Flowing Springs Station
Flowing Springs Station was a station on the Chico/Idaho stage line.
One source states it was 10 miles north of the Cold Springs Station, 15 miles south of Soldier's Meadows Station.[1]
Another source states it was 12 miles north of the Cold Springs Station and 24 miles south of Soldier Meadows.[2]
Yet another source states it was 12 miles north of the Cold Springs Station.[3]
Flowing Springs Station was either at the springs behind Wheeler Ranch or at Wagner Springs.
Fairfield writes that in 1867 "Charles P. McClelland and Louis M. Crill were taking care of stage stock for the Chico and Idaho line" at Flowing Springs.[4]
References
- ↑ "Route to Owyhee and Montana," The Chico Weekly Courant, March 3, 1866, p. 2.
- ↑ "The Chico route to Ruby City, I. T.," The Chico Weekly Courant, May 12, 1866, p. 1.
- ↑ "Idaho Stage Road," The Chico Weekly Courant, Jul 7, 1866, p. 2. Brief description of stations.
- ↑ "Fairfield's pioneer history of Lassen County, California," Asa Merrill Fairfield, 1916, p. 414.