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1. Rept. of Employees Connected with the Klamath River Reservation, Sept. 1, 1859, NA, RG 75, 01A, Ltrs. Recd., Calif. Supt. As of September 1, 1859, these positions were held by: physician, Dr. S. S. Welton; farmer, G. W. Terrill; blacksmith, J. Davison; interpreter, M. G. Tucker; overseer, Thomas Sherwood; and teacher, Mrs. N. L. Buell.

2. McDuffie to Greenwood, Sept. 30, 1859, NA, RG 75, 01A, Ltrs. Recd., Calif. Supt. A. B. Greenwood had replaced Denver as Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

3. Ibid.

4. Ibid. Of the land under cultivation, 33 acres were in potatoes, 75 in peas, 7 in carrots, and 18 in beets, cabbages, corn, melons and other garden vegetables.

5. Ibid.; Dreibelbis to Greenwood, Nov. 22, 1860, NA, RG 75, 01A, Ltrs. Recd., Calif. Supt.

6. McDuffie to Greenwood, Sept. 30, 1859, NA, RG 75, 01A, Ltrs. Recd., Calif. Supt.

7. Hoopes, Indian Affairs and Their Administration, pp. 67-68.

8. Dreibelbis to Greenwood, Nov. 22, 1860, NA, RG 75, 01A, Ltrs. Recd., Calif. Supt. George Terrill was promoted from overseer to supervisor by Dreibelbis.

9. Ibid.

10. Ibid.

11. Hanson to Dole, July 15, 1861, NA, RG 75, 01A, Ltrs. Recd., Calif. Supt. Hanson estimated the population of the Reservation at 1,800.

12. Buell to McDuffie, Aug. 1, 1860, NA, RG 75, 01A, Ltrs. Recd., Calif. Supt.

13. Rains to Hendricks, April 30, 1860, NA, RG 75, 01A, Ltrs. Recd., Calif. Supt. Hendricks had succeeded Greenwood as Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

14. Ibid.

15. Buell to McDuffie, Aug. 1, 1860, NA, RG 75, 01A, Ltrs. Recd., Calif. Supt.

16. Ibid.

17. Ibid.

18. Ibid.

19. Ibid.

20. Rains to Hendricks, April 30, 1860, NA, RG 75, 01A, Ltrs. Recd., Calif. Supt.

21. Hardcastle to Buell, April 26, 1860, NA, RG 75, 01A, Ltrs. Recd., Calif. Supt. The Indians left on Redwood Creek by Hardcastle had been supplied with rations to last for four to five days.

22. McBeth, Lower Klamath Country, p. 39.

23. Hanson to Wright, Dec. 31, 1861, and Hanson to Dole, Jan. 5, 1862, NA, RG 75, 01A, Ltrs. Recd., Calif. Supt.

24. Hanson to Dole, Feb. 14, 1862, NA, RG 75, 01A, Ltrs. Recd., Calif. Supt.

25. Rogers, "Early Military Posts of Del Norte County," California Historical Quarterly, 26, 3.

26. Hanson to Dole, Feb. 14, 1862, NA, RG 75, 01A, Ltrs. Recd., Calif. Supt.

27. Humboldt Times, "Jubilee Edition," Dec. 7, 1904.

28. Bledsoe, History of Del Norte County, p. 150.

29. Ibid., pp. 153-154.

30. McBeth, Lower Klamath Country, p. 47.

31. Petition, Citizens of Del Norte to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Jan. 1875, NA, RG 75, 01A, Ltrs. Recd., Calif. Supt.

32. Steele & Others to U.S. Senate, Jan. 1875, NA, RG 75, 01A, Ltrs. Recd., Calif. Supt.

33. Wilson to Parker, June 1, 1875, NA, RG 75, 01A, Ltrs. Recd., Calif. Supt.

34. Ibid. The settlements and number of houses in each were: Rekwoi, 15; Wetlkewali, 7; Ho'pau, 7; Sa'aiti 5; Erner, 4 including one ten miles up Blue Creek; Serper, 4; Wohkero, 10; Ko'otep, 7; and Pecwan, 19.

35. Ibid. Wilson found that small schooners could ascend the Klamath as far as Turwar Flat. He also delineated the redwood belt as extending from the mouth of the Klamath to Klamath Bluff.

36. Records of the Post Office Department, NA, RG 28, Records of Appointment of Postmasters. Tucker held the position of postmaster at Requa until March 6, 1882, when he was succeeded by Henry Albert. On January 10, 1883, the office was discontinued and transferred to Crescent City. Six weeks later, it was re-established with E. D. Smith as postmaster. The Requa Postoffice was again discontinued on June 28, 1883, and was not re-established until February 29, 1888, with Mary Ann Feheley as postmistress. It has been in continuous operation since that date.

37. Secretary of War to Secretary of the Interior, Sept. 6, 1877, NA, RG 75, 01A, Ltrs. Recd., Calif. Supt.

38. Bledsoe, History of Del Norte County, pp. 155-156.

39. Ibid., p. 156; Secretary of War to Secretary of the Interior, Sept. 6, 1877, NA, RG 75, 01A, Ltrs. Recd., Calif. Supt.

