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ELLIOTT. LITH. 421 MONT. ST.
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(ISTORY
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OUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
WITH
ILLUSTRATIONS,
DESCRIPTIVE OF ITS
SCENERY, FARMS, RESIDENCES, PUBLIC BUILDINGS,
Factories, Hotels, Business Houses, Schools, Churches, and Mines,
FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS,
WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
WALLACE W. ELLIOTT & CO, PUBLISHERS,
609 Montgomery Street. San Francisco. Cal. 1883.
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INTRODUCTORY.
WORDS OF EXPLANATION.
WE do not expect to present our readers with accounts of strange and novel events. We are dealing with the facts of history. These are made up from the statements and records of others. There can be no originality in the work of the hi -- torian. Hence our task was to endeavor to gather together all the chief historical facts relative to the county, and arrange them for handy reference for use of residents, as well as furnish valuable information to the traveler, the tourist, or the emi- grant who is seeking a location.
This work contains a history of the county, beginning on page 81, and embraced under the following general divisions, which are subdivided, as shown in the table of contents :--
1. First Settlements in the County Limits.
2. Indian Difficulties, Wars, Treaties, and Reservations.
3. County Prior to its Organization.
4. Organization of the County Government.
5. Geographical Features of the County.
6. Geological Formations and Mountains.
7. Rivers, Lakes, and Water Supply.
8. Irrigation and its Results.
9. Soil and its Many Productions.
10. Timber, Resourees, and Mills.
11. General Resources and Industries of the County.
12. Rapid Increase in Population and Wealth.
13. Botany of the County.
14. Grand and Sublime Scenery of the Sierra.
15. Descriptions of Towns and Villages.
16. Climate and its Many Advantages to Residents.
17. Lives of Pioneer Settlers of this Region.
18. Mineral Resources and Mines.
19. Secret Societies, Churches and other Organizations.
20. Sketches of Prominent Citizens of the County.
21. Public and Private Schools and their Progress.
22. List of County Officers and Election Returns.
The alphabetical index will be found an invaluable guide, and refers to more than 400 subdivisions of the above subjects.
We have added to the work a State History, which has been kept separate from the local history. It occupies the first eighty pages, and will be found an accurate review of the chief events of interest occurring in the State, as well as their connection with local matters difficult to segregate.
The book is fully illustrated, as may be seen at a glance, with views of many of the principal residences, ranches, or- chards, public buildings, and business houses. Portraits of many of the pioneers appear, as well as of county officers and prominent citizens. We have also inserted some 40 wood cn-
gravings and lithographs of scenes in the mountains, such as Tulare Lake, Artesian wells, etc.
In preparing this work every source of information has been sought to render it a complete and authentic history-such as the files of newspapers and magazines, all books and publi- cations that could be obtained relating to the subject, old letters and diaries, scrap-books, and interviews with all who could or would relate the incidents of the past, and the facts of the present-all has been gleaned that seemed possible, and from these, and with such aid as others have kindly given, we have compiled and written the history.
Our thanks are due to all the county officials who have aided us in every way in securing information from public documents.
The Delta, Times, and Register gave us free use of articles from their journals. The Times loaned us a file of that paper for a series of years, which we found invaluable.
The Californian and Gazette gave us much valuable infor- mation, and extensive use was made of articles from the Culi- fornian. So far as possible, we have given credit for the arti- cles used.
It has been the policy of men in all ages to preserve by tra- dition, inscription, monument, or manuseript, the memory of in- dividuals and events associated with the settlement of a State or country. We have therefore given considerable space to the biographical department, which contains very much of interest. A few years from now it will be oftenest perused, for peo- ple delight to read of the pioneers of a country and of their trials. Each sketch contains some incidents of pioneer life, or some facts relative to the county, its soil, mode of cultivation, variety of crops, manner of harvesting, average production of different localities, and similar information not easily separated from the personal narrative, but can be found by the sub-head- ings.
Many old settlers, whose years of honorable toil have trans- formed the wild lands into harvest-laden fields, have placed us under obligations for historical and biographical incidents connected with the early history of the county.
We expect criticism. All that the publishers ask is that it be done in charity, after considering all the obstacles and hin- drances involved in a work of this magnitude. Few persons without actual experience can comprehend the care and pains necessary to complete a book of this description.
Our thanks are due to the citizens of the county for the cor- dial good feeling manifested toward our enterprise, having re- ceived from them that aid and support which can only be ex- pected among prosperous and intelligent people.
THE PUBLISHERS.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
INDEX TO STATE HISTORY.
HISTORY.
Early Colonization Party Evacuation of Fort Ross.
30 Governors of California.
72 | Spanish Ox-cart. 33
American Flag Raised.
55
First Lumber Mill.
36 Hunters and Trappers of 1832. 39 San Francisco and Bay
Active Life of Pioneers.
52
First Grindstoues Made
50 Hudson Bay Company
Alcaldes of Early Times. 60, 97 First Grist-mills
34 Independence Declared
40 Sale of the Missions
31
Arrest of Citizens.
