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A saw-mill was built five miles from Cottonwood, in 1854, by Nicholas Horn, Wilcox, Clark, Cave, John Horn, and others, who composed the Mill and Fluming Company. This was operated till 1864, when a new one was built on the west branch of Cottonwood creek, four or five miles above the other, by William Smith. It is still operated by John Hilt.
There was quite a quartz excitement here in 1857, though but little resulted from it. The old Lodi ledge has been worked for twenty years, though not accomplishing much. It now belongs to McConnell, McManus, DeWitt, Morse, and Jacobs. A quartz- mill of five stamps was erected in 1880, that works the Lodi ore and that from several other ledges.
Cottonwood now consists of one hotel, one store, one saloon, one blacksmith shop, and a number of resi- dences. Considerable mining is still carried on in the vicinity, and several good ranches surround the
town, those of William Smith and Silas Shattuck being the principal ones.
SCOTT VALLEY.
By far the largest area of improved agricultural land lies within the limits of Scott valley. It is separated from Shasta valley on the east by a high range of mountains, and is hemmed in on the south by Scott mountain, on the west by the Salmon range, and on the northwest and north by Scott Bar and the Klamath mountains. The towns of Callahan's, Etna, Oro Fino, and Fort Jones are within its borders, as well as many large and well cultivated farms, the leading ones being those of I. S. Mathews, Oliver Goodale, Augustus Meamber, John P. Meamber, James Davidson, John T. Moxley, L. S. Wilson, O. V. Green, George Heard, P. A. Heartstrand, George Smith, Charles Hovenden, John W. McBride, Josiah Doll, Jeremiah Davidson, J. P. Wood, James Bryan, Charles M. Nentzel, and the Wolford Brothers.
In the winter of 1850-51, many prospecting par- ties passed through the valley, and when gold was discovered on Yreka flats, Scott valley became a highway to the new mines.
In the fall of 1850, William R. Pool, Edward Wicks, and others, from Scott Bar, took up a land claim where Augustus Meamber lives, for the pur- pose of herding horses and mules, as there was no grass to be found at Scott Bar. They built a log cabin and a corral, and charged the miners a good round sum for grazing their stock. In 1852, this place came into the hands of Samuel Johnson, and was known for a long time as Johnson's ranch.
In August, 1851, Elijah Steele, Briggs, Sloan, and Tiernan, built a double log cabin two miles from Fort Jones, on the road to Yreka. Tiernan was in charge until winter, when the partners dissolved, and Steele occupied the place with Lucius Fairchild, and supplied beef to the mines.
In September, 1851, George Rice, Wallace Holt, and two others, took up the land now owned by P. A. Heartstrand. There was a small cabin on it, erected that spring by men who were shooting game for the Yreka market. Early in the spring of 1852, P. A. Heartstrand and Asa White bought the place, and the former has lived there ever since.
In the fall of 1851, M. B. Callahan located Calla- han's ranch, and brought his wife there the next spring.
James Spall built a small cabin on Mule creek that winter.
Brown & Kelley built the well-known Wheelock's trading-post at Fort Jones that winter.
Early in 1852, John McKee, son of Redie MeKee, the Indian commissioner, took up the Peter Smith ranch, and Rev. D. H. Lowry, the O. V. Green place. Grove K. Godfrey also took up a place that spring near Fort Jones. The Lone Star ranch, now owned by I. S. Mathews, was located upon the same spring by a man named Starr. Dutch John settled the same year at mouth of Hamblin gulch ; J. C. Camp- bell located Mrs. Luddy's place. Col. Charles Drew and Benjamin Drew, took up claims where John Wagner lives, but soon left them in the charge of Captain Allison, who sold them that fall to George
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Smith, James Stevens and John Kane. Cradiger and wife opened the Belleview House, a famous place for dancing in the early days, and the Shores brothers, Glendenning and Wininger took up a place on the same side of the river. These with the L. S. Wilson ranch, which was located late that year by John P. Wilson, Samuel Cole, Abram White, Thomas White, and Jeremiah Day, comprise the settlements in Scott valley at the end of the year 1852.
