{"id":2701,"date":"2015-01-01T18:37:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T18:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tule-lake.com\/?page_id=2701"},"modified":"2015-02-06T18:08:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T18:08:09","slug":"1920-1929","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/anderstomlinson.com\/tule-lake\/towns\/history-timelines\/1920-1929\/","title":{"rendered":"1920 &#8211; 1929"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230; Rocky Point, Upper Klamath Lake, Fort Klamath, Crater Lake, Klamath Development Company<\/span><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022 \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230; Transportation, Logging. Railroads, Power, Communications, Mining<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u2022<span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230; Reclamation, Farming, Merrill, Malin, Tulelake <\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230; Klamath Falls, Jacksonville, Medford, Ashland<\/span><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230; Indians, Klamath &amp; Yainax Agency, Chiloquin, Spring Creek, Sprague<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">1920<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong> Oregon&#8217;s population is 783,369, Klamath County&#8217;s is 11,413 and Klamath Fall&#8217;s population is 4,801. There are 992 farms in Klamath County.  For the first time, the 1920 census indicates a population in the United States over 100 million people &#8211; 106,021,537. The geographic center of the United States population remained in Indiana, eight miles south-southeast of Spencer, in Owen County.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Mrs. Weston &amp; Mrs. Kilbourne operate <em>Eagle Ridge Tavern<\/em> (1920-23).<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong> A.C. Geiger plattes Chiloquin Heights. The South Chiloquin addition is included within the town&#8217;s boundaries.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong> COPCO brings power to Chiloquin.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong> Link River Dam begins construction (1920-21).<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong> Twin daughters were born to Mr. and Mrs. Clark Terry but one died soon after birth and is buried in the Henry Jackson cemetery on hill behind the Klamath sub-Agency and school.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong> Merrill, Oregon&#8217;s business district sustains heavy damage from fire.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Winston Patterson lives in the caretaker\u2019s home next to the old dilapidated \u00a0Odessa Resort. He recalls Mrs. Fleishhacker spending her summers in\u00a0Rocky Point and the mail coming on Tuesdays.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong> The Geary Brothers inherit from McCormacks part of Caledonia Marsh\/Running Y Ranch.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong> June 4, George Baldwin died.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u2022<\/span> \u00a0<\/strong>1920\u2019s: 3,200 acres drained at Tulana farms.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u2022<\/span> \u00a0<\/strong>Lower Klamath Refuge becomes so dry, drained by farming interests, that the peat catches fire.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong> October 8, The <em>Huston Opera House<\/em> and nine other buildings burn, killing nine or ten people and a loss of $100,000. the fire started across the street in the <em>Houston Hote<\/em>l.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong> December 10, Judge Campbell of Oregon City tries the first case in the County Courthouse &#8211; the Ingersoll &#8211; Stoesler murder case. This is the same building that was damaged in the 1993 earthquake.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">1921<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong> January, the first Boy Scout Council in Klamath Falls.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong> January, Lydia Frick (Mrs. Mark Howard) is the first county nurse.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong> George Strawbridge purchases land from Henry Jackson and plattes the original subdivision of east Chiloquin, east of the Williamson River.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong> Link River Dam completed, allowing control of water releases from Upper Klamath Lake.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong> Klamath Project construction begins on the Lower Lost River Diversion Dam (Anderson-Rose Dam) and the J Canal to serve the Tulelake area.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong> June 6, Frank Wood obtains a homestead, now known as the Hakanson Place, in Rocky Point that includes both sides of the Pelican Bay Cut. \u00a0He would lose it to the Klamath (Development?) Company on a tax foreclosure.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong> Merrill, Oregon&#8217;s business district sustains heavy damage from fire.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0September 8, \u00a0Power and water engineers meet at <em>Eagle Ridge Tavern<\/em>.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Rocky Point Resort operated by A.R. Leavitt.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022 \u00a0<\/strong>1921-28: \u00a0Three 40\u2019 launches. Oakland, Oregon and Spray, carry mail, passengers and freight.