Anderson grade
The Anderson Grade was an early wagon road between Yreka and the Klamath River. It follows along on the west side of Black Mountain, and it's a pretty crooked road. It comes to the Klamath River at the Lucuc Ranch, where in that area there was a ferry. across the river.
The Anderson Grade was once owned by a man named Firm Anderson, Sr., and the ferry also, hence the name Anderson Grade and Anderson Ferry.
The road used in the early days before the railroad was built, by stage coaches and freight wagons and every other
kind of travel. The old road is still used some, but the ferry however, has been gone for years.
I rode over the Anderson Grade several times on horseback before the highway came along, and remember very well the four and six horse teams, with bells on their manes.
February 11, 1953
George Wright descriptions