By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian Several families are traveling together in heavily laden wagons to take a multi-week camping trip to Kuffel Canyon near Little Bear Valley to escape the sizzling late-summer, early-fall days of 1905. The horse-drawn wagons are...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian Late summer and early fall are usually sizzling in the San Bernardino Valley with hot Santa Ana winds. In 1905, agriculture was the leading industry, so the crops grew and residents sweltered in the heat. Some wanted to...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian The Little Bear Reservoir project by the Arrowhead Reservoir and Power Company (A.R.&P.C.) was moving forward despite Hesperia, located on the northside of the mountains to where the water naturally flows, suing them,...
RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian The Little Bear Reservoir (Lake Arrowhead) dam project was restarted in 1902 after running out of money during the late 1890s. E.H. "Ted" Kellogg was hired by James Mooney as the new chief planning engineer. His ideas were...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian The Arrowhead Reservoir and Power Company (A.R.&P.C.) had the task of hauling hundreds of tons of cement and other construction materials to build the reinforced cement core wall for the Little Bear Valley dam to send...
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian The Arrowhead Reservoir Company (ARC) was funded by a Cincinnati syndicate headed by millionaires James Mooney and soap baron James Gamble of Proctor and Gamble in 1891. The ARC purchased 4,500 acres of land around Little Bear,...
