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Home My Public Portal AboutMcCall, Idaho: History I - 1900-1947FOUNDING OF McCALL, IDAHO by F. P. Rowland (an eye witness) Early in the month of April, 1892, I carried the U.S. Mail from Lardo, near Boulder Creek, strapped on my back, traveling on snow shoes (skis) over four to eight feet of snow to the "lake", as it was dubbed, a distance of ten miles, and left it at Tom McCall's house not far from the shore of Payette Lake, when I, through misunderstanding, should have taken it to Meadows Post Office ten miles farther on. This blunder of i,,airfe now caused the iall cont-rfu,ctor -house Davis" to make an extra trip for lCiniishing the rarticular doilvery. Conscouently I received no pay for my lam_ his,early day m contractor frcm, Vanwyck (now under the :meter of Cascade Dam), to ':;Ieado,js Post Office (north end of his routs) was tailed "Root -1iou's a Davi s b'v cauz,., e he I.11j, ed in a c all ar in the little Salmon River Mjeadovis tawn, The followir,,r, sii.r(imer 1 verit.with nearly the t,!hole ponulation of Long Valley to celebrate the Fourth of July at Picnic ` "taint- on the cast side of that bcautiful body of water ne"stling in the bosom of an extinct volcano. Of course we had a 1L>00d time colabrating, (to-ld in a later story' mostly i� rUItZ, 1,l!ith frJands and t-,etting, acquainted -.1 -Atered, perziontLl cazit�--c� with nwacclmers. Settleii).ents beins, -wridely sCL Fa u&,wy Ida. Fr_UNDING 'U"F Mc-CAI-L) by F. P. Rowland (an eye Wit'ness) NOT TO B ii:- 'UkKEN FROM LIBRARY larly in the is oath of car..Led the U.S. V° ii from Lando, .').ear '')oalder Creok st pped on n-,y back, trfl-,velin,, on IM1011-1 Shoes (skis) over four to ei-bit feet of to Ulc 111ak-Ir a distariCe of ten Vj_ it was dubbei, Ues, ard "G -ft it at Toria "-Call's hoUse riot far fro.-tj the ahore of Pk'lyette Lake, when 11 throur-gig misunderst and in.,-,, shoix,ld have taken it to Office ten miles farther on. 'J."his blunder of i,,airfe now caused the iall cont-rfu,ctor -house Davis" to make an extra trip for lCiniishing the rarticular doilvery. Conscouently I received no pay for my lam_ his,early day m contractor frcm, Vanwyck (now under the :meter of Cascade Dam), to ':;Ieado,js Post Office (north end of his routs) was tailed "Root -1iou's a Davi s b'v cauz,., e he I.11j, ed in a c all ar in the little Salmon River Mjeadovis tawn, The followir,,r, sii.r(imer 1 verit.with nearly the t,!hole ponulation of Long Valley to celebrate the Fourth of July at Picnic ` "taint- on the cast side of that bcautiful body of water ne"stling in the bosom of an extinct volcano. Of course we had a 1L>00d time colabrating, (to-ld in a later story' mostly i� rUItZ, 1,l!ith frJands and t-,etting, acquainted -.1 -Atered, perziontLl cazit�--c� with nwacclmers. Settleii).ents beins, -wridely sCL 2-• rare. *.nd appropriate frathering place fCIr hornesvekers, 7his an -rovr�, lc�d by ealltiful 5cenery. Crystal water sta 3 o-�hers, tO vi,-�" b forests on all. sides of tIrle Jake, Mlies and wdles of virgirial evergreen chiMI more miles bouth ;.1a.rd® inc la ,t aad doi,�rn Long Valley stret beau'L-Afied by knee -hifj,h gr as ses and un-t old LJI,,)usarYds of wild flow-e-4s e of many descriptions- This ,;Hole -,,,as holding out a -- hand to all people wrho chanced to learn of al,ca a good opportunity t.o mal chase timbered lands for future use and sale, ce n ew homes, pur, and above allt to start a new town in this neck of the woods. le country— .of citizens from different ,marts Of tI Th.e gathering there were strings Of -horses and mules with heavy bulky packs on the ir food and ...ons transporting provision -dra%lim w freight a-. 0,acks, horse ide Of tho{ lakes from ill'eiser and Council, mining supplies u,? the wrest s 3ome through Long Valley from Boise, on their way to _"Aurgdorf, .-.,q-rren the back country. Anywhere ;ilollo the lake and other dirlgi , ngs in called tittle.; nrovided excellunt carnping ground, but farther on a log house als Lnld lo in f© - tor's, dz Statehouse" fu for vravelers tables and feed for the animals also • sightseers, 2nd hunters; there ,sere s -------- ------- 44ith this int erest ing traf fic and vacant timbered land adjoining s the 1,-Ikf-- shore was sufficient en.coura�,',er-C"It to aliz-I o t any hoesteader V to conceive the id6a of startilliT-- Mich a town of whom, Tom II.cCall was the foremost of all; ooho, according to the historian of the 7th and it c, tile. first 10- cabin from Sam 8th [;rades of I'IcCali �,jchool, purchase' e-I he ai pat Of squatter"s rights* in what became t m n r Devers who claimed ir, e,,,.charige for the cabin 0N t(�,apz of hc'rses, n the village;; giving and harness." This deal the neces3ity of a saw mill in order to p-, oh: --.ed wri6h building operations. McCall. historian again, �il> . "The '..'arren Cold '.-redging Comoany D-uAlt the first saw mill, oi,,Tned I, by McCall until it burned sometime afterwards". Now that the lumber was :Corthcoming for construction, P"X. 14cCall was at a loss to kriok,? Just how to begin laying out a town- site 'in these -wilds, being unable to do the work and had no surveyerI3 C� instrument and chain for meazurinz distances until a railroaQ` surveyer suddenly made his appearance at the location of the intended pro,,ect, whow I'Dad" employed 'to lay out stre= -ts and lot boundaries -%.n a dense grovTth of black pine- (lodge pole) 3a- inns the lake larie yellow nines, and fir trees. The tim ber along little -wray back each -buy chore -was more or,�-,nbut a lit, yer had to clear away the small trees, stilm ns, and logs from his own lot. The first four blocks now be definitely staked out, the founder laved the foundation and built his hotel on Second Strect facin,,-, Lake Street. The to,m was not bocrning, but gradually lots sere ,-.old. A store operated by 11"d lb-crMahm.' was built and operated by him until Newt. Williams came in 190U" and purchased it, which he managed until business increased to the extent that a larger buildinE.-, was needed, ands accorcjjn-� to the "Histbrian", men of the tovm formed a stock company and erected the lase er two story one. As Newt's business was good he ,,vas soon able to pay for _it. HL continued running this business untlil ill hcalth compelled hira to retire, and he died later. I'his same business was managed by diffc;rent ri,.en until .-,oy I,' ray departed from that institution and vent into the h,crdviare business in another building, across the street v,,,here fie, is still prospering. 'T OFFICE LARDO NAAMING TII4r n, C";`3 The U.S.- Post Office Records show there wls a Post Ciffice narred Farlo, i,ith 3'.7rs. Nellie Killoram as the only postrRster, Auqust 6th 1889. This office was in sorre homesteader s house on -,zid Oteek well to the west side of Long Va lley. it was di-sContinued on "Sept- ember 20, 1890. The drift of population becoming centered along Boulder Creek, that locality being more adaptable for settlement, and convenience to the main road to Roseberry, noise, and the outside country. 'Ll"hus we conclude that Lardo p.o,-,,t Office was first established near 1.'-ad Creek or directly east to 3oulder Creek, with John R. Lane aplpointed as first nostmaster RovemlDer 30, JS�81'9. The - Harlo post of.,-"ice furnishings vere transported directly cast along the sarrwx sect-ion line J;-Vst :-her=e is on t' e strear. o" the zam-e name, LaI.T- Fork Lumber Company's sa-Al Mill i-I I- L where hiFhway 15 crosses it, and a mil,6- farther r7as`t and F, as set-up s} small grocery More who eras appointed _n G.F. Troch's {gyred Trol postmaa st er.' July 2, 10890. Mr. Troth left Lon',, Valluey, a few years Mter, the Post Offi-� e paraphernalia was taken to Roseberry,, and, according to 11 J.D. lqcCallj Torre 141-cCall's son, _T "1147 father i4rent to Rosenberry, fyot the fixtures, and brcurlit them to tae lalce amend. Dlaced !;he apparatus in his- cabin he had traded for". He was appointed ,postmaster September 19, 1894. Afteinvards the offica. 14,"as set up in the hotel, but because of mismanagement, Boydstun -wras appointed postmaster June 12, 19,03, and he took -the office furnishings and set Uhem in his general store aac>ross the river at the outlet of Payette Lahl'e . 4 f . "his re3tless Post Off Ice ncyv took a lon, breath for eight or nine Y-ars wh,-n PrOssini; business cOrIqeII,,,.d Mr. Boydstun to turn the POfiIt office-, work ov:-,r to L'Idward 1141. Colr;! 14110 MRS a-e0pointod postmaster 1912; he instilled the Outfit in hio primitive Hovke Restaur- ant one block from his fatherts Aore. • The records still shoo -jing, Mr. Cole's urife 0 jophl a Cole , was appointed POStmistress of the same office, and in the same buildir"f -, L.Iarch 15, 1915. a affairs n' L_ I low Col-,ipelled r. -'Ole to seek a -new ho'Lla in another state for the convenience oIC ,e-ting his children in school villex-, were less. For this cause was forced to leave, and nobody "n the whole re-ion wanted ,thi, Office. Th,,!refore it Laid to rest. No grave mound or marker to be 3een, T�2t t1le narre "Lardoll a leach to the whole dis'k-'rJet and in the mainds of ail I oeople far and near, THE LAIM0 LE-GrND lattire is A notoriou-_I, story about how L rdo received its name which runs as follavis. A huge painting in thc,. Shore Lodh.,,e dia-Ln,, room shows a team of horsewrunning r Awav with a load of fre,*,,jjt A. contajnin sacks of flour and buckets of Lard in boxea- The boxes have broken oven and the lids knocked off taj( cans and flour sacks bursted, U with the lard akin a dough---�lard and douh' mixed gave the narnne La•d-T'01t? Lardo. .1 htrove i-,!ritten inany letters in nii effort ('00 prove or disprove this stozy. I ?!4y father and oldest brother Arthur were in Long Valley in 1890, the rest of the family moved to this vicinity in 1891, locatinn- in a cabin one mile from Fred Troch's store. I hvid never heard how Lardo got its name until some years after. Neither did Ira Pottenger who already lived not more than three miles away and he says, "It isn't so". I learned that Fred Tre0ch lived in Grangeville; he and his wife died- some years a--o. I wrote to the assessor in Grange- V4 ille, hoping to get trace of any children. The answer came, Eby G. Troch, Route 2, Box 113, Grangeville, Idalio. 1 wrote to nimij and his answer =was, sister,Goldie, ii-.-azi born at Lardo; five years old when the family le °t Long Valley,. aria' she remembers hearing, her father and mother tellln.�71 the flour and lard mixup". This information nuts a clincher to the lard and dough 'story proving, that it is the truth. I take off my hat in avology! It is also a mystery why us oldest of old ti-mers failed to hear of the irycident, as i-.,e were living in the vicinity where the accident har_,pezied. It is., an even greater mystery why I failed to know that my brother Arthur L Rowland had been inayor of i. .,cCall until about a year, ago. I kneW he wrote checks for the school tezichers, but I thought he was chairman of the school board. I was living on my homestead until 1918 and visited his place only occasionally. In early days this village, Lardo, was progressing forward threatening to outdo our new tovin in a race for aupremacy, but = xcCall Resort be�-.Ian sprinting and forged ahead -antil Lardo was, partly" forgotten. This wayside stop-,.in V4 I _; placo h,,) 4.ng a great aversion to being smothered in the dust; of forgotten days, now moves ahead with masculine strides, attempt ifig to regain its place "in the race once 7- started,. Tae fir 3t eyeopener was the "Shore Lodge overshadowing Brown's sawmill in some respects. The "ski jump" northwesterly from Lardo on Hil-hviay 15 has a cr-invenient modern ski lift where contestants ride up th hill and slide down like school boys, only on a larger scale, standing on their' feet strapped or clamped to slKis. There is enjoynient and .recreation in t1jis sport - and occasion - all y a iaroken boneo Ano,her- iii )Orta it stride is owlrand Brother: 7rivate Garage and a full 11X0 of equipment as, 1fre Gravel drec... drag line Gk elevator Gravel trucks bucket hoes ,,Ouckr�,t loadAer ,, --ot-ry and blade snow P!Ow- Other truck mixers, bull dol-ler .� - � ) 1, . ei*ien' meal Boydstunts businesses are Riverside Store) Clenn's ;Ut ', Garafre and Filling -Station, Horace Fiereday's heating and Plumbing, , and other places of buz;iness, also a school house aind many residences. This is a young city rrro-wing I into importance, a worthy-suburb of t 1,Ae village resQ.rt* *L ;il Having chased Largo's post office from the cradle to the grave, we shall loosen- 2,10 11-ost Iffice from its moorings in the Finnish district where it was first 'established Barth 31, 1905, with John succeeded by 1-!�'illiam E. Eloheimo January Floheirao as postmaster, t,,as 81 ost Uffice which P 1907. Jacob Kaaritajppoirited postmaster of L10 post rested in John Kaantals store In j-jcGall for a time. As this name for the post office was very unpopular with the citizens of the village, controversies ensued, causing a petition to be circulated, aad, after other names were suggested, the name Elo was changed to 1111cCall July 13, 1909. The name stood pat. Helga M. Cook was appointed postmistres's of 11,11cCall most Office April 1, 1914. Now that. our city has a'post office of its own, satisfaction is reflected in all faces and added contentment, as the post office was taken from Kaanta Store and set un in a room provided for it by the 0. C. Anderson Company in the south end, of their new brick building where Uncle Sam zm.ilingly reclines in his easy chair. Helga 11. Cook served until C.L. Burdette was appointed postmaster in 1.940 and was still aerving, on January 8, 1958, -'S A`4 yet Shortly after the first mill fire, Ben -41VIcCall, -Fred Green, and Tom Ford installed another mill on the east side of the lake, which they operated until financial difficulties forced them to sell. H.T. F'off purchased the mill, and erected a flour mill, of several stories In height, using the best machinery obtainable, operating both mills until they burned in July, 1912. Roff and his son, Theadore, built .,till ,till another mill, takin4-Bert IMills in as partner. He sold his Interest to Carl Brovvm in 1913. The firm later was known as Hoff and Brown's Sawmill. After some time, Ex. Hoff also sold his interest to Mr. Broi,.-n. This mill alsa burned along with the flour mill. After that the saw mill was moved farther up the lake and greatly enlarged with machinery brought from a distant part of the state. The firm now continues under the name of Brown's Tie and Lumber Company, turn- I J.ng out millions of board-feet of lumber and thousands of railroad ties, the huge payroll being the main livelihood of a young city and large community. Brown's Tie and Lumber Company, at the present time, have :30 million feet of logs . in the lake.. J.D. ? 01 cCall, son of Tom 141cGall, says, "'Nett sawed the lumber for the ho-el our house U I I and some other residences at father's savmill, a stone's throw from our home. Also the J11-uriber for the headgate,. bridges, fumes, and penstock for the Clarfolz 1,11fining ditch". he original 1%'cCall Hotel, managed by Clem Black-,well for a time, his saloon in one ,end, is now known as Lakeview Rooming Blouse with Lola's Cafe serving as, kitchen; the same room was previously occupied by Blackwellis saloon, 1-1110 moved his liquor business across �second Street directly opposite his former location. Aftez--,Tards, he began enlargiRg his saloon with kitchen, dinin� room and lobby, a dozen bedrooms in the upper story,, Msultirig in Brundage hotel. The old NTcCall Hotel was overflviing, witil guests, and this hotel also.reaped a good harvest of patronage for a few years until it burned and was never rebuilt. Charred remains of the porch posts may still' be seen in the cement sidewalk where the building stood..' The IIbCall Hotel escaped the flames by the efforts of sympathizing citizens throwing water on the walls, while others passed back and forth with huge slabs of cardboard boxes, thus relieving the water throwers and wall of some of the heat. But Vioe . to the buildings on the opposite side of the burning Brundage, for,, as the Historian says, "The I.G.A. Store, Old Theatre, 141cCall Light and Power Office, 'Aary Ann's Bakery, and Dr. Numbers' Office were all destroyed. ft 10 Those high sidewalks and porche's,-above and in front of stores and hotels gradually gave way to lacer sidewalks of plank while cement was beg innirg, to be used; before, the steel tired tiagons ground through the sandy streets, tracks seen. in a photograph, do,orn to the road leadin- , alork-, the lake shore! to Lardo. 'rhis road, 9" long since abandoned and replaced by Highway 15 farther back from the water, passes through Lardo also. C. Some of the small-places of business, a necessity in every town, such as restaurants, a cafe, butcher shop, barber shop, pool halls (the names of which, with a little change of activities are now called clubs or lounge), and Roy-'Sta-ver's old established I'Dog House Dining Room", also popular jail and Fire House in different narts of the told n. III E't t 3 ?A P E R 3 The Long Valley Advocate,being the first newspaper. published at 14c.Call, was edited by Aohn R. Wallace in 1904, and, says the "Historian" main, "this weekly was sold to Fred IIullen, who raoied it to Roseberry! Havi long it remained there is not known, but the office's last ap--earance was in Donnelly edited by Mrs. 14ckinley, who moved to Cascade. What became of the machinery is not understood. The "Historian", still saying, "The Payette Lakes Star was first published in the old Nutting building at Lardo by Frank Roberts. After one year it was moved to .McCall and edited by Gordon Squires," ' This business changed hands several tiffies more until the present editor, Britt Nedry, took over and made a great improvement in its pages to the satisfaction of all 'Stargazers ". i P A I L I Z,,:) A, DS, na, 1914 t people wire gatherin at the east side of -arly in J.1 9 toim with ea,-,,er faces, expecting something to happen, and it did, on steel rails. As the '`or no' Sri i n b ors a w, "M -layinf, devi-e ap: ea.re d. thrcugh the cut in the ridge: at the cast edge of town, it was sien to proceed ahead of two flat cars loaded with ties and rails, all puohed ahead by the locomotive., On the side of th .se cars and t1la trac!c-1ak"n,, dr.1vica also, was a little W -.7 4 tramway o-1-1 .ihich firsto, wa's a strin,-,, of ties one be-alind the other goins fon-MA-d to a turntal)le at the very, front; of all equipm�;nt, turn.,'..n,.� r !tbss,,Ise :here man took trf� ;► 'W, the- earls and carrlic;d th--ra. Y v, ��,i -i Iblic, -radcd roadbed. ";,_xt; came k--•hc- rails oil the n,head, 7 .::x' in, oi SRma •t�-,,A%ms he1d out o v e �- t4cc tio,3 by a windless device, then lo-i-ered aind spik-ed to the ties by a large crew of men with heavy ha..mers. In this -;.a3 tlic Idaho IN'ol-w"hern -,ail&-oad, traveling-zlowly but surely to its dent.ination one i i'l e farth:^r, dritten 11T ",Ikoport", on the c o.m oany books and +11- 1 cket s `Thee s-ightseers gaze ncod shifted to the rir-,ht act the engine came into view--huge, round horizontal boiler on tots or whIch etas the one gre;.,tt eye of this mechanical horse locking, straijht ahecW, sr"oke star' k, sand do.-ae- bell, and a steeple; Ovihistle) on his iron back, cah and tender. jeneath J)i3 ra)assive body—in the vernacui.ar of the day, tho 11kow ketcher pilot" in front--did you ever see one "ke-tch a kow'11--iimmediately back of it _,ere the cylinders it,ith -niston rods and side rods connected to the maesive driv-wheels operated by steam po-,Ver. This horse's tail -consisted of a number of box cats, the living quarters of the crew. It is understood that the U.S. Ost Office Department refused for a rust office to be granted at the ra i .1 r o;j, j terITI-In93 't too neir the ,,ve 1.1 s0t'lad narme. and to-en of g(" Ca11, The' '�a'IrOad Boxcar Der)ot 'V-;ai brou,,�ht baclk. to about ' depot now stands.. it va - -. where the Present SOMe confus- ion to have one name for the S"tlOn and another name for tile toga. owl, This contention is brought 011t v to,je follo forcefully by , wing jqoj,d,. A man having I)ou.p angrily, ;)ht a ticket looked at it, saying , YC'11 have Ca"Q' (" for a ticket to "cCall and .-,Iven me Orle to Lakeport !t? Tilt? .9 the scame Plz"cejl" was the calw reDI expressecl in bitter t Y This nj ix,10 was err"s ur"'I tile com.pany erased Lakeport'j,rom thi,jr tici f',ts anc, j X Put the sign on the station fri�� feot". '.4ccalll elevation 5022 The Conre, �ti'Dn,al Church 14t 1912. Some time c I rst was establiShed in McC- All August —wards the Catholic Chur' oh wa 8 n ow k n o built. The, as A"ex-1call Legion Hall was the fq)isco�, used. by the 17azarene p eople al Church for a tine, then The F'111-1 Gospel 14,, ,1,, 'y tll(-� R'aPtists and Others. Ohurch was built ill 1939 rough sla bc� Z�ls a tabernacle of ) then floor6d, "alls sealedi. ceiling raised; Wood shed on back end torn away, buildin, ', extended for Sunday school rooms' all 31abl; removed, and vortical rustic siding, on entire building. D.3 meet in City Hall. Others are Highway Chapel s, orthj�testern Fountain C' I h urc,�. Dii'le ochool) Dr. J-3auart 8 First Baptist f+ S ELECTRICITY f Electric lighting of the village was first begun by Austin Goodman with stem poorer at the side of the psyette Giver near L,ardo which lasted until the burning of the saw mill in 1912. In the summer of 1913, Eugene Bennettand Ed Pepper undertook the lighting business and rude a success of its though there not being sufficient remuneration to support, both men, Pepper dropped out and Bennett persevered until 1930, when Walt Jordan took over; George Shafer began working with him in 1931. The 4test Coast Power Company began the responsibility of furnishing li4;ht and power for the town in 1940 to 1944 when the ld "ho .A'-ower COMPanyr recei.ve(i- res?ponsibility of thy: busines6 on �4PtembLer 11, 1944- Old timers remember the dark nights of early days when we dizzily trudged through t he driving snow storm in the dark' placing each foot alternately directly ahead of the other, like a tight-rope walker, as we stenned inthe deep, narrow sled tracks, then, coming suddenly under one of those small street lam!)s. It was, in comparison, like coming-out of midnight into broad day light. Even the fast falling snowflakes had a beautiful, weird glow as they descended through the Ti.ghted space 'slantwise in the wind. Now, the large high street lights light, up a greater and brighter area, besides Neon signs of assorted colors and designs, allowing pedestrians to pass along sidewalks End streets with ease. mother contrast was ,the coal oil la:.n dirml.y shining; out of the windows of stores and dwellings. It /14 ` f 0 SCIIr OLS The Historian. says, "- -lack of teachers, - -lack of scholars, and se ool house. ::r York held school in her home one year. ;ear it -was held in the Hancock horr.,e ; Heac,,_,.ck) . :mother The first school house z,ras erected on Timber R;dge. In 19U) the Star schod house was built''; by R. T.. i?owinrd south of where thF Railroad Stock yards are.« ?rior to the buildin, of the school house in i..cCall, 1910 1,1rs. John Peterson held. school .n the lean -to .,;hic•h is Y,art of the "old" C. C. Andetrson Company's `tore des+ Toyed yea's ago. Soon after the i icCall .'school house was built Icy A.L. '?oalard in l-' >1:0, now the Cit�r Hall, two teachers %Jere needed, '",nrt it i on was rut in-- nu::,her of scholar's increased. Not long; after 1920 the present school house was erected on the '. ill �,,!,ere the 1910 City Hall formerly stood; -the latest schoolhouse is cverflowing �:r _th the fourth graders taken to Lardo by bus and the High ''chool.ers to Donne.11.y 1 -7 bus also. The First and Eeccnd grades are divider with nart of .each grade attending in Dr. Pflug's clinic and part in the schoolhouse. The third grade is also d 4 vided y:ith part of the children in the American Legion Hall and the rest ii, the school 'house. A voting was held this fall to obtain the Icceptance or rejection Of 'lTCCaI1 and Donnelly :school bonds for building a High School at ,. ..,cCall, will ninq; a large majority of votes for KIcCa .l. The population of perman.ent residents is hard to obtain now with- cut p< instal�in -; canvasine; but is rout ly est ted at 120c to-15001 �^.hf.ch nuYnl�er increases ,yell urn to 5,€300 in t k i� as there are many summer horses on both sides of the lake well t. he narrows. Also Sylvan Beach Resort is at the narrows, STREET FIGHTS This t6l.ln wasn't RlWaV3 so -r.)L-aceful ,Is the stor-Y may sound, for there was much drunkenness and fist rii-hts; one man vna.-3 sla shed in the 'face with a knife so severely he was at the point* of death xthen medical aid arrived. He recovered, a trial was wade in court, but we deem it it best not to look up certain court records. mother man was shot and killed. Still another man was accusers of Jumping another': claim. A group of men went to his place, and he came out with a thirty thirty rifle and threatened to tshoot the tihole bunch if one attempted to beat up on him. This Jis only hearsay, but I re c d reported in i c.nt is true, v-.hich is a greater rea-son for willhholding nacres. knother nan, led by the contents of a bc..tle, went to Sleep on the railroad track. The piecea of his body were gathered up in a bosket. --Another man, viewinf-,, the mutilated rentiains, shooks loose hand, "Good -by, Old Fard!" It is verbally reported that there vicre some half dozc n saloons here at one time, but the aull.-Ihor has known only three. The pne is the MlcCall Hotel, which is forbidden by law to have that kind of business in the Sarre building w . Ath the: post offices, Ed 11,bbott's zalconj and' Clem Blackwell I s. This last saloon keeper once received a letter frorn the idaho Railroad Company's agent at FvergrC*1en (temporary terminal). 11_i�by has he written to me 2T' opening it, he read' "Your barrel of books is, .1caking". Occasionally, a pool hall operator eras arrested and taken to Court for selling intoxicating drinks wit hout a license. trouble was caused by the. Jinfluence of the stuff in bottles and handed over the bar. There were numerous do- fights until so mebody decided to thin out the four-legged population by, distributinE,,; bits of Poisoned meat, killing fourteen dogs in one night. Due to the licensing . animals, wc- seldolyll ste-- a dog fitht ivi the stre�ts of this city. P" 30:rip-whq.t amusinr Incident occurred that might have resulted in which, it ,3eews to me, no one will be offerldw.1 by tho n os I shall have to t.,,ention. Gabriel Nassy purchased a model 'IT" ) 1) -4 � -, who knocked FO A o 'L wh 1 � h h e was very Y r, ud , a r �(l T suppose, he was one sfot- n f ark the bark off the tree t urhich 3tocd near the %A cornor of Briuidage. Hotel. `.Jhoever it have bey -n saw many trees pa8a_ing, tilirough I t ov r n t11 t1- i s poi.!, e r e d ra ri c h i iie Ca I Id a t t c [,-I P t o C t w L. 0 1-1 t 11 e M The no. power n a bottle is very r. 2--loadiA- Gabriel seemod riot to be wobbly one day while taking pass tigers arc�und; tlnc block for a c-irci lt. well th�n, but on wny ho"ne-1 `'M :• at 13o'- Halfc.-tyla, in the ol" "red Tro-14 .A V -A C, `,a werg aw-kened by th� roar of b 2. � I I', n g �A e n i tn�k nir,!, mc)dcl "T" which .udl.-Alenly witl is pc.culiar thump. in a L;' A - or t Ume A A. *,r, front o_` the or se shouted for help scam gj noze Off and F, id 7'artist thMat ia cut". '*;,e dressed and out•to the irrigation (ijtch i w-1 ere Gplbri ,1 had missed the bridge and the car stopped beLly-b--ister on thr c-:-,osite 'bank. Th.,& dr-iver wa�- tryin, to o-et the head- lirl"t to but Th'(� two injured men b�iiig in the hind seat bounc(3 t1hronvii cr over tlic windshield'. '.--gheir injuries wero ao slight they ,alked on h-c-U, xith th.-_ hero. ltlallfartyl,5 tean removed Lizzy next morning,, n.ri(] the proud drove 4-t- a,,J.,ay. An accompanying photograph shows a vacant space in front of- MxCallls Hote-1 -,,.ihich he intended to keep open for a park or public doings sometime in the future. It is said that he neglected to have that plot of ground recorded, and the town "dads" also neglected it, for the sale of lots on the beach was very lucrative. The whole lake-front for one block from 3rd `'treet to 2nd street is now occupied by business builuings, a small private boat wharf, and a narrow view at the end of vhere 2nd street extends to the water's edge. LARLY DAY At the beginnin,g, of tho3e sports was the ski-jumpirkg, contest. Thy location of that entertainment was east of "cCall on the t5lackwell place, (forimerly York homestead). This' place not being altogether satis- factory, another one was decided on at the edge of hock r-lat on Highway 15, northwest of the town. Twelve to fifteen *hundred people gathered' for all winter sports, so miany, that there was considerable hunting; and skirmishing among residents to find a place to sleep, as the hotels were over - crowded with guests. A very little ice 3'Kating was done as the accumulating frost on the ice became deeper and deeper, making this enjoyable exercise impossible, which was abandoned for., skiing. That resulted in what was called "ski- Joring". This act consisted of some person on horseback holding a lengthy rope by one end and the other held by a man on skis--the rider making a large circle with his horse pulling the contestant rapidly over the snow- covered ice as fast as the animal could run. It was some sport. Even f one the mein traveled rord some young fellow was occasionally seen skis hol: irk to a rope attached to a sled or held by another person on a p, asi,, -, sleigh. A toboLgan slide eas constructed fro-ul the 7 c 'Call Hctel onto the lake that afforded the youngsters great pleasure to sit flat or, the sliding board, and, zip, they sped far out on the lake. ,hen the loo; Derby races - begun with four and sometimes more dcgs hitchcd to a sled, the driver standing on the 'crack holding to the ee nole: ; up the road they ?:rent on the west re turn ink; on the ice from about the narrows in front of to,.-in, "ome oeople really :mot e o.11d rake the IIPoL?rtr.cn mile" circuit Side of the lake, then in full view of the spectators xcited in hoDin, a certain in loss time than the others. Tel Gcelan --rd his wife were contestants; Fred Printz and 'arren 3rD -.,an w',rt', also. Roy Stover, being among them and owning sevoral dogs, was the reason for his naming; his place of business "Doi? House ". He vion a hand- some prize in a ?derby in: another ;Dart of the state. Austin Goodman connected an airplane propeller to a sled having a gasoline motor for power and helped out with the skijoring; by making a larger circle and travelim -- much faster than the horse. The skier, gi,,idinr_^ himself by tilting his skis, could avoid the wind of the propeller trough speed furnished a stiff breeze ,also. Vilien the trip ended the skier could be seen swinging his arms about his shoulders to restore circulation ir., nearly -frozen Kinds. r OONFHZNERS IMcCALL %%IE sT DRY C< ,j i -t and ish and Charlie Curren ins, <ere making a little moonshine, +vhen .gyred Liggs c,-Ame over the hill. Fred had tofo dt!nutles with him, They weren't ncrded at all, Dr. Hard was a sr.all. rntan, Li senby was big and tall. They had a nice, warm breakfast, As the sun carne; over the still. rred cashed the !:�!hisk =may, %while Dr. Hurd are 3shed tl-,.e still. M,i orou ht them to a'.cCvll ` lnc -ir pY'Omi e cd t0 JS o-od p . , their rnin-s ran in circles, Thoule:ht to fool him if they could. Ti -: y brou.r ht some i,ahiskey with then;, could -;-;ack But they aidn�'t briny it all, So d =cidod to go back. Th -y ;�erlt to Lhe 'livery barn, Hired a -team- and sleigh, Pov Lover to drive -it , And speed them on their 1-.,ay. Now the two that sneaked away, pack to their l-ittl.r_ still. One was old 5hal `bite The other Lino Hill. They lifted ?'red's cache- and started home. They were coming on the run °,hen they met Hurd and Lis-, °noy With a flashlight and a gun. Hurd said, "Drive on Roy, s o the iic:tel L.akevie�a, You have two hours to get ready You are cominS vrith us,too." r) They m-ade a lot of explanations All ito no avail, k'-.en G tc) ascade, r' or were : t i And lodged in the jail. Thc.y waled their prelim, AII(I iaia in Jail �,,Ivrtiile, 'Till Judge Varian can e up, And ,-.qve an unbiased trial. ,plead 12 C.> .,ui-ty to the charges Four of tI ("m And the error of thoir ways, The old ju(jge said dollars And then, "Sixty daysle" The driver hadntt done-verY bad, So they took his tea-m, and sleigh, Gave him a iii-indred dollar fine, And' h in jail fcr thirty days. 13y one of Us days became I*,s'peak eas-JeF days! And the llspeal%ec s.,Y As this pceza is an actual fact and ptibl-L I ished.lon.cej so I present evised� hopinE, not to offend anyone. ,cet albove Lake 5 TI , e alUt•10c, at the outlet of Payette 5 Cp )22 ilc IiLlho 'Northern -aailway Station has on it's sic l. I 5 C rya level, 15 a trifle hi,�-Jierp but H ';,�Iotel on hirrhzway feet elevation: at I illtOP h j, climb ng n altitude rails to keep pace with the fame of our - - he.!; to. the from whence comes villraF,C, whicIi reac city of tall buildin, the jocular query, you any skyscraper . s in %,,;ell, there are some- IJIle HIF;h Gabins! #1. fir, ': A' " , I Town Killers Long Valley Advocate January 17, 15'07 Town Killers are classed into eight seperate branches as follows: First, those who go out of 'town tc do their shopping; second, those who oppose improvements; third, those who prefer a quLet town to one with vim and enterprise; fourth, those who imagine they own the toirn; fifth,those wn.o deride public spirited men; sixth, those who oppose every movement that does not originate with them; seventh, those who oppose every movement that does not appeF -r to benefit them; ei th; those who seek to injure the credit or reputation of individuals. Bus Line Years Wanted Can you tell me how long ago the Trask Brothers ran a bus line from Boise to Mountain Home and north through Horseshoe Bend, Banks, and Cascade to Lakeport? And where was Lakeport? — Banks reader. Trask ran a bus line from Boise to the Mountain Home Air Force Base during World War II, says the division manager of Pacific Trailways. From 1922 to 1929 Trask and Curly O'Neill drove from Boise to Lakeport. Since 1944 that run has been operated by George Taylor of Northwest Stage Lines. And where was Lakeport you ask? Lakeport was the name Union Pa- cific tried to give McCall in 1905, but after a controversy the name McCall was retained, named for Thomas McCall who settled there in 1899. A Short History of McCall, Idaho by Steve Stoddard Several groups of Native Americans used the land at the southern end of what is now called Payette Lake for over 11,500 years (and continued to use the area well into the 1920s). This long and varied use of the area has been well documented in other accounts (Leonhardy and Rice 1972; B. Fuller 1975; Arnold 1982; Jones 1991; Kingsbury and Stoddard 1994, 1997, etc.) and will not be repeated here. This account will focus on the specific history of the Euroamerican settlement of McCall, Idaho. The area now known as McCall was first settled by a squatter named Sam Devers sometime in the late 1880s. He built a cabin adjacent to the lake about where the Annex of the Hotel McCall is now. Sometime between 1889 and 1891 (there are several conflicting published accounts of the exact year), Tom McCall arrived and traded Devers a wagon and team of horses for his rights to the cabin and 160 acres of land. Tom had come on horseback the previous autumn from the Marsh - Ireton ranch to look at the area. He now came with his wife and three sons to settle, to enlarge the cabin and begin to work the land. Later another son and a daughter would join the family. During this period, Tom and Louisa, his wife, took in travelers for room and board, which soon became more lucrative than farming. In 1892, the first bridge was built over the outlet of Payette Lake by Tom McCall, and neighbors, Albert Gaekle, Herb York, and Lewis Heacock. In 1894, Tom bought the sawmill first established by the Warren Dredge and Mining Company on the shore of Payette Lake and began to mill lumber for the construction of a new hotel, the McCall House, and during the next two years supplied the lumber for a number of other buildings until the mill burned in 1896. At this time, the small town of Lardo, a little over a mile west down the shore of the lake, was actually a more thriving enterprise, due to its location on the established route from Weiser, Council, and Meadows through to the gold fields of Warren. This route had been in operation since 1862, and was actually closer to the railhead at Weiser than over the long wagon trail down the Payette River Canyon to Boise. It had a well established store and livery stable, and was on the bi- weekly mail route from Weiser to Warren. When the mill burnt in 1896, it was moved to Lardo, and a flour mill was built next to it. McCall became a way station connecting freight and mail deliveries to the burgeoning Finn ranches and the Harlo post office near Boulder Creek in Long Valley. When the mill again burned in 1907, it was rebuilt on the southeastern shore of Payette Lake by Tom McCall, Clem Blackwell, and Newt Williams. This was the mill bought by Hans Hoff in 1910. The Hoffs mill burned again in 1912, to be rebuilt by Theodore Hoff in 1913. In 1914, Carl Brown joined Theodore as a partner in the mill. When Tom McCall was cited for violation of post office regulations (because the McCall post office was located in his hotel which served liquor) the post office was moved to W.B. Boydstun's store across the river in Lardo. A second post office was later set up in Blackwell's store near McCall's hotel, and for many years the two post offices existed only one mile apart. This good natured rivelry between the two closely neighboring towns continued for many years; in fact until about 1910 "Lardo" was used to loosely describe both areas. 