Plumas-Sierra County CA Archives Biographies.....Hendel, Charles W. 1831 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

CHARLES W. HENDEL was born in Saxony, July 21, 1831. He was educated at Dresden,
and graduated from the Zchocko Technic Institute in 1850. Two years later he
came to the United States, living in New Jersey and Connecticut until the spring
of 1853, when he came to California. After mining for a time on the American
river, he went to St. Louis, Sierra county, and engaged in mining till 1860,
when he was elected county surveyor of Sierra county, which office he held two
terms. Since that time he has been engaged in his profession as a surveyor,
though largely interested in a number of mining enterprises. In 1871 he was
appointed deputy U. S. surveyor, a position he still retains. He moved to La
Porte, Plumas county, the same year, and in 1879 was elected county surveyor of
that county, which office he now holds, residing in La Porte. Among other mining
ventures, he was interested with two others in the Sears Ravine flume, which
cost them over $80,000, and from which they realized nothing, though it has
since proved to be good property. He now owns a three-fourths interest in the
Alturas tailing mine on Slate creek, five miles long; also seven-eighths of the
claims on Port Wine ridge, known as the Lucky Hill Consolidated Drift Mine,
containing 800 acres, in which a 2,000-foot tunnel is being run to tap the
channel. He has done much to advance the mining interests of both Plumas and
Sierra counties. One evening in 1856, just after the fire in St. Louis, he had a
miraculous escape from death at the bottom of a shaft fifty-four feet deep, down
which he plunged headlong. His injuries confined him to his bed but two weeks.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)


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