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CHAPTER LV
THE YEAR 1874 SAW THE END OF PIONEER MILLERTON. EVERYTHING WAS MOVED OR CARTED OFF TO FRESNO. OLD COUNTY SEAT IS LEFT DESERTED. BIDS INVITED FOR A NEW COURTHOUSE. BIG DEFALCATION DISCOVERED IN THE TREASURY. NOT A VACANT HOUSE IS REPORTED IN TOWN. LOTS ARE SELLING FAST. IN- CREASE IN POPULATION AND WEALTH OF COUNTY. ANTI- CHINESE AGITATION ACUTE. FIRST BRICK BUILDING ERECTED. COURTHOUSE CORNERSTONE LAYING. FIRST BANK IN COUNTY OPENED.
The year 1874 witnessed the end of Millerton. The last arguments on county seat removal were made in February. The decision to remove the seat was made at the election in March. The legal change was authorized by legislature for October 1. Fresno boomed, town lots sold briskly and busi- ness and residence locators were numerous. The exodus from Millerton be- gan in August, was at its height in September and was ended in October, with none remaining save the prisoners in jail. Millerton was a deserted vil- lage. Its obituary was on the birthday anniversary of the state, in the fol- lowing words:
September 9, '74 The glories of Millerton have departed and in a few more days it will live only in name. One by one the buildings are being torn down and moved to Fresno. Last week Faymonville's and Dr. Leach's offices were torn down and Judge Sayle's residence and office is following suit. Dixon's residence will soon go the way of the rest. Henry's blacksmith shop, stable and portions of his old hotel are already here, and who knows where the end will be? Over two years ago Otto Froelich led the van by tearing down his store, and last spring the Expositor office followed suit, and during the last month the great exodus commenced. The last harvest of the town is being gathered this week and the next, and but few husband- men are left to gather the crop. The grand jury, which met this week Mon- day, and the trial jury, which gives the hospitalities of the town trial next week, will have evidently to rustle to secure accommodations as only one hotel is left to minister to their wants. Farewell, poor Millerton!
September 16, 1874-Freighter Sam Brown is arriving in town every day or two with the remains of poor Millerton. He says that he has made arrangements to remove the county offices and will soon have the county treasury safely located here. Alas! Poor Yorick!
Saturday, October 4, 1874 The patients in the county hospital were transferred by Dr. Lewis Leach in Fleming's stages from Millerton to Fres- no. The day was cool and pleasant. They reached the county seat at five o'clock. The county physician with his family arrived at about the same time, finishing the exodus of county officials from the late county seat. The last business of importance transacted in the now deserted old courthouse was by the Ne Plus Ultra Copper Mining Company at noon in the district courtroom, thirty-three out of the thirty-six shareholders attending, with H. C. Daulton presiding. Resolution was adopted transferring business headquarters to Fresno and the old officers were reelected. The mine is now
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paying a small dividend and last month shipped 130 tons of ore to San Fran- cisco. "Thus was completed the last transfer to Fresno of the last of the organizations having their headquarters and office at Millerton. After the company had adjourned, they reassembled at the 'Salon de Garlande' near the postoffice where awaited them a cup of 'the nectar that Jupiter sips.'" All the attachments of the county seat are now in Fresno, excepting the jail birds and they remained at Millerton for the present with Charles J. Garland, the postmaster and. Courthouse Exchange saloonkeeper, as their guard. His was the last running advertisement of any thing left at deserted Millerton.
-1874-
January 11-Religious services held at school room by H. H. Brooks, an Episcopalian missionary. House well filled, though it was chilly and rain threatened. Sabbath school organized with A. C. Nixon superintendent, John Fuller secretary and Otto Froelich treasurer and librarian. . . . John Fuller of Centerville opens butcher shop. . . . William Helm received 6,000 almond trees to plant on his ranch, six miles north of town. ... Levy & Brother from San Francisco open merchandise store.
