OUR LOYALTON LIBRARY Hello again, from the volunteer staff at the Loyalton Library. We are slowly expanding our shelf space so we can better organize our "Friends of the Library" donated books. They are being arranged alphabetically by author and genre. This should make it easier to find what you are looking for. Mysteries, westerns, and adventure novels are very popular with patrons and we maintain a good stock of these books, mostly in paperback. We also have new arrivals in our large collection of children, juvenile, and young adult books. We plan to offer them on a "read and return" plan so that more people can take advantage of them. In addition, free childrens' books are available from our cart in front of the library. In the near future, we will feature our new books and other media arrivals on a separate display shelf for our patrons. New titles arrive all the time, thanks to generous donations from members of the community. A couple of weeks ago, I talked with Lee Dummel, a member of Trails West, Inc., a group dedicated to researching and locating the early emigrant trails in our area. I had previously read about Jim Beckwourth, a mountain man, who blazed an alternate route to the gold fields from Sparks, Nevada through the Sierra Valley to Marysville, California. The group published an excellent driving guide for the Beckwourth route in 2012 and Lee kindly sent me copy. The trail is marked by fifty monuments and the guide describes the location of each one. I hope to obtain a copy of the guide for the library in the future along with a definitive biography of Jim Beckwourth by Elinor Wilson (entitled "Jim Beckwourth;" University of Oklahoma Press, Norman; Copyright 1972). Information about past native cultures in Sierra Valley is difficult to locate, but we have available "The Circle of Stones," privately published by Richard Schwartz (copyright 1995), which describes his research of a curious stone circle in the Stampede Valley (now Stampede Reservoir). The circle was successfully moved to a park in Truckee, but its origin remains a mystery. Another volume, presently on loan to a Cal-Davis stu-dent, is "The History of the Maidu" which is the seminal work on the most recent native culture in our region. We hope to have this volume returned soon for the use of our library researchers. We strive to obtain quality research materials which encompass local subject matter in the areas of history, pre-history and physical sciences. Stop in and let us know what you would like to see on the shelves and we will try to find it. We are open Wednesday through Friday from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM. Thanks for your support. Jon Schumacher