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John Burton sold the first goods in Ukiah, was afterwards county assessor, and owned the farms now occupied by Sanford Bros. and the Redemeyers. In conjunction with A. T. Perkins a store was built on the corner of Main and Smith streets, afterwards occupied by Kaskell, Mears & Co. In 1858 Perkins and J. R. Short built a school house between Clay and Stevenson streets, west of Oak, of split stuff. Fred S. Dashiell was the first teacher.
In 1859 J. R. Moore established a saloon on Standley street near State. Up to that time all the business of the town was located on Main street. Philbrick & Morton erected another on State, which burned down in 1913, then occupied by L. Van Dusen. The first drug store was built and stocked by George B. Mathers, on the corner of Perkins and State, where now is the bar of the Cecille hotel. North of the Ukiah House (Standley's) was a two- story building occupied by Capt. D. W. Smith as a saloon below and lodging house above, and it was often three deep both above and below.
The first church, Methodist Episcopal, was built in 1862, through the exertions of Rev. W. S. Bryant. Rumors of a railroad were floating around, though there was not money enough in the county to build a decent dirt road. In May, 1863, Capt. J. P. Simpson recruited a company of volunteers to take the place of regulars in the care of Indians in Mendocino and Humboldt. They were mustered out in June. 1865, not having drawn blood. In April, 1867, the Southern Relief Fund was enriched by contributions as follows: Ukiah,
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$295; Potter, $31.50; Redwood Valley, $15. The flour mill which had for some years been run by water at Calpella by Wurtenburg & Wichelhausen was moved to Ukiah and fitted with steam power. In 1870 T. B. Bond. R. McGarvey and W. E. Willis were appointed to locate the streets of Ukiah, and a year after they reported them where they were before, and have con- tinued since, in effect.
In August, 1872, a petition for incorporating Ukiah was presented to the board of supervisors, who granted the same, and ordered an election for town officers for August 31st. and prescribed that the town should be one mile square. with the court house as its center. The election resulted in the fol- lowing officers : Trustees, R. N. Willing, J. R. Moore, E. W. King and Samnel Orr, and later T. L. Carothers. R. N. Willing was elected chairman, T. L. Carothers, clerk. Thomas Charlton was elected marshal, and I. Isaac treas- urer. The following year Mr. Isaac committed suicide and William Ford was appointed treasurer. In 1874, after the election, the officers-elect failed to qualify, the old officers refused to serve, and the town fell down. The town was again incorporated in 1876 and the election held in February resulted in the following list of officers: T. L. Carothers. J. S. Reed, S. Orr, W. H. Forse and G. B. Mathers; assessor and marhsal. A. O. Carpenter. In 1877 the Ukiah Water Co. proceeded to lay mains. The Maxim Gas Co. having also laid its mains, street lights were ordered at the principal corners. A Babcock hook and ladder truck was purchased. Financial statement of the town No- vember 25, 1879: Property, $326.747; tax collected, $800; poll tax, $119; licenses, etc., $328; total, $1247.
July 26, 1879, the people were called upon to mourn the loss of the first inhabitant to locate in its boundaries, Abner T. Perkins, a man without an enemy, and a friend of all.
The water rate was fixed at $1.50 per month for a residence and ten cents per hour for irrigation with a three-quarter hose.
The bank of Santa Rosa established a branch in Ukiah, in 1873, under the management of J. H. Donohoe. It erected the building later taken over by the Bank of Ukiah: It closed out its business in 1876.
The Bank of Ukiah was organized in 1874, with A. F. Redemeyer presi- dent and Sam Wheeler cashier, who remained in office for many years. R. Mc- Garvey succeeded Redemeyer and in turn was succeeded by Hale McCowen and he by Henry Hopper, who is now president. W. F. Thomas succeeded Sam Wheeler as cashier, and now holds that position. The bank has ever been prosperous, and of late years conservative in its management. In the spring of 1914, its capital stock was reduced to $150,000, as being preferable to the larger amount heretofore carried. Its statement of March 11, 1914, shows resources of $708,864, of which $55,835 is cash on hand. It has a surplus of $25.000, undivided profits $12.847 : individual deposits subject to check. $275,768.
