Wednesday, February 29, 2012

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PIONEERS OF THE GRAND COULEE DAM AREA


MARGARET (SEATON) TASCHEREAU

My Dad, Sam Seaton, spent 80 of his 83 years in the Grand Coulee Dam Area.  He and Mother made their first home at Sherman Bluff —about 10 or 15 miles upriver from my Grandfather Thomas Seaton's ferry—near the present Spring Canyon Park.  there dad built the sides of our house out of a Spokane bridge's square timbers.  These were salvaged after the bridge was burned and fell into the river, eventually coming down the Columbia River where Dad caught many of them.  My brother, Clair, and my sister Eleanor and I were all born while we lived near Sherman.

About 1919, Dad built a raft of the square timbers, and all our household goods were piled in the center as we were moving downriver.  We children sat in the middle with strict orders not to move.  Mother manned the big sweep that guided the large raft while Dad pushed with his motor boat.  After being rained on several times we finally floated down to Grandfather Seaton's place.  There we spent the winter while Dad built our house—located at the present dam site—again using the square timbers of the raft for much of it.

We soon settled into country life though Dad kept fairly busy running the Grant County Ferry, also called the Sam Seaton Ferry.  We had livestock and considerable garden.  Dad also cut trees for firewood, he improvised a saw with a horse travelling round and round furnishing the power.

In 1926 Dad ferried Herbert Hoover, then Secretary of Commerce across the river and showed him the area where the big dam was hoped to be built.  Engineers took core drilling samples from off the ferry long before the dam was constructed.

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Probably in 1932, a number of congressmen and dignitaries of the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation met on the Grant County side of the river to promote the construction of Grand Coulee Dam.  A huge crowd of people came to the ceremony; but no provisions were made to accommodate their needs.  About noon that day Dad started bringing hungry visitors across the river to our house for food.  Though we were unprepared for this we did have a considerable supply on hand as we had just received a shipment from "Burgans" of Spokane.  All afternoon we worked preparing meals served on our table to customers who helped themselves, paying as they wished into a bowl mother set out.  During those hectic hours my brother, Clair, came to the house, grabbed some biscuits, and went to the garden to dig another sack of potatoes.  By nightfall our groceries were so depleted that Dad drove to Nespelem for more.

Finally construction on the big dam was begun; and life changed for all of us who lived in the immediate area.  George Brett lived toward Elmer City, he owned most of the big hill back of Coulee Dam; from this hill came all the gravel and sand for the main dam.  Rath lived near where mead Circle now is; and he owned a small portion of the hill.  Explorers were looking along the river for gravel when Mr. Brett pointed out his hill of grave.  Its location was supposed to have saved the government $15 million.  I think John Vertress worked on the entire gravel and cement job and could give all details of it.  The gravel conveyor belts, batch plants, and everything were the biggest of their kind at that time.  The big sand pile in Coulee Dam is all washed sand left over from dividing the sand and gravel into the four sizes they could use.

The big hole where the gravel was removed became the garbage dump for the town of Coulee Dam; it still could be used for this for years if the ecology people would allow it.  After construction began, George Brett moved to a homestead above Raymond Green's place, near McGinnis Lake.  Several years before my Dad died, he and George went to Spokane to see a doctor, and George dropped dead there.  Martha Rath lived on a small ranch just below Raymond Green's and she moved to Spokane when the dam was nearly finished.

Many years ago, according to my Aunt Bess (Seaton) Dumas, a large slide on the Ferry County side of the Columbia River blocked that river briefly—I believe it was between Plum and the Keller Ferry.  She told that a young Indian, last name of Covington, was riding a horse along it when the slide carried him to the Lincoln County side of the river.  he and his horse were only skinned a bit, wet and scared.  He rode down to Granddad's ferry to get back home.  Aunt Bess said that they had quite a time saving the ferry when the water and trash came.  She never said the actual date, but I have the impression it was about 1904.  There is no road to the area, but the slide looks fresh when you ride by it now in a boat.

