{"id":2340,"date":"2014-09-23T00:41:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T00:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tule-lake.com\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2014-09-23T20:27:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T20:27:35","slug":"malin-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anderstomlinson.com\/tule-lake\/malin-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"Malin, Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"malin<\/a>
\nMalin from the Air Looking Southwest Across the Tule Lake Basin –<\/strong>
\nIn 1907, a group of local business men incorporated the Lakeside Land Company.
\n They purchased 6,500 acres of land, much of which was under receding Tule Lake.
\n 140 acres were set aside for the townsite that would become Malin.<\/p>\n

\"malin<\/a>
\nLife is Quiet Nestled in the Northeast Corner of the Tule Lake Basin –<\/strong>
\nMalin, Oregon is nine miles northeast of Tulelake. This view is looking northeast
\n towards Malin and Bryant Mountain behind it. In 1909, scouts from the Czech
\n Colonization Club in Nebraska surveyed western federal irrigation projects.
\n They decided the Klamath Project was the best location for a new Czech Colony.
\n Malin was named after a Bohemia farming community. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd it is said 65 Bohemian Families settled Malin on September 30, 1909 – <\/strong>
\nMalin is at an elevation of 4,062 feet and once was underwater when Tule Lake was
\n at high water. The 2010 census population was 805 people. Malin was incorporated
\n in 1922. Malin has deep roots and a strong rural community spirit. One account
\n states that the name comes from Malin, Kunta Hora, Czechoslovakia because a
\n horseradish grown there was found in the new settlement. <\/p>\n

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\nRural America Continues a Relationship With The Arts –<\/strong>
\nWhen one lives away from the big city there isn’t as much available entertainment.
\n It is not uncommon for households to have a piano or other musical instruments to
\n entertain with. Rural America needs to entertain itself and the arts are alive
\n and well. The Center of Malin has a public display of its culture, economy and history.
\n The tractor and cattle mural was painted by Ken Dolan in 1999.<\/p>\n

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\nPart of This Malin Park Monument Reads –<\/strong>
\n“They received a charter to form a national fraternal lodge named Z.C.B.J No. 222.
\n In english it is Western Bohemian Fraternal Association. In 1910 they built the
\n Bohemian Hall for meetings, czexg school and dances. Also, sokol ( calisthenics )
\n was practiced not only for body-building and competition but as a welcome
\n recreation. the early farmers suffered great losses to their crops due to heavy
\n frosts, wind storms and destruction by jack rabbits. They had trouble irrigating
\n the land as the sandy soil washed away so easily. The great determination of the
\n people helped them overcome the hardships and they saw their dream come true as the
\n sagebrush-covered lands turned in to a valley of beautiful fields and comfortable
\n farm homes surrounding their attractive town of Malin”<\/p>\n

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\nWhat Better Place To Be On a Hot Summer day? –<\/strong>
\nCenterpiece of Malin Community Park, the Olympic size 94\u2019 x 56\u2019 swimming pool was built
\n in 1948. Shuttle buses bring kids from Tulelake, Merrill, Dorris and Bonanza. During hot
\n weather 200 to 400 people use the pool daily.<\/p>\n

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\nSmall Towns Like Malin Don’t Need No Stinking Stop Lights –<\/strong>
\nMalin students attend Malin Elementary School and Lost River Junior and Senior High
\n School. Visitors come to Malin for many reasons including the Oregon State Babe Ruth
\n baseball tournament and the Malin Park Cruise.<\/p>\n

\"malin<\/a>
\nMalin Has Known Its Share Of Ebbs And Flows –<\/strong>
\nThe United States government passed the 1902 Reclamation Act to create irrigation
\n projects across the west. In 1905 The Klamath Reclamation Project was approved
\n and Tule Lake would change along with settlements along its northern shores.
\n A variety of grains, including wheat, rye, and barley were the first crops. And
\n then came the mighty potato and farming in the Tule Lake Basin would change.<\/p>\n

\"malin<\/a>
\nLife in Malin Has Changed Over the Years But Its Spirit Hasn’t –<\/strong>
\nA 1941 account reported Malin had eight gas stations, two general merchandise stores,
\n one variety store, one drug store, one bakery, two beer gardens, one hotel, one shoe
\n shop, two garages, a lumberyard, a cheese factory, and a blacksmith shop, a
\n considerable number of businesses considering Malin\u2019s population of 535.<\/p>\n

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\nIt Takes people to Raise A Village Into A Town –<\/strong>
\nAbove we see Malin with a snow capped Mt. Bryant in the backdrop and a typical summer
\n farming scene. Here is a list of names that played important roles in Malin’s
\n history: Jesse Carr, J. Frank Adams, Jessie Steele, W.C. Dalton, Jan Rosicky,
\n Vaclav Vostrcil, J.A. Sobotka, Frank Zumpfe, Jim Worlow, Mike Stastny, John Reber,
\n George McCullum, Vaclav Kalina, Loveness brothers and many more who used hard labor
\n and keen business sense to have the surrounding land support the town. And of course
\n there were women and family supporting all the names listed above. <\/p>\n