The Savings Bank of Mendocino County was incorporated December 13. 1903, both as a commercial bank and savings bank, $25,000 capital paid in, in each department. The figures given represent the two combined, of which seventy-five per cent represents the savings department. Resources, $434,- 671; cash on hand, $15.119; undivided profits, $11.225: surplus, $6000; indi- vidual savings deposits, $278.341. At its organization J. H. Barker was presi- dent. Ill health caused his resignation in 1914. and J. M. Mannon became president : J. L. McCracken, vice-president : Arthur Tracy. cashier.
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The Commercial Bank of Ukiah was organized December 18, 1903, with a paid-up capital stock of $50,000. W. P. Thomas president and E. L. Cun- ningham cashier. Resources, $369,669; surplus, $35,000; individual deposits, $217,287.
Eagle fire company was organized in March, 1877, with C. W. Tindall as foreman. The apparatus owned by it was a hook and ladder truck, four Bab- cock extinguishers and a house and lot. Now it has two hose carts, a library and clubhouse. January 5, 1881, a fire swept Standley street fronting the plaza, except a brick on the corner of State street.
A representative of eastern stockholders disbursed $7000 acquiring timber land on the head of Seward creek, Leonard's water right, and the Gold Mining Company at Calpella. Louis Sefton, seven years old, drowned in Gibson creek, in town. The "bear truth" is chronicled in the Press of February 4, 1882; Nixon trapped eleven bear last year on Big river; Doc Standley killed four in less than one minute; the Rawles brothers kill from twenty to thirty in Anderson each year. On the tenth, fire in Grand hotel block destroyed hard- ware store and post office; loss $14,000, insurance $6000.
The Calpella Gold Mining and Flume Co. surveyed to Calpella, ten and nine-tenths miles. Delinquent tax list of county only $2500. Smallpox at Cowsert ranch, March; no fatalities. "Ruth" given by home talent: J. C. Ruddock, Mrs. Kelton, Lulu Dozier, Belle McGarvey, Clara Wheeler, Carrie Hunter, Nellie Malone, Helen M. Carpenter, Mrs. Griffith, Jennie Sturtevant, Ella King, Nellie Forse, Charles Duncan, Engene Tutt, Charles Cunningham, under the direction of D. H. Tucker, with a second presentation in March. Grammar school opened with one hundred and eighty-eight pupils with J. C. Ruddock, Mrs. Kelton and Blanche McCowen as teachers. A road surveyed from Alfred Higgins' place to Lakeport, fourteen and one-half miles, estimated to cost $7000, crossing the ridge at an elevation of 2800 feet; but as the viewers place Hopland at 800, it is probable their guess was off on all the figures. Railroad time from Cloverdale to San Francisco, five hours.
Auriferous deposit at Calpella estimated at three miles long, 20 to 200 feet deep (or high) and to yield $30,000 per acre by hydraulic process. Garnets found also. Forse's stages making the 215 miles from Cloverdale to Eureka in thirty-six hours. A fire engine purchased from Petaluma. Wool thirty cents per pound. Work on gold mining flume begun July 20; eighty-seven men engaged on it. Col. A. Von Schmidt now meandering up Russian river canon with a view to extending the railroad to Ukiah, August 12. The Law building, corner Standley and School, built by T. L. Carothers. First dried fruit of consequence made by N. Wagonseller-plums. August temperature 60 to 100 degrees.
