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(By THOS. P. BROWN)
(Continued from last week)
Millions of gold have been
panned from the shining bars of
the Feather River and its network
of tributary streams. Miners still
arc working these old diggtn's, hop-
ing to find color in their pans.
Here and there the traveler may
catch a glimpse of them from the
car window. Then there also are
to be seen, high up On the sides of
the steep-walled canyon, crumbling
~cabins, once the temporalT abodes
of miners who clung to hopes such
as are revealed in the following
verses, written by Etha R. Garlick:
A Song of Gold
Where the sparkling Feather River
Leaps and dances on its way,
Linger countless crumbling cabins,
Landmarks of a bygone day.
How eloquent these shelters,
Crude as mountain grizzly's lair,
O~ Man's immortal hopefulness,
Of what his heart will dare.
~'hat gilded dreams of splendor
Those campfires must have
known!
What shadow-shapes of happiness
Those mountain flames have
thrown !
What love-light must have glistened
In the lonely miner's eyes,
As he dreamed of lifting burdens
From hearts 'neath harsher skies!
And as the Feather River
Leapt and danched upon its way,
The miner's heart kept pace with it,
Though he was doomed to stay.
For it sang a song of gold to him,
So golden were its gleams;
His heart to him of gold did sing,
And golden were his dreams.
Man is happy in a hovel,
If hope but with him stay;
He Is wretched in a palace
If you take his dream away.
Points Along /~he Way
OROVILLE (205.1)--The name
was formed from "ore", Spanish for
gold, and "ville", FiLench for town
or city, and was so bestowed be-
cause erectile was in the heart of
the gold country of '49. Originally
it was called Ophir for the land of
Southern Arabia, which likewise
,~'as famed for gold. Orovllle is the
western gateway to the Feather
River Canyon. Although its latitude
is approximately ~that of New York
City, Oroville is in the center of a
thermal belt which produces or-
anges two weeks or more earlier in
the season than do orange groves
far to the south. Lemons, pomelos
and olives also flourish in this sec-
tion of California.
Gold Mining--Various types of
Kold mining are exemplified in the
territory north and south of Ore-
nia, The bridge is still in use.
The Bidwell Bar "Mother Orange
Tree", known as the largest orange
tree in the world, was planted by
Judge Joseph Lewis in 1856 and is
still bearing fruit.
BLOOMER (217.5) -- Formerly
called Bloomer Bar, was one of the
points where the Forty-Niners
found gold. Not far "over the
ridge" from Bloomer is Cheokee,
s~ene of a large hydraulic gold min-
ing operations 60 to 70 years ago.
Diamonds have been found at Cher-
okee.
LAS PLUMAS (221.4) is the site
Gf the Las Plumas power plant of
the Pacific Gas and Electric com-
pany.
Electric Power--Paralleling the
Feather River on its picturesque
course from the snow.clad peaks of
th~ Sierra Nevada to its junction
with the Sacramento River, flows
arother stream--~ mighty stream
of electric energy carried on a lace-
work of steel towers and transmis-
sion lines of the power company
into the Sacramento Valley and the
metropolitan San Francisco Bay
region. There the lines of this
"copper trail' pour the stream of
power, transmitted over 200 miles,
into the great power pool at New-
ark, Alameda county, substation
and from there it is sent out to fur-
nish light and power to buildings
,rod homes, and to keep the wheels
of industry humming.
The Las Plumas Power Plant has
six turbines operating under a head
of 425 feet which develop 87,000
horse-power. Water for the Las
Plumas plant is diverted from the
rlver at Intake (232.05) by a con-
crete lined tunnel to a point on the
side of the canyon above the power
plent. The distance between the
power plant and Intake via the t~un.
nel is three miles, but the distance
by railroad which follows Big Bend
in the Feather River is 11 miles.
This tunnel was driven in the earl
80'~ at a cost of more than a mil.
lion dollars, as part of a pro3ect to
divert the waters of the river and
to dry up its channel in Big Bend
so that it could be worked for gold.
The project was not, however, cax-
rie0 through.
Near Intake is a fish ladder, con-
structed at the base of a dam, to
enable fish to ascend the river tel
spawn. ]
Other elements in the power sys-]
tern include Lake Almanor, a great i
reservoir of water (1,317,000 acre. i
~feet) to re-enforce the river sup-I
ply; Caribou Power House below
Lake Almanor, and Bucks Creek
Power Plant at Storrie (250).
BERRY CREEK (224.4). Near
Berry Creek is one of a number of
stations used in guarding the mag.
nlftcent Plumas National Forest
from fire.
(To be continued)
-O
MOTHER'S DAY SERVICE
AT COMMUNITY CHURCH
i:nplessions are deeper, last longer,
(,r more definitely affect character
than t~hosa which a mother creates.