January 25-Trinity Mission of Fresno as a branch of the Diocese of California, Right Rev. William Ingram Kip, Bishop, organized and H. H. Brooks invited to become pastor. ... First lithographic map of the county published.
February 4-W. W. Hill, county treasurer, died at Fort Miller on the third. Was treasurer since 1867. .. . L. Farrar proposes to build at Fresno a two-story building, upper story to be used as lodge and public hall and lower as a saloon. This was Magnolia Hall on Front Street. . .. Firewood commands a price of twelve dollars per cord in town.
February 10-County seat removal petition presented and granted on the 12th, with election set for March 23d. . . . Ira McCray was on the 14th at Millerton sold out by the sheriff on execution and Jesse Morrow was the purchaser ; Oak Hotel, lot and stable $250, blacksmith shop fifty dollars, Joe Royal storehouse fifteen dollars, Negro Jane house and lot thirteen dollars.
February 25-Discussions and meetings on county seat locations and advertised offers of sites begin. Fresno announces :
"To the Voters of Fresno County
"Notice is hereby given that WE the citizens of FRESNO CITY will run this place for the County Seat at the Election March 23rd. Ample ground will be donated for all Public Buildings.
"CITIZENS OF FRESNO CITY."
March 11-First lawyer to locate in Fresno City is A. C. Bradford.
March 23-Fresno carries the election and "now we can have telegraphic and railroad communication with the world at large and can enjoy some of the comforts of civilization." . Tariff on wool from Fresno to San Fran- cisco reduced from $140 to $100 a carload ; rates on cattle and sheep reduced to fifty-four dollars and forty-six dollars.
April 1-Since the election, the town has been "extremely lively." All appear anxious to secure as many lots as possible. . .. One hundred were sold in one day.
April 15-Last number of the Expositor (No. 52, Volume 4) published in Millerton. ... Gov. Newton Booth, March 30, approves county seat re- moval bill, location change October 1, 1874; or before if necessary and advisable. . . . Hotels so crowded that when sleeping quarters are desired application must be made a day in advance. "Whiskey flows rapidly and steadily and 'drunks' are plentiful. In two days last week a square half dozen fights and 'knock downs' occurred and those were dull days." . .. Lumber is worth thirty-five dollars to fifty dollars per M. This makes building costly.
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April 22-First issue of the Expositor at Fresno. ... Supervisors accept the plans of A. A. Bennett, state architect, for a courthouse and advertise for bids. The plans are the same as for the Merced courthouse which was let for $55,970.
April 29-Deed presented to county for four blocks of land for courthouse grounds and accepted. ... Supervisors declare that there is a deficit in the sum of $56,313.20 in the accounts of \V. W. Hill as county treasurer. . . . April 26 Sheriff Leroy Dennis died at Millerton from bronchitis and consump- tion, leaving sick wife and five children destitute. . . . On the same day the supervisors located the courthouse site on Mariposa Street, where the alley through blocks 104 and 105 intersects it, "the ground at this point being ele- vated and affording a commanding view of the entire town." There is not a vacant building in the town and they would all be occupied "if there were as many more as there is. The most ordinary shanty brings from eight to twelve dollars a month rent."
May 6-Anton Joseph Maassen announces the International Hotel fronting the railroad depot "with the coolest and best place to keep the beer well." This was the three story basement cellar, the lower of which was forty-eight feet under the surface "and as cool as an ice house" for beer drinking patrons. . . . The August Weihe farm, four miles east from town, and of which J. D. Forthkamp was the superintendent, was one of the show places of the day. . .. Kutner & Goldstein will erect 60x100 warehouse for wool and grain on the reservation. . . . Movement on foot to organize a Ma- sonic lodge, with first meeting at Farrar's hall on the afternoon of May 22.
Mav 20-A. W. Burrell builder of the courthouse asks for bids for 400 cords of wood suitable for burning brick for the building. His bid was $56,370.
