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VOLUME Cl--NUMBER 89 NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1910 Established Sept. 6, 1860

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ALLEGHANY LIGHTED BY ELECTRICITY THIS EVENING

LIGHT AND POWER TURNED ON PERMANENTLY IN THE TOWN

BIG CELEBRATION TO LAST TWO DAYS WILL BE INAUGURATED TONIGHT.

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This is to be a gala night at Alleghany. It will eventually become historic because it marks a new era in the development of the famous camp, according to a telephone message received from there today. Tonight the electric light will be turned on in the town for the first time permanently. The town will be brilliantly illuminated for the holidays. A number of extra lights have been strung along the street, which will resemble the "great white way" of New York when the "juice" is turned on.

The wiring of the town is finished. The buildings have also been equipped with electric light. This part of the work has been under the direction of Harold Smith, an expert in the business, who has been at Alleghany for several weeks with a crew of men engaged on the work. The last load of lamps arrived in Alleghany yesterday afternoon and they were quickly installed.

The Masonic hall, Odd Fellows' hall and the churches have been wired and supplied with lamps. In the future they will blaze with electricity. Many of the mines have also been supplied and the stranger entering the town at night will be able to see it for a long distance.

Christmas will be a merry one at Alleghany. The mines will all declare a holiday and give their men a chance to celebrate. The celebration will start tonight and will last until after Christmas day. The band will play on the streets, and there will be a dance in the hall. There will be other features to commemorate the joyous season known throughout the English-speaking world as Yuletide. Not in all the history of the town has there been so much cause for rejoicing as now.

The lighting of Alleghany and furnishing the town with power is the result of a scheme originating with DR. A. H. Tickell of Nevada City who, a year ago last spring, made a water location on the Middle Yuba river. After the surveys had been made A. D. Foote, general manager of the North Star mines company at Grass Valley, became the president of Middle Yuba hydro-electric company, which has built the present plant. The company has a "tie-line" connecting with the line of the Pacific gas and electric company at Pike City to temporarily furnish the town with light and power. When the company's own plant is installed on the Middle Yuba river this line will be abandoned. It is understood that the project, when it is completed, will cost the company $500,000. This investment shows the confidence Mr. Foote and his confreres have in the future of the Alleghany district.

The details attendant on the lighting of Alleghany have been in the hands of George Scarfe Jr., who has been at Alleghany for several weeks. The big transformers have been tried out and it is believed they will now work without friction, supplying the town with all the light and power needed.

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Potatoes for Alleghany.

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John Cunningham of North San Juan arrived in Alleghany yesterday afternoon with a large load of potatoes drawn by six horses. It is expected this will be the last load of provisions for the camp to be hauled in this winter. The winter has been the most open in a quarter of a century and it has been possible for teams to get into Alleghany and Forest with little trouble up to the present time. As a rule the roads are closed up long before this. Cunningham says he had little trouble getting into the town.

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Alleghany, California 1912

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