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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 456 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NEVADA See also:CITY , a township and the See also:county-seat of Nevada county, See also:California, U.S.A., about 130 M. N.E. of See also:San Francisco. Pop. (189o) 2524; (1900) 3250 (764 See also:foreign-See also:born); (191o) 2689. It is the See also:terminus of the Nevada County Narrow See also:Gauge railway, which connects with the See also:Southern Pacific railway at See also:Colfax, 23 M. S. An electric See also:line extends to Grass Valley (pop. in 1900, 4719), 4 M. S.W. Situated in a hilly and picturesque region, 2580 ft. above the See also:sea, Nevada City is frequented as a See also:health and summer resort (See also:annual mean temperature, about 53' 5° F.; mean summer temperature, about 66°). See also:Gold-See also:mining and See also:quartz-mining are its See also:principal See also:industries, and in 1907 Nevada county's output of gold (104,590.76 oz., See also:worth $2,162,083) was second only to that of See also:Butte county (134,813.39 OZ., worth $2,786,840) in California; the county is the leading producer ' Died the 21st of See also:September, 189o, and See also:Frank See also:Bell, became See also:governor by virtue of his See also:office as See also:lieutenant-governor. I Died the loth of See also:April 1895, and R. See also:Sadler became governor by virtue of his office as lieutenant-governor.

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 Nevada City was first incorporated in 1851 under a See also:special See also:act of the legislature (repealed in 1852); it was reincorporated in 1856 and again in 1878.

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