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Itistorioal Information
Siskiyou
Oalloe, Ore.
DOc. 28, 1937
Historloal Data of Siakiy'ou National Forest
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Beginnine of Clvlllmatian in Slskiycu Cooz tr7.
The area embracea by the Sisaiyou :Nat.onal Tcrest Is tled
up with some of the aurliest recorde1 history of the 'orthwest.
As early as Aprl, 1792 0azrain George VanCouver eOX1ored, to
*Xtertg the Northwes Coast and naw the prominent beadlend which he naed Cape Orforo, later known as Fort r.rforci
and tinally as Port Orford. (1
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lI 1603, the Spanlird,Captain D'Ai-uilar, sailet up the
coant of Oroeon and discovered 8r: nad Cape Blenco. (Jan.,
1 9, 1603) (8J
PMe mountainous region inland, however, did not of°er r.oah
s;,oyel for exploration and the doto.hty sailors did not rslisb
the idea of trzying to get in very close to the rough and rociy
shore,,and so the Sou&thwest Oreg;n Country wuL passed c in
favor of the more intr1guizg pros .oct or finding the 3exh noupht
for "NortW3est -assAge' or richer lands In which to trade.
It rmajlne for a =ors mterial thing, the lure of rhcbs3
in fur tradingto bring the next explorers into this part of the
West. In 1827 Jodediab 3mith of the Amerioan Fur Company
journeyed with a party from San Jose to the head o' the Sacrmento
Rivser, thence to the coast near the Mooth Of Puxsian R'iver.
?rom there they proceeded up the coast to the Pmpqua (scm.
histozians say It might have b- en the Rogue, and others say
Smith River - tributary of the Siuslew) whe-e they were robbed
or$4 0 *,0 0 0 do
re- worth of fure d4 horses and *-eui-uient by
Indians. &ith and a corpanion, Daniel Prior, *scaped on foot
to Port VanCouver where they were subsequently jc ined by another
uber of the party, John Volkuhlain, who ecaxpd the Wassacre
and masi his way alone. The Hudson Bay Comnpauy factor of Fort
VanCouver later smtnaninously sett out a p&rty to recover the
rrur and equlpent, more In order to z5intain their supremacy
over the savags than to help a rival company. The forty
bhrs. pmckeirghered were worth *1000.00 each in the China
uarkets. (3
In 1828 an exploring and fur trading 1mrty under the leadershi- of the renowned ?eter Skene Ogden traveled through thM
Sie'K1you country on their return to Fort VanCouver from a trip
up the Columbia and fnake Rivers, down to the PTrbolt and up
the Secramento, across the Klwnthg R gues and Umpqua and down
the
llamette to finally crose the Columbia to bore. According
to one historian, at least, they took tins out to trap on the
headwaters of the Baorwznuto. (4)
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Again in 1832 Nwing Young lead an exploring and trading
party up from California to the 'Umpqua, thence across the
Cascade mountains to the Snake River. From there they returned
to Sacramento and on to Saute Fe, a trip of two years'duratiln.
This same Ewing Young turned his knowllede of the country and
routes of travel to good Edvantage in later years when driving
cattle from CLliforniu to the Willamette Valley. ,l
The California Trail, as the route was becorinj ".orn w'.s
traversed again In 1833 by Captein Bonneville'- pdrty urnler
Joseph 4alker going 2:r= the Columbia River to Californi,. "
About this ti-.e au-!id Douglas, the renouned ex:lorer i nd
botalist, visited wbat is now kn- wn as Douglas County and discovered
io-the scientific world 'the sugar pine which he named for tfls
great friend, Dr. La.xoert. After narrow eacapes from the In.iine
Douglas retreated to morb civilized prarts fror. the Uroqua re,.ion
in which he was so ::uch interested.
Unforturntely for posterity, the early-day 'ur traders
were not inter's',ed in advertizing the country to the outside
world anJ censecuently left very little
wri-ten reco-' of' their
truvels with the accomiaanying trials and tribulutizns.
Fiocuver
from what descri-ition that can be gleaned fr,.= the mettgre acco,,nts
availoble oou)led with a kaowledge of the country, it is -nossible
to trace the main routes of travel. No daibt the eirly exp!loring and trading expediticzns erploy-d native guides and with
some scouting soon found the most accessible routes thrcr- -h the
country, which in
time uecaime the stage ro.5i
and Ilte:-
tho
highways of today.
Through the Rogue River and the Siskiyou mountains re
have two choices of tr.ils'
?irst a route now feneral y
traversed by the Pacific liijhway, and second, a crossingl.f rrc
the Rogue by way of Trdil 'WincKor e?;stwtr! to the So th T- -uua
and down that stream t: the route now trave ed by the Pacific
Hlighway which yao necessarily a pack trai. only. It is the
first nares
t3;Pre of the Siatiyou are mainly interested, a
route blazed by the bleaching bones of tra.pers, traders,
Immigrants, miners, and cattle drive. s; "
later t& become one
of the famous pioneer trails of the .b'est.
This route touched close tO the present Siskiyou Nati nal
Forest on Cow, 7.olf, Grave and Ju.-p-Ofrl-Joe creeks, and throukg
Grants Pass s*re the ftrest headquarters are locatel. In 1337
Ewing Young. of the newly tormed Willartette Valley Cattle
C reny, with only &ix or eight companitons, started rrom California
with around 730 bead of Spanish cattle and fought their way
thuough the savage luaicns of the Rogue lilver Valley and
reachd their aestination with the loss of only about 200 head.!3/
The Chroniler's Diary breeks off while, holding the Indiens
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otf from their overnlght ca:, near the preent site of
Gold MiL and it is left ti the re U1eral i'arlnation whether
e
went to his zeward, leavInj nly a Artially corn.leted
acooxt of his adventures for pnoterity. Other cattle drivers
followed, -eetinr with success or disaster ecccrling to their
luck and Rbil.ty.
Early day trasmpp.rs en-i trede
tvo, tsEi ro-te and fo-' !t
their wi7.y through the Indians of the Rogue Valley, the most
wrgiiece and seveee ufr ale
tho Indians o.' "'tern
lnr--n or
In 1646 Jesse and Lindsey Applegete Blazed e w'eaon rond
the 'ilz ;
11; 9.y tc Fort l'1.l by Y.siy or tht :riacilic '
to .shl'nd thence over Creen
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ie- haE k-hn as t.e 'otothern Rcte- or
-AIpplegs *e ioatd" and wp f'raiFqht rith rsny dnD'e--s of' mnrau;lin'Indiana, deep anows end E Zlb*er rivers i1
se: s senisc.
Ptf
object r-; to Pncou-ri.e ,cre aettler3 to core to the Wile'ette
teley rc
tL oy of'r thle irdluence or t..e !iud--on ?%y Co. J
fro,
The estabilshmrent or the ruwd end -overr.vit o! treders
and -rsz-'er- br-t-"en Cli
orrlhIc end Orec"n ser--(r3l to alvertise
the RcXgue Vniley, .end L few b!.rdy settlern bet-n to arrive.
Tne
di6sccn'er- o' ,old 'n -eli ornia In 1148 caused oulte e Olt o^
travel u. snl d'wn the Calitornsia *!'rl
nnd se the Apo-legn-'e
Road proved tn b- en eriEer route than the Nr'frr Trei to
the north, the yvars batween 1S46 nnd 1656 au, zauny lerge v;s
trains tr.ko::gh thr v&ieley.
. The discover7v of' fnll an :Fosenhine Creek (-;&Re Crf1 iitriot)
in l51 bhrcz-ht nbout en irfl.,x Or -i.ner
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tmdo
which
served to settle the corntry In a fov years where the netu-al
course or aericulture and iu.JerinF wi'oulJ hive takou .ieceuee. 2)
:n the spring or early
miners .;roapoctinr out :rurgold on Jose-pbhine Creek enD
historians ea-l 1im nlawlia)
on a mall tributary called
*aimer of 18LI v party or co
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Haopy Camp n thA i1izath discoeered
a mun by the ua",E ofo'.fllins (sn.e
aud his daugwhter, .oShinre, stayed
Canyon Creek, Ln tdiei
Aiz this
young lady waa the .10rot white woman resident oL' the country
the creek and WU equ.ont)y the county *.,as n -.- el In her h jrcr.
"ithin the n-3x: year old 1isc :verie6 wse Mde in
:ackson Cositty at ailor Digir-g3, in Oaliceq Althcuse, Sucker,
Iemr, and other creeka, and the rise in po1Llaition w;iz resict.
ith the inf.lux of uiera,
gnr..lern, out;3ws and s!tt1ers,
it is =all wonde- that tr :ulu wouiu aoon be b ewin. with
the alreaay savo'e tiud warlike Indiana. Ti} .b . inor 'lil-Nt
hA takeu p1a. o cO .tinuo sly sizice the advent or the first
white man, in .2C wur
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serious nature tlered u) and
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General ;oseph Lane of Mexlcan War tame me oalled on to bhad
lilitia
and regular troops who finally -n the Indiuns i
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e head of wvans Creok east of Or-nto %ss.
the
Battle Crook, Rettle Mt., and ?leassnt Creek era sue
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narn for toworaohic features handed down rrom this outbrett.
Agein on October 8, 1M, the Indians QA the Tllinoie
River and Crents Peas area went on the war path, killing, burzing,
and pil' !inr- from 7vana Creek to Grove CreeK.
This atertAd
the war thet rinelly ended in July 156 and roiiultd in all
of the Southern Cr.cor 'ndienri belvig re:oved to reserv tionXs. 1
-'n ?cbruery 22, 1856, the Coa t indiins in the vicinity of
ILJd 3e-ncb t.~ A to the warpath end startsl the outbreak that
eventuvnly cost the lvtes of forty-one whiteag and ruch ?roaerty
'b'oufw'tut
the history of thase ware and the hccompunyirg
eptleIrent and r;Ininr the area now embraced by the Siskiyou
'.zIlnnl Forest In re.eatedly wentioned. ,Rowever;, %'.en -!vrlF
to loec'te the uctual scene of these events It Is founu tb't
tiice has din-ned the 'Lemory or those fey. witnesses yet livijg.
17vnes orne riveu to teAuu-es hyea been fo'gotteu aund otbeos
,ubst ti:ted, v;n- ^yen the accrdited hist. ,rias do not alsrys
apree. Theretoro. we can oa'y record the best intoration
nvallable, secure verification rrom all nosaible source,
nna
ever kFe? our our tuned for more fac.s and truth.
The building up of a cowrlete history for any ,ne aecti-r
entails a 1Wteht at atient roe. .rch and A cant.;.nuzl ahrcking snd reeheoking to ,et locitions, naTws, and dut~is correct.
It hes to be reumembered that =lcb of our history of t is co-un ry
was written twenty to thirty years after the events occurrl
and gnrnermei ro
talks with various ,i7rtictlits who h-d al-
re.idy began to roriet the details or wer, inclined to enlarE
on their story. Tbhough, no doubt, a checxc was =ade on evailable
records, the historians themselves .dIt th&t In zany oases the
narratives are only hearsay and are offered to the "ubllc for
whet tvey are wnrth.
7e can skip briefly over the events batween the Indian
of 1855-56 and thF ynar l9Owhen the Stskiy-u Nat.' qnol
Forest came Into being.
3ars
Vinir.g held way for about a decsae until the esy rir.ing
by hand in croeks and Fulches begen to -lay -;l'ut. The Fr1er
River strike then lured th-*;9ar.ds of in^.e-c out of this naXt of the
stateand their nlacea were thken by Chinese who abot i!11?he'
Up what wna left.
Some =inlng on a big scale was sterted and still
ia
carried on throl.rhout the Sliklyou and adjacent regions.
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In the early firtles settlers begun to take u-) jonatian
land claims In the valleys, but it wue not until the buillIng
of the railroad in 1883 that W.riulture be-an to refl.ly get
into a Product ion basis. Small sawzlllo hid been !natelled
near Sine& and u~iall towns, but with the comnFn of ragulr'r
ship &nd rail transportation. 1urbering became c lolline ind.ustry
and still
f,,ld I ai-.ortUnt
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drst
in 1ooel cormurltv 1Iffo.
By 1880 there were many large r111s on the coast cuttli3- ''ort
Orford Csedur snd Dkuglna Fir tor export to Ca1ltornia and the
Orient. The inland mills out mainly pine and fir.
lisheria3 sz)on beaoux- an J portant Inlustry wnd oanneries
and salt p-aCin,- plants wer located oL the Chetcos -1itol,
Smith, cogue, .Axes, ;a>, and Coail.;e Rivers. Coe--erclal
fis-i.ng in streens is no loni~er
dons however due to depletl-n
of the &elmon runs and ratrictive lerFial'ition.
In the late 1870's aA or-y ----GOB an atteopt va
r.ti
to drive a good sized cut of sugar pine logs from the TIOInIty
of GraUt* Pnas to Gz1a Boach, 2ut the venture wCs x:nstceessful
as the log& were too heavy to float well and they took a
terrific beating froi. the rouigh bouldor..s-,ran rive-, causing
niuch load fr a brokage and brow .lng. It
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As given in the first part of ths urite-up the clala to
history of the aiskiyou country Is In the early-dsy rur trade
msd ploration, the two prominent pioneer routes of travel
(California Trail and Applegate Flad) smbsequest mining excitemt,
lndias wars, sad finall yagriculture and lmsbering.
Following Is a lst
or places of historical interest,
with locations and an account of the event, by ranger dstricta
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Blatorloal Infoyr'tiaton
Sisk~ciyou
Oalliet Oregon
Dec* 2R, 195'?
SIEORICAL D TA OF _'OR? ORTVOIR'
1)ISIC?
The area embraced by the Port Orford District and adijacent
territory cams Into :rominenc. soon after the founding of ?,ort
Orford in 1851,
WG. T*yault, a znanitoifftsr-become a prominent figure in
Or-!Son and the 'Beat landed 6h-ti i lower Columbia shore. and
after various adventures joined Capt, . ±chenorls second expedition
to 7Tort Orford as jh. place was now namede On August 24, 1851,
with 53 comupanions they ettvnp~ted to find a route to the mines
or Jackson Col~nty (Illinois Valley) which Tichenor bad represented
and believed to be but thirty-five miles inlande They proceeded
mouth to R~ogue River thneup
the north side of that stream
to wh ~t tisey calie.d the BiE Bend (may hr-ve been the present site
or Mashe as they thought that they were 50 miles from -ort
Orford) when the country b-cains too roup!h to continue%, At this
point most of the party turned back, but nine o1' the harlieo-t
decided to aontinue, As the oountry lay wrong- tor them to continue to the southsaist as tboy wanted to go, they were rorced to
the north and dropped on to whet appeared to be the south fork of
a river (Coquille).
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They had to abandon their horses herc enS ralling In with
ant Indian boy accomipani.d him on down that stream to another
~fork where t~e river was affected b-- the ocean tide. Tie party
-au into more Indiana whom they emaployed to Vew them b- oauos
to the mouth of the river), ae In their weakened condition they
were unable to do much-for thermselves,
When within several miles of the Ocean they came to a larre
Indian Razicberia where the paddlers put Into shore, As they
were landing the Indianasmet uDon thee- with the result that only
T'Vault, Gilbert Brush# Cyrus Baden and L,.L. Wt~ lians escaped.
The first two escaped only by the aid of an Indian boy
who pulled them out of' the river Into a canoe whence they made
their way naked and wounded, with the hel:. or friendly C-'pe
Blanco Indiana.)Into Port Orford several days later.
Bedes and Iiasafter
a heroic battle escaped to the
Umpqua settlements where Williams was bed-ridden for two ye,-re
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from his wounds. Baden supported and nursed him back to health;
a story of devotion and sacrifice almost unparalleled in the
history oa Southern Cregon. WA
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Historical Infor~t ion
Siskiyou
e Pow
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Oregon.
Jan. 25, 193'?
FrIRI'S IR ?RR !ARLY 71AT8
The f Ire of 186 was one of the largehlf not the large-t~
fire# In Oregon of which there ia any record. The date or
place of origin Is not definitely known by the local settlers.
Sowever. it may be recorded In some at' the early histories,
It Is believed that it had Its origin In the Worth and burned South
along the coast, It Is also believed that It burned the entire
uuwmneW being extinguished by the late fall rains, There were no
means of eoomunication and no early reports on the fire were
received In this locality. The boundaries might be pieced together
by contacting the remaining pioneers along the coast and the
interior, It extended approxirately firom Tachats In the Worth,,
along the coast to the Klainath River in the South. -'h, 1 kpe
o- the
of a small sailing vessel stated thrt they were In
fire for seven days, The distance It burned Inland veriod up
to thirty miles, 'early settlers state that in this vicinity it
burned in and as far as Bear Carp.
The Rogue River drainage probably wFs one of the bh)t soots
of the burn. The Coquille River drainage taken as a whole escaped
with a loes severe burn and the scars of the fire are not so
noticeable. The boundaries of the fire where It burned Intensely
can still be traced,
Countless herds of deer and elk as well as small goem were
destroyed in this fire. The remains of over three hundred elk
were counted on what was then known as !'owland Prairie on the
divide betwoen the Sixes and Coquille Riversq so,-ewho-e in the
vicinity of Baker and Rowland Creeks near Powers.
In 1902,when t*e fire started In wden Valley the old timers
who renumbered the disasterous fire of 1868 deeldand they should
With the encouragement and
do all they could to extinguish it.
advice of the old timers most of the settlers for rmany miles
around volunteered to go and fight the fire,,and It was put out
before it did too much dazwge.
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THE 1!DE TNfTr_1t
After the rir- or 1868 and before the elk had~a cbance to
multiply to any great extent, the bide hunters came Into this area.
These bide hunters or peltors as they were called, established
camps all through the Coquille and Cow Creek drainages. Some of the
camps whiich are still definitely known are; Cedar Swamp, Hide Camp,
Cold Springs, Elk Valley, Cow Creek and Dutchman Butte, The Pelter
or chief of the party generally had rour or five good hunters hired
by the day to do nothing but hunt deer and elk arnd bring their pelts
and the elk eye teeth to camp, The pelts were dried in the main
camp-and there they were bailed topether and *arrie'1 out on pack
trains to some lost where they were sold for a meager sur t
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After a short period of time the game began to ret pretty
scarce around these campaand tie pelt hunter began to cast an eye
around for more favorable hunting, Henry Boren was the first end
only pelter to venture into the vicinity of 7Tilahe. He roved In
with 5 hunters to what Is now known an Dean Flait, located about 4
miles Northeast of 111ahe.
The settlers of the i~ogue River area passed through the hide
hunting camps on their way out to Boutherlin for supplies. They
saw the country arouni these camps littered with deer and elk carcasses which had been left to rot, From their observations around
these camps they knew what the results would be~and they decided to
run the pelter and his crew out or the country and save the game.
They banded together and made It their business to pay Mr, Boren a
cal~l. Mr. Boren was infcormed that he and his crew were not wanted
In that vicinity as game was one of their reans of livelihood.
Stroking the barrel of his musket~,Yr, Boren told them that this was
a free country and his party would stay there as long as there was any
profit In pelting. The settlers gave him until sunrise the followIng morning to pull staikes and et out. Boren,,apparently thinkdng
it was a bluff ande, no attempt to move, At sunrise the next morning
when the bullets began to smack the pots and pans In his can=- he
realized the settlers really meant business so he and his party started
breaklng camp Imrmediately,
This ended the hide hunting in the Rogue River country and noe
doubt was an lmport,~nt contributing f'acoWr In keeping the game more
plentiful In the Rogue River area,
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Si sklyou
INDIAN SIGNAL PITS AND
MX"NG
DLAC'S
Yb. two main Indian Camps were at Big Veadows and Eckly
with smller camps at Illab. and Illinois (now called Agnees).
Messages pratalniig to war or other matters or great
Iportance mere sent by monk. signals. one pit was located In the
This pit
low saddle about on*-halt m.uwest of Barkilow t.
was visible trom Iron Pt. and the Tokley Carp. Another pit
was on Iron Mt., Big Meadows being visible from there.
Iron
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being centrally lootted and near the Junction ot
the ?ort orfords, llabe and Ickley trall was often the meeting
Their decisions
pI oeof the Chiefs when hol,.lng councl.
could be alknalled direct to the Big Meadows and to the
Slenalmen at the pit netr Barklow Vt. who could signal the
Eckley Camp. During the Indian wars all the camps were
kept Informed of the ovents of the soldiers by the use of
smoke signals.
It also
Many of the war danes were beld on Jron Vt.
was a toru of post ottloe. Bunters, runne-s or anyone passing
by having news of not tVo great Importance, left It here in
signe made by arranging rocks and pebbles in such a manner that
others could Interpret the message and arry It on to his e
-,0a8p.
This meeting plaoe on Iron Vt. was seen by the white
settlers In 1871n.
ery at the things used by the Indiana were
still
there.
noticeable.
Thoe lgnal pit near Barkloa
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Siskiyou
SLIDFS AIM) FLODS
During the winter at 1891 in the latter part at January or the
first part of February, there were very heavy rains and conditions
were such as to cause many large slides thruout this area. The
slides dammed up the streacts, auslng the water to back up behind
then, when the water came over the top or cut through the slide
and the water-was released,, It would rush down the canyons~,taking
the debris from the slide with It and picking up additional mat' rial
along the way.
There were two large slides on 7ohnson Creekt, dn4~ttthe
mouth of Sucker Creek which damued up lohnson Creek sand Sucker Creek,
There also was a larre slide up Sucker Creek about 3/4 of' a mile,
This slide was j mile wide at the creek and extended up to the top
or the ridge which was at least j~mile in distance. When the water
backed up by these two slides broke loose it flooded lower Johnson
Creek and left up to twenty feet or boulders and Gei'ls on top-of
the old creek bed. About j mile from the mouth of Johnson Creek
the boulders and debris lodged in the narrow channel and formed a
falls over twenty reet high. The miners' diggings below these slides
were buried under the boulders and debris. There were mtuny miners
working on lower Johnson Croek, and they were-all doing very well
until the flood ruined their claims by buz'yin~v. their dIggi gs under
the debris., They have never been able to work any or this ground
sinco because of the heavy overburden,
The Salmon Creek slide tour miles above Powers backed the water
up tour miles behind ft before It broke loose. This ruined the
mining on Salmon Creek below the slide,
on the Sixes River Just above the mouth of Dry.Creek the slide
buried an entire mining camp, The river cut Omr the slide, washed
it away, and It Is reported that seven of the bodisa were neverrecovered,
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Miutorloea1 Information
Siekiyou
'RAIU.Y , C? n'AYI.
11atzy of the early trails fol.iowed elk tri-lse Elk traveling
in l--irge and smal bands browsing along the way i,@pt the brush
tri:=ad back and rmade quite good trails. However they had no
objections to adverse gradies and once on top at a ridre they rollowfed aloni, the very top until they were ready to leave the ridge
ent irely,
The main trail from the ooast to the Interior was from '-~ort
Orford along tho divide between the Elk and Rogue Rivers to Iran
'It., Bald Tinob, Ranging Hoak, Eden Valley,1-Iinem1leo where it turned
north to Cames Valley, Looking Clases and Sutherlin, which was the
early supply poet. At Nine_ii1lo two other trails turned ofre one
going East along the ridge to ?it. Reuben and Pebble Hill. the other
turned South to Big Liendowng Mule Creek and down the Rogue 7-1ver*
Iron !It, was a-.so an 1aportisnt trail junction* Bare a trail
turned South to illahe and another to the North to Barklow pt.,
Rusty Butte end Zekleyo From FRckley the trail continued Worth along
the county line ridge to Bennett butte, where it rfoered one branch
going toward Bandon down Lamps. Creek and the other doom CatchIng
Creek to the indian Camp at the forks of the South and M~iddle
Forks or the Coquille iRivero
While the gold mining was at Its peak on Johnson Creek and
Salmon Nt. and the settlement at Eckley was quite large the
stage road was extended from Eckcley to the 10almon Vt. mines and the
top of the ridge between Zohngon and Salmon Creeks. Star,* coaches
made reenlar tripe to the mines,
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So following narrat iv was written by Ranger ?.T. Lightfoot
of the Agecs District from an aocount of the early days of Big
Bend (lUsh) by George W. lbservey of 1,11.. aon of one of t he
early day residents of the country. I have added a note in places
facts as given by Walling sad
calling attention to a departure f
Bancroft. Iowever this account =W be entirely true in every particular
excepting the movments of the troops which were taken from actual
records by the historians.
L4. Cooper
BIG BIND O ROM RIB.S
e following' story of the early settlement of 1ig Bend and
an account of the battle between the soldiers and Indigns as told by
Mr. George W. Vaeorvey, present postsuter of Illae post off ie
stwter at Mahe,
Mr. lheervey was appointe
(near Big lal)
ws
March 14, 191S and has served continuouslys
W.1444=07 Is WoV
born and raised ia the lower Rogue liver Valley.
seventy-five yeas of age. W. Ye mervey's fatear, LI. Veservey,
b later
one of the participants in this story, was born in Val.u
War. Re landed in San loaeise
Joined the navy during the Mleai
Charles Poster, after whom
In 1S49 and saw to Oregon in 18.
Poster Crek was named, appears to be the chief character In this
story.
