KLAMATH ECHOES
Klamath County Historical Society
NUMBER 8 THE ORIGINAL JIM BEVANS HOUSE Located on the tract purchased by Frank Zumpfe. This home sheltered many of the new arrivals and served as a meeting place of the Bohemian families in those earli er months. -courtesy Anna Laboda Bohemian National Hymn KDE DOMOV MUJ Kdedomov muj? Kde domov muj?- Voda huci polucinach, v Kreje znasli bohumilem bory sumi skalinach, duse oude v tele cilem, v sade skvi se jara kvet, mysl jasnou, znik a zdar; semsky raj to na pohled; a tu silu v zdoru zmar; a to je ta krasna zeme, To je Cechu slavne pleme, zeme Ceska, domov muj! mezi Cechy domov muj! -Tyl
Translation Where is my home? Where is my home? Where is my home? Where is my home? in the meadows waters gleaming, If you know land heaven giving, On the hillside pinewoods dreaming, Where the gentlest souls are living, Orchards shine with blossoms bright, Loving hearrs with gifted mind Earthly paradise to sight. And a strength that rocks can grind, That"s the small but lovely counuy. That"s the glory crowned nation. Fair Bohemia, is my home, Where the Czechs are, is my home, Fair Bohemia is my home! Where the Czechs are, is my home!
[The above is a recording of the Bohemian National Hymn by M. M. Srasrny, in 1912, the best of several uanslations.-Editor.) i. I
THE BOHEMIAN (ZCBJ LODGE) HALL. BUll.T IN 1910 Near the shore of Tule Lake. scene of many a dance and other community activity. -courtesy Vac Kalina
FIRST OFnCERS OF THE ZCBJ CLUl!, IN FRONT OF THE OLD BOHEMIAN HALL Back row, left to right Karel Vavricka, who taught the early settlers the Beseda dance, John Brotanek. Vincent Havlina. Vincent Zumr, Frank Zumpfe. . -····· Jelinek and Joseph Patracek. Middle Row, same order: Joe Ottoman and Joseph Kotera. Front row. same order: Marie Zumpfe, Marie Kotera, Elizabeth Victorin, Mary Vavricka, who also taught the Beseda, and Marie Ottoman. -courtesy Louis Kalina
ll. GIRLS "SOKOL" GYM CLASS, MALIN HIGH SCHOOL IN 1916 Left to right: Anna Jelinek {Nelston), Bessie Jelinek {Morgan), Blanch Dobry {McCol lum), Mary Hanzel {Ottoman), and Anna Zu:mr {Quincy).
PACIFIC COAST SOKOL CELEBRATION IN 1928 AT MALIN Malin High School in background. -courtesy M. M . Stastny
iii. MALIN GIRLS IN BOHEMIAN COSTUMES DANCING THE NATIONAL BESEDA DANCE Left to right: Mrs. Arthur (Jean Rajnus) Evans, wearing costume of Piestany, Czecho· slovakia; Vlasto Rajnus, wearing costume of same place; Mrs. Henry (Mario Von Meter) Vochnitz. in old Bohemian costume: Mrs. Don (Ruth Kalina) Unruh. in Moravian bridal costume; Carol Hovlino and Adelia Cacka. in Bohemian gowns, and Donna Micka. wearing a dress from Slovakia. 1959 • 50th Anniversary photo. --courtesy Vac Kalina
HUNTING SCENE IN THE MODOC LAVA BEDS Left to right A. Ko.lina. George Meyers• ... ·······-···· V. J. Spolek, Roy Fogle, ...... , --courtesy M. M Stastny
iv. THE ORIGINAL 66 BOHEMIANS AS THEY VIEWED THE FUTURE MALIN J. Frank Adams, fifth from the left against the sky-line. Gu est Edit orial by M. M. Stastny [Originally printed in rhe United Ameri this wonderful sleeping empire. From its can Sokols Souveni r Brochure, Malin, Ore heights came rhe call for an intelligent gon, July 3-5, 1928. That which was writ civilization and rhe call was quickly an ten 48 years ago, is still applicable today swered. Before the answer came, how Editor.] ever, rhe Red Men grew fat on the mule Eons ago when the Mastermind had rail deer, wild ducks and geese. Fishing planned morher earth, He foresaw the was good in the waters of Tule Lake and need of oases or places, especially blessed Lose River, which indeed added toward with many advantages; He saw the impor making this an ideal country for the Red tance of scattering these oases over the Race. But rhe Modoc Indians were not face of the earth, placing some in easily farmers and bad ro give way co the on accessible spots, where people would settle ward rush of civilization. first, and ochers He bid far away to be At first only the edges of T ule Lake used by fucure generations of hardy pio were homesteaded. Here along the shores, neers, reserving for rhem che very best. abundant wild grass grew, causing early Thus, it was char rhe Malin Valley, parr settlers co devore rhei r energies co cattle of yes, the greater part of the Klamath and horse rrusing. Bur rhe Red Mao rud Basin, was ordruned by the Maker, to be not like co be deprived of their game and the last of rhe rich lands to be developed in fish and naturally enough, fought for thcir rhe great United States. ln order to keep own rights. The Modoc War followed and out all forms of civilization, the valley was the Indians had co gjve up ro the white sheltered by lofcy mouncruns on all sides, men. The ride of civilization could not be except rhe south and there the roighcy forces checked. of nature boiled and bellowed forth oceans And it came to pass that men dreamed of lava, there creating the scenic Modoc dreams when they saw chis vase productive Lava Beds and Ice Caves, which today are valley and the water of Tule Lake. They visited yearly by thousands of people, sec co work at once ro make their dreams guided there by Captain 0 . C. Applegate come true. Great dams, canals and runnels who knows every foot of chis section, and were built and Lost River was turned into knows every detail of che history of the rhe Pacific Ocean rhrough Klamath River. Modoc War which made the Lava Beds The whole valley was put under irrigation, famous. getting its water supply from Upper Klam In the distance to the southwest, clothed arh Lake and exists today only in name. in perpetual whiteness and beauty stands The reclrumed land has been homesteaded Mr. Shasta, which was made guardian of co a large extent, the rest has been leased v. COUNTRY FROM BEVENS POINT ON SEPTEMBER 30. 1909. -cour1esy Mrs. Vac Kalina to farmers and stockmen. Indeed the desert This was nineteen years ago [now sixty· was made to blossom as rhe rose with one years- Editor]. From all pans of the fields of grain and waving alfalfa. No United Scares came members of the Bohe· room was left for the howling coyote and mian Colonization Club. Mosc of them had the destructive jack cabbies which claimed no farming experience, being mainly from chis their retreat. the ci ry and all with but little money. But When yet the waters of Tule L:tke used they came to make good and after a number part of the present city limics of Malin as of very hard years of struggle, succeeded. a play ground, a commirree representing Among those very first Bohemian seeders the Bohemian Colonization Club with we still find living here are: John Honzik, headquarcers in Omaha, Nebraska, by William Halousek, Frank Paygr, Rudolph chance selected Klamarh County as rhe Klima and A. Kalina, and rwo of the com best place of all the western regions yet mittee; namely, Frank Zumpfe and Frank open to home building. They selected ir Klabzuba. by chance for rhey knew nor of this region. For rhe new colony there had ro be a It was not advertised any more than it is new town starred and a name given. Even today. It seems to be a secret with the before the new comers arrived the name people making their homes here to tell no Malin was selected by them. Mr. Kalina one of the good things lest someone else of Chicago using his influence that it be should come here and take away their so named and true to his never waning zeal, has done more than any other mao in birthright. What chis commiHee came tO making Malin what it is today. The city investigate was the MacDoel Project, which of Malin was duly incorporated under the looked good to rhem at first sight but Oregon State law on February 22, 1922, which did not encireJy satisfy them. One and officers were elected and A. Kalina day while in Dorris, California, enjoying was rhe firsr mayor of Malin. rhemselves in rhe bar room they met the Time went on, Malin grew and grew well known pioneer J. Frank Adams, who until today it has several beautiful homes, told them of the region around Tule Lake. srores, garages, blacksmith shop, cheese Hither they went, and when they saw the factory, flour mill, three lumber yards, lake shore dotted with rhousands of head post ofice, telephone and telegraph office, bank, hotels, restaurants and a fine grade of fat cattle and horses, and the soil very school and accredited Union H igh School. producrive, lumber and wood not so far It also has a Community Church and sever away, plenty of irrigation water, fruit in al lodges and societies. abundance on the old Harrery Ranch, alfal· Yes, all this marvelous development fa growing abundantly on a few acres just without a railroad and the nearesr thirty started the year before, they decided to hunt miles away! Just watch Malin grow when no further and at once cast their lot to the RAILROAD COMES! In the mean· make this their home and reported favor· time, Malin extends a hearty welcome to ably to the Colonization Club. everyone to better himself. vi. WHEN THE WATERS OF TULELAKE REACHED THE OLD BOHEMIAN HALL Taken in 1910. Ladies in the boat unidentified. -courtesy Vac Kalina MALIN INN, AS IT ONCE LOOKED. WITH BOHEMIAN HALL IN THE BACKGROUND Most people say it is the old Walter Adams store moved to this site at some unknown date. Others say it is not the Adams store building. (Please compare this picture to the picture of the actual Adams store building elswhere in this book. and form your own opinion.-Ed.) The post office was in this building for about six months at one time. while Henry Krupka was postmaster in 1923-1924. -courtesy Vac KoJina
vii Editor's Page
Again we have encountered the same old trouble, too much material and too many pictures for the size of book put out an nually as "Klamath Echoes". In the beginning, however, we were having difficulty locating pictures and material, then after the middle of July they began to shower in on us.
We have found the people of Malin most co-operative, and are sorry we could not have interviewed more. We are espcially indebted to Mr. and Mrs. Ben Pickett, Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Lahoda, Louis Kalina, M. M. Stastny, Mervyn Wilde, and Mr. and Mrs. Vac Kalina, although we were unable to ialk to Mr. Kalina due to his recent accident. To the sisters Worlow, (Mrs. Stevenson and Mrs. West), we are very grateful for a large supply of old pictures and identifications. Also to the following for material they supplied, printed or wrote in the past: "The Herald & News," Evea Adams, Ruth King, Rachael Applegate and Mrs. L. J. Horton.
We know that certain mistakes will be detected and certain disagreements will arise, but can only hope they will not prove too serious.
A considerable amount of material concerning the Jesse D. Carr (William C. Dalton) ranch has been held back, and will appear in the near future in an issue concerning early stock ranches.
Concerning future issues, we presently plan on a history of the Applegate Trail for the 1971 "Klamath Echoes".
viii Klamath Echoes Staff
DEVERE HELFRICH Managing Editor
HELEN HELFRICH Ass is ram
LESTER HUTCHINSON Sales Chairman
Officers
KLAMATH COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
ROBERT I. ''BOB" ELLIOTI President
LEONA .ANGEL Vice President
ELDA FLETCHER Secretary-Treasurer
BERNARD GRIFFIN Program Chairman
RICHARD HESSIG, MARION BARNES, LELA AYRES, DEVERE HELFRICH Directors
KLAMATH ECHOES is published annually by the Klamath Counry Historical Society. Address all communications ro: Klamath Echoes, P. 0. Box 1552, Klamath Falls, Oregon 97601.
THE COVER. Our cover was drawn by Stephanie Bonorro Hakanson, artist for all previous issues of the KltmUJth Echoes. The Old Bohemian Hall in Malin, bujlr in 1910, is the subjecr of tbis year's skerch.
ix. Table of Contents
BOHEMIAN NATIONAl HYMN------··------
GUEST EDITORIAL ·~--- --fl1. M. StastnY------v EDITOR'S PAGE------·------___viii THE FIRST WHITES.... ------1 THEY ALSO PASS ED THIS WAY------·------7 FIRST SETILERS______------10 DEVELOPMENT OF IRRIGATION 14
LAKESIDE LAND COMPANY _____~------20 MALIN IRRlGATION DISTRJCT______M. M. Stastny Papers. ______25 TULE LAKE LAND ORAWING$ ______Devere Helfrich ------26 M.ALJN ______,___Rachael Applegate ------29
SAWMILLS OF MALIN VICJNITY ___.J)evere Helfrich ------35 MALIN SCHOOLS...... Devere Helfrich ------39 AS TOLD BY FRANK KlABZUBA...... _ ...Evea Adamr ------44 INTERVIEW WITH MR. RUDY PAYGR._Bvea Adamr ------45 BEN PICKETT------47 GROWING PAINS OF MALIN-----Ruth King ------49 TUlE lAKE VALLEY POST OFFICES------51 MALIN, "YOUR NEIGHBOR" ..------Emma ( Kalina ) Wilde ______54
MALIN CITY PARK.... ------62 RECOLLECTIONS ... ______Mrr. Emmell (Am1a Zumpfe ) Lahoda- 65
AS TOLD BY ANNA ( POSPISIL ) PICKET'f______fielen Helfrich __ ___ 68
THE STORY OF THE PROGRESS ______.Herald & Newr·------69
PRODUCE PLANL.. ______.Herald & N ewr------70
MALIN MILLING COMPANY------73 THE YOUNGEST SISTER______Anne S. Horton ______]3
MRS. ELLA HALOUSEK RECALLS------76
MRS. AGNES DRAZIL RECALLS ...... ------77 BOAT$______------78
X. ... THE "STONE BBIDGE", EMIGRANT CROSSING OF LOST RIVER, ABOUT 1921 Some two milea aoutheCIJit of Merrill, Oregon on the Lava Bed Road. The diversion dam now occupies this aite. The First Whites o 0 0 IIIIIII11111UIIIIttlllllltfiiiiii1UIIIIIIIItlllllllllllllllllllflllllllltllll11111111111111111111tlltllltiiUI11111111111lllllliiiiUUIUIIIIIIIIllllfllllllllllltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllll In rhe beginning, and for an unknown If the Modoc Indians did nor make the period of time, Indians were rhe first to carvings- who did? This leaves us a occupy the Tule Lake Basin and surround question that opens rhe door ro wild spec ing territory. Ther were called M.odocs ulation. As a consequence we hear stories by rhe early whites, which according co of prehistoric vanished Indian tribes, wan Lewis A. McArthur in "Oregon Place dering Aztecs, shipwrecked Polynesians, Names," seems ro have been derived from lose tribes of Israel, people of western the Klamath words moa, meaning south, Europe, Druids, Scandanavians, and Welsh and J,:lwi, meaning a native of the place, men. or country. Therefore from a poinc of view The Welsh tradition is mong because of rhe Klamath Indians moatak11i meant of the scory of Prince Madoc who sailed natives co the counrry just to che south. west\vard from Wales in the year 1170, on The names Modoc and Tule were both ly to vanish with his company of 300 men. applied to the lake at different rimes, the The names of Prince Madoc and Modoc former for reasons above explained, and have a similariry tbar has nor been over according to Garscher in "Dictionary of looked by speculative thought. rhe Klamath Language," the latter derived To heighten the mystery of the carvings from the Indian name Ma)ttltko E-tnh, rhere remains one well preserved section of meaning the lake overgrown with rushes writing which holds a strong resemblance or rule-grass. co some of the Runic scone carvings found Who was the first white man, known in England and the Scandanavian coumries. definitely co have sc:en and given written Runic writing dares from the 6th century testimony about rhe Tule Lake Basin? and several alphabet rypes are to be recog Various legends mention cerrain people or nized. groups who might have visited the area, The Runic stone carvings of the.. "Penin but acrually it now appears, rhe fjrsr to sula" takes the form of a horizontal saw meet the above conditions was Peter Skene tooth line along which accenc marks are Ogden, Chief Trader of a Hudson's Bay placed ro indicate letters of rhe alphabet. Company Fur Brigade in the winter of The casual Indian charaCters are appa·rendy 1826-27. of more recent origin. Regarding the legends, Kenneth Mc The first question a visitor asks about Leod wrote in the Herald and News of the carvings is their age. The sofr vol August 22, 1951: "Petroglypbs-Srrange canic rock weathers comparatively fasr. The marks engraved upon scone cover hun past twenty years has shown a marked de dreds of square feer of the vertical face of terioration in the figures and rhe accent the "Peninsula" in Tule Lake, an old vol marks of most of rhe Runic carvings have cano in the Lava Beds National Monument. already weathered away. This fact alone, This graphic evidence carved in the soft demonstrates against great antiquiry and volcanic rock remains one of the unsolved rules out rhe Madoc stacy. mysteries of the Klamath Basin. The Several long, horizontal, straight lines mystery of men who left a record behind are to be noted upon the cliff face, these them. were carved by ice at a time when the Many of rhe rock carvings are undoubt waters of Tule Lake had submerged much edly of Indian workmanship, such charac of the carving during the early part of ters are carved circles, concentric circles, 1900. This fact gives us a clue to age be docs, squares, wavy lines, sun discs and cause the carvings were probably placed up other unknown or problematical figures. on the cliff during one of the last low water However, old Modoc Indians, well versed periods. in the rradi tions of rhe past, tell us rhat Climatic fluCtUations as shown by studies their people did nor make the carvings. of tree rings indicate rhat tbe lake was 1. probably at a high level around 1800 and Originally the Brigade had headed for again at an earlier dare of 1750. Volcanic the "Ciaminicte, Clammett, Clamirte, or activity, however, may have modified these Clamut Country" co trap and discover, if dares and until further study is undertaken possible, the Indians' "Great River" which whence these people came or went will be might prove co be the legendary Buena· a mystery." ventura River. Ogden, although admitting Regarding Peter Skene Ogden's visit to the lack of beaver, still wished co pursue the Klamath Coumry, we find that he left his course of exploration. Wi·~h this a journal of his travels in 1826-27 which thought uppermost in their leader's mind, was nor published until 1961. The journal the Brigade resumed their southern course was then printed by the Hudson's Bay Com on rbe 19th, and rhe next day, December pany Record Society, London, England, 20th, reached "a fine looking scream well and was avail<~!ble only ro members. Conse lin'd with Willows and had some difficulty quently ir has nor been readily available to in discovering a fording place bur on our the public. The Klamath Coumy Museum Guides calling out to some Indians who has one of these books in their research li were on the opposi te side they came and brary which is available ro the serious re pointed out a suitable spot bad the warer searcher. been two inches deeper without the assis The journal records chat Ogden's Hud tance of rafts we could nor have cross'd, son's Bay Company Fur Brigade left The we succeeded however without wetting any Dalles on the Columbia River, September thing, we saw the remains of a stone Bar 19, 1826 and traveling by way of the Des rier made by the natives for caking small chutes and Crooked River watersheds to Fish but at this season it is abandoned. We the Harney Valley, arrived at Harney and advanced one mile in descending the River MalheW. Lakes, where they rurned directly and encamped. Course S. E. 6 and West west to cross the High Deserr of Central l mile . .. The hills here are richly covered Oregon and reached the East Fork of the with the Juniper Tree fortunately for us Deschutes River north of Lapine. Follow it is so or we should be bur poorly for fire ing that stream southward into the Klamath wood there being no worm wood here and Country, rhey arrived at Klamath Marsh no dry Willows. One Antelope kill'd this near the later day Lenz ranch, from which day." point they followed down Williamson This was Ogden's first contact with River to the present Highway 97 crossing the Modoc Indians, but he evidently did at "The Rapids." from that point, after nor realize they were a separate tribe from a Jay-over of several days, they continued the Klamaths. The crossing place on Lost southward along the eastern shore line of River, some two miles southeast of Mer Upper Klamath Lake, to travel through rill, Oregon, became known as rhe Stone the pass once occupied by the early day Bridge, and in Iacer years was used by the "Old Fort Road." emigrants traveling the Applegate Trail Still keeping a southward course down and is today the base upon which is built the Klamath Valley, a camp sire was a diversion dam. reached December 16th, somewhere in the A question arises at this time, did Lost River Slough-Henley general vicinity. Ogden, after crossing, descend the river Hunters killed five deer thar dav to relieve one mile as he stares, or did he, as his re the food shortage, and, upon their return to the Brigade, reponed the discovery of a capitulation of the day's mileage indicar~s, stream (Lost River-Ed.) . ascend one mile West ro establish camp? lr would appear from this recording and In rhe following days, both trappers and hunters were out, and finding no bea one to be made on January 6th, that Ogden ver sign whatever, the Freemen of the was confused as w which direction sluggish Brigade were of the opinion rhat a winter Lost River actually flowed. He was pos trapping quarrers should be sought else sibly under the impression that it flowed where. out of, rather than into the lake. So, it 2. would also seem chat be probably wem up of our intentions of returning I did not sueam one mile ro establish camp, since raise Camp as they might be at a loss to as we now know, most of the downstream discover us and at the mercy of the natives. area was being used by the Indians, prede The Indians still around us. This day had ces~ors to Caprain Jack's Modocs. There a net sett by way of a trial the mesh is small is one orher possibility, he may have en and if we find it does not answer we have camped co the north, cowa,rd the base of the the means of making an ocher. In the foothills, where the ]tmiper Tree for fire course of the day a number of Indians wood was available. Wherever the camp assembled round our Camp and one of the was located, the Brigade remained there the Chiefs of ch is River (A Modoc- Ed.. ) in next three days. formed us char some distance in advance On the 12th, Ogden recorded: " ... The there was a small river (Now known to be two men who started yesterday to examine Pit River-Ed.) in which there are Beaver, rhe upper pan of the river (Lose River but having been forbid by our Guides Ed. ) arrived with two Beaver, they report ( Who had been secured near Williamson they found one Beaver Lodge and nor the and were therefore Klamath Indians-Ed.) slightest appearance of any more, the River as well as other Indians co inform us of is not long it receiving its waters from a this in the conference yesterday, chis I chain of Lakes (The overflowed lands of cruse may prove correct at all events he has Langell Valley and possibly even Clear volunteered co accompany us 1 shall not Lake--Ed.) some of rhem of a large size, refuse the offer it being well understood from all accounts all this Country is covered we are ro pay him according to his wich Lakes. All these warers musr discharge merits ... " ( Again Ogden changes his in some large River which I hope we shall mind, now deciding to continue southward ere long see, and if no Beaver in it I