Margaret (Seaton) Taschereau and Helen Rinker

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EDNA ZELIA WHITNEY ALLING

Edna Zelia Whitney Alling came to the Rex area in May, 1914, as a bride.  Her young husband Ben and his father had purchased some of the property several years before, and Jim, an older brother, was homesteading some adjoining land.  A log house was her new home.  The next spring she was staying at the home of Ben's folks near Cheney awaiting the birth of their first child, a girl named Zelia.  In the following years the family grew to nine, five girls and four boys.  Five were born in the old ranch house, three at the home in Almira.  They purchased the house in Almira so that the children could attend school.  In the country it was a four mile trek to the little country school at Rock Lake over a dirt road.  In warm weather rattle snakes were a threat — in winter the roads were blocked with snow drifts.

In Almira the Alling house was the congregating place for many of the young people in town.  The opportunity to attend school was much sought after and the Alling home was home to a number of country youngsters who stayed there during the school year.  Among those were Mamie Hopkins, Perena Cunningham, Nettie Rice, Claude and Charlie Harrison, lily Lael, Bea Alling and when the roads were bad in the Almira country, Helen Peha and Wennie Kelly stayed over.  Margaret Seaton also stayed when her family was out of town.  The girls basketball team always seemed to end up at the Alling house when coming late from a game in another town.

In the summer friends of the Alling children managed to find a way out to the ranch to spend a week or two visiting.  Dad Alling often took a load of visitors home to Almira when he made a trip in for parts and supplies, only to bring back a new group of excited kids.

The Alling Ranch hospitality was widely known, visitors were always urged to stay for a meal and if business allowed they stayed overnight.  Setting a table for twenty in the summer was routine with the hired men, visiting relatives, and youngsters, and a family of nine children.  Besides the cooking and dishes for this many people, the large garden and orchard produced abundantly which meant weeding, picking and canning!!  Vegetables, fruit, jam, and pickles — it seemed as if the washboiler full of jars was on the wood cookstove most days during the summer.  There was the fresh milk to care for and butter to be churned to go with the fresh baked bread.  The laundry was done in a washing machine equipped with a subborn gas motor and then hung on the long clothes lines to dry.

Finding the hidden hens nests while keeping a sharp eye out for rattle snakes kept anyone assigned that chore on the alert.  Living below the basalt cliffs meant plenty of rattle snakes.  Some years the family and workers

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would kill up to sixty rattlers during the summer; they strung each rattle on a thread so they could be counted.

Early spring was the time for Mom to send for the garden seed and to start a hatching of eggs in the incubator in Almira.  When the move to the ranch was made after school was out, it was a major undertaking — packing up the family's clothes, bedding, the kitchen supplies, empty canning jars — loading up the young chickens — family pets and the family milk cow.  In the fall the move was reversed, going to town would be a fresh cow, young laying hens, suntanned kids, more pets and maybe a new country kid to board at the Allings and start high school.  When Mom Alling's children were small, she had a hired girl, and at times a couple would work at the ranch so she had kitchen help.  As the older girls grew up they were soon doing a lot of the cooking and baking, leaving Mom time to do more sewing of school clothes for us.

Mom and Dad became very interested in the Grange when they joined Delrio Grange in the early thirties.  As their family could take over for a vew weeks during the summer, the attended the Washington State Grange Conventions.  They also took trips back to Missouri to visit relatives and just to see the sights, like Yellowstone Park.

Mom always enjoyed sewing and needlework and entered the Grange contests every spring.  Her collection of winning ribbons proved her ability.  After Mom and Dad moved to Grand Coulee, Mom became more interested in craft work.  After Dad died, the house was full of projects she was working on.  She had the knack of looking at a design and being able to reproduce it without the instructions.  Many of her friends and all of the family were recipients of her talents.  But what she enjoyed most in later years was having the whole family home for a holiday or her birthday.

