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Historical Clippings Book (HC-12) (520 pages)

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MEADOW LAKE MINING The Daily @ranserint, 1869: Sent. 9: Meadow Lake Furnace for roasting ores. Oct. The Union: Meadow Lake, Aug. 4, 1878; Aug. 18, '78 and Sept. 9, See succeeding pages) Feb.26, '78. Meadow Meadow Meadow Leke deserted. City, June 13, 1873 Lake reference, July 27, 1886 Lake Article on Mar. 13, 1893 5 78% THE MEADOW LAKE STORY No where in history or fiction can you find a more interesting story than that of Meadow Lake, the town they built backwards. In its short but magnificent lifetime it became an incorporated city, listed a population of some 5,000, boasted such metropolitan refinements as a stock exchange and yet, within two years was deserted. Henry Hartley from Philadelphia settled here in 1860 and made his living trapping. The dam was built by the South Yuba Canal Company in 1858 to impound water for hydraulic mining. Hartley stumbled on an outcropping of decomposed rock containing flecks of gold in the spring of 1863. That fall, together with Henry Feutel and John Simons, he staked out two claims. Two years later the gold rush to Meadow Lake was on. A townsite was surveyed and lots sold for $25 each to actual settlers. The business district took shape rapidly and the town had its own newspaper. The Meadow Lake Sun, published weekly. The Excelsior Stock Board met nightly and called a number of stocks for bid but there were no bidders. The flurry of mining and commercial activity was short lived. The first gold was on the surface in decomposed rock and easy to process; the deeper ores defied all attempts then known to be refined and were termed “rebellious.” The huge inverted pyramid that was Meadow Lake unceremoniously collapsed in 1868 in a pile of shattered dreams. Henry Hartley never lost faith in the mines and remained long after all hope of processing the ore had been given up. He died here in 1892 and is buried in the tiny cemetery near the townsite. —RMW G12.