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Fall Creek
Fall Creek is a short stream made up of a series of big cold springs in the area northward from The Fall Creek Ranch and empties into the Klamath River. About a mile or more up from its mouth there is a high fall where the water runs down over a bluffy hill side and that is why the stream was named Fall Creek.
Many years ago the Company now known as The California and Oregon Power Co., diverted most of the water of Fall Creek out in a ditch and piped it down the hill to there Fall Creek Power Plant which of course detours most of the water around the falls.
In early days before The California Department of Fish and Game went to playing around with the salmon there were lots of them run up as far as the falls during the month of October to spawn. Around forty and more years ago the stream was alive with salmon. At that time I can very well remember when "Indian Tom" was getting his salmon from Fall Creek. In those days there were enough salmon for every one and would still be if the people had of taken care of them, but in those days many people caught salmon with spears for fun and left them on the bank to rot. I can remember "Indian Tom" paying white man catchum salmon, no eat-um. The Indians had a good country full of fish and game and plenty of bunch grass, but most of the good things the Indians had is now about all gone. North of the falls, was in early days full of mountain trout, but they went the way of the salmon. No wonder there were lots of Indian camps along Fall Creek in early days, plenty of fish.