PART 1, CHAPTER 1
"PERIOD OF NEW SPAIN"
Hunt-Sanchez, Short History of California (New York, 1929), pp. 30-40; Irving Stone,
Men to Match My Mountains (Garden City, New York, 1956), p. 13 . . . quoting from a
1510 fantasy by Ardonez de Montalvo credited with giving California its name, after their
Amazonian queen, Calafia.
2
Hildegarde Hawthorne, California Missions (New York, 1942), pp. 6-11.
3
Ibid. p. 5; J. N. Guinn, Southern Coast Counties (Chicago, 1907), p. 97.
4
Joseph Jacinto Mora, Californios (New York, 1942): Illustration, p. 25.
5
Earle Crowe, Men of El Tejon (Los Angeles, 1957), p. 20, p. 31. Some of the escaped
soldiers remained at large; Fray Garces learned of one living among El Tejon Indians four
years later.
6
". . . wild roots, herbs, nuts, field mice, worms, lizards, grasshoppers and other insects,
birds, fish, small game . . ." A quote from Pedro Font's Diary on the Second Anza
Expedition of 1775, Robert Glass Cleland, From Wilderness to Empire (New York, 1944),
p. 87.
7
Elliott Coues, On the Trail of a Spanish Pioneer (New York, 1900); Diary and Itinerary
of Francisco Tomas Hermenegilde Garces, p. 232.
8
Ibid. p. 243.
9
Ibid. pp. 246-247: i.e., "the Santa Ana River and our valley."
10
Gauchamas in the valley, Serranos on the foothills and mountains, Cahuillas and
Chemehueves in and beyond San Gorgonio Pass, Mojaves and some Paiutes on the high
desert from Cajon to the Colorado River: Father Juan Caballeria, History of the San
Bernardino Valley (San Bernardino, 1902), p. 56.
11
Hildegarde Hawthorne, California Missions, p. 69.
12
George W. Beattie, historian, obtained from Spain a translation of Father Esteban Tapis'
1809-1810 San Gabriel report: San Bernardino Sun, March 21, 1930. Also Charles E.
Chapman, History of California - Spanish Period (New York, 1922), p. 427.
13
Ibid. p. 429 - per Father Luiz Martinez.
14
Caballeria, History of San Bernardino Valley, p. 39. (Hipolito's corral, "Politana," was
below present Bunker Hill.)
15
Ibid. p. 40.
16
Joseph Jacinto Mora, Californios, p. 40, pp. 47-52.
17
W. W. Robinson, "The Story of San Bernardino County" (pamphlet - Pioneer Title, San
Bernardino, California, 1958), p. 10; also Burr Belden, "History in the Making," Sun
Telegram, May 6, 1951, likewise from the Zalvidea report.
18
Maybe Moraga again: per Chapman, History of California - Spanish Period, p. 433. He
pursued them to the Colorado with forty-five soldiers and two cannon in November, 1819.
PART 1, CHAPTER 2
"MEXICAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC"
Desert Magazine, March, 1964, p. 39: Mason and Bean, "Diary of Brevet Captain Jose
Romero," who lost a packtrain and 376 mares in an attempt to go out San Gorgonio Pass in
December, 1823.
2
David Mark, "New Chapel for San Gabriel," Westways, p. 28, Vol. 50, No. 3, March,
1958.
3
Maurice S. Sullivan, Travels of Jedediah Smith (A Documentary Outline, including the
Journal of the Great American Pathfinder) (Santa Ana, California, 1934), p. 14, note 25:
Harrison Rogers, clerk; Hanna, McCoy, Lazarus, Gaither, Ferguson, Read, Wilson, Black,
Goebel, Reubescon, Evans, Pombert, La Plante and Ranne.
4
Robert Glass Cleland, History of California (New York, 1927), p. 48; (from Rogers'
Journal of the expedition).
5
Robert Glass Cleland, This Reckless Breed of Men (New York, 1927), p. 17: Beside food
staples each man required a gun, 100 flints, 25 lbs. of gunpowder and 100 lbs. of lead; also
4-6 metal traps.
6
Ibid. pp. 75-78.
7
. . . including 64 yards of cloth out of which they made new shirts. Maurice S. Sullivan,
Jedediah Smith, Trader and Trailbreaker (New York, 1936), p. 83.
8
San Bernardino Sun, September 7, 1926: Maurice S. Sullivan extraction of Harrison
Rogers Diary.
9
. . . "the Stanislaus," per research of the Sierra Club. Francis C. Farquahar, Sierra Club
Bulletin, Vol. 28, No. 3, June, 1943.
10
Maurice S. Sullivan, Travels of Jedediah Smith, p. 34.
11
The Pattie-Young party, Smith learned, had killed an Indian chief over a requested
tribute of horses. Hafen and Hafen, Old Spanish Trail, pp. 122-125; also R. G. Thwaite,
Pattie Narrative, pp. 133-135.
12
Sullivan, Travels of Jedediah Smith, p. 34. Virgin and Galbraith remained two Mojaves.
13
Ibid. p. 35. The Indian was freed.
14
Ibid. p. 40; also Cleland, Reckless Breed of Men, p. 120.
15
Cleland, Reckless Breed, p. 120.
16
Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of California (San Francisco, 1886), Hebberd reprint.
Vol. III, Chap. 3, p. 51.
17
Ibid. Vol. III, Chap. 6, p. 177.
18
James Ohio Pattie and father entered via the Gila Route and were imprisoned; per
Cleland, $20,000 worth of furs were taken from them.
19
Cleland, Reckless Breed, p. 264.
trader . . ."
"History has not yet positively identified the
20
Ibid. pp. 226-230. Most quotes are from Kit Carson's Autobiography.
21
Ibid. p. 230.
22
Ibid. pp. 264-269; also Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 9, No. 1. Per Hafen and
Hafen, Old Spanish Trail, pp. 159-164, Rafael Rivera, who had been in California before,
was their guide.
23
Bancroft, History of California, Vol. III, Chap. 14, p. 386.
24
Cleland, Reckless Breed, p. 234.
25
The next near, bringing "pack mules of pesos," Ewing Young and a partner did realize
their horse-buying plan, but they came and went by a southerly route. Cleland, History of
California, p. 85. Hafen and Hafen, Old Spanish Trail, p. 139.
26
Probably Antonio San Estevan, mentioned in Los Angeles Department of State papers,
April, 1831. Bancroft, History, Vol. III, Chap. 14, p. 395.
27
George W. and Helen Pruitt Beattie, Heritage of the Valley (Pasadena, 1939), p. 27, Iris
Higbee Wilson, William Wolfskill (Glendale, 1965), pp. 84-85.
28
Bancroft, History of California, Vol. III, Chap. 6, p. 72, says a trip for newly-maimed
"Pegleg" Smith in 1829 was verified only by a story in the San Francisco Bulletin the week
of his death in 1866. Horace Bell, Reminiscences of a Ranger (Santa Barbara, 1927), has a
Pegleg interview, p. 290. Hafen and Hafen, Old Spanish Trail, pp. 135-136, p. 230,
unearthed a tale that Pegleg and another trapper had been sent in from the Virgin River to
dispose of a lush 1829 fur catch, and eventually went out with 400 horses. Iris Higbee
Wilson, pp. 66-67 of her Wolfskill biography, lists Wolfskill's trappers and they do not
include Thomas L. Smith. It could be that Thomas L. Smith was with the earlier branch of
the Ewing Young men who came in to Los Angeles and went north; he had trapped the Gila
Route with them, p. 50.
29
Bancroft, History, Vol. III, Chap. 14, p. 396, footnote. Hafen and Hafen, Old Spanish
Trail, p. 179.
30
Eleanor Lawrence, "On the Old Spanish Trail," Touring Topics, Vol. XXII, No. 11, p.
36 (November, 1930).
31
Bancroft, History, Chap. 14, p. 395.
32
Caballeria, History of San Bernardino Valley, p. 67; del Carmen Lugo in La Vida Un
Ranchero (translated in April, 1930, by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez) said their new
buildings were "higher up on Barton Hill."
33
Caballeria, History of San Bernardino Valley, p. 76.
34
Ibid. According to Daniel Sexton who came later and married into the Cahuilla tribe, he
was whipped.
35
Ibid. p. 70. August 17, 1833, though not enforced for a year.
36
Hawthorne, California Missions, Chap. 5, pp. 62-72; Caballeria, p. 74.
37
Paul Bailey, Walkara, Hawk of the Mountains (Westernlore Press, Los Angeles, 1954),
p. 33.
38
Ibid. p. 35; Bailey's fictional account, Claws of the Hawk (Los Angeles, 1966), p. 66,
added the "lure of mares, brought down from Bridgers'."
39
Ibid. p. 36; also Bancroft History, Vol. III, Chap. 22; Dept. of State papers, May 14,
1840.
40
George D. Brewerton, Overland with Kit Carson (New York, 1930), p. 70. From tales
he had heard, Kit Carson credited mountain-men with the whole plot. He specified Bill
Williams. David Lavender, Bent's Fort (Doubleday, 1954), p. 154, p. 230, names some of
the fifteen Americans who left Brown's Hole for the raiding adventure. Hafen, Old Spanish
Trail reference, pp. 236-241. A Joseph J. Hill biography of "Bill Williams, Free Trapper,"
Touring Topics, Vol. XXII, No. 3 (March 1930), quotes Bill Williams, himself, as saying
the Indians took all the horses, letting him walk back to Taos. (Bents had a similar tale for
when he returned from the 1833-34 trip to California with Joseph Reddeford Walker.)
41
Horace D. Bell, Reminiscences of a Ranger, p. 290.
42
Eleanor Lawrence, "Horse Thieves on the Spanish Trail," Touring Topics, Vol. XXIII,
No. 1 (January, 1931).
43
Bailey, Walkara, p. 16; Thomas L. Kane in a lecture at Salt Lake reported the suit a gift
from Jim Bridger, Journal of Church History (Latter Day Saints), March 26, 1850.
44
Bailey, Walkara, p. 38.
45
Bancroft, History (old edition), Vol. XXII, p. 742. Documented with letters and dates.
PART 1, CHAPTER 3
"CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT PERIOD"
Beattie, Heritage of the Valley, p. 122; p. 39. In the interior Yorba had been granted Santa
Ana de Santiago in 1801; Antonio Maria Lugo had received San Antonio Rancho
(Compton), 1810; a Yorba son-in-law received La Serrano in 1817.
2
Beattie, Heritage of the Valley, Illustration, pp. 6-7.
3
Logs were placed on the chopped-out crotch of a large tree and pulled by oxen. Beattie,
Heritage, p. 46; Jensen, Thos. V. Patterson, Landmarks of Riverside (Press-Enterprise,
1964), p. 23.
4
Per Bancroft, Vol. IV, pp. 278-279. There were 134 people beside the caravan, including
a party of American naturalists.
5
. . . who wed Dona Ramona Yorba and built a house with foothill timber on part of the
Jurupa Rancho, likewise a two-story house on the Rincon Rancho four years later, the nowfamous Cota House. Beattie, Heritage, p. 46.
6
Brown and Boyd, History of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties (Chicago, 1922),
Vol. I, pp. 683-684; WPA Writers, The Old West, Pioneer Tales of San Bernardino County
(San Bernardino, 1940), p. 45.
7
Tom Hughes, History of Banning (Banning, 1938), p. 4. In Edgar Canyon, north of
Beaumont.
8
W. D. Frazee, Climate and Resources of San Bernardino County (San Bernardino, 1876),
p. 26. He said the Indians asked him if we had no "feast days." To show them he concocted
a red-white-and-blue flag and saluted it with blasting powder. Also regaled them with grape
brandy. (Banning Sentinel Editor, 1900.)
9
The Agua Caliente Rancho, "from the sierra del Yucaipe to the Cerrito Sola and the
arroyo de Cajon, from the Lomerias to the falda de la Sierra." Deed. #A89.
10
Jose del Carmen Lugo, La Vida un Ranchero, p 7. L. Burr Belden, History in the
Making, Sun Telegram, June 17, 1952, names the 27 colonists.
11
Names per 1857 Mortgage of Maria Arminta in San Timoteo Canyon.
12
Caballeria, History, p. 113.
13
Bancroft, Vol. VI, p. 122. Department of State papers.
14
West of the mouth of Cable Canyon, along the north border of Muscupiabe Rancho, per
informants of Historian Beattie. Beattie, Heritage, pp. 58-59.
15
Paul Bailey, Walkara, p. 44; Caballeria, History, p. 103. "nearly every full moon." del
Carmen Lugo called them "chagunosos."
16
Cleland, History of California (New York, 1927), pp. 99-100, The American Period.
17
Ibid. pp. 156-157; J. N. Guinn, Southern Coast Counties (Chicago, 1907), p. 109.
18
Cleland, History of California, American Period, p. 138. According to Fremont's
narrative of the trip (published in Washington, D.C., 1844) he had been in Cajon April 18,
1844.
19
Bancroft, History, Vol. VI, p. 115.
20
James Waters Sketch, Brown and Boyd, History of San Bernardino and Riverside
Counties (Chicago, 1922), Vol. II, p. 676. Arthur Woodward, "Trapper Jim Waters," Los
Angeles Corral of Westerners 1954, p. 9.
21
Beattie, Heritage, p. 65. Pegleg made no raids after statehood.
22
Benjamin Wilson Narrative, as told in Big Bear Panorama, p. 18.
23
Adaptations of accounts in Caballeria and Jo Mora's Californios.
24
Cleland, This Reckless Breed, p. 41.
25
Beattie, Heritage, pp. 64-65.
26
Caballeria, p. 94; Bancroft, Vol. XXII, p. 37. Minutes of Assembly, March 13, 1846.
27
Irving Stone, Men to Match My Mountains, p. 62. Vallejo letter to Mexico City.
28
Ibid. p. 64.
29
Ibid. p. 65. . . . of the Golden Bear Flag of the Independents. (About the middle of May,
Courier Gillespie had brought Fremont a letter from President Polk. Cleland, History,
American Period, p. 198.)
30
Stone, Men to Match My Mountains, p. 74.
31
Ibid. p. 75; Cleland, History, American Period, p. 207; known by the fleet at Mazatlan
May 17, 1846; in California August 12, 1846.
32
Jose del Carmen Lugo story, Los Angeles Vida Un Ranchero, pp. 11-12.
33
Arthur Woodward, "The Lances of San Pasqual," Historical Society Quarterly, Vol.
XXV, No. 4, December, 1946; Vol. XXVI, No. 1, March, 1947; pp. 32-37.
PART 1, CHAPTER 3
"CALIFORNIA ANNEXATION"
. . . for which the Mormons received $100, per Standage's Journal, Burr Belden, History
in the Making, Sun Telegram, July 29, 1951.
2
John H. Evans, Charles Coulson Rich (New York, 1936), p. 201.
3
Annaleone Patton, By Sail and Trail, p. 51. (All other biographers route him by Donner
Pass with the Battalion, who reached Salt Lake in October.) Brigham Young had arrived in
Salt Lake July 24th.
4
Leroy R. Hafen and Ann W. Hafen, Journals of the Forty-Niners (Glendale, California,
1954), p. 25. Quoting from one of the sons, John Hunt.
5
Ibid. p. 22.
6
Evans, Chas. Coulson Rich, p. 180.
7
Hafen and Hafen, Journals of Forty-Niners, p. 26.
8
Anna Patton (and many Mormons) credit them with finding and testing the nuggets
which Marshall took down to Sutter. By Sail and Trail, pp. 42-43.
9
Patton, By Sail and Trail, pp. 51-56.
10
George W. Brewerton, Overland with Kit Carson (New York, 1930), p. 54.
11
Ibid. p. 54.
12
Francisco Estevan Vigil's train, the last of a nearly twenty-year exchange between the
two Spanish-rooted territories. Brewerton must have been ahead of the Mormon Battalion
men with the wagon.
13
Gwinn Harris Heap, Central Route to the Pacific (Glendale, 1957), p. 19.
14
Stone, Men to Match My Mountains, p. 116; Patton, By Sail and Trail, p. 46.
15
O. O. Winther, Express and Stage Coach Days in California (Palo Alto, 1936); tables,
p. 8.
16
Stone, Men to Match My Mountains, p. 131.
17
Woodward, "Trapper Jim Waters," p. 11; he had just parted trails with John Brown,
Rube Herring, Alex Godey, et al. Hafen and Hafen, Journals of Forty-Niners, p. 49, of the
Chino Registration Book.
18
Hafen and Hafen, Journals, James Brown Diary, p. 113.
19
Ibid. p. 31.
20
Ibid. Henry Bigler's Diary, p. 142; Evans, Chas. Coulson Rich, pp. 180-193.
21
Journals of Forty-Niners, Pratt, p. 75.
22
Ibid. p. 35; also Farrer Diary, p. 198; another tale says Walkara had drawn him a map in
the wash sand, which he copied. Other writers call this the "Williams Cut-off" for the man
who guided Joseph Reddeford Walker in 1833-1834. No historian claims his return was
different from the Owens-Humboldt route he came, but legend does.
23
Hafen and Hafen, Journals of Forty-Niners, Bigler Diary, p. 150.
24
Ibid. James Brown Diary, p. 119; Evans, Chas. Coulson Rich, p. 185.
25
Hafen and Hafen, Journals, Bigler Diary, p. 163.
26
Ibid. p. 155.
27
Ibid. Addison Pratt Diary, p. 96.
28
Ibid. p. 101.
29
Ibid. Bigler Diary, p. 171.
30
Ibid. Rollins Recollection, p. 267.
31
Ibid. Gruwell Memoirs (collected by Bancroft, 1887), Hafen Journals, p. 55; Farrer
Diary, p. 21; Pratt, p. 100 and p. 107.
32
Ibid. Pratt Diary, p. 106.
33
Ibid. Sidney Waite Sketch, p. 129 (from Brown and Boyd, History of San Bernardino
and Riverside Counties, Vol. III, pp. 284-285.
34
Ibid. Pratt Diary, p. 107.
35
August Waite, whose wife was the daughter of James Beckwourth and may have been a
friend of Viejo Slover, Agua Mansa resident.
36
He used some rope, too, getting the wagons over the Virgin-Muddy divide. Hafen and
Hafen, Journals, p. 313.
37
Hafen and Hafen, Journals, George Q. Cannon Narrative, pp. 250-251; Egan Diary, p.
311, December 2, 1849. After "eating mule meat 16 days," Smith had decided to face East
and save his life. (He did not tell the 85 people he had urged into Death Valley.) Stone,
Men to Match My Mountains, p. 140.
38
January 21, 1850. Hafen and Hafen, Journals, p. 297. David Seely sketch.
39
Hafen and Hafen, Journals, Bigler Diary, p. 175, entry for December 18, 1849.
40
Evans, Chas. Coulson Rich, p. 194.
41
Patton, By Sail and Trail, p. 116.
42
Pioneer Notes from the Diaries of Judge Benjamin Hayes (Los Angeles, 1929), p. 54.
Approximately January 17, 1850, at Warners'.
43
Benjamin Hayes, Pioneer Notes, p. 67; newspaper man Horace Bell ("Reminiscences of
a Ranger," p. 299), also speaks of "corps of Mexican assistants and villages of Indian
vassals."
44
Later evidence points to the mine as in Arrastre Canyon, Lone Valley.
45
This Sanford Road is located by desert historians as up across the Phelan dump. The
wagon-trace is visible from the air, almost under the modern Boulder Highline. Interview
with Jean Goldbrandsen, Victorville artist and on-the-ground researcher.
46
Beattie, Heritage of the Valley, pp. 173-174.
47
At the time Walkara was occupied with trying to be a good brother to the Mormons, and
could not see why he was not accorded the honor of a white wife. Bailey, Walkara, Hawk
of the Mountains, p. 119.
48
. . . as Camp Cajon was known.
49
. . . but not conviction. A full account of the trial is given by Judge Benjamin Hayes
who tried it, and got shot at. Hayes, Pioneer Notes, pp. 75-81. Also W. W. Robinson
pamphlet, People vs. Lugo (Dawson, Los Angeles, 1962).
PART 1, CHAPTER 4
"STATEHOOD"
Sonorans, accustomed to arrastre work, were more successful in dry places than
Americans.
2
Stone, Men to Match My Mountains, p. 144.
3
O. O. Winther, Express and Stage Coach Days (Stanford Press, 1936), p. 35.
4
Cleland, Transportation (New York, 1944), p. 280. $2.00 cattle @ $16.00; $4.00 cattle
@ $75.00. Carey McWilliams, Southern California Country (Los Angeles, 1954), p. 62.
5
Evans, Chas. Coulson Rich, p. 198.
6
Ibid. p. 200. (Beattie has seen the letter.)
7
Ibid. p. 204.
8
. . . who used ten teams of oxen.
9
A composite of Rich, Addison Pratt, and pioneer memories.
10
The stone Monument on Highway 138 marks their line of descent, above; the Camp
Cajon monument, their 49er memories as they passed Coyote Canyon.
11
After 75 days of travel, 769 miles, privation, but little loss of stock and no loss of life.
PART 2, CHAPTER 1
"MORMAN SETTLEMENT"
W. W. Robinson, People versus Lugo (pamphlet, Los Angeles, 1962).
2
Hayes, Pioneer Notes, p. 75, San Timoteo Canyon; Old Lugo in La Vida un Ranchero
says, "on an old logging road near Ukipe," p. 19. Frank Ramirez, Maria Arminta's
grandson, said in July, 1929, Sun, "on the Frank Mulvihill Ranch."
3
Lugo, La Vida un Ranchero, p. 20.
4
Eighteen leagues were mentioned. Fine print in Spanish, in regard to choosing eight
leagues from it, were learned when verifying title.
5
Pauline Weaver, holder of an (unconfirmed) grant of land in San Gorgonio Pass, lost
sixty horses and brought word.
6
Another part of the peace was a parley at Chino Ranch at which Isaac Williams gave
the Indians $3000 worth of supplies. The U.S. Indian Agent did not attend. Los Angeles
Star Weekly, March 1, 1856.
7
Robert Glass Cleland, Transportation, p. 360.
8
"Aliso" is Spanish for sycamore; a mighty specimen grew at Vignes' home, hence the
nickname.
9
Daniel Sexton at Vignes Mill, December 26, 1852, attested by Benjamin Wilson while
Indian Agent; also Boyd and Brown, History, Vol. I, p. 16.
10
W. D. Frazee, Climate and Resources of San Bernardino County, p. 26; water
disputes concerning the zanja occasioned Sexton testimony. Elliot and Company,
History of San Bernardino County, p. ___ (San Francisco, 1883).
11
A Mormon teamster who moved up from Chino.
12
Lyman letter of May 18, 1852, H. E. Raupt, Growth of a Pass-Site City (U. of
California, 1938), p. 22. (From the Journal of Church History at Salt Lake.)
13
George W. Beattie, Collection, Lyman letter of July 20, 1852, published in Deseret
News of September 4, 1852.
14
Nancy Hunt Daley affirmed the location.
Bernardino Sun, May, 1897.
Semi-Centennial Edition of the San
15
Raupt, Growth of a Pass-Site City, p. 23, quotes the Los Angeles Star of August 7,
1852: "the steam sawmill will be put in operation next week. Prices will be $50 per
thousand, taken at the pit."
16
Beattie, Heritage, p. 205. Quoting from Hopkins' Church Journal of November 7th
and 8th, 1852.
17
Harris Newmark, Sixty Years in Southern California (Cambridge, 1930), p. 350,
interpreted by Beattie, Heritage, pp. 194-195.
18
Caballeria, History of San Bernardino Valley, p. 105; La Estrella de Los Angeles,
correspondent, December 5, 1852.
19
Raupt, A Pass-Site City; per the February 6, 1853, La Estrella de Los Angeles, the
cost in San Francisco was $4,000.
20
Photostat of Hazen Kimball Possessory Claim Application: Possessory Book A3, San
Bernardino County Hall of Records.
21
Mortgage book 1, p. 1. (Fully paid off, December, 1855.)
22
Beattie, Heritage, p. 209. Gives a graphic description furnished by David Seely
himself or by David Randolph Seely at the Native Son dedication of the Seely Mill
historical plaque. San Bernardino Daily Sun, July 31, 1936.
23
Talmadge Annals (unpublished manuscript compiled by W. B. Coombs, April, 1937).
The John Talmadge copy and many pictures were loaned to me by his daughter, Bernice
Gray, Victorville.
24
del Carmen Lugo said in La Vida un Ranchero, p. 27, that even in Mission Days,
Indians were allowed to go to the mountains for their customary foods.
PART 2, CHAPTER 2
"MORMAN LUMBERING & TRADE"
In the flat now occupied by Gregory Village, directly behind Goodwin's Market.
2
Beattie, Heritage, p. 222. (per Byron Waters' "Mountain Manuscript.")
3
A "salamander." Ralph Andrews, This Was Sawmilling, p. 19.
4
A Mississippian who, with negro servants, operated the principal San Bernardino
tavern. Benjamin Hayes, Pioneer Notes, p. 104, February 21, 1854.
5
Albert R. Lyman, Francis Marion Lyman Biography (Delta, Utah, 1958), p. 7. The
Mormon leader's eldest son spoke always of "Uncle David Frederick" as he did of "Uncle
Sidney Tanner," his mother's brother.
6
Grades of 22% to 41% were later recorded by Historian Beattie and City Engineer
Howard Way. Beattie, Heritage, p. 197. D. R. Seely spoke (as nobody else has) of
horsemen with lassos that they pulled for holdbacks.
7
Bettie, Collection, (County Library). Amasa Lyman letter.
8
O. O. Winther, Express and Stage Coach Days in California, p. 35, table.
9
Guinn Harris Heap, Central Route to the Pacific, p. 20, p. 296.
10
Per the order of Jefferson Davis, U.S. Secretary of War, 1853.
11
12
Beattie, Heritage, pp. 214-215. Barley and beef, flour, fish and butter.
Tom Hughes, History of Banning, p. 7. Blake writes of Pauline Weaver's half-ruined
adobe house near the summit of San Gorgonio Pass, also his fruit trees. So also Boyd
and Brown, History, Vol. I, p. 32.
13
Probably the Crismon portable.
14
Bettie, Heritage, p. 195. From Amass Layman’s Diary. Both F. Marion Layman,
who drove teams there at age 15 (Francis Marion Layman biography), and Joseph Rich
(Ezra Pulse, Versatile Pioneer, Salt Lake, 1958, p. 34), verified work done there, at least
in 1855.
15
Ibid. Location of Mormon Mill in Mill Creek Canyon near Forest Home.
