jane McCharles Dale (1846-1920), Rosaline Aseneth Wyman Ray (1824-1903)

Google & Other Maps
1869-1932 Nevada City Map, Nevada County from Doris Foley Library; 1897 Nevada City & Grass Valley Map & 1896 USGS Special Nevada County Map from Nevada County and USGS; 1909 Nevada County Mining Map by California State Mining Bureau from Library of Congress; Street View of Nevada City Hwy, Grass Valley, California

Webpages
Cragie vs. Roberts, 92 P. 97, 6 Cal. App. 309 by Court Listener Legal Search Engine
Nevada City, Nevada County, 1852 by Calisphere from University of California
Roseline Wyman (1827-1903) by Wyman Genealogy

Newspaper Articles from the Grass Valley Union
Golden Center Freeway a reality; Grass Valley portion done by Bob Wyckoff

Newspaper Articles from California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California, Riverside, Search for “Gold Flat”

Newspaper Articles from the Grass Valley Union, Town Talk sign origin of name by Maria E. Brower

Chapter 9 - The Snow Mountain Ditches

Books and Documents
Appointments, US Post Office Department by U.S. Government Publishing Office
Beyond the Golden Gate, A Maritime History of California by U.S. National Park Service
District Court Case #19 - Butler et al. vs. Laird et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
District Court Case #226 - Kidd et al. vs. Laird et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
District Court Case #36 - Nevada County Sacramento Canal Co. vs. Kidd et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
District Court Case #771 - Johnson vs. Kidd (1859) - Copy of April 1853 Water Right from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
District Court Case #771 - Johnson vs. Kidd (1859) - Deposition by Justus Fordyce. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
History & Directory of Nevada County, California (1867) by Edwin Bean from US Gen Web Archives
History of Nevada County, California (1880) by Harry L. Wells from The Internet Archive
History of Tahoe National Forest: 1840-1940 (1982) from W. Turrentine, Jackson Rand Herbert, Stephen Wee from U.S. National Park Service
Letters from John Dunn to his brother Tom, dated October 22, 1854 and March 12, 1855 from UC Davis, Shields Library
Lives of Nevada County Pioneers, v4 by David Comstock from Comstock Bonanza Press
Pacific Service Magazine (1912) by Pacific Gas and Electric Company from The Internet Archive
Pacific States Reports, California, Volume 1-63 (1906) by Bancroft-Whitney Company from Google Books
Personal correspondence with Ken Hart, from NID
Raw Water Master Plan Update: Phase II (2011) from Nevada Irrigation District

Nevada County Records
Land Deeds: Book #2, Page 276

Newspaper Articles from California State Library
Nevada Democrat: Snow Mountain Water Co. Water Right, May 17, 1854; Ditch Combination, October 18, 1854

Newspaper Articles from Chronicling America, Library of Congress
Grass Valley Telegraph: March 2, 1854, Page 1
Nevada Democrat: January 11, 1860, Page 4
Nevada Journal: November 22, 1851, Page 2; November 27, 1851, Page 2; February 7, 1852, Page 3; March 18, 1852, Page 3; May 29, 1852, Page 3; September 3, 1852, Page 3; May 13, 1853, Page 4; March 3, 1854, Page 3; October 27, 1854, Page 2; February 2, 1855, Page 1; February 23, 1855, Page 2; April 20, 1855, Page 2; October 19, 1855, Page 2; February 1, 1856, Page 2
Placer Herald: Weekly, July 1, 1854, Page 3; December 26, 1857, Page 2; January 2, 1858, Page 3; April 9, 1859, Page 3; August 20, 1859, Page 2; August 27, 1859, Page 2
Volcano Weekly Ledger: December 8, 1855, Page 3; January 19, 1856, Page 2

Newspaper Articles from Newspaper.com
Morning Union: 7 Nov 1917, Page 5
Pittsburgh Press: 27 June 1909, Page 13
Sacramento Bee: 6 October 1920, Page 7; 9 Feb 1969, Page 29
Stroudsburg Jeffersonian: 23 Oct 1840, Page 2

Newspaper Articles from California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California, Riverside
Daily Alta California: 6 May 1853, 29 January 1855, 29 January 1855
Morning Union: 5 June 1892
Nevada Journal: 1 July 1853
Sacramento Daily Union: 27 August 1851, 21 September 1855, 10 December 1860, 1 March 1865, 26 September 1874
San Joaquin Republican: 8 June 1854

Genealogy Records from Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com: Jerome Fordyce Kentucky, U.S. County Marriage Records, 1783-1965; John Fordyce in Pennsylvania Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1993, Reverend John Corbly and the John Corbly family; Sacramento, California, U.S. California Biographical Great Books, 1867, 1872; The Pittsburgh Press Sun, June 27, 1909; W. H. Spencer U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists
California State Library: J. G. Fordice California State Census, 1852
California State Railroad Museum Libraries: Jerome Fordyce California, U.S. Railroad Employment Records, 1862-1950
Commercial Advertiser Directory for the City of Buffalo: Lansing H. Brayman New York, Genealogical Records, 1675-1920
Early California Wills: Vol. 4. Early wills of Placer County, California Book "A"
Greene County, Pennsylvania, Register of Wills: John Fordyce Pennsylvania Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1993
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives: Jerome Fordyce Kentucky, U.S. Death Records, 1852-1965
National Archives Microfilm Publication M233: William H Spencer U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914
National Archives and Records Administration: Asakel C Spencer 1840 U.S. Census; J. G. Fordyce 1860 U.S. Census; J.G. Fordyce U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925, Jerome B. Fordyce 1880 U.S. Census, Justice Fordice 1840 U.S. Census, Justus G Fordyce 1850 U.S. Census; Justus G. Fordyce 1830 U.S. Census, W. H. Spencer 1850 U.S. Census
Pennsylvania State Archives: Justis G Fordyce Pennsylvania Land Warrants, 1733-1987
Probate Court, Placer County, California: J M Fordyce California Wills and Probate Records, 1850-1953

Genealogy Records - User Created Family Trees from Ancestry.com
Christopher Lilley: Jerome Fordyce, Rev. John G. Fordyce
Debra Cristanelli: Asahel Spencer
Karla Andrew: Justus Garard Fordyce
betsysecond: Justus G. Fordyce
cammi amezcua: Catherine Miller,
richard holland: Ashalel Cole Spencer, William Henry Spencer

Other Genealogy Records
Find A Grave Memorial: John M Fordyce (1831-1859), La Fayette Brayman (1839-1915), Lansing Henry Brayman (1815-1864), Mary Brayman Tyrrell (1844-1932), William H Spencer (-1855)
New York Herald, ships 10-18-1849 from California Bound from SF Genealogy
SS Cortes Passenger List from California Bound from SF Genealogy
The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, 1850 from SF Genealogy

Google & Other Maps
Fordyce United Methodist Church, Waynesburg, Pennsylvania; Greene County, Pennsylvania

Wikipedia Articles
Creek War of 1836; Seminole Wars; Volcano, California; William Henry Harrison

Webpages
Search for "chocolate shop, nevada city" by Google
History of Methodism in Mt. Morris, PA by History of Mt. Morris
Family Tree of Fordyce Family by Roots Web from Rootsweb Community Genealogy
Rock Creek Nature Trail, Tahoe National Forest by US Forest Service
Nevada City California by Western Mining History

Newspaper Articles from Chronicling America, Library of Congress
Detroit Times: July 22, 1909, Page 1
Jeffersonian Republican: October 23, 1840, Page 2

Chapter 10 - Origins of the South Yuba Canal Company

Books and Documents
1880 US Census - Volume 14, Section 7 - Mining Laws from US Census Bureau
A Brief History of Trinity Church by Trinity St. Peter’s Episcopal Church from SquareSpace.com
Directory of the City of San Francisco (1858) by Henry G. Langley from The Internet Archive
District Court Case #226 - Kidd et al. vs. Laird et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
District Court Case #36 - Nevada County Sacramento Canal Co. vs. Kidd et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
District Court Case #771 - Johnson vs. Kidd (1859) - Copy of April 1853 Water Right from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
History of Nevada County, California (1880) by Harry L. Wells from The Internet Archive
Lives of Nevada County Pioneers, v4 by David Comstock from Comstock Bonanza Press
Map of the Proposed South Yuba River and Sacramento Aqueduct, Nevada County by Wilme, Benjamin P. from The Internet Archive
Memorial And Biographical History Of Northern California (2005) by Joy Fisher from US Gen Web Archives
Register of Empire State (1899) by Edward H. Hall from Highlander History & Genealogy
Reminiscences of Senator William Morris Stewart of Nevada (1908) by William Morris Stewart from The Internet Archive
The Journal of Electricity Power and Gas, January 1903, Volume 13 Issue 1, Page 65 from Internet Archive
The Naval Chronicle, Containing a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy (1805) by Joyce Gold from Google Books
Water Resources Data, California (2000) by U.S. Geological Survey
Water Use in the Yuba and Bear River Basins, California (1969) by Thomas H. Pagenhart

Newspaper Articles from California State Library
Nevada Democrat: Snow Mountain Water Co. Water Right, May 17, 1854

Newspaper Articles from Chronicling America, Library of Congress
Grass Valley Telegraph: March 2, 1854, Page 1
Nevada Democrat: September 30, 1857, Page 2; November 4, 1857, Page 2
Nevada Journal: September 13, 1851, Page 1; November 27, 1851, Page 2; December 13, 1851, Page 2; July 17, 1852, Page 3; July 24, 1852, Page 2; August 14, 1852, Page 1; September 10, 1852, Page 2; September 10, 1852, Page 3; September 24, 1852, Page 3; October 1, 1852, Page 2; October 8, 1852, Page 1; October 8, 1852, Page 2; November 12, 1852, Page 3; May 27, 1853, Page 3; January 13, 1854, Page 2; May 12, 1854, Page 2; May 26, 1854, Page 2; July 7, 1854, Page 2; July 14, 1854, Page 2; September 15, 1854, Page 2; October 27, 1854, Page 2; January 5, 1855, Page 3; February 2, 1855, Page 3; April 20, 1855, Page 2; May 21, 1858, Page 1; May 21, 1858, Page 2
New York Daily Tribune: August 18, 1843, Page 3; April 7, 1845, Page 3; March 31, 1847, Page 2; November 22, 1850, Page 1
New York Herald: April 21, 1837, Page 3; October 5, 1842, Page 1; November 29, 1849, Page 3
New York Tribune: February 14, 1842, Page 2

Newspaper Articles from Newspaper.com
Cincinnati Daily Press: 28 Jun 1859, Page 2
Pittsburgh Daily Post: 9 Jun 1859, Page 2
The Cincinnati Enquirer: 7 Jan 1862, Page 2; 25 Jul 1924, Page 8
The Courier-Journal: 26 Apr 1849, Page 3; 28 Jun 1853, Page 3; 2 Sep 1856, Page 3
The Guardian: 14 Mar 1855, Page 5
The Louisville Daily Courier: 4 Feb 1845, Page 2; 17 Mar 1846, Page 2; 21 Apr 1846, Page 2; 17 Oct 1849, Page 2; 31 Jul 1850, Page 2; 23 Jun 1856, Page 2; 7 Jul 1856, Page 1

Newspaper Articles from California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California, Riverside
Daily Alta California: 6 June 1850, 7 June 1850, 14 September 1850, 23 September 1850, 4 October 1850, 28 October 1850, 9 February 1851, 10 January 1855, 20 March 1855, 20 May 1858, 27 November 1860, 3 December 1860, 8 December 1860, 10 January 1862, 12 August 1862, 8 February 1863, 21 September 1863, 9 October 1863, 26 October 1866, 9 February 1867, 27 February 1867, 25 April 1867, 3 November 1870, 5 December 1870, 6 December 1870, 1 January 1871, 28 November 1871, 16 November 1877, 26 April 1880, 5 May 1884, 22 March 1886, 27 August 1889
Daily National Democrat: 25 January 1861
Daily National Gazette: 15 December 1853, 22 May 1858
Morning Union: 18 July 1867
Nevada Journal: 10 September 1852, 8 July 1853, 19 August 1853, 14 July 1854, 5 January 1855, 12 January 1855, 2 February 1855
Sacramento Daily Union: 12 December 1851, 17 May 1853, 25 July 1853, 17 September 1853, 7 January 1854, 10 February 1854, 24 May 1854, 26 May 1854, 15 January 1855, 2 July 1859, 14 March 1860, 27 July 1864, 25 September 1867, 17 January 1882
Sacramento Transcript: 17 September 1850
San Francisco Call: 8 August 1895, 24 June 1900
San Joaquin Republican: 3 January 1855
Stockton Independent: 27 July 1867