Twenty-nine votes were cast here at the election held for township officers, May 29, 1852. This was a portion of Scott River township, and the polls were held at Lone Star ranch. In 1853, and for several years thereafter, many new places were set- tled and many of the old ones changed owners, until the valley was taken up from one end to the other. Its development appears more fully in the history of the towns immediately following.
On the third of December, 1854, the first white child in the valley was born. It was James M. Davidson, now deputy county clerk and civil engineer.
FORT JONES.
The enterprising little town of Fort Jones is the business successor of the now extinct Deadwood, and the nearly dead Hooperville. It lies just below the junction of Moffitt and McAdams creeks, eighteen miles from Yreka.
A cabin was built at this place, late in 1851, by Brown & Kelley, who sold the next spring to Capt. John B. Pierce, O. C. Wheelock, - Fouts, and John and Stephen Watson. The place soon came into the hands of Wheelock, who kept a small trading- post and a house of public entertainment. There were a number of settlers in the valley, and a great deal of travel past this point. It was a station on the regular route from Yreka to Shasta, as well as to the mines on Scott and Salmon rivers.
The hotel, which stood opposite A. B. Carlock's residence, did a good business, and was well known, far and near. The trade with the soldiers of the garrison was by no means a small item in the busi- ness of this post. In the fall of 1852 Major Fitz- gerald, with a detachment of cavalry, established the post of Fort Jones, one-half mile above Whee- lock's. He was soon succeeded in command by another officer, who was relieved by Capt. H. M. Judah, now a general. Under him three lieutenants, J. C. Bonnycastle, George Crook, and - Hood. Crook is now the celebrated Indian fighter, and Hood was a noted general of cavalry in the con- federate army. The post consisted of a few log build- ings, until the arrival of Judalı, when several frame structures, expensive in those days, were erected. When the post was abandoned in 1857, these were sold and moved away ..
In 1853 James Davidson took up the land on which a large portion of the present town now stands.
As the valley became settled and the mines began to decrease in population, it became evident that Wheelock's was a better location for a town than Deadwood or Hooperville. Those places were rapidly falling away. In 1858 Darling & Stor- ment opened a small trading-post near the site of A. A. Beem's stable. The same year C. N. Thornbury
started a hotel where the Fort Jones Hotel now stands, and J. A. Diggles & Brother (H. J.) opened a store in a frame building, on the ground now occu- pied by the Odd Fellows Hall. They built the present brick store in 1861. Darling & Storment sold their stock, and Storment opened a blacksmith shop just north of Carlock's store. In 1858, also, a livery stable was started at the place now kept by Beem, by Newton Pratt.
Thus in one year quite a town sprang up at this place. In 1859 J. H. Downey opened a shoe shop. In 1861 Mrs. Eliza Sterling commenced keeping the Union Hotel, of which she is still the proprietor ; and soon after Mrs. Hughes, the present proprietor of the Fort Jones Hotel, began to preside over that house. In 1860 A. B. Carlock and S. E. Stone opened a store here, and built the brick store where Mr. Carlock now has his office.
The new town was known variously at first as Scottsburg, Scottville, and Ottitiewa. The last name was bestowed upon the post-office in 1860, which was established that year with J. E. Thomas as post- master. It is the Indian name for the Scott valley branch of the Shasta tribe. A meeting was held at Thornbury's hotel, September 29, 1860, at which. the following resolutions were passed :-
WHEREAS, This place is known by different names, thereby causing confusion and inconvenience to our inhabitants and others transacting business with us, therefore
Resolved, That this village be hereafter called Fort Jones.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the Yreka papers.
J. E. THOMAS, Chairman. C. N. THORNBURY, Secretary.
The name Ottitiewa still remained as the title of the post-office, and another meeting was held in 1862 at which a petition to the postal department was adopted, to change the name to Fort Jones. This was done, and by that name the town has been since known. The telegraph office was established in 1864, and the express office in 1865.