The week of September 3 tallied arrivals at Ukiah hotels of one hundred and seven at Ukiah House, seventy-nine at Palace, fifty-four at Peoples. Captain Jack bought land north of town for his tribe; Capt. Bill fifty acres near Guidi ; Capt. Charley the McPeak ranch, down the valley. This latter place paid itself out the first season in hops $3600. Bank of Ukiah offers face value for county warrants. The Gold Mining & Flume Co. put a mortgage of $34.000 on its possessions. Grace Carpenter (Hudson) received telegram of award to her of gold medal from San Francisco Art School for best crayon from plaster cast. January, 1882, mercury from 20 to 28 degrees. County statistics: Valuation, $4,175,853 real estate; personal, $1,941,161. January 26, stage held up near toll house in the canon. February 12, six inches of snow,
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forty per cent estimated loss on sheep. The Gold Mining and Flume Company died. June, wool twenty-five and one-half cents. Thunder storm and lighting, July 19, used up nine telegraph poles, a tree at Long's, and stunned John Higgins. Hop picking set at one and a quarter cents. Circus wagon off the grade at Cleveland's, and two horses drowned. September, heavy rains, 2.72 inches to October 13th. Registration 3409. I. O. O. F. hall completed Novem- ber 17th. To October 31st the coast mills cut 94.000,000 feet of lumber. County school census shows 3543 pupils with average attendance 2735. Willie Hemans killed a ten and one-half foot panther. near Reeves mill, with quail shot, at twelve feet distance. It weighed two hundred and twenty-five pounds. Chrome iron discovered on county farm. J. H. Donohoe bought exclusive right at seventy-five cents per ton, fifty tons per year. Nothing doing. May 5. 1884, north bound stage robbed of mail and express, three miles from Cloverdale. Artesian well company formed in September, and well put down 150 feet. Hops twenty-five to thirty cents. August 3, McClosky house burned. Stage opposition on from Cloverdale up to Ukiah, fare fifty cents and less. Rain September 13. Teachers' Institute, September 28.
"Triumph of Love" given by local talent. January 24. 1885, stage hold- up a mile north of town. Express box contained only garden seeds. April 30. fire destroyed west front of block on State street, between Church and Stevenson ; loss, $6,000; insurance, $2,500. Another attempt to hold up stage north from Cloverdale to Mendocino; several shots exchanged. Railroad rumors. The latest from Colusa to Mendocino. Supposed S. P. Co. Another San Francisco to Lake and Mendocino; another from Cloverdale to Ukiah; and four or five others, having terminals in Mendocino. Another stage hold- up north of Cloverdale; robber caught at once. September 20. Notice that Donohoe would run the railroad to Ukiah at once. Sacramento & Mendo- cino railroad setting stakes up Cache creek canyon. Surveying also from Willows to Covelo. High license defeated in town election, 1886. Town assessment roll, $596,696. 1887. Seven hundred men at work on railroad. Mechanics' Institute fair received from this county two redwood planks, seven and nine feet wide, eighteen feet long, four inches thick, sent by Mc- Pherson and Wetherbee; from there they were sent to England. Agricul- tural fair, October 14. Teachers' Institute. Ukiah. October 22. Hart's resi- dence on Seminary avenne burned December 14; loss. $4,000; insurance. $2.500.
February, 1888, waterworks bought by T. F. Jamieson. Morris Peck raised four hundred and sixty pounds of squashes from one vine. Novem- ber 2, railroad grade completed. Kelso & Co. gave a supper to one hundred guests at Reed's hall. Freight tariff promulgated : thirty-five to fifty cents per hundredweight; carloads, fifteen to thirty-two cents. George W. Gib- son died, a pioneer of 1858. J. M. Donahue acquired all the stock of S. F. & N. I'. and reincorporated at $6,000,000. Mill output of county, 150.000.000 feet. Mendocino and Cloverdale stages, up and down, held up near Philo, January 5. 1889. February 9, railroad in running order. Eagle block erected. March, railroad blocked with slides. Mail by handcar and foot service. J. M. Donohoe died March 4. Corporation organized to build railroad from Ukiah to Lakeport: $720.000. in 1890. Eighty-three teachers employed in the county. Sand stone quarry west of town. Snuffin's residence burned ; an old landmark. Bids advertised for asylum grounds. August 11, bids called for building, aggregating $400,000. Corner stone laid. December 9, by
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Grand Master of Masons; Governor Waterman present. Power press for Republican Press; first in the county.