Genealogy Records from Ancestry.com
Alien Depositions of Intent to Become U.S. Citizens, 1825–1913. New York: Richard Townsend Huddart New York
American Antiquarian Society, Massachusetts.: Mary Huddart U.S. Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930
Ancestry.com: Nathaniel P Poor U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995; R T Huddart North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
Articles on the Kentucky State Historical Society: N. Peabody Poor
Census Returns of England and Wales: George Webb 1871 England Census
Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records, 1669-2013: Nathaniel Peabody Poor
London Metropolitan Archives: Richard Townsend Huddart London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932
National Archives and Records Administration: Elizabeth J Huddart 1910 U.S. Census, Elizabeth J. Huddert 1880 U.S. Census, Mary F Poor 1870 U.S. Census, Nathaniel P Poore 1840 U.S. Census, Nathaniel P Pore 1850 U.S. Census, Nathaniel P. Poore 1840 U.S. Census, Rd Townsend Huddart 1870 U.S. Census, Sarah F. Morris 1880 U.S. Census, Standish F Poor 1860 U.S. Census; William Nicholson U.S. Naturalization Record Indexes, 1791-1992
National Archives at Washington D.C.: Nathl D. Poor U.S. Atlantic Ports Arriving and Departing Passenger and Crew Lists, 1820-1873
National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution: Nathaniel Peabody Poore U.S. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
Public Records of the State Papers in Ireland: Richard Townsend Huddert Dublin, Ireland, Probate Record and Marriage License Index, 1270-1858
U.S. Customs Service, National Archives: R T Huddart New York, U.S. Arriving Passenger Lists, 1820-1957

Genealogy Records - User Created Family Trees from Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com: Search Family Trees for "Charles M. Ransdell"
Carolyn Steddom: Richard Townsend Huddart
Douglas Poore: Nathaniel Peabody Poore
LuRae71: Mary Huddart, R. Townsend Huddart
medwards581: Elizabeth Webb, George Webb, Sarah Brodribb
snowdonjones: Jenny Adelaide Huddart

Other Genealogy Records
Find A Grave Memorial: Elizabeth Huddart (1835-1915), Frederick Huddart (1864-1919)
Family Tree of N. Peabody Poore from Dawna L from Family Search

Google & Other Maps
Directions from Louisville, Kentucky to Cincinnati, Ohio; Saint Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada; Yuba Gap

Wikipedia Articles
An Act for the Admission of the State of California; Apennine Mountains; Cincinnati; Great Famine (Ireland); Great Siege of Gibraltar; Gunter's chain; Henry Irving; History of Rail Transport in Sweden; List of Recessions in the United States; Moraine; Nathaniel Peabody; Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company; Pleistocene; Saddle point; St Katharine Docks; Suez Canal; Tertiary; Townshend Acts; Turin–Genoa railway; Upper West Side

Webpages
Great Famine from Britannica
Plethoric from Dictionary.com
Ohio Life Insurance & Trust Co. and the Panic of 1857 by Bryan Taylor, Chief Economist from Global Financial Data
Search for "carpet bagger" by Google
The South Yuba Canal by NID Water YouTube
Transit Levels by Johnson Level & Tool Mfg Company from Johnson Level & Tool Manufacturing Company
NID Purchases Powerhouse For One Dollar by KNCO from NewsTalk Radio
Cutter Townsend, London Gazette, 17 May 1823 by Naval Database from Rootsweb Community Genealogy
John Dennis, HMS Pompee by UK National Archives
Thomas Pakenham by Royal Naval Biography from Wikisource

Newspaper Articles from California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California, Riverside
Search for "Huddart", Search for "Ransdell"

Chapter 11 - Challenging the Monopolists

Books and Documents
A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) by Lewis Publishing Company from Google Books
District Court Case #36 - Nevada County Sacramento Canal Co. vs. Kidd et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
District Court Case #771 - Johnson vs. Kidd (1859) - Deposition of Justus G. Fordyce from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
History & Directory of Nevada County, California (1867) by Edwin Bean from US Gen Web Archives
History of Nevada County, California (1880) by Harry L. Wells from The Internet Archive
Letters to his brother Tom, dated October 22, 1854 and March 12, 1855 from John Dunn from UC Davis, Shields Library
Lives of Nevada County Pioneers, v4 by David Comstock from Comstock Bonanza Press
Memoirs and Proceedings (1854) by Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society from Google Books
Personal correspondence with Sue Bramall, biographer of William Nicholson
The Journal of Electricity Power and Gas, January 1903, Volume 13 Issue 1, Page 65 from Internet Archive
The Life of William Nicholson, 1753–1815 (2018) by William Nicholson (Author) & Sue Durrell (Editor) from Amazon.com
Three Years in California (1854) by John D. Borthwick from Google Books

Nevada County Records
Land Deeds: Book #1, Page 491; Book #2, Page 212; Book #36, Page 161

Newspaper Articles from California State Library
Nevada Democrat: Snow Mountain Water Co. Water Right, May 17, 1854

Newspaper Articles from Chronicling America, Library of Congress; September 30, 1857, Page 2; November 4, 1857, Page 2
Nevada Journal: December 13, 1851, Page 2; February 9, 1855, Page 1; February 23, 1855, Page 2; March 30, 1855, Page 2; April 13, 1855, Page 2; April 13, 1855, Page 3; April 20, 1855, Page 2; June 22, 1855, Page 4; November 9, 1855, Page 3; December 14, 1855, Page 2; January 18, 1856, Page 3

Newspaper Articles from Newspaper.com
Liverpool Mercury: 25 Mar 1853, Page 3
Sheffield And Rotherham Independent: 24 Mar 1855, Page 7
The Guardian: 22 Nov 1851, Page 11; 14 Mar 1855, Page 5; 30 Jun 1855, Page 4

Newspaper Articles from California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California, Riverside
Daily Alta California: 1 January 1853, 29 January 1855, 17 February 1855, 20 March 1855, 5 April 1855, 27 September 1863
Morning Union: 9 March 1865, 10 June 1866, 11 December 1866, 11 June 1867, 18 July 1867, 11 April 1869, 21 April 1869
Nevada Democrat: 17 December 1856, 16 September 1857
Nevada Journal: 1 July 1853, 17 February 1854, 2 February 1855, 2 February 1855, 2 March 1855, 30 March 1855, 27 July 1855, 12 October 1855, 18 January 1856, 1 February 1856, 14 March 1856, 23 May 1856, 3 September 1858, 17 February 1860, 7 June 1861, 9 August 1861
Sacramento Daily Union: 30 January 1855, 19 February 1855, 20 February 1855, 24 February 1855, 15 March 1855, 19 March 1855, 26 July 1855, 13 March 1856, 8 April 1856, 29 September 1864, 11 October 1864, 7 March 1865, 20 March 1865, 7 November 1865, 11 November 1865, 30 December 1865, 23 January 1866, 1 January 1868, 14 April 1869, 1 January 1873
San Joaquin Republican: 21 February 1855
Stockton Independent: 30 September 1864
Trinity Journal: 24 February 1855

Genealogy Records from Ancestry.com
American Antiquarian Society, Massachusetts: Thomas W Colburn U.S. Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930
Anglican Parish Registers. Manchester, England: John Lee Nicholson Manchester, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1915; John Lee Nicholson Manchester, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1915
California State Archives: Thos W Colburn California, U.S. State Hospital Records, 1856-1923
California, Funeral Home Records, 1835-1931: Mrs. Louise Mather Colburn San Francisco Area
Census Returns of England and Wales: 1871 England Census, William Nicholson 1861 England Census, Wm Nicholson 1841 England Census
Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1812: William Nicholson London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812
England, Marriages, 1538–1973: William Nicholson, Marriage Certificate
Greater Manchester County Record Office: Alexander Wilson in Manchester, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1930
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records: Hamlet Davis Kentucky, U.S. Death Records, 1852-1965
Lancashire Anglican Parish Registers: Jane Lee Nicholson in Lancashire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936
London Metropolitan Archives: William Nicholson London, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812
National Archives and Records Administration: Hamlet Davis 1880 U.S. Censu, Louisa Colburn 1900 U.S. Census, Thomas Colburn 1870 U.S. Census
Principal Probate Registry: Rebecca Nicholson England & Wales, National Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1995
Principal UK Probate Registry: Rebecca Nicholson England & Wales, National Probate Calendar, 1858-1995
U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995: Thomas W Colburn
UK National Archives: William Nicholson 1871 England Census
UK, City and County Directories, 1600s-1900s: William Nicholson in 1834 Pigot´s Directory
UK, City and County Directories, 1766 - 1946: William Nicholson in 1841 Pigot & Slater's Directory of Manchester & Salford
UK, City and County Directories, 1766-1946: William Nicholson in 1850
User provided content from ginniesoffe: William Nicholson, Death Certificate, 1874

Genealogy Records - User Created Family Trees from Ancestry.com
Richard Paisner: David Mather
ginniesoffe: Rebecca Nicholson

Wikipedia Articles
Arthur De Wint Foote; Camphine; Drysalter; William Nicholson

Webpages
William Nicholson, English chemist and inventor by Britannica
Nevada County Pioneer's Reunion from CA GenWeb
Millview County Water District v. State Water Resources Control Board, 229 Cal. App. 4th 879 (2014) by Court of Appeal of the State of California from Caselaw Access Project
Nevada County & Sacramento Canal Co. v. Kidd, 28 Cal. 673 (1865) by Supreme Court of California from Caselaw Access Project
Nevada County & Sacramento Canal Co. v. Kidd, 37 Cal. 282 (1869) by Supreme Court of California from Caselaw Access Project
Nevada County & Sacramento Canal Co. v. Kidd, 43 Cal. 180 (1872) by Supreme Court of California from Caselaw Access Project
Early, Obscure Cement Plants in Britain and Ireland by Cement Kilns
Pigot & Co.'s Directory of Cheshire & North Cumberland, 1828-29 by Historical Directories of England & Wales from Online Computer Library Center
Q&A with Sue Durrell on William Nicholson by Peter Owen Publishers
Lancashire, 1841 UK Census by The Genealogist
Biography of Henry Willoughby, 6th Baron Middleton (1761-1835) by University of Nottingham

Notes
"It Is Not Enough to Succeed; One’s Best Friend Must Fail" by Quote Investigator
Search for "when did the FDIC start" by Google Search from Google

Chapter 12 - Building the South Yuba Canal

Books and Documents
A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) by Lewis Publishing Company from Google Books
California Debris Commission History from Joseph J. Hagwood from Sacramento District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Cultural Resources Inventory and Evaluation, South Yuba Canal - Final Report (2004) from PAR Environmental Services from Pacific Gas and Electric Company
District Court Case #19 - Butler et al. vs. Laird et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
District Court Case #36 - Nevada County Sacramento Canal Co. vs. Kidd et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
Field notes from visiting the site.
Flumes and Fluming (1914) by Eugene B. Bruce from American Memory, Library of Congress
History & Directory of Nevada County, California (1867) by Edwin Bean from US Gen Web Archives
History of Nevada County, California (1880) by Harry L. Wells from The Internet Archive
History of Placer and Nevada Counties California (1924) by William B. Lardner & Michael J. Brock from The Internet Archive
History of Placer and Nevada Counties California (1924) by William B. Lardner & Michael J. Brock from Google Books
House Documents, Volume 177 (1862) by United States House of Representatives from Google Books
Journal of Electricity Power and Gas 1903-1901: Volume 13, Issue 1 from The Internet Archive
Letters from John Dunn to his brother Tom, dated October 22, 1854 and March 12, 1855 from UC Davis, Shields Library
Letters from John Dunn to his brother Tom, dated October 22, 1854 and March 12, 1855 from UC Davis, Shields Library
Lives of Nevada County Pioneers, v4 by David Comstock from Comstock Bonanza Press
Lives of Nevada County Pioneers, v4 by David Comstock from Comstock Bonanza Press
Nevada County Historical Society Bulletin, #23-5, December 1969 from Doris Foley from Nevada County Historical Society
Nevada County Historical Society Bulletin, #23-5, December 1969 from Doris Foley from Nevada County Historical Society
News & Advertising in the Early Gold Camps of Nevada County, California (1850-1878) by David Comstock from Comstock Bonanza Press
Origins of Hydraulic Mining in California (1970) by Philip Ross May from Google Books
Ott's Assay Office & South Yuba Canal Company Office from National Register of Historic Places from National Park Service Digital Gallery
Pacific Service Magazine, Volume 5 (1913) by Pacific Gas and Electric Company from Google Books
Practical Treatise on Hydraulic Mining in California (1895) by Augustus Jesse Bowie from Google Books
Revenue Laws of California (1924) by State Board of Equalization from Google Books
South Yuba Canal - 2021 Condition Assessment (August 2021) from GHD and Mead & Hunt from Nevada Irrigation District
South Yuba Canal Office from National Register of Historic Places Inventory from National Park Service Gallery
South Yuba Water Company Records (1894-1904) from the Patterson Mining Collection from W.F. Englebright from Society of California Pioneers
The Journal of Electricity Power and Gas, January 1903, Volume 13 Issue 1, Page 63 from Internet Archive
The mechanics of precision presplitting (2019) from Anthony Joseph Konya from Missouri University of Science and Technology
United States Reports - Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court · Volume 84 (1874) by United States Supreme Court from Google Books
Water Resources Data, California (2000) by U.S. Geological Survey

