Interview: Austin Abbott
Title: Mr. Austin Abbott (1890?-) : Mining, lumbering, Indians [sound recording] : a tape recorded interview by Rex Strommes : / Austin Abbott.
Interviewee: Abbott, Austin
Recording Location: Cedar Ridge, CA
Date Recorded: November 28, 1972
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Direct Link: https://apps.gocolumbia.edu/oralhistory/listen?11
Call Number: F868 .T915 A131
Author(s): Strommes, Rex.
Year Recorded: 1972
Physical Description: 1 online resource (2 audio files (50 min., 39 sec.).
Series Title: (Columbia Colllege oral history series)
General Notes: Contents outline (typescript, photocopy) includes a handwritten account "personal observations on Tuolumne County" accompanies recording.
Contents: Introduction (November 28, 1972) -- Present day occupations (December 5, 1972): Cedar Ridge Water Works, Apple orchard ; Family: Grandfather moved here in 1850 from New York--Father died young, Mined in Columbia, Moved to present site of Abbott Ranch -- Mining: Placer mining--Hydraulic, Water, Columbia, More money put in than taken out ; Pocket mining: Quartz mines, Equipment (picks, dynamite, drills) ; Water source: Mules, Canals, Dams, Changed from mining to electricity (PG&E) ; Mines: Jumper Mine, Eagle Mine, Confidence Mine (7,000,000 dollars), Molones Mine, Stamps (size), Assaying (tests for gold), Mine fire (22 killed) -- Lumber: Furnished timber for mines--Cuen Mill (Abbott was foreman), Timber used for support ; Building--Pinecrest and Twain Harte ; Age of timber--75 to 100 years ; Replanting--Didn't replant in earlier days (grew as well) -- Lumber: How wood was hauled ; Oxen and mule teams ; Roads--fFrom Sonora up ; Logging now and then--Methods, Bucking, Chokers ; Lumberhacks--Where they came from, How they lived -- Indians: Where they lived ; Twain Harte-Ball Rock--Small houses ; Mi-Woks--Diggers ; Chief Fuller--Worked for Abbott's father, Head man of Mi-Woks ; Spanish flue wiped them out--1908, Mixed with other races ; Frank Dick--Only real Indian around, Yosemite tribe -- Apple growing -- Characters.
Local Notes: Label on cassette tape shows title as: Mining, lumbering and Indians.
Held By: COLUMBIA
Subject Term: Gold mines and mining--California--Tuolumne County--History.
Subject Term: Lumbering--California--Tuolumne County--History.
Subject Term: Indians of North America--California--Tuolumne County--History.
Geographic Term: Tuolumne County (Calif.)--History--Personal narratives.