16
Mrs. Elias P. (Robbins) Crafts, Pioneer Days in San Bernardino Valley (Redlands,
1906), p. 16.
17
According to Frank Ramirez (San Bernardino Daily Sun, July 20, 1929), "Uncle Jose
Bermudas" operated a Mill Creek Sawmill in California times.
18
Agreement Book A, p. 20. According to Chas. Coulsen Rich biography, p. 220, the
Mormons drew $36,000 for fencing Chino lands; young Francis Lyman's diary says they
were "unable to fill the contract," p. 26.
19
Compare Lease A5, September 18, 1856, and Note 64, this section.
20
Beattie, Heritage, p. 215. Again from the Amasa Lyman Diary.
21
Cleland, Transportation, p. 209.
22
Burr Belden, History in the Making, San Bernardino Sun, September 18, 1960.
$25,000 more was provided for the road from San Pedro to the California state line.
23
Beattie, Heritage, p. 209.
24
An October letter of Judge Hayes in the Southern Californian speaks of 700
buildings erected in Los Angeles in the preceding four Mojaves. Harris Newmark, p. 88,
in My Sixty Years, says all Los Angeles lumber needs, as well as eggs, butter and flour,
are supplied from San Bernardino.
25
Beattie, Heritage, pp. 209-211; D. R. Seely Memoirs, San Bernardino Daily Sun,
July 31, 1936.
26
Mortgage Book A, p. 2 and p. 17.
27
Per David Randolph Seely, San Bernardino Daily Sun, July 31, 1936.
28
By date in the Possessory Claim book, he both filed and recorded on February 2,
1855 (A7).
29
The Southern Californian, October, 1854.
30
Deed A30 @ $6,000, November, 1854.
31
Memoirs of Jeff Daley, a grandson. Cf. memories of Huldah James, Note 2, Change
of Pioneers period.
32
Raymond Holt, "The Mountain They Put in Sacks," Westways, Vol. 50, No. 6, June,
1958.
33
This could have been the local mail (Sheldon Stoddard made 24 trips) or
Chorpenning's man, T. S. Williams. Both went.
34
Los Angeles Star, October 12, 1854.
35
Chattel Mortgage Book A, page 48, October, 1854.
36
Bailey, Walkara, Hawk of the Mountains (January 29, 1855), p. 170. Also, March
24th, Los Angeles Star Weekly.
37
Los Angeles Star Weekly, February 8, 1855. The California Stage Company has
reorganized and extended a line south from San Francisco; Banning and Alexander add it
to their services. Winther, Express and Stage Coach Days, pp. 135-136.
38
. . . of the February 23, 1855, crash. Los Angeles Star Weekly, March 1, 1855.
Winther, Express and Stage Coach Days, p. 112.
39
Los Angeles Star Weekly, March 17, 1855 - April 14th.
40
Ibid. January 24, 1855.
41
Very nearly Highway 138, above the Historical Marker, though without benefit of an
artificial cut, as now.
42
Los Angeles Star Weekly, May 5, 1855.
43
David W. Alexander, earlier a partner of Francis Mellus, had lived a while in Salt
Lake City. Newmark, My Sixty Years, p. 74.
44
Los Angeles Star Weekly, April 14, 1855.
45
Ibid. June 2nd, when Mr. Sanford's brother returned from seeing him out Cajon.
46
Los Angeles Star Weekly, March 3, 1855, June 30th; also Evans, Chas. Coulson Rich,
p. 220.
47
Los Angeles Star Weekly, September 22nd. Newmark, My Sixty Years, p. 187, says
he brought back some wagons with spoke wheels.
48
John Brown, Sr., Jim Waters' trapper-friend, had chosen land in Ukipe Valley which
he felt sure they would not choose. He met surveyors Fred Perris and rodman Joseph
Rich with a shotgun in the summer of 1855. (Poulsen, Versatile Pioneer, pp. 38-40.)
49
Mortgage Book A17; Deed N356 to Mrs. Granger, A327 to H. Hancock.
50
Los Angeles Star Weekly, June 23, 1855. On the Upper San Gabriel River.
51
Ibid. July 7th. (Bear Lake at this time was the lake we know as Baldwin Lake.)
52
Mortgage A172. (The Possessory Claim he speaks of is not listed.)
53
Los Angeles Star Weekly, October 13th. (See February 23, 1856, Star, when
Jefferson Davis declares Parallel 33 is through sterile deserts, that 32 would be better.)
54
Ibid. November 3, 1855.
55
Ibid. November 17th.
56
The Hopkins Church Journal says $20,000 loss, and laments the reduction of their
capacity to supply lumber and meet debts. Beattie, Heritage, p. 222.
57
In the midst of all this, a heroic and dramatic story was taking place: Some of Duff
Weaver's Indian friends had let him know that there was a white girl in a party of Yuma
Indians up along the Colorado. With provisions, and presents from the military, a
friendly Yuma named Francesca was sent in to bargain for the release of Miss Olive
Oatman, 16, who with her late sister had been a slave, first of the Apaches who had
captured them in 1851, and later of the Yumas to whom they had been sold. She and
Francesca boated dangerously down the Colorado before their hosts could change
intention. The girl was brought to El Monte on February 22, 1856, to old Iowa neighbors
of her massacred parents. The first comment was that "she had not been made a wife."
(Harris Newmark, who saw her, said she had been tattooed. My Sixty Years, p. 218.)
It took her some months to regain her speech and earlier memories.
Assemblyman Hunt of San Bernardino recommended that the legislature appropriate a
$1500 state fund for her, which she got at the end of March. Los Angeles Star Weekly,
April 19, 1856.
58
Los Angeles Star Weekly, February 16, 1856.
59
Ibid. April 5, 1856.
60
Newmark, My Sixty Years in California, p. 191.
61
John M. Lewis had never prospered very well. He placed numerous mortgages
against his half of the sawmill. See A53, A61.
62
Los Angeles Star Weekly, June 21, 1856. "5,000 head of Yorba cattle are on the
plains; also 10,000 head of Mormon cattle."
63
To Brigham Young, unwitnessed. Revealed in April, 1844, as winning laurels for
salvation. Amasa M. Lyman biography, p. 114. In San Bernardino the practice seemed
largely limited to the leaders.
64
Henry G. Sherwood and Jerome Benson were of this group. Poulsen, Versatile
Pioneer, p. 65, gives Charles Rich's explanation of the trouble.
65
Beattie, Heritage, p. 244, pp. 258-259.
66
Possessory Claim Book A13.
67
Leases Book A, page 5, made September 18, 1856 (five days after the death of Col.
Williams) and recorded October 17, 1857.
68
Per Father Caballeria, History of San Bernardino Valley, p. 96.
69
Judge Benjamin Hayes, Pioneer Notes, p. 147, October 16, 1856.
70
Ibid.
71
Newmark, My Sixty Years, pp. 270-272.
72
Evans, Chas. Coulson Rich, p. 228.
73
Beattie, Heritage, pp. 270-272.
74
Ibid. p. 270.
75
Stone, Men to Match My Mountains, pp. 182-184.
76
Hunt-Rowland Deed B234, November 24, 1857.
77
Cox-Pico Deed B252, December 8, 1857.
78
Taylor (#11) - Crosby (#9), Eames-Dickson Deed B268; Mortgages A93, B48. The
mortgages referred also to "their interest if any in the possessory claims of Lyman, Rich
and Frederick . . . which were all taken up at the same time for the purpose of
sawmilling."
79
Lyman (Poss. #10), Rich and Frederick (#1) to Bachman Mercantile Mortgage B6,
June 22, 1858. Per Harris Newmark, Bachman always had a good deal of Salt Lake
trade.
80
In June of 1859. Mortgage B101 (June 30th) @ $5,000.
81
They are en route to army headquarters at Ft. Tejon.
82
Guinn Harris Heap, Central Route to the Pacific; Earle Crowe, Men of El Tejon.
83
Burr Belden, History in the Making, San Bernardino Sun, November 25, 1957.
PART 2, CHAPTER 3
"CHANGE OF PIONEERS"
Beattie, Heritage, p. 301.
2
From an unpublished manuscript of daughter Huldah James Mecham, to whom we are
indebted for all these memoirs. She remembered her father to have brought up a boiler
that had come all the way around the Horn. (Cf. Jeff Daley: note 28 in Mormon
Lumbering.)
3
Ibid.
4
Ibid.
5
Ibid.
6
Later newspaper reports.
7
Huldah James Mecham, unpublished manuscript.
8
Ibid.
9
Claire Mecham Hayman, a James granddaughter who has the pistols and written
memoirs from her mother, and five Sawmill Ledgers.
10
Per the June 26th Los Angeles Star Weekly, Bachmans were rebuilding Child's
burned store.
11
Possessory Claims: Book A, page 16, March 7, 1857.
12
Ibid. A19, April 13, 1858.
13
Los Angeles Star Weekly, May 22, 1858.
14
Possessory Claim Book: A21, June 17, 1858.
15
Los Angeles Star Weekly, March 20, 1858.
16
Ibid. February 13, 1858.
17
Ibid. May 22nd.
18
Ibid. January 23rd, 1858.
19
Harold O. Weight, "We Found a Mighty River," Westways, Vol. 57, No. 10, October,
1965. Los Angeles Star Weekly, January 16, 1858; September 12, 1858.
20
Ibid. January 16, 1858.
21
Ibid. There is something about strong young men getting wives, "now that the Elders
are out of the picture." Maybe it was precaution; maybe it was for added strength; maybe
it was Time.
22
F. M. Lyman Biography, p. 39, says Col. Kane went through with his train February
1 - March, 1858.
23
Quotes from the Deseret Magazine, in Los Angeles Star Weekly, May 1st, June 20th.
24
Who, in September, 1857, filed Possessory Claim on the SW 1/4 of the s 1/2 of the
NW 1/4 of Section 25, T2S, R1W (Highland Springs), A1.
25
Los Angeles Star Weekly, July 17th (Dr. Wozencraft has treated two for arrow
wounds).
26
Ibid. September 19th.
27
Los Angeles Star Weekly, September 19, 1858.
28
Ibid. July 17th (two men got slit throats).
29
Burr Belden, History in the Making, San Bernardino Sun, November 25, 1961;
December 16, 1951.
30
Los Angeles Star Weekly, October 9th, 1858.
31
Deed B254, December 8, 1857 (A89 was the original deed, granted by Micheltoreno
April 29, 1843; twice since, parts have sold for pennies).
32
Deed D128, November 9, 1858 @ $3,300.
33
Los Angeles Star Weekly, November 16, 1858.
34
Alta Californian, January 6, 1859, quoting from the Salt Lake Valley Sun of
December 17, 1858.
35
Alta Californian, January 6, 1859.
36
Ibid. April 18, 1859.
37
Deed D244 @ $4,400.
38
Mortgage B48; Mortgage B65.
39
Agreement A20, July 26, 1859.
40
Los Angeles Star Weekly, August 13, 1859.
41
Mortgage B101, June 30, 1859.
42
Huldah James Mecham, herself (the first of three mountain births).
43
Memoirs of Sidney P. Waite, mail carrier (later San Bernardino County Clerk);
Excerpts in Big Bear Panorama, 1934 booklet published by Big Bear High School,
edited by Bea Peddar, pp. 28-30. Quotes are from Boyd and Brown, History, pp. 284285.
44
Wm. Elliott, History of San Bernardino County, 1883, p. 142.
45
Newmark, My Sixty Years, p. 247.
46
Alta Californian, April - May, 1859; see also note 19.
47
October 22nd. A sixteen-day trip, it was said, at one-third the cost of steamer
service.
PART 2, CHAPTER 4
"PROSPECTING DAYS"
Sidney Waite Memoirs, Big Bear Panorama, p. 28.
2
Per a Holcomb daughter. February 20, 1860.
3
From Gold, Sliver, and History, master thesis of Laurance A. Jacobs, UCLA 1962,
deposited with the Bear Valley Ranger Station. His source is the Los Angeles Star
Weekly, January 7, 1860.
4
Los Angeles Star Weekly, January 7, 1860.
5
Ibid. April 14, 1860.
6
Miscellaneous Records A______, April 30, 1860.
7
The story is that told by Wm. Francis Holcomb, himself, in a "Journal of Holcomb
Valley" (compiled in 1888). Quoted often by centennial newspapers (San Bernardino
Sun, October 1948) and by Big Bear Panorama, p. 26. In 1930 a novel of the flag
incident was dramatized by the community as "Nevertheless, Old Glory," San
Bernardino Sun, July 4, 1930.
8
W. F. Holcomb, "Journal of Holcomb Valley," p. 13.
9
Los Angeles Star Weekly, June 30, 1860.
10
Ibid. July 7, 1860.
11
Ibid. August 29th.
12
Possessory Claims A29, July 18, 1860.
13
Semi-Weekly Southern News, July 6, 1860.
14
"Cerf" is the width of wood taken out by the saw.
15
Huldah James Mecham Memoirs.
16
J. J. Willis' bookkeeping shows every tobacco purchase or other advance against their
wages. Jonathan James Mill Ledgers.
17
Board of Supervisors' Minutes, August 6, 1860 - A82.
18
Los Angeles Star Weekly, August 29, 1860.
Greenlead Mine.)
(He invested in Dr. Wozencraft's
19
Perhaps Silas Cox's burro-stops here have left a name. No early possessory claim or
patent or lease has been found for this grassy, spring-fed meadow.
20
As seen by a later Brown-Tucker-Willis agreement, A24.
21
This dramatic account (p. 96 in a book of local history researched by Victor Valley
College) gives form to a story current in many pioneer memoirs: Mohave (1966).
22
Los Angeles Star Weekly, September 1, 1860. (William Caley's Journal (Belden,
1951) reported 300 men voting.)
23
Supervisors' Minutes, October 20, 1860, p. 94; November 12, 1860, p. 109.
24
Holcomb Journal.
25
Ibid.
26
Possessory Claim Book A, pages 30-34, November 17, 1860. Per a San Bernardino
Guardian of March, 1867: ". . . argentiferous galena and lead which they know of no
way to profitably extract."
27
Los Angeles Star Weekly, April 20, 1861, said to be "on the eastern slope bordering
on the desert." (Probably near the Permanente Plant in a spot still called Cushenbury
Grade.)
28
Agreement Book A24, January 4, 1861; Brown agrees to furnish $231 for each of his
partners and take it from the first tolls.
29
Possessory Book A31-32.
30
Miscellaneous Records (as all the first mining records were), A37.
31
Hayes, Pioneer Notes, p. 212, January 9, 1861. (Word of the Secession had, I
believe, been received December 29th, 1860.)
32
Los Angeles Star Weekly, January 21, 1861.
33
Ibid. Ogier Mine has persisted a century. By a 1953 Division of Mines Report it was
located in Section 30, T3N, Range 1 East, on John Bull Flat, and noted as having the
"most extensive lode work of the area."
Miscellaneous Records, A35, A36, A46, S. S. Smith. A37, A442, A45, A452, March
9, 1861 through April.
34
35
Miscellaneous Records A37, May 20, 1861. (30 years later this will be the area of
Rose Mine and Morongo King.)
36
Agreement A22, August 26, 1861.
37
Miscellaneous Records A34, March 16, 1861, as Holcomb Creek could rightfully be
called. Its headwaters would be below the old Hitchcock Ranch headquarters.
38
Water Records A40, April 1861.
39
W. D. Frazee, Climate and Resource of San Bernardino County, p. 79.
40
Los Angeles Star Weekly, April 13, 1861.
41
Los Angeles Star Weekly, April 13, 1861. Advertisement
JOEL SCRANTON
Holcomb Valley
EXPRESS
42
Ibid.
43
" . . . worst between Burnt Valley and Holcomb," they said.
44
The Harold Goldbrandsens of Victorville researched the route in connection with
Victor Valley's historical publication.
45
Los Angeles Star Weekly, from a correspondent signing himself as Selma.
46
Sidney Waite Memoirs.
47
Los Angeles Star Weekly, June 3, 1861. In a Civis letter from Holcomb Valley.
48
Austin Drake, Big Bear Valley History, Legends, and Tales (Grizzly Press, 1949
Centennial Edition, Big Bear Lake), p. 64, has a charming tale about a stage-load of
"dance-hall girls" who danced under the stars at the foot of Snubbing Post Grade during a
breakdown. (His source I have not seen.)
49
Sidney Waite Memoirs.
50
Los Angeles Star Weekly, June 3, 1861. Selma letter.
51
Ibid. April 20, 1861.
52
Ibid. June 1st.
53
Sold by Lewis Marjoni to James C. Udell in Agreement A33, November 4, 1861.
54
Drake, Bear Valley History, p. 76. They may have named it for the popular Round
House, made over into an Octagon House, which Harris Newmark describes as Los
Angeles' favorite beer garden of the era (My Sixty Years, p. 192, p. 476). This may have
been Sylvester's building next to Mellus Mill.
55
Holcomb Valley owners listed on the 1862 Assessor's Roll.
56
Ibid.
57
Ibid.
58
Agreement A32, November 12, 1861 (near Julian Co. in Lower Holcomb).
59
Los Angeles Star Weekly, June 27, 1861, Holcomb Valley correspondent, J. A.
Talbot, later Unionist editor of the Star.
60
Editor Sherman's letter is quoted in Major Carleton's classified report on San
Bernardino to the War Department. Rebellion Records, pp. 552-553.
61
Los Angeles Star Weekly, June 27th, Talbot letter.
62
Ibid.
63
Ibid. July 23rd, Selma letter.
64
Hayes, Pioneer Notes, p. 257. Entries for July 6th, August 8th.
65
Duly sent to Secretary of State Seward. Rebellion Records, p. 629.
66
Arrival June 24th; program, Sept. 11th Los Angeles Star Weekly; also Rebellion
Records, p. 567.
67
Maybe also from the San Gabriel Mines. Men are there from "the upper country."
Los Angeles Star Weekly, March 4, 1861; Rebellion Records I, p. 43.
68
Showalter had fought a too-successful duel with San Bernardino's Assemblyman
Piercy on May 25, 1861.
69
The only Visalia man mentioned was a Dr. Snell who came to assay in Holcomb
Valley. Women and children hiding in the half-finished Catholic Church should date
Showalter's passage west of town. Mrs. E. P. R. Crafts, Pioneer Days.
70
Los Angeles Star Weekly, July 19th; Civis letter.
71
Not far east of the grove of Holcomb Campground, facing Caribou Creek, is a
junkyard of rusting machinery. It could date from 1861, or as late as 1925.
72
Los Angeles Star Weekly, August 17th. (No possessory claim shows until 1867.)
73
See map of Patent A132 in Book A, August 27, 1872, and on the Olio, etc. Also
maps in Surveyor's office for 1876.
74
Los Angeles Star Weekly, September 1, 1861.
Holcomb.
75
God and Union correspondent,
Semi-Weekly Southern News, September 13th.
76
Los Angeles Star, September 7th.
77
Alta Californian, September 9, 1861. The societies would have been "Knights of the
Golden Circle."
78
Ibid.
79
Los Angeles Star Weekly, September 14, 1861. Selma letter.
80
Ibid. God and Union letter, . . . of young Rowland searching for stock.
81
Ibid. Editorial comment on "a Johnson who ordered $15 worth of clothing, the
receipt for same, and $5 cash . . . at gunpoint."
82
Los Angeles Star Weekly, September 14, 1861. Selma letter.
83
Hayes, Pioneer Notes, p. 257.
84
Rebellion Records, pp. 597-615, August 31st - September 5th.
85
86
Los Angeles Star Weekly, September 11, 1861, Correspondent Selma.
Misc. Records, A48 (Udell to Thomas Bisset), September 6, 1861 @ $1,000 (payable
at $40 a week).
87
McCoy, @ $211 (A49) and $500 (A51) respectively.
88
Los Angeles Star Weekly, September 14, 1861.
89
Los Angeles Star Weekly, September 14, 1861. Van Leuven, Waters, Rowland,
Wilson, Wolfskill and Stearns lost horses.
90
Hayes, Pioneer Notes, p. 259 (September 22, 1861); Belden, History in the Making,
San Bernardino Sun-Telegram, June 6, 1952. Showalter escaped after five months and
made his way to the Confederate lines.
91
Los Angeles Star Weekly, September 16th. Letter from San Bernardino.
92
Ten Salt Lake men who kept stolen horses in a mountain valley were sent to San
Quentin. (Los Angeles Star Weekly, November 9, 1861.)
93
Los Angeles Star Weekly, October 9, 1861. Civis letter.
94
Ibid. October 5th.
95
Ibid. October 19th.
96
Ibid. December 21, 1861.
97
F. M. Edgar, Possessory Claim Book A35, April 23, 1861.
98
Note: A projection from Huldah James Mecham's memoirs, from this year when
Sam was fifteen.
PART 2, CHAPTER 5
"IGNORING THE WAR"
Los Angeles Star Weekly, January 10, 1862.
2
Hayes, Pioneer Notes, p. 265. He did almost strip himself of cattle and hay, which he
sold to the Union troops to get enough money to restore the Turnpike. See above, pp.
260-261.
3
4
Los Angeles Star Weekly, January 22, 1862; Hayes interviews, February.
Hayes, Pioneer Notes, pp. 270-271: February 6th talk with the Trujillos in their openair ramuda.
5
Huldah James Mecham Memoirs. For the interest of feminine readers, doctors,
devotees of the "good olde days," she was never "right." She was killed at sixteen in a
buggy wreck.
6
Huldah James Mecham Memoirs.
7
Los Angeles Star Weekly, February 6, 1862. Letter of Acting-Coroner A. J. Beard.
8
Mortgage Book B146.
9
Ibid. The Tibbetts Mortgage and the Pierson Mortgage were listed together, both here
and on exemption for taxes.
10
Per 1857 original Survey Map of Township 2 North, Range 4 West, shown at the end
of the Mormon Lumbering section.
11
Assessor's Yearbooks, 1862, p. 3.
12
Ibid. p. 3.
13
Written by W. B. Coombs from pioneer and family remembrances, 1937.
14
Assessor's Yearbooks, 1862, 1863, 1864.
15
Ibid.
16
Ibid.
17
The Strongs were on the wagon train which Frank Talmadge joined en route to
California. Mr. Strong was, even then, an invalid.
18
Eugene Caley article in January 13, 1939, San Bernardino Daily Sun.
19
Told in a WPA Writers' Project, The Old West, Pioneer Tales of San Bernardino
County, Native Sons (Sun Company, San Bernardino, 1940), p. 49. Susan Strong
(Caley), who would have been 12 and whose tales I use, reversed the fates of the two
bears as given by the Native Sons. Cf. 18.
20
Los Angeles Star Weekly, March 1, 1862.
21
Ibid. April 5th, "buying $2,000 - $3,000 a month;" May 22nd, "a $12,000 shipment,
the largest yet."
22
Also Newmark, My Sixty Years, p. 313.
23
Los Angeles Star Weekly, February 8th-15th, etc.
24
Ibid. April 19th.
25
Miscellaneous Records, A58.
26
A Star correspondent of September, 1861, had said, "a $20,000 investment."
27
See advertisements of Sheriff's Sale, Los Angeles Star Weekly.
28
Kelley, Wozencraft, Henderson, Sylvester, Bellamy, Wm. Osborn, Lewis Marjoni,
Tom Valencia, James Davis, John B. Cook, George Hamilton, Sydney Waite, . . .
doubtless, others.
29
Judge Ogier's death took place in Holcomb Valley, May 1861, per Newmark, My
Sixty Years, p. 54.
30
Judge W. D. Frazee, Climate and Resources of San Bernardino County, pp. 56-57.
An 1881 Editor, boosting Valley Gold Co. possibilities, quotes Wells-Fargo as authority.
31
Los Angeles Star Weekly, September 20, 1862.
32
Miscellaneous Records, A60, A61, A64.
33
Ibid. A75, November 1, 1862.
34
The division of the Salt Lake Trail from the Government Road.
35
Los Angeles Star Weekly, April 19, 1862, February 13, 1864.
36
Ibid. July 26, 1862.
37
The new editor was the same J. A. Talbott who had corresponded from Holcomb
Valley.
38
Forecast in the Los Angeles Star Weekly, November 8, 1862. (Not really carried out
until January 2, 1863.)
39
Los Angeles Star Weekly, January 3, 1863.
40
Ibid. February 21st.
41
Ibid. August 19th.
42
Ibid. May 12th, Civis letter from San Bernardino.
43
Ibid. March 1, 1863.
44
Los Angeles Star Weekly of that date. Both Mrs. Sanford and her daughter, Mrs.
Banning, were aboard.
45
Miscellaneous Records, A75; April, 1863, to James Walsh & Co.
46
The name on the Assessor's Rolls.
47
According to the San Bernardino Guardian, March 9, 1867, he installed a 35 hp
engine, a centrifugal crusher, and shaking tables.
48
Miscellaneous Records, A67, May 8, 1863. There must have been some copper ore
involved if he named it, as he said, for a "green stain."
49
See Deed F296, November 3, 1863.
50
Miscellaneous Records, A92, October 13, 1863.
51
Ibid. A73, September 24, 1863; Prieta was from Agua Mansa; once Caballeria spoke
of him as a poet.
52
Assessor's Rolls 1863-64. Taxes $366.
53
Quotation from Deed F296, November 3, 1863, Moronga Silver Mining Co.
54
Deed A66, April 10, 1863. One of his working associates was Juan Flores. One
wonders if this might have led to the later ranch name. Governor Pico had made the
name fashionable.
55
Beattie, Heritage of the Valley, pp. 92-94, whether one league or seven leagues.
56
Evidence of his work and cattle are seen on 1864 tax rolls.
57
Possessory Claims A46, A47, A49, February 14, 1863.
58
1863 Tax Rolls.
59
James Mill Account Ledgers, kept by J. J. Willis.
60
1863 Tax Rolls, April.
61
George Momyer interview with George Miller, San Bernardino County Museum
Association Quarterly, Winter, 1962.
62
Los Angeles Star Weekly, July 11th, 1863.
63
Ibid. October 3, 1863.
64
Ibid. October 31, 1863.
65
Miscellaneous Records, A87: "1-1/4 miles northwest of Holcomb Valley" forerunner of the "Alpine District" and Arctic Canyon.
66
Assessor's Rolls, 1864. A66 was Lawler's Possessory Claim. Hamilton may have
been the original owner of Hamilton Hotel in Lower Holcomb.
67
Miscellaneous Records A91.
68
Deed F221.
69
Possessory Claims A65, June 17, 1864 (Cox Rancha).
70
Miscellaneous Records A97, May 27, 1864.
71
Tri-Weekly News, February 10, 1864.
