Plumas County, CA History

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta Jul 2009

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Illustrated History of PLUMAS, LASSEN & SIERRA Counties
with CALIFORNIA from 1513 to 1850, Farriss & Smith , 1882, San Francisco.



RED-CLOVER WAGON ROAD 
  
  
          On the nineteenth of May, 1870, the certificates of incorporation of 
the Clover Valley Turnpike Co. was filed in the clerk's office at Quincy. The 
object of the organization was the construction of a road from a point near 
Coppertown, in Genesee valley, to the state line at the Summit, for the purpose 
of getting a route to Reno. The chief projector was Thomas E. Hayden. A 
proposition to give a subsidy to the road was defeated at the general election 
in 1872, by a vote of 379 to 118. Hayden raised a subscription in Indian valley, 
but failed to complete the road, and transferred it to John Hardgrave. This 
gentleman gave it to the county, and it was then completed at considerable 
expense. It is now kept by the county as a toll road, and is the route taken by 
the stage from Greenville, via Taylorville and Beckwourth pass, to Reno.