Lassen County, California

1885 Directory

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History of Lassen County, CA (from the 1885 Directory)

 

This county is situated in the northeastern part of the State, being the second county from the north in the eastern tier. It is bounded on the north by Modoc County, on the east by the State of Nevada, on the south by Plumas, and on the west by Shasta and Plumas counties; contains an area of about five thousand square miles, and ranks in this respect as the eighth county of the State. The topography is uniform in character with the mountain counties of the State; flanked on the sough and west by the main chain of the Sierra Nevadas, the surface of the country gradually becomes less rugged and broken as it falls away to the east, detached mountain ranges, smaller in character, breaking away from the range proper, together with isolated mountains, cuts the county into many valleys, large and small. Intersecting these valleys fine streams of cool, clear water exist, rising from mountain springs in which fish, principally the California trout, are found in abundant numbers. Numerous lakes dot the surface, some of which are large enough to deserve distinctive notice. Honey Lake, the largest, situated in the southeastern part of the county, is fully one hundred miles in circumference, and has an average depth of about eight feet. The water of this lake is alkaline, and uninhabitable for trout, although certain species of white fish of an eatable quality are quite plentiful. The lake has no apparent outlet, and the disposal of the great volume of water it receives still remains a mooted question, the advocates of the evaporation theory being strongly contested by others who forcibly assert the existence of a subterranean outlet. To the northwest of Honey Lake and about twenty-five miles distant, Eagle Lake is found, entirely different in character from Honey Lake, its waters being cool, clear and fresh, abundantly stocked with splendid fish of all descriptions, and the home of many species of wild fowl. It is fifteen miles long by about seven and a half wide. Like Honey Lake, it has no apparent outlet, but about a mile from it to the southeast large springs, which continually pour forth great quantities of water, are logically thought to derive their supply from the lake. Horse Lake, an alkaline sheet, about three miles long by two wide, lies about twelve miles northeast of Eagle Lake. The Swan or Feather Lakes, a group in all about eight miles in length by four in width, situated forty miles northwest of Susanville, and Lassen Lake, in the extreme northeastern part of the county, completes the list of the most important. The last two are of fresh water, and well stocked in fish.

 

In climate, Lassen challenges comparison with any part of the State or of the country at large. The lowest of its vallies lies at an altitude of from thirty-five hundred to four thousand feet above the sea, insuring perfect immunity from all malarial impurities, and although the temperature occasionally reaches to nearly 100 degrees, which is its extreme limit, the dryness of the atmosphere enables one to endure it as easily as a temperature of 75 or 80 degrees in the Eastern States. In the winters, the snow falls to a considerable depth in the mountains, and remains on the ground in many places to even as late as July, but in the vallies and foothills scarcely a winter occurs, in which for the whole season stock is able to range at will, requiring no feed save that which they find for themselves.

 

The mining developments have thus far only given an index of the possibilities within the reach of an enterprising and comprehensive investment of capital. Up to the present time but three districts, known as the Antelope in the extreme southern, the Lassen in the southwestern, and the Hayden Hill districts in the northern central portion of the county, have been worked to any considerable extent, and these only upon the capital taken from the mines themselves, not a dollar, it is said, having come from the outside. The Hayden Hill district, by far the leading locality of the county, yielded a gross product for the years 1881 and 1882 of $260,00, and when it is remembered that the companies are still using the most primitive milling processes, by which the owners are claiming that a loss of at least 40 per cent. occurs, it will be at once apparent that in these mines a profitable source of investment may be found.

 

In its agricultural growth, Lassen County may be said to be yet in its infancy; in 1880, out of a total of 200,000 acres of arable land, as shown by the assessment rolls, but 20,800 acres were under cultivation. A large part of all the vallies are susceptible of cultivation, and with irrigation the whole can be made available. To this end various irrigating schemes have been projected, the principal of which, the Lassen Flume and Land Company, is now well under way.