40. Bledsoe, History of Del Norte County, p. 150.

41. McCrary to Secretary of the Interior, Dec. 19 & 27, 1877, NA, RG 75, 01A, Ltrs. Recd., Calif. Supt.

42. Bledsoe, History of Del Norte County, pp. 150-151, 156.

43. McDowell to Adjutant General, Dec. 19, 1877, NA, RG 75, 01A, Ltrs. Recd., Calif. Supt.

44. Ibid., July 23, 1879, NA, RG 75, 01A, Ltrs. Recd., Calif. Supt.

45. Savage to Mizner, June 18, 1879, NA, RG 75, 01A, Ltrs. Recd. Calif. Supt.

46. Ibid.

47. Savage to Mizner, June 25, 1879, NA, RG 75, 01A, Ltrs. Recd., Calif. Supt. George Parker's house at Turwar was over a mile from the Klamath, but he had improvements between his residence and the river.

48. Savage to Mizner, July 2, 1879, NA, RG 75, 01A, Ltrs. Recd., Calif. Supt. Charles Wilson had reached Requa on June 27 and had been served an eviction notice. A measurement had disclosed that Ewing's dwelling was one mile and eight yards from the Klamath.

49. Savage to Mizner, June 25, 1879, NA, RG 75, 01A, Ltrs. Recd., Calif. Supt.

50. Mizner to Savage, July 2, 1879, NA, RG 75, 01A, Ltrs. Recd., Calif. Supt. Typical of the claims were those of Martin Van Buren Jones and Morgan Tucker. The former listed his abandoned property with its valuation: Building (45 x 25) $800; building (16 x 24) $375; building (16 x 20) $200; kitchen, smokehouse, storeroom, and woodshed $425; 35 tons of salt, $900; 1,400 half-barrels, $1,400; material for 500 half-barrels, $200; 1 seine, $300; 1 seine, $150; 6 gill nets, $300; 1 gill net, $125; 9 tanks $180; 1 set of cooper tools, $60; 1 sailboat, $50; 1 lighter $280; 1 plow, $25; 1 wagon, $75; household furniture, $100; 8 head of cattle, $800; 4 horses, $200; 1 pig, $10; 300 feet 1-inch pipe and 50 feet of hose, $100; 5 acres of fenced pasture; and a 1-acre garden. Tucker valued his property at: One building, 30-foot square, frame 1-1/2-story; one building (16 x 12); and stock in trading house, $500; 1 horse, $80; and a 1-acre garden.

51. Bledsoe, History of Del Norte County, pp. 157-160.

52. McBeth, Lower Klamath Country, p. 47.

53. Ibid.

54. Rept. of Secretary of the Interior, Nov. 1, 1886, found in U. S. House, Executive Documents, 49th Cong. 2d Sess., 8, 261.

55. Rept. of Secretary of the Interior for Fiscal Year 1887, found in U. S. House, Executive Documents, 50th Cong. 1st Sess. 11, 91. The Lower Klamath Reservation contained about 26,000 acres.

56. Ibid.

57. Ibid.; McBeth, Lower Klamath Country, p. 50.

58. Rpt. of Secretary of the Interior for Fiscal Year 1888, found in U. S. House, Executive Documents, 50th Cong. 2d Sess. 11, 10; McBeth, Lower Klamath Country, p. 50.

59. McBeth, Lower Klamath Country, p. 48; Rept. of Secretary of the Interior for Fiscal Year 1891, found in U. S. House, Executive Documents, 51st Cong. 2d Sess., 12, p. 252.

60. Rpt. of Secretary of the Interior for Fiscal Year 1891, found in ibid., p. 252.

61. Beers to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Aug. 15, 1892, found in U. S. House, Executive Documents, 52d Cong. 2d Sess., 13, 230.

62. Ibid.

63. Ibid.

64. Ibid.

65. McBeth, Lower Klamath Country, p. 48.

66. Rept. of Secretary of Interior for Fiscal Year 1892, found in U. S. House, Executive Documents, 52d Cong., 2d Sess., 13, pp. 710-711.

67. Del Norte Record, June 25, 1892.

68. Rpt. of Secretary of the Interior for Fiscal Year 1894, found in U. S. House, Executive Documents, 53d Cong., 2d Sess., 15, 117.

69. McBeth, Lower Klamath Country, p. 48.

70. Rept. of Secretary of the Interior for Fiscal Year 1896, U. S. House Executive Documents, 54th Cong., 2d Sess. 13, 125.

71. Rept. of Secretary of the Interior for Fiscal Year 1897, found in U. S. House, Executive Documents, 55th Cong., 2d Sess. 13, 116.

72. Rpt. of Secretary of the Interior for Fiscal Year 1896, House Executive Documents, 13, 125.

73. Rpt. of Secretary of the Interior for Fiscal Year 1894, House Executive Documents, 15, 117.

74. Rpt. of Secretary of the Interior for Fiscal Year 1895, found in U. S. House, Executive Documents, 54th Cong., 1st Sess. 15, 130.