six o'clock in the morning
An atrocious crime reported in a neighboring city two days afterward ! Were such things too common to excite interest ? Or was it felt that the recital of them did not tend to boom the great State of California ? The Graniteville Stage On that fateful first of September , 1879 , the stage left Graniteville , as usual , at six o'clock in the morning . Graniteville , in Eureka Township , Nevada County , is the Eureka South of early days . The stage still makes the daily trip over the mountains ; but the glamour and romance of the gold fields have long since departed . On the morning mentioned traffic was light , for people did not travel the twenty-eight miles through heat and dust to Nevada City for pleasure .