Edith Alling and Nell Trefry

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DID YOU KNOW THAT * * *

**   Marjorie Shingler who used to live  up in the present Spring Canyon Park area ran the "Elmer Seaton (formerly the Tom Seaton" Ferry" for several years for Elmer Seaton.  Marjorie was a tall muscular woman who did much "man's work" including plowing and haying, but she was "a lady."  She is now Mrs. a. S. King presently [1976] living in Rainier, Oregon.

**   In November, 1955, the American Society of Civil engineers named Grand Coulee Dam and the Columbia Basin Project one of the seven wonders of Civil Engineering in the world.

**   The former Grand Coulee High School building had the distinction of being the first school in the United States to be electrically heated.

**   In 1936 there were seven places on B Street that had live music every night.

**   Construction of the towns of Coulee Dam and Mason City began in the summer of 1934.  Mason City was completed by the end of the year.

**   The first Sears, Roebuck Catalog Sales Office in existence opened in Grand Coulee in October, 1934, when a bright, enterprising young man whose name was John McQuiston went from door to door with armloads of catalogs taking orders and later a jeweler rented him desk space in his store and John was in business.

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**   In 1936 there were 40 grocery stores in the area.

**   In 1941 the freight railroad from Coulee City to the damsite brought in a passenger car containing soldiers who were to man anti-aircraft guns around Grand Coulee Dam.

**   The "Grand Coulee Booster" was the first daily newspaper printed in the area.  The publisher was Bob Ross.

**   The name "Delano" for the townsite was chosen in a contest in which Andy Seresun won; the prize, a town lot.

**   The Columbia River froze over for 30 days in February, 1936.

**   In May, 1972, the first class was graduated from Lake Roosevelt High School.  The valedictorian was Gary Jackson and the salutatorian was Sandra Olson.

**   The old Continental Hotel, destroyed by fire in September, 1972, was one of the few, if not the last of the old landmarks in Grand Coulee.  One of the most famous guests was the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt who occupied a corner suite during his visit here in 1937.

**   Mrs. Ella Park had the first school in this part of the country in her home at Fiddle Creek where the Frank Sanford, Srs., now have their home.

**   On June 1, 1942, the first water poured over the spillway.  Fred S. Rice, Jr., pushed the button that opened the first drumgate.

**   On January 27, 1936, the present highway bridge opened to traffic and the Columbia River was frozen over from bank to bank.

**   Construction on the Coulee City-Coulee Dam Railroad and the highway from Coulee City both began in April, 1934.

**   In May, 1971, the last class was graduated from Grand Coulee High School.  The last graduate was Debbie Wyatt.

**   The first stake was driven at the damsite on September 9, 1933.  Offices for the Bureau of Reclamation were opened on September 25th and excavation for the dam began on December 13, 1933.

**   The earliest mail in mailboxes was in Wallace Canyon where Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sanford, Sr., now live.

**   On February 11, 1972, the Senior Citizens held an Open House at the Grand Coulee Seniors' new community center.

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**   In May, 1972, the Bureau of Reclamation gave a twenty-five acre site to the Grand Coulee Dam School District for a possible future high school.  The Board decided to accept the site and hold it in reserve.

**   in April, 1973, the local hospital became community owned.

**   On September 15, 1974, Steamboat Rock State Park was dedicated with the main speaker, United States Congressman, Thomas Foley.

**   The first Grand Coulee School opened October 18, 1909, with Ethel Brewster as the teacher.

**   In 1933 the only restaurant was a small shack run by an old lady and her son.

**   On November 6, 1974, an early morning fire completely destroyed Grand Coulee's pioneer drug store, Russell Drug.  The Drug Store was owned by the Johnson family.  Russell Drug was temporarily housed in a mobile home until the store was rebuilt.

**   on June 23, 1974, the local airport was dedicated with the main speaker Fourth District Congressman, Mike McCormack.

