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Those who desire a complete geological description of Plumas county, we refer to an able and. scientific article on the subject in Raymond's " Mineral Resources West of the Rocky Mountains, 1876," being the eighth annual report of Rossiter W. Raymond, United States commissioner of mining statistics. It is contributed by Mr. J. A. Edman of Mumford's hill, and is accompanied by a geological map of the section treated of. It is the purpose of Mr. Edman to publish a complete and more comprehensive treatise on the geology and mineralogy of the county from data in his posses. sion, which will be of great value.
Shallow placer and river mining have long since declined to but a shadow of their former greatness. Where thousands delved for gold along the streams but a few dozens can now be found, and those principally Chinese. Quartz-mining and the working of the extensive gravel beds that have been discovered have taken the place of the placer-mining of old ; and the richness of the ledges and extent of the gravel ranges give promise of a long and successful career to Plumas as a mining county. Capital has been attracted by these promising investments, and the developments
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made have been of the most encouraging character. A dozen quartz-mills crushed 100,000 tons of quartz in 1881, while more than 500 men have been given employment in the quartz-mines alone. The oldest quartz-mine in the county is the Plumas Eureka, owned by the Sierra Buttes Mining Company of London, England. It has two steam and water mills, with sixty stamps each. 200 men are on its pay-roll. A history of this mine is given under the head of Quartz Township.
The Green Mountain Gold Mining Company, a new York company, owns the Green Mountain, Cherokee, and Gold Stripe locations, near Crescent Mills. The Green Mountain is the principal ledge, and was discovered in 1862 by J. B. Batchelder, who worked it occasionally for ten years. In 1876 it was purchased by Green & Brewster, who worked it until 1879. At that time H. C. Bidwell went to New York and organized the above company, of which he became president, and was succeeded, upon his decease in the fall of 1880, by R. E. Brewster. Batchelder made a great success in working the mine until he attempted improvements beyond his financial capacity, and became so involved that he had to sacrifice the property. Since 1876 C. G. Rogers has been superintendent, and to his able management is largely due the great success in working the ledge. The mine is worked entirely by a tunnel, no expensive hoisting works being required. The total length of the tunnel is 3,000 feet. Ore is drawn in cars to its mouth, and then let down on tram- ways to the two mills running 100 stamps, farther down the mountain. The vein is a true fissure, and can be easily traced for two miles. The Cherokee mine is worked by means of a shaft, and the ore is crushed at the Kettle mill of twenty stamps, two miles from Greenville.
The Indian Valley mine, near. Greenville, was discovered and located in 1862 by Waterworth, Shannon, & Co. It is now owned and operated by an . Indiana corporation, the Indian Valley Mining Co. They have a large water and steam mill.
The Plumas National mine, on Soda creek, was discovered by Ellis & Lowry in 1877. The Plumas National Gold Mining Co., of New York, is now working the mine, and has a steam mill of thirty stamps.
Considerable prospecting in quartz is being done, and some work on a smaller scale than by the large companies mentioned above. The Bell Gold Mining Company of Dubuque, Iowa, was organized by R. Z. Bell in 1876. They are working a ledge at old Elizabethtown by means of two tunnels and a ten-stamp mill, under the management of Mr. Bell. Colonel E. A. Heath and others are working quartz-ledges at Argentine, a few miles east of Quincy. The probabilities are that much more capital will be induced to develop the many valuable ledges in the county, which are waiting to shower a golden reward into the lap of intelligent and enterprising capital.
Of gravel-mining and more shallow placer-mining there is considerable. The assessor reported 1,000 miles of mining ditches in 1881, which he valued at the extremely low amount of $99,266, or less than $100 per mile. In 1857 there were 45 miles of ditch, that cost $170,000 for construction. Some of these are used for quartz-milling, but the greater portion for placer and gravel mining. Except in the vicinity of La Porte and Poorman's creek but little hydraulic mining is or has been carried on. Some of the best gravel deposits are so situated that the hydraulic method cannot be used. One of the most important and most promising of these is the Monte Christo mine at Spanish Peak, described in the history of Mineral Township.
