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

HAYDEN HILL.

   Fifty-five miles north-westerly from Susanville lies the mining camp of
Hayden Hill, the seat of the only mining of importance carried on in the county.
The hill rises to a height of 1,000 feet above the surrounding table-land, which
is itself some 5,000 feet above the sea-level. There are now eight quartz-mines
being worked on the hill, yielding $100,000 per annum, with the promise that a
much greater yield will reward a more complete development. The hill received
its name from a Mr. Hayden, who, with S. Lewis, discovered gold-bearing quartz
on the hill in 1869. Lewis was the original discoverer of the Brush Hill mine,
from which the Hoes and Harbert brothers and Jerry Rose have taken $100,000.

   In the summer of 1870 Rev. Harvey Haskins, Rev. Mr. McKenzie, Miles,
McDowell, Preston, and two others, while searching for "the lost cabin," camped
one noon at a spring on the side of this hill. To secure a more abundant supply
of water, Haskins began enlarging the spring, and soon found gold on his shovel.
In their gratitude they called the location they then made Providence, or Mt.
Hope. After realizing some $40,000 from washing the decomposed quartz, they were
drawn into a mill enterprise with a San Francisco company, whose superintendent
knew nothing of practical mining. After crushing 100 tons of wall rock, in which
there was no pay except the vein matter on the surface, they removed their mill
and condemned the hill. The eight paying mines there now show how valuable was
their judgment.

   The little mining camp now called Hayden Hill has existed since the spring of
1871. It was known for a number of years as Providence City, but in the winter
of 1878 a post-office was established there, with the name of Hayden Hill. The
town contains two hotels, a store, blacksmith shop, saloon, and a population of
about 200, chiefly engaged in mining. It has tri-weekly stage and mail
connection with Susanville.


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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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