Oh, he did?
He didn’t have a car. He would walk from Merrill. But I’ve been so heavily occupied, and my wife’s health has not been all that great. I haven’t pursued this. But I’m going to talk to Doris again, and if she rejects it outright or if Gary can’t put something together I’m going to put something in the Klamath County Museum of it. I took a deduction on the pictures, and I cut about $60 off my income tax as a result of it. I gave that [for a memorial fund]. It’s in the historical society money, but I thought that would be a start toward a memorial for Judd. He had no children. It’s somewhat of a tragedy, the way his life turned out in dealing with Forest Service (10).
When did he die, in the 30’s?
No, he died after that. I knew him only slightly. Here’s a letter dated in 1939 from the University of California. He gave the University of California an awful lot of Indian artifacts. He was born in 1880, and came west later.
Did he live in Klamath Falls?
Yes. That’s his mining scale. These are some of the people he corresponded with in getting information together. He was really a big asset in the development. The Forest Service really wasn’t all that interested in making a park out of that, I don’t think.
Where was the Melhase place in the Wood River Valley? InSagebrush and Shakespeare, you talk about the Indian doctor and the Melhase place.
Hey, I got a picture of that Indian doctor in this last book that’s in print. Old Snipe and his wife. I don’t know where the Melhase place was. I suppose it was near the joining of the river up there somewhere, but I don’t have any idea. [Alfred] “Cap” Collier was the one that told me the story about Old Snipe.
