Period of new spain

    ⁷⁹Citrograph, May 12, 1900.

    ⁸⁰Frank Kuffel patented 158 acres in Section 26 in March 1899; F32 Adam Kuffel homesteaded 158 acres in Section 27, 1900 F68.

    ⁸¹Citrograph, July 1, 1900.

    ⁸²Riverside Daily Press, august 6, 1900. Quote from San Bernardino Sun. Files of San Bernardino papers are very skimpy 1900-1902.

    ⁸³Riverside Daily Press, August 25, 1900.

    ⁸⁴Homesteads: Rogers F72, October 4th; Smithson F61, October 12th. So far as papers show he first leased the East half of the northeast quarter of Section 25, 2N 3W, from Frank Binkley after 1889. This adds the east half of the southeast quarter and some lands in Section 30 across the road.

    ⁸⁵San Bernardino Evening Transcript, August 24th, September 3rd.

    ⁸⁶Times-Index, July 21st.

    ⁸⁷Ibid. August 4th.

    ⁸⁸Citrograph, February 20, 1901, at trial.

    ⁸⁹Citrograph, September 29th.

    ⁹⁰Riverside Daily Press, July 24th; Citrograph, October 6, 1900.

    ⁹¹Citrograph, September 22nd, November 3rd. Postmaster C. L. Metzgar.

    ⁹²Citrograph. Knight's Golden Era Mine Property, Inc., @ $350,000.

    ⁹³Citrograph, December 29, 1900.

    ⁹⁴Ibid.

    ⁹⁵Deed 289-82. December 27, 1900.

PART 3, CHAPTER 16

"STARTING THE ENGINE"

    ²Ibid. February 20th.

    ³Citrograph, February 16, 1901.

    ⁴Times-Index, June 15th.

    ⁵Citrograph, August 17th.

    ⁶Times-Index, February 4, 1901: parts of nine townships.

    ⁷Riverside Daily Press, September 22, 1900.

    ⁸California Historical Quarterly, June 1948: "Founding of a Desert Community:" Martha A. Chickering.

    ⁹Citrograph, September 14, 1901: Account of letter by C. S. Porter to the Los Angeles Mining Review regarding Gold Mountain and Rose Mine.

    ¹⁰Interview with John Dexter. Drake said "the brave Anna Crain." I do not know his source of information.

    ¹¹Citrograph, July 6, 1901.

    ¹²Times-Index, July 11, 1901.

    ¹²See note 9.

    ¹⁴Deed 352-394 dated April 7, 1901, and not recorded until December 30, 1904. Told in Citrograph, March 18.

    ¹⁵Daily Times-Index, June 25th.

    ¹⁶Water Records G108. August 28, 1901. 10,000 inches.

    ¹⁷Henry Green Powerhouse site in Waterman Canyon. Forestry. February 15, 1901.

    ¹⁸Daily Times-Index, April 22nd; Citrograph, July 13. Drivers are: Russell Roberts, C. J. Daley, George Clyde, Frank Barker, Billy Martin, M. E. Bermudas, J. D. Watson, John Huff, J. G. Nish, R. F. Short, John Talmadge, C. A. Lamb, Chas. Goss. Also willing: Will Talmadge, Jack Weeks, Alex Wisom, Chas. Wixom, Jack West, Will Rathbun, Ben Hawes, Bud Hawes.

    ¹⁹Citrograph, September 7, 1901.

    ²⁰Ibid.

    ²¹Interview with Gertrude Switzer Berry.

    ²²Daily Times-Index.

    ²³Daily Times-Index, July 25th.

    ²⁴Patent F385, paralleling Smithson's Ranch.

    ²⁵Daily Times-Index, June 22nd.

    ²⁶Citrograph, July 27th.

    ²⁷Daily Times-Index, February 19, 1901.

    ²⁸Ibid. July 20th and succeeding issues.

    ²⁹Citrograph, August 17th.

    ³⁰Ibid. Quoting from a biography of L. M. Holt.

    ³¹Deed F72. September 15, 1901.

