This, unexpectedly, turned out to be a two-fer month. Several topics with back to back articles: Flanigan, Sacred Heart Church, the Mad Trapper from Rat River and Memorial Day. There are plenty of other topics spread in between such as a Logger’s Lunch, Greater Westwood, Inc and Lost Meadows Golf Course.
If you are out and about you may want to pick up the May edition of the Northern California Traveler that features an article on the Gallatins of Eagle Lake.
In 1991, Amax Gold Inc. proposed to Lassen County officials their intention to again start up the mining activity at Hayden Hill. It was their intention to literally remove the hill and to extract gold and silver with a cyanide leach ponds. Amax formed a subsidiary company, Lassen Gold Mining, to undertake the enterprise. Lassen Gold carried out the mining operations on the Hill from 1992 to 1997. According to Company figures, approximately 510,000 ounces of gold and 1.4 million ounces were extracted.
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It’s a wonderful day to get lost in some delicious daydreams, as you use creative visualisation to help you set goals and plan for the future. Don’t dream small … make sure you go for gold!
With that in mind, and since odometer on this model just marked another year, I am taking the day off.
The old English proverb necessity is the mother invention was widely adopted locally. For years Fruit Growers searched for an effective way to reduce grass around its millsite for fire protection. In 1937, someone came up with the brilliant idea to bring in a band sheep to graze the mill property. Problem solved and they called the new addition to their workforce “Lassen Lawnmowers.”
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Eagle Lake Nature Programs Presents “Snakes at the Lake with Dr. Amanda Sparkman,” Saturday, June 17, 7:00 p.m. Merrill Amphitheater, County Road A1, Eagle Lake, South Shore. (in the event of rain, event will be postponed or canceled).
Eagle Lake Nature Programs kicks off its 2017 Summer Programs with, “Snakes at the Lake with Dr. Amanda Sparkman.” Dr. Sparkman, of Westmont University in Santa Barbara, California, and currently doing field study at Eagle Lake, has been involved in researching Eagle Lake garter snakes since 2005, but the original study of these snakes began 40 years ago. “We’re interested in the ecology and evolution of these snakes, including how they’ve adapted their growth rates, reproduction, lifespan, and behavior to different habitats surrounding Eagle Lake, as well as how they are responding genetically, physiologically, and demographically to current environmental change.” This year it will be particularly interesting to see how or if the increased precipitation has affected the snakes at all. Continue reading Eagle Lake Nature Programs
One of the peculiar oddities back in Westwood’s early history there were no accommodations for the traveling public. The Red River Lumber Company who controlled the town wanted it that way. This would hinder any “undesirables” to try infiltrate the town, i.e., such as union organizers. However, Red River needed to provide some sort of accommodations for people visiting on official business with the company. Red River constructed the El Solano at 501 Birch Street to meet those needs.
In the 1930s, during Red River’s financial crisis, the company converted its American Legion Hall into a hotel known as the Blue Ox Inn, and thus the El Solano diminished in status. It would later be converted into apartments. In the fall of 1965 the Assembly of God Church renovated the building, and the second story removed. Today, it is a private residence.
