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City Weaverville / Reading / Douglas City / Sacramento / / Company Pearson / Hupp / Buenaventura / / Country United States / / Currency USD / / Event Man-Made Disaster / Person Travel / Natural Disaster / / Facility Readings Bar / La Grange Mine / Bancroft Library / Hupp Hydraulic Mine / Sutter’s Mill / / IndustryTerm hydraulic mining / water conveyance systems / placer mining / bank / mining / local mining technology / few simple tools / energy / / NaturalFeature Trinity Mountains / Rush Creek / Willamette Valley / Trinity river / Weaver Valley / Weaver Creek / / Person James Hilton / Isaac Woodbury / George Weaver / / Position head of water / miner / high head / / ProvinceOrState Trinity County / California / / Region Northern California / Southern Oregon / / Technology local mining technology / technology of hydraulic mining / /
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At the foot of the Weaver Valley lies a basin holding the historic town of Weaverville. When James Hilton, author of “Lost Horizon,” first saw the community, he called it “Shangri La, that strange and wonderful so