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S p r i n g P h o t o G a l l e r y
C A H S
O F F I C E R S
President: President: President: President:
Janet Lee
Vice President: Vice President: Vice President: Vice President:
TBA
Rec. Secretary:Rec. Secretary:Rec. Secretary:Rec. Secretary:
Joanne Geist
Corres. Secretary:Corres. Secretary:Corres. Secretary:Corres. Secretary:
Linda Couchman
Treasurer:Treasurer:Treasurer:Treasurer:
Barbara Kelly
At Large:At Large:At Large:At Large:
Walt Wilson
At Large:At Large:At Large:At Large:
Tom Mason
Past President:Past President:Past President:Past President:
Jim Flynn
Membership:Membership:Membership:Membership:
Chris Miller
Museum & Archive Director:Museum & Archive Director:Museum & Archive Director:Museum & Archive Director:
Helen Wayland
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Cobblestones EditorCobblestones EditorCobblestones EditorCobblestones Editor
Teri Andrews-Murch
Program 2
Recipe from the Past 2
Call for Articles 2
Updates 3
Join Us! 4
Gifts Donations Info 4
Golden Arrow Ranch 5
Links 5
I N S I D E T H I S
I S S U E :
C O L F A X
A R E A H I S T O R I C A L S O C I E T Y
May 2012 Volume XXV Issue 3
M u s e u m U p d a t e
CAHS Heritage Museum CAHS Heritage Museum CAHS Heritage Museum CAHS Heritage Museum 99 Railroad Street Open: 9:00 am to 3:00 pm Daily CAHS members receive 10% discount in the Gift Shop
VOLUNTEERS WELCOMEVOLUNTEERS WELCOMEVOLUNTEERS WELCOMEVOLUNTEERS WELCOME Museum help is always welcome, and encour-aged Contact Helen Wayland, or stop by the Museum—530-346-8599
���� Members we need your help! Do you have an
idea for a program? A pas-sion for history you would like to share? Would you like to put on a program? CAHS is looking for history
themed presentations.
Please call Walt Wilson at:
530-878-6640
Colfax Museum in Bloom
Downtown Dogwoods
New Siding on Caboose
Wisteria At Roy Toms Plaza Photos by Teri A. Murch
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Do you have any stories you
would like to share? Please email them to the
editor: [email protected] Subject line: Cobblestones
pepper, 2 tablespoons of finely cut crisped par-ley: about 2 teaspoons of grated onion & 4 ta-blespoons of salad oil or butter: to this add 8 ta-blespoons of vinegar. This receipt is for 2 quarts (4 cups ) of cold boiled potatoes: pour the dressing over them and let them stand 1/2 hour before serving.—M.A.T. Recipes from: Grandma in the Kitchen by Helen Lyon Adamson
Picnic Potato SaladPicnic Potato SaladPicnic Potato SaladPicnic Potato Salad
Sliced cold boiled pota-toes mixed with a very small quantity of chopped onions, al-monds blanched & quar-tered & hickory nuts, also if liked. Mix a nice salad dressing of 1 tea-spoon of salt, a little
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R e c i p e F r o m t h e P a s t
Spring Gardens Filled with Glorious Iris Blooms A Brief & Beautiful Feast for the Eyes & Heart
V o l u m e X X V I s s u e 3
www.ColfaxHistory.org
Dear Members, We need your
help with articles or photo-
graphs for Cobblestones.
Please send articles or photo-
graphs to our editor Teri Murch
at [email protected] In-
clude “Cobblestones” in sub-
ject field.
Articles can be in the most
basic of text files. If you do not
have email, please ask some-
one to type it into an electronic
format for you and send it to
Teri via email. A basic .txt file
is preferred.
Photographs should be at
highest resolution for best
print quality. Teri can scan
them if you leave them at the
museum and call her at
530-798-0215.
Next deadline for articles is
July 1, 2012
Thank-you
C a l l F o r A r t i c l e s
P r o g r a m s
a professional and will have his videos avail-able for sale. Follow-ing the presentation will be an ice cream social. So between the snow pics and the ice cream, you will feel
cooler! Don't miss it!
equipment working the railroad over Don-ner Summit during the record setting snow season of 2010-11. You will not want to miss this!! This video will probably be shown on PBS in San Fran-cisco soon. Brendan is
Our next speaker will be Brendan Compton on Saturday, July 28, 2012 in the Colfax Veteran's Memorial Hall at 7 PM. Brendan, an accomplished videographer, will show his newest video on the snow fighting
Sat July 28
7pm Speaker
& Ice
Cream!