Nevada County Records
Land Deeds: Book #11, Page 64; Book #14, Page 548; Book #17, Page 4; and Book #36, Page 142; Book #2, Page 400; Book #28, Page 261; Book #32, Page 25; and Book #31, Page 389; Book #28, Page 400 and Book #32, Page 166; Book #34, Page 205; Book #4, Page 240 and Book #29, Page 67; Book #4, Page 602; Book #41, Page 234

Newspaper Articles from Chronicling America, Library of Congress
Nevada Democrat: September 3, 1856, Page 2; June 24, 1857, Page 2; September 30, 1857, Page 2; November 4, 1857, Page 2; March 2, 1859, Page 3
Nevada Journal: July 3, 1852, Page 2; February 23, 1855, Page 2; April 20, 1855, Page 2; October 5, 1855, Page 2; November 9, 1855, Page 3; March 14, 1856, Page 2; May 16, 1856, Page 2; May 23, 1856, Page 2; August 29, 1856, Page 3; November 28, 1856, Page 2; January 23, 1857, Page 2; January 11, 1861, Page 3
Placer Herald: February 21, 1857, Page 3

Newspaper Articles from David Comstock, News & Advertising in the Early Gold Camps of Nevada County, California (1850-1878)
Morning Transcript: September 30, 1862; October 29, 1862; October 30, 1862
Nevada Democrat: October 4, 1860
Nevada Gazette: March 18, 1864; March 18, 1864
Nevada Journal: June 12, 1852; July 1, 1853; September 14, 1855; September 2, 1859; June 28, 1861
Nevada Transcript: February 28, 1863; November 13, 1863; November 14, 1863; January 5, 1864; January 5, 1864; September 9, 1864; September 10, 1864

Newspaper Articles from Newspaper.com
Auburn Journal: 2 Jun 1949, Page 6; 21 May 1970, Page 36
Morning Union: 21 Mar 1915, Page 5
Sacramento Bee: 2 Mar 1969, Page 27; 27 Dec 1969, Page 6; 15 May 1970, Page 13
San Francisco Examiner: 11 Nov 1887, Page 6
The Placer Herald: 25 Apr 1857, Page 2
Sacramento Bee: 11 Apr 1866, Page 2; 7 Feb 1870, Page 3; 1 Apr 1919, Page 8; 17 Apr 1919, Page 8
The San Francisco Examiner: 29 Jul 1868, Page 1

Newspaper Articles from California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California, Riverside
Daily Alta California: 23 August 1850, 8 November 1857, 14 August 1866, 10 August 1868, 20 June 1871, 29 January 1873, 12 August 1876, 10 January 1878, 23 January 1883, 31 August 1890, 6 September 1890, 25 September 1890, 22 April 1891
Daily National Democrat: 5 May 1861
Humboldt Times: 8 March 1892
Los Angeles Herald: 29 April 1903
Marin Journal: 11 June 1864
Marysville Daily Appeal: 17 June 1863, 10 November 1863, 1 February 1866, 29 May 1869, 14 May 1873
Morning Union: 21 April 1869, 2 October 1869, 11 February 1871, 17 January 1872, 3 August 1872, 26 April 1876, 7 September 1876, 30 November 1876, 9 November 1877, 18 July 1878, 10 January 1879, 11 January 1879, 9 June 1885, 28 August 1890, 29 August 1890, 28 April 1891, 12 February 1892, 11 April 1896, 20 May 1896, 28 May 1896, 4 April 1913, 10 October 1920
Nevada Democrat: 26 November 1856, 22 April 1857, 22 April 1857, 22 April 1857, 24 June 1857, 10 February 1858, 1 December 1858, 27 June 1860, 11 July 1860, 22 August 1860, 15 November 1860, 4 May 1861, 18 June 1861, 9 July 1861, 19 April 1862, 10 May 1862
Nevada Journal: 24 June 1853, 29 July 1853, 20 April 1855, 20 April 1855, 26 October 1855, 4 July 1856, 8 August 1856, 9 January 1857, 4 September 1857, 28 May 1858, 1 July 1859, 14 October 1859, 11 January 1861, 17 May 1861, 14 June 1861
Oakland Tribune: 30 November 1875, 22 April 1876, 11 December 1876
Pacific Rural Press: 4 February 1871
Placer Herald: 23 October 1852
Russian River Flag: 14 February 1884
Sacramento Daily Union: 13 February 1855, 10 September 1855, 5 October 1855, 6 October 1855, 16 October 1855, 25 October 1855, 29 March 1856, 22 May 1856, 22 May 1856, 17 July 1856, 21 July 1856, 23 October 1856, 28 November 1856, 21 May 1857, 10 December 1857, 16 December 1858, 2 July 1860, 18 August 1860, 27 August 1864, 16 July 1866, 27 November 1869, 4 March 1870, 21 June 1871, 10 January 1883, 10 January 1883
San Francisco Call: 2 September 1890, 25 September 1890, 1 November 1891
San Jose Herald: 19 September 1882, 5 September 1890
San Jose Mercury-News: 29 March 1891
Stockton Independent: 3 October 1857
Times Gazette: 30 July 1892
Truckee Republican: 29 March 1923
Weekly Colusa: Sun 2 November 1911

Genealogy Records from Ancestry.com
James Whartenby 1870 U.S. Census; James Whartenby California, U.S. Voter Registers, 1866-1898; James Whartenby Pennsylvania, U.S. Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1993; James Whartenby U.S. Craftperson Files, 1600-1995; James Whartenby U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918; James Whartonby U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995; Jas Whartenby Hawaii, U.S. Arriving and Departing Passenger Lists, 1843-1898

Genealogy Records - User Created Family Trees from Ancestry.com
Larry Whartenby: James Whartenby, Thomas Whartenby, William Whartenby

Google & Other Maps
Clayton, Delaware; Mountain View, California; Rock Creek Road, Nevada City; San Francisco

Wikipedia Articles
Bristol, Pennsylvania; John Bigler; Safety fuse; Solomon Heydenfeldt; South Yuba Canal Office; Unionist Party (United States)

Webpages
Daniel v. Whartenby, 84 U.S. 639 (1873) from Caselaw Access Project
People v. Whartenby, 38 Cal. 461 (1869) from Caselaw Access Project
Jackson v. Whartenby, 5 Cal. 94 (1855) from Casetext Legal Research
Rectangular Open Channel Flow and Hydraulic Design by LMNO Engineering from Fluid Flow Calculations
Search for "County Meath, Ireland" by Google
Search for "Satrap" by Google
Search for "when was dynamite invented?" by Google
Black Powder Blasting by Engineering & Explosives Forum Groups
Patent US1878289A for Norton Flume, filed Sept. 20, 1932 by Norton Albert Colwell Patents
South Yuba Canal Office Historical Marker from Historical Marker Database
Flume and Doom — PG&E hydro crews repair canal damaged by landslide from IBEW Local 1245 (NID Contractor Work)
Daniel v. Whartenby, 84 U.S. 639 (1873) from Justia Free Legal Resources
Bear River & Auburn Water & Mining Company Stock Certificate from Lofty Marketplace
Railroad Tie Dimensions by Train Conductor HQ
NID to Declare an Emergency for the Feb. 10 South Yuba Canal failure from Yuba Net
How to Blast, or Break Rock With Blasting Powder, Gun Powder from wikiHow

Newspaper Articles from the Grass Valley Union
NID board OKs purchase of powerhouse, canals from PG&E by Liz Kellar

Newspaper Articles from Doris Foley Library
Nevada Daily Transcript: 10 January 1879

Chapter 13 - Amos Laird and His New Ditch

Books and Documents
After the Gold Rush: Society in Grass Valley and Nevada City, California, 1849-1870 (1982) by Ralph Mann from Google Books
District Court Case #19 - Butler et al. vs. Laird et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
District Court Case #226 - Kidd et al. vs. Laird et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
From testimony of J. Aldrich, George Gray, Robert Morrow and N.G. Lifford, District Court Case #226 - Kidd et al. vs. Laird et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
History & Directory of Nevada County, California (1867) by Edwin Bean from US Gen Web Archives
History of Nevada County, California (1880) by Harry L. Wells from The Internet Archive
Lives of Nevada County Pioneers, v4 by David Comstock from Comstock Bonanza Press
Origins of Hydraulic Mining in California (1970) by Philip Ross May from Google Books
The Science Behind Atmospheric Rivers by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Nevada County Records
Land Deeds: Book #1, Page 54; Book #2, Page 64; Book #3, Page 459; Book #4, Page 130; Book #4, Page 130; Book #4, Page 388; Book #5, Page 352

Newspaper Articles from Chronicling America, Library of Congress
Grass Valley Telegraph: February 21, 1857, Page 2
Nevada Democrat: September 3, 1856, Page 2; September 10, 1856, Page 2; September 10, 1856, Page 2; February 18, 1857, Page 2; March 25, 1857, Page 2; April 1, 1857, Page 2; April 22, 1857, Page 2; June 24, 1857, Page 2; October 7, 1857, Page 2; December 23, 1857, Page 2; June 1, 1859, Page 3
Nevada Journal: September 20, 1851, Page 1; February 10, 1854, Page 2; March 24, 1854, Page 2; July 28, 1854, Page 2; March 30, 1855, Page 2; May 4, 1855, Page 2; March 14, 1856, Page 2; February 20, 1857, Page 2; February 27, 1857, Page 2; March 13, 1857, Page 2; March 20, 1857, Page 3; March 27, 1857, Page 2; April 3, 1857, Page 2; May 22, 1857, Page 2; May 29, 1857, Page 3; January 1, 1858, Page 2; January 8, 1858, Page 2; January 15, 1858, Page 2; January 21, 1859, Page 2
Placer Herald: February 21, 1857, Page 3
Sacramento Daily Record Union: September 13, 1881, Page 1; September 17, 1881, Page 8

Newspaper Articles from David Comstock, News & Advertising in the Early Gold Camps of Nevada County, California (1850-1878)
Nevada Democrat: Apr 14, 1858, 12 May 1858
Nevada Journal: Dec 19, 1856; Apr 16, 1858

Newspaper Articles from Newspaper.com
San Francisco Examiner: 27 Sep 1869

Newspaper Articles from California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California, Riverside
Morning Union: 23 September 1869
Nevada Democrat: 6 May 1857, 13 May 1857, 15 July 1857, 12 May 1858
Nevada Journal: 8 May 1852, 2 June 1854, 16 February 1855; 16 February 1855, Page 3, 21 August 1857
Sacramento Daily Union: 13 April 1852, 7 February 1855, 28 March 1855, 28 April 1855, 25 October 1855, 17 December 1857, 31 December 1857, 21 January 1858, 14 January 1865, 11 November 1865, 18 February 1870

Genealogy Records from Ancestry.com
Helena Independent, 8 January 1881

Google & Other Maps
1869-1932 Nevada City Map, Nevada County from Doris Foley Library; Cross Section of Laird's Dam Site at Scotts Flat from May 1912 by H.L. Englebright, Paterson Mining Collection from Society of California Pioneers; Nevada County assessor plat map from July 1947 from Doris Foley Library

Wikipedia Articles
Freshet; Mormon Island, California; Samoa, California; Scotts Flat Reservoir

Webpages
Boswell v. Laird, 8 Cal. 469 (1857) by Supreme Court of California from Caselaw Access Project
Citations to Boswell v. Laird, 8 Cal. 469 (1857) by Supreme Court of California from Caselaw Access Project
Citations to Stiles v. Laird, 5 Cal. 120 (1855) by Supreme Court of California from Caselaw Access Project
Stiles v. Laird, 5 Cal. 120 (1855) by Supreme Court of California from Caselaw Access Project
Search for "acre feet to gallons" by Google
Dangerous Conditions Created by Contractors Do Not Necessarily Create Liability to Third Parties, The Accepted Work Doctrine by Kring & Chung Law Attorneys
James Mason Hutchings from Southern Oregon History
Gold Price History by The Balance Money Blog

Notes
Madelyn Helling Library by Google Search from Google

Newspaper Articles from David Comstock, News & Advertising in the Early Gold Camps of Nevada County, California (1850-1878)
25 March 1857, 3 November 1864

Newspaper Articles from Doris Foley Library
Nevada Daily Transcript: 10 January 1879

Newspaper Articles from David Comstock, News & Advertising in the Early Gold Camps of Nevada County, California (1850-1878)
Nevada Democrat: Sept 15, 1858
Young America: 7 December 1853

Chapter 14 - Kidd et al. v. Laird et al.