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong> A.C. Allen runs Rocky Point Resort; avid photographer and film maker, first successful films of Crater Lake. (1921-23).<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">1922<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u2022<\/span> \u00a0<\/strong>September 29, \u00a047 pioneer familes, veterans of World War One, successfully draw homesteads in the Tulelake division of the Klamath Reclamation Project. Homesteads allotments in 1927, 1928 and 1929 proved to be successful.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong> Work begins on the Malone Dam.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong> Plan begins for creating a \u201cgovernment town\u201d south of \u2028the Oregon- California border. This would wait until the economic conditions\u2028 and population would trigger developments. The plans would eventually result in Tulelake, California being formed.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>John Bedford was one of the first partners with William Bray to build and operate <em>Bray Mill<\/em> on the Sprague River. Mr. Bedford would sell his interests and then supervise and own lumber companies in California and Arizona.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong> Malin, Oregon was incorporated<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong> October 31, the Hart brothers from Sacramento open the <em>Pine Tree Theater<\/em> in Klamath Falls.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">1923<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Ray Jestens becomes caretaker of Harriman Lodge. He remains for 12 years.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0500,000 yards of mud dredged near Pelican Marina to allow log storage navigation.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong> April 5, Arvid &#8220;Ed&#8221; Hakanson obtains homestead on Lake O&#8217; Woods Road.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong> Angeline Walker and Frank Summers wed in Klamath falls and lived on Summers Ranch<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong> First addition to the town of Chiloquin.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong> Train robbed by DeAutremont brothers, at tunnel thirteen in the Siskiyou Mountains.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong> Robert Spink closed <em>Idlerest<\/em> and exchanged the farmland and house to Henry Jackson, a Klamath Indian, for 87 acres on the westside of Williamson River. He moved upon this, then platted and developed west Chiloquin.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong> June 5, A.L. Leavitt\u2019s boat, <em>The Spray<\/em>, is grounded on Goat Island while \u2018dry agents\u2019 are searching for hidden stills.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Cap Hansbury homesteads in Rocky Point and starts a fox farm.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong> September 22, Arvid Hakanson sells his homestead to Nancy Vollman.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong> September 25, \u00a0Supreme Court decision ends courthouse conflict in Klamath County.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">1924<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0January 25, \u00a0California Oregon Power Co., (Copco) guarantees to maintain\u00a0Upper Klamath Lake at a level between 4137 and 4143.3 feet.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0February 12, \u00a0 \u201cRecreation\u201d post office changes name to \u201cPelican Bay\u201d.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0May, the new thirty room <em>Hotel Balfour<\/em> is opened to the public in Chiloquin.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Herbert Flesishhacker obtains the &#8220;Hakanson Place&#8221; from the County and sells it to <em>California Oregon Power Company<\/em>.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Klamath Reclamation Project Construction begins on the Miller Diversion Dam, Gerber Dam and North Canal in Langell Valley.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0The second addition is made to the town of Chiloquin.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong> A. C. Geiger begins a water works company which the town of Chiloquin will purchase.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong> Klamath Reclamation Project Construction begins on the Miller Diversion Dam, Gerber Dam and North Canal in Langell Valley.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong> June 2, \u00a0<em>The News<\/em>\u00a0begins tri-weekly publication, in Klamath Falls.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong>  The stock market begins its spectacular rise. Bears little relation to the rest of the economy.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong> June 4, a celebration at Hayden Creek Meadows is held to mark the completion of the Ashland &#8211; Klamath Falls Highway.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong> June 20, a plan to complete the Lake Shore roadway by building a bridge across the Link River and extending the road to Rock Creek is proposed.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong> June, Warner Brothers film company is shooting a movie, <em>Rin Tin Tin Get Your Man<\/em>, in Klamath Falls.