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in 1875 and 1876. Mills of recent years have been the Gunn & Akers, Peter- son and Smith mills in the Cobb-Mt. Hannah section, Mason Bros. on Elk mountain, M. B. Elliott on Bartlett mountain, the Mckinley flour mill and elec- tric light plant near Middletown.
Roads
The first roads connecting Lake county with the outside world were from the south via Napa county. The next public communication was established from Cloverdale by two roads, the Dodson road, built in 1865, and Matt Lea toll road, built in 1877. Col. Fred Long built a new wagon road from Hopland to Lakeport, striking the valley through Manning canyon, which was con- pleted in June, 1890, at a cost of $5000. In the early '90s all roads into the county were toll roads owned by private individuals. In 1899, after continued agitation for a free road, the supervisors purchased the Long road for $3500. Owing to some legal defect in the proceedings the county treasurer refused to pay the warrant. Long abandoned his road and lost his rights, and neither he nor his heirs received payment for it. The Blue Lakes toll road, connecting Upper Lake with Ukiah, was purchased and made a free road in 1896.
The Highland Springs and Squaw Rock toll road was built in 1891, con- necting what was then called Clear Lake station on the Donohue railroad with Big valley. J. D. Stephens, proprietor of Highland Springs, and county citi- zens subscribed the funds, $27.000. J. WV. Boggs superintended the building. The primitive horse stages over this road were superseded by automobile stage service in 1907. The Lake County Automobile Transportation Co. was incor- porated, with M. S. Sayre, William O. Edmands and Euvelle Howard the first directors. At about the same time, William J. Spiers installed auto stages on his lines from Calistoga via Middletown.
Fruit Growing
Stock and grain were the earliest farm products of this section. Cheese making was among the first industries. The only fruit grown was in family orchards. Prunes were extensively planted in the early '80s, W. G. Young, the owners of the Mills and Hilsabeck ranches, and J. W. Boggs being pio- neers in this line. Later, following a decline in prices, most of the prune orchards were torn up. Bartlett pears, now the best product of the county. were first grown in 1885, Joseph Laughlin and George Akers setting ont the first trees. Pears are also raised on the Boles and Allison ranches.
Clear Lake Water Utilization
From the beginning of white settlement in this region the use of the flood waters of Clear lake has been a constant source of controversy between indi- viduals or corporations, seeking to utilize them for irrigation and power, and the owners of lake frontage lands. The 45,000-acre area of this lake has been a natural reservoir, storing a volume of water from three to thirteen feet in height above the average low water mark over that area, the amount depending on the winter's rainfall over its immense watershed. The restricted outlet of the lake, Cache creek, prevents the flood waters from running off rapidly.
The first friction over the water rights was the notable episode of the de- struction of the dam in 1868. Clear lake was declared navigable by the Legis- lature March 29, 1878, with a provision that there should be no interference
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with rights of swamp and overflowed land owners around the margin of the lake to reclaim.
A survey was made by F. Formhals in November, 1892, for a project to convey water in iron pipes for six miles from the Fowler mill site to the junction of the two forks of Cache creek, there to be used to generate elec- trical power. A narrow-gauge railroad from Rumsey up Cache creek was proposed to utilize the power.
In the Legislature of 1892-93 Senate Bill No. 730 was passed, granting Clear lake to Lake county, but Governor Markham vetoed it. Incorporation papers were filed by James Armstrong, F. A. Simons, J. H. Culver, J. B. Treadwell and C. H. King in December, 1893, for a project to develop Cache creek to generate 40,000 horsepower for electric lighting and power in the city of Oakland.
At about the same time A. S. Halladie filed notice of appropriation of 60,000 inches of water, to be diverted from Cache creek, at what was known as the Grigsby riffle, the junction of Seigler creek with Cache creek. Another appropriation by the same man sought to take the water at the Fowler mill site. A dam across Cache creek, and ditches, pipes and flumes to convey it nine miles below, where it was to generate electrical power, were fea- tures of the project, as was also the electric railroad from Rumsey to Clear Lake. The probable real purpose of this plan was to use the appropriated water for irrigating in Yolo county.