Books and Documents
"Sketch of Nevada County," Brown & Dallison's Directory of Nevada, Grass Valley and Rough and Ready (1856) by Aaron A. Sargent from Google Books
Aaron Sargent's Homestead from Nevada County
Bench and Bar in California: History, Anecdotes, Reminiscences (1887) by Oscar Tully Shuck from Google Books
Congressional Record (1876) by United States Congress from Google Books
District Court Case #19 - Butler et al. vs. Laird et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
District Court Case #19 - Butler et al. vs. Laird et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
History of Nevada County, California (1880) by Harry L. Wells from The Internet Archive
History of Placer and Nevada Counties California (1924) by William B. Lardner & Michael J. Brock from Google Books
LetterAaron Sargent to Ellen Sargent, from the family files. from Searls Historical Library
Lives of Nevada County Pioneers, v4 by David Comstock from Comstock Bonanza Press
Nevada County Tax Assessments, 1862, 1866 and 1870 for Sargent & Jacobs from Searls Historical Library
Pacific Railroads in Congress, 1877 and 1878 by United States Congress from Google Books
Pacific States Reports, California, Volume 1-63 (1906) by Bancroft-Whitney Company from Google Books
Page 261, Nevada Transcript, June 8, 1864 recalled Davidge's civil war story by David Comstock from Greenbacks & Copperheads
Page 298, Aaron Sargent's lecture, Lessons of the Times, in February 1864 by David Comstock from Greenbacks & Copperheads
Polygamy, Prostitution, and the Federalization of Immigration Law (2005) by Keny Abrams from Duke Law Research
Remembrances of Aaron Sargent,Ellen Clark Sargent, from the family files. from Searls Historical Library
Reminiscences of Senator William M. Stewart, of Nevada (1908) by William Morris Stewart from Google Books
Report on the U.S. Census (1860) from U.S. Census Bureau
Statistical Report (1886) by California State Board of Agriculture from Google Books
The History of the Women's Suffrage: The Origin of the Movement by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Matilda Gage from Google Books
The Impact of the Railroad: The Iron Horse and the Octopus from California State University, Northridge
The Transcontinental Railroad by Michael V. Uschan from Google Books

Nevada County Records
Land Deeds: Book #2, Page 276; Book #7, Page 250

Newspaper Articles from Chronicling America, Library of Congress
Nevada Democrat: May 13, 1857, Page 3; May 20, 1857, Page 3
Nevada Journal: September 13, 1851, Page 1; September 18, 1851, Page 1; December 18, 1851, Page 3; December 20, 1851, Page 2; July 14, 1854, Page 2; December 5, 1856, Page 3; May 8, 1857, Page 2; October 29, 1858, Page 2; May 20, 1859, Page 1; June 21, 1861, Page 2

Newspaper Articles from California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California, Riverside
Daily Alta California: 8 April 1872, 9 June 1876, 9 June 1876, 24 July 1876, 30 July 1876, 15 August 1887, 18 September 1887
Daily National Democrat: 25 August 1859, 16 January 1861
Los Angeles Herald: 2 February 1882
Marysville Daily Appeal: 17 March 1864
Morning Union: 1 March 1866, 5 November 1873
Nevada Democrat: 19 September 1860, 20 October 1860, 31 January 1861, 12 October 1861, 5 December 1861
Nevada Journal: 13 September 1851, 3 July 1852, 10 July 1852, 9 October 1857, 16 October 1857, 30 March 1860, 1 February 1861
Pacific Rural Press: 22 March 1879, 20 August 1887
Sacramento Daily Union: 13 October 1853, 7 October 1854, 14 October 1858, 4 November 1858, 27 March 1860, 19 June 1861, 9 September 1872
San Diego Union, And Daily Bee: 28 February 1882
San Jose Herald: 16 August 1887
Stockton Independent: 31 March 1875

Genealogy Records from Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com: 1880 U.S. Census, Aaron A. Sargent Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications
Illinois County, District and Probate Courts: William M Beaird in Illinois, U.S. Wills and Probate Records, 1772-1999
Illinois State Marriage Records: Rachel Harrison Illinois, U.S. Marriage Index, 1860-1920
Marriage Records. Ohio Marriages: Andrew Tomlinson Ohio, U.S. County Marriage Records, 1774-1993
National Archives and Records Administration: Aaron A. Sargent 1850 U.S. Census, Aaron A. Sargent 1860 U.S. Census, Aaron A. Sargent 1870 U.S. Census, Aaron Sargent 1880 U.S. Census
New England Historic Genealogical Society: Aaron Sargent Massachusetts, Marriage Records
Wills, Superior Court, San Francisco: Aaron Augustus Sargent California, U.S. Wills and Probate Records, 1850-1953

Genealogy Records - User Created Family Trees from Ancestry.com
Susan Stump: William M. (Guillaume) Beaird
pvpattie: Aaron Augustus Sargent, Rev. William Richard Sargent

Other Genealogy Records
Find A Grave Memorial: Aaron Augustus Sargent (1827-1887), Andrew J Tomlinson (1823-1900), Dr Elizabeth R. Sargent (1857-1900), Ellen C. Sargent Montgomery (1854-1908), Ellen Swett Clark Sargent (1826-1911), George Clark Sargent (1860-1930)
North Star / The Constitution passenger list 27 April 1863 from California Bound from SF Genealogy
SS Sierra Nevada passenger list 23 September 1852 from California Bound from SF Genealogy

Google & Other Maps
Newburyport, Massachusetts; San Francisco

Wikipedia Articles
1860 and 1861 United States House of Representatives elections; 1868 United States House of Representatives elections in California; Aaron A. Sargent; Aaron A. Sargent House; American Civil War; Battle Royal; Big Four (Central Pacific Railroad); Central Pacific Railroad; Coolie; Demographics of San Francisco; Denis Kearney; Equal Rights Amendment; First transcontinental railroad; Foreign Miners' Tax Act of 1850; General Land Office; Guangdong; Kearny Street; Know Nothing; Lightering; List of U.S. states and territories by area; National Union, Party (United States); Nevada County, California; Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; Pacific Railroad Acts; Page Act of 1875; Second Opium War; Secret Town, California; Theodore Judah; Timothy Guy Phelps; United States congressional delegations from California; William Morris Stewart

Webpages
Secret Town Fill from APA Chinese Heritage Sites of the American West
California Zephyr Train from Amtrak
Chinese immigration - Speech of Hon. A.A. Sargent, of California, in the Senate of the United States, March 7, 1878 (1878) by Aaron Sargent from Bancroft Library
The Chinese Exclusion Act by Bill of Rights Institute
Central Pacific Railroad from Britannica
Leland Stanford from Britannica
Past & Present Justices by California Supreme Court from California Courts
The Paiute War, California and the Indian Wars by California Military Department, California State Military History
Her Side of the Story from California Pioneers, Pioneer Women
Citations to Kidd v. Laird, 15 Cal. 161 (1860) by Supreme Court of California from Caselaw Access Project
Kidd v. Laird, 15 Cal. 161 (1860) by Supreme Court of California from Caselaw Access Project
Siskiyou County Farm Bureau v. Department of Fish & Wildlife, 237 Cal. App. 4th 411 (2015) by Court of Appeal of the State of California from Caselaw Access Project
Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum from Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
Dutch Flat and Donner Lake Wagon Road, 1864 from Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
Pacific Railroad Act by Transcontinental Railroad and Land Grants from Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
California Water Law and Related Legal Authority Affecting the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta from Congressional Research Service
Wild Women Of The West: Ellen Clark Sargent by Cowgirl Magazine
Chinese Exclusion Act from Densho, WWII Japanese Encyclopedia
Origin of "railroaded" from English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
The Octopus and the Big Four from FoundSF History
Search for "prolixity" by Google
Foreign Miners' Tax Act of 1850 by Arts & Culture
Susan B. Anthony from Historical Details
How the Gilded Age's Top 1 Percent Thrived on Corruption from History Channel
Act to prohibit the "coolie trade" (1862) from Immigration History
Railroad Land Grants in an Incongruous Legal System (2017) by Sean M. Kammer from Journal Storage, Scholarly Journals Database
Susan B. Anthony's Lecture Tour of 1871 by Women in Oregon from Lewis & Clark Digital Collections
H.R.225 by 37th Congress from Library of Congress
H.R.227 by 37th Congress from Library of Congress
Search of Congress.gov from Library of Congress
As Chinese Exclusion Act Turns 135, Experts Point To Parallels Today from NPR
Susan B Anthony Pardon from NPR
Oustomah Lodge #16 by Nevada City Odd Fellows
Leland's legacy: How a robber baron built Stanford and transformed America from Palo Alto Online
100 years later: Commemorating Nevada County’s connections to the 19th Amendment from Sierra Sun Newspaper
Making it over the summit: Dutch Flat Donner Lake Wagon Road from Sierra Sun Newspaper
The Chinese Transcontinental Railroad from Sierra Sun Newspaper
In 1872, Susan B. Anthony Was Arrested for Voting 'Unlawfully' from Smithsonian Magazine
Squeaky Wheels Need Greasing: Corruption and the Construction of the Pacific Railroad by Benjamin Lo from Social Science Research Network Papers
Lawrence & Houseworth Albums from Society of California Pioneers
California Supreme Court Justices by California Supreme Court Resources from Stanford Law School, Robert Crown Law Library
Susan B. Anthony House salutes California on its suffrage centennial! from Susan B. Anthony Museum & House
Chinese Exclusion Act and the Exclusion of Asians, Pacific Islanders & Chinese Women from The Asian American Education Project
Senator with Vallejo ties backed voting rights for women from Times Herald Newspaper, Vallejo, California
A Petition for Universal Suffrage - January 29, 1866 (1866) from U.S. Capitol Visitor Center
Susan B. Anthony at the Voting Polls, 1872 by Eyewitness, American Originals from U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Aaron Augustus Sargent by History, Art & Archives from US House of Representatives
The Central Pacific and Union, Pacific Railroads - The Iron Horse by The Impact Of The Railroads On 19th Century American Society from University of Groningen
The Wyoming Anti-Chinese Riot - Part 1 by Aaron Sargent from University of Michigan, Library Digital Collections
The Wyoming Anti-Chinese Riot - Part 2 by Aaron Sargent from University of Michigan, Library Digital Collections
Women's Suffrage in Wyoming from Wyoming State Library
Suffragist Ellen Clark Sargent plaque approved for Calanan Park in Nevada City from Yuba Net

Notes
"dead letter" by Google Search from Google

Newspaper Articles from the Grass Valley Union
19th Amendment Anniversary

Newspaper Articles from Virginia Chronicle Newspaper, Daily Richmond Times 8 April 1850

Newspaper Articles from the Grass Valley Union
Nevada City couple, Aaron and Ellen Sargent, helped change course for American women
Sargent statue debate highlights complexity of history from, Slain Ambassador Stevens buried in Nevada County

Chapter 15 - The Ditch and Lake Network

Chapter 16 - The Decline and Fall of Amos Laird

Chapter 17 - The Blue Tent Ditches

Books and Documents
Engineering and Mining Journal, Volume 28 (1879) by McGraw-Hill from Google Books
History of Nevada County, California (1880) by Harry L. Wells from The Internet Archive
Hydraulic-Mining Debris In The Sierra Nevada (1917) from Grove Karl Gilbert from U.S. Geological Survey Publications
Letters from John Dunn to his brother Tom, dated October 22, 1854 and March 12, 1855 from UC Davis, Shields Library
South Yuba Water Company 1894 Pamphlet, PAM 20584 from California Historical Society
South Yuba Water Company Records (1894-1904) from the Patterson Mining Collection from W.F. Englebright from Society of California Pioneers

Nevada County Records
Land Deeds: Book #1, Page 434; Book #23, Page 269; Book #29, Page 190; Book #46, Page 4

