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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1933)
Pa». « Th« Jacksonville Minar A Pictorial History of Southern Oregon’s Transportation Oregon Power Company) The original lane of travel over the Siskiyous wus an Indian trail. During 1858 Clement Thomas and his associate. Hen Holladay, built a toll road over this course, and it was the multi artery of travel between Cali fornia and Die Oregon country to the north After Redding. California, became the terminus of the Central Pacific Railroad, freight for Oregon was teamed from that point via the toll road at a charge of four cents per pound. Barron's (stags) Station, located about six miles south of Ashland. The stage shown was the last one to be drawn through the Rogue River valley, photo graphed at the time the railroad was completed. JUDGE COLVIG RECALLS that the railroad was completed as far north as Redding. California, during 1873. and the road from Portland south to Roseburg at about the same time. The stage coaches continued to be the connecting link between these points until the summer of 1S85, when the railroad entered the Rogue River valley. In their Concord coaches Thomas and Holladay carried passengers for 124 cents a mile. The Siskiyou Toll Gate, which stood near what is now Siskiyou Station, on the Southern Pacific Railroad, and the first stop In Oregon made by northbound trains from California. Main and Front streets. Medford, in the early 'eighties, showing the old Southern Pacific Depot, and the Riddle House, later rebuilt, and now the Nash Hotel. To Mr. Emil Britt, The Miner is Indebted for the privilege of reproducing the pictures appear ing on this page. Mr. Britt’s gal lery is a treasure-house of his torical data, having on fit»- a considerable collection of nega tives and prints made by his father. P. Britt, who introduced the art of photography to Ore gon. He arrived in Jacksonville tn 1953. The first passenger train to go through the Rogue River valley. Ths photograph shows landscape where the town of Phoenix now stands. timber wolves which would howl in I to his back. He bad but a few cent« try and modernized the method of ters, Mr» A. R Chase of Wenat a blood-curdling way in the forest ; left and could speak no English. handling by adopting milk bottle chee. Wash . and Mr*. Frank Oben- at dusk. Shortly thereafter, however, he containers. Later, in 1923, Georgo chnln of Bly. Ore. Ono other eon. When we younger children were went to Nebraska and took out a took over his brother's Interest. t Henry Wendt junior. lives at New Today the Wendt dairy boasts j Pine Creek. Ore. old enough to be placed tn school | homestead, met another German ------------- « , i- father bought a home in Ashland, immigrant and married her. The modern, sanitary, graded equip but owned and operated the toll couple, following a grasshopper ment, rich, wholesome jersey milk' Not Infrequently, ocean hope road for eight or nine years. plague and a drouth, moved to the and a brightly-colored delivery brew trouble for the aviator. By ALICE APPLEGATE SARGENT new west they had been reading I truck. Chester Wendt han stayed 8 about and settled In Jacksonville I by the business he grew up in and The The toll road across the Siskiyou mountains was built in in the year 1888. operates a dairy ranch in the West 1857-8 by authorization of the Oregon legislature. Previous Roth of pure German descent, Side district, selling whole milk to \ to this only a narrow, steep and rocky trail led the way across they recognized the need for a dairy a Medford creamery. in the historic old town they had these mountains. About 1860 my father, Lindsay Applegate, George Wendt's German ance*- --------- j decided was to be their home and try. as well as cropping out In hl*! bought this road. Dipping into the pages of history. Jacksonville's first milk merchant chosen work, lx revealed through' (Opposite Mueeum on Third St.) When this valley was dotted with beautiful farms and Ash romance and early immigration | went to work. As time went by , musical ability. He plays a horn land called Ashland Mills, Phoenix known as Gassburg and which filled this nation with a there were many children—nine in his with old-country flavor and rhythm i <111 — wno hip tiairy inciuR* j and will present hlx Jacksonville Jacksonville was the hub of the universe—so to speak—my hardy, ambitious race of people,¡all who uiaeu aided in the dairy Indus-* Dutch Lunches—Beer father moved his family from Douglas county, where I was | George Wendt this week related ¡try. All had their turn at driving Gold Diggers band to Gold Rush I Sandwiches the little two-wheeled cart from 1 Jubilee visitors this week. how the dairy he operates came born, to southern Oregon, and we lived for two years at the : into being. door to door and pouring milk Chicken Dinners to Order Other members of the Wendt toll house on the Siskiyous. i Back in the early seventies one from can to kitchen pan. family still surviving are Mrs. Hen Private Parties a Specialty Freight Over Siskiyou Toll Road the Siskiyou mountains and be-* Henry Wendt, Just 21, embarked When Henry Wendt passed away ry Wendt, mother, who resides with Mrs. W. C. Kssshafsr, Prop. Looking back to that time, I real- * held far below them the promised on the great adventure of his life. In 1916 two sons, George and Ches- a daughter, Mr*. Jim Issot, in Med Phons Jaoksonvllls 204 lze that it was a wonderful expe land, the Rogue river valley, lying' He had saved the price of passage ter. took over their father's Indus- ford. There are two more daugb-i X. _______________________________ rience for a child. Every day the like a beautiful garden between on an old sailing vessel plying be road was thronged. There were the mountain ranges. tween Germany and the United immense freight wagons drawn by States—that land of opportunity Forests Full of Game six span of horses; these we called I must not forget the wagons and promise for a man with cour- the “bell teams.” The leading span loaded with apples on their way | age. ambition and strength. Pas- had, fastened to the collars, bows to the mining towns in California. I sage required five weeks and four of iron which were hung with lit The wagon boxes were lined with days, for the old windjammer wax tle bells. These bells were worn1 straw and the apples piled into [ not of the fleeter, steam-driven to warn other teams, as there were them. These apple peddlers adver type. Wendt was a total stranger only occasional places on the nar tised their fruit in an unique way aboard and knew no one in this row mountain grade where these! by having a pointed stick fastened country. teams could pass one another. to a corner of the wagonbed on Upon arrival in New York City— When the driver of a team came which was stuck an apple. When that great melting pot which first to one of these places he would winter came and the snow fell deep tempers immigrants with their new stop and listen; if he heard the on the Siskiyous. as it sometimes I Americanism—Henry Wendt walk faintest sound of bells there was does, father used several yoke of ed down the gangplank with his nothing to do but wait until the oxen , and a big bobsled to keep the only belongings in a trunk strapped other team had passed. Then there road open to travel. Sometimes the were the long trains of 50, 60 and snow would fall steadily, filling the 80 pack mules all following the bell i road behind them and all day long mare in single file. Twice daily the weary oxen would have to travel great red and yellow stage coaches back and forth over the long moun- went swinging by, drawn by six , tain grade. The forests were FUNERAL PARLORS splendid horses. Unless a horse swarming with wild animals, pan-1 Medford. Oregon weighed so many hundred pounds ther, wildcats, black, cinnamon and was so many hands high the! and grizzly bear and great gray Oregon and California Stage com pany would not so much as look at him. They were all matched teams and I recall especially the sorrels and the grays. There were long trains of travel-stained immigrants with their weary ox teams. 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