    ³²Citrograph, September 7th, August 10th.

    ³³San Bernardino Evening Transcript, March 31, 1902.

    ³⁴Ibid. Description. September 22, 1902.

    ³⁵Newlands (of Nevada) Bill. June 17, 1902.

    ³⁶By Judge Ross in Circuit Court. January 25th, February 8th.

    ³⁷Obligations are the Cleveland mortgage and monies due Hubbard, Fisher, et al. San Bernardino Transcript, July 23, 1902.

    ³⁸Citrograph, april 12, 1902.

    ³⁹Ibid. March 22nd.

    ⁴⁰San Bernardino Evening Transcript, March 17th.

    ⁴¹Citrograph, April 5th.

    ⁴²Ibid. February 15th.

    ⁴³San Bernardino Evening Transcript, June 26th. They will absorb Lytle Creek and be Edison Electric Company after Setpember 1st. Transcript, September 1, 1902.

    ⁴⁴Ibid. August 15, 1902.

    ⁴⁵Ibid.

    ⁴⁶Ibid. June 6, 1902.

    ⁴⁷Interviews with Miss Maud Kuffel and Mrs. Grant, daughters. 1958.

    ⁴⁸Per Gertrude Switzer Berry.

    ⁴⁹San Bernardino Evening Transcript, July 23rd.

    ⁵⁰Miscellaneous Records O233, March 27, 1902.

    ⁵¹Gus Sr. Deed 253-292, April 19, 1902. Nancy Deed 316-357, May 31, 1902.

    ⁵²San Bernardino Evening Transcript, August 12, 1902.

    ⁵³Mining Records Book 22-471 and 472. May 1902. In Section 32 R1E. Signers: Tom Stewart, J. R. Metcalf, J. D. Spargo, John McFee, Ed Dolch, Jim Johnston and G. W. Rose.

    ⁵⁴San Bernardino Evening Transcript, July 14, 1902. I suspect Matheson did Lucky Bill Hoisting Works.

    ⁵⁵Mines 32-198. Book 32 records Proof of Labor for 1902-03 mine ownership.

    ⁵⁶San Bernardino Evening Transcript, September 28th.

    ⁵⁷Deed 339-105 @ $1500. August 20, 1902.

    ⁵⁸Miscellaneous Records R172, R175, September 29, 1902.

    ⁵⁹North half of Section 17 and three-quarters of Section 18 @ $4000. Deed 310-96.

    ⁶⁰San Bernardino Evening Transcript, August 20th.

    ⁶¹Miscellaneous Records N242. November 21, 1902.

    ⁶²San Bernardino Evening Transcript. Index. February 6, 1903.

    ⁶³E. C. Sterling, who also built a mansion in Redlands.

    ⁶⁴Double that of 1902.

    ⁶⁵Citrograph, February 7, 1903.

    ⁶⁶San Bernardino Transcript-Index, July 16, 1903.

    ⁶⁷Ibid. Letters of William Stephen. May and June.

    ⁶⁸Ibid. July 22nd.

    ⁶⁹San Bernardino Transcript, July 24, 1903.

    ⁷⁰Ibid. July 29th. Per William Stephen, correspondent.

    ⁷¹120 acres in Section 20 from Olive Byrne, formerly Flanagan's Deed 335-110.

    ⁷²Miscellaneous Records R173. September 21, 1903. Deed 336-333 to 640 acres.

    ⁷³There were eighty-five camped.

    ⁷⁴Citrograph, June 6th.

    ⁷⁵San Bernardino Transcript, August 7. Gulielmus letter.

    ⁷⁶Citrograph, March 28th.

    ⁷⁷Ibid. May 7 and May 23rd, 1903.

    ⁷⁸Ibid.

    ⁷⁹Ibid.

    ⁸⁰Citrograph, May 9, 1903. General Agent A. S. Selig, H. I. Chatfield, F. W. Balfour and J. S. Brown.

    ⁸¹San Bernardino Transcript, July 14, 1903. San Antonio L & P. had claimed transmission of 10,000 volts in 1892. Holt: Westways, March 1957.