72
Ibid. April 18th, April 29th.
73
Los Angeles Star Weekly, February 6, 1864.
74
Ibid. September 3, 1864.
75
Ibid. February 13, 1864.
76
Ibid. June 11th. "70-80 head of beef are on the road to Hardyville."
77
1864 Assessor's Rolls.
78
Miscellaneous Records A106, October 13, 1864.
79
Los Angeles Star Weekly, July 2, 1864; apparently Abbott, the original locator,
objected to the man his partner sold out to.
80
Miscellaneous Records A105.
81
Los Angeles Star Weekly, April 2, 1864.
82
Newmark, My Sixty Years, p. 329.
83
According to the 1864 Tax Rolls: on "ranch and carpentry tools, and $160
improvements on the Agua Caliente."
84
Momyer interview with George Miller, p. 77, San Bernardino County Museum
Association Quarterly, Winter, 1962.
85
Talmadge Annals; also memoirs of John Talmadge, Centennial Issue of San
Bernardino Sun, October, 1947.
86
Assessor's Rolls, 1864-65 Fiscal Year, p. 147.
87
Miscellaneous Records A112: Debts $559, $200, $300, which is not, of course, its
whole value, either to Mellus or to his assignees. Thus the mill ownership was
fragmented.
88
The San Bernardino Guardian, March 9, 1867, giving Green Lead history, said: "a
Ryerson amalgamator," and there was a Mr. Ryerson in the company.
89
In March, 1865, there would be a $1,000 steam quartz-mill listed on the Assessor's
rolls.
90
Los Angeles Tri-Weekly News, October 1, 1864.
91
Ibid. December 10, 1864.
92
Bruce Catton, This Hallowed Ground, New York, 1956.
93
Tri-Weekly News, November 12, 1864.
McClellan ___.
San Bernardino County:
Lincoln 231,
94
Tri-Weekly News of December 10, 1864, had said it would be ready January 1st, and
hauling would be $30 a ton cheaper.
95
Tri-Weekly News, February 7, 1865; Superintendent Nichols' account.
96
Assessor's Rolls 1864-65.
97
Ibid.
98
Ibid.
PART 2, CHAPTER 6
"QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT"
Value on the 1864-65 tax books as $1,250 instead of $2,500.
2
Perhaps that Dark Canyon one spoken of by George Miller as where he cut off his
finger. San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly, Winter, 1962.
3
Possessory Claim A79; May 26, 1865. He also stated, which must have been a
compass error, that he was "6 1/2 miles nearly North from Huston's new mill," later
proved on Section 19, T2N, R3W.
4
Between Masonic Hall and the Twin Peaks Church.
5
Miscellaneous Records A119.
6
Ibid. A127. A124, 127, 128 pertain.
7
Ibid. A1242. Alexandra and Madeline.
8
Ibid. A126.
9
Ibid. A128 also, November 9, 1865.
Ibid. A1262, September 29, 1865. Of the seven names, none were currently "Davis."
Stiles, Schoenman, Oehne, Martin, Chrislmark.
10
11
Ibid. A1282, October 14, 1865.
12
Ibid. A129, December 1, 1865.
13
Our "Agua Fria."
14
Agreement A54.
15
San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly, Winter, 1982, George
Momyer interview with George Miller, p. 15.
PART 2, CHAPTER 7
"AN INDIAN GAUNTLET"
The East Fork of the West Fork. Per pioneers, they were attacked in the valley below
Pilot Rock and Bald Hills.
2
Who wrote a condolence letter to Ed Parrish's widow.
Museum Association Quarterly, Spring, 1958, p. 15.
San Bernardino County
3
Holcomb Memoirs, Brown and Boyd History, Vol. I, pp. 22-23.
4
1866 Tax Collector's books.
5
Possessory Claim A97; on one corner is "a seven foot thick sugar pine."
6
Deed G276, March 29, 1866, Johnson-Moore to Abner Wade; "the eight-stamp mill,
sawmill attached, 4 steam arrastres, a dwelling house, a cookhouse, blacksmith shop,
stable . . . their interests in the ledges," @ $3,750.
7
Lawsuits 0170-0174, $26,000 in all, per deposition in Circuit Court-Book of
Judgements, p. 130, microfilm in County Clerk's Office: Richard Garvey vs. Abner
Wade, Pittsburg and California Mining Company.
8
$5,000 in July.
9
Deed G428, issued January 11, 1867. Moore bought Green Lode @ $2,900 at Court
Auction about July, 1866. A March 9, 1867, Guardian would say "through
mismanagement and extravagance, the Green Lode was sold under attachment."
10
Miscellaneous Records A145.
11
Eliot Lord, The Drama of Virginia City, U.S. Geological survey, 1881; Nevada
Association of University Women Edition, 1905, p. 56.
12
References in Suits 0170-0174, see note 7. August 10, 1866, Writ of Attachment vs.
Wade's Mill.
13
Quit-claim deed from Abner Wade to Pittsburg and California Mining Company,
G330, August 27, 1866.
14
Deed G330, October 27, 1866, Garvey-Southwick had put in $1,000 of the $4,250
owed by Mellus.
15
Deed H250, for a $2,726 judgment, which would be issued by the Los Angeles
County Sheriff, June 1, 1867. Garvey paid Wade $1,800 for his claim on Mellus
property.
16
Deposition of Garvey in Case No. 0170.
17
Newmark, My Sixty Years, p. 353, 371.
18
Possessory Claim A142, December 18, 1866.
19
Ibid. A100, September 4, 1866.
20
Ibid. A115, December 24, 1866.
21
Ibid. A117, December 24, 1866. One house would have stood on Edgewater Point.
The other probably on the tip beyond Orchard Bay.
22
Assessor's Rolls 1866-67.
23
Ibid.
24
Both Strong and Talmadge children have carried down memories of long, scary
hours hiding under the beds.
25
Also a Talmadge memory, that of six-year-old Will. San Bernardino County
Museum Quarterly, Spring, 1958, p. 10, a symposium of memories of the 1867 Indian
attack.
26
San Bernardino Guardian, which began weekly publication February 16, 1867; more
February 23, 1867.
27
A Mr. Stout, according to the tale of George Miller, San Bernardino County Museum
Association Quarterly, Spring, 1958.
28
A composite, reconciling five participant accounts - County Museum Quarterly,
Spring 1958; Holcomb's story in Boyd and Brown, varied pioneer tales, and the Guardian
articles of the month. Edt.
29
San Bernardino Guardian, March 9, 1867.
30
Ibid. February 23, 1867.
31
Deed K551, January 11, 1867.
32
Possessory Claim A119, March 21, 1867. It would be resurveyed for patent in 1872.
33
January 27th (case 0170).
34
Stated and priced in Miscellaneous Records A148.
35
Suit 0174, Wade deposition.
36
Per the March 9th _______________, the Olio was down 80 feet, the Mammoth 80
feet in on a 45 degree angle.
37
Suit 0174.
38
These had to testify.
39
People have always thought La Praix came directly from Sacramento to the KnightDickey Mill near Seely Flat.
40
Newmark, My Sixty Years, p. 279.
41
Deed H250, June, 1867, Garvey bought Mellus's remaining interest @ $100. In July,
1867, was Garvey's trial in San Francisco re Injunction.
42
Lawsuit 0171, Garvey deposition.
43
Ibid. Wade deposition.
Miscellaneous Records A1522, June 28, 1867. W. W. Wallace, Wade Hampton,
Wm. Tite, S. M. Kier, G. F. Filmore, S. K. Thane, A. A. Partridge, Levi Wade, H. H.
Hartman and Abner Wade, Agent.
44
45
Miscellaneous Records A1512, July 10, 1867.
46
Later Deed G473.
47
San Bernardino Guardian, March 9, 1867, Mining article.
48
Miscellaneous Records A149, May 1, 1867.
49
San Bernardino Guardian, June 22nd.
50
Dickey-Treadwell mortgages, A67, B348, B350.
51
San Bernardino Guardian, July 18, 1867.
52
Chattel Mortgage Book 1, pg 1; Huston-Waters @ $1,000; Miscellaneous Records
C525.
53
San Bernardino Guardian, September 16, 1867.
54
Ibid. July 20th.
55
Possessory Claim A132, September 2, 1867.
56
Possessory Claim A164-65, December 31, 1867.
57
San Bernardino Guardian, October 16, 1867.
58
Ibid. July, Helium bubbles, per Gilbert Ellis Bailey, AM, Ph.D., "Some Hot Springs
of Southern California" (USC, 1919).
59
Miscellaneous Records A154, October 2, 1867, Garvey, Mars, Pringle, Kinneman.
60
Deed H127 @ $500. October 31, 1867.
61
San Bernardino Guardian, October 5th.
62
Ibid.
63
Ibid. December 31, 1867.
PART 2, CHAPTER 8
"SAMPLING MOUNTAIN RESOURCES"
Adelanto Springs crossing, one mile below Mojave Narrows.
2
San Bernardino Guardian.
3
The Central Pacific in March acquired a small railroad south of San Francisco,
planning to build down the Santa Clara and San Joaquin Valleys on a Congress-given
authorization to connect with the Atlantic-to-the-Pacific franchise, sponsored by Senator
Benton. The name of the company was the Southern Pacific. Southern Pacific Historical
Sketch, Bureau of News, Dept. of Development, March, 1933.
4
San Bernardino Guardian, January 4, 1868.
5
Ibid. January 11th.
6
Ibid. April 25th, to McKenny and Matthews.
7
Ibid.
8
Ibid. July 1, 1868.
9
Mortgage B 357.
10
Deed H146, February 4, 1868; H252, April 2, 1868.
11
Case No. 0174.
12
Miscellaneous Records A163, May 8, 1868.
13
Ibid. A166.
14
"Little Grass Valley in Sawpit Canyon," according to pioneers in the May, 1897,
Semi-Centennial Times-Index.
15
San Bernardino Guardian, August 22, 1868.
16
Huston's location is eventually learned as on the east half of Section 19, Township 2
North, Range 3 West, in the canyon now occupied by the Arrowhead Alpine Conference
Grounds, Rose Canyon.
17
Deed H283, Mortgage A96, May 26, 1868.
18
Interview with Cash Caley, youngest son of the marriage, donor of the Bear Valley
Mill picture, including the house.
19
Later Fleming Creek.
20
The account of Mollie Tyler Bright, daughter of Jerusha Hancock, a Hancock-Bemis
genealogist.
21
William Stewart La Praix had come here then.
22
San Bernardino Guardian, November 8, 1868.
23
They know places we do not. Maybe Holcomb branch and Coxey country.
24
Miscellaneous Records A183, December 28, 1868.
25
Mortgage Book B444, October 31, 1868, from Wolff and Folkes; Hauling, March 20,
1869.
26
San Bernardino Guardian, September 12, 1868 (Farciot's pump).
27
W. D. Frazee, San Bernardino County, Climate, and Resources.
28
San Bernardino Guardian, December 5, 1868.
PART 3, CHAPTER 1
"NEW GATEWAY TO THE MOUNTAINS"
1
San Bernardino Guardian, February 20, 1869
2
Ibid. April 24th.
3
Ibid. March 26th.
4
May 10, 1869. Stone, Men to Match My Mountains, p. 290.
5
San Bernardino Guardian, June 5, 1869. Knight Shingle Mill, Camel and 4th Streets.
6
Ibid. March 20th.
7
Ibid.
8
Ibid. October 23rd.
9
Miscellaneous Records, A 185.
10
Deed K 553, March 6, 1869.
11
Agreement A 57, May 31, 1869.
12
Miscellaneous Records A 187, A 188, A 189, A 190, A 193, A 194.
13
San Bernardino Guardian, July 10, 1869.
14
Ibid. September 11th.
15
Miscellaneous Records A 261, September 26, 1869. Later these mines are referred to
as “Cox Mines.”
16
San Bernardino Guardian, September 25, 1869.
17
Newmark, My Sixty Years, p. 394.
18
Southern Pacific Historical Sketch (Bureau of News, Development Department, 1933).
19
Miscellaneous Records A 258, recorded January 11, 1870.
20
His name may be Mulla__’n’. Script is difficult.
21
San Bernardino Guardian, December 25, 1869.
22
Agreement A 60; Mullau – Norris and McWorthy – 5700 sheep and $1
T2N R1W E ½ Section 24, NE ¼ Section 25, Section 23
R1E S ½ Section 12,
Section 13, Section 23
N ½ Section 26, NE ¼
Section 27, Section 23
R2E W ½ Section 15, SE ¼
Section 6, NE ¼ Section 7
E ½ and NW ¼ Section 19, Sections 16, 17, 18, 30
23
Per Historical Sketch of Southern Pacific (Bureau of News) – after December 31, 1869.
24
See Miscellaneous Records A 245, Mullau – Avery.
25
At which time 15 parcels of assigned land would be patented. Miscellaneous Records
A 245 – A 276.
26
San Bernardino Guardian.
27
H. V. Meeks, “From Turnpike to Motorway,” August, 1932. From an interview with
Jeff Daley, a son. Eugene Daley in a January 8, 1939, article reported his father, William
Daley, assisted by Pond brothes from Greenlead mine, built the upper section. It may
have been his $500 contribution – Articles of Incorporation, Beattie.
28
Mortgage B585, February 8, 1870.
29
1870 Tax Rolls say: “sawmill in Little Bear Valley, on a possessory claim.”
30
San Bernardino Guardian, April 16, 1870; Los Angeles Daily News, April 15th.
31
Miscellaneous Records A 198, January 25th; A 208 (ext) February 3rd.
PART 3, CHAPTER 2
"LUMBERING VIA TWIN & CITY CREEK TURNPIKE"
San Bernardino Guardian, April 23rd. Lumbering via Twin and City Creek Turnpike.
2
Miscellaneous Records A236, A306.
3
Ibid. A246. This year the Brown sons received John Brown Sr.'s cattle-brand for
their cattle-raising efforts in the knee-deep grass of the Val Verde Ranch (Mojave
Crossing).
4
San Bernardino Guardian, July 16, 1870.
5
Patent A63, 280a in Section 29, 3N, 4W, May 10, 1870, J. P. Houghton; Patents to
1440 acres in 4W and 5W. At least, so the 1870 tax book says. Starting with parts of
Section 29, James P. Houghton receives land in California as assignee for State of New
York, May 1, 1869. Patents to parts of Section 28, Section 13, A140, A141.
6
San Bernardino Guardian, July 16, 1870.
7
Ibid. October 15th.
8
Ibid. October 29th.
9
Ibid. October 15th.
10
Ibid. October 15th.
11
Ibid. September 1st.
12
Deeds J592, James to Barney Carter; I592, Dickey to Reuben Anderson.
13
Miscellaneous Records A334, Avery-Anderson.
14
San Bernardino Guardian, January 21, 1871. Also Jeff Daley story to H. V. Meeks,
National Motorist, August, 1932. The Beattie article on Road Incorporation said Huston
sued the Twin Creek Company for "letting him use an unrepaired road."
15
Miscellaneous Records A274, March 1871. Blackhawk District organized.
16
Ibid. A243. Later a congressman from his state.
17
Ibid. A261. "2 1/2 miles SW of Holcomb Valley Quartz Mill."
18
San Bernardino Guardian, March 11, 1871.
19
Ibid.
20
Ibid. March 6th.
21
Southern Pacific Historical Sketch (Bureau of News).
22
San Bernardino Guardian, February 5, 1871; April 1st.
23
Land Patent A338, August 17, 1871. West of Daley Road at summit gap.
24
Later John Comerford would have Patent B64, N 1/2 of SE 1/4 of SE 1/4, Sec. 29,
T2N, R3W. "Old John" memories come from Don Tyler and Molie Tyler Bright,
children of Charles and Jerusha Tyler.
25
Deed L59, August 14, 1871; the $52.67 was proffered by friend Horace Rolfe; K535
records repayment to Rolfe.
26
See Mars - Mortgage B563, January 3, 1870, cleared 12-12-71.
27
San Bernardino Guardian, July 4, 1871.
28
Ibid. July 22nd.
29
Ibid. August 2nd.
30
Ibid. August 24th.
31
San Bernardino Guardian, September 26, 1871.
32
Ibid. October 7th.
33
Ibid. December 2nd.
34
Newmark, My Sixty Years, pp. 440-441.
35
Mortgage C244, August 26, 1871.
36
Miscellaneous Records A326.
37
Deed L454, Grass Valley Steam Sawmill to Charles and J. B. Tyler.
PART 3, CHAPTER 3
"J.B. DIARY & THE GRASS VALLEY SAWMILL"
( note - the complete diary was printed in the book)
PART 3, CHAPTER 4
"SAWDUST VERSUS GOLD DUST"
Tyler's land, contracted directly from Avery as promised to Anderson, is the East half
and Southwest quarter of Section 17, and the Northwest quarter of Section 20, Township
2 North, Range 3 West, now the lovely Grass Valley Country Club addition.
2
Possessory Claim A338. NW 1/4, Section 30, T2N, R3W. Photographs and stories
from Joseph Scherman, Orange County Forester.
3
Dutch Charlie's last name may be "Fiedler."
approximate area.
Deeds show his movement in the
4
Deed L59, March 15, 1872, legal after September 15th.
5
Deed L56, June 1, 1872.
6
Patent to 141 a placer granted November 25, 1872, and the ledges A89, A94, by Lot
Number. Mammoth A102 (Lot 40), Olio A131 (Lot 38), San Bernardino A106 (Lot 39),
granted January 2, 1873.6.36 chains north of placer boundary entered August 27, 1872.
7
Deed L353, September 30, 1872.
8
Deed L356, December 2, 1872.
9
Deed L358, December 2, 1872. Garvey to Holcomb Valley G.M. & M. Ltd.
10
Mortgage Book C224.
11
Southern Pacific Historical Sketch (Bureau of News, 1933).
12
Deed L179.
13
Miscellaneous Records A523. (About double his cost.)
14
Patent C389. NW 1/4, Section 23, T2N, R3W @ $200.
15
Agreement with D. T. Huston, November 6, 1872, Chattel Mortgage A1. Much later,
the site of the Arrowhead Ranger Station. However, by 1874 the Metcalf-Schermann
Mill is shown (by Mortgage A111) to be on the NE 1/4, Section 23, T2N, R3W, on a
stream directly back of Santa's Village, Skyforest, per Louie Calwell White. A road
came to it along the front from Old John's.
16
Burr Helden, History in the Making, Sun-Telegram, March 23, 1952.
17
San Bernardino Guardian, February 1st, 1873.
18
Tyler Diary.
19
San Bernardino Guardian, February 26, 1873.
20
Deeds M53 @ $512.12; M386 (corrected). Patent A243, and map.
21
San Bernardino Guardian, May 3, 1873.
22
Ibid.
23
San Bernardino Guardian, May 3, 1873.
24
Mountain mahogany ash, they discovered, smothered the fires.
25
These Lone Valley locations take on added interest when you know that, under the
original name or another, they continue to have commercial value in the 1950s. See
Volume 49, Spring, 1853, Journal of Mines.
26
San Bernardino Argus, May 28, 1873.
27
Miscellaneous Records, A512, June 6, 1873.
28
San Bernardino Guardian, June 29, 1873.
29
Ibid. August 16th.
30
See Tyler Diary, June 29th.
31
San Bernardino Guardian, July 26th.
32
Southern Pacific Historical Sketch (Bureau of News, 1933).
33
Tyler Diary, p. 35.
34
San Bernardino Guardian, June 28, 1873.
35
All the above information comes from the deeds themselves, as recorded in the San
Bernardino County Recorder's Office (Hall of Records, Second Floor) in Books of
Miscellaneous Records. They are given so completely because they will be challenged,
misrepresented, litigated.
36
Even if Barney Carter had bought Littlefield Lead out, they would be paid more by
the Gold Mountain Mine Co. for clearing title (M488), March 1874.
37
A cap-rock region later to be called "the Saragossa Thrust" by geologist Robert
Guillot.
38
Miscellaneous Records A550-551, December 1, 1873 - a Baird option signed to
Baldwin and Curtis, December 10, 1873.
39
The Ophir, owned by E. J. Baldwin. We are told in Glasscock's biography of
"Lucky" Baldwin (New York, 1933), that "an old prospector he had once grubstaked had
sent him word of a mine in Bear Valley that might interest him," p. 169. It had to be
Garfield or Baird.
40
Pat Higby, per the tax collector, had a law library, so might have been a well-versed
man with whom to while away the winter.
41
Deed M473, December 15, 1873, @ $10,000.
42
Deed M488.
43
Deed M473, December 15, 1873.
44
San Bernardino Guardian. Did someone lose a decimal point?
45
Miscellaneous Records, A564, January 7, 1874.
46
Tyler Diary.
47
February 18, 1874, per Boyd and Brown History. Deed O77, January 2, 1875.
48
San Bernardino Weekly Argus, August 17, 1874.
49
San Bernardino Guardian, January 31st.
50
Miscellaneous Records A636.
51
There were other claimants than Littlefield, and Barney and Charlie Carter from
whom Baldwin had bought: Sam Barnum, Enoch Davis, Martin Anderson, R. A. Hester.
52
C. B. Glasscock, "Lucky" Baldwin (A. L. Burt Co., New York, 1933), pp. 169-171.
53
Per the May 30th Guardian, when it was erected.
54
San Bernardino Guardian, February 21, 1874. Different than Haley's Mammoth
Ledge.
55
"John Bull Flat" per a 1953 Mining Journal.
56
Shipping ore to San Francisco (Formerly Wilson, Holmes, McCurdy).
57
April 28, 1874.
58
"Gold, Silver, and History," a Laurence Jacobs copyright thesis (UCLA, 1962), p. 32.
See Map Book I, p. 3.
59
San Bernardino Guardian, May 30th. Why no Holcomb Valley plat.
60
Ibid.
61
Ibid.
62
San Bernardino Guardian, June 6, 1874.
63
Los Angeles Evening Express, May 13, 1874.
64
San Bernardino Guardian, June 13th.
65
Patent B520 on SE 1/4, Section 5, T3S, R1E. Mortgage on Gilman-Akers mill.
66
Tyler Diary.
67
Charles B. Tyler remembered many a picnic under a big sugar pine at the Rose
Canyon-Grass Valley Road junction.
68
There was something about a paper that was lost. Caley would pay if they would
show him the paper. They thought he had it.
69
The Upper Old Mill was at P. E. Camp, now Pine View, per Denver Benson,
Talmadge grandson who played there. In 1874 it was still on public land.
70
Caley-Talmadge partnership agreement.
71
Deed M569, May 21, 1874.
72
San Bernardino Argus, August 31, 1874.
73
San Bernardino Guardian, August 22nd.
74
Ibid.
75
Miscellaneous Records B17, August 11th.
76
Water Records on company members around Baldwin Lake: A35, B15, B29, B30,
B44, B45, B47.
77
Miscellaneous Records B82, September 12th.
78
San Bernardino Guardian, August 8th. L. D. Wilson, Holmes, McCurdy up to April
15, 1874, when they sold to Jess Youngquist at $10,000.
79
Miscellaneous Records B47, October 22nd.
80
San Bernardino Argus, September 21st.
81
San Bernardino Guardian, September 13th.
82
San Bernardino Guardian, October 1st, and Dunlap Valley is mentioned.
83
San Bernardino Argus, August 31, 1874. Valley quail around Agua Mansa.
84
San Bernardino Guardian, September 1st.
85
Los Angeles Star, October 7th. Also Deed N224, November 6, 1874.
86
Ibid.
87
Deed N350, December 3, 1974.
88
Tax Rolls, 1874-75.
89
The weight of a forty-stamp mill would be 140,000 pounds.
90
Per Guardian correspondent Hack Hurley, December 19th.
91
Wilson and Taylor, the Southern Pacific; Roaring Story of a Fighting Railroad
(McGraw-Hill 1952), p. 61, presenting casting their bullion in 700 pound cannon balls to
outwit robbers, of which there were so many that Wells Fargo refused to run a stageline
there. Caesar Meyerstein of San Bernardino hauled the first supplies 168 miles up the
new road.
92
Ibid. P. 61.
93
Ibid. Pp. 61-62.
94
Judge W. D. Frazee, San Bernardino County Climate and Resources, 1876. Also
Belden, History in the Making, Sun-Telegram, April, May 11, 1852.
95
Tyler Diary. Quigley was below Little Bear Creek Narrows per 1874 Tax Rolls.
96
San Bernardino Guardian.
97
Wilson and Taylor, Roaring Story, p. 62.
98
Southern Pacific Historical Sketch (Bureau of News, 1933), p. 37.
PART 3, CHAPTER 5
"GOLD WEIGHTS THE SCALE"
Tyler Diary.
2
Southern Pacific Historical Sketch (Bureau of News).
3
Beattie, Heritage of the Valley, pp. 337-338; picture opposite, p. 295.
4
Raymond Holt, "The Mountain They Put in Sacks," Westways Magazine, Vol. 50, No.
6 (June, 1858).
5
San Bernardino Guardian, April and May advertisements and correspondence.
6
San Bernardino Weekly Argus, May 3, 1875.
7
January 4, 1875, he had sold back to the head of the Ralston Ring shares that had cost
him $60 at $315, five million dollars worth. It might be fair to add that the acquisition of
all the San Gabriel holdings except Santa Anita, purchased from Newmark, was his
"luck" and another man's sorrow.
8
Curtis had apparently been returned to Virginia City duties. It is possible that this
James R. Keene was the mining engineer famed for San Francisco Mining Exchange
transactions, who did occasionally work with Baldwin. Glasscock, "Lucky" Baldwin, p.
150 and p. 160.
9
of March 20, 1875, Los Angeles Evening Express, March 21, 1875.
10
San Bernardino Guardian, April 3, 1875,or Deed N330, November 19, 1874.
According to Glascock, Baldwin never thought Gold Mountain was rich, just endlessly
supplied with low grade ore. "Lucky" Baldwin, p. 171.
11
Patent A269, 19.53 acres near the 2-3/10-11 corner of T2N, R2E.
12
1875 Tax Receipts.
13
See also Miscellaneous Records B106, on the line between 31/32. The same area
later owned by del Mars, Gardner and Griffin, then Pedley, then Hitchcock.
14
1875 Tax Receipts.
15
Patent A176, May 3, 1875. All of Section 22, S 1/2 of Section 23, N 1/2 of Section
26, NE 1/4 of Section 27, T2N, R2E (Moonridge). Mr. Slauson was a Los Angeles
banker and business man, perhaps owner of sheep.
16
Deed O196 @ $9,375, March 22, 1875.
17
1875 Tax Receipts.
18
Miscellaneous Records B94, April 30th.
