JIM CONRAD'S NATURALIST NEWSLETTER Issued from the Sierra Nevada Foothills east of Sacramento, California July 10, 2005
***** DEER VIEW >From atop Slate Mountain I wandered a few miles to the northeast, deeper into El Dorado National Forest, to the spot where last fall we picked so many blackberries. Arriving there I was gratified to see abundant 20-ft long blackberry canes white with flowers. But, more than checking on the blackberries, this time I wanted to wander through the ruins. For, in 1922 a hotel millionaire named A.P.T. Elder decided he could make some money by building a 250- room hotel at this very isolated and hard-to-reach spot, so he did just that. From up to 40 miles away he had hauled in 500,000 board feet of lumber and a thousand tons of material and equipment. The chimney alone needed 250 tons of stone. The building was called Hotel Bret Harte and the land on which it stood was known as Deer View. And that hotel never checked in a single paying guest. http://www.backyardnature.net/n/05/050710.htm Apply for Commercial Real Estate loans online and submit your deal to dozens of hungry lenders in just minutes. Loan programs for all types of business and commercial real estate. Apply anytime at http://realestatezoo.com BiFem :) a bifem.net publication -------------------------------- Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BiFem Chatoom: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BiFem/chat Visit BiFemLounge our 24 hour chatroom at http://bifem.net Get a New Orleans Free Email account at http://bifem.net Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BiFem/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
