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NCHS Bulletin July 2003 tants, nearly all of whom are directly, or indirectly, connected with the lumber trade. Newspapers, Schools and Churches The Truckee Tribune—Ferguson, publisher, a semiweekly independent journal, takes note of the interests of local . . . educational interests have been [there is a smudge here blotting out some of the words] . . . being justly celebrated for her public schools. There are two churches in town, a Methodist and a Roman Catholic edifice. Hotels There are three hotels in Truckee, the principal one being the Truckee House, W. B. Campbell, proprietor. The cars stop before the house thirty minutes, affording time for the traveler to obtain a good meal. This hotel is the headquarters of the tourists who visits this locality. Stages leave it every day in summer for Donner and Tahoe Lakes. Besides the hotels, there are several restaurants and 67 saloons, or places where liquor is sold, scattered around through the place. (All the water of the Truckee river is required for mills and navigation—floating sawlogs.) Stage Lines—Their Length Daily stages leave for Donner Lake, Lake Tahoe and Sierraville. Donner Lake line—Pollard, to the head of the lake, six miles; Lake Tahoe line, Campbell & Burke, 14 miles; Sierraville line, G. Richardson, 30 miles. Darling & Schneider, of Sierra City, have built a wagon road from Sierra City to Milton, on the Henness Pass road. The length of grade required to connect with the Henness Pass road is five miles. The road connects Sierra City with Truckee via the Henness Pass and Donner Lake wagon roads. Heretofore Sierra City has been compelled to get is supplies by way of Marysville and Downieville, a distance of 80 miles. The new road connects them with the railroad within dis2 This wood engraving of Thomas Moran’s painting of Donner Lake, looking east from the Sierra Nevada summit, appeared in The Pacific Tourist, an 1879 tourist guide. A Central Pacific Railroad passenger train (right background) is shown heading toward a series of snow sheds (right foreground). tance of 32 miles; giving a distance of 48 miles in favor of the new route. It is also nearest point for Downieville people to reach the railroad, as the later place is but 16 miles from Sierra City. Freight and Trade Freight is re-shipped here for Donner and Tahoe Lakes, Sierraville, and the various towns in Sierra Valley. There <™ are some wholesale and certain houses here which do a large business, Sisson & Roberts doing an average monthly trade of $30,000. The average monthly sales of merchandise in the town amount to about $140,000. Points of Interest And how to reach them. We have spoken of the stage lines to the lakes, but of no other mode of reaching those places. Campbell, of the Truckee House, has fine turn-outs in his stables. Take one of these, and with him or Bayley for a guide, start out for LAKE TAHOE. [Ed. note—we are bypassing all the town and villages until we approach Colfax.] COLFAX While we have been talking, the cars have arrived at his place, five miles west of C. H. Mill’s station. Elevation, 2,448 feet. This is a regular eating station, and an excellent table will be found at the Railroad House, kept by Curley & More. The company has a large depot here, this being the distributing point for freight bound for Grass Valley, Nevada, and a large scope of mining country. The town is named in honor of Schuyler Colfax, one of the warmest friends and earliest supports of the road. Colfax is one of the prettiest and most substantial of the railroad towns. It contains about 200 buildings, some of brick, the remainder wood. There are three hotels, one church, several saloons, Odd Fellows’ and Masons’ halls, _