Plumas Water and Mining Company owns the most valuable gravel location and water privi- lege combined to be found in the county. Their property consists of 1,500 acres on Gopher hill on Spanish creek, and a main ditch twenty-one miles in length from Gold and Silver lakes on Spanish peak. The company was formed in 1871, and the stock is owned by N. Cadwallader, Ira Cadwallader, Thompson & Kellogg, D. Folsom, O. J. Wellman, George D. Dorning, R. Neville, and
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E. C. Ross. Mr. Folsom is manager of the property. Quite a little history attaches to the water privileges now owned by this company. The Plumas ditch, seven miles in length, was completed from Gold and Silver lakes to Mountain House, in 1855, by Joseph Winston, William and Richard Jacks, Sarshel C. Brown, and others. A settlement of 500 people, called Mount Pleasant, sprang up at this terminus, where hotels, stores, saloons, and a saw-mill existed for several years. The objective point of the ditch was Fales' hill. The Spanish Ranch ditch was commenced in 1856, to run from Spanish creek to Elizabethtown, a distance of thirty miles, and was finished in two years. Branch ditches were run to Gopher, Badger, and Railroad hills. The Mount Pleasant ditch was completed in 1857, from Mill creek to Mount Pleasant and Fales' hill, by Thomas A. Cravens, Miles Hallingsworth, Samuel J. Dickson, and William M. Story. All these ditches are now combined under the control of the Plumas Mining and Water Company, and as their mining ground and water privileges are practically unlimited, this may be denominated the most valuable gravel-mining property in the county.
Among the other gravel-mining enterprises of the county are the drift-mine of Corbin & Manson, at Elizabethtown ; the tunnel being run in the American valley by Mr. Mills; and the extensive gravel-mining property and operations of D. R. Thomas, on Poorman's creek.
THE MONITOR
HYDRAULIC GOLD MINES OF THE HOPKINS CREEK GOLD MINING CO. PLUMAS CO. CAL.
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The most extensive hydraulic mining in the county is being carried on in the Thomas and Reed mines on Poorman's creek, and the claims of the Hopkins Creek Gold Mining Company on Hopkins creek. It was on these streams that the first mining in the county was done, early in 1850, and they have been unsurpassed for richness of their auriferous deposits by any streams of their size in the state. In October, 1876, D. R. Thomas, J. H. Reed, and Francis Hall, of Boston, purchased the claims and water rights on Poorman's creek, and immediately constructed reservoirs, ditches, flumes, and everything necessary to work them by the hydraulic monitors which they placed in the claims. They have continually added to their possessions and privileges, until they now own one of the best mining properties and water privileges in the state. A score of cabins are on the property, in which live the men employed by the company. There is also a saw-mill owned by the company, which supplies all the lumber required in the mines. Nuggets have been found varying from $100 to $2,200 in value, and the gold is all very pure, being from 929 to 945 fine. A natural lake supplies a portion of the water used in the mines, and lies at an altitude of 800 feet above them. Beside the Boston and Eclipse hydraulic claims, the company owns the Blue Lead drift mine, one-half mile below the Boston claim, comprising 500 acres of land. They obtained full possession of this in 1880, and have constructed a large ditch to it, so that they can work it by both the drifting and hydraulic methods. This property is believed by mining men to be exceedingly valuable. The company also owns the Bunker Hill claim, adjoining the Blue Lead on the east. They own, also, the tailings from the early mining operations on the creek, which are quite valuable.
The claims of the Hopkins Creek Gold Mining Company are about two miles above the forks of Hopkins and Poorman's creeks. They consist of the Cox & Harrington claims that have been worked since 1858 by George D. Harrington and James Cox. In 1880 they were purchased by a Boston company, and in 1881 extensive improvements were made upon them in the way of reser- voirs, flumes, ditches, pipes, and hydraulic monitors. They are now working these claims on an extensive scale. ' On the south-west the company has located a claim of about 100 acres joining the North American mine of Sierra county, on which they have constructed a large reservoir. Mr. Harrington still owns an interest in these claims as a member of the company. A good road has been built by the company to Poorman's creek, where it connects with the road built by D. R. Thomas from that point to the La Porte and Quincy road.