The timber supply of the county, which is most abundant, consisting principally of pine, spruce and fir, has as yet been scarcely tapped, there being at present no market, save that made by home consumption, but with the completion of the Nevada and Oregon Railroad, which is now in process of construction, a market can be reached in Nevada which will prove a wonderful stimulus to this industry.

 

The population of the is now about four thousand. The total value of all the property of the county, according to the assessment rolls of 1883, was $1,833,540, of which real estate and improvements amounts to $836,266, city and town lots and improvements $114,215, and personal property $880,659.

 

 

 

Town Directory (1885)

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Bieber

Big Valley

Buntingville

Cedar Run

Centre

Coppervale

Grasshopper Valley

Hayden Hill

Horse Lake Valley

Janesville

Johnstonville

Juniper

Lake

Long Valley

Merrillville

Milford

Missouri Bend

Mountain Meadows

Oak Grove

Pleasant Butte

Providence

Richmond

Riverside

Secret Valley

Soldier Bridge

Susanville

Washington

Willow Creek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BIEBER

This most important town of the northern part of the county is situated seventy-five miles northwest of Susanville, via Hayden Hill. Its location is an admirable one, lying a little west of the center of the Big Valley, of which scope of country it is the business metropolis; it commands an unbroken view of some twelve miles of sandy upland to the east; to the south and west four miles of level, black adobe land, and to the north, looking over the same character of rich land, the town of Lookout, six miles distant, can be seen. The people of this town, relying upon these fine agricultural surroundings, have pushed with commendable energy the improvement and development of the place, and are only awaiting the time when railroad connection will establish the place as the commercial center of Northeastern California. Two miles northeast of the town are found a series of hot sulphur springs, the waters of which, thrown out in large quantities, are always above the boiling point in temperature, and are said to possess great curative qualities. The town has good school facilities, fair hotel accommodations and possesses a bright, lively newspaper in the Mountain Tribune, published by Mr. Thomas P. Ford, which enjoys considerable influence and circulation. It has post and express offices, and has outside connections by stage routes to Susanville, and via the Redding, Bieber, Alturas and Lake View route to a railroad connection for San Francisco and other points.

 

Apple, J. H. - farmer 160 acres

Arnett, W. C. - farmer 160 acres

Avala, Matthew J. – farmer

Avala, Joseph - farmer 160 acres

Babcock, Andrew – farmer

Babcock, Chester - farmer/stockraiser 160 acres

Babcock, William - farmer 320 acres

Bassett, I. W. - farmer 320 acres

Bassett, J. M. - farmer 156 acres

Bean, George H. - farmer/stockraiser

Bieber, N. - gen mdse, agent, Wells Fargo & Co., postmaster

Boyd, Archibald - J. T. Boyd & Bro.

J. T. Boyd & Bro. - farmers/stockraisers 800 acres

J. T. Boyd - J. T. Boyd & Bro.

Brown, F. J. – farmer

Brown, Levi H. – cooper

Brownell, Dewitt C. - Attorney at law, - stockraiser, 480 acres

Calavan, J. J. – farmer

Calavan, W. L. - stockraiser 160 acres

Carmichael, M. A. - sawmill 320 acres

Carroll, Charles W. H. – machinist

Clark, Samuel – farmer

Clark, William R. – farmer

Coats, Amos – farmer

Cook, Albert W. – farmer

Cook, William – farmer

Covell, Frank – farmer

Covell, James – farmer

Crowley, J. L. – engineer

Crowley, Randolph – farmer

Crowley, Robert L. – farmer

Curry, J. D. - stockraiser 322 acres

Davis, S. E. - farmer 310 acres

Dowell, Elisha – farmer

Dunlap, L. A. Miss - school teacher

Earle, Charles F. – farmer

Elliott, G. W. - farmer/stockraiser

Elliott, George W. - compositor Mountain Tribune

Estell, George J. – stockraiser

Estell, W. K. - farmer/stockraiser 680 acres

Etzenbrouser, Elias - farmer 520 acres

Eustis, F. W. - manager C.L. Holley's Estate

Finley Bros. - farmer 160 acres

Finley, James - Finley Bros.

Finley, John - Finley Bros.

