{"id":2699,"date":"2015-01-01T18:28:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T18:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tule-lake.com\/?page_id=2699"},"modified":"2015-02-06T18:05:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T18:05:05","slug":"1880-1889","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/anderstomlinson.com\/tule-lake\/towns\/history-timelines\/1880-1889\/","title":{"rendered":"1880 – 1889"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0… Rocky Point, Upper Klamath Lake, Fort Klamath, Crater Lake, Klamath Development Company<\/span>
\n\u2022 \u00a0<\/span><\/strong>… Transportation, Logging. Railroads, Power, Communications, Mining<\/span><\/span>
\n\u2022 \u00a0… Reclamation, Farming, Merrill, Malin, Tulelake <\/span>
\n<\/span>\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0… Klamath Falls, Jacksonville, Medford, Ashland<\/span>
\n\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0… Indians, Klamath & Yainax Agency, Chiloquin, Spring Creek, Sprague<\/span><\/p>\n

    \n

    1880<\/span> <\/strong>
    \n\u2022 Oregon\u2019s population is 174,768. Linkville\u2019s population is 250. United States population is 50,189,209.
    \n\u2022 George Loosley and George Nurse buy the steamboat General Howard<\/em>.
    \n\u2022<\/span> Hood Railroad survey passes north near Aspen Lake and west of Upper Klamath Lake to Fort Klamath.
    \n\u2022 Newton Pratt sold his mill to Charles Withrow.
    \n\u2022 H.J. O\u2019Brien homesteaded in what would become Klamath County. He drove a herd of cattle in with Mr. Hanley.
    \n\u2022 George Eastman developed his first Kodak camera.
    \n\u2022<\/span> September 7, Wood River school is established at old Fort Klamath.
    \n\u2022<\/span> January 1, the French begin construction of the Panama Canal.
    \n\u2022<\/span> Klamath wheat takes first place at national exhibitions in New Orleans, Sacramento and Omaha.<\/p>\n

    1881<\/span><\/strong>
    \n\u2022<\/span> Bogus Charley and Snacknasty Jim died in Oklahoma.
    \n\u2022<\/span> General Howard<\/em> becomes the first steamboat to move lumber on Upper Klamath Lake, \u00a0for W.S. Moore Lumber Mill.<\/p>\n

    1882<\/span><\/strong>
    \n<\/strong>\u2022<\/span> January, First cattle brand recorded in Klamath County is “C” for S.B. Cranston.
    \n\u2022<\/span> The Van Brimmer brothers began digging a canal in 1882 from the Lower Klamath Basin to Tule Lake Basin. In 1886 their irrigation project began supplying 4,000 acres with water. They recouped construction and expenses by charging grateful users $1 per acre on the west and south side of the Lost River.
    \n\u2022<\/span> Farmers begin irrigating in the Klamath Basin. The Linkville Water Ditch Company<\/em> is incorporated and a shallow canal is dug connecting Linkville (Klamath Falls) town lots to Link River above present day Klamath Falls.
    \n\u2022 Chas. Moran and his associates started building the Nevada, California and Oregon Railway from Reno northward towards Lakeview, Oregon, 250 miles distant.
    \n\u2022<\/span> U.S. Geological Service started topographical mapping of the United States.
    \n\u2022<\/span>\u00a0\u2022<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0U.S. Government telegraph line is completed from Fort Klamath to Fort Bidwell, 150 miles, and from Fort Klamath to Ashland, 99 miles.
    \n\u2022 October 17, Klamath County is created out of Lake County.
    \n\u2022 John Colwell is the first recorded child born in Klamath County, Merrill, after it is separated from Lake County.
    \n\u2022 The first Klamath County officials are appointed by Governor Moody. W.S. Moore(County Judge), Stephen Stukel and O.T. Brown (County Commissioners), W.C. Hale (Clerk), Charles Putnam (Sheriff), E.R. Reames (Treasurer), S.C. Summer (Coroner) and C.H. Dyar (School Superintendent).
    \n\u2022 First meeting of Klamath County Commissioners.
    \n\u2022<\/span> Wagons haul supplies across a frozen Upper Klamath Lake.
    \n\u2022<\/span> June 17, Central Pacific Railroad<\/em> begins track up the Sacramento River Canyon.<\/p>\n

    1883<\/span><\/strong>
    \n\u2022 George Nurse moved to Yreka.
    \n\u2022 Brown trout introduced to America from Europe and Asia.
    \n\u2022<\/span> December 24, first train from Portland reaches Grant Pass.<\/p>\n