J. D. Stephens had filed notice of appropriation of water from Cache creek in Yolo county in June, 1859, the Clear Lake Waterworks Company in 1871, Cacheville Agricultural Ditch Co. in the same year, the Capay Ditch Co. 1879. Dozens of claims were made in Yolo and Lake counties which ended with posting and filing. Some of these early claims and use of water formed the basis upon which the Yolo Water and Power Company is now conducting extensive operations.
The acquisition of Kelsey creek falls to generate electric power for Lake county was agitated by citizens of Kelseyville in February, 1894.
The U. S. Department of Agriculture thoroughly investigated the Clear lake and Cache creek irrigation and power possibilities in 1890, through James M. Wilson, C. E.
C. G. Baldwin of Claremont, near Pomona, sought rights to utilize waters of lake, promising power and light to towns in the county.
Westinghouse Electrical Company offered in November, 1896, to con- struct a railroad from Vallejo to Lower Lake, in consideration of $20,000 subsidy from each of Lake and Napa counties, and grant by riparian owners of their lake frontage.
The Clear Lake Electric Power Company secured twenty 40-acre tracts of land in Cache creek canyon, and completed the survey for their dam in March, 1898. This corporation proposed to use power for lighting but not for railroad purposes. The directors in 1898 were R. Wylie, president ; J. K. Fraser, vice-president ; E. P. Clendenin, H. P. Goodwin. E. H. Winship, gen- eral manager.
Thomas J. Rodman sought in 1904 to build dam and keen outlet free of obstruction, not to allow water to rise above 61/2 feet above C. M. Hammond low water mark. Attorney General Webb gave his opinion July 20, 1904, that state has control of Clear Lake. Senator J. B. Sanford introduced bill in Legislature February 25, 1905, for an appropriation of $20.000 to widen and
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dieepen outlet of lake to prevent winter damage. Bill passed the Senate but was defeated by Ways and Means Committee.
Construction of the Snow Mountain Power and Water Company project of utilizing Eel River in Gravelly Valley for electrical power in Mendocino county was completed in 1907.
The Central Counties Land Company Bubble
Of all the paper projects and promotion schemes which had after repeated failures made Lake county water development and railroads a byword, probably the most sensational was that of the Central Counties Land Company, which absorbed the county's interest in 1906 and 1907. This was one of the activities of J. Dalzell Brown, who was sentenced in April, 1908, to San Quentin peni- tentiary for eighteen months for his part in wrecking the California Safe Deposit and Trust Co. Lake county people received much of the money of the depositors in that wrecked institution.
The most widely advertised part of the Central Counties Land Com- pany's project was the construction of a boulevard entirely around the cir- cumference of Clear lake, a distance of eighty miles. One unit of this, a 200C,- foot wooden trestle bridge across an arm of the northern end of the lake, was completed in September, 1907, at a cost of $12,000. Brown had a splendid concrete mansion built on the northeast shore at a cost of $60.000. The Hotel Benvenue in Lakeport was bought and luxuriously furnished, principally for the use of Brown and his associates when in the town. Underlying these frills was the plan to acquire the lake waters for power and irrigation pur- poses. E. P. Vandercook, one of Brown's associates, filed an appropriation of 30,000 inches in Cache creek, in December, 1906. The Capay Ditch Com- pany and Yolo County Consolidated Water Company lands along Cache creek, the holdings of the Craig and Stephens interests, were deeded to the new corporation. Riparian lands about the lake were bought at high prices. The ranch of Heinze Springe, comprising three miles of lake frontage, upon which the Brown mansion was built, was bought for $55,000. Of this, $27,000 was paid Springe in various installments, and later, upon the company's failure, he recovered the land and the mansion. beside retaining the money paid.
The Yolo Water and Power Company Operations
A deed of all the company's holdings to cover a $5,000,000 bond issue was filed in Lake county in October, 1907. Several efforts to rehabilitate the cor- poration's project were unsuccessful. Its property interests have recently been acquired by the Yolo Water and Power Company.
The latter company, the only one in the county's history engaging in ex- tensive development work and apparently capable of carrying out its plans, commenced operations early in 1912. A blanket condemnation suit was commenced against all the owners of lake frontage, 207 individuals in all. With one exception, that against W. P. Mariner, these suits have not been prose- cuted, but the company has been buying riparian lands or overflow rights. A concrete dam has been built across Cache creek at the Fowler mill site, intended to raise the lake level ten feet above low water mark. A dredger has also been built and commenced operations at reclamation work.
