This falls under the category of dreamers and schemers. In 1930/31 there was great excitement with the arrival of a railroad in Big Valley. Actually it was two railroads, the Great Northern and Western Pacific which would link two miles southwest of Bieber. What to call to this soon to be hub of activity was open for debate. For a moment it was the general consensus to name it West Bieber.
Enter Byron Greenwood, who had other thoughts. Greenwood saw the potential of the railroad connector and he subdivided the. property there. He named his enterprise Big Valley City. When the Postal Department received Greenwood’s petition for a post office for the town, they denied the name. The Department had adopted a policy against three word names. In the meantime, the Great Northern designated their new station as Bieber, even though it was not in Bieber.
As the naming debate continued. it was suggested to call it Nubieber. On July 4,1931, a patriotic celebration was held. Mrs. A.W. Peterson, President of the Ladies Pioneer Club, gave a brief speech and then introduced Miss Vivian Goddard who christened the townsite of Nubieber by breaking a bottle of wine over the entrance sign. Nubieber, like so many speculative railroad communities, never reached the expectations of its promoters. In 1940, Greenwood traded all his unsold lots, (the vast majority of the town that encompassed 250-acres), along with his adjoining 630-acre ranch, to E.L. Robertson of San Francisco, for a 60-room apartment building in San Francisco.