 Abel surveyed most of the roadbed for that section of rail and it was largely through the efforts of local farmers causing the marshland to be drained that the rail line between Teeter's Landing and Klamath Falls became possible.Abel Ady was a leader of and representative for the group that petitioned the U.S. Government to achieve the goal of draining the marshland.Indeed, to prove the feasibility of draining the marsh for farmland, Abel Ady provided for use as an experimental "farm" a section of marsh that he owned a short distance east of Teeter's Landing.