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Told by the Pioneers John McCarthy, one of the early miners, still plies his tools, as this is written, on Blewett, where steady effort and patience learned by years of seeking minerals, show results in a forty foot tunnel blasted into the mountain side above a turbulent stream. Red hair, turning slightly gray and untrimmed,. with his miner's cap perched jauntily on one side of his head and supporting his miner's lamp, John Mc Carth~· was the typical prospector, ever seeking and always hopeful. This pioneer was born in 1847 at Shapope, Minnesota, where he fished and swam, and later, worked between seasons until 1870, when he struek out for the 'Vest. He rode on the first engine to run into the Red River, Dakota, district. Mike Donahue was the engineer. John was taken ill with typhoid fever, and says he cured himself with "medicine out of a bottle." He recovered, and hopped a ride on a raft which landed him at Fort Gary, Canada. After a year there, he returned on one of the three new boats then navigating the Red River and "went to the Black Hills. Going down the Little Big Horn river in Montana in 1879, with three pals, he saw the Custer battlefield where General Custer and his gallant band had been massacred the year previous. Reaching the Black Hills, McCarthy contracted to build what he believes to have been the first stamp mill in the that region. He obtained a mining claim, and later sold it for $19,000. From here he went to Fort Keogh, now Miles City (named for General Nelson A. Miles), and for a time drove stage between this point and Bozeman. Weary of his occupation, he quit and spent three years hunting buffalo. He relates that as many as two t.housand buffalo hides would be stacked on the river banks waiting for transportation. When the railroad reached Missoula, John decided it was time to move on, and joined a party bound for Seattle, but he stopped off in ~llensburg. He relates that he built the first round house and other Northern Pacific buildings, then bought and built houses, offices and a planing· mill. The town burned on July 4, 1889, and his partially completed buildings were destroyed. He eonrted, won and lost his wife, and reconstructed the railroad buildings, and in 1890 he joined the first gold rush to Blewett Pass. Today he says he is still a victim of the gold fever. He helped build the Tom .Johnson stamp mill, which, with saloons and seven cabins, line one side of the road. The hotel, more saloons and six cabins on the opposite side of the road, compr~se the town, and in this ghostly old boom town of forty-odd years ago live J oim McCarthy and his second wife, still hopeful they will find a mother lode, or at least, a stray pocket of gold sufficient to a competence in their remaining years. 85
Told by the Pioneers E. J. DORIAN Okanogan Count.y In 1886 there was no deputy sheriff in Stevens county, which then embraced an area much greater than at the present time. Reports reached the office of Sheriff G. B. Ide of a cross trail which was being used for smuggling from British Columbia to the coast, through what is now Okanogan county. I was appointed deputy sheriff and worked occasionally with the county commissioners. At one time, acting on a tip that a smuggler had been seen, we climbed Ruby Monntain (seen from my dining room window) and captured him. ·While deputy sheriff I located on a claim next to a county commissioner . The reservation had not yet opened for settlement, so claims could not then be filed, so we merely "squatted." We marked our boundaries, and hoped no one wonld jump them. The day the reservation opened for entry, both the county commissioner and I were in Colville on county business. We rode night and day to get hack to our places in time to protect them, and even changed horses, hut the trip lasted four days and on our arrival we found others had gotten there first. These claims turned out to he the Ruby, Fourth of July, The First Thought and The Arlington. It was a dandy camp the early miners established. Five hundred people ·were working and a million was spent on the development. The mining boom was now on. What I realized from the sale of my horses and cattle I put into mining properties. I was about to trade my interest in seven mining claims for land in Okanogan valued at $72,000 when silver was demonetized. The deal was off, the mines having closed over night, and silver was dead. All we prospective millionaires became paupers at once. I had expect.ed to eat Christmas dinner with my mother on Prince Edward's Island, but could not afford to make the trip. I greatly regret this, as I have not seen her since I was twenty-one years old. I started working in the mines and became boss timber worker, underground. I led in a crew to cover or "blind" a silver ledge, and after spotting the stulls as they were unloaded from the dump car, we started to work, in the faint illumination of our miners' lights. There always seems to be a fool in every gang, and ours was no exception. A big, awkward Swede had brought along a double bitted 4 pound axe instead of the double jack hammer, and in striking at the stull, missed it with the axe, just missed his own head, and lost. the axe, 86
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WASHINGTON PIONEER PROJECT ADVISORY
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Name &: Count~·
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Told by the Pinneers Science, searc
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Told by the Pioneers Ka,-anaugh was
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Told by the Pioneers June 11, 1866:
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Told by the Pioneers grants this se
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Page 45 and 46: Told by the Pioneers "·We had a on
Page 47 and 48: Told by the Pioneers "Father Wilbur
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Page 53 and 54: Told by the Pioneers the ducks flew
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Page 63 and 64: Told by the Pioneers also a cabinet
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Page 69 and 70: Told by the Pioneers LOUIS F. IMAN