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong> June, white robed and hooded gang tries to move a colored woman out of a cabin on Klamath Avenue near Broad Street in Klamath Falls. She was apparently unworried and did not move.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>  June 2,  all Indians are designated citizens by legislation passed in the U.S. Congress and signed by President Calvin Coolidge. The Indian Citizenship Act granted this right to all Native Americans that had been born within the territory of the United States.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0June 30, \u00a0\u201cPelican Bay\u201d post office changes name to \u201cRocky Point\u201d.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong> July, the <em>Klamath Herald<\/em> leases the first wire newspaper service in the area.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong> Summer, <em>Find Your Man<\/em>, starring June Marlow, is filmed in Klamath County. ( Is this the same as <em>Rin Tin Tin Get Your Man<\/em>? )<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong> August, Dr. G.W. Newsom opens the first County health unit.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0The Civic Improvement Club is organized in Fort Klamath.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022 \u00a0<\/strong>Mud flow from Mt. Shasta covers an area 6 miles by 1 mile,<br \/>\nwiping out part of McCloud CA.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong> October 21, twelve Klamath Indian skeletons are discovered buried in three feet of moist, loamy soil by a road construction crew at a point in the Klamath Marsh over which the Old Military Road is routed.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022 \u00a0<\/strong>November 12, \u00a0<em>The News<\/em>\u00a0becomes a daily in Klamath Falls.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">1925<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0February 20-27, twelve stages make the trip between Klamath Falls and Ashland-Medford as the Ashland- Klamath Falls Highway continues construction.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0February 20-27, two men are arrested in Wood River District on charges of possession of two gallons of liquor and selling alcohol on the Klamath Indian reservation.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0April 16-23, the steamboat <em>Winema<\/em> is used as a dwelling on Upper Klamath Lake at Shippington.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0April 16-23, construction plans for a forty bed hospital to serve Klamath Indians was approved at a cost of $25,000.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0May, road paving begins on the Klamath Falls to Medford road.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0May 21-27, <em>Stout and Ramsdell<\/em> deliver the first shipment of eastern brook trout from their first Chiloquin fish hatchery.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0The dance barge <em>Venetian <\/em>prepares for her maiden voyage.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0COPCO 2 Dam becomes operational.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Brook trout are introduce to the Lake of the Woods.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Early June, trout are striking the march brown and blue bottle flies better than any others at Crystal Creek near Rocky Point.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<em>Eagle Ridge Rod and Gun Club<\/em> takes over <em>Eagle Ridge Tavern<\/em>.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Leslie Spears conducts two months of ethnographic field work among the Klamath Indians.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Arthur W. Prialux publishes Chiloquin&#8217;s first newspaper, <em>The Chiloquin Review<\/em>.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong> Henry Woolf had a successful bakery and built a brick building on the opposite side of the street from Gienger.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong> <em>Forest Lumber Company<\/em> builds a large mill on the Williamson River, one and one-half miles north of Chiloquin on site of the old <em>Modoc Lumber Company<\/em> mill.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong> <em>Southern Pacific<\/em> acquired the controlling interest in the balance of the south 100-mile section of the <em>Nevada, California &amp; Oregon Railway<\/em> which had been purchased by the <em>Western Pacific<\/em> line and immediately commenced reconstruction and broad gauging operations.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ffff;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong> July, John D. Rockefeller visits Crater Lake National Park. Ray Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, announces the U.S. will spend one million dollars to pave the Rim Road around Crater lake.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022 \u00a0<\/strong>Steamer <em>Winema<\/em> destroyed by fire while in dry dock at Klamath Falls.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong> October 15, Klamath Falls comes in second to Portland in number of buildings erected in 1925.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong> October 15, an information sign is installed in Moore Park. The zoo there features elk, deer, antelope. water fowl, smaller forest animals and a black bear.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0November 21, President Calvin Coolidge proclaims Lava Beds National Monument.