From this enlarged version of the Pacific Hotel, D.W. Madden started the waterworks which eventually serviced much of the city of Tulare. [See water tower behind the hotel]. After the hotel burned in 1886, Madden started the water works for the city…
This is a crew cutting oak timber north of Tulare about 1904. The man in back dressed in a black suit is Thomas H. Thompson[early historian and map maker].