Big Dend ws first settled on by Charles Toster In the spring
Charley., as he was called by his frlends, cam to this
of 15.
coast from Boston in 1849. Before coming to Big Bend, he raa a
pack tral rom Crescent Clty, California to the Randolph nines north
of the Coquille River and sear the oaeat.
tlosterfarmed Blg lend till the fall of 185g. In December of
that year, the Indiass went on the warpath. In January, 158, the
hue was surrounded at night by Iftians. Thebe were eloven me
with Tooter at the time ey prepared for a siege. Loop holes
wer out In the walls 'othkupstales and dwn.
j*x.
amervey end his partner were mining at the time at the
mouth efUrve Oreek near the present site of the suspension bride.,
en theirerelved word
by the Forest Service,
reseetl
wane to get out at
ow
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at.
broken
-had
war.
that - ndian
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once so they started down the Rogue River, lntendinp te g-' to Port
orford, but upon arrival at Big BenM, they Uncovered Foster's
party were fortified and deeldei tn east their lot with the
Barney VCGlacken was the name or Meservey'a partner. This party.
now consisting of thirt- en ren, withst-'od the siege. Sometime during
the month (January 1856) this erowd imde up a purse and furnisifar
two horses for one of the party (ntme of 'Monis) to go to .- lensbu-g
(now Gold Beach) at the moth or izogue Rlvrw0irty
t ziles
distant. ;:oni was to purcbaae 2owder, caps and lead. After vainly
waiting for Zonlr
to return, the party decided to start for the mouth
of the .;ogue River. They arrived at what is knoun as Bagnell's ?erry
on February 21, 1256. 11. was on Feoruary 2'-S at daylighbt that war-
fare :roke CLI. all over the lower R'ogue River co ntry, up an far as
the Tosa Sith plaee below Lobster Creekv this being as fer as ernyone
was livTi
at that tl-e, -(the lnditne i:lllod a r'nn livin, here at
the tiu*,
Woster't party stayed toeether. 'Lr. -erservey's pertner, Barney
vcGlacken, and another Tn, na
unknmn, wer lillei In a cabin neor
the 'arl Johnston place, west of BaLsell'a 7"yrr>y.- Ther- were eitbt
other._in the cabin at the ti-,,.c; ell-but one nan"'iayoe in a swamp
near iieming Ulou4-h. This mrn:, David Libey, took a chance and went
on to see what bud bep~ened to the peo71e in -lensburg.
Fe found all
the people and crossed the river and had built H fort or the north
side or the :4o6uC on what ls now k!own as the M. Bell-y Anoh,
This fort was C nstruCted of drirttood. 'even days later, 1;.T.
Yeservey also joined t is rort.
The nlbt fcllowing., the Indihns outbreak at Bagnll's .7erryq
Febru ry 22t, foster,, ho kneu the country, started for Port Orford.
Upon arrival, be waited until a conpany or soldiers arrived under the
comArt of a Captain Smith. ?o!ter was employed to guide the soldiers
to Rogue i:iTer.
h.ey cr.ssed the rountains and carped on a r1dee
L-madiately w(st of, and overl-oking,,Big 3eynd.
(ThiB spot Is rarked
by a depression clearly showing the horsos'.oe eh'ae or the old -renohes
where the soldie-s dug In when attacked by Indians).
That night, the Indians frsmed a half circle around the oerp
and with long poles hbving a hook on the end, stole most of the
blankets an. anything el-e they could hook on to and drag out from
under the tentssN
The soldiers wrea besieged for three days and nights. As the
camp was on top of a hifh dir ridge and they were out oft frr =
water, their sitatlon was desperate. Again it was Foster who went
for help.
r. Meservey, who rmembers Foster's own story, merely states
Fobster msde a run for the open ridge leading south fram the camp
and ade a safe getaway'. Xhowing there were two corpanies of
soldiers on their way from Crescent City to the mouth of the Tllinols
River Wnar the present site or the Ageaes Ranger 8tatlon but on the
opposite side of the river) to route -the Obasta Costav, -)eb-se the
strongest tribe sOMW-1o Oa the Rogue Rivery Foster mi-se his way
safely to this point through the mountains to avoid the Indians,
Be informed tia aM officers or Captain Salth's difficulty. A4
forced mach was mad to Big lend. 41~n their arrival, the combined
strength or the soldiers soan .3i
*idte Indiana oq*.
(Walling says that a courier from one of the other companies
found SwIthls predicament and returned for help. When Smiith learned
that he was to be attacked be moved from the "MAcadaws" to the ridge
and sent a macssnger for help. Salth6 cownand of 50 dragoons and
30 infantry with smooth-bore muskatoona (short ranee) had crossed
the mouzntains from Fort Lane (near Central Point) and been in an the
0Council of Oak Flat' where all the Wiends except Chief Jobs had
aWred to surrender. Suith was to go to Big Bend (Illabe) to receive
the.1ndians and escort them down the river and out to Fort Orford.)
(?he Militia was engaged In chasing a mall tribe further down
the river and la escorting or guarding the supply trains from the
coast) ~L.J.C
Captain biith lost thirteen men, who were buried near the
center of the Big Bend River bottom and which is now layed out for
an airplane landing field. During the many intervening years,, Dig
Bend has been farmed~ and It was not unusual to occaspional2.y find a
soldier'sa uniform button ,~ mmemntok of those exciting early day
adventures.
After this battle., there Is no record of any more disturbance
from the Indiana. There Is no record svaihable of root eri adventures
or where he was after this battle until somst ins during the early
sixties, when he returned to Big lend and lived until he became Ill.
He was taken to Bagizall's Perry where he died on'June 1883 end was
buried beside his friend, Oleorge M. Bauder; In the Oold Beach cemetery,
At the time Poster became ill he was la partnership with Zake
iFry, who Is now living In Trek&* California. He filed on the Dig
Bend ranbh and made final proof on smom in due course of time.
Zacob Fry was the owner of the upper half of the present BiL3e lend
ranch,, having purchesed It from 7ohn Mt. Fleming, who had bought out
LfE. iteservey. Zacob Fry sold both ranches to the present owners4t
Mr. md Wes. Charles Pettinger, who baey declared their intentions of
deeding to the Forest Service a port ion of the ridge fo-merly known
as wi~th's emp and where ecoured the Indian sitege of Bir, P-lnd and
one of the gAmjor and final skirmishes that ended the Rogue !River
Indian war.
The upper half of Dig Dead warn f irst filed on by John Bill1ings,
who proved up on It end sold It to Silas 31arriuars, who died and his
widow sold It to Jacob Try, who sold It to Wr. and Mrsv. C.H. Pettingerv
the Wee'"t owners,
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to pettlage2.
balf was first t Iled on by Jacob Fry and also sold-
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ZAek
bIth, a hpbPYg .4uek Young San, was one of the
soldlers In the battle at Big Beod. It mw heF who later, We.-he
soea-vb kicked the bo1 rrom under ionis, the double erossiug half.
broed* when Nouic was hanged at atft9,&lA at Port OVford by the
Volunteer oldiesa- tL loservey be
aptain of the Gold easch
Guards at the tfti.
BORIS was as agitator ad was trying to stir up
trouble. Re was hung for being a traitor.
(Waling and Baneroft doubt this story. tonIs Is charged with
perpwvtating the massacre of Gold Jeach area an lob. 22 or 23, 1856,
but ls reported to have basa hanged elsewhere for other acts of
violence.) LIJ.C.
The old cedar rturp on the Rogue River bank at Skookum louse
Butte, is stIUl to be stom.
It ran Zonia, the
lf-br"ed, who
wm leader of the Indiana who cut this tree and started a blockbon"e Yb. soldiers m down over Skooku Rouse Butte and drove
the Indiana out.
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(There was another "Big Dend' som 6 to 10 miles above Gold
Reach. The battle at Big Bend or ILlahe is referred to by Walling
aad Baenroft as the battle of "Big Meadow' but not to be confused
with the "Dig Meadows" above Welc Creek.) LJ..C.
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Historical Informat ion
Siskiyou
(Galls. Diet.)
GALICK D137RIC?
The area that Is now embraced by the Gotlice District was
little known to the white men before the discovery of gold by'
Louis Galles, on the creek that no0w bears his names in the yeer
1851 or 52. The Rogue River which flows thru and fprav. Creek which
flows into the district, however, are names connected with sowe of'
the earliest history' or Southern oregon
The old California trail
end later the southern route or Applegste Road crossed Cm,, Wolf,
Greve and :u~p-Cff-Joe Creeks some six to eight miles seast of the
exterlor of' the District. \l)
Th. early history of this part of the Sics:iyou National Vorest
revolves around two events; ieq, the discovery of' gold and the
subsequent mining activitysand the Indlian wars of 1855 and 1856. 2
Following are -Se thumb nail sketches ~feet.and -t
locaitlow by legal description, where nosce-ta:nedi,,o6f historical
interest in and adjacent to the district,
lo
Groew CreekCrossing:
Located probably In See. U, T*34S., R0.46 W01% a
about the sIte at the present highwey bridge. Thi. was on the old
California Trail and no doubt saw some of' the early ex-l1ori-g and
trapping parties visiting the Rogue River Valley. In the early
swumer of 184 :esse and Lindwe Appletgate established their southern
route thrn to the main Oregon-California emigrant road at Fort Hall,
where they persuaded a party, bound for the lillamette Valley, to
accompany them on the return trip.
At Orave Creek a girl by the none of' ?Partha Leland Crowley
died and was buried. ab-the
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pJ..ee
In 1853 acme seven or eight Indiana, the remnrant of' the small
Grave Croek tribe, were treacherously massacred by a party of' whitecap
In a log cabin across the road from the Dates house and buried
nearby. The Bates house was supposedly near the creek crossing.
One account says that the Indls~ns were buried a quarter of' a mile
fro the creek.9 pro-bably on the north side.- B
In November of' 1855, after the battle of' "unggry F~ills the
bodies of about nine or ten soldiers wore brought back to ee66e g4,-uv'
Creek and buried near the crossing, on what is now the RT. Belm
ranch;- *4e, iiee/
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Oslic. Creek,_
Named for Lou&* 0mlise, 7'rench prospector, who discovered
gold and mined on the croek In 1852. -.
ith subsecuent discoveries
of riob placer mines In the adjacent gulches, quite a settlement
sprung up at the mouth ot the creek and was known 3s Oalice Creek,,
and sorietimes r'eferred to as "Galleeburgw, It was at this place
In 1855 that the *siore or Oeiicen took 4asce when chiers Jokm,
ceorge, Limpy and Tenas Tyeeand braves surrounded a group of' 35
volunteer militia and miners. The date was the 17th of October, 2
After an a11.-day and all-alght sicge, the Indiana. withdrew~
leaving 79W, ?1ickett and Samuel Sanders dead,, and Benjamin Tufts
end Allen Evans mortally wounded, Six others wounded, recovered.
Sanders had marrned a grandzrvther of A*:, and Rome Crowe who
still live at 1terlin and 0-lice. Accordiu-. to A.3.* Crow, Sanders
was buried on a rise of ground above the old mack trail between
Galiae Creok and where Carpenters store now staid.. LatSEI~en
the river cut Into the bar the trail and later the ro-d mms rerouted
to Pagis over the gprYe
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Ulmpqua Joe, a friendly Indian, who later ran the tLn.,qua Joe or
Tndian Ferry, several hundred yards below the sirht of the present
bridge across3 the Rogue River at the lower end of Bell Oat.,
was wounded In this fight.
By 1857 there were two stores with livery and feed at!!ble,
saloons and dwellinee located on Galias Creek about where Speeds
Place is located nenir the Alineda Road Bridge, There was another
settlement down river about one-half mile called Ohs l1owertown" or
"Skull Bar" at that tire, that Is now the site of the present
Tv11aCO Of Ga~lios
It was In 1857 that a shousting occured. In
Oclice that resulted in the first murder trial to be hold in
oesephine County. The accused was acquitted as havine shot in'selfdefense. The original court records of this and subsequent trials are
In the possession of James T, Chinnock, of Grants Pass, Oregaon
Es hes also an account book of Ben Adams, store-keeper of Galice,
at about this time which shows som very interesting things, Flour
was 10gr per lb,., bacon .509%, overalls $1.50 per pair and whiskey
25% per drink, or *5.00 per cuart& R~ubber boots,, for which there
appeared to be a large demond from the miners,, were $10.00 per
pa ir.(*
Iverything was packed in by peck train from Crescent City by
way of the Illinois Valley. Rose Crow's father ran a pack train
on this route at one tlime.
There appeared the names of a good many companies which were
probably only partnwrship afrLairs of two to five or six man, The
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Fr~3m Den Adam' a records In possession of
IsT. Chinnock, Crnnta Pass$ Ore.
credit business from September to hareh of the next spring wrald
run into thousands of dollars and would do credit 'to a store In a
town of several thousand popul!Itin- rtab today,
Dale.s boomed until 1860, then faded wi"th the greet ezodu!7 of
miners to the Frazer River country during. the big golri rush to
that region, There bjzwwa
slight rise of prouperit:- in 1869
and again ia the 1890's, when gold strikes were made, but mainly
the gulches and creeks were quickly mined out Which left only 'Wiork
for a co-parative fe~w In~ somei of' the large h'ydraulic mines and
quartz developments.
As with the rrcst of South-crn Oregon there was an influx of
Chinese riners after 1860 who r'ined for a number of years.
Skull Bar-- (1
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Situated on the south bank of Ropue River, 1-rtvdiately
below the mouth of Galice Creek In See, 361, TW45. RBw.9 W.?/. aA
named '_or remains of' human nl:eletone found there. It probi9bly
was a burying ground for an Indinn Y1illse prior to-advent of white
men and before the ber v'as5 washed down by floods.
This asam name was once given to the present -lte of the
villope of Galles. There is evidence in~the old J~osephine County
records that this name wais in use orior to 1857.
4.
Battle- Bar2
Located in Soi~1'? T&33S*9 R*OW., I.M., on the North
side of Rog-ue Rive.T
J nmd becauce or a battle fought between
Indians or the bur and w' Ite sol ilera acrose the rive'- on April
27, 1856.4.
TMe rilitia rctused to cross the river so a wzrff~re of sniping
was a-rried on until nightfall. The Indimns returned to the mountains
south of the ;iver unmolested an the terrain was too rougirb for
the whiter-to follow with their horses and supplies. 11ias Y:ere~r
was wounded . ad lied on the -any to Roneburg hospital. :ohn Tzienry
Cirt"11.Wd. The militia returne~i to their various forts,
leaving on Wey 1.
5., Kelsey Creek:
Emptying into Aogue River on the north side In Sec, 16,
To33S., R.91., Axr. Named for Colonel :ohn Kelsey, of' the 2nd
Regular Oregon M~ounted Volunteers who carmia~ned against the ½Ldlans.
Go
Big Mleadows:
Sitiated mostly In Sections 1,, 2,, 1 and 12, of T.33S.,j
R*lOWo,v U.K. ;came Into prominence as a winter hide-out
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Rogue River Indiana during the winter of 1855 and '156. There In no
justification round for stories of battles between uhltes,'And Indiana
in this area. After the fight at Battle Bar, some three or four
miles to the so)utheast on Rogue Riverfive compaiies of volunteers
under Captains Williams, Wilkenson, Keith, Blakeley and Barnes
(another account says garrisoned by Keith,, Blakeley, Barnes,, Bledroe
and Boland with 200 son) - Noland successor to Capt. BuoF - were
quartered at the Big )Meadows and constructed a fort near the present
It was
4- section corner of Sees. 1 and 2. T*335*, RelOL,9 Semo¶
named Fort 1,americk in honor of General T.K. I~merick, comz~anding
the Southern Oregon Volunteers. Il
According to Welter Criteser, who homesteaded the south and of
signs
Bald Aidge in See. , ?vT,3S3., Ro9Iep Wel!., there Wtill
of the old fort when he cane to the country in 1896. he advised
me that the old rotting logs remained In view for some three or
four years after that date and were finally burned and cleaned
up by C.3T. 11'rye when he took up a honestead claim there. Criteser
says that the old fort stood about one hundred -.)04imfabove the
present site of Frye's barn.
Though I found no description or the exact location of the
fort in any of the written histories, this location is borne out
by A.J. Crow, who tells me that his father described It as being
near a small stream with plenty of horse feed around. Though
there Is no ment ion of date of abandonment,, Crow says his father
was stationed there for two years. This may be true as there is
evidence of a fevi -all groups of Indians preying on settlers In
the foot hills for a year after the round-uo. of the tribes at Illabs
further downm the Rogue River In June, July and August of 1856~and
It ts likely that a detail woul- be left to keep the Indiana out
of so good a retreat.
According to accounts of the capture of the bulk of the warring
r'-dinn later In the sumnmer,, sone of the troops moved on down Rogue
River and made a junction at Agness and Oak Flat on the Illinois
River with the troop working in from the coast. 2
The Big Meadows above mentioned mrust not be confused with the
The final battle of the war was
Big Bend, where Illahe now Is.
fought at the latter on F'ay 27th and 28th, and Is often referred
to In Southern Oregon H!istory as the Battle of Bie, MaddIou&,~.N
doubt this arises from the tact that the large river bar was very
mui* of a meadow at that time.
.Sla&e
Slidoo:
Situated on Rogue River In D.N. j sec. 6, T.34S.9 R*8W-ag
WJ.V There Is no mention of this place In written history~and It
gets Its name from the crumbling slate rock foriati on which forms
sort of a bench., However., this place figured In what is called
the 'First Meadows Campaign' on November 20, 185513). Vajorts
Martin and Bruce and Captain Judah left EVans Creek and proceeded in
1. 'Walling
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several days to the mouth of Whisk-ey Creek (probably via Graeve
Creek) and thence up what is now the Alder Creek 'gay to the junotion
with the Bronco Creek Xay., Upon finding Indian signse Bruce, followed
down to the river (on Bronco Creek Way) to a bar a short ways a:;ove
the mouth of Jackass Creek (now Bronco Creek), While gettinE rafts
ready to arose the river they were fired upon by the Indiana From
the south bank, A mad rush was made back to the shelter of the
timber from!which izoefrectual firlar was maintained for some
time. After several hours a retreat was cade to the point on the
ridge zeveral riles north of the river where Judah and IVartin were
located. A f'eneral. retref.t was then made and the cawapsigs given
up until sprirG.,ji1
During the f iring on the river, Captain :udah &--used t1irselr
by firing hi. 12-pound brass fiowitzer,, from a point li miles back
on a rid~e out acrotss the river Canyon w'hich onl- -rudely awakened
the stillness of the forest". As this was the sare bw,:n of Indions
that repulsed the whites so effectively ntt the B,-ttle of Thunrry,
Hill the militia cannot be blamed for not wantinp to ;mrsue the
Indians into certain ambush in their rnountain fastness, far :ram
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upplies and aid and with u hardi winter setting In,
In 'the spri- g of 193?, a Pornet Service crew w*lie constructiing
a forest cear; at Slate elide, dU17 an ol-i cap and iall 5-shooter
pistol out of the decomz 'osed slate, It had been fully loaded an.!
was perhaps lost during,the mad sera'ible to shelter to escape the
In,!ian'ffire.
One private, William Lewis, was killed and f iveumen were
moun ~ed cm- ti* M--sva
'.'b-xt1-.; aed one In.Ilan was known to
have been ki~led. Had the Indians wait&d until the whttemr started
to cross the river the results would have benn far more tragic.
a.
Indian ?ry(.uaJos.'..
rry)
Located in Section 4, T.35S,9 R*7960 vi.::,*
Umpqua Zoe, who helped -the white*-at the battle of Galice Creek
was given an allotment of' land, a short way# belovw Bell Gate on
1iorue -Iver and ran a ferry until In the early 1880's when fte and
his son-in-law killed each other in a qua.-Tel over the killing of
Joe's dog by the am-In-law, Joe's daughter cantinuod to Pvn the
ferry for many years. The lan~d a-loty-Ant is still known as Tndian
ranch), being sold by the Indian Service about 1929 or 1930.
Umapqua Joe, his son-in-law and other members of the family
were buried on the north side of the river n.-ar the terry lbn,1inV
In later years, bill Massie,, who leased the Ferry businees, and
farm,, uncovered some of the remains whl~e excavat ing for a house
site.
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Situatec In Seco 15, and 229 T.33S*9 9
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?his
area wias nazied by either Inaiaa f Ighters or by early trz~ppera,
miners or explorers, It camn Into 2:rov-inence during, the O1esdowsw
campairn of the spring of 1855, when General LArmerlcks' comarand of
53M men and orricers at the Second ~'rseon Iounted Volunteers car.e)d
there far several days preceding the battle of Battle Bar and the
construction of Fort Launrick at the Big t2ewsdows. A,' Tt 'probably
received Its na.me trai the numbrous small meadowe anid ;-rasey benches
occuring th~roug~hout the timwber on the r-o,:ntain side. The exact
spot of the breastworka thrown up by the 'neor-lnt of wnilitin Is
not known as far as I have been able to cietermine.
Part of this area was aruatted on and subsequently homesteaded
In 1910 by Henry Rosenbrook (known as Dutch limiry) who passed the
filing to Yi11lian. Graiff, Graiff eventually completed the tiling
and receive,-1 patent.
10.
Rand.
Situated in the Southeast 'I Saco 24, T*34-Z.* R.o3Wev -0-op
so named when the development of the Yank Ledge (,.Uzeda Line) caused
considerable :mini'-g exciteirent and an etteirpt was made to create
a tounaite. Lots were surveyed arid at least one was contrected.
Assistant Fore tter No-: son 7o1.WYekief f at one time made a survey and
report or' the towusite area, but only an -rndated rpep (probably 1909
or 1910) is In the H~and Ranger Station 'ilpso AMcordine.to some
accoJnts the nems was taken fro-m the greet gld strike in the
"Rand District" of' 5outh Africa,
In the 1850'. and '60'., a nam by the naew of 'Yank* equwtted
in this district and farmed the flat where the Rend CoC.C, Camp now
Is - a few old frult trees still remain. Accordin; to A,:, Crow,
Yank had his house on the rise a'* ground, about where the C.C.C. Camp
water tank is now located (See Survey of Rtmd R.S., Site-plan by
L,.T* Cooper, September 1937). In 1880 the discovery at' the Yank
Ledge caused considerable excitement and a town sprung up on Yan~a
place called Yankville or tumiberville.
M'ost of the lumbe- for building' at Galico, Yankville and ,,uartuvill. (later Alimeda) was barged down Rogrue River frouv. a mill at the
mouth of Tuinp-Orr-;oe Creek,, but later a --ll was located near the
mines. This leads one to believe from the Dann at Tuuberville,
that the mill mentioned may have been the one located at the site
of the south gate of Rend Rant-er Stati-n. where pieces or the Old
uiochiner7 and th skid roads leading in from the mountain siae are
Alainly to be seen at this time.
Rand Rang~er Station, of course~, Is derived from the so-celled
-Rand Towasite" that turned out to be only a prroctersm dream.
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Almeda
This aum is riven to the rflt in the
1 9ec.
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T.54S., R.?W., 19.P. and the now inactivf mine ecrors iogue Liver
In S.E. t sec. 13, T.34s., .e8W., W.!'.
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turinr the g la rush and
excitement of 1860 a villaie sprung up on the lAt wbhich was
named zuartville. This for e tine w&LE a rival to Tankyille an4
Gallce (sozetfr.es then called Caliceville and Gelieeburc) but
alor.g with these villag:-s somn waned when the eupposedly rich
vein turned out to be low rrade; /4 row abacks are all that reanamn.
12.
V~arial:
'.aN'e of the Post Otffice now locatod on 'ule Creek.
The
-ost 'ffrice has been roved a nurber or tfres, being located at the
Leo Frye ranch lr the BiE ?:! down country and at three places on
Lule Creek, to the writerh kn-wledge.
The name was au gested by the birth of a dauglter to Tom
Billiings (early day and agnin at present postmaster) who was given
the name-o Tlriel.
The name %es gradually given to the Di1 ! eadow
country until the latter nar.e has airoat disappeareF± rror use, but
with the ismed of the po. toffice baek to 1M.le Creek end the
pl.Cin of' the neme -Bie- eWadows" on our maps, the wrong. to history
will be righted.
This Postortice is uni-qe in the fact that It is one of the
few places in the United States that has always he. the mail packed
in on mules and horses th-ugh the route has varied fr-7= Alrcde to
7ctstfork (Dothan) and fr.-, there: to Agness.
-At the present time one ray send e letter from .orial by bule
to Agness; from Agness to Gold 3euch by bo t, and from there by
successive stages of truck, train and air to ito destination; thus
involving all the methods of Pe il tr-nsportution ueed In the
country today.
13.
ta (aanheris)
s
:ndian
cnly a few or the old ndlan raneh--rlas or vi lsges Of the
Indians of Zosenlhine Cou;nty are !'nown today.
E-cwever,
a few
o. the old residents can recall *ten tay were youngstea, of
the rings of heaped uD earth uhere the abodes of the savages
oirce at od.
A.J. Crow or -orllen,
Oregon, recently showed re where three
such habitations had been. To the casual eye the remnin of' the
dozen bi& t.-ees
sone hal
vllnaCe looked very much like.k
had once u ,-rooted and decayed oay, out upon closer Inspecti--n
It Is to be soon that the huts were located on o0en and exposed
points that were free of tirber. They did not want t1beir enerips
cr-iwllxg u,,on them throuwh the rorest.
Aparently the natives mae their abode by excavating a
round pit some two or threo feet deep and ten to twelve feet
"cros, usinnu the excnvatez. earth to brnk up arot:nd the adpe of'
the pit. They then erc'cted .o* es over the pit t n:1 covered
then. w th sArsns or bark.Theen sits were found to be grouped quite close tooethar
without order or forration. ?rom 6 to 12 lodges apparently
conatituted a rancheriv In this district.
The past Habitations visit(:d are loc.ted at the upper end of
Hiellgate Canyon on the north bcnk or 'ioguo liver at the
section corner betwoen sections 10 and 11, T.35S., R.7%., W.Vs
on :urp-OCrr-Joe Creok on a point rising up from the lower
end or the big bottor. thut cor-prlsea the Cook and Woodford
ranch-s; and on the north bank Tump-Off-oe Creek at the mouth
of a Thort draw runr.ing into the creek a bhlf mile or so west
Creek. The firet and last rentionred are
of the mouth of ^,quartz
entirely visible fror. the '4erlin-Almwde Roipd.
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Historical Information
Siskciyou
HISTORICAL STUDY
14.
Slate Creek,
So named because at slate rock in
bed of creek. In 7une 3.5 Chiief Limpyb band of India=s
bade a foray to Indian Creek on the Klamath.
JItlled a man
by name or Hill (or Null) and. returning t~way of Ewe's
Ranch stole some cattle,
amuel FryeMe
ou' tr
Bay'sa
Ranch (later called Fort Rays) and came 'on the Indians In
the hills at the head of Slate Cieekkin
treo
them.
whktes tng
d.,
three of
The exact spot of the encounter Is not known.
15.
