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Historical Clippings Book (HC-11) (314 pages)
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FRENCH CORRAL
by
Anna M. Du,-zyk
French Corral has become another of the ghost towns of the early mining
days, although there are still the store and post office—and corral house—the historical old hotel, owned by Mr. and Mrs. John Culver. Mrs. Culver's
parents owned it before that and she has told me of the busy days of her
childhood, when hydraulic mining was the order of the day.
The *Yells—Fargo Bank still stands, and at present is used as a store and
post office. The old saloon is still standing, and merely holds old mining
paraphernalia, guns, stoves and furniture that the miners of other days either
sold or gave to its present owner, Boni Bishops
One of the old time hotels later became the French Corral school, which
it is at the present time, :
There are snipers still mining in the old diggins, and people come in
there for the winter, as the climate is mild. Oranges ripen on the trees by
the old hotel, and French Corral Gravel Ifine sometimes employs 4 to 8 men
several months of the year.
In spring the country around French Corral is beautiful. Flowers——both
wild and cultivated are everywhere-—as roses run riot in spots that were once
homes, whose owners went away and perhaps a summer grass fire or forest fire
destroyed the house. french Corral has such nice climate, and plenty of wa-:
ter for irrigation that it could be made an ideal place to live if there were
some industry there so people could earn a living. It is never "snowed in!
as some towns higher up in the mountains are sometimes, and it has a gradual
run-off of winter rains, so there is never disastrous wash-outs or floods,
I know people who come to French Corral for the winter, from the city
and fog, for relief or cure of asthma. So it could be made into a winter
health resort, The Native Daughters of the Golden est erected a bronze pla—
que commemorating the first long distance telephone.
THE FLAsT TELEPHONE
In 1678, the then’longest long distance telephone line if the world
was built by the Ridge Telephone Company to span the fifty-eisht mile dis-—
tance between French Corral, Nevada County and French Lake.
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