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Taken from the Eureka " Daily Sentinel " Friday August 31, 1877, information in concern to the Hot Creek Range. Quote; Henry Allen, the well known contractor of Eureka , has just finished a work of considerable magnitude at Hot Creek. Last summer he was employed by the Tybo Consolidated Company to build fifteen kilns, in which the company proposed to burn the charcoal neccssary to supply their furnaces at Tybo.
He finished his work a week ago, and some ideas of its magnitude may be gathered from the fact that
600,000 bricks were used in building the kilns. They are oval shaped, having a diameter of twenty
five feet. Each one has the capacity of 1400 bushels, turning out that quantity of coal to each charge, the
operation consuming five days. A great economy of time results from these kilns, instead of burning in the old
fashioned way, and as the company owns a vast quantity of wood in the immediate vicinity.
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They calculated on their fuel costing them about one-half the usaul rates. A force of twenty men were employed
about three months in the building of these kilns.
| The White Pine excitement proved a great injury to Hot Creek, from which its recovery has been slow.
Now in our research we have found that he only built 14 kilns. The question of what happen to the last kiln is going to be interesting. My theroy is due to the newspaper article telling how Henry returned to Eureka on August 8th to do imperative reline and repairs to two furnaces, they ran out
of good weather and never finished the last one. You will have to stay tooned for the rest of the story. |
The stone ruins is an old cabin about 100 yeards south of the Kilns. We did get all of the Kilns in Six Mile, Four Mile, and Wood Tick Canyon in our April 2005 trip. And my findings are he only built 14 Kilns, not 15 as contracted.  
The shack to the left, was were the men stayed. Now this is but two of the fourteen, to see more reference below; | Tybo Kilns Six Mile Lower Canyon Six Mile Middle Canyon Six Mile Upper Canyon Wood Tick Canyon |
