The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-08-12
CHAPN'S COMMENTS.
Notes of His Trip Up in the North
ern Country.
Amedee and Its Future Prospects
Methods of Handling
Hay.

Travelling Correspondent RECoRD-UNIoN.l
AMEDEE Cali, Aug. S.-This lively
town has grown up in less than year
near the shore of Honey Lake in Lassen
County. 1T is located at Hot Springs,
which are gaining reputation-especi-
ally for the cure of rheumatism. 1t is the
terminus of the narrow gauge railroad
running eighty miles south to Reno, New
Its growth was stimulated by three large
irrigation enterprises and the trade of the
fertile Surprise and Pitt River Valleys.
There are two hotels, one of which
would be credit to Sacramento, one gem
eral store, one hardware store, livery
stable, large feed stable and stock cor
rails, a bath-house, three real estate offices,
four or five saloons, and twelve or fifteen
residences. The principal trade is an ex-
tensive shipping and commission bust
ness done by D. w. Earl q Co.. who have
rented the large depot building and have
1t packed with produce and all kinds of
merchandise destined for stations all the
way to Lake View, Or.
AS the road unfortunately stopped on a
spot not adapted to farming and the pro-
motors OF the place failed 10 mention that
disadvantage in their circulars, the effect
has been to disgust great many new
corners before they took time for inveSti-
CATION, and to keep great many busy
BODIES very active in berating the loca-
ton.
Commanding the present amount of
tfade, reaching for more than one hun
dred and fifty miles to the north, it must
soon grow to be the leading town of
Lassen County, whether they raise pota-
toes, roses and oranges or not. Should
the railroad be extended through Secret
Valley to Madeline Plains in the near
future, as may happen, Amedee, as the
man station III Honey Lake Valley
would still command its important and
rapidly-growing trade.
Should the worst possible event occur
TO retard the growth of the place, and a
station be built farther west IN the valley,
1t would still have the attractions incl
dent to its health resort and be the trad
ing point for section OF country along
the foothills to the north that is soon to
be irrigated and is fertile beyond any
question. In that case it would also
command the trade of Secret Valley,
where there is more than 10000 acres OF
land under an irrigation system partially
completed. The power OF advertising is
getting to be well appreciated by the peo-
pie OF Surprise Valley, who have seen
enlgrants driving through from Wash
VIII ~ oSSOAO <AIlGuGSs dIiC were LOIQ
that courier had been sent ahead TO buy
land before all choice locations were
gone. Mr.. Griffith learned in Fresno
how to use printers ink TO draw a crowd.
DEVICES FOR HANDLING HAY
Travelling through the mountains for
some weeks, where hay is the principal
crop, my attention has been called to the
many devices for stacking and storing
away in the barns. Many styles of net
are used. Some roll the load from the
wagons, making stack little wider
than the length of the wagon and rolling
1t by means of a long rope and windlass
to the end Of the stack farthest from the
wagon, another rolls the load up the side
of the stack. Others are used to roll the
load upon car resting on track that
carries it, as nearly as possible, to the
angle of the root. Other nets are arranged
to raise the whole or part Of the load to
the stack by derrick. All these devices
handle hay rapidly when everything is
just right, but 1t is considerable trouble
to prepare fixtures and sometimes hard
to get and keep such men as can work
them to good advantage.
TO unload by one net takes very
heavy derrick and considerable tackle,
while the small nets take more time to
unload and to arrange for loading