Newspaper Articles from Chronicling America, Library of Congress
Nevada Democrat: September 30, 1857, Page 2
Nevada Journal: March 30, 1855, Page 2

Newspaper Articles from Newspaper.com
Morning Union: 4 Mar 1925, Page 7

Newspaper Articles from California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California, Riverside
Auburn Journal: 30 July 1890
Daily Alta California: 5 December 1872, 3 November 1873, 29 December 1875, 18 April 1876, 26 July 1878, 10 February 1879, 24 January 1884, 6 April 1884, 26 February 1886, 26 March 1886, 6 February 1888
Daily National Gazette: 21 May 1859
Inyo Independent: 15 October 1881
Mariposa Gazette: 15 April 1876
Marysville Daily Appeal: 8 November 1867, 9 April 1868, 24 June 1868, 26 October 1875, 1 June 1881, 10 May 1882, 29 June 1882, 2 July 1882, 8 January 1884, 31 January 1885, 11 November 1887, 15 January 1899, 21 November 1900, 24 January 1902, 18 May 1904, 30 July 1905, 3 March 1908
Morning Press: 18 April 1876
Morning Union: 1 July 1868, 14 February 1869, 28 March 1869, 12 July 1870, 18 March 1871, 23 June 1871, 4 July 1873, 8 May 1874, 15 August 1874, 27 October 1874, 5 November 1874, 24 January 1875, 22 September 1875, 21 October 1875, 29 January 1876, 17 February 1876, 5 May 1877, 22 September 1877, 12 February 1878, 29 June 1878, 27 July 1878, 13 August 1878, 6 October 1878, 19 November 1878, 3 January 1879, 27 March 1879, 26 June 1879, 12 September 1879, 20 September 1879, 1 October 1879, 17 January 1880, 30 June 1880, 7 August 1880, 15 September 1880, 30 September 1880, 12 November 1880, 27 January 1881, 22 April 1881, 4 June 1881, 15 July 1881, 9 August 1881, 6 September 1881, 7 May 1882, 25 June 1882, 26 September 1882, 11 October 1882, 12 December 1882, 27 December 1882, 24 October 1883, 29 December 1883, 19 January 1884, 30 January 1884, 27 May 1884, 7 April 1886, 1 June 1886, 11 December 1886, 7 April 1887, 26 July 1887, 29 October 1887, 13 April 1890, 30 January 1891, 26 June 1894, 2 December 1894, 30 January 1897
Nevada Democrat: 17 December 1856, 11 May 1859, 25 October 1860, 10 January 1861, 24 January 1861, 1 August 1861, 26 April 1862
Nevada Journal: 9 October 1851, 5 June 1852, 12 August 1853, 9 December 1853, 16 February 1855, 2 March 1855, 31 October 1856, 13 March 1857, 13 March 1857, 29 October 1858
Pacific Rural Press: 22 July 1882, 26 February 1887
Placer Argus: 18 July 1874, 12 September 1874, 17 October 1874, 23 March 1878, 27 April 1878, 27 July 1878, 12 October 1878, 19 October 1878
Placer Herald: 8 January 1876
Plumas Independent: 30 May 1929
Sacramento Daily Union: 29 February 1860, 29 January 1863, 7 January 1865, 17 May 1866, 24 August 1866, 23 May 1867, 14 November 1867, 12 December 1868, 15 February 1869, 16 February 1869, 18 February 1869, 31 March 1869, 20 July 1870, 25 January 1871, 20 February 1871, 24 March 1871, 11 October 1871, 20 November 1871, 29 December 1871, 27 February 1872, 17 March 1876, 10 November 1877, 19 August 1878, 13 November 1878, 31 May 1879, 12 July 1880, 19 February 1881, 27 June 1882, 10 October 1882, 9 March 1886, 10 April 1886, 30 January 1907, 22 March 1907
San Francisco Call: 22 August 1903, 29 July 1907
San Jose Mercury-News: 22 November 1884
Santa Cruz Sentinel: 7 May 1886
Sonoma Democrat: 11 July 1868
Weekly Butte Record: 18 November 1854

Google & Other Maps
1868 Township Central California by A.J. Doolittle from UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

Webpages
Nevada County Post Offices, Past and Present (2013) from Internet Archive
Alfred Nobel from Science History
James Mason Hutchings 1855 from Southern Oregon History

Chapter 18 - The Cement Hill Ditches

Books and Documents
California Indians, 1850-1974 by C. Hart Merriam from The Internet Archive
History of Placer and Nevada Counties California (1924) by William B. Lardner & Michael J. Brock from Google Books
Lives of Nevada County Pioneers, v4 by David Comstock from Comstock Bonanza Press
MRDS data for Daisy Blue Mine, Mount Charles Mine, and Homestake Mine from Bureau of Land Management
Nevada City Draft EIR Appendices from California Courts
Nevada City Rancheria (2022) by Tanis C. Thorne
Oustomah Mine Report from the Patterson Mining Collection, January 1912 from W.F. Englebright from Society of California Pioneers
PG&E deed of Big Reservoir to NID (April 1930) from PG&E from NID
Public Review Draft, Nevada City Sphere Plan Update (2008) from Nevada County
Raw Water Master Plan Update: Phase II (2011) from Nevada Irrigation District
South Yuba Water Company Records (1894-1904) from the Patterson Mining Collection from W.F. Englebright from Society of California Pioneers
State Mineralogist Report (1896) by California. Division of Mines and Mining from Google Books
Tahoe National Forest, Ethnography (1986) by Anne Carlson from South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL)
The Campoodie of Nevada City (2000) by Tanis C. Thorne from eScholarship.org

Nevada County Records
Land Deeds: Book #25, Page 322; Book #40, Page 362; Book #40, Page 362; Book #40, Page 379; Book #42, Page 59-60, and Page 62; Book #48, Page 485; Book #48, Page 485; Book #9, Page 273

Newspaper Articles from Newspaper.com
Morning Union: 31 Dec 1903, Page 4; 17 Dec 1904, Page 6; 7 Nov 1909, Page 5; 20 Jun 1911, Page 6; 16 Dec 1913, Page 6; 25 Dec 1913, Page 6; 22 Feb 1914, Page 6; 22 May 1915, Page 6; 11 Jun 1916, Page 7; 29 Jan 1918, Page 6; 4 Oct 1918, Page 6; 15 Feb 1919, Page 4; 4 Aug 1923, Page 4; 30 Oct 1924, Page 3; 8 Dec 1927, Page 5; 10 May 1931, Page 2; 21 Jun 1931, Page 3; 24 Jul 1932, Page 3; 13 Jan 1934, Page 1; 19 Jan 1934, Page 2; 5 Apr 1934, Page 2; 2 Aug 1934, Page 6; 17 May 1935, Page 1; 15 Jun 1935, Page 11
San Francisco Call: 31 May 1891, Page 2
Sacramento Bee: 20 Feb 1918, Page 8; 24 Dec 1935, Page 9; 20 Apr 1949, Page 12; 24 Dec 1985, Page 12; 30 Dec 1986, Page 16

Newspaper Articles from California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California, Riverside
Daily Alta California: 12 December 1865
Daily National Gazette: 30 October 1855
Marysville Daily Appeal: 1 December 1864, 25 April 1903, 21 May 1905, 1 November 1905
Morning Union: 19 May 1870, 26 June 1870, 30 December 1870, 1 February 1871, 20 April 1871, 4 June 1872, 26 July 1883, 15 July 1887, 17 February 1888, 3 August 1888, 12 April 1889, 27 July 1892, 4 September 1894, 5 June 1895, 22 November 1911, 14 July 1912, 19 September 1912, 5 October 1912, 20 October 1912, 18 March 1913, 6 April 1913, 21 June 1913, 19 January 1915, 29 December 1915, 15 March 1916, 6 April 1916, 6 August 1920, 1 March 1921, 12 June 1921
Nevada Journal: 10 September 1852
Press Democrat: 2 February 1923
Sacramento Daily Union: 4 April 1856, 3 November 1866, 26 May 1870, 2 July 1907, 4 August 1908, 21 August 1908, 9 November 1908, 12 May 1909, 11 May 1910, 5 August 1911, 13 September 1911
San Francisco Call: 8 September 1903, 3 July 1907, 8 July 1907, 23 January 1910

Genealogy Records from Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com: Charles H Schrader California, U.S. Death Index, 1905-1939; Charles H. Shrader U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s; Charles Schrader Ohio, U.S. County Marriage Records, 1774-1993
California State Library: Charles H Schrader California, U.S. Voter Registers, 1866-1898; Charles H Schrader California, U.S. Voter Registrations, 1900-1968; John Mason Buffington California, U.S. Voter Registers, 1866-1898
National Archives and Records Administration: Charles A. Schrader 1900 U.S. Census, Charles H Schrader 1910 U.S. Census, Charles H Schrader 1930 U.S. Census, Charles H Schroder 1920 U.S. Census, Charles Schrader 1880 U.S. Census, J. Buffington 1880 U.S. Census, John M Buffington 1860 U.S. Census, John Mason Buffington 1870 U.S. Census, John N Buffington 1850 U.S. Census, William C Buffington 1910 U.S. Census, William C. Buffington 1920 U.S. Census, William H Schrader 1920 U.S. Census

Genealogy Records - User Created Family Trees from Ancestry.com
McKerchers: Charles Herman Schrader
Nadine Sullivan Timm: John Mason Buffington

Other Genealogy Records
Find A Grave Memorial: Ianthus Jerome Rolfe (1826-1907), Ida Schrader (1854-1899), John Mason Buffington II (1849-1902), Laura May Buffington Janes (1877-1937)
New York Herald ships March 18, 1849 from California Bound from SF Genealogy
SS Star of the West passenger list 5 May 1853 from California Bound from SF Genealogy

Google & Other Maps
1879 map of South Yuba Water and Mining Company ditches by Englebright from NID; 1884 Grass Valley-Nevada City Vicinity Map by Englebright from Doris Foley Library; 1897 Grass Valley-Nevada City Vicinity Map by Uren from Doris Foley Library; 1948 U.S.G.S. topographic map showing the Nevada City Airport from U.S. Geological Survey; Hirschman Diggings on Map #293605 from January 31, 1902 from Bureau of Land Management; Map 199b from UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library; Map from 1938 of the Mountaineer Mine, Nevada City from Doris Foley Library; Nevada City Rancheria, Nisenan Lands by Nevada County; Nevada County assessor plat map from July 1947 from Doris Foley Library; South Yuba River

Wikipedia Articles
Champion-Providence Mine

Webpages
A Tribal History ‘Brighter Than Gold’ from Alta Online
Cultural Sites of the Nisenan People from ArcGIS StoryMaps
Lake Vera Pipeline Replacement Project from California Environmental Quality Act
Queen Lil Mine or Buffington Mine, Indian Flat, Nevada City from Mindat.org, Mines and Minerals
Nevada City Rancheria from Nevada City Rancheria

History of Nevada County from Nevada County
Nisenan Heritage from Nevada County
Nisenan from Nisenan.org
Western Nevada County Cemeteries from Ruhkala Monument Company
Louis Kelly from The McGuire's Place
Brandy City California from Western Mining History
Newspaper Articles from California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California, Riverside
Colusa Daily Sun 28 June 1909

Newspaper Articles from Newspaper.com
Los Angeles Times: 6 Mar 1916, Page 14

Newspaper Articles from California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California, Riverside
San Jose Times Star 19 July 1907

Chapter 19 - Hirschman Diggings on Oustomah Hill

Books and Documents
Hirschman's Pond - Vision & Planning Study (2010) from City of Nevada City
History & Directory of Nevada County, California (1867) by Edwin Bean from US Gen Web Archives
History of Nevada County, California (1880) by Harry L. Wells from The Internet Archive
Hydraulic-Mining Debris In The Sierra Nevada (1917) from Grove Karl Gilbert from U.S. Geological Survey Publications
Lives of Nevada County Pioneers, v4 by David Comstock from Comstock Bonanza Press
Mining and Scientific Press (1871) from The Internet Archive
News & Advertising in the Early Gold Camps of Nevada County, California (1850-1878) by David Comstock from Comstock Bonanza Press
State Mineralogist Report (1896) by California. Division of Mines and Mining from Google Books