1 In the 1890s, the increasing demand for lumber for the construction of new towns and ties for the railroads spreading across southern Idaho created a new industry: timber production. Many new settlers from the East considered log construction to be a "primitive" form of construction, and wanted milled wood to construct more "civilized" buildings. Local mills could supply local construction, but the sparsely timbered southern deserts were rapidly depleted of their timber resources while the demand for wood increased. Central Idaho and the McCall area attracted the attention of people like Frederick Weyerhauser, a veteran timber producer who began to set up businesses in Idaho with names like the Potlatch Lumber Company, the Payette Timber and Lumber Company, and the Boise Lumber Company with local partners and managers. Large tracts of timberland were purchased by these companies, but the problem of transporting lumber to the south remained. The Payette Timber and Lumber Company attempted to build a private railroad to connect the McCall- Smith's Ferry road and the Boise -Banks road over a treacherous 11 mile stretch along the river, but was unsuccessful, and for several years ties were floated down the river, sometimes all the way to Horseshoe Bend. The increase in value and use of the local forests resulted in several other changes during this time. In 1904, a chance meeting between Harry Shellworth, a manager for the Payette Timber and Lumber Company, and Guy Mains, later Supervisor of the Payette National Forest, while fighting a forest fire on Packer John Ridge resulted in the formation of Idaho's (and the nation's) first timber protective association. This group, the Southern Idaho Timber Protective Association (SITPA), invited timber owners and mill operators (and later the state and Forest Service) to band together to provide labor and equipment in order to prevent or put out timber fires before they became too large to control. They established the headquarters at McCall (at the present site of the Central Idaho Cultural Museum) and at Smith's Ferry and "the Idaho idea" spread across the country. One year later, in 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt created the Forest Service system. Increased timber production, mining, and grazing on the Forest Reserves was beginning to cause problems, and although the President did not want to stop such industries, he felt that regulation under the leadership of forester Gifford Pinchot would help preserve these resources for future generations. The Idaho National Forest (headquartered in Meadows, 9 miles west of McCall) and the Weiser National Forest (headquartered in Weiser, 90 miles to the south) covered the area now encompassed by the Payette National Forest (created by Joining the Idaho and Weiser on April 1, 1944). The Thunder Mountain gold rush in 1902 brought thousands of people to central Idaho, many of whom stayed in the area long after the rush was over in 1908. It greatly multiplied the volume of people and freight coming north from Boise, and improvement of the transportation along the Payette River from Boise became both necessary and feasible. In 1905, and engineer who had been surveying the new railroad route up the canyon from Boise to McCall arrived at the lake. Tom McCall engaged him to survey a four block FA parcel of lots from his land, which he then began to sell, and the building began in earnest. Tom McCall proved to be a farsighted and civically minded businessman. He donated lots for a school, and also for the Congregational Church, which still stands at the corner of First and Park Streets (the corners were marked with McCall's old wagon parts). In 1909, he offered to construct a building and pay any costs involved if the Idaho National Forest would move its headquarters to McCall. They agreed, and he and his sons (except J.D., also known as "Daws ", who was a 26 year old Forest Ranger at the time) built the structure now known as Lake Street Station on the south side of Lake Street. He paid the $71.00 freight costs, and housed the Forest Supervisor and his family until they could find suitable lodgings. As a result, the Forest Service Supervisor's office remains in McCall to this day. In 1905, the Idaho Northern Company was building its rail line towards McCall from Boise up the Payette River Canyon through Long Valley; meanwhile the rival Pacific and Northern (P.I. &N.) arrived at Council from Weiser in 1902 and was being extended north to the Meadows Valley. Both railroads caused the demise of several old towns (Roseberry, 1911; Thunder City, 1910;Salubria, 1900; Meadows, 1910) and the building of several new ones (Donnelly, 1911; Cascade, 1910; Cambridge, 1900; New Meadows, 1911) as the railroad straightened our the trails up from the canyons. As early as 1905 it was thought that in several years the two railroads would connect and provide transportation from Weiser to McCall and from Boise to Lewiston. They both advertised heavily to attract businesses and travelers to the new areas. A "boom sheet" or magazine sponsored by the P.I. &N. and called "The Idaho Magazine" in 1905 described several of the principal businesses and residents in the most glowing of terms. Most of the articles were liberally scattered with descriptions of "first, biggest, best ". Tom McCall was described in part as follows: "Civilization owes its seed -start around the Payette Lakes to Thos. McCall, who, with his faithful hearth -mate and their brood of children, braved the forbidding conditions for the founding of a home in this uninviting wilderness of 14 years ago. But much water has flowed under the bridge and great have been the strides of progress since that time when he homesteaded here 160 acres... With unconquerable perserverance and energy he cleared his ground of underbrush and other blemishes. He did his utmost to add the practical adorn- ments of civilization to his home, and with the result that the enticements of his dwelling and the supurb scenery surrounding it drew an ever enlarging number of visitors hither. These visitors claimed the hospitality of the only roof in the countryside and had their claims graciously allowed. The uninvited and unexpected guests multiplied so rapidly that they kept the family cupboard bare and the family out of beds. At last, in pure self - defense Mr. McCall was forced into the hotel business, and the mansion -like McCall House is the flowering if the evolution of the hotel business around the Payette Lake, a commodious 20 room hostelry which is a monument to the public enterprise of its founder. The name and fame of the McCall House is well known as Lardo is destined to be a town of no little commercial consequence by reason of the probability of the early advent of a railroad, and the rapid development and upbuilding of the great radius of territory of which Lardo is the natural trading centre, and as the irresistible charms of Nature around the Lakes are fast making it not only one of the most famed and popular summer, health, and sportsmen's resorts of Idaho but for some business or industrial enterprise will probably be more than welcomed by no few of our readers." This unblushingly favorable account now got down to business: "OWN THREE QUARTERS OF A MILE OF SUPERB SHORE LAND" This old pathfinder, Thos. McCall, and his son, B.B. McCall, own a half section of land which hugs the shore of the lake and its entire front is thickly gemmed with the grandest purposes around the entire lakes —sites equally adapted for the use of a summer cottage or a business enterprise, and the Messrs. McCall will hold out exceptional inducements to those who will build on their lake sites next spring and summer —and the Idaho Magazine suggests that all prospective builders confer with these gentlemen before building, as it would probably be to their decided advantage so to do." The magazine also pays homage to W.B.Boydstun, N.F. Williams, the Lardo Saw and Planing Mill, the Hotel McCall (later the Lakeview Hotel, now the site of the Chevron station on Lake Street in McCall), John R. Wallace, publisher of the Long Valley Advocate, C.A. Powell, and L.H. Heacock. It mentions that in 1905 the town boasted three general stores, a school, sawmill, newspaper, blacksmith's shop, post office, feed stable, dance hall, I.O.O.F. lodge hall, and two hotels (with need for a third); and had an "average annual tide of fully 1,000 visitors to the lakes ", even boasting that "a jaunty little steamer, capacitated to carry over 100 passengers, makes all points on the lakes" (Idaho Magazine, 1905). The article goes on to extol the virtues of the local fishing and hunting, and states that "the precinct is peopled by at least 500 souls" and that the population of the entire Long Valley... "numbers about 3,000 inhabitants and is making forced marches in settlement and development ". As the above excerpts indicate, McCall was already beginning to rely on recreation for some of its livelihood in addition to logging, milling, and supplying the outlying ranches and mines. The Oregon Short Line, which had now become owner if the northbound rail line, arrived in McCall in 1914, and ended the line about a mile past the town to the eastern shore of the lake. They called the depot and ticket office "Lakeport" and for about two years attempted to make the name stick. If a passenger bought a ticket in Boise, he got a ticket to Lakeport, not McCall or Lardo. Public opinion was never swayed, however, and since the two post offices designated the west end of the settlement as " Lardo" and the eastern El section as "McCall ", these are the two names that stuck, with the Payette River as the dividing line. The Pacific and Idaho Northern railroad, although it began service between New Meadows and Weiser in 1911, never extended further. An attempt was made to push the line north up the Little Salmon River towards Lewiston, but proved impossible. With no connection north, the Oregon Short Line did not want to lose any portion of the passenger traffic from Boise by connecting to New Meadows and Weiser; and so the two lines, even though they were situated nine miles apart, never met in McCall as originally planned. In 1917, the Village of McCall was incorporated, thus ending the longstanding controversy over the name of the settlement. Lardo faded into existence as a mere extension of McCall, since the rails ended more than a mile east and Warren had become a virtuat ghost town. The railroad finally conceded defeat and "McCall" became accepted as the sign over the depot and ticket office were changed. Vally County was also created in 1917, and McCall lost the bid for the county seat to the new town of Cascade, partially because it was felt that Cascade was more central and provided access to the mines in the Salmon River Mountains to the east. During this period, the increased popularity of automobiles and easy access by rail made the area a destination for more people escaping the city for the weekend or vacations, lodging came into its own as the primary business in the vicinity, and the village thrived. Even Prohibition in 1920 made little impact on the town. Frank Rowland describes a scenario when "one day the freight agent called over to the butcher, telling him "better get over here quick —your barrel of books is leaking!" (Rowland, 1961). In 1924, the Blackwell family began to allow the use of a slope on their ranch near Little Payette Lake for skiing. There was no tow, but a platform was built at the top so that jumps could be attempted. This slope was open to the public and was the beginning of regular skiing in McCall, predating Sun Valley by more than ten years. 1924 also marked the beginning of the McCall Winter Carnival, with snow sculptures and dog sled races over a one mile trail from McCall to Lardo. Over the years, additional events (such as horse racing on the ice covered lake) were added. As late as 1928, Native American groups would meet each spring at the outlet of the Payette Lake (the present site of Rotary Park) to catch whitefish and celebrate the coming of spring. This provided an opportunity to race horses, trade, arrange marriages, and gamble. At this time, lakefront land was selling for $50.00 an acre. Even though the residents of the town prided themselves on their modernity, McCall has always been a mountain town, surrounded by a rugged environment that requires independent thinking and a certain flexibility of lifeways. This history stood it in good stead when the Depression hit the United States in 1929. McCall was able to continue relatively unchanged: the mill continued to operate, stores had never relied on luxury items to survive and kept supplying basic needs to a relatively small core group of 5 residents, and although the Depression created a new kind of visitor who was escaping the expense of the city to attempt placer mining or car camping (sometimes with a family in tow), the visitors continued to come through town, purchasing equipment, food, and gasoline. In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to employ and train thousands of the unemployed men of the cities. This was done in order to boost the economy and to lessen the chances of riot. Any man 17 to 25 years old, single and unemployed, could enroll. The "enrollees" were given food and clothing, taught various skills, were paid $30.00 per month, of which $25.00 was automatically sent to their families. Idaho was second only to California in the number of camps created under this program, and in 1935, McCall was chosen as one of the "staging areas" where the men were delivered in groups of up to 450 at a time to Camp 5 -223 on the shore of Payette Lake, given initial training, and then were shipped in companies of 200 or so to outlying camps to construct roads, fire lookouts, ranger stations, or to run miles of telephone lines, build dams, and otherwise improve the area. One group, Company 1997, was stationed in McCall. Each group was under the supervision of an Army or Forest Service officer, and smaller groups of 24 or so were under the immediate supervision of a "Local Experienced Man" or LEM. This provided for employment of many local experts in timber, construction, packing, and ranching, and ensured funding of the local Forest Service programs. Between 1935 and 1938, Company 1997 built seven of the Forest Service buildings at Lake and Mission Streets, and eight of the SITPA buildings next door at Lake and State Streets. These fifteen buildings are now on the National Register of Historic Places, one of the highest concentrations of historic buildings on one block in the entire state. Hollywood came to McCall in 1938; director King Vidor brought Robert Young, Spencer Tracy, Walter Brennan and others to film Kenneth Roberts' Northwest Passage. The company used local labor to construct film sets and as extras. Several of the CCC enrollees remember repeatedly wading across the Payette River on their knees dressed as Rogers' Rangers (because the river wasn't deep enough to walk across); others were used as Indians, although members of several tribes also took part in the filming. The yarding boat from the lumber mill was used to mount cameras for background footage and to tow the Rangers' rowboats up the river when the current proved too strong. The Indian village (burnt during filming) was built on a sandy bar on the river north of North Beach; the site is still known as Indian Beach. Another major project of that time was the construction of a new ski hill west of town. Under the tutelage of Norwegian Corey (Kaare) Engen (the Olympic medalist and one of the founders of the McCall Winter Carnival), the new hill had "snow boats" designed by millwright Joe Kasper to tow skiers on cables to the top of the slope from one of the two warming huts at the base. The Carl Brown family and the Forest Service donated the use of land, and two ski jumps were designed. Construction was completed in 1937, and the new ski area was designated "The Payette Lakes Ski Area ". Con During the summer of 1939, the Northwest Passage company returned to film additional footage, and Idaho Governor Bottolfson took the opportunity to move his office from Boise to McCall for the summer, where he took up residence at the SITPA Fire Warden's House, thereafter also known as the Statehouse. In June of 1940, tragedy struck and the Brown Tie and Lumber Company sawmill burned to the ground. Carl and Warren Brown found that they had no insurance to cover the loss of the town's main source of employment and moved to immediately rebuild. They purchased a used Murray - Corliss steam engine in LeGrande, Oregon, and freighted the machine back to McCall on three trucks (the flywheel alone weighed 18 tons) and were back in business by that fall at a site slightly further up the east shore of the lake, the site of today's Marina and Brown Park. America went to war in late 1941, and the CCC was disbanded in 1942 when Congress refused to authorize funds. Camp 5 -223 was used by the Army for convalescing wounded soldiers before releasing them. 1942 also saw new methods for suppressing fires; with most of the able bodied men at war, few were available to fight forest fires. In 1942; the first successful parachute jump into a forest fire was made in northern Idaho, and "smokejumping" was born. Later that year, one of two smokejumper bases in the nation was established in McCall. After the war, the old CCC camp continued to be used, this time as an Air Force survival school until it was abandoned in the middle 1950s. Some of the buildings were moved to the smokejumper base on Mission Street, and lakefront homes began to replace the old board and batten barracks. The prosperity of the 1950's and 1960's brought more visitors to the McCall area, a great many of whom were impressed by the range of recreational opportunities. Boating, hiking, camping, skiing, golfing, fishing and hunting in an affordable "undiscovered" scenic mountain town induced many people from urban areas to purchase cabins or second homes in the area. When the Bradley Mining Company abandoned the Stibnite Mine east of Yellow Pine in 1954, Warren Campbell and others purchased the company houses, loaded them onto logging trucks, and moved more than seventy houses to McCall and other Long Valley sites over 90 miles of treacherous single lane dirt roads winding along the East Fork of the Salmon River. Brundage Mountain Ski Area opened in 1961, providing some of the best skiing in Idaho, with state -of -the -art lifts and miles of runs for skiers of all abilities. This brought additional visitors during the lax winter months, some of whom were so impressed that they bought cabin sites covered with several feet of snow. The summer population swelled to over 10,000, most of whom were from Boise or Salt Lake City, but this soon changed. The Idaho Tourism Bureau began to purchase billboard advertising along freeways in Los Angeles, Seattle and other large cities. Tired workers stuck in five o'clock traffic jams were beguiled by large photos of trees, lakes 7 and mountains with the caption "Come to Idaho ". In 1966 a one acre lot cost $600.00, and a lakefront lot and cabin sold for $18,000.00. Such growth did not come without a need for some changes; by the early 1970s a building code was adopted and a water and sewer district created to regulate development. Condominiums and timeshare apartments began to spring up as land became more valuable and the town became a "destination resort" for people from all over the West. While other Idaho towns have become more insular, especially when reliant on one industry, this cosmopolitan mix has provided McCall with a constant influx of new ideas and energy, and has allowed the town to grow and change with the times. In 1978, the Brown Tie and Lumber Company mill closed down, a victim of competition with the large conglomerates. Sold to Boise Cascade Lumber Company, it burned in 1984 from causes later found to be arson. Its land is now the site of beautiful lakeshore homes and a park. By the late 1970s recreation was well established as a viable industry and was given another boost by the creation of the Frank Church -River of No Return Wilderness (the largest wilderness area in the lower 48 states) in 1979. Whitewater rafting and outfitted trips into the "backcountry" became popular, and the hunting and fishing opportunities have gained a nationwide reputation. Today, McCall is the gateway to a natural paradise that stretches for 100 miles north and 100 miles east, an area that includes the "River of No Return ", the wilderness, and more than 114 lakes within a 30 -mile radius of town. The growth that began in 1905 has continued through to the present.... although that lakefront cabin and lot now cost substantially more than a wagon and team of horses. For more information on specific historic subjects, contact the Central Idaho Cultural Museum at 1001 State Street (near the corner of State Street and Highway 55). The Museum maintains a collection of original documents, photographs, and artifacts relating to central Idaho history. While there visitors can tour the CCC built SITPA buildings, visit the "Governor's Office ", see one of the two original "snow boats ", the yarding boat used in Northwest Passage and the original model of the Indian village created for the film, the Murray - Corliss steam engine that ran the mill from 1940 -1978, and many other displays and artifacts of life in McCall. The site also includes the Pumphouse Used Book Store which is operated by the Friends of the McCall Library. Text revised by Marlene Bailey, McCall Historic Preservation Commission, April 2014. the main corner had a second story veranda. At one end of this was a useful but two -story out -house for second floor occupants. ") The Brown family ran a lumber mill a quarter of a mile to the north. The population of the town probably no more than three hundred people. Father had made arrangements for us on our arrival at Lardo. We stayed at Land's home for a week and then moved to our summer camp along the river, half He below the bridge. Two tents had been pitched for us with supplies. Fir boughs a frame or', t; ;e ground were our mattresses. We spent five weeks there swimming ,. h the river or, when not, swimming in the lake, exploring, and picnicking. We often mnt to McCall. Several times we took a ride on the small lake steamer that went up end around the lake in those days. Camp along the Payette River just south of the lake. Dorothy and Paul. There were a few scattered homes and summer campers on the east side of the lake, not far from McCall and the lumber mill, but that was about all. A tasteful but little used Payette Lake Inn was located on the west side about a mile north of Lardo. Sylvan Beach, halfway up the west side and at the Narrows, was a well established camp. A dirt road went on beyond this to Burgdorf hot springs and Warrens, a gold mining camp in which there was still some activity. We used to walk up this road along the side of the lake as far as Dead Horse Creek, looking for huckleberries and occasionally meeting pack trains or freighters en route to, or coming from, Warrens. Dead Horse Creek, Mother and Paul, 1910. A letter by Mother in August of 1910 says, "We could hear the tinkling bells down the road, and soon there would emerge from the shadows of the great pines a line of burros loaded with empty ore sacks for the gold mines 60 miles to the north, their driver following on horseback. When we heard a larger bell we learned to expect a freighter taking a big six -horse load into the interior. These freighters travel all seven days in the week." The lake was about nine miles long from north to south and about three wide. The area occupied by it had been gouged into a deep basin by glacial action. When the ice finally stopped its southward movement the debris pushed ahead of it formed a barrier. This impounded water from the melting ice into a lake. Finally this water flowed over the barrier at the present site of Lardo to cut an outlet that became the source of the present Payette River. Wave action along the moraine that extended to McCall sorted sand out of the rubble and produced the sandy beaches along the southern shore of the lake. The Lake and the region around it were primitive and unspoiled. Light gray granite mountains rose up above their forested lower slopes on the eastern side. To the south they ended in a distinctive peak named Jughandle. 15 !L days when a remarkable coincidence, time -wise, occurred. The train taking the rest of the family to New Meadows passed over the railroad crossing south of the little town of Council just as I came up to it in the late afternoon. Members also happened to be seated on my side so that I was seen and waved to. I arrived at Old Meadows the following evening. An account of the trip (p. 70) was sent to Boys' World. 13 Pacific and Idaho Northern ready to head south from New Meadows, 1914. Father was Chief Surgeon of the Pacific and Idaho Northern Railway and ed a pass that entitled him and all members of the family to ride free. This blue green pass now is in the possession of his grandson Stephen. (Stowell: "The to Starkey Hot Springs, Council, and New Meadows was always popular. ") A day or two after our arrival in Old Meadows we heard that war had broken in Europe. At the time it didn't mean much. But years of awesome trouble in the were beginning. A Serbian revolutionary, Gabrielo Princip, had assassinated K2 r Ail Idaho Trip, 1)e11r "(IH0r: I tool: it 11111111'('(1 mile trip, on hor'scba( k, fro11) \Veiser to hlc;iclow s, I1a11u. I 11ad t«o (01111►:111tolls— I ;abc�, the hors( I rode, and ti:tt1E1�', her full.— l►esides (hc� nlan whose e, all( I follu'vrd ati fill. 11 he h1idl-ale, thirty miles north of `�lCiAe1. Wc. 'N•ent fiftOetl 111110~ the first (illy. ve Hight ' r 0 1 (a.d up` ill our 1►lanl:ets and slept in the open. The sc(�llery 'vas bettutiful; the 1•0a(1 wo1111d 111) :1 Mountain frolla which 've c olt lcl sec fi(lIds of grails for Miles and miles al•otilld. The country surrounding I. ot,e of the great gr:li►11)ro<lllciilg sections of the State. The rest of the way was up aIld flow,, hill to hSid- vale bloulltaill• Frolal its broad plateau, I could soo h Lidvale. After (;inner b;,• tllc� roadside, ;.-lie l e rm(l day, we s<tw another camp 'vague. I learned the owner 'v;ts going Ilortll to S:�III7011. so I used Ilia, for a guide that far. The scenery changed froill grain fields to hills covered with sagebrush. That evening I stayed at a ranch. 'file next woriling, I started on again. I no tired that at Wiser, alfalfa is raised, but far - tiler north, tinlothlT- is grown._ At noon, I ate din- ner where, the Indian Valley road joine(l the one Oil which I was traveling. That afternoon, I saw apple and peach orchards on the surrounding hills. After climbing a steep hill, I saw Council, five iuiles away. Suddenly, a rain and hail storm came up, and I gladly sought. the refuge Hof a barn. At the railroad crossing, I saw a rattle- snake with seven rattles. I spent the night in Council wits, a friend. After helping with the chores and eating breakfast, I started on my 'vay again. Beyond Council, I could see the pines plainly. Just before entering the timber, I saw some grouse. The rest of the 'vay 'vas over a range Of n1Ountaills. From the top of a mountain I could see the railroad fifty roes below. I11 the west there were snowcapped peaks of the Seven Devils Range, out of which a great amount of copper is mined each year. I ate lunch at Ever- green. In 1910 ' 'when I first came here, the rail- road ended at Evergreen and passengers were transported by stagecoach to Meadows. At Tamarack, a lumber camp, I raw five yoke of oxen Pulling trees out of a creek. After traveling over a few hills, I could see Meadows, which I reached before dusk. Yours truly, Weiser, Idaho. p D. Thank you for telling us about your trip over hill and dale." You must have found every mile of *1,- '--- -''_ a X011 Rrnrth traveline. April has been a busy who month for the women in Beta Sigma Phi. The Xi Alpha Omicron, Exemplar Chapter met at the home of Peggy Putnam to discuss the founding of McCall. Pearl Boydstun described how the Mc- Call family arrived in the valley in 1889. The roads were merely game trails. In order to bring 25 head of cattle, two teams and a wagon, Mc- Call forged the Weiser River 27 times. He traded a team and a wagon for 160 acreE northeast of the presenl town site. The first sawmill was where Gem Furniture store is today. McCall sold it to Theodore Hoff, moved the site to the other end %J town. Carl Brown and Hoff were partners from 1914 to 1929. Brown was sole owner after 1929. The first post office was in the lobby of the old hotel. The bartender was called each time someone wanted a postal transaction. Town folks objected to this manner of business so in 1902 the post office was moved to the Boydstun store on the west side of the river. Later it moved to the east side of the river and Mrs. Cook became postmistress. Tourists began en- joying McCall as early as 1905. L.L. Adamson pitched a tent for two summers before IC..#000 In The Statesman PAYETTE LAKES, one of the most beautiful spots in Idaho, with magnificent sc !- nery, trout fishing and gaare of every description — �n ideal outing place — now has a hotel. The name of this new hosltery is Hotel McCall, named after its builder, Thomas McCall, an old residenter at the lakes and a man of splendid ideas. He appreciated the magni'i- cent opportunities afforded by the lakes as an outing place and built a resort, where all comers can 'oe comfortable while enjoying a summer vacation filled with unalloyed pleasure. The lake, on the banks of which the Hotel McCall stands, is a lovely expanse of water, with its 10 miles of glistening surface. It affords opportunity for boating and fishing such as cannot be se- cured anywhere in Idaho. The lake is filled with trout, and Mr. McCall is authority for the statement that there are more of the specked beauties awaiting the baits of enthusiastic Waltons tiis year than ever before. 1 he surrounding country abounds in all kinds of game, grouse, deer, elk, etc. — a paradise for the spo °-ts- man. There is a big mineral belt adjacent to the lakes and some good prospects have been opened up there. building summer cabins where the Riverside Condos now stand. In 1927 a special train began bringing people for winter sports. In 1920 the Fords built the first cafe. Faom LO/V§ VALLy AS S N TIRI §H THE &46M cora &ni-(cnom of—Ae LCkIG .VALL -Ly PI f�NVRAI) 'lZlH OfFICA/ C12A!�FG IL�HO 1907 %ampUe.t a.t Idaho kL44 �&z.iea. 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" The 4 ;teameA LYLy a beau.ti.fuU, cvn,�trzrccted boat with a rrzticz irz� aa�czcctz� of 125 4 en e� f mjz i Ae4 r- lecw uz.e j ee 1zei a de qU f uL Aide on l a zje Ue L be. Aeen� i4 .the neane4.t R.R. poin;4 being e .tenmirw of .the a �n' ,Bence of 37 mi re-4 fizvm �z e Lab(.�, mzhirz� a pLea�czn dai ve duA ng .the juwneA zzwn-tl - ; zzLaAdo i ,ji;&,za. wed on the wa*i bank of .the &ye;Ue- 2iveA a;t .the mvuA of la yeUe Labe, an .idea. j po;t Eva Aummea ne i.idencej aj we U a4 f olz buil.& ". . weU d w ned and jhaded u)i pine and fizz. The i-own uaj . a•id out Lich a vied) v f 4ui, inq .the .taj.tej v f a U, .Lvi izangtn cn ��e fiwm 25 x /?5 tv 5h x 300 f e . The art pi dA b e Lvu .the Lake f unnii h a fine pviuea i te. l'e�rmi t4 have been qzazzted by ;&e j;&a e and prtepaaaiionj ane being made, to bec�,in wvah on a p,ou, plank tv u et e�z. c .C�.i qR i e �vrc!n. f ,cui then i n f viuraa t c v n mz cy b e vh to fined by tvAi ng v �3. l3vz icn, Laadv, ldahv. zz S41�,1� Hollo_McCaU -- This is what you looked like in 1909 WOW. Have you changed - fine stores, which supply fine, up -to -date merchandise to the resi- McCall was a feeding station on the old "Packer John" trail, over dents, is certainly a far cry from the McCall as shown above. which all the supplies were packed to thousands of miners and prospectors. Even then ,however, McCall was the hub of that trail which was the scene of many skirmishes between the whites and the Indians. This is the type stage that came into McCall in early days from llead'ows. This was in the days when first you came from deiser, then Council, then Evergreen and eventually New Meadows by stage dependjfg how far up the river the tracic for the train had been laid. 1 tHE EVERGREEN - MEADOWS Stage pulls up to the Krieg- som. wnen ine racnic uilu xua,io ...,..._� ... ....... .. ..... baum barn in Meadows in this 1908 photograph. Owned by completed into New Meadows a few years later, the stage Ross Kriegbaum, the stage carried passengers from the end line operation closed. The photograph was taken by Ryle Teed, of the railroad at Evergreen to Meadows. By 1910 it had some now of EI.Paso, Tex. It is the property of Currie N. Teed, competition from a Winton touring car owned by Fred Chis- 81 Horizon Drive. -fJ ti 4L� An early-day hostelry in McCall, Idaho owned by the Carl E. Brown family. Circa 1910 _�A� Letter to the Editor, near Sirs,: I am enclosing a.picture of the, stage coach from McCall to New Meadows. The Star -'�',T - ws Published every Thurs y by Star -News, Inc., at cCall, Idaho 83638. Entered Second Class Matter.January 3, 1918 at the Post Office at McCall, Idaho under the Act tarcn 3, "r"* Business office is a Star -News Box 985, McCall, I ho Editor:, Donald E. McMahan. Subscription Rates: ear in advance, Valley, Adams, oise, Gem and Idaho Counties, $6.00; elsewhere in the state of Idaho,. $7.50; outside the state of Idaho, 610.00. As you know, the' road did not go down Goose Creek Canyon then (1910). It turned _west on Rock Flat over the mountains and down Big Creek to Old Meadows. I can't identify any of the people except _ Willie Potten- ger (the driver) and I under- stand one of the Jasper boys was riding beside him. I thought you might like this for your old -time picture collection. Sincerely, Dorothy (Mrs. Joe) Sterling, Emmett, Idaho c / 1 � y //4/,,- )IT o /_ Ti The Lyda around 1911 They say the Lyda had a maximum passenger capacity of 125. D,aws McCall claimed he hauled the biggest load on the old steamer -- then tons of bailed hay from -the port in McCall to the upper end of the lake. The bow of the boat was almost six inches to being level with the lake. It was a little shaky that trip. Another passenger and cargo boat, called the Winston, also served the port of McCall. This vessel was a little longer and a bit more fancy than the Lyda. .The Winston was one of the first, if not the first, gasoline powered boats on the lake. The first passenger and cargo vessel to serve the lake port was a sail boat owned by Jews -Harp Jack. This sail boat floated along about the late 1890s. The christening of the Winston began sometime in 1911 or 1912. It became a derelict sometime in the '30s. Incidently, in 1914 the first railroad depot in our village, named our town Lake Port, Idaho. After a few years, a group of locals fought to have the name changed to McCall. If any one knows the dates better than I have approximated, please get in touch with me and set me straight. J THIS PICTURE taken in 1913, shows wunam McCall in his team and surrey at Arrowrock dam. The building behind the team is a dance hall which he owned. The picture was sent to The Statesman by Deinhard._ Ps-IJ-3 Great is Meadows Vary and the Eagle is is t rol;ihet ! PORTLAND CATTLE MARKET I the tiny insect breathes. A`leaf Receipts for the week have ')s nfaced in the tube and dr. been; rattle 1304: calves 133; Silvestri found that by feeding a Hogs 7256; sheep 6372. drop of honey to each fly every (',atria market last week was day, the insect thrived. He steady and strong. Improved landed in San Francis so after beef outlet had bullish effect on four months of sea voyages and prices. Prime steer top 8.00 to traveling with several of the in- 8.25 with bulk of steer sales at sects alive and strong. 7.75 and 8.10. Eastern Oregon The next step win! be at the steers at 8.60 and cows 7.75 fee- State Insectary in Sacramento. tured. There has been a keen de- H. S. Smith, superintendent of mand for choice butcher cattle the Insectary under the state especially cows and heifers. Horticultural commission, will Sales were made in small quan- secure a colony of the parasites tities as the supply was com- Smith will get a large colony of Partitively short. Best cows 7.76 house flys for the parasite as it to i.25, heif,:rs ^ "5 to 7.60, IaYS its egg in the egg of the fly. Zftotre null 5.51) to 6.00 and choice He will return his trofocy of light calves at 9.00. "swatters" into the fly - breeding The hog market vas steady place. The little females will to higher. One load of extra get busy depositing their eggs' fine hogs sold at 9.40 Friday in the fly eggs and when the morning, bulk of light swine house flies hatch 'fly- swatters" sales 9.15 to 9.80. Sound pack- instead of house flies will he the era have been liberal huyyers on result. Within a short time mil - the market-and the lig}nt run lions of the parasites can be In- was quickly absorbed. Swine cubated. Ere are apparently on a heavy -- • � basis at least for the present. MORE FISH FOR IDAHO Sheep business has been slow, Congressman Smith has ar- all week. Demand for both mut- ranged with the Commissioner of ton and Iambs has been light Fisheries for his active co-oper - and the trade has shown no sign ation with the state game war. of improvement whatever over den and the various rod and gun Previous week's market. A lib- clubs in their effort to stock the era] top is 6 per cent as some streams of Idaho with food and very gaxl stock sold at that pace, game fishes. The commissioner Prime killingewes at 4.00, weth- expressed himself very favorably ers at 4.25 and yearlings at 4.50 toward the establishment of a are extreme quotations in the government fish hatchery in mutton division. Idaho, and Congreseman Smith - -- - - -- has introduced a bill providing Here is an opportunity for for an appropriation of $25,000 good Progressives everywhere for this purpose. Appropriate in the country to demonstrate blanks will be furnished by their loyalty to the Progressive Congressman Smith to anyone cause and to show that they are who desires to make application worthy of membership in a party for the supplying of desirable of principle. A great idea for and suitable fish for the stocking furthering the Progressive cause of private ponds lakes or streams and the Progressive Party has as the government has all ample occured to an enthusiastic mem- supply of fish for distribution. ber of the party in New York. The Commissioner of Fisheries To carry out this idea, the as- has also promised to conduct a sistance of Progressives all over series of experiments with refer- - me country is neceosury. Not shoe Lo the culLure of calm:.:, in much assistance in any locality the Snake river with the hope is required. It will net take any that an ample supply of salmon -great amount of any person's can be propagated. time a' energy. It will not be - -- difficult for any {arson to do THE SONG OF THE LAZY FARMER what is desired. To carry out My neighbor started in to- this idea,a voluntary organization day, to F,ut up his alfalfa hay. is being formed to be known as The stuff has grown at) big and she Voluntary Department of tall, I wonder where he'll put it the Progressive Natiural Cnm- all with 20 acres of the crop; he mittee. The National Committee never will have time to stop, i.:!ly approves of the object th, sought to be accomplished and is only thing that he can d through put up hay the summer o is Lo in thorough accord and sympa- . th with the method proposed He says that when the hundred y tore at hopes to have a hundred for accomplishing it. The work, ton, at fifteen Collars- -what e however, is to be done entirely price' - his income will be pretty through the Volunteer Depart- nice. meat. A committee to take But pshaw, I'd rather sing my charge of the work has been or- song, than pitch hay all the sum - ganized composed of Oscar S. mer long. My timothy is poor Straus, of New York; John M. and thin, it won't take long to Parker, of Louisiana; Albert J. get it in. Of course I won't Beveridge, of Indiana, and Sena- have much to sell, but that will for Miles Poindexter, of Wash- suit me pretty well, for I don't ington. This committee will like to spoil the roads by going probably be increased in the near on them with big loads. So let future by the addition of promi- my neighbor slave away all sum - nent Progressives representing mer putting up his hay; alfalfa some other groups of state.. It don't look good to me, I'd have is the purpose of the committee to work too much by gee! to divide the entire country into groups of states and to have the OVERBEARING STRAWBERRIES work carried on simultaneously In the fall of 1898, Samuel in these different districts, The Cooper of New York, found a working force coil] be composed plant of the Bismark strawberry entirety of volunteers from these V h -?;: triet� and no 9u- tear will be which had "sported" and with I expected or asked bI undertake its tanners was loaded will Islas- I anything that ward take him seen and fruit in November. out of the aecnstometl routine of rhis was the first everbearing his life. See announcement in strawberry of the large fruited another column in this issue. kind. It was named "Pau American" amt by planting the _.