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County Development
Commencing in 1907, the county supervisors adopted the plan of con- structing steel and concrete bridges to replace wooden structures, and the following were built, at the rate of one a year: 150-foot steel bridge across Scotts creek near Upper Lake, 1907, cost $5,630; 300-foot steel, across Kelsey creek at Kelseyville, December, 1907, cost $13,800; concrete, crossing St. Helena creek at Middletown, July, 1908, $5,865; steel, crossing Cache creek near Lower Lake, October, 1909, $4,358; crossing Scotts creek at Sailor ranch in Scotts Valley, 1910; smaller bridges over Middle and Clover creeks above Upper Lake, 1911; over Copsey creek, Spruce Grove district, 1914.
Railroad Projects
With not a mile of railroad within her borders, Lake county history has been a succession of projects on paper and in the air, with but few ever reaching any material performance. It was a favorite joke with Judge T. B. Bond, an old-time lawyer of Lakeport, that he had in his time subscribed a million dollars for railroads, but was never called upon to pay a cent. The rim of mountains encircling the county has been a discouraging obstacle to railroad construction.
The earliest project was probably that from Rumsey up the Cache creek canyon, for which a survey was made by R. W. Gorrill in 1879. It was supposed to have been fostered by the Southern Pacific.
Marshall Arnold of Lakeport was the chief promoter of a road from Ukiah in 1884, in which considerable Lake county capital was expended. The Taylor scheme from Hopland on a mileage basis soon followed this. A road from Napa county by the McNulty-Pettibone syndicate in 1884 gave great promise for a time, and was believed to have been blocked by the Southern Pacific. Col. Fred Long proposed a wooden railroad from Hopland soon after completing his wagon road.
A survey was made via Blue Lakes to connect with the then San Fran- cisco and North Pacific railroad at Ukiah, in 1890. Another survey was made from Ukiah via Blue Lakes and Scotts Valley, by F. H. Long in 1891. Collis l'. Huntington of the Southern Pacific proposed in the same year to build into Lakeport for the consideration of the use of Clear Lake waters. A. H. Spurr offered a proposition to Huntington in 1892, but received no satisfaction.
An electric line was proposed from Pieta to Lakeport in 1892, twenty miles of road and equipment to cost $120,000.
The Clear Lake and Russian River Railway and Navigation Company was incorporated in November, 1892. The first directors were F. W. Gibson, president ; A. H. Spurr, R. W. Crump, D. W. White, M. Justus, A. Levy, C. E. Phelan, M. S. Sayre, W. J. Biggerstaff, William Gessner. H. B. Wells, L. Sailor, W. D. Rantz. Its stock subscription required that no money should be paid until the road was in operation.
At a mass meeting at the court house in Lakeport, October 1, 1893, the Clear Lake and North Pacific railroad, a new proposition, was submitted. The previous Clear Lake and Russian River Company favored this, and urged stock subscribers to transfer their subscriptions to the new company. E. B. Taylor solicited subscriptions. He and M. S. Sayre drew up a construction contract and placed it in escrow in a San Francisco bank. Grading was to
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begin at once. Professor Kelly made the survey and estimated the total cost at $300,000.
Richard Wylie proposed in 1896 a road from Napa county through Conn. Sage, Chiles and Pope valleys, thence up Butts canyon to Middletown, the mines and springs, Lower Lake, up the lakeshore to Kelseyville and Lake- port, a distance of eighty-five miles.
In June, 1900. W. B. King projected the San Francisco and Clear Lake railroad to build a broad-gauge steam road via Vallejo, Napa, Sage and Pope valleys, to southern end of lake. He wanted Lake county to subscribe $50,000. This scheme was capitalized at $3.000,000.
What is known as the Boggs road was incorporated in 1903. under the name of Clear Lake Railroad and Electric Power Company. Its capital stock was $1,000,000, and it asked a $60,000 subsidy. The directors were L. H. Boggs, Dr. W. R. Prather, J. W. Boggs, of Lake county; G. W. Young of Napa. W. C. Phillips and R. H. Bingham of Los Angeles. G. M. Dodge surveyed the route from Cloverdale to Kelseyville. The Lakeport town trus- tees and the county supervisors granted franchises to this company, which were later forfeited for non-use.