Nevada County Records
Land Deeds: Book #1, Page 120; Book #1, Page 149; Book #16, Page 445; Book #2, Page 72; Book #2, Page 88; Book #20, Page 379; Book #25, Page 203; Book #25, Page 203 and Book #25, Page 204; Book #25, Page 203-204; Book #27, Page 502; Book #27, Page 612; Book #27, Page 614 and Book #30, Page 286; Book #3, Page 309; Book #3, Page 339; Book #31, Page 12; Book #34, Page 512 and Book #37, Page 443; Book #4, Page 602; Book #40, Page 251; Book #41, Page 702; Book #43, Page 506; Book #44, Page 528; Book #44, Page 541; Book #46, Page 108; Book #46, Page 110-111; Book #46, Page 484; Book #47, Page 372; Book #47, Page 490; Book #5, Page 524; Book #5, Page 527; Book #52, Page 226; Book #52, Page 226; Book #52, Page 299 and Page 301; Book #53, Page 461 and Book #53, Page 492; Book #59, Page 39; Book #7, Page 451; Book #9, Page 273
Mining Claims - Book #1 - H. & M. Hirschman mining claims
Mining Claims - Book #1, Page 64 - Oostamagua Hill Tunnel Co. Claims (April 1857)

Newspaper Articles from Chronicling America, Library of Congress
Nevada Journal: August 14, 1857, Page 3

Newspaper Articles from Newspaper.com
Morning Union: 4 May 1901, Page 4; 24 Aug 1905, Page 6; 8 Jun 1906, Page 5; 28 Jan 1908, Page 6; 6 Jan 1910, Page 6; 8 Jan 1910, Page 5; 31 Jan 1911, Page 6; 1 Aug 1911, Page 6; 21 Feb 1924, Page 2; 27 Sep 1929, Page 2; 10 Jun 1931, Page 4

Newspaper Articles from California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California, Riverside
Daily Alta California: 28 March 1887
Evening Sentinel: 3 February 1898
Marin Journal: 24 June 1897
Marysville Daily Appeal: 4 May 1898
Morning Union: 23 May 1875, 14 September 1881, 17 January 1884, 1 December 1888, 4 January 1891, 15 October 1891, 25 August 1893, 12 September 1893, 11 January 1894, 29 June 1894, 19 October 1895, 27 October 1895, 3 December 1895, 28 January 1896, 26 May 1896, 25 September 1912, 22 February 1913, 10 May 1914, 12 May 1914, 19 September 1915, 3 June 1917, 4 June 1918
Nevada Democrat: 4 August 1858, 25 August 1858
Nevada Journal: 16 December 1853, 23 December 1853, 10 November 1854
Sacramento Daily Union: 9 December 1862, 20 February 1871, 12 October 1871, 11 December 1871, 5 January 1882, 8 January 1910
San Francisco Call: 27 November 1910

Genealogy Records from Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com: Loeb Hirschmann in Illinois Select Deaths Index, 1877-1916; Loeb Hirschmann Cook County, Illinois, U.S. Deaths Index, 1878-1922
California State Library: Henry Grover California, U.S. Voter Registers, 1866-1898; Leb Hirschman California, U.S. Voter Registers, 1866-1898; Nicholas Weber California, U.S. Voter Registers, 1866-1898
Illinois County, District and Probate Courts: Loeb Herschman Illinois, U.S. Wills and Probate Records, 1772-1999
National Archives and Records Administration: Henry Grover 1870 U.S. Census, Henry Grover 1900 U.S. Censu; L Hirschmann New York, U.S. Arriving Passenger Lists, 1820-1957, L. Heirschman 1880 U.S. Census, Nicholas Webber 1870 U.S. Census, Nicholas Webber 1880 U.S. Census, Nicholas Webber 1900 U.S. Census
Probate Case Files, California. Superior Court, Nevada County: California Probate Records, 1850-1953 for Leb Hirschman; California Probate Records, 1850-1953 for William H. Colley

Genealogy Records - User Created Family Trees from Ancestry.com
James Scamman: William Henry Colley
JoannePThomas: Christiana Marx, Henry Frederick Grover
LawrenceVillandry: Hannah Hirschman
rong59: Christina Marx Gallagher Grover

Other Genealogy Records
Find A Grave Memorial: Annie Marie Weber Rapp (1859-1916), Frederick Christian Luetje (1830-1911), Henry Grover (1833-1908), Leopold Hirschman (1821-1893), Sgt William Henry Colley (1836-1912)

Google & Other Maps
1896 Nevada City Special Topo Map from U.S. Geological Survey; Freudental, Germany; Hirschman Diggings on Map #293605 from January 31, 1902 from Bureau of Land Management; Nevada County assessor plat map from July 1947 from Doris Foley Library; Obbach, Germany; Segeberg, Germany

Wikipedia Articles
Obbach; Rimrock; World's Columbian Exposition

Webpages
Hirschman Trail from Bear Yuba Land Trust
Land Patent Details - Grover & Murphy (1904) by General Land Office Records from Bureau of Land Management
Land Patent Details - Henry Grover (1890) by General Land Office Records from Bureau of Land Management
Nevada County Pioneer's Reunion from CA GenWeb
Nisenan Heritage from Nevada County
Obbach from Second Wiki
Pumps - Head vs. Pressure from The Engineering Tool Box
Newspaper Articles from the Grass Valley Union
Hydraulic gold mining: Hirshman’s Pond and Diggin’s by Bob Wyckoff from, Plaque commemorates Nevada County pioneer Leb Hirschman by Nevada County Historical Landmarks Commission from, What’s in a name - Part 2 by Bernie Zimmerman

Chapter 20 - The Manzanita Ditch and Diggings

Chapter 21 - The End of an Era

Chapter 22 - The Demise of Hydraulic Mining

Books and Documents
A History of California Agriculture (2017) from Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode from University of California
Annual Report of the State Mineralogist (1890) by California State Mining Bureau from The Internet Archive
Contemporary Biography of California's Representative Men (1881) by Alonzo Phelps from Google Books
English Meadow Forest Management Plan (2020) from Nevada Irrigation District
From Dam Contracts on the Bear River from William H. Hall Papers from California Historical Society
Gold vs. Grain (1959) by Robert L. Kelley from HathiTrust Digital Library
Historical channel changes in the lower Yuba and Feather Rivers, California (2009) from L. Allan James from University of South Carolina
History Of Yuba And Sutter Counties (1924) by Peter J. Delay from US Gen Web Archives
History of Tahoe National Forest: 1840-1940 (1982) from W. Turrentine, Jackson Rand Herbert, Stephen Wee from U.S. National Park Service
History of the Life of Lorenzo Sawyer (1891) by Hubert Howe Bancroft from The Internet Archive
Hydraulic Mining in California (2001) by Powell Greenland
Quaker Hill Mine and Debris Dam Report from Sargent Family Papers from Searls Historical Library
Record of State Senators 1849–2020 (2020) from Secretary of the California Senate
Rush for Riches: Gold Fever and the Making of California (1999) by J. S. Holliday from The Internet Archive
The Bay of San Francisco, A History (1892) by Lewis Publishing Company from The Internet Archive
The Coming Megafloods from Michael D. Dettinger and B. Lynn Ingram from Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes
The Overland Monthly (1836-1902) by Bret Harte from The Internet Archive
The Sawyer Decision (1884) by Lorenzo Sawyer & Matthew Deady from HathiTrust Digital Library
Water Resources Data, California (2000) by U.S. Geological Survey
Wheat Production in California (2014) from Daniel Geisseler and William R. Horwath from California Department of Food and Agriculture

Newspaper Articles from Chronicling America, Library of Congress
Nevada Journal: December 18, 1851, Page 3

Newspaper Articles from Newspaper.com
Marysville Evening Democrat: 22 Apr 1885, Page 2
The Los Angeles Times: 14 Feb 1899, Page 13
The Pacific Bee: 1 May 1885, Page 2
Sacramento Bee: 19 Jul 1881, Page 3; 23 Apr 1885, Page 2

Newspaper Articles from California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California, Riverside
Chico Record: 29 October 1857
Daily Alta California: 26 February 1886
Humboldt Times: 20 June 1883
Inyo Independent: 15 October 1881
Marysville Daily Appeal: 22 December 1861, 3 July 1862, 17 September 1862, 27 September 1862, 6 November 1862, 26 March 1864, 7 September 1869, 24 January 1871, 21 March 1871, 26 April 1871, 20 September 1872, 20 February 1873, 7 March 1876, 4 August 1876, 22 August 1876, 8 November 1877, 20 November 1877, 5 December 1877, 25 April 1878, 9 November 1879, 23 December 1879, 1 June 1881, 4 June 1881, 10 June 1881, 18 June 1881, 21 June 1881, 2 July 1882, 2 July 1882, 8 July 1882, 22 September 1882, 24 September 1882, 24 September 1882, 24 September 1882, 26 October 1882, 31 October 1882, 28 November 1882, 12 December 1882, 14 December 1882, 15 December 1882, 22 December 1882, 28 March 1883, 31 March 1883, 6 May 1883, 8 May 1883, 19 June 1883, 8 January 1884
Morning Press: 9 April 1883
Morning Union: 19 May 1867, 1 October 1879, 15 October 1879, 18 November 1879, 4 June 1881, 15 July 1881, 4 August 1881, 9 August 1881, 8 October 1881, 26 September 1882, 12 December 1882, 13 December 1882, 27 December 1882, 6 February 1883, 9 March 1883, 4 September 1883, 30 January 1884, 27 May 1884, 7 April 1887, 8 May 1887
Napa Valley Register: 18 November 1879
Nevada Journal: 14 June 1861
Pacific Rural Press: 17 August 1878, 22 March 1879, 26 February 1887
Placer Argus: 18 October 1879, 21 June 1883
Placer Herald: 9 October 1858, 22 November 1879
Russian River Flag: 16 October 1879
Sacramento Daily Union: 20 June 1881, 15 December 1881, 5 January 1882, 6 January 1882, 27 June 1882, 10 April 1883, 19 June 1883, 9 March 1886, 26 July 1886
Sentinel: 27 September 1879, Santa Cruz Weekly 28 July 1883
Sierra Citizen: 22 July 1854
Weekly Butte Record: 15 November 1879, 15 September 1883
Weekly Colusa: Sun 6 January 1883, Sun 15 September 1883

Genealogy Records from Ancestry.com
Edward Woodruff New York, U.S. State Census, 1865; Edward Woodruff U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995, Edward Woodruff U.S. Newspapers.com Obituary Index; Edwards Woodruff U.S. General Land Office Records, 1776-2015; Edwards Woodruff U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925, Lorenzo Sawyer 1850 U.S. Census, Lorenzo Sawyer 1870 U.S. Census; William Edwards Woodruff U.S. College Student Lists, 1763-1924; William Edwards Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775

Genealogy Records - User Created Family Trees from Ancestry.com
Jeanette_Babbitt: William Edward Woodruff

Other Genealogy Records
Find A Grave Memorial: George Cadwalader (1830-1884), Lorenzo Sawyer (1820-1891), Virginia M. Jones Sawyer (1838-1876)

Google & Other Maps
Camptonville; Dry Creek Rd; English Meadow; Jackson, CA; Marysville; Rochester, NY; Rose's Bar; Sutter County; Wheatland; Yuba Goldfields Trailhead

Wikipedia Articles
Camp Far West Reservoir; First long-distance telephone line; George Clement Perkins; Great Depression; Great Flood of 1862; K Street, Inundation of the State Capitol, City of Sacramento (1862); Lake Clementine; Rail Stock Car; Samuel DeVeaux; Water Resources Development Act of 1986; Woodruff v. North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company; Yuba Goldfields

Webpages
The Gold Rush origins of California’s wheat economy by Jim Gerber from Academia.edu
City of Marysville v. N. Bloomfield Gravel Mining Co., 66 Cal. 343 (1885) from Caselaw Access Project
United States v. North Bloomfield Gravel Min. Co., 53 F. 625 (1892) from Caselaw Access Project
United States v. North Bloomfield Gravel-Min. Co., 81 F. 243 (1897) from Caselaw Access Project
Woodruff v. North Bloomfield Gravel Min. Co., 45 F. 129 (1891) from Caselaw Access Project
Woodruff v. North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Co., 18 F. 753 (1884) from Caselaw Access Project
North Bloomfield Mining District, Nevada County, California from Mindat.org, Mines and Minerals
Complaint of Case 2900, Edwards Woodruff v. North Bloomfield Mining Company. from National Archives Catalog
Lorenzo Sawyer from Prabook, World Biographical Encyclopedia
Designing forward with an eye to the past: Morphogenesis of the lower Yuba River. (2015) by Allan James from Science Direct
The Gold Rush from Smithsonian American Art Museum
Lorenzo Sawyer from The California Supreme Court Historical Society
Matthew Deady (1824-1893) from The Oregon Encyclopedia
The Great Flood of 1862 from The San Bernardino Sun
The California Debris Commission: A history of the hydraulic mining industry in the western Sierra Nevada of California (1981) by Joseph J. Hagwood from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
NASA Study: faster, better, cheaper fails by United Press International
Newspaper Articles from the Grass Valley Union
English Dam changed mining’s course

