“We have evidence that certain parties have conspired to co-opt public agencies to pressure the Board of Supervisors […] to vote to deny the Project at the future Board hearing,” wrote Ben Mossman.

On the steps of the Nevada County administrative building, a huge crowd gathered both for and against the Rise Gold mining proposal.

Free bus rides if you drink the Kool-Aid!

William Bowers Bourn was the original owner of the Empire Mine Company. According to Roger A. Lescohler in The Story of the Empire Mine, 1850-1956, Bourn was a descendant of Jared Bourn “who came from England in 1630 with John Winthrop, the founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.”