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Volume 048-1 - January 1994 (8 pages)
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Gazebo at MacBoyle’s Lake. (Photo by Jim Rose.)
That was a real challenge, as the only part that rested on the
ground was the 50’ diameter outside form. The rest had to be
suspended somehow and also leave us room to finish the
bottom of the basin. ... Then came the day to make the pour.
We had two half yard mixers set up, and we had enough
manpower to make up two crews. One was to start at 6:00 in
the morning and the other to start at noon. About half way
through one of the mixers broke down and we had only one.
We never stopped. We took turns eating lunch. It took us 18
hours to make the pour, some of us working the full time,
others on the first shift came back and went to work again.
Finally we was ready to try it out. MacBoyle decided to
have a Fourth of July celebration and have it open to everybody. He not only built the fountain for himself, but for all of
the people of the area.
You could always find MacBoyle in his spare time at the
gazebo playing his favorite music over the lake. His next
project was to build a clubhouse and tennis courts on the west
end of the lake and make the hill top into a park. After one of
his many trips back to Washington, he had a heart attack. .. .
Mrs. MacBoyle asked me . . . if I could build a sun room onto
their house. I said I could. One that he could get around in in
a wheel chair and be able to go outside. Every day that he
was able he was at his beloved lake.
When he heard that the war was over, he wanted to have
the fountain lit up again. We stopped everything and checked
it out. Somehow the whole area was notified and turned out.
If things had worked as head planned, we would of had a
wonderful park on that hill top, for all of us to enjoy.
6
Loma Rica Rancho Had Sun Lamps and
Fire Exits in Its Stable Palaces _
[Tom Arden of Grass Valley covered Nevada County for
the Sacramento Bee in the 1930s. The following is extracted
from a story he wrote in 1939.]
Duarxe CERTAIN HOURS of the day a steel spire of
the Idaho-Maryland Mine, one mile from [Grass Valley],
casts its shadow over the Loma Rica Rancho. From beneath
that spire some $40,000,000 in gold has been taken and the
Loma Rica Rancho—the name means rich earth—is an exemplification of a man believing in spending his money
where he finds it. MacBoyle is not rushing into the breeding
of horses to grab honors by a photo finish. He is spending
much money, but wisely, to develop winners of the Kentucky
and Santa Anita Derbies which are the world’s famous 3 year
events. Horses go from those races into the $100,000 Santa
Anita Handicap. The products of MacBoyle’s enterprise will
not reach the tracks, to any serious extent, until 1940. But
after that do not be surprised if you hear of a jockey in a gold
blouse and white cap, the Loma Rica colors, streaking across
the finish line in front of the field in any of those classics.
MacBoyle spent $50,000 on two barns placed upon a
knoll, a spot of scenic beauty, surrounded by twenty-two
paddocks in which sprinkling systems play upon Kentucky
blue grass and there are all kinds of imported food for the
making of turf champions. There are 250 acres devoted to the
horse rancho which is 2670 feet above sea level. That altitude
is supposed to make for horses strong both in lung capacity
and in legs.
The barns themselves might almost be termed palaces.
Each stall is fifteen by fifteen feet and panelled in beautiful
hardwood. In addition to a long corridor through the center of
each building there is a door from each stall leading directly
outdoors. This is to provide two exits in case of fire. At the
far end of each barn is a large indoor paddock where the
young horses get their first feel of a man on their back.
Each barn has a maternity ward which makes visitors gasp
in wonderment. All surgical and medical equipment that
could be found in a horse hospital is at hand. Johnny Semas,
superintendent of the farm, has sleeping quarters next to the
ward and merely has to open a small door from his bed to see
how the mother and offspring are faring during the night.
Each stall has a sunlamp to make sure all the youngsters
get their vitamins in all kinds of weather. And each one gets
cod liver oil and other things that go to make health and
speed.
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The entire venture is based upon a solid premise. It is a™
really the first one attempted in Superior California to en-,
hance breeding since the legalized race wagering law was
adopted in California. The Loma Rica Rancho is actually an
outgrowth of that law, one of the few vivid proofs of the
claim that wagering encourages breeding.