500 Acres of Timber Fall Before Flames, House Saved by Fighters
More than 500 acres of big timber, a saw mill and blacksmith shop of the Calaveras County ranch of Harold D. Leddy, Pasadena attorney were in smouldering ruins today in the wake of a forest fire.
At a loss estimated at more than $5,000, the fire swept over the ranch Sunday, eating through a stand of 3,000,000 feet of timber, Leddy learned today. Back-firing saved the six-room ranch house and 50 acres of scrub land.
Leddy, who lives at 1175 Woodbury Road, said the ranch had been a hunting paradise. It is near Railroad Flat, 10 miles from Calaveras Big Trees.
Jack always remembered time spent on the Leddy ranch with fondness as days in which he was a cowboy. The family story is that Harold received the ranch in lieu of payment of attorney's fees.
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