40 First Pioneer Squatter
34 Industries of Early Times
31 San Joaquin Valley .31.
Alcalde Colton Visits the Mines
First Ferry Boat ..
Altitude of Prominent Points
,4 First Schooner Built in California.
Ide's Proclamation.
57
51
First Historian of California.
39 Making the Bear Flag.
California Alps.
First Orchard
34 Miners' Laws.
Capture of Settlers
41 First Windmill.
35 Monterey Bay
Census of the State.
SO First Taunery. . 35 Missions Established.
25 Table of California Missions.
Coast Survey
20 First Protestant Worship.
50
Object of the Missions. 24 Population of Missions 20
Capture of Monterey.
58 First American Governor
60 Organization of the State. 69
66 Mission Indians
Dairying in Old Times
32 First Mission Fouuded.
23 Ownership of Land. 75 Missions in 1834 and 1842. 30
Description of Natives.
Discovery of Gold at Coloma.
63 First Discovery of Gold
First State Constitution. 69 Pioneer Merchants
SS
66 Altitude of Mountains. 74
35 Threshing Scene of Early Times. 3º
Educational Advantages.
77 First California Legislature 69 Review of the Missions.
29 Tragic Fate of Donner Party 62
Emigrant> Arrive. 66 Grist-mills Coustructed 34 Settlers Ordered to Leave California. 40 Treaty of Peace Signed 59
Early Description of California. 44 Golden Era Dawns.
67 | Second Exploring Expedition 21 Truckee, the Indiau Guide. 49
INDEX TO TULARE COUNTY HISTORY.
HISTORY.
Fremont Visits Valley.
82 | Indians, Number of.
96 | Rare Collectiou . 153
Fremont Enters the Pass.
S4
Indian Reservation.
172
Reasons for Agreeable Climate 143
Fremont Cavalcade.
S5
Indians of Kern River
95 Railroads of Tulare County. 193
Amount and Kind of Land.
Few Indians
95 Kaweah River.
107 Scenery of Tulare. 115
Acts of First Officers.
91 Foot Hill Lands. Fight over Court House
103 Kern River Gold Excitement.
SS Stages of Old Times 193
Artesian Boom Started ..
111
Forest and Timber Trees. .
137
King's River Indians. .
95 Savage, James D. S9
Artesian Wells Described. .
112
Farmersville and Surroundings.
175 Kern River and Lakes. .105, 97 Soil and Productions. 96
Artesiau Wells of Tulare County
113 Frazier Post office. .
175 King's River Described.
106 Size of Tulare County. 104
Advantages of Artesian Wells.
First Americans in Valley SI Kern River Canon.
127 Sierra Nevadas 115.
144
Amount of Water Available.
S1 Kaweah Buttes.
131 Soda Springs 172, 175
= County Seat
101 Location of Tulare County
104 Schools of Tulare County 197
Advantages of Railroads.
194
Saw-mill
156
Lack of Irrigation
Biographical Notices.
Botany of the Couuty.
137 Permaneut Settlers
156 Tulare Lake 150
194
Beautiful Valley
119
Settlers in Tulare County
170 Tule River. . .106,
110
Big Trees of Tulare. 199 156
ST Lakeside Described
174 Tulare and Kern Valley. 97
Beautiful Lakes.
135
Court House and Jail.
101
Mountains of Tulare.
55
Beautiful Flowers
130 Schools of Tulare
85
Monarch Lakes ..
121 Trip to Mount Whitney.
134
Birds of Tulare.
Great Variety of Soils.
100 Mountain Lumber Flume.
123 Temperature Table. . .145, 150
Bank of Visalia.
Grand Scenery Described.
115 Mount Whitney.
129 Timber Supply. 156
Canals of Mussel Slough
108 Grand Canons of Sierra,
135 Mines of Tulare County.
160 Tulare City Described.
164
102 Grangeville and Surroundings.
174 Mussel Slough Troubles.
195 . Tulare Register.
165
141 Goshen Station
174 Manzanita Post-office
175 Times of Visalia.
168
Chief Crops Raised ..
99 Hanford Described.
169 Noted Early Settlers
S9 Terrapins of Tulare Lake.
157
Court House Bonds Issued.
103
Height of Mountains,
135 Names of Irrigating Cauals.
108
Valuation of Property.
162
Cost of Artesian Wells.
High-water Periods
106 Natural Bridges.
121 Visalia Twenty Years Ago
163
Climate of the County 143 Hog Wallow Land
131 Valley in Native State. .
S6
Cross Creek Station
174 Hemitite Basin
Native Fruits.
141 Valley of Tulare and Kern 97
Camp Badger.
175 Hot Springs.
172
Newspapers of Tulare City.
165 Visit to Big Trees 1 . 2+2
Description of Villages
165 How Lumber is Marketed.
157 Newspapers of Visalia
168 Visit to Paradise Valley.
126
Dedication of Court House
103 Heat and Color of Sun ..
133
101
Visalia Described .. 167
Description of Principal Ranches.