L'Impy Creek. It Is generally accepted by local
residents that the lower reaches of this stream was --nee
the home of Chief Limrpy and his band of Indiansa though
Waeling credits him with living in the Illinois Valley la
some of his accounts,
CM.?f LiNP7- ca
In to considerable prominence during
the Indian War of 1855-56.
L.3T. COMM~
Dist. Forest Ranger
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Th. following"seount of the battle of amcry sill as taken
7rm, 2x-Ibrest Ranger R.I.
slas' acount of the battle an a deserlptlos of the loeation of the battle ground as appeared In the Cold.
Anniversary zdition of the Gants Pass Courler, April 3, 1935
*'I the Orave Crook Hill., so miles west of the raflzoad bins,
there took place the first and perhaps the nost ifportant battle of
that war (1855-6).
Wi was the battle of Bmpy HiL..
*....a
spot, mad
boesalty of the fight will ever remis a classleal
Interesting by the death of
y brave and worthy men.
This mmorable field of strife Is now &ast
unknown, save to
the few present survivors of the volunteers who occasionally visit It.
Rank underbrush and grasses hae usurped the places where blood was
shed and only those faniliar with the ground can point out even the last
resting place of the dead who fell there.
maunwst Urged.
several persons, among the. Geeral' oss ind J.W. Matton, both
participating In the battle have given utterance to a desire that the
brave
fell there shuld he honored with seom kind of nemrlal,
a simple monut at least thereby their paves might be kaow.
larging up
this
ifdea, Mr Btton proposed a monunt to the fallen
or the Indi watls to be erected by the public a measure o just and
patriotic as to ecIte surprise that it Ms not been carried out.
bo build such a nomat Should be the Imdiate work of the public
spizited people of outhern Oregca.
d-who
of a visit to the battlefield of q M Mill, Mr. Satton wrote,
In a styl worthy of Ivings (In Ashland Tdingst
or October 19,
J.)
Mm sinrs since, while passing the little emetery, I halted
for the purpose of visiting the gaves of z old courades. I stood
beside the little rw of praves that I found blended Into one, the sounds
- hard]* distinguishable; so board or stone at head or foot Is found;
so one can toll these graves apart. In vilty they not a o
o foe; in
unlty they fell; in unity they la beneath the sod, awalting the judgmnt
day. In vain I seught to determine the pave of my old friend; It was
lost, lost aid Its coreade graves. After a short search onog the
wed and grass that covered the grave,, I found a fragnent of a halfdeeayed heard on which I could trace the inscription which my
hand
bad carved full 20 yeas before-Jonathan Pedigo, killed by Indisw at
th battle Of
Uy Bill , October 51, 1855.'
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9ougt tLeA.
fts writer parehased the laud embracing tbe little burial plot
referred to by W. Satton, it being a part of the original Grave
formsrly owned by Sates end Twood, and being located
creek rob,
Pacific igway, is mies north of Create Pass.
present
on the
At that time 192, every vestige of the gaves referred to had
kvine had my attention
bees obliterated and the ground farmed.
been a number o^ gr wes
previously
bad
there
that
fact
the
called to
red school hol"se, I
little
the
facine
land
the
of
In that portion
a marble tombstone
of
frtgonts
several
unearthed
end
search
a
mad.
?hese pieces I
rested.
had
It
which
upon
and the sandstone base
fence.
the
oolleted along
Looks for Battle rield.
Then I began Inquiring of those of my neighbors Who had lived
ther- for many years, regarling the losation of USugry Hill. hO one
seemed to know. Same had a vague idea, but none knew definitely.
Being the son of a pioneer and having always taken a keen Interst
1n those things that bad to do with *cr1 settlement of our country,
got from the library the several histories whieb descrlbe the battle
and.the topography of the country where It was rourt, and took notee
of my particulars that might be of assistance to re In my search for
the lCation of the battle field.
bem the opportunity finally same, In the spring of 1934s, 1
made several trips and =ained the poesible locations, as Erven ms
by thost who clamed to know.
on my third trip I found a location which tallied In every respeot
'ith ithq topogrephical descriptions given In the several historieswhich I bad read. After a thorough
Valll*g'i', Victores eand Bnerofts'
~nd e*ibodd ezxamnuation of the area ther remained so doubt In ny mind
the identical spot upon which the battle of ngy mill
*t that it'as
rad been fought.
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kg co.bbrative evidence, Mr. Leland aoff. living on creve aree
GUV Anrw.;xile south of the battlcfield, gave me a lead bullet which
bi esiC ii. 4itaken from a large pine tree on the saw it of the ridge
I
TM ballet might have been a spent ball
~ fighting 00eure
oaW c the soldiers rueketoons, (smooth bore end short range) that
bad leogpd.la a ereek or division of the bark with its point barely
poetrat]*X the sap wood. In this position It might have been carried
o*tward b$ ts yearly growth of bark, being neither coveted with the
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account of bein
embedded 1I the sapuod to be hold by It.
a crack, nor deeply memo
This bullet was a 5 caliber lead bullets suh as was 1sed in the
maketoons or those
s and with whieb the soldiers we equipped
and it s1msa possible that It Eight have remaied thus embedded and
earried outward with the yearly growth without altering its rolative
position.
Zoeati by llps.
Th location or the battlerield is, by section lines, *bout
five iles west and feer miles north of Leland, and In approximte
seetions 16 mad Us TOwnshp 2 south, Rage 7 easts I.,
between the
headwaters of Rook Creok and Poormans Creek.
In order that we may have a comprebensive 1i" of the importance
and magnitude of this battle, I w111 quote from 1anoroft's dseription:
Dresription quoted.
o October 28, 1655, Fitgra.d, being la te vielnity of Gre
Creek, hseovered the Indians mped a few ailes south of Cow Crook Is
the Grave COrk hills (losation mid be about three miles north).
wee,
o receivin a wasse rrom fitzgenl, st out on the
th for the
rendernons, having sent dispatches to Captains Harris, Welton, 11l1am
o
and Lewis
Bre.
end Rinearson, who bad just eorns la wer directed to
Join the co'mbined rtor
at Grave Creek, wher were concentrated on
the 30th, about 250 volunteers and 105 regulars. (bwelL gives the
number an 257), only a portion of Fitagerald's troops being availsble
on account of the illness of Its oonder. Two companies of a
battalion, ealle out by Goversor Cury mre lying at a place about a
day' march south of aopqua Canyons, udr
the oaomad of Captains
Joseph Balco and Samuel Gordon.
Captain. Mpatlent.
Whim moss reached the readezvoio late at nibt, he found the
Captain of the first Dragoons awaiting him, Inpatient for au attack.
fpies from hi, ocm (Poes' a) and Captain Brucs's company bad
reconnoitered the mW's position, which mu found to be ona hill,
wel
ortified
id estremly &ificult to approach
A zap or tbe
ceuntry was prepared, ma a forced march detemined upom. Orders were
issued to be ready to march at 11 o'elock, although It was already
half past tea, TM plu of the attack was to plant bwitzers on an
emnence threemourte of a mil from that on whieZ the Indians wer
_ecaped, and afw having divided the eompwle into three columns,
so stationed as to prrvent the escape of the Xndleng, to open upon the
4-
enseq with gape cod shal shot.
It wm hoped by thi
arch, which Mm continued till
morning
with oseasional halts, to surprise the Indlast, but soumon. having
.. t fire toa tree, that Idea was abandoned On arriving at the edge
of a ravine Is front of their position, instead of plantlrg the howitzers
d shelllg the Indlans, as was latended, a charge was made, In which
Rlnearson and Welton led with thelr compnies,, augmented by portions
of several others, and a part of the regulars rushing iz disorder down
Into the ravine, thru the thick brushes and up the ascent on the
other side, volunteers and regulars all eager for the first shot.
The Indims occupied a mountain, bald on the side by which the
troops were approaching. (fletr
says: bald oa south side) and
severed with heavy forest an orth sde. bos had direeted hiley
and Oordon to lk
oa the north, that bes the za In the front
should drive the Indiana to this wver, they night he
t by thee and
engaged until the main force came up.
i t 6d eil tS sad
raOt 15 Fail
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The attempt was made but they found it impossible to penetrate
the tfngled underbrush which covered the steep acclivity, with the
Indiana fortified above them, and after having several nen wounded
returned to the point of attack
Druce and Brris lay ooncealed a
tew hmunred yards to the mouth of the attacking party, to be In
rzadiness to Intercept the nq In that quarter; ut finding that so
enqy eam their W, they too, joined the party la fant. In 1he
,mantime the Idlxa-shad retreated, as was anticipated, to co.er of
the woods aed could -ot be approached with*t gm1t1pwLI from the
oPen ground.
no da wore an with vain endeavors to get at them; and at 3 p..
*arge with asm l force of aragoonsl who after firing
'everal rousds with wasketoonse utterly useless against the rifles of
the Imdisner sod having several killed od wounded, fell back to their
firt
poeitio.
(Ambrose as;
As la the yer of 33,
the adimas
1have all tbe gms In tbe country
fse
Indians each have a good
rifle aod re. lver, md are ekilled In the use of thsm...Yt 12 of
flseersan's eompany bad so other weapons than pistols).
Orlth made a
Whea darkness paded the firlg,
the troops enscaped a short
distance fma the battle ground at a place named by the *Bloody Sprlg,
where the wrmaded one #&red for. (Yietor says: "All went supperless
to their blankets' .)jtumnrlsethe next morning the eamp was attacked
from al
sides the indians engaging the troops until the middle of
the foresoos, when being rpulsed they withdrew and Vh troops took
up their marsh ter Grave Creek cod Port hSilf, carrying their wounded
Whites Partall
Defeated,
As a result of-thebattle the whites had little eaus* for congratulo-
tion, TO volunteers had 26 killed, wounded and missing; and the
regulars tour killed and so.
woundcd,, Including Lieut. Glbsonv
who was hit in the attask on the sa
on the morning or the lot. of
Novmber The number of lsaims killed was variously estimated, from
8 to 20.
the nmber or zaaias engaged in the battle wan also conjectured
to be from 100 to 300.
Buch was the unfortunate termination of a combined effort on the
part of the regular and volunteer trops to check the war in its incipiency, and signified that tIme, money and blood must be spent In
bringing it to a close. 'God only knows' writes a corrspondent of
theSales Stateuman, wh4n or where this war will end..., these mountains are worse than the amps or Florlda.'
Just Brief Outline.
Rere *e are giving a brief outline, a mere statement or whet
oeured,.
There Is so question of the mention of the misery of an all-night
march to rach the foe thru a rough mountainous country, which even
today is eomparatively inaccessible, and whisk at tbht time could not
have been more than din toot path for their guidance.
No conment is mde regarding the two comsanies e*gaged that bad
just returned from a scoutlng trip and, without tine for reat or reouperation, had imsdaIttey joined the ill-rated expedition.
We are left to surmise the keen disappointment resultant UpM
their arrival at the Indian enompment and discovering that sne of
those who bad preceded bad built a fire to warm their benumbd fingers
and that the Iniand
had been thus appraised of the presene of the
*oldl rs
We am oaly conjecture the looks of fierce determination oa
their faces asO beinIhe 4eprived of a surprise attack* they *harged,
heedless of dange, rows late and across a deep brushy ravine, and so.r*nted the enMy conceaed behind a range of' law jagged rocks and
bUfs &entamdingup and down the munutatn side at right angl e to the
line or approach for 300 or 400 yarks, affording the ndians very
advantae of position., we cannot but rfel their sense of frustration
WA bMwllor20t whM tbhe usre *omptlled to realise the Impregnability
of the Udian w eQ
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'Yet they cat uased in desperation the unequal
contest thzenugbitlthe1
g perilous day, cliglang to the bope that
they might dislode -the snag from their inexpmgzable rocky stronghold.
ituat ftmTbrturing.
And as night Closed down we my se
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them withdrawing, slowly,
Sautieuslyp Mambic to Sake Sam of their aced with them tinsd a =MUf
sptig or vater in the bottom ota dep araw art to the wnt of the
batt.l grod about a quar*ter or a aie whwe tbe steep sopIng
grevad
either ilo add It i'!possibli for than to lip 4ou in
*oMfork.
We 689 vislon tbem sarrying the on
W domm soar tbe spring,
and In thelr hasty
ietvor to was the blood from their wounda, the
mall flo of water seeping thro the pring soil Is soon eantimusse4td
until It 1 impossible to git pue water to Griak, sad the pleas is
aiad '3loowY -prigo
As
igt
gpow on the sold Inerases untll
the bodies of the d4
are frozes tiff, sad .till
bult ror teir or drawing the .me.?'. fire.
so firens ma be
Resume rig",.
WIM the coming of day and without tood, the "a resu the ficht
until wel along Is the foremomi, on o*portualty Is given to retreat
and the attack is gives up as hopeles sd the long arwasue
reh for
Orry cCroek house, Ltakem Up,
ORU those who he tke part In ts, tsok of helping to *ermy a
ona ltf* ovr rvumti trails
emfully appreciate
Uw xeursiat lg work of transporting the wonde back to the rort.
'Tb writer Neo am"Istd In such work on severml esomsic
and It Is the
t strenuous woaf he hea ever adeirtekes.
wounded persos
Duty Out1lied,
Cal? thase eadewed with sonstitution* like Spar
ites
withstood the somli1ed
It Imso
old have
haraships eM ezpoeur of these sxzprimses,
Wonder that r. Sutton Ws Impressed to write a tribute to
his buddy, Jemathem PeIgo, as quoted hevein. Vdoubtny there were
others quite as wush entitled to dsi
lar rcogaitloas.
TW we all
bnav and tearle sea& figtilag for the right as bhq _ It and
preparing o- euatry for' its futur mt ! eest. Alth
thnis
partlou.r instnee tW railed to aseamplihb thetr objects, yet on the
wole they tasseeded sad their mck was well and _pse= snt4 dose.
Aad yet we, the people or Brsborm Orcgo, have allowed their
gaves to beeom Obliterated until only their approximate location to
kn,
ad the em or the batle or Rnm P
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battle lasting
almost a *and a khalt, ad In weh more thm 300 troops now eagaged,
1mie of w
lst thr
lives diretly, and at least two others Indirectly, Is an umbk
and umrked spot today.
as popl of Southwe Or*ge fe a double Oty; a duty to the
y or those brew soldiers who smeriiced their liv tbat tb
omaty might be =d se& mad a duty to ewing posterity, to mutabl
am* $beme gaves end to permamently Ge. ivuto thoesIetion of the
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Some exploratory trips had been taken along the Northern
California coast prior to 1850 but it was not until the early "SO's"
that any appreciatable effort was made to settle what is now Del Norte
County.
In 1851
Captain S.R.Tompkins, Robert Williams, Ohas. Southard,
Swain brothers, and others, boated up the Elamath River (1) seeking
gold on each bar as they reached it.
around them and watching.
Indians followed them, prowling
At two bars below the preselt sight of
Happy Camp f2) three members of the party were murdered by the Indians.
An avenging party was sent out, and the Indians killed.
This was not
so difficult as the Indians had only bows and arrows.
The party reached the sight of Happy Camp two or three weeks
after starting.
On a night of hilarity names were nroposed, and the
name of Happy Camp given the new town, which was the first in the
present Klamath County.
Shortly a new settlement was made at the mouth of the Elamath
River, to be known as Klamath City.(3)
The liver had been visited in
1850 by a schooner but the small boats had been swamped and the crews
lost on the treacherous bar.
It
was in 1851 when the Newton, another
schooner, brought gold seekers to found Klamath City.
Houses were
"ready cut" from San Francisco, one of them being an iron house to
withstand the Indian attacks.
The new settlement became a center of
supply and a base for exploration, but existence was short-lived.
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1852 the iron house was shipped back to San !mancisco and Klamath Cit-r
deserted.
The California Le.islature of 1F1-2 organized Klamath County
and in June the board of Commissioners was elected.
Crescent City was next settled.
In 1850 the schooner 7araeon
had arrived, and been wrecked, giving the bay its name - Paragon Bay.(4)
Another ship visited the bay in 1851, but it made no move to land a narty
ashore.
However, through the east and mid-west the legends of gold were
snreading and starting a great migration.
In the mountains back of the present Crescent City one lone man
took out a growing treasure Of gold, planning to go back to San Francisco
and enjoy-life through his remaining years.
As he was about to leave,
Indians attacked him and left him for dead.
He arpeared in San Francisco
with his mind unstable, but told of his hidden hoard of gold.
the founding of the legend of the lost Cabin, which is
area known as French Mill.
This was
supposedly in the
The story of the "Lost Cabin" spread far and
many adventurers looked for this lost treasure.
A party came seeking this treasure in late 1851.
They sighted
the crescent-shaped bay on the coast, but had difficulty in landing.
Outfitted anew at Althouse, Oregon Territory, promptly returning to a
valley behind the present Crescent Cityov naming the location Elk vTalley(5S
-because of the numerous elk grazing there.
This valley still bears
that name.
A messenger was sent overland to San Francisco eor a ship and
supplies to come to Paragon Bay.
J.F.Wendell
But Humphreys,
the messenger, induced
ito organize an expedition to St.neorge Point.
They came in
the schooner Pomona in the fall of 1852.
In February, 1853 the first attempt was made to lay out a city.
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During the winter of 1852-3, A.L.Rosborough had purchased in Wendell's
name 320 acres, now Crescent City(6), and now broke it
up into lots.
The founders of Crescent City were F.E.Weston, G.W.Jordan, A.K.
Ward, R.Humphreys, T.M.Peters, 3.K.Irving, and Wendell.
sold it
and geve title fof $2.50 per acre.
It
They later
was then named after
the bay's shape-- Crescent City.
1853 saw much development.
first store.
Gilbert and Irrrington opened the
Hamilton Company and S.H.Grubler followed shortly.
Lighters appeared ro-tho landing of supplies from the ships.
,'
On the first day after arrival of the ships with goods for the
new store,
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It
$1500 worth was sold, mostly to men from the mines and
camps of the interior who were waiting on the beech.
A sawmill was
erected, enlarged through the two or three years and in 1856 a arist
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mill was built.
In 1860 it all burned.
In Arril of lFF3 Tames Raght, D. Haight, H, Davis, and Dominee
arrived, and in August moved northward - to the north bank of Rowdy
Creek(7) in the Smith River Valley(8) to found ranches.
Here they
found a fern brake shoulder-high, luscious grass, many elk, deer, bear,
pheasant,
ducks and geese.
The name "Smith River"(9) was a question to everyone in those
early days.
The name was given first to a river flowing into the Rogue
River- probably the Illinois.
The stream now known as Smith River was
accepted as the lower portion of the other Smith River in Oreeon.
Fremont made remarks which support the belief.
With the fast develop-
ment of the lower valley of the Smith it held the name, the other
stream being renamed when its mouth was discovered on the Rogue.
On the 28th of August 1853 the first white child in Crescent
City was born to the wife of a man named F'rame.
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The child was named
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Mary Frame.
Indian trouble came soon.
The Indians on the Chetco and Rogue
were raiding and killing, and stirring un the local Indians.
By fall
ships were calling regularly, and aside from alertness for Indian attacks, the new town was growing fast.
June 10th, 1854 saw the beginning of the first newsraner.
r.old
seekers were coming by every boat and pouring into the back country.
Diggings on lyrtle .Creek(10) were rich, paying $15 to $20 a day per man.
Indian Creek(13) and other areas in the country were very rich.
There were 75 farmers in the dpring of 1854.
From the one house
Ji
in the spring of '53 there were 300 more built during the year.
from 800 to 1000 people were living adjacent to the town.
In 1854
A wagon road
was being discussed- to reach into the Illinois Valley,(ll) and a conmission was organized to push the project.
Between March and October of 1854, with Crescent City 19 months
old,
39 steam vessels and 9 sailing vessels,visited the harbor, the
first bringing 3385 tons of goods, the sailing ships 540 tcns.
-The state failed to Drovide funds but subscription raised O4100
for a trail between Crescent City and Klamath City in 1855.
Trinidad
at this time became the county seat of Klamath County, but in December
it was moved to Orleans Bar.(12)
In 1855 there arrived by steam 20 tons of supnlies, by sail 12
tons.
It was estimated $150,000 in gold was dug from the hills and
streams that year.
Capt.Jones arrived with a detachment of 50 men in
view of brewing trouble with Indians.
In 1856 the populations of Happy Camp was 100, Indian Creek 450,
Salmon River 1200, Smith River and Redwood Diggings 200,
1000.
Crescent City
On Bald Hills a city a city was laid out and called Vallardville(14)
.37
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The legislature of 1857-8 divided Klanath and Vel Norte counties.
In April of 1857 450 passengers arrived at Crescent City by sea within
three days.
In May 1858, on the 19, the stage road opened.
A strike on the Eraser River came, and Trinidad was left with 6
inhabitants.
Xerbyville was emptied by the new rush.
In March of 1860 copper was discovered within 8 miles of Crescent
City, near Tlack's 'erry and only 500 feet from the river.
Then cooper
was found in Myrtle Creek and at Low Divide, and surrounding areas.
1862-3 was a viscious winter.
up trees.
crushed.
Rain fell in torrents.
Logs washed into the streets of Crescent City.
Wind tore
The wharf was
Smith River and Klamath 'River flooded the countryside.
A larPe
house near wbrt Dick(15) was carried away entirely.
In 1874 chrome was discovered at Low Divide(16), and atop the
copper strike which appeared one of the richest finds in the West, activity was increased.
Then, in 1874, silver was found in Mtyrtle Creek.
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PAGE CR'E!X DISTIC?
h Page Creok District is rilh in the en'-ry day history o'
Southern Oregon.
It was on Josephine Creek in 1951 that gold
waS
first discovered In nropor,, ge t-ld In the forerert of this work.
Pollowinp care
other gold discoveries, sairly settlement, ..nd
the openln,7 of trails and roade to Crescent Cit7.
FolAcwinv
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County
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old Jnckzaonville --
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reualned the County Sent for a nunber of years.
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1859,
cieopted by tke
to Napoleon but the rame fellel to be
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arOlmd tl".100,
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56
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who trailed 6 boz.r to the cavern.
/rb7 SlIjah Dxtvidson,
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eaves has been set aside as a nati nal monument and is now
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DERIVATION 0F NAJ.XIS 0OF TOPOGRA-IRICAI ?ZATURES
Flo ras Crook
It
In interesting to know the origin of some of the names
given by the white settlers, to various places in the county. In the
northern part of the county, the stream which the Indians called
QUA-TO-YA is now known as Floras Creek but In the enrly days it was
always spelled Flores. The word Floras might lead us to believe that
the etirl- settlers gave it that name on account of the Fr~ent display
of flora there in the spring an' early suwrer; but early settle-s
say it was given the name in honor of a ran by the name of Flores
and the early spelline seems to bear that out.
Sixes River
Sixes River, it is said, was named by a party of adventurous
prospectors, who in the early times worked their way along the coast
and came to this stream at a point where there was a large number of
natives on the opposite store. The Indians cried out to then,
"Klahowya Sikhs", which means, "you are walcome, friends". 'low to
us it would seer. there was nothing in that expression to cause them
to name the river "Sixes" but when we remember that these n~en were
travelling through a now country, a strange country said to be infested with savage natives, and when they were expecting to be
ambushed at any time and to biuve to fi~ht for their lives, we can
well see what a relief it was to be greeted" with those words
"Klahowya Sikhs" - "WXelconme, friends:,, So these men named the
river "Sixes", which means "Friends or 3'riendly RIiver".
Cape Blanco
South of the mo~uth of this river, there Is a great headland
projecting into the ocean. In early tfrnes when the ambiti:~n of
the young men was to ro uest, he had only to walk out on th~is headland, there he had reached a point as near the settin;- sun as his
feet could carry him,--that iz the most westerly poirt of the 'United
States, the place where the wiest ends. That is Cape Blanco, discovered and named by P'artin D'Ac7uilar on ~Tanuary 19, 1603. (1)
Port Orford
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Orford, south of this headland was named b., Captain
VanCouver on April 24, 1792 in honor of the Earl of Orford, his
"such respected friend".(2) The town of Port Orford was later
named by Captain William Tichenor,, who was one of the fifret
navigators to sail a steam vessel ndorth of Sen Francisco. In
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comwand of the steamer "Sea Gull," he began to make trips frnm
San Francisco to the Columbia River. Es often called in at nort
Orford as he frequently found it necessary to seek s'-elter from
the heavy northwest winds. Be thought it might be a good idea
to locate here for the reason that Previous to this tinegreat
gold discoveries had been made in what is now Josephine and
Jackson counties.and Captain Tichenor was carrying large cuantities
of freight from San Wr ncisco to Crescent City, from which Dl:ce
it was peacked across the mountain trails to this new mininc
country. C.f course,,the country back of "ort Orford was unexplored
and no one knew how far back from the ocean it was to the mining
districts. Ccptain Tichenor thought that by locating at Port
Orford, he could get a road across to these mines that give him
the key to a great deal of trade. So in the ye;r lfj41 he decided
to locate there. lie made his first settlement on the 9th day of
June, 1851, when he landed nine men on that ramous rock, which
because of the historic figLt with the Indians that took place
there has ever since been known as Battle Rock. Captain Tichenor
filed on a donation land claim and afterwards founded the town
which he named Orford after the name of the Barbor.
Rumbug ?ountain
Shortly after the founding o t.lis town, Captain Tichenor
brought in a party of men to help him view out a trail to the
mining districts. As he observed the coast line in sailing back
and forth it appeared to him that south of 'ort Orford was the
westerly terminus of a high rangc of mountains ridges extending
far back to the interior so he instructed his men to climb to the
summit of that mountain, which terminated in steep oliffs at the
ocean's edge, and to follow the dividing ridges in an easterly
direction. They followed his advice as far as going to the top
of the mountain, but after at rting in an easterly direction, not
being mountaineers, they soon got into the canyons and became lost.
After wandering around seven days, they came back to Port Orford
from the north. So disgusted were these men with the advice given
them by Captain Tichenor that they called the mountain "Tichenor's
Tumbug". It has been known by the name of "Humbug Yountain" ever
since and Is an unmistakeable land mark to travellers along the
Roosevelt Eighway.