Newspaper Articles from Chronicling America, Library of Congress
Sacramento Daily Record-Union: March 13, 1880, Page 6; November 2, 1881, Page 1; October 24, 1881, Page 1

Newspaper Articles from California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California, Riverside
Search for Woodruff

Chapter 23 - Water Power for the Mines

Chapter 24 - The Dawn of Electricity

Books and Documents
California Mines and Minerals (1899) by Edward H. Benjamin from The Internet Archive
Charles Francis Brush (2009) by Institute of Chemistry from The Internet Archive
Decisions of the Railroad Commission of the State of California (Volume 2) (1913) by Railroad Commission of the State of California from Google Books
Financial Records, 1880-1893 from South Yuba Canal Company from California State Library
History of Placer and Nevada Counties California (1924) by William B. Lardner & Michael J. Brock from The Internet Archive
History of the Colgate-Oakland Transmission Line from National Park Service from American Memory, Library of Congress
Journal of Electricity Power and Gas 1903-1901: Volume 13, Issue 1 from The Internet Archive
Networks of Power Electrification in Western Society 1880-1930 (1983) from Thomas P. Hughes from Monoskop
Nevada County Historical Society Bulletin, April 1996, #50-2 from David Comstock from Nevada County Historical Society
Nevada County Historical Society Bulletin, Vol 55, #3, July 2001, The Cascade Canal from Dale Johnson from Nevada County Historical Society
P.G. and E. of California (1952) by Charles M. Coleman from Amazon.com
P.G. and E. of California (1952) by Charles M. Coleman from California Historical Society
Properties Owned and Operated, Territory Served (1911) by Pacific Gas and Electric Company from Google Books
Report on Caperton Canal (2012) from California Department of Parks and Recreation from Cogstone
South Yuba Water Company 1894 Pamphlet, PAM 20584 from California Historical Society
The Great Pluviculturist - Charles Hatfield (2015) by Cecile Page Vargo from The Internet Archive
The Journal of Electricity Power and Gas, January 1903, Volume 13 Issue 1, Page 65 from Internet Archive
The Journal of the California State Senate (1897) by California Legislature from Google Books
The River: Hiking Trails and History of the South Fork of the Yuba River (2008) by Hank Meals from Amazon.com

Nevada County Records
Land Deeds: Book #114, Page 408

Newspaper Articles from Chronicling America, Library of Congress
San Francisco Call: July 11, 1902, Page 9; November 13, 1909

Newspaper Articles from Newspaper.com
Morning Union: 31 Dec 1901, Page 8
Sacramento Bee: 6 Dec 1894, Page 1
Sacramento Record-Union: 15 Jan 1895, Page 4; 15 Jan 1895, Page 4
The Placer Herald: 10 Aug 1895, Page 4; 27 Jun 1896, Page 5

Newspaper Articles from California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California, Riverside
Auburn Journal: 7 May 1890, 1 June 1916
Marysville Daily Appeal: 18 January 1905, 9 February 1905, 15 February 1905, 18 November 1905, 19 November 1905, 3 December 1905, 4 January 1906, 6 April 1906, 4 April 1908
Morning Union: 6 January 1880, 15 January 1880, 16 March 1880, 31 August 1880, 26 April 1881, 8 May 1881, 11 May 1881, 11 May 1881, 29 July 1881, 9 March 1882, 28 October 1882, 1 April 1887, 3 April 1887, 14 April 1887, 14 June 1887, 30 July 1887, 30 July 1887, 2 August 1887, 5 August 1887, 5 August 1887, 6 August 1887, 7 August 1887, 11 August 1887, 21 August 1887, 31 August 1887, 9 September 1887, 13 September 1887, 16 January 1890, 4 February 1890, 12 February 1890, 4 April 1890, 27 May 1890, 22 November 1890, 30 January 1891, 22 March 1891, 30 May 1891, 13 January 1892, 4 February 1894, 26 June 1894, 23 January 1895, 19 July 1895, 9 November 1895, 26 April 1896, 29 January 1914, 4 July 1914, 11 August 1917
Newcastle News: 10 December 1890
Placer Argus: 31 May 1890, 19 January 1894
Placer County Leader: 23 August 1900
Placer Herald: 31 May 1890
Sacramento Daily Union: 12 April 1879, 29 December 1890, 2 February 1909, 19 February 1909, 18 August 1909, 1 October 1909
San Francisco Call: 11 October 1895, 28 January 1905, 10 November 1905, 8 November 1909

Genealogy Records from Ancestry.com
Absalom W. Herring California, U.S. Wills and Probate Records, 1850-1953
Find A Grave Memorial: Harry Lane Englebright (1884-1943)

Google & Other Maps
South Yuba Water Company map (1893) from California Historical Society

Wikipedia Articles
Charles Hatfield; Englebright Dam; Englebright Lake; Lake Spaulding Dam; San Joaquin Light and Power Corporation

Webpages
The Nevada “Rome” Power House and the Birth of PG&E (2013) by Dale Johnson from Archive Today
Brush-History 1879 to 1890 from Brush Electric Company
History of the Light Bulb from Bulbs.com
What are the 5 largest U.S. energy utilities? from Choose Energy
Edison Electric Light Co begins operation, October 15, 1878 from EDN Electronics
The History of Electricity from Elumis Foundation
Hydropower explained from Energy Information Administration
Early Applications of Electricity by Engineering and Technology History Wiki
History of PG&E Corporation from Funding Universe
The Bay Counties Power Company at Colgate, CA (Jul 1901) from Insulator Reference
World's Largest Transmission System: Pacific Gas & Electric Company (Jun 1, 1912) from Insulator Reference
A brief history of hydropower from International Hydropower Association
Clipper Gap Map by Hamlet from Mapcarta
James D. Schuyler papers by UC Riverside from Online Archive of California
150 Years of Growth and Change from PG&E
Lumens to watts (W) conversion calculator from Rapid Tables Online Calculators & Tools
Charles Hatfield Made It Rain in San Diego. The Problem Was He Couldn’t Make It Stop. from The Daily Beast
The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake from U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake
Newspaper Articles from the Grass Valley Union
Grass Valley’s William B. Bourn II worked ‘to shove’ President Wilson into World War I by Gage McKinney

Newspaper Articles from Newspaper.com
Los Angeles Evening Express 09 Jun 1891: Los Angeles Evening Express 9 Jun 1891, Page 7

Chapter 25 - The Nevada Irrigation District

Books and Documents
Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (2021) from Nevada Irrigation District
Chronological Chart of Excelsior Water and Power Company Ditches (1922) from Searls Historical Library from Excelsior Water and Power Company
Deer Creek Restoration Plan (2011) from Sierra Streams Institute
History of Placer and Nevada Counties California (1924) by William B. Lardner & Michael J. Brock from The Internet Archive
Hydraulic-Mining Debris In The Sierra Nevada (1917) from Grove Karl Gilbert from U.S. Geological Survey Publications
Lives of Nevada County Pioneers, v4 by David Comstock from Comstock Bonanza Press
NID Environmental Information for Water Rights from California State Water Resources Control Board
NID History Book: Delivering Water for Life from Nevada Irrigation District
Operating & Capital Budget Workshop (2022) from Nevada Irrigation District
Plan for Water Workshop #2 - Mountain System Overview (2021) from Nevada Irrigation District
Texas Mine, from the Patterson Mining Collection from Society of California Pioneers

Nevada County Records
Land Deeds: Book #58, Page 342

Newspaper Articles from Chronicling America, Library of Congress
Placer Herald: February 21, 1857, Page 3

Newspaper Articles from David Comstock, News & Advertising in the Early Gold Camps of Nevada County, California (1850-1878)
Nevada Democrat: October 8, 1856