105 Hunters of Tulare Lake.
SI
194 Plano and Surroundings
171 Votes at Election of ISS2. 192
Delta, Visalia Dillon's Mills.
168 175
Irrigation in Tulare.
107 Principal Crops Raised.
99 Wales' Trip to Mount Whitney. 134
Effect of Hot Valleys. Early Times and Troubles
101
Islands of Tulare Lake ...
155 Progress of the County
101 Wright's Trip on Tulare Lake. 150
Effects of Irrigation
109 Irrigation from Kaweah River
110 Paradise Valley.
123 Wild Animals. 155
174 Waste of Timber. 156
Electrical Action of Wind.
147 Indiaus of Tulare ..
S3 Rainy Season. .
14S Water Works of Hanford 16S
Economical Botany.
140 Indian Race.
91 Rich and Productive Soil.
99 Woodville .. 174
Effects of North Winds.
147 Indians of King's River
95 Results of Climate. .
99 Water Witch Schooner. 153
Election Returns. . 192 Indian Sweat-house.
92 Rain-fall Table. . .145, 148 Water Supply .. S6
92 | Roads Coustructed. 159 Yokohil River and Post-office. 175
First Impression of Valley
190 |Indiau Character.
Organization of Tulare County Oak Forests.
137 Visalia Railroad. . 193
Diagram of Artesian Well
Height of Various Places.
Diagram of Rain-fall.
S7 Pacific Hotel.
165 Wild Horses. S3
Inducements to Settlers
97 Progress of Tulare County.
162 Washington Grove. 119
147
Irrigation from Tule River.
110 Pioneer of 1837.
SS Wright's Description of Valley 128
Explorations of Tulare Lake
153 Influence of Trade Winds.
147 Porterville and Surroundings
IOS
Berries, Roots, etc
142 Great Interior Basin.
155 16S
Court House Erected. Culture of Fruit Trees Climate of Tulare.
99 Greenback and Vicinity
175 Natural Water Reservoirs
146 Tipton and Surroundings 174
114
9S
Naming the Mountains
108 Settlers' Grand League 193
66 Quartz-mill .
160 Living Glaciers
120 Supervisor Districts. 19]
Animal Life of Sierras. 125 165
Alliance Messenger.
Artesian Well
11] Lakes of Tulare County.
151 Southern Pacific Railroad 193
Alkali Soils.
98
100 King's River Named.
S3 Scene of Beauty. S5
23 First Indian Baptism. 28
Pioneers of California. 46, 48, 49, 52, 62 31 66 . Plow of Early Settlers.
= Disposition of Missious. 32
66 Agricultural Products. 75
Description and Decline of the Missions 26 Donner Party.
60 First School Teachers in the State. . 77 Russians near Fort Ross
55 66
Strange Dream. Sunday in San Francisco State House, Sau José.
Building Mission Churches. 27 First Campers on Tulare Lake. .
39 Laws for the Colonies. 27
Sutter's Fort Located. 16
Black huru as Judge.
36 Grand Rush for the Gold Mines 66
Strange Meeting on the Merced. 37 25
Artesian Belt .. 111 104
113 114
Huuters Tulare Lake.
S7 Lemoore Village.
Ferry on King's River. .
198 Mussel Slough Irrigation.
124 Trough of the Valley .. Table Showing Acres Cultivated 10
128
112 14S Immense Territory
Lumber Business
23
39 Sonoma Mission
38 Immeuse Bauds of Cattle 25 Specimen Proclamation San Joaquin Ranch 13
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
INDEX TO TULARE COUNTY HISTORY CONTINUED.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
Sanders, A. H.
Ayers, A. S.
44
Shore, J. II ..
28
Giddings, E. Lemoore 177
Artesian Well.
Scoggins, A. J. . .
52
Gilroy, L. .
Visalia 177
Altimont.
190
Simon, Jacob & Co
24
Gray, H. P.
Lemoore 186
Alpine Camp.
114
Silver Spray Falls.
Alcalde Colton and the Miner. 67
121
Gibbous, Deming. . Plano 173
Cotton, A. T ..
Tulare Library Association
164
Big Tree.
133
Hyde, J. D
. Visalia 104
Court House. Frontispiece
Thomson, William
SS
Beautiful Cascades
124
Jordan, John F.
Visalia 176
Church at Plano
SS
Tome, Samuel.
104
Felling Big Tree ..
122
Johnson, Seymour.
.. Tulare City 164
Davidson, J. A
60
Thyarks, George
Grand Scenery
115 Jefferds, F. G
Farmersville Is4
Denny, J. E.
S2
Tulare Lake.
80
frist-mills of Early Settlers
35
Key, Brooks. Tulare City 165
Dusy, F. ..
140
Tehipitee Valley.
Horned Toad
11; Loyd, J. W
Plano ISS
Edwards, E. J.
164
Wilson, O. L ..
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