Brushes Creek
There is a stream known as Brushes Creek, which makes a
semeicrdle around the base of Humbug Mountain. Although history
is silent in regard to the origin of the name, I feel and know
that every old timer who travelled up and down the coast never
questioned its right 1Y to be so named. I carried the mail be-
tween Gold Beach and Port Orford about 45 years ago. (1) At that
time there was not a bridge in Curry County. The trails along
the coast were narrow and unimproved, following the ridges and
often dropping down to creek beds. Vany of these trails were
old elk trails, for in early times elk ran in bands of hundreds
and in traveling they always followed each other in single file.
The result was deep trails where they had trod and of course they
broke out some of the brush as they went through. Indians and
the pioneers who came afterward naturally followed these trails.
The coast trail dropped down to the creek south of Fumbug Vaountain
and one vas ret w~ith such a dense growth of brush that in Dlaces
it was necessary to dismount and lead the horse. So we old timers
never cuestioned the origin of the name "Brushes Creek" although
it was first called "Brushy Creek".
Mosel Creek
The next stream south of Humbug fountain, named by the
Indians Cosett-Henton, is ?.ussel Creek. It is not known just how
it happened to be so named, but in early times the trail crossed
the stream at its mouth near the site of the old Cosutt-Fenton
Indian village, at which place there were great beds of russel
shells, the deposit probably being hundreds of years old. Nobody knows hzw long the Indians opercted there, but there is no
doubt but the early pioneers named the stream "Yussel Creek" on
account of these great deposits of shells at its mouth.
Suchre Creek
The origin of the name "Euchre Creek" ia not definitely
known. But when the white settlers questioned the Indians regarding the name of the stream and were told "Buquaches", it
probably sounded the way the Indians pronounced it, enough like
"Euchre" to remind them ot that word.
Geisel Cemetery
The Geisel Cemetery is a moct familiar landmark to Curry
County residents. The old mining town of EIlizabeth at that
place, so called by a merchant there in honor of his daughter.
The Geisel family were living in this settlement when the Indian
war broke out on the night of February 2?, 1856. On that memorable
night the Indians rushed in on the family of John Geisel killing
h1G and his three sons and.taking his wife and two daughters
prisoners. They were carried away by the light of the fire that
destroyed the home of their loved ones (1)
1. Walling & tancroft.
Rogue River
Early writers differ as to the name given to the river which was
known to the Indiana as To-to-tu-na. Some claim that it was named
"Rogue" because of the roguish disposition of the natives who inhabited its shores at that ime. This is likely a mistake for the
reason that it was known by that name before the whites had any
trouble with the Indians. Long before the coming of white settlers,
a French n:vigator sailing along the coast, discovered the river,
and on account of the muddy, reddish colored water flowing from
it, discoloring the ocean for some distance out, he nwred it the
River dcowe, which means Red River.
It is very likely that sone
of the first miners who came to this vicinity in 1853 had one or
the old trench maps showing this as the 'iver Romps
These men,
probably being unfamiliar with the French lnpuape and with the
sound of letters in that tongue, 7istook the word for Rogue.
It
would be a natural mistake and it seems, to dnte, the best explanstion of the origin of the word.
Gold Beach
A party of prospectors coming along the coast from California,
discovered that the beaches for some distence north and south of
the mouth of the Rogue River were extremely rich in gold so rich
that it was possible to take out as high as ^25.00 to A50.00 per
day to the man, even in the crude way they had for working the sand
at that time and their inexperience in this tyne of ri n . In a short
time after this discovery, in 1853, the news reached other settlementg and there was a great rush of miners from various other
mining sections of the west.
The settlement that immediately resulted from this activity was known as Gold Beach. Later on,
when Captain Tichenor became proninent in the county Athe name
was changed to Ellensburg in honor of his dauge'ter Kllen.1 There
were but a few white women in the country at that time and those
few were greatly hobored by the miners, so they readily accepted
the change in the name.
It was known as Ellensburg until sometime in the late 80's when the legislature was petitioned to change
it again to the original nume since mail intended for Ellensburg,
Washington was being sent to Ellensburg, Oregon and vice4versa.
Pistol River
In the year 1853, James Vace and his companion were fording
a creek called by the IndiansiChetl-lssentan, when Vace lost his
pistol in the stream.
RFi companion named it Pistol River, and it
has borne that name ever since.
Whale's Head
South of Pistol River is
a point known as Whalets Bead.
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is located in the edge of the ocean opposite the ranch owned by
Mcr, Edilmar Coigrove. This peculiar rook has somewhat the-appearanoe of a Whale's head and is hollow on the ocean side and has a
small opening in -the top, at certain stages of the tide,, when the
incoming swells rush into the cavity, It forces a jet of water up
through the hole In the top of the rock in an imitation of a whale
spout ing.~
Chetco River
The Chetco River has retained itis original name, so named by
the Chetco tribe. It is one of the few Indian names that has survived.
Windohuck River
The Windchuck River, home of the Hasonta tribe, we think was
named by early prospectors who experienced difficulty in crossing
the stream in the small Indian canoes, due to the strong wind.
They probably dubbed It "Windchuck" meaning Wind River or Windy.
Water,, "chuck" being the Indian word for water.
Hunt Rock
There seems to be a'tendency in these days to change or do
away with the old'pioneer names and to adopt new ones., Thistendency is due tor our ignorance or lack of interest in the history
that led up to those names,, An instance of this kind is-well
illustrated by the tendency to rename the famous rock -which stands
facing the Rogue-River near the town of Wedderburn. This rock. hasi
been talked of a great 'deal of late on account of.- its having b~Oenselected as the Abi~trnsnt for the north end of the proposed Roosevelt'
Highway Blridge acr~s -the H~ogue. Of late, many refer to itas
"Ewne Rock" but it has always been known as 71m Hunt Rock or Tm
Rock for short. This name dates back to the very first settle-.,,
ment of the section,.. turing the gold rush in 1.853 a mapa by the
naw of .Tames M1. unt, came with other miners to the Rogue -River ,mining district, Be was more agriculturally inclined than the
othera, so he located a land claim where the town of' Wedderbumn,-.--,
now standsi. His was the very first land claim taken in this,
section of the country. Tim Hunt as he was more familiarly known,
fenced in a portion of the flat and raised a large garden,, furnish-~
Ing vegetables to the miners who were too busily engaged in..prospeoq-_
t ing and mining for gold to do any farming, Xim unt's impl ve
Monts , that isp his buildings, and-the, principal part or his
improvements, were located neaw wb6r* the Vedderburm Hotel Uow;'
stands. When the W~ien war broke out~pa. tub nigh&V
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where the Gold Beach Packing Company's Cannery now stands. Tust
before daylight, the news came that thirty or forty people had
been killed around the To-to-tu-na villag, and that the Geisel
family had been murderea. ieveryone immiedidatly fled to a fort
about a mile up the coast from the mon~th or the river and with
the others went Tim Hunt,
Eare they were beseigad by the Indians,,
who in great numbers occupied the bald hills back of the fort.
Then suddeily the Indiana disappeared and for two or three days
they were lnot or-en. Scouts were sent out but were una'-le to find
any trace a , them, so fifteen rn:. volunteerea to go to 7im. Hunts
Tiace for pntatoes, as the fo')d supply in the fort v-as Cetting low.
The people forti~ied there 'mid .:, t a f iew cat-le and hor e ei
the tort among which were a yoke of oxen. They hitched thel yoke of
oxen to a sled, and those Fitteen men drove down the coc~st to a
point where the Doyle place now stands. one wan was left on this
zound as a s'-ntinel. The other inen went farther downm and lelot five
meh with the tear, the other nine going up thc rizer after food.
Halfway to their-destination the Indians'flocked down the hills
in greet numibers, where they had been concealed and irmedietely
killed the man left as sentinel on the mound. The other five
wan saw that they were greatly outnvrbered but hopin.- that they
would be able to fight their way back to the tort, fled to the
beach: '~a-re they made a stand but they could not hold off the
horde of enemies who swarmed d'own on them and ~-:illed every man.
The nine iren who started uD the river decided to fight their way
up over the open priarie in the directi-n of the tfort.
['here were
several good marksmen amrong them. so they were able to nick off the
Indian leaders at some distance and keit the= from crowding in.
As soon as the shots were heerd, reinforcements arrived from the
fort. Thus they fought their way back to the fort carrying two
wounded men, one of whom was Jim Hunt. The other was Y.B3. Gregory,
who afterward becaer County Judge of Curry County. loseph V.cVey
was also among themi. He afterward b'pcame a prominient business mpan
in this and Del Norte County.
Jim 1!unt, being the first settler, - the first white settler
any place in this part of' the country and this rock being on his
claim, it wus natural for the miners to name it "Hunt "Oak" and
so It has been known for many, many years until recently, some
have spoken of it as Flume Rock. "le the piion~ers of this country,
look upon the rock as a sort of wronuTrent to those men who fought
there and to the man who made the very first location or 1 nd
hare. We regard It as an index to our early history and w,~ protest
that the name should be discarde,2 and n-med for one who came here
many years later, who :;ros-'ered and became wealthy because the
way was made safe for his enterprises by the sacrifice' and bloodshed of the pioneers.
As Recounted by Fred S. M"ore, Curry County Pioneer
laroh 28, 1927.
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from John Saundersearly settler,who put in b power
mill on the creek and used the mill for sawing lumber end grinding
GRIZZLY Mi1.
Neamd after Mr*. Grizly,en early settler who hbd a cebin on the
mountain.
It had previously been called Elk btn.
,U;OLTA&'
It is an Indian word meaning beautifultend ehould be spelled
,uosaten.
Z--XTI-R CREEK
So ua ed because large bands of it
along the creek and it
hunters paradise'.
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MYERS
and ieer would congregate
CEEZ
Nad after Mr. Myers who built a catin near its moUth and
prospected for gold.
hamed because the rock resembles a pyramid from
all
angles.
This used to be culled Itud Aorse AFpuntaln because it was
Liter it ws changed to Wildhorse.
used to pasture horses there.
CHD
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Ned because there were numerou
ehinese gold miners working
near the base of the mountain.
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Nlmd after George Colebrook,early settler.
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SKDOMMUSIt1 Burri'
The miners Jort,built in 1858 was
the first fort to be built
by the white settlers Just north of the mouth of the Rogue River.
The Indians thought this fort was a good idea and called It
Skookumbouae hoeus"
which mans "good or strong house*.
They were so
impressed with the fort that they built one for themselves on a
mountain near the Rogue River approximately 15 miles from Its mouth.
They named this mountain Skookuinhouse Butte.
During the Indian ware of 1856 they used this Skookimhouse for
prptection.
The soldiers ambushed the Indians and drove then from *k~
their fort to the Rogue River where they took to their canoses
Another
reinforoezant of soldiers were-Tiding on a flat rock near the
mouth of
Lobster Creek and when the Indians came by in their canoes
the soldiers killed them.
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PORT OR-O0RD
wLike a dwelling left to decay from which parents and
have departed foreverPort Orford dream by the sea.
children
The
winds yet croon among the cliffs Caves,and over its beautiful blue
water the gulls still fly, iavingon their shadowy wings the spirit
of those who fashioned for visions of what the years would bring
to the city which uwksza
sdz nest ed
like a white bird against the kitt
hills."
The story of Port Orford goes back far beyond the discovery of
the Columbia River by Captain Gray.
It
is blended with fiction with
romance end with all the stern rintsxKkx realities of human life.
Port Orford comes down to us almost from time'Xmemorial.
a pioneer within itself.
Its
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history was first brought to light
over 300 years ago by Martin de Aguilar,,an old Sparish explorer
who discovered the westerly head land near here and named it Cape
Blanco.
he was seeking for the worlds prize in the
mystic straits
of Anain which as far back as 1500,Corterealazax another Spanish
navigator,clained to have discovered and passed through in his ship
from one great ocean to another leading to India and which he named
as Anain.
Captain George Vancouveras late as 1791, sailed the seas on
the an same search,and at the same time to grasp an English hold
4*ea upon Spanish possessions far to the Northwest.
Vancouver in
his exploration charted Port Orford harbor and named the Cape rmaxuz=
nearby as Cape Orford in honor of his friend the Earl of Orford.
For over 200 years the Straits of Anian still
continued to be a
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ystery.kgll above the 43rd degree of latitude the Padific Coast ws
an undiscovered country through the 17th and 3/4 of the 18th
centuries.
But this section of the Oregon Coast and indeed from
Cape Mendocenia to the Columbia River for another 60 years remained
largely unexplored until 1849 when another navigator,and he an#
American, appeared.
This navigator was Captain William Tichenor.
Larly on the morning of the 27th of March Captain Tichenor lowered
away his whale boat,watered and provisioned with a full creoand
pulled for the Cape,leaving orders with his mate to standby along
the coast south one degree,and then heave to for him.
The Captain
reabhing the Cape pulled and sailed with whale boat along shore,
examining carefully all indentations,bays,creeks and rivers.
Enter-
ing the Roadstead now called Port Orford,he landed and examined the place
but apprehending the difficulty with numirous naked savages and
their hostile appearanoehe decided to embark and headed down the coast.,
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DATA Of IOCATICOi OF COAST INDIAN TRIM2
The my on the preceeding page shows the names Of the principal Indian tribes who owned the country at the time Of the cornIng of the first whitojpople.
It also shows the approximte boun-
daries of their holdings,the location of the principal Indian
Villages and gives the Indian names of the mast important stream
along
lie coast.
-ft
we know Curry County now~it is bounded on the
east by Josephine County,the dividing line being an Irregular line
following ranges of mountains and stream.
It Is bounded on the
north by Coos County and a corner of Douglas Cunt,o
the west by
the Pacific Qosan) and on the south by the 42nd partllel of latitude.
You who have traveled south into Del Norte 0CountyCalifornia,along
the old road,have notioed about a quarter of a mile south of the
Windchuck River,a monumnt about five feet high standing mest of the
road.
It has the word 'Oregon" painted on the north side and
California' on the south side with "State Line* on the east and west
aides. That monument stands on the 42nd.pazeallel of latitude which in
the boundary between Oregon and California.
In early times,a comfort-
able house stood east of the road opposite this monument.
The 42nd.
parallel of latitude ran through the canter of this house and it was
said the family slept in the state of California ,and cooked and, ate
in the state of Oregon.
The language or dialect of the different tri -es shown on the map
differed considerably but it was similar enough to enable members of axe
tribe to converse with meubers of other tribes.
Therefore,w. nighit
call it the language com;'.o to all of the Coast Indiana* You will
notice that these Indian words are divided Into syllables with hyphens
The Indian had a peculiar wa.. of dividing his words into
between.
syllables with a diet inct and abrupt pause between.
The lunguage was
made up of a combination of gutteralogru'iting~hissiflg and clucking
sounds. *Those
sounds were such that very few other than their own
people could imitate them.
For that reason.,early writers differed
very much in the spe lling of th~e Indian words. *In
making the map,
the spelling udopted was used by ihon.JT.L..Parrieh,an early Indian
agent
*in
making his reports to the goverumoit.
It may be that his
spelling would ao nearer represent tue actual pronunciation of the
words by the Indiana tnan the writing or spelling of others,but It
nathe advantabe at least of being official.
Tr.* first Indian tribe ih the north~the %~uo-to-ms,was a large
and powerful tribe that owned considerable territory north of what is now
Curry CWounty. This extended from near the Nee-efti~l-co,or to us the
Goquille.River~along the coast to a point south of Port Qrford,know as
kiumbug Mountain.
Their eastern boundary extended to the summit of the
Coast Bangs ifoumtains,
The Indians placed very little value upon the
interior country except as a range for the thousands of elik and deer
which grated an the valleys,prairie& and hills.
You will notice thatithe settlements of the Indians were principally close to the ocean or near mouths of streams empty ing into
the ocean.
This was because the Indians acquired the greater part of
their living from the seashore~thei~r principal diet being mussels,
clam and crabs or other shell fish.
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In season they were able to
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catch saliaon and other fish out of the streame.
These C~oast Indians
were a very indolent class of people for the reason that N~ature had
provided generously for their needs.
They did not have to work; they
did not even need look one day ahead for their food.
went out,the tuble was set.
When the tide
This illustrated to us the necessity for
activity ,the need for-usn to exercise our bodies and minds.
not do so,we can not develop.
If we do
These Indians did not have to wort and
for that reason,they were dwarfed in body and mind.
The ,LU&-TOSMk trite of Indians had an impS'~Ivillage at or
nebr t:-ie mouth or the stream, Qua-ta-ma,know to us as Plo~se C~?ek.
They had another very large village near the mouth of the Sa-Quaai
xtiver~to us,Bixes River~and a third at what in now Fort Orford.
This
tribe had two chiefs; the head chief fesided at the Se-quo-mi village
and the sub-chief at the Port ~Arford Village.
Of course there were
other camps and settlements all along the coast,but we are mentioning
only the principal ones.
The next tribe south wa-s the 008UTT-H3NTE
tribe.
They owned
the country from the southern boundary line of the ~Zus-to-umas,south to
a point on the coast where there are three large rocks In the edge of
the ooean,known to early settlers as Three Sisters Rocks.
They had a
village at the mouth of a stream that bore the nam.,Cossutt-iienten,leter
named Mussel Creek.,
The village was on a low flat close to the ocean.
The "irizona Inn now stands opposite its location.
The
claimed the country from the south boundary of
the Cosutt-.aentens to a point where the early mining town of 'Elizabeth
was located and where the GOisel Cemetery now is.
The Equachees had a
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village on the north aide near the mouth of the stream that bore their
nA&me ,quachees
,now named Euchre Creek.
The next tribe,the Yahshutes claimeid the land South to a prominent headland~ape Sebastian, which is locally k-gown an Hunter's
Read;1ihe tribe had two large villages~one on the north side of the
To-to-tu-na (R~ogue River) and the otner on a low fiat opposite the
present site of the sunset Inn. The Yabeh~utes claimed only a short
distance
up the t~ogue, iiver,probably three miles.
.South of the Yuhshutes was the MM-SSZ
tribe whose
territory extended south to a-rch xRock,the south boundary of the *ill
Crook Ranch.
ThLe Chet)l-XFsentans had a vi2Utige near the mouth of the
stream known by their tribe nam- but which we named-Pistol iliver.
The
course of this river is greatly changed now. You who are familiar
with that vicinity know that the river rune straight out almost
directly into the ocean now.
In early days and up to tne year
of
the
great flood in 1890,the river swung around athigh point north of its
*present mouth,then ran for half a mile along the foot of a bluff and
emptied into the ocean near a large rock opposite the home of George
Renry.
The Chetl-Essentan village me located on the bluff directly
in front of the denry home.
The Wishtenaten tribe south of the Chetl-Essentans owned the
country south 'to a point known as Whale's Heoad.
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smell Tillage at the
mouth of a stream thiat bore their name is shown on the map.
The Chetco tribe had two lUrge villages at the mouth of the
Chetco iiiver,one on the bluff on the north side close to the present
site of Brookingsatbe other on the low flats on the south side of the
1'iver.
another village six miles up the river was located on the site
which in now known as the Eohnsen-Gardiner place..
The Chetcos' southern neighbors,tbe tribe of .9asonta,had two
villages both near the mouth of the liasonta. River.
The wraite man latter
nid tais river lindebuok.
Going back to the To-to-tu-na or Roague River,we rind other tribes
located azlong its course.
The To-to-tu-n~a tribe claimed six or seven
miles of the river and had a village on the north side of it at the
present Bagnell ferry landing.
Farther up the river was the Mae-an-o-
Tin tribe wnose village w~c located on the place now k~nown as the
Claude Aalker Ranch.
of the Coast Indians.
The 6has-Te-.Koos-Tess was the most easterly tribe
They bad a large village on the north side of
tne river opposite the confluence of tne Illinois River at tbe place
where -,gnesz now in situated.
its Recounted by Fred S.Moore,Cu~rry County Pioneer.
March 28,1927.
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OMANGE
IN SOCIAL LIl!
There has been no radical changes in the social life of the people
of Curry County from that of the original settlers.
This in due to
isolation of tnis part of Oregonz from the remainder of the State.
the
It
was only reoently that the Roosevelt Highiway was completed and bridges
built Laromb tue numerous rivers along the coast
A.,
~i~ch hsa opened this
morst westerly part, of Ciregon to the public.
1trior to t:.e building of tncs Roosevelt Hlighway tthe people lived
mucn. t~e same La their uncestors ,t~.kirag law and order in their owni
hands and "might was right".
There ~-rv still
~. number of direct descendents of the original
settlers living in the counts and most of the present population can
be tratced back to these original families.
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EARLT ROUTES OF TRAVEL
The early routes of travel followed the original Indian and
animal trails.
The trails along the coast were narrow and *niuproved,
following the ridges and often dropping down to creok beds.
MAny of these
trails were old elk trails for in early times the elk ran in bt--nds of
hundreds and in traveling they always followed each other in single rile,
The result was deep trails where they nad trod and they broke out some
of the brush as they went through,
Indians and pioneers who came after-
ward naturally followed these trails.
ib&ost of the travel was along the camst ae- ta~ere was little reason
to travel inland as most of the villages were along the coast.
The main route of travel inland was up the Rogue R~iver with the
trail following along the south bank.
The present R~oosevelt iiighuey follows tbe original county road in
imany places.
Travel wmu very limited th~roughout the county in the early days.
1Port Orford was the only town at which ocean going veetrels could
land and at tVxis time it was the initial point of land travel up and
down the coast.
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DISCOVERT OF GOLD ON PORT ORFORD BU CK
In the fall of 1852,Captain Tichenor discovered
gold on the
beach near Battle Rook on a creek which ran into the ocean 100 ft.
East of the rock.
lie nazind It Gold River.
±ie fixed up, a rocker
and explained to his oldest daughter,Azina,how to work it and
with
her little brotber Jack and an Indian boy 'iwould go down on the beach
after doing her ZAousework; she would shovel in the black sand,while
theo boys would lift and wash the sand from the rocks too large for
her to h~adle.
The sandB were glittering with gold and this frail
girl would rock out from 20 to 50 dollars per &~y.
The news of the rich beach sands soon found its way out and
in 1853,a new and better fate awaited the little settlement in the
unexpected turn of fortune in its i4ncertain destiny.
Gold was dip.-.
covered in the beach sands for 30 miles up and down the shore.
in the
spriAng of 1854,Port Orford was becoming a real city,
but without law and order and soon the vigilantles wore organized
and a whipping post erected at Fort Point.
The Pegtona house,Columbus Hotel, Columbia Hotel, The Roost,
Ocean House, and the Rough and Ready started In 1853.
did not begin to a~enaeteu ~Ti0 gold seekers. *There
ball, a show house,
These hotels
was a
dance
bix saloons, bowling alley,six stores,two
meat muirkets,China laundry,two shoe shops,'an
barber shop which
had little to do as most of the mn let their whiskers and bair grow.
The Whiskey Run A-1max mines north of the mouth of the Coquille were very rich and all these miners
The gold supply seemed unexhaustablo
spent separating the gold from the
sand.
traded at Port, Urford.
.
Many evenings were
This was done by putting
*the &and in the pans into the oven to dry and then blowing away the
black sand and leaving the gold dust.
lost.
In this careless way much was
A't least ten million dollars in gold dust was taken out along
tne beach from Gold Bieach to Whiskey Run.
In the year 1859,Port Orford was
no longer the live place
with its many people and places of amusement.
began to decline and so~n it was
remaining.
Ever since 18,56 it
practically destroved,only 3 families
DATA ON INDIUN TRIBES AT PORT ORFORD
The name of the Tribe was %guah-To-Mah. Han-Hult-i-Tan the
chief had his home at Sixes,a d Tag-on-Ecia was the sub-chief at
Port Orford.
This band claimed the country between the summit of the
south boundaries of the Ma-So-iab (mouth of the Coquille River)
to Humbug Mtn. where the la-ds of the Coselt-.ientens commenced.
There
were living at Port Orford in 1852,103 men 93 women,51 male children,
No one sickone blind,caused from the Battle of
56 female children.
Battle Roe}.
only weapons were the bow and
They had no guns-theO
arrow and large knives made from flint.
Their cooking was done by
roasting before the fire or in pots,made airtight with grass and
heated with stoneso7
Fish,snell food, acorns, elk a d deer meat were their principal
source of subsistence. Each family had 3 elk pits.> In their ears and
nosn
they had small ornaments of bones
and tied in a
club behind.
Their hair was long and black
They were dressed in garments made
principally of skins of otter, bear, deer and fox.-The women aoxxx wove a mat of grass or bark split into
threads and fastened around their
knees.
hips
m hanging down to their
Most of the children were naked . The Indians at this time
were in a primitive condition.
Their homes were constructed by excavating a hole in the
ground 12 to 16 ft
square and four or five ft.deep inside of
which puncheons or split stuff were set upright six or eight feet
high.
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Upon the top of these boards or thatches the roof was placed.
the gable end a round hole was made sufficiently large for the
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entrance of one person.
The descent was made by passing down a pole
upon whioh rude notches were out for steps.
warm and smoky.
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The houses were generally
fl1DIAN WARS
TheAliogue River Indian war occurred in 1856.
Every horn on tile atogu. Liver below Big Bend,sixty in all,
-u.e'e burned and 26 persons killed.
Ttere were 31 victims of this
hnd four sons.
in55acke
including 3omn Geisel
Cha~rles ioster otrried the news to Fort (%.rford and sent
t, wbzJle boat down 2zx the coast to open coinunication with the
block house,
drowned.
This boat was
overturned ia the surf and the six mn
Their bodies were out to pieces by the Indiazxs who were
watching their efforts.
Pioneer Hiistory of Coos a~nd Curry Counties,
Oregon.
Orville Dodge,Iiistorian
Sslem,-oregon.
Capitol Printing
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18S98
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The
first
LII1MP2-RrOG TNDTSTSRT
stuw mill arrived at Port Crford on the schooner
loan Diego" in 1854,
Tne ocers of the mill were Neefus and L.B.
Tiobenor.
mill gave employment to 25 tmnghud a capacity of
This first
5000 ft. s.L. every ten nours.
ligtrters Lnd orought
The lumber was loaded on vessels by
125.00 per thousand at San FrF-nciseo.
.. illieum S.