**   Columbia School was established by the U. S. Government in 1935.

**   On New Year's Day, 1935, the first steel piling was driven for the west cofferdam.

**   Grand Coulee's first newspaper, "Grand Coulee News" (Vol. 1, No. 1), was published on November 3, 1933.

**   The first telephone in Grand Coulee was at the Grand Coulee News newspaper office -- a pay phone.

**   In 1882, Douglas, Grant, and Lincoln Counties were formerly Spokane County, and Cheney was the county seat.

**   The school known as District No. 55, Columbia River View, was located near where the present library in Grand Coulee is located.  It was later located at a place called "Buckley Springs," and the next move was to the townsite of Osborne in late summer of 1933.

**   In 1934-35 the first class was graduated from Grand Coulee High School.

**   The former Grand Coulee High School, now Grand Coulee Dam Junior High School, was first used after the Christmas vacation in January, 1948.

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**   Granger Road, a street in the East heights of Grand Coulee, was named in honor of Roscoe Granger by Sid and Ida Bartels.  It overlooks lake Roosevelt and the Third Powerplant.  Mr. Granger was connected with some of the first surveys on the Columbia Basin Project in 1927 and was appointed the Construction Engineer for the Third Powerplant at Grand Coulee Dam in 1967.

**   Mead Circle in Coulee Dam was named in honor of Dr. Elwood Mead, a Commissioner of the U S. Bureau of Reclamation in the early 1900's.  His younger daughter, the late Sue Mead, was married in Boulder City in the 1930's to Edgar Kaiser, son of Henry J. Kaiser.  Lake Mead, which is the reservoir formed by Hoover Dam was also named for Dr. Mead.  Sue and Edgar Kaiser lived in the home later purchased by C. D. and Vera Newland, owners of the Green Hut.  It is located at No. 1 Civic Way, Coulee Dam, Washington.

**   The Grand Coulee City Park was purchased in 1948 by a group of ladies known as "The Grand Coulee Women's Civic Club" which was organized for that purpose with Lucy Heidt as president.  They earned $1,100.00 from selling subscriptions to The Star and holding a carnival, thus enabling them to purchase the property which had been used as a horse corral.  They landscaped and developed it into the lovely place is is for tourists and local people.  In 1972, the Club raised over $1,500.00 in rummage sales and donations of cash and labor to install an automatic watering system and repair vandalized buildings and plumbing.  Mary Granger was president and noted that the watering system cost as much as the entire park 24 years earlier.  The local Lions Club put the play equipment in the children's section.

**   Ernest Lyle, his wife and four daughters brought the first dairy herd to the folks here in the early construction days of Grand Coulee Dam.  Lyle's party spent 22 days trailing their 22 animals from Lewiston, Idaho.  They stayed off the highways with their herd, a 1904 Dodge, a saddle horse, and a team pulling the wagon.  At first their cattle were kept at Bill Canady's place.

**   Constantino H. Vlachos of Grand Coulee has gained local and national attention through the years for his inventions, his amazing Mother of Pearl religious carvings and his store of clippings and stories to tell.  His 1940 green Packard car was ridden in by President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942.  The pair accepted his invitation to ride in the car on roadways near the White House after Vlachos had delivered a cake, some New Jersey Red apples and some specially made initialed cigarettes to President F. D. R. for his birthday on January 30.

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**   Joe Wicks, now of Okanogan, first city attorney of Grand Coulee, once stated: "It is interesting to note that Grand Coulee came into existence as a third class city.  I know of no other such incident in the State.  Two other communities were incorporated that year -- East Wenatchee and Nespelem as fourth class towns."

**   The first child born at the dam site after its construction was started was Robert Benjamin Butterton who was born at the family home on July 20, 1934.  The family lived on Elmore Heights on the flats above Grand Coulee.

