Iron Gate
Tllere is a place along the Klamath River between Hearn's
Flat and the mouth of Brush Creek where the bluffs on both sides
of the river pinches in to the water's edge. Om the west side the wagon road has been cut through the rooks and on the east side the old Klamath Lake Railroad grade required a deep rock cut in order to pass along by the water's edge.
The place is called Iron Gate and I do not know hew or why it was named but if my memory is correct, and sometimes it is not, the place used to be known a.s Hell's Gate a. long time ago.
'The California and Oregon Power Company did some drilling and exploring there back about 1930. People at that time thought that they were getting ready to dam the river for electric power and maybe they will some day. It will probably become a reality if something does not come along to take the place of water power and that does not seem likely in the near future. We will wait and see.
George Wright descriptions