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

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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

Do you have any stories you

would like to share? Please email them to the

editor: Teri@LiveInColfax.com 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

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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 teri@LiveInColfax.com 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!

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

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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 !

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

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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:

Teri@LiveInColfax.com Subject line: Cobblestones

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Sierra Vista Center POB 57 55 School St Colfax 530-346-8726

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Teri Andrews-Murch Realtor w/Lyon Real Estate 1900 Grass Valley Hwy Ste. 100, Auburn Direct: 530-798-0215 tandrewsmurch@golyon.com 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 jewelldelapp@yahoo.com

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

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