**   Harry T. Westphal, the first school teacher in "Grand Coulee" began teaching in a one room building above B Street in old Grand Coulee, on January 1, 1935.  At first he had 17 pupils distributed over 8 grades and was paid out of WPA funds that amounted to &17.50 per week.

**   The grandchildren of Coulee Dam Fire Chief and Mrs. Roy Terou will always have all kinds of information concerning the Grand Coulee Dam area through the many valuable scrapbooks the pair have compiled over many years.  One scrap book alone covers just clippings of the Coulee Dam Fire Department activities.

**   Ben Schaefer, long time groceryman during the construction days started with a partnership grocery in Grand Coulee in 1934, and wound up in 1949? or 1941? with another store on the Heights and a third one in Electric City.  At the "center" grocery store his partner was Harry Shafer, whom Ben later bought out.  Ben Schaefer spoke of "living by credit," and giving lots of "credit."  Like most merchants he was hard hit financially between contracts.  The State did issue "food script" to keep the workers from starving, but it took one and one half months for him to redeem these from Olympia.

**   Doc Pournelle, former owner of our local radio station, was an avid gardener and flower lover.  He planted at his own expense and labor many empty lots and hillsides with flowers, shrubs and trees so that colorful gardens flourished in many formerly weedy spots for several years in Grand Coulee.  A few of Doc's trees have survived him though most of his flowerbeds are long forgotten or are now otherwise used.

**   Hal Marchant who called himself "The Columbia River Garbage Man" for many years ran the debris collecting devices on lake Roosevelt.  He was also a diver, provided barges and boats, did soundings, took water temperatures, maintained navigation aids, and studied currents.  Doing anything marine was his way of live though it was by seaplane he was able to get about for he was not only involved with activities at Grand Coulee Dam,

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but at Chief Joe, Wanapum, the Hanford Works, and other places used his services.  He did hydrography for the Coast and Geodetic Survey and once charted entire Lake Roosevelt.  This took 11,000 miles of sounding lines.  Mr. Marchant retired from this business and moved to the coast.

**   Chief Justice of Washington State Supreme Court, Robert T. Hunter, served as Grand Coulee's second city attorney -- before the Hunters moved to Ephrata when he became Superior Court Judge.

**   The former Joe Uram residence in Grand Coulee was built mainly from rocks and other materials which have "something to do with the dam."  Other places also provided material such as Omak's pink and green thulite intermingled in the stone walls along with green, brown and yellow shades of opalized wood from Vantage, and pieces of quartz and dolomite from Keller.  The huge stone fireplace is decorated with drill cores which are also used elsewhere in this sturdy building.  The Van Cello's completed and now live in this beautiful home on the Heights.  Their spring water is also famous.

**   The athletic field at Grand Coulee Dam Junior High School is named "Ludolph Field" in honor of Cliff Ludolph, a fire chief of Grand Coulee, who was killed in an auto accident.  The local firemen requested this honor for Cliff, a younger brother of the present Grant County Commissioner Bob Ludolph.

**   Lou Hutsell of Davenport used to tell this story about when Pete Whitelaw was a little boy.  Pete and several other Indian boys who were attending school at Fort Spokane, ran away from school and walked home to Nespelem.  They were soon gathered up and taken to Almira and put aboard the train to Davenport.  Lou was driving the stage to Fort Spokane at the time and he offered to haul the kids down for twenty-five cents a head.  The man in charge of returning the boys to school decided that was too much and made the kids walk back to the Fort Spokane school.  Lou related he got a great kick out of visiting with Pete Whitelaw in later years and remembering things like that.  Pete Whitelaw was very much liked and respected by everyone and admired for the trouble he went to in planting the streams in the Nespelem area or backpacking a can of fish to inaccessible spots.

**   After consolidation of the Grand Coulee and Coulee Dam School Districts in 1971, the students chose the name Lake Roosevelt High School and "The Raiders" for the high school located in Coulee Dam.

