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Title: Pacific Gas and Electric magazine
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Public utilities
Publisher: (San Francisco, Calif.) : Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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will pass by a littlecollection of huts and dug-outs that will giveyou the impression of having been the sceneof some small minmg enterprise in the dayswhen men in that region all wore red shirtsand top boots and toiled by day and dreamedby night with a never-failing hope. Well, that spot has a history, for it marksthe residence for thirty years of an old Ger-man named Vogt, H. F. Vogt, a pioneer,sole proprietor of that tiny collection of hutsand dug-outs and, in his own unchangeablebelief, lord of the surrounding country as faras the eye could reach, with the unboundedright to resist trespass upon his domains. All who have visited Electra rememberthat strange character, his abode and the talestold of him and his eccentric ways. All theemployees of the Pacific Gas and ElectricCompany who ever worked at Electra up tolast February have good reason to remem-ber him. For, at times his presence in theirvicinity was a menace to their occupancy ofthe companys territory immediately surround-
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