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For our April meeting, the Colfax Area Historical Soci-ety hosted George Lay for his presentation on the Esoteric Fraternity of Applegate. George has ex-tensive knowledge about the Fraternity, including
artifacts, pictures and books, which he shared with us. The last remaining resident of the Fraternity is a personal ac-quaintance of George's. Thirty-five CAHS members and friends enjoyed George's talk. George would organize a field
trip to the Fraternity hous-ing, publishing offices and property if there is any inter-est. Please let your officers
know if you are interested.
A p r i l P r o g r a m H i g h l i g h t s
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CAHS is looking for a new Cobblestones editor. If you have interest in put-ting together the newslet-ter and getting it ready for printing, please contact the President or leave a
message at the museum.
Teri will help you get started.
If you know how to use a word processing program or news-letter creation program that is
helpful but not necessary.
The newsletter is published
4 times a year.
L o o k i n g f o r A N e w E d i t o r
The winter and raining sea-son is over and work has resumed on the caboose. The track side of the ca-boose now enjoys a new siding. Work will continue on the new siding and will include final nailing, some trim work and additional work around the cupola. The project manager is ex-perimenting with a differ-ent schedule of volunteer work in an effort to try to accelerate the production
schedule.
A fund raising effort this
winter raised over $1,000. and work on the project will continue through the summer. Until the street side of the ca-boose has been removed and work required to repair the structure is fully assessed a final cost estimate can not be accurately predicted. Assum-ing the work required on the street side is similar to the track side the project remains $4,000. short of completion
costs.
Volunteers with some wood working experience are still needed as well as contribu-
tions.
Tony Hesch
Placer Sierra RR Heritage
Society
530 346 9179
Thanks to all the team mem-bers that helped out this week. Because of you all we finished installing the new siding the track side of the caboose as well as the south end. The north end is ready for siding with a few boards already installed. I am really tired but the new scheduling is getting the job
done.
Thanks for your support
C o l f a x C a b o o s e U p d a t e
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MEMORIAL GIVING TO CAHS
Colfax Area Historical Society is prepared to
receive gifts, and memo-rials in honor and in
memory of loved ones. To make a gift use the following form and mail
to: Colfax Area Historical
Society Attention: Memorials
Secretary P O Box 185, Colfax CA
95713-0185
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G i f t & M e m o r i a l s
V o l u m e X X V I s s u e 3
Objectives:Objectives:Objectives:Objectives:
To support and promote edu-
cational and research activi-
ties and interest in the his-
tory of the Colfax area; to
promote and establish a local
museum; to work with other
Historical Societies and local
groups; to discover, collect
and make accessible to the
public historical facts and
objects; to mark places and
building of historical interest
in the Colfax area and cata-
log such markers in an or-
derly manner; to register
historical landmarks and
buildings’ to accept gifts and
donations from the public
and other organizations and
to raise funds to accomplish
all the above.
Meetings:Meetings:Meetings:Meetings:
General Meetings: 4/year
Executive Board: 4/year
Location: 99 Railroad Ave
Membership and Annual Dues:Membership and Annual Dues:Membership and Annual Dues:Membership and Annual Dues:
Regular (single) Member : $15.00
Family (including children: $25.00
Junior (not included in Family: $ 5.00
Business (includes ad in Cobblestones) $30.00
Non-profit Organizations $30.00
Additional contributions are always welcome Dues apply to fiscal year, July 1 to June 30 and are tax-deductible. Members receive a membership card and
Cobblestones.
Make checks payable to: Colfax Area Historical Society
Send with your name, address, phone #, email address
and amount enclosed to : POB 185, Colfax, Ca 95713
C A H S M e m b e r s h i p
J o i n U S !
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Myrtle
To Whom It May Concern,
I am married to James L. Gould, Jr
- my name is Gail Gould and when
I read your request for information
about the Golden Arrow Ranch in
Gold Run, I shared it with my hus-
band, and he thought it was so
interesting.