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0December \u2013 The Odessa Ranger station buildings are torn down by Ranger Floyd Murray.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0December 26, <em>Telford &amp; Sons<\/em> build an ice craft seating twelve passengers for Harry Telsford and Douglas Puckett. The ice craft can travel up to 90 miles an hour powered by a 90 horsepower motor driving a regulation airplane propeller. On good ice they can go from Klamath Falls to <em>Eagle Ridge Tavern<\/em> in about fifteen minutes. The boat can be used on ice or water for commercial hauling and modern &#8220;sleigh riding&#8221; parties at night.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">1926<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0March 4, the first log raft of the season will be seen near the Williamson River Bridge. The steamboat \u201cWasp\u201d will move 400,000 feet of logs. Spring had officially arrived.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0The first Chiloquin election; 200 more votes than adults citizens in town are cast.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0A.C. Geinger was the first Mayor of Chiloquin. He also built the town&#8217;s first $100,000 building.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Klamath Falls City Library is located on property, 500 Klamath Avenue, donated by Mrs. Fred Schllock and C.H. Daggett in memory of Henrietta F. Melhasse. it contains 13,000 books.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0The privilege of purchasing Indian lands by white people is terminated.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0The Palmer brothers open the first building in Chemult.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Mail contract for Upper Klamath Lake goes carrier via road.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<em>Southern Pacific Railroad<\/em> completed the line over the Cascades to connect Klamath Falls with Eugene.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0R.C. Spinks took in hundreds of Indian range horses on debtsm broke them and sold the horses to <em>Southern Pacific Railroad<\/em>.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Water is being delivered to about 21,000 acres in the Klamath Reclamation Project.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Rufus C. Moore donated land for Moore Park on Lakeshore Drive, originally known as Rock Creek Highway.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>August 7, \u00a0Golden spike ceremony for completion of railroad to Cascade Summit.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a03 million board feet lumber floated down Wood River by Paul Wampler.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Chiloquin, known as \u201cThe little Chicago of the West, incorporates with\u00a0a population of 2,000.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0October 16, White Pelican Hotel destroyed by spectacular fire that started in the basement.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong>  November 15, the <em>NBC Radio Network<\/em> is formed by <em>Westinghouse<\/em>, <em>General Electric<\/em>, and <em>RCA<\/em>, opening with twenty-four stations.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">1927<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0First Crater Lake Ski Race, round trip from Fort Klamath to Crater Lake 42.6 miles.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span> \u00a0<\/strong>Chiloquin has a school enrollment of 24, mostly white children of millworkers,<br \/>\nreservation and Forrest Service employees.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ffff;\">\u2022\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong><\/span> \u00a0<\/strong>First power line goes through Fort Klamath, California Oregon Power Company.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<em>Southern Pacific Railroad<\/em> acquires the <em>Oregon, California and Eastern Railroad<\/em>.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Chiloquin has 2,000 inhabitants, three big lumber mills, box factories, barber shops, grocery stores, drug stores, doctors, dentists, lawyers, pool-halls, movies, dance and card rooms.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong>  May 20, Charles Lindbergh leaves Roosevelt Field, New York on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in history. He would reach Paris thirty-three and one-half hours later in the Spirit of St. Louis, his aircraft.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Klamath Agency School building burns. It has an enrollment of 200 students.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<em>Keno Power Company<\/em> purchased by <em>California Oregon Power Company<\/em>.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0June, <em>Southern Pacific Railroad<\/em> broke ground at Klamath Falls on their new subsidiary, the Modoc Northern Railroad. The Modoc Northern was to run from Klamath Falls southeast to a junction with the <em>Nevada, California and Oregon Railway<\/em> at Alturas.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<em>Winema<\/em> catches fire ignited by sparks from nearby donkey engine.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a035 families, consisting of 225 people, live in Fort Klamath area.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0September 10, <em>Chiloquin State Bank<\/em> opens on Main Street in Chiloquin.