NEVADA

See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

CITY  , a township and the county-seat of Nevada county, California, U.S.A., about 130 M . N.E. of San Francisco . Pop . (189o) 2524; (1900) 3250 (764 foreign-born); (191o) 2689 . It is the terminus of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge railway, which connects with the Southern Pacific railway at Colfax, 23 M . S . An electric line extends to Grass Valley (pop. in 1900, 4719), 4 M . S.W . Situated in a hilly and picturesque region, 2580 ft. above the sea, Nevada City is frequented as a health and summer resort (annual mean temperature, about 53' 5° F.; mean summer temperature, about 66°) . Gold-mining and quartz-mining are its principal industries, and in 1907 Nevada county's output of gold (104,590.76 oz., worth $2,162,083) was second only to that of Butte county (134,813.39 OZ., worth $2,786,840) in California; the county is the leading producer ' Died the 21st of September, 189o, and Frank Bell, became governor by virtue of his office as lieutenant-governor . I Died the loth of April 1895, and R . Sadler became governor by virtue of his office as lieutenant-governor .

NEVERS from quartz mines . Among the manufactures of the township are carriages and products of planing mills, foundries and machine shops; and grapes and fruits are raised in the surrounding country . Gold was first discovered within what is now Nevada City, on Deer Creek, in the summer of 1848, by James W . Marshall, who, in January of the same year, had found the metal near what is now Coloma, Eldorado county . The first settlement was made here in 1849; rich deposits of gold were soon afterwards found on or near the surface, and the settlement had the characteristic growth of a western mining town; its output of gold reached its maximum in 1850-1851 . Nevada City was first incorporated in 1851 under a special act of the legislature (repealed in 1852); it was reincorporated in 1856 and again in 1878 .