Newspaper Articles from Newspaper.com
Auburn Journal: 29 Sep 1938, Page 5; 21 Jan 1954, Page 17; 18 Sep 1958, Page 1; 18 May 1961, Page 6; 1 Feb 1962, Page 9; 29 Aug 1963, Page 1; 9 Jan 1964, Page 13
Chico Enterprise: 3 Sep 1938, Page 1; 7 Mar 1947, Page 6
Daily Independent: 13 Aug 1896, Page 3
Feather River Bulletin: 7 Jul 1910, Page 1
Henry County Democrat: 21 Jul 1898, Page 1
Lincoln News Messenger: 27 May 1954, Page 2; 14 Jun 1962, Page 5; 29 Aug 1963, Page 1
Marysville Appeal-Democrat: 16 Feb 1921, Page 5
Morning Union: 14 Aug 1907, Page 5; 12 Nov 1912, Page 8; 9 Feb 1913, Page 8; 25 Feb 1913, Page 2; 27 Feb 1913, Page 2; 4 Mar 1913, Page 5; 26 Mar 1913, Page 8; 30 Apr 1913, Page 8; 20 Jan 1914, Page 8; 2 Oct 1914, Page 2; 1 Nov 1914, Page 8; 1 Nov 1914, Page 8; 20 Dec 1914, Page 8; 16 Apr 1915, Page 1; 27 Jun 1915, Page 3; 2 Sep 1915, Page 8; 24 Feb 1916, Page 1; 2 Jun 1917, Page 5; 22 Jun 1918, Page 8; 28 Sep 1918, Page 5; 22 Apr 1919, Page 1; 5 Feb 1920, Page 6; 10 Feb 1920, Page 1; 30 Oct 1920, Page 1; 12 Dec 1920, Page 1; 12 Dec 1920, Page 1; 15 Dec 1920, Page 1; 16 Dec 1920, Page 1; 16 Dec 1920, Page 6; 21 Dec 1920, Page 1; 5 Jan 1921, Page 1; 17 Feb 1921, Page 3; 8 Mar 1921, Page 2; 12 Mar 1921, Page 1; 30 Mar 1921, Page 5; 5 Apr 1921, Page 1; 10 Apr 1921, Page 1; 27 Apr 1921, Page 6; 6 May 1921, Page 6; 8 May 1921, Page 3; 29 Jun 1921, Page 1; 2 Jul 1921, Page 5; 28 Jul 1921, Page 6; 30 Jul 1921, Page 2; 30 Jul 1921, Page 7; 31 Jul 1921, Page 2; 2 Aug 1921, Page 2; 2 Aug 1921, Page 5; 2 Aug 1921, Page 7; 3 Aug 1921, Page 7; 5 Aug 1921, Page 1; 17 Aug 1921, Page 6; 3 Sep 1921, Page 1; 23 Sep 1921, Page 1; 8 Oct 1921, Page 5; 14 Oct 1921, Page 2; 10 Feb 1922, Page 1; 11 Feb 1922, Page 1; 15 Feb 1922, Page 1; 22 Feb 1922, Page 1; 8 Apr 1922, Page 1; 7 Jul 1922, Page 3; 8 Aug 1922, Page 6; 7 Nov 1922, Page 4; 11 Nov 1922, Page 1; 15 Feb 1923, Page 7; 1 Mar 1923, Page 4; 8 Mar 1923, Page 1; 20 Apr 1923, Page 3; 21 Apr 1923, Page 6; 29 Apr 1923, Page 8; 27 May 1923, Page 1; 16 Jun 1923, Page 1; 30 Jun 1923, Page 1; 11 Jul 1923, Page 1; 22 Jul 1923, Page 1; 24 Jul 1923, Page 1; 30 Aug 1923, Page 3; 11 Sep 1923, Page 1; 11 Jan 1924, Page 4; 7 Mar 1924, Page 1; 9 Apr 1924, Page 1; 3 May 1924, Page 1; 8 May 1924, Page 1; 8 May 1924, Page 5; 10 May 1924, Page 1; 17 May 1924, Page 1; 18 Jul 1924, Page 4; 23 Jul 1924, Page 6; 28 Aug 1924, Page 3; 7 Sep 1924, Page 2; 17 Oct 1924, Page 2; 22 Oct 1924, Page 4; 24 Oct 1924, Page 2; 30 Oct 1924, Page 3; 6 Nov 1924, Page 1; 14 Dec 1924, Page 1; 19 Dec 1924, Page 1; 20 Dec 1924, Page 1; 7 Jan 1925, Page 1; 13 Jan 1925, Page 4; 22 Jan 1925, Page 1; 25 Jan 1925, Page 1; 27 Jan 1925, Page 1; 29 Jan 1925, Page 1; 30 Jan 1925, Page 1; 3 Feb 1925, Page 6; 4 Feb 1925, Page 1; 5 Feb 1925, Page 1; 17 Feb 1925, Page 1; 25 Feb 1925, Page 3; 27 Feb 1925, Page 2; 3 Mar 1925, Page 1; 3 Mar 1925, Page 1; 4 Mar 1925, Page 1; 4 Mar 1925, Page 2; 4 Mar 1925, Page 7; 5 Mar 1925, Page 2; 6 Mar 1925, Page 1; 8 Mar 1925, Page 1; 8 Mar 1925, Page 2; 19 Mar 1925, Page 1; 19 Mar 1925, Page 4; 5 Apr 1925, Page 2; 11 Apr 1925, Page 5; 17 May 1925, Page 6; 11 Jun 1925, Page 1; 9 Jul 1925, Page 5; 31 Jul 1925, Page 1; 5 Aug 1925, Page 1; 17 Sep 1925, Page 1; 18 Sep 1925, Page 1; 1 Oct 1925, Page 1; 4 Oct 1925, Page 1; 20 Oct 1925, Page 1; 25 Oct 1925, Page 1; 27 Oct 1925, Page 1; 26 Nov 1925, Page 1; 29 Nov 1925, Page 1; 9 Dec 1925, Page 1; 11 Dec 1925, Page 1; 18 Feb 1926, Page 4; 5 Mar 1926, Page 4; 10 Apr 1926, Page 1; 10 Apr 1926, Page 2; 18 Apr 1926, Page 1; 2 May 1926, Page 8; 7 May 1926, Page 8; 8 May 1926, Page 4; 15 May 1926, Page 1; 19 May 1926, Page 5; 21 May 1926, Page 1; 29 May 1926, Page 1; 12 Jun 1926, Page 1; 20 Jun 1926, Page 1; 18 Jul 1926, Page 1; 12 Aug 1926, Page 3; 19 Aug 1926, Page 3; 22 Sep 1926, Page 1; 26 Sep 1926, Page 1; 24 Nov 1926, Page 1; 9 Dec 1926, Page 4; 11 Dec 1926, Page 1; 14 Dec 1926, Page 1; 15 Dec 1926, Page 1; 17 Dec 1926, Page 4; 5 Jan 1927, Page 1; 8 Jan 1927, Page 1; 9 Jan 1927, Page 1; 22 Jan 1927, Page 1; 26 Jan 1927, Page 2; 25 Feb 1927, Page 1; 13 Mar 1927, Page 4; 17 Mar 1927, Page 3; 22 Mar 1927, Page 2; 23 Mar 1927, Page 1; 29 Mar 1927, Page 2; 17 Apr 1927, Page 1; 20 Apr 1927, Page 1; 28 Apr 1927, Page 1; 21 May 1927, Page 1; Page 16 Jun 1927, Page 4; 1 Jul 1927, Page 1; 27 Jul 1927, Page 1; 31 Aug 1927, Page 5; 14 Sep 1927, Page 1; 23 Sep 1927, Page 4; 16 Oct 1927, Page 1; 1 Nov 1927, Page 4; 5 Nov 1927, Page 4; 11 Nov 1927, Page 1; 31 Dec 1927, Page 1; 15 Jan 1928, Page 1; 28 Jan 1928, Page 1; 25 Feb 1928, Page 4; 13 Mar 1928, Page 5; 18 Mar 1928, Page 1; 20 Apr 1928, Page 5; 28 Apr 1928, Page 4; 8 May 1928, Page 1; 10 May 1928, Page 6; 20 Jun 1928, Page 1; 7 Jul 1928, Page 1; 8 Jul 1928, Page 1; 8 Jul 1928, Page 1; 25 Jul 1928, Page 1; 2 Aug 1928, Page 4; 7 Aug 1928, Page 1; 17 Aug 1928, Page 1; 18 Aug 1928, Page 1; 23 Aug 1928, Page 1; 23 Aug 1928, Page 5; 24 Aug 1928, Page 1; 25 Aug 1928, Page 1; 11 Sep 1928, Page 1; 16 Sep 1928, Page 8; 23 Sep 1928, Page 1; 1 Nov 1928, Page 1; 18 Dec 1928, Page 1; 29 Jan 1929, Page 7; 1 Feb 1929, Page 1; 2 Feb 1929, Page 1; 3 Feb 1929, Page 1; 2 Mar 1929, Page 7; 9 Sep 1930, Page 6; 21 Apr 1931, Page 6; 16 Mar 1932, Page 6; 24 Nov 1932, Page 3; 1 Dec 1932, Page 5; 27 Jan 1933, Page 1; 27 Jan 1933, Page 1; 28 Jan 1933, Page 1; 7 May 1933, Page 1; 17 May 1933, Page 1; 16 Jun 1933, Page 5; 5 Jan 1935, Page 1; 9 Apr 1935, Page 3; 17 Apr 1935, Page 1; 27 Apr 1935, Page 1; 26 Jun 1935, Page 7; 27 Sep 1935, Page 1
Mountain Democrat: and Placerville Times, 12 Dec 1919, Page 3
Oakland Tribune: 9 Aug 1957, Page 3; 24 Aug 1963, Page 1
Oroville Mercury Register: 24 Sep 1936, Page 2
Peninsula Times Tribune: 3 Aug 1938, Page 10
Placer Herald: 14 Nov 1908, Page 5; 2 Jul 1910, Page 6; 19 Aug 1933, Page 3; 28 Aug 1963, Page 1; 20 Nov 1963, Page 8
Reno Gazette-Journal: 16 Jul 1907, Page 3
Roseville Register: 19 Jul 1912, Page 4
Sacramento Bee: 27 Jun 1924, Page 7; 20 Sep 1938, Page 9; 29 Sep 1938, Page 8; 25 Oct 1938, Page 8; 21 Nov 1939, Page 8; 24 Apr 1940, Page 6; 14 May 1940, Page 8; 9 Jan 1941, Page 11; 8 Mar 1941, Page 22; 14 May 1942, Page 18; 12 Jul 1945, Page 8; 18 Feb 1948, Page 11; 2 Mar 1948, Page 8; 5 Apr 1948, Page 8; 11 Jun 1948, Page 10; 14 Jun 1948, Page 8; 24 Aug 1963, Page 1; 10 Dec 1964, Page 52; 9 Mar 1965, Page 35; 9 Feb 1969, Page 29
Salt Lake Mining Review: 15 Sep 1901, Page 23
Salt Lake Tribune: 18 Sep 1901, Page 6
San Francisco Call: 5 May 1912, Page 44
San Francisco Chronicle: 15 Apr 1895, Page 16
San Francisco Examiner: 10 May 1959, Page 53
Sedalia Democrat: 2 Aug 1896, Page 8; 9 May 1897, Page 1
Sedalia Weekly Democrat: 6 Sep 1906, Page 8
Silver State: 1 Jul 1907, Page 1
Stockton Evening And Sunday Record: 24 Aug 1963, Page 23
The Index: 11 Jun 1896, Page 1
Windsor Review: 17 Jan 1895, Page 1

Newspaper Articles from California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California, Riverside
Auburn Journal: 15 June 1894
Daily Alta California: 3 April 1887
Daily National Democrat: 25 August 1859
Morning Union: 12 December 1875, 8 April 1887, 9 April 1887, 21 February 1888, 14 February 1889, 24 February 1889, 10 March 1889, 31 March 1889, 11 April 1889, 12 May 1889, 20 September 1889, 2 June 1894, 1 October 1914, 28 April 1915, 2 July 1920, 12 December 1920, 5 March 1921
Nevada Democrat: 14 March 1860
Nevada Journal: 23 September 1853
Pacific Rural Press: 22 March 1879
Placer Herald: 30 April 1887, 31 May 1890, 6 December 1890
Plumas Independent: 16 August 1928
Sacramento Daily Union: 16 May 1851, 8 November 1913
Weekly Colusa: 28 July 1888

Genealogy Records from Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com: Aubrey Lee Wisker San Francisco Area Funeral Home Records, 1895-1985; Jarrot Labon Rollins California, U.S. Voter Registers, 1866-1898, Search results for Frazier McLeod in 1870s
London Metropolitan Archives: John Henry Martin Van Buren Wisker London Church Marriages, 1754-1938
National Archives and Records Administration: Aubrey L Wisker 1930 U.S. Census, Aubrey L Wisker 1950 U.S. Census, Aubrey Van Whisker 1880 U.S. Census, F McCloud 1860 U.S. Census, Fraser Mcleod 1880 U.S. Census
UK National Archives: John H Wisker 1861 England Census

Genealogy Records - User Created Family Trees from Ancestry.com
Anne Patton Baugh: Aubrey Lee Wisker, Aubrey N. Wisker
Capstanette: Flora McDonald, Frederick Horace Tibbetts
bos6: Fraser McLeod

Other Genealogy Records
Find A Grave Memorial: Aubrey Lee Wisker (1871-1959), Charlotte Annie Lay Wisker (-1877), Dr Jerrett Labon Rollins (1858-1933), Frazier McLeod (1825-1889)

Google & Other Maps
Cross Section of Laird's Dam Site at Scotts Flat from May 1912 by H.L. Englebright, Paterson Mining Collection from Society of California Pioneers; NID System from November 1927 by Fred H. Tibbetts from NID; Undated map of Scotts Flat Reservoir Site by H.L. Englebright from NID

Wikipedia Articles
1920 United States Presidential Election

Webpages
Western States Marriage Record Index by BYU Idaho
About the BYLT by Bear Yuba Land Trust
Great Depression by Britannica
CPUC History by California Public Utilities Commission
Boswell v. Laird, 8 Cal. 469 (1857) by Supreme Court of California from Caselaw Access Project
The South Yuba Canal by NID Water YouTube
Governors of California by William Irwin from Governors of California
Yuba-Bear and Drum-Spaulding Hydroelectric Project by HDR Inc
Searls Law Office Historical Marker by Historical Marker Database
About Nevada County by Mindat.org, Mines and Minerals
NID's Story by NID
NID Purchases Powerhouse For One Dollar by KNCO from NewsTalk Radio
History of Empire Mine by Sierra Gold Parks Foundation
Western U.S. could become nearly snowless due to climate change by The Washington Post
Irrigation District Act by UC Hastings Law College
Fred H. Tibbetts and E.E. Blackie papers by UC Riverside from University of California, Riverside

Newspaper Articles from California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California, Riverside
Lompoc Review: 1 February 1927

Newspaper Articles from the Grass Valley Union
NID board OKs purchase of powerhouse, canals from PG&E by Liz Kellar
Water board OKs flume project

Chapter 26 - Stories of Fire and Ice

Chapter 27 - Tunnels, Flumes and Siphons

Books and Documents
District Court Case #226 - Kidd et al. vs. Laird et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
District Court Case #771 - Samuel Johnson vs. Kidd et al. from Searls Historical Library from Nevada County District Court
History & Directory of Nevada County, California (1867) by Edwin Bean from US Gen Web Archives
Nevada County Historical Society Bulletin, #23-6, December 1969 from Doris Foley from Nevada County Historical Society
Personal correspondence with Ken Hart, from NID
Snow Mountain Flume from Gold Cities (1965) by Jim Morley & Doris Foley
South Yuba Water Company 1894 Pamphlet, PAM 20584 from California Historical Society

Newspaper Articles from Newspaper.com
Auburn Journal: 15 Sep 1981, Page 6; 25 Sep 1981, Page 3; 26 Mar 1982, Page 6
Lincoln News Messenger: 19 Oct 1972, Page 1
Morning Union: 25 Feb 1904, Page 4; 2 Mar 1904, Page 5; 26 Mar 1910, Page 5; 10 Apr 1910, Page 6; 17 Jan 1911, Page 5; 19 Jan 1911, Page 5; 28 Feb 1911, Page 5; 1 May 1914, Page 6; 9 Feb 1915, Page 5; 21 Mar 1915, Page 5; 8 Dec 1927, Page 5; 9 Feb 1933, Page 2
Oakland Tribune: 21 Jan 1930, Page 19
Sacramento Bee: 9 Feb 1915, Page 8; 16 Jan 1950, Page 4; 12 Jun 1972, Page 18; 3 Jun 1977, Page 10

Newspaper Articles from California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California, Riverside
Morning Union: 24 March 1915
San Jose Mercury News: 9 January 1875

Webpages
Scotts Flat Lake Campground Maps from NID Recreation

Background Image
Flume and canal plans by Fred Tibbetts in 1921.
Source: NID.

Nevada City History