shall in quest of beaver and possibly the oudet certainly be at a loss what course ro cake to co this series of basin Jakes-Ed.) find Beaver. A few Indians paid us a visit December 24th, Ogden wrote: " ... we bur we could obtain no satisfactory infor visited our net bur without success. At macion from them and it appeared co me 10 A.M. we scarred accompanied by /i11e their knowledge of the Country does not l11dians with Horses afla with the exception extend very far." of three aU we ha.ve seen in thi-s Counu-y Next, on the 22nd, Ogden in part re the Clammirs inform'd us from the severi corded: " ... upwards of 100 Indians as ty of the Winter and depth of Snow they sembled around our Camp, but comported cannot prevent them from scarving to themselves most peacibly. I had a long death-we took a Southern Course ( ? conference with the Chiefs in regard co Ed.) ove.r a barren Plain and advanced 10 rhe Country and it agreed with the accounts miles and encamped ... the weather very we received from our Trappers that for foggy which prevented our seeing any dis some distance abroad ( In advance--Ed.) tance in advance. Here we certainly have is one continued Chain of Lakes but no not an over abundance of water a sufficien River ... it also appears that the Main cy however for ourselves bur none for our River which receives the waters of all these horses and there being no snow they must Lakes and River we are now encamped on go without." (Lost River-Ed.) takes its rise near our This seems co indicate that the Brigade encampment of the llth inst. (William must have been a considerable di$tanCe son River crossing of present Highway 97 north of T ule Lake shore line, probably at The Rapids-Editor) ... there being passing over or around Adams Point, then no Beaver we must retrace back our circling northeastward along the base of seeps .. ," the foothills co avoid the mirey borders Still at the same camp, Ogden on the of the lake. They probably established 23rd, recorded: " ... from the non arrival camp at some point near the northern ex of three of our hunters who are nor aware tremities of Turkey Hill where juniper 3. was available for fire-wood. hunting trip, probably for the first time, if Sunday 25th of December, 1826 (Prob· it had not been seen a few days before- ably somewhere near rhe site of the old Ed. ) Morton posteffice-Ed.) : "This day being Ogden further recorded: "Six Indians Chirsrmas, by the request of the majority paid us a visit from their Blankets being of the parry I did not raise Camp tho I made of Feathers of Ducks and Geese no must confess rather against my inclination, doubt in the Fall and Spring there be vast as we are not overstocked in food, our Dogs quantities in this quarter it cannot be other· are nearly ar a close, for the first six days wise there being so many Lakes and the we allowed ourselves two meals per day Country low altho on both sides of us the but since that period we have been reduced mountains are very high one in particular to one meal, and with suoh hunters as our high above all others pointed and well Camp is composed of we ought to be thank covered with Snow-and from its height full for i r bur this fare does not satisfy must be at a considerable distance from many nor can they habituate themselves to us. ( Probably the first written record of it, it is certainly a most wretched manner to Mount Shasta. Snowstorms, rain, douds live and suffer so but ro me without a and foggy weather had prevented Ogden remedy, I am certainly disgusted with from viewing the mountain before-Ed.) a Freemans life but still after all if we Our Guides inform'd us beyond these should find Beaver I should consider my· Mountains reside the SaJtiie a nation they self well repaid for all and altho our are at present at war with and this is one of Guides promise fair still I must confess I the principal causes they woud not wish have no opinion of the Country there are us tO visit them at this season at all events too many Lakes to be a Beaver one. The from rhe depth of Snow we cannot bur men with the two Horses lost arrived with in the Spring we shall if we find no Bea· them also four Deer were brought in to ver in rh is q uarrer." Camp uoforrunately it so happens those The next day, December 27th, rhe Bri· that kill with the exception of two are not gade encamped probably somewhere in the of a very generous disposition. We had a vicinity of Scorpion Point. Thirty Indians fine day foggy in the morning with a heavy came into their camp and it was discovered dew which from the scarcity of water was of their guides had never been any farther service to our Horses, chis so far is certain· south than this point, so actually knew ly a fine Climate bur if we credit the nothing of rhe country in advance. natives the winters are very severe." On rhe 28th a number of Indians again Resuming their southerly journey on the visited camp, from whom Ogden traded 26th, the Brigade passed "a number of for "some Roors they assist ro keep us Huts of Indians scattered in all directions alive." When again on the road that day, over the plains the men visited them all but they followed "a chain of Lakes ( Bays and obtained very few roots, nor did it appear inlets-Ed. ) or more correCtly one con· their stock was great but no doubt they cinuous Lake until! we reached the Moun have their Winter stock secured." They tains, here the Lakes in this direction ap· encamped after 15 miles "on a small pear ro terminate, here we encamped." ( In Brook." This was probably a wet weather the Modoc Lava Beds National Monument, stream from rain and melting snow, which probably somewhere near Captain Jack's lies directly behind the old Cornell ranch Stronghold- Ed. ) buildings, a few of which still stand. The following day, December 29th, the At this camp Ogden further recorded: Brigade remained in camp with humers "Three of our Hunters separated from us and scours our in several directions ...... tiP· this morning and will not rejoin us before wads of 20 GoaJs ( Mountain Sheep- three days they are gone in quest of deer." Ed. ) U'ere seen," but none killed due ro (It seems that Clear Lake would undoubt· their extreme shyness. From reports edly have been seen or visited on this brought in, they could nor proceed ahead 4. but by again turning southward, could get in the interim we may obtain some know our of the "Rocks." Ogden here came to ledge of the Country we at present stand the conclusion that the natives had been so greatly in need of so as to enable us to deceiving them in regard co the country cross the Mountains in the Spring- five and rrapping conditions, wishing to keep of our Horses were not seen this day and the Brigade "amongst them as it enables altho I am not apprehensive of their being them co collect a few trifles for their stolen they may detain us here tomorrow." Roots ..." Indeed they were detained the next day On the 30th, the Brigade took a souther in hunting cheir horses, so much so that ly course with mountains of "cut Rocks" they were compelled to lay over the entire (Glass Mouotain-Ed.) on their right. A day. small lake "froze but containing an abun On che 3rd, they broke camp, but some dance of water ( Dry Lake--Ed.) was were compelled to stay behind, Ogden reached and camp established there. Ahead, among them, hunting twenty head of as far as they could see (Probably from the horses who had strayed during the night. top of Timber Mountain-Ed.) were Camp was established at the Indian village ''thick woods, and Plains covered with seen on December 28th. Ogden did not worm wood but not the least appearance arrive at this camp until midnight where of water .. . " he wrOte: " ... The Natives since we passed December 31st, the Brigade laid over here have abandoned their Villiage but we and Ogden in part recorded: "We have could nor discover what course they have yet three months of Wimer God grant taken-altho mild in the day the nights they were well over and our Horses escape are cold and from coral want of wood is the Kettle but I fear not I truly believe probably the cause of their departure. We without exception I have been the most took the liberty of demolishing their Huts unfortunate Man that ever visited this for fire wood at least the men I have barren Country the Lords will be done to waro'd them if the Natives should com me situated as I am without a remidy." plain of chis burgalary rather than it should Sunday, January 1st, 1827, (Still laying be a cause of quarrel that they should pay over, somewhere near the shores of Dry for the theft so far all shall be fair on Lake--Ed.) "The new year commenced our side--! should ccnainly regret that with certainly a fine mild day altho the our side should cause a quarrel with chest: night was cold, the men paid me their Indians, for so far their conduct towards respects. I gave them a dram and one foot us bas been certainly most correct and Tobacco and my best wishes for their orderly and wonhy of imitation by all ..." success. 1 Goat Kill'd. As the Sun was on (This would seem to have been the first the eve of leaving us to my regret Mr. overt act of wrong doing in the long and McKay arrived and confirms all the Natives bitter disputes becween the Whites and the informed us and further that from the top Modocs which finally ended in the Modoc of a mountain as far as he could see with War of 1872-73-Ed.) the Glass it was one continued chain of The next day the.ir camp of December mountains without che least appearance 27th, was reached, "Here a number of of water still less rivers and far as they Indians collected round our Camp com have been also destitute of water and the plaining of starvation but we could afford road stony but still it is his opinion had them no relief in regard to food for the we provisions and was there snow we last four days we have been without and might advance but at the same time to for some time previous one Half of the little purpose from the rime of his depar party have been in a similar state and ture u ntill his rerurn he did not see the consequently many curses arc bestoed on track of an animal thus destitute of re this Councry and justly so for certainly sourses as we are at present rerum we must it is poverry itself it cannot even support and seek food where we can find it, and its own inhabitants still less a few solitary 5. strangers amongst the number first rate the Camp I left Mr. McKay and our Inter marksmen and hunters." preter to bring them on. We advanced The following day, taking a more direct eight miles and encamped and late in the line of march, probably following the shore evening Mr. McKay with the Guides ar line of Tule Lake, the Brigade reached rived and if they do not desert us we have their campsite of Christmas Day. some hopes of finding Beaver I trust On the 6th, they again crossed the Stone we may not be disappointed the season Bridge. "I followed down the stream is becoming advanced and our returns not (Upsrream-Ed.) for ten miles when ... more than half secured." (It would appear we encamped." This campsite was some from the distance traveled this day, that where in rhe Lost River Slough-Henley camp was established at approximately the vicinity, and here the Brigade laid over present day sire of Malin-Ed.) for six days with hunters, trappers and The following day, retracing their last scouts out in all directions. A thorough winter's track, they reached and encamped knowledge of the Klamath Basin must have been obtained by Ogden and his parry ''on the borders of a small Lake ..." (Ap at that time. parently Dry Lake-Ed.) On January 13th, the Brigade moved to On the 4th, 5th and forenoon of the Link River, which they crossed on the 6th, a southeastern course was pursued, 17th, to again resume their travels, this time, down the Klamath River via Keno when "a fine looking River," later recorded on the 21st as Pit River by Ogden, was reached, near Passing out of the Klamath Basin at the head of Big Valley. Following up Pic this time, Ogden followed down the norrh River the Brigade reached Goose Lake, bank of the Klamath River to the Horn crossed over into Warner Valley, eventually brook, California, neighborhood. There he turned northwestward to raach the arriving ac Harney Lake. headwaters of the Applegate River. This Trapping down the Malheur and other he followed down
First Settlers • • !1UIIIU IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUI IIIIIIIIIIUUUJIIIIUIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIUIIItlliU111UIUII11111UUUHUIII'IIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII11111111111111111111111111111111111111UIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUI The first sertler in the Tule Lake Valley battle from this cabin. In later years the may have been Dennjs Crawley. OriginaUy cabin became known as rhe Bybee cabin, settling midway between Klamath Falls and it was here that John Colwell was and Keno in 1867, he attempted to rruse bom in 1873. a crop there in the spdng and summer of A Charles Monroe was somewhere in 1868, bur due ro heavy frosrs, failed. He the same neighborhood since mention has rhen abandoned that location, bur how been made of several stacks of hay belong soon he resettled at Lost lliver, about one ing co him, being destroyed by the Modocs. rojJe below the Scone Bridge, and nearly No mention regarding rus cabin, if there opposite Captain Jack's camp, is unknown. was one, has been found. He was another Ar least by the opening of rhe Modoc War, member of those "forced up" in the Craw the spot where the seeders "forced up" was ley Cabin. known as the Crawley Cabin. However, Henry Miller was another of the earlier at the time, rhe cabin may have become seders, whose date of serrlemenr is also the property of the partners, Wm. S. "Dad" unknown. His house was located just south Bybee and Dan Colwell, since both were of rhe Oregon-Califorrua Stare line, a few reported to have participated in the first yards from rhe present Dalton-Byrne ranch 10. This picture was taken at the time of the 1939, 30th anniversary of the arrival of the Bohemians. Seated. left to right are: Frank Klabzuba, Alois Kalina, and William Halousek. Standing, same order: Fran.k Paygr Sr., Joseph Victorin, Joseph Smidle, and John Honzig. -courtesy Vac Kalina homes. A pitcher pump still stands at bur they seem co have settled on land the probable location. Miller was killed just inside Oregon, bur adjoining Heruy by the Modocs. Miller's properry in California. Their The William Boddy family, consisting buildings were very near bur possibly of rhe husband, wife, rwo step-sons, a slightly northeast of the present Dalton step-daughter, Kate, and her husband home. William Brotherton and one son Nicholas Schirra are reported ro have set were killed by the Modocs; Mrs. Brotherton tled near Tule Lake on August 6, 1872. and the remaining children are reported Their first home was Jess than Y1 mile to have returned to Illinois or Indiana, north of the Merrill-Malin Highway on the whence they came. east side of the present Paygr Road. High There were rwo other cabins along warers of Tule Lake forced chem our and the shores of Tule Lake several miles to they resettled ar what Iacer became known the southward of the Oregon-California as the Harrery ranch. All the male members Scare line. One seems to have belonged to of the Boddy family mentioned above, Louis Land who at one rime owned proper· were killed on the opening day of ry and Jived in Poe Valley. This cabin was the Modoc War, November 29, 1872. In probably his sheep camp and may have later years ( 1897 ), Mrs. Boddy married been locared ar a sire Iacer ro become the her ranch foreman, Mike Hanery, who had Old Cornell Ranch. Farther south yet, arrived during the Modoc War in 1872, was the cabin of Adam Schillinglow (or and Mrs. Schirra, firsc married George Schillingbow) , probably located on the Nurse of Linkvillc, then later became the eastern shore of "Copic Bay" at a point wife of Rube Hatton, firsc County Clerk of Lake Councy, in which Klamath Councy shown as the Linn & Firbush cabin on an was then siruared. early (1871-2 & 4 ) U.S. Land Office Lircle is known of the Brotherton family, survey. 11. Several miles to the east of the Miller fornia, and while I was gone my friends bad Brotherton cabins, on the nonh shore of me set down for dead. When I returned I Clear Lake at a fine spring was located discovered I was alive. My 12,000 sheep the ranch buildings of members of the and 800 bead of cattle were also alive. I Jesse Applegate family. They arrived in am going to live 100 years longer. Whis ·rbe early summer of 1871 wirh the inten key can't kill me; Indians won't kill me, tion of founding a catde ranch for Jesse and my enemies are all dead. Yes, sir, I D. Carr under the Swamp Land Ace of am going to live another 100 years and September 28, 1850. then get on a rosy summer cloud and sail Records on when these various people to glory.'" settled, bow they claimed the land, and [One wonders where a stockman of rbis various other derails may exist, but are magnitude could have been located and widely scattered in various governmental why we have no further record of him agencies. Prospecri ve settlers could file Ed.) on their claims by several means; home J. Frank Adams first came to the stead, the Swamp Land Act, desert land Klamath Country sometime in 1872, when claims, timber culrure claims, pre-emptions, he wenc to work for Doten and Fairchild at ere. Some may even have been "squatters" the Meiss Ranch, breaking horses for the with no legal filings. Whatever the means, soldiers to use during the Modoc War. most of their filing records have remained Adams was then seventeen years of age, unlocated to dare. and followed rhe life of a cowboy for seven In addition to the above mentioned years before settling at a place, ever since seeders, there were four other men killed known as Adams Poioc, in 1879. This during that first Modoc raid, who were location was only a few yards to the west closely associated with them, Christopher of the new "Lost River High School" now Erasmus, Robert Alexander, John Tober ( 1970) under conStruction. It was litde and a man named Collins ot Follins. more rhan a horse camp and buckaroo Whether they were herders, drovers, pros hangout. Adams later built his home ranch pective settlers, or what, and where killed on the old Bybee place, some two or is nor known. three miles to the west. No history, brief or otherwise, will be For additional history of the Lost River written on the Modoc War at this time; this Tule Lake Valley, and individual activities has already been done, in great derail, by of ]. Frank Adams, see Klamath Echoes numerous writers, bur it can be said i.n #7, pages 1 ro 45 inclusive. passing, no two agree in all the general Like all the others, it is also unknown derails. exactly when Jesse D. Carr first visited There remains one more name to add or became interested in the Klamarh Coun to these relative unknown settlers. All that try. However, it would have been only is known of this man was printed in the logical for him ro have made a personal 1905 History of Central Oregon, page 957, inspection of the land before investi ng in and follows: ir. Therefore, it would appear that Carr "H. H. Bleecher, who was one of the must have visited the rerdrory before early settlers of the Klamath country, in backing the Applegate Oear Lake enter after years related this i ncidenc of the prise in 187 1. It is, however, definitely war ro the Klamath Coumy Star of March known that Carr visited his Clear Lake 24, 1893: enterprise no later than July, 1873, "in a " 'When the Indians were fighting at light spring wagon." Tule Lake,' he said, 'I mer them. Each It may have been at this time that Carr warrior had nothing on bur a suit of war arranged for filings on the Miller and paint, with a bandana kerchief round his Brotherton traces at Tule Lake, both also head and one around his leg. They told under the Swamp Land Act. These two me to go home, but I went down to Cali- places became the nucleus of the later 12. Jesse D. Carr, rhen William C. Dalton, land in small pieces for farming, and al and now Robert Byrne home ranch. The rnough most of the land which can be made Miller heirs deeded £heir equities in this productive is now ( 1954) cleared and land w Carr on April 27, 1876. growing crops, there is still a certain a Jesse D. Carr's home was acrually in mount of new-land clearing going on in Salinas, California, but he made periodic the area ... Within a few years, by 1903, visits tO his Clear and Tule Lake holdings, rhe Carr Land and Livestock Company some of which we have recorded in news holdings tOtaled approximately 40,000 papers of me day. There is probably no acres in the rwo srates. Then on December one living today who remembers seeing 19, 1903 or 1904, Jesse D. Carr died. him in person. It may be of interest to note that Michael The old Klamath Cotml)' Star wrote in Harre!)' died near Hayward, California on February, 1890 that during me hard winter March 2, 1904, to be followed by his wife, of 1889-90, Carr had already lost 1500 Louisa Boddy Harrery, who died December head of stock and was expected ro lose at 24th or 25th, 1904, also at Hayward. least 2000 head more. Furrner, he bad Another early sercler on the Tule Lake lost 200 head of blooded Durham bulls, shore-line in Oregon, was Richard "Dick" brought in from South Carolina. Alro Hutchison, his wife Anna and family (pos gether, his total loss approximated $80,000. sibly five children, one of whom we know By 1899, the Carr holdings in Klamath was "Monre" Hutchison). A daughter, County, Oregon amounted to 3,882.08 Margaret married Ivan Applegate as early acres, and in Modoc County, California as July 14, 1871 while the family still 18,962.54 acres. lived in the Rogue River Valley. Exactly Berween the end of the Modoc War and when the Hutchison family came to the 1899. Carr mer with considerable opposi Tule Lake country is unknown, but ir tion from oilier local aspirantS for conrrol would seem they may have arrived in of cattle grazing lands. Chief among rnese 1886, since in that year a James .E: Fair were the Boddy-Harrery combine and one child deeded rhe larer day Hutchison ranch James Bevans, for whom Bevans Point to Hutchison. The land had originally (Turkey Hill) was named. been deeded by the State of Oregon to Carr's eventual answer to this problem the Southern Oregon Swamp Land Com was ro buy our born parties, which he did pany early in 1873. When Fairchild ob in June, 1903. The Boddy-Harrery hold tained the land has nor yet been deter ings rhen amounted ro nearly 3,000 acres, mined. and the Bevans holdings, 480 which he According ro Ben Pickett, the Hutchi secured at a reponed price of $3,000. son ranch had been there a long time be These purchases brought Carr's coral hold fore the Pickett family arrived in 1891. ings in Oregon alone, to somewhere in the The Hutchison home was located near the neighborhood of 7,000 acres. center of the NW ~ of me NW V-i, Sec tion 17, T. ~1 S., R. 12 E., or % of a In me meantime, on January 1st, 1900, mile north of the Merrill-Malin Highway, William Carson Dal•ton, grand-nephew 200 yards east of the Poe Valley road, and of Jesse D. Carr, arrived in the Tule Lake about the same distance south of the De Valley to rake over the management of Merritt road. The house was built near a the extensive Carr holdings. sand ridge washed up by the high waters "There was a big lake, a few cabins, of Tule Lake, and at times me Hutchisons and the rest was sage brush," Mr. Dalton had to cross water on a cat-walk built be once recalled. It rook him days of riding rween their house and me well, to get in all directions to explore fully me land water for domestic use. that had come under his management. Another early day dry-lander was a Jim The possibilities of this land for cattle Johnson, who came ro the country before was great, and Mr. Dalton began a large me Pickett family. Lastly a George West, scale cattle enterprise during his first years who was also a dry-lander was here before on the ranch. He also began to clear the the arrival of rhe Bohemians. 