Terry Cobb provided a bit more insight on this topic. While he did not name the game warden,  that person was well known. . Seasoned residents, especially those fishermen and hunters, already know the identity of the game warden then—Elmer Doty. This man had an uncanny ability to detect anything suspicious and out of nowhere appear on the scene.

This is what Terry relayed to me: “In the fall of 1956 a friend and myself were fishing the Susan River above Hobo Camp when we were approached by a game warden. He asked us if we had seen someone shooting at the Rock Pigeons in the area. We remembered hearing gunfire earlier but had seen no one but we had at other times seen what we believed to be Pigeons flying to and from the river bottom and rail road tracks up to the rocky cliffs above our location.”

Tim

It being the day after Thanksgiving, I am experiencing a short attention span. While rummaging around in the photograph archives, I thought I would share these two photographs of 101 Ranch and the cemetery located there.  For those not familiar with the locale, it is just west of the Coppervale Ski Area and located  there is a office of Sierra Pacific Industries. I am not sure when the ranch house was torn down. It was one of those kind of blink of an eye moment, one day it was there and the next it was gone. The cemetery is a short distance from the former ranch house and it used to be visible from Highway 36, but now I and another person have not been able to spot it.

One of the individuals buried there is David “Pegleg” Johnson for whom Pegleg Mountain is named for.

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A long time ago, when I was first assisting Tom Armstrong on his research of the NCO Railroad, he told me about the “Other Susanville.” There is another Susanville, just up Highway 395 near John Day, Oregon.  However, it has seen more livelier times.

It was a mining camp dating back to the mid-1860s, though its post office was established in 1901 in a dubious manner. Its biggest claim to fame was in 1913 and the discovery of the Armstrong nugget, that weighed 80.4 ounces and was believed to the largest of its kind found in Oregon. The nugget is on display at US Bank in Baker City, Oregon. After the 1930s, prosperity there dwindled and in 1952 the post office was closed. Today, its only inhabitants are prospectors during the summer, and a few curious seekers.

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Well, it is that time of year again, when a few years back I made my debut at Susanville’s now defunct Riverside Hospital. As is customary, this one day I take the day off from regular duties.

Tim