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**   Grand Coulee's High School's basketball team defeated Ilwaco for the 1960 Class B State Basketball Championship in Spokane and was given a rousing reception when they arrived home as "State Champions."  The coach that year was Jim Savitz and team members were:  Don Kurth, Bob Pachoas, co-captains, Wayne Snyder, Ken Hoke, Ben Flowers, Ray Rice, Terry Mort, Mark Rauch, Bill Trefry and Jim  Green.

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Climate and Soil

      The climate of Coulee city and vicinity is dry, relatively mild, and invigorating.  summers are warm and winters mild, but there are seasonal extremes, with recorded temperatures ranging from 113 degrees above zero to 30 degrees below zero.  January will have an average minimum temperature of 20 degrees and July an average of 90 degrees.  The average annual precipitation ranges from six to eight inches, with the heaviest precipitation normally occurring during winter and spring.  Average snowfall is about 18 inches, with more snow falling to the west and east of the town proper.

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Fig. 4. -- The Location of Coulee City in Relation to the Grand Coulee and the Middle Crossing of the Coulee.

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A View of Coulee City looking east. This picture was taken in 1968.

The main street of Coulee City, looking from east to west.

This undated postcard previously posted in the Coulee City Facebook
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      The region experiences a lot of wind especially during the spring months.  The spring winds start with a Chinook from the southwest that later becomes warm, hot, and dry west winds as the season progresses to summer.  The fall winds will be from the southwest also, but the bad winter storms will come down the Coulee out of the north.  This air movement may reach velocities of 50 to 70 miles per hour and with the temperature dropping below zero, a condition is created that provided the cow-killing winters that ruined the cattle industry in the late 1800's.

      The evaporation rate is high because of the air movement and low relative humidity.  Severe electrical storms are not common and hail storms are usually limited to a narrow strip in the agricultural region north and west of Coulee City.  The average frost-free growing season ranges from 120-140 days. 20  There have been occasions where the last killing frost in the spring was as late as May 14 and the first killing frost of the fall occurred as early as mid-September.  Fog may occur during the winter months but usually does not last long.  Sunshine can be expected for about 50 to 60 per cent of the daylight hours of each year.  21  The winter snow pack and June showers are most important for the agricultural activities in the surrounding area.

      Volcanic ash and disintegrated lave have provided much of the region with soils of unsurpassed fertility.  Glaciation is most conspicuous and the soil around Coulee City is usually
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20  Freeman and Martin, p. 117.

21  Ibid., p. 120.

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poor because of the erosive action of the Columbia.  Bedrock is close to the surface and the soil covering it is saturated with alkali salts.  As one travels east and west from Coulee City, the soil bets progressively better.  Near the town is a gravel moraine but farther out the rich volcanic ash and disintegrated lava form the foundation for excellent agricultural production when moisture is available.  South of town pockets of good soil occur in the channeled scablands, but because of the rimrock coulees, talus slopes, and irregular topography, the region is primarily suited to grazing. 22

Flora and Fauna of the Region

      The vegetation of the Coulee country is relative to the climatic factors that are influenced greatly by the Cascade Mountain range.  As a region of low rainfall and warm summers, the vegetation indicates that the region is in the Upper Sonoran Life Zone.  This zone of distribution is coextensive with the distribution of sagebrush in eastern Washington.  Agriculturally it can be defined as an area where the commercial growing of soft fruits and vegetables is practical.  Shrubs such as sagebrush, rabbit brush, hop sage, antelope brush, wild goose berry, and grease wood are plentiful. 23  Grasses include bunch grass, rye grass, cheat grass, foxtail grass, and salt grass.  Along streams and near springs one may find willows, thorn bushes,
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22  Pictorial display of soil samples at the U. S. Soil Conservation Office at Coulee City, Washington.

23  Charles V. Piper, Flora of the State of Washington (Washington, D. C.: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1906, p. 31.