13. FRESNO SCRAPERS AT WORK ON THE MAIN CANAL South from Klamath Falls down the Klamath Valley toward the Lower Lost River Valley. -Priest Photo Development of Irrigation Connected with the Tule Lake Basin , lllltlllllllltlllllllllllllllllllllllll!IIIIIUJI JIIIIIIIIIIIIIJ IIfiiUIIIIIIIIIIIUIIHIIItiiiUifllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltltlllltlltllllllltlllllltllllltlltllllllllllllllllllllllttlllll [A more or less detailed history of early opment began with the requirement of irrigation in the Klamath-Lost River Val winter forage to support the increasing eys was given in Klamath Echoes No. 7, herds of cattle and horses that grew far pages 1-25. However, a brief outline, this and multiplied on the broad open range time from new sources, describing the areas in rhe summer time. It was soon irrigation of different, although adjacent realized that rhe natural hay meadow lands territory, will be given. A compilation lying along streams and lake shore lines based on B. E. Hayden's article printed in would have to be supplemented by culti The History of Klamath Cormty, 1941, pp. vated areas rhar muse, on account of lighc 103-11 0; a report issued June 7, 1905 by summer precipitation, receive their moisture T . H. Humphreys, Project Engineer, in the by artificial means. Kl4math Rept~blican; and other Klamath The first attempt at irrigarion in Klam Rept~blican anicles-Ed.] ath County was made by a number of From the close of the Modoc War in Linkville ci tizens who incorporated their 1873, conditions in the K lamath country en·terprise under the name of "The Link became tranquil, life secure and serde ville Water Ditch Company" in 1878. menr more rapid. On account ef Jack of This Company laced a headgate in che east transportation facilities and because of the ba.nk of Link River near its emergence nature of the country and climatic condi from Upper Klamath Lake and dug a small tions, stock raising became the principal canal through the present ci ry of Klamath and about the only .industry engaged in. Falls and used it for the irrigation of town The rainfall was sufficient to produce lors. About six years later a rancher by range grasses and the country large enough the name of William Sceele, acquired cer to support all comers. Agricultural devel- tain rights in the company and extended 14. the ditch out into the sage brush counuy, portion of the Klamath Basin irrigable a distance of about fifteen miles. The land:s. This company acquired certain purpose of this extension was due more to rights of way in the Spring of 1904 along the necessity of showing a water supply the line required for the Government necessary to complete proof on certain canal. The work performed by this compa desert entries of Government land than for ny, served no useful purpose and their the irrigation of crops. advent into the country only served to After Mr. Steele's death in 1888 a new retard progress. [This statement, was at company, incorporated under the tide of times, quite emphatically disputed by some "The Klamath Falls Irrigation Company" local citizens-Ed.) The company's rights was formed. This company rook over the were finally purchased by the United Steele rights and enlarged the canal to a Stares for $150,000. capacity of 50 second feet. The canal ran The Reclamation Act became a law when along the foothills in a southeasterly President Theodore Roosevelt, on June direction from Klamath Falls a distance of 17, 190 2, affixed his signature ro that about 8 miles where it divided into an document. Immediately after the passage easterly and southerly branch. The maxi of this Act, what is oow known as the mum acreage irrigated was probably never Bureau of Reclamation was organized with greater than 4,000 acres, although rhe Frederick Haines Newell as irs head. The system commanded a much larger area. first appelation applied ro the organization This ditch was called the "Ankeny Canal." was the Hydrographic Survey, the next In the summer of 1882 the Van Brimmer was the United Stares Reclamation Service. Bros. began the construction of a small The present designation ( 1941) is the ditch to supply water co about 4,000 acres Bureau of Reclamation. of land lying on the south and west sides In November 1904, prominent engineers of Lost River in the vicinity of Merrill, of the Reclamarion Service, Mr. F. H. Oregon. The ditch, which had its source Newell, then Chief Engineer; Mr. A. P. in White Lake, an arm of Lower Klamath Davis, Assistant Ghief Engineer; Mr. Nor Lake, was completed in 1886 and water ris Bien, Chief Legal advisor; and others for irrigation was diverted from the Lower made a rour of the Klamath Basin. At that Klamath Lake Basin into the Tule Lake time Mr. Newell, in addressing a large Basin. audience of enthusiastic farmers, at Klam During the same year the Van Brimmer ath Falls, told them that in his judgment Bros. completed t h e i r ditch, ]. Frank they had a great irrigation project and he Adams, with the help of other seeders, believed rhe Secretary of the Interior would completed a small canal from Lost River undertake the construction providing all of to Adams Point, a distance of 6 miles, after the following requirements were complied effecting an agreement with Van Brimmer with: lsr, all conflicting and vested water Bros. ro furnish 5,000 inches of water rights must be adjudicated; 2nd, all riparian through their system ro the west bank of rights on Lower Klamath and Tule Lakes Lost River, from whkh point Adams pro must be surrendered; 3rd, Oregon and posed ro carry rhe water across the river in California must cede co the Federal Govern a wooden flume. This canal was enlarged ment all right and title co the Lower Klam and extended from time ro time so that by ath and Tule Lakes and enact laws which 1904 it extended a distance of 22 miles would permit the lowering and raising of around the north side of Tule Lake as far their waters; 4th, that the U. S. Congress east as the Carr Ranch, later known as the must give to the Secretary of rhe Interior W. C. D alton Ranch. power ro destroy the navigability of rhese The Klamath Canal Company was in lakes. corporated on May 18, 1904, wirh a capital In the latter part of 1904, and early in Stock of $1,000,000 and was organized 1905 numerous petitions, requesting gov presumably for the irrigation of the major ernment irrigation were forwarded to the 15. Secretary of the Interior and the Chief lake Division. To carry our the purpose Engineer of the Reclamation Service. One of the high dam, i.e., diverring the excess was signed by nearly three hundred resi waters of lost River away from Tule Lake, dents of Klamath Falls, Merrill, Bonanza a 250 second foor canal was planned to and rhe adjacent valleys, ranchers, counry run from this strucrure tO Klamath River. officials, merchants and professional men. It was chen estimated chat about 47,000 The Legislature of Oregon, by an act acres of good irrigable land could be re approved Jan. 30, 1905, and the legisla claimed from the bed of Tule lake. ture of California, by an act approved After the project had been found ro be Feb. 3, 1905, relinquished to the National feasible and a plan of development decided Government title to lake lands which upon, the next step in line was to make might be uncovered by drainage. By an act water filings and secure necessary rights approved Feb. 9, 1905, Congress authorized of way for canals anJ structures. Naturally the changing of the levels of Tule and the existing irrigation works occupied stra lower Klamath lakes and the disposal of tegic locations and the non-coordinated the uncovered lands under the terms of companies controlled certain water rights the Reclamation acr of June 17, 1902. that were essential tO any comprehensive The first survey of the Klamath Projt ct system designed co irrigate all of the avail by Government engineers was made during able land in the basin. Accordingly nego the year 1903. In October of that year tiations were begun with all of these small Mr. John T. Whistler made a 'horse back" companies for the acquisition of their survey of the Klamath Basin area. His systems and rights by the United States. report also mentioned rhe storage possibili These negotiations resulted in purchase.~ ties of Upper Klamath lake in Oregon by the Government as follows: and Clear Lake in California and called Klamath Falls Irrigation Co. atrenrion also to the fact that a dam could (Ankeny Ditch) ····-·····-··$ 47,530.65 be built on Miller Creek, where approxi Klamath Canal Co .._ .. $150,000.00 mately 100,000 acre feet could be im Little Klamath Water Ditch pounded for use in rhe l angell Valley area. Co. (Adams Canal) ··-·-···$100,000.00 It is interesting to note char all of these Jesse D. Carr Land & Live- reservoir sites were later developed by rhe stock Co. for 25,000 acres Bureau of Reclamation. around Clear Lake ______$183,600.00 The original plan worked out for the Thomas McCormick right of Klamath Project provided for (a) rhe way for Keno cut -····----$ 10,000.00 unwatering of the Tule Lake and Lower Prior to the approval by the Deparrmenr Klamath Lake by diversion of the water a satisfactory showing had co be made supply and by evaporation, (b) the build of an adequate water supply for the lands ing of Clear Lake and Gerber Dams for co be irrigated. This requirement was met impounding flood waters for use and by plans worked out for storage in Upper diversion to Klamath River when needed Klamath lake, Oear Lake and Gerber Res for irrigation, thus permitting the drying ervoirs, and the construction later of dams up of Tule Lake, and (c) the diversion to effectuate chis result. from Upper Klamath Lake by means of Upper Klamath lake is a beautiful fresh headworks and a runnel through rhe hill water lake surrounded by mountains cov at Klamath FaUs of the irrigation supply ered with forests of pine and fir and fed by for the Main Division of the project and Williamson and Wood Rivers and numer the reclaimed area within the old bed of ous smaller mountain streams. Its natural Tule Lake. Two diversion dams on Lost surface area is about 60,000 acres and its River also were contemplated-a high outlet is Link River-"the shortest river in dam about four m.iles below Olene for America"'-which carries rhe outflowing the purpose of diverting inigation water waters co lake Ewauna, only a mile away into the J canal system for use in the Tule but 60 feet lower in elevation_ 16. As irrigation progressed and more and orher appunenanr srructures involving more of the valley lands were brought 600,000 cubic yards of excavation, 3,100 under cultivation, it became increasing!)• feet of concrete line runnel and 4,000 apparem that some regulation of the waters cubic yeards of concrete canal lining and of Upper Klamath Lake would have ro be suucrures exclusive of tunnel lining. effected in order ro insure an adequate Mason, Davis & Company of Portland, was supply during the larcer pan of the irriga the successful bidder for the canal aodl tion season. To provide for this require runnel work and the Inrernarional Contract ment ro the United Stares entered into a Co., of Seattle, for the six highway brid contracr on February 24, 1917, with the ges. The Maio Canal heads in Upper California-Oregon Power Company, where Klamath Lake where Link River begins in it was provided that the Company should and extends in a southeasterly direction build permanent regulating works at the with a designed capacity of 1,500 second head of link River, and, as a consideration feet-for rhe first nine miles, where it for the expenditure, should have the use of branches into the B Canal going on to all srorage created thereby above irrigation Oleoe, and the C Canal which leads into needs for a period of 50 years, title to rhe Merrill counuy. This canal was com rhe regulating works to be vested in the pleted in 1907, wirh the first warer de United Scares. The structure, completed in livered May 22nd, and irrigation was 1921, creates useable scorage of 524,800 furnished during that year ro about 7,000 acres of water. This structure cost about acres of land between Klamath Falls and $325,000. Olene. As the canal system was extended. Gerber Reservoir is located on Miller the irrigared area increased. Creek, a rributary of Lost River, and oc Following the completion of the Main cupies a oarural depression area of about Canal, construction of rbe East and South 3,800 acres lying about reo miles north Branch extensions, supplemented by ktteral east of Langel! Valley. lt has a surface systems, were undertaken and the first elevation of 4,835.4 feet above sea level public norice by the Secretary of the In and a scorage capacity of 94,000 acre feet. terior announcing construction charges of Gerber Dam was completed in 1925, and $30 per acre was made on November 8. serves the double purpose of irrigation and 1908. The time payment of the charge stream regulacion. The rota! cost of this was lO years and the annual acre cost was srructure including rights of way, was ser at $4.00. The irrigable area covered $386,090. by this norice was 30,000 acres. Clear Lake Reservoir lies in Modoc After the first opening, the work pro County, California, about six miles south gressed according ro the amount of funds of the Oregon-California state line and is made available. Construction of Oear formed by the consuuction of an earth fill Lake Dam referred to above, was begun in dam at the point where the lake waters May, 1909 and complered in early 1910. eorer Lost River Canyon. This dam was This dam serves not only to impound water built by the Reclamation Bureau in 1909- for rhe irrigation of the Langell Valley and 10 and creates available storage of 451,000 Tule Lake areas, bur also controls flood acre feet of water. Later the dam was raised waters of Lost River and in conjunction 3' and the storage capacity increased to with a diversion dam and waste canal lower 527,000 acre feet. The level with a sur down makes ir possible to pass the off sea face of 26,500 acres. The cost, including son flow and floods into Klamath River, righrs of way, dikes and outlet works was rhus permitting the reclamation of the $322,280.00. Tule Lake area. On December 29, 1905, bids were The Losr River Diversion Dam located opened in San Francisco, for the construc about four miles below Olene and the tion of nine miles of the Main Canal in Diversion Canal running from the dam to cluding headworks, bridges, rumours, and Klamath River, a distance of about 9 17. CONSTRUCTION UNDER WAY IN 1912 ON THE WILSON DIVERSION DAM On Lost River. below 01ene. -F. M. Priest photo miles, were in progress simultaneously. Mr. Herbert D. Newell became Project Contract for the dam was awarded on De Manager March 3, 1919 and continued in cember 9, 1910, at a contract price of chat posicion until November 11, 1929. $83,512.00 and most of the canal excava. During Mr. Newell's administration of the cion on December 16, 19 10, for $63,607. project, covering a period of nearly eleven The remaining portion was awarded in years, considerable progress was made. The March, 1911. These two contributing old wooden flume of the G Canal was re structures were completed for use early placed with concrete, the drainage system in 1912 and the stage was set for the recla was considerably expanded, the Lost River mation of the Tule Lake area. The con Diversion Canal's capacity was increased struction in 1924-25 of Gerber Dam and from 250 to 1,200 second feet, the C-G the creation of Gerber Reservoir on Miller Canal and siphon under Lost River con Creek about 1 5 miles due easr of Bonanza, necting with the G Canal around the base Oregon, as the crow flies, with its 94,000 of Stukel Mountain and the G Canal were acre feet of storage capacity gives additional builr. The Link River Diversion Dam assurance to the safety and permanence of built by the California-Oregon Power irrigation in the reclaimed bed of Tulc Company-and the Lower l.A:l6t River Lake. Diversion Dam below Merrill, were built, After the completion of the structures the first 15 miles of the J Canal and mentioned above early in 1912, construc a number of laterals leading off into tion work lagged for a time. Discontent the Tule Lake Area were completed sprang up among the seeders and much according co original design and the criticism was heard of Government officials dike system for the protection of settlers and the methods pursued by the Depart· in the Tule Lake area was begun. The ment. The revision of project acreage J Canal and all of the laterals built prior downward and the consequent higher cost co 1927 were later enlarged due co a estimates were largely responsible for this revision of plans increasing the ultimate unrest. Higher prices for labor and ma irrigable area of the Tule Lake division terials naturally contributed to the higher from 24,000 acres ro 33,000 acres and unit costs. co heavier seepage losses than were 18. previously estimated. Also Gerber Storage imarely 10,000 acres more. This corpora· Dam and Miller Creek and Malone Diver cion also owns about 7,000 acres of irri· sion Dams and the disuiburing canal in gable land along rhe northerly side of rhe Langell Valley District were built Tule Lake, and about 8,000 acres of hill during this period and the time of repay land above the canal lines that have been ment for construction costs was extended surveyed. (without inreresr) from rwenty co forty This company is composed of the heirs years by Ace of Congress-four times rhe of Jesse D. Carr. Some months ago they period provided by rhe original Reclama united in giving an option on their entire tion Ace. property ro Mr. S. L. Akins, of San Fran Since 1929 rhe principal work accom cisco. A preliminary agreement has been plished has been rhe completion of rhe entered into with Mr. Akins for the pur disrriburing and drainage work and the chase of the lands at rhe Clear Lake Reser dike system of the Tule Lake Division and voir Site. This 15,000 acres would all be rhe exrension of Main Division drainage in the Clear Lake Reservoir Sire and in works co cover rhe area, rhe completion of addition the lake itself, covering 10,000 a pumping plane and runnel for the regu acres would be used. The price agreed lation of the water level in Tule Lake, upon is $187,500. The option covers 12 known as rhe Modoc Unit, and the parcial miles of constructed canal on the Carr completion of an ouder drainage from ranch at Tule Lake, which is a branch of Lower Klamath Lake to Klamath River, for the Little Klamath Warer Ditch Company. rbe purpose of regulating the water level This can be used in connection with our in Lower Klamath Lake. projecc. Certain alleged riparian rights of The remaining work co be accomplished Tule Lake are also surrendered. to round our the Klamath Project and make The agreemem provides that aU the ir one of the most complete as well as the lands of the Jesse D. Carr Land and Live most unique and successtul enrerprises of stock Company situared under the proposed rhe Bureau of Reclamation is rhe comple canals, shall join the Warer Users Associ· tion of rbe Modoc Unir, rhe enlargement of arion. This memorandum of agreement is the Diversion Canal co rwice irs present appproved by the Directors of the Klamath capacity and rbe development of additional Water Users' Associa1:ion, the Board of storage on Lost River co conuol all proba Engineers and the Secretary of the Interior. ble flood flow and diven it from entering The agreement has not been finally enrered Tule Lake, rhus permitting the cultivation, into, but ir is probable that the remaining during normal years of all but abour 12,000 derails will be adjusted. acres of Tule Lake bed. By rhis process Lirde Klamath Water Ditch Co. about 20,000 acres of fine bottom lands ( Adams Canal.) suitable for intensive agriculture in Tule This canal has been built by Mr. J. Lake will be more or less permanently re Frank Adams, and has been supplying claimed, and in Lower Klamath Lake irri· water for the past 19 years from Lower garion of about 12,000 acres of lake bot Klamath Lake. Mr. Adams is a public tom land suitable for agriculture and stock spirited citizen, who has built up a small pasture. irrigating community along this canal, [Part of a report dated June 7, 1905 to largely by his personal energy. He has the W arer Users Association of the Klam co-operated from the starr with the Recla ath Basin, by T. H. Humphreys, Project mation Service in irs work in the Klamath .Engineer.] Basin. Jesse D. Carr Land and Livestock Co. It will be impossible to drain the lands This corporation owns approximately in rhe Lower Klamath Lake region without 14,000 acres of s~1amp and meadow land cutting off the water supply for chis canal, at Clear Lake Rest!rvoir Site and all the which now diverts irs water from Lower land around that lake, which covers approx- Klamath Lake. Mr. Adams will surrender 19. all the riparian claims of his company and absolute deeds to these rights of way, of himself to the Lower Klamath and Tule except in the Carr ranch where the convey Lakes, and will sign up to the Water Users' ance of rhe canal is made a portion of the Association 2,000 acres of land, which he oprion with Mr. Akins. owns near the town of Merrill and which If the price rhar will be due to the he has been largely irrigating from his Water Users' Association on rhe water canal. furnished co Mr. Adams' lands, is deducted from the price asked for this canal property, Including a branch canal in the Carr it will greatly reduce the net amount due ranch, this S)•stem contains about 22 miles to the company and make that figure a of mains, all of which can be utilized reasonable one. This contract is approved in the G overnment projecr. lc is estimated by the Direccors of the Klamath Water that Mr. Adams has expended in the con Users· Association, the Doard of Engineers struction of this plant about S72,900. Ex and the Secretary of the Interior. cluding that portion of the canal on the The rwo canals above referred to are Carr ranch the estimated cost is 559,500. today •mgating approximately 12,000 His rightS of way are largely easements acres of land of a total area of 236,402 over the lands occupied by his canal, but acres, which may be recl:~imed by the pro little difficulty is expected in obtaining jeer.