19
Tyler Diary.
20
Miscellaneous Records B138, La Praix-Simon Jackson agreement, NW 1/4 Section
22, T2N, R3W @ $1600. Formerly Hunningers.
21
However, he paid taxes on all of Section 15. It might be interesting to know that
when it did sell, it carried the Southern Pacific name on the deed.
22
1875 Tax Rolls.
23
Tyler Diary, Mary 27, 1875.
24
San Bernardino Guardian, May 29th.
25
Deed O408 to Garvey @ $1 - half; O406 to Thomas @ $10 - half. But Garvey sold
his to C. C. Thomas at $1,000, Deed O404, June 15, 1875, and John Brown had received
$1,000 for his interest in Valencia Mine.
26
Mrs. Wozencraft, Mrs. Rousseau, H. Rolfe and John Brown Jr. were awarded $600
for a contested strip. Later he dealt with Henry Willis and Sydney Waite on the same
issue.
27
San Bernardino Guardian, May 15th.
28
Ibid. June 12th.
29
Frazee, San Bernardino County Climate and Resources, p. 51. A hundred miles, he
said.
30
Declared in 1879.
31
Tyler Diary, June 4th. The sequel was learned in a 1955 interview with Louie
Colwell White, 85, and one of the sisters, and a summer resident at Strawberry Flat.
32
Tyler Diary, July 4-6th.
33
Irving Stone, Men to Match My Mountains, pp. 318-320.
34
Glasscock, "Lucky" Baldwin, p. 150.
35
Tyler Diary, September 17th; San Bernardino Guardian, September 20th.
36
Ibid. October 10th, 11th, 12th; San Bernardino Guardian, October 19th.
37
Possessory Claim B68, September 11, 1875; SE 1/4, Section 6, T2N, R4W.
38
San Bernardino Argus, October 11th.
39
Ibid. November 16th.
40
Eliot Lord, The Drama of Virginia City, p. 84.
41
Wilson and Taylor, Roaring Story, p. 62.
42
Frazee, San Bernardino County Climate and Resources, p. 69.
PART 3, CHAPTER 6
"TIPPING BACK THE SCALE"
San Bernardino Argus, January 8, 1876.
2
Ibid.
3
cf. Note 57, 1863.
4
San Bernardino Argus, October 18th. We will hear of it.
5
Tyler Diary, May 19th to 22nd, 1876.
6
Interview with son Joseph Schermann, for years Fire Control Officer at Santa Ana.
7
Tyler Diary, August 15, 1876.
8
Ibid. August 27th.
9
Frazee in the 1876 County Resources book says 40-60 teams were driving from the
five sawmills, bringing three million board feet of lumber to market.
10
San Bernardino Guardian, June 10, 1876.
11
C. B. Glasscock, "Lucky" Baldwin, p. 197.
12
On Greenwood. See also Mining Records 23-88, 23-91.
13
Miscellaneous Records B191.
14
ibi. B199, October 10, 1876.
15
San Bernardino Weekly Times-Index, April 16, 1878, accounting for sixteen idle
months.
16
Miscellaneous Records B306: Affidavit of James B. Cook, resident mining recorder.
He claimed Gold Mountain Company to have gone bankrupt at this time, September
1876. There was rumor of a disagreement between Baldwin and Garvey, who claimed
that Baldwin owed him money. Perhaps Baldwin would not pay for the Valencia Mine
which he had Garvey buy. Glasscock, Baldwin's biographer, mentions it, with a different
cause. Belden, History in the Making, May 16, 1954, tells a tale.
17
Minutes, Board of Supervisors, November 13, 1876, p. 297.
18
Irving Stone, Men to Match My Mountains, p. 373.
19
Tyler Diary.
20
Ibid.
21
Book of Leases A99, November 8, 1876.
22
Stone, Men to Match My Mountains, p. 279.
23
Ibid. P. 382.
24
Ibid. P. 299.
25
San Bernardino Weekly Argus, March 28, 1877.
26
Joe Tyler's diary never told it until it happened.
27
Tyler Diary. Interview with Cassius Caley, son, Crestline resident in the 1950s.
28
Tyler Diary, May 8, 1877.
29
cf. Redlands Citrograph, May 2, 1893.
30
Lease A108.
31
Wilson and Taylor, Roaring Story of a Fighting Railroad, p. 64.
32
Ibid. P. 62.
33
Deed P555 from Reyes.
34
Tyler Diary. "Baby Charley," possessor of the lifetime Tyler diaries, came up several
times between 1955 and 1965 to point out locations, answer questions and name sawmillfamily descendants who might be reached for an interview. After living with his father's
diary for so long, I almost felt like a member of the family at his Baseline orange grove.
He was my bridge to the past.
35
Mortgages D117, March 1877, and G174, March, 1878. Caro kept the mill and
would later buy the timberland - public, railroad or Avery's - on which he has cut.
36
Present Cedar Pines Park.
37
Affidavit of James B. Ook in a later proof-of-labor trial. Note 15.
38
Book of Leases 108. M. S. Hall, with a mill at the head of Water Canyon, had sold
out to George W. Scott, and is said to have lost $100,000 in this and two other pass
projects. Hughes, History of Banning, pp. 17-18.
39
Water Records: Charles Wooley, B234; Peter Thompson, B246; Welwood Murray,
B243.
40
Wilson and Taylor, Roaring Story, p. 65.
41
Water Records A129.
42
Ibid. A123.
43
San Bernardino Weekly Times-Index, January 19, 1878.
44
Ibid. February 7, 1878.
45
Water Records, March 2, 1878; Beall-Schermann Chattel Mortgage, A116, May 1,
1878.
46
San Bernardino Weekly Times-Index, May 26, 1878.
47
Ibid. April 16th.
48
cf. notes 48 and 49. Sawdust vs. Gold dust. Later references are to eight patented
and eight unpatented claims.
49
Miscellaneous Records B302 and B306, a recopy of the Golden Horn, Golden Way,
etc., relocations of Moonlight, Rainbow and Littlefield Mines by McMasters.
50
San Bernardino Times-Index, May 17th.
51
Ibid. July 13th.
52
Ibid. May 11th.
53
Ibid. May 25th.
54
Ibid. July 23rd.
55
Patent A366, SE 1/4, Section 18, T2N, R4W, June 20, 1878
56
Per Deed U117, SE 1/4, Section 6, T2N, R4W.
57
Deed U 191 @ $100, June 20, 1878.
58
Weekly Times-Index, August 10, 1878.
59
Ibid.
60
In Autin Drake's Big Bear history, Legends and Tales (Grizzly Press, Big Bear,
1949), pp. 41-42, he seems to be telling the tale of George G. Lee, said by his family to
have posted the Pencil Lead Mine before Waterman, which is not yet. He did locate a
White Metal Mine and several others with whitish ore, and several years later Peter
Forsee came with a party of pioneers to try to find George G. Lee's mine. (Miscellaneous
Records A530 was the Lone Star Lode referred to, in the Arlington District, "3/4 of a
mile east of a big white rock.")
61
San Bernardino Weekly Times-Index, July 18th, August 10th, 1878.
62
Ibid. August 17th.
63
San Bernardino Weekly Times-Index, August 25th.
64
Ibid. August 21st.
65
Ibid. August 28th.
66
Tyler Diary, August 23rd.
67
Ibid. April 19th.
68
From the Congregationalist Church downtown.
69
San Bernardino Weekly Times-Index, August 15th.
70
. . . and in vain. Guernsey biography, Luther A. Ingersoll, Century Annals of San
Bernardino County (Los Angeles, 1904), p. 854. Tyler Diary, July 9, 1878.
71
Ibid. June 9th.
72
Weekly Times-Index, May 25th, June 8th.
73
$30,000, it was later said. Hughes, History of Banning, p. 22.
74
San Bernardino Times-Index, September 6-11th.
75
Ibid. October 23rd.
76
Tyler Diary, September 29, 1878.
77
San Bernardino Times-Index, September 6th.
78
Agreement B33, May 24, 1878.
79
San Bernardino Times-Index, October 7, 1878.
80
Ibid. September 24th.
81
Miscellaneous Records, to be his if unredeemed in six months. Actually it was
transferred back to Talmadge six years later.
82
Fremont to Governor of Arizona.
PART 3, CHAPTER 7
"MORE WEIGHTS FOR THE SCALE"
San Bernardino Times-Index, January 10, 1879.
2
Ibid. February 11th.
3
Tyler Diary, April 29th.
4
Ibid.
5
Ibid.
6
San Bernardino Times-Index, June 14th.
7
Ibid. July 29th.
8
Ibid. September 13th.
9
Ibid. May 15th.
10
San Bernardino Times-Index, June 23rd, 1879.
11
Ibid. May 20th.
12
Per Ranger Bert Switzer, the mill was in the cienega above Camp Seeley entrance,
off the end of present Valley of Enchantment. They bought S 1/2 Section 21 from Shea
@ $500, S 1/2 of SE 1/4 Section 16 from Bickerstaff @ $125, $850 tract of "railroad
land" from F. M. Hyde, and something from Sheldon Stoddrad for which they paid
$3,600 and 13,000 feet of lumber.
13
San Bernardino Times-Index, June 23rd.
14
Tyler Diary
15
The Times-Index carried three-quarters of a column describing the wedding
festivities, August 2, 1879.
16
Times-Index, September 20th, per the Wilson and Tyler Roaring Story of a Fighting
Railroad book, p. 76, they are building between Gila Bend and Tucson.
17
No possessory claim or patent or homestead was found for Sheldon Stoddrad on the
mountain, yet he was there.
18
Tyler Diary, September 3rd.
19
Ibid. September 2nd.
20
Ibid. October 26th.
21
James Marshall, Santa Fe, The Railroad That Built an Empire (Random House,
1845), pp. 167-8, 180.
22
Report of the State Agriculture Board, 1879.
23
Belden, History in the Making, Sun-Telegram, May 11, 1952. Reminiscences of
John Isaacs at the San Diego opening of the California Southern Railroad, November 15,
1885.
24
Tyler Diary.
25
San Bernardino Weekly Times, April 12, 1880.
26
Deed 22-216; Tyler Diary, April 29, 1880.
27
Agreement B276, "four miles north of Holcomb Gold Mill, on the north slope toward
the desert."
28
Mining Records, B413.
29
Patent B560.
30
There is another story that the Indian Agent shot an Indian on the Colorado
Reservation; that his brother shot the Agent, and the Indians fled to the mountains when
the soldiers came. In the trial the whole story, as quoted, came out.
31
San Bernardino Weekly Times, May 22, 1880.
32
For $8,000 worth, which did not come to trial for sixteen years.
33
San Bernardino Weekly Times, August 14th.
34
Ibid. July 3rd.
35
Ibid. May 15th.
36
Tyler Diary, June 27th.
37
San Bernardino Weekly Times, July 10th. Patent B21.
38
Some part of the property later Pinecrest, we think.
39
San Bernardino Weekly Times, July 31st. Attachments.
40
Ibid. May 15th.
41
Edmund Jaeger, Desert Wildflowers (Stanford University Press, 1940-41). p. 253.
Eventually Parish would go to the Oakland Herbarium (Outwest Magazine, March,
1906).
42
Tyler Diary, July 7, 1880.
43
Interviews with Mollie Tyler Bright and Don Tyler, children of the union.
44
San Bernardino Weekly Times, September 8th.
45
Tyler Diary.
46
Tyler Diary, the last week of September.
47
1880 Tax Rolls.
48
San Bernardino Weekly Times, December 2, 1880.
49
One copy of Perris' report went to the state engineer, one was posted in Congressman
Satterwhite's office, one went to the publisher of the San Bernardino Weekly Times.
50
San Bernardino Weekly Times, October 16, 1880.
51
Ibid. November 6th, favorably from J. C. Henly, English coal mine manager.
52
San Bernardino Weekly Times, December 18th.
53
Deed 23-200, October 2, 1880.
54
Miscellaneous Records B632-633.
55
San Bernardino Weekly Times, December 29th.
56
Ibid. December 4, 1880.
57
i.e., the Barstow curve of the Mojave River. December 7-8th, 1880. Belden, History
in the Making, Sun-Telegram, November 2, 1952.
58
Ibid.
59
Tyler Diary.
60
Agreement B469, March 1881, San Bernardino Valley Index.
61
Tyler Diary.
62
Ibid.
63
San Bernardino Valley Index, April 15, 1881. It was called "Strawberry Hill."
64
Ibid. June 24th.
65
Tyler Diary.
66
Ibid.
67
Land Patent C126: E 1/2 Section 20, W 1/2 Section 21, W 1/2 Section 16, T2N
R4W.
68
San Bernardino Valley Index, May 13, 1881. Water B666 is Blackburns' claim to
1,000 flowing inches of the Holcomb branch of the Mojave.
69
San Francisco Daily Report quoted here. San Bernardino Valley Index, June 22,
1881.
70
San Bernardino Valley Index, May 13, 1881.
71
Ibid. June 3rd.
72
Belden, History in the Making, Sun-Telegram, October 26, 1952; November 2, 1952.
73
Ibid.
74
San Bernardino Valley Index, August 26, 1881.
75
Tyler Diary, July 21-24th. A compilation of facts and fancy.
76
Tyler Diary, August.
77
San Bernardino Valley Index. The title is one of courtesy, only, per a Westways
biography.
78
Tyler Diary, June.
79
Deed Book 25, p. 491, in Sections 11-13, 2N 1E, @ $1,500. Of course he is nontitular holder of the 3,000 acres purchased by his brother-in-law, Thomas Fawcett.
80
San Bernardino Valley Index, March 25th.
81
Miscellaneous Records C156, 162, 164, 166, August 29, 1881.
82
Miscellaneous Records C154, April 15th.
83
San Bernardino Valley Index, September 30th.
84
Ibid. April-July.
85
Water Records A224.
86
Ibid. A232.
87
Joe Tyler moved to town and handled the lumber from the Snowline Yard: 58,000 @
$18-1/2; 330,000 @ $14 would have been $1,700 over the figure paid.
88
Water A243, December, 1881. Later the Citrograph would tell of a Hubbard interest
in this project, and of his turning to Harqua Hala Mine when he could not form a
company.
89
Belden, History in the Making, Sun-Telegram, July 6, 1952.
90
San Bernardino Valley Index, July 15, 1881.
91
Which the CSRR has bought and will lease back to the mine owners. Lease B457B580.
92
San Bernardino Valley Index, July-November.
93
Ibid. April 22, 1881.
94
Riverside Press and Horticulturist, December 3, 1881. L. M. Holt.
PART 3, CHAPTER 8
"NEW USES FOR MINERS' INCHES"
Tyler Diary; Belden, History in the Making, Sun-Telegram, July 6, 1952.
2
Southern Pacific Historical Sketch (Bureau of News); Riverside Press and
Horticulturist, February 25, 1882.
3
Riverside Press and Horticulturist, January 28, 1882.
4
Ibid. April 8, 1882.
5
Colton Semi-Tropic, May 6, 1882.
6
Riverside Press and Horticulturist, June 3rd.
7
Ibid. January 14th; May 6th.
8
Belden, History in the Making, Sun-Telegram, June 6, 1952. Redlands Map of 1882.
9
Riverside Press and Horticulturist, January 21, 1882.
10
Tyler Diary, May.
11
Ibid. March
12
San Bernardino Daily Times, June 13, 1882.
13
Land Certificates 8256, 8341, 8360, referred to in Deed 88-213 when Archibald
bought the land. Semi-Centennial columns in 1897 Index said "Hudson moved the mill
down to Dark Cayon, and brought it back . . . "
14
Tyler's Diary, October 12th, probably on NW 1/4 Section 28, T2N R3W.
15
Big Bear Panorama, p. 65. Book of Brands (San Bernardino County Museum). I.S.
brand granted to James Smart May 26, 1882.
16
Glasscock, Lucky Baldwin, pp. 171, 175, 237; Fawcett-Baldwin Deed Book 35-307.
17
Riverside Press and Horticulturist, April 1, 1882.
18
Ibid. April 29th, June 17th.
19
Ibid. July 23rd.
20
Tyler Diary, June 3rd, 1882.
21
Riverside Press and Horticulturist.
22
Tyler Diary.
23
Riverside Press and Horticulturist, June 10th, September 23rd, December 9th.
24
Ibid. December 9, 1882.
25
Ibid. Janaury 27, 1883. The railroad blamed tramps; the public said, "niggardliness
of help."
26
Tyler Diary, February 7, 1883.
27
Ibid. March 2nd to April 14th.
28
Big Bear Panorama (Big Bear High School, 1934), p. 66; in November, James Boyd
would say in a Press article, "early in May."
29
Redlands Citrograph article - later.
30
Big Bear Panorama, p. 66.
31
Riverside Press and Horticulturist, June 9th, August 22nd.
32
Water Records A311, June 15, 1883.
33
Riverside Press and Horticulturist, June 30, 1883.
34
Ibid. July 7th.
35
Land Patent B285, February 10, 1883. SW 1/4 Section 24 T2N R3W, between Fern
and Shake Creeks.
36
Deed 34-177.
37
Patent B297, August 30th.
38
Mortgage 0569 when sold to Bennet and Shaver, predicted in Elliott's 1883 History
of San Bernardino County, pp. 94-95.
39
Tyler Diary, August 7th.
40
Riverside Press and Horticulturist, August 11th; History in the Making, SunTelegram, May 11, 1952, Belden.
41
A court decision of August 4th actually gave the California Southern the crossing
privilege. She should not have had to fight for it.
42
James Marshall, The Santa Fe, Railroad That Built an Empire, p. 171, August 8,
1883.
43
Riverside Press and Horticulturist, August 30, 1883.
44
Ibid. November 10, 1883. The report of James Boyd, Riverside, rancher and road
builder, and sometimes special correspondent.
45
Riverside Press and Horticulturist, November 10, 1883; also Scientific American,
March 10, 1888. Slover Mountain Marble and Lime Quarry was producing fifty barrels
daily, but nobody said whether it made Bear Valley Cement, or if this was shipped in.
46
Riverside Press and Horticulturist, September 29, 1883.
47
October 20, 1883. Clyde's lands were in SW 1/4 Section 2 T2N R5W.
48
Riverside Press and Horticulturist, June 30th.
49
Mines A328-331. The Lawshe, Moronga and Yellowjack.
50
Riverside Press and Horticulturist, June 16, 1883; Water D21 for use on Section 16
and 17 T1N R1E.
51
Ibid. August 4th.
52
Ibid. July 21st, September 8th.
53
See Lease Agreement, Smith-Darby, August 15, 1883.
54
Deeds 34-446; Mortgage N165, August 23, 1883, N246: SE 1/4 of Section 21, SW
1/4 of Section 22, NW 1/4 of Section 28, 2N 3W. Crest Park and Down Canyon.
55
Tyler Diary, September 23rd, 1883.
56
Riverside Press and Horticulturist, October 6, 1883.
57
Marshall, Santa Fe, the Railroad That Built an Empire, p. 171.
58
Riverside Press and Horticulturist, October 6, 1883.
59
Tyler Diary.
60
Possessory Claim B110, Mountain Home Cy; September, 1883.
61
Riverside Press and Horticulturist; Drake, Big Bear History, Legends, and Tales, p.
23.
62
63
Ibid. January 5, 1884.
Water Records B36. There was no mention of Talmadge and Yager's earlier filing,
but they were very careful to refile every sixty days all year.
64
Los Angeles Daily Herald, January 5, 1884.
65
Riverside Press and Horticulturist, February 23, 1884, when Simms came down.
66
Tyler Diary, February 17, 1884.
67
Riverside Press and Horticulturist, February 23rd.
68
Tyler Diary.
69
Riverside Press and Horticulturist, March 8th.
70
Ibid. March 17th.
71
Ibid. April 19th.
72
Ibid. May 3rd.
73
Ibid. June 7, 1884; there is a fuller account given August 30, 1884.
74
Mortgage O569 $ $3,500, July 15, 1884, on N 1/2 Section 22, and 5 acres of Section
14, T2N R4W out of Huston Creek.
75
The Snowline Mill on the northwest quarter of Section 28, Township 2 North, Range
3 West, i.e., Crest Park.
76
Riverside Press and Horticulturist, June 14, 1884.
77
Ibid. August 30th; September 6th. A complete story of the trip.
78
79
80
Austin Drake, Big Bear Valley History, Legends, and Tales, picture #1, p. 21.
81
Deed 50-369, March 15, 1884.
82
They were filing together on springs for watering stock.
83
Water B36, November, 1883. Its first name was "Duck Lake."
84
85
Riverside Press and Horticulturist, July 12th, quoting San Bernardino Valley Index.
86
Ibid. September 8, 1884.
PART 3, CHAPTER 9
"STEAM WHISTLES IN CAJON PASS"
1
2
Press and Horticulturist, January 3, 1885; Mineral Records A 468, February 28, 1884.
Press and Horticulturist, May 14, 1885; Water Records B 235.
3
Press and Horticulturist, February 9, 1885.
4
Tyler Diary entry.
6
The 1884 amount . . per Riverside Press and Horticulturist.
6
Ibid. June 6, 1885.
7
Ibid. June 20th.
8
Water Records B 242, August 13th.
9
San Bernardino Daily Times, June 6th.
10
Tyler Diary, June 2nd, June 4th, 1885.
11
Press and Horticulturist, June 6, 1885.
12
Ibid. August 1st.
13
Ibid.
14
Tyler Diary, September. (The 1897 Centennial Times-Index would say that “Guernsey
bought the old Metcalf-Schermann saw-rig and ran it two yeas before it burned.” . .
Location, per pioneers – about the Edison Company’s Cottage Grove Substation.)
15
Deed 39-621, February 3, 1885.
16
Mining Records D356, January 15, 1885.
17
Water records.
18
Press and Horticulturist, August 29, 1885.
19
Ibid.
20
Ibid.
21
Ibid. November 1, 1885.
22
Ibid. November 20, 1885. (John Isaacs’ “reminiscences of the occasion were given in
the San Bernardino Sun of May 11, 1952, Burr Belden, History in the Making.
23
Press and Horticulturist, November 23, 1885.
24
Ibid. December 4, 1885.
25
Ibid. January and February, 1886, issues; also Riverside Tri-Weekly Times.
26
Press and Horticulturist, February 20, 1886.
27
Ibid. March 6, 1886.
28
Ibid.
29
Riverside Tri-Weekly, April 26, 1886.
30
. . . from a letter. Press and Horticulturist, March 13, 1886.
31
Riverside Tri-Weekly, March 9, 1886.
32
From letters of L. M. Holt to the Press and Horticulturist; quotes from Chicago
newspapers.
33
Redlands’ Citrograph, July 16, 1887 (first issue).
34
Press and Horticulturist, April 17, 1886.
35
Ibid. June 18, 1886.
36
Tyler Diary, September 17, 1885 and May 18, 1886. Tax files for 1886 say that John
Hook paid taxes on the whole west half of Section 24, East half of 23, in 14 the
Southwest quarter, East half of Southeast quarter, and the North half of the North half on
which there are buildings, and the Northwest quarter of the North half of 13: 1,120 acres.
37
Ibid. February 13-16.
38
Deed 43-639; Mortgage T10, January 6, 1886 – to Waterman. Strawberry Mill was that
Van Slyke Mill used by Hudson and Taylor. Possibly Guernsey combined his MetcalfSchermann rig with it.
39
Deed 45-176, March 6, 1886; Porter-Seeley @ $4,000 (partly by trade for Highlands
orange groves.)
40
Chattel Mortgage B 72, December 26, 1885; Land patent applied for.
41
The first partner was Stewart; E. A. Hall deed. 47-421, July 16, 1886.
42
S ½ of S ½ of Section 18, T2N, R3W.
43
Press and Horticulturist, May 21, 1886.
44
Deed 46-528, Burcham - - Hesperia Company (for Deep Creek water).
45
Deed 46-580, May 6, 1886.
46
San Bernardino Courier, October 9, 1886; Mines, C182.
47
Los Angeles Herald, April, 1886.
48
Tyler Diary, May 11-27. This is the first mention of a county road on the mountain,
although working out taxes, et cetera, has been told.
49
Ibid. To break the high fever required day-and-night nursing for nearly a month.
50
Charles B. Tyler consultation in Grass Valley.
51
Joe Tyler Diary, August 1st and August 14th, 1886.
52
Effie Morse Logan interview.
53
Interviews with Denver Benson, San Bernardino, and Cash Caley, Crestline – both
grandsons (1950’s).
54
Colton Semi-Tropic, quoted by Press and Horticulturist, July 10th.
55
Agreement G251, August 21, 1886, between Mojave Gravel Company and a Valley
Gold Company, Ltd. that was to be formed in London within two months.
56
Mining Records C200.
57
One of the numerous ”sales,” which all revert to Richard Garvey. Deed 50-366 @
$20,000.
58
Agreement F 232, July 15, 1886, and extended another year.
59
Mines, C31, C36.
60
Water B 353 is James Smart’s filing on the waste water from the first mine named
Morongo, for use on his new cattle ranch.
61
San Bernardino Daily Times, October 28, 1886.
62
Press and Horticulturist, July 31, 1886.
63
Ibid. June 12, 1886.
64
Ibid. June 19th.
65
Ibid.
66
Redlands Citrograph, Issue One, July 16, 1887.
67
Tyler Diary, September 20, 1886. (By September, 1887, there would be a TylerLaPraix deed to the California Marble and Lime Company of Colton – O. T. Dyer,
President; W. S. Wilson, Secretary – who would acquire 1,680 acres of land in Sections
16, 17, 19, 20, 21, T2N, R4W, during the next two years. Mortgage 3-628, Pacific
Mutual Insurance). 61-599 @ $2,000.
68
Guernsey Insolvency Miscellaneous Records D 553. (Ed Farrell also had a claim as of
January 6, 1887, which could have been the fire date – but he released it to Waterman for
$10. Deed 56-550, June 3, 1887,)
69
Per Guernsey Biography, Century Annals of San Bernardino County, Luther A.
Ingersoll, p. 854 (1904). Insurance mortgage T 10 will be payable to Waterman. (One
authority said Waterman had a mill on the mountain. This is as near as he got.)
70
Tyler Diary, February 2, 1887.
71
7,200 Class A Certificates had been issued in October, 1886, each entitling the owner to
one-seventh inch of water per acre.
72
Tyler Diary, April 4, 1887. But not through the Darby and Lyman lands.
73
Ibid. April.
74
San Bernardino Valley Index, May 13, 1887.
75
Reminiscences of Mollie Tyler Bright, 1956.