Ford, Edward S. - compositor Mountain Tribune

Ford, Thomas P. - editor & proprietor Mountain Tribune

Frazier, A. F. – farmer

Fulcher, David – farmer

Fulcher, F. G. – farmer

Fulcher, J. C. – farmer

Fulcher, R.W. - stockraiser 800 acres

Fulcher, Thomas J. – stockraiser

Gibbins, E. H. – farmer

Gibbins, John T. - Gibbins & Page

Gibbins, Joseph R. – sheepraiser

Gibbins, L. A. Miss - school teacher

Gibbins & Page - proprietor of Steam Planing mill

Goerig, Antone - stockraiser/dairyman 128 acres

Goerig, Charles - Goerig & Parker, livery stable 240 acres

Goerig, William - stockraiser 880 acres

Goerig & Parker – tollroad

Green, Lemuel T. – stockraiser

Green, Wright F. – blacksmith

Gummer, Joseph - stockraiser 320 acres

Hansen, Christian - farmer 160 acres

Hansen, Lewis J. - farmer 160 acres

Hardin, Henry – farmer

Hardin, James H. – farmer

Hensley, J. G. – teamster

Herrick, A. C. - farmer/stockraiser 640 acres

Herrick, Elsie - farmer/stockraiser 470 acres

Hockman, Jacob – farmer

Holcomb, Charles A. – farmer

Holcomb, Isaac W. – farmer

Holcomb, James H. – farmer

Holcomb, J. W. - farmer 160 acres

Holcomb, Stephen N. – farmer

Holcomb, W. H. – farmer

Holland, William A. – farmer

Holley, C. L. - F.W. Eustis manager estate, stockranch, 320 acres

Huber, Antone - hostler with Goerig & Parker

Jacks, T. H. Mrs. - milliner 160 acres

Jackson, G. W. - farmer/stockraiser 600 acres

Jones, Henry – stockraiser 320 acres

Jones, J. M. - stockraiser 360 acres

Jones, Wm. R. – stockraiser

Kennedy, Edward – stockraiser

Kenyon, C. M. - stockraiser 320 acres

Kenyon, Lewis - stockraiser 320 acres

Kenyon, W. H. – stockraiser

Knox, G. W. – farmer

Knox, Noah – sheepraiser

Kruze, August - farmer 160 acres

Lamburth, C. M. – farmer

Lamburth, William F. - blacksmith, wagon maker, farmer, co. supervisor 160 a.

Lampton, James L. – farmer

Leonard, Charles – farmer

Leroy, William – farmer

Loomis, Martha Mrs. - proprietor Hill Side Stage Station 320 acres

Maynard, Rufus S. – farmer

McCrary, James – teamster

McGinness, Frank - steam sawmill

McWilliams, James – farmer

Minthorn, Hiram P. – farmer

Monroe, Dennis D. - horse trainer

Mountain Tribune - weekly Thomas P. Ford Editor/ proprietor

Murphy, E.T. - saloon & billiards

Myers, Frederick - farmer/stockraiser 480 acres

Nichols, Frank A. – farmer

Nix, John T. – butcher

Packwood, J. K. - farmer/stockraiser 800 acres

Packwood, William – clerk

Page, H. O. - Gibbins & Page

Parker, William H. - Goerig & Parker 160 acres

Paulk, S. H. - teamster 640 acres

Perkiss, Arthur R. - Perkiss Bros.

Perkiss Bros. - cheese factory

Perkiss, C. W. - stockraiser 320 acres

Perkiss, S. E. - Perkiss Bros.

