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Book Title: History Of Butte County

CONCOW TOWNSHIP.

    Concow township has always been an important mining region. The places that
have existed within this region are Frenchtown, Spanishtown, Blairtown, Rich
gulch, Stone house, Chub gulch, Spring gulch, Jordan hill, Hermitage, Dark
canon, Island bar, Berry creek bar, Huff's bar, Yankee bar, Shore's bar,
Bartee's bar. Nelson bar, Kanaka bar, Ohio bar, Big and Little Kimshew, Big and
Little Rock creek, Last Chance, Brown's ravine, Lindsay's bar, Crane valley,
Flea, valley, East branch, Jordan creek and Buchanan hill. All these were at one
time nourishing mining-camps, but now extinct.

    Concow township has had five saw-mills. The first was erected in 1856, by
William Leonard, near the head of Spring gulch. It was propelled by steam. Two
years later another was put up at Dark canon, run by water-power, which was
burned in 1859. Another water-power saw-mill was in Concow valley, which was
burned in 1864, and a fourth, the Defiance, was built in 1873, and is still
running. The last one, the Rock creek mill, was built in 1876. A number of
quartz-mills have also been here. The Virgin mill was built in 1857 and ran for
six years. The "49 and 56," erected the same year, was burned in 1868. Fuller's
mill, built in 1859, was also consumed by fire in 1860, and a water-power mill
erected in 1861, known as the Pioneer, on the Virgin ledge, met the same fate.
In 1865, the Jordan hill mill came into existence, and in 1880 went out of it
after the fashion of the others. The McGrath mill, now in existence, though not
running, was built in 1879.

    The southern part of the township is the scene of the magnificent operations
to be carried on by the Big Bend Tunnel and Mining Company, of which reference
is made in the chapter on the leading mines of the county.


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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