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NEVADA 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
principal
industries
' 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
NEVERS from quartz
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
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