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Book Title: History Of Butte County

CLIPPER MILLS.

    In the winter of 1855-56, A. P. Willey and Elisha Scott built the Clipper
mills, at a cost of $16,000. The mill commenced cutting timber May 1, 1856. It
was located on the divide between the south fork of Feather and the Yuba rivers,
near the county-line, and in one of the finest bodies of sugar-pine timber on
the western slope of the Sierra. The property passed afterwards into the hands
of Willey, Dean & Co., and again to Hudson, Willey & Caine. In 1864, the
corporation known as the Union Lumber Company purchased it, and was run
continuously until 1873, under the management of Mr. Willey, when A. M. Leach
became its owner. In 1876, for want of valuable timber at the spot, the
machinery was moved two miles south, to Woodville.

    In 1852, a small watermill was built three-quarters of a mile north, on
Grizzly creek, by the Piatt brothers, of Honcut creek, and Joseph McConnell,
who, after the Clipper mill started up, abandoned it. It was called the Pine
Grove mill. The Pine Grove hotel, now at Clipper mills, is owned and run by
J. F. Schultz. It is on the main-travelled road from the south to Plumas and
Sierra counties, and is well patronized.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA,
IN TWO VOLUMES.

I.
HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA FROM 1513 TO 1850.
BY FRANK T. GILBERT.

The Great Fur Companies and their Trapping Expeditions to California.
Settlement of the Sacramento Valley. 
The Discovery of Gold in California.
BY HARRY L. WELLS.

II.
HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY,
From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. 
BY HARRY L. WELLS AND W. L. CHAMBERS.

BOTH VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED WITH VIEWS AND PORTRAITS.
HARRY L. WELLS,
517 CLAY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO
1882.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1882, by HARRY L. WELLS, in
the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

FRANCIS, VALENTINE & Co., Engravers & Printers
517 Clay St., San Francisco


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