While many are familiar with McCoy Flat Reservoir along Highway 44, there is another McCoy Flat in Lassen County, This too, was named for another Tehama rancher, Leo Lewis McCoy (1850-1936) who used this area for summer pasture from 1874 to 1913. When he retired in 1913, he sold his ranch of 27,000 acres to Alden Anderson for $150,000.
For the record, this McCoy Flat is located along Pine Creek, just east of Eagle Lake. In 1952, it was the scene of the last of the railroad logging operations of the Fruit Growers Supply Company.
Thanks Tim, I enjoy your daily historical reports. Do you have anything on Little Bailey Reservoir/lake above Moon Valley? Of course anyplace with water and timber was ripe for steam engine operation. Slash wood was the fuel, the water provided the steam, and presto (well not quite that easy) a lumber mill could be set up.
Martin
Yes, there was a mill there. I will work on a post about it. I have not been back there in a very long time.