In 1870 Maria Sutter, who lived on Paradise Mountain, has given Hell Hole its name. She looked down from her home at the top of the mountain and said of the canyon: “It’s good for nothing, and in the summer it’s hot as Hell!” A cattleman Wid Helm, called it “One hell of a hole to get cattle out of”.
Hellhole Canyon is located southeast of county road S-6, above the Rincon Grade, with its brush-covered hills and valleys. It was the spot Fred Bady, 52, chose to settle in 1906. Brady was of Irish heritage and worked half of each year on a cattle ranch in Del Mar. He lived at his cabin in Hell Hole for the rest of the year, because of residency and work requirements to claim his 160 acre homestead. Mr. Brady had married Anna Adams Kelly, who owned land and next to his land in Hell Hole, and he had four children by a previous marriage.
The couple had been steadily clearing brush from the land and from around the little wooden house that Mr. Brady had built there. They also had plans to plant an orchard of fruit trees on the homestead.
In February 1906, when Fred Brady returned to his home in Hell Hole Canyon, he found a big surprise. Howard Gore, a brute man in his forties, who hailed from Oklahoma, with his wife and an elderly man George P. Harris, had all moved into Brady’s house. They had brought many dogs and cats with them. Gore had a rifle, and Valley Center residents were aware that the he lived under trees and in abandoned houses for several months.
When Fred Brady told Howard Gore that he owned the house, and asked to leave, the intruder laughed in Brady’s face, and told him to leave. Brady went to Escondido, where he sought legal help from Justice of the Peace Ed Hatch. An eviction notice was issued and Brady went with Constable White Farmer to carry out the eviction order...
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28 сен 2024
