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SUMMER'S COMING SO IS FISHING Rocky Point Resort
ated bv Mr. and Mrj. Llovd Timmons for the last 18 vears. is on
public recreation spots. The first sleeping accommodations were tents. Many visitors
from large cities came to the spot to relax. Later, Charley D. Wilson, first owner,
built more permament cottages. The present owners operate the lodge, coffee shop,
small store, and have for public use, cabins, some modern, some not, boats and mo
tors to rent, II modern trailer spaces and 10 others for more primitive living. The
resort will open officially, April 20, opening day of the fishing season. Jack Fallon,
seated with black Labrador Rocky, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Timmons, once had a fox
farm near the resort and practically knows every stick and stone on the lake front.
Woe, to reporters who make mistakes when writing about old times.
By Rl'TH KING . It is possible the word Klamath.
Rachel Applegale Good, in hcrK'ame from the early trappers or
history of Klamath County, with
other historians, says origin of
the name Klamath is uncertain.
One thing is certain," says Mrs.
Good, "the Klamath Indians for
whom the county was named did
not use it or apply it to their
tribe."
They were, in tlie Klamath lan
guage, Ouse-kanee or Oux-kanee,
if they lived on the shores of the
big inland lake, Ouxy-kance if
their homes were on Klamath
Marsh. The suffix, kanee, means
people.
White men, attempting to spell
the Klamath word, after listen
ing to its euphoney, came up
with some weird combinations of
vowels and consonants.
Professor Gatschet, who stud
ied the Klamath language in the
70s, said Mrs. Good spoiled the
tribal name, "Eukshikni," and
a later language student, Leslie
Spier, who researched during 1925
and 1926. spells it "Aukchni."
In "Oregon's Geographic
names, published in 1928. are
nine different spellings, Clemmat,
Clamath, Klamac, Clamet. Klam-
et, Tlamath, Climath, Clamite,
and Clamrttile. A 10th, Athlameth.
was given by the "Kalapuya" In
dians to the people of this region.
the traders, since many geograph
ical names originated from this
source. The explorer, John C. Fre
mont, adopted Tlamath as more
nearly the Indian pronunciation.
The name could also have come
from the French Clair-Metis,
meaning a light mist or a cloud,
since many of the early trappers
and traders were of French ori
gin. Regardless, "Klamath" was
given to the lake we know.
The present Klamath Valley
was once a vast inland sea. As
the Klamath River channel was
formed and drainage outlets were
established, the inland sea dis
appeared leaving extremely fer
tile sous. Upper Klamath Lake,
among others, in the Basin, re
mained as a portion of that one
time vast body of water.
While the other lakes of t h e
region arc of geograpical inter
est, it was on the shores of Up
per Klamath Lake that today's
story was developed.
The coming of the first white
men, some with red hair and
bows and arrows unlike any the
Indians had ever seen, has been
chronicled many times. These men
could have been the Vikings who
left a rune stone in the northern
part of Minnesota in 13U2. The
markings on the pctroglyphs near
Tulelakc, if deciphered might
bear out this theory, since the
carvings on the pctroglyphs have
some similarities.
The first white man to ex
plore the Klamath country was
Finian McDonald, a trapper from
the Hudson Bay Company, fol-i
lowed by Peter Skeen Ogdcn, w ho
recalled the Clammite Indians
fine men in good condition, but
wretchedly clad."
Came later explorers, some w ho
exploited the red men, others who
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IN BUSINESS The Odessa Mercantile is owned and operated by Mr.
and Mrs. Emory Hardcastle who are well into their fourth year of busi
ness. They came from Monterey, Calif., where they operated a service
station because the west side of Upper Klamath Lake "looked promis
ing." Traffic has increased since opening of the Dead Indian Road and
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a greatly increased tempo is anticipated with opening of the Winne-mucca-to-the-Sea
Highway now under construction. Mr. and Mrs. Hard
castle will build a new service garage this spring. Mrs. Hardcastle is
at left. Right is an "A" frame house owned by George Vincent. It is
built without windows on log runners. .
, if
traded fairly, white man's goods
lor animal pelts.
Explorer John C. Fremont
buried his three victims of an In
dian raid in shallow graves on
Upper Klamath Lake, near the
present Harriman Resort. Many
many years later, my mother,
the late Mrs. Raymond T. Jes
ter, then living at Harriman
Lodge, and Mrs. D. E. Alexander,
now of Napa, Calif., found what
appeared to be three graves in
an open spot in the forest.
On one grave was a growing
plant, "fever-few," grown only in
the southern states as far as
knowledge goes. A leafy, deep branee." never was learned.
green vegetation, it is entirely
foreign to the West, according to
many gardeners who have been
interrogated.