Peterson, Peter - farmer/stockraiser 160 acres

Philliber, Clinton – farmer

Powers, George A. - farmer/stockraiser

Powers, Lewis - stockraiser 520 acres

Powers, Samuel – farmer

Ralls, Alexander – farmer

Ralls, L. L. - county assessor

Ralls, Morgan – farmer

Reavis, J. J. - stockraiser 320 acres

Reeves, Halsey - farmer 160 acres

Richardson, Joseph – farmer

Ricketts, R. A. - stockraiser 320 acres

Rogers, William L. - blacksmith, horseshoer

Roney, W. H. - Justice of the peace, school teacher, farmer 160 acres

Rucker, Richard S. – farmer

Schafer, Ernst H. - farmer/stockraiser 160 acres, proprietor stallion Bismarck

Schooler, W. R. - school teacher, county supervisor 154 acres

Shiber, Joseph D. - shuke and rail maker

Shirer, Joseph – dairyman

Smith, Agustus - stockraiser 160 acres

Smith, Green M. – farmer

Smith, J. W. – teamster

Smith, M. G. - stockraiser 160 acres

Smith, William L. – farmer

Southard, James W. – farmer

Southard, T. W. - lumberman/shakemaker 146 1/2 acres

Stainbrook, Hiram - farmer 160 acres

Stonebreaker, W. N. - farmer/stockraiser, proprietor Hot Springs, 360 acres

Summers, Perry – farmer

Summers, Thomas - stockraiser 160 acres

Swigard, George – butcher

Swigard, John T. – farmer

Symonds, H. K. - millwright, engineer 160 acres

Thompson, George - farmer/stockraiser 320 acres

Thompson, Samuel – farmer

Thompson, William - physician & surgeon

Vansickle, Egbert E. - farmer 160 acres

Volcklandt, John - painter, clerk with N. Bieber

Walker, Joseph - stockraiser 160 acres

Walsh, John – stockraiser

Walsh, Peter – stockraiser

Watson, Archibald – farmer

Watson, David - farmer/stockraiser 1160 acres

Watson, Milton - farmer 160 acres

Watson, S. N. - farmer 440 acres

Wilson, T. W. - stockraiser 480 acres

Woodin, James – sawyer

Woodin, M. P. Mrs. - school teacher

Woodmansee, S. A. Mrs. – farmer

Zwyssig, John - stockraiser 640 acres

 

 

BIG VALLEY (See Bieber)

BUNTINGVILLE (See Janesville)

CEDAR RUN (See Bieber)

CENTRE (See Bieber)

 

 

COPPER VALE

A small town, with post office, situated about midway between Prattville and Susanville, sixteen miles from the latter place. It has a tri-weekly stage route each way between these two points. Mountain Meadows, in which the town is located, has an area of twelve thousand acres, principally devoted to stockraising and dairying. Over seven thousand acres of the meadows are on the market, for which liberal arrangements can be made.

 

Anthony, John D. - stockraiser & dairyman 160 acres

Charles, -- - sawyer & millwright With P. Cowles

Chipman, Frank – miner

Chipman, George A. – miner

Cowles, P. – sawmill

Cronan, Patrick - stockraiser, hotel 1000 acres

Dennem, Thos. - hotel 160 acres

Faleger, J. A. - stockraiser 600 acres

Goodrich, C. C. - postmaster, hotel keeper, stockraiser 7640 acres

Hendricks, Thomas T. - Ricketts & Hendricks

Holladay, -- - stockraiser 160 acres

McCoy, Levi – stockraiser

McIntosh, L. H. - stockraiser 1200 acres

Miller, -- - sawyer with P. Cowles

Monroe, James – miner

Pond, Wash. - horse raiser

Ricketts & Hendricks - stock & sheep raiser 1600 acres

Rider, Eldridge C. – miner

Sibley, Joseph – miner

Williams Bros. - Sheep raisers

Williams, John J. - Williams Bros.

Williams, Wm. - Williams Bros.

 

 

GRASSHOPPER VALLEY (See Merrillville)

 

 

HAYDEN HILL

A small mining town situated fifty-five miles northwest of Susanville. The town has two hotels, a schoolhouse, and a post office. It is supported entirely by the mines, which in this locality, yield readily and largely in decomposed quartz, easily worked, and realizes good profits. The population is about 100 over 60 being employed directly in the mines.

