Survey Crew to Start Work
October 10, 1940
E. E. Erhart, associate highway engineer of the bureau of public roads, and Carl Schubert, civil engineer, both of San Francisco, have established headquarters in Susanville in connection with a location survey of the eastern portion of the Feather Lake Forest highway. A crew of eight men is established here for the winter for the work.
The Feather Lake road was placed in the forest highway system as Class 3 road in 1937, according to F. D. Preston, supervisor of the Lassen National Forest. Its termini are Mt. Shasta, Mt. Lassen, and the state highway on the northwest at Hat Creek, and the Red Bluff-Susanville highway on the southeast, five miles west of Susanville.
A reconnaissance of this highway route was made by Erhart in 1935, and later, during the same year, a location survey of the route from Westwood northerly to Poison Lake was made. Between Poison Lake and Route 77, near Old Station, a survey has been completed. The leg of the highway from Westwood north, towards McCoy Flat, has been surveyed.
Work to be undertaken by the crew at this time is the survey of the route from Susanville to a junction with the Westwood – Poison Lake section near McCoy Flat, a virgin area, rich in scenic splendor and available to all traffic in this section of northern California and western Nevada.