Lakeside Land Company • UlfllllllllllllllltiiUIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIUWIIIIIUIItiiUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIUlllllltiiiiUIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIUIUIIIIIIIliiiiiUIUIIUIIUIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIUIIIIflllllllllflliiiiiiiUIIIIIIIIUIIUIIIUIII Following Jesse D. Carr's death, rhe Carr in bringing this idea to a culmination, the Land and Livestock Companr was reorgan result was that on March 14, 190-, The ized, io become the T ule Lake Land and Kin math Rep11blu:an reported: Livestock Company, which in turn, was '"CARR TRACT HAS BEEN SOLD. reorganized to become the Klamath Land The Purchase Was Made by Local Capital and Livestock Company on October 6, ists. 1908. ''Sixry-five hundred acres of land, known As early as July 16, 1903, ]. Frank as rhe Carrr traer, was this week purchased Adams made Jesse D. Carr a proposition by a company of local capitalists, principal by letter, ro furnish rhe Carr ranch 2500 among whom was ]. Frank Adams, the man inches of water for five years at 52.00 per who has done more for the development inch. Carr answered on the 22nd, flatly of Southern Klamath than anyone else in refusing "to pa)' any such price as that for the scare. v.•ater. I am entitled to some warer under my deed from Hartery and that will be "Negotiltions for the purchase of chis sufficient if we cannot come co some agree immense rracr have been under way for ment about terms. I do not think that Mr. several months, but were nor finally closed Dalron will want co engage any water at undl Monda)-. The price paid will average present ..... S25 an acre for all available land, which is However, some satisfactOr)' agreement considered a low figure. must have been reached, for on January 4, "It is the intention of rhc company 10 1904, Adams announced in Klamath Falls have the tract cut up into small farms, and that the Litde Klamath Ditch Company this will be done just as soon as surve1•ors "was now extending their ditch into Cali can be placed in rhe field. When every fornia, so as to take in the Carr ranch, and thing is ready, there will be an opening eventually irrigate about 10,000 acres." dar, when purchasers will be able to exam It must have been abour this time that inc the traer thoroughly and make their the germ of a new idea entered J. Frank's selections. Sales will be made prior ro this mind. Whatever the steps may have been date, bur it is the preference of the owners 20. J. Frank Adams, second from left. a nd his n ew (1 909} sage brush g rubbing machine. -Priest photo rhar none be sold until rhe entire property paper articles, both evidently, either wrirten is p laced on rhe markeL" or dictated by A. M. Collier.) N ext, from the Lakeside Land Com final checks have been mailed and the pany's record book in the Klamath County business of the Lakeside company brought Museum Research Library, we learn that ro a close. Charles L. Moore, acting as trustee for the Back of chat simple statement is a story. company, actually received a deed for the Ir was rold yesterday b}' Andy Collier, Carr Traer on June 5, 1907. secretary of rhe company. Ir is a story of one of the most success On August 27, 1907 the Lakeside Land ful colonization schemes the wesr has Company was acruall}' incorporated and known. It is a story of approximately rhe :micles of incorporation filed with the S 160,000 profit-raking by a group of County Clerk of Klamath County. The Klamarh residents. It is a story of the Capital srock of the company was S I 0,000, serrlemenr of 6,500 acres of raw Klamath divided into shares of S 100 each, which lands by sevenry-five industrious farmers. in turn were owned as follows: Charles L. Ir is a story of what is possible in rhe great Moore, l 7 shares; E. P. McCornack, 1 7 Klamath country. shares; ]. Fra nk Adams, 17 shares; Al exan Klamath needs no introduction to ]. der Manin, 17 shares; Alex Marrin, Jr., 16 frank Adams. Back in 1907 he got an shares; and Rufus $. Moore, 16 shares. idea. As usual he had no money. But no On September 3, 1907, Charles L. Moore one ever knew of Frank Adams being dcc.Jcd the traer ro the Lakeside Land Com stopped by the mere fact that funds were pan}', and on rhe same day, J. Frank Adams short. A good idea was all he has ever wanted. was elected ro the office of manager. He gathered about him a group with [Following is a compilation of rwo news- money. They were Charles L. Moore, E. P. 21. McCornack, Alexander Marcin, A lex Mar a very busy man. From Illinois, some of tin, Jr., and Rufus S. Moore, all of whom rhem from Chicago, and Texas, he brought have now gone farther west. ]. Frank Bohemian farmers. They wanted land and Adams was appointed manager and Attor Adams had nothing else. He sold them ney D. V. Kuykendall was appointed secre Lakeside subdivis.ions in 40 and 80-acre tary. tracts. A few took 160 acres. All bur 300 In the articles of incorporation they acres of dry land was sold. asked for and were granted rights and They were to pay S35 an acre--one privileges to emer into and to pursue so fifth down and the rest on long terms at many enterprises and ro operate so many eight per cem. In addition there was a different kinds of businesses that the arri S30 water charge and a S 12 drainage cles seem co be a unique piece of literarure. charge. Since they covered such a range from cattle The Bohemian farmers wem ro work. raising, real estate, merchandising, opera Some built barns before they erected houses. ing power plants, street cars, telegraph lines All the time they fought the soil for the and loaning money they could nor all be best that was in it. They are still getting enumerated but the original arcicles are the best our of the land. They have built in truth a historic document. homes, have a bank, a motion picture All of rhe stockholders were very prom theatre, three mercantile establishments, inent businessmen and had much ro do with restaurant, a flour mill-in shore an ex the growth and the development of Klam ceedingly prosperous communiry centered ath Counry in the early days. at Malin. Ic is a community of which the This incorporation rook place ar the great Klamath country can well be proud. same time that the Klamath Irrigaion Dis It is a great deal more. trict began its operation under the U. S. It is the history of colonization projects, Reclamation Project. It was the intention when they are successful, chat from three of these businessmen ro develop this tract to five farmers, one after the other, come of land and to establish a townsite for the and go. Each successive tiller of the soil murual benefit of their purchasers. profits by the improvements of those who They bought ar that time 6,500 acres have gone before. But on the Lakeside lying along the north end of Tule Lake project only one farmer quit. There has from a mile west of Adams Point ro about nor been a fore-closure or any litigation be a mile and a half east of the present Malin tween the company and the colonists. townsite. A large pare of this land was still They have paid up in full. It is a record of flooded by Tule Lake. The purchase price achievement that will challenge any coloni was $90,000. zation scheme in the entire west. The diversion dam diverting water from In 1915 Andy Collier became secretary Lost River to the Klamath River was put of the company. He, together with Adams, in about 1910 and the waters of Tule and others inro whose hands the original Lake began receding and uncovering land shares and fallen, partici pared in the last that had been covered by waters from Clear dividend sent out by Collier. This last Lake before the dam was built there and dividend was founded on the sale of the by break through by the Klamath River in last 300 acres recently. the early days. Bur Collier, Martin and Moore give all I remember several contracts for sale credit for the success of the project to of these lands included the provision Adams. He, in rurn, pays tribute to the that no down payments had to be made industrious character of the Malin settlers. on the purchase of the land until water Stories are told of bow Adams loaned his receded and the purchaser had gotten his settler friends cows, horses and mules until first crop off the land. they could get money to pay for them. There could be no individual holdings How he went among them with an inter of more that 160 acres. Adams became preter to find out what they needed and 22. rhen saw char they gor ir. Krizo, 40 acres; #130 Fred Dvorak and And then, as a finale, when Collier was Ancon Sindelar, 7 acres; #131 B. T . winding up the affairs of the company, Hnizda, 120 acres; # 13 2 Frank Halasz, he called on the shareholders to deliver 80 acres; #133 Malin Townsite Company, thtir certificates. 160 acres; # 134 Joseph Victoria, (?) Adams had lost his. acres (Cancelled ) ; # 13 5 Steve Kudr, The Lakeside Land Companr'IS fif'S[ 76.44 acres. sale seems to have been Deed # 100, dated #136 Jacob Stejskal. 20 acres; #137 August I, 1908, to Etta M ~·e rs for the Vincent Jelinek, 76.75 acres; #138 Joseph Northwest Quarter of Secrion 10, Town Pocucek, 78.8 acres; #139 W. E. Burriss ship 41 South, Range 11 East Willamette and L. E. Burriss, 53.9 acres; #140 Frank Meridian. This traer of land lies on the Klabzuba, 40 acres; #141 J. Frank Adams, nonh side of the Merrill-Malin Highway, 308.96 acres; #142 Wesley Wostrchil, 80 mjdway berween Adams Point and the acres; #143 Joseph Jez, 20 acres; #144 Grear Northern Railroad underpass farther Steve Kudr, 45.3 acres; #145 J. Frank west. Adams, 8.6 acres; #146 Joseph Potucek, For some unknown reason the deeds 39.6 acres; #147 John Tofell, 39.2 acres; began with #100, and conrinued to and #148 Joseph Klem, 40 (?) acres; #149 included # 188. Evidently land purchased Fred Jez., 20 acres; #150 Frank Kremarik, and signed for by rhose first Bohemians lO acres; #151 Karel Vavricka, 80 acres; on the last of September, 1909, was nor #152 F. C. Klabzuba, 100 acres; #153 fully processed until November 1 Sth of W. F. Haskins, 40 acres; #154 Anton rhe same year, when rhe firsr 35 deeds were Macek, 40+ acres; #155 F. C. Klabzuba, issued. Very few dares were given there 100 acres [?-Ed.]; #156 Anton Petrasek, after. 64 acres; #157 James Hajick, 32.5 acres; Following is a list in numerical order of #158 Emmett). Laboda, 39.3 acres; #159 rhe purchasers and number of acres pur "Zdruzeni Ceskych Farmaru Y. Maline" chased from the Lakeside Land Company: ( Bohemian Farmers Association of Malin, #101 Joseph VictOria, 40 acres; #102 Oregon ) , 1 acre; # 160 Joseph Victoria, to John Honzik, 40 acres; #103 Frank Kra correcr mistake on previous deed; # 161 marik, 33 acres; #104 Alois Kalina, 40 Another correcrion on Victoria deed. acres; #lOS Joseph Divisek, 30 acres; #162 Frank Adamek, 32.75 acres; #163 #106 Joseph Kotera, 23 acres; #107 An Gus Jones, 40 acres (Caoce1led ) ; #164 ton Polivka, 23 acres; #108 Vaclav Rajnus, Frank Kozlik, 67 acres; #165 Joseph 43 acres; #109 Joseph SmjdJ, 20 acres; Semenec, 31.14 acres; #169 Frank Krizo, #110 John Cacka, 172 acres; #111 John 25 acres; #170 F. C. Klabzuba, 40 acres; Svrsic, John Becicka and Caclav Svoboda, #171 Mary Kopecky, 29.5 acres; #172 40 acres; #112 Mike Dobry, 40 acres; Ella Halousek, (?); #173 U. S. (?); #113 Anton Krupka, 40 acres; #114 #174 John V. Lovelace, 8.75 acres; #175 Joseph Victoria, 40 acres (Cancelled); John V. Lovelace, (?); #1 76 lgnac Cacka, #115 lgnac Cacka, 155.8 acres; #116 Joseph Cacka (compromise settlement): Charles Pechanec, 30 acres; # 11 7 Joseph #177 Jacob Stejskal, 20 acres; #178 Otoman, 40 acres; #118 Frank Kosar, 40 Frank Paygr, (?); # 179 Anton Polivka, acres (Cancelled); #119 Frank Paygr, 80 (?) acres; #180 Joe Smidle (?); 2 2.1 acres; # 120 Albert Krotochvil, 9 #181 Burriss Bros., 40 (?) acres; #182 acres; #121 Rudolf Klima, 18.1 acres; United States, 2 acres; #183 J. Frank: #122 Vaclav Drazil, 40 acres; #123 Adams, to correct mjstake; # 184 E. C. Joseph Micka, 40 acres; #124 Joseph F. Argraves (?); #185 Sibyl B. Maioous, Pospisil, 40 acres; # 12 5 Joseph Kohout, (?); #186 John Ratliffe, (?); #187 80 acres; #126 J. J. Vokal, 10 acres; #127 Igoac Cacka, 715.96 acres; # 128 Marie H. E. Wilson, (?); #188 Oliver Martin, Zumpfe, 80 (? ) acres; #129 Joseph (?). 23. The new (1909) J, Frank Adams sage brush grubbing machine in operation in the lower Lost River Valley. -Priest photo A novel means of expediting the sale it in readiness so that the farmer can make of these lands appears to have been under a good living on the land the first year he taken by J. Frank Adams, as described in occupies it. T he best of terms is allowed to the Klamath Republica?J of April 8, 1909: all bona-fide settlers." "WILL GRUB SAGEBRUSH. ]. Frank Adams, who was here Saturday, received one of the latest sagebrush grubbi·ng Rattlesnakes were numerous around the machines which will be used on the Lake shores of Tule lake when the Bohemians arrived. They sunned on shocks of new side tracts near Merrill. Mr. Adams has hay and grain and barefoot boys and girls another steel machine coming. There are driving cows frequently were forced to hop five thousand acres in the Lakeside tracts, over a coiled reptile. One instance of a and Mr. Adams states he will attempt to large one coiling to sleep in a woodbox in clear all of it this year so as to be ready the kitchen is on record. for warer. This property is being sold in small tracts ro farmers and homeseekers, and every encouragement and consideration Coyotes, cheated of food by the great is given to actual homeseekers who wish rabbit drives, fought family dogs and cats ro build a home for themselves. The com and frightened women and children alone pany proposes to clear rhe land and get at night. 24. Enlarging the old Adama Canal in the preaent day "A" Canal, to irrigate additional Ianda. William Halouaek. extreme left, and George Vocheater, third from left. -courtesy Mrs. Ben Pickett
The Malin Irrigation District • • • IUWIIIUIUUIUIUIIIUlUIIAUWIIIIJlliiiUIII&IIIUJUIII11NUUIItiiUIIUUUIIIUIUIIAmUUUIJIIWIUIIMIIIUl&UII81ttfHIIIIlfiiUIUtlUIIItnllfiHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUUIUIItniWftttUttna.llllllllltllll from M. M. Stastny Papers There seems to be considerable confusion acres, 2,200 of which were owned by W. C. concerning the various tracts of land opened Dalton, and lay between Bevans Point for settlement in the Malin area. So, for (Turkey Hill) and Bryant Mountain in a better understanding of the situation a Oregon. Some land lay in California, so a brief recapitulation will be given. separate contract was made for them. Due First, there were the dry land homesteads to World War I, in Europe, construction which were along the foothills from north work progressed slowly for several years of Merrill, to a poim near Dry Lake, south· and it was not until 1918 or 1919 that east of Tule Lake. These were in existance it was completed. by 1900 and before. A board of directors consisted of Charles Second, in 1904 the Adams ditch, a Beardsley, Frank Lamplot and John Mc shallow and more or less inadequate af Neal, with M. M. Stastny as Secretary. fair, was extended from Adams Point co Bonds for $100,000 were issued, to carry the Carr or Dalton ranch. on the construction work. Mr. Stastny, in Third, in 1907 the Lakeside Land Com addition ro being secretary, managed the pany purchased 6,500 acres from the Ca.rr district and had charge of construction. interests. This traer lay berwecn Adams Those positions he held for 28 years. Point and Bevans Point (Turkey Hill) and Charles Darley was the surveyor, and was the property upon which the Bohemi worked for $2.00 per acre surveyed, pay ans located in 1909 and 1910. able in bonds at face value. Fourth, following shortly after the first W. C. Dalton pur in the pumps, the Bohemian settlement, came the formation rwo maio canals, and the laterals for of the Shasta View Irrigation District, S20.00 per acre, also payable in bonds at which Iacer became known as the Malin face value. Of the rwo canals construcred, Irrigation District. It consisted of 3,400 the first, a low line canal with a life of 25. 30 feet, was completed in 1924, and the ~ave n?w. been paid and the Malin Irriga second, a high line canal with a lift of 60 uon DJstrJct is again financiall>• sound. feet, was completed in 1925. At first four pumps served the rwo canals, bur five are Fifth, and lase, by 1916 some 5,900 now required. A reservoir back of che acres were reclaimed from the former Jake Stastny ranoh was built at a Iacer dace at ~ and were offered for homestead entry. a cost of $3,500, which holds 55 acre feet ThiS tract Ia>• souch of rhe Lakeside Land of water. uaa and between Malin and approximately In 19 3 5 the pro jecc was refinanced with Adams Poinr. the Reconstruction Finance Corporation The homestead era of Tule Lake is because of the depression years. All debc:s described elsewhere.
THE 0 . F. GLICK HOMESTEAD BUILDINGS AS THEY LOOK TODAY - photo by Helen Helfrich
Tule Lake Land Drawings • • • !IIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII by Devere Helfrich After the completion, early in 1912, of vate lands and 2,700 acres of public lands. the Lost River Diversion dam below Olene, Roughly described, this land lay berween and the Diversion Canal running from the the present Merrill-Malin, and Stare Line dam to Klamath River, the stage was set roads, north and south; and, becween for reclamation of the fi tst tract of Tule Malin and Adams Point, east and west. Lake lands. Early in April, 1917 these public lands By 1916, about 5,900 acres of the form were offered in an open drawing to the er Jake bed had been reclaimed, or de public at large. By the close of sign-up watered. This included 3,250 acres of pri- time approximately 180 names had been 26. filed at the Lakeview Land office. Winners However, after onl)' 52 units of about were chosen on April 23rd. Of the total 3,200 acres had been entered, loud objec number of names filed, 35 successful names tions by veterans of World War 1, co were drawn from the hat, and are listed construction charges of $90 per acre, pay below: able over 20 years, caused the homescead From Klamath Falls, Sarah A. Hutchins, i ng tO be suspended. E. L. Elliott, Emil Scheisel, Richard Walsh, Finally on October 27, 1922 the Eve W. H. Robertson, Jr., Ed Hamilton, Will tling Herald wrote that 46 of 52 ex-service mott Crandall, George W. Grace, Oscar W. men were successful winners from those Robertson, WI m. H. Robenson, Sr., Tis who bad filed. However, six who had filed dale E. Griffith, W. B. Allred, I. R. Ernest, on land previously filed on were given Wm. B. Freer, and J. R. G. Haynes. from 10 days tO make a new filing. Merrill, Edward Knox, Geo. A. Thoma, .Marvin E. Stewart of Kent, Washington A. C. Roberts, Louise M. Hatch, Anna Rat was rhe finr name drawn. Robert S. Adams liff, Thomas S. Lynch, and J. E. Culbertson. and Paul 0. Simpson were second and From Malin, V. J. Spolek, Vincent Zumr, third. Twenty of the 46 successful appli Joe Kolera, Rudolph Kos and Rudolph canrs were Klamath county ex-servicemen. Klima. On January 22, 1927, 145 units totaling from Hood River, )as. L. Jacobs; from 8,052 acres, including the balance of rhe McMinnville, Eugene Smith; from Med 1922 announced lands were opened. ford, B. W. Gregory; from Ashland, 0. F. Additional land openings were made Glick; from Weed, California,]. B. McCul in 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931 and 1937. ley, Chas. Stokes, and Lyman B. Hathaway; In March 1942, Project Superintendent and from Oroville, California, G. C. Mc B. E. Hayden submitted a draft proposal Guffin. on opening more lands ro homestead corry. Nexr, after the Lower Losr River dam However, since \XTorld War II was on, (at the Srone Bridge) was completed in it was deemed best co delay rhe opening 1921, a second cract was ready for reclama since it would be unfair to many men who tion. were away in service. On January S, 1922 the Evening Herald By the spring of 1945, enough veterans wrote that H erbert D. Newell, manager of bad made inquiry that ir was deemed ad the Klamarh Reclamation Project, an visable to go ahead with the project. It nounced that 18,000 acres of the northerly was suggested char about 7,500 acres be and easterly shores of Tulc Lake would be made available for homestead encry. offered for lease in 214 rraccs, varying from However, considerable discussion re 3 7 co 283 acres, to expire October 31, sulted in this project being delayed and ir 1922, one lor to each person, rojnimum was deemed advisable to hold it sometime $SO for a lor, proposals to be received until late in 1946 co permit those getting lands January 23, 1922. to prepare for farming them in 1947. On January 14, 1922, the Evening Her Applications of veterans were given ald further wrote thar the directors of the preference, and it was deemed necessary Klamath Falls Chamber of Commerce and that a rojnimum capital rquirement of the American Legion were taking seeps $2,000 in money free of liability or rhe in favor of soldier homestead entry onl)', equivalent in farming equipment or ocher rather than leasing to the public. Many assets was necessary. Minimum farm ex lengthy discussions and interviews ensued. perience requirements were set at rwo years. Finally, public notice was made Septem On May 9, 1946, the regional office ber 29, 1922, announcing the second open subrojued a report to Washington in which ing to homestead entry of this area. The ir pointed out that the area tO be opened total acreage of farm units in Oregon and had been sub-divided in 86 units ranging California to be opened amounted co 9,68 1 in size from 60.8 co 141.3 irrigable acres. acres. Ic added, "Soil and climatic conditions are 27. favorable co the production of high quality for December 18, and the job of placing produce, particularly potatoes, alfalfa, bar· a number for each of the 1,305 names in ley and clover. The growing season is a gela·tin capsule was done. The capsules short, averaging 95 days, and annual pre were placed in a three-gallon glass pickle cipitation averages 9.4 inches." jar fitted with an axle and crank which was On May 20, 1946, a five-man examining revolved before each name was drawn. board was named consisting of Nelson After a capsule was withdrawn from the Reed, World War I veteran; Robert Norris, jar it was broken by a sharp crack from a World War II veteran, presently farming gavel, the slip withdrawn, the number 200 acres; Fred E. McMurphy, one of the checked against the maS Malin • • • IIIIIUIIUIIIIJIIIIIIIIIHUIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIUIUIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIlliiiUllliiiiiiiUIJIIIIUIIHIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIUIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIUIIIIUIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIUHUIIIIIIIIIIIJU (History of Klamath County, by Rachael Applegate, 1941. Pages 13 7-139.) One of the most interesting and pro building was constructed. Of rhe 40-acre gressive communities in the county is townsite which Mr. Kalina purchased from Malin, just north of the California line in the Dalton holdings he donated six blocks the Tule Lake Basin. Ics growth in 30 for a high school, two blocks for a grade years from an expanse of sagebrush and school, one lot for a jail, and two lots for bunch grass inhabited mainly by jack rab a Presbyterian church. The high school, bits to a strictly modern cown of seven built in 1921, was Klamarh County's first hundred or more inhabitants, backed by irs union high school, since three and one-half Mayor and leading business man, A. school districts ( Malin, Shasta View, Bryant Kalina, ro whose enterprise and leadership Mouncain, and half of Libby) combined its growth is largely due. co support it. Even before the building was ready for use, high school classes were When Mr. Kalina built his first srore caught by Allan McComb in an old build in 1911 there was one ocher building in ing at Shasta View. One of the early rhe place, a score building run by Walter Adams, used for social gatherings and for enterprises was a grain elevator, built in scbool purposes until a neat grade school 1918 by a local company, now operated 29. as a feed mill, since the local flour market be: (Instead of Ruth King's 1939, 30th has largely disappeared before the on· anniversary article of the founding of slaughr of bakers' loaves. Another was the Malin, her 50th anniversary article of rhe cheese factory, promoted by a farmers' co founding, primed in the June 7, 1959 operative association in 1921 which has issue