D. R. Thomas is the general superintendent in charge of these mines, except the Hopkins creek claims, of which William B. Thomas is superintendent. Mr. D. R. Thomas gives his personal attention to all the operations, and it is to his energy and capacity that the great success the companies have met with is largely due. The claims on Poorman's and Hopkins creeks are connected by telephone. The property and operations are illustrated in this volume, and an idea of their magnitude can be obtained from the engravings.
JUDGE GREENLEAF GREELEY CLOUGH .- This gentleman is a native of Mt. Vernon, Kennebec county, Maine, where he was born October 9, 1835. His parents, Nathaniel Clough and Rebecca W., whose maiden name was Greeley, were also natives of Maine. The judge arrived in California September 24, 1859, and settled in Sierra county, at Gibsonville. He had studied the law as his profession early in life, and soon after commenced its practice, making his debut at Downieville. He also practiced in the courts of Plumas, frequently coming from the former place to Quincy during the winter months, with commendable zeal and fidelity in behalf of his client, on snow-shoes. In 1877 he was presented by his party (the republican) as their choice for the judgeship of the Twenty-first Judicial District, composed of Plumas, Lassen, and Modoc counties, his opponent
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being the Hon. J. D. Goodwin, then presiding judge of the district, over whom he was successful. He served two years. In 1879 he was again placed before the people for the position of superior judge-a position created by the new constitution, then about to go into effect. On this occasion he was opposed to Judge E. T. Hogan, the democratic candidate. Judge Clough was married on July 5, 1879, to Miss Metta S. Lowell, the second daughter of James M. Lowell, from Maine also. The union has been blessed with one child, a son, Leon Clough, now two years of age. The judge has ever been and still is a hard student, devoted to the law. Has many warm friends in all parties, and has a fine appreciation of them. He resides in Quincy. He is a man of energy, indus- try, and of strict temperate habits.
ARTHUR W. KEDDIE .- He was born in Perthshire, Scotland, in 1842, and was brought by his parents to America in the following year, and settled in Ontario county, Canada, where he lived till 1863. He was educated to the profession of land surveyor, and served under a provincial land surveyor in the town of Whitby, the county seat of Ontario county, the three years' apprenticeship required by the provincial laws. He passed his examinations successfully before the provincial board of examiners in the city of Toronto. Immediately on attaining his majority, he left Canada for California, via Panama, arriving in San Francisco September 8, 1863. His first work in the state was the compiling of Holt's map of California and Nevada. He went to Plumas county in 1864, to survey the road between Indian and American valleys, and was afterward employed in making preliminary surveys of a railroad line from Oroville, via the north fork of Feather river, American valley, and Beckwourth pass, to Reno. In 1869 he returned to Canada (on the first train on the C. P. R. R.), married the eldest daughter of William Barnes, Esq. of Whitby, but soon returned to California, and has since been resident of Quincy. He has several times been elected county surveyor of Plumas. Mr. Keddie is a P. G. of the Odd Fellows lodge, and is now, and has been for the past five years, Master of Plumas Lodge No. 60, F. & A. M. He is a United States deputy surveyor, notary public, etc.
L. W. BUNNELL .- He is a native of New Hampshire, and came to California, via the Isthmus, in 1851, arriving in San Francisco the latter part of June. He first mined on Poorman's creek, Nevada. From there he went to Plumas county, and mined on the middle fork of Feather river until 1853, when he went to the north fork and mined until 1855, in which year he went to Butt valley, Plumas county, and commenced farming and stock-raising, where he remained until 1867, at which time he came to Big Meadows, and erected his present fine hotel. In connection with his hotel, he has about 940 acres of land. Mr. Bunnell was married in 1869 to Mrs. Julia E. Lee. The hotel is beautifully situated near the banks of the north fork of Feather river, with groves of pines in the immediate background, and Lassen's peak in the distance. The rooms are commo- dious and comfortable. The table is supplied from the dairy with a plenty of fresh milk and butter. The mountain streams in the immediate vicinity furnish an abundance of trout. Mr. Bunnell is an agreeable gentleman and a popular landlord. During the warm season the house is filled with guests from all parts of the state. Excursions are made weekly to Lassen's peak, the Hot Springs, Mud Springs, and other places of interest. Many invalids have derived permanent benefit from passing a few weeks in Big Meadows.