    ⁸²He issued citations to the Kavanaugh boys and Milton Vale: "fire arms" and "fire danger."

    ⁸³Citrograph, June 20th, quoted from Riverside Enterprise.

    ⁸⁴Filling the bottlet with a portion of dry lime, then water; corking, and tossing into a pool where it exploded.

    ⁸⁵San Bernardino Transcript, July 11th.

    ⁸⁶Miscellaneous Records O97. Brookings-Heap contract for ten years privilege on NE 1/4 Section 25 2N 3W (his homestead). One camp was known as "Chicago," still marked by a spring on the Helen-Dade Road; one as "Washerwoman's Flats" per Switzers.

    ⁸⁷Personal memoirs of Sara Switzer 1935-1940.

    ⁸⁸San Bernardino Transcript, July 1, 1903.

    ⁸⁹Citrograph, August 29th.

    ⁹⁰Mines 35-39. In the southwest quarter of Section 29, 3N 1E. July 22nd.

    ⁹¹San Bernardino Transcript, July 1, 1903. Gaylord-Taylor have a Mammoth Mine there (34-313).

    ⁹²Mines 32-198 and 199 Proof of Labor.

    ⁹³Ibid. 32-165, 168, 341, 344.

    ⁹⁴Ibid. 32-203.

    ⁹⁵Citrograph, August 29th. Later shown to be Dentist Nathaniel Kuns.

    ⁹⁶San Bernardino Transcript, August 30th.

    ⁹⁷Citrograph, September 12th.

    ⁹⁸Ibid. August 15th.

    ⁹⁹San Bernardino Transcript, December 2nd.

    ¹⁰⁰Chappel-Chase Nursery Mortgage C337. April 1903.

    ¹⁰¹Lawsuit. (Cf. Times-Index, September 20, 1904.)

    ¹⁰²San Bernardino Transcript, December 2, 1903.

    ¹⁰³Ibid. December 14th.

    ¹⁰⁴Of which $60,000 was repaid by insurance. Daily Times-Index, Jnauary 4, 1904.

    ¹⁰⁵San Bernardino Transcript, December 4th and 5th.

    ¹⁰⁶San Bernardino Times-Index, April 10, 1904.

    ¹⁰⁷Per John Hansen, Tyler son-in-law. Frequent guest.

    ¹⁰⁸Daily Times-Index, January 4, 1904: Gulielmus letter (Stephen's pen-name).

    ¹⁰⁹Times-Index, July 29th. George Dexter interview 1935.

    ¹¹⁰Sometimes called the Prairie Flat Station, an early location for the Scherman-Metcalf Mill. Gertrude Switzer Berry interview (Arrowhead Villas arch).

    ¹¹¹Citrograph, April 30, 1904.

    ¹¹²Ibid. March 26th.

    ¹¹³Ibid. April 30th.

    ¹¹⁴San Bernardino Times-Index, May 20th.

    ¹¹⁵Camp #2 (about Troy Beach).

    ¹¹⁶Camp #1 (on the present Batson grounds enclosed with a bamboo fence).

    ¹¹⁷San Bernardino Daily Times-Index, May 10, 1904.

    ¹¹⁸Shown by San Bernardino County Assessor's Rolls: 1904-1905.

    ¹¹⁹Ibid.

    ¹²⁰Ibid.

    ¹²¹To James Stocker. Deed 356-306.

    ¹²²Powerhouse guards at installations. Mentone litigation.

    ¹²³Mines 39-70.

    ¹²⁴Mines 39-141.

    ¹²⁵Mines 34-29.

    ¹²⁶Mines 37-359.

    ¹²⁷Mines 37-421 and 37-350.

    ¹²⁸Tax Rolls 1904-1905. $449. It may be seen also that Valley Gold Co., Ltd., paid on ten placers and mill machinery. Pedley paid on patented land in Section 31 3N 1E. Another taxpayer, surprisingly, was W. L. Palmer, paying on the Olio, San Bernardino and Mammoth ledges.

