In late April, 1899 L.S. Greenlaw, special correspodent to the Reno Gazette traveled north to Lassen and Modoc to search out the conditions. There was, after all, a lot of interest being generated with the NCO Railroad’s extending its line north from Amedee to the Madeline Plains.
The following is an excerpt of one of his observations. “Valley of Eagle Lake. One would scarcely expect to see fine farms and fine farm houses in such a place. On the eastern shore are large grain fields and grassy meadows. We pass nearly halfway around this beautiful body of water and when we were driving along its northern shore the road is so near the lake that when the wind blows as it did that day white spray is blown into the buggy. Some of the finest trout are caught from this lake.”