The Santa Fe company made a survey through Lake county near Potter Valley south to tidewater in 1904. in an effort to tap the redwood regions of Mendocino and Humboldt. This, a likely project, was abandoned when that company joined with the Southern Pacific in the purchase of the California Northwestern, or Donohue road, giving the Santa Fe the desired feeder, in 1905.
The Napa and Lakeport Railroad Company-the R. M. Hotaling project- was one which gave great promise of success in 1905 and 1906 Many citizens believe the earthquake and San Francisco fire of April 18, 1906, and the resulting money stringency, alone prevented the building of this road. W. M. Rank. W. A. Cattell. C. K. Field, R. H. Bishop. J. Wilder. D. D. Sales, Geo. H. Mastick, James L. deFremery and Theodore A. Bell were associated with Hotaling. This company asked no subsidy, but offered part of its $2.000.000 capital stock for sale at half par value. About $25,000 was subscribed, and many rights of way were given.
Coincident with the highest point of this road's progress. the Clear Lake and Southern Company came into the field. It endeavored to secure rights of way, but asked for no stock subscriptions. H. G. Comstock. Guy C. Calden, H. L. Johnson. J. W. Dorsey and A. H. Elliott addressed a meeting in Lakeport in October. 1905. making glittering promises, but nothing sub- stantial materialized. This move was apparently an effort to obstruct the construction of the Napa & Lakeport road.
The next project of importance was a local enterprise. Col. J. E. Fulton, W. S. Fry, J. A. Sparks, D. F. McIntire, W. P. Mariner, J. J. Petty, R. M. Beattie, Dr. O. T. Griner of Lakeport, Dr. A. E. Dickenson and J. W. Pres- ton of Ukiah, J. R. Garner of Upper Lake, William Johnston of Kelseyville. "Pop" McCrea of McCrea's resort, were interested at periods of this road's promotion. First called the Sonoma and Lake County Railroad Company. when organized in the fall of 1906 and incorporated in April, 1907, the name was changed to Highland Pacific in September. 1909, when the capital stock was increased to $2,500,000. The route first proposed was from Lakeport via Highland Springs to Fulton on the Northwestern Pacific road. Later the
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survey, made by D. F. McIntire, was extended to Santa Rosa. This company sold about $104,000 in stock.
C. E. Loss, Walter M. James. T. F. Bonneau, William M. Willett, and H. B. Chase promoted the Clear Lake Traffic Company in October, 1908, later incorporated as the Clear Lake Northern Railroad Company, capitalized for $1,000,000. The names of William L. Gerstle, William H. Tevis and Henry T. Scott were later connected with this project. This company proposed a line from Hopland or Pieta to Lakeport, and completed its survey in March, 1909. The stock subscription in the county reached the sum of $127,000.
R. D. Winters, then a prominent citizen and contractor of Lakeport, agitated a road from Ukiah via Blue Lakes in 1909, but met with little encour- agement.
The Santa Rosa and Clear Lake Railroad Company had been co-operating with the Highland Pacific at its start, but in December, 1910, projected a narrow-gauge road via Kellogg to Middletown and Lower Lake. J. W. Barrows and P. D. Reynolds were the engineers. A survey, several miles of trail, and some six-foot grade were accomplished.
The latest and still pending railroad possibility is the Clear Lake Railroad Company. Its principal agitator was Z. T. Spencer, a merchant of Lakeport, when the project was launched at that place in March. 1911. The first plan was for a narrow-gauge road from Hopland to Lakeport, estimated to cost $200,000. D. F. McIntire made a reconnoissance of the proposed route. The company was incorporated May 17 of that year. the first directors being L. H. Boggs, S. E. Brookes of Hopland, Milos M. Gopcevic. C. M. Hammond, presi- dent : Euvelle Howard, H. V. Keeling. C. C. McMahan of Bartlett Springs. Joseph Levy, M. S. Sayre, Z. T. Spencer. A. H. Spurr. The capital stock was $500,000, of which 316 persons subscribed the total amount of $95.400. C. R. Rankin made the surveys. Over $78,000 in money was paid in by the stock- holders. Ground was broken at Hopland on November 18, 1911. and the contractors, Elliott & Axman, continued at intervals with the grading until April. 1912, completing about seven miles of the twenty-three mile route. All of the money subscribed was expended, and the directors found great difficulty in completing the financing. A renewed effort to sell $50.000 in stock, to make possible the required bond issue, was started in July, 1914, and promises success. The present directors are L. H. Boggs, president : M. S. Sayre, L. P. Clendenin, Lewis Henderson, H. V. Keeling. W. P. Mariner. S. E. Brookes. Joseph Levy. C. M. Hammond. W. P. Hill. A. H. Spurr.
