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

HISTORICAL REMINISCENCES.

   From the many anecdotes that are related, and historical incidents that have
occurred in the county, we have arranged the most important in the following
pages, in the order of their antiquity. These stories show the real life of the
people, and vacillate from grave to gay, from comedy to tragedy. They embrace
the criminal annals, the legal and illegal punishments, as well as those other
incidents that serve to make up a county's history. To many this will be the
most interesting portion of the volume.

THE RICH-BAR PAINTING.

   On another page will be found a copy of an old oil painting now in the
possession of Mr. Whiting. It represents Rich bar, on the middle fork of Feather
river, in the summer of 1851. The painting was made by Thomas C. Moore, of
Harper's Ferry, Virginia, a pioneer of 1849. At the time it was executed the
artist was mining on the river near by, in company with Mr. Whiting and others.
As shown by the picture, a flume is constructed, carrying all the water of the
stream, the river bed being drained in this manner to be worked by the miners
with the occasional use of a rude hand pump. Near the lower end of the flume is
seen a building, used as a trading-post. The other buildings are the camping
places of the miners. Claims were forty feet square on the bar, and the river
bed and bar were both exceedingly rich.


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Extracted from:

Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)


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