Still later, Indian artifact hunt
ers opened the graves and re
moved bright beads, a buckhorn
needle, and a rusted U.S. Army
button, possibly from a tunic or
a jacket.
The source of Die "fever-few"
which in flower language of gen
erations ago meant
The Klamaths and the Moddcs
were encircled by a reservation
perimeter and the white man
used the red man's lands . . .
roads were opened, towns ma
terialized, a war was fought be
tween a handful of Modocs and
men of the U.S. Army who met
a wiley foe . . . timber went to
market and the smoke of many
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LET IT SNOW! LET IT SNOW; Tomahawk Ski Bowl
Inc., owned by Don Dlvens of Klamath Falls, has been a
mecca for hundreds of skiers when the weatherman co
operated. The ski runs enjoyed the best season in 1961
1 962 since the recreation facility was built in 1956. With
almost no snowfall the past winter, skiers were not so
lucky. There are five runs for advanced and beginning
skiers, a Poma-lift and two rope tows, an attractive
lodge, ski rental shop, and short order restaurant at the
bowl. Ski lessons are also available. Tomahawk Bowl is
located at the junction of the Lake of the Woods High
way and the Rocky Point Road; on the timbered slope of
what once was called School House Hill. A Pelican Bay
logging camp was located nearby about 1910. Some of
the ski trails are located on the old logging skid roads.
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FOREST HOME Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Junge, who came to America about 10 years
ago from Hamburg, Germany, and 3 ' years ago to Klamath Falls, own this attrac
tive, rustic home in the firs and pines on the Bob Sloan development. They spent some
time in Michigan, then started looking for a new location, liked the Klamath country
and settled here. Junge, a machinist, is owner of the Valley Machine and Welding.
Mrs. Junge is employed at Klamath Valley Hospital. Junge built most of their home,
which they named Junge's Zweifirs (two firs), for the two majestic, nearly identical
trees before their door.
ICE CREAM CONES GASOLINE? More and more tourists are finding the drive
around Upper Klamath Lake an experience not found in many parts of America. A
welcome break on the drive is Frank's Country Store at the Pioneer Guest Ranch on
the Rocky Point Road where Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jakubowski can provide groceries,
meats, fishing supplies, gas, oil and dairy products for campers and nearby residents.
Opening date for the summer season is May I. Not too long ago, folks who lived on
the west side of the lake drove to Klamath Falls or Fort Klamath for groceries. Tour
ist traffic is increasing in the area.
BEAUTIFUL SPOT The Herbert Fleishhacker family of San Francisco built Point
Comfort between the present Harriman Lodge property and Rocky Point Resort for
a summer bungalow, according to Ray Telford who came in 1904. The Fleishhacker
Company became financially interested in the Klamath Development Company head
ed by Gus Johnson. He later owned the property which included both Harriman
Lodqe and Point Comfort which passed through several hands bfeore being acquired
in 1949 by Mr. and Mrs. Walter Klinger of Hollywood. It is undergoing extensive re
modeling at the present time with the possibility of being opened as a resort. Large
lobby which overlooks Upper Klamath Lake has huge double stone fireplace.
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OLD LANDMARK Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sloan of Jdamath Falls are present owners
of Harriman Resort. Sloan has subdivided part of the property and numerous summer
and year-around homes have been built near the site of the onetime home of South
ern Pacific President E. H. Harriman. The old lodge heyday was about I9I3-'I4-'15.
It was named by Harriman. Mr. and Mrs. Sloan serve meals in the building in back
ground and have boats for rent. Cold springs feed the creek which flows into Upper
Klamath Lake. In years gone by Indian women poled their dugouts into the creek to
fish. Many of the old buildings are now gone. Mr. end Mrs. Sloan live during summer
months at the resort.
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STILL BUILDING Many new summer homes and cabins have been built above the
lake near Rocky Point Resort since it was built by Charley D. Wilson about 1900. It
was later sold to A. C. Allen Sr., who operated the resort for two years. Now 88, he
lives in Modford. His father, Leven Allen, built the first pleasure boat on the Upper
Lake, a launch, the Agla, and A. C. Allen Sr. and his wife had the first houseboat, the
"Jim Jackson." Dozens of homes, hidden from the highway above, rim the lake. Har
riett Peak is in background. Rocky Point Resort has chanqed hands many timet since
it was built, it now owned by Mr. end Mrs. Lloyd Timmons.
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FOREST SERVICE OPERATED Between 20-25 million feet of logs per year are scaled
at the Pelican Scale Station at the junction of the Lake of the Woodt and the Rocky
Point Resort highwayt. Probably 95 per cent of the logs taken out of the Klamath Du
triet of the Winema National Forest go to mills in Klamath Fallf and ll Forett Service
timber. The station, kept open all year, It manned by Art Neece and Willie Brazil.