-- --�•� - -- - -- seeds, Mr. Carper produced the A new kind of "swat the fly" "Autumn," the "Productive" campaign will be inaugurated in And the "Suporb" varieties. An Colifnrnia. Instead of chasing other enthusiast, Mr. Itockwe!I fit , pesky house fly around with of Iowa, solved the problem of a broom or it wire swatter, the berries all summer when he st:de will fa'nish nn Asiatic par- crossed the "Pan American" ssitr• which will "swat the fly with a French variety still gave 11", and thus kill file fly before us the "Francis" and "Amcri- he is horn. cus" Mr. Gardner, also of Iowa Ur. Filippo Silvestri an ltalimn became so enthusiastic he would eutomolog ist, who dkenvrrod the not go to dinner. He originated p:u;n sin,• which I,ntllen against two varieties named "Blizzard th, Ud ,lih ri :,ovs i I's nit fly airs» King" and "Perpetual Moiiml." di: :ror "reel tI., „ay to got these All these varieties at•c of the hou.,u Ily p;u�usiius at•rnas the. Pan Amerirun strain. ocean safely. Mt. , nthor sciu - The wril, r begun with th.- new tist, havv failed b,•I'nre in :r(lem- set ies in the spring of I!i11 and pus to gel, rho fly p:nasites across has tested them all. h, 1!11'2 the or•I•n" .•ufI•Ic, -.1her from I wv bore All summer :cod fall China nr I he 14"I'I' pines i❑ a iiv- and the winter found Lhern los l- iov state. led ^:ith blossoms nod fruit. Ile The- tine inal•tits rosuablr will gladly send sample pinnls waeos soul Ur. tiilce:a ri ouras,s by mail, for b•sl.ing, to Anyom• loco' io i"J. ", lnho.v. '11besc tuh,•s iouur.s(,•d who will pay Ih.• povl- urvMol'I.,I vilb trot - Iage. Wdli:un 1i. w I'r, •,•mall. ton to I.se. up tl.o aowshue, hen Meadows, Idaho. Th. 111erch,mt ol." 1s 1)ullhttal fth -1 Isle Value of �Ilve.nls'snlj Idas lo, contlricnce in Ks own warb.. bfeadouna, Adams County, The Finger of OPPOP TUNITY Points to McCall and the Payette Lake tf.: Will, Friday, July 25, 1913. "" wO11I n1'ile lu It.,. is food Nt, sea er in your Conn,, osil y7 you can I, -,:) matte it what it A . it be. 4 J a f -- _ LtR� • /" ( L W L Ix I° ire 2. WASH /NCTON T. L I�` A 7 F_, TKAIMS ADDITION 'WA'S/M wc,., r'. r•` P. AUCTION SALE OF TOWN LOTS McCALL, IDAHO August 13 and 14 1W.3, at iO a. m. All the lots platted in ROWt.ANO'S AI)DITION to the town of McCall will beoffered for sale without reservation, AT YOUR OWN PRICE,and without any by- bidding. OWN A SUMMER HOME OF YOUR OWN We will help you for this will be the greatest and most remark sale ever held in the state. It will be your opportunity to buy ground for SUPIMER NOME. Me Call will be the terminus of the IDAHO NOR'T'HERN RAILWAY and it i the Finest Summer Resort in the Inter - ..fountain cnwntrv. 11 ill Do 1,111 tim hourg front Boige by rail bud you cap always s1lood t1lo wvolc opJ f, ith your 1;,rnily. BUY NOW - -- FUTURE VALUE 15 ASSURED, GN -I' IN EARLY Sale will rake place on fihe �iro(Intlti Terms: One -third cash on contract for deed; balance one ya 1' ;it 8 leer cent interest. ! The Western Idaho Press Association Will meet at McCall, August I 1 th to % W th Come to this "Lot Sale" and meet the Editors. "f�!e +.a::;ii,la rill do Loft food and you will get acquainted with the men who are doin;; so much i -or theat[vancement and development of the state. A. L. ROWLAND, Owner B. T. JOHNSON, Auctioneer A. B. I -VI AS, Clerk 1 EMMMU119- =9 STATE NEWS., n McCall. McCall 1s to have a newspaper, the first issue of which will appear about• January 1, M. A. Dates of Parma, late editor of the Parma Herald, will be the owner. At an enthusi I' RING AND BOATING AiLE IMN-E McCall heady to Supply Comforts and Pleasures to Lnko Visitors. WCALL, June 16. The fishing is good in the lakes now. Dr. Henderson has opened up den- tal parlors in the business section of town. Herman Ikola, of Wyoming arrived In town last week with his family. Mr. IkoI3 has opened up a barber shop In the McCall hotel. The New 11eadows baseball team came over on Sunday and played ball so fast that the McCallites couldn't keep the score. Mrs. AVilliani Hendrickson has sold her property- on Leonora avenue to Walter Garkle of the forest service. Mr. Garkle intends to improve the property.—Mrs. Hendrickson expects to leave soon for Wyoming. Mr. and firs. T. 'IV. Cottingham of Seattle are Me guests of 31r. and Mrs. earl E. Brown. Curt Matson has just returned from a trip to Weiser and reports that his mother and father and Mr. and firs. Pred Printz and family of Weiser will soon arrive and spend the remainder of the summer at the Payette lakes. School closed last Friday. On Thursday evening the school children gaffe a very interesting program, and on Friday the children enjoyed an outing at Picnic Point with Miss Hearde, the teacher, and airs. Wilson i acting as chaperone. Immediately after the close of school Miss Hearde left for her home in Meridian. There, on the 14th of { this monih, she was married to Odin Hoff of this place. Mr. and Mrs. Hoff will enjoy •a trip to Portland and 'Vancouver. after which they %vlll be at home to their friends in McCall, The sawmill and planer are running at full capacity. Mr. Hoff states that lie cannot supply the demand for lum- ber. Mr. Uhlerick of Oreana, came in last week with two fine gasoline boats, one a 10- horsepower with a. seating capac- ity of eight people. This makes three motorboats besides the steamer and sailboats at McCall. The people of NTeCali anticipate a busy summer, as the P. & I. N. rail- road is running into New :Meadows, with the stage connecting for ,NrcCail, so that people leaving Boise leave there in the morning and reach the lakes at night. With the enlar. ed ho- tel and rooming and boarding facili- ties, the :McCall people hope to give the summer people better accommo- dations than ever before. WITTE 19KES GROWING HISORT 'Paris Martin Tells of Growth of McCall and Many Changes for Next Year. Mr. and Mrs. Paris Martin and chlI- dren just returned from Payette lakes, where they have spent their summer vacation. Air. Martin says that tho lakes not only are now, but are des. tilled to be more and more as years go by the summer resort for the peo= Pie of the Boise, Payette and Weiser valleys. ,,;'This summer has soon the* great- number of people that ever visited the lakes In a single season," he says. !"From August 12 to 27, an average of 35 people took their meala each day at the Payette Laken Club Inn. The old timers tell me that they can easily remember when only five or six fam- ,lies from the valleys would visit the lakes In a season, and that this was practically true up to 10 or 12 years ago. Each year the number of fam- ,lies building cottages' around the Men, putting up tent frames and camping has increased and this year the number of families enjoying the scenery, the temperature, the bathing, the pines and the mountain air was greater than ever before. Many Toivna Represented. "Beside the number mentioned at the Payette Lakes Club Inn, there were many people at Sylvan Beach, Picnic Point, the Ontario club, the Weiser club, the Nampa club, and at other community camps, Boy Scout camps, and the like, besides the town of McCall Itself. Then there are a great many cottages scattered along the lake shore and tucked away among the pines. \ext year Gus liar - troy of Boise will have a house boat on the lakes. Ife is having the logs gotten out now for the house boat. "The town of McCall at the lower end of the lakes will likely undergo many changes In the near future. Even the casual observer recognizes the fact that the lakes are bacaming more and more a summer resort. It Is said that an amusement company capitalized at $40,000, Boise capital, either has been formed or is to be formed In the near future, to Install bath houses and a dance pavilion. etc., on the lakq shore, just about where the sawmill now stands. The saw mill Is to be moved up the lake shore next year. The main street at McCall will then be parked and In time should be paved. Some enter- prising Boise boys have purchased the garage. The 'Williams store has lately. sold out to new purchasers. The drug store has lately changed hands. I un- derstand that Blackwell's pool hall, etc., was lately purchased by hew owners. Will 310TO Sheep Trail. "Another improvement that will take place soon at the lakes Is the moving of the sheep trail so that. In- stead of the trail running close to the east side of the lakes, It will run back away from the lakes a mile or so. Instead of-the sheep crossing the river at the outlet of the lakes near Lardo, they will cross on a new bridge to be constructed a couple of miles down the river from the outlet. This im- provement will do away with much of the dust that is annoying to those on the cast side of the lake. Bathing and Mountain Climbing. "Besides the usual hunting and fishing, provision Is to be made soon for a new diversion for the lake vis- itors. There is to be a golf course in the meadow back of the Payette Lakes club and S. If. flays property. It Is expected that the golf course will be put In next summer, so that golf will be an added diversion to this already attractive place." e �. '�� `i . , .< � . Y4 �. '�� .. r..... h H '�' � 1 �t CONTBNTS . Situation--------------------------------------------- - - - -1 Altitude and Climate ------------------------------------------- 1 The Lake and Its Surroundings ---------------------------------- 2 Need of Recreational Centers ------------------ ..- ________- ___�__3 Tourist Accommodations - - -_ Y: cCa11----------------------------------------------- - - - - -4 Payette Tnn- -.._ .-- ______ -- --- __5 Sylvan k Outdoor Life Company- ---------------------- ---- -- _ - -5 H Other Accortarrodations -------------------------------------- 6 Estimated Number of Tourists, Season of 1919--------- ---- -- ----6 Recreational Plan -------------------- - - - - -- - -- �..- - -� Camp Site Areas and Lot Subdivisicns ---------------------- 7 West Side of Lake ------------------------------------ 7 • Theeninsula------------------------------- - - - - -- -10 FallCreek ------------------------------------------ 11 Payette River -------------------- ------------------ 12.,.. Public Shore------------------- ------ ----- ----------- - - - -12 Leasing Policy vs. Sale Policy---------- - - - - -- 12 PresentLeases---- -- --- ------ ------------ -- - --- - - -_16 Outdoor Life Company -------------------------------- 16. Ontario, Club- ------------ - - - - -- - - - - -- -19 J' B. Clinton----------------------------------- - - - -19 LotRentals------------------------------- Supervision and Regulations_ -_ -___ -- - -_ -_- __ _ __,20 Opportunities for..Reereation __-___._ -__ WaterSpQrta ---------------------------------------- 22 Landuports ----------------------------------------- 22 Improvements---- - - - - -- ____ .-- ----- ---- ---- -- - - ---- - - - - -22 Recommendations for Year of 1920 ------ --- �- f - -�- -- -- -- -i24` --------------------------------- - -- -- -_ - _25 ' STATE LANDS AT BIG . PAYETTE LAS ' Part I Recreational Features (Preliminary Report By F. G. ,btiller Situation Big P ayette Lake is situated about 90 miles north and some 5 miles east of Boise. It is reached from the south over the Idaho and Northern Railroad, and by the new state highway, which for the greater part of the way parallels this railroad from horseshoe Bend to McCall; 41so over the Pacific and Idaho Northern Railroad via Weiser to. New Me ado.ws,..thence by auto -stage to lwccall. On the completion of the state highway from Grange - ville to New rdea.doxrs, and the TrcCall -1, arren state highway, the • lake will be readily accessible to the country north. This oplEn- did eystem of auto roads will make the Payette La.ke Resort a con- tral stopping point for trans- state tourists. Altitude and Climate The altitude of Bid; Payette Lake is almost exactly 5000 feet. The region enj oya an equable climate, characterized by mild. winters with a heavy snow .fall,, and dry, summers with. an abundance of sunshine. The sLumner climate is quite ideal for a summer resort. The days are warm and pleaaant and the nights always cool. The tourist season is from June 1 to October 1, with July and.August as the .favorite: rnon.tl.s. I The Lake and. Surroundings Big Payette Lake has a surface area of 7 to 8 square miles oral isaunusua.11y clean, clear body of mater. It is of great depth in places, tho having many shillow, sandy beaches' suitable for ' bathing. The state controls nearly 15000 acres of land adjacent to the lake, which include some 14 miles of lake .f rove , one -half to tyro - thirds of which are suitable for cGmp grounds. The rest of the lake .front, comprising b to 7 miles, io own -ed private 2y the most of which is adapted to summer home sites and, is held for thispurpose. It is most fortunate that nearly all' of the shore glands man- aged. by the stE4te, and on a goodly portion of that privately owned, tine 7irgin timber stand is either intact or has been cut conservatively. Some of the largest old yellow pine of the region occurs immediately along the lake shore. Thus, it is that .dig Payette hake possesses three natural requisites to a popular summer play ground - -a magnificent body of water, a suitable climate and an Labun4ance of timber. It i s the pl,ua of the state to so manage its shore timber as to preserve the scenic beauty of the lake front' and all of it . will' be h endle.d . so as to perpetuate the .forest cover. '1'o t t-e east, north and west..i of the state, holdi� gs, the timber lands are centralled by the federal government a.s national forests, which gives assurance that the greater part of the mountins about the lake; will always remain 'in #brest:4 , Owing to its accessibility, delightful summer climate, wonderful " 1 scenic attractions and splendid. recreational .features, Payette hake is destined to become one of the notable summer playgrounds of the Northwest. Need of Recreational Cente s The dernand for recreational facilities ie' one.: that la as growh:, up rapidly in this country in recent years. This demand cornF S from a growing recognition of the importance of relaxation fro-in the cares of the office, the field, and the shop. The value of play to children has been recognized long since, but vre a're only now coming to realize that it is ,just .s es. entia.l to grown- UPS. The importance of recreation has received a tremendous impetus with the .development of the a.utomobile,' ma.k3ng recreatiorial�� centers accessible to larger nurabcrs. The selective draft which revealed. so large a. percent, gee of our young men to be physically untJt for war service, has emphaxized the necessity of physical tva.ining in our educational system. As another incident to the war',. our people have learned. to appreciate the' recreational advantages of our own country a, degree which they had no C dope before,' Und the slogan "See America. First" has taken on an added meaning. The U. S. Forest Uervice has forseen the r,ced of play- ground centers, `and has modified the " administration' of" trio- ;riationa.l forests to meet it. In consequence, the recrea,ticna,l use of these forests has grown with incredible rapidity, and they have in a very real sense now become national play grounds. .r - , Man-., of the states also have met the need for recreation centers by setting aside suitable areas for the purpose, and have made provision for their development. In recoZpition of tlis need, our cwn _ state, some'; ten years a.go, purchase d'.4n..area of- 121 OQQ , acres, including land and water, in the north part of the state, r. and dedicated it to the people of Idaho as a recreation center, This area i. s known as Heyburn Park. Big Payette Lake and the state land about it afford such an opportunity for the south part of the state. In fact, it-is the most uuitable tract for play ground pu7poses in all southern Idaho, and the, only one in the southwestern — R. :The greatest care r should,' therefore " be"to.ken to innaugurate, at this .time.*'sucl pians for the management and development of this area as wi11 make it of the greatest possible use to the people as a summer playground. Tourist Accommodations . McCall: The town of McCall (Lakeport), situated at the south end of i- 'ayette Lake, is the terminus of the Idaho and Nort -4ern Railroad. t;onfusion will be avoided, if it is noted that iucCall is the name of the town and post office, while Lakeport designates the railroad station and express and telegraph offices. McCall has a resident population of about 300. It has the usual line of stores, two hotels, three bakeries and restaurants, barber shop, one garage, a saw mill of 50,000 board feet dai ly capacity, one newspaper, graded public schools: and-- two`'tchurehes: r Payette Inn This -,s a. summer hotel g miles northwest of 14CCall. It is attractively located on an elevatior overlooking the lake,ith spacious grounds. on the lake front.. 1he' maip'agernent maintains ,a. number of : tents, a'd.ancing, pavilion, ..'boat .house, , : bath`houee; an 'd a confectionery booth. lean Beach 6ylvar Beach is a private resort owned and operated, by Charles H. Nelson, and is situatod on the west shore of the lake, sorre miles nearly due north of 1kcCa.11. The grounds are very choice, and' are improved with a. hotel, i several iunu -a houses and hou6e' tents, and supplied with mountain water. the beaoh i.a shallo,,, for some distance frcm the shore,' has a sandy bottom, and • affords excellent bathing. Row boats and a launch are available to the guests at reasonable rates. Outdoor Life e Co . -G.. A. New combT I ' ana' . e r• 'phis company is locF;.ted on the west side of the peninsula about li miles northeast of .McCall. The land is leased from the state, and consists of Lots 1 and 2, Sec. 4, T. 18 N., R. 3 E., cm- prising 91.9 .acres, for which.is paid X150 ayear.�.1�The accomodations here ccnsi st of j7 house tents, equipped ready for housekeeping, and tourists wr1h their own camp equi�.,rnent are given free camping privileges. Doi-ilestic water is supplied from three wells on the .,grounds._.- The company •keeps,.a launch.,and a number-' umber of row b:o.ats a'nd carioea v, for-the accommodation of its guests.'' uests. l The bathing beach here - -is'one of tYaQ very .finest on the lake front. Other Accommodations Several other parties are each equipped to take care of a few guests. !among these, mention may be made of Robert A.Davis, who runs... :& private resort ` adjoining the Out "door -Life Company on the north. "le ha,s tent accommodations .for' about 30 people. The Ontario Club has a lease from the state on the west side cf the la =:ke and has house and tent quarters for a number of guests. Including the town of 1i.cCall, Fayette Inn, Sylvan Beach, Outdoor Life Co., and other place^, there are hotel and tent accor'inodations for approximately 600 guests. These accommodations were inadequate during; .the, rush season..last summer, .: and,.,.wit,h_ the increased, tourist trade that may, "confi dent ly be expected wL1-th the completion of the highways leading to the lake, a.daitional housing facilities will need to be provided. , Estimated Number of Tourists, Season of 1919, ,oheck of '..the, registers ;of the various 'hotelstiIail aam P grounds about the lake showed that the average daily transient pop- ulation the past season was about 350 for one day. If to this nurnbcr is aActed the number of tourist guests at these places during the slack-periods,: anal. those visiting the xake during ,_ the stiminer, but furnishing their own accomi-aodations,''the grand total of tourists for the season would be the equival.en'- of not less than 25,000 for one day. If these t.oarists spent an average of $2.50 per day for accomiaodations and suppliee; -4t will -6- , be seen that the total expenditures would be upwards of $6Q,000-- not a large suns now, but one which indicates a. formidable business within a very few years. Recreation Plan It should be understood that the plan herein proposed . for the development of the recreation, features of this tract are at best only suggestive and tentative. There was not sufftient time in one short field season for a small party, in aMitiora to Mapping and cruising; 115,000 acres, to make the detailed survoys necessary to plat and stare oft' lots, athletic grounds, roads and trails, etc,, etc., and do the :other work incident to making a complete plane The purpose of this report and fta.c- corapanying Recreatioria.l .14ap, therefore, is merely to present an idea of what may be done, leaving the permanent plan to be worked out on the ground later, in cane this tentative plan is adopted. Camp Site Areas and Lot Subdivisions West Side of Lake On the west side of the lake, beginning at the State House and extending to Sylvan iieach, the entire lake front was laid cut into lots some years_ ago. The loge were. not actually; surveyed. and staked, merely being projected. on paper. However, it is understood that the plan was officially adopted, and some of the lots have been leased and others sold, the actual arveys `be.ing mad, e. ee' :the lots are..thus;.dispo'sed .of. i3ecaus..: the °former ; plattingrs were adapted, they have been transferred -to -the be made in them as will give them greater variation in size and shape. This would be quite as desirable as that the buildings upon the lots should show variety. in architectural style. In Blocks 1;!:2 and 3,: the lot e, with two: or: 'threw exceptions, are 50 x 150 feet, H,hich seems a little small for summer home sites. The length is quite acceptable, but a 50 foot .frontage viould not in most cases appeal to people wanting summer homes, as , it brings them too close to their neighbors. People do notr want to be crowded when they go to a summer resort. Moreover, if they lease lots for summer cottages, they want to feel that . they are getting value 'received. In Blocks 4 to 20, both inclusive, the most of the lots have 100 feet frontage and are HOC feet deem. A lot of u7is size contains .688 acres, This seems larger than is necessary and when these lots are finally surveyed and staked, it will;prob. ably be fourid`'desirable to .reduce many: of them in size. A'lo't, of 75 feet frontage and a depth of 150 to 200 .feet is quite satin- facury. In a .few cases, as in Block 14 for example, it All be noted that certain lots have no outlet except. thraag.'n a neighboPing lot. This, ;:..of course, can be corrected when the actual survey. is:.., .... made, The rotid shown on the Recrea.tioaa.l iAap is the present temporary road, and gocd part of it will be abandoned whn the neYr McCall - Warren hightaf, is completed...,. This . highway ,was-:.our• veyed last: rsumn�e.r, she Y�arty in .charge working, in cooperatlo_n` 4i1th our party .in fixing the location so as to interfere as little as possible with the plan of laying out the lake front into aw timer 4 be made in them as will give them greater variation in size and shape. This would be quite as desirable as that the buildings upon the lots should show variety. in architectural style. In Blocks 1;!:2 and 3,: the lot e, with two: or: 'threw exceptions, are 50 x 150 feet, H,hich seems a little small for summer home sites. The length is quite acceptable, but a 50 foot .frontage viould not in most cases appeal to people wanting summer homes, as , it brings them too close to their neighbors. People do notr want to be crowded when they go to a summer resort. Moreover, if they lease lots for summer cottages, they want to feel that . they are getting value 'received. In Blocks 4 to 20, both inclusive, the most of the lots have 100 feet frontage and are HOC feet deem. A lot of u7is size contains .688 acres, This seems larger than is necessary and when these lots are finally surveyed and staked, it will;prob. ably be fourid`'desirable to .reduce many: of them in size. A'lo't, of 75 feet frontage and a depth of 150 to 200 .feet is quite satin- facury. In a .few cases, as in Block 14 for example, it All be noted that certain lots have no outlet except. thraag.'n a neighboPing lot. This, ;:..of course, can be corrected when the actual survey. is:.., .... made, The rotid shown on the Recrea.tioaa.l iAap is the present temporary road, and gocd part of it will be abandoned whn the neYr McCall - Warren hightaf, is completed...,. This . highway ,was-:.our• veyed last: rsumn�e.r, she Y�arty in .charge working, in cooperatlo_n` 4i1th our party .in fixing the location so as to interfere as little as possible with the plan of laying out the lake front into aw timer e home sites. Thus the crossing of lots by the old road will be largely avoided by the new one. Bac of the string of 1 ots'platte4 are more .fin.e sftes that may be ,platted into, lots as- need''arises. Some o.f these sites are indicated on the Re crN a,ti on .yap as Public Camp Grounds to be used by the general oubli c without charge, till such time as the additional lots may be in demand. The frontage from the State Iiouse to Uylvan Beach. is traversed by four mountain streams, the water from all of them being suitable for domestic purposes. .,..The water in the two un named Creeks- was.. very, low;;the::paet :'sur but: it 'that they thot ' will furnish a moderate supply of water in any ordinary season.1 Wagon Wheel Bay Creer: and Nelsonts Creek each furnishes an abund- ance of fine water the yehr round. These four streams 'together with a fine Weil at the State Aouse meet_ the:xequi..rements for dobze ati c water .f al rly well at ,the pre sent time,: however addi ti onai facilities will need to be provided later. One plan wouldhe to distribute the water from the streams through a system of pipes. A lar, -r, number of caaipers could be served with water in this way. Probabl however, , ;a series. of wells WOul . `eolve;::the problem as economi ca.11y ' as it may be done in any other way. The area marked T'ublic Camp Ground just north of Sylvan Beach, thous;h small, is popular, being usell more than any other area., on the west side. : ; It has "a. .,good beach,` .arid is,otber- wise' a` sphere ` did camp site, but' for the fact that it has no water except the lake water. A well should r>e Urovi ded here as soon 1. yet, but as the number of tourists increases, the chances far con - tamination will multiply.,;..: At "Dead Horse Creel: is ano then urea indi cat d.d on tB Recreational Trap as Public Camp Ground. This is used as a logging carp at present, but when the logging is finished, it willbecome� a very popular camping site as it is one of the most beautiful snots on the lake, is supplied with an abundance of fine qm-ing water, and leas a splendid bdach. It will probably be in demand f.or suru-Lier homes within a .few ,seasohs. :,: Tre Peninsula The most desirable camp ground area on the entire lake ' shore is that covered by the lease of the Outdoor Life CQ. , This lease includes Lots 1 and 2, Sec. 4, T. lg.N., . . ,3:E.,. and con- . ta;ins..91 9' acres. Here occurs the finest' stand``of ye- I1ovr pine to '-e found about the lake. The bathing beach is shallow .far out into the lake, and having a southerly exposure and a sandy bottm, the water is wa.rui. The area is only 1-, miles from 'McCall, and is ac- cessible to autos. Two tiers of lots are indic' -ate d here, comprising all the shore line co vrered by the lease, altho as noted on page 17, it is reco:,lmended that 1r. Newcomb be given the privilege of renewing that part of his lease covering Lot 2. .The lots generally, are 100 .feet: 'by.- 200 �.feet thus allowing nearly jnacre' per "lot. This:'' " area is improved with three wells, which furnish an abundarc e of fine cold water for domestic use. .� ss -10 1 North of the lots indicated are plenty of desirabb camp sites for the general public. These are marked "Public Camp These may also be reached by a.ut�4... Grounds". S much of the water -front here is s,aitabl.e for summe.r.'homes, :and.later Val need Y to be platted into lots. On the east side of the peninsula are limited areas a- dapted to camp grounds. One of them is platted on the Recreation Map . An :.uto road would be constructed to reach these at slight expense. Fall Creep: At Fall Creek in Section 26 is another splendid camp area. Fully one -h.Llf :Wile of the lake front fro':n the south side of this section is adapted to suimmer Nome sites. the beach is shallow with a sandy bottoia, and being a southerly. expoeure.,. the.,waters are. -fine `or bathing.:: The one,,;, drawback to the EaljL ;,Cree}s.; at present is that it is not accessible to autos or teams. A mile or so of inexpensive construction would obviate this difficulty. Of course, it is readily reached by boat. Reference to the iRecreation Map will show .lots 'to:: Ve ,indi colt ed to the aouth of Fall Creek, while the area just north is show - as "Public Carne Grounds ". This , ,- :rtion also will later be in demand for summer homes. Fall Creek could be diverted to supply the Payette: River At the head of the lake and north along Payette Rite: r are several good .camp. sites, . and it'.is :expett.ed. that these: be .freely used by the ;ublic on the completion of the McCa11_Warren highway. Plenty of .cold mountain water is available. Public Shore Reference to the original plat on the Nest shor(� mentioned above shows a strip about 50 feet wide, presumably above high water line, not included as a part of the lots. It is assumed. that it was, the intention to dedicate this strip to . the use of the: geriera�`l public. In any event, it would seem wise to reserve such a strip along all. the lake -front so as to guarantee to everybody unrestricted use of the lake shore for bathing, boating, fishing, or any other legitimate purpose, and this report so recommends. - Leasing Policy vs. Sale Policy The f E.ct that these lands are grants to various ird;i. tutions makes their wanage_aent for the two -fold purpose of timber production and recreation a difficult problem. If the . state owned the lands outright, the :problem would be greatly,::eirnplif1'-9'd, as :. the question of income fro,.,i the property could be made a. secondary iiiatter. But I -eld in trust at3 the lands are, the state, as' trustee, is under obligation to so administer then as to make theca yieli .,a ,reason- , able income to 'the be''eficiariez. It `is not Qasy to do sand at the same time matte there meet the demands of the public as -12- Two courses are open. One is gradually to sell ed' the lake front as demand arises and leave the development cC the recreational facilities:largely to private Initiative. Perhaps this pia n would 'reo rapid in more ra d inuediate development, but it presents several serious drawbacks. In the first place, it is pointed out that in a short time tree better and raore strate ,ic camp sites would be in tha hands of a few individuals, and the lake would cease to be 'the surmaer play ground of the people at large. Moreover, the lands back o_f the recreation sites would be, cut off from the laj.ee front,•,. and their value . in consequence' would be greatly decreased.. Un- restricted outlet to the lake will always give both the outlying lands and the timber upon them added value. There is special serious objection to selling the shore lSn s:., to , d either now or : in 'the irnn,ediate future' in that the a re just coin a Y r h, .,)a ,, a g into their own through the opening up of Payette Lake by r the construction of auto roads to it and its growing pupule;ity as a summer resort, in consequence of which they are sure to in- crease tremendously in value, and if they are to be sold at all, it would be'' in the' interests' of the:: initit- utione c n o .corned• to hold • for higher vaiaes. Finally, the people of the state through the legislaturt3 and otherwise have expressed tliemselves as wanting to see these lands kept under forest cover, even .,jj.ng so :far as to protest the ;cutting of any, of •the limber at a17.° on tha ,fake= border,. and they will have far greater assurance that their wishes will be respected under state control than under private ownership. I TAI The only sale that could satis�r the people at large would be a sale of the entire area to the state of Idaho to be - I,drainistered by the state as a. eta.te park. But, owing to legal obstacbs in the way;. such la sale is..extremely.problematfca7:;' if not impossible.. , The other alternative for handling the tract would be to expand the present leasing policy and amend the law so that the leasing period might be extended to cover say 15 years, with the privilege of renewal. There need. be but few restrictions as to im- prove.aents, and. these such as not to hamper development. r A plan to lease part and sell part, it is believed, would work out badly, since some form of supervisi on. would' , be, required, to. enable any kind of. management to `.succeed; and if .additional tracts are sold, supervision for the rent of the area will become correspondingly more expensive. For economical handling, the entire area should be held as a unit. 0 In its report -dated �Ia 21 1919 he art of .foresters ,;.. P Y. t that, at the invitation of the State Land Commissioner, had'jList made a tour of inspection of these lands recommended as follows: "We believe a definite policy should be outlined and carried out in the preparation and development of camp grounds, roads.. and .trails, fire protection, water development, 'end sanitary regulations to,: the end that this area shall serve its highest use as a recreation center and play ground for the people of Idaho. "We reco -mmend that as soon as possible a derinite ap- propriation,,be :made each and every year for these `purposes until such plans are fully carried out. We believe. a'plan of dividing -14- 4 f these state lands into lots for camping and summer home puposes, with suitable regulations should be adopted, and that the funds received from leases and the timber aold. under the plans re com mended will, in time reault in an'annual income-'to the colL,ges. and institutions ornning these lands that will. be g reat'er than under any other sc:.neme of management that can be adopted": Clearly, the committee had in mind,a. leasing policy. The advantages of a leasing police may be sunmariaed as follows: 1. It would prevent the isolation of the lands lying back of the camp 'grounds, which would resuht from selling off the..1 -ke front. The value of the property as a whole will be greater 'if held intact. , , 2. A leasing policy, it is believed, would in the long run yield the beneficiaries greater returns.than.would._a, sale.,p,olicy, particularly 'if -the ..lands are .sold "within the next several -years; If it were announced that no mores ia.nds would be offered itv sale, quite probably lots would lease more rapidly. A leasing plan need not .retard p.riv;,.te development wor-1-c as there is plenty of private snore lands for sale. 3. A leasing policy wo,_i1d serve the people at large more fully than any other plan. 4. It would leave the management of the timber in thehands of the state, thus insuring the preservation.of. Uie .sceni.c features of` the` 'lake 1front , ;, 5. By holding the area intact, a leasing policy would enhance the chances of getting state support- for the development and maintenance ofd permanent recreational plan. _ 6. It .s only in the past year that the wonderful possibilities of Page tte Lake as a summer resort have been ,brot..,.prominently to 4. the attention of the "publi-c. Even now, ite ,importatlee as recreational center is not generally known. Any plan of manage_ went, therefore, such as a leasing plan, which will hold to area intact while public sentiment regarding the best disposition to-be made of the land is taking; forra, seems conservative and safe. Present Leases The Outdoor Life Co,, Thin. company of which Geo:. A.Newcomb ;Ys manager, ' now owns Lease No. 529, covering Lots 1 and 2, Sec. 4, T. 13 1� R. 3 E. Lot 1 contains 36.2 acres and Lot 2, 55.7 acres, making a total of 91.9 acres, for which the company pays 4150 pe'r year. Thi s i e a three year lease, expi ring .De cembe,r 31; ,1920. The grounds are improved - with 37 house tent$, all' equipped for nousekee;Ang. Each tent will acccrrmrnodate a small family. Domestic water, as stated, is supplied from three wells owned by the state. Cdr . Newcomb 'states that he .ac comcao dated in--his ,t ent a :the past season an average of 85 people a day .for a period of sixty days. In addition, he granted free camping privileges toan average of 20 people per day for the same time. The average .family consisted of_ A- people, and. the charge per., person_:for' :tent`s, � without .meals , was about 6 ... , •�.:: �-�= ` ' og...per day. The families do their 'own cooking. Mr. w'ewcoinb represents his investment to be 27 house tents - - -- 94000 1 launch -------------------- l000 32 row boats--------- - - - - -- --2004 5 canoes., - - - -- - 300 • - Tot a1 -, �7 QQ . , ,� r r r r r- r Mr. Newcomb is undoubtedly furnishing a class of accom- modations that are very much in demand and n:eded. He st ,tes that applications for tents far exceeded his supply at many dif- , ferent times the past tourist season. His plan makes it possible for a family to enjoy a suns. er outing at a reasonable expense, and in view of the present .limited :tourist accoimaodations about the la-ke,, it is recommended that the lease, with sortie modifications, be renewed for another three -year period. In the first nlaoe, the lease includes much more water front than is being used, and it is recom.,lEnded that the new lease, if made, include only the N SF4 °(Lot 2) Sec. 4, T. 18 N..�. R. 3E: This would' relesse :for . A others more than one -half the water-front covered by the present lease. Lot 2 contains 55,7 acres. The rental even for t-B re- duced area should be increr::t.sed, as lot 2 is absolutely the :finest camping ground on the entire lake front and it carries a heavy. stand Hof splendi.d''tlinber. Ae state' above,'two, tiers of lots are indicated on the Recreation 19ap, merely to show the possibilities for summer home sites here at a later time. In case the lease is ;.!,newed for Lot .2, it is recommended that. ,-the rental :b e fixed at... nc d ,le. @sthan. ' 5 2 0. and ossiba Q0., � p y. �3 These figures have been arrived at in the following manner: the rest fine, large yellow pine. Uonsidering the. quality, of the timber"and its'-proximity to the lake, "a stumpage value 'of 43:r50. per thousand is conservative. Tk.n front lots and ten back lots, each :vith a 100 foot frontage can be laid out here. This would still leave desirable lots back of the second tier, which in thi's calculation are disregarded. Surnr,ier home lots adjacent to Lot 2 on the south with a 53 foot front and a. depth of about 100 "feet were selling last summer for :250 each. In .fact, one or. two back lot s had: sold for price. On ,the..,: We. at :side of .:the lake , '; private "lots with a. lake .frontage of .frog, 50 to 100 feet `were being held at from $400 to $500 in a location 'not nearly so desirable as thi s one. Placing a valuation of $3.50 per thousand on tie timber and t:"ie very conservative valuation of 1'„250 on the front lots, and $100, the,-, back lot s' ( the , lot 6..: are':40rth more) , ',and''a,asumir�g ;that t. the prof .rty were sold at these .figures we have: 880,000 .feet of timber 4 $3.50 per ;d---- -$3080 10 front lots U $250 each---------- - - - - -- -2500 10 back lots v :;100 cash----------- - - - - -- -1000 Total------ - - - - - ' 00 which at 5q equals any annual income :'of 4325. It is believed that the frontlots wouldle.ase at 4dp25 each and the back lots at $10 per year, hence on a lease basis, if all the lots were leased, we have 10 'front lots at " 2 each S 5 10 baclt lots at `10 eaciz- -. - - -- - -- 100. making a total yearly inco,,ie of ------------ -- - - - -Z 0 However, since it is not probable that all the lots would either be sold or leased by December 31, 1920, when the present lease expires, perhaps. a. yearly-rental of; $250 for a new 3 ye�ar'.lease would; e y out of th wa not be fe.r ': ... .. .. The Ontario Club This club holds Lease No. 454 and it runs to S. D. Dorman, Ontario, Oregon. It comprises that portion of the west amide of the lake included in Block 4, Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, and Blocic 5, Lot,a 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, or 9 lots in all. The lots are each 100 feet. wide, and with one rexception, :each. is 300 feet long: `. The'�;leaee ' price for the nine lots is $20 per year or $2.22 per lot, a rent2Ll which is .far below par. As the nine lots in lude 900 feet of • choice lake frontage, it is believed they would command an annual rental of at least. $10 each. The lease expires December ,. 