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong>  September 7, first success in the invention of television occurs by American inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong>  October 6,  the advent of talking pictures emerges. Al Jolson in the Jazz Singer debuts in New York City.\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong> November, thousands of people celebrate the official completion of the new Southern Pacific line into Alturas over the old N. C. &amp; O. right of way, and of the arrival of the first standard gauge train from the main line at Reno.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong> Snow reaches 242 inches (20.16 feet) at Rim Village, Crater Lake.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">1928<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Poor water conditions and large midge population noted on<br \/>\nUpper Klamath Lake.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Weyerhauser builds what is billed as the world\u2019s largest pine sawmill<br \/>\nnear Klamath Falls. (1928 \u2013 1929).<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0$50,000 worth of bonds are raised to build the Klamath Falls Municipal Airport, with one fixed base operator and gravel runways.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u00a0<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022<\/span> \u00a0<\/strong><em>Braymill White Pine Company<\/em> on the Sprague River closes.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Chiloquin branch of the Klamath County Library system is established in Chiloquin City Hall with Mrs. Robert McCain being paid $360 a year as the first librarian.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong>  Farmers&#8217; share of the national income has dropped from 15 to 9 percent since 1920.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0By this time the City of Chiloquin included a townsite originally platted from Indian lands and known as the &#8220;Juda Jim Allottment&#8221; all on the east side.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0May 11, <em>Great Northern Railroad<\/em> reaches Klamath Falls. A public celebration is held the next day.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Dwinell Dam constructed on the Shasta River, cutting off most spawning habitat to the largest Klamath Basin salmon run.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong>  June 17, Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly over the Atlantic Ocean.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022 \u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Upper Klamath Lake Wildlife Refuge established. (14,400 acres).<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u2022<\/span><\/span><\/span> \u00a0<\/strong>Tule Lake Wildlife Refuge established. (39,100 acres).<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">1929<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Fish Lake \u2013 Lake of the Woods Road is completed, previous<br \/>\naccess by horseback.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0January 15 or 17, \u00a0<em>Pelican Theater<\/em> opens in Klamath Falls.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Entrepreneurs lease Aspen Lake near Klamath Falls to start one of the largest<br \/>\nmuskrat farms in the west.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a01929-36: Harry Reed was mechanic, with Ray Doty, under head mechanic Martin Palmer at Crater Lake maintenance shop. Harry also worked the Oregon Caves and Lava Beds, with shops located at the 3C&#8217;s camp.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0June 25, the first automobile was driven to the top of Table Rock in Jackson County. The 1929 Essex Challenger was driven by Hugo F. Lange, vice-president of <em>Armstrong Motors<\/em> in Medford, Oregon.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0A school is built by Gus Johnson at Denny Creek.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Warmest day on record at Crater lake, 92F at Annie Springs.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong>  August, recession begins two months before the stock market crash. During this two month period, production will decline at an annual rate of 20 percent, wholesale prices at 7.5 percent, and personal income at 5 percent.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong>  Annual per-capita income is $750; for farm people, it is only $273.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0September 14, <em> Southern Pacific Railroad<\/em> drove the final spike completing the new <em>Modoc Line<\/em> at Hackamore. The new line shaved 210 miles, 24,508 degrees of curvature, and 5,168 feet of elevation gain off the movement on eastbound traffic as compared to the original routing through California and across Donner summit.( Other accounts say the date was 9-14-1930.)<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0October, Ed Ostendorf home on Pacific Terrace has the first domestic hot water heating plant installed.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong> October 24, Stock market crash begins. Investors call October 29 &#8220;Black Tuesday.&#8221; Losses for the month will total $16 billion, an astronomical sum in those days.