In 1891 telegraph and telephone company incorporated for lines from Ukiah to Potter, and Lakeport. April, beef cattle brought in from outside the county. June 3, half an inch of rain. First annual report of S. F. & N. P. shows net earnings, $313,795. The road has eighteen engines, fifty- five passenger cars, three hundred and eighty-nine freight cars, seventy-nine dump cars, one hundred and eighty-six miles of road, 8,985 feet of tunneling, 1,848 feet bridges, 36,989 feet of trestle. August 5, yacht Whisper sailed for Lakeport on wheels. She is seventy feet long, ten and six-tenths beam, seven feet hold. Water agitation for Doolan and Robertson creeks. Marks block rebuilt. Twelfth District fair, September 29. On the 16th lightning killed four horses and five hogs at Howell's ranch. May Day, 1892, first excursion on railroad from Sonoma county, 1,000 on board. Curtis house built. In 1893, shaft sunk on Cleveland property north of Coyote, 260 feet ; option extended, gold looked for. S. F. & N. P. sold to Foster, Smith & Seligman. Mendocino county represented at Chicago World's fair by Miss Reeve's flower paintings on curly redwood, Mrs. Hudson's "Little Mendo- cino" and the "Interrupted Bath," and Dr. Hudson's Indian baskets. June 23, wool in store in town, 356,665 pounds; priced at from eleven to four- teen cents. Agitation for railway to Low Gap. Second Artillery regiment encampment. June, 1895. Sam Brown killed forty-four rattlesnakes in one day.
J. M. Standley shot by stage robber January 17, 1896. Stage had been stopped by him on two dates. March 6, four inches of snow. Sewer con- tract let to F. Brunner & Son, $15.900. John Buckingham, proprietor of Dispatch, died July 9. March, 1897, fish hatchery opened on Gibson creek. Franchise awarded Mendocino Electric Lighting company in August. Sep- tember 27, Anderson and Ukiah stage held up, and Barnett killed. January 12, 1898, mercury lowest ever known in Ukiah, twelve degrees. More rail- roads projected. Earthquake, April 14; no damage; severe on coast about Navarro. The Smith-Borel party sold their stock in S. F. & N. P. to A. W. Foster syndicate, together with the North Coast railroad in November.
In 1899, consolidation of two electric light plants, and raise of price of service, caused a bond election for building a plant, $18,000. Fire, July 17, burned east front of block on State street, between Stevenson and Church, fully insured. Healey, Tibbets & Co. awarded contract for bridge on east fork of river, at Bailey place, $4,000. Railroad rumors. Surveys made from Healdsburg to Anderson, and from Ukiah to Low Gap. Twelfth Dis- trict fair, 4th to 7th of October. Rudee block built, corner State and Stand- ley
In 1900, drilling for oil west part of town. International Geodetic sur- vey located an observatory southwest of town. In 1902, five bear killed on one hunt. J. L. Burchard died January 7, J. H. Donohoe on the 15th. Steam laundry inaugurated by Albertson & Co. Estimate of redwood timber at this date, in the county, 434,320 acres, 17,272.000,000 feet. J. R. Moore died April 30, a pioneer of 1857. Albion & Southeastern railroad incorporated for $1,000,000, to run up the Albion and to Boonville. W. H. Kent tree yielded 100,000 feet. July 23, a party left for Trinity pine region to locate homesteads. James Wilsey, in that vicinity. took 33,000 deer hides in eleven years. J. H. Seawell died August 24. In 1904, hold-up men made
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several attempts. Several days in April mercury above ninety degrees ; hot- test for month on record before, eighty-eight degrees. High school athletic team has won eight field days. L. Finne, Calpella, makes 6,000 to 8,000 gal- lons of wine per annum. Ships east, and to Asti. December 27, two brown bears strayed into west part of town. Daniel Gobbi, a pioneer, died January 17, 1905. Eel River Power company incorporated February 10, $500,000; work begun in March. Eversole block completed in February. Two mil- lion five hundred thousand hop roots shipped from Ukiah. Local railroad passed into hands of Southern Pacific. California Western incorporated to run from Fort Bragg to Willits, in June. Articles of incorporation filed by Southern Pacific in court house, to include Cal. S. P., Arizona S. P., New Mexico S. P., and Winters, Berryessa and Lake to Mendocino, and Elmira to Lakeport. M. Gibson's hop house burned, September 4; loss, $5,000; insurance, $4.100. Spring wool, twenty-eight to thirty and one-fourth cents. New dam being built at Asylum to hold one million gallons. Fire destroyed the old White building, east of plaza, November 1st; new brick to go