1922. The grounds., are ` improved with 'three .summer , cottages :and several tents. They constitute an excellent site for summer homes, are amply shaded, and have a desirable beach. J. E. Clinton, Boise The 'records show Mr. Clint on to own Lease No. 408:, care ring' Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 in block 14, also on the west side of the lake. The combined area of the 7 lots is 2.877 acres. The rental should be much higher. There is some misunderstanding about this lease,., as .othe.r parties claim to `' have purchased several''of the lots. _.. _19- Lot Rentals The U. S. Yorest Service, any of wriof3.°, recreational :' centers are 'situated'sirmilarly to Payette Lake;, fixes rent als':for' suwn,er home sites at from 0`5 to $25 per year, and it is recomriiended that this be the scale adopted for lots here. Depending on size, Y location, nearness to a domestic water supply and desirability in general, it is recommended that the annual rentals for lots as now n mapped out on the "Recreation Iviap" be fixed at from to 015 for those on the west ,side of the lake; $lo :to :$25 for those on :,.the west side of the. Penineula;, 5 for those .on.. the ' east side of :the:.-,Pe ninsula;. and -�5 to $10 for those at Fall Creek. Su-pervi sion and Regulations More or less damage is done the trees under the present .unsupervised 'camping privileges. The damage'!occurs through =the:- hacking and peeling of the large trees and cutting the smaller ones for tent poles and fuel. This sort of thing has become serious in certain instances, snd unless it is in some way stopped, fie lake front will become greatly ,,barred soon by the presence of dead and dying trees, and by-over thinning of young growth. Sanitary conditions too are not the best, and steps should be taken to impro-:e the -.m... Much may be done to correct these difficulties by posting simple regulations calling attention to the importance. `of. taking :care of the, trees, and of:= keeping all, camp sites in a. thoroughly sanitary condition. However, the - poatinE. of regulations will not of itself r Lot Rentals The U. S. Yorest Service, any of wriof3.°, recreational :' centers are 'situated'sirmilarly to Payette Lake;, fixes rent als':for' suwn,er home sites at from 0`5 to $25 per year, and it is recomriiended that this be the scale adopted for lots here. Depending on size, Y location, nearness to a domestic water supply and desirability in general, it is recommended that the annual rentals for lots as now n mapped out on the "Recreation Iviap" be fixed at from to 015 for those on the west ,side of the lake; $lo :to :$25 for those on :,.the west side of the. Penineula;, 5 for those .on.. the ' east side of :the:.-,Pe ninsula;. and -�5 to $10 for those at Fall Creek. Su-pervi sion and Regulations More or less damage is done the trees under the present .unsupervised 'camping privileges. The damage'!occurs through =the:- hacking and peeling of the large trees and cutting the smaller ones for tent poles and fuel. This sort of thing has become serious in certain instances, snd unless it is in some way stopped, fie lake front will become greatly ,,barred soon by the presence of dead and dying trees, and by-over thinning of young growth. Sanitary conditions too are not the best, and steps should be taken to impro-:e the -.m... Much may be done to correct these difficulties by posting simple regulations calling attention to the importance. `of. taking :care of the, trees, and of:= keeping all, camp sites in a. thoroughly sanitary condition. However, the - poatinE. of regulations will not of itself " ` whose business it would be to supervise the various camp grounds, as far as possible keep a regi ster of all cEinper.s', and,. thus be able to fix responsibility .for damage ',to the tkeeg or other in- fractions of the regulations. the duties of the park sups: in- tendent may be more specifically defined as follows; 1. To issue permits, whether free or for a charge, as .far y as possible to all campers, even if but for one night, recording H the name and address of the permittee, and designating; the camp site chosen. Scattered as the different. camp .sites. are, ,ad reached from different directions, it may not be- possible to , ob- tain complete records, but enougli may be had to enable the super- intendent to keep fairly close viatch over the various camp sites. 2. To collect rer,ta].s or other charges. 3.. To .protect the trees. and underbrushfrom-d.amage. 4: To' supe rvi se, the s &ni tatibn of the camp ' grounds. ;. To see that camp .fires are put out, and otherwise assist in Preventing the escape of fires to the forests. 6. To keen watch., as far as possible, over the property of lessees in their - absence . 7. To lay out and supervise improvement work. 1.1'uch cf it lie might do hirnk;elf. To assist prospective lessees in locating and selecting; lots, thus working .up ,business for the :state , ; Opportunities for Recreation Water Sports The lake affords excellent'.facilities for boating, bathiIng,' swimming, and other forma of water sports. The writer was Present for the T'ou4 of July exercizew last summer, and along- with a. large crowd greatly enjoyed. the water sports put on for that occasion. They consisted of boat racing, canoe racing, horse racing in the water,surf riding, high diving, log rolling, etc.— To s, large portion of the crowd,: 'this: class of 'spgria .was- new:' Land Sports • As the Recreational Yla.p shows, an athletic field is suggested., which may be utilized. for baseball, football, tennis and track meets: The re, is already . consi der able ,, demand far such a .field, and it should be set aside now while' the ground for 'it' is available. The site proposed is in an open meadow. Those who are fond of walking will find. much of interest in thie way, and probably no place ,in .Idaho -can off er more :;;s enic attractions for motorists than is.to� be; seers along the autohigh ways leading out of McCall improve Mie nts Among the first im roveraent,a to .be: provided wo.ul,d;';.be those making for better sanitary cond.itioris, 'namely', sanitary latrines `., -22- camp fires. They should also be instructed, as regards the;.. building of temporary. latrines g ,. . .pendin the ;'censtruction: of periranen'tones... Additional do, o t tic water should be provided as early as may be, especially on the west side of the lake and on the Peninsul,.... Filter boxes at some streams whose waters are used for domestic purposes would also be desirable improvements. Bulletins containing regulations for the government and care of the a.reat and. giving instructions for preventing; forest fires should 'be freely-. posted. oii all .camp sitea and along -the roads 8,11d trails. The above are some of the .first, and a.ti it happens, the • most inexpensive improvements needed. Others, such as the building of cooking fire places, the construction of public landings. and additional. roads and; trails, may wait until .later. It is-believed' that the building of bath houses, and. the supplying of beats and launches may well be left to private initiative. An early appropriation should be made for a permanent survey, which would locate and:;st,ake the lots,., additional •roads'.:-; and trails, mark the location of public camp grounds, wells, sans taxy latrines, garbage pits, cooking .fire places, public ]endings, ash such other improvements as will be necessary to the develop- ment of this area as a permanent recreational center. Prtferably, this work should ,be done bya:' landscape, engineer.:'' �f A: r; y t ,. Recorrmenda.tions_ for the Year of 1924 1. Pending the.. meeting of the legislature in 1921, when it is hoped an a,. w ppropriation will be secured whereby a more..penman- - ent appointment may ' c made, it is recommended that the State Fire Warden and. Timber Cruiser stationed at McCall be made Superintendent cf the recreational grounds. Such an appointment would give the State Board of Land Commissioners a responsible representative on the ground, to rvnom. the people would go for advice as regards camping a.ccommoda.tion.s, and who in turn could keep at least s, general control o.f, the different camp sites and enforce, regulations g a:•s to the care of the trees and sanitary conditions. much of the supervisory wort; could be done by the superintendent in con- nection with his duties as Fire Warden. He could also act, as the business representative of the Land Board in the leasing of lots' and° - the "gra•nting of special concessions. 2. Formulate and post rules and regulations for the control and government of the area. 3. Prepare a budget to present to the next legislature, pro - vi ding for (1) The appointment of a. superintendent to serve at least during the tourist season. (2) To make a permanent survey of the recreational features of the area such as are called for above. To start soine of the iriore ' urgent. improvement 'work rmentioned. under "Improvementa ". suite probably. funds for developraQt wore :at 1:eyburn Park' will be -requc st.ed of "the ' next legi'alature ,'and'' there, 'might be some advantage in working out the two budget% jointly, ao thr ;,t the development of the two recreational centers may go forward hand in hand. N a.me It would serve to fix the attention of the public on the importance of this area as a `summer play ground, .and y: otherwise many advantages sou1d be gained if 'it ha.d a. definite official name, and the name "Payette Lake Park" is suggested. i suite probably. funds for developraQt wore :at 1:eyburn Park' will be -requc st.ed of "the ' next legi'alature ,'and'' there, 'might be some advantage in working out the two budget% jointly, ao thr ;,t the development of the two recreational centers may go forward hand in hand. N a.me It would serve to fix the attention of the public on the importance of this area as a `summer play ground, .and y: otherwise many advantages sou1d be gained if 'it ha.d a. definite official name, and the name "Payette Lake Park" is suggested. 7 /1 A A I IV IV trip lrivivirlpiv 1p or %pop sphPIPIPIPIPIP knopswip 41 t- WOW 5, .- ��cECecccccccccccccccccccctccc ICE H 0 VEST G900 ON P4YETTI LAKIS W. E. McCall Tells of Winter In- dustry of Popular Sum- mer Resort. Between 500 and 600 tons of ice are harvested during the winter eeaaon at SlcCail, Idaho, according to WY. E. Me- Call. who is registered at the Bristol. Twenty -five or 30 men are employed at this work,, and the ice is stored for the summer trade. The season begins about the middle of January and ex- tends sometimes through April. This year they were able to get solid ice 14 inches thick_ During this coming summer there will be on the Payette lakes a steamer. one of the government boats from Se- attle. This will be used as a passenger boat and also in towing logs to the mill. Thirty years ago, Mr. McCall states, his father came to Idaho and took up the land where the summer resort now Is. as a homestead. The torn when formed was named for his father, Thomas McCall. There has been an increased de- mand for dwelling houses since the first of the year, which is almost uni- versal everywhere. according to C. L. Park, who is connected with the pur- chasing department of the Union Pa- cific lines at Salt Lake. Mr. Park is registered at the Idanha. "Y have just returned from a trip to Chicago, Minneapolis and, Duluth," said 'fir. Park, "and in each of those cities one hears on every side the cry for houses. Especially, in Ch_ icago is this true. Rents have been so very high that people are beginning to realize they can build their own homes Justus cheaply as to pay rent. "I find that business conditions are looking better, decidedly better than they have for some time past." Hay at $10 to $12 a ton is the record this winter -at halfway. Ore., accord- ing to G_ L. Hunt, who is registered at the Bristol. The cattle and sheepmen were not prepared for so long a feed season, and had to have hay shipped In. therefore the high prSce, said Mr. Brunt. alining development-15 at the present time dormant, but it is hoped It will revive ss soon as active' work can be commenced. Farmers, on the whole, are In good financial condition, according to -lfr. Hunt, and the stock- men are also in good shape. r MCCat e 9 Vicinity WAit ten by MA�s . Dawson McCatt Updated by Bitty De Smith Mn, and Mu. yoRke were among the 6iAzt, ,i4 not the {}iut, to take up a homestead neon the Payette Lakes . Which was .located wheAe John StAingeA6 beauti6ut tcanch is pt m entty. This Ranch iA- tocated a mite oA Aso East o6 the MCCaP.E Goth Coume, on Lick CAeek Road. Thomas McCatt and Uamity artui.ved at the Payette Lakes on the 6iAst day o4 May, 1891. There were 12 wago" in the panty, and they had a hard time getting heAe. It took them a month to thavee UAOm Squaw CAeek Summit to the take. Att but the McCatt 4amity te4t the next moAning . MA, and Mu . WoAneA z ettted near Van W yck, at what was named ThundeA City duA.ing the gotd Aush to ThundeA Mountain. The MCCaM t<ved in the cabin Sam Deveu had bui t the 6i"t winteA, tatet. they added contsidenabty to the cabin. The cabin was Located on the pAuent site ob the MCCaU Tiv e and Wheet, and Texaco Sehv.ice Station pAezentty owned by Dave ByaluS. Thom" and Ben McCatt bu.itt the 6i&6t mitt among the take zhoAe, about whence the pAezent mitt .v, tocated. The 6ix6t mitt burned, and C.W. Btackwett, N. F, Wittiamz and Thomas McCatt Uwtuned a company and buitt a taAge UtouA mitt, and entoAged the saw nui tt Much tatec they sotd the but,,inus to TheodoAe Ho661,5 Father. The mitt burned, and TheodoA i e Ho66 and CaAt BAOwn built the mitt again. The mitt was cto�sed on OctobeA 28th, 1977, acid the main mite buitd.ing burned on MaAch 13th, 1984. HoweveA the ,smokestack, and sevenat buieding,5 5tit2 Aemain upon the 5ite. The mite i,5 the most painted stAuctuAe in the McCatt aAea, and I WOULD NOT DOUBT THAT IT IS THE MUST PAINTED STRUCTURE IN THE STATE OF IDAHO. It is a beauti6ut fled stAu tuAe, situated in a veAy picturesque setting. At any aRt show on 6estivat you may go to in this area you wilt see at teast two to 6ouA p,ictuAes d,Vsptayed oU it. Ed McMahon, oU Meadows, to" the 6iAzt stoAekeepen. He had htis stone in the buitd.ing 6iAzt occupied by MaAy Lyon's bakeAy. Thomas McCatt bui t the bu td,ing soon a6teA the tauxn.itt began Running. He bui t the Peabody Hotet bum tumbeA he sawed in the mitt. Thomas McCatt waz the 4i uSt potstmalstm The flange ways U.ine in pioneeA times. TheAe were URequent wau between the cattte•- men and the s heepmen; and both tA.ied to ptcev ent the s e tteet s 6AOm taking up Land. The .5ettteu in Long Vattey and thus vicinity pasted armed guaAdt, at the LaAdo bA.idge and at Smiths Fu t.y each spA,ing, ptceventing sheep and cattte 6AOm coming into the vattey. The homesteaders took turn at guaAding the bti.dge5 and 6eAry5. SeveAat deaths occmAed in this vicinity oveA a flange waA.The two WaAd buthetus were murdeAed by a 5heep hendeft., one o6 Ct.inton's heAdetus and the Ctinton 6amity ubed the A in6tuenee to dean. the heAdeA. A hendeA drew his gun on Ben McCatt not UaA bum town when Ben pututed a tnesspau. The game was veRy pteanti6ut, and even in 1910 hunting was exeettent cto�se to town. I have /seen dozens og deeA between town and the Lake FoRk Ranger station. Mountain goat Ranged in the Stick Rock couatAy and in neattky att the mountains close to McCatt. The timbeh was v.ing,in and velLy 6ine. FAequent 6iAe,5 Aaged, and BAundage Mountain hay been burned o U U many times. It cost Thomas McCatt eighty dottax6 and 5eveAa2 tots, an acAe I beti.eve to have the Forrest Senviee o66ice moved 6Aom Meadow,5 to McCatt. Dos,S McCatt bu.i Q,t the UiAzt o66ice, the drug stone now 6oA the 6iAst headquaxteAz. Doss (J.D.) McCatt way, the 6iAst Fotut RangeA in this distn ict and he was among the 6 Ast to take the RangeA examination. His supenvusoA way MafoA Fenn. Does buitt the UZut tAait to Lake FoAk, the y Batted it Goat Lick then, and he buiU the cabin there; the tithe one at the Lick CAeek Summitt, tatm. He bui.tt the tAait ,dawn Lick CAeek; the Red B&idge and att the 6iust tna,iZs in that di6th iet, at.6o the cabins. The .sheepmen said it ways ,impo�mibte to buitd a mate down Lick CAeek. The Red Btidge was bu.i 2.t in the w.inteh time. They took the 'Supptiu and ,some oU the makings in by pack and dog team. Thee men on skiiz, o{ eouue,the bridge to" bui U by man poweA entihet y. No hoAz ens were used at att. They used btoek and taekte to skid the togs and Aaize them. Snow6aU waz much deepen. then. One yeah it was thiAty beet deep on Secesh Summit. U ,suatty the 6ikst pack out6 ts oveA the summit coutd not make it untie ahound the 4th o6 July. The ch eating v6 the Fmut S ehviee oAous ed a ztoAm o6 acc caim and pnote/sts . The poweAUut tunbeA .intehe/sts Uought it 6oA yeaAz, aided by /some etoquent and dishon- ut Congka,smen. But the majority oU the peopte 6avoned it and held G,i66md P.inehot in high eateem. IU I AemembeA eoAAectey some oU ouA Idaho Senatou opposed its creation. The oAganization oU the Fmut SeAvCce stopped one oU the b,iggat steaez in U5tony. PAedatony .inteAuts gAabbed up att the timbeA and gAaz,ing ,land pozz ibte. It was un6oAtunate that the FoAut SeAv.iee was not cAeated much zooneA. The Fonest Senv.ice stopped the range wau and opened up the eountAy 6ori the zettteu. bui,ed.ing Roads and tna.i 2z, tetephonm, and otheA pubt%e bene6its. ThomasMcCatt ptatted �ouA btocks o6 hiz town.6 to at 6iAzt. The Aeason the town ,us so cut up .ins on account oU petty petu5onat 6eud5. The land homesteaded by LouiA Heacock was sotd in acreages and aUteA he sotd some o6 the pnopeAty the new owneA &e6used to a tow streets and atteys to go t1kough their. land. As a Aesuet none oU the zth.eet6 oA alleyz Run ztAaight as they showed, but ane stiU broken up by the acheages. The cPimate is changing in this Aegion. The snow is tighten and the summer season � much tongeh. Spring eome,6 much eatiUe/c. Once the vaUey and .fake UaAmeu had a hand time nai sing potatoes at aU, and the gAain cAo ps were Au.ined z o o 6ten by spring UAostz and the gna.in harvested UoA hay .instead. I thank that coued Thomas and Ben McCa2e,and some oU the kat o6 the U,uust setttem view the MCCatf- o6 today they wowed be pteased and suApAized to see how theile town Us tuhned out. McCatt a a veAy pnognessive, tocuust oti.entated town. Ski Town U.S.A. is what it iz known as, and it tiv e s up to its tilt e by turning out some o6 the but Otympic caeabne SkieAS, and having some oU the best Ski )tuns in Amehiea. MCCaets beauty in the Summelc season teaves nothing to be des,iteed. McCatt ,v, a beauti6ut town built on Payette Lake, and the house/5 in ,it, and aAound the city and Lake are as pretty as any you w,ite eveA see. Then there is the peopte aspect o6 McCaU. OuA tuidewt5 aAe mice and hetpsue to zt Langens, and aAe Uh i.endty. I do think ouA people ahe one oU ouA best attAaetiom. ye,6 I do betieve that the 6ix6t setteens woutd be happy with the McCatt oU today. SCOUTS ARRIVE AT SUMMER CAMPSITE Summer 1922 Sixty From Boise, Meridian, Collister, Caldwell and New Plymouth at Smiths Ferry. Telephone advice received Monday evening by. Thomoas A. Purton, Scout commissioner or Boise council, from Edward W. Clark, scout °executive and director of Camp Tapawingo, the Boy Scout camp at Smiths Ferry, convey- ed the information that the 60 scouts of Boise, Meridian, Collister, Caldwell, and New Plymouth who left Boise Monday morning in state highway trucks arrived safely at Smiths Ferry at 6 p.m. Monday, happy and eager for the joys of the first two- week camping period. Scout Esdcutive Clark informed Mr. Purton that ample adult supervision would be afforded the scouts. Those assisting in the supervision include Eugene A. Farner, district commis- sioner Boise council; Claton S. Rice and Edward Dotson, scoutmaster and assistant scoutmaster, respectively of the New Plymouth troop, and the Rev. Ralph C. Madden, minister of Im- manuel M. E. church Boise. S�iGi �vs L54,16re--- 19 -g y McCALL, IDAHO 1924 COMPLIMENTS OF SHAVER'S STORE — McCALL, IDAHO Brown family cullcctiun photo c.1924 c. 19.37 . Mctall Public Library photo - - .. ..... Early 19406 Mid- 1 9506 :)'r "FATHER OF MCCA1 L" CALLED BY DEATH MONDAY Taken from "Cascade News" June 6, 1930 Volumn XVI Number 12 Thomas McCall, 89, pioneer :resident of McCall passed away at his home in the Lake city at 9:30 o'clock Monday evening after :t long illness. The Payette Lake Star gives the following data regarding the life of Yx. McCall: " Thcmas 1�ScCa11 was born in Ohio .in 181 41, where he spent h s boyhood days. He enlisted, in the Civil War but was never call(1 into active service. On Cctober 12th 1861 he married Miss .Louisa F'ergi.son 4--Gal. _polis, Ohio, where they resided until 1870, when he moved his family, tc Mis- souri and on March 11, 1880 he brought them west, coming to Bois. where they lived until cominS, to McCall 39 years ago. At that tame Mr. McCall took up a homestead where the present to,. ;m of McCall row stands ani after whom the present town is now named. Mr. McCall rightly deserves the credit for being the father of our town for when he entered this wilderness 39 yearn ago, it was practic- ally unknown to the world with the exception of D. few pioneers who had preceded him. He helped how the trails through the fore:,;ts where our highways now run; he helped to erect the log houses which have been re- placed by modern structures. The first house on the present town - site of McCall was built by him and he has watched the little village spring up and grow to a thriving industrial community that is world famous as a summer resort. It is with deep feeling of regret mingled Whoop Thula Fiery McCall woman put spirit into winning dog -sled team By LARRY GARDNER The Idaho statesman MC CALL —They called her "Whoopin' Thula." She wasn't very big, but she was a bundle of dynamite wtio raced dog- sled teams in the '20s and 130s in McCall. Thula Geelan got the nickname Whoopin' Thula from her voice as she called out "gee" and `haw," pushing her team of seven red Irish setters to go right or left. "Gee means right and haw, left, whether you're talking to dogs or horses," says Warren Brown, 75, a McCall resident and former competitor of Thula':.. At one time Thula, who died at age 74 in 1975, was reputed to be the only woman dog sled racer in the country, and she played a starring role in the Winter Carnival races. Her son, Warren Campbell, 65, recalls the days when his diminutive, auburn- haired mother spent the winter racing dog teams around the Pacific Northwest. Thula won many trophies in a sport in which only men competed in her era. Campbell keeps the sterling silver cup she won three times, and his brother, Floyd, 64, keeps another trophy she won for winning a dog -sled race between McCall and Cascade. "She had a great lead dog," Warren Campbell remembers. "Mother could 'gee' and'haw' him right down Mission Street in San Francisco." Campbell says Thula had a special sled equipped with wheels that she used for exhibition; such as the one in San Francisco. Campbell was 14 in 1936, the year his mother quit racing;. But he remember: several of the last races. "Those dogs would really go. When you'd get them in harness, you had to hold'em back," he says. "We would tie a good -sized rope t'• a post. You'd get on the sled and get a good hold. Then you jerked the slip knot and they was gone." Thula and her male competitors i traveled a circuit that included McCall, Sun Valley, Ashton, Lake Tahoe, Calif., and Red Lodge, Mont. There were 25 or 30 dog -sled teams on the circuit in the late '20s and early '30s, says Brown, the owner of Payette Lakes Lumber Co. "The Canadian guys kept coming down here and we kept beating their Huskies," Brown says. In Thula's case, she won with her team of Irish setters. Brown was forced to be more flexible about his racing team: "It was every mutt I could get my hands on. People would give me their hunting dogs when they didn't have anything for them to do in the winter. I'd train them and race them, then give them back in the spring. "They ran the races on the lake here," Brown continues. "They took horses to pack down a trail on the lake. They pulled a big roller and that's how they packed Dog -sled racing was Thula's passion, and a love of the outdoors kept her active with hunting, fish- ing and hiking into her 60s and 70s. When she died, it was with a fishing rod in her hands on the banks of the Snake River in Hells Canyon. "She was a tough little rascal," recalls Warren Campbell's wife, Beth. Warren Campbell says "She went deer and elk hunting every year. I still have her gun, a 30-40 Craig." "She was a women's libber way before her time," Beth Campbell says fondly. Warren Campbell reminisces about his mother's exploits as a dog sled racer and outdoorswoman.__ _ FEBRUARY 11, 1937 BOISE VISITORS Fa oukS Woman Sled Driver Intends to Win at Pun Valley -r "Of course I intend to win the dog sled race at Sun Valley Sun- day," was the confident statement. of Mrs. Thula Geelan of McCall, who stopped in Boise overnight; Wednesday on her way to compete In the 12%-mile race. "Why else would I be going up there ?" The crack sled dog driver, who ` has been running races in the northwest since she started driving in'1929, is entering under the spon- sorship of Wesley Ruggles, who is idirecting a picture at Sun Valley starring Claudette Colbert. "I had a wire from Mr. Ruggles yesterday, saying he wanted me to be eure and be there Thursday to take some pictures;" explained Mrs. Geelan, who is slight and charm- ing. "So my husband and I loaded eight: clogs into a trailer and start- ed out today." Her husband,- E. J. Geelan, who , started his wife on her racing ca- reer, has.` been ill for the past two weeks, Mrs. Geelan explained. He will be -unable to compete in the race, but will accompany his wife to Ketchum if he is well enough to leave Baise Thursday morning. "I can't tell until I see the track how many dogs I'll run," Mrs. Gee- lan, explained, "If the track is: heavy, I'll have to use seven. But I! hope it's a fast course, so I can i get by with five because I can make much better time that way." Mrs. Geelan believes the worst ) race she ever. ran in was from TruckOe to Lake Tahoe. "We had to drive along the highway, and so many cars had come in that the snow had been completely worn off part of the course. I had to rung eight.miles behind the dogs on bare ! pavement to win that face. But I j won it, nonetheless." Mrs. Geelan will be entered at Sun Valley against seven other drivers, all men. But that doesn't worry her —She's accustomed to do all her competing against men. And beating them, too. Mr. and Mrs. Geelan are at the Idanha. ACROSS THE FINISH LINE for the championship of the Truck- ee dog -sled race in 1931 comes Mrs. T. W. Gester, now of Con - vair's B -24 Nose Major Assembly, who won $1,500 in that race. Yep! She's a Champion Dog -Sled Racing Driver! One of the most colorful and successful dog -sled racing drivers in the Northwest is, of all things, a woman, and of all things, she works right here in Convair as a riveter in B -24 Nose Major Assembly, Plant Two. She is Mrs. T. W. Gester, who has won $22,000 in prize money driving her dogs to victories in meets extending over four states, including California, Oregon, Idaho and Wyoming. Her biggest year was in 1931, when In f veshe of sixfirst-prize . win ner some of the courses are as long bUL at TrucRM, Cam., sne won' as 64 miles. $650 to win first place in a 64- "They average about 30 miles mile race. Then, successively, per hour for the first 12 or 15 she won top laurels at racing miles, and then run at about 18 meets at Ogden, Utah; Idaho or 20 miles speed. I recall that Falls, Idaho; Jackson, Wyo., and in the race at Truckee in 1931, McCall, Idaho, for a grand total the dogs ran 64 miles in five of $4100. hours, 34 minutes, 54 seconds." team of seven Irish setters pulled Thula to victory in sled- She Cc ns sten y�wo n prize lg races across the Northwest. ....>ney almost up to the time that war broke out in 1941, in compe- tition with men in these rough and tumble events. THU S1110 WINS THIUMPH INMULL-IRRIE Woman -blusher Defe ?tvField! of Men in Gruelling 15 -Mile Trek; Stover Second.`11Nith Printz Taking Third Mrs. Gester became interested In dog sled racing back in 1927, when. her husband, a dog fancier, encouraged her to try a hand at the thrilling sport. Hearing of a good team for sale, she bought it, trained the dogs and entered racing meets. HERE jshe holds aloft trophy won at Truckee. "Irish setters are favored in the Northwest for sled racing," Mrs. Gester says. "An Irish set- ter is one of the fastest and most enduring dogs you can find. They set out in a dead run, and keep running until they are ut- terly exhausted. You can imag- ine how they can take it horo.. SHE RACES HERE Dog sled racing is no sport for the faint - hearted, according to Mrs. Gester. She has been in- jured several times, and was once knocked out for two hours in a serious spill at Truckee. Mrs. Gester says she is "rac- ing against time" at Convair, be- cause she has a husband and two sons in the service. One of her sons nearly lost his life when the U.S.S. Lexington was sunk. She plans to lead a quieter life after the war. But who knows? When the wind and the dog; start howling, the old urge might be too great? McCall Briefs A�v To Salt Lake Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Har- wood ,'M__r. ,Carl Brown, -Ar. Les Ulmer left by .motor for Salt Lake amd Boulder Dam, on Tues- day.. Mrs. Warren Brown accom- panied them as far as Ma.a,d, where she will visit with her family. Former Residents Visit Mr. and Mrs. Woolstine mo., tored up from Nampa Sunday for a few hours visit with Mr. and Mrs. A. Ackaret and Mr. and ''Mrs. A. M. Shafer. The Woolstine's are former resi- dents of McCall, Mr. Woolstin; having been stationed here a. Traffi : Officer. From Payette Mr. and Mrs. Marion Mani:: of Payette are visiting at the home of. Mr. Manus' mother. Mrs. Nellie Manis. Spends Weekend Here Ed Werf, Martha Ragan., Jim Cato, 'Jain Ryany Jim and Mary Lou Ellis, Lowell Elam ant daughter, all of Boise spent thr weekend at Newcombs camp. Has Ne-w Ply mout h .Cal Dorsey returned fron Bble ,Slurday with a new .193, Plymouth which will be used a, a demonstrator. TA - K roYis VS i a _ 111.1 1;.11, ldoV yti l�ooskia, Idaho where he wil' spend some time with hips son, E.E. Hill, Matt will keep posted on McCall happenings through the Star while he is away. Returns From Boise Mrs. Kenneth Storev return- ed Tuesday from Boise where she had spent sevral days with her mother, . Mrs. Allen: Webb. who is convalascng from a re- cent operation. Visits Mother Mrs. Orvil Peterson returned Sunday from Eagle, where she had spent several days with her mother, Mrs. Roy Nichols. She reports her father, who is in the Marine hospital in Seattle,' as doing as well as could be ex-: petted, and that he is able to be j about on crutches at short in- tervals each day. From Rigby . C. W. Butterfield of Rigby is here visiting his mother, Mrs. R. L. Page, and the J. A. Howell family. Mr. Butterfield expects to locate here in the near future if a suitable location can be found. In Portland j Miss Helen Henderson left early last week for Portland, Oregon, where she went to have special eye treatment and to visit a sister. Word received by relatives, Wednesday, state that her condition is improving. H. W. Brown and John Smith of Boise were McCall . visitors Tuesday. Notice For Bids !� i Bids will be received up to February 28, 1935, at the office of Browi ;s Tie & Lumber Com- pany for construction of a c-_ ment basement under the resi- dence now occupied by Alva Vancil. Specificaticrn, are avail- able at the office of Browns rie & Lumber Company. j Bridge - Luncheon I Mrs. H. M. Cook and Mrs' Rob't McRae were hostesses tc i a group of friends at a bridge. Iuncheon at the dining room of the Murphy Hotel Wednesday. i ')ecorations in keeping with I Washington's Birthday struck an appropriately seasonable `note for the affair. Prizes for the afternoon's bridge game were awared to Mrs. Dan McRae, high; Mrs. Grace Hoff. second high; and Mrs. Jack Hayes, low. Leases Payette Lakes Inn Mrs. A. H. Mitchell has { lded her .r.:ame to the growinfi ? Fist of Star subscribers. Mr. an^ Nitckoll IUST rc'rvrn��f `'rom Boise where they made ar -- angements to lease the Payett, Lakes Inn for the cominf ,eason. New House Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Bollar are having a fine, new house built on their property south of the school building. John Sackerman was trans- acting business in Donelly Wed - nesday. Kelso House Entered While Mr. and Mrs. Orvil Kelso - and. son were attending the basket ball games and dance Saturday night, some unknown 'uerson entered their home and made off with a small amount of cash, silverware • and other .rticles, as well as a small sav- ings bank belonging to the i small son. C. Van Deusen and his assist - a:nt,J. H. Nichols of Boise, spent a few days in McCall the past', week on businss, returning to! Boise Tuesday. Ice Harvest On Parks and Steck, w'holYVvJ `he contract for puting up is 0'r the F. H. Howe Co., _havQ °ratalled machinery airA arP narkinv this large order it "nick time. They have about 1200 tons up iow out of an order for 200C ;ons. with a probable order 2000 -•ons additional. They are cutting with a pow - ar saw, floating it up to the -hute and with an endless chain C'aoisting the 200 pound cakes to the pile, using a tractor for lower. j With this outfit they are en- abled -to keep the cakes coming at the rate of about 16 per min- ute. Fifteen men are employ - A on this project. The ice is being piled on the ake shore and will be covered with saw dust. i /35 MIcCALL LOCAL Misc Virginia Kasper and Mildred Shaw of Boise, spent the weekeiA with their famines i:n McCall. Mr. and Mrs. Robert McRac and Mrs. S'Lanley Harwood mo torcd to Boise on Friday. Mrs. 11t_r_ita Kyser and Mrs: Viola Peer returned on Saturday from a two week's visit in Boi.3e. Miss Dorothy Lamie of C'as- cad, sister of Stanley Harwood,: visited I at his home over the week -end. Mrs. Grace Hoff spent, a few 1 da: l in Lewiston the first of the week. Horace Johnson and Ed Mag- den of Boise, were home over the weekend, to witness the tournament games. Mrs. Annie Krigbaum of Meadows was among the Mead- ows people to enjoy the basket ball games, here over .the week end. Dr. and Mrs. Don Numbers spent a few days at the Howard Ranch on the Salmon River, the past week. Mr. A. A. Casner and Wm. Egbert, of Riggins, were greet- ing old time friends in McCal' this past week. Mrs. Frainikie Reed of Warren Is visiting at the home of her son, Geo. Sheifer. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Newman. of Warren were in town over Sunday. Mrs. Mansfield of Cascade wishes-'to announce that she has opened a Dress and Novelty Shop in the building next t( the drug stare formerly occupi. ed by the McCleod barber shop FOR SALE --Used range with water •front ; good condition. See Stover & Nelson. Lela Manis came up from Bois nday for a few day': her mother, Mrs. Mr. 'B. D. McIntyre is out )ut again after having been --onfined to his home since the middle of December with an at- Lack of flu. Mrs. W. C. Peer and son Don nado a business trip to Cascade Wednesday. Another member was added Lo our increasing family last week when George Short order- ed the Star sent to him for a yeas. Ann Miller, who formerly ,)p?rated the Club Cafe, has Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Powers and family spent Sunday im Riggins. Workmen have been busy the past few days, laying a cement foundation for the new oven at the Geelan building , which will house the City Bakery in the ,ear future. Mr. and Mrs. Wm.. Beinliarc 1. motored to Boise Monday.. Miss Helen Hentley is spend v2g "a few days at the home of her grar d parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ede Poro. W.. S. Smith was a bus'.nes . visitor from Boise Tuesday. C. E. Hinkley of Riggim spent Tuesday in McCall.. Mrs. John Phillips Sr., is re ported to be seriously ill at this writing. . Mrs. Lou Printz is able to b out again after having beer confined to her home for sev e-ral weeks by illness. J. A. Reed of Boise was a McCall visitor Wednesday.. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Highley were up from New Meadows Wednesday 'and remained to at. tend Valeria Chapter, O.E.S. that evening. Geo. Sheifer and Cal Dorsey are spending a few days it Boise this week on business. I Mrs. Van Sicklin returned tc Theodore Hoff was up from Riggins this week for a few her home in Weiser Monday, days visit with his family. after having spent several days here visiting her mother,' Mrs. Fred Lang came up from Cora Marquess. , Horse Shoe Bend Saturday to slay in the orchestra for the Wm. Farrell, Roadmastcr for Lance that evening. He return- the O.S.L., was a McCall visitor ed, to his work Monday. Wednesday night. George Anderson is up from liggins fora few day's visit. Mr, and Mrs. Don Park have ~eturned from a. few day's visit in Boise. Hiram Stevens returned to'' his home at Nampa today, Thursday, after having spent .he past week visiting at the home of his brother, Clarence Stevens. .Ben Lyon motored to Boise Wednesday taking a plan a from there to Salt Lake City to see pbout a new oven for the bakery. Scoop Jenkir:, accompanied him Cy Emory, representative of the Wesco Oil Co., and Edwim Lowell, of Caldwell, were here on businosss Wednesday. Wm. Cunningham moved his household goods to Nampa, this week where he expects to inakc his home. Mr. and Mrs.. Chet Claybcurr and Joe Doors of Boise were weekend guests at the home, c` Mr. and Mrs. Ray Warner. Dr. Don Numbers left Tues- day for War Eagle Mountain and Ruby Creek. He left by sled, driving his team of nine big, Wa ck dogs. s 4 . 4�M iX �a.m i' oC-a- oT/ 3t riysr .Q¢,r S S � � r ��5 % Y141 TA FF Dircc-tors: Gra;`_os I and 2 ............. Mr-rcedes Jones Gra�.c.-; 3 anc. 4...........H. Har�,,arct Zahm Gra( _-:, 5 and 6 .............. Laura Manning Acccm:vnists ............ T.Irs. Batty Shoupe Mrs. D ah Allen Stage Idanager• ..Edviard Rcwland Assistants .................... Cyril Cruse Bill Doinhard Ralph 1.1ilde Programs ..................... Ruth Wheeler Watkins Ushers... _ ..... e.,&4..4&&&&'%Dor6thy,WiIIiams Helen Hamilt,)n The faculty and stuclent body of I.-IcCall School join. in, •wishing• -you- a. .Christmas and a HappyNi!,%,v Yeox. q�o ri X15 OMMUNI i Y T /I McCIALL THEATRE 8'OOPkI DECEM BER 22, 1936 II.ap Dance ...................Donna Fischer Gracie 4 rly. u ' ie.s 3 end 4 Read; For Christmas................... Group A Boy's Dream .................David 'TJ': ,jk!r Christmas Bells.. . _ rs,sistcd t.y 0 boys 1v There i s A '.'rohd riul' T Fe e ........ > ....;group IV.Th�: Strut....... Betty Conyers i Saft Shoe.:::.:....- ...... V.Grades.5 and 6 Illy The Chime s Rang f 7 ?.