 

Anderson, Harmon – miner

Anderson, N. A. Mrs. – widow

Banks, John – miner

Blue Bell Mining Co. - Preston, Howard, & Dillion

Bradshaw, B. S. – miner

Burgett, W. H. – miner

Cady, Frank - stockraiser 400 acres, res San Joaquin Co.

Cady, Frederick R. – stockraiser

Castro, Mansel – miner

Castro, Morris L. – miner

Daniels, Francis M. – miner

Dillion, N. B. - Blue Bell Mining Co.

Dunbar, William A. – miner

Evening Star Mine & Mill - G. F. Hoes proprietor

Fluent, James S. – miner

Golden Eagle Mine & Mill - Hopkins, Nash & Co. proprietors

Hall, James G. - stockraiser 160 acres

Hall, Charles C. – miner

Harbert, W. F. & Co. – miners

Harrold, James P. G. – miner

Highet, Edgar F. – miner

Highet, Samuel M. – miner

Highet, William W. – miner

Hoes, G. F. - proprietor Evening Star Mine & Mill 40 acres

Holland, John R. – stockraiser

Hopkins, L. H. - Hopkins, Nash & Co. 24 acres

Hopkins, Nash & Co. - proprietors Golden Eagle Mine

Hopkins, W. H. - Hopkins, Nash, & Co. res Calistoga

Howard, W. C. - Blue Bell Mining Co.

Juniper Mine - John McFailing superintendent

Knight, George H. - Roseberry, Harvey & Co. res Adin, Modoc Co.

Lacert, Aimee – miner

Lake, T. H. - farmer/stockraiser

Lee, William M. – miner

Lewis, S. S. – miner

Lewis, J. C. - Roseberry, Harvey & Co. res Adin, Modoc Co

Lonkey, Xavier - farmer/stockraiser 160 acres

Loveland, Simeon – farmer

Loveland, C. F. - stockraiser 320 acres

Massingill, W. A. - Roseberry, Harvey & Co.

McBride, W. M. - farmer/stockraiser

McBride, W. P. – blacksmith

McCurdy, Norton V. – miner

McDonnell William - Don't Care Mine, res Calistoga

McFailing, John - superintendent Juniper Mine, res Oakland

McFarling, George W. – miner

McFarling, Johnston H. – painter

McKean, West H. – miner

McLaine, Daniel – miner

Nash, C. H. - Hopkins, Nash & Co. res Calistoga

Nebineker, E. F. Mrs. - Roseberry, Harvey & Co. res Adin, Modoc Co

Nelson, John C. – miner

Norton, Eben – miner

Parrish, I. B. & F. P. – stockraisers

Parrish, A. – stockraiser

Peck, J. L. - Roseberry, Harvey & Co.

Perrault R. – stockraiser

Preston, R. – stockraiser

Preston, E. B. - Blue Bell Mining Co. 160 acres

Ritchey, Alonzo P. – miner

Rose, Jerry - miner, hotel keeper

Roseberry, Thomas A. - Roseberry, Harvey & Co. Adin, Modoc Co.

Roseberry, Harvey & Co.- gen mdse

Sain, Homer J. – laborer

Saling, Richmond – miner

Shelby, John C. – miner

Smothers, Jacob C. – farmer

Snider, Michael - stockraiser 160 acres

Spaulding, Ida Miss - school teacher

Stearns, William G. – miner

Summers, William T. - hotel & stable

Trout, J. S. – stockraiser

West, Samuel D. – farmer

White, John – stockraiser

Willis, Clara Mrs. - postmistress

 

 

HORSE LAKE VALLEY (See Merrillville)

 

 

JANESVILLE

A small town, with post office, twelve miles south of Susanville, in Honey Lake Valley, and is surrounded by fine grain, fruit and dairy lands. It has a hotel and a steam flouring mill of 30 barrells per day capacity. Daily connections by stage to Susanville and Reno are had each way daily.

