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Morefrommymother's writings: Notes about the Bert Hampton Hotel in Mineral 1874-1920s. It was long trip, Red Bluff to Susanville, and not many trips were made in the horse and wagon days. The Willard women stayed at the Hampton Ho- tel at Mineral. They carried their own bedding, and there were straw filled mat- tresses. (They did not like to stay there —-bed bugs.) There were just a few bedrooms. Outside toilet, no running water. Horses taken care of at corrals, two big hay barns, loose timo- thy and clover. Warren Woodson said there were four bed- rooms, a kitchen and din- ing room, then a "talk and smoke" room. A generous wood eating stove encircled by a "foot & spit" rail. He said "around this rail, cat- tle and sheep men, hunters and woodsmen dried their boots, warmed their feet —- told their tales. Another hotel and stop- ping place was the Johnson Ranch — on the meadows on the east end of now, the Chester causeway. Another stopping place was at Browns. East of the 101 Ranch. This was before Westwood was created, and the road went from 101 Ranch across the meadow westward, then went to the left to Clear Creek. ••• Before Highway 36E was created, the main road from Red Bluff to Dales was the Kaufman Causeway (built 1915-16), the Paynes Creek road (slough) and St. Mary's joined Paynes Creek road. Up Grobe Hill, across the 7 Mile Creek range, crossing 7 Mile Creek, then to Hog Lake, down along Paynes Creek around the south side of Abner McKenzie's house, crossed DeHaven Gulch to Dales Station. The new highway 36E, Childs Meadows to Ches- ter was completed the Fall of 1929. It was a nice drive and it eliminated Wil- son Lake, Stump Ranch to Chester, that was a gravel, rough, dirty road. Lyman told of cold trips driving the sheep to and from the mountains. Hot, dry dusty trips too, in the fall. In 1935 Lyman killed a deer in deer season while on the trail between Ches- ter and Childs Meadows. He drove to Red Bluff, bought deer license and went back and tagged the deer. Trailing the sheep through the manzanita near Clear Creek, he found a stolen Packard sedan stashed away in the brush. As a young child he saw the great thick forests, west of Westwood harvested by the Red River Lumber Co. He said the whole area was an area of stumps. Saw the company mill town of Westwood build and fall. On those ten day sheep trailing to and from the mountains he would pick up mail at Mineral and Chester, and mail a card or letter to me. On our trips back and forth, we would stop at a cold spring just a little east of Morgan Summit. Good cold spring water to fill a bottle or so. Another cold spring was east of Childs Meadows. Later I would fill bottles of water for my new steam iron. The road was narrow two lane. During the 1950's I stopped. I got a $ 10 ticket for stopping on the high- way. In early May 1930, Un- cle Ora, Aunt Minnie and I drove to the "Y" where Ly- onsville road met High- way 36E. We took a pic- nic lunch. I took fresh as- paragus and straw berries, Aunt Minnie took potato salad and rolls to go with their meal. Met the band of sheep, Lyman, the herd- ers. The cookwagon was a new Ford stake rack truck he bought earlier that spring from the Ford dealer in Corning, trading in the Dodge screen side. Inskip Grade was gravel, graded, dusty or muddy road, steep grade, with lots of "Thank you, Mams" across the road for drains. In the early 1930's, the State Governor and High- way Department had state prisoners rebuild, regrade the Inskip Grade and work project continued east of Paynes Creek. Brother Bill Stone tells of early autos, having to go up the hill "backwards", be- cause the gasoline could not get to the engines—- only by gravity. The big, wide right of way below Stice Road/36- E was made wide enough for a sheep or cattle drive along the highway. (Far sight before big livestock trucks.) ••• There was never money for anything in the 1930s. Going to the County Fair we carried our sandwiches; there were food stands we could not afford. We carried our own bottles of Coco- Cola, they cost a nickel at the grocery store. They were a dime at the Fair. ••• A winter snow storm brought on panic in late January or early February 1930 to the Willard sheep- men, Lyman, his brother Hillman, their Uncle Ches- ter. It