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TOLD by the PIONEERS - Washington Secretary of State

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Told l,y <strong>the</strong> Pioneers<br />

we occupied, where horses were changed and fresh horses were used<br />

for <strong>the</strong> pull over Pumphrey ::\lountain. This was a very hard part <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> road, so <strong>the</strong>y only made nine miles to Pumphrey Hotel and store<br />

at Olequa.<br />

At this time William Jackson kept a tavern. Here <strong>the</strong> stage passengers<br />

had meals and stopped for <strong>the</strong> night. In <strong>the</strong> dining room was<br />

a long table which was spread just before meal time. On one occasion<br />

a large buck deer, a pet, jumped on <strong>the</strong> table and walked <strong>the</strong> entire<br />

length <strong>of</strong> it, jumping <strong>of</strong>f at last without ha,-illg broken a dish or disturbing<br />

anything. Deer were plentiful within a mile <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> settlement<br />

at that time.<br />

JIR8. WILL A. STEVEHF,Y<br />

Kittitas County<br />

Clo<strong>the</strong>s were wonderfully made in pioneer times. I remember a<br />

beautiful black dress, part silk and part wool. Mrs. Julian Thomas<br />

made it and charged $16.00. There was a basque, a polonais looped<br />

over a bustle, a train, and everything edged with knife pleating, done<br />

<strong>by</strong> Mrs. Thomas over a tin covered board with ridges in it. Not like<br />

a fluting iron, but on <strong>the</strong> same principal. There were yards <strong>of</strong> material<br />

and a mile <strong>of</strong> ruffling, but it was an elegant go"\\'Il.<br />

Shopping was done at The Dalles once a year. The four horse<br />

team starting <strong>of</strong>f for <strong>the</strong> trading' post, was <strong>the</strong> biggest event, as all<br />

<strong>the</strong> family went on <strong>the</strong> trip. Food and spices and grain, candy, tools,<br />

seeds, muslins and calicos for every da~r, and cashmere for <strong>the</strong> better<br />

dresses were among <strong>the</strong> purchases.<br />

lltJRS. 1l1ARILLA BARCLAY<br />

Cowlitz County<br />

We remained in Portland until 1854, when my fa<strong>the</strong>r, Alfred Washburne,<br />

took up a donation land claim near what is now Kelso. I was<br />

married <strong>the</strong>re shortly after my fifteenth birthday, to .Jolm Black,<br />

a native <strong>of</strong> Ireland, who had a farm near our place.<br />

My first ba<strong>by</strong> was born in Fort Smith in Cowlitz county, <strong>the</strong> fort<br />

having been built <strong>the</strong>re for protection from <strong>the</strong> Indians during <strong>the</strong><br />

war <strong>of</strong> 1855-56.<br />

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