 

Alexander, Abraham - Blum & Alexander

Arnold, John D. – farmer

Ashley, Augustus F. – mechanic

Babcock, C. M. - 120 acres

Bailey, George B. – farmer

Bailey, Ira E. – teamster

Bailey, J. R. - hotel, fruit raiser, gardener, 80 acres

Bailey, Walter – farmer

Bailey, W. R. – farmer

Baldwin, Henry D. – farmer

Baldwin, Jerry – farmer

Bandy, William J. – laborer

Barham, Charles - Conger & Barham

Barham, T. M. - farmer 210 acres

Barnett, David – farmer

Barry, J. N. - farmer 400 acres

Barry, N. J. - school teacher

Bass Bros. – stockraisers

Bass, Ed. - Bass Bros.

Bass, John E. – farmer

Bass, R. D. - farmer 840 acres

Bass, Richard - 559 acres

Bass, Stephen S. - Bass Bros.

Bass, Wm. B. – farmer

Bird, Albert D. - Eustice, Bromby & Co.; school teacher

Boggs, J. Robert - blacksmith, wagon maker 160 acres

Bond, Jeremiah - farmer, teamster, 320 acres

Boody, Rachel – widow

Bouchard, Alexander – miller

Broadwell, Jacob – farmer

Bromby, Albert - Eustice, Bromby & Co.