8insor of honored pioneer name was the mechanical
prepaire
manager there and was azong those to, rear this first shipment
to market.
it
went trere under t. e name be g.:ve itas
Ceddar,and by tnis name it
is still
known to the workd.
rort Orford
k plank road
was uumx made to the mills cad was covered with sawdust.
toena
of Fercheon horses easily drew the tuuz
txese roads and dov
The great
tremendous loads over
to the beach every few hou~rs.
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INFOMAT ION ON EARLT Sn'rTLMIKR
The following inforimtion was obtained from Mr. X.IL. Bogardus
of Gold Beaoh,~regon.
Air. Bogardus has mide a hobby of collecting
historical information,especially concerning the town of Port Z)rford.
noe has copies of memy of t~ae ori~~inal papers concerning the establishing of the town of kort O'rford of which I have copied a few that
relate the early history.
ST;~TENENT_ OF CYRUJS HEDBUNi..
I-.tAte of ~)regon
Bs
County of Douglas)
'tin this 24th day of October personally appeared Cyrus :.edden,
who being duly sworn according to laiw by me,the undersigned 1notary
Public In and for the State taforessid,deposes and says that he is
personally acquainted with
William Tichenor,of the county of Curry
and state aforesaid; that the said William Tichenor did,on or about
the 4tha or 5th day of Junae,18.51,employ him,together with nine others,
to go to the plaoe which is now called Port Orford, in this State,for
tthe purpose of making a permanent settlement for himself and family,
and landed at the place aforesaid on the ninth(9th). of the sam month.
1 continued with xW companions at the plane aforesaid until the night
of the eleventh (~.lth) of the same month,when we were compelled to
abandon the same place on account of the Indians, whom we were
compelled to fight until we abandoned tne place.
'0e all went through
the mountains into tile settlements and arrived at Port land in th~j#
GCO
State about the 20th day of July the saw year.
On or about the
first day of *'ugust we agin 1.ft Portland with Capt.Willian Tichenor
to return to the &am place, at which we arrived at the saw place and
continued until the middle of bapteuber,when one half of our Party
were killed by the Indiana.
Gu&ptain Tichenor wontinued to occupy and possess the sam
claim
continuously from the first of out, landing to this time,with the exception of' the nine aiforesaid.
Hie brought his family to the same place
on or ubout the middle of liay of the following yeer, and has occupied
the same plhce with himself aand family from the first landing to
the present time,and that he has always declared it his home.
Bnd
residence from the first of his going there until the present tim;..
and at the same place his family are residing,
I an in no way interested In his land claim and do know that he
la the only one who is entitled to the said land claim known as
Port Orford.
Cyrus Haddon
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 24th day of October,
A.D, 1861,at Hosebuzg 9 Orer-on.
In witness whereof I ha-we here-unto
set zW hand and seal of office the day and year first above written.
S .7.Ctiadwick,,
biotary Public for Oregon.
Residence Douglas County,Oregon.
July 27,1857.
John I.Sutton, R.W.Dunbar,R.H.Mmith and H.B.Tichenor recite:
In 1851 Tichanor,Saith and Hubbard,as a company~sent 82 men
to Port Orford,laid out a toum,began selling lots,and established
Port Orford.
About three years since William Tichenor deeded his
house hand lot to H.B.Tichenor and Z.Furman Neefus.
T"here in upon
the land about 60 buildings,of which one is a sawmill that cost about
416,000.00,3 hotels,8 stores,2 saloons,l bell alley and about 14
buildings belonging to the United States garrison.
of entry,and is the county seat.
now a post toun~port
First building erected in town was
a store ( except tne Block Houses).
Within the bounds of the land an
claimed by William Tichenor in mining ground that has paid as high as
450.00 per day to the men and has been worked every year for the last
four years.
M~RA~CT
From the general description of T.338 R.15d.surveyed by
Daniel Murphy in 1857:
The toun of Port Orford, the county seat of Curry county,
is situated near the northern boundary, in Sections 4 and 5.
It
contains about 28 houses and a populat ion of about 18.
There
are 4 dry goods and grocert storesz* 1 drug-store, 1 hotel~l billiard
saloon and post office and one dram shop.
The town has very little
trade, being solely dependent on the gold mines distant about 27 miles
in a NE.direction.
The 'United States mail steamer touches here semi-
monthly for the maile, when the weather is favorable.
During the
prevalence of the south and southeast winds she can't stop. The
United States Military Garrison adjoins the town on the west but is
now abandoned.
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EISTOR! OF Tz-E SAIMON4 CM!ING IND!TRY'
The business of canning salmon on the Pacific coast was
begun in the spring of 1864 at the town of IashingtonYolo County
California by the firm of Eapgood,liume, & Co.
Hearing that salmon of a fine quality were very plentiful at
the Rogue RiverMr. R.D.Iiume purchased
a location end built a can-
nery there the latter part or 18'76 and in the spring of 1877.
Much
to his surprise he packed only 3197 cases which was all that could
be obtained by the utmost exert ion,which proved that the reports,
except as to quality,were echoes of the past.
As soon has Mr. Hume
realized how few salmon the stream offered he began operations toward stocking the stream.
Ilia first efforts were disappointing but
by constant experimenting he perfected a method of successfully prophgating the salmon,
he is one of the early pioneers in this field
and should be credited for the work he has done.
R~eference-- .5almon of the Pacific Coast by R.D.iiume-
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1893.
THE BATTLE OF BATTIZ ROCK
This is the true history of the battle of Battle Rock as
condensed from Mr. Tichenors story.
"On the first day of June 1851,Captain Tichenor and his
cousin,Syrus tiedden,xzwnksd secured eight volunteers to establish
Port Orford.
&- good supply or arma,auinnition and provisions were
purchased at Portland and the voyagers set out.
The steamer "Sea Gull" left Astoria,Oregon,on the evening of
June 6th 1851 and on the morning Of June 9th were landed on the
beach at Port Orford,between what is
Fort Point.
now known as Battle Rock and
There were but few Indians in sight and they appeared
friendly but by their actions the men could see that they did not
like to have them there.
8aptain Tichenor had a ships cannon placed on the rock.
The
men were then placed on the rock and Captain Tichenor sailed for
'an
Francisco planning to return in about 14 days and bring sup-
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plies,arms and more men to aid him in his enterprise of establishing a colony.
As soon as the "Sea Gull* departed,five Indians came down to
the beach making signs to speak.
away and not come back.
be gone in 14 days.
The Indiana told the men they must go
The men informed the Indians that they would
4hen the "Sea Gull" did not return,having been
delayed in San Prancisco,the
Indiana became impatient with the whites
not departing and attacked them.
Several battles ensued with many
Indians being killed and the white men wounded but they finally
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escaped off the rock and after suffering almost unbelievable
hardships they finally reached the mouth of the Umzpqua River
where tey were Lgain with white mn afd safety.
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tCALVOMItA In 11MS
Ths mterial hao been preped as a review of Bulletin 'go. 6 of
a miueogzaphed series of brief innumaripts published by the 'Works Progroes
Administration
vey of Oregon.
of Oregon in their County and Loeal Ristorioal Resords Surw
The original aceount was written In
1901
by Willi.
S,
Poeuddon as a *rminisoencs of his trit from Corvallis to Oresoent City,
Califoraia, mud return In the spring of 1qP4.
e haed been retained to defend Do"r Cushin, ameused of murous assault, for a fee of ftSO which
an he desoribed It semed "a veritable Cod sear.
the ftist publiention of this aooount.
Te WPA fulletln ws
Mr. Ve6addon loft Corvallis-on Varah 1? travelling from
Corvallis to Albany on the stagelne end from there to Roseburg on the
Oregon to Califtonis RR.
R
ie ws on his wy to Crescent Oity to defend
Dora Oushma aesused of assualt.
Roseburg
_s
than the terminus of the
railroad. Reeause of the fear of swollen streas. In the eoast country
sad the Impassable eonditions of mountain roads Vef'detn deoidedto
"out out' the Drain, Soottoburg, and Wapire City route and take his chances
by stage from Rlosebur to Jump-off-Joe and across country for the WorthWest of Oalifornia,
Sip Rszford, en mwle of Dors Cuehman, Joined
young loner
's
at Roseburg mud on the evening of March 19 they took the stop for " 3 -m
off-Joe"(approximately uaers Merlin to now located) over "bottomless"
roads, 1oer the road trned tourd Applegate, via .irbyville, Illinois
River, Sailor Diggings end to Osskeyts'FordIng on Smith River. This fordIag he listed as sewn miles from Oomners(now the town of Smith River)
and frrm ihere 16 miles to Cresoent City. Fram Sailor mggings to the
fording he gives the route as a mountainous serpentine way known as the
"Old Crescent City Wrall.
This i believed to be that is now called the
Old 0squst TfaIl over ltlk Camp ridge.
* Oaquase
Il
7t
aReninisceae"
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usladden started the trip from 7upmoffJoeo afoot but soon gave
this up ad purchased a hots. on which he sade the balanoe of his journey.
Es recounts he s
littlo of interest f
the tl. he crossed the Pogue
River until be reached Sailor Diggings, He saw an occasional jaekrabbit
and a few doer at a long distance but remarks, "the great abundance of fish
In the different strem seemad indeed strange and the amber thersof semd
eountless"
'Upon reaching Marette an the Oregon .18d
of the mountain road
leading to Crescent ity the am ware Infomd It msu ipossible to travel
the mountain road because the cutos
w
filled with 1 to g0 feet of snow.
Beoause of the wollen stra at Marlette thesmn were forced to %backtreck
five miles to an old bridge and there to take the "Old crescent Trail""
"40 miles' to "Oskey'e Tording" following the tracks of two mls* which had
md. the only previous trip over ts trail that winter.
The mn found a cabin about 20 niles out in Which there was horseAfter feading the horsea the m pushed on to a greasers camp where
they spent the night. The greaserwas in winter quarters with a paoktrain
rfed.
of mules.
The next morning L'l'adden and his companion pushed on to Oaskey's
Ford *wichthey readhe& about 10 An. There they found instead of a ford a
"verltable toynt" over whloh they wae? ferried by the greaser operator who
charged them one dollar each,.(The author relates that It ws only seven miles
to Ooner but this distance sem far short of the road distance to the
toun of fith River) The ferrymmn told the men that by going over Hardscrabble Mountain instead of following the river they eould out off at least
three mile.* ( This route my be sommhat th, osa
as that of the present Low
1)ivide Trail, at least for a portlon of the way) This shortcut e taken.
but the mno lost the trail In heavy sum and wr forced to spend the night
In an old cabin. In the Morning they retraoed their way to Gaskey's where
they had an "%loea A.dinner" They mwre then again ferried to the North
side of the river and =de their way to the Orners by following elosely
along the river bank. On this trip they found a giant redwood 42 feet in
dlreumforenee and therefore fourteen feet In diamter,- a grand tre,
without limbs for forty or ore feet from the grond*.
When KoFedden arrived at Corners he found that his job in crescent
City was asly an imposible one i he followed the usual methods of 6fence, Dora Cushmens brother 2i11 had recently been convicted or lareny
mad had trieked the Sheriff$ UClelilmaand skipped the country with a squaw.
Dora himself had; been in several scrapes which his father had gotten him out
of but thli t
,had used a revolver on a Bill White in a fuss growing out
of a poker pus at the Corners. Public opinion was thus against Dora so
YcFadden decided "Log Ball" was his only recourse.
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The author uses both " Old crescent" mad Tld Crescent City Trail"
"Reminiscenoe"
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Thie plan worked out for freeing Dora was to got the sheriff to
allow Dora to attend a meting of citizems at the Del Norte Hotel called
to "resolute" the govezuent to zemove at once the Crescent City, Smiath
River and Lagoon Indiana to the Humbolt Indian Reservation, Dora was to
clip out fra this meting and stake his way to the "Rac. ?rack""four
miles out". from there to go the "Redwood" route to $SM-th River, His
grandfather, W.Rezford, had a place on the edge of Smith River Valley and
on the edge zf & high hill. Bask of this placc. ranged the hills along
which ran a trall. About two miles from Rezxfoz'd~a on this trail was a
point uhi oh cmeanded a view of the trail toward the ocean, Dora was to
make his way to this point which would be his first resting place and to
uhi oh blankets and food would be brought.
Thie plan worked out as contemplated and after spending two days
at the resting point Dor" worked his way on into Oregon, Moladden met
him at another Uncles' by the name of Ross on the Winchuck and helped him
got started on Worth, going as far with him as the Chetoo River,
McFadden next defended an Indian at Crescent City who was In
jail for shooting one "Britches, a Clamath". He was successful in this
defence but attributes his victory not so much to his tact and display of
oratory as to the "uty' regard of the case as minor and their desire to
drink bad whiskey over the bar Oat A~m Murphy's expense". Tim Murpby was
a member of the California Legisleture from Del Norte county and as our
writer describes him "their beau ideal of Ood-given manhood", As the
schooner bearing Ti* caus to Crescent City Just as the Indian's trial was
ending the speed with which the jury decided the case is also attributed
to their desire to learn the latest happenings at San Franiscao end
Sacramento direct from Tim, An additional factor in the defence of the
Indian was the disfavor which the jury composed of at least five Irishmen
had for the "Mean, overbearing" redhead Prosecuting Attorney,, Bill Savell,
"Five hundred years of Ibglish oppression of the Irish had to be avenged
and which in this case meant to got Bill Savell'.
In describing his trips from Corners to Crescent City Moctdden
told of throe available routes I the Fort 7ones(believed to be by Ilk
Valley and old Port Tones) the flsdwood(likely by Fort Dick and near the
present Coast Highway route) and the Sand Hill way along the ocean. on
his first 1krip he teak the Sand Hill way and recounts of finding miles of
lagoons (now Lake Earl) on which were winnuserable ducksl, geese and other
web-footed fowls".
Other residents of Crescent City and Del Worte County were mentioned In the story, Macon)the deputy sheriff who was also editor-in-chief
of the "Del Norte something-or-other* and drew the wrath of Yofadden when
he devoted "about half a eoluun In his paper to a write-up on how Sheriff
McClellan had been victimixed by a young "webfoot* lawyer In the escape of
Dora Cushman Bes also mentioned an Irishman by the name of Mdfamaza, believed to btl-noestar of the many M~a~aras in the county.
With the trial of *Glassy-eye-Bob~ths Indian at an end McFadden
received with duW ceremony one hundred an fifty-cent pieces, or S60.00
from the Indiana of Bob's tribe. He then decided It was time to start on
his return Jouney and on April 13
left
the Corners for Corvallis.
return trip was made with less happenings than the first trip.
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One night
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was spent beside a tree before he reached the greaser %ho was wintering
the pack train. The balance of the trip was usad without say =jor adventure.
In concluding the narrative McFadden wrote:
'Vy leaflet as a trail blazer for a neriod of five brief weeks I. thus
hastily recorded In load pencil. For three evenings before the warmth
of a November fire of 1908!1 have been gazing backward more than thirty-four'
years,, and vihile the record to somewhat di~ed by time, a*such of It as
remains In tangible form you now have. It to only contributed as a reuiniscence
of the past, supposing that come one of you. my sixz boys, and Elle1n or Tulia
might, In some quiet hour, when the frosts have thinned your looksaCare to
follow these lines. The pleasure on my part In complying witb your request
is fully compensaaed to for the short time Imposed in recording it.
So my
s~ory is now ended.*
Submitted by:
VMER
a, LOWEID
District Mauger
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zUSr OF TH Sam=
ber 9.
*me.
UTIUS
The presA" Slsyo latimi Forest dates bak to Septow
lMOOS as for as mW uritttm reserd In the Inpervisar's
win ohs
Cb t*i
date &XILrman,
them cen
miasliom of the General Lend Of iIt7dirtd Spe8alh Agent
Bender to w e nd report an the watershed of the South Fork
of th Coquille, 1iver and ighbring tributaries of the Rogu
nd
qUam Rivers.
Sender 9 mho was familiar with the eowntryp *made the report
witbout einstiuou sad remdgd witbrml en Oober 31,
108, of the area mlesedb
blue lime an ImV No. 1. atted
This report vs subtted to the Direcotr of the Goeloical
B r for
L
onuidletio
mad an )NW 2, 199, he returnd the
repor with the
.
Adan tha it be approvwd and teit ali
at the li south of the
od area to the State line be Isoluded. This was then ealied wThe Proposed Rague River Poreot
Reserve'
O ealy 23, 1099, Specali Agewt
L* Miller us irected
to make an xInation md report an t
propoed reserve Sn
sa
t oe Oregen. and e Deeber 16, 1900 e suitted a
favorabi. Ixe r eevvrizng about eiutthe area
aeame
by
the U*S.GoS. Again# afte reviswing ft repart# the Direstair
reaseneded e Oetddw 30* 1901, that AU of the lands tum1n
*mmisidee
be ditbdram
_.
O
uy 23. 1901, la a press Intwisw
stated bo desire to e"o the reserv, o
Herm
agai
Bedj hwevw* Kera
soen afterwards became invoved La Polities while rumihu for
Congress mand joined the IowersM
ih
In Coo., COurry. and eoesepbim
eowatise spainet the w4,h&t'in1-n east, he beme an' atIt
straoelt m
esmdo.e
M to this pressre, an adverse report was nade to th
Seerwtmay of Interlor an January II,, 190g.. and the ease us
oloe*
Anst who oneimserd the re-opening of the matte Ls ma*
amad elsee La the old Moo. but vpon the rea
Bps"
1903,
uw
Agent mhd
aof
_S41R~
in ere
D.
s
udti
D. LIllI,
imately the
ato
cn April 4
sn atea as
diskiyow outional Parest In Oregos ws md.
The teep)d
der of' Vt'tdraWelwa maes by Commssimer
Rielarda i"N'Waslmcton an April 29., 1903, and uwas roosoved by,
the iser
and ftoeivw of the Roseburg Land Offio. the next
dq.
This us the beginxaing of iat
ms later to beem the
Biskiyou NUAwiml ?*-st.
11
Appsamatel 1,2l2,020 aores we affooted by the ordr,
ains than s
titaary In the 81ikiyou
ublab took In m
ramwwly suggested. FeM the reeards it is found that a mem
Com, probaby a Bpeoiul Aent of the Lm"d Oto,
by the name
made quite a detailed eaination, and favorable report an the
0roqMY prior to the date
aresaw- tme or other duiwx the o
at withdrawal or shortlyatew d.
In site o all
goppoaition the _itbftvwl beam pae
~43 the PresIns psoolamation creatiM the Forest
~t
,
wuler date at Narob 2, 1907.
Uwe. land waq, a4ded an the north by~withdrevin an tDeoenbw
north and st
tchips
17, 1906, wbiio mbraced six or so.
of Fort Orford and was proposed an the Coquille Forest Reserves
It wa jadoinistered by the 81i*you as long as It mm In existThis later addition was xoutly eliminated by 19214 wie
o,
15.000 wes er opened to mit7.
h. 1907. the tera
mse dropped and 'National Forest' adopted.
y the Act of Congress on Haish
Rese: .'
"crest
The addition aud elimation of a Mreet umber of aras,,
both large ad m1, took plase fran 1909 to "a late as 199
and waild wake a lalety surwry to emmrate& so only the mmr
or iportant awn vill be considered.
The first oms to gotlo. with the reoaowndtio
of
Forest MAsistan Jho* D. Outre, that the area (shdmnan Map
,
No. 1 ia green lines) be added to the Klmth Tatial ForestP
and he further resonded that the whole ara mm known as the
Gaquot Ranger Distriot be transferred to aftinistration %Vthe
SiSkIyOU.
The date of withdrawal Is not disclosed by the tiles. U*
a xap in sho wdth the se west boundary as in nw In *tfeot
was amended or
so It Is presumed that Guthrie's ea
that be Izluied only the publio la
which may he resulted
in the irregular west boundary.
Considerable ohu ges took plaoe om the north end of the
Other ohanes weo made, n Rough
Forest. as Is stated abov
and Ready
reeko
The first change in etatus of Importance was the withdrwal from ,ntry 1w ell public land law ot four sections
surrodidiC the Oregon Caves. On Auust 3, 1907, Superviso
Anderson requested innediatos temorary withdrawal to prevent
xineral entry and seat several =m to ney sad poet the bua
rie.
The withdrawal was
=Ld.
on August 12v 1907, and after
further dimnds wr mad* by the Oregon State Conservation Can'
mis^ion, the President oreated the Oregon Caves National Jam
at by proclamation of July 10. 1909.
On October
. 190, R*srt AtDLu, tf. B. 8.et SHrylee
amvwwq
Im gmvd, Ammtte4 a reot
ad up trm his sur-v
wbieh outlne tbobmdmle a they nw are* Thi et the
ara dam from the fow' section that it teuwrly eactaime to
480 acros.
The area rooned undr the jmrisdiatici of the Foret
Brvioe aIl
193o4 ube
of the ?agBorVIo,
It VWa
tezs
d to the admintration
Pwtbw Iormation reodiwd ks olewsl the drigl.
of the Coquille Forest Dexem as oulimad in vi*le
bx4Ws
an IWV lo. 1 of this repe. Moet of the eliziuntims we
aoommtcd tor, butther
area In Towwddp 9 g5.
we others yet to disolose, as th
Rea
13 'g
The CoqUO Satimal Fiest Ms Unde the saw £-.
WiU arriwl of Aeting Supe-wiau
an as the 5iskyo n
u3. J. Anderson iu savber 1906 to July 1, 190. wh the tw o
units bo umvtaed by proolatic of the 1roulamnt, The
liMp No.
bomdwyof the obined NAtimi forst La shwn
portion of the Iawth
A olw
this repr.
o
2
Nationa Forest man also i1w
e4 In this proolomt inn
A najor ohmge Lu the bUaau
ourred In //
*he
vas traam
th Gasquet Diatiot of the jasmt National rrst
e boundarle"
I=osf the Sskyoi
to the
nded by Jdl De
e about th. sam as reoo
of this ari
Oubrie In 1907,
Tbe Forest derives its name from the siskiyou ljountal"
whiah It largely covers. The word SiskiyoU (1) la of doubtful
origin, there being. several beliefr as to it deriatiton. One
eag tkat while eLoeod, an employee of the
coonly aosepted
Rudsom Day Company.wa orossing this range of mountains In 183
he lost a number If his horses during a mow stem. one mg a
re Indiaa Is
bob-talled running horge and as there were CiP
event ooeurrse
the
where
pase
mountainous
the
gave
they
Party
the
the Neof ?he Pass of the 8isklyou, Sisloul boein Orea for
Walling'. History of JZksuon, Xosopi1nes Cooe,
'40ob-tailed-hore*.
arppi
gives an aceount of 1to
counties
curry and DouSUo
mmo
also
8iskiyou
Callfornia.
*ortbern
in
exploration
and
bob-tailed horse in the Chinook Jargon.
b
Another belief to that Frenoh Canadian fteppero called the
mUatains' Si GailouX from six peaks that eould been see fim the
stones. "six oalfilio=
gsix
1ttbs words
Old Calif` o7,Aprleaus.
ued bythe
therefore gadeally boae'a
Also it It thought that Slklcyou ia a corruption of a local
I
Indian word for mountains.
n
KAMLY AWIUTATION (1906-1913)
For the period frm Neovber 1906 to the end of 1913,
onl a
mii
t of lafwtion Is a1ilabie, whieb Is em
twined ia ta. dim meries of a few of the old ranu6s and
what La left @f the old records.
Rever wa fInd tht No. J. Anderm, Reager frm the
&tIQUI Forest (mt. Hod) arrivd in Oranti Pasasm
Aoting 8Erviaw In Nawm8w 1906 and set up ma office In the
old Con Buildln& About the firot af the yvee 190.7 fth
. Outbrie was assigned as DepA7 Suprvlso ii Vs Andersn#,
asm of U. Jo. Andwrso
ma the first clerk. (It Is not 1
Oregn
it he mas under farm
appointmen.)
About the first of April 1907, MelvIn No Lomiss GesP
rociridgo, Fred NwriU, and ¢. 0. 0iddinp ware apointed
Forest Ouaidso In Amat Jo P. W. itt me added to tS for".
and it to l1bely that W. Jo 3Jm. 'No B. 91lbwy, E4*Irt Dean
and
-.
m
thbrs rowivd thefr
f
I
about this tum.
Lewis was acuired ir. 19f
with the additfio of the
dthb River ision or t
m&*th fttimma Forest (Gaequat
Qidtrlot;)S 'r(A r John B. Oribble was appointd in Agust of
In 1908
e bavsevideueoft Bemy Z.
Hoor and Nelson
F. Usodtff working an the Forest as Forest Assistarts.
in 1909. o. L. *W and HaW Bo HIIIU received appointsants but resiped a yew or so later. Warre wiarne Coopw#
frcm the old OrXon tami Forest, mm detailed for a whil
to make a survy of the trall syvtm.
In the spring of 1909 the Forest wa divided into ra=r
distrit,
NLw'
I
2
5
(6
med mad
Ne
Location of'
s
lOrlbblo Rm~er ftatio
)l1
:r(1910)
Shasta Costa 38.
J. P. DtIitt
Rend (i Btao uwthl 1917)
It S
le
Oali..
Choto
=
w. B.
e
Pace cree
d as follmst
BLA.W In
Port Orford
A4
m
..
. ULeIS
.
Par. Crook ?.* S.
Iestmoare Re 8.
Gasque
ft*t PFork I. S. (hAw _**
5rtmsfeed to ViMyou I 1911
Other sm io worked an the Forest durUX the years 19081913 as Forest Guards and -RAxgerx wasc
costelloes
itu
-
, .7.JoJes
A. W. Leis
VoLmin, 'N. Fe Ramte
Charlie inwls,
riezm
i'Mraoes
Hesied
rttrook, mod Everett E. Garphom* 5.
Blanksnsbip is
as Dog
047or on hmstma entry murvy work.
Joan
asC. J.
Conoverw s assigned as a ?oreut Assistant duwing this period
Allen U6 Hodgeon suoo._ded Outbwio as Deputy Supe8vior, cmd
Ur'h L. Upsas sueeedod H. Vemon Anderson as olorke
,.~ I_. _
Vl
R Le
ftpervis' Anderson res5Vn*d
1910 and as. sueoeeded by
ra., from lRegSmn5. 7"m mm trsfastued to the
Olymipc about UldrxmeC
of 1912 and wan sweeeded by T. r. M"aduff,
who had gas tcc the Siskiyou to the old Bantia
Nutiam Forest.
