Lassen Fire Near End August 8, 1924 One of the most destructive and stubborn forest fires in the history of Lassen County is at last burning into a section where control is assured after destroying over 4000 acres of timber in the Fruit Growers’ Supply Company’s...

Susanville is Prepared to Receive Journals Get-Acquainted Excursion August 7, 1911 The business men of this place are enthusiastic for the Journal’s ‘get-acquainted’ excursion to this county, and arrangements will be made to entertain the Reno boosters. While no details have been perfected as yet it has...

Delegates Pour in from All Parts of State for Conclave August 6, 1926 With more than 1600 delegates to the California Department convention of the American Legion at Susanville which opens tomorrow, registered last night, the Legion Memorial building was thrown open for the first time...

WORK PROGRESSING ON NEW RAILROAD Bridge Construction, Ballasting and Building Going Forward on Fernley-Lassen Line August 3rd, 1913 Telegraph communication between Susanville and Wadsworth will be established within a week, according to General Foreman Woods, in charge of the construction of the Fernley and Lassen railroad. Poles are...

Convicts Start Work on Red Bluff - Susanville Road August 2nd, 1916 Sixty honor-men from the Folsom State Prison nave arrived here to commence work on the Red Bluff Susanville lateral of the State Highway under the direction of Engineer E. F. Lowden. Only four guards...

Susanville To Have Big Harvest Festival August 1st, 1914 A Harvest Festival will be held in Susanville, commencing September 9th and covering a period of four days, in which the whole of Lassen County will take part. Plans are extensive and every form of entertainment will be in...

Susanville Elks to Entertain with Gambling Games July 31st, 1926 The Susanville Lodge of Elks will have charge of the ’49 camp during the Legion convention here, August 16th to 20th, following a joint meeting of representatives of the two organizations. The local ballpark will be built...

LASSEN NOTES July 30th, 1880 A correspondent writing from Susanville under date of August 8th furnishes the annexed news: The trial of C. F. Miers for the murder of Richard Walsh on the 11th of last April commenced here last Monday, in the Superior Court, Judge...

CONTINUOUS EARTHQUAKES Seismic Earthquakes Render Susanville Anything but Terra Firma July 27th, 1889 Slight earthquake shocks have been so continuous at Susanville in the Sierra Nevadas that the people have become accustomed to the constant trembling of the earth that they pay no attention to it. Susanville lies...

Four “donkey” logging engines, valued at $5,000 each; eight Southern Pacific flat cars used for logging purposes, valued at $3,000 each; one tank care owned by the Fruit Growers Supply company, valued at $2,000; approximately 20 miles of railroad track owned by the Fruit...

Army of 1,500 Guards Town In Danger Of Fire Susanville In Momentary Peril From Flames; Four Homes Go; Stores, Mills Close July 25, 1924 An army of 1,500 men is camped about the city limits of Susanville tonight, guarding the town against destruction by forest...