\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230; Rocky Point, Upper Klamath Lake, Fort Klamath, Crater Lake, Klamath Development Company<\/span><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2022 \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230; Transportation, Logging. Railroads, Power, Communications, Mining<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u2022 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230; Reclamation, Farming, Merrill, Malin, Tulelake <\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230; Klamath Falls, Jacksonville, Medford, Ashland<\/span><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230; Indians, Klamath &amp; Yainax Agency, Chiloquin, Spring Creek, Sprague<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pointcomfortlodge.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/upper-klamath-basin-timelines.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1126\" alt=\"upper klamath basin timelines icon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pointcomfortlodge.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/upper-klamath-basin-timelines.jpg\" width=\"437\" height=\"30\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/anderstomlinson.com\/tule-lake\/\/towns\/history-timelines\/before-1500\/\"><strong>Klamath Basin Timeline: Before 1500<\/strong><\/a> &#8230; Islands, Mountains, and People<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/anderstomlinson.com\/tule-lake\/\/towns\/history-timelines\/1500-1839\/\"><strong>Klamath Basin Timeline: 1500 &#8211; 1839<\/strong><\/a> &#8230; England, Spain, Russia<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/anderstomlinson.com\/tule-lake\/\/towns\/history-timelines\/1840-1859\/\"><strong>Klamath Basin Timeline: 1840 &#8211; 1859<\/strong><\/a> &#8230; Trappers, Gold and Trails<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/anderstomlinson.com\/tule-lake\/\/towns\/history-timelines\/1860-1869\/\"><strong>Klamath Basin Timeline: 1860 &#8211; 1869<\/strong><\/a> &#8230; Applegates and Captain Jack<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/anderstomlinson.com\/tule-lake\/\/towns\/history-timelines\/1870-1879\/\"><strong>Klamath Basin Timeline: 1870 &#8211; 1879<\/strong><\/a> &#8230; Strongholds and Swamplands<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/anderstomlinson.com\/tule-lake\/\/towns\/history-timelines\/1880-1889\/\"><strong>Klamath Basin Timeline: 1880 &#8211; 1889<\/strong><\/a> &#8230; Klamath County and Newspapers<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/anderstomlinson.com\/tule-lake\/\/towns\/history-timelines\/1890-1899\/\"><strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: 1890 &#8211; 1899<\/strong><\/a> &#8230; Merrill, Flour and Potatoes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/anderstomlinson.com\/tule-lake\/\/towns\/history-timelines\/1900-1909\/\"><strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: 1900 &#8211; 1909<\/strong><\/a> &#8230; Steamboats and Locomotives<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/anderstomlinson.com\/tule-lake\/\/towns\/history-timelines\/1910-1919\/\"><strong>Klamath Basin Timeline: 1910 &#8211; 1919<\/strong><\/a> &#8230; Automobiles and Movies<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/anderstomlinson.com\/tule-lake\/\/towns\/history-timelines\/1920-1929\/\"><strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: 1920 &#8211; 1929<\/strong><\/a> &#8230; Recreation and Refuge<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/anderstomlinson.com\/tule-lake\/\/towns\/history-timelines\/1930-1939\/\"><strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: 1930 &#8211; 1939<\/strong><\/a> &#8230; Depression, Sporting and Tulelake<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/anderstomlinson.com\/tule-lake\/\/towns\/history-timelines\/1940-1949\/\"><strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: 1940 &#8211; 1949<\/strong><\/a> &#8230; Internment and Homesteading<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anderstomlinson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/klamath-project-icon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5310\" alt=\"klamath project timeline icona\" src=\"http:\/\/anderstomlinson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/klamath-project-icon.jpg\" width=\"437\" height=\"30\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anderstomlinson.com\/?p=5185 \"><strong>1950 &#8211; 1999<\/strong><\/a>&#8230; Timber, Ranches, Boomers<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anderstomlinson.com\/?p=5187 \"><strong>2000 &#8211; Present<\/strong><\/a>&#8230; Legislation, Court decisions, Science Studies<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anderstomlinson.com\/?p=5265\"><strong>Modoc Indian War<\/strong><\/a>&#8230; Indians, Settlers, U.S. Army<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Acknowledgements<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Bill and LoEtta Cadman, Ina and Roy Reed, Pat McMillian, William Brady,<br \/>\nAndrew Ortis, John Pratt, Art Eggleston, Rob Crawford \u2013 Crawford Farms,<br \/>\nBev Wampler, Gayle and Chuck Jaynes, Richard Kopczak and<br \/>\nCindy Wright are some of the many folks that allowed access to their<br \/>\nlibraries and, or, shared information to help Anders compile<br \/>\nthe above timelines.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2014 Anders Tomlinson, all rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0&#8230; Rocky Point, Upper Klamath Lake, Fort Klamath, Crater Lake, Klamath Development Company \u2022 \u00a0&#8230; Transportation, Logging. 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