of The Herald & News, will be used, paid four to ten thousand dollars a month since new information has been added for cream, even during depression years, and Ed.] has always been a good money maker, The destiny of Malin, Oregon this year, marketing irs product throughout the wesr. 1959, celebrating its 50th anniversary as The municipal water system, constructed a thriving small town and a prosperous in 1931, furnishes abundant water at a community, had been determined long be very reasonable rare and is rapidly paying fore a Czech colonist ever ser foor on for itself, while the sewage system, dating Southern Oregon soil. from 1937, is of the most modern type. The hardy ancestOrs of rhose who came Mr. Kalina states char Government help to Klamath County in 1909 as members was sought bur was too long in corning to of rhe 'Bohemian Colonization Club," suit the enterprising residents of Malin, originally came from somewhere in Russia who issued their own bonds, for which in the sevemh or eighth cenrury to settle there were more demands than could be in Cemral Europe. Their national identi supplied, and carried our their own pro ty has been established for more than 1,000 jeer at a cost of $20,000 less than a neigh years in European culrure. boring town spent for a smaller project Divisions of this group came later, re under the Works Project AdminiStration. sulting in recognition of three branches Malin now boasts two general merchan of Slavic peoples, the Czed1s, the Moravi dise srores, one variety store, one drug ans and the Slovaks. The name commonly store, one bakery, two beer gardens, one applied to these three branches is Czecho hotel, one shoe shop, eight gasoline stations, Slovaks or Bohemians. two garages, one lumber yard, one black Essentially they are one people and the smith shop, one church, one community difference in language is in dialect and hall, one modern show house of 3 70 seats, no greater than the speech between the one 16-unit apartment house, one 16-cor people of the South and those in the tage apartment court, some of the besr Norrb in rhe United Srares. potato-growing land in the world, the The Czech ( Bohemian) language is largest turkey farm in the West, and one of capid, expressive, lively and melodious and the largest civic organizations in Klamath is still spoken in Bohemia, Moravia and County-the Malin Chamber of Commerce with slight variations in Austrian Silesia, of 171 members. in Hungary and in Slavonica. Mr. Kalina says that not a year has Locally, the early generation still speaks passed that he has nor built something as they did in their homeland and a few in the town of Malin, and that 38 families of the second and third generation families now live in his houses. "I named the town," seek to preserve the mother tongue, the he remarked in effect, "for a co-operative old songs, the old dances. town in Czechoslovakia, a town surrounded The name Malin, as spoken in Czech, with fruits and vegetables, green and beau has little resemblance to the English pro tiful. It was my dream that our little town nunciation, nor do the Bohemian family here would be like it, and it will be, pretty names. soon." The Czechs who settled in Malin were On September 30, 1939, Malin cele all naturalized citizens and most of them brated the thirtieth anniversary of its were craftsmen, carpenters, cabinet makers, founding. An article' by Ruth King, pub tailors, brick-layers, machinisrs, black lished in the Klamath News of that date, smiths, shoemakers. Some were farmers. tells the absorbing story of how it came to All sought the freedom of America, land 30. of VISIOn, of good wages, and promising Merrill by the sertlement thereon of about furures for their youth. 160 Bohemians with their families has None had material wealth but they been practically consummated by ]. Frank brought determination, willing hands and Adams, manager of rhe foregoing company. faith in their abili ry to survive under any Mr. Adams, when asked for a statement conditions. as ro the marrer said: "Arrangements have They brought, roo, the light hearted just been about completed for the coloni ness of many of the European race-s. They zation of the Lakeside react by 160 Bohe sang and they danced when rhere was no mians wirh rheir families. They come out moncr to buy bread nor cloth to make from Nebraska and adjoining states. A clothes. commirree of Bohemians has been here And they worked, everyone to his own examining this react and they have made task, women and children beside men a favorable report on it to their organiza in the fields, often alone while men of the tion. The colony was ro start from Omaha household worked elsewhere to add to on the first of August, but their deparrure family finances. has been delayed until the 20th of this They came from Omaha, Chicago, St. moorh. These people are said to be very Louis and other Mid-western ciries and industrious, honest, and good farmers, and towns, some from farms. a good many of them are already American ln I 906 "Hodspodar," a Bohemian ag citizens. The trace will be divided up into ricultural magazine, published in Omaha, forty to eighty acre tracts to suit them. promoted among its subscribers a Far West The Lakeside tract consists of about 6,500 colonization project. The advance scouts acres, and will be cultivated chiefly to were Frank Zumpfe, a Mr. Svoboda, both aJfalfa and grain. One-half of the tract is from Nebraska, and Vaclav Voscricil of under irrigation and the balance comes Oklahoma. under the government ditch." Land in Old Mexico looked good, the panhandle of Idaho even berrer and Colo This is just the commencement. of a rado offered undreamed of opporrunities. movement in rhe colonization line which But rhe three pushed on. The Klamath will eventually settle rhis country up with small holdings, for which it is peculiarly country they had heard about was new. The southern parr of Klamath County adapted. We are glad to see Bohemians was almost untouched except for the hill locate here, for they are considered good, ranchers and the canlemen with great honest, industrious people and make first ranches down the valley. class citizens. They are also agriculrurisr:s Sagebrush grew rank and ull and the of a high order, and when things are set fall weather was warm when the scours aright on the Lakeside tract we may look arrived. Ducks and geese blackened Tule for some models in intense farrning. Lake and deer were plentiful. There was ]. Frank Adams, who engineered this water in the Adams Canal that skirted the deal, is one of Klamath County's best known foothills. The soil was sandy or black loam. citizens, and this is only one of the many So the word weor back char the long rhings that he has done co promote the trek was ended, the perfect homesite for iorerests of this section.) the colony bad been found. They traveled by rrain on the Southern Three hundred members of the club Pacific north through California. They beard the news and 66 laid plans for the were regaled with stories of the possibili uip west. Many of the scares of the Union ties of the country around Macdoel in were represented. Siskiyou County but southern Klamath [The Klamath Repubitcatl of September County in Oregon was their goal. 9, 1909 in reponing the chain of events, By horse drawn hacks and Jed by ]. wrote: BOHF.MIANS COMJNG IN. The Frank Adams, manager of the Lakeside colonization of the Lakeside cract near Land Company, they traveled 30 miles 31. o(t. • \ across the country from the railroad, stop· and if a few more such men could develop ping one night at MerrilL in this country the rime would not be far From the low hill above the present off when the word "Klamath" would be town of Malin, Bevan's Poinr, they looked heard on all sides, instead of "Rogue out over the valley, visualized their future River" and "Willamerce Valley" as it is homes and handed over in most cases only now. small down payments on their land. The [The following is taken from a lengthy remainder was to be paid over a long article in rhe same paper- Ed.) period of time. Many bought land still Saturday night there arrived here 60 under the receding waters of Tule Lake Bohemians making a total of 75 that have which all knew to be unusually rich. Land come here during the past moorh. A. ]. on the bank was light and sandy. The Balaun, chairman of the committee said, choice locations cost $40 an acre. "Our club was organized for the purpose Only the farmers from the Midwest of finding homes in the West. Only hesitated. The sand was deep. They had Bohemians cz.n belong ro it. We will of been rold that frosts came every month of course be glad to have Americans or any the year and that spring winds ruined the orher nation for our neighbors. We are not grain. Those doubtful ones went back to going ro isolate ourselves. All we want is the railroad with the four horse rigs. By to be in a community of law abiding citi the time that rhe sun wenr down, of the zens. Nothing less will satisfy us. We pro· 66 who came, most were landowners. pose tO become a pan of the co=unity [A contemporary item in the Klamath in which we may locate, and always rake an Re-publican of September 30th, 1909 re active inrelligenr parr in irs affairs. Our cords the following version of that first people are progressive, up to date farmers, visit of the Bohemians-Ed.] and will prove a valuable addition to the BOHEMIANS WILL REMAIN. With population of any county. We will pay our ·rhe closing of nineteen comracrs b)' the bills and obey all laws, and so conduct our Lakeside company for land in the Lakeside selves as to merit the esteem and confi rract, locared near Merrill with the Bohe dence of our fellow citizens. That is the mian delegation who passed through here standard on which we seek homes among recenrly, the colonization movement in you, and future events will go to show that Klamath county has started. Ir is expected every principle will be lived up ro." that fully forty our of the sixty who came [Now back to Rurh King's article.) The here will settle on this tract. The average first night, many of the newcomers spent amount of land taken by each individual is in an abandoned house near the lake (the about fifty acres, and the price per acre old Jim Bevans house ). They had no is in the neighborhood of $40. The bene household equipment, no livestock bur fit to this county made possible by this they had land and the will to work. colonization movement cannot be computed The names of those men have been in dollars and cents, as it is just a starter. Anglicized so many years that the original The land purchased by the Bohemians pronunciation has been in many instances is all under irrigation, and with these lost. thrifty people in control of it, doubtless in There were no buildings on the new the near furore it will be one of the "show" farms with one exception ( the old Jim places of rhe county. With the coming of Bevans ranch hous~Ed. ), the land these people and the colonization move bought by Frank Zumpfe. There were ments which are started in this direction few fences, almost no roads. The families or will start in the near future the nucleous planned to make a livelihood, most of of a large and prosperous population in rhem on 40 acres which was an estate in this community is formed. comparison to land ownership in the To ]. Frank Adams is due the credit of old country. bringing this condition of affairs about, Lumber to build modest cabins was 32. hauled from Merrill and though fences and many a pair of shoes and overalls were few, drivers opened 17 gates coming were paid for with bounty money. and going. Blackbirds came to ear the grain and The sagebrush, higher than a man's head children and women beat tin kettles to was grubbed by men and women by hand, frighten them off. was piled and burned afrer nightfall, the Bur the Indians who still traveled from fires dotting the landscapes. (Wonder the reservation co Tule Lake were not so what happened to the Adams sage brush easily frighcened, recalls Mrs. Antonia grubbing machines?-Ed.) Smidl who came with her three small boys They made beds of meadow hay, used and was promptly left alone while her boxes for furnirure, bought a minimum of husband worked. farm equipment and borrowed from the She spoke not one syllable of English. big landowners. Those who were here in The cupboard was bare except for flour those days recall the friendly helpfulness and salt and le.vening and a bit of rye of W. C. Dalton and J. Frank Adams. bread. The children were hungry and a pot Funds for food were shon and when the of dumplings were the answer to hungry nippy fall days carne the Adams butchered stomachs. hogs, in the form of hams and sides of They were boiling and bubbling over a bacon, found their way into the newly sagebrush fire when an radian woman with established homes where wives and child full skirts, flanked by others of her tribe, ren needed food. came into the tiny cabin. She spotted the There was no thought of a cash return. cooking dinner and while the terrified Adams was a good neighbor, those early children crept under the bed and their Czechs say today, yet later, when crops equally terrified mother watched, the visitor survived the wind, the freezes, and the gathered up her skirrs, poured the boiling rabbits, each man paid his debt to Adams, dumplings inro its folds and dashed out who kept accoum of payments received on the door co her waiting fellow travelers. the inside of a barn door. Wages we.re S 1.25 per day with board The two big ranches, established for furnished, and when work was scarce, many years, provided work for a few. businessmen of Merrill and Klamath Falls Others went that first year to Klamath wirh faith in the determination of the new Falls. Some worked on the railroad. All settlers, provided credit. When Wale stayed away for weeks at a rime while the Adams and Mr. and Mrs. Alois Kalina women worked che land. brought in their srocks of groceries, hard Sagebrush was used for fuel. Water ware and calico, they roo cook names signed was carried long distances. News from on birs of paper in lieu of cash. old homes in the east was slow in coming. By 1911 crops were berrer and the fol Sand drifted into every crevice in the in lowing year better yet. Experimental plant adequate shelters and wind whipped tents ings of potatoes, beers, wheat, oats, rye, bay co shreds. and all garden crops were pur in and des Grain crops the first year that were pite frosts, grew and were harvested. not taken by frost were eaten into the By the spring of 1910 a two-story build ground by jack-rabbits. Hearing that a ing to be used as a post office, score and bounty of 5 cents per pair was to be paid school had been built. Oasses for the by the county for rabbit ears, the settlers young Bohemians were held on the second organized rabbit drives and killed the floor and there, coo, on Saturday nights, creatures by the thousands. the fun-loving Czechs in the tradition of They are rabbits wirh no thought of their homeland, brought their families, tularemia. They fed them to chickens and stowed sleepy children on benches or co dogs and cats. against the walls, and danced and sang. With bounty money they bought more Folks from as far away as Bly, curious about chicken wire to build pens for more drives the new settlement came and danced too, 33. taking three days to make the round trip. Hotel and later to Malin by taxi ... the More than dancing, the Bohemians charge was $8. loved a barbecue. John McNeil, W. C. Joe Smidl, the first ditchrider, rode Dalton and Charles Beardsley were initiated horseback from Adams Point to the Carr into the rirual of cooking meat in a pit and (Dalton ) Ranch, a distance of some 25 they helped with the first big barbecce miles. Horse and saddle were furnished. that was christened with a sandstorm. The pay was $75 a month, a magnificent Water receded from Tule Lake as the sum. Bureau of Reclamation drainage project Many such instances can be recalled. progressed and the 70,000 acres of land Today the families laugh at the hardships. that was covered, was largely drained co With few exceptions those who stayed have become rich farmland both in Oregon and earned comfortable incomes. the Tule Lake area. On October 1, 1910, first anniversary of The first barley sold went to the Marrin the arrival of the settlers, they invited Brothers Mill at Merrill for 65 cenrs per neighbors and had a picnic and a dance. sack, weight nor known. Later when alfalfa The few farm produces grown were dis was raised, hay sold our of the stack played and funds collected from the dance brought $5 per con. helped build the old Bohemian Hall in There was little illness among the settlers Malin, used for a gathering place for many bur docrors were a long distance by buggy years. or horseback and neighbors helped one The first rural telephone line was built anorher. Mrs. Joe Ottoman Sr. was a mid by A. Kalina about 1915. The first irri wife. Some families gave her $5 for her gated land opened to homeste:rding was services. Mrs. Kalina recalled giving her taken up in 1918. EleCtricity reached material for dresses and food for her family. Malin in 1921. A cheese factory built in Eggs were scarce and a hen egg in 1921 used milk from the dairy herds. Two January was calk of the town. fine brick schools, high school and ele Reminiscing, Mrs. Marie Kunz, who menrary buildings, replaced the wooden could then speak no English, remembers structures, a church was built, utilities were buying groceries at Kalina·s, including a financed, the town grew and was incorpor gallon can of kerosene, starting home in a ated. wagon over a rutted road and losing the Fine homes have been built, revenue potato stopper on the spout of the oil from farm crops now runs into hundreds can. Result was ruined food and no more of thousands of dollars annually. Athletic money. teams have won state Championships. Mrs. Vaclav Drazil was left with only a The town boasts one of the finest parks dime when her husband went tO work in in Oregon. Klamath Falls. She spent that on stamps From the privations and work of the co write and ceil him all was well. original 66 men and women, prosperiry The Frank Paygrs, out of money, ate has followed. roasted wheat and roasted rabbits, ground Of those who came w Malin on that roasted rye and wheat to mix with chicory day 50 years ago, few are left. The second for coffee ... others ate blackbirds, geese and third generations have married our and ducks. side Czech families. Mrs. Anna Polivka came by train from Maljn is a peaceful town. There is a New York to Sacramento. She, tOO could minimum of law infractions. The jail is speak no English and because no one could seldom used. Men and women srill help understand her questions or her answers, their neighbors. The land is still tilled a station agent who thought she wanted a and continues to produce. bed, locked her into· a small room until she This year ( 1959) on August 1 and 2, missed a train. In Klamath Falls she was the town wilJ celebrate irs 50th anniversary. taken from the railroad station to the Kern Those who live near the blue haze of the 34. LOA D OF SHORT LOG S A T THE WORLOW SAWMILL ON BRYANT MOUNTAIN Note the wooden wheels. -courtesy Zena Stev~nson Sawmills of the Malin Vicinity . . . lfltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllllllflllllllllttlllllllllllllllllllltiiiiiiiiUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUUUIIUUIIIIIItllllllllllllllllllflllllllllllllllllltlttlllllllllllllllllllllllllllfllllllllll by Devere Helfrich The first recorded use of lumber in the miles of post and plank fence at Tule Lake Tule Lake Basin comes from the Yreka this season ..." Union of J une 8, 1876 which states that Tw:ning to more recent writings, we "Jesse D. Carr's teams will soon start to find that W. W. Lamm in his "Lumbering Spencer mill for lumber to fence Tule in KlaflUJth," 1944, records that: "In 1888 Lake .. :· Further, the same paper of Jesse D. Carr, owner of the ranch now August 11, 1877 again quoting Carr, known as the Dalton [presently, Byme- states: " ... I shall pur up from 12 to 15 Ed.) ranch abour two miles south of Malin, financed the building of a sawmill on tree-covered hills will begin another half Bryam Mountain about ten miles northeast cenrury. of Malin. It was a circular mill powered with a stationary boiler and engine and And Malin, a name euphonious and was operated by Rogers and McCoy until shorr, will continue to bring to mind those 1892 or 1893, when they had flooded the folks whose ancesuy is linked with the very limited market of a few stock ranches Old World, will recall the Czech homeland, for the name in the Czech tongue means in that disuict. Quite a lor of the product "wonderful country, a paradise where crops was still piled at the Carr ranch when never fail." William Dalton arrived in 1900." 35. --- Finally, this last article is more or less down for the winter when they would move confirmed by the General Land Office to Malin, where they would renr a home maps of Oregon Township 41 S., R. 13 E., for rhe remainder of the school term. surveyed by Chapman & Nicklin between Lumber was sold tO the sertlers in and Ocrober 9 and 16, 1896 which shows two around Malin, Poe and Langell Valleys. wagon roads leading to a sawmill some· Down through rhe years, until he died where on Bq•ant Mountain, one from the in 1926, Worlow usually had a partner, Carr ranch on Tule Lake, and the other one of whom was Emmert Laboda, 1913 from Clear Lake. to 1916, with W. C. Dalton entering and The Carr sawmill seems tO have been leaving the business from time to lime. located at the southeast end of the present Mrs. Worlow, Jack West, her son-in day Worlow Reservoir. At least an old law, and his wife Emma, continued to run saw dust pile was still visible there during the mill unril 1928 when operations were the period between 1910 and 1930, accord· discontinued and the equipment sold. ing to both Mrs. Zena (Worlow) Steven· George McCullum in 1920, built a son and the late Bob Adams. circular mill locared on rhe Klamath River According co information in an article near the highway crossing west of Keno. in the Herald & Ne111s, April 23, 1961, In 1934 the mill was sold to the Ellingson James \Xforlow, with the arrival of the rail· Lumber Company. In the meantime, some· road in Klamath Falls in 1909 bringing an where around 1930, he built a seconJ mill, influx of settlers, saw the need for lumber this one near Malin. It swod some three in the Tule Lake Valley and surrounding to four miles southeast of town, on a site vicinities. He was living near the Stukel now occupied by the Loveness Mill. ranch ar the rime with his wife Annie and According to the Herald & News of famiiy. Probabl}' financed b)' W. C. Dalton, June 7, 1959, "ar first the millworks were he purchased machineq• in Porrland, powered by several small motors, and the shipped it by train tO Klamath Falls, and lumber and logs were handled by horses hauled it by horse and wagon to Brrant and man-power. Logs were skidded from Mountain. There he set up his mill about where the uees were felled in rhe forest one-half mile west of the original Carr mill to the loading site b)' teams of horses. Logs sire, or near the wesr end of the present were hauled to the mill in short 16-foot Worlow Reservoir. The mill began opera· lengths on cabless trucks. Men with cant cion sometime between late 1909 and books rolled rhe logs off the uucks into 1911. the log pond. When the logs were ready The first task was producing lumber for for the sawmill the)' were again rolled by the mill itself, living quarters and other hand onto the carriage. Lumber was moved necessary buildings, with all work being from the green chain ro tbe drying yards done by contract. The machinery was run on horse drawn carts where it was piled by steam. It is stated that ''a crew of by hand. 17 men could saw 30,000 to 40,000 feet "The first big improvement in opera of lumber per day." Logs were hauled as tions came in 1933 when the millworks far as two miles to the mill, and cur into were converted to steam power. Eventually lumber from 10 ro 18 feet in length. Only a Caterpillar Sixty diesel tractOr replaced the best timber was used and boards with horses in the woods. The plant operated knots were discarded. thusly until 1946 when the Loveness Over the week-ends, the crew walked Brothers, L. H., V. H., and R. E., pur· the 10 miles to Malin to relax at their chased it. homes or in the newly built town, return· "Lumber carriages replaced the horse ing the 10 miles on Sunday evenings. drawn lumber cans in the drying yard, Worlow moved his family tO a home and lumber is now stacked by fork trucks. near the mill where the wife, Annie, taught By 1950 the entire plant was converted her children until the mill would shut from steam to electric and air power. These 36. THE WORLOW MILL AND LOG POND ON BRYANT MOUNTAIN ON THE LOG DECK IN THE --WORLOW- SAWMILL ON BRYANT MOUNTAIN IN 1914 The men from left to right: E. Ma.nasek, ··-··-·· Osborne. Albert Grayson, Anton Suty, Sr.