About four o'clock in the morning of September 5, 1867, the day after the election, a fire started in the rear of a saloon between Carlock's store and the North Star Hotel, destroying it and the hotel, and burning the roof off Carlock's store. The loss was about $10,000. This is the only fire of consequence that has occurred in the town.
Fort Jones has progressed slowly and steadily, and has a trade established on a sound agricultural basis. It is the supply point for a large portion of Scott valley, and the mines along McAdams creek, Indian creek, and adjacent streams. The business men look forward to a railroad through Shasta valley which they can reach by a short grade over the mountains, and thus make Fort Jones the cheapest point for supplies in Scott valley. It contains four stores, a semi-weekly paper, church, two hotels, livery stable, telegraph office, express office, post-office, two black- smith shops, flour-mill, meat market, and a number of other shops and saloons, besides many residences.
The Methodist Episcopal church was completed in 1874, and is a neat frame structure. Episcopal services are occasionally held by Rev. T. G. Williams, of Yreka.
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HOME OF THE LATE A. J. GOODNOE NOW THE RESIDENCE OF MRS. R. D. . STONE FORT JONES, CALIFORNIA.
A. H.DENNY
STORE OF A.H. DENNY, CALLAHAN'S RANCH, SISKIYOU CO., CAL.
THE FIRST STORE AT CALLAHAN'S. ERECTED 1854.
WELLS FARGO QUIZ
RESIDENCE OF A.H.DENNY. - CALLAHAN'S RANCH, SISKIYOU CO., CAL .-
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By the Act of March 16, 1872, the legislature incorporated the town of Fort Jones, subject to the general Act of April 19, 1856, with boundaries " commencing at an oak tree, blazed and marked, on the north line of the land of B. R. Morris; run- ning thence in a westerly course on the land divid- ing the land of Isaac Hamilton and widow McDer- mott, to the land of James A. Davidson; thence sontherly along the dividing line between the land of James A. Davidson and H. J. Diggles, to the end of Diggles' land; thence in the same direction to the southwest corner of the lot of J. K. Luttrell; thence in an easterly direction, by the southeast corner of the land of A. Owens, to a stake on the point of the ridge between the town of Fort Jones and the United States Fort Jones reserve lands; thence northerly to a stake four hundred feet east of the dwelling of Dr. T. T. Cabannis; thence in a direct line to the place of beginning."
The officers provided for were five trustees, one recorder and ex officio secretary of the board of trustees, treasurer, assessor, and marshal, to be elected the first Monday in May of each year. The first election was called, and the votes canvassed by County Judge Shearer, and the trustees organ- ized the board May 24, 1872, by the election of Joel Newton as chairman.
December 6, 1880, the board named the streets respectively, Main, East, Sterling, Mathews, Horn, Newton, Carlock, and O'Neal.
OFFICERS OF FORT JONES.
1872-73.
Trustees-Henry J. Diggles, Adam B. Carlock, Joel Newton, Alexander Owens, David Horn.
Clerk and Recorder-Robert S. Green.
Marshal-James M. Luttrell.
Assessor-Alfred Atkins.
Treasurer -- Louis La Croix.
1873-74.
Trustees-Henry J. Diggles, Alexander Owens,
I. S. Mathews, B. R. Morris, F. O. Sampson.
Clerk and Recorder-Robert S. Green.
Marshal-Jesse S. Burge. Assessor-Alfred Atkins.
Treasurer-Louis La Croix.
1874-75.
Trustees-E. Reichman, Henry J. Diggles, Adam B. Carlock, J. B. Wortser, *Joel Newton.
Clerk and Recorder-Robert S. Green.
Marshal -* James E. Thomas.
Assessor-Alfred Atkins.
Treasurer -* N. H. Smith.
*Chosen at special election May 25. Had been a tie between Joel Newton and B. R. Morris for trustee, and J. W. Wheeler had failed to qualify as marshal and Louis La Croix as treasurer,
1875-76.
Trustees-Joel Newton, Adam B. Carlock, Henry J. Diggles, David Horn, Felix Kunz.
Clerk and Recorder-Robert S. Green.