    ¹²⁹Mines 32-44.

    ¹³⁰San Bernardino Times-Index, July 19, 1904.

    ¹³¹Mines 40-214 and 37-23.

    ¹³²San Bernardino Times-Index, July 19, 1904.

    ¹³³Ibid. May 20th, October 18th.

    ¹³⁴Deed 430-384. July 12, 1904. In Section 25, T2N R4W, E 1/2 of NE 1/4; NE 1/4 of SE 1/4 (120) acres @ $4500; plus $4000 to Henry Guernsey for his timber lease. Citrograph, July 16th.

    ¹³⁵Times-Index, July 12th.

    ¹³⁶Citrograph, May 26th.

    ¹³⁷Times-Index, August 23rd; Stephen, correspondent. He did not say that the ten acres of the Pioneer campground was the only part of the Gregory-Guernsey lumber barony kept by Guernsey in the break-up. Deeds 349-200 and 354-311.

    ¹³⁸Times-Index, August 13, 1904.

    ¹³⁹Ibid. August 1st. Lightning death on Grayback.

    ¹⁴⁰Ibid. August 7th.

    ¹⁴¹Ibid. August 27th.

    ¹⁴²Ibid. September 9th.

    ¹⁴³Deed 354-311. June 13, 1905.

    ¹⁴⁴San Bernardino Times-Index, September 1st. Gulielmus column.

    ¹⁴⁵September 20, 1904, purchase of Waterman land; November 20th, building.

    ¹⁴⁶The cliff regions south of Running Springs School; forutnately not logged.

    ¹⁴⁷Citrograph, May 7th. Receipts from Public Land sales have been twenty-nine million dollars in two years.

    ¹⁴⁸Citrograph, April 23rd, May 28th, July 30th, October 8th, December 23rd.

    ¹⁴⁹Federal Agent Campbell's quotation of Agriculture Secretary Maxwell's letter.

    ¹⁵⁰Col. Wm. Vestal, a new arrival, newsman and politician from Indiana.

    ¹⁵¹Citrograph, July 30th.

    ¹⁵²Ibid. December 3rd.

    ¹⁵³Times-Index, October 27th; Citrograph, December 3rd.

PART 4, CHAPTER 1

"ROARING PROGRESS"

    San Bernardino Sun, April 16th and May 7, 1905. From Vulcan Ironworks, Wilkesbarre, Pa.

    ²San Bernardino Sun, May 12 and August 1, 1905.

    ³ARC vs. Francisca A. Jessurun, who wanted $100 per acre. She was paid $14,000, less than $45 per acre. Nothing was awarded holder of the second mortgage, Jo Brown, or to Frank Talmadge, who had only owed $3500 in the first place.

    ⁴San Bernardino Sun, May 17, 1905.

    ⁵San Bernardino Sun, July 19th.

    ⁶Ibid. July 25th. Severance, Vale, Dorman and Baylis held out, so the Board learned.

    ⁷San Bernardino Sun, April 6th.

    ⁸Deed 354-311. June 13, 1905. @ $10 (thirty day option on 2000 acres).

    ⁹Guernsey-McDougall Deed 359-339 on NE 1/4 Section 28, etc.

    ¹⁰See San Bernardino Sun, September 28th, when the cook came down.

    ¹¹Deed 377-142. May 20, 1905, not recorded until May 12, 1906: G. W. Nuels and J. F. Redhead sixty shares each; C. C. Ames and W. L. Olmstead fifty-five shares each caseh; A. Gregory seventy shares paid up. The Oak Lumber Mill and the Huston Creek Mill balance each other in valuation.

    ¹²San Bernardino Sun, May 15, 1905. Midnight ceremony.

    ¹³"Near the Island" per Thaddeus Lowe, hunter and fisherman here.

    ¹⁴San Bernardino Sun, June 1, 1905. May 25, 1905, was the first shovelful.

    ¹⁵Ibid. July 19th.

    ¹⁶San Bernardino Sun, August 11, 1905.

