North Cascades

SETTLEMENT PATTERNS IN THE NORTH CASCADES

CORRIDORS OF SETTLEMENT: STEHEKIN RIVER

McComb/Moagham

Above the Lesh and Bowan homesteads a miner and trapper named McComb built a log cabin about 1889, along the south side of the Stehekin River. [245] Some time before 1905 he built a second, larger cabin (14' x 24') nearby. The "McComb Place", located directly across the river from McGregor Flat, was later filed for homestead entry by James Moagham. Moagham applied for 160 acres in 1911, and arrived the next year with Frank Lesh to work as his bookkeeper. He later sold his claim and its improvements to a man named Byers who was also a mill employee. In turn, Byers sold the place to Hugh Courtney, who came uplake in the 1910s to work at Lesh's mill. [246]