    1884<\/span><\/strong>
    \n\u2022 February 27, Reverend Robert Mclean organizes Linkville\u2019s first church, Presbyterian.
    \n\u2022 Steamboat General Howard<\/em> is converted to City of Klamath to haul supplies up Wood River to Fort Klamath.
    \n\u2022<\/span> April 19, first train headed south reaches Ashland.
    \n\u2022 A.L. Leavitt arrives in Linkville on the Summer\u2019s wagon trail.
    \n\u2022 April 10, Joseph A. Bowdoin publishes first Klamath area newspaper. The Linkville Weekly Star<\/em>. A man named Curtis was also involved.
    \n\u2022<\/span> Seldon Kirk is born at the Klamath Agency. He will become a leader for preserving the Klamath Reservation.
    \n\u2022<\/span> E.H. Harriman buys up a small New York railroad, repairs and sells it. This begins his railroad career.
    \n\u2022 First Klamath County election ballots are printed.
    \n\u2022 June, first Klamath County officials to be elected; George Smith (Judge), Matt Obenchain and R. Tutchinson ( Commissioners), J.O. Allen (Surveyor), M.C. Childers (Assessor), C.R. Delap (School superintendent) and other officers are elected.
    \n\u2022<\/span> Thomas Martin used Moore ditch for flour mill. Martin Mill, 1884-1908.
    \n\u2022<\/span> Congress fails to appropriate funds to improve and deepen Wood River for navigation.
    \n\u2022<\/span> Joe Short was the first person to plant more than ten acres of potatoes.
    \n\u2022<\/span> During the early days, Klamath County homesteaders near Bonanza begin using native fish called suckers for fertilizer and oil. They attempt to get laws passed to prevent American Indians, who have fished for suckers for centuries, from catching them.<\/p>\n

    1885<\/span><\/strong>
    \n\u2022<\/span> Ankeny Canal, the area\u2019s first irrigation canal, is completed.
    \n\u2022 C.C. Low opens Linkville\u2019s first restaurant.
    \n\u2022<\/span><\/span><\/span> Gladstone Steel lobbies to make Crater Lake a National Park.
    \n\u2022<\/span> April 1, Central Pacific\u2019s<\/em> railroad interests are transferred to the Southern Pacific Company<\/em>.
    \n\u2022<\/span> Steamboat Frank, a minister of Society of Friends Church in Oklahoma, died.
    \n\u2022 The spring at Klamath Agency was known as \u201cBeatles Rest.\u201d Modoc Ridge was known as \u201cPlum Hills.\u201d
    \n\u2022 Louis Gerber filed on a homestead fifty miles east of Linkville.
    \n\u2022<\/span> October 6, Solon Shattuck purchases 51 acres in Wood River Valley.<\/p>\n

    1886<\/span><\/strong>
    \n\u2022<\/span> October 13, railway north reaches McCloud.
    \n\u2022 Linkville spends $35,800 for building improvements for the year.<\/p>\n

    1887<\/span><\/strong>
    \n\u2022<\/span> January 25, John Loosely and Robert Paul seek permission from the War Department to build a school at Fort Klamath.
    \n\u2022 Josiah Doten plattes Keno. It was originally called Doten<\/em>.
    \n\u2022<\/span> April 9, railway north reaches Ager which remains Klamath County\u2019s shipping point until 1903.
    \n\u2022<\/span> July 1, Southern Pacific Company<\/em> takes over Oregon and California Railroad<\/em>.
    \n\u2022<\/span> E.H. Harriman secures control of the Iowa Central<\/em>.
    \n\u2022<\/span> Van Brimmer irrigation ditch in Merrill is completed.
    \n\u2022<\/span> White Lake was so low that the irrigation canal became dry.
    \n\u2022 A.M. Peterman built a planner and cabinet shop in Linkville.
    \n\u2022<\/span> Second Topsy Grade is completed.
    \n\u2022<\/span> Last stage coach through Barron\u2019s Station on Siskiyou Mountains.
    \n\u2022 A bill to seek municipal government in Linkville fails.
    \n\u2022<\/span> December 17, Golden Spike ceremony in Ashland joining Oregon and California by railway.
    \n\u2022<\/span> December, first train from California reaches Grants Pass.<\/p>\n