up. December 22, Sheriff J. H. Smith killed by Frank Willard under arrest; D. M. Gibson appointed to fill vacancy. Rural delivery route established as far south as Largo. Extreme high water January 19, 1906; 5.60 of an inch fell at Willits. Stores all agreed to close at 6 P. M., except Saturday. Two hundred and fifty thousand grape cuttings brought up from Asti. Eel River Power company reorganized as Snow Mountain Water and Power com- pany ; capital, $5,000,000. Principal stockholders, Senator Fulton, Gen. Gra- ham and T. Hopkins. April 18, earthquake. Rudee block thrown eight inches out of plumb, pushing the new White brick over also. North wall of McGlashan building thrown out down to tops of upper windows. I. O. O. F. hall badly cracked on east end. Chimneys generally thrown down, book- cases emptied. State hospital lost a tower, and water tank removed from it. Odd Fellows removed east wall and built on a large dining room and kitchen ; White building taken down to the ground and rebuilt. Rudee's building was shifted back to plumb without great loss. Dr. Stout's well-appointed medical rooms were still further equipped with an X-ray machine. Higgins store, in Law building, burned out; loss, $3,500, fully insured. Library established in Eversole building. Stitt's barn, five horses, hay and buggies burned. Another day the old one-story shacks west of the plaza. The entire cost of Mendocino State hospital, $607,550. 1907, snow. Brewery company incorporated and first beer, February 14. March 16-17, heavy rain, 8.40 inches in two days. River within sixteen inches of bridge. Snow Mountain Water and Power company filed mortgage. $1,250,000. C. Hofman company in- corporated, $75,000, March 26. California Northwestern $35,000,000 mort- gage filed. to Farmers' Loan and Trust company, June 18. July 27, stage held up at Cold creek. U. R. K. P. in camp at Todd's grove, August 12. R. McGarvey died October 17. eighty-two years of age. Mendocino Vineyard company incorporated November 20. December, hops six and eight cents ; old, only two cents.
Stage again held up at Cold creek. January 15, 1908. Jail record : One hundred and thirty-six committed ; nine sent to San Quentin. Creamery, March 2. Electric power into town, from Snow Mountain Water and Power company. Articles of incorporation filed. South Eel River Timber company ; H. B. Hickey and others. Pressey and Jackson houses, corner Stevenson and State, burned. April Ist, electricity turned on from new line. Auto-
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mobiles on Eureka route. April 30, Evans & Orr planing mill burned; loss, $4,000, to George McCowen, owner. J. M. Standley, a sheriff of renown, died at Portland, July 8. McKinley, Gibson, and Weldon & Held brick and cement buildings completed. October 16, sufficient rain to raise Eel river. Hop crop 9,680 bales; average weight, one hundred and ninety pounds; 14,000 pounds of turkey shipped in two days. 1909, nine inches of rain for the week ending January 15. Meteorological report for January by Dr. McCowen; temperature from twenty-four to sixty-three degrees; greatest rainfall, 14th, 3.60 inches; for the month, 30.75 inches; other heavy rain- falls, February, 1892, 19.40; November, 1895, 19.11; March, 1907, 18.18; Jan- uary, 1913, 19.14 inches. May 3, H. L. Kohn's residence burned. Twenty- two petitions for "wet or dry" elections presented to board of supervisors. Constable T. Lynch shot, fatally, by Indian Dick Williams, who later com- mitted suicide. Another oil well to be tried. July 28, fire again west of plaza, in old shacks repaired from previous fire. Lindell Foster brought in one hundred and forty-five pound deer, August 1. September 23, second battalion, United States Fourteenth Cavalry, and detachment of signal corps, in camp. Sim's saloon burned out May 2; loss, $4,000; insurance, $2,500. Vierra & Scontranini put in 100-horsepower engine, ten-inch pump, 1,900 feet eight-inch pipe, to irrigate alfalfa in Coyote. Making cheese. On Mendocino road a panther came in a dooryard, caught and carried off a goat and two pigs, May 11, 1910. W. A. Hagaus, a pioneer, died July 15, 1911. Post Office savings bank instituted in town. July 20, hops forty cents. September 25, Ukiah voted for license by small majority. Second district, ditto; third dis- trict, no license by three majority. Ordinance closing saloons on Sunday at 10 P. M .; $200 license per year. Thirty million-gallon reservoir being built on Mill creek for Mendocino State hospital. Dam, forty feet high, forty- three feet thick at base. Superintendent E. W. King had a leg amputated December 11. W. D. White building, $2,000 fire.