> Reader .................. Colecn ingerrc:tson Peter. ...... .... :.............. Jimmy.haric Little Brother ....... Jack Cia- .cr,ho_cy! King ........................ Wesley !Ienslo,r �f author _ . _ . _ .... ..............Donal l Wila:,`v� Lady .............. , ........Verley Ta.iT.ki.nen <!j Pricst ........................Leo Heik_':ola Choir �� - .I Grades an" t: vIelcobe 'Ad're3s ......... i.Patricia Kimball Billie 2ointer The Star Shope, tar ;San., .. ... .......,Orlando Johnson Cuttoiz .ass.: .. ... :._ :....Joimie `' Sarginson Polly Close J-an ';eage Gwendolyn Chalfont ' Patty icCa11 Beverley Jean Bowen h.elcn :'ancii William I."Iatti.x Lvel�Tne nanzitz Dor."othy Lee Smith Lula Pemberton Holiday Toys..... ...........First Grade Tip Toe...............Eight boys and girls Merry,Merry Christmas ................ Song II.ap Dance ...................Donna Fischer Gracie 4 rly. u ' ie.s 3 end 4 Read; For Christmas................... Group A Boy's Dream .................David 'TJ': ,jk!r Christmas Bells.. . _ rs,sistcd t.y 0 boys 1v There i s A '.'rohd riul' T Fe e ........ > ....;group IV.Th�: Strut....... Betty Conyers i Saft Shoe.:::.:....- ...... V.Grades.5 and 6 Illy The Chime s Rang f 7 ?.> Reader .................. Colecn ingerrc:tson Peter. ...... .... :.............. Jimmy.haric Little Brother ....... Jack Cia- .cr,ho_cy! King ........................ Wesley !Ienslo,r �f author _ . _ . _ .... ..............Donal l Wila:,`v� Lady .............. , ........Verley Ta.iT.ki.nen <!j Pricst ........................Leo Heik_':ola Choir Te -am, Wagon Swapped For Land'On McCall Now Stands A Cache County, Missouri, family headed by Thomas Me-. Call started history* for Idaho's year 'round playground when they traded Sam Dievers a team and wagon for his log house. and squatters rights to the land which now comprises the townsite of McCall. McCall, with his wife and children, Will, Ben, J: D., Flora, and Ted, had spent a year on a ranch in Montour and then came through into what is now McCall with a team, wagon and 26 head of cattle. A group of settlers had preceeded them into this area but were driv- en out by loss of livestock after their second winter due to heavy snow and poor feed. IDievers, who was part In- dian, left McCall to go back Into Indian territory and mar - ry a girl of Indian blood. Later, In 1926, he came back through his old home with his wife and a number of children, headed for north Idaho. In this territory before the Me Calls but gone on elsewhere were "Jews Harp" Jack, the Elbert York family, and= the Albert Jaekels, all on squatters' rights land. . The McCalls managed to make AL livelihood from their 160 -acre plus tract although they lost several of their cattle because of slough -grass feeding.. Toward the end of the first winter they even fed the cat- tle on green branches from trees. J. D, ,McCall found work in War. ren mucking in 1895 and 1896. Bill; oldest son, worked in Van WYck,. oldest mining town in the section. First store in McCall was Opened in 1896 by Edward Mc- Mahon, who brought in stock from his father.'s store in old Meadows. - There was no busi- ness so he closed up shop after the second year. Next 'store was opened in 1900 by New F. Williams who came into town with $1700, set his goal at $50;000 and is said ` to have more than reached it before re- tiring. His wife is still living in McCall today.. In 1899 a sawmill was construct ed beyond the old bridge by the Idaho Dredge- Co.; financed by a Philadelphia group. The day after they moved in the bridge broke down and they had to replace it in order to haul their lumber over the river. The mill was built to saw lumber for flumes and a dredge at Meadows. . With lumber from -this mill, the McCalls built' the first McCall ho- tel, the same hostelry now known as Lakeview hotel. When the mill burned down a group including Tom McCall, Ben. McCall, C. W. Blackwell, Fred Green and Newt Williams took the property over, purchased machine. ry from the J. C. Blood dredge for power and rebuilt it into a saw• mill and good 5 -story grist mill. The mill was doing good business, turning out 8000 board feet a day, and the grist, mill got excellent results, too. About 1910 the place was bought out by Hans T. Hoff and, his son, Theodore. They lost everything in another fire which occurred in 1913. Today Flora McCall is Flora Hashbarger; Theodore, youngest of the brothers is deceased, Will, Ben and J. D. McCall still take an ac. tive part in affairs of the town which was settled by and named after their father. i q-3 17 McCall Area Has., Necome'All-Yea,r Vacation A beautiful and complete year 'round playground is of- fered to visitors by the town of McCall and Payette Lakes vacationland. Here is a large and accessible mountain lake surrounded by pine - covered mountains. Last summer the McCall Chamber of Commerce purchased the sporty nine- hole McCall golf course and gave it to the town. - McCall has several good restaur- ants, three - hotels, <cabins and re- sort camps, two motion picture houses, garages and storage facili- ' ties, modern- service stations, meat, grocery and general stores, and other places for necessities and entertainment. During the past two seasons the McCall Chamber of Com- merce has supported the Ski Club in building and improv- ing a modern ski course three miles from town on the main highway. On the course is a ski lodge, convenient and in- expensive 1240 -foot sled -type ski lift, 40 -meter ski jump, three ski runs. Free ski instructions are offered by Instructor Kaare . Engen. Skis and poles are rented at the lodge. Shelter and use of the lodge is free under government supervis- - i, and meals are reasonable. Main features of the McCall nter sports setup are good high - Lys making the ski course easily cessibie and a long season. of od snow for the, five months )m early December to the first April. Add to this reasonable ices and a friendly atmosphere d you see the McCall picture. A story of McCall which is seldom told and little known is bhe seed and vegetable farm- 119. Last-year McCall shipped 15 carloads of carrots in )unches to eastern markets. Phey also shipped 200 carloads if fresh green peas in refrig- >rator cars. There are ten arge growers of certified seed iotatoes shipping into south - rn Idaho from McCall. A dew York man came into Me. 'all and raised five carloads f rutabagas which will be hipped to Los Angeles in y S ��1 1 %3 17 Jkfe . ��/ r %�Yyr / /V cUall'S Main Street Today' Bustling -with activity both summer and winter, the town of McCAU is proud of its scenic and recreational advantages. 1VYafn street, shown above, skirts the -lakeshore on the south end of the Payette lakes. 3o i s P Cpl 4-a / — /0 /s/ 1,5 �, ��E31P V r1'44 ■ "' ,drvilk 1 .J IkEr+■ Cdr Just three miles out of McCall on well -kept highway 15 is the Payette Lake's ski course. Here is skiing unexcelled! Good, dry snow with a long skiing season! Moderate rates for meals and services! A friendly welcome and comraderie atmosphere awaits you at McCall. McCALL'S ski course offers a choice of three runs, 1300 feet and 1500 feet long. All runs have a vertical drop of 250 feet. There is a 1240 -foot sled -type ski lift on which one may make 15 trips for a dollar. A 40 -meter ski jump offers plenty of thrills. There's fun for all ages on the McCall ski run! 14 Skiing AT THE McCALL ski hill you'll find a modern, government - • Hunting owned shelter lodge. Here skis can be rented for one dollar a day with poles. Free instructions are offered by Kaare En- ® Skating gen, an expert teacher. Meals and first -aid are available at the shelter. Rates are reasonable. — — Save money on your skiing , Dancing trips by heading for McCall! gganing ToboINTER or SUMMER you will find at McCall every mod- W ern facility. Hotel, barber and restaurant services are at Boating your call. You may store your car at night, get gas, oil, grease and motor repairs. A fine movie house is ready to entertain ® Fishing you. Or you may just "play around" in a pleasant evening of dancing or loafing. Make McCall your headquarters for win- ter sports this year. This advertisement sponsored by the following firms and public spirited individuals; Williams -May Company McCall Auto Co. "ca°..a E wPme t. "- s°' John's Service Station & Garage McCall Light & Power Co. Geo. L. Shieffer•W. E. Jordan . William Deinhard C. C. Anderson Co. Stadium Theater May Hardware Co. McCall Drug Co. M Won • JIavorounc n x_ s f1� / C(�y %1lJ� T C3$ J�'Z a,.,? / /% 1 ��% and saloon just across the street. event of the day at McCall. • • • . Town Plat Troublesome The railway was y pushing its Building of Railway Brings Thomas McCall was justice of way north. The Dewey interests land others had bought up land the peace, and the town dad. He for new townsites all along the Bitter Dispute Over Name )and his wife were known in the line. At Montour, Horseshoe small town and on down Long Bend, Cascade, Donnelly and Me. Valley as Ma and Dad McCall toy Call. As the road was built slowly And Site of Town tt Near y� Lake early settlers. up the valley, the old timers who When he platted his homestead had struggled along for years try - his real troubles began. Now when ing to build up their towns and Line Magnates Pass Up McCall and Blame Station one plats a town he needs the wis- had waited so patiently for the dom of old Solomon and the far- coming of the railroad, were Lakeport; Settlers Protest and Finally in • sightedness of a Brigham Young. furious and heartbroken when y He should don a suit of armour, they saw the road pass them by Range Wars s Cause Killings carry a meat ax and keep a sawed- to one side, and the new towns -.. -N .. g off shotgun handy, for he will need laid out. °L The only postoffice in the i them all. He really needs a good Insult To Injury north end of the valley was 12 office— having has tne misiortune of losing the other' one; so they lawyer, but he had better not have Y Thomas McCall saw the same a lawyer for he would probably thing happening miles south of McCall at Lardo. persuaded the postmaster at Elo— Finnish was to his be- have the town site before long. loved town right before his eyes, a small settlement down When one plats a town so many but he seemed to Fred Trow had a small st(,re the- valley —to move his store and i to mccali. When Post- powerless stop questions arise and so many mis- it. They passed up his town and there, and he was postmaster 'or a number of ears. Mr. Trow fi- Y Postoilice master Eloheimo moved his store takes are made. went north, and laid out the depot decided to close out his store and postoffice, McCall's town was Much Land Donated site upon their own property. And and and leave the valley locate in named Elo. In the first place the owner of to add insult to injury, they named north Idaho. Like Bill Nye he it Changed Once More the townsite gave away the town Lake g y so much port. his land At Nampa build wanted to get rid of the office `)e- I Sometime after the town was ! of that there was little another empire - left fore left the country but the platted the name of the office was P to sell. McCall gave with a er was hard at work building a lavish town. He had Of Post Office department paid no at_ changed to McCall, and the post- hand. He gave an acre to grubbed the town teHe to his pleas. office has rested securely in the the school, lots for business and of Nampa out of the sagebrush. He wrote innumerable letters to town ever since. home, for churches and other pub- He had organized the ditch com- p the department with no results. School Pupils Scarce lic buildings. And, of course, all pany long before — the Phyllis the streets and alleys —and any- Ditch — and he named the ditch Finally in desperation, he boxed up the postoffice and hauled it The first school in McCall was thing that would help build the for his daughter, Phyllis. He had over to Roseberry to Postmaster taught by Flora McCall, the pretty blond daughter of Thomas McCall. town. also organized the company that The headquarters of the Idaho built the branch line from Nampa Boydstun (father of W. B. Boy d- The school was in a log cabin to Boise. stun) who was storekeeper and about where B. T. Johnson now National Forest were at Meadows In the course of his operations postmaster at Roseberry. resides, and the pupils were Billy, then. McCall had his eye on the he met many of the railroad of- Too Many Offices Dora and Lily Newman, Daws and headquarters for some time. He ficials of the U. P. system. One of Mr. Boydstun stored the post- Ted McCall. finally won out after paying all his early acquaintances had risen office wondering what to do wi ,h Later, they found that it was the expenses of moving the office to the vice presidency of the sys- it. He certainly didn't need the necessary that five pupils must re- to McCall. He had his son, Doss, tem. McGee's youngest daughter thing for he already had a perfect - side in the district. When the build a headquarters. He also had married one of Thomas Mc- lY good postoffice. Finally lie Newman family moved away there paid the moving expenses of the Call's sons. %vrote a letter to Dad McCall and were not enough pupils to hold the supervisor and his family. The McGee Goes Into Action asked him if he was in the market. district. That winter Billy New- man and Earl Shaw, both the building for the forest service is The McCall family watched the Dad McCall had been trying ;p get a postoffice for a long time young sons of Long Valley home- now owned by the Freeman Drug' store. trains pull through their town without success. Here was his b g steaders were asked to live in the The Idaho n a t i o n. a 1 forest, with a growing fury. Finally J. A. chance. So he hitched up his trusty team to his wagon, ar.d McCall home. The first homesteaders at the p roved an excellent investment to the town and brought in a fine I McGee was sent for. He came loved with blood in his eyes. Y s. He loved drove down the valley to Rose- lakes were the Yorke family who ght a p y roll. Today McCall citizens a good hard scrap, having a touch berry where he loaded the post- homesteaded the ranch now owned are justly proud of the new office; of Irish blood in him, and besides office. by the Blackwell dairy. Jews building recently completed. he had some old scores to settle. The department at Washington, Harp Jack Wyatt was homestead- ing across the lake; and William petitions, letters, telegrams Freighters Thrive back and forth—the the caes simlew ply upon learning the postoffice had departed north, immediate) a . p Y 1 Boydstun and his family took up For a long time all supplies hummed —and at last, to their joy, pointed Thomas McCall as post- the land across the river. Albert were freighted into the country they saw the vice president Cal - from Boise Master. His salary was the can- Gaekel was homesteading the land adjoining Ben McCall's on the and Weiser b y six- vin's car hooked onto the back of and eight -horse wagons. Each the train one evening. Work was cellation. Not a vei Y profitable . position at the befit —but most sa "; ( north. Ben McCall filed upon the Year the residents of the town promptly stopped upon the new isfying. I quarter section adjoining his fatly hitched u their teams to heavy de p y pot and a different location Evidently the department was er upon the north. Louis Hea- wagons and freighted their sup- chosen. The name of Lakeport was delighted in having the problem s � cock had the land to the west of plies. It was the big event of the' changed back to McCall. When the g g easily solved. The name Thomas McCall. year when the empty wagons ' name McCall was painted upon pulled into Boise and put up at the new depot, Dad McCall's heart office remained Loin But that t h postoffice simply would not sta;� Williams Open Store Edward McMahon was the first the Walla Walla and Green Mead- was rejoicing. He had saved his put, but kept right on gadding storekeeper in the town —he had ow corrals. town and his pride. . Finally, the P. I. N. railroad was For a long time range wars about. On The Trail Again his store in the building the Me- Calls had built some time before. built as far as. Evergreen. Then raged in the district, even after the traveler journeyed by stage the coming of the railroad. The A number of years passed with Newton Williams and his wife coach or their own buck board and sheep and cattlemen tried to keep the office remaining peacefully ill arrived one day hunting a loca- wagons. the settlers out after the home - the town, in the home of Dad Mc. tion. He had about $1500 in cash, The traveler who rode on the steaders began taking up the land, Call. Then a few of the neighbor. and he started his store in the old stage coaches had a real thrill.: and the homesteaders tried to ing rival settlements cast envious same building. The stages were picturesque, but keep the sheep and cattle out. eyes. W, B. Boydstun decided that "Well," he remarked the day he most exhausting after a few days Each spring armed settlers guard - he wanted the office moved down opened, "I am going to run this of bumping over bad roads. They ed the bridges and fords. Sheep to his pla -!e just across the mouth store until I make $50,000, then I had fine dashing horses. The driv -; and cattle men retaliated. Stern, of the river. After a short cam• paign, he won;out. The office was will retire. That's enough for any man." They lived to see Mr. Wil- er sat proudly on the top —and' how he loved to handle the reins! + armed men watched the crossing at Smith's Ferry, and turned back i packed up and moved to his store liams' prophecy fulfilled. Later How he loved to dash into town' the sheep and cattle. Several of! near the bridge. All this time the they built a fine home along the with his lead horses on the the homesteaders were office had retained the name Lar- lake shore —where Mrs. Williams gallop, cutting capers; draw up to the en -I murdered. Thirty -seven head of cattle were do. The community at the bridge I still resides. Mr. Williams died trance of the hotel with a flourish! found shot to death. Later 67 more still bears the name of Lardo. The McCalls and the Finnish I a few years ago. I Later C. W. Blackwell and his' and a wild shriek of brakes his 1 cattle were shot. The war con.. population decided about that time I wife rented the hotel from Thomas I leaders on their hind legs. The ! coming of the stage was a real i tinned until the forest service took over management of the range. that they needed another post-! McCall, and still later built a hotel i f McCALL & v iC l to ry - isritten Fy: tars. Dawson t -icCal t ��% � ✓ /l ��- -� Pr. a.id Mrs. Yorke were arong the f irst, i f no t the f first, to take up a homestead near the t'ayet:e L_akcs - up n tl;e land now o,.vned fsv the r',i t ack e t t Oc i ry. Thomas McCall and far =i 4y arrived at the Payette La"les on the first day of May 1899. There vvere 92 avc;rona in the party and they had a herd time C.et t King hem. It took then a month to travel from :squaw Creek ur,7mit to the L. :Ike. All but the t'cf:all far.,ily left the next morning. Ur. aid M'rs. Urner seattiead near Van ''yck, at what seas named Thunder City during the Vold rush to Thunder t 1oun to in. Thomas Ah: Ca t t trcded a ter i.:n+ and wagon to Baal Devors for his re 1 inqu i sh- ,tent of thr, 960 acres, on ca {, <-:rt of which McCall is built. 7hey t ,k up the land u;ader squvtterr3 right - os no survey had been made at that tir..e. f3en :+'cCati tack up the Land adjoining Thurraa 1:cCall on the north, :Elbert Gaeke t the 960 adjoining Son t'ek"�at t on the north. Lcuis Peacock tools up the ICO cadjoinin <i Thomas Ak;Call on the tier: --sti Arthur Powiand, the 960 adjoining 11aCai l on the 5oa,th. Jews /fir: rp Jack lived across the date in a cabin. This McCat1 s lived in the- cabin ram Devers lmd bu'1t the first wint -r, later added q i to r,n addition to t c cabin. The cabin stood about where the John ieackerman '3ery ice s tfznds. Thomas and Oen t `eve t l b ; i l t the fit-at will along the take s ores, about whero tl;o Austin C-ooc%:usn property now is. T." mi it l wuas L! rnc,d and they later bo l i t a milt upon the site EWit—_,ro the lets+ n i l l burned last s#'K -O"r. (1,140) C. ''.J. f.: ackvs +e3 � d, i . F. ;`i t l i cams, and Thomas A;cCa l i fon.k-d a corxpany and built a large flour .-13i t t and en L-rged the saw mill. They sold the business ;ouch later to Theodore Hoff Oz father. The mill burn d and Theodore Poff and Carl Drown built the r:i t t a�•ain. Ed t'c13ahon, of Poge 2 - NeCa4l & Vicinity: rit.en by Mrs. 1".)avvson IjkX,,At Meadows, was the first storekeeder. t;p had his store in the building first accupiDd by Airy Lyonfs Lakcry. Thcoms i-iCCAl b,ilt the building soon after thle saiw:ilt began ruining. Uc,, built the Peabody Eta tei frcn lu"'Iber he $a,.wed in the milt. Thomas was the first postria-,ter. The r,4n„o --,as fine in pion.--or times. There wei-*,- fro-qruent --turs between the cattlemen and the and both tried to provent the sottiors from taking up 1:-ad. The settlers in Loor, Val.ioy and this vicinity ported an-,rod guards at the Lardo bridg-,e and at Smithsrorry each prevontind -, she p aod ccttic fron, conin!7, -into the Valtey. 74M hooje3tendery taking tarn at guarding, the bridges and forrys. `overal deaths oc urred in this vicinity ever rar ego The Cvc "."o rd brethers wore raup-Jered by a 3heep herder, ,no of Clinton0s borders, and the family used their infl"onco to cleir the herder. >', hoi-dor crew his -�un on ran /,IcC,-!!I not fcr from tov,,#n s-Men ilen pro tosted a trosapass. The is -.,as very plentiful. And eve- in 1010 JI-)unting was excelic-ot CIO-w to tolvo. I have soon dozens of deer bet,veen town and the Lai<e rork- I an Tor station. vovniain goats ranred in the Stick Country and in no,- .rly Oil the filountc.,it)a close to MaCalt. TI;q timbor wua virf,,i" and very ftne# F•e-qu nt 11'res rugod. OrundaE.,=o ha.3 been burned off many rimes. It co,,A Thom.5 eiohly dollars and sove!'-al lots, tin ocre, I believo, to heave me ro, as t Office woved from Meadows to I cCatlt. Doss f4cCall btilt the first office, drug store nowt tor the first I-,ead- quarters. boar (J.D.) PfcCcll wus Me first Ranger in this Distt L:t, wid he eras arwtig the first to tcj;t= tj,(- m-,nV,--r examination. tais ``qparvisor was Major t-enn. Doss lac; ilt the first trail to La:ce I-Orks they Called it Goat Lick then, ante he built the cobin thore; the tittle one at tf,* Lick Page 3 - McCall & Vicinity: >ritten by Mfrs. Dawson AlcCa t Creek summit, later. He built the trail dvvrn Lick Creek; the Red bridge and all the firt;f trails in that district, also that cabins. The sheepmen said it was impossible to build a trail down Lick Creek. The Red Grid re was b, - -i i t in the i inter lime. They tools ;'ho supplies andsome of the makings in by rack and dog tear;,. The Men on skiis, of course. The bridge was built by man power entirely. No horses were used at all. Using block and tackle to s•<id the logs and raise them. Snow fait Yms much dee,. -er then. One year it t,-vas thirty feet deep on Secesh Summit. Usually the first {pack outfits over - -the summit could not mike it antil are-cmd the 4th of July. The croating of the r'orest )ervire aroused a st.Lm of acclaim and protests. The powerful timber interests fouUht i t ;or years, aided by some eloquent and dishonest Congressmen. Cut the majority of the people favored it end held r7ifford rinchot ira high osttsom. If t rer7ember correctly sDme of our Idx.o `'analogs opposed its creation. The organizatio.i of tho r,)rest "ervice stopped one of the biggest steals in history. Predatory interests grabbed up all the timber and grazing Land possible. It was most unfortunale th t the Forest Service was i7ot created much sooner. The Forest "ervice stopped the range wars and opened up the cour7$y for the settlers, building roads and zrui t s, tole r +ones r;r'rd ocher Public benefits. Thomas McCall piatted four blocks of his townsite at first. T +ae reason the town is so cut up is on accounib f ,petty personal feuds. The land homestetaded by Louis Meucoc;« was sold in acrei�ges and after he sold some of the property the now owner refused to allow streets and alleys to ^o through their land. s a result none of the streets or alleys run strai °fat as they should, but are still broken up by the acrea „es. The climate is changing in this recgioh. The sno%v is li(, 'hter and the tot) by !"rs. Dow4on McCall ,� C"-[,-,03 much *--!3rfior. Onco the voiley rc.ising potateez ut all. Tlie Vr-o in crops -osts and the main harvO fOd fOr T`°c,up- of Tam cm Lka swre, curet 5o r:-Apt.S Am newspaVrr article - lecesber 17a 1939 Father ani9 Son Show Little Fnthunig� For Mjmaj Tom Sticks to Agriculture, And FOLI'M "s lb5110 `A >o d to Long Valley by Plids Wall Fifty five years ago Thomas mall and his son, lZomirp steppad from the coach of the Idaho Central rail.roWl and lookod clown ujun boine valley an the city of boiler. 7,ho two a n had been '1r by the endless miles of wIL14 desRrt IP-Di , and s,re brush* lon leg eds lean jackrabbits an.! huk, slinum. coyo`r s, tbrough which they ha' passed for i'aays. The barren,, etersAl waste land, tith hardly hcntse in sip ht a;,rxtllxt them by its utter lonline*ss and :esolation. 1"ve-7 had chanted trrAns at Nw—,i aj, an 't after a lonf wait tl-,Sy took the Idaho Central to boss^) this branch line hat been only recently comr1eterd .{'rev- Na,mtpa to Boise by a com-,-)�my organi cad by James A. wee of Na:�,pa. one Cabin at feaster At NsaYp there -,Or 3 only a few houses set ard(Int a veritable sea of pr(7 sa ebrtash; and at Ihmte r (n 0t, M8r1 Aan) they naw only ono vary lonely little hcuse lo,, in ;:i3.es an3 �dl(,s of care bruoh* Ali.. the re t of the way to Boise was acres and acren of stwe brush, an' aati.l]. os� loping rabl )its ark coyotes. F* it war, with deWAt that they sam the little torn of Boise nestling among tho Fmo., trees an:t fie1d8, 144.10 th* BOILS* rivW WOUDd its WW t`-e %Ada valley; and the xourAAdXW If above the city, their sum. its snm ~drowned. klexanl,i or on raw The depot was on the bench then, anJ they two MoCall men raft iftto twAft In a hack and registe and at the jasow old Overlap.[ hotel. And with these was a sianderr yotop Jeer whm thry has'. Mt on the train con ing, west. He tae a ODA friers- °3,v ;uid kirAly ywng mm aw" they took a -rnat liking to him on the to sous trip. His nam was Moms Alexander. He had come went to regain his fortune - w d he told the ?-'Walls of hi r. amUtlm in the west, Moses Alsmndox- rose to be governor of Vahop and built up a business in Po Fe ,And left a beautiful building as a monument to his inlustry and success. des Fail to Attract The McCallet fouml Boise a bustling little frontier town. As they lounged about the Overlan' hotel# they listened to the stories of miners,, stock man anA others as they tolA of the great n{-w str-U:f�s in the Boise Bas sin ..::-liver City, -&rren and other bominr minini- cwnps of 11aho Ami the West. But the McCall men were n.orc interested in the cattle busiwas for neither know anything about mining. Romer McCall was in poor bealth,, and his father had brought his son to Idaho with the hope that the chanpe, of clin-Ite rid^ benefit. 'You Otta See the Grass' ()I* day they hoax -' to croup of man talking of the great new country to the north. A tall and lanky youAp tr•--pp"r drewod in overall,, and a now shirt arill waring a, iddo-brij-lnoct western hat# was speaking, his Iark eyes rlowirw with e&.husiatm as he st oke. "I think the Loro V41ley county is the future. cattle country.,-. You just otta nee the (-rasa and the fine range up thw-e* Bunch rr,,,so belly �--Ievp to a horse. An,; about huntinp, arv-1 fishing - t4b a iran can Just Y naturally live off thn country if be has some bacon., flour amt a few beansp" he stopped for browns ard a napid fire of ueations. "'A)an there are amply miles and miles of the finest timber that I ever @W - huge yollow pines and fire- acr-9 wd anve of tlem- , AW them in hardly he me I.n the entire valley. 'Aiat country sure has a big future# I'm thinkin". "How about the wintom?* &Wwd a 11rtener* °f 'Lake Full of Fish) "2 don't know much about them yet," waS the rerly# "but I can tell you mare tide time rwA, year. I to on the up there now. I forgot to tell you about lVette lakes at the hit of Low valley. f5ay, its thy: prettiest lake I ever sm- in all racy life - and just chuck AM of big fish. Great bip lake trout - and are tl, -x,,f fir; ;r. Simply achin r to got caught. It's a rerrion of mountain lakes - just hau-r2r+eds of the and all of them great fiasbing. I no.mr saw so r zy �seear and other Fame. AnJ the reef fish and white fish ran very fhU - just millions ami millions of them," "Mrr about Uw roads?" asked X21. there are team to brae about- but " mm can r.- e it an right if you don s t ro too r %rly in this s j ring. Tho? # s a ferry at S'mit he F errs. A m n can ford the other strowns." "Sounds goW to mej, Ws" younr Homer ? 1,1 s.• >id.. "Just the country m are l.o©k3a W for". "Yov - it does. I wool% like to look it aver," his .father anzmred. Tom Becomes Rancher So the idea was sold to Thwias Vecall. He thoupht, that the great tir.': ,..,mod coy ntr7 uld suit him much better than this sage brush. He had beer_ raised In the beaut l"id timberrd country of Qhlo, and he thrupht the saps brush P -ost. 'escalate and lode -r. He looked around BoJ.see for some sort, of work# aml he finally mgt John Ireton ;sfA) was hiztting a man to work an his ranche Nre Ireton mr-A d 'T`ho is cCall ors the sit; am' the rw,,xt JV the three n en drove to the Marsh anAl Ireton ranch. The ranch looked like pax Ass after the long dusty drive over rough mountain roa,1e - a P&S41ft of soft grew alWfa fiel is awl the quie►t# cool shale of trees. Mw Mars. h and Ireton ranch me ells of tbs owt ramous of those -ays. It was a veld: kxwwn stoppirif place for mirwn-ex Prospoetorep frnighl,ers and other travelers. Thorn at night one fouw; Mat ft-niijit wappns, the horses restinp and feeding, the hard pull. Long strings of pa& horses and little rrV burros and mules fed in the bij, barnep or on they lush grasses of the ranch. Fan, ilzr Cow a Nest At ni L"L4_10A floum-lered helplessly in the deep mire. ?`be grades vmre steeps slippe-y and the roa-19 netted and vory rocky. The roactrAkers of thud tIays were careless in their OW �R angineerinm - there was little -public mrmy t4 srpvrd, 114, ilea or a r w a decides tly sketctkV. Just so a. fellmi cc utA p ro& how en ral Pt, over a J pow. was the p , e liea* But with PU the hard mid row ,h poing and , there was li-tle risk to life ]1 3s In the w1a of tmvel - one nearly alwVs arr-.vpA at thn destination qaf6 and 00�9 Rest At Slquaw Creak 1he two wagons moved slowly# the horses itralnlrp as they climbed r-r. the steep and narrm graAeso When they reached Squaw Cr-?ek surwdt., tiny foil 10 oth,r fmrdlies car-q,el there waitinr for the rnw.-4 to owlt b-ifora they T-,rnceeded. Thev ware bo-,zid for Lone Vmlle-,f and Payette taken in search of ranches mvil hmos, 'rho potty fines] 17 ieel.dod after a abort ronfey-nee that they would wike the attempt at one ar; awl the nr.xt lominr vn,7 ear4 the lw.W waron train startod agaln* It eras ala4 traveling at the best . and see m days they were lueey if they meie two idle e; ofter. when they ownped at nir+.t ow their ca; n.pfires of the night before st,11.1 burning. any tim.-s they were forced to stop, and build tenporar7 bridr,,s ovvir mmllen atroams# or. to -*,ixild covriurWa over mvidy stretches at crossing* 17"wry lour low place vms a nisbinr rtrew of mully t m-tfir. It took tvo weelcm of hail work by ryyn and horses to rake the trip ftm Squw Crcek sm-ndt intil they rolled into Imr. Valley. As tf�ey traweled through Lonp valle:rj they the there was no morm beautibLw- -alloy In all the vorld as it lair -smilinp, In tho Yprinp stmshines The px"s M,,w Ivush and green and wad ow larks s robins and the lovely blue birds pave thm a rladl welcone. The entire w1ley was .blare with wild flowers* while snow- carTed mrmt-,-Inn me-A lipon eAwh ftido of the valley - thnir r4r�fts hravlly tImA-ared with a vl",in stand of y": low pim and firs, M I lsut- their trnublr-a wero not o-,er. Tura vas stM Gol,,-! Fork and Lake Fm* to cror-8. At G*V Fork none one had bu'lt a log briige and they crossed the rickety bri`ps In -WA-.t, h the tmter w&,s rwu-4np cr:•er the bri,,jgo as they cmg9e& Wet Chickens Survive Hamts -AA when the Party -,-Qached Lake Fork. 111e streain was very high — the water mahin(, past in fury, They arrived at the raging- strem late in the &MOMMMo Sale f-)f the put�' deellod to wait until woming with the hope t r-11-4 water rd," fan urinr the n-ir-lit. Put the Pt Calls decided to at-tompt the croasinp that evnnU�,,. Thoy plunfvd into the stromp aid the plu*y h4raess Mrzin;�,, r-allantlys r'rnw the uppm aeons w-td lungvd up the.: stnep lnclin-- to the safety of 1,-vel groundo " k - he '10C&11* Tavm*eded to uniA* them 301dw Contents of their eons and dry out. They had br,)w1it ,Llor.7 a trate of ehiekena,, and each time they crossed as stream tivi roor fowls worn four~ &-IjparerAtjy I J fiv= dr ixW ea own _9 but upxn beir4,., t7 rned r�jxitle Acm AM *akm violent3jr ts, j%V ec to "I for a wh - thon decid i U--V WAii].0 longer - at least until the neat strem was crose"O It was necessary to five t1to c° lickr.-ra firit ail-1 �. V tjm�s 6uring the trip, And, later TO- the all farAly dovidod thf, r aeo-n "he progerX 4-41 � Y of "roso ch-Ickene were so bealthy and liv&,A such Imp llv�49 vmv thaV vere o8cGn,.iant--- of those pion,.er chickens that had sxTm-1ved mal that water an,� drowninC. They were tcuA birds. .rust n*.s *hiss Fori Farley the t wmir. ;- real txZ]x ',Ovan when the other m rs of the part I ej*e y Attanpted to ero-qs. tal-c-e Park. va�; Goxawh t 3.ow.,q> ,..ut still SOM Of the Mg-ins in saffoty* but wlwn the Hustov.1 Won drove Into the gwift Current ml stoxted to cross,, .-It miz-ssd VIP- forlp and the m4ft current upeet the war on, throwing J14" re hirston,. Us .Afe anti son UM datk&ter-in-law into thf,-, stream. Ljjcj-j_jy thorn was a heavy r .rowtb- of wil-,ous along the b3rft# anil as the screamtng d war were svept ,imm the rivrr to r-ommd eertain deatlp they r7m$bed tht wil! ows a�v'. hunr on* Supplies Divided th !.he �=rtI-;-a,, Uen 4n,' ','Ltxms IfoCall had sprxW, upon the leaders of their tom:, and turnod the hori:,er, into rho silver. Sulimming i'cmn they rescued the half lmmw and rnd2aurtOjJ itumne 1%e wo men had was sihorej, an 1 other mmbers of the party ems m in cnd cut lo,-)se the half Ntr-,mnsd horses frmm the wnrnn. All the Ftrtom cur plim uvre 'Lost.; m.V' it tnOc ',TM ti tx truer the sibnorged won to l 111a other mrt,-erz �f trio paAy whaz'.,ed u0p sharine their cup lies am i c3.ol,,hi mg with t','-,o unfortmwdta f€ mily. un tho firut d4, of -Twu,,,,, t.',,,4ay 14r, i� , ve t� -?.orns of t1he F"tto lakeg and 1, . made M me wagon zLars of the wa raise but the McCalls hU4 WcVed by that Ume th.14. thore vas 'Matte=r 1m1 sAva morn opl opt, ,ailty bick clown the valley or In other oGmUre" ulm 4AOJ.ey stopped that oveninr all thr, wagons tie-11m, turned southward - faelM imp, VaUey - all save the two MxCsU Tmgons - and they fac*i the gloi7 cf Fayet. Le Lakes. Ili &� 1. ja She hs!! borne 10 Louisa 11,� e.Cail mu It, yeaIrr, ol" her huabiwl 1 5 54 children - Mve of wllxxi trure leado Mut had boon ral.-ad upon an Ohio :ram# aa haJ hor husbmid. She h 0 learned to sev tnd ujAn - iind the hard work of farm womin had alum7 berm her lot. )xl that June avaM, U* McCzU Aridly amy; not the .rarld but the two tems and eons, a tznll amunt of mob ame, their few household po,3a9ssIm_; they hale brou&.t 611th the in ,,he two -oAfpns,, aal the 25 hea,' of cattle 4 r4- ,hat tW warvivo-4, thi "'- P. lake Renews Haps, An— _'La_L_jr tj_A".t lo v, ride as the., grrcat 1-mborirg wagon Jolted along* Lmi#Ar Iwail sat her tall husllxaW -Ath a gri,--: hope iu her heart Lh,-..t there in this naf-mificent wild country ha': z fardly mjj*t rind heal-plh and happinows wA repIn tWr shattered fortum, Ste $Ind her tmdbaM -m-re no longer 70ungo r,'Iny had known bitttr morrw aryl the aMrp sting of -lefrat., ffer:i was thoir last chance* ,414 m she w0kzel ivnin t-,-) the lake ahoro that Xww, aro spring evtming, she Ow the b-r%uTti1*u1 lake 3,ying oaranc. = 1 so lovaly - it e. surfaeo miftectinr, the aunset upon the mauitaLrws, the tamot-as the sm-7 bewches am .i the mounitz-dna. Uw decided that hm-c- t.1-ey wouV r*ikm their hvw - hare Lhu4 mit-ht find security., health wvd hA -,-p: * As the am a*# she th ;izght They W tomd Lho real Utopia# The warren trr°Ar. +-,—,led avm7 nrmt mmmJM. 11'4 -ellj Tee., Mr. VamcT w-410 as they ---Ihook lxa3.la* "Ve'll be 3**L`,1 ym back -.otm the 'Va-Uq7 viLere I an goi-,4 to locato. It's alot. bc.tter cattle country wuq�w aml Ids emm there. Be surc arO stc w`aw you do.,,vt ,Iown oiw vw•" mro " zc Lled on :t hm.,estsv, near �Aiare the jire-sent Lown of Casc$A* r4m Stand$* 1kir.ing the Tt=xler ltmmtafm emcitmont tlio-!r mieb bepaxm n1=11ar City* WrYrx The firct t1A,,--Ywqmt of Mim on the IwA vipon Elie oaxtem sh- a , of •im 10m., nov imm-n mo the "mme tradr.'" w-J"I t1mr.1 V111ked to S&r, rw"Orr,-, wbo hed a srmtt,:-v-- ri&t tc 1Ic; 1-60, "I Imar Y--a-.Vv- looki-,[ ror :,.or,,* 1w- * V4ecau- 113.1 so ll you -,,-d-ne - all toy ri&ts," he :v1d* GHM migh?" Mccall aewd %T11]1 tell yam. idWt 113-1 Io. Lot ti h&ve that t hiarwmv and wagon and 11111 turn ever z7 zlghtz to yoaoll offere fTw, Dmrnrs or-,I KcCr.Uvs be t to with sj^culalive tr, re as he mmde the *A-U rigJit. Itts a as McCall anow-ved. The doal vad, mde. TT-13 Tow thle bogl.-rang of Spin ")wmerz hr ;dq bulilt ;$ c"bin - a -woll Luilt and ooeXbrtable l•uilltilig* After Mrs. McCall and hc,,r sons had acrubbe,4,# cleawd and sc(mr9d inride arv!. auto 0 theY mOV* ! ice. later they built an addition to the cabin - ,md still later another a� Iditic n. iho cabin wis located n- r where the :�ackerman service station now Via+. It vat U-1111 before there was a pax: den planted from seeds they had brought with them. And . MoCall hail hear Ixm.a setting* She hung curtains at the window and put nee upon e r And scon the cabin be.::* hmelike =yter ber tar, She Was a tnie No Plentiful Tho mn went huntint, and fwMd ,-am uPOn their awe howstawls, They brouAt bt c all cis of gaae,, s bSW, grOuse and the two go er bore fished to their hUMPS ccat+ent; and kWt Uo gable supplIed with delicious lake trout and Odto fates.. Li,*Ixg me eW in the a : er. T`he Battle wom scxn rolling fat a-A ran uptO the , pon rMM tail the dwer wnoif forced ttm to the feeds gam. The McCa lls C1 ,f"i.eh Mn that fall by the rdII =s,# The %*tw me with flashing bodies as they rushed up the rives Into the analler to Spam* The fish were ao «;. for the fat an Pir. It was a boy *s vaAA -- a re u.;�gr bay#* perwti.se - a ha,pptt hunting: rmund, The two YOM boys tomod a beer cub. `faw -ht h3 - all Botts of c Ltd hicks. .esy h4d C taL'SE3 :.user# too, ft ;g at their very mar. rmW lonrjMd to web an,l ±*4 ubw ties snc • When they olxter tlifry ran trarl.3nes catchirx- rich souttiattrft rlOpes With va31}:1 wage of Wt*W OW" Quickly ,'Iu,re was much wnt to be dme uy,> ,n the Mc CaU honesteAd. They plowed 0 and cloar&A the lan s of brash and timber, planting tww gTasseo# glover end tip for fay for their cattle. Bay were built of low and the fames and corrals were m-)A of poles aml logs. The smw ame early th. %t year, and- by Tha -r:kagf.ving the tralls and roads were cited with amw 011rw, up until it vas six feet deep on the lwel,. But their cabin was warm and plye bad turned out well* so that they had plenty of fates and lk 11 a `te chidoons were f rying six** They shot goeSS anti wen on the 2AW for their Th~viag dinnar* The winter wo a Sitter hard one* but no am fixed until tom}► ra out of flour and they had to hand sled more fz" Meadows. In March they had the beartbreaking mMorience of t0tchinf, the --i r cattle die one bWx ow,$ mil uhm sp4npams they had only one cm left. 