R. STOVER .- Mr. Stover was born in Center county, Pennsylvania, in 1834, where he remained until 1839, when he went to Iowa. He came across the plains to California iu 1850, with his father and brother. He mined one month at Bidwell's bar, then went to Sacramento, but soon went to Marysville, and settled on a ranch one mile south of town. He remained here two years. Then mined one year in Nevada county, and six years in Placer. He then engaged in stock-raising in
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Butte county. June 20, 1859, he came to Big Meadows, and located his present ranch, spending his summer months here and winters in Butte county, until 1863, since which time he has been a permanent resident. Mr. Stover is in the dairy business, and has a model farm. He keeps from fifty to seventy-five cows, and makes from 6,000 to 8,000 pounds of an excellent quality of butter each season. He has all the modern appliances for butter-making. Numerous springs of cold water are on his farm. He was married in 1862 to Mary Ann Rose, who was born in Wisconsin in 1846 and came to California in 1852. Their children are four girls and three boys.
WILLIAM H. MILLER .- Mr. Miller was born in Schuyler county, New York, February 11, 1833. He came to California in 1852, and mined at Hansonville, Yuba county, and afterwards on the north fork of Feather river until 1858, when he bought a ranch in Humbug valley. He sold this ranch in 1859, and went to Butt valley, Plumas county, where he engaged in the stock and dairy business. In 1859 he was married to Mrs. L. A. Smith, who was born in Herkimer county, New York. In 1879 Mr. Miller erected a large hotel and residence. He, in partnership with L. W. Bunnell, was the owner of a store six miles below the valley on the North Fork, also one near their residence. After a short illness, Mr. Miller died on the twenty-sixth of November, 1879. He was universally esteemed, and left a host of friends. He was a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity. Mrs. Miller still lives at the homestead, conducting an extensive dairy business, and a store opposite the hotel.
JAMES E. EDWARDS .- He was born in the town of Eardington, near Bridge North, Shrop- shire, England, in the year 1832. He came to the United States in 1851, settling in New London, New York, where for a short time he clerked in a store and meat market. In October, 1854, Mr. Edwards came to California, and engaged in the manufacture of English mustard, near San Jose, and planted the first yellow Durham mustard in the state. He settled in Plumas county in 1855, having charge of the New England ranch for one season, and afterwards followed mining at Nelson creek and at Poplar bar, on the middle fork of Feather river, building a house, store, and butcher shop at the latter place. He afterwards purchased the ground upon which now stands the Plumas House, and erected this commodious hotel, which has the reputation among travelers and tourists as being one of the very best hotels in the mountains. His estimable wife, who is ever to be found looking to the comfort of their guests, has in a great measure made the house what it is. A view -of the hotel may be found on another page.
ROTHEUS A. GRAY was born in Boston, Massachusetts, August 5, 1851. His father, Captain R. D. Gray, was one of the principal seafaring men of New England, and a descendent from old Puritan stock-Edward Gray of the Mayflower being his ancestral progenitor. Captain Gray married a Miss Maria Nolan, daughter of Captain Nolan, British army, and a native of Dublin, Ireland. The result of this marriage was one son, the subject of this sketch. R. A. Gray entered Yarmouth Academy, Maine, to fit for college, in 1860, and left the institution four years after. He came to California in 1864, and entered Santa Clara College the twenty-third of October of the same year. He remained in the institution the regular four years required for a classical course, and having completed his bachelor studies, began his medical course in 1868. He returned to the east in 1869, and finished his medical education, graduating in 1872, taking the degree of M. D. The degree of A. B. was received by him in 1874, and of A. M. in 1877. The doctor served one year in the U. S. naval and civil marine service as assistant surgeon, being stationed at Portland, Maine. He moved to California in 1874, and is now surgeon in charge of all the important mines near Greenville. He was married in 1872 to Miss May Seabury, by whom he has two children : Asa White, born November 23, 1873; and William Henry Moulton, born December 8, 1874.