E. W. King resigned from Asylum, to take effect May 1, 1912, having been superintendent nineteen years. In March, J. L. McNab appointed United States district attorney. Crystal ice works opened in April. June 14, board of town trustees passed resolution appropriating $800 annually for support of the library. June 19, dwelling of W. I. Bailey burned. W. J. Hildreth ranch sold for $75,000; bargained for $25,000 three years ago. Con- tract let for closing the gap in the railroad to Humboldt. July, electric power lines being put up about the valley. County Assessor M. A. Thomas died July 29. Sanford hop kiln burned ; loss, $7,000; insurance, $2,000. Dr. R. L. Richards, late of the United States Medical corps, appointed superintendent of the Mendocino State hospital. State highway in process of construction from Ukiah to Forsythe creek. (Finished June, 1914.)
January 10, 1913, mercury at fifteen degrees. T. E. Garner shipped $25,- 000 worth of hogs in last three months. An old landmark burned-Van Dusen saloon, east of plaza-erected in 1859. Wool, nineteen and twenty cents. Manganese globular safe for County Treasurer's office. Treasurer reported $212,182 in the county treasury. Ukiah house, a relic of 1859, demolished. August, a limb eighteen inches in diameter, reported broken off by the weight of wild pigeons roosting on it. Irrigation system inaug- urated from the river below the mouth of Ackerman creek. A fourteen- inch centrifugal pump installed, discharging into a ditch seven feet wide at the top, four feet on the bottom, eighteen inches deep, one mile long.
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City free delivery inaugurated August 1st. W. J. Kline killed three eagles. George Kinloch, first white child born in California, died in Ukiah August 28, aged eighty-four years. In its first season the local winery received 1,723 tons of grapes, $25,000. Hops down from twenty to eighteen cents in De- cember; sixteen cents offered for 1914 crop. December 16, hearing before the commission on rate for electricity for the town. Decision favor of town. In 1914 supervisors decide to take $150.000 of highway bonds. Treasurer reports $260,955 in county treasury. February 4, board of trade incorporated. A business man's association has been formed to bring uniformity of action on all public questions. The library was completed and formally opened on the 17th of April. The lot was purchased by subscription, raised by the personal efforts of Miss Carrie Garnsey and Mrs. A. O. Carpenter, and $8,000 contributed for the building by Mr. Carnegie. About the same time the new opera house was finished by a joint stock company.
Ukiah valley is one of the best and most extensive hop growing sec- tions of the state. The hops are of the best quality, and the yield is from 1,600 to 2,300 pounds per acre. They are three weeks earlier in maturing than in Sonoma, and less likely to be troubled with lice, on account of the absence of fog. There are about 2,000 acres in the valley used for this crop, and much more land that might be devoted to it profitably. It costs about nine cents per pound to make and market the crop, so that when the price soars to forty, there is a fortune in a ten-acre tract. The crop of 1913 amounted to over 16,000 bales. Corn makes a good crop on the river bottoms, and is often without a drop of rain or any irrigation from planting to harvest. Alfalfa yields three crops without irrigation, and is fast absorb- ing all the river lands not used for hops. It yields abundantly on the higher lands, but it is difficult to get it started there.
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