'ihime was 1{ the 0=0 in they country. In w1nts the son and boys carried mail upon their bad an Ois and webs for the roveern Bent. t41m the bWoj, loop ,�as only 16 het aarAsd the u ,#.3. from 'Mon Ulyrk to Pw ll. gate mall earrisd mail .from Xmliws to Council for t42 hays and received 412 for the work. . and Wo. Jake Sty', who haw** ded in 1,o Valley near Roseberr >, u to watch for the yomr mail. carriwo "I used to match for Lmm with Ids heavy pack of mil on his bade mushiM through the wow aid the cold* just a spec in that bit► lone17 W,° said Mrs. Stex . "� - hen I am his owing, I b ran to got ildruer, for him. He UNA to cxrae In so tired and cold that I had to help him off with him and Us cat. I used to feel so sorry for the boy for he was so j*W, for that heard trig." YwCaUs built their first; amrmill can the lake .whin near Ww e the Austin Gcoinian restaurant now st. -nds. After the rill was in operation, they►► pet up mve"1 buAldin . The store btAl4i g recently destroyed by fires, occ ul-ieed by the Kr ay Am* bokary &n -t tho hotel were emat►ruCt@d fro that first lumber sawed by the McCall -sill# al.-m 190W for the additim to theIr eat hwe . M40A i) built after a spa' me* orp,a. -i7ed„ cm4SUAF of ftOMS N4&Il* Xmt= Wi1lt C. W. Blackwell and fted Green. War t ACU to the HOM. Sabaie" Wbw bvfh the salt xdIl aW the f2aw mill wre bur"M In the amm fIft i M& Thwidore I bf"f rebuilt aR largor saull on the SOM mite. * 09EPW SOW for p ra until Carl I3rcA bow -ht out the Hof f's intex"Ots• Brmn and his Oft BUildift Of Railway $rizX -S Bi ttOr 010PA68 it � � ► s. � .:� .-.� 'its► onay pambei oo in the north end of is vallw was 12 udlam south of Y40&Z at Larfto had a w&U store #;are, aryl he was porrti -mst or for a amrf,,)nr of years. Mr. Trow fIaLUy dsci.r ed to clone out his #tore and loave the valley to Locate in north limbo. LIke U Nllyxe he to pot rid of the orfice before he left the country Out the PeAOMm colw..rtmnt 1paid no attentinft to his ice• He wrote to t -m departs with no results. F3.nallj� in deSPWI&tImI, his ,,oxgd up the postof es, and havlad it over to ' oseberry to tester ydstm ( father of W. B. f .stun) VhG ways hips r &M postmaster at Roseberrj . tsa'• SbarA Um pastoffice wqO&WIM 'what to do with it. He cart Lj4,V didnIt need the t iM for her Syr held a perfectly good pontoffice. Finally 110 wrote a lett r to Dad Walt artl admd hi','_ if he was in the merle A. -id McCall hod bead to1mg to a postofficxe for a long time vd.thout . flare his bid 30 be hi.t dod up his treaty team to his wam, axed dram do= the .2 to RosebOM e b&*W the postoff'ice. Ta:o dept ant at Washingto"s upon l eP-r- rJ.M the POOWf'ice W € parted north, irrwlately appointed ThOMOa MWI& . AS tMSter* His S&lft7 its tbS CZ'4e11at CM * Not a vaY7 profitable position ;;,t this best - but mat Otisfying. Svf ? ently the ,10partmmA as idali t d in havi n._f he probIm so aNdU Tt* now of the of nee i L' S"do. jut tft-�t r`ostof .Ce simply would not star puts but kept ?I*ft on ceding about* A so* W or ors passed with the office rewstAUW P"cluful.Iy in the tom in the ho -aa of Dad ill. ►"hm a few of the nei ibqvJtW rival sett1tconts cast c zv3ous p'+;e»�. }; ; H, artun eci-ted that he wa ^t I t offyce acs d 'ox to his puce gust &Crosse the Muth of the AvOr. Aft,-,r a :st art c�u :`.signs he won out. The office VMS p caked up and moved to his etom anar the brig! e. All this time, the office had !reamed the 800 moo. To convzxily br3 - i a still bee -i the now of Lart-lo. The VAeCaU g the FinnIA pop .son dva4od about, th"°st t that they needed anothor lvsto IiCe - havirT W 010 Id—eW!tune of lc>s inf* the other awl, so uhe r rt ,M(Ied. tW pq tmgter at - a ems' i Fin: j h £i [3 v v & 31L'iifi.: o tt s t22ey .� to mmm hrLs st4re, and postoffl ee, to McCall- - wrhm Postm, ster Elobelft e1Rr"d his etOra &nd yM**rfjOe,,# %Z&U I s tam van name Elo* Chi (rice IbzS Sowtim after the tan MOO piloted the M.M of the offift V&S ch. n edto I °; alt,, and the postoffice has rested SOCILIrOlY in the tee ever since. school IAVI .e Searm daw,hter of Thmaa Ccl1. The school was in a 2or cabin about vr%ro B. T. Johnson noes: reaVe"s ar the pupils were Billy# Dora and Lily NwAmns )awe ansi Ted Wall* #o 1 Later, they low! that it vas -.ecessary that five pur4ls rmst reside in the distriet. When the Newan f"rAly qeved a>wV there werenot enough pupils to hole the district. That reinter Billy Neum ml Earl "hawk, both the young* sons of Long Valley l st "Oers were arkeed to live in the McCall home. The first howste &done at the lakes were the Yorke fad,v who homesteaded the ranch m by the Blackwell. 5 Wxy. Jew Harp Jack Wyatt was homesteading across the lake; eW WLUJ t Hoylstun and his fanAly tnok up the land across the river,, Albert Ga skel. was I i ii dls the land ad joinln�g Den McCall e s on the north. Ben McC&U filed upon the ¢isrter section adjoining his father u,-on the north. Louis Heaoock had the lsM to the we st o f Tho s McCall. t(illians Open She Ectiar:l McMahon was the first ^torekeeeper in the town — ha, had his store In the k)lxildingx the McCall* had built semis time before. Norton '4illiaeras and t^.i.s wife arrived one iay hunting a location. He had abwA $1500 in cash, ami he started his stare in the saw buil,4Ang. .ell," be rvcarked the ,ay he opened, "I am mirg to run this store until i Ni** 50,000, then I will. retire* That t s enough for any aloe." They lived to am i " W 1 Muss! prophecy fulfilled. Later they tndlt a fine home along, the Ulm ashore — Am . Williams still resit es. Xr* W l.liame (lied a fern Later C. W* Hladkvea"ll and his wii'(: r- -nteed the ho <, el flat TI, 0 1 NOU11, any still later built a botel and saloon just ;:cross the street. Tarn Flat Troublese w Thee ,as Xc,Cs_ veal vustice of ties rxaacev, and the town dad, H� and his wife were knows in the small town and on .own Long Valley as Vu., and -ad McCall to early sesttlers. Y °.:'hewn heppl d W- h sto -k: r, his r.; .al troubles began. Now when one plats a tob$n he needs the widian 0 Solomon -,xid the farsightedness of a Brigham Yount. He shoal l :ion a -uit of armour, carry aameat =ax and keep a sawed—off shotgun handy, for he will need them all. He really needs a rood lawye :r, but he hay, i better not have a Iavyev for he would probably have the town site before, lon . hen one plat a Win see many eau "stions ari -e and so m:;ry trAstakes am made. Much Land Don=ated In the first place the oviner of the towmeite gave awa-* s! -, much of his farad that there was little left to sell. )`cCall pave wi .h a lavish band. He here an acre* to the school, lot r; for business and heap,, for churches ani other public buildings. And, of course=, ,,J1 they streets and alloys — =d anything that woul i help bond the tomm. The headquarters of the Idaho Viational Forest were at Meadows theno McCall ha his eyes on the head, -- rt�^rs for nee time. He finally won out after gaayir,r all the expenses of moving they office to McCall* He ht-vi his scan, Noss, build a headquarters. 11.e also paid the moving, expenses of the supervisor and his fwiily. They building for the forest service is now &-med by the Freemn Drug store* The Idaho national, forest proved an P -�- cel.lent investment to the tTotn, and brought it a fine =air roil. Today McCall citizen" are Justly proud of the new office building recently completed, Freighters Thrive For a long time all supplie n were fr-i. hted into the countr;:Y firm Boise and ei.s r b six and ei t —horse trarons. '.ach year the msi.dents of the town hitched up their teams to heavy eons and freighted their siipilies. It wag the big event of the year when the empty wain$ pulled into Boise, and put unt the `valis ialla and Crr��+sn Ilea ..oa -r corrals. 00 Fin&13,v he PJA, railroad was bullt as far an Everm..en. Then the traveler Journeyed by stare coach or their can buck board and war,*ns. The traveler who rode on the of stape coaches hart a real thrill. The stages veers picturesquep but -cost exhaustiM after a few days of btmpinr over bad roadso had fine dashing hors's. The irive• wit proudly or- the top — anti how he lobed to hanile the reinst How he loved to "ash into toim with, his lea_ horsr-,q on the !7allop., cutt-Inp capers; Ira Ys up to the entrance of the hotel with a flourish and a wild shrifyk of brakcr$ap his leaders on their hind legs. The coming of the stare %as a r,-Al ovt-nt of the day at eCall. The railway was F-using its way north* The isvey interests and other had bought up 1=1 for now townsites all along the line. At Montours Horseshoe Ben.-I# Caseaft,p Opow*217 and McC&U. As the road was built slowly up the valleyp the old timers who had struggled along for years tryinp, to build up the'r towns am' had waited so y.atiently for the enrAW of the railroads were furious and heatbroken when they saw tho road legs thm by to one sido# and the new towns lai:- out. Insult To In jury 11-ewas McCall saw the say-A thing was hap,,,ening to his beloved to,.,m right before his eyesp but he soemed powerless to -ttop, it. They jAssed up his to%71 and went north, an(! lai,,i out the derot site upon their own property* And to add insult to ins --ryjp they named the t L§k*Wrts At MWIPa another em.rAre btdld*r was hard at woric buildlin# a town* He had 'ruv)t,ed the to,,m of 11a t. out of the qapqftush. he ha,' organized tho ditch ecerany long before . the H71lis Atch — and he named the ,itch for his laughterp iiqllis. He ha.I also orranigad the coml;any that built the branch line ft= Nampa to Boise. In the course of h° s operations he met ariV of the railroa," officials of the V* k. system. One of his wLrly acquaint-anceg ha-11 risen to the vice presidency M A I of the xistem. McGeets youngest daughter hi-,' rtai-ried one of Thmv--s McCall's sons. V I arree Goes Into Action 71* McCe.11 fardly watched the trains pull through their town with a ,cxm-,ing, fury. Fimaly J. A. XcGWK was sent for, fie came up with blood in his eyes. lie loved a rood hard scrap.. Y.xrlM a touch of Irish blood in hims and besiJes he h,-`, same old scores to settle. I ; let-14-tions, letters, telograxis flew rack and forth - the wires simply hum,.ed - and at last# to their joyv they saw the vitae president Calvinla car hooked onto the back of the train one evening. Work was promptly stopj*d upon the new depot to a different location chosen# The name of Lakeport was changed back to McCall. '..:hen the name McCall was painted up n the new depot, Ad AcCallts heart was rejoicing ,�# Ile ha .,J saved his town and ',,is pride. For a long time range wars raged in the district,, even after the coming of the railroad. The sheep and cattlemen tried to keep the settlers out after the horwat-aders began taking up the landl, and the homeste&isrs tried to keep the sheep and cattle out. Farch spring -.r7-wd settlers warded the bridges an-! fords. Sheep and cattle men rt-,taliated* Stern armed men watched the crossing at Isr1ith's Ferry,. and turned back the sheep and cattle. Several of the hr-4w.-steaders wen- murdered, Thirty —sem head of cattle were found sl-lot to Jeath. Later 67 more cattle were shot* The war continued until the forest service took over mampenent of the range. Founders of McCall Viva To 3se Brisk City %tilt On Lumbering,, MILI.n.-sp And Winter And ! •urrier Tourist Trade Thomas 411*41Can was n-:v,;r a rich n-,m, He lived simply !.,,ntil the last !aye of his life. Thviugh all the years Louisa McCall was the ins-iration of her family and friends. She -otorked hard, and she florified in her rtrengt),* Sorrow came to her when her youngest son,. Ted, died. She wt her ITIef with the high couraqre that she wore like a shield. She was a true pioneer woman; hfr tack to help care for the sick and newly,, to assist at birth-, and deaths. Faun M _.. y Travelers Aided She shirked nothing in her long lifet. No one in m�ed was ever turned away fron, her door. 'easy and hunts homesteaders were rTeeted with a h-arty wplaomr. an! with a prompt invitation to a roo,' hot m�al beside the McCalls' loapilw fires. Mh-r7 a weary traveiero half forzen and e7ttiausted from the log *wmhw over the snowy mountaiins and vallays stopped at the McCall hoe for rest a' food. Then rested, fel the cheereds he went his strengthened anJ with a M,,-at new hope In his heart. Dad world say so -,ArW tits, "thr--r-'s a poor :evil. outsides I know Bets broke and hungi7. I guess �mtd better ask him in for a bite to oat &nywrays don tt you think?" 1,ong Christmas Treat t'Whys of course# Dad. Brinp him right, in. Them is plenty left from dinners and it wen et take but a -,dnute to nzke him a 7ood cup of coffee." One, Long val]AW family whew the McCalls learned were in actual want were invited to a Christmas dinner at +the McCall haws* At tbe. Meall fam-ily's insistence their visit lengthened until spring# for "ad and Ha McCall knew that nw r starvation face,j that ft�12,y had they returned to their cold ar-,.1 lonaly homest-ad far dawn the snowy Long valley. The snow Lingered that y,-,-tar until on lklay I it was four foot deep on the lovelo Some one (Ynce asked 1,onim- VrCallp "But were you -,at very lorvely eill those years? Way up there in all W t snawj, so far awayl It must bKve been just - TItW no., of course, not* I had rq fan dly with me* B"ides tK re w� the la" &Ad the OWLIntainso the grand trees and the amshine. .'.,nd when I mt a little discouragodp I used to walk out to a Ilmm just above the laks and look across that rloriol-,s beauty - that was all T ru�eded," s1he answered qAetly- Both HcCa-lls Live Long 14uisa I�CCajl was ol-1,, well past the span of living for most women. Though she still carried on irith her old s.L4rit she was m'aring the and of her life. she -most like to think gave d�bmers for friends and her fTlly. those v4ic loved her of her as Oie bustled about C ettin,- i4nneAr in h, the ertA way wearing her usual wqiite a-l"ron over her best drese. The infirrity of age was never hers until her last IIlnrssj, and then one eveninf., she qUetly iied at the age of 85s Until his last fillness# Thwas IrIecall, took an active inter at in politics. He was a strm* Democrat zmd loyAl to h-s party until the 1-"st- On election lays he and his wife always dressed in their 'L*st and went to the pollee. But he, too, war, oj_'. He had lived a IW,, tillv - and until the r!IV Of h 8 death he plans for his beloved) towns And two yap.rs after the death of his ,Afe he died at the are Of 87- Hoj,lem Zest Aided So it was the town of McCall e0t its start - a lon,,- slo,,i and most painful proceos. IAm, years of planxiin,7 aiv' waiting before the town took its lace as the best busirens torn in the state for its sizes CrWually the old ploneer buiI Int-,,s are being re-,AAMd by now and moklern structures. Only recently a. r.,00dly IArt Of Main street had its face lifted, with an attractive coat of stucco covering most of tlie ogle r buildings* and a noA cement walk replacing, the old, perilous board Lk I % But so rmny people complai:rwl A the modernity - tley loved the old pioneer blAldinr9j, the rickety silievailk and the stllrit of the old �,rest V- -At l.inmred in the sofrh. ftm all parts of the country core ,^eon ancl women seeking =uz -eme ,t and health at Payette lakes. At the height of the sure r season streeet.r are filled crith the holillav crourd 3njo,7ing the novelty of the frontier town. Last sum -.r during tho fibaing of t.ho "Norti-niest F.assaro," McCall was cites of the host active and interest-.np, towns in the aountrv. Im,l ans Roam Again Like a d r a*� of the core ?. %Mgon days, :-re s:...r hundreds of in nuns and the rugged Rogers �',.ar ers in their wLo?: r. beards and costa en striiin,- along, brush. inr eslbms with +,he great and the near —great in the movie and the financial .rorldj, w'hila down the streets vvm,7 pack outfits heVesd for the mountains, the horses shying at the truct:s a.-A leaving for some Isolated she: -5 carail or minlng ca: -.-- or s packer taking sur,- ea to a. Forget service, ca,. p. It was an intnrmn.; —Unr- of the "Ie*rn and the pioneer. Mo Depression, -"hen snow storms beat about the r ,! tai.ne until the sxtow it four feet deeps skiers coma froc: mat swry town in the state to ride the hirh rountain Mopes dcun the wildp trs.cklesss steep gmles or enjoy -,Arater sports upon the excellent courses nercr town. Fort r --thz" V7, u,sand skiere used the skl lift at she lor!ge last season. McCall has bee an important shilprinc paint for pmducts of the forest ami mill. Sheer, ami cattle traLns, rpeecial trains leave daily for the markets of the world l.oa:16d vrl th fresh as, cn.rrots and other verat ables. Ap )roawfsx to !: 1500 ears of freipht were har;iled at the freight depot in 1938. YvCall bests tb&tshheh..Mdrnx<:i4Vpres# Thmas McCall and his We lie upon the hillei�les in the cemetesr -1 overlooking 'v and Lo,,r, vaZl.ey. Their work is co .riete everont].,y tie VZace a wreath to their memory. < y.�:#` `T%,y"" r � A? t .:� 5 rte. " ,_:.: y t'sa'r a,�?.�* ■ •t�'r i t [ a a i AS:,.._: 3r+_ LL: 9i: lk+ ys. �sm�w�: n... awe�t. r:+.... e...,........,_,. a a a a a a a a a c a c st .`:.:...._.?:i:,;t...,.. * &�.'.. ._... .. ,.. w. . i c a a c c i t a i • a s a [ • s [ a x e x ` s[•[[.• s a a s a[ i a c s s a a• a a s a. . rA'f� r 3 TT Y� R » » FOLrND=— OF TU' T ON LMIM S "I'A;" CLPLIM, 50 YEARS AGO » newspaper article - December 17, 1939 Father and Son Show Little Enthusiasm For Mines: Tom Sticks to Agriculture, rand . Follows Rough Road to Lon- Valley by Ehnis T.cCall Fifty five years ago Thomas McCall and his son.. Homer, stepped from R the coach of the Idaho Central railroad and looked dorm upon Boise valley and the city of Boise. " The two men had been dismayed by the endless miles of vil(l desert land and sage brush, lon-;- legged, lean jackrabbits and hungry slinking coyotes, through trhich they had passed for days. The barren, eternal ti�,raste land with hardly a house in sight appalled them by its utter lonliness and desolation. They had changed trains at Nampa, an'f-1 after a long. wait they took the w » Idaho Central to Boise; this branch line had been only recently completed from Nampa to Boise by a company organized by James A. ticGee of Na:apa. » » One Cabin at Hunter ` r r At Nampa there were only a few houses set amidst a veritable sea of grey y sagebrush; and at Hunter (notia Meridian) they saw only one very lonely little house lost in miles and miles of sage brush. All the re t of the way to Boise eras acres and acres of sage brush, and still E,.ore loping rabbits and coyotes. So it was :vrith delight that they: -zaw the little toim of Boise nestling w • among the green trees and fields, while the Boise river ground its way cAovn w the wide valley; and the mountains rose above the city, their summits snot. crorrned. Alexander on Same 'rain The depot was on the bench then, and the two icCall men rode into town in: a hack and registered at the famous old Overland hotel. And kith them was a » slender young Jew whom they had met on the train coming west. He was a most �% frien'.ly and kindly young man and they took a great liking to him on the to ious trip. His name was 1 '.osos Alexander. He had come crest to retain his fortune - and he told the Z.cCalls of his ambition in the west, loses Alexander rose to be governor of I-._.aho, and built up a business in noise and left a beautiful building as a monument to his in'ustry and success.' ines Fail to Attract The 11cCalls found noise a bustling little frontier town. As they lounged about the Overland. hotel, they listened to the stories of miners, stocr:men an oti��er�� as they told of the great, new strikes in the Boise Basin, Silver City, ''arren and other booming; mining carips of Idaho an,'. the ?'lest. But the cCall men were mode interested in the cattle business for neither knew anything about miring. Homer iicCall i-.as in poor health, and his father had brought his son to Idaho with the hope that the chan7e of climate might benefit. " , I'lou Otta Nee the Grass' r" ' One day they heart; a group of men talking of the great new country to the north. A tall and lanky young trapper dressed in overalls and a new shirt and r wearing a wide- b-rii:timed western hat, , as speaking, his cl.ark eyes gl_o?" :ir_g vith . enthusiasm as he st_,oke. "I think the Long Valley county is the future cattle country *. You just otta see the grass and the fine range up there. Bunch grass K bell * creep to a horse, !��n talks a'oout hunti.n^ and fishing - l-Thy a man can ;rust naturally live off the country if he has some bacon, flour anti a few beans," he stopped For breath amid a rapiri fire of c uestions. ; "Then there are simply miles and miles of the finest timber that I ever R sai -T - huf e yellow pines and firs- acres ant acres of them. Ant there is hardly a house in the entire valley. That country sure has a big future, I'm thinkin "'. "Hoer about:. the Minters ?" asked a listener. . 4 i 'La',-e Full of Fish' "I don't kno�.r uch about them yet," Z;Tas the reuly, "but I can tell you : :,ore this time next year. I am on the tray up there now. I forgot to tell you about " Payette laces at the head of Long- valley. Say, its the prettiest lake I ever smvi F in all my life - and just chuck full of big fish. Great big lake trout - and are " " they gamey. Simply aching to get caught. Itts a region of mountain lakes - just ` i hundreds of them, and all of them great fishing. I never saw so many deer an:! other game. And the red fish and white fish run every fall - just millions and Millions of them." ` "How about the roads ?" asked Thomas McCall. _ there are none to brag about - but a man can make it all right if you, don't go too early in the spring. Therets a ferry at Smiths Ferry. A man can - for.l the other streans." "Souncl.s good to me, Dad," your- Homer 2 cCall sc id. 'Just the country : e are looking for ". " "Yes - it does. I V7o1J1 like to look it over," his father answered. 5 s 4 Tom Becomes Rancher K Co the idea ti-.,as sold to Thomas `cCal1. He thought that the great timbered - . co-Ontry wauld suit hart much better than the sage brush. He had been raised in w the beautiful timbered country of Ohio, and he thought the sage brush most desolatd and lonely. w w He looked around Bo--,-.se for some sort of trork, and he finally met John Ireton •' who was hurting a rnan to work on his ranch. 11 -r. Ireton engaged Thomas McCall on the spot; and the next clay the three men drove to the Marsh and Ireton ranch. The. _ -ranch looked like paradise after the !on,,-. dusty drive over rough mountain roads - a paradise of soft green alfalfa fields and the oo?et, cool shade of trees. w The harsh and Ireton ranch was one of the most famous of those days. It wag i. - s i 1 W A k- F g.T Yr a well Icnotm sto t in.r -- place for mi_ncrs, prospectors, freigh` -ers and other tr_..v°lers. There at ni.?ht one found great freight wagons, the horses resting, and feedin�- after y the hard pull. Long- stria, -s of pack horses and little r-ray burros and mules fed in the big barns, or on the lush grasses of the ranch. Fami17 Comes Viest R t At night the nen loun,�-ed about the leaping caripfires, smokin �- and swarping ` ,years about the great frontier county;,. ToJay, the little town_ of ilortour is built upon the site of the old Marsh andt Ireton ranch. K Later, Thomas McCall sent for his wife anc'. His wife, Louisa., his sons, : en, J.)attirson and Ted, joined him at the ranch. Later, his daUghter, Flora., came. and still later, the eldest son., Will, joined the family. s -i Homer's health had not improved by the change as they had hoped. He died. " The family buried him not far from the ranch. The EcCall family had listened to other accounts of the beauty of the i1a`,ette lakes and tha Lone- V2,11ey country. T't.ey decided that they t,ould Move into that t country with she idea of locating permanently. , That summer and fall, the mother canned fruit and - ?.rigid corn and vegetables " an,-4 fruit, and made other preparations for the trip. And the yen bour,ht two flood teams, wagons and harness - and about 25 head ` of cattle. Ben McCall continued oWor'cing on the ranch until spring. ' i Hountain Roads Fierce " At last the wagons ::,ere loaded and the horses hitched. The boys started ahead driving the cattle, , There were no smooth ,oiled hi- -hways, no hip °h- po,�rered, shinin` cars then. The roads were awful, especiallr in the early sprint; -gnu; hobs :There the ti12.non -.' � ithells sank to the very hubs and even the horses often lost their footing- and R Y floun, eyed helplessly in the deep mire. The grades i•;ere steep, slippery and the roa is rutted and very rocky. The roadmalters of those days were careless in tt.heir - enr-ineering - there was lii,4.10 1�ublic money to , -,nd. 'lie irea of a road eras Ueci .edl-r sketchy. dust so a fello,r could r�'et over a road somehoTr ryas the general ` idea. But with all the h-r and rough coin' - there was li' -tle risk, to life an.1 I in the mode of travel - one nearly,- always arrived at the destination safe and sound. R R Rest At Squaw Creek r R , F The two wagons loved slowly, the 'horses straining. as the-ir climbed up the steep and narro:y grades. ;'hen they reached Squaw Creel; sirrdt, they found 10 other x cariPed there waiting for the sno,r to :melt br.,"ore they proceeded. They were bound - for Long- Valle,,-, and Payette La, :es in search of ranches and homes. ' The prty finally decided after a short conference that they T:oul_I ma':e the atter.ipt at once; an,.i the n ,�,t :.:ornin�- very early the long; war-on train started agairf. It was slog,; travelin,•- at the best - and so;,e days they were lucky if they ` maje two miles; often ,-:then they ca- ,ped at night sang their car,,pfires of the night before still burning. Many times they were forced to stop and build tertiporary bridges over swollen streams, or to 1.;uild corduroys oaror muddy stretches at crossing. Every low place was a rushing -- strear, of mU ldly water. It took tt,;o I: et;.^ of h_ r., t:opk by ten and horses to r al :e the trip from acsu- w Cr e1; w grit until they rolled into - 1Lonc Valley. - As they traveled through Long vailey�, they Lliought there was no ,:,ore ` beautiful Valle,-.- in all -the T: ,-orll as it la-;% sailing~ in the spring sunshine. rite R grass t r :Tr lush and green and meadow l:.r ;is, robins and. the loveD blue birds "aye them a llac'. r,elcor e. Lhe entire valley was ablaze with wild flowers, ,frhile snort- « capred mountains rose upon each si le of the vr,).11ey - ti:eir si,'es haavily timbered - Frith a vir?in stand of yel1ov,! pine and firs. R But their troubles were not over. There r as still Crol(:l Fork and Lake Fort: Lo cross. At Gol z For.: some one had bu:'.lt a log bridge and they crossed the .ricket,.: bridge in safoty, although the water was running; over the bri,-'. -e as they crossed. 'ot Chic'-ens :survive Hearts sw when the party reached Lake Forrc. she stream was very hiF•h - the water rushing past in fury. They arrived at the ra`ing stream late in the iftvrnoon. Soiie of the party decided to trait until horning with the hope th1;u the eater right fell ':urinz the night. �:ut the ":(Calls decided to at`.erlpt the crossing. :hat evening. ' heir plun-ed into the str>am, and the plucky horses, swimmint lrcvr the wa`on across and lunged up the steep incline to the safety of level ground. . ..he M'cCalls proceeded to unpack the sodden contents of their wag -ons and dry out. « w They hac' brou,^•ht a_lon_; a crate of chickens, and each time they crossed a « « stream the poor foals were found apparently dead from droiming, but upon bei ng ,urned upside down and shaken violently they gasped for a while - then decided to « « .ire awhile longer - at least until the ne }-t stream was crossed. It was necessary„ « ,o rive the c ,ickcns first a,d r.any times d.urinf* the trip. An.'. later the :cCa.11 k ily decided the reason the pro -eny of those chic'- -ens were so healthy and lived � « uch lon,; lives was because they were 'escendants of those pioneer chickens that hM.d x un ived all that crater and drowning. They viere tough birds. Huu11 T A T�i1 st:,n t s 1iss 1 or :I. « i arly the next r. ornin-; real trouble began i•rhen the other members of the party ` tter;pted to cross. Lake Fork was 'somewh -i.t lovrer '_Tut still dangerously high. R orie of the wagons crossed in safety., but when the Huston wagon ("-rove into the sti•.,ft - urrent and started to cross, it missed the for', and the swift current upset the « P agon, throwing Ju({^;e Huston, his wife and son anti ,aq- hter -in -law into the strearr. wackily there was a heavy growth of vril•? oars along the barTcs, anc; as the screaming x on were s�rept <oT.n the river to what seemed certain ,death, they grabbed the - w oprs and hung on. - Supplies Divided R " In the meanU_L:1e, Ben and Thomas 'cCa.11 had sprung upon the leaders of ' it tea.;l, and turned the horses into the river. Sirimmilng dolam they rescued _ half '.rormed and exhausted women. The t�,.,o men halt si-JUum ashore, an ^. other !Members �rl _ the party swam in and cut loose the half d.roimed horses from the wagon. the Huston supplies were lost, and it took sometime to tow the subraerged - on to land. The other members of the party whacked up, sharing their suir:li:s ' clothing with the unfortunate family. " On the first day of June, they drove to the shores of the Pao -ette lakes and e camp. Al] members of the waEon train but the :acCalls har7. decided by that e that there was better land and more opportunity ba c.: down the valley or in " or countires. :hen they stopped that evening all the wap,ons were turned tl hard - facing Long Valley - all save the two l-'cCall wagons - and they _ e:i the -lor4- of Payette Lakes. Louisa I cCall was 50 years old and her husband. was 51. She haul. borne 10 _ 1 ren - five of i,hom were dead. She had been raised upon an Ohio farm, as had , husband. She had learned to seir and spin -and the hard trork of fare? :o, un had a;y *s been her lot. And that June evening the IacCall family owned nothing in theF 1d but the two teams and tragons, a small amount of cash and their few household- 6 sessions they had brought frith them in the two war,;ons, and the 25 head of cattlb r t had survived the trip. Lake Renews hope _ K F .. And during :that lop; ; ride as the great lumbering wagon jolted along, Louisa. ` all sat beside her tall husband with a great hope in her heart hst there in this ificent wild country he:.• fazaily mirht find hea)_'-h and happiness, and regain - Y �I their shattered fortune. She and her husband were no longer young. They had known bitter sorrow and the sharp sting, of defeat. Here t %ras their last chance. F 1 hen she talked dorm to the lake shore that loner, ago springy; . evening, she saw the beautiful lake lying serene and so lovely - its surface reflecting the sunset upon the mountains, the forests, the snovey beaches and the mountains. She decided that here they would r..ke their home - here they mi�-ht .find security, health and happiness. As the sun sank, she thlught they had found the real Utopia. The wagon train ti-rheeled av, ay next morning,. 'r:Fell, Tom ", fir. `° ;earner said, as they ;shoot, h?- 1-1ds. ",.'etll be seei ' w you back; '.o?rn the Valley where I an -oink- to locate. It's a.l_ot better cattle country. doim there. 'e sure and stop when you come_ doi,rn our wa r 't K 1 ,I ,, . 11r. Warher and his fLu.:ily settled on a. homestead near where the present tolm of Cascade now stan�,,s. K 1?urinr; the Thunder :.ountain e,ci-f-.ement their ranch became Thunder City. F r Trade I'cans Land k • Tr The KcCalls first thought of filing on the land upon the eastern shore of lake, now kno, -�n as the "race trzw,�cl:," -until they t-.lked to Sam Devers who had a squatter's right to his 160. r _ "I hear you're loot i .: for soi!e lanu, cCa'.1. I'll sell. you nine - all F M, r ,,'t he said. R � - "How much ?" •`cCall asked auickl r. ' 11 tell you what I'll do. Let' me have tha "- tea-, harness and war--on and ._ I'll turn over ;7y rir-hts to you." "Sara Devers eyed ''cCallts be t team with sG eculative eye as he made the offer. "All right. It t s a Jteal,tt Thomas 'cCa,ll answered. The deal grad made. #. This was the beginninu of i,TcCall. F 4 Sam Devers had built a cabin - a :;ell built and co -`o-rtabl-e building. ` After 11rs. McCall an' h =- sons had scrubbe , cleaned and scoured inside and out.. may. they ;:roved 4.n. Late �r ' �� r tlieJ built an additio��. to the cabin - ;,n(?. still later another addition. The cabin r.'.S located near where the Sacke-rman service station noL•7 stands. » It wasnot ILi before there t'a.s a ,°aruen lan'.cd from seeds they ha,1 brou�-ilt , ,Tith them. And P`rs. 'cCa71 liacl her hens setting. She hunt; Curtains at the trindotir and put rugs upon the floor. And soon the cab` n became homelike under her han3.s. She was a true homem l:er. : J .R G -me Plentiful z The men went huntinf; c.nd faunr1 -amc upon their own homesteads. They brou{--ht s back all sorts of ;ale, dec r l ear, grou ;c s,n, the taro yountmer bogs :fished to their heart's con-Lent; an :l '_:ept tl,e table sUP1-;lied =.rith delicious lake trout End , 1,ite Living ryas easy.- in the su :u *per. The cattle ere soon rolling; fat an-! ran upon the open ran, =e until the deep snow forced they,, to the feed ground. The 'cCalls ha vested the will 'Pe .Lott hay for the i- .sinter Teedin� :. ned fish ran tnat fall by the millions. L'11e Crater was red with flas;iin,� uo.':ies , a.; they rushed up the river into the smaller streams to spat ;m. The fish were so easy to net - wagon lo.—s of t',-rL if theyt:ished. "'icy killed bear for the meat , and for the fat and fur. It was a boy's wort' - a regul ^.r boy's paradise - a happy* hunting- ;;round, u The two younger b -),;-s -'(arpied a bear cub. TauTht h? : all sorts of Comical t.riclrs. rt T' -ey had a tame steer, too. Swi=ang tras at their vcr, door. They learned to web and ski when the snow ca ,e. !then they ,.r, ti oL1er t't1e -' .-an tr:,.pl n.s catehiri -- rich mountain slopes try t } T. ;'goons of joy. :'.inter Comes Iuic -ly There ,r�s : :�:1ch .,ork to be 'one up,-,r,. the :cCall i ?o ;nestes_ . They plowed i € r F Fire Deals Heavy Blow _ The saw -s11 yr a roved Iater to the p-re��ent si`e and a flour mill Tras ' built after a co_. l:any was organized, consistinn of Thomas I;cCa_l_l, Ilevrton ''illi=s) , C. t,% 3laclwell and Fred Green. Later they soli]. to the Hoff interests. ':i ?en both . the saw mill :.n_1 the flour mill were burned in the sane- fire Carl Brotm and Theodore Hoff rebuilt a larger sawmill on the same site. This company operated _ k for years until Carl Brov;Tn boumh.t out the Hoff t s interests. Brol -m and his son - r - i still operate the savmll. F. i3uil:'ing of a.lT =re ^ear Brin s Bitter Dispute Over iiar -•.e And Site of Tovm Pleas Lai-,e The only posto_"fice in the north end of the valley was 122 rules south _ of hcCall at La-rr!.o. - Fred Troy: h -3.d a s_- i 1 store there, and he ;a.:> postxaaster for a number of yeas--_ Mr. Tray finally- deci(:ed to close out his store and leave the valley to locate in f _ north Idaho. Like ';ill eye he wanted to r,et rf.ci of the off.-I-ce before he loft the _ - country but the P'ost,Of.fice rLai(A no attention to his leas. lie wrote innumerable letters to the llej) .)rtment with no results. Finally its e ;Aesperatio.z, he bo,.ed up he postoffice and hau_Ie(l it over to '_� oseberr r to I'ostmaFter _ Y oydstun (father of 10 nctstun) Srho was storel:m-per and post.:aster at oseberr., . Too Many Offices - 4 .,:r. Boydstun stored the poStoffice ?ronderin ° vihat to c;.o -rith it. He certainly* idn�t mced the thine for he air: a. y h .d a perfectly rood postoffice.. Finally he wrote a letter to Dad M'cCaIl anc a;-'.ced hi if he t•ras in the marls .t. Dad kicCall ha' been trying to ,et an _: osto'ffice for a lon- time without success. Here was his big chance. So he hitched up his trust,,- tearz to h: s .72.7on; and ,trove doom -t;he val_le, to ;toseberr, ?,,here he loaded the rjostoffice. _ y k . 1 `( T T 1 t �% The department at C,a ^h :i` e s t' i tor,, .upon l.,a_ ^nine the ��;o.,��o, "-rice had ��epa.rtc��. =ors. irae:- Iiately a.p Ointed Thomas McCall as postmaster. His, salary i;as the ca.ncellat o; of a ver-r profit ^.bl.e position r_t the. bet - bit most satisf; ing. rvi(len the del,,: ^ nont was (ieJi.-hted in havinn the; problem so c^s_1_ he r:.) of the office i oma,ined Lardo. 73ut thl -t poctoffice simply would not star - 1put,, but '-e; t right on about. F On she Tra -.l'. Again ,a A numl.er of ycars passed with the office ��emainf.n[�� peacefully in the towri�� ,din the ho,,.c of Dad i:cCall, Then a fez-- of the neirhborinr, rival settlements castT A. envio.is eyes. F. I'oTTdstun ::Iecided that he , :a._ ' ed the office -.owed Jom, to h:��s + y " place just across the ilouth of the river. After a short carlpai,~n, he i%,on out. The office was packod up an:' moved to his store n: ar the brie' -C. All this dine �thq office had retained the name Lang o. The commlunity at t' he bri lEe still bars thG of Lardo. R �� o the I cCalls an,, the Finnish pop,_.1;_.tion decided about that time that L-i.Cy, >G. ��eded another :osto "Tice havinf ilr.. .,he i isfortme of losing: the other one; w ipso :cy persuaded the :osLr;Laster at "'.lo - a s a _1 Finnish settlement c,oVrn ti.e Vw^ _leti to rove his store anc:I. '`o"toffice to i`Cv ^.J_ ." " :CYl 1'ostilc'?.stEer Eloheinio ;:loj-ed hi9F :std' i-, I postoffice, :'cCall s torn t'ras n<-{ime Elo. _ T y Mnan -cd Once Lore Sonetir_Ze after the; to�.,n was :1_a',ted the n:.r.o of the office was ch ,�.n��-edto r `cCr l?., rnd tale _:ostoffice has rested securely in the torah ever since. ,< School Pu ils Scarce x; Lhe fi, st school in i:cCall was `'-.a.ur-ht; by F' or % "cCaJ_J_, the pretty blond au,,.hter of Thomas L cCn11. The school_ w,-.ts in a logy, cabin about where D. `_". Jc`fi,nF viz oi" r re-IL es, and the pupil: were Billy, Dora and L.i4, I?^nan, Dairs and Ted IicCa'll.- ry IN l . i L 6`y' Latcr, tirey foun-1- that it was -ecessary that, five p,iu a � pils must re7-i"te in there we enot enough pupils to n roved away r the list-rict. the Ne,,-man f.!-,,, _T F hol-I the district. That �-in %,cr Billy Ncvmn an�.,. 71,7�rl Shaw, both the found; son of 71�,.Iley homesteacle�-r Lon,F,-, were lire in the 11cCall home. U The first homestea,".ers at the lakes were the Yoeke family who homesteaded the ranch nov owned by the Blackwell :'..airy. Jews Harp Jack 'Iyatt was homesteading Y. across the across the lake; and ,Tilliarti Boydstun and his family to ok up the lane Albert Gaekel was homesteadin- the land acljoininf- Ben 1•11C.Call"s on the north. Bcn I-IcCall filed upon the quarter sect_on adjoining his father upon the north. Lo,,.iis I-Teacock hat the land to the westof Thomas I-IcCa-,l. Open Stbre Edward Mlcllahon i-ras the first storekeeper in the tovm W h-a ,, his store in the buildinT- the 'McCalls had built ponLie time before. , Newton ? 4T illiams and his wife arrived one day hunting a location. He had* about ',,,)1500 in cash, and he started his store in the same biLilding. he rcmai:lked the -ay he opened, "I am coin to run this store until i 1,1ake P,,50,000, then I will retire. That's eno7m-h for any man." They lived to see yr. 'jilliamst prophecy fulfilled. Later they built a fine home along the lake shore - where Mrs. Willi ams still resides. 'jr. I-Tilliams died a f m-T years a,ro* Later C. Black.-:ell and his vrif- -.