1inno
The work durLM 1907 eanted mainly of fi.ld
tious ad reports co tizber and .to*
ola3.e, xazz of which ur.
frwandu
t. B Upri
Andro and Rangers Milbuzy ad Oribble
reeeved spocial aomendatiom frai the Forester for fwreting vt
attempts to dofravd the Dovermt. 8cm June 11 clad. vak ms
dm an well an bosdary and addnIstratiws site surys.
About 1912 a larre zwdasr ,of homestead entry xwyg and
settil'St oMaes berz to oause
work. Considerable
Uoxwary was sur
ed in 1908.
A. few d=i timber sale wr
md* in 1910 to zas:ng co-
panics.
Considerale time aft the ru~ers mm spmt cc btal 0astructian and uaintcziaws, and an bu.11dIMn headquarters srtationso
only 33 miles of telephone hUe wes eranatruod prior to 1913s
whn 123
ile, Vere put U.
Dring the suar xmthsp fis. uupression and preodX
a
took 1lt of the Forest offlreeI ttme.
A suaary of *osts of a&&d istration and protection at
the Parests per aore, for the years 1908 to 1913 inclusive, as
i* Civen in the January 1M Lai w of the SIs1ddyou dulletla Is
as tfolaw a
190
$0.0187
1911
0*0178
199
0.016
1922
0.22
L910
0.01
1913
0.0215
The oost of adndnistratin alome in 1913 was $0,0027,
and the oest of protection alone wu *0.0061. sligtly below the
Regional aeraCe for that year.
w
5i,,
:2Tu
*
-
5§eMi 4 pi
4. e3.
l
*"
Apo
eSol
~4
Mlbw7
7..t#.~
use
..
4
o
*
-
_
SOC aww
~~~~~~~~l~
D@ dta&1.
AS Assistantsduu
mivv .m
w
KLco
ftlim
m4 was.
r"M8 us
befokut1%mamiJago.3gw
the as 3bl WOU
~~~~4 uu th rw *st
b
to t-6Simi* tk
am* w~U
l~~~~666
-dIwodomu
sf._
b
o ja_ of;t"
b u
-0~~
~~
Pox
akvw
*wZl>it4y
tandti^8
_
w.
1~~ 1913, ap
MA
>.mu-*,-#*
is.
vas.
.
.o.
3tO
p
g
- Oontiud
-1911
A Znmu stove for tril VWe and gwarda Ms tried out
by lner Witt for the first ti.. an the Siskiyouo
13
18 x 20 iSzew Pzd o t S100.
eonstruted am the
A sumwy of pefmnont iqravmm*s
Pcreut to June 50. i_". a
±^'o10s
L'urinc Misal Yfear l91l4
Trails
Total to Juno30. 19i
m!iles) 3.*5D
1
57*50
o.)
0
0
(No,)
(No,)
0
(miles) go
(1o)
0
Bridceas
201*50
2
M.)
ToeLines
Barm
Other Bldg1.
FOces
Water Dev.
10
a
21
139W
3
Settlmact Cases
F.T. 1911
60
No.
Total to June 30a 1924 go. 3m
No. 23
SO,,1
Listed 10.* 424
'her"e
2.299
7,
No. xtoo
ser-ton
No*
18-f
Telephon lines wre bwii built to big Ft,
tr, m Zeft
to foaol Peak, a trail and lie to Ship MotaN and the Chetee
line extendd a-e Lopg Ri6oe A *hke_ shelte ws ULt an buid
131b by the loot
at a *oet of 25% for nails* The Sq.
CreelRook Creek section of th Coquille River Trail was .mristdby
fommu Rager 1. Do Hilli udl sontaot* A home md bm wmm
eoastructed at Fee Gourd Station duwrI
the
r and tl
tm 1v.r
saved at a lewd plow 8ine.
nui
Leutboyp lom*8
submitted an idea tor' a be'ush-becke
Fim
During the fie
seaon the follawing anush
of fire gords
were hireds
2
Pot Orford Distri*t
4
Agnev
Gaiie,
nisa
5
PNa
Creek Distriot
Chboo
Gasquet
were made to equip the lookots, fir the firs time,
with firefinders, either Osbarne type or, lsoking tush-brm*
4hmoimade
t
the lagst
4
5
S
S_ritm
dsi
DtiS_
.
anxi atmthris:Athrr
a o
Formo fi
ob
It $4P0
ergo
19011
cantund
eocureds one in Eden Valley and am n neJL )VIIter Creek, whisk
east, Ls M r~eI. I.
LFllx put it, the en
am of' #3050000.
The ==ber Of tires is not fc=4 though there wer
on the Pep
Crok District, totaling 300 awes and costing $500.00. The reagera
tiose days spoke of the site of tires in lr.-fig.hting *cute rather
theni In sores,*
Ranger W. Jo Jmw.s rde 28 howu from Packsaddle Lookout
to a ftre noa YALiay Mie, with only a stp to oat and rest a
tow minutes alonC the wyo. ypical of Jones, he stated that %be
saddle wi
tired' when he arrived.
Dy the end of 1914,. each district had at least two lookout
stations eameeted with telephoms lintes.
Pictures of the first Osborne firefinder, me an the Xt.
Eood, appared In the
r
1I
Lamas of the Siskiyou Buletin.
LAMS
Laud ela sication was one of the big jobs during 1914.
1. J. Jones spent a mont1c In Portland oan the Consayaobet
land fraud ease which ended in a eonwuition.
TIMZR XANAGEMU42
FlantIn.s of Ponderosa and sugaw plne were nade n High Dom,
ratricks Croc., nC. Ce-ret Creoek %r* 22,200 trees were planed
on 2 acres at a *ost of 819.9O peW ace, Baotner re -sinad
molter-Uldld tizker nesr A.zuawa and reported consideraie loing
since his emcination in 1912. In the spring of 19314. 25,dp3 seedlivi s were truasplacted at the Pae Creek Sursery by Ranger Y. Xs
Louis.
DEuing
-the
Clerk W~an- Vaim4d
graxshcppors~~
which to o0at the plagu.
RANGE AMD WILILIF
aLew
is c hickensii[
VAIADI
The openig date of the der hitIng season wa postponed
from hAuust to Soptener 1 bwy Governor # s.t due to the extrawly
dry sao~wA
Ia January 191,
the Sisilyou Bulletin was volved, by
ryason of a need to exress now ideas,, acquaint the Forest force
hf4 plans of work and happenings
the Forest, eid to foster
loyalty and toem work.
The yea
IM
sew the Farext with maps cmpleted for a1l
renger districts, distriot sections being made on a iae-imo scale.
1931&- - Contimmi
Ranger DeWitt rented a house t Rand ather being quartered
fU live years In a tat
ouv. Alder Spring Rmge Station near
Ismbts Butte ms abandod d
to the elsnatia
of 15,000
acres In thet area, Anl rengers wee st"il clearing land and
planting hq at their am e~emas to feed their stock. The late
vinter and spring of l9l24 prodtrnd a vwy heavy rain and gn~rall,
yet the
Ar
s hot and dry*
Alga S lr coded ^or
t1
as
ace~~~~~~~~~~~~'I*
ff-6
1915
so To Ib~mf
supuvisor
Do So Reynolds
DOPuty Zuperisor
Re. to B2a
i. 3. curt
Rauger at Large,
Dhstriot Rsangvrv Por Orford District
Bao. e
U. L. 1Upson
a~.a
CluD
no s
C E. Sable
*
J. 1e Deitt
U0 ?4Lewis
%. Jo Jon"
s
A* 'W LMI,
B
Pronnl
ge
Ja=y
8to
In
Distrit
of the Age
A nea
Gallss
cre
Pa,
I
Cheteo
U
forely eorkc o vis cratr
B I, Shann*
shr
egri
Spoowl was asinda
C. 36 Id.
swoool
Rjv),6
(,Rg
DixtriatDre of Jeaksan Codty, ad olork Int Flood Agetl
ors -tgero
transerrd to the 8tuy an April I "
ofcvws,
C. P. Alln
a
Assitant
a4ointda
al Is trt
J. F. Csa
tSd
"
sn
Ranes
ree
P
ioktne
,
len
offi
I oob Xr$ Pozv dtalCd to teOant Ps
ange Iatco be
indtdinitum 1anStev Spawol rwusted ya
vith his ail
istrs
C.
Allns
aoitled
C* F*
.Sd
s
t
s
at
8hmsft Costs
tfr the vintor of 1915-1926.
Packsaddleo
*ji.a
work eausisted at construsting a lookoat on
IzWrviMtEW~
type with celled InteriSr-iftsh oost
Itain-sh"
for m£terial
$.OO
8
tar peeking,
=d $26Bt.
tfr labor,
a total of SZW4.O8* The satevia rar Dea cow was packed in
and bUildings, eanstraeted at Zden Valley Ranger statian.
workics&stated an th* Mae~r~le-ak
of the goods te.
pbone Usr% and a 1600Dgallm capaolty water tank was installed
vountain ws eaqmltod
b
en Mt. Bolivar The telephone lil to abip
rut
and a line tram Forren Otard Station to Onion aital, e
arf
The Ftrest received an allotmnot of $500. tar
Correl Road# *iah ma omsidered uiot.n event,
of the St
Tral sirs
palletin tug
season
le the s
o*jeot of nwh discussion in the
ad various types sds
by the rngere, wre
1-915
tried out.
Wt*
Galaiulsed estal sips
re t1i;k b%* the paint pee
Is Navhk mud mm reeeived that the ve~hew bueau v=l
quip few eo"oMrti,
winds. Later, 8
stations In the Region F ast eas
Comp ms nmed am at eigft stations in the
degiom.
Fires wore a big problem this seasn. jaws stated that it
mm the worst season unae 190I, aWd el Leis belisewd it ma the
wort in the history of the F
4- sin -in September brought
on a fales sons* of seouritys
rudeIy dispelled In Ootdber
wdth a large nihor of tb's.
fleorts indloate tbat two seriou fir*e oemured an the
00,110,4 Distriot* ano on Onion 31mtu~
and the Aothr em the South
Fork of Galoe Creok, jbish eost #500.0, to suppress Dwitt reparted 15 fire., wound 5,500 eares bwnsd and a east of sloe, to
$700.00
Page Crek District had 29 flres# 295 scrs bwmd, and
About 65 x root or timer ms
I supyrosuion east of t396*3l.
killed.
The, Ofteq~ut Distriot bad 4 fires in October that bw'red
2#000 astres (1,000 eaves reproduastiaz) and eost $5*00.00 plus $76.00
coxtributed, tine for suppressiom. Total yorest figures are,imo
ava~ilablo.
A uotroryal, patrol us invokad for the tint Musts the relte
bein on the Orants ?tss'cresevat citjy mogm Road fraiame. mintm4
to Dorteleda. Daily raund triyt vwe md0 Of 14& miles at ft
average cost or 00.0212 per maile.
The fIrst esopastive firve suppressimMon
voaoremd.w
Also
wes organized at Port Ortord by higer Jo Be Owlg oxdi, umu de
esue~c. em this N*Jset
~
yteother rangers. Curl orgenised, 6 mno who on S~*a3at tosal
A Forest Servies exhibit at the Agate Carxidva at Part
Wrord attracted eavas Savable, attea*tim,
ftu-usa' SeodUff S~At Out a sirvAlar letter requesting
OPinions em PFOr t Service smthods and polio i~e of fire promtIgoe
out of 41l replies eheebad, 23 var strongly in tavor' of busing
I.Sez'brullah, bm'* fields,, bruskIW rid~e, top., end sp~esi bosards
In spring and fall, 7 ware undecided as to the questions avid 1
persons, 3 of iWSe were ss, r time esplqe~s, wore in favor et
absolute proteotiem.
1915
-M
Oonld
LAMM
Quite ot
a
b
of cad Olas wn cruised oan Zn
Ridg to
determine the tIir
values. Jumn 11 slabn wok me still a big
Job this eaon and land classifioatlionus a ujor projeot, with
A
I1land being detailed to the Forest to oodo t the wark.
T3WVM MIJWEWMT
Timber usnmgt sonsistod of reonnaissance vork an Jack's
Crooek a the Chtoo District, vith Rbert Craig,, Jr. in obarge.
An ealarted plantiag prwrm was instituted with 3g00O Part
Orford cedar to bo planted war MacOribble Rangr Sation on the
Part Oford Districts. 4,000 maritie pines an the Gasquet District,
and 10,000 big trem an the Chtoo, Jones reportd. howeyer, that
he received only 6,600 trees, *dch were planted an the north
side of Crasker Cresk on
asres, and that he fared for their
surival an the planting was dim late In the spring.
RAVOR AND IsILDLIWE
ANA:11S
D.r-tt reparted 150 buck dor oe killed in the vicinity
of Dear Oip.
00
Li
1916
,MSBNM
Supervisor
Deput
D. B. Reyolds
V. Le DOM
R. It 1alM
J
8upsrvisor
iporest xkininer
Clark
Ranger at Large
District ftier$ Part Orford Distrit
C. FP. Ano
(tqwariy
J. P. De~itt
Ui. K.
A. U.Lewis
Distriat "tr,,
a
fin
eharge)
Oclies
Pago Creek
:
Cheoo
* ~ * c h s wt.
*
U
The prationry appointbsent of C. F. Allan me terminated
at the sad of the fir* ason.
B. I. 4an
D.C., In De.aber.
tr
fd
to clerical work in Washinctan,
Ba won back to the Agness Disrict at the beginning of the
fire season. After years as en Assistant Range' in c*arge of a
district, he reeswd an appoit t as Forest flangar with no is-
creas
in salary but with a maul exns,
allowa1es.
Zu%"
e e-a*k as usual use the main item of
in the giddymn aulletine A gjpc!Lad portable tesopbm
available thi seson. A tolphsan line was o
ruci
Pek by the $tate, the Forest fwruisbing the material.
River iliw ve started by Ourle Fifty saldl cap aites
-
and iqp vd
'by the winere and guars.d
discussion
beom
to loft
The Sixe
were eloeaed
Ranger Jews and Guard Noore omstrusted a log stringer
bridge emeas the Chatea. The logs wers 33 x IWO and weeo ban&
logged by ts
ta am and lated into pla...
Tbo bth
the irt
trall fr
tin.
Fork Ranger Station resolved a oat of paint for
A eabin us
eanstruoted an Bald Uountain and a
qu iCreok to Bald Snob us
Jr-/P
cualetsd.
1916
w0
CaM..mn
FM
A suminery of the fire revords far 1916. from the gsekiyou
ftlletizi. is as tolloval
Class
A
99
lumber of fires
-1
48
I
93
C-3 Total
243
1
2
Llchtniu
Causes:
C-2
2
35
bra" Thruimi
CmPrs
35
a
Unka
285
Total
The above s*3res do not cerreepood but at least sho
that thws,40~~~flison the Farests especially In
October, as vitmood by Bela's repirt of 38 tire betme October
net 1 dss.
10 and 6 amr Ithe
f 104 Fires, 85 per *a*
The Anss District had a total
of *ioh weIr
ncendiary.
The Forest ammory shows a total of 314 1oes brnd
and a tire #Wpresson cost far labor* eqipmat tsNif-AV Ion
Said @Ultlb"Od time at $1,015600a The largot hwber of tirn"
fighters yet =lyed at one time, 75, Is also hb.
Proteation oosts for 1916 we
tive. as *o009
total ependitures, all appropriatims,
reoepts,
par awes
and net
1a,509J.2
9*,7%69W
LAM
Land classifioaticm us still carried on this year but by
the local trs.
The Coos Sq Lber Caqmn timber sale an Land Creek got
wW with Bury Baefow La olarge. The sales . omted t
270270,000 feet valued at S38,139.00. Stuage rat"e wwe *1.25
uA
for Dglas fi,
MO0
for Part Orford .ear*
and S.50 finr other speoies.
*1.00 forP red *edar,
G!4ON AID WILM MM
Two Biologicl SurvWy hunters we's placed In Curry Comty
for the first time. DW-it reported 50 huntre an 2,000 acres In
Dear Camp emtry, all of which wae SuWoS.,fUl.
tro~ule us had cm the Chsto tine sheep-killn
I=m4Ab3.
o
r and ber.
ReM64 r"conalessm. iwk was oarvied o by all rangers as
pil
II
It
ait
wIff
Ii
Ii
Ii
aSw
g3
U
" il
ri 'is
Ii K
wII
a
rvIt'
I
4
q
S
90
XI
'I
Rif
of
I I.
II
I
0I
I.
I
Fl
Fi
£rj
And
oa
to
I
Ot
0
1917
MUSOJWL
F maeutt
F.
DOB3. Isyme
g. t. hefter
Dept4 Supervisor
Forest 3izAer
U. Le UPPsm
Mark
Jo Be o~wl
Distriot Pangw& Poft Orfmrd Disb~trc
2.o ID
J.o.
I.UL
,
D J tt
U0JoJomes
*
*
u.
cPag
a
A*I.Leda
Apass
CAll u
eCr.. k
Cheteo ,
*G.quet
Personel chuesz
Re U. Cambers was assigned to GaILl. fram Crater T&oelt~.
PFaest tar' Jsw37 * Fetwwruu,
ed Mrombi,
in N*Vmber J"~F.e
mended a. Amd~st.A 1Ia~sr
~
l
foess' firumm. we reemaSaer
n the Califormia and OegM=
Lumber ComPUIT sale. In Jaaowy, Danger J. D. Wet was trmm
terred fraom the Crater SMatioal Poet (Ro River) to relidy
g. 3. hegrr an the Coo Dv Lmuw Ca%*w "is so ttat the
latter oold attend to plNtig md other works Wat want bask
to the Crater In Maroh.
In April Aager Vla8tin, , Drbin _as transerred frm
the Siuslaw t replos, . 1.
ItaMuas vf bad gm to 6ashigton.
Ih the fall
Raner West MN detailed from the Crater to Instruet
tanger Cebell lz msalixg and tb~w ae dt
iqiovnmas undartaken ware.
A ?a&* mme wireofottbridg. across Rogue River me but
by the loes people at Ams. mde the leadership of Rager Nsa,
it ws M
eetllg.
The Middle Elk Road me MMveyed and wark started en tbe
CoqIai, Rie Trail A telepham lS
(line went via Johasom
Ioutaft).tMw Sixes River liews
eamleted and th* lJim frm
Rend to
swaS greatly iWOved. Wire me oroded for the
Mt. Daily lb.
It the fall work wes started on the Red Ranger ftatus
bus.
1917 - Coutins(
FM
This year taxd the efforts of the Foasat foor to the
uumst. orw eluig with the lurat fire oftses yet eomm
the Forest offlews bad to work aot-handed due to mar risess
ad low salaries. Other work, rush as w draft registration,
Utmry road reportes Red Cress drivs, and Liberty Loon drives,
mide Os added Vb1dsue
A
m
7
is tound in the JTanry
foa sI
of the 1917 fir. sease
whiab Is as
1918 8lakiyou Bftl, ti,
Fires by classes
A
41
C01
U5
B
46
causess
0-2
Cr3
Ttal
94
II
247
13
6
-u
-
)lselaneou
X*..
Ars Durned .
2
21
Timber Lad
Private, Tinmr Land
OPM Raional Pbrst
OPen
Private
8,0114
60,;4
, 5.
Votal
Tidie
D stoeds
NfttiMij Forest
ftIvaste
toa
Cost at
at $17Aze
5,888 N ft. Um* Maue at $ 9.30
14*238 it ft. ben* mdued
uppressom.
This does not tell all of th
$18,0724
story
hoWVWr, "
Jones
utins large fires in the interior to his dlstrict that ere,
bmt
Is lw value areas and an whieh he took no aetiem at mU.
Om ruh tire started near' Molses embla ea Dmld Fees Creek md
run wet to Bear Creek, 1%yla
waste to a strlip at ot
an
to Ue miles wide and ton to tlve
dies loug. hunger 1r. 4
JAms. and tsw
hager Costellee and wift had a nrw
esea
on Pekeaddie Lorko
The Sn ftght the fire outide, and Mra
Costeile fough It Ins1.
set tire to their Ubds s
their horse,
wich ve
Sparks blowing through the shakd
time* They had a hard tia *avin
badly sin*e
This was in Oetober.
Ote Ir
tire ooorred an the Middle Fork 3th
led Fest Prk Cow Cremk.
4_We
Rivm
1917 - Coctixd
The Agusa District us
bwdest hit, with 75 fir"*.
Frty
and 19,011 ree insid with
thouand wes burned outsdes
12,560.000 fett box. of National Fost t1=ber killed and a large
area of yogrowthe
doeUrodo Eighty-fiw per enit of thee
fim er e i..rndiry.
Ranger A, I. Lads reported that he fought fires all summar mid watelod them bum all falls dlm to bad buning oaditimis
md lak of help.
A l4y lookout us a~loyed this *sso, an Bald XKnbv the
first on record.
The basl hoe earns Into guieral
aproed by all rayess
se and wa amepted and
Diwing this yaw it appeared to be the praoti.. to hold
the rangers at headquarters to do the dispatching and let the
guards headl the f.ies.
Lug. fires On Lad Creek nea the Coos SW Company sals
gave Baefner plenty to worry about.
LADS
The first sumr hoe site surny an resord
ee mde at
0aquet.
The Gold Beach people oiroulated a petition to ha" most
Sontior all of the National F8oet in Curvy County el1uineate
mmt ws turned in favor at the Forest around Part Orford by an
Illustrated lecture by
Jacobson of the Regiona
Omooe
In April the first sooodatime for tourists to the
Me brother-
Oregon Caves we fwulsbed by C. W. N1.d,
lwe, Riebard 'MA'
S8rvine pia
Roloy, had ben and me 4wlved asF
ad guide at the Cave during the
r months.
TIMM
Tb*w m aaettritio
1A7
yellow ph, and sar
eosted
of trsplantlag
piw seedlings at the Page Creek
awwy,o the best output yets, and the starting or eutting an the
California and Oregom L~mr Comany saed on Jaeks Creek.
In Jua7r*
Crater Natioa
R. Ve Cdbrs, reager an furlouh frm the
Foret, us assigned to the Gaie, Distrist to
help DeWitt cruise mdltr-killed timber untIl at April 1.
Rmnges Jo Do Holat s aleso assigi.d to this wrwk whlioh ws In
the vlainity of the Aboda Mine*
1917-
Catimid
yew*tof 1917 nas ubsherd zi with an eztrwly olA
p1,U whiGh
12 dqs of frwayig wethe at Agness in J"r.
UR. Lws rpeprtd vonai4able less of stock In his
distaist. Appareuatly it wee a dry uagth- howms, as the 0asquot
au COatto distrists eah repoted a rire for gte tmtso aw
of fdoh reachd 100 Lcrn la sl**e
Chrin xdnb
boom
quit. active during this yar.
gi:
/6
194-18
This yew started .ttwith
t
folleng pummmml hi.
D. F.
J.edvld
a
Be to E.fner
He So Iuwbin
Forest ainu
Sealer
us
Jo F. Campb e
IWM S*bi3
TIMpr
Clerk (2 hows daily)
J. B. Cu1
Distriet
li;
Re 10 Beim ~
RFeDeitt
a
UO Lis
L,
ng1
Port Onrud Distriwb
Agoems
*Oalie
U,
*
'we Jo Jew
A. V. Lewis
Page Creek
"
wt,
o
* Oasqauat
Persoq1 Changes
t. L. Utjsoa s trsnsted to the Poultry 1Bwgxedry Extn
tension Servies Deprtont a Agricultu,
In Jamatry with Mis
F. I* Abram
mooseding him Juy 1 as Forest Clerk.
Rnger Test retzoed to th Crater (Rogu JMve) NatIl
Forest 9 and Raniger So A. Mow. was traisterred frq, that ftrest
to the Cooe Bq Luaew Ccapany sale.
follig
Nationa
In A~rIlv ganger A. 'We Lewis resigned and was repisoed the
=nth by Reager George S. Case ftrc
Awfoest
the Oen (IMt. Bood)
r_ g.' Durbin won back to theSiuslaw Ntictul Forest,
a Depty Supervisor D. Be Reynolds resigned June 15 to go
Into road emtraoting work. During Nay A. He Wright wee twmiw
arnly detailed from the Rgional Office t help with i. wore
In 0otobers 'No Es irby was appointed as Forest aud
and assigned to the Agws, Zistriet.
Talbt was assgmed t
Office.
work
i
The wintbr was open and
ernasideable Imrov
Wus ean
hteadsrs
t
ld9 and the serly sprin foiad
rk under v.
o a Goaerti
lead olessfloatlice
The laddle Ilk Road
basis with help frmloosl
and the people a Fort Od*.4 A road was started
tmgaask mere
e
Ih Plateau by shrw ad rus
r-l?
1918'
Cmantimaod
A aw omub
ds extteri
aesled Inid% was built an
Bad nob and fwthar work s dome an the Coquill. River Trail
wear the lam n
181
pl1.
In Demero a trail was surwyed fram, Mle Croek to
w Creek on a water graft
The force had plent or wablem with fIr. this seaon
Labor was sarce and good guards hard to obtain at $75400 pr
th The Apnes District had to mploy two womon, aid the
Page Creek and Port Orford Districts maplyod ,onm.ea
No Parent smrleas ire ailabl. but on the
rap Creek
District we find 38 fires* 15M "mg of National Fwest l1n
bdwrn with a less or 55.100 foot bone of tinber killed aid a
F.F. cost at $29121.37. Six thousand areshad burnd own by
The Apigne District had 23 fir" by J47 1. onet
vhioh wa a 5,00O sore fire an the bead of the Tet Pork of
Lulo Crek. Robert Bachimad Mdelvin 3bpb, laborens, _ere
August 1.
killed by a sg
ubile fighting tire nm Walker Frairles #a
incendiary tire presmmy set by areo
of a eattleeno
One large
fire burned en the Chaeoo, but no suppression work me dom
imisc It was In a lo value areas
Other large fires oourred at 58akyo Frk, Rattlesne
owdtan Bald ills, ?lanW Cre,
Barrington Reach on the
OaequetDistrict, Dcx Creek an the Pap Creek District, and
Ned Mmmtuin on the Cheteoo Inm Junae a fire burned about all
of the oosaity wat of J60i Creek beta
the Windlack and
Chateo Rivers d straying Ax residences, Ur" bare, m hotels
sod Jiles of fining. The Galle District had
s
sC
fire
ih ooourraed at Borseshoe Bad Guard Station. It destroyed
a bar
and tses.