Marshal-A. Lang. Assessor-B. R. Morris.
Treasurer-Jacob Bills.
1876-77.
Trustees-Henry J. Diggles, Adam B. Carlock,
David Horn, Joel Newton, E. Reichman.
Clerk and Recorder -- Robert S. Green.
Marshal-James E. Thomas.
Assessor-
Treasurer-
1877-78.
Trustees-Henry J. Diggles, David Horn, Aaron Bar, Joel Newton, *R. D. Stone.
Clerk and Recorder-Robert S. Green.
Marshal-James E. Thomas.
Assessor-Jesse J. Pool.
Treasurer-Adam B. Carlock.
*Special election May 22 to decide tie on thirteen votes between R. D. Stone and A. A. Beem.
1878-79.
Same officers as the year before.
1879-80. Trustees-Aaron Bar, Joel Newton, Henry J.
Diggles, David Horn, Jacob Bills.
Clerk and Recorder-Robert S. Green.
Marshal-James E. Thomas.
Assessor-Jesse J. Pool.
Treasurer-Adam B. Carlock.
1880-SI.
Trustees -- Henry J. Diggles, David Horn, L. Fie- bush, R. O'Neal, Aaron Bar.
Clerk and Recorder-Robert S. Green.
Marshal-James E. Thomas
Assessor-J. S. Burge.
Treasurer-Adam B. Carlock.
1881-82.
Trustees-I. S. Mathews, Aaron Bar, Henry J. Diggles, *David Horn, *R. O'Neal.
Clerk and Recorder-Robert S. Green.
Marshal-C. Ehret.
Assessor-J. S. Burge.
Treasurer-Adam B. Carlock.
*Chosen at special election June 4, on account of tie on seven votes between David Horn, Jacob Bills, and Louis Heller.
ETNA.
Located on the west side of Scott valley, adjacent to the foot-hills of Salmon mountains, and between them and Mill creek, lies Etna, a thriving business town of about three hundred inhabitants.
In 1853 a saw-mill was completed on the site of the present town by Mr. Bauer and others, who dug a ditch from Etna creek. Joseph Wardlow supplied capital for the enterprise to the amount of $3,500, and carried a note to that amount until it was worn out. The greenback theory of paying old obliga- tions by substituting new ones, was not then pro- mulgated, and so he lost the debt entirely. In 1854, Charles MeDermit, Charles D. Moore, William and Dr. Davidson, built a flour-mill one mile from the present town, which Mrs. D. H. Lowry named Etna Mills. The firm was known as MeDermit & David- son. A saw-mill was also built, and in 1856 Jere- miah Davidson and William Miller erected a distil- lery, which was operated for ten years.
In 1855, Abisha Swain, H. C. Swain, Obe- diah Baer, George Smith, James Stevens, and P. A. Heartstrand commenced the erection of a flour-mill on the present site of the town. This
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was named the Rough and Ready mill, and the town that grew up there bore the same appel- lation. The christener, James Stevens, was lost on the ill-fated Central America. The mill was ready for working in March, 1856. Up to this time the only dwelling-house had been erected in 1853 by the saw-mill proprietors, and this year E. F. Heroy and Abisha Swain built residences here. The other proprietors of the mill lived on their ranches in the vicinity.
There was now considerable rivalry between the two little towns. Swain Brothers opened a store at Rough and Ready in 1857, in a frame building where now stands the brick store of Parker, Camp- bell & Co. A hotel was erected in 1858 by H. B. Bixby. It has been enlarged several times, and is now the Etna Hotel, so well presided over by Isaac L. Baker. The first white child born in the town was John H. Swain, October 5, 1857.
At Atna Mills there was a store kept by Davidson Brothers, and one by Sleeper & Green, a cabinet and furniture store by Charles McDermit, a hotel, the flour-mill and saw-mill, the distillery, a black- smith shop and machine shop, and quite a number of families and residences. Trade by means of pack- trains was carried on over the Salmon mountains. Trade was good, and saloons and whisky plentiful. This was by far the more important and prosperous settlement of the two, till the floods of 1861-62 greatly damaged the mill and town, and injured its business prospects. A post-office had been established there, with M. Sleeper as postmaster, who was succeeded by James H. Taylor.
