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Told by the Pioneers ily came west. George caught up with the train fifteen miles east of The Dalles and sent the girl a note. They were married at The Dalles and went on to Rowena where they took up a donation claim. Another brother left Iowa soon after for the Oregon country and the glowing accounts they sent back caused my father to pack a prairie schooner and take to the trail. I was only six years old but I rode a mule all the way. Before we reached Oregon my brother Ben had driven his herd of cattle to the Klickitat in search of better pasturage. Hearing of the rich bunch grass lands further north, he drove a small band to the Okanogan country. It was fortunate for him that he did, for these were the onlv cattle that he had left after the severe winter of 1861- • 62. He drove them to the Caribou mines on the Frazer river and sold them for one hundred dollars a head, returned to Oregon and purchased another herd and started all over again; a herd that was to increase until a hundred thousand head wore his brand, ranging from the Oregon line north to British Columbia, east to the Columbia river and west to the foothills of the Cascades, an empire of waving bunch grass controlled by cattle barons for more than a quarter of a century. Ben had three ranches with immense corrals. One of these was in Parker Bottom. One was near the present site of Mabton, the other near the elevation since known as Snipes Mountain and named for him. One year Ben went to Oregon and bought a thousand steers and we drove them up to the little railroad town of Ainsworth, branded and turned them loose. We were not to see those cattle for four years, then they were rounded up for market, fat and sleek. In 1866 Ben took 2,000 head to Montana. They were driven via Bickleton to 'White Bluffs where they swam the Columbia. Scarcely a house was seen on the way, only Indian teepees. Like the majority of the youth of the Yakima Valley at that time, I lived in the saddle. Ben had three big crews, one at Umatilla, one opposite Long Island in the Columbia, on the ,Vashington side, and the other in Yakima Valley. Each of us had a string of horses which we had to break. Talk about a rodeo! We had one every day, what with breaking wild mustangs, roping, branding, rounding-up the herds, and sometimes a wild stampede which nothing could stop. Phelps and Wadleigh, Huntington, the government with the ID (Interior Department) brand, Snipes and Allen, and many other smaller outfits all joined in the spring round-up. 195
Told by the Pioneers Provisions were brought from The Dalles, trading-post for all this country on north as far as Colville. Money was plentiful. Where we see a nickle today we saw a twenty dollar piece then. I have seen fifteen to twenty wagons at one time, four, six and eight horses, taking goods to Robbers' Roost, the little trading post in the Kittitas, which had a big bull's head nailed over the door. 'Ve were down in Klickitat rounding up cattle and one night Charles Splawn, Jack Schuster and I decided to attend a camp meeting, so we rode over to the little grove where Father ·Wilbur and his Indians were singing and preaching. There was no town in Klickitat county and there was a discussion that night as to the best location."I'll give land," said Mr. Hickenbotham, "if you'll build a town at Columbus," which was a boat landing on the Columbia. Another man said he would give land on the Swale. John Golden had his turn then. He said, "I'll give every man a lot and start a town right here." That is what happened, for the town of Goldendale was started that year and was named for him. THE HUTCHINSON BROTHERS-STOCKMEN By A. O. Lee Adams County Sam, the elder of the Hutchinson brothers, was 7 feet, four inches in height and of tremendous strength, weighing about 250 pounds. He located on Crab Creek in the late 80's and engaged in horse raising. In 1901 he counted his droves in hundreds. He was a keen-minded man, strictly honorable in all his dealings. Sam had three daughters when the family moved to Sunnyside, Washington. One daughter became auditor of Benton County, and the family still resides at Sunnyside, but Sam passed on a few years ago. He at one time served as city marshal at Lind while living there to give his daughters the benefit of the Lind schools. Sam was a terror to the criminal class, who stayed clear of the town. The people of Linn deeply regretted Sam's resignation and the departure of this family. Where they once had a real ranch home, now time has left nothing but a wreck. Ben Hutchinson was a man six feet, ten inches in height, weighed above 200 pounds and at one time was very active for such a large man. Nestling in the side of a rocky cliff near Corfu, 011 the banks 196
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Page 221 and 222: INDEX Benton, 149 Benton, Maine, 16
Page 223 and 224: INDEX Cold Spring Canyon, 13 Colfax
Page 225 and 226: INDEX Engle, A. W., Mrs., 51 Engle,
Page 227 and 228: INDEX Hays, Logan, 82 Hearn, Lamber
Page 229 and 230: INDEX Ketchikan, Alaska, 127 Kimbal
Page 231 and 232: INDEX Montgomery, William (Bill), 1
Page 233 and 234: 'SDEX Polk, 1 'i 5 Polk County, Ore
Page 235 and 236: INDEX Second National Bank, Colfax,
Page 237 and 238: INDEX Touchet Valley, 134, 135, 150
Page 239: INDEX Yakima River, 15 Yakima Valle
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