No acreage ms givno
RANGS AND WILU.IFE dAWMMn
Other Items of note this year include the planting of
25,000 trout in the South Fork of the Coquille River by the
Forest Service, end sportaman.
iaICELLAIZOW
MetAo Is ade, of the installatimi of the first bath
tub In a Siekiyou ranger station,, at 1and. It was prohamod from
a miniar oomea for M2500.
The Influenza epidemic got under ways, and Ranager Curl
admnistered 300 doses of vaccine in the absence atof
doctor
1918 .Cobma
in t3e Part orftt .msrye
DszoS~bw
dA= to 16
yg
=nthtvrtwiodd
an exmth,
Yes at Bad and 14 7e. at Page Croo.k
Y-/f
QQI
19
L. F. Abrazm
Forest xIaus
Clork
F. IAhm
Jo. DO Curl
Re I.B. l
Jo. Po Del?1tt
U. U. LOISW
1 ., Joes
George 8. Case
DIstrict Rancer. Port Orford District
Jo. F. Campbell
cWo
B. A.
Bealr, California An Oregon Umber Co, wsa
c=Wan
s
3
. Coon Bad Lumbr
V. no
Yo
a a
*
U
*
a
V
a
a
a
adb~~~
Pag
Creo
a
a Chatoo
Ga-ur
Foerst Guarda Agness District
T. Io 1mt arrivd In April " Depty Supervisor, and Forest
Guaid 'W. 16 Kirb resipad August 31, due to low salary.
Ron-or J. D. Curl resie"d at th. end of the yew and ws
Pago
summede by Ruger Me C. "CaU
Supervisor Macduff wm trasferred to the Casca" National
Forest sad was replaced on the Sinkl~vo by K. He NoDanielso
Fred Cruma mu assigied as Forest R.mgw (saler) an the
Chatoo District d 4 Po Campbell us taken off the California
end Oregon Luhmbe Cmpan seal ad assigmed to other work.
1mpmemenn vark duiwng the yew insl'adsd work on the VWiohok Road construction of the Rogue Rive Tr41 tran Yul
Cresk to estdCreok ad the start at work an the Cbetoo Trail*
timbers we
NM too
Installed in the Rogue River Trail s-
pansion bridge mr Rainie Falls and other work duie at a total
cost at 03,09*00.
This bridge was oonstrited In 190.
b n to progs alang the coast
The 5oomevolt BlghvW be
A ready-cut lookout cabin us placed On Pearso1 Peakk
Trail alad burning vas tried out but abandoned due to
szbssslv
oe t and danger .f eecaping fires.
K. P. Cil
iver t
did location vk
an the Price Trail (CoUllo
nllbe).
16)
1919 " catid
rn
The first fire of the seamno
ooourred an JanuarY 10 an
the 0asquat District. The fire season wm mostly Mt ty the
Page Croek and Oalice Districts this season because of an *1eotrisal stem on August 10 end 11. Bowver, there wers also the
usual insediary and other man-sused fire..
and the rangers ware usually quit, shm r
Labor vas soares
d
Tw. t-fouw tires oooured on the PFae Croek Districts
burzng about 11400 acres. Paner 34 K. Lewis and one cn handled
9 class Al ire In om dV Nomayis foud for the Frost.
LAMA
There vas sme talk of mcluding the redwood groves nar
Crescent City in the aiskiyou national Farost.
A stall sale of 100 3 feet was =a.
stie zple aticaw voro received for tber
en Similo Creek.
an Slate8 Crook.
Teat-
E4ZGE AND WILDLIFE HAW==
Dewitt reported that huaters in the Bear Camp smmtr
little suoess&.
had
Day was worth $50.00 and grain $75.00 per ton Inx the Chotoo
country early in the year.
January 1919 broucht a
alary inerease to all bads ot
$21.0 per am% and a second epido.o of Influwsa.
Land olassifloation vwk was still in order.
Taperatures. went dom to seroaat Bnd and Par. Creek#
md 216 F. at HLoCribblo.
Misoellamo1Wn ItIM i lXW trkey risin in the NXrl
ooutryo wheo" tbey had to be packed via pak train to markets
Thu
1°
Pe=
the Siekdiou bulletlns wa iIM the fofllwing peremi
an the Siddyma at the bqiioniag of the years
3. Be MeDiels
Supervso
Foesat
eale.
g.
Scaler
A, 2owe
F. I. Abra
Rn5.nm'
C. & 0. sae
Coo Day Lut.r Coo sale
Clark
District I"ugr
N. I.
P
l
Part Ortar
.
Ap5s
Aest. PRWW
*
Distriet Ruamerp
I. K. Lewi
'. P. Jams
Oeowge Case
W
Agaet
U
Racger
9
*:ts Macoribble V.*So
S
U
9
5
Pao Credk
a
U
Msta Costa LI6
8U
Pa* C.UU 345
xm
O
: :
Gas
a Sth
*
Pc Ro
35.
I. J. Joes et to Ala In Februuwy sad J. Fe Cpdbl
took Charge of the Chstoo District.
R. I, Mm gave zotie. at resigastian April 1, and Voa
Dqyeuter took oharge of the
4pwss Distniet,
In Jay# Bnt went to Alask s
speciul Agent ftr the Depart-
next ot Inteio and vs repisoed by 16 L. nlu
*0 stayed unti
August 12,0 vtn he replaced Sqprvisor Oteebson an the D.sehutes
Perd Grove v" detailed to an air patrol3 mo at larob
71.1d sad after emleting his s sun., roiimsd scaling an the
C&lihsui aad Oregon Lxabe Caq
esle* In June be took up his
dbles a" an obseve at Medfod ith the eoopezatiwg (
$WTI") air patrol Old
as replaced an tbs California and Orng
Lumber Caquw sale by Sealer Co A. Suith. Afte the eloe, of
ts fire soam. Orwor returned to the Siskiyu bd helped Benr
arice tiZe
the C
Uo"
= the 8aum Croek area.
In Desamber be retund to
feaal an Ore0 Lueber CoWW oae at Brookings.
for several
£thso
Jeekeon was detailed to Powers to assist
Karl Willit us assigzid as Forest
at A esso
uar4o statutory, olls,
19M - Cantimaed
The telephone line from Apese to Snw Cmp ws started In
1920, and 17 nil" of the Sizes River-21k River telephone lin
Cosiderable work us dm an the Chetee Trail at a eost
of $aO,00 pe milse also an the Migins Copper,
ighutert, Pebble
M11l, and Rook CrZe Trails, ad the 1.Imhuk road.
Good naintaaoe appropriations wel reeei'ed this sesson*
The first Garerzunt trok an the Siskiyou, a converted
ohain drive ArW Ford mm received and priqptly naed 'TrosWd.
It wus later traded for a G*X*Cos and aother Ford a a zotor.
cc1. wer received*
Survey of the proposed Erduoo
Buwesu of Publio RoAds.
Sh h
of old Sinan
ebwey was started by the
ght. of the yeur vwa the conviotion in Janary
____ of in
4
idiari ona Dimond Creek. 1lie
had been charged with setting fires in the Bald Pao Creek, vpw
Cb.too and North Fark &mth River watersheds for years and =doubtedly mu resasible for the great burns in that eoun.rye
After his death a few years later there was a noticeable change
In the fire situation. Ouard (later Assistant PRangr) A. F. Van
Deventer seoured the evidence in the above oase durin the previous
fire season,
A sunry of' the l9M fire season gives the follo.lag
figures.
Class
B
-1
C-2
15
13
10
1
Total
39
A
Comm
igti
Imandiary
II
Bdse Duning 2
Ceapprs
9
3
Emls
Ao4ge burned
Dnago to N,?. tiler
sad rn
Damge to private
Cost indluding eootributed tir;e
Value of cooperation
776
3470.00
37.75
2,209.Zj
M*6.9
This van considered a fine reoord, eve with a vwy favwable season.
An airple patrol, based at )eford, by the mr Air
Bawls.. ovee southern Oregon
northern California
2:24'O
- Conla
Tbm
roewu
lookoszt weo mplqvrd ou the Forest this
LAM
A ew'rv was made of the Oregon. Caves
of the Decil Offleo and J. F. Ca.bl1
In 19
cw by Fe U. cleator
sposial ws. pmts mna red 18, with reoei$s af
clam Minmd was 17.
*130.00
plus visoellawous Items.
The 1916 sale to the Coca
o
r Z r CmW en Land Creek
Wselode8 and 6 million feet bo.4 ae was sd
The 191 sale
was stimated at 27,p74000 tet bom., end SZ*8,200 feet of
tber
os cuts Anothr sawgfony sale of 2& million feet me
started on Salmou Crookc
msde and wriing of 50 million _r'e
A total of 5ight m~as~notted 19 million tst bm.. in
1919. brlxug In $28578.00. The owwwrial, tiaber on the Forest
Ms eatinabed at 11 billien test b... on National ?weft land
and 3 billion tfet an patented land.
wAo
I
DwAND XA
Th. Fbllowing statisties we gleaned from the "'Beklyou
Dulletia'
Tuber of permits
112
Cattle, gaed
2,65
shoop gr6sod
1,1o
Orating rvelspta C&I $1,651.0
130.00
SW
Total Neesipte 1,78.00
NI8CUJL&NS30
The Orls ar
or te
Forest was given as 1.670,000 aeree.
otal reeipte for the year mu
liskiyoma 10th In the Region*
U~~~~~tS~~
- q
$30.776.00, placing the
Je Fe D4T1tt
Dqut' Supervisor (Actiag)
?West xypminer
Cark
F. lo AU-MS
X. C. Page
A. F. van D
_er
J.? . Campbell
Goge S. Case
Prd Orwv
S. A. NOW*
District ftgwe
3
V 0
Paet Orord Distriet
Wie0
a Fac. Creek
*S
,
S
9w
*ietoL
sdharU
Uv^X -
Sealer, C. A 0o Sale, Drookings
0
Coo Bay L=&w Cas Sale Powers
Personmu Chanm
In Apri.* K. C. Poo
plaoing DeWitt. The Ap s
blmd, with Van Dventer In
t~otnd at 8,asrIbble Rmager
took chage of thw Gale" Distis, reand Fot Orford Distrifts we eamebarghe Ike ColtA,Pud,
us*sgemStations
an NW 24v ?.*R Fahnb rispisead 0ruvww la ehazg Of the
CaliforU & Oregm Lumbar CompW sal* Oruvu' ret*wne to t;:
Argy Coosermtiw Airplane Patna an liaison off Or ad Xm* te
)Iathe no ild for' a uiz woe ts traiming detail.
At the close of the year, DeWitt, ift ha4 bew asilped to
the Swupert1vis*
ofrloso wnt Usk to the GILew Distriot at bU
a requst.* Pes resigned to go Luto the dairy business M
Orazts Pass.
At the end or the fire season
Ditriet as Cmpbdl's assistant.
Gruvre
rotwized to the Cb*U9
?arnbm was celled to 1'wtland at the sic.. of the year*
lminumants wmied an this year Included tbh Cbetso aid
Pfte Trilso lbl
CreekwDitoh Creec seotion of the Rqgm
Plvw Tril, and the Bum Cap tolepbaa lines,
Cavse.
A read ma suvqox 4mad opleted In Domner, to the Oregon
Spswlteatlos wer 8 feet of trea with 2-toot width
of ditches an each side.
The first Iran laddere were lustulled in the Or*&= C0mes
repmacing sons or the eld wood=*lrme
M -wOCmtiowd
Fin
rho firt
item unde this emption ms the Law bu
m
Schol uaer T= Talbot at Portland& wbish mm attamded by anger
J* Po DItto wo a~epost3y visitd all district rangers an
the ?amwt to import to thea the kzwuedge be hod gained.
Chief fireme (protective assistants) began to be used
awe widely this oseso.
the ranger to do te
the fire
*aaon.
The preotlee )mtofw* had been tfo
antoh
d bold d
the ofice In
So sm.ry us found tor tbis yew, but it
pr
not a bad fire seas.
The wet fire we the 2,000-mare inoudIary fie
aoa Emrd Crook (Galls District),
The air patrol mel isestinued an Septebr 10 and not
resumed again &w to lack of ftmds for operating ezponsess
The flw-yemr amrage tire eout for the Forest uwrs give
at this tlue as #9000.00. About one-third of the buwsd erege occurrd In October this seasw#
TflWER IINMIMWAU
The Page, Creek nureary ubich Ranger meM It.LWis had
us discontinued this se.son. The last
60,000 pandaros pine were sw* to the Crater (RaIve ivwr)
managed sine
for plting,
Pot Orford oedar stuupaCe prices wer
It nw being priced at $5*00 por I toot bo:.
still elimbn ,
The California & Oregon L.'er CorejW sale re ted cubw
ting In march after being obut dow sline Doo
r of 1920.
Thq Mit 1*075.00D reet in Warh and 1,9l.15X0 feet In Ap41.
The Cos May Lmmw Cmpwn out 1,16,o000 in mrch and l.6U.l,,60
teot in A4rh.
Very littl.
Valleys this "eor.
smilling us done In the Reou, and
Sale inspections
RA1GR AMt WnELI
m
=ad by Lu.rn
linois
riokson.
XARADUWT
MM1 us a fawarable year for grazing,~ and anl stock
left the rawg In good monditiam.
QI"d
1A
f cutied
A bIg ven fi I&9 Oroft Pass boeuty mas the cm1letio
o the Sewag Rapids din, plaomig 12,000 acres um ditch and
providing mb6a for4#000 sore ae at a st .tof 9g.00p aewe.
A ocinuial s1u wa -tm4 at Agns.. and a stoek e*soolMies at Wilmz
Creek*
The uail route from )hrlu to Cold Bosch via the Roqus
Hiva Trail was disomtinadq
The Oalio Distict still bad a lady lookaft on Onion
UolunaiBo. J
16
aDsaviols
Jo. to Camqbel
B. S. aefnw
superviser
DOPUtW Supervisor (Aating)
Forest
8xtnw
Clwk
8. As mg"
14 no. 7ar.l
Smiso Coos 3w Lvu' Co. sale, Pors
A. P. Van Dsvvter
Distriet hng or, Agnos Distrlot oobined
Jo
Distit Reagr, oaue District
a a* Gpe Crek
(In ;UrLO) Chaloo Distriot
Distriet Rager, Gasqtwt District
to
Fe 4 Abris
Sealw, C. & o0 Lbr
Deitt
L*
He Me Lewis
Fred Orear
O16g 8. Ca.
co., sale,
U
,Brooings
with Pat Orfwd District
parsoano ChAzes
in March Fred Oruvr resipud and me rsplacod an
Yb
Chstoo Distriet by Van Dwventur
ranger
in Iaoho Llqd 0. Lymn of U
ar4 regang we apointed
plsed in oharge of the Agnoss Distriot. Joka I.
rEuSo
of Rodu=4 Oregono was also ppointed and given charge of the
part Orfard Distriot, whish sial tok rar
district ststus
Both m hmdquartered at 8bsa Costa =tl August, 1dh lqa
roed his headquarters to Acusso whlch be shred with JoFP Cq-
ben* wh we mde a eetnd fire dispatehr for the Ape", Pot
wards and Chatoo Distrists.
It is not kou vsa Frsrhm vctwad to the CalifauA
Oregan Ludw Cp
sale, but at lset
be wes acala &oaling
early In the year.
Van Devauter r~igzmd July 2D. an Ouard A, A. Wilki* took
ergo of the Chet"
Distniet.
lmovmuTs
Read oemetuoiAm A umin
e
em
Oles hat. PrniDMe
this yewr ith $Mo,000.00 allotted for ros
and tralls. The
umi, projots on the Szes Rivr Rod4 unois Riw Roam
and the matatmee of the Wimr Rad. The firat road
the Fest of =m outwas the arrival of a 2ta
lt
plla and gradar for use on the Uluer Road, whioh we the largest
project of the seasam, Thoe ost of the Sizes flyer need we
0*-OO
A 275-foot loag Page wu
ide
toot-bridge we ,-trulow
1922 - Contimmd
across the nlinois niver at the Anderson rmh. A hore terry
across the P.tu River at HZoseshoe Dm4 is mmied as being
in uses
The Apaeso-eo
re t1lephone line was oaltod before
the fir. seasong and the flisc
River lis
wa started in the
fen. Tolephave lines wr onstruted trem CsW 6 to Bear Basin,
Borseaho Dead to Dea Cq, ad work started in the late f1ll
an the Kwrb-mOrepn Caves Wtvpbm. lineby Rangers Lewiso Cambell, Iqmn, and Bre.
A standard lodoko
cbin
wa pak
26 miles into hip
Mountain and omasb stdthe 1luda being restwout by ranger
labor during the Proceeding vinter, A cabinatof the soe type
was packed In aid built OR Mt's Alys
Mort of the old roads in the 0Gaqet District 1a minxs
tamned and a 112-otot foob-bridge me built across Indio Creok
near th
mouth of the Cree
Furthew Iprora work mm done in the tall at the
Oregon Caves. awe steel ladders being installedl
FMf
"Forest Protection NWe
us stressed this year mm than
ever befo.
June we a very dr month and eaused scm trouble
Jwith tire.
early in August, Jo Po Cazmpboll was stationed at Agiwes
to act as dispatcher for the Cbetee, Agwess,
Districts,
4 Port Orord
an ragIes mode practicable 'by the 1oWletion of
the Apo
aetwoore t
line It me hoped that If this
ezpeilat prov desirable, the outral dietaher system vald
be eadod to in1lule the Whele Forest as soo as the necssary
emoeation system VS cowleted.
A large tire occurred an Tim Creek near Saloon, 3Lovintmimo
and Dafter repored that nearly all the out-eer lad aron
Fowne
was burned9 destrqrin
all of the young reprodustion.
The Siskiyou mm second In the Region this season in the
m26r oat ne ia rimes).
There wus
which bmd 1,300 acres of lational Forest
acree of yrivae land, heoy cost S6776.00
as plaoed at $4,9963.00 tar Jhatimal Forest
a total o 63 fires
land and 3,282
to suprs. Dninp
timber.
LAS
On Harch 3D# 19220 a Land Exchange Act we enacted whIlh
caused a tentative proposal of exchange for 1,500 ecres at
private land In Swds Basin and saw 2,000 wee emr Pm,*.
Nothing us aooombished In this line, bose
.
12 - Contimod
The CM= Caves Road m
opused to travl in May, md
9,923 visite.s had new thi Cove. betwe
30.
July 1 end Septibeu
A speoil use perft ms issud to a Mr. Nmnfem rar a
tourist esp at the Caves.
Te Culif0mi, & Oegn Umber Oqisz
CupMW sales bad a
ood r'u this ywwo
end Coos Bqe Lhuber
The Coos DV Unber
their ase by fall. In
Cmpazy, hs,
# bad about oaVp1.
Uaroh, they out 2,030,030 feet bom,, d In Aprl the out was
1*79723s feet Both
leratos epessed their re11utauo to
puorhase awre lItimi Forest tihr*
hmr,
as the _wIO ws
up to *1.75 for Douglas fir and $646 for Part Orfwd oedare. (
all tbeir operatious In 22, the COOs D Lume CmpsW out
1,30#00#000 fest of ti mw, and the entire out far the con BW
area Pr this yew, was plesed at 661ilItn
t.&,
PwAME AMD WZLDLW RIAflAUM
Juary, Fobruary, and Mareh of 1922 were etraly
co the stoakam,
abnamwa losses.
due to deep snow oau
bard
a, shota
td
rfo
a
o
Assistant Forester Will C. Barae us an inspection of
grauing work con the Sisktlyoma %Ui season
MXISCILLARB)3
StatiStios GODOWMIM the tim or the r-us
in the 19,
Siskiyo Bulletin, as follows.
Avenge nober of asys ra*sd
Average zumbher of day in the ti.1d
wer
RaPg_ DeWitt had the mt
spt
In the feld
wer
oted
323
189.06
das, vith 330, of whish 221
1923
PERSONNEL
The year was started with the following personnel on the
Forest:
E. E.
J. F.
H. E.
F. I.
McDaniels
Campbell
Haefner
Abrams
J. W. Brewer
Supervisor
Deputy Supervisor (Acting)
Forest Examiner
Clerk
District Ranger,
Port Orford District
L. G. Lyman
,
Agness
M. M. Lewis
,
Page Creek
J. P. DeWitt
A. A. Wilkie
George S. Case
,
,
Galice
Chetoo
,
Gasquet
Personnel Changes
In February, J. F. Campbell was transferred to the Oakridge District of the Cascade National Forest.
In April, Lyman went back to the Crater National Forest,
and H. H. Long of the Park Service and formerly of Districts
(Regions) 1 and 3, was assigned to the Agness District. Brewer
resigned and the Port Orford District was again combined with
the Agness District.
Roy 0. Park of the Cascade National Forest was assigned
to the Page Creek District as Assistant Ranger under Lewis.
On April 23, Frank Vail was assigned to the Agness District as Assistant Ranger under Long. During this month Ranger
(Scaler) W. R. Farnham was transferred to the Oakridge District
as assistant to Campbell.
In July, Scaler S. A. Moore was transferred to the Crater
(Rogue River) National Forest.
In May, Ranger Chisi Skarr started work above Wedderburn
on the Wedderburn-Agness Road.
September brought more changes in personnel. Long was
transferred to the Siuslaw National Forest, and J. C. Scharff,
a guard on the Malheur National Forest, was appointed ranger
and placed in charge of the Agness District. The Port Orford
District was again partitioned from the Agness District, and
Vail was put in
charge.
This time its
boundaries included Eden
Valley and the head of the West Fork of Cow Creek.
-5p
I.(~
IMPOVENT3
roasA
Allo£tm
for this yer included a $56,100.00 for
and trails sonsisting of the followings
Agnes* Bridge
edderburn Road
Agess W
Illinois River Road
Maintenanoe or Trails
Maintename of Roads
Conotruotion of Trails
$16,000.00
8000.00
5*700.00
ll2moo
liaOOoo
11,900.00
There u also additional
lanous mll proJentse
m1
allotments for misool-
A standard lookout oabin mm oonutuct
ons
COv Six
year the 0aver*nt spent $L00,o0Q0.00
Durin ts
on Federal road projeots In Souther Oregon, 130.00.00 an
the Crescent City breakwater and #300,000.00 on the Port of
Coon Day.
In May a "Cletrac' and grader were reoeivd for the
Agpos road job, and the Apesa Drige was started.
Telephons limes were constructed furaa Onion bMoutain
to Slate Cree Hanger Station,, Oregon Caves to b'iskuy Peak,
and from Pap Croek t o Elk Valley.
Construstion work was started or ocoleted on the
Orepn Caves, Lake Mountain,, Saner Pesk, Sucker Creek and
Dounda:y (Oaquet Distriot) tails. A D-6 type eabin ws
peaed In and sonstruated on Onion Mountane
by ftll, 23,000.00 bad be= spent on the Agnese Bridge
and It ws still not 0o0epte4
?1ree started sarly in 192, with a 700 aoe fire
be
Pow" end Purple Mountain, before RmnM Long
arrived on his distri ct
Forest Protection week was stressed more thn evero.
It bad been plnned to uss, aefaer as oentral dispatoher
at Agms. but the idea was abandoned. The ter "Protective
AssistantO was used this season for the first time in the
a35-
1923
-
Continied
At the end of the season8 the 8upervisor concluded
that road and trail ores wre fer superior to plok-W
labor an firs
and that the Service should own nw
pack
stock - to rew* persozal gain as an incentive for Lwoediary fireso
A
tioe
wary for the saon gives the followin,
tatis-
Fires bg Classes.
A
B
C
Total
11
7
20
30
NJ.
Private
1,787
Inside
-
Outside Total
718
740
3,245
Dwate - N.?.
#l,519.61
Cost of all fires $8266.74
The Slid. Crook fire was worst
Cost
-
94#M27905
The Olso Distriot bad 9 of the 12 lightoing ffire.
The Aooa Distriet had 8 of the 32 incendiary fires.
LA=D
lie
-a
beaded by George C. Sabin formed a coopa
and ecwured a *Speial Use P
Oregon Caves
in oonsidemuat
worth of iq"romnts.
fmitto operate a resort at
. of putting in 4l90,OW.
The C. & 0. Company sale closed in )Uarcoh Total
sIe to APrlI 3, 65.2aeno feet 5.1. plus 15Oooo fet
still In the woods to be soaled.
Prelmnr
anagment plan were made for the timer
an the South Fork Coquille River.
Th trade boomed in Port Orflrd Cedar with aocelerated
logigf In the Mddle Rlk and Sixes River c.ontry*
ol
The winter of 1922 ad 1923 was an munually dry one*
4.42 ihe
of rainfall at
sin
the 82 to 85 inues fbr the year previous.
eaqariso
with
1924
PEMNW.
The personnl of the ?orest was as fllows at
the bgininic of 19241
to He NoDoniels
Bo Es Uafner
F. 1., Abrams
J. C. Scharff
Prank Vail
Georce ea"e
A. A. W'ilki.
K. U. LSWIS
Roy 0. Park
Jo. P. Delitt
Supervisor
Deputy Supervisor
Clerk
Distric Raner. Aguess District
*
0
*Port 0rfrd "
trf
I*l
*O quet
U
o
*
*~Chwtoo,
*
3~
I*r:
Alseb. Range
*
District 1Ran-er. Galion
U
Personnel ChnM
n April 1 ,
Supervisor, ad J.
as Assistent under
as well as "Maing
U. 31 Lewis was promoted to Assistant
Co Sdharff was transferred to pag Creek
Ldis who retained charp of the distrist
Deputy Supervisor rosponsibilities.
]kW 0. Park was assigned to Agness as Distriot Ranger.