• Joe Krejeirik. Bob Butts, ·--··-···-- Bennett. Emmett Laboda and Felix Kunz. --courtesy Emmett Lahoda changes enabled rhe plant to increase ics Adantic seaboard and some is sold over average production from 35,000 bd. ft. to seas in foreign markets. 65,000 bd. ft., per shift. "With large national forests to the "At first the majority of the plant's sourh and east of Malin, operated by the products were shipped locally ro the box federal governmenc on a sustained yield factory and moulding plants in Klamath basis, it is believed that there will be Falls. At one time, lumber cut in Malin lumber produced in Malin for many more was shipped to practically all 49 states years." as far as the Gulf of Mexico and the A few ocher early-day mills supplied 37. INSIDE THE WORLOW MILL ON BYRANT MOUNTAIN Ed Stewart, ratchet setter. -courtesy Emma West JIM WORLOW HAULING OVER 8.000 BD. FT. OF LUMBER FROM THE WORLOW MILL on Byrant Mountain. to the Carr SchooL -courtesy Emma West lumber to rhe Lower Tule Lake Valley set· cer Creek, west of Keno, and the Rhoades· tiers from time to time. These included Turner mill on Srukel Mountain. These, the old Moore Mill on Link River in however, were probably in very limited Klamath Falls, the Spencer mill on Spen· amounts. 38. THE SHASTA VIEW SCHOOL, DISTRICT No. 35 Could it be possible that the old buildinq in the backqround was the original board and batten. Bob Dalton school? -courtesy Klamath County Museum Malin Schools • • • IIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIftlllllllllllllllllllllli UIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll by Devere Helfrich The first school established in the Tule H. K Gay, now owned by Tim Wolf, and Lake area was the old "Tulie Lake," or was near the center of Section 3, T. 41 S., District #6 school, on June 30, 1879, near R. I 2 E. According to "Ninety Years of the Stone Bridge on Lost River. It later Klamath Schools," by Buena Cobb Stone became known as the Gale school and and Marjorie Reeder Howe, sometime was moved due north to the base of the around the turn of the century a school foothills where it remained until closed. known as Sand Hollow came into exisrance. On February 18, 1889 a school known It stood in Secrion 12, T. 41 S., R. 12 E., as Disrricr #20, or Upper Poe Valley was on a sire later, December 22, 1904, ro be established. come known as the post office of Tule Shortly llhereafter, according to records Lake. This· sire is now occupied by the left by P. L. Fountain, Klamath County ranch buildings of Harold Barney. Ic was School Su,Perinrendent, Disrricc #22 was discontinued when Shasta View came into petitioned to be divided from #6. How exiMance; but, if irs district number was ever, completion of irs o·rganization .failed, also #22, if it succeeded the Gay school, hence it reverted back to #6. or if it ran at the same time is presently Five years larer, according to records leh undetermined. [Some think the Gay school by C. R. Delap, the next Klamath County and the Sand Hollow school were one and School Superinteodenr, on June 15, 1894 the same-Ed.] the new district #22 was established. It, Next, with the arrival of homesteaders at first, seems to have been known as and new settlers coming to the Basin with Morton, but somewhere down duough the advent of the railroad, more schools time, the name was changed to Gay. The were required, so, a new school, #35, was school was located on land belonging to organized in the summer or fall of 1909. 39. Ic was established in the old Bob Dalton road, Iacer it was moved to a site south of homestead shack which was about one che Stare Line road, and slightly east of mile west of the present Poe Valley ro:1d the end of the South Malin road. and north of the canal, which in rurn is Coincidenral with the founding of these north of the Old Malin Highwa}•, one :~nd schools came another, Malin, commenced one-fourth mile north of the present Mer in the 1909-1910 season and came about rell-Malia Highway. in the following manner. With the arrival The following year, 1910, a new two of the Bohemian families in 1909, and room school was buih, co become known as the establshmenr of the townsite of Malin Shasta View or Disuict #35. h was lo on November 15m of char year, the con cated in rhe extreme northeastern corner struction of a new school was made of Section 7, T. 41 S., R. 12 E., or west necessary. Shortly thereafter, during rhe of the Poe Valley road and about one· 1909-1910 season, Walter S. Adams con fourth mile north of the intersection of srrucred a two srory buil9ing to house his that road and the Old Malin Highway. score and post office. According co Mrs. Ben Pickett, they taught twelve grades, but did nor have an ac The first Malin school was held upstairs credited high school. A nore in che old in this building, located ease of rhe north Superintendent's record book, records that end of Main Srreer and continued there "Olive Whipple once caught the high until a new grade school, taking the desig school grades there, with Nellie Dclamerer nation, District #22, was built during the and Lola Shaffer in charge of the elemcn· summer of 1911 ac a cost of S2,000. This cary grades." [For further information on new school was situated some two blocks chis school and others in che valier, see case of the Adams store. ''Ninety Years of Klamath Schools.'1 Then in 1921, a high school was con Other schools which came into existance structed on land ( 6 blocks) donated by after 1909, ran for a while and were chen Alois Kalina, co which in later years an consolidated into the larger schools of addition was added. This original high Merrill, Malin and Bonanza as the Count}' school is just chis )'ear ( 19-0) being dis Unit system was installed by Superinten manrled, to be replaced by a new elemen dent Peterson in cbe early 1920's were: tary school, said to cost in the neighborhood District #40, Dodd's Hollow, in exis of $350,000. tance around the 1911-1917 period and In 1923 a new elementary school, co was located northwest of Adams Poinc. replace the original wooden building in District #45, Bryant Mountain, in exis me northeastern section of rown, was tance during the approximate period of constructed, again on land ( 2 blocks) 1915-1930, was located on rhe northeastern donared by Mr. Kalina, situated immediately slope of Bryant Mountain which seems co north of the high school. Ir was later en have united it into the Bonanza school larged and will still be in use for some system. time. District #49, Libby, located ease of Adams Point at approximately rhe location According to rhe H ert~ld & Net4JI of of the new Lost River High School, now June 7, 1959, Malin was the first union under construction. Libby came into exis high school in Klamath County, combining tance somewhere around I 916 and was three and one-half school districts, Malin, still on rhe 1925-26 rolls. Shasta View, Bryant Mountain and one One other school, "The Carr School," half of Libby. located in California and nor connected Commencing in September 1970, Malin with che Oregon schools, muse be men high school srudenrs will attend the new tioned at this rime. It was fi rsr located some four or more miles southeast of the "Lost River High School," as also will Loveness mill and near the Clear Lake Dam Merrill high school students. 40. I SHASTA VIEW SCHOOL ABOUT 1912 Back row, 3rd from left, Anna Polivka, 4th, Bonaparte Polaskie Alaxender --courtesy Klamath County Museum THE FIRST HIGH SCHOOL, 9TH AND lOTH GRADES, AT SHASTA VIEW IN 1921 Front row, left to riqht: Rachael Jaelo. lla Smith, Thelma Brandenburq, Mary Kotera, Hazel Hunt. Emma Worlow and Eva Myers. Back row. same order: Laddie Rajnus, Ivan Ottoman. John McNeil, Mrs. Albert West, teacher, Zena Worlow, Vlasta Zumpfe and Polly Casper. --courtesy Emma West 41. THE FIRST SCHOOL AT MALIN IN 1911 Miaa Marovich (Majorowill:), teacher at left, and Miss Charlotte Evans (later Tower), teacher at right. The lumber for this school came from the Worlow milL -<=Curtesy Emma West THE MALIN SCHOOL IN 1916 · · 1 ia the abort man to the left of the door. with the bat on. M. M. S taatny, pnnclpa ' -courtesy M. M. Stastny 42. FffiST MALIN HIGH SCHOOL Back row, left to right: Vac Kalina, Jerry Rajnus, Mr. Smith, teacher, Miss Burke, teacher, ········-······' ········--····• Earl Wilson,0 in front of latter, his brother Lester, and extreme right Frank Tofell. Front. same order: Neal Craig, Mamie Worlow, in checkered dress, and Rosie Honzik, in middie and tie. - courtesy Emma West WHEN THE HIGH SCHOOL WAS YOUNG, ABOUT 1921 OR 1922 And before the Masonic Hall was constructed. Part of the Worlow lumber yard in the foreground. -courtesy M. M. Stastny 43. KLABZUBA GRAIN AT TULE LAKE ABOUT 1923, THE YEAR OF THE CRASH No elevators w ere a vailable. -M. M. Stastny photo As Told by Frank Klabzuba . . IIIUIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIUIIIIIIIIIIIUIUUIIIIIIIIIIIIUUIIIUIIIIIUIIIIIIItllllllllllllllllllllllttiiiiiiUIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIUIIIIIIUIIIIIIIUIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIttiiiiUIIUUf to Evea Adams I had been on a rrip to Canada looking could inspect the Butte Valley country. for a location and had gone back to Then we carne on to Klamath Falls on a Oklahoma. Vosuoil and Vondreis had freight train 10 which they had hooked club starred. The Southern Pacific had one passenger car. advertised in Czech paper in Omaha of At Klamath Falls I telephoned the the Burce Valley country which they owned. Adams Ranch. Will Adams met us with a I rook a notion to come wesr and Vosuoil rwo seated surrey and cook us out to the asked me to look ar this land. I got co ranch. After looking over the Lakeside Bune Valley March 15, 1909. I saw no Project the comminee decided it might do, chance of water there. I came on to but they were still obliged co go on and Klamath Falls and on making inquiries I look at the other projects so as to give a was introduced to Mr. C. S. Moore, who fu II reporr to me club chey represented. directed me to rhe Adams Ranch. In September of that same year, 1909, I rook the stage to Merrill. Mr. Adams sixty-six members of the club came out on met me and rook me over the Lakeside Pro an S. P. excursion which began in Omaha ject. I thought it would do. Lacer in the and brought them to Klamath Falls. l met summer the Czech club sent our a commit the train with about a do:zen rigs belonging tee of three to look over all the western to Frank Adams and a couple of old stage projectS including Mexico. They were coaches he had borrowed for rhe occasion. Frank Zumpfe, Vac Vosuoil, and A. ). The caravan drove to Merrill where we Sobotka ( Svoboda). I met the committee stayed that nighr, and rhen out over the at \'V'eed and went on the train wirh them L:!keside Projecr the next dar. We looked co MacDoel, where we stopped off so they over rhe land and all gathered at Bevan's 44. Poinr ro ear lunch. From this point the and was hauled mostly wim reams and men picked our me places they wanted. wagons belonging to Adams. Mr. Adams showed the maps and explained I had me an office in Merrill, where the terms of me sale. We went back co I had charge of me meeting of the new Merrill mar night and on to Klamath senlers, and selling to those who had not Falls the next day. In Mr. Kuykendall's already bought. office me deeds and mortgages were made Voscroil, Vondreis, Frank Adams and I, our. Klabzuba, had picked me townsite and About seven of the settlers stayed here, Don Zumwalt had surveyed it. Some of me rest wenr back for meir families. the Bohemians bought locs during the first Among those who stayed were Frank )•ear. After thar, Dalwn, Fitch and Worden Paygr, Rudolph Klima, Kratochoil, Bill bought rhe resr of the rownsire. Halousek, Honzik and Rudolph Kos. Frank Adams put up the first building in rown, being a store for his bromer, Smidl was here already. Maybe, Kalina Wale Adams. Ir still remains as parr of stayed roo. Anton Polivka and Joe Korera Jimmy Ottoman's restaurant. Over this came that fall, from Canada. srore was the first hall in Malin, wheu the The next day the ones who stayed began meetings, dances and also the first school tO haul lumber tO meir places. This lumber was held. I think the first reacher was came from rhe Turner Mill at Merrill a Johnson boy. ... IN FRONT OF THE BALDWIN HOTEL. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Individuals unidentiHed, but thought to be some of the original 66 Bohemians en route to the Tule Lake country to look over the :Lakeside Land Co. property. -Maude Baldwin photo Personal Interview with Mr. Rudy Paygr . . . Who W as Later a Shoemaker at Merrill lllllllllllllllllllllltllllllllllllltlltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltltllllllllllllllllllllllltiiiiiUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUlliiiiiiUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII by E vea Adams I had no use to go to America. We had rich. I decide ro go to America, get work a pretty good little farm, Czechoslovakia, and save a mousand dollars, it would be but all youngsters hear about the United lots of money over dere. States, rwo rhings, how it is full of cow Bur when I get ro the United Stares and boys and Indians, and how anyone can gee save one thousand dollars I think mat 45. isn't enough. So T work four years and few of us stay here. Mineself, Krejcvik, save cwo thousand dollars. That was in and Klima got ride in Adams buggy. 1908. I was in East St. Louis then. Whc:n horses jump Krejcvik ger up to I was visiting a friend and he showed me jump too. Adams driver say, "Next time a farm paper, "Hospodar". I read in dese you get up, Jump!" Bohemian paper about dese project in 1 stay at night at Adams Ranch. N ext wesr. Rosicky was ediwr and started propa morning Mr. Adams let me have a ream ganda w organize Bohemian farmers for and wagon to get lumber from Merrill. l find irrigated land for settlemem. 1 joined got me a load to start. When I get to club, paid ten dollar fee. We voted through land I drive cwo posts in cenrer and paper to elect committee to investigate leaned boards over until time build house. western projects, committee was Frank Next morning Krtjcvik came ro my place Zumpfe, Vac Vosuoil and A. ]. Sobotka, ami sar, "I would nor stay here, something I can remember. Dey went over dese pro been howling all night." I knew dey was jects and find out Klamath Basin. Dey coyotes. I say, "Don'r worry, dey's nor refused Weiser, Idaho, because drinking so bad dey do no harm." water hard ro get for house, well cost abom We bujld de houses and scarred to dig five hundred dollars. Some had only der saygbrush, course, by hand. I clear one hundred dollars to srarr. When dey forty, pur in crop next spring, drown it bring dem w Upper Klamath Lake and anyway, 1 did not have no crop. Den I see how much waters dere, it was sure don't know, ir must have been about the warer sources, dey decide Klamath Basin. next year. J was used to heavy soil in old Frank Adams say best, roo. country. I dig a well, mine well was fill Southern Pacific make excursion car to bring out seeders, dey rink we buy dere land in Butte Valley. We don't say to Southern Pacific all our business. About sixty five come in excmsion. Bill Halousek met us at Weed. I noticed him in train, he wear cowboy hat, first time I see cowboy hat. We came on to Klamath Falls. Frank Adam's men and wagons were waiting for us. I remember George Durkee was one of rhe drivers. About ten or cwelve wagons, hacks and stages there were. We came to Merrill, stayed all night at Richelieu and Riverside Hotels. Next morning went to Malin, looked at land, Adams had maps, explained terms, we bargained for land. Old Man Victorine pushed me back all the time. I think I get no land. I sitting on dose carriage's tongue. Vostroil says to me, "Your feel like something happens to you?" I says I believe I get no chance here, but he says it will be all right dere is good land left. We had lunch on Bevan's Point and went back to Merrill and some to Adams Ranch. Next day we go to Klamath FaUs to f RUDY PAYGR., JR. Kuykendall's office, made out deeds and First Czechoslovakian child born in the mortgages for land. Malin community, April 28, 1910. Some go back on train to get families, -courtesy Ruth King 46. up with sand. I thad co use a lumber. J D ose days who didn't had a cow had co go did not know nothing about dese life and work for wages. li ke dat. Once I rink 1 dislike here in 1917, 1 Few of us Bohemian had experiments read about boom in Momana homesteads, farming in old councry, bur second yea r so 1 sell our and go dere. I find it not we begin unnersran. Conrour checks was so good as been in papers. I fine out I nor good for grain and no marker was for can get norhing so good as I sold out here. alfalfa, thirty miles from railroad. So I come back and bought place from We pur in crops what we could and Dalton. Pastures on the other side of the then we work for wages for Adams and hill sometimes look better, but I think Dalton. Kalina and Sreyskal wenr to 1 stay here now. work somewhere on Upper Klamath Lake, No know how to drive horses. 1 see came on Saturday nights on foor from Mrs. Klima seep berween horses in front Klamath Falls co home. By and by we got anJ lead them that way. a few head of scocks. And Frank Adams introduced some of dese Holstein cows, (If there was more, it has become lost he bought some heifers and sold dem our. Eel.) Be n Pic k ett • tUIIIIIUJIII IIIIIHIIII1 11 11111 111111111 UIIIUIIIIII1II IIIIIIIII IIIItlllllllllllliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiUIIIJitlllllltllllllltii11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111UI III IIIII IIII IIlll( The story of Ben Fickett needs to be told in cnci rery. As he says, "I am not the oldest person living in the Malin counuy, but I have been here the longest." The story was only partially told in the Herald & NewJ for the 50th and 60th aoni versary celebrations of the Bohemian settlement of the Malin country. That story will be repeated here: "There were no tranquilizers to quiet a nervous beef critter, no black molasses to mix with concentrates nor a hammer mill in the counrry ro chew up hay for a bovine when Ben Pickett came to the Klamath country bur there was plenry of bunch grass ro stick ro the ribs of a whire face or a red durham. "Ben Picketr, whose parents, Charles and Carrie Pickert, carne to Poe Valley long before the arrival of the Czech colonists ( In 1891, when Ben was three years old E.d.), recalls the beginning of the family cattle business. No rancher attempted to raise anything that couldn't walk ro marker in those days. "The nudeous of the Pickett livestock holdings came from a herd of about 1,000 head of cows owned by a widow. Charles MR. BEN PICKETT July 31 , 1970 -photo by Helen Helfrich Pickett paid a premium of a dollar or so A few additional facts are: a head for the privilege of picking the herd. -that he bas ridden most of the c:ountcy, For $15 a head, he picked fat, three-year on horseback, between Butte Valley and old cows, each with a heifer calf by side. Goose Lake at one time or another. "H e traded 12 mules for 320 acres of -that he is the only known living man land, gave $ 1,000 for another 160 acres to have seen the ghost of Clear Lake. It north of the present town of Malin and so happened that, stopping at the old Carr that land is still parr of the Pickett estate. ranch ro get a cool drink from the spring, "Thousands of bead of cattle being he heard strange noises and thumpings trailed from Eastern Oregon ro Montague coming from the deserted house. Upon in California. terminal of the railroad, investigating, be found an old sow, who passed through Harpold Gap and the had somehow gotten into the house and Picken place in Poe Valley daily from made her way upstairs, after which the mid-August to January 1, stirring the dust doors had blown shut, blocking her escape. in drifts, bedding at night on ranches. -that he once worked at the Steele "The Pickett boys, riding herd for the Swamp Ranch before it was purchased by big cattle outfits, earned $35 a month, bed W. C. Dalton. and board on the trail. -that he worked for J. Frank Adams at "There were no scales to weigh an one time, burning rulies between Adams animal and cattle, lumped off to the buyer Poinr and the State Line. He rode his by the bead, brought $16-$18 for a fat, saddle horse and dragged a long wire 1,200 pound 2 or 3-year-old steer. Baby behind, on which were wrapped gunny· beef was an unknown quancicy when the sacks soaked in kerosene. This dragline, Klamath country was young. when set afire and dragged back and "The Pickett ranch was a mecca for the forth set fire to the huge rule patches. This was done to burn the old tulies, so that traveling Klamaths bound for Tule Lake to hunt and fish and to gather duck eggs. the young tulies coming up in the spring, A thousand egg harvest per family was not could be cur for hay. While doing chis, he uncommon. The Klamaths often worked ran onto the old Applegate emigrant trail for the farmers in the Malin area and there from Bloody Point to Lost River. are still living on the reservation descen dants of those who were friends of Ben -that about 1921 ]. Frank Adams sold Pickett's family." several car loads of horses (about 120) When it was decided tO write the Malin to the E. Clemens Horst Co., who owned story for the 1970 Klamath &hoes, it several hop ranches in the Wheatland, immediately became obvious that Ben California neighborhood. Ben went along Pickett must be interviewed. That has been with rhe shipment to look after the horses done several times, as well as traveling and later break them, only tO end up as over the various roads and surroundings with him twice. foreman, staying there until 1930. Alto gether, he and his wife Anna, spent nine lt is perhaps unfair to the Ben Pickett story, that all he has pointed out, old and a half years there. ranch locations, old roads, post offices, At one time the Pickens visited Mrs. and schools, and the many stories he has Walter Adams, who was then living near told concerning each, cannot be given at Sacramento. Mr. Adams had died some one time Many of them, however, have been incorporated into the preceeding time before. histories, and it would only be a repetition Some qualified person should write to record them again. the entire srory of "Ben Pickerr-Cowboy." 