Jim's great grandfather was James
L. Gould, and lived in Dutch Flat
for many years and was a partner
and then owner of the Gold Run
Ditch and Mining Company. He
married Grace Annabelle Halsey
who had come from New York.
She had 3 sisters, and one sister
married Matthew Towle, the other
sister escapes my husband mem-
ory.
Fanny Halsey was a daughter of
one of the sister's, (other than
Grace Halsey), and she married a
man by the name of Matt Pallataeo,
who was an architect in San Fran-
cisco and moved to Gold Run and
built what he considered an earth-
quake-proof house. He went
through the earthquake of 1906
and swore, never again. The whole
house was made out of concrete.
Jim said, it was called the Golden
Arrow Ranch, which Matt built, in
Gold Run, Ca. and says it is still
standing.
Fanny Halsey is buried in Dutch Flat
Cemetery. (I've been there and
have seen her grave.) Matt Pal-
lataeo wanted to have his ashes
scattered at sea, but his Sister in-
tervened and had him "embalmed"
and buried in Pacific Grove.
Just thought this little bit of infor-
mation would be helpful. I was just
reading a document from the
Placer County Archives and Re-
search Center, which was an oral
history interview with my husband
and Carmel Barry -Schweyer -
Spring 2007, and noticed the
name Golden Arrow Ranch, that
belonged to one of Jim's relatives
and when I typed it in, up came
your Need Information request.
Small world.
Sincerely,
Gail Gould
G o l d e n A r r o w R a n c h
S u b m i t t e d b y M y r t l e F i n d l e y
P a g e 5 V o l u m e X X V I s s u e 3
Fun Links & InfoFun Links & InfoFun Links & InfoFun Links & Info Link to more info on the Donner Pass Historical Ren-dezvous: www.DonnerSummitHistoricalSociety.org Placer Sierra Railroad Heritage Society: www.psrhs.org Leave a Legacy: www.snlal.org Sierra Nevada Virtual Museum: www.sierranevadavirtualmuseum.com Historic Hwy 49 Photos: www.HistoricHwy49.com Gold Rush Stories: http://nevada-outback-gems.com/gold_rush_tales/california_gold_rush1.htm
Do you have any stories or photos you would like to
share? Please email them to the editor:
[email protected] Subject line: Cobblestones
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American Legion Colfax Post 192 P.O. Box 311 Colfax, Ca 95713
Mike Basich Painting 23850 Spring Valley Road Colfax, CA 95713 346-2466
Colfax Record P.O. Box 755 Colfax, CA 95713 346-2232 346-7029
Sierra Vista Center POB 57 55 School St Colfax 530-346-8726
Pick-A-Flick Video 6 N. Main Street P.O. Box 29 Colfax, Ca 95713 530-346-8808
Teri Andrews-Murch Realtor w/Lyon Real Estate 1900 Grass Valley Hwy Ste. 100, Auburn Direct: 530-798-0215 [email protected] www.FoothillsHotProperties.com
Golden Drift Historical Soci-ety P.O. Box 253 Dutch Flat, CA 95714 389-2617
Colfax Garden Club P.O. Box 1801 Colfax, CA 95713 346-8149 [email protected]
Colfax Elem. School Dst. 24825 Ben Taylor Road Colfax, CA 95713 346-2202
Kurtis H. Fox, M.D., Inc. P.O. Box 1199 Colfax, CA 95713 346-2281
Mix & Mingle Greek Bistro 30 N. Main Street 530-305-4050
Roxanne’s Stained Glass POB 934 Colfax, CA 95713 916-396-2606
Placer County Historical. Society P.O. Box 5643 Auburn, CA 95604
Colfax Dental Center Dr. Dan E. Zender Dr. Chad E. Jensen 120 Whitcomb Ave. P.O. Box 1080 Colfax, CA 95713 346-6244
VFW Ladies Aux. Post 2003 P.O. Box 1213 Colfax, CA 95713 (Pres.) 636-4242
Sierra Business Service James and Barbara Kelly 520-D So. Auburn St Colfax, CA 95713 346-2455 [email protected]
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