May 27-Agent H. B. Underhill was besieged on his visit by applicants for lots. ... S. W. Henry of Millerton proposes to build blacksmith shop, stable and hotel at J and Tulare, so also near there a blacksmith shop bv one Conner from Knight's Ferry. .... About 10.000 sheep were sheared this sea- son and the wool shipped from Watson's Ferry bv steamer to San Francisco.
June 3-A. J. Maassen is out also for 400 cords of wood for burning brick for proposed building. . .. Opening of Magnolia Hall with ball on the 12th. It can accommodate ten sets of dancers. . . . W. W. Phillips is about to build a dwelling house on J between Fresno and Mariposa.
June 10-A. C. Bradford and E. C. Winchell constitute the first law part- nership. . . Meeting held June 5 to consider town incorporation. Warren Spencer of the Magnolia Saloon chairman and A. Y. Betts secretary. Russell Fleming. M. A. Schultz and Dr. H. C. Coley named to canvass the town. . Otto Froelich retiring from business sells out to Elias Jacobs & Co. of Visalia, H. D. Silverman from the branch at Centerville to be in charge. Froelich was at Mariposa and H. ... Chinatown is building up. ... Western Union about to open telegraph office.
June 17-Townsite Agent Underhill reports that every lot in Blocks sixty-one and sixty-two, seventy-one and seventy-two, eighty-three and eighty-four has been sold, in adjoining blocks more than half and others in other portions of the town. . . . . Woodward and Turton of Sacramento, brick work contractors on the Merced and Fresno courthouses are burning the locally needed brick.
July 1-Sixty thousand brick have been moulded for the courthouse kiln. Chinese are employed in running the mud mills in the brick moulding. . . . Wheat freight rate reduced to five dollars a ton or fifty dollars a carload. . . Maassen was moulding 7,000 brick a day and in a month expected to have 100,000 on the market. .. . Otto Froelich and J. W. Ferguson elected school trustees vice R. H. Fleming and J. W.'Williams, terms expired.
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July 4 The national holiday was ushered in with anvil salute, fired again at noon and at sundown. A short parade was marshaled by Thomas Pryce and at the freight room of the depot the exercises were held with the aid of the Lewis Bros.' troupe that was in town and on the Saturday and Mon- day before showed thrice at the depot and at night at Maassen's Hall. Harry S. Dixon was the president of the day. Joseph Meyers the singer, J. W. Fer- guson the reader of the Declaration. Mrs. J. L. Smith read Drake's Address to the Flag, E. C. Winchell made the four-column published oration and tableaus were presented by little girls and arranged by the show people. In the afternoon the Calithumpians gave mock parade and exercises at the depot. At night seventy couples danced at Magnolia hall and "one of the best sup- pers ever spread before the public of Fresno," prepared by Mrs. Lord, was served to the dancers at Velguth's new building on I Street. As with every public function in Fresno, as if there should have been riot or uprising, the sententious observation was that "throughout the day and the evening every- body demeaned themselves well and not a single harsh word was passed to mar the harmony and good feeling." This was the sublime height of descrip- tive reporting that the Expositor could ever attain ..... W. J. Lawrenson having moved from Millerton bought Larquier's Occident, changed the name to the Exchange and was to make such improvements as to make it "at once one of the most commodious and magnificent places of resort in the interior." It is laughable to recall these superlative descriptives in relation to the early structures in Fresno, with not yet a brick building standing. . .. School children in the district eighty-six; number that had attended school, thirty- nine. . .. The only piece of fire apparatus in town was a Babcock fire ex- tinguisher kept at Jacob & Co.'s store and of which Charles W. De Long was the carrier and chief engineer.
July 15-The following notice is given publicity :
NOTICE
FROM AND AFTER THIS DATE My Beer Cellar will be closed at nine o'clock P. M. At that hour the Saloon opens in the hall above. Persons visiting the Cellar can either go in by the back stairs or go down by the Elevator.
