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Aerial view of Saw Mill Camp in Plumas County showing a bridge and lodging buildings along the creek. Date is unknown. Donor/Source of Loan: Rob Hanford (loan). Audio Tape #12B-000. Saw Mill Camp Feather Rivier. This is now the site of a large Hydro Electric Power Plant. This is a photograph of Camp 1, the main camp of the R.C. Storrie Company (not to be confused with the Headquarters of Great Western Power Company across the river and upstream (see GMW 124)). All of the buildings pictured here were removed upon completion of the project, with exception of course of the powerhouse itself (7). The bridge remained as well, until it was washed away in the flood of February, 1986. The first building across the bridge was the office upstairs. Downstairs was lodging for important visitors. The time keeper worked in this building, and Mr. Noble signed all the pay checks in this office. The small building to the left and slightly uphill was the lodging for the carpenter foreman and the electrical foreman (J. Brown), and the concrete inspector (Tex Richard). It was a single story wooden building with a tin roof. The next building to the right and uphill is the living quarters for Lou Scott and Mr. Noble. The first building between the tracks and the river was the commissary and kitchen. Next to that was a warehouse; then the machine shop; then the gravel and sand bunkers; and finally the cement mixer. Opposite these buildings on the steep slope are the bunk houses. On the north side of the river we see the switch back connecting the job site to the Western Pacific tracks, which are further up the hill out of view. An engine and box car is visible (8), as well as a small storage shed. Glenn M. Way took this photograph while working on the temporary power line that ran up to the Great Western Power Company's headquarters and permanent housing.
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