-,--nted the ho! -.,el from Thomas 11,'TcCall,' and still later bu-ilt a hotel and saloon just �across the street. Town Plat Troublesome Thomas 11'cCall was justice of the peace, and the town dad He and his wife -0 on own Lon- I.Talley as Ma- and Dad McCall to earli Were knoi,m in the small toin and settlers. f Finally ':.he I.7.:'. rai lro .d t;ras bu Tt as far as Evergreen. Then the raveler journeyed by stave coach or their oim buck board and wagons. ' The traveler -rho rode on the ol6 _ stage coaches ha d a real thrill. The stares ere ^i.cturescue, but most e;d-iausting after a -Caw of bumPin1- over bad roads. hey had. fine 4ashinr, horses. The (;river sat proudly on the top - and how he loved - .o hanc ?le the reins! How he loved to dash into toim with his lead horses on the allop, cutting capers; dratr up to the entrance of the hotel with a flourish and wild shriek of brakes, his leaders on their hin,:i legs. The coming of the stage , • s a r,,al event of the, day at IicCall. .E �s c The railway t%ras pusing its tray north.. The Dewey interests and other had � ws a ought up land for new to�,rnsites all alonr, the line. .fit .ontot r, Horseshoe �er_i, ascade) Donnelly and McCall. As the road was built slolrly up the valley, the old k ` imers .,rho had struggled alone; for years trying to build up the'.r towns and had . R raited so _-atiently for the coming of the railroad, were furious and heatbroken s Then they c.a�•r the road pass them by to one side, and the new tolMs laid out. Insult To Injury < 1'horias IdcCall saw the same thin- was happening to his beloved town right efor his eyes, but he seemed powerless to stop it. They passed up his town and ent north, and laid out the d..epot site upon their own property. And to a.d - sult to inji.lry, they named the town Lakeport. _ At rla,, pa another empire builder z•ras hard at work building a town. He had grubbed the toz-m of Nampa out of the sagebrush. He had organized the ditch company ` before - the Phyllis Ditch - and Ile nr;.med the -.itch for his daughter, Phyllis. ong e had also organized the company that built the branch line from Nampa to Boise. In the course of his operations he met amny of the railroad. officials + ` f the U. P. system. One of his early acquaintandes had risen to the vice presideccy, L .k'iaR!�9k7�i7^r!L' F of tine s`Tste:. PrcGee's youngest aaughter had married one of Thomas ::cCall's sons. KcGee Goes Into action The rScCalI family watched the trains pull throu! *h their town with a growir_g fury. Finally J. A. McGee was sent for. He came up with blood in his eyes: He loved a good hard scrap, having a touch of Irish blood in him, and besi- =.es he K had some old scores to settle. Petitions, letters, telegrams flew bhck and forth - the wires simply hur��ned and at last, to their joy, they saw the vice president Calvin's car ',hooked onto the back of the train one evening. York was promptly stopped upon the �� s new depot and a different location chosen. The name of Lakeport was changed aback to ;;cCall. `.,hen the name McCall was painted up .'n the new depot, Dad McCall Is' heart was rejoicing. He had saved his town and his pride. For a long time range wars raged in the district, even after the coming . of the railroad. The sheep and cattlemen tried to keep the settlers out after the: homesteaders be. an taking; up the land, and the homesteaders tried to keep the sheep and cattle out. Each spring armed settlers - warded the bridges and for,is. Sheep and cattle Bien retaliated. Stern armed men watched the crossing at y Smiths terry, and turned back the sheep and cattle. Several of the homesteadersgwerF x murdered. Thirty -seven head of cattle were found sliot to death. Later 67 more , cattle were shot. The war continued until the forest service took over management r 'of the range. , r Founders of " "cCall Live To See Brisk City Built On Lumbering, Hines; And i ,�Tinter And Sumner Tourist Trade Y Thomas McCall was never a rich man. He lived simply iinti 1 the last d_ays_of his life. Through all the years Louisa '_mcCall was the inspiration of her family_ a s Y friends. She worked hard, and she florified in her strength. Sorrow came to her. rnen her youngest son, Ted, died. She met her grief with the hizh courage that she ,ore like a shield. She was a true pioneer woman; her task to Delp care for the +� ick and needy, to assist at births and deaths. Hungry Travelers hided She shirked nothing in her long life. rx one in m-ed i -,,as ever turned L.way - w roar, her door. ._ ea-ry and hungry homesteaders were greeted with a hearty welcome and ori.th a K . rompt invitation to a good hot meal beside the McCalls ' leaping; fires. Many a ' eary traveler, half forzen and earl: gusted from the long ''mush" over the snoiry mountains r rd valley, stopped at the McCall home for rest and food. Then rested, fed the heered, he 'went his bray strengthened and with a. great new hope in his heart. "Tla'�, Dad tiroild say so many times, "there t s a poor devil outside. I know e's broke and hungry. I guess weld better ask him in for a bite to eat anyway, on't you think ?" k Long Christmas Treat r '.hy, of course, Dad. Bring, him right in. There is plenty left from . 1 i=,.r, and it wont take but a minute to make him a 7ood cup of coffee." One Lon7 valley fannily whom the 1IcCalls learned were in actual want were � k nvited to a Christmas dinner at the McCall horse. At the McCall family's insistency x heir visit lengthened until spring, for Dad and Ila I cCall knew that near starvation v aces that family ha' they returned to their cold and lonely homestead far down he snowy Long valley. The snow lingered that year until on 'Mlay 1 it was four eet deep on the level. „ • Some one once asked Louis:- acCall, 'But were you of very lonely all those +� ears? Warr up there in all th t snotia, so far away! It 7,ust h zre been just aw *fuls" 't!fhy no, of course not. I h_ i mfr fare y with me. Dedides there was always j c. the lake and the mountains, the r-ra.nd. trees any: the sunshine. And when I dot a little discouraged, I used to walk out to a place just above the lake and loot: across, ' hat rlorious beauty that was all I needed," she answered c!t,i etl Tr. I ■ _ L. Both cCalls Live Long Louisa 1cCall was old., well cast the -,Pan of 1_ivinr. for most Women. hour?h she still carried on with her old s irit she was n- arinF, the end of her life. };e gave ':inners for friends and her fla il;;T. Those who lotted her most like to think f her as she bustled about getting dinner in he cheerfii_l tray irearin'r,, her usual p rhite apron over her best dress. . The infi.rrity of age was never hers until_ he r last il_lncss, and then one r ;venin!, she ci ietly died at the age of 85. Unt-? 1 his last fillness, Thomas McCall took an acti-r^ inter st in politics. t ?e was a strort De- - -ocrat and loyal to h ".s party until the last. Cn ^l(�ction '.ay, ,e and his wi le alt•.ays dressed in their best anJ vrent to the polls. y But he, too, ��as olc'.. He had lived a long; time - and until the a;r of h' s death he rlude p =lans for his beloved for =m. And two years after the death of his -ire he died _t the al,-e of 87. Morlern Zest A,?,ded Co it was the town of icCall trot its start - a long slow and most painful process. Long- y °ars of planni_n(• and uaitin: -- before the town took its ?lace as the, best business torn in the state for its size. Gradually the old pioneer buildings' are being replaced by new and modern structures. Only recently a roo--dly part of Bain street had its face .lifted, t -rith an attractive coat of stucco covering :,ost OIL the olc?.er build.inIcs, and a new cement walk replacing the ol:'., perilous board walk. . But so many people complained at the modernity - they loved the old R ,pioneer builIi. ;rs, the ric'.cety side-:vai' <:r1d the sraxit of the old a ;est s « 1 r _r F r t r tt r S R hat lingered in the to,-Th. t From all n�.rts of the country come men and wo;,en seeking amusement and r ealth at Pa-r e tte lakes. At the height of the summer season streets are fil-ed with he holi'ay crowd enjoying the novelty of the frontier tmm.. Last summer during f he filmin,r, of the "Northvrest Passarre," 1 cCa_ll was one of the most active and nterestinrr tocros in the country. .' r Indians RRoam Again Like a dIr-.,ai-: i of the cove-,ed ,rar on c'.ays, . we sc.t,T hundreds of in dians and .� he rugged Rorxers ]- angers in their rrooc? sman k earls and costumes striding-, along, brushy- t_ .ng elbows with the great and the near -great in the ;movie and the financial world, 'S rhile do,m the streets qvl=; pack outfits hewc�.ed for the mountains, th,lt horses shying fi l; :t the trucks and cars, leaving; for some isolated sheep camp- or mining carp, or a ,a.cker taking sup, lies to a. Forest service can.p. ` It was an intern,in ;link of the i::o:Lern and the _,ioneer. 'No Depression' ; r '"hen snow storms beat about the mountains until the sno,•r is four feet deep,. skiers come from almost every town in the.state to ri-e the high mountain slopes , - 1.;n ter s ports upon the excellent _ own the wil �., trackless, steep r ra.des or en_ courses near town. Forty -three thousand skiers used the ski lift at the lodge M last season. r: McCall has become an important shipping point for products of the forest i ' nd :7111. Sheep and cattle trains, special trains leave daily for the markets of* L he world load&d with fresh peas, carrots and other vegetables. Approximately 1500 cars of freight were handled at the freight depot in T icCall bo:��ts thatshe had, "no ,deppession. Thomas McCall and his wife lie upon the hillside in the cemetery overlooking j r 1 The Idaho Statesman 12/17/1939 Tall Grass, Thick Timber Lure McCalls Founders Of Town On Lake Stake Claim 50 Years Ago Father And Son Show Little Enthusiasm For Mines; Tom Sticks To Agriculture, And Follows Rough Road To Long Valley By ENNIS McCall Almost 50 years ago Thomas McCall and his son, Homer, stepped from the coach of the Idaho Central railroad and looked down upon Boise valley and the city of Boise. The two men had been dismayed by the endless miles of wild desert land and sage brush, long - legged, lean jackrabbits °and hungry slinking coyotes, through which they had passed for days. The• barren, eternal waste land with hardly a house in sight ap- palled them by its utter lonliness and desolation. They had changed trains at Nampa, and after a long wait they took the Idaho Central to Boise. This branch line had been only re- cently completed from Nampa to Boise by a company organized by James A. McGee of Nampa. One Cabin at Bunter At Nampa there were only a few houses set amidst a veritable sea' of grey sagebrush; and at Hunter. (now Meriidan) they saw only one very lonely little house lost in miles and miles of sage brush. All the rest of the way to Boise was acres and acres of sage brush, and, still more loping rabbits and coyotes. So it was with delight that they saw the little town of Boise nes- tling among the green trees ,and fields, while the Boise river wound its way down the wide valley; and the mountains rose above the city, their summits snow crowned. Alexander on Satl:e Train The depot was on the bench then, and the two McCall men rode into town in a hack and reg- istered at the famous old Overland hotel. And with them was a slen. der young Jew whom they had met on -,fie train coming west. He was a most friendly and kind- ly young "man'" and ' they took a great liking to him on the tedious trip. His name was Moses Alex- ander. He had come west to re- gain his fortune —and he told the McCalls of his ambition in the west. Moses Alexander rose to be gov- ernor of Idaho, and built up a business in Boise and left a beau- tiful building as a monument. to his industry and success. Mines Fail to Attract The McCalls found Boise a bustling little frontier town. As they, lounged about the Overland hotel, they listened to the stories of miners, stockmen and others as they told of the great new strikes in the Boise Basin, Silver City, Warren and other booming min w ing carps of Idaho and the West. But the McCall men were 'more interested in the cattle business for neither knew anything about mining. Homer McCall was in poor health, and.his father had brought his son to Idaho with the hope that the change of climate might benefit. 'You Otta see The Grass' One day they heard a group of men talking of the great new country to the north. A tall and lanky young trapper dressed in overalls and a new shirt • and wearing a wide- brimmed western hat; was speaking, his dark eyes glowing with enthusiasm as he spoke.. "I think the Long Valley county is the future cattle coun- try. You just otta see the grass and• the fine range up there. Bunch grass belly deep to a horse. And talk about hunting and fish- ing —why a man can just natural- ly live off the country if he has some bacon, flour and a few beans," he stopped for breath amid a rapid fire of questions. "Then there are simply miles and miles of the finest timber that I ever saw — huge yellow pines and firs —acres and acres of them, And there is hardly a house in the entire valley. That country sure has a big future, I'm thinkin'." "How about the winters ?" asked a listener. L 'Lake Full of Fish' "I don't know much about them yet," was the reply, "but I can tell you more this time next year. I three men drove to the Marsh and Ireton ranch. The ranch looked like paradise after the long dusty drive over rough mountain roads -a paradise of soft green alfalfa fields and the quiet, cool shade of trees. The Marsh and .Ireton ranch was one of the most famous of those days. ' It was a well known ! stopping place for miners, pros - pectors, freighters and other trav- elers. There at night' one found igreat'freight wagons, the horses ,resting and feeding after the hard :pull. Long strings of pack horses and little gray burros and mules fed in the big barns, or on the :lush grasses of the ranch. Family Comes West At night the men lounged about !the leaping campfires, smoking and swapping yarns about the great frontier country. Today,' the little town of Montour is built: upon the site of the old Marsh and Ireton ranch. Later, Thomas McCall sent for his wife and family. His wife, :Louisa, his sons Ben, Dawson and Ted, joined him at.the ranch. Lat- er, his daughter, Flora, came --ands still later, the eldest son, Will, joined the family. Homer's' health had not im - proved by the change as they had, hoped. He died. The family buried him not far from the ranch. The McCall family had listened to other accounts of the beauty of the Payette lakes and the Long Valley country. They decided that they would move into that coun- try with the idea of locating per- manently. That summer and fall, the moth -! er canned fruit and dried corn and vegetables and fruit, and made other preparations for the trip. And the men bought two good teams, wagons and harness —and about 25 head of cattle. Ben Mc- Call continued working on the l ranch until spring. Mountain Roads Fierce j At last the wagons were loaded and the horses hitched. The boys started ahead driving the cattle.' There were no smooth oiled highways, no high- powered, shin- ing cars then. The roads were aw- ful, especially in the early spring —mud holes where the wagon wheels sank to the very hubs and even the horses often lost their footing and floundered helplessly in the deep mire. The grades were steep, slippery and the roads rutted and very rocky. The road - makers of those days were care- less in their engineering — there was little public money to spend. The idea'of a road was decidedly sketchy. Just so a fellow could get over a road somehow was the general idea. But with all the hard and rough going .there was little risk.to life and limb in the mode of travel —one nearly always arrived at the destination safe and sound. . Rest At Squaw Creek The .two wagons moved slowly, the horses. - straining as they climbed' up the steep and narrow grades. When they reached Squaw Creek summit, -they found 10 oth- er families camped there waiting !•lor the snow to melt before they proceeded. They were bound for -Long Valley and Payette lakes in search of ranches and homes. The party finally decided after a short conference that they would make the attempt at once; and the next morning very early the long wagon train started again. It was slow traveling at the best —and some days they were lucky if they made two miles; often l when they camped at night saw their campfires of the night be- fore still burning. Many times they were forced to stop and build• temporary bridges over swollen streams, or to build corduroys over muddy stretches before they even made an attempt at crossing. Every low place was a rushing stream of muddy water. It took two weeks of hard work by men and horses to make the trip from Squaw Creek summit until they rolled into Long Valley. GOWEN FIELD SUB BASE Idaho Statesman The McCalls Lived In This Cabin On Shores Of Payette Lakes ACREAGE ON PAYETTE LAKE, where the town of McCall now stands, was obtained by Thomas McCall in a trade for a team and wagon. The first winter was long and cold. Brighter days and the forerunner of the boom soon followed. (Picture property of Mrs. J. D. McCall. Statesman engraving) McCall Trades Team, Wagon For Acreage On Payette Lakes Where Vacation City Thrives Trip Up Valley Proves Tough On Chickens, And First Winter Kills All But One Cow, But Family Sticks To Homestead By ENNIS McCALL (This is the second of a series of articles on early settlement in Long Valley and Payette Lakes. Another will appear next week.) As they traveled through Long valley, they thought there was no more beautiful valley in all the world as it lay smiling in the spring sunshine. The grass grew lush and green and meadow larks, robins and the lovely blue birds gave them a glad welcome. The entire valley was ablaze with wild flowers, while snow-capped mountains rose upon each side of the valley-- their sides heavily timbered with a virgin stand of yellow pine and firs. But their troubles were not over. There was still Gold Fork and Lake Fork to cross. At Gold Fork some one had built a log bridge and they crossed the rick- ety bridge in safety, although the water was running over the bridge as they crossed. Wet Chickens Survive Hearts sank when the party reached Lake Fork. The stream was very high —the water rushing Past in fury. They arrived at the raging stream late in the after- noon. Some of the party decided to wait until morning with the hope that the water might fall dur- ing. the night. But the McCalls decided to attempt the crossing that evening. They plunged into the stream, and the plucky horses, swimming gallantly, drew the wagon across and lunged up the steep incline to the safety of level ground. The McCalls proceeded to unpack the sodden contents of their wagons and dry out. They had brought along a crate of chickens, and each time they crossed a stream the poor fowls were found apparently dead from drowning, but upon being turned upside down and shaken violently they gasped for a while —then decided to live awhile longer — at least until the next stream was crossed. It was nec- essary to give the chickens first aid many times during the trip. And later the McCall family de- cided the reason the progeny of those chickens were so healthy and lived such long lives was be- cause they were descendants of those pioneer chickens that had survived all that water and drown- ing. They were tough birds. Huston's Miss Ford Early the next morning real trouble began when the other members of the party attempted to cross. Lake Fork was some- what lower but still dangerously high. Some of the wagons crossed in safety, but when the Huston wagon drove into the swift cur- rent and started to cross, it missed the ford, and the swift current up- set the wagon, throwing Judge Huston, his wife and son and daughter -in -law into the stream. Luckily there was a heavy growth of willows along the banks, and as the screaming women were swept down the river to what seemed certain death, they grabbed: the willows and hung on. Supplies Divided In the meantime, Ben and Thomas McCall had sprung upon the leaders of their team, and turned the horses into the river. Swimming down they rescued the half drowned and exhausted wom- en. The two men had swum ashore, and other members of the party swam in and cut loose the half- drowned horses from the wagon. All the Huston supplies were lost, and it took sometime to tow the submerged wagon to land. The other members of the party whacked up, sharing their supplies and clothing with the unfortunate family. On the first day of June, they drove to the shores of the Pay - ette lakes and made camp. All members of the wagon train but the McCalls had decided by that time that there was better land and more opportunity back down the valley or in other countries. When they stopped that evening all the wagons were turned south- ward— facing Long Valley—all save the two McCall wagons —and thyy faced the glory of Payette La es. Louisa McCall was 50 years old and her husband was 51. She had borne 10 children —five of whom were dead. She had been raised upon an Ohio farm, as had her husband. She had learned to sew and spin —and the hard work of a farm woman had always been her lot. And that June evening the i McCall family owned nothing in the world but the two teams and wagons, a small amount of cash and their few household posses- sions they had brought with them in the two wagons, and the 25 head of cattle that had survived the trip. Lake Renews Hope And during that long ride as the great lumbering wagon jolted along, Louisa McCall sat beside her tali husband with a great hope in her heart that there in this mag- nificent wild country her family' might find health and happiness, and regain their shattered fortune. She and her. husband were . nc;., longer young. They had known bitter sorrow and the sharp sting of defeat. Here was their last (chance. When she walked down to the lake shore that long ago spring evening, she saw the beautiful lake lying serene and so lovely — its surface reflecting the sunset upon the mountains, the forests, the snowy beaches and the moun- tains. She decided that here they would make their home —here they might find security, health and happiness. As the sun sank, she thought the had found the real Utopia. The wagon train wheeled away next morning. "Well, Tom," Mr. Warner said, as they shook hands. "We'll be seein' you back down the Valley where I am going to locate. It's a lot better cattle country down there. Be sure and stop when you ground., The two younger boys come down our way." Mr. Warner tamed a bear cub. Taught hinu all and his family settled on a home- sorts of comical tricks. They Karl stead near where the present town a tame deer, too. Swimming, was of Cascade now stands. During the at their very. door. They learned Thunder Mountain excitement to web and ski when the snow their ranch became Thunder City. tamer pline they grew older they ran Martin Warner, a son, still resides the re' gio nes ey _,00 rich : e ex- at region. They _oon became ex- at the ranch. pert skiers, shooting down the Trade Means Land. steep mountain slopes with wild The McCalls first thought of fil- whoops of joy - ing on the land upon the eastern Winter Comes Quickly shore of the lake, now known as There was much work to be the "race track," until they talked done upon the McCall homestead. to Sam Devers who had a squat- They plowed and cleared the land ter's right to his 160. of brush and timber, planting "I hear you're looking for some tame grasses, clover and timothy land, McCall. I'll sell you mine— for hay for their cattle. Barns all my rights," he said. were built of logs and the fences "How much ?" McCall asked and corrals were made of poles quickly. and logs. "I'll tell you what I'll do. Let The snow came early that year, ,'te have 'tnal, team, harness and and by Thanksgiving the trails wagon and I'll turn over my rights to you." and roads were choked with snow, "Sam Devers eyed McCall's best piling up until it was six feet deep team with speculative eye as he on the level- But their cabin was warm and pleasant. The garden made the offer. "All right. It's a deal," Thomas hard one, but no one minded until McCall answered. The deal 1,vas they ran out of flour, and they had made. This was the beginning of to hand sled more from Meadows. McCall. In March they had the heart - Sam Devers had built a cabin— breaking experience of watching a well built and comfortable build - their cattle die one by one, until, ing. After Mrs. McCall and her when spring came, they had only sons had scrubbed, cleaned and one cow left. scoured inside and out, they There was little money in the moved in. Later they built an addi- country. In winter the men and tion to the cabin —and still later boys carried mail upon their backs another addition. on skis and webs for the govern- The cabin was located near ment. When the boys, Faws, was where the Sackerman service sta -, only, 16 he carried the mail from tion now stands. Van Wyck to McCall. Ben McCall It was no time before there was carried mail from Meadows to a garden planted from seeds they Council for 42 days and received had brought with them. And Mrs. $12 for the work. McCall had her hens setting. She.. Mr. and Mrs. Jake Stover, _who hung curtains at the window and homesteaded in Long Valley near put rag rugs upon the floor. And Roseberry, used to watch for the' soon the cabin became homelike young snail carrier. under her hands. She was a true "I used to watch for Daws with homemaker. his heavy pack of mail on his back Game Plentiful mushing through the snow and The men went hunting and the cold, just a speck in that big found game upon their own home- lonely valley," said Mrs. Stover. steads. They brought back all "When I saw him coming, I began sorts of game, deer, bear, grouse to get dinner for him. He used to and the two younger boys fished come in so tired and cold that I i to their. hearts content; and kept had to help him, off with his pack the table supplied with delicious and his coat. I used to feel so sorry lake trout and white fish. for the boy for he was so young Living was easy in the - summer. I for that hard trip." The cattle were soon rolling fat! McCalls built their first sawmill and ran upon the open range until', on the lake shore near where the the deep snow forced them to the Austin Goodman restaurant now feed ground. The McCalls hardest - stands. After the mill was in oper- ed the wild meadow hay for the ation, they put up several build - winter feeding. ings. The store• building recently Red fish ran that fall by the destroyed by fire, occupied by the millions. The water was red with Mary Anne bakery, and the hotel flashing bodies as they rushed up were constructed from that -first the river into the smaller streams was built after a company was or- to spawn. The fish were so ssy ganized, consisting of Thomas Me- to net— wagon loads of then: if Call, Newton Williams, C. W. they wished. They killed bear For Blackwell and Fred Green. Later the meat and for the fat and fur. they .sold to the Hoff interests. It was a boy's world— a regular When both the saw mill and the boy's paradise —a happy hunting flour mill were burned in the same fire Carl Brown and Theodore Hoff rebuilt a larger sawmill on the same site. This company oper- • ated for years until Carl Brown bought out the Hoff's interests. ! Brown and his son still operate McCALL, IDAHO THE HAPPY LANDING BUGLE DECEMBER 25, 1939 WANTED: Christmas Cheer For You! To whom it may concern: Merry Christmas Everyone! Happy New Year To All! Beth Laubaugh Personals 1. TONY the pooch welcomes all com- ers to Happy Landing, McCall, Idaho. USED SUITS and last year's dresses serve all purposes at Happy Landing. No notice taken of holes in socks. FUTURE FORETOLD —Tea leaves read, palmistry, fortunes by cards, psycho - analysis by an ex- pert. Address Bettina the Seer, McCall, Idaho for appointment. FREE LIBRARY privileges to all guests Happy Landing Lodge, Payette Lakes. _ WOOD CHOPPERS: Attention. Plenty of wood to cut. Dull axe furnished. No wages but free meals. Box 81, McCall, Idaho. _ WANTED: More automobiles to stop at the green house with the blue shutters near McCall, Idaho. ANYONE in need of advice phone 48 -w, McCall, Idaho. We give it away. _ PERSONAL —Are your discour- aged? Try the mountain air at Happy Landing, the rest will do you good. Visitors welcome, no admission. MONEY TO LOAN —We've heard tell of it but there's a catch some- where. Don't borrow. Visit Beth instead. Lost and Found 2. LOST —All cares and worries when you come to McCall. See B. L. for further information. LOST —One large juicy bone. Find- er please call Tony St. Bernard, McCall, Idaho. LOST OR LOANED —All irrita- tions and grouches. Finder can keep same. FOUND —Peace and good will in the village by the lake. Address Happy Landing chamber of com- merce for supply of same. FOUND —Time for living. We don't hurry. B. L., McCall. Real Estate 3. DEALER'S NOTICE — S e v e r a l choice lots at McCall still avail• able. Every one of them has the best view of the lake. Write B. Box 81. HOMEOWNERS —Are you tired of keeping up that house? Join the caravan to Payette Lakes, See us today. Beth and Tony Inc. W W Heck! Bo, Beth won't mind. She always sez, "Come as you are to Happy Landing." Pets 4. GUARANTEED singers; uncaged birds for your enjoyment. On the highway west of McCall. CHIPMUNKS, wild and tame, reg- istered breeds. Laubaugh Chip - munkery. Valley County. Amusements 5. CHILDREN, ATTENTION — Free swimming in summer, skiing in winter. Life saving St. Bernard on duty at all times. One -half mile west of McCall Hotel. CHINESE CHECKERS, tiddledy winks, solitaire, roulette. Open all hours. Bridge games by ap- pointment. Call Beth, McCall. Help Wanted, Male 6. MAN to earn free meals shoveling snow at Happy Landing. Bring shovel. Report 5 a. m. any day. Address Owner, H. L. JOBS always plentiful for willing workers on the lower forty of Laubaugh rancho fifty miles south of Warren, Idaho. Help Wanted, Female 7. COOKS, dish washers, cleaner up- pers. Must be temperate and willing to take orders. See Chief Cook at Mess Hall, Beth's Place, McCall. ANY woman who is willing to work can earn her way. Three meals a day except Sunday. No wages. Apply Box 81, McCall. Wanted 8. MORE automobiles to stop. Free radio programs every night. H.L. on the highway, 108 miles from Boise. FREE parking at Happy Landing. Picnic grounds open next year. Miscellaneous 9. NEWLY decorated room available to friends of owner. Address, Beth. LARGE assortment of entertain- ment at H.L. cabin. Stock market reports daily via K.I.D.O., sym- phony concert every Sunday by Ford, singing in the bathtub per- mitted. Piano, door chimes, dog howling. Bring your own mouth organ. No weekly rates. B. L., H.L., McCall. KLEAN KOAL awaits you. Earn a free meal by filling the stoker. 1234567890 Lake Shore Drive, McCall, Idaho. SALVAGED —All fur n i t u r e and books from 1307 N. 16th St., Boise, Idaho. May be seen at Happy Landing, McCall, Idaho. FATHER DIVINE: Attention! You and Roosevelt haven't got any- thing on us at Payette Lakes. Beth. DON'T HESITATE —Buy yourself a ticket today, see Beth and Mc- Call before it is too late.. WATCH REPAIRING —We take 'em apart but that's all. Refreshments 10. WATER, water everywhere. All you want to drink. Tap tender on duty at all times. Laubaugh Tav- ern. Chinese Remedies 11. CHOP SUEY, chop wood, chop chop. Sun Yet Beth, McCall. Cabinet Work 12. PLENTY of built -ins in this mod- ern lodge. No falling over furni- ture. Try Happy Landing. Once a customer, always a customer. Dancing 13. IF YOU WANT TO, you can. Bring your own partner. H.L., Box 81, McCall. Meals 14. HAM AND EGGS every Thursday. Thirty dollars a week never. No cover charge, phone 48 -w, Mc- Call for reservations. HOME PRIVILEGES —meals rec- ommended. Beth's House. Travel 15. PERSONALLY conducted tours. See the Holbrook, Driscoll, Dav- idson, Streeter, Day, Jones and Albert cabins. Peek in the win- dows, cut down the trees, pick the huckleberries, collect souven- iers from MGM location, catch all the fish in the lake, drown while swimming, get sunburned, fall in a snow bank, visit the Brown Lumber mill, swipe their lumber, visit the liquor store, swat the mosquitoes, get sand in your shoes, climb Old Nick, burn up the forest and come back the southern route past the famous Laubaugh properties where you may write your name in the guest book and receive a hearty welcome. •- Why hibernate, I've e just heard that the latch string is on the outside i at Happy Landing. Again we wish you a Merry Christmas and again we wish you a Happy New Year Beth and Tony, Owners Happy Landing, McCall Line Magnates Pass Up McCall and Name Station Lakeport; Settlers Protest and Finally Win; Range Wars Cause Killings (Editor's note: This is the third in a series of articles on early history of McCall.) By ENNIS McCALL The only postoffice in the north end of the valley was 12 miles south of McCall at Lardo. Fred Trow had a small store there, and he was postmaster for a number of years. Mr. Trow fi- nally decided to close out his store and leave the valley to locate in north Idaho. Like Bill Nye he wanted to get rid of the office be- fore he left the country but the Post Office department paid no at- tention to his pleas. He wrote innumerable letters to the department with no results. Finally in desperation, he boxed up the postoffice and hauled it over to Roseberry to Postmaster Boydstun (father of W. B. Boyd - stun) who was storekeeper and postmaster at Roseberry. Too Many Offices Mr. Boydstun stored the post- office wondering what to do with it. He certainly didn't need the thing for he already had a perfect- ly good postoffice. Finally he wrote a letter to Dad McCall and asked him if he was in the market. Dad McCall had been trying to get a postoffice for a long time without success. Here was his big chance. So he hitched up his trusty team to his wagon, and drove down . the valley to Rose - berry where he loaded the post- office. The department at Washington, upon learning the postoffice had departed north, immediately ap- pointed Thomas McCall as post- master. His salary was the can- cellation. Not a very profitable position at the best —but most sat - isfying. Evidently the department was, delighted in having the problem so easily solved. The name of the office remained Lardo. But that postoffice simply would not stay put, but kept right on gadding about. On The Trail Again A number of years passed with the office remaining peacefully, in the town, in the home of Dad Mc- Call. Then a few of the neighbor- ing rival settlements cast envious eyes. W. B. Boydstun decided that lie wanted the office moved down to his place just across the mouth of the river. After a short cam paign, he won out. The office was packed up and moved to his store near the bridge. All this time the office had retained the name Lar- do. The community at the bridge still bears the name of Lardo. The McCalis and the Finnish population decided about that time that they needed another post- office—having had the misfortune' of losing the other one; so they persuaded the postmaster at Elo- a small Finnish settlement down the valley —to move his store and postoffice to McCall. When Post- master Eloheimo moved his store and postoffice, McCall's town was named Elo. Changed Once More Sometime after the town was platted the name of the office was changed to McCall, and the post- office has rested securely in the town ever since. School Pupils Scarce The first school in McCall was taught by Flora McCall, the pretty blond daughter of Thomas McCall. The school was in a log cabin about where B. T. Johnson now resides, and the pupils were Billy, Dora and Lily Newman, Daws and Ted McCall. Later, they found that it was necessary that five pupils must re- side in the district. When the Newman family moved away there were not enough pupils to hold the district. That winter Billy New- man and Earl Shaw, both the young sons of Long Valley home- steaders were asked to live in the McCall home. /-,J3l139 The first homesteaders at th lakes were the Yorke family wh homesteaded the ranch now owner by the Blackwell dairy. Jew; Harp Jack Wyatt was homestead ing across the lake; and Willian Boydstun and his family took ul the land across the river. Alber Gaekel was homesteading the Ian( adjoining Ben McCall's on th( north. Ben McCall filed upon th( quarter section adjoining his fath, er upon the north. Louis Hea cock had the land to the west of Thomas McCall. Williams Open Store Edward McMahon was the first storekeeper in the town —he had his store in the building the Me- Calls had built some time before. Newton Williams and his wife arrived one day hunting a loca- tion. He had about $1500 in cash, and he started his store in the same building. "Well," he remarked the day he opened, "I am going to run this store until I make $50,000, then I Will retire. That's enough for any man.'.' They lived to see Mr. Wil. liams' prophecy fulfilled. Later they built a fine home along the lake shore —where Mrs. Williams still resides. Mr. Williams died a few years ago. Later C. W. Blackwell and his wife rented the hotel from Thomas McCall, and still later built a hotel'. and saloon just across the street. rro a" Dlafi Tr�nhlpcmm� -r11^ land his wife were known in the small town and on down Long Valley as Ma and Dad McCall to early settlers. When he platted his homestead,'I his real troubles began. Now when one plats a town he needs the wis. j dom of old Solomon and the far - sightedness of a Brigham Young. He should don a suit of armour, carry a meat ax and keep a sawed- off shotgun handy, for he will need them ail. He really needs a good lawyer, but he had better not have a lawyer for he would probably have the town site before long. When one plats a town. so many questions arise and so many mis- takes are made. Much Land Donated In the first place the owner of the townsite gave away so much of his land that there was little left to sell. McCall gave with a lavish hand. He gave an acre to the school, lots for business and home, for churches and other pub- lic buildings. And, of course, all the streets and alleys —and any- thing that would help build the town. The headquarters of the Idaho National Forest were at Meadows then. McCall had his eye on the headquarters for some time. He finally won out after paying all the expenses of moving the office to McCall. He had his son, Doss, build a. headquarters. He also paid the moving expenses of the supervisor and his family. The' building for the forest service isj now owned by the Freeman Drug store. The Idaho national forest proved an excellent investment to the town, and brought in a fine pay roll. Today McCall citizens are justly proud of the new office building recently completed. Freighters Thrive For a long time all supplies were freighted into the country from Boise and Weiser by six - and eight -horse wagons. Each year the residents of the towfi hitched up their teams to heavy wagons and freighted their sup- ! plies. It was the big event of the 'year when the empty wagons pulled into Boise and put up at the Walla Walla and Green Mead - ILle' vv U. I-- .uu. ... .. �-.. ... �.-- ow corrals. 