CHAPTER XIX Officials, Schools, Churches and Fraternities
Following are the principal public officials who have served Lake county since its organization, with the term of their service :
Assemblyman, the county during these years being a separate Assembly district : J. M. Coghlan, 1864-7; J. C. Crigler. 1868-71; W. W. Stillwagon, 1872-3; S. K. Welch, 1874-5 and 1878-9; R. V. S. Quigley, 1876-7 ; A. P. Mc- Carty, 1880; H. J. Crumpton, 1881-4; E. W. Britt, 1885-6; L. H. Gruwell. 1887-8; C. M. Crawford, 1889-90; J. H. Renfro, 1891-2; these Lake county men elected from Colusa-Glenn-Lake district, Thos. J. Sheridan. 1901-2; Frank 11. Smythe, 1907-8.
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County Judge, O. A. Munn, 1861-3; J. B. Holloway, 1864-71 ; E. M. Paul, 1872-9; Superior Judge, R. J. Hudson, 1880-9; R. W. Crump, 1890-03, died in office ; M. S. Sayre, appointed 1903, elected 1904-14.
Sheriff, W. H. Manlove, 1861-2 and 1868-9; J. C. Crigler, 1863-7 and 1878-9; T. B. Burger, 1870-3; J. C. W. Ingram, 1874-7; Peter Burtnett, 1880-2; L. H. Boggs, 1882-8 and 1891-4; Gawn Moore, 1889-90; G. W. Pardee, 1895-8; John P. Moore, 1899-1906; George W. Kemp, 1907-10, killed in office May 5, 1910; Lyon Fraser, 1910-14.
Clerk, W. R. Mathews, 1861-5; S. Bynum, 1866-73; W. Mathews, 1874-5; H. A. Oliver, 1876-84; Thomas Bynum, 1885-6; M. S. Sayre, 1886-8; W. L. Anderson, 1889-94; H. W. Brewer, 1895-02; E. M. Alter, 1903, four months ; Shafter Mathews, won contest for election, 1903-14.
District Attorney, G. W. Marshall, 1861; Woods Crawford, 1862, 1866-7, 1872-3, 1885-6; J. H. Thompson, 1863-5; S. K. Welch, 1868-71 and 1891-2; A. E. Noel, 1874-5; E. Townsend, 1876-7; D. M. Hanson, 1878-9 and 1883-4; R. W. Crump, 1880-2 and 1887-8; M. S. Sayre, 1889-90 and 1895-02; D. F. Mc- Intire, 1893-4; H. W. Brewer, 1903-6; Charles W. Haycock, 1907, died Feb- ruary 28, 1908; C. M. Crawford, appointed 1908, elected 1910-4.
Recorder: Combined with clerk from 1881 to 1884; WV. A. Thompson, 1885-86. same official also auditor, 1887-8; N. Phelan, 1889-92; George W. Minstrell, 1893-8; Frank W. Beach, 1899-02; Euvelle Howard. 1903-6; J. W. Beck, 1907-14.
Treasurer : N. Smith, 1861-2; J. B. Cook, 1863-7; W. S. Cook, 1868-71; J. W. Everett, 1872-7 ; David Williams, 1878-84; Q. V. P. Day, 1885-8; R. V. S. Quigley, 1889-92; P. T. Boone, 1893-4 and 1899-14; W. C. Moore, 1895-8.
Assessor : E. Musick, 1861-3; N. Phelan, 1864-7 and 1880-1 ; H. H. Nun- nially, 1868-71; H. Allen, 1872-9; J. L. Smythe, 1882-6; W. H. Cunningham, 1887-94; S. S. Russell, 1895-02; C. M. Young, 1903-6; Fred H. Merritt, 1907-14.