48. THE ALOIS KALINA FAMILY From left to right: Emma. Mrs. Kalina, Rudolph. Mr. Kalina. Louis and Vaclav. -courtesy Louis Kalina Growing Pains of Malin • lllllll lll llllll ll lllll lll llll lll lllll lllll lllll llllilll ll lllllll lllltii ii!I IUIIIIIIUIIJUUIJI IUIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII III IIIIIIIIIIIIIJI IIIIfllll ll llflll ll lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllriiiiiiiiiiiiiii ii iiiiiiUIU IIIIIJJUIIIJI~ by Ruth King The growing pains of Malin and rhe away from home after putting in an oat town's progress rhrough larer years have and rye crop and Mrs. Kalina set the cut been closely enrwined with the Kalina bundles of grain ioro shocks for threshing. family since chat September day in 1909 They grubed sagebrush during the wiorer when Alois Kalina climbed over the wheel and lacking heavier equipmem did much of a buckboard and surveyed the sagebrush of the work with hand rools. dotted land on the shore of a shallow The young Kalinas, both of farm lake. ancestry near Prague, arrived in New York Not long after chat day he bought 46 in 1905 and Alois Kalina tried his hand acres of land from W. C. Dalton for the in Chicago as a machinist, became a tavern townsite of Malin, be gave rhe land for the owner and joined a Czech colonization high school, elementary school, the church club. This membership brought him to and the jail. Malin. Like others of the colonists, the family He tried farming for a season or two, faced hardships as rugged as those in the then built the second mercantile store homeland they had left. Kalina worked 10 Malin, which through the Iacer years 49. with family effort, became the town's election he was the people's choice. For principal trading spot. 25 years he was returned to office. H e Supplies were hauled from Klamath voluntarily retired at the close of a quarter Falls by wagon. There were 17 gates century of civic dury. to be opened and closed between the two He was responsible for getting rhe town towns, stubborn combinations of barbed lighted. A drilled well at the Kalina home wire and juniper posts. furnished water for the first volunteer T he rutted road skirted the lake. Black fire department. clouds of mosquitoes that rose from the Times were a bit rugged about the time shallow water tormented men and animals. of incorporation and to keep the town's Winter mud stalled the horse-drawn wa warrants circulating, he dug down into his gons. On one such trip Kalina was forced own pockets for many months until ciry to unload 25 one-hundred pound sacks of income caught up with the deficit on the sugar, carry the load a quarter of a mile ledgers. beyond the axle-deep dray and reload on Malin needed water and sewer systems solid ground. and these were other Kalina sagas. Malin's Indians from the reservation were good water supply is considered one of the customers, sometimes sleeping on the floor best in Southern Oregon and the system of the Kalina store. They helped with is self·suppon ing. fall harvests and danced and sang from He worked for establishment of the dusk to dawn. Malin Park. He served as presidenr of Mrs. Kalina and their sons and daugh the chamber of commerce and as a director, ter assisted in the expanding family was interested in good roads and equitable business, while Kalina senior went about freight rates. In later years before his the business of helping the town grow retirement he made hundreds of trips to Portland for merchandise after moderni to maturiry. zing his transportation with trucks. When it came time to incorporate Kalina paid for the incorporation proceed His wife, sons, Vaclav and Louis and daughter Emma, have followed the pattern ings. The law required that the town have of community service starred nearly a half lSO residents for incorporation. Malin century ago, when Mr. and Mrs. Kalina, had lS 1. gave free New Year's Eve parties for all His appointment as mayor for a one their customers at a time when there was year term followed. With the city's first little cash to spare for entertainment. THE PRESENT DAY MASONIC HALL Built aa a combination c:hurc:h and c:omunity hall. At left, the Malin elementary ac:hool, built in 1923. -courtesy Vac Kalina so. Walter W. S. Adar:zu. brother of J. Frank Adams, built and operated the first store and post office in Malin in 1910. Seated on the store porch. left to right: T. H. Fredenburg. Gladys Adams. with baby Frances Adams on her lap, and Walter Adams. -courtesy Emmett Lo.hoda Tule Lake Valley Post Offices • • IIIUUifiiUIIIIUUIUIIIUUIIIUIIItllllllflltlllllllllllllntltiUIUJIUIIUIUIIUIIUittiiiUIIIUIIIIIIUiliiiiiiiiiWWIIIWIJIIIIUIIUIUIIIIII.IIIIIIIIIIIUIUIIIIIIIIUIIIIUIIIfiiiiUUIIJUIIIIIIIIIIflltllllltlllt. Tule Lake was the first post office estab That same year a post office was also lished in the Tule Lake Valley. The office established at Clear Lake on October 26th, was established February 8, 1875 with in the Jesse Applegate home, with Charles Elkanab Whitney as postmaSter, and was Purnam as postmaster. located at the Whitney home, norrheasr The next post office to show up in the of the old emigrant crossing of Lost River Valley, was ar Cornell, January 26, 1884 at the Stone Bridge. with John H. Cornell as posrmaste!. This 51. office was located some ten miles south of By November 4, 1897 Manzell Beardsley the Oregon-California scare line, on the was appointed posrmasrer of Tule Lake old The Dalles-California Highway. with the office being moved from the On February 7, 1889 the Tule Lake Carr Ranch to the Beardsley home near post office was moved co a point exacrly the present Loveness sawmill. Beardsley's cwo miles due north of the Scone Bridge, w.fe Gladys was assistant postmaster and where Wellisron D. Woodcock became ptobably did most of the clerical work. the postmaster. [Een Pickett says .Mrs. Beardsley"s name A new post office, Morton, was estab was Manzella-Ed.] lished August 28, l 889 wirh Hie! K. Gay Next on November 10, 1900 William as postmaster. This office was located C. "Bill" Dalton became the postmaster of in the Gay home, one mile ease of the Tule L3ke with the office returning to the north end of Bevan's Poinr or Turkey Hill, Carr Ranch. north of rhe county road and near the On June 6, I 902 a new post office of center of Section 3, on the Tim Wolf St:aw was established to care for the needs ranch. of homesteaders and seeders in the Dry On April 10, 1890 the name of the Lake area. Isaac W. Straw was the first Tule Lake post office was changed to Gale, postmaster, and the office was located and the name Tule Lake for a post office several miles south of the old Cornell was discontinued for a few years. ranch, but north of Dry Lake on approxi Isaac W. Straw became rhe postmaster matelr what is now Higbwa)' 139. The of Clear Lake on May 10, 1893. The office was discontinued January 14, 1928 office was moved co the Carr Ranch on with the mail transferred to Malin. Tule Lake, August 9, 1893, but retained On December 23, 1904 the pose office its old name until December 16th, when of Cornell, which had experienced bur one the name Tule Lake was again brought shore lapse of service, during 1890, was into use. permanently discontinued, wirh rhe mail Then on Occober 4, 1894 Montrose E. transferred co Tule La·ke. Lack of sertlers Hutchison became the postmaster of Mor between Straw and Tule Lake was probably ton, at which time the office was probabl~· the reason. moved to the home of Richard '"Dick'' Finally the Tule Lake post office was Hutchison, father of "Mont" H utchison, moved to Klamath County, December 22, and father-in-law of Ivan Applegate. The 1904 with Mary R. Bassett postmaster. Hutchison home was located near the (It is the policy of the U. S. Postal Depart center of the Northwest 14 of the North ment ro designate both men and women west ~4 of Section 17, T . 41 S., R. 12 E., '"postmasters.") This location was near the [east of the Poe Valley road, % of a mile center of Section 12, in Sand Hollow, and north of the Merrill-Malin Highway, or east of the Malin Loop road, where the about 200 yeards south of the DcMerritr pr~scnr Harold Barney ranch buildings road.) Due to some now unknown reason, are located. the office was discontinued October 31, At some unknown date in 1909, Jennie 1894, less than a month after Hutchison D cmn became postmaster, to continue as had been appointed. Thus ended Morcon. such until the post office was discontinued Larkin W. Carr, nephew of Jesse D. and mail routed co Malin sometime in Carr, replaced Isaac W. Straw as post· 1911. master of the Tule Lake post office, Decem It is imeresting ro note the amount of ber 12, 1894. business transacted by the T ulc Lake post· November 20, 1896 witnessed the dis office, while located at rhis location, as continuance of the Gale post office, which reported in bi-annual reports: S46+ in was moved tO the newly established town of 1905; S-t5- in 190- ; S47..,.. in 1909; and Merrill. Henry E. Mom~•e r was the post firully S 50+ in 1911. master during chis change of location. In rhe meantime, wirh rhe advenr of the 52. Mary Ha1ouaek, postmaster. at the Malin Post Office sometime during 1913-16 period. -courtesy Emma West Bohemians and the settlement of the stage (a buckboard pulled by two horses) Lakeside Land Company tract a more cen from Klamath Falls to Malin for three tralized location was needed. Consequently or four months. a town.site was laid our and me new town Then on July 6, 1918 Mike Dobry of Malin founded November 15, 1909 was appointed posrmaster and the office when Alois Kalina signed papers for 40 was moved to a building belonging to to 46 acres of land owned by William C. Dobry and located where the Shell Ser Dalton. vice Station now sits on the west side of Walter S. Adams, brother of J. Frank Main Street. Adams, became the postmaster August 11, Mrs. Maude W. Thomas became the 1910 wirh rhe office located in his store, (Act.ing) postmaster, April 16, 1923 with situated near the pumping plant to the the post office probably remaining in the north and east of present Main Street. Dobry building. Her tenure was short On November 17, 1913 Mary Halou.sek however, as Henry Krupka, became the became the postmaster with the office postmaster, October 25, 1923, with the moved to a small building on the site of post office moved ioro the building now 2625 Railroad Avenue, where the Ecco known as the Malin Inn on the east side McDonald home now sics. Others say of Broadway, across from the present post the pose office was located in the Irvine office. house. Once again the tenure of a postmaster Charlotte I. Evans became the postmaster was of but a few months, as John A. Mc on July 8, 19 16 wi th the pose office re Comb succeeded Krupka on March 1, 1924. maining in rhe same location. On June The office was moved across the street into 25, 19 17 Miss Evans, now Charlouc I. the white building just south of the old Tower, was reappoimed under the new stone bank building. On October 12, 1925, name. Mrs. Teressa (John) McComb became the In 1917, at the age of 18, Earl Irvine, postmaster, remaining in the same building. who lives in the Zu.mr place, next door National Archive and U. S. Postal rec to the McDonald home, drove the mall ords are somewhat conflicting during the 53. next few years. One records that Maude remajns today. Mr. Storey conducted the W. Thomas again became postmaster on poscoffice in the Hirvi building until the December 18, 1930, while the other states new and present postoffice building was July 30, 1935 as the dace. This confusion built and occupied in 1956. might be explained if the posroffice was Lascly, The Herald & NewJ of Feb moved from the (white building) to the ruary 24, 1967 states: The new "Malin back end of the Hirvi buildjng, now the Lockup" ar Malin Pos t Office, was com Ranch Club, at approximately this latter pieced last mooch and is now in use. dare. This enables rhe Scar Route carrier, Earl Pearl Carsley became the next post Potter, Klamath Falls, to deposit and pick master on April 1, 1944 with the post up ourgoing majl when the main office is office remaining in the Huvi builrung. dosed. Then on July 1, 1947, Ecro McDonald The new star route, which leaves became the postmaster, with the posroffice Klamath Falls, via Olene, Dairy, Bonanza, remaining in the Hirvi building. Malin, Merril~ Tulelake and Midland, en Finally, on August 31, 1950, Lawrence ables an earlier delivery and later dispatch L. Storey became the postmaster and so of mail. IN FRONT- OF THE A. KALINA GENERAL MERCHANDISE STORE The change-over period from the horae and buggy to the automobile. -courtesy Vac Kalina Malin, "Your Neighbor" . . . 11111111111111UIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIII1111111 11UIIIlllfltltllllllllllll lllltll lllllllllltllllllllltll llllll lllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllllltiiiiiiii11JIIIIttlllllllllllllllltlllllllllti iiiiiiii i.IIIIIIIIUIIII by Emma (Kalina) Wilde [The following article is a copy of notes bur so small as to be immaterial, and so made by the above author, for a speech to much adrutionaJ information has been be given at an unknpwn date (presumably given, to make rhis article invaluable in the early 'SO's) and at an unknown Editor.) place. A few small duplications may occur, I was asked to give chis ralk co you today 54. because ic was thought I knew more about way to the new country. Two of the men rhe settling of Malin years ago, and because were very enthusiastic over the rich looking I am the daughter of one of Malin's first land and plentiful Tule Lake water. One seeders, Mr. A. Kalina. I am not a public man in the group was not favorable to the speaker so hope that you will excuse a lot project. They went back to Omaha and of mistakes I may make bur will give che said Klamath County was the place to report on the beginning of Malin "Your settle. In September, 1909 a group of 66 Neighbor" as best I can. seeders scarred ouc from practically every This costume I am wearing was brought state in the Union, plus Canada. Arriving to me by my parents in 1947 from Czecho here September 30th, they stood on top of slovakia. lc was made in che seccion of the hill above Malin and looked over the Moravia. As you probably know Czecho vase ground and the big body of water. slovakia is divided into three sections, They were very much pleased over the Morovia, Slovakia and Czech. The lan sight •chey saw. They paid cash for the guage in all three is just a litrle different land, $35.00 per acre, mostly 60 acre plots, from the ochers. To chis day I still speak wirhouc having set foot on the ground they •the Czech language with my mocher instead were co call their own, fingers tracing on of the English language. In 1908 a Bo a map furnished by the Lakeside Land hemian Colonization Club was formed by Company, indicated their future homes. a Bohemian newspaper, che Hospodat of Only Middle West farmers hesitated, they Omaha, Nebraska. Each person belonging, heard the sand was deep, frosts came every paid $10.00 dues and $10.00 per month, month, and spring winds ruined the grain. ro finance this orgainization which was set Some backed ouc. By nightfall thirry of up to find new irrigable land in rbe far the sixry-six who bought land, went back west. Those belonging ro this group were ro their home towns to bring their families mostly business men and a very few farm the next spring, others stayed through the ers-my father was a cavern owner in whole wiorer. Ghicago. They were tired of being in Beside Zumpfe and Vosrroil who picked a ciry as their homeland was mostly open this country co settle, were W m. Halousek, and spacious. This money financed the A. Kalina, John Honzik, Karl Vavrika, first men who were sem out by the Colony Frank Paygr, Joe Smidl, Kremarik, Joe dub to seek land which would be suitable Anton, Joseph Vicrorin, Kamarad, Polivka, for a new home. The government, I under Korera and Vondrez, replacement for Sa stand, suggested a lor of different projeccs batka, who turned our ro be a real estate which would be suitable for colonization salesman and also Frank Klabzuba, who of new homes. Three men, Mr. Frank was a real estate salesman for ]. Frank Zumpfe, Vadav .Voscroil and Mr. Svoboda Ada.ms. Receiving as his share for selling left Omah11, Nebraska, in May, 1909, stop property, a piece of land. Vondrez had an ping in rhe different scares along the way, Opera Singer daughter. He stayed only Colorado, Montana, and Utah. They were one year and left. Those coming in the cold abouc a project in Macdoel, California. spring of 1910 were Spolek, Brothanek, They looked ic over buc it was coo dry, had Havlina, Cacka, Laboda, Zumr, Potucek, no irrigation, and did nor suit them. They Steyskal, Micka, Drazil, Kudr, Tafel!, heard about land in Southern Klamath Krejchik, Krupka, Dobry, Ottoman, Petra County while in a tavern in Dorris. Mr. sek, Kunz, Kos, and Kowalski. J. Frank Adams heard they were looking The ground was covered with sage for land and suggested Southern Klamath brush, some as high as eight feet. The County. There was lots of land and lots smaller sagebrush was grubbed our by of warer. ]. Frank Adams, manager of the hand, the larger by use of horses. This Lakeside Land Co. drove the three men, sagebrush was the only firewood the people by horse drawn hacks, to show the new had the first winter. My mother came in land, stopping at Merrill overnight on the October of that year. My folks built the 55. VINCENT ZUMR IN HIS BACKSMITH SHOP Located at the aile of the present 66 Service Station. -courtesy Mrs. Ivan (Zumr) Petrasek MALIN'S f'IRST THEATRE Built by Vav Kalina and opened January 25, 1925. It ran until 1930. -courtesy Vac Kalina firsr one room borne in Malin. The)' had one carload shipped out together. Thar their furniture shipped from Chicago and f1rst winter the group had a meeting to during char rime rhey slept on ha)', covered name the town. Ingersoll was one name with canvas, on the floor, wirh feather suggested, bur my father suggested Malin, quilts. It took one and a half months for because it was a short name, easy to spell the furniture to arrive. Three families had and easy co sa)'. Also it was the name of a 56. INTERIOR OF THE KALINA STONE GENERAL MERCHANDISE STORE ABOUT 1937 Left to right: Mervyn Wilde, ----·-··-• Louis Kalina. -courtesy Lou1s Kalina THE FIRST TRAIN (GREAT NORTHERN) INTO MAUN IN 1930 -courtesy Louis Kalina 57. Bohemian seulement in Czechoslovakia, by jackrabbitS. They heard a bounty of and this was a Bohemian settlement, so 5 cencs per pair of rabbit ears was paid, should have a Bohemian name. so in rhe fall of 1910 the firsc big rabbit The present highway from Adams Point drive was held. They made big wire to Malin was under Tule Lake water so a fences, then drove the cabbies in bunches road co Adams Point as made along the into corrals, and killed chem with clubs. foothills of Malin and Merrill. 17 gates On one drive alone they killed 2,000 rab had ro be opened and closed in driving that bits. The money was a big help co che much of the way. The road from Adams seeders as that was a lor to rhem in those Point to Klamath Falls also followed along days, ic bought food and clothing. the foothills. It rook three days to make On che fim anniversary of the seulemenr the trip co Klamath Falls by buggy or of Malin in 1910 there was a big barbecue. wagon. One day up, one day there, and A bandstand was built, and singing was one day back. They only made about cwo the main program. Both che U. S. flag and or three trips co Klamath Falls a year. Mr. the Bohemian flag were flying side by side. Jim Johnson, who lived on a dry ranch What produce was raised, was displayed as in the foothills of Malin, cried co dis at a fair. Dancing went on into the night, courage the settlers saying they had better and wee hours of the morning. go back while they still had money because Fredenburg's had the first caring place all that could be raised was rye, hay and in Malin about rhe same time, across the carcle. street from the old grocery score. The first winter was long and hard for The old timers cell me that, if after that the settlers who remained. They are jack first year, they could have gotten S 100.00 rabbits and cottontails mosdy for meat, cogecher they would have left this counry with some duck and goose meat they were and gone home, ic was such a struggle. My able co kill. They had some dried fruit, father farmed only cwo years, chen he flour, and dry yeast for bread making, very starred his first grocery swre in February few eggs. My mother bought some chickens 1912. from a dry land rancher, George West. Merrill at this time was an established There never was a happier person than tOwn. No one in .Merrill, except the Lake my mother when the hens laid their first side Land Co., which extended the loans eggs in January, because without eggs they on the land che settlers had purchased, could not make dumplings. They cook the would give any credit to the Malin settlers place of potatoes which the senlers did because they did not chink they would scay not have. The first year the cwo big and farm. ranches, the Jesse D. Carr Ranch (now the Mr. Zumpfe borrowed horses and a W. C. Dalton ranch), and the ]. Frank wagon from J- Frank Adams co drive every Adams ranch, gave work co many of the week to Merrill, to get mail for all the seeders and many traveled co Klamach settlers and what staple groceries they Falls by foot co seek jobs. Mr. Dalton ac needed. The following year he was able to one rime owned about rhree-fourchs of the buy his own ream. land of che Malin Irrigation dimicr, about My father made his own shotgun shells 3,400 acres which he sold for farms, about for about 1 cent each, to shoot ducks and $40 per acre. My father worked on the geese. There was no limit and no license railroad from K lamath Falls co Kirk that was needed to shoot them. wimer, for $1.50 per day and board. The Farmers at chat time were able to pay going was hard-water had co be carried cheir bills in the grocery store, once a year, quire a distance from open 1vells. Sage when rhey harveSted their crops. And after brush was fuel. Sand sifted into every each year's crop, a big harvest celebration crevice in poorly built homes and wind was held, produce was displayed, and a whipped tenc homes to caners. Crops che dance was held all night. The first mu first year, that were nor frosted, were eaten sicians were Mr. Dobry, Mr. Frank Paygr, 58. THE ORIGINAL ALOIS KALINA GENERAL MERCHANDISE STORE Eatabliahcd Fcbru=v 12, 1912. -courtesy Vac Kalina i KALINA'S STONE STORE. MALIN STATE BANK BUILDING, POST OFFICE. AND THE MALIN MILLING CO'S. FLOUR MILL -courtesy Vac Kalina 59. THE BROADWAY THEATRE. OPENED BY VAC KALINA IN 1930 The Broadway replaced the original 1925 theatre, and introduced sound. -courtesy Vac Kalina THE MAUN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT IN FRONT OF THEIR FIRE HOUSE Which stood at approximately the northeast comer of the present day Kalina Hardware store. Back row, left to right: Vaclav Kalina, Paul Patrasek, Adolph Zwiegart and A. Kalina. Front row. same order: Mervyn Wilde, A. E. Street, Ivan Petrasek, Anton Strevskal, Anton Petrasek, Edwin Petrasek. and Leo Kamarad. -courtesy Mervyn Wilde 60. Mr. Anton Polivka and Mr~. M. Giacomont which was where rhe Communirr church of Merrill. is now locared. The Indians of Pin River From 1912 co 1920 rher useJ kerosene and Btarry stopped in Malin to help har lamps for ltghts in rhe old srore, and from vest crops, and kill ducks and geese for 1920 to 1921 we used gas lanterns. Elcc their wtorer·s suppl)•. The)' purchased rbeir rricity came in 1921, ar which rime Malin winrer supply of flour and sraplc groceries, had co guarantee Copco so much money sometimes rratling their handicraft for every month in order ro gee elecrriciry. groceries. In 1918 the Malin Milling Each year the crops gor bcrrer, mo1e Company was builr, which purchased rhe crops were raised, such as beets, poraroes, grain from the farmers anJ made flour. grain and ha)'. Each farmer boughr a CO\\ In 1919 rhe Malin Stare B.1nk was or or HH>--mdk was sold to rhe Merrill ganized. Borh went bankrupt in the crash creamer}. Farmers took rurns to~ king ir of 1931. 1922 s:1w the first road built ro Merrill. The first rhree years Tule Lake from Malin ro KL1marh Falls. was used a lor in boating ro Merrill. Plea· In 1931 rhe firsr w.trcr srstem was built. sure boats crossed the lake and barges Previous ro rhJt rime a well built by my hauled gravel from the peninsula ro Merrill f.