76
Deed 71-11, December 28, 1887, is Van Slyke’s purchase of Ball’s half.
77
Patent D113, April 28, 1887; SE ¼ of NW ¼ Section 10, T2N, R3W.
78
Deed C124, January 29, 1887; SE ¼ of SE ¼ Section 19, T2N, R3W. (Palmer)
79
Tyler Diary, September 6th.
80
Appraised by Joe Tyler, F. M. Johnson, and Sam Rolfe at $62,842.62. A former will
was used, the May, 1887 one not having the signature of witness, Charles H. Tyler.
81
Valley Index.
82
Application C302, August 10, 1887, granted December, 1888. (Knapp) S ½ of NE ¼
Section 22 and S ½ of NW ¼ Section 23, T2N, R4W.
83
Deed 61-599, September 1887; Mortgage 3-625.
84
Valley Index, June 24th.
85
Los Angeles Herald, January 5, 1888. Hesperia flume.
86
Agreement G251, August 21, 1886; Agreement G 258, February 14, 1887 between E.
B. Holliday of San Francisco, acting president of Mojave Gravel Placer Company, and R.
O. R. Russell of a forming London corporation.
87
Redlands Citrograph, July 30, 1887.
88
Mining Records: Hecla -- C418, May 2, 1887; Monarch -- C 415, May 2nd; Lookout -C 531, June 6th; Pinon -- C530, August 15th.; Santa Fe -- C 537, September 5th.
89
Redlands Citrograph, November 5, 1887.
90
Mines C 438, June 10, 1887.
91
Water C 100 and on: Hemlock, Willow, Monster, Loo, Crystal, Sweetwater, Wildrose,
et cetera.
92
Redlands Citrograph, October 1, 1887.
93
Ibid. May 4, 1894.
94
Ibid. September 3, 1887; (4,000 trout, the contract with W. H. Boyd specified.)
95
Ibid. August 6, 1887, Correspondent Aileen.
96
Ibid. July 23rd, September 10th.
97
James Marshall, The Santa Fe, Railroad That Build An Empire, p. 191.
98
Tyler Diary.
99
Ibid.
100
Deed 52-260, January 1887; 65-174, September, 1887; Agreement with Edwin Hart J
123, October, 1887.
PART 3, CHAPTER 10
"DREAMS OF MANNA FROM THE MOUNTAINS"
1
Citrograph, February 18, 1888.
2
Ibid. February 11, 1888: 3 standard guage lines, 3 motor lines, 4 streetcar lines.
3
Ibid. February 4, 1888 – “East San Bernardino” contracted.
4
Tyler Diary; Citrograph, April 21st and May 5th.
5
Citrograph, February 4th
6
Ibid. February 18th.
7
San Bernardino Daily Times, May 14th.
8
Citrograph, January 7, 1888, February 11th, March 3rd.
9
Ibid. May 11th.
10
Hook Patent Applications – whenever applied for, were granted:
C628 – E ½ of Section 23, T2N, R3W, August 10, 1891
NE ¼ of Section 13
SW ¼ of Section 14
C638 - N ½ of NW ¼, Section 14 (Hospital Hill), May 10, 1891
N ½ of NE ¼, Section 14, Section 14
D280 – W ½ of NW ¼, Section 24 (adjoining mill site) John
Suverkrup, August 10, 1892.
11
Mortgage Book 7-209.
12
As you see they do not have all these lands for several years; they do pay taxes on the,
beginning in 1889.
13
Lease B 361.
14
Citrograph Lumber article, November 24, 1888.
15
of Henry Hudson, W ½ of Secion 24, T2N, R4W
of Henry Morse E ½ of Section 23; of J.F. Miller N ½ of NW ¼
of Harrison Von Burkle NE ¼ of Section 26.
Section 23;
16
Deed 80-231 (which would be on the west branch of Huston Creek, straight north of the
Lake Gregory outfall.)
*
it could have been Hook Mill.
.17 . . or so they told the Daily Times. It was a year in materializing and proved to be
only ten stamps.
18
Water Records C416 – 417, Crystal Springs and Arctic Springs Mines C519, C520.
19
Citrograph, September 1, 1888.
*
if silver is 1/15th of Gold value, it is over $2.00 an ounce; hence
90 x 2 or $180 assay per ton.
20
Ibid. December 17th.
21
Deed 74-280, April 19, 1888.
22
Eighth Annual Mineral Report (i.e. 1888), p. 503.
23
Mines E 196, December 8, 1888.
24
Citrograph, June 30, 1888.
25
Ibid. August 11th.
26
Patent C 223, august Knight Jr., February 8, 1888: E ½ of SE ¼ Section 19, T2N,
R1E/N ½ of N ½ of NW ¼ @ $320.
27
Citrograph, May 5th.
28
Ibid. May 26th. Mentone and Bear Valley Toll Road.
29
Ibid. August 25th – from the letter of an Ontario newsman.
30
The first use of the name in print; Matthew Lewis had given the appellation in honor of
his English home, Seven Oaks.
31
Citrograph, July 9th: “Screed from Seven Oaks.”
32
Ibid. August 18th, letter, Mrs. F.G.
33
Ibid. August 25th, comment of an Ontario newsman; see Miscellaneous Records E 551,
giving Boyd fishing privileges for his work.
34
Ibid. September 22nd.
35
Ibid. October 13th.
36
Ibid. December – Smiley trees.
37
Ibid. --$Million funding by Severances (Muscupiabe).
38
Ibid. April 6, 1889.
39
Ibid. February 6, 1889; San Bernardino Daily Times, Janaury 23, 1889.
40
Citrograph, March 9, 1889, as projected by W.E. Brown and W.R. Palmer.
41
Ibid. April 6th.
42
Citrograph, March 9th: A. Harvey Hanson, C.M. Aitken, H.A. Nelson, and Ben
Watrous. Deed 94-305.
43
Citrograph, May 11th; runs, June 8th; hoax, June 29th.
44
Ibid. March 23rd.
45
San Bernardino Times-Index, July 19th: $250,000 and $25,000 from the state.
46
Tyler Diary, February 6, 1889; February 18th; February 22nd.
47
Citrograph references. We note that Waterman did not propose his own.
48
Tyler Diary, April 20, 1889.
49
Deed 89-139, November 28, 1888 @ $3,200 from Van Slyke; Mortgage 11-471 with
Joe Brown Bank.
50
Tyler Diary, My 16, 1889.
51
Chattel Mortgage to Park and Lacey Foundry @ $2,431, July 5, 1889 – somewhere on
the patch of land north of Lake Gregory bath houses.
52
Citrograph, January 26, 1889.
53
Ibid.
54
Ibid. May 11th.
55
Ibid.
56
Ibid. April 20th; compare Note 17, Dreams of Manna.
57
Mines H-155 to 159, Proof of Labor; Water C 586, C630.
58
Water C 539, C546.
59
Deed 105-254, September 20, 1889. Signed by Sir Thomas Clifford and Thomas
Arrowsmith Megates.
60
Miscellaneous Records, B360, Troy Placer Mine, McSwinney and O’Mara; cf. Mines
93-360, 1912)
61
Mines F 32, March 14, 1889.
62
Ninth Annual Mineral Report, 1889. San Bernardino Mountains, pp. 214-231.
Crossman quoted assays at $5 - $110 per ton.
63
Citrograph, May 11th; A. Harvey Hanson was a silent partner.
64
Citrograph, August 17th; Mines F 662.
65
Or he might have referred to Baird and Beall’s Mill.
66
Citrograph, April 13, 1889. No document or lease is seen, however, with either
Baldwin or Doble.
67
San Bernardino Times-Index, August 12, 1889.
68
Citrograph, June 1, 1889.
69
Ibid. May 2, 1889.
70
Ibid. June 1st.
71
Ibid. August 31st.
72
See Mines F 328 – F 340, Dr. W.P. Rice! Pedley was manager for Valley Gold
Company, LTD.
73
Quoted from San Bernardino Times-Index, of September 7, 1889.
74
Rose and Effie, almost grown; 3 half-grown boys, 2 smaller girls, baby Fred; 2 older
boys were out on their own. Interviews with Effie Smithson Campbell and Fred
Smithson.
75
Per tax files on Frank Binkley Possessory Claim, 1889; “E ½ of NE ¼ of Section 25
T2N, R4W, including 100 trees.” No lease to Smithson shows. Ten years later he would
homestead it.
76
Interviews with Maud Kuffel, Nellie Kuffel Grant, and Walter Kuffel in Skyforest.
77
1889 Tax Files.
78
Colton Semi-Tropic.
79
Hesperia Land and Water Company, James Breen: Water C 336, C 506.
80
San Bernardino Times-Index, August 1, 1889.
81
Tyler Diary.
82
Citrograph, September 14, 1889.
83
October 7th, 18th, 21st, 23rd.
84
Tyler Diary, November 5th; “Blow, blow, blow every day from the North. Everybody
is sick and tired of wind.”
85
Ibid. October 20th
86
Ibid. December 3, 1889.
PART 3, CHAPTER 11
"YEAST FOR THE MANNA"
Mr. Perkins is a candidate for the State Assembly in the fall.
2
Eighteen water companies have been formed in the state, thus far, by the authorization
of the Wright Act; nearly five and a half million dollars worth of bonds have been voted
to pay for irrigation from them.
3
Tyler Diary.
4
San Bernardino Times-Index, February 8, 1890.
5
Ibid. April 10th.
6
Citrograph, April 9, 1890.
7
Times-Index, May 6, 1890.
8
Ibid. February 27, 1890.
9
San Bernardino Times-Index, March 18, 1890. Holt Editorial.
10
As a visiting northern editor said was possible by judicious application of "water,
muscle, brain, and coin." Redlands and Old San Bernardino had plenty of examples:
Cram - $1,730 per acre; Morrison - $10 a tree.
11
Eshelman and Flory, Alessandro agents, were Dunkards.
12
10th Annual Mineral Report, p. 520: J. H. Crossman, Dr. Henry de Groot.
13
Ibid. pp. 523-525.
14
Ibid. p. 520.
15
Mines J197 to J203, G. A. Metzgar: Swartz Point, Moonstone, Shellbark and Van
Dusen - "3/4 mile each of Van Dusen Canyon, 1 1/2 miles from Saragossa Spring Camp."
16
San Bernardino Times-Index, June 12th.
17
The Spoopendyke Mine, "1/2 mile southeast of the Haley-Osborne Mill."
18
San Bernardino Times-Index, August 20, 1890.
19
10th Annual Mineral Report, p. 525.
20
Redlands Citrograph, November 9, 1889, ". . . with headquarters at a lovely spot
under the mountains called Cushenbury." The assessor called it Cook's Possessory
Claim.
21
Kuffel would have to pay the state $200 within 60 days, and record the sale, F82 and
F83, later Arrowhead Villas.
22
Peter Guernsey, S 1/2 of NW 1/4, S 1/2 of NE 1/4, Section 14.
23
Talmadge pictures from Berenice Talmadge Gray; interviews with Effie Morse
Logan and Denver Benson.
24
Grass Valley: Bluebonnet Spring, Brentwood curve behind #8 Golf Green. Charles
B. Tyler.
25
SW 1/4, Section 11, Range 4.
26
Henry was out prospecting at Eagle Mountain.
27
Impressions of the touring Times-Index editor, August 25, 1890.
28
San Bernardino Times-Index, June 25th.
29
Ibid.
30
San Bernardino Times-Index, May 12, 1890.
31
Deed 114-339, May 1, 1890; Riverside Press, June, August.
32
The Dexters - George, John and Greg.
33
Riverside Press, June, 1890, and August, 1890.
34
Times-Index, July 15th.
35
Ibid. March 11, 1890, when J. G. Burt showed around a Michigan banker.
36
Agreement N639, June 18, 1890; Deed 116-185, July 19, 1890.
37
San Bernardino Times-Index, July 23rd.
38
Ibid. May 26th.
39
Ibid. August 9th. Pinetop Correspondent. This was, I think, the courting time for
Gus Jr. and Nancy Clementine Henry. They married July 18, 1891.
40
Metcalf Patent G77, November 13, 1889. Swarthout 1/4 Section 19, T2N, R1E/SE
1/4 Section 24, T2N, R1W. Knight Jr. Patent D145, same date, SE 1/4 Section 20, N 1/2
of Swarthout 1/4 R1E (Lake front).
41
Deed C582, January 21, 1890.
42
San Bernardino Times-Index, August 19, 1890.
43
Ibid. August 21st.
44
Thaddeus Lowe interview, February, 1955.
45
Chattel Mortgage A60, Kuffel crops.
46
San Bernardino Times-Index, August 15th.
47
Thaddeus Lowe interview, February, 1955.
48
San Bernardino Times-Index, August 2nd. Brown, North, F. P. Morrison, R. J.
Waters, N. McAbee locally. Capitalization $400,000. Senator Graham of New Haven,
Connecticut, President; Theo. Clark of Hartford, Connecticut and Redlands, VicePresident; E. P. Kitching of Boston, Massachusetts, Treasurer.
49
San Bernardino Times-Index, October 11, 1890.
50
Ibid. September 20th.
51
Ibid. September 3rd.
52
Open in April, 1890. It had 24 rooms, running water, call bells and speaking tubes.
53
Interviews with Charles B. and Don Tyler, Highland, sons of the owners.
54
Tyler Diary, November 11, 1890.
55
San Bernardino Times-Index, October 21st to 25th; later, a Trades Carnival that J. B.
said was the finest entertainment the town ever had.
56
Times-Index, December 15, 1890.
57
Ibid. November 10th.
58
Ibid. July 22nd and November 6th.
59
Ibid. September 27th.
60
Ibid. October 21st, November 11th.
61
Ibid. December 7, 1890.
PART 3, CHAPTER 12
"FORCAST OF MANNA"
1891
1
San Bernardino Times-Index. January. “The city has $64,000 worth of fences; the
pound master is kept busy all the time catching stray stock”.
2
Ibid.
3
To each he granted free family-usage and the right to haul 30 cords of wood annually as
Deed 241-51.
4
John Metcalf, Gus Knight Jr., George Rathbun, Beard, Case, and James Smart (who has
just patented NW 1/3 Section 20, T2N R1E –C582) have subscribed $10,0000. TimesIndex, July 31, 1891.
5
Memories of Shirley Bright, another surveyor-to-be.
6
Times-Index.
7
Tyler Diary.
8
Suvurkrup’s first patent application (D280) was for the W ½ of NW ¼ of Sec. 24 T2N
R3W, August 1892.
9
Deeds: San Bernardino County Hall of Records. It is not generally known that these
purchases were not all cash. James Fleming carried a $17,333 mortgage for several
years.
10
Gamble – with his brother-in-law, Proctor – a soap baron; Kilgour – merchant, head of
a railroad and banking dynasty; Mooney – owner of tanneries, a coffin company, the
Queen City Electric Company, and Mt. Adams Incline. During a visit to Pasadena in
1887 (per Margaret Smith Green and her mother who accompanied him) Mooney rode
the ridges eastward to grayback, looking for possibilities for irrigation reservoirs – a thenfashionable investment. Adolph Wood, also of Cincinnati, was stepfather to Robinson J.
Jones of Etiwanda who worked with Koebig in the water appropriation.
According to the August 17, 1901 Citrograph, it was L. M. Holt who went to Cincinnati
and swayed the group to organize and make the million-dollar investment. (Holt and
Frank Brown were enroute to England to re-capitalize the BVI.)
11
San Bernardino Times-Index, June 13, 1891.
12
Present Arrowhead Avenue.
13
At the south end of Riverside, landscaped by James Boyd, roadmaster.
14
Tyler Diary. June 18th, June 24th.
15
Los Angeles Times, quoted here.
16
San Bernardino Times-Index.. or “snatch-block and tackle”.
17
The cost of the company road was listed as $50,000 (Times-Index April 1895)
18
Water D96, July . . i.e. the Mill Fork of Plunge Creek, just east of the Enchanted Forest
site.
19
Times-Index, July 29th, October 8th.
20
@ $2500 and $6000, respectively.
21
Los Angeles Times, July 27, 1891.
22
Ibid.
23
Times-Index, May 15th.
24
Ibid. August 7, 1891.
25
Ibid. June 19th.
26
Deed 145-93, August 13, 1891 to: W. S. Sweatt, D. A. Wheeler, A. J. Twogood, D.C.
Twogood, K. D. Shugart, L. C. Waite, and John A. Simms.
27
11th Annual Mineral Report. Wm. H. Irelan Jr., state mineralogist: W. H. Storms, Field
assistant. 12th Annual Mineral Report. J. J. Crawford – p.245.
28
Mines J108, May 31, 1891.
29
Mines K35 and K77. Proof of Labor, 1891.
30
Mines K50. Proof of Labor, 1891.
31
Mines J393. Proof of Labor, January 12, 1892.
32
According to Wm. Irelan Jr. in the 11th Annual Mineral Report, they had the same
problem as Rose Mine.
33
Los Angeles Times, August 4, 1891.
34
Ibid. August 20th.
35
Water D122 and on.
36
Los Angeles Times, August 14th.
37
Butler letter to Holt’s Orange Belt Weekly, January 2, 1892.
38
Times-Index, San Bernardino, September 18, 1891, October 9th.
39
San Bernardino Times-Index, September 20th; Citrograph, September 21st.
40
Tyler Diary.
41
“Rock Camp”
42
San Bernardino Times-Index, September 15th.
43
Ibid. September 19th.
44
Tyler Diary June 28th, August 28th.
45
Deed C298, June 1892: Doyle gives right-of-way for certain surveyors.
46
San Bernardino Times-Index, September 4th, 1891.
47
Ibid. Editorial, March 24, 1891.
48
Ibid. December 7th.
49
Redlands Citrograph, April 2, 1892.
"FORCAST OF MANNA"
1892
1
San Bernardino Times-Index, January 2, 1892.
2
Redlands Citrograph, January 16th: opened April 11th by Mr. And Mrs. W. P. McIntosh
who – with General S. S. Marlette and Wm. Tiffany – had brought water from the
mountaintop to the Mentone development.
3
Citrograph, March 12, 1892.
4
Ibid. Between February 27th and July.
5
Ibid. April 16th.
6
An R. J. Waters comment in the Citrograph, July 1898. Taxes on the Alessandro
ditches and pipelines neared $2000 in 1892.
7
Soon it will be Clark’s Grade, for Hiram Clark has bought McHaney’s squatter rights on
Deer Cienega: tax rolls, 1892
8
San Bernardino Times-Index, February 5, 1892.
9
Deed 150-32, February 12, 1892. The ARC purchased the north half of Section 10 T2N
R3W from Henry Guernsey, and leased land for the outlet of Tunnel #1 and passage of a
canal from it.
10
Times-Index, March 20th. A truer story is usually told of grade when a road is to be
supplanted. George M. Cooley called it 18% in August 1912 on his first demonstration
trip with a White Truck; at a later time 22% was claimed for “Ford Hill”.
11
San Bernardino Times-Index, March 20, 1892.
12
Hook and Suvurkrup pay taxes on close to two sections; by August, patented.
13
Times-Index, May 13th.
14
Patent Deed E220, May 1892: SE ¼ of SE ¼ Section 20 T2N R3W. (The application
must have been misplaced; it did not come back to him, signed, until 1896.)
15
“Agua Fria”. See Tyler Diary, September 4, 1892 when Tyler oxen ate their potatoes.
16
Mortgage Book B635 – C38, July 9, 1892.
17
Times-Index, June 10th.
18
Ibid.
19
Per tax rolls: the Sugar Cone front, south from Running Springs School; also a half
section immediately south of the new mill. (Section 6 T1N R2W)
20
Citrograph, April 23rd.
21
Deed E27. SW ¼ Section 22, 2N 2W.
22
Citrograph, July 23rd.
23
1892 taxes.
24
Times-Index, June 4th.
25
Ibid. July 16th; Citrograph, July 17th.
26
Citrograph, June 4th.
27
Times-Index, aprl 24, 1892.
28
Citrograph, May 27, 1893.
29
1892 Tax Rolls. Sections 8, 10, 17, 20, 22, 24, 26, T1N 1W.
30
11th Annual Mineral Report, pp. 337-365.
31
Proof of *800 labor – Mines J183, January 1893.
32
Mines K50, February 1892; K196, January 1893.
33
Mines J360. Proof of Labor.
34
K35, January, 1892 Proof of Labor; K77 P.L. June 24, 1892.
35
One thinks of the Frenchman who was Stebbins partner in Austin Drake’s
”Lost Van Dusen Mine” story in Big Bear History, Legends, and Tales, pp. 37-50.
36
Mines K139, January 1893. Proof of Labor.
37
Citrograph, October 22nd.
38
Mines L222 January 18, 1892 “1 ¾ mile from James Miller’s cabin on SW ¼ Section
11 T2N R4W”. L254, adjoining; Wm. Knapp already had “the Blackjack” J186, a mile
and a quarter north of his ranch.
39
Citrograph, July 16th, July 30th.
40
Tyler Diary, June 24th; Joe Tyler was one of the jury-appraisers. Deed C298, July 1,
1892, leased ARC the above strip for a year, and water from his shingle Mill near the
Tollhouse.
41
See Miscellaneous Records D187, May 21, 1892, a restatement of Frank Talmadge’s
title to E ½ of Sec. 16.
42
One might wonder if he had discovered that the decomposed granite of Little Bear
Gorge will not lend itself to a safe masonry dam such as Big Bear has – or one might
wonder if the originators of plans in both Little Bear and Big Bear were not restive under
the autocracy of imported money.
43
You will see his figures in 1893, pages 26-27.
44
Los Angeles Times, December 17th.
45
Yucaipa residents were most glad to at last have their barley and potato land legalized.
One and all start getting five-acre tracts to orchards; Andrews Brothers, Wm. Sibley,
Edward Dunlap, T. J. Wilson, Ed and Will Parish, Henry and Joe Wilshire, Childs
Brothers, Mark Thomas; Joe, Henry and Reese Webster; Mrs. Van Leuven, Ike
Meecham, Will Benson, Wm. Davis, Covington, and of course James Birch who already
had seven acres of bearing orchard.
46
Tyler Diary, August 6th.
47
Ibid. August 16th.
48
Charles B. Tyler interviews 1953-1964.
49
Times-Index articles, September 13th, 1892.
50
Tyler Diary.
51
Citrograph, September 10th.
52
Ibid. November 26th
53
Quote from Los Angeles Express of December 10th. Hunting Library.
*San Bernardino Daily Sun, February 20, 1927. Norman Henderson article on occasion
of Mill Creek historical-plaque ceremony.
54
Citrograph, October 29th.
55
Mortgage Deed. For Cleveland Trust Company.
56
Citrograph, December 3rd.
57
Deed 171-290. October 4, 1892.
58
Miscellaneous Records D273 and Deed 169-240.
59
Citrograph, December 3, 1892.
"FORCAST OF MANNA"
1893
1
Citrograph, February 25, 1893.
2
Chosen from four bidders: Citrograph, February 15. See Note 53-54.
3
Ibid. June 3rd.
4
Ibid. January 28th. It was over the best judgment of his directors. A five percent
dividend was hereafter voted, the remainder going toward improvements.
5
five other private cars stood on the Redlands siding: Citrograph, April 8th.
6
Citrograph, January 28, 1893.
7
Division date: May 9, 1893.
8
Citrograph, March 18th.
9
Ibid. August 5th. A thousand rabbits were killed in the drive.
10
A June 2, 1894 Citrograph will refer to this date as the creation of San Bernardino
Forest, December 20, 1892 as the allotment of San Gabriel Reserve. No date is given for
Trabuco Reserve, the third of sixteen western reserves established this year, per July 20,
1893, Citrograph. Occasionally the date of April 2, 1894 is given for SBRF – the date on
which settlers were notified to file prior claims.
11
Adolph Wood Dedicates Harrison portrait.
12
Cf. January 1912. Trial (regarding foundations).
13
Times-Index, March 3rd.
14
Ibid.
15
Citrograph, April 29th, June 17th.
16
Times-Index, June 23rd.
17
Times-Index, March 3rd.
18
Deed 177-261. N ½ Section 8 2N 3W from Bart Smithson and Sam Rolfe.
19
Deed 175-147. March, 1893 to SE ¼ Section 22 2N 4W.
20
Who signed for the pipeline.
Citrograph, March 18th, 28th.
21
22
Ibid. May 6, 1893
23
Ibid. April 8th , May 27th.
24
Ibid. May 27th: article describing Seven Oaks.
25
Ibid. June 24, 1893.
26
Cf. Times-Index April 12, 1895 when the whole Victor Water project is reviewed.
27
Chester W. Wright, Economic History of the United States. pp. 872-885 regarding the
1893 panic.
28
Citrograph, July 8th.
29
Daily Times-Index, February 15, 1895.
30
Testimony in a Joseph Brown trail.
31
Editorial: Citrograph, June 10th.
32
Ibid. July 29, August 5, August 12, 1893.
33
Ibid. August 12, 1893.
34
Riverside Daily Press, June 26th.
35
Citrograph, July 29, August 5, August 12, 1893.
36
Ibid. August 12th.
37
November 13th a government edict came out freeing miners from the $100 labor
requirement in ’93: Intent to work was sufficient. It was considered that more good
prospects might be uncovered that way.
38
San Bernardino Courier mining article quoted in the September 30th Citrograph.
39
Per H 155, December 22, 1890; sheriff’s deed to J. M. Carter (88-380, 244-312).
40
12th Annual Mineral Report, J. J. Crawford, p. 233.
41
San Bernardino Courier mining article. Citrograph, September 30th.
42
Ibid.
(i.e. the Van Dusen, the Magnet, and the Green Meadow K292 proof of labor.)
43
44
Deed 185-206.
45
Crawford’s 1894 Mineral Report credits him with an “experimental mill built in 1893”.
(See also January 1896, when offered for sale.)
46
Riverside Daily Press, July 6, 1893.
47
See Mines P305, Deed 202-88.
48
Citrograph, July 22nd. The Morongo King Mining Company, Inc. comprises S.W.
Allen, Judge J. L. Cambell, Banker W. S. Hooper of San Bernardino; W. S. Hathaway
and C. O. Barker from Banning; Judge Wilson Hayes and J. B. Nanna from Colton;
Livingstone, Hansen, and Martin.
49
Mines N148, N264.
50
Citrograph, July 15th.
51
Ibid. August 19th: Charles Button Trial for the murder of Gus Boehm, November 1,
1895.
52
Times-Index, June 14, 1983.
53
Ibid. September 13th.
54
Ibid.
55
Citrograph, September 9, 1983.
