SHASTA LAKE DROUGHT: TOWN CREEK DAM AT BULLY HILL AND AN AERIAL ORE CAR TRAMWAY
The town of Delamar was established in the area in June of 1900, as for the Town Creek Dam I'm not positively sure on dates of construction but my estimate would be about 1907 to 1910 era due to the construction of the Sacramento Valley and Eastern Railroad which is associated with this small concrete dam. Construction on this railroad began December 11, 1906, and the Sacramento Valley And Eastern Railroad was incorporated on January 8, 1907, the purpose of the S.V. & E.R., was to conduct a 15 mile standard gauge, ore, delivery, and passenger train from Bonita 3 miles north of Kennett to the Bully Hill smelter at Delamar. It was completed in 1908 and operated until 1939, due to the flooding of Shasta Lake for Shasta Dam.
This video was filmed on location on April 30, 2022, the water level for Shasta Lake on that day was 945.62-feet elevation wise below full pool or 121.38-feet below the crest of Shasta Dam. My resources for this video are located here:
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I drove from Creektown to Town Creek.
look for arrow heads and gold ✨️ nuggets
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that was fun, nice job thank you ALL stay safe
I would have kept that railroad ribbon.
@travisjackson395
2 жыл бұрын
Me too!
Those look like some good fishing spots when the water is up.
Nice Aerial Tramway remains.
Love how Redding Buzz and Shasta County News Source promotes you so well!
Fantastic relics emerging! Wow!
I will be there later this week exited to see what the lake will look like
@jamisondurwood3069
2 жыл бұрын
Get some footage!
Very cool!
I wonder what that flat wood piece looks like false flooring in the video at the dam was utilized for?
Great video!!
@jeremytuggle6424
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Loud patio boat… lol! Great to see you on the lake again. Hopefully you have more time to do more lake videos soon if this drought.
Doesn’t look like it went up much at all, if anything, looks worse
@hurricaneheather1420
2 жыл бұрын
It's so sad. I've lived here half my life now and never have seen the lake this empty
Great episode!
Missed the premiere! This is amazing work, Jeremy!
This is awesome! Glad to see you back out on Shasta Lake, Jeremy.
Unreal, that’s how low the lake is still even with the rain we had.
@vaughns.ledbetter8322
2 жыл бұрын
I know, right!
Splendid video!
Great episode this time, Jeremy. This was remarkable to watch and you found a railroad ribbon. How exciting!
Super dope video! You got the facts and the knowledge, man.
Great video Jeremy, thanks for your hard work and the history lesson
Incredible! Can’t believe how low the lake is with all the rain we been getting.
@jimg2885
2 жыл бұрын
All the rain?
@carlajohnson7906
2 жыл бұрын
@@jimg2885 yes, the lake has risen sense it broke the second lowest record last year.
@kristenstaggard6491
2 жыл бұрын
Agreed!
@sanchezbrown6234
2 жыл бұрын
Rain drops falling on my head… 😂
@travisjackson395
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it feels that way.
Love how you started the video with Shasta Caverns behind you! Great relic finds, Jeremy! Thanks for keeping us up to date.
Loving the history here in this video. Great stuff.
Fascinating, Jeremy! Keep up the great videos.
Yayy Jeremy, you were able to get further this time than we did! Love the video!! Hoping you put up your location on an old map, I know where Delamar is, not sure where the dam is, I think we were below it last time? Thank you for you video!! :)
@jeremytuggle6424
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you, and you're welcome!
I love the history you are showing uncovered! I know there it looks so wierd in person. The drought yall have had is terrible to say the least.
@jeremytuggle6424
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
You know its illegal. to remove anything over 50 yrs old that you find in those historical sites . Good video
@jeremytuggle6424
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, I know that.
@Fritzw75
2 жыл бұрын
That would be hilarious if you got busted for taking home that railroad knee, when most of the violent criminals in Cali seem to get away with their crimes.
Thanks for the journey 🙏
Dont let Gavin Newsom see how much waters still in the lake he'll have to drain more into the ocean like the clown does.!!!
That's not a ribbon, it is a knee, used to brace the rail commonly in a switch. You keep saying "Arial Tram" when it was just a trestle with rails on the top. An 'Arial Tram" is a cable way with cars (usually just one or two, although there were some with multiple cars to haul people) suspended from it.
