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.



SIERRA IRON AND QUINCY R. R. CO. 
  
  
       By the Act of March 11, 1874, the Sierra Iron Co., proprietors of the 
valuable iron mines in Gold valley, Sierra county, were granted the right of 
eminent domain to construct a wooden railroad from their mines, by the way of 
the Mohawk and Sierra valleys and Beckwourth pass, to the Nevada line. They 
never utilized the privilege granted to them, but on the seventeenth of 
September, 1881, organized the Sierra Iron and Quincy R. R. Co., under the 
general laws of the state. The directors named in the articles of incorporation 
are Philip N. Lillienthal, Charles Kohler, F. A. Benjamin, Frederick Weisenborn, 
and Caleb T. Fay; and the capital stock is placed at $3,200,000. Their object is 
to construct a three-foot gauge railroad upon the route mentioned, and a line 
from Quincy to Reno by connecting near Beckwourth pass with the Nevada and 
Oregon road now being constructed from Reno to Oregon. Mr. A. T. Nation, 
attorney for the company at Quincy, assures us that the road will be constructed 
as far as Mohawk valley this year, and will be at once extended to Quincy; also 
that in case the N. & O. Company fail to build their road to connect with them, 
they will carry their line clear to Reno. They need and must have an outlet from 
their extensive iron mines, and expect to be their own customer in the freight 
business. The advantage of this road to Plumas county is incalculable, 
especially as it may in the future lead to the passage of a trunk line by this 
route to the valley and San Francisco.