was almost the start of lambing season, 15th of February. It was my first hay ride on the ranch as a bride, of a few weeks. The flat wooden bed hay wagon with wooden racks on the front and rear. Ly- man harness up the pair of big ranch horses, stabled in the barn, then forked the loose hay from the hay mow to the wagon. We drove through the snow up to the sheep headquarters (in the mouth of Tuscan Springs Canyon.) Believing I might be helpful I drove the team while Lyman and the herder pitched off the loose hay to the heavy (with lamb) ewes. The snow as maybe six inches or so deep. ••• In 1937 we took a trip to Yosemite. Susanville, Reno, Hwy. 395, over the moun- tain into Yosemite Valley. A beautiful trip. Afterwards Lyman said the road (Hwy 36-E), Las- sen Camp, Morgan Sum- mit, Childs Meadows with beautiful meadows, tall trees, great lake (Lake Al- manor), Fredonyer Summit, Pats Meadows were as eye catching and as beautiful as the National Park. ••• By 1937, it was the first year our sheep operation showed an income on the bottom black line. We had been going be- hind $1,000 a year (our liv- ing expenses) ever since we were married. The Fall of 1937 and Spring of 1938 we bought a small 2-door Ford sedan and a refrigerator. By 1942 the strange world of paying income tax became a reality. Farm Ad- visor Grant Merrill said at the time, "It's a good feel- ing, people like to han- dle money." Illustrating — "Higher prices for sheep, wool, lambs. Handle more $$$$, then give some of it back to the Federal and State Governments. It's a good feeling." Now 2000, "it's" what bracket are you in? 15%, 38% and etc. You are han- dling a lot of money — and don't it feel good. JeanBartonhasbeen writing her column in the Daily News since the early 1990s. She can be reached by e-mail at jbarton2013@ gmail.com. JEANBARTON More from the writings of Anne Willard McNabb By Chip Thompson editor@redbluffdailynews.com@ editorchip on Twitter CHICO California State Uni- versity, Chico has once again been named to the Sierra Club's Cool Schools list high- lighting the nation's greenest colleges and universities. For the second consecutive year, CSU, Chico ranked No. 39, the highest of any CSU. The University is one of 153 schools named to the Cool Schools list, which is based on survey data sub- mitted by campus adminis- trators. Staff in the Institute for Sustainable Development (ISD) at CSU, Chico com- pleted an extensive online questionnaire administered bytheAssociationfortheAd- vancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. CSU, Chico received an overall score of 686.34 out of 1,000 points in 11 different catego- ries. The University ranked near the top for purchasing, academics and waste, rank- ing No. 8, No. 10 and No. 13 in those areas respectively. Other categories included co-curricular, energy, in- vestments, food, innovation, planning, transit and water. "There are more than 2,000 four-year schools in the U.S; to rank 39 out of 2,000 is huge," said Jim Pushnik, director of the ISD. "There are areas where we have the capacity to im- prove, and we have plans to do that. But we've succeeded in the values we've focused on: instruction, minimizing ourwasteandaddressingthe supply line. "I'm quite pleased that as the competition has stepped up, we've held our own." In addition to the Sierra Club list, the University was also recently named to the PrincetonReview'slistof353 Green Colleges for schools demonstrating a commit- ment to sustainability. CSU, Chico's longtime fo- cus on sustainability has be- come increasingly notable in recent months. In both June and July, the University beat local water conservation re- quirements by 11 percent through a number of wa- ter-saving measures, includ- ing reducing landscape irri- gation times and frequency, browning several acres of lawn and suspending towel service at the Wildcat Recre- ationCenter(WREC),among others. Earlier this year, students in the residence halls were among the winners of the 2015 Campus Conservation Nationals for the second consecutive year. For three weeks during the spring se- mester, approximately 400 Shasta and Lassen hall res- idents competed to reduce energy consumption com- pared to baseline energy use established earlier in the se- mester. 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