@jeremytuggle6424
2 жыл бұрын
Okay, thank you for that but of information.
$200,000 was a lot of money that De Lamar paid Sallee for these mines back then! Great video! I love the old Bully Hill map by the way.
@sanchezbrown6234
2 жыл бұрын
Sure is!
My family used to park our house boat in that cove 20 years ago and to this day we remember it as “black sand beach.” Would love to see more of Bully Hill. We hiked up to the site and remember the smelter site and old pick up trucks
@jeremytuggle6424
2 жыл бұрын
I'll try at some point to get an additional video of the smelter site above the Shasta Lake water line.
Great content and detailed history, thanks Jeremy.
Great history lesson!
Super cool, is he the same guy who Delamar, Idaho and Delamar, Nevada is named for?
@jeremytuggle6424
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, he is. Captain Joseph R. De Lamar.
@tannerharvey8932
2 жыл бұрын
@@jeremytuggle6424 I thought so! Very cool!
@jamisondurwood3069
2 жыл бұрын
@@jeremytuggle6424 good to know.
That water is Crystal clear woww
Great video Jeremy. Was there an old town under where I5 bridge goes over? A friend of mine told me that his mom lived there and had to move when they built the dam and flooded the area.
@rrice1705
2 жыл бұрын
The Pit River bridge? The largest (I think) in that area was Kennett, though it was roughly 5 miles downstream from today's Pit River bridge site, at the confluence of Backbone Creek and the Sacramento River, not too far upstream from the dam. Closer to the Pit River bridge was Baird, which was located near the confluence of Potter Creek and the McCloud River. I checked an old map I have but I don't see any community right under where the bridge is. There were quite a few other communities all through the Sacramento and Pit River canyons.
@melissajensen3166
2 жыл бұрын
@@rrice1705 thank you. This helps a lot.
@kristenstaggard6491
2 жыл бұрын
Also town of Heroult I believe. Jeremy has mentioned it before.
@sanchezbrown6234
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks.
Dude, totally love your content. You need your own PBS show. You know you can drive out there. I highly recommend it, spectacular scenery
@jeremytuggle6424
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, driven up there many times it's well worth it and I appreciate your comment!
Even on the McCloud River arm the lake looked lower… wow!
It sounds like a heavy line cone jack knifed in the side of your foot! That view of Town Creek is haunting. I am surprised the place is not crawling with dirt bikes.
@jeremytuggle6424
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, that was painful to step on, as you saw or heard!
I like how they made the dam out of slag.
Simply, amazing!
Wow, at 945.62 feet elevation wise below full pool! Shocking it’s still low. I know it seems like we’ve had rain but not much obviously, dang!
Fascinating history. I hope you get some rain soon, although it could be all over here on eastern Australia due to the oscillation.
@jeremytuggle6424
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Oh wow. I can't believe there's literally no water in that lake. Scary
Wow!
Really good video.
@jeremytuggle6424
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
Could you go up to the Burney area? Was born there. Miss that place.
I grew up camping/exploring all around that lake, It's sad to see northern cali turning into a desert. Still selling your water to L.a and all points south? The Northern part of the state is Beautiful!, to bad it's full of californian's, and yes that includes my family, I got out.
I almost forgot water doesn't look blue when only an inch deep
So cool!
Excellent vid..very interesting ...thanks
I'm glad that I moved out of shasta lake. I literally had to carry my pistol whenever I went put walking anywhere.
Odd shape of Bully Hill…
Hey Jeremy what makes that water contaminated?????
@jeremytuggle6424
2 жыл бұрын
Pollution of the Bully Hill and Rising Star mines. Chemical release.
Why aren't we digging out the coves and making room for more water storage? Why raise the dam let's just make the lake bigger and deeper and that way when we get that wet winter we can hold more water.
So no more Shasta??? I liked fruit punch ones.....
And you’re great white farmers Used all fresh water For gmo crops
It looks worse.
let it dry up nothing worth saving here.
Who’s the brain with sandal 🩴 🩴
@jamisondurwood3069
2 жыл бұрын
I saw that too! Lol..
Very cool!
Wow!