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But the boundaries of the Klamath Mountains were not greatly changed, for in many places they rise quite abruptly from the present shore line. All the large valleys of California were flooded, including the San Joaquin-Sacramento valley, which was then a great sound, open to the ocean in the region of the present Strait of Carquinez. The Coast range was broken up into islands and peninsulas.
I have no information about the situation of the two built since that time. The principal mining towns are Yreka, Scott's Bar, Hawkinsville, Johnson's Bar, Deadwood and Cottonwood. Trinity and Shasta. South of the western part of Siskiyou and the eastern part of Klamath, lies Trinity county, ninety miles long from north to south, and about twenty miles wide on an average.
Another company of immigrants was murdered on Crooked creek not far from the ranch of Van Bremer Bros. on the west and south side of lower Klamath lake. Who they were, where they came from, how many in the train, will ever remain an impenetrable mystery. Waiting friends "back in the States" have probably waited long for some tidings of them, but tidings, alas, that never came.
We have here nothing to do with those who attend the resorts such as Tahoe or Klamath; nor yet with that much smaller contingent of hardy and adventurous spirits who, with pack-mule and saddle, lose themselves in the wonderful labyrinth of granite and snow, of cañon and peak, of forest and stream that makes up the High Sierras.
Alarming Sounds Danger of the Scouts Fremont Goes to Their Rescue Arrival at Sutter's Fort Ordered out of California by the Mexican Governor Fremont's Refusal Withdrawal to Sacramento River Arrival of Despatches from Washington War with Mexico Meeting with Lieutenant Gillespie Night Attack by Klamath Indians.
These were the first Klamath Indians I had got close enough to, to see how their moccasins were made, and for a person engaged in the business that I was then in, it was quite essential to be able to tell the tribe an Indian belonged to by his track.
Between Yreka and the Klamath River a narrow, rapid stream, recalling some portions of the Housatonic, which we intersected about noon, and along which we rode for an hour we met only two or three silent horsemen and as many eremitic wood-choppers.
Extending gradually southward around on both sides of Shasta, these at length united with the older field towards Lassen's Butte, thus encircling Mount Shasta in one continuous cloud zone. Rhett and Klamath Lakes were eclipsed beneath clouds scarcely less brilliant than their own silvery disks.
For five years its real resources were neglected. Gregg, 1849. It was merely the shipping point from which the mines of the Trinity and Klamath rivers were supplied by mule trains. Gradually agriculture was developed, and from 1855 lumber was king. It is now a great domain.
The spring salmon ascend only those rivers which are fed by the melting snows from the mountains, and which have sufficient volume to send their waters well out to sea. Such rivers are the Sacramento, Rogue, Klamath, Columbia, and Frazer's rivers. Their milt and spawn are no more developed than at the same time in others of the same species which will not enter the rivers until fall.
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