Brubeck, L. W. - farmer 311 acres

Buchard, Alexander – miller

Byers, J. D. - cattle raiser

Cain, Geo. M. – farmer

Clark, Charles – farmer

Clark, N. & Son - 235 acres

Clark, Wm. H. – farmer

Clinton, Duncan – laborer

Conger & Barham – farmers

Conger, Joseph - Conger & Barham

Cornelison, Wiley - saw mill 320 acres

Dakin, H. H. - Dakin & McClellan

Dakin & McClellan - proprietors Honey Lake Mills

Davie, G. B. – dairyman

Day, Lewis A. – teamster

Decious, J. W. - farmer 174 acres

DeForest, Clinton - farmer 160 acres

Dill, Andrew - farmer 600 acres

Dukee, Joseph – farmer

Duncan, Clinton – teamster

Dunn, James – farmer

Dunn, J. R. – farmer 650 acres

Dunn, John T. – farmer

Dunn, Lizzie Miss - school teacher

Dunn, W. D. - farmer 160 acres

Elledge, Millard F. – farmer

Epley, T. R. - farmer 320 acres

Eustice, Bromby & Co. – farmers

Fairfield, A. N. - school teacher

Fairfield, E. W. - farmer 160 acres

Faringer, J. – laborer

Faulkner, Jacob A.- engineer

Fisher, J. L. - farmer 160 acres

Foley, R. E. - physician & surgeon

Foot, Alfonso – farmer

Foot, Lorenzo – farmer

Frazier, Samuel - farmer 200 acres

French, T. J. - farmer 348 acres

Fry, G. W. - farmer 640 acres

Gaddy, Collins – farmer

Gamron, Vincent – farmer

Gray, A. Mrs. - farmer 80 acres

Haley, E. E. – teamster

Haley, H. N. – teamster

Haley, James L. – farmer

Hallett, Isalah E. – farmer

Hartson, Charles – farmer

Hemler, Oscar - McMurphy & Hemler

Hicks, Leonard - farmer 880 acres

Hoffman, Floyd B. – farmer

Hoffman, Samuel - farmer 560 acres

Holmes, Edgar B. – farmer

Honey Lake Mills - flouring, Dakin & McClellan proprietors

Hostetter, F. M. - farmer 160 acres

Hostetter, Frank M. Jr. – teamster

Hudson, A. J. – farmer

Hudson, E. - miner 320 acres

Hudson, J. - miner 60 acres

Hudson, James M. – farmer

Hughes, John – laborer

Hughes, Thomas W. – carpenter

Ingram, John J. – farmer

Jellison, John E. – carpenter

Johnson, John – farmer

Kelley, J. D. - Kelley & Winchell

Kelley & Winchell - farmers/stockraisers

Kirby, Henry – farmer

Kirby, N. - farmer 212 acres

Lane, Andrew - wagon maker

Lane, A. W. – carpenter

Lane, Louis L. – laborer

Lax, S. - farmer 160 acres

Leitch, Peter – farmer

Leitch, William - farmer 295 acres

Lowe, Alonzo - farmer 80 acres

Lowe, John - farmer 218 acres

Lybarger, Geo. R. – farmer

Lynch, Peter – farmer

Madden, Geo. W. – mason

Masten, J. T. - farmer 400 acres

Masten & Ramsey - farmers 400 acres

McClellan, H. E. - Dakin & McClellan

McGranahan, G. B. – hotel

McMurphy, Abner – farmer

McMurphy, Harry H. - McMurphy & Hemler 357 acres

McMurphy & Hemler - stockraisers 400 acres

McShane, David – laborer

Meylert, G. W. - proprietor stage lines, mail contractor, farmer, gen msde 3920 acres

Meylert, H. W. - manager with G. W. Meylert and postmaster

Moe, H. M. - farmer 325 acres

Moore, Cornelius A. – lumberman

Moyer, Hiram – laborer

Moyer, James T. – farmer

Moyer, N. – farmer

Moyer, Peter - farmer 160 acres

Moyer, Samuel – farmer

Moyer, Urias – farmer

Mulroney, T. J. - farmer 320 acres

Myers, Ed. – blacksmith

Nett, Frank – farmer

Painter, S. H. – teamster

Parker, Frank L. - farmer 160 acres

Parker, Sarah Mrs. – farmer

Parks, Fred. W. - farmer 45 acres

Parks, Hiram B. – farmer

Parks, Myra Miss - school teacher

Sharp, J. P. - farmer 271 acres

Sifford, Alexander – farmer

Smith, George M. – farmer

Smith, James M. – farmer

Smith, J. D. - farmer 320 acres

Smith, Jonathan A. – farmer

Smith, J. W. – sheepraiser

Smith, J. P. M. - farmer 120 acres

Spencer, Moses T. – farmer

Spoon, A. J. Rev. - farmer 360 acres

Spoon, Preston J. - farmer 158 acres

Stinger, Frank P. – laborer

Summers, Francis M. – farmer

Tanner, Martin – farmer

Tatum, S. C. – farmer

Terrill, George P. – laborer

Thompson, Richard – farmer

Tyrrell, Henry – farmer

Wales, G. R. - farmer 292 acres

Winchell, F. N. - school teacher

Winchell, Hiram - Kelley & Winchell

Woodruff, Benjamin C. – farmer

Yanner, J. M. – engineer

 

 

JOHNSTONVILLE (See Susanville)

JUNIPER (See Bieber)

LAKE (See Susanville)

 

 

LONG VALLEY

A Post Office, situated at the extreme southeastern part of the county.

 

