Hearn's Flat
Along the Klamath River about half way between Camp Creek and Brush Creek the hills on the west side of the river spread out away from the river in a quarter eirel_e to form a bar like place of about forty acres. The place was called. Elie's Camp long ago because Elie Clawson, a mountain man, camped there tor some time at the lower end of the flat near the river. Signs of the camp were still there when I was a boy.
As far back as I can remember Thomas J. Hearn and family lived there on the little ranch. During the nineteen twenties the ranch was sold to the California and Oregon Power Company. Since then the house and barn have been moved away. In recent years the place has been called Hearn's Flat.
Hearn first lived on the Brush Creek side of the hill north of the Beers Ranch, now called the Liskey Ranch. The place where he first lived was his homestead and I do not know how he acquired Hearn's Flat but it was probably part of his homestead.
He moved from his first location to the Flat made plans to build a water wheel to irrigate the place. He never did build the wheel but he did have an alfalfa patch on the Flat and raised enough hay to feed a few cattle and horses.
When I am going by Hearn's Flat I often think of the big long slim buckskin horse that I rode there one rainy day. He bucked me off on my first try but I stayed on his middle the second time around. Mrs. Nellie Hearn was frightened because she thought that I might get hurt but things like that were fum for me when it happened back in 1914.
George Wright descriptions