~ther, behind rhc old store, furnished all ro surface roads. Three years after the Malin residents with warer. settlement started rhe government began ln 1928 Malin had their first Sokol draining rhe lake. They first rhouglir they Celd>ration which is an organization com could dratn it by blasting a hole on rhe posed of arhleres who perform calesrhenics. far side, south. They did blasr a hole whach Groups from Scio and Portland, Oregon, seemed co open up more, water disap· Sao francisco, Los Angeles and Hamilton peared, no one knows where, for a few Ciq·, California, came co Malin. Each months. Then it stopped draining. Wilson practiced rhe same drills, then they were Dam on Lost River below Olene was built, all pur cogerher and performed to .Music. and a diversion canal which goes into In 1929 Malin had its 20 years celebra Klamath River. Then as the land drained, tion wirh a parade of old rime costumes more land was opened up to settlers. and vehicles, and larer a big dance ro All rhe settlers who had dry land on finish the evening. rhe hills bordering Malin said rhere were My father built a rock building in 1920 only rwo season around here, winter and across the street from his old score. Ir was July, because of all the frosrs. a bank building and a general merchandise Shasta View School was also buih in srore. The old srore was sold for a hotel 1911, which was north of Malin near the co Mr. Frank Wilde in 1920, who rurned dry land ranches. Ir was consolidated with our ro be m)' farber-in-law in 1935. Malin Union High School in 1921. There Mr. Wilde did not run the horel too was also a Libby school house which was many years after that. It bas changed hands located oo rhe Merrill-Malin road and roo many rimes ro mention names. consolidared with Malin under one school The General Merchandise store was run unit. by my folks unci! 1947 when it was split Mr. Srastny was rhe first man reacher in rwo, my brother rook the hardware and in Malin coming to reach in 1915. There grocery division, and I rook the clothing, were two lady reachers in the school which drugs and stationery departments. was builr in 1913, ro rake the place of the The first church was held in rhe Malin small one above the grocery store on the Grade school which was builr in 1923. I sire near rhe canal, where Joe Fabianek now cannot say when the first church services lives, norrh of Malin on the town border. were held. Afterwards the church group The lady teachers could nor handle rhe stu made a drive ro raise money to build a dents so a man teacher was secured. building which was to be a church, and al 1 remember, in going to school, we had so a communirr building, as more bene ro go through the Indian Teepee village, ficial rhan a church alone. Thar building 61. is now the Masonic Hall. The first minister cion, called the Malin Clinic, which will was Joseph Miksovsky, he also started the be completed this year, ro furnish better Masonic Order in Malin and was irs first facilities for our two new doctors. Master. My folks have made rwo trips to Czecho Mr. A. E. Street was our second high slovakia, once in 1926 and again in 1948. school principal, coming to Malin in 1923 In dosing, I would like ro mention one following Mr. Smith who taught in 1921. special incidenc which happened in the Mr. Street is still reaching today, but will second year in the senling of Malin. One retire at the close of this year. farmer cook a load of rye to Klamath Falls Malin started a fund in 1943 to build by team ro sell in the fall. He made it quite a Park. Construction of the Park and late to Klamath Falls the first day and swimming tank began in 1948, which coday could not unload until the next day. The is quire complete, including the old cheese second night he made it as far as Olenc, factory, which was made into a beautiful and arrived home the third day. What he community meeting place. We the people paid for his meals and lodging in that rime, of Malin have now formed a new organiza- left him a ner profit of 75 cenrs. AIR PHOTO OF THE MALIN CITY PARK. LOOKING EASTERLY -courtesy Klamath County Museum Malin City Park . • lllllllllllllllltiiiiiiiiiiiiiUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIII Nineteen years ago in 1940, the board By the fall of 1943 the proposal had of directors of the Malin Chamber of Com caught the imagination of the Malin com merce talked about building a park ro be munity and donations large and small be used free of charge by all who came co gan pouring in from public spirited citizens seek relaxation. and merchants. Dick Henzel, Klamath 62. Counry rancher, headed a committee to charge for meetings and public functions. handle the funds. The building conrains rwo meeting rooms, Cash donations since chen have approxi public library and fully equipped kitchen. mated $I 60,000. As me projea gained Cost of rhe land and cost of construction momenrum n park district was formed co has roraled about $210,000, the pool and encompass the area from Adams Poinc on bach house, $125,000. The board of direc the west, the scare line south, east to include tors estimate chat $70,000 is a conservative the Lovcness Lumber Mill and north co the figure donated in time, labor, equipment line of hills separating Malin from Poe and materials. Valle)'. Land wi thin this perimeter only, No bills are owed. comprising 1'he Malin Community Park The park is advantageously located on and Recreation Dis trict, is on the tax rolls State Highway 39, adjacent to the cicy for park taxation. limits. There is a wading pool for small Officers were elected with Dick Henzel, children, clean rest rooms, tables, benches president, M. M. Srasrny, A. Kalina, direc and beauty. tOrs, and T. A. (Ted) DeMetritt appointed The land was once the home ranch of as secretary. the family of Mrs. Ben (Anna Pospisil) Funds derived from tax millage for Pickett. maintenance are approximately $12,000 annually. Library . Area of the park is about 30 acres. Twelve acres have been landscaped and Women assumed responsibillry for ocher sections of the park are being readied bringing good reading to the youth and for furrher plantings. The board, some adulrs of Malin with the help of the Klam years ago, bought an en,tire garden nursery, arh County Library, which established a moving shrubs and trees to me park loca branch in Malin as early as 1925. First tion. librarians were Mrs. Joe Kotera and Mrs. Construction on me swimming pool was Edith Rigor. begun in rhe spring of 1948 and the pool For several years volunteers kept the was officially opened in July, 1949. The library open a few hours a week without pool is a Class "A" type, 105 by 45 feec, pay. Space for hooks in various buildings containing 200,000 gallons of soft water, was given without rent. automatically heated, chlorinated and fil Lacer a library dub was formed and tered. Approximately 30,000 persons from Mrs. Teresa McComb, a 1916 homestead Ma~lin and surrounding areas use me pool arriva,l with her husband, John, became li each year. brarian and received ·the first wage, sup Ir is headquarters for a far reaching Red plied by the infant chamber of commerce, Cross youth swim program tbar brings the city council and the Helping Hand children from sournern Klamath County, Society, a women's group. northern Siskiyou and Modoc counties for Her pay was 95 cents per day for two lessons under accredited instructors. In hours, one of two days the library was 1958, 820 children took 10 lessons each, kept open each week. The second day's transported to the pool by buses. The small work was donated for the good of the charge made for use of the pool makes it community. Schools of Malin were also largely self-supporting, paying for labor served by the county librarian, then Mary and chemicals. McComb. Srudeors checked books for class In 1954 the building once occupied by credirs. Mrs. McComb divided the 95 the Malin Cheese factory, located on the cents with the srudems. park ground, was bought and remodeled in She starred the fi rsr library story hour tO a public meeting place and library. It and arranged a reading room during the is now used nearly every day without 15 years she was l.ribrarian. The Malin 63. branch, later dosed for several years, was Cemetery then served by rhe Oregon 3tate Library by mail and the Klamath County Book The green and shaded cemetery on a mobile. knoll be>·ond the bustle of the town was l ater, books were distributed from the begun in 1909 through t:ffons of the new Malin Park Hall with Mrs. Francis ZBCJ Lodge. The early st:ttlt:rs cleared the Kolkow as librarian. ground of rocks and brush and trees, later landscaped the grounds. Members of the library board in 1959 January 14, 1948, the Malin Community included Mrs. Kolkow, Mrs. Lloyd Mack, Cemetery Maintenance District was formed Mrs. Charles Dobry, Mrs. loyal loveness, under Oregon State Law, and the property Mrs. T. A. DeMerritr, Merle Loosley and is now under jurisdiction of Klamath Coun Wayne Fisk. ty, maintained wirh county funds. A full time caretaker is provided. The same board of directors has served since the first settler, Matthew Petrasek was buried there July 21, 1912. Thc board (in 1959) included George Brotha nek, chairman; Vincent Jelinek, treasurer; and Louis Kalina, secretary. The seven-acre plot was donated by Mr. W. C. Dalcon. The Evening Herald, Saturday, July 23, 1921: Malin will realize a desire of long standing within the next few weeks, when the California-Oregon Power company's line is extended to town from its present terminus at Adams Point. Approval of the project was received from San Francisco by the local office of the power company yesterday and J. C. Thompson, division manager, said that work would be started as soon as material could be assembled. He expects the line to be completed and in service by August 10. The line from Merrill to Adams Point, a distance of five miles was completed three weeks ago. Malin residents strongly requested the dosing of the remaining five mile gap to that town. Contracts for use of light and power, totalling $250.00 monthly, have been signed up. This avenue is additional to the Oskar Huber account which will be paid for power service to MRS. TERESA McCOMB. AGE 97 his rock crusher this summer. One time Malin achool teacher, poat Construction of the line from Adams maater. librarian. achool board member, Point to Malin will cost approximatly chamber of commerce member. etc.. and her cat "Beautiful". S9,000.00, said Mr. Thommpson, and cwen -courtesy Ruth King 'ty men will be employed in its building. 64. I Recollections • • • !U IIIIIIIIIIllllllllllfllltlllltiiiUitlllllltiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiUIIIHIItiiUUIIIIUUUIIUJHIIIUJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIUIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiUUIIIIIlllllf by Mrs. Emmett (Anna Zumpfe) Lahoda My farber, Frank Zumpfe, owned and with a specific mission of investigating operated a farm near Swanton, Nebraska various irrigation projects and filing de during the early pan of rhe rwentieth tailed reports on their findings back to the century. At that rime, the Bureau of sponsors of the program. To his surprise, Reclamation was developing irrigation pro· he was chosen as one of the "Scouts." jeers throughout scattered areas of the new Three men were selected for this scouting West, and my father was yearning co try mission. The other rwo men were Vadav a new method of farming. Vostroil from the state of Oklahoma, and In 1908, a Czech agricultural magazine, Mr. Langer from the srare of Iowa. ''Hodspodar," published in Omaha, Nebras The Scouts departed from Omaha, Ne ka, promoted a "Far West" colonization braska in May 1909. and returned in mid program among its subscribers. My father August of the same year. To them it was sold his farm in Nebraska and all the an interesting and an educational experi equipment but reserved the right to remain ence. On one occasion, the group was until he relocated his family co a new offered a sizeable bribe to fraudulendy home in the West. He was anxiously wait recommend serdement of a locality to ing for an officiaJ announcement selecting prospective colonists for the purpose of an exploratory group known as the "Scours" enhancing promotional intent. The three men agreed among themselves chat they would not relent to such disgraceful tac tics under any condition, because they would, thereafrer, be unable to live with their conscience. Consequently, they made only those recommendations which they believed would be favorable with the new colonists. By the first of September, 1909, m y father and mother and their five child ren,- here referred co by their married names-Anna (Laboda), Helen (Meyer), Marie (Drewelow), Vlasta (Petrik) and Joe Zumpfe were living in the Masten House which was one of the first-if not the first (second-Ed.]-elemencary schools in Klamath Falls prior to irs conversion into an aparcment. Ic may be of considerable interest to ochers in knowing che course of my fami ly's emigration journey from departure to destination, and some of the experiences which we encountered. We boarded the Burlington train ac Lincoln, Nebraska and traveled through Nebraska and Wyoming This picture was labeled "hard times". inro Montana, where we changed trains Emmett Lahoda holding his son Paul en route co Tacoma, Washingroo-via nor beside his wife. Anna, in front of the thern Idaho. We had a scheduled lay-over cook house at the Worlow Mill. 1912-1 5. -courtesy Anna Lahoda 10 Tacoma, \' Produce Plant • • AllllllllllllllllllllltiUIIIIIIILIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIUIIIIIIIJIIIIIIllllltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllll H erald & News, February 24, 1963 The trend of the potato packaging in George, Albert and Frank, raising potatoes. dustry from bulk or 100-pound sacks to Joe Micka contracted San Francioco smaller containers demanded by present potato distributors, Jacobs, Malcolm and day housewives, is evidem at the J. M. Pro Burt, on the question of marketing. The duce Co., now one of the largest and most brothers shipped their crops that fall to modern planes in the Klamath Basin. rhe Bay Ciry. Joseph Micka, who has been identified The following year Joe Micka became with both potaro growing and packaging local representative for JMB, a posicion for many years is owner. he held for 10 years. He later affiliared Micka became interested in the distribu with the General Potato and Onion Dis tion end of the potato industry in 1934 tributors where L. R. Clark an old hand when the spud market was becotniug of at the industry in San Francisco, was repre· growing importance to the Klamath Basin. sentative. At that time he had four brothers, Jerry, When 1952 arrived, JMB rehired Micka 70. ALBERT STASTNY POTATO CELLAR UNDER CONSTRUCTION ABOUT 1934 -M. M. Stastny photo for one season, then sold him the building A crew of 30 men and women can he now occupies. The new owner changed handle 2,000 one-hundred pound sacks the firm name to J. M. Produce Co., in per day. Spuds on arrival are washed, stalled the present packaging equipment dryed and socced into burlap, plascic and and continues to sell to ]MB, the smaller mesh bags and hand-packed into card packages that trade demands. board cartons Ten pound mesh bags are 71. placed in wooden boxes and cardboard cartons, 50 pounds to the unit for trans portation to Oakland where they are shipped overseas to Guam for military use and to Honolulu. Packaging in larger unics and plastic bags is confi ned to the United States. The plant operates eight of the 12 months in the year beginning during the early potato harvest in the fall and contiou· ing ·to about June 1. The firm features brands now familiar to housewifely eyes in supermarkets, the top brand, Gold and Blue Ribbon; second, the Beaver State Brand. Marion Rupert is warehouse manager in charge of shipping. Warren Marsh is shed and grader foreman. Ruth Harroun, Klamath Falls, is office assistant. The grading crews are recruited locally. The comfortable, warm working condi tions at the plant are a far cry from the HARVESTING POTATOES ON damp, cold, floor!ess cellars of the early THEM, M. STASTNY HOMESTEAD c.lats of lht potato iuJ~uy in tl~t: Klamatla Mr. StCUitny standing beside the yield Basin The plant has a woman's lounge of one row of potatoes grown without fertilizer. -courtesy M. M. Stastny with inviting chairs, a coffee urn of free THE E. L. HOPKINS MACHINE THRESHING GRAIN ON THE KILGORE RANCH Near Malin. The two women had probably just brought lunch to the men. -courtesy Emmett Lahodo 72. coffee, ready for coffee breaks two or years with the famous N erred Gem, J. M. three times daily A candy vending machine Produce Co. owner Joe Micka, likes his Js bandy. potatoes, has a baked spud each evening In spi re of dose association over the for dinner. t, "~ ": ':1 ·n ':1 , ':1 ":1 THE MALIN MILLING CO'S. FLOUR MILL, BUILT IN 1918 At approximately the site of the present day Kolina Hardwaro Store. -courtesy Louis Kalina MALIN MILLING COMPANY . . . 11 1111111111 11 111111 11 1111U II IfiiiiiiiiiUHUiliiiiUIUIIII IIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIItf1HIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIUUII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIJUIUIIJUIUIIIUIIII11111111111llllllllllllllllllr The Malin Milling Company was or· u~e. rhe quality of the grain which did not gani:zed August 4, 1918, with a capital cure properly decreased materially the in stock of $20,000. M. M. Stasmy served as come for the $100,000 business, which in sec.retary for 10 years. Anton Petrasek, the rhe later years of irs existence, discontinued miller, proud of his product, rurned out the milling o5 flour. Brands were the excellent flour while the grain was cured in "Valley Queen," aJ•d ''Fiavo." Rye flour the shock. Later, when combines came into was also milled from locally grown eye. As Copied from the History of Klamath County, 1941 The Youngest Sister . • IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUJUHIIUUUl fiJI111liiiiUIIUIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIUIUHIIIUIH IUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIU11UIUIIIUILIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIII0 by Anne S. Horton Note: The followi1Jg account of Tule a residB HERALD & NEWS, June 7, 1959 Mrs. Ella Halousek Recalls age, is 82. She lives in the Kalina Apart !lllllllllllllllltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll mems in Malin, one of the three women "My father made the shingles for the of the original seeders still living here. house I was born in, back in Nebraska. In those days men and women did the things The Evening Herald, Monday, July 11, that were needed. We didn't hire much 1921: C. A. Dunn, general superintendent help," said Mrs. Ella H alousek. for Oskar Huber, general contractor, was in Klamarh Falls last week inspecting pro "My husband's business where the Czech gress of the Huber contracts in Klamath men gathered on Sunday to swap stories of county, which are under his supervision. crops and happenings on Sunday, was one Immediate extension of work is planned of the first to be starred in Malin. and arrangementS have been made and "We had a fair and showed off our fine :aborers already hired for opening a quarry vegetables the next year after we came. near Malin to provide rock for the sur That was in 1910 and the ground produced facing of the Merrill-Malin section of the a bountiful crop. My husband Joseph California highway. A second quarry will later ranched. be opened within a few weeks, near Adams "William Halousek, my stepson is the Point. Anorher rock cru~h er and bunkers only mao left of the original settlers who will be erected rhere. is still living in Malin." Work will be rushed at both crushers in an effort co complete rhe Malin-Merrill She recalled catching necs full of mullets job this fall. from Tule Lake and of the "home-made Mr. Dunn was satisfied with the progress fun" they had. 'We danced every Saturday on rhe Algoma and Dairy sections of high night until sun-up Sunday." way, which are under construction by Mr. Mrs. H alousek, who does nor look her Huber. 76. HERALD & NEWS, June 7, 1959 Mrs. Elizabeth Paygr Recalls llllllllllllllllllllllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllll!lllllllllllflllllllltllllltllllllllllllllllltiiiiiiiiiiiUI "Mr f.uher called me a boy because I worked so hard when I was young," re· members ~irs. Elizabeth Paygr who will celebrate her 81rh binhday on June 25rh. 'Then 1 came ro Malin and I cried be cause I was so lonesome. "We put suaw on the floor in rhe Zumpe house where they let a lot of us new comers sleep until our houses were ready. The lumber had co be hauled with horses, rhc same as in rhc old country. I worked with my husband, clearing sagebrush, scack ing hay, :tnd milking cows. "We never bought anything except just necessities- flour, beans, sugar. I raised a big vegetable garden every year, ducks, chickens, geese, turkeys, and I cried too, when J killed a turkey." Mrs. Payg r recalls the da)'S of wooden sidewalks in Klamath Falls, and rhe big livery barns for the horses. "\Y/e had fun too," she remembers, "may be I'll dance again at rhe celebration." She is the widow of Frank Paygr, Sr., and lives on the original land her husband bought in 1909, is rhe mother of two sons, Frank Pa)'gr, Jr., and Rudolph, both farm ers. She is one of the four remaining colon istS living in Malin. HERALD & NEWS, June 7, 1959 Mrs. Agnes Drazil Recalls IIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIU MALIN'S OLD WOODEN WATER TANK "I bawled. I was only 19. lr was the Replaced by a modern steel tank and first time r had been away from my folks. deep well. -courtesy Ruth King I couldn't speak English. children and when I came in from the ''I was born roo, like my husband in fields I didn't know what to do first, milk Czechoslovakia ar Velky Tehor, near the the cow or feed m)' family or clean the beautiful ciry of Prague, and I was afraid house." of the new country we came co," said Mrs. She wouldn't go back ro the "old days" Agnes Drazil in recalling chose early days when she washed for her family on a wash of hard work when the Czechs came to board and put up 1,000 quarts of fruit and Klamath County. vegetables to feed her family in the winter. "I would have gone home but rhere was Now a witty and energetic 80 years, Mrs. no money. It was all in the land. I couldn't Drazil has one of the most beautiful yards ask for rhe rhings I needed in the grocery and flower garden, vegetables too, in all store. I didn't know the words, bur I knew of Klamath County. She has a strawberry how to work. I helped grub sagebrush and patch, picks her own berries. later helped co harvest the crops. I had nine Ob! yes, of course she still dances. 77. THE "FAIRY", COMBINATION BUSINESS AND PLEASURE BOAT ON TULELAKE -courtesy Louis Kalina Boats • • • qllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllfllllllllllllllllllllllllttllllllllllllllllliiiiiiiiiiUIIIIIIIIIIttlllllllllllllllllllllltllllllllllllllfiiHIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIfiiiiiiiiUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIII Boars played an important parr in the Often passengers were arried and lumber early development of the Klamath Basin rafrs pulled at the same rime. and the lives of the new Czech arrivals. Two such trips narrowly escaped a U. S. Bureau of Reclamation crafrs disastrous ending. Malin news taken from the Ewauna and Tule) plied the lake the Evening Herald told of an October 1, waters, hauling men and equipment. Rafts 1911 trip when 17 persons, traveling in of lumber were rowed to construction jobs, a gasoline propelled launch were stranded gravel was brought from the peninsula when the motor quit in the middle of the south of rhe present town of Tulelake to lake. Pilors were W. S. Adams and Joe Merrill ro be used for surfacing of roads, Halousek. Wind and waves carried the and hay and garden produce ·raised by the hapless passengers and boat to the penin Coppock family on the somh shore of sula, where they were thrown on dry land. T ule Lake, were brought across the water The News writer said, "Relatives and ro be sold before such crops were produced friends were running and calling on the in the new Malin community. shore in the darkness in vain." A good samaritan living on the peninsula, Pleasure boats also crossed the lake, brought the half-frozen excursionists home taking picnickers to the lava beds. The in a farm wagon. water varied in depth from marshland to Later a group of reachers experienced 22 feer. The Ferry was one of several used similar difficulty bur all reached shore for dual purposes, transportation and fun. safely. 78. KLAMATH COUNTY THRESHING SCENE IN 1911 Emmett Laboda was the sack jigger. -courtesy Emmett Laboda ORIGINAL HOME ON THE STASTNY HOMESTEAD, 3 MILES EAST Of MALIN The b uilding was built several years before 1916 by the original homesteader who relinquished to Mr. Stastny. -courtesy M. M. Stastny 79. M. M. STASTNY GRAIN ABOUT 1923. THE YEAR OF THE CR ASH No elevators were avclilable so the grain had to be stored in this manner until sold. -M. M. Stastny photo CROSSING STUKEL MOUNTAIN, HOMEWARD BOUND From winning the spelling-bee in Klamath Falls, term of 1917-1918. Left to right: Mary SmidL Mary Vavric:ka. Mrs. Stastny, Edwin Stastny, Joe Smidl and Mr. Smidl. -M. M. Stastny photo 80. I CLASS OF 1925 Above, Malin High School's first graduating class. eight boys. left to right: Lester WilBon, Vac Kalina, Earl Wilson. John McNeil, Percy McNeil. Neal Craig. Timson Craig and Frank Tofell. Below, the Claaa of '25 as they appeared in 1950, at their 25th anniversary reunion. standing in the same order as above with the exception of Percy McNeil who was unable to attend. Neal Craig is now deceased. -courtesy Vac Kalina 81. SHASTA VIEW STUDENTS OF 1909 GATHER FOR THEIR 50TH ANNIVERSA.RY At Malin. Above, left to right: ···-····-··-• Joe Zumpfe, Anna (Polivka) Baley, ---·• and Frank Victorin. Front row. same order: Anna (Zumple) Lahoda, Ada (Hunt) Morris, and Miss Amy Puckett, teacher. now deceased. Below, back row, same order. Anna (Cacka) McConnell, Marie (Zumpfe) Drewelow, Flora (Myer) Clark and Anton Polivka. Front row. same order. Frances (Honzik) Davia and Mary (Kotera) Victorin. -courtesy Mrs. Anna Laboda 82. IN THE ROUNDUP SALOON At the corner where the Basin Builders lumber yard was later located. Left to right: Joe Halousek. frank Vochester. and Dick Vochester. -courtesy Mervyn Wilde 83.