PART 3, CHAPTER 13
"DISSIPATING DREAMS"
1
Times-Index, January 5, 1894.
2
California Fruit Grower, March 24, 1894. Not Redlands fruit. She was very particular
about what went out under her highly-reputed brand.
3
Times-Index, January 5th, 1894.
4
Ibid. February 2nd.
5
Citrograph, January 20th.
6
Mines N146, January 22, 1894.
7
Citrograph, February and March: $20 from Missouri to the Pacific Coast.
8
Times-Index, July 9th.
9
Ibid. February 9th.
10
C. J. Perkins has declared bankruptcy, Citrograph, February 17, 1894.
11
Ibid. February 10th.
12
By now Morrison and A. G. Hubbard hold 3429 Class A shares.
13
Citrograph, January 20th.
14
Redlands Citrograph.
15
Ibid. May 12th.
16
Ibid. June 16th.
17
Times-Index, April 14th. (The Pioneer Society questioned such a limitation of
privilege.)
18
Times-Index, August 6, 1894.
19
Citrograph, May 12, 1894.
20
He had come from Scotland to the Ukiah redwoods…then here on the recommendation
of Sheldon Stoddard.
21
Times-Index, August 3rd.
22
Ibid: a quote of August 3rd.
23
Ibid.
24
Citrograph, July 21, 1894.
25
Times-Index, August 30th.
26
Daily Times-Index, July 27th.
27
He had saved the Boyd and Ball sawmill from the December 1892 insolvency.
28
Times-Index, August 28th. (From the Grass Valley Waterhead to Dark Canyon.)
29
12th Annual Mineral Report, p. 229.
30
Mines S5 Proof of Labor (2500) plus a $5000 mill December, 1894. P101 January
1894.
31
Citrograph, January 20th and June 9, 1894. (Two and a half tons per stamp was average;
therefore 25 tones @ $16.)
32
Ibid. July 14th; Mines 203-140.
33
12th Annual Mineral Report p. 325. Crawford (1894).
34
Mines T377. 1894 Proof of Labor.
35
Mines P305 Proof of Labor.
36
12th Annual Mineral Report, p. 232.
37
Citrograph, September 3rd.
38
Mines P387. 1894 Proof of Labor.
39
A Captain Dick millsite is later shown in Saragossa Cienega, but Rowell cabins are
down toward the Greenlead. The later would be Holcomb Creek …..?
40
Citrograph, June 23rd.
41
12th Annual Mineral Report, p. 233. If they got $175 a cu. yd. as predicted in 1881,
what expenses they could pay!
42
Daily Times-Index, July 27, 1894.
43
Citrograph, April 14th.
44
Times-Index, September 7th – or in the new Democratic daily, the San Bernardino Sun,
begun September 1st.
45
Citrograph, October 13, 1894.
46
Times-Index, October 22nd.
47
Agreement C443, November 20, 1894.
48
His count was given in the Spring round-up, June Times-Index.
49
Citrograph, October 20th.
50
Times-Index of August 1, 1895 (from $17,000 to $6000).
51
$75,000 per the Judgment Suit; references also in J.A. Graves, My Seventy Years in
California. Times-Mirror Press. 1927.
52
Such as Frank Talmadge’s Sawmill (Mortgages C598, D117, G174, N492) 54-214.
1895
1
Johnson Precipitation Table.
2
Times-Index, January 22, 1895.
3
Ibid. February 15th.
4
Circuit Court Suit in Los Angels February 11th.
5
Times-Index, June 28, 1895.
6
Ibid. June 14th … “hence the company name”.
7
Citrograph, June 15, 1985.
8
Southern California Historical Quarterly, June 1948, Martha A. Chickering.
9
Citrograph, November 20, 1895.
10
Weekly Times-Index, April 19th.
11
Ibid. March 15th.
12
Ibid. May 3rd.
13
Both the ARC and Colton Cement wagons have tried it, and stopped after 189 cords.
14
For a year they had found it too costly.
15
Probably over a team of mules.
16
Citrograph, July 6th.
17
Times-Index, August 1st: the S.M. Goddards, the Wrights, the Howard Smiths, the
Jonas Wood’s, Edna Foy, Charlie Whitmore, Dr. Hutchinson.
18
Published from August 9th to September 11th, most of it repeated in the Times-Index
columns, Paula Lee Goddard, editor.
19
July 22nd Judge Ross had decreed that Jo Brown must pay the $15,000 and submit
papers for due business process. The ARC made an attempt to buy Talmadge Mill.
When that failed, they took a second mortgage on Talmadge property.
20
Ferncliff Rattler. TI.
21
Citrograph, August 10th.
22
A custom adopted from Frank Stockton’s Squirrel Inn book.
23
Times-Index, May 27, 1895: Builder of that and others. N.A. Torstensen.
24
Citrograph, June 22nd.
25
Land Patent E100, March 1895: S ½ SE ¼ Section 22, T2N R3W.
26
From Sissons Government Hatchery, through the post office department.
27
Citrograph, July 6th.
28
Times-Index, July 19th.
29
Citrograph, August 17th.
30
Pears, apples, prunes, greengage plums. Ball – many of the same plus blackberries and
vegetables.
31
Seven Oaks letters: July 6th, August 10th, September 21st, October 5th.
32
B. G. Holmes – one of the boys: Tales of the Pioneers of Big Bear Lake. Chatsworth,
1956, p.4. Per the Citrograph of July 20-August 3, 1895 – he was there.
33
Deed 204-35. December 15, 1984.
34
Citrograph, August 3, 1895.
35
In March George Otis, P. P. Morrison, and H. H. Garstin bought a ten-acre plot in the
NE ¼ of the SE ¼ of Section 19, T2N R1E from Gus Knight, Jr. and divided it.
36
Citrograph, August 25th, October 5th; also Craford’s 13th Annual Mineral Report, p.
319.
37
Times-Index, July 19th.
38
Mines T377: Morongo Mining and Milling Co. Proof of Labor on the Christie.
39
Mines T120. November 1895.
40
Mines X93: $600 labor by Thame and Marchant.
41
Times-Index, February 8, 1895.
42
Mines V84 and V85.
43
Citrograph, August 3rd.
44
Crawford: 13th Annual Mineral Report, p. 323.
45
Citrograph, November 23rd.
46
Times-Index, August 19th.
47
Mines X44 and X45.
48
Redlands Daily Facts quoted in Citrograph, July 27th.
49
Citrograph, September 28th.
50
A bill will come up in Congress in April of 1896.
51
Citrograph, June 29th.
52
Ibid. November 2nd.
53
Ibid. November 23rd.
PART 3, CHAPTER 14
"WEATHERING A FINANCIAL STORM"
The first use of anything but canvas tents, and suggested by F. C. Finkle. A "fog" of
water was likewise mentioned.
2
Times-Index, March 27, 1896.
3
Citrograph.
4
Burr Belden, History in the Making; Walter Kohl reminiscences, June 1, 1952. San
Bernardino Sun-Telegram.
5
Times-Index, January 17, 1896.
6
Ibid. March 5th. Talmadge receivership.
7
Ibid. August 21st.
8
Ibid. May 29th.
9
To quote a Cropley Stage ad for mountain tours. June 4, 1896.
10
Times-Index, June 5th.
11
Ibid. July 17th. "My advertising," says George Cooley.
12
Former proprietor of Baldwin's Hotel in San Francisco, and the promoter trying to
"muscle in" in the Yellow Aster Mine in Randsburg. With a jug and a pen he had signed
Burcham's two partners.
13
Deeds 206-241. January 4, 1896.
14
Deeds: Knight 227-113, April 29th; Metcalf 228-132 @ $900, June 4th.
15
Mines U365 through U370, September 11, 1896. Tallac is his new Lake Tahoe hotel.
16
Crawford, 13th Annual Report of Mines.
17
Times-Index, September 7th.
18
Op. cit. 16.
19
Times-Index, June 28-July 17 (17 days on the road).
20
Lease C302 @ $20,000. July 23, 1896.
21
Times-Index, July 25th, property of A. M. Hamm.
22
Op. cit. 16.
23
Op. cit. 16 per J. J. Crawford.
24
Deed 244-192.
25
Deed 242-125.
26
Crawford, 13th Annual Report of Mines; also Citrograph, November 9, 1895.
27
Mines X246, August 27, 1896.
28
Times-Index, July 17th. Visit of John Muir, Agasiz, Pinchot.
29
Ibid. August 21st.
30
Ibid. August 7th.
31
Ibid. July 8th: Board $1 per day; $1.50 for cot on a board-floored tent, or $6 a week.
32
Ingersoll: "Two miles north of Squirrel Inn," but possibly on the northwest quarter
of Section 26 2N 4W. Franklin K. Van Ness, April 30, 1896. E262.
33
Times-Index.
34
Times-Index, August 14th.
35
Taxes 1896 on NW 1/4 Section 29 T2N R3W and NW 1/4 of NE 1/4.
36
Times-Index, August 21st.
37
Ibid. December 25th.
38
Times-Index, September 25th, 1896.
39
Ibid.
40
See September 1897; at end of project.
41
Times-Index, August 28, 1896.
42
Jo Brown's poem, November 26th.
43
Times-Index, February 19, 1897.
44
Times-Index, June 17, 1899.
45
Houghton Creamery.
46
Times-Index, March 26, 1897. Less than the allowed 6% on a $700,000 investment
per Mr. Spoor, BVI manager.
47
Sinclair and Fisher, $198,500 each.
48
Cf. Times-Index, April 1, 1899.
49
Times-Index, February 19-May 28th.
50
Ibid. May 21st.
51
Ibid. September 17th.
52
Ibid. May 21st, June 24th.
53
Patent E225, Palmer SW 1/4 of SW 1/4 Section 20 2N 3W, applied for in 1892, not
granted until 1896.
54
From the reminiscences of Thaddeus Lowe. 1955.
55
Ibid.
56
Times-Index, July 23, 1897.
57
Ibid. September 3rd.
58
Mr. B. F. Allen of Covina was Sueprvisor of Arizona and California south of the
Tehachapis.
59
$500 or twelve days was the penalty.
60
John Calori was hurt there.
61
Times-Index, October 1st.
62
Mines 6-137, Otober 14, 1897. Dorothea Baird is named as an owner.
63
Citrograph, May 21st.
64
Times-Index, October 1st.
65
Times-Index, September 16th.
66
Miscellaneous Records L143, December 7, 1898 (on completion); K58, August 18,
1897.
67
Times-Index, November 19, 1897.
68
Ibid. Febarury 25th and April 15, 1898, on occasion of the lawsuit.
69
Ibid. November 29, 1897.
70
Ibid. June 26, 1897.
71
Ibid. August 27, 1897.
72
Ibid. December 10th.
73
Ibid. October 21st.
74
Southern California Historical Quarterly: June, 1948.
Community:" Martha A. Chickering.
"Founding of a Desert
PART 3, CHAPTER 15
"HARNESSING THE RAINDROPS"
Approaching completion September 23, 1898, per Times-Index.
2
Times-Index, June 24th.
3
Ibid. March 4th.
4
Times-Index, January 14, 1898; Citrograph, July 2, 1898.
appropriation it is for the benefit of Beaumont.
He says on the
5
Citrograph, September 20, 1898.
6
Ibid. September 16th.
7
Ibid. August 16th.
8
Ibid. June 17, 1898, @ $525,000 from A. G. Hubbard, Cleveland agent.
9
Times-Index, July 29, 1898.
10
F. E. Brown letter, Times-Index, March 31, 1899.
11
Citrograph, July 30, 1898.
12
Arrowhead Reservoir Company option to buy of Guernsey right-of-way across NE
1/4 of NW 1/4, Section 26, 2N 4W. Guernsey-Van Ness deed 251-85, June 1898.
13
Returned, July 2nd, Times-Index.
14
Citrograph, August 21, 1898.
15
Times-Index, August 16, 1898.
16
Ibid. May 20th. "The first of Brookings."
17
Ibid. July 29th. You hear this tale with other locations.
18
Ibid. August 12th.
19
Agreement C560, November 1, 1898.
20
Times-Index, May 6-August 16th.
21
Per John Hansen, who was one of the boys and has a picture.
22
Times-Index, August 22nd.
23
Southern California Quarterly, June 1948: "Founding of a Desert Community:"
Martha A. Chickering. Also Burr Belden: History in the Making, June 16, 1957. San
Bernardino Sun-Telegram.
24
Citrograph, July 11, 1898.
25
Cf. January 19, 1899, and January 27th, Daily Times-Index.
26
Deed 244-312. January 10, 1898.
27
Thaddeus Lowe, guest and later member, assured me in the only words a gentleman
could use that Squirrel Inn "had every facility," so this may be literal.
28
Interview with Doris Fishburn Akerman, child of the marriage, and owner of the
house still.
29
Citrograph, September 10th.
30
Ibid. September 17th.
31
Ibid. October 1st.
32
Times-Index, September 30, 1898.
33
Citrograph, August 17, 1901. Letter of L. M. Holt.
34
Times-Index, March 31, 1899.
35
36
Ibid. January 10, 1899.
Citrograph, May 6, 1899.
37
Ibid. March 31. I am sure there is a background for the name "Hunsaker Flats," but
it has never showed up in deed or press.
38
Times-Index, May 10, 1899.
39
Citrograph, April 15, 1899; Times-Index, January 27th.
40
Times-Index, April 21st.
41
Westways Magazine: Hellman biography.
42
Times-Index, April 21, 1899.
43
Ibid. April 18th.
44
Ibid. March 10th.
45
Ibid. July 21st.
46
Citrograph, June 3rd.
47
Times-Index, July 28th.
48
Ibid. January 27th.
49
Deed 270-109. Baldwin to De LaMar.
50
Citrograph, October 28, 1899.
51
Times-Index, May 24th; Citrograph, May 20th.
52
Citrograph, May 27th.
53
Times-Index Sawmill Article, May 12, 1899.
54
Patent F160 in Sections 21 and 24.
55
Times-Index, March 17, 1899.
56
Ibid. June 10th.
57
From a cigar stump on Clark's Grade' above Skinners in Mountain Home Canyon; a
hundred acres near Brookings Mill; in Little Bear Valley.
58
Times-Index, August 4th.
59
Citrograph, August 5th.
60
Times-Index, July 21st.
61
Ibid. August 4th.
62
Ibid. August 11th.
63
See Riversdie Daily Press, August 25, 1900.
64
Times-Index, W5 Stephens Column.
65
Citrograph, August 26th.
66
Deeds 270-262 $5000, August 5, 1899; Deeds 283-207, including $500 to Guernsey,
$4500 to Wilson.
67
As one did May 14th.
68
Citrograph, August 26, 1899.
69
Cf. Citrograph, Setpember 14, 1901. The mines are listed as: the Henry M.,
Mountain Chief, Mount Lillie, Baby Bess, Adaline, El Capitan, Hartwig, Rover, Queen
of May, Valencia, Old Sam Central placer, Memphis placer, Anti-fat, and Rattler. When
labor is declared there are in addition, the Oxnam, Happy Jack, and the Ace of Clubs.
70
Citrograph, June 2nd, July 14th.
71
Water G6 G28 G46 G89. January 1900.
72
Water G5. January.
73
Water G23. April 4, 1900.
74
Citrograph, May 12, 1900.
75
Mortgage C38 Gregory-Baker on the sawmill, December 7, 1900.
76
Times-Index, August 4, 1900.
77
Lukens had a $60 surplus that he used for seeds and seed-care. He asked campers to
gather seeds for him.
78
Interview with daughter, Gertrude Switzer Berry; daily talks with Bert and Sara
Switzer at Twin Peaks Store and Post Office in 1930's.
79
Citrograph, May 12, 1900.
80
Frank Kuffel patented 158 acres in Section 26 in March 1899; F32 Adam Kuffel
homesteaded 158 acres in Section 27, 1900 F68.
81
Citrograph, July 1, 1900.
82
Riverside Daily Press, august 6, 1900. Quote from San Bernardino Sun. Files of
San Bernardino papers are very skimpy 1900-1902.
83
Riverside Daily Press, August 25, 1900.
84
Homesteads: Rogers F72, October 4th; Smithson F61, October 12th. So far as papers
show he first leased the East half of the northeast quarter of Section 25, 2N 3W, from
Frank Binkley after 1889. This adds the east half of the southeast quarter and some lands
in Section 30 across the road.
85
San Bernardino Evening Transcript, August 24th, September 3rd.
86
Times-Index, July 21st.
87
Ibid. August 4th.
88
Citrograph, February 20, 1901, at trial.
89
Citrograph, September 29th.
90
Riverside Daily Press, July 24th; Citrograph, October 6, 1900.
91
Citrograph, September 22nd, November 3rd. Postmaster C. L. Metzgar.
92
Citrograph. Knight's Golden Era Mine Property, Inc., @ $350,000.
93
Citrograph, December 29, 1900.
94
Ibid.
95
Deed 289-82. December 27, 1900.
PART 3, CHAPTER 16
"STARTING THE ENGINE"
Daily Times-Index, February 15, 1901.
2
Ibid. February 20th.
3
Citrograph, February 16, 1901.
4
Times-Index, June 15th.
5
Citrograph, August 17th.
6
Times-Index, February 4, 1901: parts of nine townships.
7
Riverside Daily Press, September 22, 1900.
8
California Historical Quarterly, June 1948: "Founding of a Desert Community:"
Martha A. Chickering.
9
Citrograph, September 14, 1901: Account of letter by C. S. Porter to the Los Angeles
Mining Review regarding Gold Mountain and Rose Mine.
10
Interview with John Dexter. Drake said "the brave Anna Crain." I do not know his
source of information.
11
Citrograph, July 6, 1901.
12
Times-Index, July 11, 1901.
12
See note 9.
14
Deed 352-394 dated April 7, 1901, and not recorded until December 30, 1904. Told
in Citrograph, March 18.
15
Daily Times-Index, June 25th.
16
Water Records G108. August 28, 1901. 10,000 inches.
17
Henry Green Powerhouse site in Waterman Canyon. Forestry. February 15, 1901.
18
Daily Times-Index, April 22nd; Citrograph, July 13. Drivers are: Russell Roberts, C.
J. Daley, George Clyde, Frank Barker, Billy Martin, M. E. Bermudas, J. D. Watson, John
Huff, J. G. Nish, R. F. Short, John Talmadge, C. A. Lamb, Chas. Goss. Also willing:
Will Talmadge, Jack Weeks, Alex Wisom, Chas. Wixom, Jack West, Will Rathbun, Ben
Hawes, Bud Hawes.
19
Citrograph, September 7, 1901.
20
Ibid.
21
Interview with Gertrude Switzer Berry.
22
Daily Times-Index.
23
Daily Times-Index, July 25th.
24
Patent F385, paralleling Smithson's Ranch.
25
Daily Times-Index, June 22nd.
26
Citrograph, July 27th.
27
Daily Times-Index, February 19, 1901.
28
Ibid. July 20th and succeeding issues.
29
Citrograph, August 17th.
30
Ibid. Quoting from a biography of L. M. Holt.
31
Deed F72. September 15, 1901.
32
Citrograph, September 7th, August 10th.
33
San Bernardino Evening Transcript, March 31, 1902.
34
Ibid. Description. September 22, 1902.
35
Newlands (of Nevada) Bill. June 17, 1902.
36
By Judge Ross in Circuit Court. January 25th, February 8th.
37
Obligations are the Cleveland mortgage and monies due Hubbard, Fisher, et al. San
Bernardino Transcript, July 23, 1902.
38
Citrograph, april 12, 1902.
39
Ibid. March 22nd.
40
San Bernardino Evening Transcript, March 17th.
41
Citrograph, April 5th.
42
Ibid. February 15th.
43
San Bernardino Evening Transcript, June 26th. They will absorb Lytle Creek and be
Edison Electric Company after Setpember 1st. Transcript, September 1, 1902.
44
Ibid. August 15, 1902.
45
Ibid.
46
Ibid. June 6, 1902.
47
Interviews with Miss Maud Kuffel and Mrs. Grant, daughters. 1958.
48
Per Gertrude Switzer Berry.
49
San Bernardino Evening Transcript, July 23rd.
50
Miscellaneous Records O233, March 27, 1902.
51
Gus Sr. Deed 253-292, April 19, 1902. Nancy Deed 316-357, May 31, 1902.
52
San Bernardino Evening Transcript, August 12, 1902.
53
Mining Records Book 22-471 and 472. May 1902. In Section 32 R1E. Signers:
Tom Stewart, J. R. Metcalf, J. D. Spargo, John McFee, Ed Dolch, Jim Johnston and G.
W. Rose.
54
San Bernardino Evening Transcript, July 14, 1902. I suspect Matheson did Lucky
Bill Hoisting Works.
55
Mines 32-198. Book 32 records Proof of Labor for 1902-03 mine ownership.
56
San Bernardino Evening Transcript, September 28th.
57
Deed 339-105 @ $1500. August 20, 1902.
58
Miscellaneous Records R172, R175, September 29, 1902.
59
North half of Section 17 and three-quarters of Section 18 @ $4000. Deed 310-96.
60
San Bernardino Evening Transcript, August 20th.
61
Miscellaneous Records N242. November 21, 1902.
62
San Bernardino Evening Transcript. Index. February 6, 1903.
63
E. C. Sterling, who also built a mansion in Redlands.
64
Double that of 1902.
65
Citrograph, February 7, 1903.
66
San Bernardino Transcript-Index, July 16, 1903.
67
Ibid. Letters of William Stephen. May and June.
68
Ibid. July 22nd.
69
San Bernardino Transcript, July 24, 1903.
70
Ibid. July 29th. Per William Stephen, correspondent.
71
120 acres in Section 20 from Olive Byrne, formerly Flanagan's Deed 335-110.
72
Miscellaneous Records R173. September 21, 1903. Deed 336-333 to 640 acres.
73
There were eighty-five camped.
74
Citrograph, June 6th.
75
San Bernardino Transcript, August 7. Gulielmus letter.
76
Citrograph, March 28th.
77
Ibid. May 7 and May 23rd, 1903.
78
Ibid.
79
Ibid.
80
Citrograph, May 9, 1903. General Agent A. S. Selig, H. I. Chatfield, F. W. Balfour
and J. S. Brown.
81
San Bernardino Transcript, July 14, 1903. San Antonio L & P. had claimed
transmission of 10,000 volts in 1892. Holt: Westways, March 1957.
82
He issued citations to the Kavanaugh boys and Milton Vale: "fire arms" and "fire
danger."
83
Citrograph, June 20th, quoted from Riverside Enterprise.
84
Filling the bottlet with a portion of dry lime, then water; corking, and tossing into a
pool where it exploded.
85
San Bernardino Transcript, July 11th.
86
Miscellaneous Records O97. Brookings-Heap contract for ten years privilege on NE
1/4 Section 25 2N 3W (his homestead). One camp was known as "Chicago," still marked
by a spring on the Helen-Dade Road; one as "Washerwoman's Flats" per Switzers.
87
Personal memoirs of Sara Switzer 1935-1940.
88
San Bernardino Transcript, July 1, 1903.
89
Citrograph, August 29th.
90
Mines 35-39. In the southwest quarter of Section 29, 3N 1E. July 22nd.
91
San Bernardino Transcript, July 1, 1903. Gaylord-Taylor have a Mammoth Mine
there (34-313).
92
Mines 32-198 and 199 Proof of Labor.
93
Ibid. 32-165, 168, 341, 344.
94
Ibid. 32-203.
95
Citrograph, August 29th. Later shown to be Dentist Nathaniel Kuns.
96
San Bernardino Transcript, August 30th.
97
Citrograph, September 12th.
98
Ibid. August 15th.
99
San Bernardino Transcript, December 2nd.
100
Chappel-Chase Nursery Mortgage C337. April 1903.
101
Lawsuit. (Cf. Times-Index, September 20, 1904.)
102
San Bernardino Transcript, December 2, 1903.
103
Ibid. December 14th.
104
Of which $60,000 was repaid by insurance. Daily Times-Index, Jnauary 4, 1904.
105
San Bernardino Transcript, December 4th and 5th.
106
San Bernardino Times-Index, April 10, 1904.
107
Per John Hansen, Tyler son-in-law. Frequent guest.
108
Daily Times-Index, January 4, 1904: Gulielmus letter (Stephen's pen-name).
109
Times-Index, July 29th. George Dexter interview 1935.
110
Sometimes called the Prairie Flat Station, an early location for the SchermanMetcalf Mill. Gertrude Switzer Berry interview (Arrowhead Villas arch).
111
Citrograph, April 30, 1904.
112
Ibid. March 26th.
113
Ibid. April 30th.
114
San Bernardino Times-Index, May 20th.
115
Camp #2 (about Troy Beach).
116
Camp #1 (on the present Batson grounds enclosed with a bamboo fence).
117
San Bernardino Daily Times-Index, May 10, 1904.
118
Shown by San Bernardino County Assessor's Rolls: 1904-1905.
119
Ibid.
120
Ibid.
121
To James Stocker. Deed 356-306.
122
Powerhouse guards at installations. Mentone litigation.
123
Mines 39-70.
124
Mines 39-141.
125
Mines 34-29.
126
Mines 37-359.
127
Mines 37-421 and 37-350.
128
Tax Rolls 1904-1905. $449. It may be seen also that Valley Gold Co., Ltd., paid on
ten placers and mill machinery. Pedley paid on patented land in Section 31 3N 1E.
Another taxpayer, surprisingly, was W. L. Palmer, paying on the Olio, San Bernardino
and Mammoth ledges.
129
Mines 32-44.
130
San Bernardino Times-Index, July 19, 1904.
131
Mines 40-214 and 37-23.
132
San Bernardino Times-Index, July 19, 1904.
133
Ibid. May 20th, October 18th.
134
Deed 430-384. July 12, 1904. In Section 25, T2N R4W, E 1/2 of NE 1/4; NE 1/4 of
SE 1/4 (120) acres @ $4500; plus $4000 to Henry Guernsey for his timber lease.
Citrograph, July 16th.
135
Times-Index, July 12th.
136
Citrograph, May 26th.
137
Times-Index, August 23rd; Stephen, correspondent. He did not say that the ten acres
of the Pioneer campground was the only part of the Gregory-Guernsey lumber barony
kept by Guernsey in the break-up. Deeds 349-200 and 354-311.
138
Times-Index, August 13, 1904.
139
Ibid. August 1st. Lightning death on Grayback.
140
Ibid. August 7th.
141
Ibid. August 27th.
142
Ibid. September 9th.
143
Deed 354-311. June 13, 1905.
144
San Bernardino Times-Index, September 1st. Gulielmus column.