    ¹⁷Ibid. October 20th. Fierro, near Barrel Springs.

    ¹⁸Ibid. November 17th. Deed 306-206. August 15, 1905; Returned October 4th. Deed 372-51.

    ¹⁹Ibid. August 11th. With Northrups, Patterson, Feeney and Blackburn. Mines 37-421.

    ²⁰Mines 47-75.

    ²¹Mines 40-251. One mile northwest of Wilbur's Cabin, Upper Holcomb.

    ²²Mines 44-121, et al.: Grand Rapids, Portland, Old Guvnor, Mt. Mineral Key, Rosebud, DeLaMar Duplicate, Black Metal, McDuff.

    ²³Mines 36-253.

    ²⁴George Dexter interview 1935.

    ²⁵San Bernardino Sun, August 19th and 29th, 1905.

    ²⁶Ibid. August 12th.

    ²⁷Ibid. June 27th; July 6th-8th, the Chicago run.

    ²⁸$40,000 worth on August 10th. San Bernardino Sun.

    ²⁹April 6th, September 8th, October 17th per newspaper mention. Perhaps as a counter action there will be a Benjamin Leiser and Charles Bradshaw who, on October 28, 1905, locate a Bedrock Mining placer (37-428) in the southwest quarter of Section 18, 3N 3W, across the mouth of Deep Creek, which they will sell to the Arrowhead Reservoir Company. They Arrowhead Reservoir Company seems to have its own suspicions.

    ³⁰September 8, 1905.

    ³¹Interview with Frank Mooney, 1958.

    ³²San Bernardino Sun, August 31st.

    ³³Ibid. October 4th.

    ³⁴San Bernardino Sun, October 25, 1905.

    ³⁵George Dexter memoirs.

    ³⁶Recorded in San Bernardino, January 31, 1906. $1,560,000 of holdings are increased to a $6,000,000 stock issue.

    ³⁷Once Frank Mooney checked in Gamble's own office for some record of James A. Gamble's investment in the Arrowhead Reservoir Company or the Arrowhead Reservoir and Power Company and found one loan of $60,000. It could be true for it was aJames E. Mooney's way to have "a front" for his operations. They say he paid every bill.

    ³⁸A memory of Margaret Smith Green (Mrs. Perry).

    ³⁹San Bernardino Sun, March 13, 1906. Five thousand inches was also running out of the Tunnel #1 pipies under the Gatehouse.

    ⁴⁰San Bernardino Sun, June 21, 1906.

    ⁴¹Ibid. May 16, June 13, 1906.

    ⁴²Ibid. May 26, 1906; Citrograph, June 2, 1906.

    ⁴³San Bernardino Sun, May 12, 1906.

    ⁴⁴Ibid. July 24th.

    ⁴⁵Ibid. August 31st. Each stockholder paid in $800 except Reverend Neff @ $400. Guernseys have $1600 in the corporation.

    ⁴⁶The road block was cleared by July 4th.

    ⁴⁷The nickname for Camp Lincoln after so many teamsters had camped. Per George Dexter, the flat main street of Crestline.

    ⁴⁸San Bernardino Sun, September 23rd.

    ⁴⁹William Stephen's columns from July 18th through August and September.

    ⁵⁰San Bernardino Sun, August 8th completion.

    ⁵¹The spools of inch-and-a-quarter steel cable to be installed have already arrived, on a flat car that they broke through in transit. San Bernardino Sun, September 2, 1906. Toward Spring, they say, twnety-three tons, 17,000 feet that will have to be cut in four pieces for hauling.

    ⁵²Thaddeus Lowe interview at Highlowe Farm, 1955.

    ⁵³Memories of Margaret Smith Green.

    ⁵⁴Purchased on June 20, 1906, per the Los Angeles Times, along with other lines for a belt route in Southern California.

    ⁵⁵San Bernardino Sun, September 18, 1906.

    ⁵⁶Ibid. June 28th. City fathers wired Washington, to no avail.

    ⁵⁷Evening Index, September 1, 1906. @ $50,000.

