Monday, January 22, 2007 Looking Back is a regular feature of the Modoc County record, published weekly in Alturas, California. The following is transcribed from the January 11, 2007 issue. Looking Back 113 Years Ago – 1894 PASSENGERS WHO took the Amadee Stage Tuesday got as far as the Van Loan Ranch where they had to stay for several days until a road could be broken over Horse Lake Mountain as the snow was very deep…. The Alturas School District pays $230 per month for teachers salaries, divided as follows: Principal $90, Intermediate $75, and Primary $60. Our children are worth this handsome price…. W. H. Steele of Kentucky has been awarded a bid of $990 per annum to carry the mail daily from Alturas to Cedarville. 93 Years Ago – 1914 A ROUNDTRIP ticket from Alturas to San Francisco on the NCO and Western Pacific is $20….Alturas storekeeper’s work from breakfast to bedtime, six days a week and half of the seventh. If they could be allowed by the people of Alturas to keep open from only 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. only six days a week it would be a blessing to them (C.B. Towle in a letter to editor)…. Moving pictures are planned in the new Empress Theater when the trains start arriving again….There were 92 births, 53 marriages and 44 deaths recorded in Modoc during 1913. (Ed: During 1973 there were 79 births, 43 marriages and 68 deaths.) 73 Years Ago – 1934 THE TWO-STORY home of Jim shives was destroyed by fire in Alturas Saturday….The road to Cedarville, at best, is a very winding one. The state has allocated $81,000 for taking many of the worst curves out of the road. The road will be oiled this year from the water trough to the bridge leading into Cedarville….The Alturas CCC boys are growing beards these days in preparation for their game with the bewhiskered House of David in February….The Manx Hotel in San Francisco has a new rate of $1.50 per night….It has been a warm year to date with temperatures in the 50’s In Alturas. 53 Years Ago – 1954 BOB BROOKS, Alturas Elks Exalted Ruler, has laid plans for the “best ever” Elks Stag Smoker. Entertainment this year includes the House Brothers Quartet….Rollie Robinson and Larry Cron are currently leading the Modoc Basketeballers in their successful campaigns this year….Pauline Davis, Assemblywoman representing Modoc County, has announce that she will definitely run for re-election this year. 43 Years Ago – 1964 THE CONTROVERSIAL diagonal parking question is no more. The City Council has ordered parallel parking on al streets in Alturas….125 Surprise Valley residents turned out en masse Wednesday to confront Citizen’s Utilities (phone) Company and complain about the telephone service in the Valley….Winter is in full blast in Alturas. More than one foot of snow has fallen this week containing nearly two inches of moisture….The snow pack at the Cedar Pass Snow Hill is now seven feet deep….There are 3,545 registered for the June Primaries in Modoc….Alturas Junior High teachers have formed a faculty basketball team to take on the star studded junior High Warriors . The faculty includes Don Biggers, Gordon Ash, Pete Petford, Bob Ballard and Myron Ferry. Finally got all caught up. After this Thursday the transcriptions will be current. I Hope to see you all again next week. Ron Morgan