A. J. MAASSEN.
. Creighton, Johnson & Struvy open the Fresno Meat Market on H Street, adjoining the L. Davis store, Fred C. Struvy in charge .. .. King's River Switch has been made a postoffice and named Wheatville with Andrew Farley as postmaster at $12 a year. . ... In Fresno, McCollough & Andrews erect a dwelling at Fresno and J, Whitlock & Young a carpenter shop on J "near Printing House Square," S. W. Henry stable and blacksmithy near Tulare and J. Mrs. Lord added to her I Street boarding house, C. E. Blackburn com- pleted residence in the south east part of town. Henry has in mind building a hotel, Dixon & Faymonville law office and dwellings, also John C. Hoxie, A. M. Clark and J. S. Ashman. .... 4th of July receipts were $367.50 with $204 from the ball, expenditures $360.35, and "the town had a couple of drums left over for future occasions." . Government survey completed embraces land on both sides of the river from near Millerton down. Located farmers are warned to perfect their titles. . . . The jury before the county court gave judgment for H. A. Carroll on appeal against M. A. Schultz and Dr. H. C. Coley of the citizens' committee securing signatures to the county seat re- moval petitions. Costs totaled nearly $250. . .. Offers made to take at par and at 99 cents on the dollar at private sale the issued courthouse bonds. 40,000 brick are moulded at Maassen's brickyard and the first burned
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kiln will contain 150,000 with 100,000 of these contracted for to be used in a brick structure. Turton & Co. are making brick for the courthouse.
July 22-The following "New To Day" was published :
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
Fresno, July 20th, 1874.
Would it not be advisable for a noted physician of Fresno to stay away from the funerals of his patients? It looks too much like a fashionable tailor carrying home his own work. Wm. H. McCracken.
Also the following in the same issue:
A CARD
To the Citizens of Fresno County and Surroundings. The Fresno Drug Store is a fraud and is kept by W. Y. Betts. - W. J. Wheeler.
. C. Richot and Thomas Johns as Johns & Richot open as carpenters and joiners with shop on Mariposa between I and J. ... Bryant & Carter adver- tised for rent the Baker "Canal Grant," 89,000 acres of swamp land, and 47,800 of the grant in the county have been leased, the last 44,000 acres to Kettleman & Sutherland for stock grazing. There were about 42,000 acres more in Tulare and Kern counties open to leases. . . . . The supervisors decided to erect a 20x80 wooden building for county purposes as it would take about a year to have the courthouse ready for occupancy, the officials being in the meantime in scattered places. That wooden building was located where the fountain is at the entrance of the present courthouse park.
Townsite Agent Underhill donates eight lots to the district for a school house. The lots are 200x150 at the southwest corner of block 101. He also donated a lot to the Odd Fellows for a hall. . .. The Expositor recalls to the old settlers "estranged to many of the conveniences of civilization" that the town is the only place in the county "that boasts of all the modern comforts such as barber shops, drug stores, butcher shop, printing office, tel- egraphic offices, fruit stores, ice, fighting whiskey and last but not least, a milkman." The last named was W. A. Baker serving twice a day. "Who says we are not getting civilized?" asks the Expositor. . .. Agent Underhill offers the two outside tier blocks around the townsite for sale for private residences at $300 per block.
July 29-Canvass shows: four merchandise and two fruits stores, a drug house, three hotels, two restaurants, two stables, six saloons, two law- yers and two physicians, barber, tinsmith and saddler, two butchers and three blacksmith shops, a wheelwright, tailor and a printery. Variety store, carpen- ter shop and stable are under construction. The town has fifty-five completed structures-twenty-nine devoted to business and twenty-five dwellings and one not occupied. Five buildings are being erected, three for business and two as dwellings, the list not including the railroad buildings, nor those in the Chinese quarter. Attention is called to the fact that there are more bus- iness houses than dwellings and that during the next month at least twenty new structures will be erected. . R. H. Bramlet was engaged as teacher for the five months' school term.
