Building the Railroad Photographs of the Western Pacific Railroad from 1907–1908 From the camera of my great-grandfather, head surveyor Karl Onis Hawley
Book design by C J Dunn
Tunnel No. 4 on the Western Pacific
Wagon road bridge across north fork of Feather at a Point
Ten horse team hauling an air compressor up the north fork of the Feather for U. C. Co. at tunnel number 16
Chino Creek
Karl Onis Hawley, head of survey party for Western Pacific RR (Bucks Lake in background)
Bucks Lake
A fishing party at French Creek Falls
Cross-Sectioning Eagle Point Hawley Instrumnet, Briggs, Rod, Smythe & Dorr Chainman, Martin, Stake Artist (Oct. 1907)
Bardee’s Point
Looking down the Feather from Wild Yankee Creek
W. P. Co.’s plant putting in dam across the Feather
Gold Dredger “Indiana” at work near Oroville January 1908
Suspension wagon road bridge across the Feather at Milk Ranch Creek
Bidwell’s Bar, on the Feather River, one of the oldest towns in California,and the first county seat of Butte County (Now under water as a part of Lake Oroville)
Making cut with trap (If you look close you can see a horse in front of some kind of structure)
Stanwood, a Lumber Camp in the Sierra Nevada Mountains
Moonlight on the bay of ‘Frisco taken from the Oakland Pier
U. S. Training Station – Goat Island – ‘Frisco Bay
Greek Theater, University of California, Berkely California
Survey crew with head surveyor Karl Onis Hawley (second from right)
Dutch windmill, Ocean Beach, San Francisco
Karl Onis Hawley with instrument saying ‘so long’ from the Feather River