The Christian mother knows the
z.'eed of pointing the way upward,
and knows the importance of being
a companion and guide to her chll-
dren. She leads them through the
~ateway of life into straight path%
making of them righteous citizens,
an honor to God, the church, and
tlJe community.
Let us express our love and ap-
preciation to th,e others of the
world for their unfailing courage,
failh and understanding.
Write to your mother today.
Speak a kindly word of apprecia-
tion. Or honor her dear memory by
a heartfelt prayer of thanksgiving.
Sunday is Mother's Day. We
hope to see many from Taylorsvtlle,
Crescent Mills, Almanor and Green-
v~lle at this united Moth:er's Day
~.ctvice.
STANLEY WEBSTER, Pastor.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTIC]~ TO CO-OWNER OF
MINE TO CONTRIBUTE
State of California, Plumas County,
March 7, 1940.
To: Robert H. Sheaffer:
You are hereby notified that I
l?ave expended one hundred dollars
in labor and improvements upon
the Dixie Queen (as relocated ac-
count of error in first filing on
claim) as will appear by certificate
filed September 27th, 1939, in Vol-
ume 15 Proof of Labor, page 299,
in the office of the Recorder of
Flumas County, in order to hold
said premises under the provisions
of section 2324, Revised Statutes of
the United States, being the amount
required to hold the same for the
year ending Septmber 30th, 1939
(account of extension of morator.
rium). And if within ninety days
after publication of this notice, you
fall or refuse to contribute your
proportion of such expenditure as
cr.-owner, your interest in said
claim will become the property of
the subscriber, Allen Larison, under
section 2324.
(Signed) ALLEN LARISON,
727~ Kay Street,
Sacramento, Calif.
First Publication March 7, 1940.
Last Publication May 80, 1940.
Legion Hall- Quincy
Saturday, May 11
TICKETS $I.00
]~lusle By LASSEN SERENADERS
vllle and in the Feather River Can, A special Mother's Day service
yon. Among these are: (1) The will be held at the Community[~
primitive pa.ning method used church in Greenville Sunday, May[l ~X~~qj~R~t~/[
along the streams and in the river 12, at 10:30 a, m. I ~" ' " '. ~ ]~, "J" " |
~ers. (2) Placer and hydraulic Rev. Verne C. Brown of Sacra-[ A~I I 2~OtJV'~"S|~ ~/ [
mento will be the special speaker [I ALL A~{~u! ~ r' - '~,tzC ]
miningi~ washedWherefor thegold.surflcialwhendetrltUSwater There will be instrumental and ~" "~ ~ ~A|N~]
!under pressure Is employed to breal vc, cal numbers by members of t~le[~~ " /~" ~~
d wnthegravel'thstermhydraullc ~undaysch landch 'l~" "
mining is used. East of erectile is Mother's Day is a beautiful recog-II ~~Y --~;~ I
Table Mountain across whose vertl- nition of love and sacrifice. It is [I "~~.~'~,~l
ca] face the miners hung a "bracket a great anniversary day, for itl[ rf, ~m ~, ~/~-~/~//I
flume" to convey water used for comes very close to the hearts of|' I I ~ L ~ :r",J;;I I
mining gold when the hydraulic men, women, and children. Jl/~. /L ~/'~[
process Was at its height. ($) By The annual tribute to mothers is [~ ~j~ ~ I
~lver channels of the mountains. (4) [
biecsed institution of motherhood is
Quartz claims' where shafts' either very ancient" As lasting as the I~~DS (ARE i
vertical or Incll~ed, are sunk to stars, as eternal as the cool satls- ~)
reach ore in veins or lodes. (5) By faction of a mountain stream, NEWS
placer dredges, also called goldmotherhood goes on.
dredges. Mother is the one suitable symbol [[ Printed In Big Type ]
BIDWELL (212.7)---Gold was dis-for the deeper values of life. Few
covered at Bidwell Bar by General
John Bldwell on July 4, 1848. Bid-
well Bar is a typical ghost town.
The site of the Old court house is
marked by a monument. The only
buildings now standing in this
ghost town of the days of gold,
which was the second county seat
cI Butte county, are the old toll-
gate hous, e at the suspension bridge,
now a museum fOr historical relics,
end the old massive, stone-walled
and steel barred building, first used
as a Jal and then for gold storage.
Bidwell Bar, however, has a fine
beach and is a favorite spot for pic-
nickers. Miners, even at thls writ-
ing, are panning for gold at this
pcint.
The Bidwell Bar Suspension
I Bridge was suspension
the
first
bridge to be b~lt west of the Mis-
sLsippi~o River. It was erected In
1854 with cables that were brought
General Merchandise
@
Greenville California
--- I I from l~Tew ~rork in a clipper ship
that sailed via ape Horn to Callfor
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