August 5-The city's and the county's great need is a bank with a capital of $100,000. . .. The San Francisco Circus and Collection of Performing Animals announces a visit Monday, August 10 "on a tour through California after an unparalleled season of 120 nights in San Francisco." Admission $1. William H. McCracken publishes notice as to his "To Whom It May Concern," wishing it to be distinctly understood that he had no reference whatsoever to his fellow townsman Dr. Charles Spiers. . .. In six years "the aggregate wealth of the county has increased from about $800,000 to over $7,000,000 and the population has more than doubled and must now be over 10,000 all told," and yet with the immense territory of the county "it looks
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as though it was almost devoid of population, and even at its present rate of increase it will take many years before it will be thickly settled." ... Sunday meeting held at Magnolia hall to take steps to stop, if possible, en- croachment of the Chinese upon the white portion of the town. Thomas Pryce chairman, J. W. Ferguson secretary of the meeting. S. W. Henry, L. Davis and Ferguson appointed a committee to circulate agreement not to sell, lease, or rent to Chinese any property on the east side of the railroad track and to discourage all from so doing. In the very early days Chinese secured land and erected houses on I Street near Schultz's saloon, but so great the opposition of the people that they compelled their removal. The town agent refused to sell any more to Chinese so located. In the winter of 1873 a Chinese blacksmith leased shop at Mariposa and I and a washhouse was located in the southern part of the town and the week before the holding of the meeting erection was commenced of a washhouse in the heart of one of the most rapidly growing blocks in the town surrounded by residences. This resulted in the meeting. The signature of nearly every resident was secured to the pledge. . .. A rush was made for land on the river newly surveyed and placed on the market, the land office at Stockton receiving filings this day. There was land jumping in disregard of prior rights. . . W. H. Mc- Cracken is out for constable to succeed John F. Parker. .... The first kiln of 500,000 courthouse brick is ready for burning .. . The supervisors were to meet for the first time August 6.
August 12-E. F. Manchester offers for sale 130 Spanish merino bucks imported from best flocks in Addison County, Vt .... Capt. Charles A. Barth, U.S.A., and Otto Froelich contemplate opening a private banking house as local capital was too timid to undertake the venture. . .. The supervisors spent two days in town and contracted with A. W. Burrell to bore a well on the courthouse grounds and erect windmill and tank and carry piping to the building at cost of $1350. . . . Fresno Lodge No. 186, I.O.O.F., has petitioned to remove its charter from Millerton to Fresno and to meet at the county seat after October.
August 19-M. A. Schultz married two days before at Visalia the widow, Louisa Daley of Visalia, formerly of the Railroad Hotel. ... Fresno has its first midwife and nurse in Mrs. Anna Cramer. . . . The firm of Dusy & Co. dissolves, Frank Dusy and William M. Coolidge selling to William Helm. Fleming erected two lamps on Mariposa Street and Lawrenson two more and having been lighted for the first time on Saturday the 15th "gave that street the air of a city." . . J. C. Hoxie having gone out to examine the dwelling that was being erected for him, and the one that he occupies to this day, lost a roll of $180 in gold notes. The loss was not discovered until after nightfall. With lantern and accompanied by Fleming, search was made and the treasure found. What primitive idealistic days those were in Fresno!
September 2-The streets and alleys "are in a disgustingly filthy con- dition" as are some of the vacant lots. The statement is that they "are cov- ered with old bones, hats, boots, dead dogs, decaying vegetable matter, old clothes, tin cans and the like, and the consequence is a most disgusting and pestilence breeding effluvia constantly pervading the atmosphere." .. . The first brick building in town is announced to be the one that Dixon and Fay- monville will erect on the north side of Mariposa between H and I. Froelich & Barth will erect another for their bank immediately east, C. G. Sayle talked also of erecting a brick structure. . .. The school building tax election was successful, fifty votes were cast, forty-eight for the tax and two against it.
