. History of Yuba County, California, with illustrations descriptive of its scenery, residences, public buildings, fine blocks and manufactories. ted, was located by a party of Kanakasfrom the Sandwich Islands. It was a small place, and was soonworked out. LONG BAR NO. 2. This was quite a long bar, two miles above Foster Bar. It derivedits name from its length, being named subsequent to tho one nearMarysville. There are fifteen Chinamen at work here now. OREGON BAR. This place, once the scene of thriving mining operations, is nowdeserted except by a few Chinamen. Bliss Brothers kept a store he
. History of Yuba County, California, with illustrations descriptive of its scenery, residences, public buildings, fine blocks and manufactories. ted, was located by a party of Kanakasfrom the Sandwich Islands. It was a small place, and was soonworked out. LONG BAR NO. 2. This was quite a long bar, two miles above Foster Bar. It derivedits name from its length, being named subsequent to tho one nearMarysville. There are fifteen Chinamen at work here now. OREGON BAR. This place, once the scene of thriving mining operations, is nowdeserted except by a few Chinamen. Bliss Brothers kept a store herein the early days. Hugh Murphy, now of Oregon Hill, Tom Jones,and Captain Lewis were residents of this place. PITTSBURG BAR. This place, situated just above Oregon Bar, was successfully workcby about forty men. John Peacock accumulated here considerablemoney, and afterwards became crazy. He was sent to the Stoc torAsylum, and apparently recovered. He went to England, where shot a man, while laboring under a fit of insanity, and was rrcommitted to an asylum. ROCK ISLAND BAR. A company from Rock Island, Illinois, located just above thenrou. Runnings and Property of Linda Tp. Yuba Co. Cal. —^j^U*** THriMP.™* a i/»~ HISTORY OF YUBA COUNTY CALIFORNIA. - ,.,.,.k- in the spring of 1850, and named the placeOne f them was named Thomas Bell The place „f Scotts Bargaol: Edond Bar. „„, worked out and abandoned. ELBOW BAR, u.,.. i860, Holton Kilbourn, Wallace Kilbourn, Robert Patent, ,| Vaughn, and T. G. H. Jones, now of Nicolaus, Sutter county, . i,,l iImk place. The Kilbourns were from Michigan, Patent from Oregon, and Vaughn and Jones from Port Madison, Iowa. The bar ?mummed from its peculiar shape. It was worked out and abandoned. MISSOURI BAB NO. 2. Tliin bar, Hi seoond of this name, is just above Elbow Bar, andforms the northwest comer of this township. It was located in llimJi, I860, by aoompany chiefly £r Missouri. There were Wes-
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