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HISTORY OF LASSEN COUNTY.
Page
DESCRIPTION OF LASSEN COUNTY
Situation
329
Peter Lassen
.. 332
Topography
329
The Lassen Road
333
Honey Lake
330
Lassen Peak
334
Resources
330
Altitudes
337
Mineral Springs
331
EARLY HISTORY OF LASSEN COUNTY
337-357
Trapping Parties 337
Beckwourth's Visit 338
Fremont's Expedition
338
Meeting to resist Plumas County Authority .. 350
Steps to organize Nevada Territory
352
Noble's Party
339
Roop's Settlement
340
Petition to Congress
353
Beckwith's R. R. Survey
341
Laws adopted in 1858.
354
Lassen's Settlement .
342
Roop elected Governor
355
Nevada organized
356
Lake County set off.
356
Laws of Nataqua.
344
Roop County Election
357
THIE SAGE-BRUSH WAR. 358-362
Statement of E. H. Pierce 358
Conference of Nevada and California Author-
Statement of Committee
360
ities
362
Compromise Meeting
361
Boundary Survey
362
OFFICIAL HISTORY OF LASSEN COUNTY
363-369
Organization of the County .363
First Officers.
368
New Township
368
Meeting of Commissioners.
.367
Court-house.
368
Supervisor Districts and Townships
.367
Modoc County
.368
Organic Act 363
Settlements of 1856
343
Uncertain Location of Boundary Line. . 344
Locations of Land in 1856
347
Civil Records of Nataqua 349
329-337
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326
Page
LASSEN COUNTY OFFICERS
369-373
County and Superior Judge .369
County Coroner
371
District Attorney .369
Superintendent of Schools
371
Sheriff
370
Supervisors.
371
County Clerk
$70
State Senators
372
County Treasurer
370
Assemblymen
372
County Surveyor
370
County Vote.
372
County Assessor
371
THE BENCH AND BAR 373-378
Roop County Bar 373
Superior Court
374
District Court 374
County Court
374
Biographies of Judges and Members of the
Bar
.374
INDIAN DIFFICULTIES 378-386
Early Situation
378
Weatherlow's Statement.
.379
Colonel Lander's Party
383
Death of Peter Lassen
.379
Death of A. A. Painter
383
Murder of Dexter E. Deming.
.380
Fight near Eagle Lake.
383
Petition to Governor Roop
380
Massacre of the Pearson Family
384
A Visit to Winnemucca
381
The Potato War
385
Roop calls for Aid.
382
THE OVERLAND AND IDAHO ROUTES 386-387
HANGING OF SNOW, EDWARDS, AND LUCKY BILL 387-388
LASSEN COUNTY PIONEER SOCIETY .389
JOURNALISM .
390-391
Newspapers and their Editors.
JANESVILLE 391-392
TULE CONFEDERACY 392
MICHIGAN FLAT .392
BUNTINGVILLE
393
ELYSIAN VALLEY 393
SUSANVILLE 393-397
MILFORD
397-398
JOHNSTONVILLE 398 ...
The Pah-Ute War.
382
327
LASSEN FLUME AND LAND COMPANY
Page 398-399
HAYDEN HILL. .399
BIEBER
399-400
LONG VALLEY 507
HANGING OF CHARLES BARNIIART. 400
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
Arnold, A. T. 400
Goumaz, Philip J.
406
Bangham, E. G. 400
Greeno, George ...
406
Barham, Thomas Marion
401
Hall, William H.
505
Baxter, John
401
Hurley, Dr. George
503
Blake, J. C.