Bacon, F. W. & Bros. - 400 acres

Bennett, T. D. - hotelkeeper, farmer 320 acres

Black, A. D. – miner

Booard, C. M. – farmer

Bryan, Richard C. – hotelkeeper

Calligan, W. H. - farmer 200 acres

Cameron, D. - farmer 320 acres

Cameron, David Jr. - farmer 320 acres

Church, Charles G. – laborer

Clark, Charles B. – stockraiser

Craig. John S. – farmer

Crowder, Thomas P. – laborer

Cutting, W. B. - 160 acres

Dalton, Ed. – farmer

Dooley, Charles - farmer 160 acres

Dooley, R. M. – farmer

Doyen, H. J. – mechanic

Doyle, John W. - farmer 400 acres

Farley, Thomas - farmer 185 acres

Ferris, E. – farmer

Greeno, George - farmer 158 acres

Harwood, Charles A. – farmer

Harwood, John T. - farmer 40 acres

Hartery, Thomas - farmer 320 acres

Hopkins, W. S. – laborer

Ingram, Hugh L. – farmer

Ingram, Robert - farmer 80 acres

Jones, Charles E. – farmer

Jones, W. E. - farmer 120 acres

Leonard, Samuel – laborer

McKissick, Jacob - stockraiser 4780 acres

McNamara, Mary Mrs. - farmer 538 acres

McQuarrie, Malcolm – farmer

Miller, James – stockraiser

Miller, Robert – stockraiser

Rhodes, J. M. - farmer 1640 acres

Rhodes, Lloyd B. – farmer

Riley, William - farmer 320 acres

Robert, Joseph L. – farmer

Roberts, J. C. - farmer 160 acres

Roberts, Jonathan B. – farmer

Robinson, John – farmer

Robinson, J. H. – farmer

Robinson, William J. – farmer

Ross, A. E. - farmer 1580 acres

Rowland, F. M. - 280 acres

Steinberger, J. M. - stage station 400 acres

Talbot, Basil H. – teamster

Templar, James A. – stockraiser

Thompson, George A. – teamster

Tipton, Jasper J. – farmer

Trudell, Charles – laborer

Waltz, William - farmer 320 acres

Ware, D. W. – farmer

Williams, J. F. – farmer

Williams, Joseph – farmer

Wilson, Addison N. – laborer

Wood, Iris C. – farmer

 

 

MERRILLVILLE

A small town with post office, twenty miles from Susanville, located on Willow Creek, in the valley of the same name. Hurlbut's sawmill at this place has a capacity of 3000 feet per day. A large hotel is now in process of erection.

 

Blair, A. V. Mrs.

Blair, J. J. - farmer 320 acres

Blair, Robert – farmer

Blunck, J. H. – farmer

Buchannan, Ervin – farmer

Burris, Frank V. – stockraiser

Cramer Bros. - stockraisers 1980 acres

Cramer, Charles - Cramer Bros.

Cramer, Daniel - Cramer Bros.

Cramer, David – farmer

Davis, J. H. - farmer/stockraiser 160 acres

Davis, William S. - farmer/stockraiser 483 acres

DeFanti, Pasquale – dairyman

Dow, William - stockraiser 160 acres

Eicher, Wm. B. – farmer

Fairhead, James – stockraiser

Fluery, Frank M. - saloon, stockraiser 160 acres

Fluery, Firman – farmer

Folsom, M. O. - stockraiser 2438 acres

Folsom, Olsen - stockraiser 480 acres

Fox, Albert A. - laborer with Wm. S. Davis

Frilter, James W. – farmer

Gaerig, William – dairyman

Gattleman, Herman – laborer

Gerking, David – laborer

Grass, Leonard – farmer

Hallstead, James – cook

Healey, Matthew - stockraiser 1400 acres

Heavy, John - sheepraiser 330 1/2 acres

Henry, Lucas – farmer

Hoagland, Henry L. - farm overseer

Hurlbut, Charles E. – farmer

Hurlbut, Timothy J. – farmer

Hurlbut, P. D. - postmaster, proprietor sawmill, 600 acres

Jacobs Bros. - farmers 320 acres

Jacobs, Adam - Jacobs Bros.

Jacobs, John - Jacobs Bros.

Jacquis, Alfred – carpenter

Jones, Newton - Jones & Summers

Jones & Summers

Knudson, Louis - farmer 660 acres

Lake, John – farmer

Legalle, John T. – farmer

Loveland, Anderson – stockraiser

Loveland, Frank – stockraiser

Losey, Allen – farmer

Mawer, William – farmer

Menefee, Breckenridge – laborer

Menefee, James B. – farmer

Menefee, N. W. – farmer

Newhouse, Benjamin - farmer/stockraiser

Penman, John T. – laborer

Penman, William F. – miner

Prime, Henry S. - laborer 160 acres

Rankin, Andrew J. – laborer

Richards, Reese – farmer

Ridgeway, E. W. – laborer

Rogers, William B. – farmer

Shumway, B. E. - stockraiser 520 acres

Shumway, George – farmer

Shumway, M. Mrs. - 640 acres

Shumway, Nathan – farmer

Siebert, Charles – laborer

Small, John – farmer

Summers, J. H. - Jones & Summers

Thibault, E. Mrs.

Tuneson, A. L. - stockraiser 960 acres

Vadney, Milton – dairyman

Vallier, Alfred A. – farmer

Williams, W. R. - 160 acres