Posted on 12/06/2013 12:08:06 PM PST by Utilizer
Surrounded by fire-worn trees and beautiful mountains lies the deserted town of Seneca — a historic miner’s retreat that has recently gone up for sale.
The town, which was surrounded by flames from the Chips Fire a little over a year ago, is an unincorporated community in Plumas County that was founded in 1851 after gold was discovered in the area. With dreams of riches, people flocked to the area and the town quickly grew to more than 1,000 residents. According to an engraved bronze plaque located inside the town, 500 of the residents were Chinese miners who earned 10 cents a day in rice to work in one of the mines.
For over a century, miners filled the nearby mines in search of gold nuggets, the largest of which, found in 1934, weighed 42 ounces and was worth $28,000.
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“It’s a very wild and remote place yet it’s still somewhat accessible to paved roads,” said Jeff Potter, the owner’s nephew. “I’d say it’s located on one of the scariest, highest, narrowest roads in the country. ...
“The northern access is more like 8 miles of very sketchy narrow dirt road — that’s the scary part.
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A sign that reads, “There’s nothing wrong with having nothing to say unless you insist on saying it,” remains unscathed over the bathroom entrance.
A dusty, but working piano sits untouched in the corner of the room, alluding to the cheerful times when miners came to relax after a long day’s work.
All of the memories stored in this little ghost town are now up for sale for the low price of $225,000. The sale includes the land, a bar and its liquor license, and three rustic old cabins in need of serious repair.
(Excerpt) Read more at plumasnews.com ...
Cheers!
I still go there and do a lot of shooting every summer. I go there to shoot so I can be alone with my cams set up so I can see what I'm doing right and wrong. This is serious practice for me and I discharge hundreds of rounds each trip. I'm safe and careful while shooting. You may not realize that it is totally legal to shoot about anywhere up there as long as you are a hundred yards away from someone else’s house and on public property or have permission from the landowner if on private ground. If you are not in an incorporated city and not close to someone else’s building or house, on property you control, rented or owned, you can shoot off of your own back porch if you want to and it is totally legal.
I teach hunter education for the state of cali. A lot of our subject matter are the applicable firearms and DFG laws. After that safety is my primary issue but common since safety and not citified wives tales born in ignorance or the dislike of guns. The way I state this to young students is, "Just because you can hear a gun go off does not mean anything unsafe or illegal is taking place. Pay attention but do not assume that any laws have been broken or that you are in any danger."
As long as I'm obeying the laws and maintaining a high standard of safety I could care less what others think or say about my hunting or shooting. My shooting and where I shoot has nothing to do with what others think is safe or unsafe. I keep me and what I'm doing legal, safe, and right. If others do not like it they are free to load up and leave at any time.
I've had this discussion with more than a few gun/hunting/law ignorant people and fully realize that they think of guns as evil things. They are anti gun zealots who will say anything and everything to support their cause. Nothing in the categories of local culture, fact, logic, reality or provable researched data have any bearing on their beliefs unless it supports their point of view. It does not matter what the laws say or history demonstrates they are right and they know they are right. They are not rational people and treating them as if they are is a waste of time.
I am a retired US ARMY Ranger with 23 years of active duty, a self employed gunsmith, I shoot long range rifle and combat pistol competition, and am an avid archery hunter. I carry both cali and florida CCW's and am armed every day of my life. I will apologize to no one for any of these things. Everything I do is legal and I do not need the permission of anyone but local my Law Enforcement and the state of Florida for my CCW's and existing state and federal laws, to do or not to do anything. It always amazes me when when a gun/law ignorant or paranoid person from one of the big cities think they should be able to tell me what I should or should not be doing with a legal weapon. I will tell them to call the local Sheriffs Office and let the the officer tell them that everything I'm doing is legal. Then they will pack up and leave muttering because they still don't think it is right. Been there, done that several times.
Right, then; back on, let Me read through the rest of the thread while I wait for My ride home...
The road is only necessary when you need to go in or out of the area. Other than that, feel free to blaze your own trails.
I think My ride is going to be late...
You can use any bullets you wish here so long as you do all your hunting out of the town limits. We have noise restrictions here, and frown upon booming car stereos, let alone the loud discharges that firearms make.
LA? Not even going to bother looking. No amount of money is worth relocating there.
And the nation is still the nation. All the laws and regulations you hear stories about no one cares about out here, out of and away from the town boundaries. Feel free to choose Lower Cali (Mexico) or Upper USA (Canada) if you feel they will offer you greater firearms freedoms. I have been shooting "Target Practice" for more years than I can completely remember here, and the idiotic laws the elite liberal snob perfumed-princes in the SF Bay Area have absolutely no effect on life hereabouts.
Berkeley and Los Angeles? Forget it. Berkeley is for the rich liberal elites to snob around in and grub after tofu as they wish. Los Angeles? Besides looking the other way about all the illegal aliens openly residing there, I fully expect that area to fall back into Mexico proper at any time now. And I laugh My arse off when I think about how all those idiots are going to feel when they bring about their longed-for "utopia" of "Atzlan".
Which to their surprise is governed by the laws of Mexico.
Which their ancestors almost killed themselves attempting to escape from. Enjoy, you moronic sodding gits!
The GHOST town is about ten acres from what I read in the article, and does not include the played-out mines. However, this is indeed Gold Country, and there are quite a few active mines still being worked to this day. As well as some truly incredible local ranches that you simply must try the locally-grown meat products (and the eggs!) to believe! Even the ground beef (Thompson Ranch all-natural products, thank you) is like nothing you have ever tasted before.
You and I have quite a bit of common ground, it seems. It aggravates Me to no end sometimes when even here on FR people always assume that the elite liberal loons have coppers lurking around every corner in every little place here in the state. What, did we somehow become East Germany or North Korea when I was not looking?
While I will not state on a public forum exactly where and what or how often I shoot, I will say that no local here gives a tinker's damn what you do off by yourself. We hunt here. We have loads of timber-studded mountains to walk about in to your heart's content. Wild Turkey, Deer, Quail -and bears and cougars you need to be wary of as well.
Let Frisco tax itself to death, and the "Sanctuary Cities" turn into local Chicagos. The antics of places hundreds and even thousands of miles away and a world apart from us here have absolutely no effect upon how we manage our livelihoods here. And we prefer it that way.
42oz at 1500/oz = 63,000 dollars in todays prices.
1600/oz = over 67,000 dollars -the price of gold nowadays varies quite a bit, but you get the picture.
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