    ⁵⁸Deed 369-246. He asks to work the earth they excavate.

    ⁵⁹Water Applications H-11. It spoke of a 160 foot dam to be construct4ed near the southeast corner of Section 13, T3N R4W, and a 36 square foot tunnel that would carry the water through the mountain to San Bernardino Valley.

    ⁶⁰Water Application H-22, June 29, 1906, arranged for a fifty foot diversion dam on the East Fork of the Mojave, 2080 feet northeast of the southwest corner of Section 17, T3N R3W, i.e., the deep basin near the foot of today's Arrowhead-Hesperia Road, and a tunnel to the Reservoir on the West Fork.

    ⁶¹San Bernardino Sun, September 1, 1906.

    ⁶²Ibid. September 15th.

    ⁶³Ibid. August 3rd; he had a "reverts if not used" clause in the deed.

    ⁶⁴San Bernardino Sun, July 28th. Which subsequently drew $2700 for the job.

    ⁶⁵Los Angeles Times, May 24, 1906.

    ⁶⁶San Bernardino Sun, August 7th.

    ⁶⁷Citrograph, February 5, 1906.

    ⁶⁸Ibid. September 15, 1906. Quoting Redlands Facts.

    ⁶⁹Deeds 394-396, 377-314.

    ⁷⁰Citrograph, February 6, 1906; fallen through February 17th.

    ⁷¹Deed 370-207. Signed by order of the Court. @ $8500.

    ⁷²Per Albert Wells, Seeley grandson.

    ⁷³Deed 370-327. July 5, 1906. @ $15,000.

    ⁷⁴Citrograph, December 22, 1906.

    ⁷⁵Ibid. April 21st. Said to have been $35,000-$40,000 a month.

    ⁷⁶Ibid. November 3rd.

    ⁷⁷Citrograph, August 25, 1906. Nearly complete November 3rd.

    ⁷⁸Ibid. May 19, 1906.

    ⁷⁹San Bernardino Sun, October 3rd.

    ⁸⁰Citrograph, June 30th.

    ⁸¹Deed 370-146. February 15, 1906. Agreement of the stockholders.

    ⁸²Deed 382-77 to Tuthill-Cheney. July 1906; 397-235 to Gregory. November 17th.

    ⁸³San Bernardino Sun, September 12, 1906.

    ⁸⁴Citrograph, May 19th.

    ⁸⁵San Bernardino Sun, September 20th.

    ⁸⁶Ibid. September 28th, Octobger 5th, from the Los Angeles Index.

    ⁸⁷Citrograph, October 13, 1906.

    ⁸⁸San Bernardino Sun, October 21st. The doomsayers.

    ⁸⁹Ibid. October 14th; Citrograph, October 20th.

    ⁹⁰Citrograph, October 20th.

    ⁹¹San Bernardino Sun, November 2nd.

    ⁹²Water Records H45. December 5, 1906. San Bernardino Sun, December 6th.

    ⁹³San Bernardino Sun, December 6, 1906.

    ⁹⁴San Bernardino Daily Times-Index, January 18, 1907.

    ⁹⁵Ibid. January 27, 1907.

    ⁹⁶Ibid. January 4, 1907, February 9, 1907.

    ⁹⁷Ibid. January 26, 1907, March 23, 1907.

    ⁹⁸Citrograph, February 2, 1907.

    ⁹⁹Daily Index, January 5, 1907.

    ¹⁰⁰Citrograph, March 9, 1907.

    ¹⁰¹Daily Index, March 6th.

    ¹⁰²Ibid. March 23rd.

    ¹⁰³Daily Times-Index, April 17, 1907.

    ¹⁰⁴Citrograph, April 27th.

    ¹⁰⁵Evening Index, June 11, 1907.

    ¹⁰⁶George Dexter, A. A. Dexter, Peck brothers, Frank Baca, A. J. McGinnis, R. E. Imhoff and J. J. Foster.

    ¹⁰⁷Per John Dexter: the cap-rocks were rolled up a plank from a wagon.