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Agricultureranch farm the Tehama District Fair- grounds has a wooden sign "C Roy Carmichael" and many people don't know who he was. The sheep show ring at In 1979 Carmichael was honored by the Jr Livestock Auction Committee for his unselfish support to 4-H and FFA mem- bers in the county. "Carmichael, 83, has long been active in his encourage- ment of young peo- ple. Numerous qual- ity project calves have come from his Vina Ranch, fed and managed by 4-H and FFA members, and exhibited at local fairs. Carmichael then attends each sale and purchases several market steers. At most of these sales, he established a base price for all steers sold, insuring that all young people are recog- nized equally. "In 1968, he received the Cattleman of the Year Award at the Cow Palace in San Francisco." Eleanor Simpson Brig- gs compiled a paperback book "A Legend in His Time," "dedicated to C. Roy Carmichael, with our admiration, respect, and love on his ninety sixth birthday, April 10, 1992." There were pictures and newspaper clippings of the many trail drives on the Lassen Trail over the years. Canyon from Lake Almanor to Greenville. "Cows have stampeded when frightened by bears. But snow and gale winds have failed to halt the drive which cross- es summits at elevations of 5,500 feet. Jean Barton ter, to men and women in their 60s. (Names were not listed in article.) "Mrs John Carlson was head cook during this year‚s cattle drive. She was preparing hamburg- ers for the trail crew dri- ving 682 cows to summer pasture." "Helping Carmichael are five dro v ers ranging from an 11- year-old boy and his 17 year old sis- was Leininger Cabin, Windy Gap, Obes Field, Lost Camp and Round Valley on the Lassen Trail. Deer Creek Mead- ow, on south side of Sol- dier Meadows to Butt Creek Camp Ground then Canyon Dam on south end of Lake Almanor. Greenville, Indian Valley, Genessee, Cate Place, and the upper ranch by Lake Davis. The cattle drive route The Sacramento Bee, July 2, 1965. "Bawling calves and clanging cow bells are evidence the yearly Carmichael Ranch Hereford herd trail drive is on the move again. "It is a 10 day, 130 mile cattle drive from Los Molinos to Portola, and 7,700 acres of summer range. C. Roy Carmichael moves his cows in the spring and fall on the hoof to save more than $1,000 in rail and truck fees. "The cows follow log- ging roads, sections of the historic Lassen Trail and nine miles of State High- way 89 down Wolf Creek "Each year since 1957, Bluff Daily News, Lou Walther had written, "Longtime mountain cat- tleman C. Roy Carmichael gathered a herd in the rough and rocky hills east of Vina and drove two days to Round Valley over the trail along which Peter Lassen guided emigrants in 1848. June 18, 1977, Red "In years past, thou- sands of head of stock were driven to summer pasture in the Sierra along Lassen‚s trail and others like it. But Carmichael is the only stockman driving now. And he said last week that he is selling his high foothill range to Tehama County cattleman Wesley Leininger, and that next year will be his out. The man behind the Carmichael sign & last drive along the his- toric trail — if he drives then. "I'm 81," he pointed "Carmichael's trail herd this time was com- paratively small — around 175 head. The cat- tle still go to Plumas County, but Red Bluff trucker Lorin Boots‚ big rigs pick them up at the green little Lassen Trail oasis of Round Valley. "Now there are so many people living in the mountains, so many hous- es and yards along the roads, so much traffic, that driving cattle over much of the route has become too much of a hassle. "Three men who have been on nearly all the dri- ves in the past 20 years were on this one with Carmichael. They are Fred Hamilton, a year round employee who lives with his family at the Vina ranch, John Carlson of Paradise, and Wes Briggs, a former Gerber man. "Hamilton went on his first cattle drive when he was five years old, with his father, foreman at the Cone Ranch east of Red Bluff. He's spent a lot of his time in the saddle since then. "Even the short drives these days have their adventures. "At Lost Camp a bear Saturday, May 19, 2012 – Daily News 5A spooked the herd at 3 a.m. Carmichael, Hamilton and Hamilton's son Fred- die, helping that year, were sleeping in bedrolls nearby, and heard them go. first into the saddle. He and the others had most of the cattle rounded up by daybreak and started up the trail with them. "The year before they had trouble at a place called The Narrows. Hamilton tells about it: "We had an explosion. "Carmichael was the Courtesy photo by Tony Walther C. Roy Carmichael sight and the leaders just left. The bunch behind just folded right back. They really messed us up." runaway leaders at Lost Camp. The others brought most of the herd in an hour later. "Hamilton headed the Fellow with a pack on his back. He was on that knoll about The Narrows there. I'd no idea he was there. I'd just got by him with the lead bunch and they was spooky and wanting to run anyhow — and he stepped out in wanted to photograph the herd on the way to Porto- la: "That was, well, seri- ous, really, but as it turned out, we came out all right. Up there on the road between Lake Almanor and Greenville, there's lots of sharp bends and cuts. There was one guy, we let him through. Had a pickup with a camper on Another time "One guy the back. We let him through and I just assumed he was going to go on, but I started around the bend there and the lead just blew up, just came back on us. I rode on up to see what the hell was going on, and here he was. He had his pickup parked on one side of the road. He was right out in the middle of the pave- ment as we came around that bend with a camera set up on a tripod. Why, all he got was a picture of tails. Those cattle explod- ed when they saw him. They had been on the trail several days. If that had been a fresh bunch, we'd have been gatherin‚ them yet. You just couldn't stop 'em. We got 'em turned around, but it was two or three miles down that highway. We didn't get 'em turned back until we got almost to Canyon Dam. One woman tried to shoot them. Had flowers planted right out to berm of the road. She had plant- ed them out there on pur- pose. It was on county right of way. She had just gone down and bought those potted plants and set them in the ground. Was hoping we'd get on one, but you know, we got that whole bunch through there and we didn't touch a flower. That was just plain luck." Sheet Metal Roofing Residential Commercial • Composition • Shingle • Single Ply Membrane RUNNINGS ROOFING "No Job Too Steep" " No Job Too Flat" Serving Tehama County 530-527-5789 530-209-5367 Owner is on site on every job CA. LIC#829089 No Money Down! 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