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Page 73 and 74: Told by the Pioneers aud they were
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Page 77 and 78: Told by the Pioneers Squaws used to
Page 79 and 80: Told by the Pioneers Martial law wa
Page 81 and 82: Told by the Pioneers Interstate Bri
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Page 85: Told by the Pioneers MINING EFFECTS
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Page 93 and 94: · Told by the Pioneers CA T ASTROP
Page 95 and 96: Told by the Pioneers EMMA FUNK (, G
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Page 101 and 102: Told by the Pioneers ADDIE PITT Yak
Page 103 and 104: Told by the Pioneers MISCELLANEOUS
Page 105 and 106: Told by the Pioneer~ PERRY W. BAKER
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Page 109 and 110: Told .by the Pioneers SOPHUS JACOBS
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Page 115 and 116: Told by the Pioneers ily bring the
Page 117 and 118: Told by the Pioneers had our beddin
Page 119 and 120: Told by the Pio-neers MRS. JESSE E.
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Page 123 and 124: Told by the Pioneers THE ROUNDUP ON
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Page 127 and 128: Told by the Pioneers JONATHAN RINEH
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Page 131 and 132: Told by the Pioneers WILLIS BENNETT
Page 133 and 134: Told by the Pioneers 'Ve were left
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Told by the Pioneers THOMAS M. NEEL
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Told by the Pioneers PIONEER MAIL S
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Told by the Pioneers from The Dalle
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Told by the Pioneers to insure the
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Told .by the Pioneers MRS. MARTHA J
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Told by the Pioneers MELVIN F. HAWK
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Told by the Pioneers a most beautif
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Told by the Pioneers of good fun. "
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Told by the Pioneers Father started
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Told by the Pioneers ing of our fir
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Told by the Pioneers MONSON THORP,
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Told by the Pioneers burg. ::\lail
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Told by the Pioneers In 1856 my par
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Told by the Pioneers It has lasted
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Told by the Pioneers resented by st
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Told by the Pioneers couldn't stick
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Told by the Pioneers There were no
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Told by th6 Pioneers with lots of s
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Told by the Pioneers My foster fath
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Told by the Pioneers the log house
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Told by the Pioneers small lad, and
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Told by the Pioneers Nelson Chapple
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1'old by the PiOtleers HUBBAR1' STO
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Told by the Pioneers was organized
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Told by the Pioneers del" to should
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Told by the Pioneers teach our scho
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Told by the Pioneers JOHN P. SPANGL
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Told by the Pioneers OSCAR ROSWELL
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Told by the Pioneers forest, and al
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Told by the Pioneers boys shingled
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Told by the Pioneers Nannie 0 'Donn
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Told by the Pioneers efficient teac
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Told by the Pioneers style of The P
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Told by the Pioneers efforts to pro
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Told by the Pioneers THE COLLEGE OF
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Told by the Pioneers ern California
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Told by the Pioneers school. On .Ma
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Told by the Pioneers rise as needed
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Told by the Pioneers playground spa
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Told by the Pioneers of many local
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Told by the Pioneers UNPUBLISHED IN
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Pratt, Aurelia Rosencr
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Mills, Henrietta E. Mi
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BIBLIOGRAPHr Padfic County Brown, C
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Ketchum, Abraham La Pr
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INDEX Aberdeen, Washington, 191 Abr
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INDEX Carr, Edmund, 206 Carr, O. J
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INDEX Dyer, 67 "Dying Californian's
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INDEX Harris, Lafe, 212 Hart, Charl
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INDEX Lake Union, 150 Lake Washingt
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INDEX Neah Bay, 37, 39, 145, 184 Ne
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INDEX Red Shirt, mine, 84 Reed, Cha
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INDEX Stewart, Mark, 40 Stitzel, Ja
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INDEX Whitworth, Harry, 17 Whitwort
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