Superintendent of schools: County clerk acted until 1864. T. Sleeper, 1864-5; A. P. McCarty, 1866-7; J. W. Mackall, 1868-9; Mack Mathews, 1870-3 and 1880-6; L. Wallace, 1874-7; J. W. Shirley, 1878-9; Mrs. S. M. Gillett, 1887-94; Mrs. E. K. Harrington, 1895-8: Charles W. Haycock, 1898-06; Miss Hettie Irwin, 1907-14.
Coroner: J. W. Smith, 1861; S. A. Copsey, 1864-5; L. T. Musick, 1868-9; W. R. Mathews, 1870-1; H. H. Lull, 1872-3; public administrator, L. C. Bur- riss, 1868-9; J. Jenkins, 1870-1: J. O'Shea, 1872-3; the two offices combined after this date: J. O'Shea, 1874-9; J. Male, 1880-2; Ira G. Yates, 1883-4; S. A. Copsey, 1885-8; W. M. Woods, 1889-92; Mack Mathews, 1892-8 and 1903-14; R. H. Lawrence, 1899-02.
Surveyor: Joel Willard, 1862-5; L. M. Musick, 1866-7; I. N. Chapman, 1868-9; George Tucker, 1870-5, 1883-4, and 1887-8; B. R. Wardlaw, 1876-7; R. H. Lawrence, 1878-9; J. A. Kelly, 1880-1; S. H. Rice, 1885-8; D. F. McIn- tire, 1889-90 and 1906-14; J. B. Laughlin, 1891-2; Wright Mathews, 1893-04; John L. Stubbs, 1905, appointed on death of Wright Mathews, elected 1906, failed to qualify.
Auditor: A. H. Spurr. 1889-90; H. B. Sheldon, 1891-2; R. H. Lawrence, 1893-8; office combined with clerk 1899-02; F. W. Crawford, 1903-6; B. J. Turner, 1907-14.
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Tax Collector : Office combined with sheriff until 1888; E. P. Clendenin, 1889-90 and 1895-8; Elbert Hudson, 1891-4; office combined with treasurer 1899-02; Frank R. Farrier, 1903-September, 1913, resigned; M. J. Manning, appointed, 1913-4.
Supervisors : First district, in 1884 number changed to Second, S. Hunt- ing, 1861-3; D. D. Jones, 1864-7; J. W. Everett, 1868-71; A. F. Morrell, 1872-3, 1878-80 and 1895-02; R. K. Nichols, 1874-7; L. H. Gruwell, 1881-2; R. F. Miles, 1882-6; H. H. Wilson, 1886-90; A. M. Akins, 1891-4; J. M. Adamson, 1903-14.
Second district, number changed in 1884 to First; J. H. Jamison, 1861-5 and 1876-7; E. L. Green, 1866-9; A. F. Tate, 1870-1; I. M. Davee, 1872-5; G. E. McKinley, 1878-82; J. M. Hamilton, 1883-4; Dallas Poston, 1885-8; C. M. Young, 1889-90; G. W. Rawson, 1891-2; George W. Kemp, 1893-6 and 1901-6; Frank H. Smythe, 1897-1900; Hazen Cheney, 1907-12; T. A. Read, 1912-4.
Third district : J. W. Maxwell, 1861 and 1870-1 ; C. C. Rice, 1862-7 ; D. V. Thompson, 1868-9; J. B. Robinson, 1872-9; WVm. Gessner, 1880-2; L. A. Young, 1883-4; David Alexander, 1885-94; J. N. League, 1895-8; Charles W. Phillips, 1899-14.
Fourth district, formed in 1884: L. A. Young, 1885-8; S. K. Welch, 1889-92; William Gessner and Samuel Clendenin tied in November, 1892, election ; at special election in following month Gessner won and served until 1896; George A. Lyon, 1897-04; Thomas Patten, 1905-14.
Fifth district, formed in 1884: Leivis Henderson, 1885-08; John Kelsay, 1909-14.
Lakeport Town Officials: First meeting, May 10, 1888. Dr. M. R. Chamblin, president ; J. M. Hamilton, C. E. Phelan, Marshall Arnold, W. E. Greene, trustees; James N. Hamilton, clerk; W. A. Thompson, Treasurer ; W. M. Woods, marshal; J. J. Bruton, attorney. H. M. Condict was appointed clerk in September, 1888, on the death of Jas. N. Hamilton.
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