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Walloupa. That winter, the local press reported Brown Company miners averaging $ 50 per day, with three men taking up to $ 1500 on a good day. However, mining was hamstrung by lack of year-round water. Accordingly, Charles Marsh, a surveyor who had constructed a number of water ditches in the Nevada City area, joined by James Churchman and John McConnell, formed the Chalk Bluff Company to bring water by a ditch from Steep Hollow Creek. Delays in completing the 15 mile Williams ditch, as it was sometimes called, led to one contemporary report that in 1853 "Walloupa starved to death."
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Birdseye Canyon. There, in 1857, Lazarus Beard opened a saloon in what became the town of You Bet, and within a few years, as the Walloupa diggins played out, the miners from Walloupa moved north and abandoned
118:) was a historic mining community in Nevada County, located about 1/2 mile south of You Bet. It was named by its white developers after a Nisenan chief, and should not be confused with the Nisenan village of Walloupa, which was located about 15 miles to the west near Rough and Ready.
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