September 9- The plans for a school house call for a wooden or brick building to cost from $3,000 to $4,000. School term opened in the upper story of the Booker Building at Tulare and H. . . . Bryant & Carter for themselves and for Center & Boyd sold a quarter interest in the Canal Grant for $60,000 to Withington, Dean & Co., who had recently purchased all the stock in the
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county of John Sutherland paying more than $160,000. The purchasers were San Francisco wholesale butchers, succeeding Dunphy, Hildreth & Co.
September 16-Phillip Schussler from San Andreas locates as a watch- maker and jeweler in Schultz's hotel on H Street. . . . Brubaker & Taber lease the Larquier Hotel. ... Not being able to obtain sufficient support, George Cain, the night watchman, relinquishes the job. . . . To J. L. Smith was awarded the contract for $125 for the 24x80 building for the temporary accommodation of the county officials while the courthouse is being erected, the rookery to be finished September 25. . .. The public school opened with about forty pupils, two-thirds of them girls. . . . Fresno Lodge of Odd Fellows appointed H. C. Daulton, R. H. Bramlet and C. G. Sayle a committee to select and buy a lot for a lodge hall, and negotiated with J. C. Hoxie for one of his town lots. . . . Jacob & Co. have bought Julius Biehl's lot adjoining for $1,000. They propose moving the wooden building to this lot and erect a brick store on the vacated 50x150 site .... Supervisors were to hold their first formal session in the new county seat October 1.
September 23-Death is announced of Clark Hoxie at the age of seventy- four at Sandwich, Mass., Sept. 10. ... Laying of courthouse corner stone is set for Thursday, October 8. ... A party of seven masked Ku-Kluxers served notice on William H. McCracken to leave town before morning. McCracken went to Millerton, laid his case before the district attorney and was coun- selled to return to Fresno which he did. He was described as a "sport" of no "particular advantage to the town." On Monday the 21st there was a free fight in town, pistols were drawn but not used. Two warrants were issued for McCracken's arrest. He disappeared, was later overhauled at Visalia and was sentenced to 100 days imprisonment. One Tom Johns was fined thirty- five dollars, Bryan Bradford also arrested for running McCracken off was discharged as the evidence was insufficient. . . . All bids for the school house are rejected because plans too ornate for the money on hand. Plans were changed to a one-story building 30x68, with surrounding portico, two rooms each thirty feet square divided by hall and with twelve-foot ceiling.
September 30 .- Meeting held and Citizens' committee of W. J. Lawren- son, Peter Larquier and Julius Biehl named to wait on all and request a clean- ing up of streets and alleys for cornerstone laying day. . . . The morrow was hailed "as the dawning of a new era in the history of the town of Fresno" to be known in the statutes as the county seat. All the county offices have been located in the temporary building and elsewhere, the jail at Millerton to be used for the incarceration of prisoners and Dr. Leach having rented building in northern end of town as temporary hospital quarters. The district attorney is in one of the anterooms of Magnolia hall awaiting removal to the temporary "courthouse" at Tulare and K. ... George Hampson appointed night watchman. . A stream of teams with grain, wool, wood, and lumber rolled into town during the week imparting to it a thrifty and business-like appearance. Seventeen were counted on Saturday at one time on H Street, thirteen of these four and six teams with grain. Bustling village that! . . . Laying of the courthouse foundation commences tomorrow. .. . The express office at Millerton has suspended, W. T. Rumble having moved to Fresno. . .. Montgomery Queen's Circus and Menagerie is announced to show in Fresno Saturday, October 17. ... David P. Blevins of Fleming's stages re- ports seeing a herd of over thirty antelope between Fresno and Jensen's store on Big Dry Creek.
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