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4A Daily News – Saturday, June 25, 2011 Agriculture & farm Last weekend Woody and Jane Barnes and I were on the California Beef Cattle Improvement Association 2011 tour of the scenic Car- son Valley, Nev. and Bridge- port with 80 other ranchers interested in the beef cattle industry. Each year we visit cattle ranches and interesting sites. Last year it was the Ken- tucky Mine and Museum in Sierra City, where they mined gold. One year it was the Hearst Castle. This year we visited Placerville, an important supply center for the surrounding mining camps. It was also known as Hangtown. It was my first visit stop- ping in downtown Plac- erville, where Julie McCor- mack and I discovered the Placerville Hardware store. It is incredible. Julie also owns an Ace Hardware store, and asked a clerk what the inventory numbered. The reply was, she didn’t know since they don’t use a computer. I was so lucky to have friendly, helpful employ- ees show and tell stories about the store during the hour I was there. Deb Byers and Aaron Holcomb said they weren’t family, but the pride and stories made us feel they were part of the family. Nancy Mosbacher, the book-keeper found a brochure with the history of Placerville Hardware for me. In fact, a story written by Eric Laughlin in the April 28, 2006 Mountain Democ- rat felt the same way. “A feeling of family is always in the air at the oldest hardware store in the West. The store, older than Plac- erville itself, has been owned and operated by three generations of Plac- erville’s Fausel family since 1952. “When Frank Fausel, COMPLETE AUTO REPAIR All makes and models. We perform dealer recommened 30K, 60K, 90K SERVICES AT LOWER PRICES Smog Check starting at $ (most cars and pick-ups) 2595 + cert. Pass or FREE retest 527-9841 • 195 S. 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A working bit of histo- ry. As for the cattle rustling Courtesy photo Patricia Radelfinger of Windsor with a display of drawer pulls and handles at the Placerville Hardware store while on the CBCIA tour. Deb and Aaron showed me the dynamite room that was built over the creek that flowed under the store. They said the humidity of the water helped protect the dynamite. The store was established in 1852. Three days after the fire in 1856, Franklin sold the building to I.H. Nash who quickly opened his hardware store. The fire of 1856 leveled the downtown area of mostly wooden structures and a few stone buildings. One of the few buildings to sur- vive the fire was Nash’s stone building, but it was damaged due to the attached wooden building that burned to the ground. Jean Barton “Just weeks after the fire, Nash razed the stone shop and erected the brick structure that remains to this day. Joseph Smith and I. H. Nash built the brick building in August 1856, because the building next door had burnt down.” Over the years the store expanded, taking in the building next door at 443 Main Street that once housed the Mountain Democrat, California’s old- est newspaper in continuous publication since 1851. In the first 50 years, the name and owners changed six times, but little else changed. The floors are wooden. There are four rolling wood- en ladders that were installed in 1890, and they are still used daily. They came across the Isthmus of Panama. The wooden barrels that nails came in, are still being used to hold nails and other items. There were new square nails for sale, and nails from little tiny tacks to spikes over 12 or 15 inches long. Bill needs some nails, but I couldn’t remember what length he wanted. They would have been a good Father’s Day gift, and souvenir. My souvenir was vacuum cleaner bags and lots of pictures. Aaron showed me the hole in the wooden counter, where the gold was swept into the bag hanging under- neath after weighing on the scales. The floor level boxes or bins were worn in semi- circles where the men’s feet rested while their gold was measured. On the floor there is a brass tack in the wood, every 12 inches from the back where the rolls of different sized rope are hanging, to the front door. They used to measure the rope on the tacks, and still can. You can still see the soot on the brick wall where the fire was. Upstairs they showed me some dusty, old dishes that survived that era. They were heavy white dishes, showing they were made in England; just like the dishes my family used each summer in Susanville when sister Marilyn and I were children. In the lunch room there were pictures of an old base- ball team from the store in the era of Model Ts, as the men posed by the car. David and Deanna Fausel are the present own- ers of the store, and their oldest son Albert runs the hardware store. Deb and Aaron made sure I saw Albert‚s denim clad leg and boot that protruded from the ceiling. It seems that Albert was in the attic and stepped wrong. My picture shows 42 hammers, of different brands, sizes, and shapes (not showing all of them), and this doesn’t count the various picks. I have never seen so many shovels; square, oval, snow and some I can’t name. In the bird feeder section, there was a video about a squirrel trying to get in the bird feeder. Deb said that teen-agers will sit on the floor and watch the silly squirrel endless times. It was truly a wonderful store, and the employees make you feel welcome. Perhaps you have seen it on several different television shows over the years. If you are in Placerville, don’t miss the Placerville Hardware in Tehama County, one per- son called Red Bluff and Tehama County still the wild west. The $12,000 reward is still being offered for arrest and conviction of the person or persons who stole the Owenses’ cattle. Several women on the tour from Central Califor- nia, said they hadn’t lost cat- tle recently but they were in the process of getting their concealed gun permits since there is so much stealing in their area. With the budget cuts in their county, there was no deputy sheriff near- by. *** The Branding Project is spending many, many thou- sands of dollars to learn how to lure the tourist into stop- ping in our community. Per- haps they should work with the Red Bluff Police Depart- ment to be more helpful to the tourists, when it took over a week or two and numerous phone calls to get a purse returned to the owner, according to the let- ter to editor from Mark Strek, Portland, Ore. I would tell all my friends, “For goodness sakes, don’t stop in Red Bluff,” if that happened to me. Why couldn’t they have mailed the purse, COD, cer- tified mail, return receipt, to the lady, instead of passing the buck because of vaca- tions? I would be lost with- out my clear glasses, credit cards, cell phone and cam- era when traveling. *** The American National CattleWomen (ANCW), in conjunction with Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health, is bringing a special guest speaker, Tracy Chapman, co-director of Brand Insights from the marketing and strategy com- pany Just Ask A Woman, to address members at the Cat- tle Industry Summer Con- ference. Women influence 85 percent of buying deci- sions and are especially influential in meal choices. Two additional topics will be offered as part of ANCW’s Education Work- shops, Tuesday, Aug. 2. “Among Friends ... 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