1 Finally, the P. I. N. railroad was built as far as Evergreen. Then the traveler journeyed by stage; coach or their own buck board and wagons. The traveler who rode on the old stage coaches had a real thrill. The stages were picturesque, but most exhausting after a few days of bumping over bad roads. They had fine dashing horses. The driv- er sat proudly on the top —and how he loved to handle the reins! How he loved to dash into town with his lead horses on the gallop, cutting capers; draw up to the en- trance of the hotel with a flourish and a wild shriek of brakes, his leaders on their hind legs. The coming of the stage was a real event of the day at McCall. The railway was pushing its way north. The Dewey interests and others had bought up land for new townsites all along the line. At Montour, Horseshoe Bend, Cascade, Donnelly and Mc- Call. As the road was built slowly up the valley, the old timers who had struggled along for years try- ing to build up their towns and, had waited so patiently for the coming of the railroad, were furious and heartbroken when they saw the road pass them by to one side, and the new towns laid out. Insult To Injury Thomas McCall saw the same thing was happening to his be- loved town right before his eyes, but he seemed powerless to stop it. They passed up his town and went north, and laid out the depot site upon their own property. And to add insult to injury, they named the town Lakeport. r a /2- /? � 3 9 At Nampa another empire build- er was hard at work building a town. He had grubbed the town of Nampa out of the sagebrush. He had organized the ditch com- pany long before — the Phyllis Ditch — and he fiamed the ditch for his daughter, Phyllis. He had also organized the company that built the branch line from Nampa to Boise. In the course of his operations he met many of the railroad of- ficials of the U. P. system. One of his early acquaintances had risen to the vice presidency of the sys- tem. McGee's youngest daughter had married one of Thomas Mc- Call's sons. McGee Goes Into Action The McCall family watched the trains pull through their town with a growing fury. Finally J. A. McGee was sent for. He came up with blood in his eyes. He loved raged in the district, even after a good hard scrap, having a touch the coming of the railroad. The of Irish blood in him, and besides sheep and cattlemen tried to keep he had some old scores to settle. the settlers out after the home Petitions, letters, telegrams flew steaders. began taking up the land, back and forth —the wires .simply and the homesteaders tried to hummed —and at last, to their joy, keep the sheep and cattle out. they saw the vice president Cal- Each spring armed settlers guard - vin's car hooked onto the back of ed the bridges and fords Sheep the train one evening. Work was and cattle men retaliated. Stern, promptly stopped upon the new armed men watched the crossing depot and a different location at Smith's Ferry, and turned back chosen. The name of Lakeport was the sheep and cattle. .Several of changed back to McCall. When the the homesteaders were murdered. name McCall was painted upon Thirty -seven head of cattle were the new depot, Dad McCall's heart found shot to death. Later 67 more T-T. hn�l c.,.....9 hic r ttl. wt chnt Tien ....,.. ,,,,., PAGE C-- 24 - -THE STAR - NEWS -- WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1982 Fllolo CoortCSY of 6olSC NTttonai Forest. - Wooden sidewalks of early McCall became quite controversial. The men, we're told, wanted y ' s_. _... _.. _.. e . E They went. them to stay but the women whose heels stuck in the cracks, wanted them one. C, L r CGL /qyv McCall Man Celebrates 100th Birthday Despite Warning Against Chewin' Tobacco Henry Clark (Doc) McLean of But my hundred yea1:; are end - McCall, celebrated his 100th birth- ed and today, I'm looking back. d,:y anniversary January 11, at the ; I'm a book in history, all myself home of his daughter, Mrs. Chester . I Stephens. Friends called on him can dimly remember, when and partook of a huge birthday Texas Rangers rode the land; cake. When Santa Anna did his stuff but Uncle Doc, as he is better known, 'we took on the Rio Grands is hale and hearty, and gets around; When wagons treked "To Calif - unaided despite his 100 years. I ornia or Bust" When asked to what he attributes When some cried "Fifty- Four -Forty his Icing life, he said: I or Fight" "Oh, I just take things as they l When everybody sang" John Brown's come, just drift along with the cur- Body" rent,' and keep out of other And When Johnny Cozies Marching people's affairs. � Home Again. His wife, Ally Palmer McLean, When Lincoln died and sorrow cov- died in 1933. He said he quit ered all our land. "chawin' " tobacco for her sake. "claimed But, ` I saw my country grow from She it would be the year to year death of him." But he enjoys his tobacco now, and says it can't cut Come back a free and ha PPY land. too many years off Its life. I've heard of "Tariff and Free Mr. McLean was born in Lebanon, Trade" Ind., in 1840, drifted to Arkansas And all the "isms" under the sun in 1868, and then traversed I've seen the Wigs and Dcmncrats, the plains by ox team in 1886 to The Republicans and other sinners, Ind: an territory. He came to Idaho sometimes win, in 1896, following his trade as a And sometimes fall. BUT miller and .operated a flour mill at I've seen my country triumph over Grangeville '4or a number of years. I all Since the death of his wife in 1933 Grow g r e a t and greater he has made his home with his I every year, daughter, Mrs. Chester Stev- ! I` v e l i v e d O n e Hundred ens, here in McCall. I Years of Progress The fallowing lines was contri- S u c h a s f e w men have > Utc -d, in respect to this 100 year I seen before. Young Man II trust the neat 100 yearn will I'M A1d --I've lived a hundred years; bring to those nwho follow 41e j've seen, .much of lauAtpro sorrow, A time as interestl4t; V Miar Jos, uLd ft�ws: been. -Pa�'E ;'`(P LGr�� .`ter - C- j 9yL Dick Wallace Is Reactivated With 190th Squadron Mr. and Mrs. S. E.. Wallace and family drove to Boise Sunday to witness the mass mobilization cere- mony which converted the 190th fighter squadron of the Idaho na,. tional guard into regulars of -the air force. Their son, Dick; is a member of the squadron: The mobilization was accomp- lished before 2300 persons at the Boise high school gymnasium. The oath first was administered to the officers of the squadron and then to the men by Col. Jesse Auton, deputy director of operations for fighters; Strategic Air Command. Col. Auton welcomed the 190th into SAC of which Gen. Curtis Le- May is the commanding officer. Accompanying the Wallaces to the ceremony were Dick's grand- parents, F. H. Wallace of Donnelly and Mrs. Lesta Coonrod, and the Wallace's houseguest from Texas, Miss Grace Ann Martin. Est K'S C m mP , cl Y -t�1, rho "� L oS � and- u5�d �oY a �Ol Ti TrIP- & O W R (Gowen Field G.L's Play At Unique Rest Camp (, See Pictures, Page 1) Along the shore of Payette lakes is a .settlement unique in military annuls; it is the McCall rest camp, operated for personnel of Gowen field —for soldiers taking that "breath- er" from Army duties and military strain. During the first of June, 1944, ° _ -- -- -- the camp was opened to the men after an extensive program of re- habilitating the old grounds and buildings of the CCC camp. The mesa hall was given new equip- ment, antiquated plumbing was brought up to date, barracks cleaned out, an-d a permanent staff was sent up to take over. The project, sponsored by Gowen field special services, and especially under the encouragement of Ma- jor Edgar Dearing, special service officer, was greeted by the first restees that made the trek up to McCall and by every successive group. Go-en's rest camp is a 12- months -a -year proposition, with accent being on the changing sea- son, skiing, ice - skating and bob- sledding giving way to swimming, fishing and boating each in turn. Gowen G.I.s who want to take advantage of the camp merely no- tify the troop commander to be placed on orders to go to McCall. Transportation is furnished and upon arrival, restees are given beds and meals. Families of the men may go, and a nominal charge is made for the families' meals. WACs and nurses, too, have their own specially built quarters now. A post exchange is provided. Actually, it is a club room where gangs can congregate after a long strenuous day for cards or a friendly bit of shop -talk before dinner. Days go fast. Situated beside the lake there is a swimming dock, several rubber life rafts with sails, motors and row boats —and all for free. Pride of the camp at pres- ent is a 22 -foot Chris -Craft inboard runabout, just christened and do- nated to the' restees' pleasure. Fishing is great up there now, as Idahoans know, and equipment is supplied— except for the worms. The men dig these themselves. For those, who prefer dry land sports, there's horseback riding with horses available from severa stables nearby, and golf course aren't far either —the supply ser geant has the clubs. For gunner on a bus man's holiday, there ar several archery sets for them t test their expert aim —some of th targets have nothing but the cer ters punctured. And if the a corps wants a touch of the it fantry, there's a fine hiking .com try back in the lake and foothi areas —or, those less inclined ca sit back on the sandy beach r shaded lawns of the camp;, and ist the scenery across the lakik,, */ 6'r el 14 Rest C amp (A INN IA FIELD'S rest cast,? at McCall is 'tile'playgroutt+l For CA. "F and their families. At top left, Mrs. vVillian-t john son, rife )f the N( charge, shows finer poi archery to Second Lt. Fisher, Sgt. Charles and Second Lt. J. A. Ea On the clock, flight ( Charles Wermquist, Coi seph NlacAvov, Pfc. Geo Tielze, Pfc. Louis Cal and Pvt. Ralph E. Lee. the impressive enl Right, First Lt. L. F. S learns the art of casting Tech. Sgt. William Jo NCO' in charge. On hor., 11ight Officer and Mrs Daniels, Flight Offices limn Brennan, Sgt. Boyle and Flight Office cello C.asperini. Corp. Brozovich is about to r. I � ringer as Corp. Robert nell looks on. jz b < •z b q mm- „ .�.'+< y M.tw: . • / /6x'„ „ y s»o.gr ems' <�xu�.JOdv it ✓ N d ye� x 7nwt�r' . y y_ zy`Hx- a�`��.°ar 4i•9. � iif x as� � g .� s e v- < •z b � mm- „ .�.'+< y . • / /6x'„ „ y s»o.gr ems' <�xu�.JOdv it ✓ N d ye� x 7nwt�r' . F f �7 4 ��1a3 } P ✓,; x s 3 u. ..., 0 . „ .�.'+< y . • / /6x'„ „ y s»o.gr ems' <�xu�.JOdv 3 y ye� x 7nwt�r' . ✓,; x s 3 u. ..., x Milk., paq,- -,�, 1f 6 -�/ es d� Fq smarq - 1"5 % 3' McCall Hostesses Have Many Parties McCALL —Mrs. William Molony entertained the members of her bridge club at her home last Fri- day afternoon. Mrs. W. E. Cook held, high score. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Brown en- tertained at dinner at their home last Saturday evening. Guests were , Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Streeter and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Farrell. Mrs. J. E. Freeman and her house guest, Mrs. L. C. Northam of Weiser, left Wednesday for Spo- kane, Wash., where they will spend a week. They will be guests at the Davenport hotel during their visit. Mrs. David Eberhardt was com- plimented at a shower at the home of Mrs. Emmons Anders Wednes- day afternoon. Mrs. M. E. Hoff was hostess to the members of the Tau Delta study club at her home Tuesday afternoon. Mr, and Mrs. Orville Brooks of Twin Falls spent the week at the home of Nelle Tobias. Z,,,( e.5 � /l a2; i 95,1- — Lake Reflections -from the November, 1946 files of the Payette Lakes Star Donnelly school. The Don- nelly Ladies Aid sponsored a party for teachers, school board and patrons. Mr. and Mrs. B.B. McCall were honored on their 50th wedding anniversary by a dinner and reception given by their six children. Mr. McCall moved to the com- munity which bears his fam- ily name with his parents in 1888. Billye Jasper was married to Robert Tinsley and Hazel - dine Moore to Arthur Bollar. A girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. John Kangas and a boy to Mr. and Mrs. T.T. Robert- compiled by Mary Thurston The general election put into office the following: Henry Dworshak, U.S. Sen- ator; Compton I. White, Congressman; C.A. Rob- bins, Governor; Don S. Whitehead, Lt. Gov.; Ira H. Masters, Secretary of State; N.P. Nielson, Auditor; Rith G. Moon, Treasurer; Robert Ailshie, Attorney General; G.C. Sullivan, Supt. of Public Instruction; G.A. McDowell, Inspector of Mines. In Valley County, Carl Brown was elected state senator, F.H. Wallace, state representative; Eltinge Has- brouck and Ben F. Mahoney, county commissioners; Rob- ert E. Wilson, assessor; Forrest E. Robb, clerk and recorder; J.H. Mossman, sheriff; Fred Gardner, treasurer; W.D. Cromwell, probate judge; Doris K. Squire, supt. of public in- struction; C. Ben Martin, prosecuting attorney; and L.L. Titterington, coroner. The McCall Vandals lost to Council. Scorers were Don Hershberger, Mud Numbers and Boyd Barker. Cascade then won the Long Pin foot- ball championship. A full scale hot lunch program was started at the son. P ",277t� 2- Gt-Ic e s r And Gun Club Appoia ments Made For Coming Year Roy May, president of the Pay - ette -Lazes Rod & Gun Club, has made the follow'ng appointment'. of Club Directors and work commit- tees for 1947: Ddrectcrs: Fay JoC►ngon, Warren Brown and John Maithews. Membership Committee: Warren Can:,pbell, chairman; Bus ingebrelt- sen, Brad Carrey, Lloyd Nelson Raymond May, Ray Mende and., Lloyd Hague. Fish Program Committee: Jima Hockaday, chairman; John Upde- graph, Kenneth Johnson, Glen Burnside and Leonard Leitzkie. Fish planting Committee: Harold Vassar, chairman; Glen Burnside, Charles Nider, Jess Moore, Harr:r Brandit and Jack Hayes. &1,?-o1�`?y`7 Ladies Aid To Hold Flower Sales This Spring Flower sales, which are to be held several , times this _spring, was tjie chief' topic for discus- sion at the meeting of the Ladies Aid on Thursday, March 13. The work team headed by Mrs. Bruce announced that a sale of potted and flowering plants would be held the week preoeeding Easter Day. Later .a sale of garden ,plants including asters, phlox, petunias salvia, snapdragons and other flowers for planting, also shrubs will be held. Orders are being taken now so that ample sup- plies of all varieties can be had. The committee will also take or- ders for vegetable plants suitable for raising here. The meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Russel Brown and members responded to roll call with timely quotations. poems and bible verses. A report by Mrs. Kasper bold of the trip to Mountain Home to attend the Recogination Service for the Rev. George Dreier. Members werf reminded that greeting cards fO- all oeea8ionis can 'he obtained from Mrs. Kasper's committee. The program committee then presented Mrs. Brandt who read aeverai inspiring selections from F1'bert Hubbard's Scrap Book. This was followed by musical fe- quest numbers ,played on the ac- cordion by Mrs. Seetrie. The meetlmr ways nresid�ed over by Mrs. Grandy, the president and Mrs. Carnev acted as temoorary secretarv. Following the meeting' refreshments were served by Mrs Brown, Mrs. Embree and Mrs. Bruce. The next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Kasper. ll In..� � .�,' _-+^ -'t w`�` �' y f'- . �,C.• '�'1 is {I� � —"� _" pal Ir r{ -may-•- • �� aye- 4 �r .7 . � s ._. �' � •� � � u ', +_ � ZB }^ ° AW".-J:� 'ILA'~ i.�iU..•� —...� i F 1= 11Sho all,lda4,o Councilman Explains Problems Organization Files Three Candidates This last week a new organi- zation vvas formed in McCall to be known as the Committee for the Betterment of McCall. At the first meeting three candidates were chosen to run at the town election this month, for positions on the Board of Trustees. The riven chosen are S. W. Behlin, Harry Brandt and C. T. Stevens. According to a spokes - man for the dom¢nittee these men were chosen Because they are believed to think along the lines of most citizens and because they have only themselves to answer to as far as employment goes. , Their platform, the spokesman said, will be to give McCall a fire protection system, with wat- er in all sections of town, so that insurance rates will ,'be cut in half. They also want McCall streets, they said, put into a con- dition which will enable local people, as well as fire equipment, to travel there the year around. Consolidation of our schools also will be one of the main goals, the committee said, so that "local children will receive a higher type of education." . The spokesman also said that the candidates are all in favor and will demand, if elected, that all meetings of the town council be open to the taxpayers so that they will be able to attend and voice their views as to how their money will be spent. Me committee says that the support given by the citizens so far has been fine and that the organization plans on staying in existence (to quote): "for the benefit bf the community as a whole to see to it that everyone recieves his righful benefits to an equal share with those few who have a l r e a d y received theirs." / The fchowing resume' of activ- ities of the City Council has been handed the Payette Lakes Star for publication. It was prepared' by a councilman and endeavors to ex plain Council action on various problems with which that body \ was Paced during the last year. The communication follows: "Many people are now talking about the coming City of McCall election, and a review of some of the programs of the present City Council should at this time be brought to the attention of the vo ters and taxpayers. "First, the City Council ordered and received delivery on some four4nch pipe which was- to be used for the extension of the pres- ent water main to the golf course. It was decided after receiving this pipe that a four -inch main to the golf course would be inadequate because of the pressure head, so this pipe was delegated for use on the main to the airport. New six -inch pipe was then ordered al- ong with hydrants for the golf course extension. The hydrants have now arrived, and 'delivery on the pipe is expected sometime thin Spring, at which date the City Council intends to extend the golt course main. "Second, some misunderstand - ing has occured concerning the sidewalk to the Payette River bridge. The City Council is in favor of such a project, but the cost of installation will be paid for, by the property owners along the route, "Third, the sewer pump behind the Yacht Club has been found to be inadequate, and a certain am aunt of waste has been going into the lake. The City Council has ordered a new and larger pump for this location, and will install same when it arrives this spring. "Fourth, quite a lot of discussion has been evidv3nt concerning the merlts of water mains versus a fire truck. The fire underwriters have explained that if the various dead -end mains of the city water system are connected together, so that there its a complete circuit flow from elther direction, the in -' surance rates in McCall will be automatically reduced thirty -three and a third per cent. Compared to this is a reduction of only three Per cent which the purchase and maintenance of a new fire truck would effect. In view. of the ab- ove the City Council has ordered the necessary pipe and connections to modernize the city mains. The fire truck will havb to come later "In conclusion, the great num• her of worthy projects which var- ious interests have brought to the, attention of the City Council have been carefully weighed by it, and members of the council feel justi- fied in saying that the program they have followed throughout the last term in the spending of the taxpayers' money has been one of selecting the most needed- and worthy projects." seven File For Jobs On Council 1,' As was this paiper's prognosti- cation (a two-bit word) last week, the quiet and serenity of the forth- coming village election, was Just the quiet before the storm. Whereas last week but three candidattts for city council had filed to fill three vacancies, there are now seven candidates. The three who filed last week included Walt Jordan and Joe Kasper, both of whom are seeking re- election, and a newcomer to city politics, Wy- man Zachary. Mr. Zachary is a veteran of the recent World War and will undoubtedly receive the support' of a majority of veteran voters. The four men filing this week ,are George South, S. W. llehlin, Harry Brandt and C. T. Stevens. Mr. South, has filed at the urging of his many friends in this co•m- munty. The other three men are candidates sponsored by a newly formed organization which goes under the name of 'The Committee For the Betterment of McCall." And that isnt all—or so rumor has it. There may still be other candidates. Those desiring to make the race for councilman have until 12 days before the day of election in which to file, or until April 10. The interest being taken in the forthcoming election is. indicative of a healthy condition in civic af- far rs. Such a lively interest can not be anything but beneficial fin choos- ing carefuly those who,will direct the cityis government. The fcllowing resume' of activ- ities of the-City Council has been handed the Payette Lakes Star for pilblica,tion. It was prepared, by a councilman and endeavors to ex Councilman plain Council action on various Problems with which that body n Explains - was faced during the last year. The communioatioa follows: Probll.11ls ems "Many people are now talking about the coming City of McCall election, and a review File of some o1;1 the ,seven programs of the present City Council should at this time be brought to the For Jobs attention of the vo- ters and taxpayers. "First, the City Council ordered and On Council received delivery on some four -inldh 'pipe which was, to be Organization used for the extension of the pres- ent water main to the golf course. � As was this It was decided,,atter receiving this Paper's Files Three Pipe that a four -inch main to the (a two-bit word) last week, astw week, golf course rse would be inadequate the o quiet and serenity of the forth - + because od the pressure head, so this couiixig. village election, was juait ele i the quiet before the Candidates pipe was delegated for use on the mach to the airrt . Nev rpo storm. whereas last week but three candddaitts for city had six -inch pipe w4s then ordered al- council filed This last week a new organi- OIlg with hydrants for the golf to fill three vacancies, there are zation was formed in 'McCall to course extension. The hydrants have now arrived, - now seven candidates. Tae three filed last week included Walt be known as the Committee for McCall. At and delivery on the pipe is expected sometime or ToM and Joe Kasper, both of the Betterment of the first meeting three candidates this, s O Tim , at which date the Ctty whom are seeking re- election, and were chosen to run at the town Council intends to extimd the golf a newcomer to city politics, Wy- man Zachary. MT. election this month, for positions course main, "SeOOnd,' Zachary is a veteran of the recent World War on the Board of Trustees. -some Mlsunders�tand_ Ing has and will undoubtedly receive the The even chosen are S. W. oceured concerning the sidewalk to the support of a majority of veteran Dehlin, Harry Brandt and C. T. Payette River bridge. The voters. Stevens. Aocwding to a spokes- City Council is in favor of such The four men filing this week man for the Committee these a project, but the Cost of installation are Crecyrge South, S. W. Dehlnn, men were chosen because the will be paid D rty 'owners along Harry Brandt and C. T. Stevens. Mr. are believed to think along the the route South has filed at the urging lines of most citizens and because "Third the sewer pump behind o1 his many friends in this com- they have only themselves to ,the Yacht Club has been found to munitY• The other three men are answer to as far as employment be inadequate; and a certain am. candifttes sponsored by a newly formed gOeS• Their platform, the spokesman cunt of waste has been 'the lake, going into organization which goes under the name "The Committee said, will be to give McCall a The City Council has ordered a new and larger For the Betterment a nt of McCall." fire protection system, with wat- pump for this location, and will install And that 1snt ali—or so rumor er in all sections of town, so that same when it arrives this has it There may still be other insurance rates will -'be cut in spring. "Fourth, quite a lot of discussion candidates. Those desiring to half. They also want McCall has been evidbnt concerning the make the race for councilman have streets, they said, put into a con- dition which local merits of water mains versus a Hire truck. until 12 days before the day of election in Thicti to file, or until will enable ne fire underwriters April 10. people, as well as fire equipment, have explained tLat if the various The interest being taken in the to travel them the year around. �d-end, mains of the city water forthcoming election is, indicative Consolidation of our schools also system are connected together, so of a healthy condition in civic will be one of the main goals, the committee said, so that "local that thhere Is a complete circuit flow fTom, either direction, the in- at. fairs. Such a livelyantereet can not children will receive a higher suranee rates in McCall will be automatically be anything but bemePioiel in choos- inig carefuly those wh will direct type of education." ' reduced thirty -three the city's government. The spokesman also said that and a third per cent. Compared the candidates are all in favor, to this Is 'a reduction of only three and will demand, if elected, that per cent which the Purchase and all meetings of the town council maintenance of a new fire truck would effect. be open to the taxpayers so that In view. of the ab- ove the City Council has they will be able to attend. and ordered the necessary pipe and connections voice their views as to ho* their to modernize the city mains. The money will be spent fire truck will havb to come later The committee says that the support given by the citizens so "In conclusion, the great num. her of worthy protects which var- far has been fine and that the ious interests have brought to the organization plans on staying in attention of the City Council have existence (to quote): "for the been carefully weighed by it, and benefit of the community as a members of the council feel justi- whole to see to it that everyone redeves his righful benefits to fied in saying that the program they have followed throughbut the an equal share with those few last tefm in the spending X01 the who have a 1 r e ad y received taxpayers' money has been One of theirs." selecting the most needed and worthy Projects." tt® PAGE C-- 24 - -THE STAR - NEWS -- WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1982 t•notn courtesy of tfO1SC National Porrst. Wooden sidewalks of early McCall became quite controversial. The men, we're told, wanted them to stay but the women, whose heels stuck in the cracks, wanted them none. They went. Gcrcal McCall Man Celebrates 100th Birthday Despite Warning Against Chewin' Tobacco Henry Clark (Doc) McLean of I But my hundred Year:; are end - McCall, celebrated his 100th birth- ed and today, I'm looking back. d::y anniversary January 11, at the I'm a book in history, all myself home of his daughter, Mrs. Chester I Stephens. Friends called on can dimly remember, when remember, and partook of a huge birthday Texas Rangers rode the land; cake. when Santa Anna did his stuff but Uncle Doc, as he is better known, we took on the Rio Grands is hale and hearty, and gets around When wagons treked "To Calif - unaided despite his 100 years. ornia or Bust" When asked to what he attributes' "Then some cried "Fifty- Four -Forty his long life, he said: I or Fight" "Oh, I just take things as they ' When everybody sang" John Brown's come, just drift along with the cur - Body" rent,`, and keep out of other And When Johnny Cozies Marching I people's affairs." Home Again. His wife, Ally Palmer McLean, When Lincoln died and sorrow cov- died in 1933. He said he quit ered all our land. "chawin' " tobacco for her sake. She "claimed it would be the But, ` I saw my country grow from death of him." But he enjoys his year to year tobacco now, and says a can't cut Come back a free and ha happy land. too many years off h`s life. I've heard of "Tariff and Free Mr. McLean was born in Lebanon, Trade" Ind., in 1840, drifted to Arkansas And all the "isms" under the sun iu 1868, and then traversed I've seen the Wigs and D (-macrats, the plains by ox team in 1886 to The Republicans and other sinners, Indian territory. He came to Idaho sometimes win, in 1896, following his trade as a And sometimes fall. BUT miller and ,'operated a flour mill at I've seen my country triumph over Grangeville', >for a number of years. i all Since the death of his wife in 1933 Grow g r ea t a n d greater he has made his home with his I every year, daughter, Mrs. Chester Stev- I' v e l i v e d One Hundred ens, here in McCall. I Years of Progress The fallowing lines was contri- S u c h a s f e w men have Duted, in respect to this 100 year l seen before. ypura €' mnn T trust the na�t 100 years will I'm old --I've lived a hundred years; bring to those who follow me i`vo Seen ,much of lauAtor, sorraw, A time as interesti4j; ag =bW- 445 JoYS, 4�d f. dws: I biren: eI re- a Iq�oS BOND BUYER HOLD THE PHONE, please, while I sign up for bonds. Jayne Wallace, 25 -64, on the main switchboard. Sleepy Hollow Touch Lacking At Busy, Booming McCallz Biggest Dews Made by Fires Brown's Tie and Lumber Co. Mill, Block of Business Buildings, Burn; Shooting Scrape Causes Excitement McCALL (Special) —It has been a big year for the little town. While not all the happenings of the past year were exactly to be desired, they did furnish plenty of excitement. McCall seems definitely to lack that Sleepy Hollow `ouch. To the people of the town, 1940 will be remembered as the year of the fires. For they were real fires —fires that would have beenn -- devastating to a much larger town On June 16 Brown's Tie & Lunt New Summer Homes Built her Company sawmill burned, and Drawn also by the beauty of the with it a printing office, carpenter lake are the builders of summer shop, pool hall and private dwell- homes. Lake shore property ear ing. Whole Town Threatened So fierce was the fire that it seemed for a time the whole town might go, and because of that pos- sibility, families from nearby homes moved out with f ~antic haste, while mill workers fought desperately, hour after hour, _ to I save what they could from the path of the flames. - The second fire in August burned almost a full block of the town's main street. Reduced to an un sightly mass of debris werei the fine new bakery, a hotel, doctor's office rooms, a general store build- in,-, a motion picture hall and a small building.- The loss from the two -fires estimated at approximately $200,- 000. Movie Star Pays Visit Remembered more happily will be the February visit of Ilona Mas- sey, movie star. Miss Massey came up from Boise, where she had at- tended the premiere of the picture filmed largely at McCall, North- west Passage.' With the star were a group of friends. All were en -- thusiastic over the country and skiing facilities. Unfortu,ately, Miss Massey's visit was marred by an accident which occurred while the star and her friends, in the company of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Brown, whose guests_ they were during _their stay, were driving from McCall to Boise. Most seri- ously injured was Mrs. :3rown. News of the accident and the nar- row escape of the star was broad- cast over western radio stations throughout the day. The Massey party was not alone in its admiration of , McCall ' scen- ery. In July representatives of the Fox studio spent several weeks in this vicinity filming backgrounds for a new picture. Although the enterprise was small as compared to the previous summer when M. G. M. filmed "Northwest Pas- sage," it was important in that it seemed to portend wider recogni- tion of the country's scenic advan- tages. comes more valuable eac y and more difficult to buy. More pretentious homes are now being built, part of McC231's building boom. The boom ;really assumed size- able proportions last summer. The sparked increase in construction was due in part to the damage caused by fires but was largely a matter of structures being erected where none had stood before. Because of fire phobia, a few old buildings have been covered with a fireproof exterior. This seems wiser than the practice of the past few years of stuccoing . and remodeling fronts of buildings and ignoring their exteriors. That mode of transformation was looked upon with disfavor by a sheep- who had just returned to town. "Well, he drawled, "I see the old town. has put on ,a clean shirt over dirty underwear." Among new business buildings, the Hitchcock oil Company's sere: ice station is outstanding. The new Stockwell store is much larger and finer in every respect than the old. The new sawmill will be completed in the spring and will be larger and more modern than the one which burned. Resort Project Fails Much attention was drawn to a new project in the town, called the Donna Rae Resort Project. The enterprise was to have been a large one; it included the building of a hotel and numerous smaller units. Aft#r " the expenditure of about $60,000, "Al" Coons, owner and manager of the company,, was forced recently to abandon the project because of financial diffi- culties. Most of the work on the two underground stories of the hotel had been completed, as had been a group of tourist cabins. Failure of the building scheme was distressing, but not disas- trous, because of the prosperous condition of the town. It is be- lieved that a buyer for the project may be found who will complete the work. Boys Battle Cops September's big ' news from the standpoint of crime was the gun battle between officers and boy bandits. The officers, warned to be on the lookout for heavily armed Bandits, were met with a barrage of shots when they commanded the occupants of a parked car to sur- render. One boy, Kenneth Bagley, 17, was instantly killed and the other, Martin Gemmerig, 16, wounded. Both boys were from Spokane. Gemmerig is now in the reformatory at St. Anthony. Several weeks prior to the gun battle, a beer parlor was held up and robbed of several hundred dol- lars. The holdup was staged by Several youths dressed in bathing suits. The bathing suit bandits escaped; their novel disguise was apparently practical. Fishing, Hunting Good Fishing and hunting have been unusually good this year. Duck hunting in the vicinity proved superlatively good. While not such a boon to the butcher, many homes have had almost a steady supply of grouse, pheasants, venison, ducks and geese. One summer visi- tor said that with the exception of a single day, he had caught fish every day of the summer, close to his lake shore home. More virgin country will be opened up when the road now be- ing constructed joins the Lakefork road to Yellowpine. The construc- tion of the road is well advanced under . CCC labor and its comple- tion, will aid this distri f, and that of Yellowpine, materially. Celeirations Popular Every day of the summer is a gala day for McCall. The Fourth of July brings the most visitors. The streets are thronged with peo- ple, and hundreds enjoy the fishing in the lake and surrounding streams. The same is true on Labor Day; folks taking a last fling, that must do,, in many instances, for another year.. Although thousands swam and went boating in Payette Lake last summer, there were no drownings. However, early in February a CCC boy was drowned while skating. A companion was saved through the heroic efforts of three high school students. Forestry Camp Established A group of outside youths were welcomed to the town last sum - mer. The establishment of a sum - mer forestry school near Lakeview camp brought about 35 young men to the town. Plans are under way to make the summer camp, which was established as a unit of the University of Idaho, a permanent summer school of instruction. The camp is ideally located for ac- quainting the students with the practical phases and problems of forestry. The last weeks of the year were quiet. Public gatherings were ta- boo as the influenza epidemic struck the vicinity. Tumultuous 1940 is gone. What will the new year bring? Nothint McCall can't take. r 1 f NO- r .►c ��L f � v � 71 DID YOU Taken from "Payette Lakes Star" April 10 1947 Volumn XXX Number 17 Did you know that according to the best available early histori- cal records of McCall the following highlights are found: On May 27, 1889 a 114 wagon caravan arrived at the southern shore of the beautiful Payette Lake. The next morning all the wagons except the one belonging to Thomas McCall and family were headed south again in hopes of finding a place more to their fancy. The McCallo camped on the shore of the lake while deciding upon the land they wished to homestead. Prior to the arrival of the McCalls at Payette Lakes, the Sam Devers family had settled in the area and had built a small cabin on the shore of the lake in the locality which is now the center of town. They claimed "squatter!s fright's" to the land which is now McCall's main street and the eastern part of town. Devers sold his alleged rights and cabin for a team of horses, togother with harness and wagon and with his new possessions left Payette Lakes. The cabin built by Devers was later occupied by McCall who built an addition to it and this same building was later used as the McCall post office. Early historical records, however, disclose that the first post office in the McCall. area was situated at Lake Fork creek on Mud creek about one mile west of Spink and some six miles from what is now the town of :McCall. The post office was established in 1893 and named I.ardo after early settlers of that vicinity. This post office was later moved to the Thos. McCall hone with Mr. : "cCall was also the town's first mayor, built the first hotel and was connect- 72 ed with many civic enterprises. When the railroad was established in the area there was some controversy about the nacre of the town. The post office was named MbCa.11 while the railroad named. its station Lakeport. The town people after considerable effort secured the name of 'McCall for both. The establishment of school facilities was a great problem in McCall's early history due to the fact that the few settlers were scattered over so large an area together with the fact that actually there were not enough settlers to establish a school. As a result the York family and later the Heacock family held school in their homes. The building which is presently the McCall city hall was con- eructed by Arthur Rowland in 1910. Mr. Rowland gave his life in World War I. The vicinity around McCall was first placed under the Forest Sew ice when head_qua_,ters were situated at New Meadows, some 13 miles distant. In 1905 the forest reserve headquarters for the district were moved to McCall and this service, togetbLer with the operation of a logging and lumbering organization still owned by Carl Brown and known as :Brown's Tie and Lumber Co. comprise the town's principal source of employment and activity. The first nowspaper was known as the Long Valley Advocate and was established in 1904 by John R. Wallis. The early history of McCall reveals many interesting tales of great difficulty in providing a livelihood. Among them is the tale of an early settler who during that per1od did' not have sufficient money to pay his taxes rrli.ch were 913, The county seat was then at Idaho City some 140 miles distant. It is said that this man diove a cow to Idaho City and turned it over to the county assessor so that his taxes would not become delinquent. Since the date of these early records of McCall many chanjes and improvements have been brought about through the ingenuity and tireless efforts cf the many good citizens of the town. McCall is now on the thresholc. of greater and more momentous improvements which can only be brought about by the cooperation and far- sightedness of all citizens striving as a combined unit for the same ultimate objective. Let's all get tehind McCall and give it a lift in the proper direction. One of the best methods of achieving this "lift" is to keep a good clean mind and PRAISE our many heritages - -don't gripe.