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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 1: early recollections of California. 1846-1848. (search)
r a bed, for he slept on the ground, without fear of cold or rain. We spent nearly a week in that region, and were quite bewildered by the fabulous tales of recent discoveries, which at the time were confined to the several forks of the American and Yuba Rivers. All this time our horses had nothing to eat but the sparse grass in that region, and we were forced to work our way down toward the Sacramento Valley, or to see our animals perish. Still we contemplated a visit to the Yuba and Feather Rivers, from which we had heard of more wonderful diggings; but met a courier, who announced the arrival of a ship at Monterey, with dispatches of great importance from Mazatlan. We accordingly turned our horses back to Sutter's Fort. Crossing the Sacramento again by swimming our horses, and ferrying their loads in that solitary canoe, we took our back track as far as the Napa, and then turned to Benicia, on Carquinez Straits. We found there a solitary adobe-house, occupied by Mr. Hastings a
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 2: early recollections of California--(continued). 1849-1850. (search)
assing that range by a railroad, a subject that then elicited universal interest. It was generally assumed that such a road could not be made along any of the immigrant roads then in use, and Warner's orders were to look farther north up the Feather River, or some one of its tributaries. Warner was engaged in this survey during the summer and fall of 1849, and had explored, to the very end of Goose Lake, the source of Feather River. Then, leaving Williamson with the baggage and part of the mFeather River. Then, leaving Williamson with the baggage and part of the men, he took about ten men and a first-rate guide, crossed the summit to the east, and had turned south, having the range of mountains on his right hand, with the intention of regaining his camp by another pass in the mountain. The party was strung out, single file, with wide spaces between, Warner ahead. lie had just crossed a small valley and ascended one of the spurs covered with sage-brush and rocks, when a band of Indians rose up and poured in a shower of arrows. The mule turned and ran
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
nd the ball, ceasing to close the aperture, allows the liquid in the vessel to run freely into the tube. The term siphon has been employed with some impropriety to bent tubes used for conducting water from one hill to another across an intervening valley. An instance of these is found in the old Roman Aqueduct at Lyons (Fig. 290, page 129). See aqueduct; Souterazici. One of the largest siphons of this kind in the world is that of the iron pipe which conducts the water under Feather River, California. It has a vertical depression of 856 feet. The receiving arm has a head of 180 feet; the length of the inverted siphon is 2 1/3 miles; its diameter 30 inches. It supplies the Spring Valley Mining and Canal Company, Cherokee Flat, Butte County, California. The Bedonal siphon of the Madrid Aqueduct is an inverted siphon for crossing a valley, and is 4,600 feet in length. It consists of 4 cast-iron pipes, each 3 feet in diameter, and laid parallel. It forms one portion of the
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company), California, Oroville, Butte County, California (search)
Oroville, Butte County, California a town of 3,000 pop., on Feather River and the California Northern Railroad, 75 miles from Sacramento.
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company), California, Yuba City, Sutter County, California (search)
Yuba City, Sutter County, California a town of 600 pop., in a rich agricultural district on Feather River, near Marysville.
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company), California, Marysville, Yuba County, California (search)
Marysville, Yuba County, California a city of 9,000 pop., on Feather River, at the head of navigation, and 45 miles N. of Sacramento, a place of active manfacturing business and center of a large trade.
The Daily Dispatch: November 20, 1860., [Electronic resource], A Representative American. (search)
A Representative American. --Mr. Nesmith, one of the newly-elected Senators from Oregon, is a native of the State of Maine, and is now about forty-five years of age. He was educated in a carpenter's shop, and followed the business until he became of age, when he emigrated to the west, and finding himself one day out of money, and being unable to get employment at his trade, enlisted in the army. He served five years on the western frontier, in Dodge's Regiment of Dragoons. At the expiration of his term of service, he started overland for Oregon, with the emigration of 1843, and arrived in Oregon city in the fall of that year. When the provisional Government was organized in 1844, Nesmith was elected one of the Territorial Judges. He went to California in the summer of 1848, with many other Oregonians, worked for some months at mining, on Feather River, and returned to Oregon the next Spring. He was afterwards Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Oregon, but was removed.