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Told by the Pioneers plan was to saw the timber into heavy three by twelve plank and raft it to Grays Harbor and ship it to San Francisco. This was the first enterprise undertakcn on the Chehalis River, for docks. In the summer of ]853 the Indians were camped in considerable numbers near our cabin, when the small-pox broke out among them. This was at blackberry picking time. Father was always immune from small-pox and ~Iother had had a siege of it before she left England, and Brother Thomas had it when on the trip across the Atlantic to England with Father three or four years before. The rest of us were all taken down. Father had a good method of taking care of smallpox patients, and ~lother and Brother Thomas were good nurses, so we all pulled throngh. Father worked with the Indians and advised them as to the best way to care for themselves and brought most of them through, though some died. In the fall of 1853 a good many cmigrants settled all along the prairies and the valley of Scatter Creek, from the Chehalis River to beyond Scatter Creek and to the Skookumchuck Valley above Bucoda. The prairies afforded pasturage for their stock and an opportunity to get crops of grain and vegetables growing and cows to milking. Many doubtless would have secured much more valuable claims by going back in the valley. The immediate neighborhood of Grand Mound became a good neighborhood, with church and school and Sunday school. ,Ve had the name of being a well organized little settlement. Brothers Samuel, ,Villiam and I made a trip to jl1'. Armstrong's mill down at Cedar Creek and brought home the first load of lumber for the new house Father was building. Mr. Durgan came with some visitors one Sunday morning to consult with Father as to what name we should give the mound and our locality. Mt. Vernon was not thought quite appropriate. Finally ~I1'. Durgan thought Grand Mound would be suitable, so they agreed upon that and adjourned the meeting. 111'. Durgan used to keep a small stock of goods in the front room of the house he built on the mound. As Mrs. Durgan was a newly married bride and was timid about being alone, especially when Indians were about, Mr. Durgan used to keep me employed considerable of the time. In this way I used to meet a number of the people from Olympia and the surrounding country, as Mr. Durgan was something of a society man and quite a politician, a Vermonter. He was a member of the first legislature, a clever man and a good horne-keeper. When we first arrived on the prairie there was a band of Indian ponies roaming over it, but no other stock. Our cattle would wander four or five miles away, so we would go after the cows on horseback, if we could get the horse. 81
Told by the Pioneers Mr. Shazer of Olympia bought a pair of oxen and paid Father in fifty dollar slugs (eight corners). Mr. Logan Hays traded Elaborate slug·s and a lot in Olympia as part payment for Jack and Dandy. They were a prize winnillg pair of cattle. They were twins, of a strawberry roan color and were almost identically alike, Dandy being a little darker color than Jack. They would walk up briskly together and we always kept them on the lead. ",Ve boys did not like to see Jack and Dandy go. Frank Stocking afterward owned the lot. I think it is not far from the new post office in Olympia. Capt. Crosby came to see Father one day and heard Tom and me pounding out wheat with flails in the old barn. After getting all the information he could on that process of threshing, he called on Father at the house and sold him two lots in Tumwater at fifty dollars per lot. \\Te could have bought lots near Pioneer Square in Seattle for the same money. (Our lots are there yet and still worth fifty dollars.) Brothers Thomas and William built a little house on the lots and went to school at Olympia to Mr. Cornelius' Select School. Mr. Goodell and family had settled at what was known as Goodell • Point. He got six hundred and forty acres of land; nIl'. Axtell a little further up the road; Bill Cooper where the road first reaches the prairie coming from the south; Mr. Durgan on the :Mound. Mr. Augustus Gangeloff got three hundred acres adjoining on the east and Mr. James Biles right opposite our place on Scatter Creek; Mr. Austin Young joining Mr. Biles on the west on Scatter Creek; nIl'. Nelson Sargent beyond Mr. Biles on Scatter Creek. Mr. Bartholemew Baker took his donation claim to the west of Sargent; Mr. Henry Hale and the Canby Brothers where Rochester is located. Farther up Scatter Creek, Mr. Dayid Blyes located next to Nelson Sargent. Across the creek Mr. Asher Sargent, the elder. Further up the creek, Rev Charles Byles located across the prairie as you go to Olympia on the middle road further up along the famous creek. Mr. ",Villiam Mills, Mr. Abraham '1'illey, Ignatius Colvin, Aaron Webster, Reuben Crowder, Oliver Sheal, ",Villiam and Phillip Northcraft, Hiram l\Iize, Alex Yantis, was off Scatter Creek on the valley of Skookumchuck, together with Ticknor further to the east, but on the same plain as Scatter Creek settlements. Hodgen and Davenport were on Scatter Creek at the east crossing as you go to Olympia. Capt. Henness was where the Eureka Quarry now stands. Samuel Coulter took his donation opposite Mr. Colvin's. '1'0 the north .Mr. Kirtly was between Tilley's .md Case's. To the south, as you journey from Grand Mound, were 1he Davies at Claquato; south and west the Roundtrees, ·Whites, Buchanans, Newtons, Hoagues, and many others were on the Boistfort Prairie. As you come this way the Mills, Saunders, George ",Vashington, George ",Yunch, Remleys, Joe Borst, the Ford famil;", the first 82
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Told by the Pioneers British Columb
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Logging in Mason County Told by the
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INDEX Benton, 149 Benton, Maine, 16
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INDEX Cold Spring Canyon, 13 Colfax
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INDEX Engle, A. W., Mrs., 51 Engle,
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INDEX Hays, Logan, 82 Hearn, Lamber
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INDEX Ketchikan, Alaska, 127 Kimbal
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INDEX Second National Bank, Colfax,
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INDEX Touchet Valley, 134, 135, 150
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INDEX Yakima River, 15 Yakima Valle
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