Told by the Pioneers - Washington Secretary of State

Told by the Pioneers
hard for shoes, but made fine harness and saddle material.
Mr.•rack Quinnup and Bill Cooper built the first brick kiln, east of
Grand Mound Station, near the hill.
I helieve I have already mentioned that Durgan and Gangeloff
started a fruit tree nursery. Together with Brother Thomas, I
learned the trade of grafting nursery stock. Afterwards Father had
us do all our own grafting for our use and for many of the neighbors.
Our sheep had done well and we soon had four or five hundred head.
When we wanted mutton we killed a fat weather, shearing, washing
and selling the wool. Often we would take a fat mutton to Olympia to
market and the Gonrnment officials would declare it was the best
mutton they had ever tasted. The prairie bunch grass was very nutritious
and certainly did produce good beef and mutton.
It was quite common to have a cabin full of travelers and home seekers
staying all night with us. I remember a little Frenchman named
Brunn came to our house with pack-horses loaded with provisions and
utensils for farming and had two little pigs lashed by their feet, balanced
across the horse's back like saddle bags. He was on his way
to Grays Harbor. The next morning as we were eating salmon for
breakfast, Mr. Brun asked Father: ""\Vhat is that name that means
the city of the whole world?" "That is Cosmo, the world, and Polis,
city," Father said. "A.h, yes, that is it," .l\1r. Brun cried, "Cosmopolis,
the City of the whole ·world. That is to be the name of my townsite
on Gravs Harbor."
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Robert Barge, a young man who came to the Coast with Dr. Roundtree's
father, took a donation claim on Scatter Creek adjoining us in
Section 4. He did not want to stay and be a bachelor, as he did not get
the girl that he had left behind him, as another suitor with lots of cows
won and came with her to the Coast. He sold his relinquishment right
to Brother Samuel, taking a very large gold watch Father had taken
ill part payment for his old relinquishment at Clackamas. Brother
Samuel would not batch and be called a bachelor so he did not live on
his new place. It seemed to be considered a sort of disgrace to be a
bachelor, kind of a lower caste. I don't see why it was so, as there
were very few young ladies and lots of single men. Seems to be a
failing with the more favored in all conditions; a baby finds himself
born black and has to suffer for the misfortune. The same way with
the poor bachelors.
The Indians used to get quite boisterous when they would get whiskey
and it was a common thing for some people in some localities to
sell them a quart bottle of whiskey for one dollar. The Indians would
ride all day to get whiskey. I was never afraid meeting Indians out
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