Saying for the Month of May 2013

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.

 

 

The Chiloquin area is roughly 540 square miles in south-central Oregon in the heart of Klamath County and is home to about 3800 people. The city of Chiloquin was incorporated in 1926, and in July of 2008 had a population of 720.

 

To the west of the Chiloquin area are the Cascade Mountains; to the east are primarily basin and range. The confluence of the Williamson and Sprague Rivers is in Chiloquin and there are numerous creeks, vast marshes and wetlands as well as Upper Klamath and Agency Lakes in the area. Residents and visitors alike enjoy the scenic beauty and wide variety of outdoor recreational opportunities of the area: camping, hiking, bird watching, boating, rodeos, world-class fly fishing, hunting and much more. Crater Lake National park is just a short distance north.

 

In its formative years in the 1920's and the 1930's Chiloquin was a rowdy little boomtown, often referred to as "Little Chicago". The closure of the lumber mills has changed Chiloquin to a quiet little town, but there exists in the area a population of forward-looking individuals who are working towards steady, controlled regeneration and the town is gaining respect among many in surrounding communities.

 

 

 

 

 

Food and lodging are available within walking distance from the airport.

 

Bring your fishing gear. We have "Trophy Trout" fishing within walking distance from the airport.

 

Fly-In's are welcome, however there are no tie downs available.

 

 

 

 

Chiloquin Care Program:
We have reopened the Food Pantry at the old Lions Building across from Kirchner's Hardware.
It serves the community from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm on the fourth Wednesday of each month.

 

 

Your help is greatly appreciated. Donations are tax-deductible. For information call Gary at 541-891-6168.

 

 

We provide ample free parking in downtown Chiloquin. It is within walking distance of most of our business and shopping locations.

 

Spend as much time downtown as you would like, there is no time limit on the free parking.

 

Take notice of the "Farm & Craft Market". It is open Friday from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM May thru October.

 

If you would like to be a vendor at the "Farm & Craft Market"
please feel free to download the application listed below
You simply fill it out and return it to city hall with the appropriate fee.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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These newsletters are provided courtesy of Joan Rowe for the benefit of the community.
E-Mail:  chiloquinnews@gmail.com

 

You can view all of the archived Chiloquin News documents.
Simply click on the link below.
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To the Klamath tribes Crater Lake was Giiwas - a sacred place - and the tribes did not tell early settlers and explorers about its existence. A group of miners from Jacksonville, Oregon, were the first Euro-Americans to view the Lake. The lake and the mountains around it were included in the Cascade Range Forest Reserve in 1893 and designated a national park by Theodore Roosevelt in 1902 in great part because of the efforts of William Gladstone Steel.

 

More information about Crater Lake can be found at: http://www.nps.gov

 

The Klamath name for the locality of Fort Klamath is Iukak, meaning "within" or "in the midst," and refers to a location close to or between mountains. With the country embroiled in the Civil War in the east, the regular army had been called back, leaving the west exposed to uprisings and internal strife. The Oregon State legislature asked the US Congress for additional military posts, including one at the Klamath Lakes, to protect settlers and to quell any uprisings from the divided loyalties of the citizens. Not only were there conflicts between settlers and Native peoples, but also there were Confederate sympathizers and those seeking to create a pacific republic loyal to neither the Union nor the Confederacy. Colonel C. S. Drew of the First Oregon Calvary was sent in 1862 to scout a location for an Army post. Drew surveyed the three recommended sites in the region and settled on one in the Wood River Valley north of Upper Klamath Lake because the location had abundant water, ample pasture for horses and livestock, and extensive pine forests for fuel and building materials. The selected site was also situated where the Oregon Central Military Road met the trail between the Rogue River Valley and the settled regions in Eastern Oregon. Troop C, First Oregon Cavalry, led by Captain William Kelley, moved into the area in the fall of 1863 and began building the fort. The Modoc War of 1872-1873 was the most significant event of the fort’s 27-year history. A Congressional order closed the fort in 1889, and the last troops marched out of the post in June 1890.

 

Enough settlers arrived in the Wood River Valley by 1888 for two adjoining landowners to donate two acres apiece for a school to be built one and a half miles northwest from Fort Klamath. Some 210 settlers were counted in the Wood River Valley in the Census of 1890. In 1894, the first store was built in the new town of Fort Klamath (although "store" quickly became shorthand for "saloon"). In 1896, a second store with a deed covenant prohibiting the sale of alcohol was opened. In 1902, the first plat survey for the new town was filed. By 1915, Fort Klamath was the third largest town in the county behind Klamath Falls and Merrill. As the trading center of the Wood River Valley during its early years, the town supported a cheese factory, a creamery, two garages, and a dozen or more mercantile establishments.

 

Sprague River was named for Captain F.B. Sprague, who was a participant in various phases of the Snake and Paiute Indian wars, and commanded at Fort Klamath in 1866. The Klamath Indian name for Sprague River is Plai, or Plaikni Koke. Koke is the general word for river, and plai indicated that the stream came from the upper or higher country. The town of Sprague River was laid out on the bank of its namesake, four miles southeast of the Yainax Sub Agency of the Klamath Indian Reservation. The town was established by Frank Mutto, subagency superintendent, and Benjamin E. Wolford, a Yainax storekeeper, during May 1923, the same year that the OC&E Railway arrived at that location. The first structure was Wolford's combination store and post office building, which was moved from Yainax. The first mill, located about a half-mile from town near the new OC&E Railroad terminus, was incorporated under the name of the Sprague River-White Pine Lumber Company and began operations in 1925.

 

 

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