I have to ask. Any chance it should be Hettenshaw rather than Hetenchow? Is it where Zenia road turns toward Alderpoint? It's been reservation land since the early 1900s. Armendine Osthoff Berry > Janet, I found where the patent for property in the Hetenchow Valley that > George Erickson had applied for was granted to his heirs 1890 in SW > Trinity County, Margaret in NW California

In 1884 Ben Arthur had a run-in with a man named George Erickson who had been stealing his sheep. Erickson was taken to Weaverville and tried for sheep stealing. Although he was set free and warned not to return to southern Trinity County, Erickson did not heed the warning and was found dead near the Mad River Bridge on September 7, 1886. A man by the name of George Kunz was tried for this murder, and Ben Arthur, along with several other ranchers, was tried for conspiracy in the murder. As a result of Ben's efforts to defend himself, the ranch was taken over by the German Savings and Loan Society (now the Bank of Hibernia). This is an excerpt from "Trinity County Historic Sites" and is referring to a ranch on South of Fork Mountain, near the Humboldt County line.