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\nFall Comes To Malin, Soon The Harvest Will Be Completed –<\/strong>
\nMalin Park, 36 wonderful acres dedicated to community, is a wonderful place to
\n celebrate seasonal colors. Fall can also be seen in the trees that keep the farms
\n surrounding Malin cool in the summer.<\/p>\n

\"malin<\/a>
\nTo Spend Time in Malin Is to Understand Rural America and Farming –<\/strong>
\nThe top view is from the Peninsula just west of Newell, California. The two bottom scenes
\n are from the hill in Malin with the water towers. Farming is a large part of the Malin
\n economy. Malin is also important energy center. The “Malin Substation”, an electrical
\n substation owned by PG&E, PacifiCorp, and BPA, forms the northern end of Path 66, a
\n major north-south power transmission corridor. Near Malin is the Malin interconnect,
\n where the Tuscarora, Gas Transmission Northwest and Pacific Gas & Electric gas
\n pipelines currently connect, as will the Ruby Pipeline currently under construction.<\/p>\n

\"malin<\/a>
\nBarns and Houses, Work and Play, Food and Shelter, People and Malin –<\/strong>
\nTelephone lines arrived in 1915. 1922 was a big year for Malin. It was incorporated
\n as a city, electricity was hooked up and the town had a new water-sewer system.
\n Electricity help start new business such as a cheese factory and a lumber mill.
\n Malin was turning 20th century.<\/p>\n

\"malin<\/a>
\nWhat Speaks More About Rural America than Dogs and Horses? –<\/strong>
\nDuring the mid and late 1930’s the Malin Cheese Factory, 650,00 pounds annually, and
\n turkey farming, 41,000 turkeys in 1937, were major economic engines. Malin’s Great
\n Northern railway station shipped local products including potatoes, 1086 train cars
\n one year, and lumber. The Loveness Mill in the 1950’s had a capacity of 65,000 board
\n feet feet per shift and 80 some full-time employees. <\/p>\n

\"malin<\/a>
\nMalin, Oregon: Where Oregon and California Are Spoken –<\/strong>
\nIn truth, many languages are spoken in Malin. From the beginning exercise and
\n entertainment was part of Malin’s social fabric. In 1924, Vaclav Kalina moved
\n an abandoned Klamath County school building to the middle of town and turned
\n it into a recreational hall. Here, popular dances were held and movies shown.
\n Over the years Kalina built a new theater and enlarged and modernized the dance
\n hall. Malin was famous for the big bands that came to town. It was common for
\n folks from Klamath Falls to come for an evening of dancing. It was a wonderful
\n era that came to an end with the coming of television. Today, if one listens
\n they may hear the Dorsey Brothers and Lawrence Welk floating on a moonlit breeze.<\/p>\n

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\"cropland<\/a> Cropland and pasture habitat<\/strong><\/a> are found mostly at the lower elevations (4,100-4,200) within the central and southern portions of the Upper Klamath Basin watershed. This category includes diverse areas within the Upper Klamath and Tule Lake \u0003Basins such as towns, smaller communities, rural residential areas, farms and ranches. The wildlife associated with these habitats have adapted to living close to human development and activities.<\/p>\n

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\"merrill<\/a>
\nMerrill, Oregon<\/strong> <\/a> is at the northwest corner of the Tule Lake Basin and a mile north of the California border. Oregon Route 39, and the fabled Lost River, run through it. Like all of the Tule Lake Basin communities, and most of rural America, Merrill has a rich agricultural history. Merrill is the oldest city in the Tule Lake Basin.<\/p>\n

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\"tulelake<\/a>
\nTulelake, California<\/strong><\/a> is a young city. It sits on land in Siskiyou County, just south of the Oregon border, that was reclaimed from Tule Lake by the Klamath Reclamation Project which diverted water down the Klamath River. Tulelake is on Highway 139 which connects Bend and Klamath Falls, Oregon along with Alturas and Reno, California. Some thousand people live in Tulelake at an elevation of 4,066 feet above sea level. This is rural American farmland and wildlife refuge. This is big sky country.<\/p>\n

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\"newell<\/a>
\nNewell, California<\/strong><\/a> was born out of the War Relocation Authority’s Japanese-American Internment and later Segregation Center. This would become a city that housed as many as 18,000 internees. A substantial infrastructure was in place with the camp closure in May 1946: five deep wells, red cinder roads, many surplus buildings, water, sewer, electricity, Southern Pacific Railroad lines and Highway 139. A concept was raised of creating a township to serve the new Veteran Homesteaders. Five years later, June 1951, lots in Newell were for sale.<\/p>\n

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