From this time the town of Rough and Ready became the principal business point, and rapidly absorbed the other. The post-office was moved in 1863, and Abisha Swain became postmaster, suc- ceeded by H. J. Diggles, D. H. Shaw, and the pres- ent incumbent, J. M. Single. The office still retains its old name of Etna Mills, the spelling having been modified.
In 1865 Joseph Young & Brother, Swain Brothers and George Smith, purchased the building and machinery of the flour-mill at Yreka, and brought them to Rough and Ready, and rebuilt and refitted them. It was run by steam till 1872, when it was changed to water-power. It is now owned by Kist & French. The original Rough and Ready mill is still standing and is used for a warehouse.
The telegraph office was established in 1869, and the express office in 1878.
There was found to be considerable inconvenience in using the name Rough and Ready, there being a town and post-office in Nevada county by that name, and as the name of the office here was Etna Mills, the people began calling the place Etna in 1870. By the Act of March 13, 1874, the legislature changed the name of the town to Etna, and by Act of March 13, 1878, incorporated it under the same name, sub- ject to the provisions of the Act of April 19, 1856. The boundaries given were :- "The same as surveyed, made and established, and as appears by the plat and copy of the field-notes and survey of the said Town of Etna, made and returned by A. M. Jones on the sixteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, to the County Judge of said Siskiyou county, and filed in the office of the County Recorder of said county." The officers
created were: five trustees, a recorder and ex officio clerk of the board, treasurer, assessor, and marshal, to be elected annually on the first Monday in May. The election was called by Judge Shearer, the votes canvassed by him, and the city government inaugu- rated.
The business of Etna is with the surrounding farmers and the miners along Salmon river. Goods are packed over the mountains on mules to an extent that few would suppose. In 1878 there were for- warded 276,528 pounds of Scott valley produce, and 84,436 pounds of general merchandise. This all went to the Black Bear mine. In addition to this, 150,000 pounds of mill produce were carried. The two hundred mules used in this traffic pack about 600,000 pounds of all classes of goods across the Salmon mountains annually. Owners of pack-trains are, Bennett & Miller, Charles Baird, Henry Peters, James A. Abel, Peter Dunlevy, Mrs. Neilon, and Mrs. Martha Smith. Considerable light express is sent by the mail-carrier. The mail is forwarded in summer on a horse or mule, but in winter the car- rier takes it on his own back, and crosses the deep snow on snow-shoes. This is sometimes both a dangerous and difficult task, and in the winter of 1879, Charles Hooker died from exposure and ex- haustion, while carrying the mail down the opposite side of the mountain.
The water supply of Etna is furnished by a ditch from Mill creek nearly two miles above the town. This furnishes power for the flour-mill, saw-mill, furniture factory, brewery, and marble works, besides being used for irrigating on some of the adjacent ranches.
Etna contains five stores, two blacksmith shops, three hotels, two livery stables, two carpenter shops, one flour-mill, one saw-mill, one marble works, one brewery, one furniture factory, two markets, one millinery store, one weekly paper, one church, a num- ber of saloons, and several neat residences. The oldest settlers residing in the town and vicinity are Abisha Swain, J. C. Campbell, P. A. Heartstrand, George Smith, E. P. Jenner, Joseph Young, Enos Young, John Smith, Peter Smith, Alexander Parker, Charles Hovender, James Bryan, A. M. Johnson, Jeremiah Davidson, Henry Budelman, O. V. Green, and Daniel Davis.
A Congregational church is just being completed at a cost of $2,500, and subscriptions are being taken by the Catholics for an edifice for their denom- ination.