145
September 20, 1904, purchase of Waterman land; November 20th, building.
146
The cliff regions south of Running Springs School; forutnately not logged.
147
Citrograph, May 7th. Receipts from Public Land sales have been twenty-nine
million dollars in two years.
148
Citrograph, April 23rd, May 28th, July 30th, October 8th, December 23rd.
149
Federal Agent Campbell's quotation of Agriculture Secretary Maxwell's letter.
150
Col. Wm. Vestal, a new arrival, newsman and politician from Indiana.
151
Citrograph, July 30th.
152
Ibid. December 3rd.
153
Times-Index, October 27th; Citrograph, December 3rd.
PART 4, CHAPTER 1
"ROARING PROGRESS"
San Bernardino Sun, April 16th and May 7, 1905.
Wilkesbarre, Pa.
2
3
From Vulcan Ironworks,
San Bernardino Sun, May 12 and August 1, 1905.
ARC vs. Francisca A. Jessurun, who wanted $100 per acre. She was paid $14,000,
less than $45 per acre. Nothing was awarded holder of the second mortgage, Jo Brown,
or to Frank Talmadge, who had only owed $3500 in the first place.
4
San Bernardino Sun, May 17, 1905.
5
San Bernardino Sun, July 19th.
6
Ibid. July 25th. Severance, Vale, Dorman and Baylis held out, so the Board learned.
7
San Bernardino Sun, April 6th.
8
Deed 354-311. June 13, 1905. @ $10 (thirty day option on 2000 acres).
9
Guernsey-McDougall Deed 359-339 on NE 1/4 Section 28, etc.
10
See San Bernardino Sun, September 28th, when the cook came down.
11
Deed 377-142. May 20, 1905, not recorded until May 12, 1906: G. W. Nuels and J.
F. Redhead sixty shares each; C. C. Ames and W. L. Olmstead fifty-five shares each
caseh; A. Gregory seventy shares paid up. The Oak Lumber Mill and the Huston Creek
Mill balance each other in valuation.
12
San Bernardino Sun, May 15, 1905. Midnight ceremony.
13
"Near the Island" per Thaddeus Lowe, hunter and fisherman here.
14
San Bernardino Sun, June 1, 1905. May 25, 1905, was the first shovelful.
15
Ibid. July 19th.
16
San Bernardino Sun, August 11, 1905.
17
Ibid. October 20th. Fierro, near Barrel Springs.
18
Ibid. November 17th. Deed 306-206. August 15, 1905; Returned October 4th.
Deed 372-51.
19
Ibid. August 11th. With Northrups, Patterson, Feeney and Blackburn. Mines 37421.
20
Mines 47-75.
21
Mines 40-251. One mile northwest of Wilbur's Cabin, Upper Holcomb.
22
Mines 44-121, et al.: Grand Rapids, Portland, Old Guvnor, Mt. Mineral Key,
Rosebud, DeLaMar Duplicate, Black Metal, McDuff.
23
Mines 36-253.
24
George Dexter interview 1935.
25
San Bernardino Sun, August 19th and 29th, 1905.
26
Ibid. August 12th.
27
Ibid. June 27th; July 6th-8th, the Chicago run.
28
$40,000 worth on August 10th. San Bernardino Sun.
29
April 6th, September 8th, October 17th per newspaper mention. Perhaps as a counter
action there will be a Benjamin Leiser and Charles Bradshaw who, on October 28, 1905,
locate a Bedrock Mining placer (37-428) in the southwest quarter of Section 18, 3N 3W,
across the mouth of Deep Creek, which they will sell to the Arrowhead Reservoir
Company. They Arrowhead Reservoir Company seems to have its own suspicions.
30
September 8, 1905.
31
Interview with Frank Mooney, 1958.
32
San Bernardino Sun, August 31st.
33
Ibid. October 4th.
34
San Bernardino Sun, October 25, 1905.
35
George Dexter memoirs.
36
Recorded in San Bernardino, January 31, 1906. $1,560,000 of holdings are increased
to a $6,000,000 stock issue.
37
Once Frank Mooney checked in Gamble's own office for some record of James A.
Gamble's investment in the Arrowhead Reservoir Company or the Arrowhead Reservoir
and Power Company and found one loan of $60,000. It could be true for it was aJames
E. Mooney's way to have "a front" for his operations. They say he paid every bill.
38
A memory of Margaret Smith Green (Mrs. Perry).
39
San Bernardino Sun, March 13, 1906. Five thousand inches was also running out of
the Tunnel #1 pipies under the Gatehouse.
40
San Bernardino Sun, June 21, 1906.
41
Ibid. May 16, June 13, 1906.
42
Ibid. May 26, 1906; Citrograph, June 2, 1906.
43
San Bernardino Sun, May 12, 1906.
44
Ibid. July 24th.
45
Ibid. August 31st. Each stockholder paid in $800 except Reverend Neff @ $400.
Guernseys have $1600 in the corporation.
46
The road block was cleared by July 4th.
47
The nickname for Camp Lincoln after so many teamsters had camped. Per George
Dexter, the flat main street of Crestline.
48
San Bernardino Sun, September 23rd.
49
William Stephen's columns from July 18th through August and September.
50
San Bernardino Sun, August 8th completion.
51
The spools of inch-and-a-quarter steel cable to be installed have already arrived, on a
flat car that they broke through in transit. San Bernardino Sun, September 2, 1906.
Toward Spring, they say, twnety-three tons, 17,000 feet that will have to be cut in four
pieces for hauling.
52
Thaddeus Lowe interview at Highlowe Farm, 1955.
53
Memories of Margaret Smith Green.
54
Purchased on June 20, 1906, per the Los Angeles Times, along with other lines for a
belt route in Southern California.
55
San Bernardino Sun, September 18, 1906.
56
Ibid. June 28th. City fathers wired Washington, to no avail.
57
Evening Index, September 1, 1906. @ $50,000.
58
Deed 369-246. He asks to work the earth they excavate.
59
Water Applications H-11. It spoke of a 160 foot dam to be construct4ed near the
southeast corner of Section 13, T3N R4W, and a 36 square foot tunnel that would carry
the water through the mountain to San Bernardino Valley.
60
Water Application H-22, June 29, 1906, arranged for a fifty foot diversion dam on
the East Fork of the Mojave, 2080 feet northeast of the southwest corner of Section 17,
T3N R3W, i.e., the deep basin near the foot of today's Arrowhead-Hesperia Road, and a
tunnel to the Reservoir on the West Fork.
61
San Bernardino Sun, September 1, 1906.
62
Ibid. September 15th.
63
Ibid. August 3rd; he had a "reverts if not used" clause in the deed.
64
San Bernardino Sun, July 28th. Which subsequently drew $2700 for the job.
65
Los Angeles Times, May 24, 1906.
66
San Bernardino Sun, August 7th.
67
Citrograph, February 5, 1906.
68
Ibid. September 15, 1906. Quoting Redlands Facts.
69
Deeds 394-396, 377-314.
70
Citrograph, February 6, 1906; fallen through February 17th.
71
Deed 370-207. Signed by order of the Court. @ $8500.
72
Per Albert Wells, Seeley grandson.
73
Deed 370-327. July 5, 1906. @ $15,000.
74
Citrograph, December 22, 1906.
75
Ibid. April 21st. Said to have been $35,000-$40,000 a month.
76
Ibid. November 3rd.
77
Citrograph, August 25, 1906. Nearly complete November 3rd.
78
Ibid. May 19, 1906.
79
San Bernardino Sun, October 3rd.
80
Citrograph, June 30th.
81
Deed 370-146. February 15, 1906. Agreement of the stockholders.
82
Deed 382-77 to Tuthill-Cheney. July 1906; 397-235 to Gregory. November 17th.
83
San Bernardino Sun, September 12, 1906.
84
Citrograph, May 19th.
85
San Bernardino Sun, September 20th.
86
Ibid. September 28th, Octobger 5th, from the Los Angeles Index.
87
Citrograph, October 13, 1906.
88
San Bernardino Sun, October 21st. The doomsayers.
89
Ibid. October 14th; Citrograph, October 20th.
90
Citrograph, October 20th.
91
San Bernardino Sun, November 2nd.
92
Water Records H45. December 5, 1906. San Bernardino Sun, December 6th.
93
San Bernardino Sun, December 6, 1906.
94
San Bernardino Daily Times-Index, January 18, 1907.
95
Ibid. January 27, 1907.
96
Ibid. January 4, 1907, February 9, 1907.
97
Ibid. January 26, 1907, March 23, 1907.
98
Citrograph, February 2, 1907.
99
Daily Index, January 5, 1907.
100
Citrograph, March 9, 1907.
101
Daily Index, March 6th.
102
Ibid. March 23rd.
103
Daily Times-Index, April 17, 1907.
104
Citrograph, April 27th.
105
Evening Index, June 11, 1907.
106
George Dexter, A. A. Dexter, Peck brothers, Frank Baca, A. J. McGinnis, R. E.
Imhoff and J. J. Foster.
107
Per John Dexter: the cap-rocks were rolled up a plank from a wagon.
108
Evening Index, August 23, 1907: W. S. column.
109
Which reason Dr. Baylis declared in later years.
110
Per John Dexter: 2000 feet due north from Cedar Pines Store, on the site of teacher
Joan White's hilltop home.
111
Evening Index, June 26, 1907.
112
Ibid. July 4th.
113
San Bernardino Sun, July 23, 1907.
114
Ibid. August 27th.
115
@ $4500 County expense.
116
Citrograph, May 25, 1907.
117
Daily Times-Index, July 23, 1907.
118
Citrograph, August 24th.
119
Ibid. June 22nd.
120
Reverend Fields of Redlands was too busy soliciting funds for a new Baptist College
Redlands was to get.
121
Evening Index, June 28th, 1907.
122
Daily Times-Index, July 18th.
123
Ibid. W S. columns: July - August.
124
Evening Index, July 4th.
125
Citrograph, August 3rd.
126
Daily Times-Index, August 10th: the origination of a placename still used. It was the
site of the first Caley Company Bear Valley Sawmill.
127
San Bernardino Sun, July 14, 1907.
128
Daily Times-Index, May 28th.
129
Evening Index, June 28th. This was challenged by George Miller.
130
Daily Times-Index, December 17th: Lytle Creek and Converse Flats.
131
Citrograph, August 3, 1907.
132
Daily Times-Index, August 12th.
133
Highland Messenger, July 17, 1907.
134
Evening Index, October 1, 1907.
135
Ibid. October 5th.
136
It is a question whether an exchange was ever effected. They did not cut the front,
but it continued in their ownership until Dade Davis bought from them in the 1920s.
137
Evening Index, October 15, 1907.
138
Ibid. September 19th.
139
It had been reported in the Citrograph of June 1, 1907.
140
Evening Index, October 17, 1907, quoted from Riverside Press.
141
Ibid. September 25th.
142
Daily Times-Index, July 15th.
143
Citrograph, June 1st.
144
Evening Times Index, July 10, 1907.
145
Mines.
146
Now "Terrace Springs" on the map.
147
Mines 60-231 Proof of Labor. May 1907. Unruhs, you recall, were his first wife's
nephews.
148
Mines 60-272.
149
Mines 59-157 Proof of Labor. December 31, 1907.
150
Daily Times-Index, August 23, 1907.
151
Citrograph, August 17th.
152
Daily Times-Index, August 10th, September 2nd.
153
Ibid. July 22nd.
154
Daily Times-Index, September 5, 1907.
155
Frank Mooney, nephew of the builder, wrote in a resume once: "All that the Incline
ever hauled was 5000 pounds of cement and Baylis' crop of apples."
156
Daily Times-Index, September 5, 1907.
PART 4, CHAPTER 2
"KNOCKS IN THE MOTOR"
Daily Times-Index, February 13, 1908.
2
Ibid. February 14, 1908. To the 5000 foot level on City Creek; Chambers-Scott
party.
3
Ibid. February 8, 1908; April 27, 1908.
4
Citrograph, February 1, 1908.
5
Ibid. May 23, 1908.
6
San Bernardino Sun, July 18, 1908.
7
Daily Times-Index, January 10, April 27, 1908.
8
Ibid. March 17, 1908.
9
Highland Messenger, June 6, 1908.
10
Ibid.
11
Ibid.
12
Daily Times-Index, May 28, 1908.
13
San Bernardino Daily Sun, August 4, 1908.
14
San Bernardino Sun, August 20, 1908. Surely nicknamed by someone familiar with
Cincinnati.
15
Daily Times-Index, July 5, 1908.
16
San Bernardino Sun, August 27, 1908.
17
Highland Messenger, June 6, 1908, and thereafter.
18
Memories of Albert Wells, Seely grandson.
19
Highland Messenger, May 8, 1908.
20
Citrograph, July 11, 1908.
21
22
Ibid. June 6, 1908.
Ibid. April 18, 1908. Deed 404-282, November 21, 1907: S 1/2 of SW 1/4 Section
20; lots in Section 19 2N 1E.
23
San Bernardino Sun, July 11, 1908. One-third of the $11,500 at Edison expense.
24
Ibid. July 30, 1908.
25
Citrograph, May 9, 1908; July 4, 1908. A $600 tram.
26
Ibid. January 25, 1908. Presumably of Charles Martin. Not verified by deed.
27
Ibid. June 13th.
28
Ibid. February 15th. Storm of November 7, 1907.
29
San Bernardino Sun, August 18, 1908.
30
Citrograph, May 16, 1908.
31
Ibid.
32
Daily Times-Index, June 27, 1908.
33
Ibid. July 8th.
34
San Bernardino Sun, July 15, 1908.
35
Ibid. July 5th.
36
Some brought by A. S. Drew in his Oldsmobile, they say later.
37
San Bernardino Sun, July 30, 1908.
38
Mojave Land and Water filing H248-251-260. July 1908. A Mojave Land Water
and Power Company will be incorporated in Sacramento, which is rumored as taking
over Westwater interests: Sun, October 21, 1908. Another source said Westwater
interests had been discouraged by the shake of an earthquake.
39
The Verde Ranch.
40
San Bernardino Sun, August 16, 1908.
41
Ibid. August 20, 1908.
42
Ibid. August 19th.
43
Ibid. August 22nd.
44
William Stephen: Sun columns, August and September.
45
San Bernardino Sun, November 3, 1908.
46
Ibid. July 24th.
47
Ibid. August 6th.
48
Ibid. December 22, 1908.
49
Ibid. November 12th.
50
Ibid. November 10, 1908.
51
Ibid. August 24th.
52
Ibid. August 26th.
53
One of its original discoverers, now taking Starbird's place.
54
San Bernardino Sun, October 9, 1908.
55
Redlands Daily Facts, December 28, 1908. John Bull Flats mine.
56
Los Angeles Express quoted October 27, 1908.
57
San Bernardino Sun, November 10, 1908.
PART 4, CHAPTER 3
"LOW GEAR FORWARD"
San Bernardino Sun, March 21, 1909.
2
Ibid. April 10, 1909.
3
Ibid. February 20, 1909.
4
Ibid. April 29, 1909.
5
Ibid. April 11, April 29, 1909.
6
Ibid. May 2, 1909.
7
San Bernardino Sun, May 19, 1909.
8
Ibid. January 6, 1909. Also Water H166 and Deed 451-6 when he sold to the AR&P.
9
There were no recorded deeds to prove it . . . for two years.
10
San Bernardino Sun, October 24, 1909.
11
Ibid. September 22, 1909.
12
See application maps at Burnt Mill Ranger Station. 1909.
13
San Bernardino Sun, May 15, 1909.
14
Interview with Fred Jeken 1955.
15
Redlands Daily Facts, February 5, 1909. In presenting his Bill, Senator Willis spoke
of an amalgamation of forest reserves in 1908.
16
Gifford Pinchot, head of the National Forests, is a Yale graduate with post-graduate
work in France.
17
San Bernardino Sun, April 20th, May 21, July 31, August 3rd.
18
Ibid. August 1, 1909.
19
Ibid. August 2nd. A composite.
20
Ibid. August 24th. W. S. column. Helen Baylis and Nora Parker are among them.
21
Ibid.
22
San Bernardino Sun, August 10th. "Arrocrest" say Messrs. Herb and Ed Suvurkrup,
1968. "At the east end of Fleming Drive" say 1909 papers.
23
Information and color from my first interview with Pioneer families, 1953-54:
Shirley and Mollie Tyler Bright, one of my bridges into the past.
24
Interview with Max Green.
25
San Bernardino Sun, about July 10th; ceremony at Pinecrest barbecue.
26
San Bernardino Sun, September 7th.
27
Ibid. June 15, 1909.
28
Per Harry Welton, employee at the time. Interviewed 1968.
29
San Bernardino Sun, September 14, 1909.
30
Redlands Daily Facts, April 15, 1909.
31
Ibid. January 21st. Delinquency March 9th.
32
Big Bear Panorama: Big Bear High School, 1934: pp. 67-68 (August-November).
33
Deed 430-398. August 25, 1909. Named in addition to NW 1/4 Section 6 T2N R2E
were the Gold Mountain Group of mines: Rainbow, Moonlight, Central, Ace of
Diamonds, Ace of Hearts, Oxnam, King of Diamonds, and Ace of Spades.
34
Deeds 390-391. January 29, 1908, i.e., to Rex Mining Corporation.
35
Per taxes on SE 1/4 Section 35 T3N R1E.
36
Proof of Labor Mines: 57-274 (1908); 57-462 (1909).
37
Mines 57-433, 66-261 and 68-220, 61-127, 63-415 and 64-486. Later they will call
this region northwest of Texas Springs "Eagle City."
38
San Bernardino Sun, February 20, 1909. [Not documented, however. Edt.]
39
Mines 78-113, 78-163.
40
Mines 57-368. December 9, 1909. Proof of Labor. Forestry maps show Wright
Mine.
41
San Bernardino Sun, October 15, 1909.
42
Ibid.
43
Ibid. April 2, 1909. October 9th.
44
San Bernardino Sun, May 28th, August 24th.
45
Ibid. October 25th.
46
Water of Sugar Pine Mountain Spring H243 (May) for mining, milling and domestic
uses. Desert King Mine (57-377) T2N R5W. In a year or two he will have a Cleghorn
Mining Company.
47
San Bernardino Sun, November 7, 1909. Correspondent William Stephen wrote that
Suvurkrup Mill had ceased for the season, but that Joe Dempsey and Opie were still
hauling.
48
Interview with Max and Perry Green.
49
San Bernardino Sun, November 23rd.
50
Ibid. October 22nd.
51
Accounting for the "Old Mill Road" off Emerald Drive, per Max Green's picture,
memories of Suvurkrup brothers, and John Dexter, who later bought the mill.
52
From the Max and Perry Green interview, 1957.
53
Redlands Daily Facts, January 3, 1910.
54
Ibid. January 1, 1910; San Bernardino Sun, January 3 and February 1, 1910.
55
San Bernardino Sun, January 8, 1910.
56
Redlands Daily Facts, January 4, 1910.
57
San Bernardino Sun, February 1, 1910.
58
Ibid. April 8th; Redlands Daily Facts, April 7th . . . @ $80.000.
59
San Bernardino Sun, May 15, 1910.
60
Redlands Daily Facts, April 26th.
61
Ibid.
62
San Bernardino Sun, June 10, 1910.
63
Ibid. April 30th.
64
Ibid. April 27th.
65
Ibid. May 6, 1910.
66
Ibid.
67
Since Fall he has bought all Joe Bright's teams.
68
San Bernardino Sun, May 13, 1910.
69
Ibid. May 15, 1910.
70
Ibid. May 20, 1910.
71
Deed 463-232. May 31, 1910. Drew said later that he refused to repair at his own
expense. Sun, June 10th.
72
San Bernardino Sun, July 16th.
73
Ibid. August 3rd.
74
Ibid. June 17th. Effective July 1, 1910.
75
San Bernardino Sun, July 6th.
76
Daily Times-Index. W. S. columns. July-September.
77
Ibid. July 10th and 23rd.
78
The giant specimen of which a slice now stands in front of Strawberry Flats Masonic
Hall.
79
San Bernardino Daily Times-Index, August 3, 1910.
80
Daily Times-Index, July 10, 1910.
81
Memories of Max Green, associated with the mountains from 1909 as commissary
clerk, later as stage driver and owner for many years.
82
Ibid.
83
Daily Times-Index, July 26, August 14th.
84
Times quoted are from the Index, details from Heyser's letter, above.
85
Big Bear Panorama, Big Bear High School, p. 36. To $135,000, they say.
86
San Bernardino Sun, August 6, 1910.
87
Early purchasers from Metcalf.
88
Redlands Daily Facts, November 5th: her ad for a new job.
89
Deed 451-356. March 24, 1910. The SE 1/4 Section 24, NE 1/4 Section 25, R1W,
twenty acres south of Glass in Section 19 and N 1/2 of NE 1/4 Section 15 R1E (at the tip
of the lake); a half interest in 200 acres of Section 20 (with George Miller) excepting lots
sold to above (east of Knickerbocker, south of Smart).
90
San Bernardino Sun, July 16, 1910.
91
Daily Times-Index, August 8th.
92
Redlands Daily Facts, November 19, 1910.
93
Mines 81-129. May 16, 1910. (81-120 to 130 locates each of the mines.)
94
Redlands Daily Facts, November 15, 1910.
95
Mines 90-66; Water from Burnt Flat Spring H244.
96
Mines 78-235 and on, March 12, 1910.
97
Daily Times-Index, August 27, 1910.
98
Max Green; Frank Mooney interview.
99
Index, September 20, 1910.
100
Ibid. September 7, 1910.
101
Palmer-Lowe & Dobbins Deed.
102
Memories of Thaddeus Lowe. He said teamsters were going down through the place
"just anywhere."
103
Daily Times-Index, September 27, 1910.
104
Ibid. September 4th.
105
Ibid. October 17th; according to Herb and Ed Suvurkrup: the Lakebrook hilltop.
106
San Bernardino Sun, August 1st.
107
Redlands Daily Facts, November 9th and 14th.
108
San Bernardino Sun, August 1st.
109
Daily Times-Index, September 14, 1909.
110
Kate Collivan Harvey was an adoptee of Skinners.
111
Redlands Daily Facts, December 21, 1910.
112
Ibid. December 23rd.
113
Ibid. November 28, 1910.
114
Permits filed in the Burnt Mill Ranger Station, signed by Bert Switzer and F. J. Kerr.
This January 4, 1911, application was, it says, a refiling of one made February 15, 1901.
A letter of January 20, 1911, says AR&P filed amended maps on February 25, 1910, of
the West Fork Reservoir site.
115
Daily Times-Index, March 31, 1911.
116
Ibid.
117
Ibid. April 23, 1911.
118
Ibid. W. S. column.
119
Ibid. March 31, 1911, May 14th.
120
Index, May 14, 1911. According to the Redlands Daily Facts, she has just finished
playing "The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary" on the Wyatt stage.
121
Daily Times-Index, June 12, 1911.
122
Ibid. June 12th, July 3rd.
123
Water Records H301. May 2, 1911.
124
Daily Times-Index, June 12, 1911.
125
Redlands Daily Facts, June 15th.
126
Ibid. July 1, 1911.
127
Ibid. March 17, July 1st, 1911.
128
Ibid. February 10th.
(Redlands, 1963).
Lawrence Emerson Nelson, Ph.D.: Only One Redlands,
129
Ibid. March 11th: showed at Grand Theatre, Redlands.
130
Ibid. July 22nd; also quote from San Bernardino Sun.
131
Daily Times-Index.
132
Rim of the World Guide: Ferris N. Scott. Santa Ana, 1952. p. 33.
133
San Bernardino Sun, July 26, 1911.
134
Evening Index, July 25th: Andresen, Kohl, Perris, Drew, et al.
135
San Bernardino Sun, July 26th.
136
Ibid. July 27th.
137
Memories of Gertrude Switzer Berry.
138
San Bernardino Sun, July 29th. Supt. Jeken and Doughty were the rangers.
139
Fire Fiend Has Burned Itself Out (Index); Mountain Fire Seems Under Control
(Sun).
140
Daily Times-Index, July 31st.
141
Ibid. August 1st; in the Sun Dr. Baylis said the South Park Lodge windows melted.
142
Redlands Daily Facts, August 1st; among the sightseers: John and Olive Fisher,
Miss Haver, John Gill, et al.
143
Daily Times-Index, August 1st.
144
Thaddeus Lowe was an eye-witness.
145
From Max and Perry Green, who said they were responsible for the flambeaus that
kept the fire out of Grass Valley.
146
Daily Times-Index, August 2nd, 1911.
147
San Bernardino Sun, August 1st and 2nd.
148
Daily Times-Index, August 3rd.
149
Ibid.
150
Ibid.
151
Ibid. August 25, 1911.
152
Redlands Daily Facts, August 28, 1911; Baylis water-fire organization; September
12th, Tri-County skeleton plan.
153
Ibid.
154
Ibid. August 14.
155
Daily Times-Index, August 27, 1911.
156
Ibid.
157
Redlands Daily Facts, August 14th.
158
Ibid. August 22, 1911.
159
Redlands Daily Facts, August 14th. Daily Times-Index, August 9, 1911. John H.
Fisher and wife and W. H. Glass owned the resort in the interim.
160
Daily Times-Index, September 3, 1911.
161
Redlands Daily Facts, August 13, 19, September 1, 1911.
162
Ibid. September 13, 1911.
163
Daily Times-Index, August 30th.
164
Miscellaneous Records U59, U76.
165
Sun, October 13, 1912. At a cost of $150,000. January 21, 1912, tells Hesperia's
alarm at Appleton deed.
166
Lawsuit, January 4, 1912. They laid the pipe by night. They had, of course, long
ago bought the water right from the former owner of the land.
PART 4, CHAPTER 4
"ROAD BLOCK"
San Bernardino Sun, February 2, 1912.
2
Ibid. May 5, 1912
3
Ibid. March 2, 1912. Part of it twelve miles westward, some Oro Grande; 1000 in
Apple Valley.
4
Ibid. March 10, 1912.
5
Ibid. April 12, 1912.
6
"Companion company" may not be the word; in six months Hot Springs Company
will be suing Cold Springs Company for assumption of the name. The Sun of July 16th
has first mention.
7
Deed 519-30. August 6, 1912.
8
San Bernardino Daily Sun, August 1st.
9
San Bernardino Sun, July 15, 1912.
10
Ibid. August 3rd.
11
Evening Index, August 10, 1912.
12
Suvurkrup sons remembered that the "hog venture" lasted a little over a year. They
had to haul feed to them.
13
San Bernardino Sun, August 20-August 29th.
14
Ibid. September 10th.
