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Book Title: Illustrated History Of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

BIEBER.

   That fine expanse of agricultural land lying in the extreme north-western
section of the county, and known as Big valley, contains a thriving little town
named Bieber. It is situated on Pit river, toward the west side of the valley,
at a locality that was until 1877 known as Chalk Ford. At that time a store was
opened there by N. Bieber, and the town has since borne that gentleman's name.
In 1879 Mr. Bieber secured the location of a post-office at that point. There
are now two stores, two hotels, a restaurant, a barber-shop, two saloons, a
livery stable, a post-office, a weekly newspaper, and a lodge of Odd Fellows and
one of Good Templars. The population of the town proper is about 200, and of the
agricultural section in which it is situated, about 500. A tri-weekly stage and
mail connects this place with Susanville, and a daily stage and mail route
passes from Redding through the town, and thence to Aden, Alturas, and Lake
View. The Mountain Tribune, a seven-column, four-page, weekly paper was first
issued in Bieber May 6, 1881, by Thomas P. Ford, who still conducts it. The
paper is independent in politics, and is devoted to the interests of its section
of the county.


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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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