The Etna cemetery is situated a short distance west of the town, at the base of the mountain. It is on elevated ground, which slopes gradually and evenly toward the old Etna road. It occupies an area of about ten acres, and is inclosed by a substantial board fence. The brush and large trees have been cut off and burned, and it is now covered with a vigorous growth of graceful, neatly trimed black oak. The ground, though elevated, requires little or no irrigation, and when more attention is given to beautifying the ground with shrubbery and orna- mental trees it will present a picturesque appearance. That portion nearest the road is the public burying ground, and that next to the hills is owned by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Masonic fraternities. The latter was fenced and laid off into lots, walks and avenues in 1871, and is divided by
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a central avenue. The site was selected for the burial of the dead in 1866. Most of the monuments were made in Etna from stone procured near the cemetery.
A log cabin was built by the Sons of Temperance at Crystal Creek in 1855, and was soon pur- chased for a church by a Methodist Episcopal society that was organized there. Rev. D. H. Lowry donated some land to the society, and a parsonage was built upon it. The land is now owned by O. V. Green. On Wednesday afternoon, May 1, 1872, the church was burned, and Rev. A. Taylor, the resident minister, lost a valuable collection of books and manuseripts. A new church was then built near L. S. Wilson's residence.
OFFICERS OF ETNA.
1878-79.
Trustees-James A. Diggles, Henry Truitt, J. S. Beard, A. M. Johnson, Henry Budelman.
Recorder and Clerk-H. W. Sullivan.
Treasurer-Abisha Swain.
Assessor-Martin Marx.
Marshal-N. C. Evans.
1879-80.
Trustees-John V. Brown, J. S. Beard, Henry Budelman, F. W. Frantz, R. H. Strasburg.
Recorder-H. W. Sullivan.
Treasurer-Abisha Swain.
Assessor-Martin Marx.
Marshal-J. M. Single.
1880-81.
Trustees-J. S. Beard, I. L. Baker, Jacob Mess- ner, M. B. Pitman, F. W. Frantz.
Recorder-H. W. Sullivan.
Treasurer-Abisha Swain.
Assessor-Martin Marx.
Marshal-Lucius Moxley.
1881-82.
Trustees-Thomas Amos, R. H. Campbell, Henry Budelman, R. P. Taylor, C. W. Kist. Recorder-H. W. Sullivan.
Treasurer-Martin Marx.
Assessor-Albert Wallis.
Marshal-L. H. Johnston.
CALLAHAN'S AND SOUTH FORK.
The south fork of Scott river, where it comes from the mountains, became the scene of considerable mining in 1851, being discovered and worked by some of the parties on their way to Scott Bar and Yreka, either from below or Salmon river. A trad- ing-post was opened there that fall by Stinchfield & Murch. The south fork has always been a lively mining locality, and quite extensive mining opera- tions are still being carried on there.
The business center of this region is Callahan's, a thriving town located at the junction of the east and south forks of Scott river, and at the foot of a mountain peak known as Mount Bolivar. In the fall of 1851, M. B. Callahan came to this place and decided to locate here. He built a small cabin and furnished a slender meal to weary travelers for one dollar and a half. The next spring he absented himself for awhile, and returned in June with his
wife and opened a regular hotel. He also engaged in the business of supplying meat to the miners, and opened a store in the mines, three miles above his ranch, selling it to L. S. Wilson in 1854. The cabin which he built stood in the dooryard, just east of the present hotel of Hayden & Brother.
On the seventeenth of August, 1853, Mr. Calla- han filed a land claim on his location :- "Commenc- ing about 150 yards west of the junction of the north and south forks of Scott river; thence run- ning south one-fourth of a mile to a stake; thence east one mile to a stake; thence north one-fourth of a mile to a stake; thence west one mile to the place of beginning ; the said boundary not to exceed 160 acres of land, and which I intend to occupy and improve according to the possessory laws of this State."
Asa White, Masterson and Lyttle bought Calla- han out in the spring of 1855, and Asa White soon after became sole proprietor. M. Sleeper, Draper, Hamblin and R. P. Lacy were merchants there in the early days. Mr. Lacy built the first plastered house, which is now a portion of the residence of A. H. Denny. In 1855 Callahan's became the termi- nus of Greathouse & Slicer's stage line from Yreka, passengers from there being sent over the mount- ain on mules. It has ever since been an important stage station.
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