    1888<\/span><\/strong>
    \n\u2022 January 15, all time low temperature in Klamath Falls,-24\u00b0F.
    \n\u2022 February 2, City charter granted to Linkville.
    \n\u2022<\/span> A cut was made into Lower Klamath Lake to help irrigation supply water to Tule Lake Basin farmers.
    \n\u2022 R.E. Dusenberry bought Withrow\u2019s Mill.
    \n\u2022<\/span> A new company, Klamath Falls Irrigation Company<\/em>, enlarged the Ankeny Canal to 50 cubic feet per second.
    \n\u2022<\/span> May 15, The French Panama Canal Poject declared bankruptcy. After eight years, the work was about two-fifths completed, and some $234,795,000 had been spent.
    \n\u2022 4,000 acres were set aside for the Modocs in Oklahoma.
    \n\u2022<\/span> California State court rules Klamath River Reservation abandoned, opening the lower river to non-Indian commercial fishing overseen by The state of California.
    \n\u2022 First women\u2019s club is formed in Linkville. A group of ten women present a flag to the County court.
    \n\u2022<\/span> William Gladstone Steele carries 600 Rogue River rainbow trout fingerlings to Crater Lake. 37 survive and swim away. In 1940, the rainbow population in Crater Lake grew to 200,000.
    \n\u2022 Mayflower<\/em>, a steamboat, is the first to travel on the Klamath River south of Linkville.
    \n\u2022<\/span> A stage drawn by four horses connects Ager CA with linkville. This also connects portland and san Francisco train passengers to Linkville. The stagecoach departs Ager at 2:30 p.m. and arrives in Linkville at 5 a.m. ( 14 hours) at a cost of $7 one way.
    \n\u2022 July 2, first Linkville courthouse built.
    \n\u2022<\/span> First Rocky Point post office opens as Pelican with Charles Stidham the first of five postmasters.
    \n\u2022<\/span> First conversion of marsh to farmland at McCormack Point.
    \n\u2022 September 5, first jail in Linkville.
    \n\u2022 September 6, fire in Linkville burns business district known as “Bunch Town.” The growth out along south\u00a06th street\u00a0was known as “String Town”<\/p>\n

    1889<\/span><\/strong>
    \n\u2022 W.E. Bowdain took over the Linkville Weekly Star<\/em> and lost it all in a fire several months later.\n<\/ol>\n

    \u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0… Rocky Point, Upper Klamath Lake, Fort Klamath, Crater Lake, Klamath Development Company<\/span>
    \n\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>… Transportation, Logging. Railroads, Power, Communications, Mining<\/span><\/span>
    \n\u2022 \u00a0… Reclamation, Farming, Merrill, Malin, Tulelake <\/span>
    \n<\/span>\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0… Klamath Falls, Jacksonville, Medford, Ashland<\/span>
    \n\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0… Indians, Klamath & Yainax Agency, Chiloquin, Spring Creek, Sprague<\/span><\/p>\n

      \n

      \"upper<\/a><\/p>\n

      \u2022<\/strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: Before 1500<\/strong><\/a> … Islands, Mountains, and People<\/p>\n

      \u2022<\/strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: 1500 – 1839<\/strong><\/a> … England, Spain, Russia<\/p>\n

      \u2022<\/strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: 1840 – 1859<\/strong><\/a> … Trappers, Gold and Trails<\/p>\n

      \u2022<\/strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: 1860 – 1869<\/strong><\/a> … Applegates and Captain Jack<\/p>\n

      \u2022<\/strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: 1870 – 1879<\/strong><\/a> … Strongholds and Swamplands<\/p>\n

      \u2022<\/strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: 1880 – 1889<\/strong><\/a> … Klamath County and Newspapers<\/p>\n

      \u2022<\/strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: 1890 – 1899<\/strong><\/a> … Merrill, Flour and Potatoes.<\/p>\n

      \u2022<\/strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: 1900 – 1909<\/strong><\/a> … Steamboats and Locomotives<\/p>\n

      \u2022<\/strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: 1910 – 1919<\/strong><\/a> … Automobiles and Movies<\/p>\n

      \u2022<\/strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: 1920 – 1929<\/strong><\/a> … Recreation and Refuge<\/p>\n

      \u2022<\/strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: 1930 – 1939<\/strong><\/a> … Depression, Sporting and Tulelake<\/p>\n

      \u2022<\/strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: 1940 – 1949<\/strong><\/a> … Internment and Homesteading<\/p>\n

      \"klamath<\/a><\/p>\n

      1950 – 1999<\/strong><\/a>… Timber, Ranches, Boomers<\/p>\n

      2000 – Present<\/strong><\/a>… Legislation, Court decisions, Science Studies<\/p>\n

      Modoc Indian War<\/strong><\/a>… Indians, Settlers, U.S. Army<\/p>\n

      Acknowledgements<\/span><\/strong>
      \nBill and LoEtta Cadman, Ina and Roy Reed, Pat McMillian, William Brady,
      \nAndrew Ortis, John Pratt, Art Eggleston, Rob Crawford \u2013 Crawford Farms,
      \nBev Wampler, Gayle and Chuck Jaynes, Richard Kopczak and
      \nCindy Wright are some of the many folks that allowed access to their
      \nlibraries and, or, shared information to help Anders compile
      \nthe above timelines.<\/em><\/p>\n

      \u00a9 2014 Anders Tomlinson, all rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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