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May 18
Army road crews open a new road to the Rim to replace what had
been built in 1905. This route reaches Rim Village just east of
the present Employee Dorm and continues north to the Lodge,
veering west from there to begin the Rim Drive.
July 12
The “Mail Tribune” reports that the Hall Taxi Co. will run a
round trip to Crater Lake for $13.00. “This is exactly what the
trip costs”, says manager Court Hall. Other reports say that
that the driver, Seely Hall, charged $18. The taxi would leave
Medford at 8 a.m. in a custom-built 1911 Cadillac and stop at
Prospect for lunch, arriving at the Lake around 5 p.m. The
driver also carried milk, eggs, vegetables and mail to Crater
Lake Lodge.
Summer
A.C. Allen of Medford shoots the first successful motion picture
of Crater Lake. According to Allen, most motion picture
photographers of the day did not adjust for the high elevations
and because of this their exposures were off. The scenes Allen
shot of the Lake were included in a 30 minute promotional motion
picture, “Graces Visit To The Rogue River Valley”, which was
shown repeatedly at the Pan American Exposition in San
Francisco, 1914 - 1915.
September 21
“After we discovered the lake in 1853, we mounted our animals,
turned to the left, and rode past what is called Wizard Island
where there was no snow. I was riding in the lead when my mule
left the turf and got on the rocks. He flinched very visibly,
supposing his feet were tender, I jumped off to relieve him of
my weight, in doing so I stooped toward the ground, and I really
thought I could feel heat issuing from the surface, anyway I
called to the men say, “We were near Hell for I could feel the
heat”. Everyone in the party thought the same thing, but until
now I have never written about. J. W. Hillman, from a letter to
William Steel.
October
Twenty miles of new government roads finished in the Park.
October 2
The Medford M.T. reports that Seely Hall and William Steel make
a round trip to Crater Lake in only 17 hours.
1914 Season
An additional $75,000 was granted to the Park by Congress to be
used to get road construction underway.
Steel and his family lived in the Park during the summers and
eventually moved into a small log cabin located slightly to the
southeast of the present Headquarters building. The cabin was
torn down in 1934. The main road ran through the present parking
lot and in front of Steel’s house. The Rim Road was moved east
100 feet to its present location when the Headquarter building
was constructed. Steel would move to Medford during the winter
to a residence located across the street from the old Post
Office and Federal Building. The Steel family may have lived a
summer or two in one of the lower Stone Houses, when they were
first built.
Seth Bullis speeds to the Lake and back to Medford in the
amazing time of one day. Most wagons required 5 days. A new Fort
Klamath Road is built by the War Department. The East Road
Shelter cabin is built on Fort Creek. 2,000 Rainbows and 15,000
Brown Trout are liberated in Crater Lake.
A shelter cabin is built at Devil’s Backbone. “The Government
should acquire all hotels and lease the facilities.” (Steel)
Mr. Mark Daniels of San Francisco, who served as General
Superintendent of the NPS, 1913 to 1915, designed and wore what
was in all probability, the first regular Park Service Uniform.
Mark Daniels, part-time NPS landscape architect begins work on
the design for a new grand lodge to be placed on the Rim. In his
writings and description of the project, Daniels casually uses
the term “Rim Village” as the location of Parkhurst’s new grand
lodge.
Season Visitation: 7,056
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