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Volume 027-3 - July 1973 (4 pages)
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Page: of 4
sanitorium were needed at the park.
At this time also, rumblings of plans
to get water out to the growing orchard
community began. Residents depended on the very excellent springs for
water used in the home but practiced
dry farming in the orchards,
By September hope was diminishing
that the hotel planned by the colony
would become a reality. Much of the
wood reserved for this purpose was
put into McDonald’s new building on
the corner of Mill and Neal Streets
in Grass Valley. The colonists would
not back the hotel.
In October progress was reported
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California and decided a hotel and
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in the colony itself. Charles Stafford
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actual buildings had gone up in the ne y _
Everybody turned out to work on the townsite. Morris Lobner sold out his < 7 AL
road in the old. days. Here is a interests to C. H. Briot of Chicago on —O— (©)
“‘road gang’? resting on the porch of October 9, 1889. The Union remarks mi 3 Chicago Park Store. (Jack Mills that Chicago Park’s first business sign
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collection). was “G, H. Briot, Real Estate, \ hoeao o
Lumber and Wood.”’
abstracts of the complaining parties The winter of 1889-1890 was exwere correct, In answer to the comtremely severe, The colonists had plaint that promotors got their land been expecting a mild climate and cheaper, it was explained that they had were unprepared for the snow.
sent parties all over California to
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find a suitable location and incurred
financial risks. It was hoped that the
kickers would not move to Chicago Park
for they would ‘never raise anything
but dust in the summer and it would
be rather disagreeable.’?
In March of 1889 the county assessor said Chicago Park showed more
improvement than any other part of
the county. There had been 25,000
trees set out, over 38,000 square
feet of mesh wiring and 30,000 feet
of barbed wire’had gone into fences.
R. R. Porter had started his house
in the Talking Pines area.
From this point on, criticism from
nearby community newspapers was The Briot home was one of the more td
heavy because the colony was not promagnificent homes in the area, It conBenedict So ca ENGRS. “Foe
sressing according to plan. In May tained as much gingerbread inside as
of 1889 Dr. Charles A, Pusheck, one out. It still stands in the bend of the CHICAGO
of the colony’s promotors, had toured Colfax Highway.
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