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Throwback Thursday: Clearing 3,000 Acres by Holt Horsepower

From the 1961 Siskiyou Pioneer—Big Springs Edition

Siskiyou Pioneer Vol. 3 Num. 4

In 1916, Leo Brown and his crew pulled juniper trees across 3,000 acres of the Big Springs project clearing the land with holt Caterpillers to make way for the irrigation systems that would shape the Mayten district.

Brown’s memoir captures a pivotal transition in Siskiyou’s development. He worked for Dwinnell and Harlow, partners in the Mt. Shasta Land &…

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