401
Hall, Wright P.
406
Bass, Richard D
505
Harrison, Hon. W. R.
375
Hartson, Charles
407
Breed, Levi Newton
402
Bronson, P. B.
506
Byers, James D ..
402
Bruce, Hon. A. T.
375
Chapman, Hon. John S.
375
Chamberlin, Dr. M. P.
403
Chamberlin, Dr. P.
403
Chamberlin, R.
403
Clark, Nicholas
.506
Crane, Hon. William H. 403
Conkey, Amos
501
Dalton, E.
404
Davis, John C.
404
De Forest, Clinton, Jr. 404
Dill, Andrew .404
Doyle, S. A.
506
Dunn, John R.
404
De Forest, A. E.
502
Epley, T. R. 405
405
French, Thomas .J
Fry, George W.
405
Garratt, J. P.
405
Glascock, Thomas Jefferson
406
Merrill, Captain Charles
504
408
Ingram, Robert
Johnson, Robert
503
Jenison, R. B.
408
Jones, Hon. Israel
376
Kingsbury, Edward
502
Kelley, John D.
408
Kelley, Clarence G.
.378
Lassen, Peter.
. . 332
Lawson, Charles
502
Lindsay, F. H.
409
Litch, Andrew
409
Long, Thomas N.
409
Long, William B.
409
Lowe, John, Jr.
.410
Lynch, Joseph
410
Meylert, G. W
.506
Marstella, Massillon
377
Bond, Jerry
401
Branham, James
402
Hendrick, Hon. J. W.
377
Hoffman, Samuel
407
Hyer, D. C .. .
407
Hudson, Edmond
407
Hulsmann, John F.
501
Harvey, Hon. I. J.
374
328
McDermott, James 410
McKinsey, N. S. 410
McFadden, Thomas 506
Masten, J. T. 410
Maxwell, J. H. 411
Miller, Andrew 411
Mulroney, Thomas J. 411
Myers, Philip 502
Mulholland, Charles .503
McClaskey, Hon. Calvin. 375
Painter, S. H. 411
Partridge, John C. 412
Roop, Hon. Isaac Newton 412
Spencer, Ephraim V 377
Sanders, T. B.
499
Sharp, J. P.
499
Sylvester, A. U. 499
Skaddan, Hiram N 499
Slackford, Edward T. 500
Smith, John P. M. 500
Spalding, Dr. Zetus N. 500
Steinberger, James M 500
Snyder, Henry 505
Smith, Hon. Albert A 375
Stewart, Isaac M. 505
Theodore, John . 501
Titherington, David 501
Tyler, Jerry . . 503
Talbot, Captain E. S. 376
Ward, Hon. John S. 374
Washburn, L. B.
506
JUDGE JOHN S.WARD.
HISTORY
OF
LASSEN COUNTY.
THE following history of the county of Lassen has been compiled from data gleaned by Mr. E. R. Dodge from its old pioneers, public records, and private documents, combined with the fund of information gathered by the writer himself, during the past four years, from the libraries, newspaper files, and records, and hundreds of the pioneers of the state, many of the latter residents of the coast while yet it was a Mexican territory. The general accuracy of the work cannot be ques- tioned, and the completeness of it will be revealed by a glance through its pages. The writer takes this opportunity to acknowledge his appreciation of the favors and courtesies extended to Mr. Dodge and himself by the many who have so kindly supplied them with the data for these pages.
DESCRIPTION OF LASSEN COUNTY.
The county of Lassen lies in the northern portion of California, adjoining the state of Nevada, the more important, productive, and populous portion being within the Nevada basin. It is bounded by Modoc county on the north, the state of Nevada on the east, Sierra and Plumas counties on the south, and Plumas and Shasta counties on the west, from the last two of which it was cut off when erected into a separate county. Honey Lake, Elysian, and Long valleys, until within a few years the only important section of the county, formerly were a portion of Plumas, and all its early history-that prior to 1864-is quite closely connected with that of the parent county.
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