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A stove flue at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R.L. Bigelow, Glen Arbor, brought out the Ben Lomond Fire Department Sunday night.
Ten thousand acres under fire. Great destruction of timber, wood, lumber and fencing; J.W. Dennison a heaver loser.
During last week's fire, we can be most proud of the display of courage and resourcefulness evinced by the valley homeowners in the path of the flames.
While we have previously written about the great 1904 fire which burned in the heart of Big Basin, the full extent and range of the fires which occurred in the Santa Cruz Mountains that September is a tale yet to be told.
It is said that cargoes of Chinamen and opium are landed at Victoria, B.C., and smuggled across the border into the United States.
Q. During the Gold Rush in California, is it true that the men sent their soiled laundry to China?
Ah Suey...engaged as a cook in sawmill above Felton.
The Chinese laundry - both an economic foundation of the Chinese-American community and the source of a lingering stereotype - has been in slow decline.
Short history of the Chinese Americans in Santa Cruz and the efforts to remember them.