IA Nq, A. No Wright took over the Forest a
and NoDeniels went to the Regional Offie.
uerisor
Vail aoved the Port Orford District headfarters frm
Agneus to 3dan Valley. In July, Vail resigned and the Port
Orford District was handled jointly by the Agnss and Galioo
Districts until fiall
A.* W Borip arrived in O0toboxWA
ftlio. District.
took
arpe of the
DeIitt van transferred to Pago Creek, as
District sanger In ebarge* and Sehartf was transferred to
the Prt, Orford District with hesdquarteor at Pcuers.
is seaon a a now idea In lookout cabin oonstru1tion.
Instoad of packing in reaywout l1sb. it wus whipswed war
VW lo04os for standard osbins at a sost of #70*00 per N.
Labor was whipsawn and stored on Iron
D-5 Type Cabin end Imber was sand
at Dear Basin (Gasqust District.)
:.I
Untain for a
the cabin ocustruated
lei2 - Contimed
The Boundary Trail was coopleted and work done an the
Ship Mountain Trail*
Ranger Chris Ska8r again ran a road orw on the Agwas.
'Wddwu road project and the Apes* Bridge was completed
for travl.
Work was still progressing an the ledwood and Roosevelt
hi*NMAys
FnRE
SLC Ps
wore put into us at all ranger
distriot headquarters in 1924
A mild winter and dry spring resulted In critical ball
Ing conditions. Two bad lighig
stoaus ooorred*, one in ths
mouth of June and the other La the mouth of Septaero
incendiary spots as listed by the Supervisor ware Floa
Camp, Quostam Creek* iest FPork Cw Creeks Pistol River and
iWc Creek# the latter In the Page Crook Districto The incendiary situation on Bald Face Croek did along with the passing
of old Simon ilbo.
The Agas. District had 70 tires for the saon, 7 of
whiab ware Incendiary and 14 caused by li&htnizg. Howver,
a mber of the latter ooaurred in the fall on that portion of
the Pbrest included orinarily In the Port Orford District.
Rlager Par* sta. that he bad L0 fires In 20 days in September*
A stmary for the Forest gyes us the following tigures
Fires by Classes
A
B
C
39
34
50
Total
3
This includes 7 fires entering the Forest from the outside and 16 fires outside that did not enter.
Acg
&t70
1718
Prvteo
-
Inside
2.394
-X
Ir
Outside
Total
1*776
21v38
1'
l924- Cntlizued
National Forest lossens
Coaste
$lOJ6*3
0D
33*21.00
Lightonin firox ouased 53.4
oaused fires were 1.eul
of the totl
and mn-
LANDS
A pbition was circulated by residents of the LlA
Creak oountry to have the area beteem Mule Crek and KelS.
y Croek ellminated from the rational Forest.
TIM~ft NAMAODM
Tentative applicatiom were re1eived tor timber an
theSouth Fork of the Coquille River.
Coda
A record prose to date was paid for Port Orfbrd
sgo
for cedar oay.)
ar Uarshfild -
025.00 per Me (probably
A -w hardood saw1ill was established at 17odderburn
and Tnoak and Canoa Bu pooling beam quite aotive
alog the ooast.
Bids were reoeived fbr timberon Sand iock Uountai
aboe Powe s*at #7.50 per V. tor Port Orford Cedar and
$2.00 per Me for Douglas Fire Hcuwoers the male was ne
RANGE ANDUIW LIF
RAG
The vilinity In and around Horseshoe Bend beoam badly
Infested with grasshoppers mid the rang., was ruined.e
au
DLLoNta1
&&e ftone of the Gasqmst Distriat was attsoWe by a
00upr aN received a badly lacerated hand. Stan. fouzht
the a;MI off with rocks a a pocket knife and wen for
help, Be mw od the help of ma of his neighbors and retuwd to the esa of the aooidmit and with their aid and
that of his dos the animal was treed and shot.
It mg
vey poor and In a stervirig oonditim* It Masured 7 feet
and 6 inohe laig,
PMSOrNL
JUiUmz7 Is I9M25 tfw. the follaming PasoMu
F. I, Arms
LooS OriMf
supervisor
Assistant Supervisor
Forest x"iner
Chief Clark
Clark
J. C. Sehsrf
A. Me Baig.
Distrit Rageu9 Part Orford
*
*wOahioe
Y. U. LdWIh
0 " ,
Re 0 Park
4* P. DMiTtt
William Colvin
G. 8. Case
*
1104
Croo
,Pae
"
(Guad in Cbhrwg)
Chtwo
Distriot laugers Gasqut
an the
Pmers R.8. Zdqrs.
Rand Jt.S.
: S B Shasta Costs LB.
a
a
Pace Creek R*S*
9
a
Nwtmorne R.5.
Smithork
c .S*
A. A. 1Ciode, resigmed JSZ=r I and wa replamed an the Chete
District In February by Ray Park. Par
Acneas Distriot by, Pl
l. B
son$
In turn ws replsed cm the
On Pbruary 1, go Be Haefmr, after 16 yesr
as Te
an the 81siym
oal Assistant, me transferred to the Casade Forest to
tWa
*harg of thenter
Sala, Be was repisoed by Juder Forester
Russl ftmoa.
eorge Boees me assigned to the Pa& Creek District
as Assistaxit RanMe under DWItt.
Imseel Bameo
ms the fiast JimIa
Forester m the Far.st
In Moreh a1
the district rapgers wre gathered ud
the
leadership of Raegar Ditt
to construct a ground gireult
line 1res Oradts Pass to Rand Rge Otati.
a distance o
The Dm5 typ
loout osbia cm Irm limAtn mm completed
during the suar
Work progressed an the n
mois Rivr. south York Chates
Ormybeeke and Eqie Creok Trails. The Chetao Iwm and Low DIvift
trais ware ea1etedo
an the Beer Ca.p-Galis, Tra.
remanstruation work ms das
Work _s shut down an the Agws Road (fra weddawun) In
Ibeh
by the Forest Servisei but ihe
Curry County same through
with the neessary eopwations a contract me let to E. R. Milr
for the final13 silos to Lhstr crook for $7,29o.o, whiok ms
Z-
I
,I
192
eampleted In Novmbe.
per Atl..
-
Cmn1t
The job Wabeen costing about tIde unk
In 5ovner en egremmut me. signed witk Del Norte CcunLy
to ecmstrt a $12,000*00 read Into Big Flt on a 50-5 basis.
Ramgor Chris Sher built a 290-toot bridge scroe Lebst
of Ames Bz Itatioi. (it floated aq
Creek at the
durig the flood of Ferbrua 1927.)
FmZ
Fortysis fires bad ocm'red an the For'..t by the mad of
Septmbers end after a two-week period of 4p wther In O0tobr
a second fire smeas oocurred vhio cAmsd another dozen rams
fir... Iost of the late fires this season wore snell, though one
butmed 30
acres an the Page Creek District.
No s*mries
tar
the soason, wre
fo.
ial
with a comme
Arrsngamts me made soly in the son
a&UVlene ompo at Crescent CIta to land towu si and equ1dm
at Big nFla a distane of p0 nils, for $15.00 per trip*. Hwvero
thwo. La no resord of advwtato being take of this serviLe.
Duing 1925, appliostimm mer received frol Zone Orq tw
bams site, an the Rogue River at UfLaldO Baa' tAm a paty
a siur
wishing to build a SM2,00*00 hol cm 2lk Creek an the Reodo
NIghw~ja an from tbe Rormands for a hatel at Patricks Crok Tbe
latter pr'ojest mms the only me to swateriailise thouagh 0a' later
assured a mineral patent to tinke* Bar*
TuBER MANARMU
A sle wa mldo to Tom and Everett ayes an the South Fork
or the Cocuille Rver ,just iside the Forest boadary. in 126
$19,000.00 in stumpago fro
the saIe had netted the
7.50 for Part Orwts sodar, $2.00 for
_
0 agree Prices wr
Dmzglae fir, $1.50 for red *dsr, ald 50 tor obher speciso.
Russel Boom handled the sale this year.
Tbo Califrmias & Oregon Luesr Omaz?'
don indefinitelyp laying off 800 no.
RAS AND MUR,
at Brookings elsed
NANM=
liz hundred ooupr were estisated for the Forest, but the
figure va reuced by the Regimel Otfflo,
Commorcial fishing in the Chtote sand liaxhuok Rivers, ubm
C= hs ~~~~Tr- ria
19M-
CostIns4
losd tor t*.)asmimane November 20 ba4d produce 1000
*Uh brought -round $100 aplo to th. ishmbusm.
fihn
Four ssmPle plats Were fSrnd an Albert Pawux# rancs
mAd a IUdy
smig out-oww land me Instituted by Baox end
Sobrff* Pogls Mapsd of the Rional Offloo was In shage a
the study.
ta,.
Bd Lookout wAstru sk
1byhtmim early in the
ySWr which tor two aides Off the rof
ad shattered all of the
39
JmaUa1 1996 temA the follming persmI a the Siskiyou
Russel S. Bacon
Fannie I, Aburam
LOaUI Griai
8uqpeviiso
Assistant Supervisor
Teelmical Asietant
Chief Clark
Clark
Joam
C.
Dietuist Daner
me IL Low"
8olmff
PAwl NA stepheson
A, lWe origo
4 P.
PDai
8
*
R. 0. Park
C. So Cose
U
,8
Part Ortbrd District
A@e
Pago Crook
a
U
Gasquset
In Pbruarys Sohurff rFtwned to the Mallmar Forest, baiy
replaocd by Le Jo Coce,
Firest and La IM
an th
forly
guard a the )oumt Bood
Oaus Distriote
ationd
Assistant Forester A. C. Jekscn, of the Mt. Boo4 mesosigned as Teohalel Assistant, replaocig Russel Baone fto in Marhs
want to the Eldorado Natiadl Forget ia CaufauIa.
In JAy, Roy 0. era*resigned NA wa replaced by Gorge
'e Borws as District Ranger. C. D. Cameon, Proteetive Assistant
a the FPo Creek District in 3.925 mad 1926, we appoited Assistant Ranger at Pop
rek In plase of Dews.
Junio 7crste D. No Mathws, of the Qqua Farest, was
asigud to the bYies sale In Jly, whw he rmined until Ssstaer
18# 'RIM the Mae ma s10A d4.
Be returned to the pqw.
The Tinsup 1YN mad Ilinos RiversTrail we ocilated this
Yew*.
The
linois
River tolepher
line ve
emploted, and a lII=
Ms eonstwucted fro Cn 2 aees Eden Ridge to the I)rtle Creeb'
Mean line In emoopratica with the Coos County Fire PatraI AssesI-atime. BUMh miles of ne lime eamaneoed th Coquille Di'umr line
dirzwt Into Sbasta Costa, Ranger Station, ellizzaiiting th ewitch at
Bald lnob and taking the stub line from there to Reogu Diver off
the Rogue River Iine.
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CCt ==~~~~~~~~~~~~
A readyhacut (out at Page Creek) IockA oabin mas paeked la
1926 - COztlnad
and built an 8angw Peak
Lati ceonstuted a oh
Peak on the Sims rire.
cid the Coca Cauty ?Ie Patro Agoescabla, D6 tye style, M ftar Leaf
Dw bri~dc wero oomettrutod = 4he !o-us fivur Trall at
lIb1key and Iadow Creok. Highwq wrk mm still prgressUg%,
and the Bi. ?'lat rloa4 project was ooileted.
A sinXle truss br1d.. 65 foot 1=n and 35 feet ahm
low water, was conctruated aoross Siver Crrek cm the lunois
fLier Trani
it Ws co
t1ested NZovumber 6 mud wnt out with the
high wvter of Uoya.ber Oi. Approxi;ately *30,000 damage wa
suffered by the omw Red2md MZbwm A.1a
same period o' high water,
Sth
Plvw during the
rt=een and one-balf miles of the Low Diided
maintained and rowatruotod.
Road wire
Fres this yewr a well bloaw the 15-year Sskiyom
average, bohIn rnuber ead ootst There w
29 fires, with a
euppresian coost of 8lO*OO Sew of these were insendiary.
LANMl
Coopesr ad Jac'sm cruisod 3 acres of ttobe naer lUsaribble
Ouard Station for a proposed
:bo propmentes hweows
objected to purchaae of the fir tiiber, an they desired amy Poat
Orford oedar.
A. Go Joksn did scm additictol srveyinc in the oregm
Cames, seekig infarmatim as to the feasibility of emnstrum
a mmw mtra* and exit to and fram the imdergrmd ehabrs.
The Swede Baen Luker Campui moved their mill to a z
site and purhased rima a 80 sores of Kational Forest land early
In the season, with plar to purchase ere in oinootia with
milluin their am timber. The Coas Bay Lumber CmceW surveyed
for a railroad down the Sixes Fjver, Th 1~w
dsl red
outting from early July to Ziperber l8,
PMGE A.tD UZILDI F
"owky
I
DMM
nasin in roa. Liver was publioizd by Zne. Grey' story
Rffle = Logue fierr in tho *'Fildad Strome Wasimo
A rod 6zd im olvb w organxed at Brookins, ad Agmess
reported a very euseesful dewr bmIng seasan.
1926
The gralzg std
-
Caitlmasd
an outf-er lands we continud at
In Outa@ber the Cheteo Diatriet h1adquarters
to Eaidci
frm
Ieto
me mBed
. mbe Ethw bad bown ine. bmrly
days of the woeto and the Agaves District headquarter were
moved from Sbasta Costa to Agneow earlie in the seaso.
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The prsoanel of the Forest an Januery 1, 1927O u
A. Ho Wright
so
N. Levs
A. G. Jacks=
Founie I* Abram
Lans, Griffin
Le Je Coop
P.e
tevenon
A*. We Bori0
J.P?
DWI
C. D. Comr
0. W. Boere
C S. Case
Spri
Ast. ftpervisor
Aesst Forester
Chief Clark
Clerk
Distriot Rancr. Port Orford District
a
a
ApJew
, calo
,
C
"
A t Rau '
District Rane, Cheto
a
a
asaq
O Janua7 8, 1927, supervisor Wright was transferred to
the TobOc Forsst in Arisoma ad on Februar 15a 1927s Jo He
BilliMUsa ariv" fro the Olyqio Forest as the n Su-pervi
Gore
Aims Leana Oriffin resigned mid mm replaced by Lies
Basel Wily as seoond oork* A. Co Button mmn assigned as
Bridge ftcInZe on the Rogue River Suspnsion bridge at RWM
Fall1s dwing the sunre
Durbe this yew, so telephoe lines wer onstrwcted
me being
2ptut. Lie fron the Forest servi.. line at GLice
Creek lo the 9wier HIll Hie.
A telephone lin was constructed from Brookings to Itw
Ma2r and other telephoe lime an the District twe
with the BAwbor Ranw Stations
The Forest euftwed the worse flood of all tim on
1dbruary 21, mg 22# The Rogue River bridg, at Ble Gate and
aboe RdinI Iw
out and the nw Agnoss Bridge uas
daugds
as to be &aNrorn to all*excpt foot travel. In
sl about #75#000.00 In dwaagos occurred to Fbrest Service
iqrovelawts an the Siekiyou.
DurTing the sean,
bridges were conetruoted acrs
Silver Creok on the Illiois Rivr trail and across Rogue
River at Rajale palls.
Oaitluad
-127-
A am ranger du1lin was e*Wl.ted as Aougs,
Is the tll
a road tirm Gal.
a prainarY bastio
to Bear CWp.
aurveY was zude for
The hans terry at }sose
3m!, built In v1925 went
out and we not replaasdo In Noveaber of 1921, a formr
fti
at this point wont to oww
FM
This msaon wason. of the
st
saomsetgl evr
pwirensee by %is Nrest La lie
of fire ontol
Thom
woo only 30 fires ihiah burned a total o 67 aom at a
ost of S1*60*0 for Aprossion wA *aused the less of
47X fest box. of tiuber.
Fir
'zr
Classea,
A
C
B
214
Lightnt"
1
-
11
Inoendiary
a
7
Bookers
30
K11.isalamas.a _
1
2
1
L=3
A prposa to furfter deve
the harbor at Cremit
City wa approved by thw board of AM bmOi*ftv* Assistant
Ibroetor,
N.As ShermAn
ad" a talk at the board
A ta-tion gt4 us i
mtlng La
erten
TIMER NANAwfu
02ttizn Mas resiwd an the Naye
muti teln vha the sal. was obosed.
=la
and was
omtinued,
RIMS AM WIlDLIFE X=NAG=
PoW htUg
Ms reotrtd In the Chetoo Distraict
Tmao vas also a poor aorn crop.
:
4"n
IOW7
. CautluzrAs
experiment or running 50 oehep on Johnson Ikomtoain me reported swuesful to datoo
To
coutur wHae bnked in 10 dAy by the Colego
near Pistol1 River.
rhirty-six oouvmr wer bagged In cum'
Countyr this yeacv
KrScELLAMU~S
A new rIM system was established this year.
RIoeipts from July 1, to Sptember 30, were as20.05* the
lawest In the Rogione
X
as a~~~48ft
Tbo yeor beM with tkotefllving peremmel lina-up = the
Forest, and their headquartwso
J N. Billinples
Sqxwrview
C.ret~s Pae"
*
V
Assistant Supervisor
A, G. Jsekwou
Fanise I. Abris
ael Cilley) Fradmiwurg
Chief Clerk
Clerk
*
U
District Ranger, Part Orford
AP as
a
GAls,..
a
P
Stephenson
Borice
A. Vh De~itt
C.
3t.
c. US BOW
Go Via
W I"c'
o C
a~~~~
Asut.
~ugm
Case
,
k
.st.
S
a
Litoo
066.s
#
S
Powers R*So
#e . Ague" Rog*
RPd
R*8S
R L.Ro
2:
Per c,.
Barber
htbUtork
Persnnmel Csng,.e
In Jalys,
Cae..,
r"eign.4 to go int
after3 ten years ani the Gas quet Diatrifto
private
ploynta and C. 1) Csasron _
ro-
mated to fiil his plaao,
an the Chatoo In 1927
plaf
Leo D. QN.akebush Protective Assistant
we appointed Assistant Toner in Caswua'
1U3FROV)E3ZMT
This ye
sa
tie beim3Ig of an effort t
livixg tasillties for the dietrist "Mare
build better
and better rager
stetims In all yespeoto. $1,DO we originally allotted tar
this "pa ewks
The Apo" ranger residensi P was(3opl.ted In all details
Om
builts. The Power raer
statiM reel.'
we tatrted in the WI end wred on dur1Zg the wintr
and an eMae building
don"
woothe ?y the raw g
A D.6 tp lokout sabin uas pak"d in fr= est Fork and
oonstructed4an Mt. Bolivsr at a cost of uaoimd t*,200, about belt
et Vbiob VW* for pasin.
lmb cabina were, started by goav4
lbo
an
omen
o
(Port Orford District) and near Ni=-
oile Miountain, and were coWleted the toliluing year'
The Big Flat Road _a ompleted during the yer
3ZJ-Coat, 15-tea,.spaoltW bridge we built acros But*
C001614
and a
Om*
R.a
'
Cantimes
19X
The eonstruation of ww tzalls = the alski'an wt
tor.
_rd mcre rpldly this year* A war trail 17 Dles in laeth ws
mstruated frwm Cq=z
Creok to Chotoo Peek. Two nd rn-balf
silos ofthe Ed= Valley-Cold Sptlv Trail was relocated aram
the north ad. of Mt. Bolivar. The Upper £11k rIver ?rall oostratiu wans sonxtimond
A 105-ftot bridtlso w
built across t'<oe Trt Perk of the
t
tMIW first lIcegirdr
Illilns -Ivor noar thce State 'Uin.
bridge built in the ragloan
according to C:rar.
hi yw saw the Osborno Jr. (6)
ieinds
put Into
A ftire oasrtiC on Setw Uountain r'an 9 ales, bw1ubg
a strip 2 :Uw wio, It detroayed the Loues Creek sohol and
ome far. buildings and tiwneated Grants Pse* The Forest had
50 fires during the satoee, but the burned aremd oost woe
not ofmprartivfly larMe. Quite an epideni4 of burwimC buildings
took plaee, which remalted It two Class C tires.
LW
'ltninc activ:ty iraoroaeed citthe year due to dolopmt work and good strikes In th Peck and Bunker Ml1 ines,
The old Patrieks Creek Eotel (old loettian) was bid.
Jureas built a $22,000 Iodg* near llsho.
Early
In -th *measn 700 3 feet of sugar Vim e s s.*~ to
the 8usd. Basin Lusber CoqupW
tathesaneo.~
yo
and later 821
'e mu oat to
Six hundred tbcrzss:d feet of cua
pine and
pmderova pine wee sold to Velcter & Son an Slate Creed 4
A
Port Orrd coder was sold In th Tin Creek bun for $2.60 pw
thousand.
The waldlr telleet tres, a rediwmod 475 feet in heigft,
was cla1id by %blNorte Coumty.
On Jul 25. the Swede Basin Lber Campaj (Spaldiags)
zdll In S5ede Usinx burned, xa ple= werc =ad for a rnw IU
at Grouts ?aso
The Coos DV Lwbm Caq
disomtinued packing woo
to
loggn donkvy. an =ules and retirned to the oeaxtlonal method
of bauling In wood logs by doney.
$1,V
eBm-Coakow
JUN02 AND UZWLl7
NMI IT
Fisb were pla~nW la Nwdy Ou*l
of &dth ivezr.
and other taibutarise
Dow huntifg in the Oasqust Distrist mm powi.
hep paled an the Sis kyoincrased frm 50 had in
1926 to 1,p5head in 1920*0and hoepes me
reased u...
eutertald for in-
=8Caaz=o
Ma1'h prodused the hardest stom of the year with a
The Rogue Rivw
rainfall ct 11 to 15 inches @m the Fw.*A
ros 21 fot an Neroh 26a
The first '*ow How trip of lewd mE staged by the
Supervisor an a trip ovr the Big Flat Road
VaW Cf CretOUt Ci
CoVMty COMsiOl On
coc
*d by the
Comii
lodsa newspaper men, and influsixtal citisms of Del Zots
Cc~tY.
192
Mw year was startdth
a?. R* Billliagales
K. no
a. 1 s
A* 0. Jaekam
P. 1. Abaans
113*1 Fredeabwg
Lo Jo Cooper
Po No Stephen~on*Auess
A. '. 8 orio
J P.
Witt
L. D. Qtackdbush
o.I. Beors
Co D. CGnwma
fte tol1ming persomul
supervisor
Ast. SUperVisor
Fbrust
aminer
=hef Clek
Clet
District lt,,
Part Orford Distriot
District
* Gaice
* a ce rek
Asnar Ranger
Page Cre*
District
"er# Chatoo
Pl~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Personl qhunms
Osqus
On Psbruary 31# Go 'V. Down mm transrerred to the Lone
Crock District of 1-i heMheur National Forst and was replacd
a tho Chatoo District bn?. N St
The Agaess District
was takcmm over b7 Pa e Co To Allen ftosm l Guard and Assimt;ut Ranger an the Giskiyou and =ors reoetly In timber sue
oirk an the Coscd
Tho Rancer's rouidmoe was oapleted at Powers Ranger
Station and a Flrsants cabin built at Wilidorse.
Work was eontinud an t
Upper E3lk River trail, tzrm
Solvon Nowntain to Hao1ribbl. Rangr Stacme,
A road from Peavino Hountain to the Dunir 1rfl Mm
Was onstruobd by the nw ope rators of the Bunker iLU WlneS
Tir'. bridges wre oontaetod an the Illinois River
Road* end No. 9 wire reple 4*5 wils of No. 12 wire In
the 0nion M~amntin line.
A consirable mileage of w;a t rails was constructed and
sa
old trails mere
aiztainsdo
A preliuixz7 location
n-V' was =d* for the iapW
CW resd.
The mauso of 1929 va
one of th worst fire seasma*
war downiwed by the ftrest and was undoubtedly te
ovar eleslowed by the Port Orford District.
$x,9?
worst
1_9
himddit
-
COntland
$eptweber 19, and 20, wer dmy of e ztremly I
mad bad fires started south of Elk River aid
burned Intothe edge of Port Orftrd and an Sal= Creek
nwar Powrs* During the smk. pall whieb was ceated,
a fire was started an Grassy Enob that burned around
9,000 ames. Other rires comrred an Jobmso komtaln
end in Ndwi Vall at the sam time but we hld to
m1
sise
One thmna.ZK and siz1iy five awene bad burned an
the Fbrest by the end of Uaye Sizteem fire, had ooourred by S*ptmer Ip and 2 more IW the and of the
month. R.avy rains fell &uvin October but by November
23,, fie
started t burno A series of several
hwaored ineendiery fises were not an the North Fork of
Elk River which ama. osded in burning Barklow and Salmon
Ma~mtsins and destroying on., of the finest stands of
reproduntion an the Pbrest. This fire burnsd the anst
rapidly at nighs the nitts
of Noveer 28, an
29.
beim the worst vbe the kymthiermopaph at Brookings
regired a relative humidity of IV at midnitht. The
fir ftihters were handicapped by lack of iwter at the
highm el*eaions wher taw fire burned n yet were
ooldp wets an miserable at oaws in low anyons wher
a to ettled In* Hluidity varied trom 85 in the low
eaumtryto 2e
at the lower edge of the fire and then
don to
lalst noJith
on Use Ugh points at night where
a 40 o 50 mile per hou Northeast wind me blowinc.
The Barkw lk*antfir tre
" It
s, naed buied
9,000 acres wad had a poeritr of 26 nile:.
The sason flmaI
aied with a rain on Deoener
7. In all, ther were 71 fires which burned 23,000
ames, _eStrQVV4 thirt'mor mil1on tost BO.M. of VArohanftbl* tibw valued at M06*0O030 - $26,000.00
wth of xww&aon and, In all
rwest to tie extent of aepoo5
ased damm~p to the
and a cost of
*8*713 s00
lar
tires set by ranchers almi the coast rn
into X Forst and an. fire caused a M45,0O00 lo"
In the ReduoA war uCoest Cty.
F*rMr Supervisor UoDwnel sated that b
dsow
semi tirs
bum In tibw mad brush on the Siskiyou iu
ever month of the yar.
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