Redwood Highway origins from Crescent City to Grants Pass
The article traces early north coast transport, detailing Crescent City’s role from 1850s pack trains to the 1887 Gasquet Toll Road, tolls, and ferries, plus the 1897 telephone linkage, 1901 bicycle craze, and 1914 auto stages. It links these to the eventual completion of the Redwood Highway.
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California
San Francisco
Oregon Line
Eureka
Arcata
Trinidad
Crescent City
Humboldt
del Norte
Klamath Mountains
North Coast
Redding
Red Bluff
Ukiah
Humboldt County
Humboldt Bay Region
Grants Pass
Redwood Highway
Oregon
Siskiyou
Cold Spring Mountain Trail
Summit
Southern Pacific Railroad
Yreka
Southern Oregon
Josephine County
Winner Road
Cave Junction
Gasquet
Smith River Canyon
Gasquet Toll Road
Frank Bosch
Grants Pass Run
International Harvesters
Comptche Notes Include Fair Plans And Visits
Comptche Grange members resumed planning for the Ukiah Fair booth at the Chester McAuley home with a potluck. A Mendocino Rainbow Girls group toured San Rafael for Guide Dogs training demos. Various regional residents and visitors shared weekends, church services, and family visits across Comptche, Mendocino, Fort Bragg, and Ukiah.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comptche
Paul Mason
New Tribes
Bolivia
Earl Wells
Keene Summit
Comptche Grange
Chester McAuley
McAuley
Booth
Lena’ Meshishnek
Cochairman
Hugh Graham
Mendocino
Dianne Jackson
Melaniee Dyedick
Christine and
Karin Enochs
Compteche
Paul Sorter
Billy Kuny
Fritz Kuny
Missouri
Nancy
Piercy
Harold Perriman
Steven
Comptche Grange Hall
J. Daniel Lindstrom
Trinity Lutheran Church
Fort Bragg
Laura Lund
Palo Alto
Rudy Bischoff
Pasadena
Larry Spring
Docker Hill
Report Bodies Of Two Youths Sighted In Truck
A search party planned to investigate reports that bodies of two Southern California youths were seen in a red pickup truck at Laguna Seca Chapala in Baja California Mexico about 300 miles southeast of San Diego. Harold Dean Slaght 19 and Steven Bunch 17 left Canoga Park June 2 for La Paz. Parents were expected to go north of the site as radio operator P J Cutting reported air sightings by Mexican army pilots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Diego
UPI
Baja California
P. J. Cutting
Black Warrior Lagoon
Here
Cuting
You Know By United Press International Cattle Figures
The Hollywood chapter of the American Humane Association reports about 100 million cattle in the United States according to a survey. The figure reflects national livestock holdings and indicates the scale of cattle farming in the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press International
United States
Hollywood
The
American Humane Association
Gardening Notes and Social Visit Report
The almanac lists days to avoid planting and transplanting, with root days on the 24th and 25th and above ground vegetable days on the 26th through 28th. Weaning and castrating days run from the 19th through the 25th. Mrs. Myrtle Mecum of Chico visited the Charles Mantula home for the weekend after returning from Hawaii.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myrtle Mecum
Chico
Charles Mantula
Hawaii
Ukiah Daily Journal Masthead and publication details
The Ukiah Daily Journal lists B A Cober as president and publisher R F Gerber as vice president and advertising director and Geo Hunter as managing editor It is published daily except Saturdays Sundays and certain holidays at 164 East Standley Street Ukiah Mendocino County California It is entered as Second Class Matter April 23 1929 under the act of March 3 1879 and lists subscription rates by mail and carrier with monthly and annual figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ukiah Daily
B. A. Cober
R. F. Gerber
Geo. Hunter
Ukiah Daily Journal, Inc
East Standley St
Ukiah
Mendocino County
California
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S.F
May-Jung
Douttesy
J. ©. Womack
Daily Journal
North Fork
Smith
O’brien
Vanney
Rogue
Hippocrates
McDonald
Hopland
Mendicino County
Pacific Lumber Company
Scotia
Alton
Humboldt Standard
Elsa Thompson
Lucy Robbins
Lena Meshishnek
Edith Wilson
Kay Racey
Lompoc
Maryanna Mantula
Mary Giddens
H. D. Robbins
Art Hughes Jr
North Highlands
Art Hughes Sr
Sgt
Ronny Baker
McClellan Air Base
Sacramento
Dave Allen
Travis Air Base
Joseph Islehart
Margaret Allen
Docker
Tyne Cordeiro
Elsie Escola
James Rybloom
Iva Nystrom
Skip
Ryblooms
Harry Docker
Mathison
Mathisons
James Ryblooms
Archie Anderson
Albion
Nathaniel Newman
Vallejo
Newman Ranch
Ira Owens
Jenny Jones
Caspar
Signe Macdonald
Oakland
A. W. Smith
Roy Hasch
Bill Davis
Shasta
Earl Latham
Davis
Walter
Edwin A. Peterson
Lafayette
Norman Thompson
Carleton Dunn Jr
Rosemarie
Honolulu
James, Petersen
Alice Abernathy
Stanley Brown
Santa Clara
John Johnson
Future Farmers and
4-H Club
Voag
Bank of America
National Trust and Savings Association
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
U.S. Keds
Redettes
Curths
N. State
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