15
Ibid. July 21st; Evening Index, August 16th.
16
Testimony of Mrs. E. P. Crafts. June 3, 1913. Redlands Daily Facts.
17
San Bernardino Sun, July 8, 1912.
18
Ibid. August 22, 1912.
19
Ibid. September 27th.
20
Ibid. September 10th.
21
San Bernardino Sun, March 2, 1912. He was hauling hay from Victorville.
22
As he had predicted when he bought it.
23
Miscellaneous Records U278. January 13, 1912.
24
San Bernardino Sun, August 28, 1912.
25
Redlands Daily Facts, April 24, 1913.
26
Ibid. November 5, 1912.
27
San Bernardino Sun, October 18th.
28
Redlands Daily Facts, February 12, April 24, 1913.
29
Ibid. December 21, 1912.
30
Ibid. November 5th.
31
Ibid. January 1, 1913: "Founding of a Desert Community," Martha A. Chickering,
Historical Society Quarterly, June 1948.
32
San Bernardino Sun, September 14, 1912.
33
Perry Green memory.
34
Evening Index, August 27th W. S. column.
35
San Bernardino Sun, October 9, 1912.
36
Redlands Daily Facts, November 13, 1912.
37
Ibid. November 5th.
38
San Bernardino Daily Sun, October 8, 1912.
39
Redlands Daily Facts, January 13, 1913.
40
Ibid. May 31, 1913. When written up in Outlook Magazine.
41
San Bernardino Sun, December 10, 1912.
PART 4, CHAPTER 5
"DECADE OF WAITING"
(Pages 293 through 308)
San Bernardino Sun, January 9, 1913.
2
Ibid.
3
Redlands Daily Facts, March 4, 1913.
4
San Bernardino Sun, January 31, 1913; Deed 523-111. March 13, 1913, from John
and Olive Fisher to the Pine Knot Company @ $10: NE 1/4 of NE 1/4 of Section 19 T2N
R1E except eight parcels (two of them split) sold to several builders.
5
Redlands Daily Facts, April 22, 1913.
6
Times-Index, January 27, 28, 29, 1913.
7
Redlands Daily Facts, April 10th.
8
Ibid. April 14th, 1913.
9
Ibid. April 19, 1913.
10
Ibid. May 12, 1913.
11
Redlands Daily Facts, April 29, 1913; San Bernardino Sun, July 3, 1913. Shirley
Bright survey.
12
History in the Making, Burr Belden. Sun Telegram, November 29, 1953.
13
Ibid.
14
Redlands Daily Facts, June 24, 1913.
15
Ibid. June 17th.
16
Ibid. June 26, 1913.
17
Deed 528-23. April 8, 1913. @ $13,000: 680 acres. See note 37 - Low Gear
Forward.
18
Redlands Daily Facts, April 23, 1913.
19
Ibid. June 21, 1913.
20
History in the Making, Burr Belden. Sun Telegram, November 29, 1953.
21
Redlands Daily Facts, July 10, 1913.
22
It was quoted both ways in the news, March 4th. No further mention appeared in the
papers all summer. August 3 Sun tells of Mojave ranchers petition to the government.
23
San Bernardino Sun, August 3, 1913.
24
Daily Times-Index, August 22, 1913.
25
Report of Perry Green, resident engineer.
26
San Bernardino Sun, August 10, 1913.
27
Report of Perry Green, resident engineer.
28
San Bernardino Sun, August 10, 1913.
29
History in the Making, Burr Belden. Sun Telegram, November 19, 1961. An article
in Desert Magazine, March, 1962, dates it as in June 1913.
30
Deed 538-290. August 6, 1913.
31
Redlands Daily Facts, August 1, 1913.
32
Ibid. April 22, 1913.
33
Ibid. August 19, 1913.
34
Ibid. September 19, 1913.
35
Ibid. November 22, 1913.
36
Interview with Lee Kemp 1969.
37
Redlands Daily Facts, December 18, 1913.
38
Ibid. November 11; December 17, 1913.
39
Redlands Daily Facts, January 8, 1914: paper by Judge Hutton.
40
Ibid.
41
Ibid. March 14, 1914; San Bernardino Sun of same date.
42
Only One Redlands, Lawrence Emerson Nelson, Ph.D. (Redlands 1963) p. 220.
"Call of the North" from Stewart Edward White's Conjuror's House was copyrighted
August 14, 1914; shown in San Bernardino, September 25th.
43
Redlands Daily Facts, March 24, 1914; there was rivalry as to which car drove
closest to Pine Knot.
44
Redlands Daily Facts, March 27, 1914.
45
Deeds specifying no Negroes, Indians or Chinese, and no liquor sales ranged from
November to February. Twenty owners paid 1915 taxes.
46
San Bernardino Sun, August 14, 1914.
47
3484 acres @ $8.80 per acre. Redlands Daily Facts, March 27, 1914. Deed 548-20.
48
San Bernardino Sun, April 12, 1914.
49
Ibid. March 11, 1914.
50
Ibid. July 18, 1914.
51
Witness John Dexter, February 14th, celebrating his 22nd birthday there.
52
San Bernardino Sun, W. S. column: August 4, 1914. Information from "Goldie"
Nichols who in a few years heired the job and held it for forty years.
53
Ibid. March 3rd, March 8th.
54
San Bernardino Sun, July 11, 1914. Covered also in May "Touring Topics."
55
Ibid. August 30th.
56
Ibid. September 26th.
57
Several times William Stephen has spoken hotly about people taking: "this federal
outing ground -- this national park." March 15th Sun spoke of Wixom's and Thompson's
homesteads. March 31st the staking of Strawberry Flat Summer Home Tract began.
58
He says. By mid-July he was building, per W. S. column in the Sun.
59
San Bernardino Sun, September 11th.
60
Ibid. August 4th.
61
Ibid. July 19th.
62
Ibid. September 26th.
63
San Bernardino Sun, July 1, 1914.
64
Ibid. August 15, 1914.
65
Ibid. July 12th. W. S. column.
66
Ibid. August 20th.
67
Would that I knew which verses! Delivered September 15, 1914.
68
San Bernardino Sun, December 21, 1914.
69
Ibid.
70
Ibid.
71
San Bernardino Sun, January 5, 1915. W. S. column.
72
Ibid. February 6, 1915.
73
Ibid.
74
Ibid. April 13, 1915.
75
Ibid. January 5, 1915.
76
San Bernardino Sun, February 24, 1915; re. cats Redlands Daily Facts, May 5, 1915.
The story is Frank Mooney's. Interview, 1960.
77
San Bernardino Sun, March 25, 1915.
78
Ibid. March 31st.
79
San Bernardino Sun, January 3, 1915; open April 18, 1915.
80
Ibid. March 14, 1915.
81
Ibid. March 27, 1915.
82
Ibid. May 6th.
83
Ibid. May 7th.
84
Redlands Daily Facts, May 5, 1915.
85
San Bernardino Sun, May 12th.
86
See San Bernardino Sun, January 9, 1916.
87
San Bernardino Daily Sun, May 8th.
88
Redlands Daily Facts, May 14th.
89
Ibid. June 8th.
90
Ibid. June 12, 1915.
91
Ibid. May 19th.
92
Ibid. July 1st - staged in five at a time.
93
Ibid. May 19th.
94
Ibid. May 26th, 1915; June 26th, when the road was open weekends.
95
San Bernardino Sun, June 9th.
96
Redlands Daily Facts, June 18th.
97
San Bernardino Sun, July 4, 1915.
98
Redlands Daily Facts, June 28th.
99
April 18, 1915, had been the first use of the name. April 25th Dr. Baileys used it in a
Pincers ad for his $15 a week cabins, for his hotel rooms with board $3 to $4 a day.
100
San Bernardino Sun, May 30th, 1915.
101
Ibid. June 18, 1915; W. S. column.
102
Ibid. May 30th.
103
104
Ibid. June 1st.
Ibid. June 10th.
105
Ibid. June 10th; Redlands Daily Facts, July 10th. To open August 1st.
106
San Bernardino Sun, July 20th, 1915.
107
Ibid.
108
Ibid. June 26th; endorsed July 11th.
109
Tax Assessor's rolls 1915.
110
Ibid.
111
San Bernardino Sun, August 18, 1914; Tax Rolls 1915. As for mines: a new index
of locators and proof of labor is made every two years.
112
Tax Assessor's rolls 1915.
113
Ibid.
114
Ibid.
115
San Bernardino Sun, August 18, 1914; Tax Rolls 1915. As for mines: a new index
of locators and proof of labor is made every two years.
116
Tax Assessor's rolls 1915.
117
Ibid.
118
Ibid.
119
Ibid.
120
Ibid.
121
Redlands Daily Facts, June 18, 1915.
122
Ibid. August 18th.
123
Ibid. September 3rd. Showed in San Bernardino January 10, 1916.
124
"Tales of the Pioneers of Big Bear Lake," B. G. Holmes. "God's Country and the
Woman" will be copyrighted April 15, 1916, shown in July of 1916. His tale of the
tourist taking shelter from the rain, lighting a fire in the false fireplace and burning up the
set would be an addition to this.
125
Redlands Daily Facts, September 18, 1915.
126
San Bernardino Sun, September 5th.
127
$8000 loss per Redlands Daily Facts, September 4, 1915.
128
San Bernardino Sun, September 7, 1915.
129
Tales of the Pioneers of Big Bear Lake, B. G. Holmes, p. 6; also San Bernardino
Sun, January 7, 1916.
130
San Bernardino Sun, January 13, 1916.
131
Ibid. January 20th.
132
Ibid. January 17th.
133
Ibid.
134
Ibid. February 23rd.
135
Ibid. February 13th to June 13th.
136
Ibid. February 13, 1916.
137
Ibid. May 2nd.
138
Ibid. January 27, 1916.
139
Ibid. February 23rd. Supervisors offered $5000 to help. Edison put in $7500 and
the work of 150 men. June 16th the Supervisors withdrew their pledge: the road would
not be up to County standards.
140
Per July 5th San Bernardino Sun. Authorized.
141
On July 6, July 16 and September 12th, Rex Goodwill spoke strongly on why and
how they deserved help on building a mountain road.
142
San Bernardino Daily Sun, June 27, 1916.
143
Ibid. July 23rd.
144
S 1/2 of NW 1/2 Section 13 T2N R4W: Deed L17.
PART 4, CHAPTER 5
"DECADE OF WAITING"
(Pages 309 through 323)
San Bernardino Sun.
2
Ibid. June 11th. J27 Water application says he is on SE 1/4 of NE 1/4 Section 30
T2N R3W. Water application made March 14, 1914. A tall redwood tree today centers
the Southern California Edison Company's Rim Forest Service Center.
3
San Bernardino Sun, March 8th, July 14th.
4
Ibid. July 6th. Under the trees east of Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church; per
daughter, Ruth Dowling Chapman.
5
Ibid. May 30th.
6
Ibid. July 17th.
7
Ibid. June 25th.
8
San Bernardino Sun, July 1, 1916.
9
Ibid. June 7, 1916.
10
Ibid. June 17th interview; for July 30th, Los Angeles Times.
11
Ibid. June 4th.
12
Ibid. July 16th.
13
Ibid. August 3rd.
14
Ibid. August 5th.
15
Ibid. May 20th.
16
They were all right at a July 17th planting. January 13, 1917, Sun told of 107,000
dumped, and the closing.
17
San Bernardino Sun, August 25th.
18
Map Book 20, page 37. Part of the SW 1/4 Section 13 and NW 1/4 Section 24,
surveyed August 1916. Henry Fisher's land, partly Bear Valley Mutual (Garstin signing).
Shows Sawmill Cove and road to Stillwater Cove (T2N R4W).
19
Book 20-39; surveyed by Isaac Ford September 1916. Property of Bear Valley
Development Company, north of the lake, west of Grout Bay.
20
book 20-25; surveyed by Isaac Ford October 1916; I.S. Ranch (SE 1/4 R1W Section
24) owned by John W. and Frank Leslie Talmadge.
21
Book 20, page 26; NE 1/2 Section 24 R1W owned by Henry Fisher. Surveyed by
Isaac Ford November 1913.
22
Book 20, page 19. Surveyed by Isaac Ford November 1916. Cline-Miller
subdivision. Ne 1/4 of SE 1/4 Section 19 2N 1E; owners: A. G. Kendall, L. C. Brand, W.
G. Hunt, Will Keller.
23
Deed 602-135. November 6, 1916.
24
Tales of the Pioneers of Big Bear Lake, B. G. Holmes, p. 1.
25
She stopped at son Frank's Strawberry cabin en route, august 14th Sun: W. S.
column.
26
San Bernardino Sun, April 3, 1917. Memory of John and Mable Dexter.
27
Ibid.
28
San Bernardino Sun, September 24, 1916.
29
San Bernardino Sun, January 3, 1917: Hearing before Supervisors.
30
Ibid.
31
Ibid.
32
Ibid. February 6th and 10th, 1917.
33
Ibid. March 11, 1917.
34
Ibid. February 10th; April 18th.
35
San Bernardino Sun, March 15, 1917.
36
Ibid. March 17th.
37
Ibid. March 19th.
38
Ibid. April 6th.
39
Mrs. Jeanette Phillips and Max Green ran the company - not so confidently without
Perry in the garage. Max Green interview.
40
Tales of the Pioneers of Big Bear Lake, B. G. Holmes, pp. 12-13.
41
Redlands Daily Facts, May 15, 1917.
42
Ibid. May 19th.
43
Tales of the Pioneers of Big Bear Lake, B. G. Holmes, p. 14. February.
44
San Bernardino Sun, January 6, 1917.
45
Redlands Daily Facts, June 20th; Herbert Clark from the Country Club catered
Bristol Cafe.
46
Tales of the Pioneers of Big Bear Lake, B. G. Holmes, pp. 17-18.
47
Redlands Daily Facts, June 25th.
48
San Bernardino Sun, June 10th.
49
Shown in 1917 Assessor's books.
50
Ibid.
51
Ibid.
52
Ibid.
53
Redlands Daily Facts, June 25th.
54
Shown in 1917 Assessor's books.
55
Redlands Daily Facts, May 29th.
56
Ibid. June 6th.
57
Ibid. June 5th.
58
Redlands Daily Facts, June 25th. Wm. H. Bristol, reporter.
59
San Bernardino Sun, June 12, 1917.
60
San Bernardino Sun, May 31, 1917. August 14th accepted by State Highway.
61
Redlands Daily Facts, June 4th.
62
San Bernardino Sun, June 6, 1917.
63
Ibid. July 9, 1917. The founder was Mrs. Orville W. Jones of Los Angeles, new
cabin builder.
64
65
Ibid. June 30, 1917.
Where is still is, living here permanently after 1932.
66
San Bernardino Sun, August 21, 1917. Only a stone's throw from where Bert
Switzer will be in 1919.
67
Ibid. June 20th.
68
Ibid. August 9th.
69
Redlands Daily Facts, August 20th.
70
Ibid. June 4th.
71
San Bernardino Sun, June 23, 1917.
72
Ibid. June 4th.
73
Ibid. June 25th; also John Dexter reference to its building from Baylis' burnt trees,
and much Elk card-playing there.
74
Ibid. June 7, 1917.
75
Ibid. June 25th.
76
April 21, 1917, the day of his son's birth. He was glad of the $25.
77
San Bernardino Sun, June 25th; September 9th.
78
Griffin sold his store to Tom Dexter when he had to go to service.
79
San Bernardino Sun, August 30, 1917.
80
Ibid. March 27, 1917.
81
Ibid. August 3rd.
82
82iid. October 22, 1917.
83
Redlands Daily Facts, September 11, 1917.
84
Ibid. October 15th.
85
Ibid.
86
Ibid. November 9, 1917.
87
Riverside Daily Press, December 5th and 11th, 1917, Annual Meeting.
88
Riverside Daily Press, December 18, 1917 and January 19, 1918.
89
Ibid. January 23, 1918.
90
San Bernardino Sun, January 7, 1918.
91
Ibid. January 23rd.
92
Riverside Daily Press, January 17, 1918.
93
Ibid. February 22nd.
94
Ibid. Spring Issues.
95
San Bernardino Sun, June 14, 1919.
96
San Bernardino Sun, July 21, 1918.
97
Ibid. July 2nd.
98
Redlands Review, July 16th. When Fisher sells his 'cabin,' August 12, 1922, it is
spoken of as a $60,000 one.
99
Ibid. July 15th, 1918.
100
Ibid. July 2nd; San Bernardino Sun, August 11th.
101
Ibid. September 22nd. Told when shown at the theatre.
102
Redlands Review, July 15th; San Bernardino Sun, August 13th.
103
San Bernardino Sun, August 25, 1918.
104
Ibid. August 30, 1918.
105
San Bernardino Sun, April 21, 1918.
106
Mohave.
107
Oxnam-Hulme deed.
108
Reference of September 1922 will say that he has run it two years at a $4 a ton
profit.
109
27th Annual Mineral Report, Walter Bradley, 1931.
110
Riverside Daily Press, December 10 and 18, 1917.
111
San Bernardino Daily Sun, August 18, 1918.
112
San Bernardino Evening Index, July 13, 1919.
113
San Bernardino Sun, October 8, 1918.
114
San Bernardino Sun, July 3, 1918.
115
Ibid. July 21st.
116
Ibid. July 24th.
117
August 6, 1918, per San Bernardino Evening Index of June 14, 1919.
118
Ibid.
119
San Bernardino Sun, July 4, 1918. There exists a legend around Lake Arrowhead
that the "stroke" was a bullet; that Parley Heap strapped on a gunbelt and went around
talking to witnesses - saying nothing would bring her back, that it would be better for all
if her death was listed as apoplexy. The truth - I know not.
120
Redlands Review, August 10, 1918.
121
San Bernardino Evening Index, May 18, 1919.
122
Learned on one of many interviews with John Dexter.
123
San Bernardino Sun, October 26, 1918.
124
San Bernardino Evening Index, April 1, June 16 and July 4th, 1919.
125
May 1919 Touring Topics had a complete history of the road written by William H.
Bristol; so did the May 18th San Bernardino Evening Index.
126
San Bernardino Evening Index, May 2, 1919.
127
Ibid. January 26, 1919.
128
Ibid. May 11, 1919.
129
Ibid. May 12 and June 28, 1919.
130
Ibid. April 26 and May 9th.
131
Ibid. June 15th.
132
Ibid. June 14, 1919.
133
San Bernardino Evening Index, June 28th, 1919.
134
Ibid. July 12, 1919.
135
Ibid. July 13, 1919.
136
Ibid. April 24th.
137
San Bernardino Evening Index, June 24, 1919.
138
Ibid. July 18th.
139
Ibid. September 4, 1919.
140
Ibid. August 20th.
141
Ibid. August 22nd.
142
Ibid. June 14th.
143
Ibid. July 10th.
144
Ibid. August 29th.
PART 4, CHAPTER 5
"DECADE OF WAITING"
(Pages 323 through 334)
Ibid. August 22, 1919.
2
Deed 657-162 @ $15,000, for the NE 1/4 of Section 27 T2N R3W.
3
Deed 644-113 is from Harry J. Pinney to Edith Paden of the SE 1/4 of SW 1/4 Section
23, and the S 1/2 of SE 1/4 Section 22 2N 3W. Harry Pinney is Joe Henck's uncle, and
will by 1922 have him in the company.
4
San Bernardino Evening Index, July 13, 1919.
5
Ibid. April 13, 1919; March 4, 1920.
6
Ibid. May 27th.
7
Ibid. May 27th.
8
Ibid. May 27th.
9
Deeds 646-141, 653-356, et al. Tales of the Pioneers of Big Bear Lake, B. G. Holmes.
10
San Bernardino Evening Index, November 25, 1919, March 31, 1920. Tales of the
Pioneers of Big Bear Lake, B. G. Holmes.
11
Ibid. November 25, 1919.
12
Ibid. August 17, 1919, picture.
13
Ibid. March 4, 1920.
14
Ibid. September 6, 1919.
15
Ibid. December 3rd. Also Beldon on recovered 18,000 on Cushenbury.
16
Ibid. September 7, 1919. Might it have been at this barbecue when the ladies cooked
beans in Talmadges copper kettle and made everybody sick? (Holmes)
17
Tales of the Pioneers of Big Bear Lake, B. G. Holmes; Belden: History in the
Making.
18
San Bernardino Sun, October 6, 1919.
19
San Bernardino Sun, October 19, 1919.
20
San Bernardino Evening Index, December 10, 1919.
21
Ibid. December 4, 1919.
22
Ibid. January 4, 1920.
23
San Bernardino Sun, October 31, 1919.
24
Redlands Review, September 19, 1918.
25
San Bernardino Sun, February 15, 1916.
26
Redlands Review, September 19, 1918.
27
San Bernardino Evening Index, August 19th.
28
Ibid. September 7th; 100 tons, i.e., 440,000 lbs. @ 2 cents or 3 cents a pound.
29
Ibid. September 23rd.
30
Ibid. September 24th.
31
Ibid. September 25th; also John Dexter, eyewitness.
32
There is no reference of Mr. Mooney's death in the press until March 1920, but
official papers show his will filed for probate in Cincinnati September 27, 1919.
33
San Bernardino Sun, October 26, 1919.
34
San Bernardino Evening Index, March 2, 1920.
35
About where the present elementary school is: memory of Tom Stocker.
36
Tales of the Pioneers of Big Bear Lake, B. G. Holmes, p. 41.
37
Pedley-Hitchcock deed: 209 acres in 31 (1920 taxes)(opened May 19th, TimesIndex). Taxes 1920, $900 and $800.
38
Tales of the Pioneers of Big Bear Lake, B. G. Holmes.
39
Ibid. May 20th-25th.
40
Ibid. June 1, 1920.
41
Ibid. July 3rd.
42
Ibid. June 5th.
43
San Bernardino Evening Index.
44
Ibid. March 24, 1920.
45
Deed 698-42. April 1, 1920.
46
San Bernardino Evening Index, March 21, 1920.
47
Deed 692-357. April 1, 1920.
48
Deed 698-36. September 20, 1920.
49
Deed 698-39 referred to E. J. Clark as one of the 27 heirs.
50
San Bernardino Evening Index, May 30, 1920.
51
Ibid. July 13, 1920.
52
San Bernardino Sun, December 15, 1920.
53
Ibid. April 10, 1921.
54
San Bernardino Evening Index, August 22, 1920. Deed 700-85 October 18, 1920,
permitted its sale.
55
According to Max Green's census.
56
Ibid.
57
Ibid.
58
Ibid.
59
Ibid.
60
Ibid.
61
San Bernardino Sun, August 8, 1920.
62
Ibid. December 4, 1920.
63
San Bernardino Sun, August 26th.
64
According to Max Green's census.
65
Ibid.
66
Ibid.
67
Information of John Dexter.
68
Ibid.
69
San Bernardino Evening Index, May 18th. Adam Patterson and Harry E. Dillon per
taxes.
70
Memories of Sara Switzer 1935.
71
Evening Index, August 1, 1920.
72
Ibid.
73
Ibid. August 22, 1920.
74
Ibid. August 15th.
75
Deed 698-45. November 1, 1920.
76
Evening Index, January 9, 1920.
77
Ibid. July 9, 1920.
78
San Bernardino Sun, September 2, 1920.
79
Ibid.
80
Evening Index, May 22, 1920.
81
Ibid. July 6th.
82
Ibid. May 22, 1920.
83
San Bernardino Sun, September 4, 1920.
84
Ibid.
85
Evening Index, August 27, 1920.
86
Ibid. August 14th.
87
San Bernardino Sun, September 4, 1920.
88
Ibid.
89
Ibid.
90
Evening Index, August 29th.
91
San Bernardino Sun, September 4, 1920.
92
Evening Index, August 29th.
93
San Bernardino Sun, December 16th.
94
Ibid. September 10th.
95
San Bernardino Daily Sun, January 11th and 12th, 1921.
96
Ibid. January 17, 1921.
97
Ibid. January 24.
98
Ibid. February 2, 1921.
99
Ibid. February 3rd.
100
Ibid. February 11th.
101
Ibid. March 25th.
102
Ibid. January 25th.
103
San Bernardino Daily Sun, January 23, 1921.
104
Tales of the Pioneers of Big Bear Lake, B. G. Holmes.
105
San Bernardino Daily Sun, February 1, 1921.
106
Ibid. January 31st.
107
Ibid. March 8, 1921.
108
Ibid. January 9th.
109
Ibid. March 25, May 19, 1921.
110
Ibid. May 19th; April 19th spoke of other companies desiring routes.
111
Ibid. May 11th, June 8th.
112
Ibid. July 1, 1921.
113
Ibid. April 1, 1921.
114
Attest of Ernest Houplin who - as a high school boy - worked there during the
summers of 1921 and 1922.
115
San Bernardino Daily Sun, April 17th, May 1st; the line was completed July 24th;
the mill was "electrified" August 25th.
116
San Bernardino Daily Sun, May 16, 1921.
117
Ibid. May 10th.
118
Ibid. June 10th.
119
Ibid. July 10th, June 9th respectively.
120
Ibid. August 21st.
121
Ibid. June 19th.
122
Ibid.
123
Ibid. July 5th.
124
Ibid. July 23rd.
125
Ibid. August 20th re. August 17th fire.
126
Ibid. Mentioned May 24th "several weeks ago."
127
Ibid. July 1 and 2.
128
Ibid. July 9th.
129
Marriage March 30th, 1921; other information: John Dexter.
130
San Bernardino Daily Sun, July 17th, August 7th.
131
Ibid. June 1, 1921.
132
Ibid. March 19th.
133
Ibid. July 9th, August 10th.
134
Ibid. July 9th.
135
Ibid. July 4th.
136
Ibid. May 19th.
137
Ibid. August 21, 1921.
138
Ibid. August 28th.
139
Ibid.
140
Ibid. October 11, 1921.
141
Ibid. October 18th.
142
Ibid. August 29th.
143
Ibid. October 2, 1921.
144
Ibid. October 18th.
145
November issue of the Sun; speech by A. E. Warmington, May 2, 1922.
146
San Bernardino Daily Sun, October 11, 1921.
147
Ibid. April 12, 1921 @ $35,000.
148
Ibid. September 20th.
149
Ibid. November 3, 1921.
150
Ibid. August 7, 1921. Cf. Tales of the Pioneers of Big Bear Lake, B. G. Holmes,
pp. 40-41.
151
San Bernardino Daily Sun, December 21, 1921.
PART 5, CHAPTER 1
"DECADE OF DIRECTION"
Note - The author did not provide footnotes for this chapter.