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aspens, cottonwoods, and birch trees. 24  The service berry and syringa, which flower in the spring, grow on the talus slopes of the scabland coulees.  Rockrose (bitterroot), kouse, and camus can be found growing on the grasslands in the spring and early summer months. 25

      Spring is the fresh time of the year with may types of wild flowers coming into bloom in April and May.  Most common are buttercups, yellow bells, blue bells, and shooting stars.  The low rainfall and high temperatures along with wind and shallow soil conditions cause the vegetation to dry and to take on a brown color after the June rain showers, thus giving the area a desert-like appearance. The dense plant cover and abundance of grasses linked to rainfall are in evidence in the grassland formations either to the east or west of Coulee City.

     The fauna of the region is related to the Upper Sonoran Zone and included deer, antelope, coyotes, bobcats, badgers, jack rabbits, cottontail rabbits, marmots, muskrats, mink, and several species of rats, mice, and ground squirrels. 26  Hawks, magpies, ravens, sparrows, turkey buzzards, eagles (both bald and golden), plus the migratory birds that either stop or spend a season in the area are found here.  Swallows, blue birds,
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24  Richard D. Daugherty, Early Man in Washington (Olympia: Washington State Printing Plant, 1959, p. 58.

25  Edgar I. Stewart, Washington -- Northwest Frontier (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1957), I, 37.

26  Roderick Sprague, "Archaeology in the Sun Lakes Area of Central Washington."  Unpublished Xerox report of research conducted by Washington State University Anthropology Department, June, 1960, p. 2.

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robins, canaries, blackbirds, starlings, and various species of water birds inhabit the lakes and marshes.  The most conspicuous of the mibratory waterfowl are sand hill cranes, ducks and geese.  the honk of the Canadian goose is a welcome sound in the spring and fall.  Native game birds include the sage hen and prairie chicken.  Sportsmen in recent years have instigated the planting of Chinese pheasants, quail, Hungarian partridges, and chukars in the region. 27

      Reptiles of the region include the bull snake, king snake, water snake, and ragglesnake.  The rattlesnake is the most common and has proved to be a nuisance to people and livestock in the reagion.  Scabrock coulees and talus slopes provede excellent habitat for these reptiles during the period they are active from May through September.
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27  Interview with L. E. Jeffers, June, 1968.

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Friday, February 24, 2012

TUCKER, ALETA FERN 1919-2012

Published in the Spokesman-Review from February 15 to February 16, 2012


Aleta Fern (Bowman) Tucker passed away on February 9, 2012 at Cheney Care Center, Cheney, Washing-ton. She was born on May 4, 1919 in Great Falls, Montana to Casper (Cap) Bowman and Leta (Bowman) Haverstick.

She was a gentle and caring woman who will be remembered for her love of children, her sense of humor and love for music and her superior baking skills. She was a member of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod. She was married to Tom Tucker on August 10, 1937 and later divorced.

Aleta was preceded in death by her parents, stepfather Charles Haverstick, one sister, four brothers and her son Rennie Tucker.

She is survived by her stepson Larry Tucker (Jean), Summersville, WV; daughters Gail Wilson (Ron), Spokane, WA; Mary Lynn Van Ausdle (Larry), Sun Lakes, AZ; sons Tom Tucker (Judy), Scottsdale, AZ and Joe Tucker, Seattle, WA; three grandchildren, seven stepgrandchildren, four great-grandchildren, 20 step-great-grandchildren, five step-great-great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.

The family's gratitude and appreciation goes to the Cheney Care Center for the loving care they gave to our mother during the past four years. Thank you, also, to Dr. Dentlar for his expertise and care.

She will be greatly missed by all who knew her.

A memorial service shall be held on Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 2:00pm at SPOKANE CREMATION & FUNERAL SERVICE, 2832 N. Ruby, Spokane, WA 99207.

[Until 1962, Tommy Tucker was a classmate in Coulee City (Class of '68).]

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

ROBERTS, JEFFREY SCOTT, 1961-2012

Written and published in the News Standard, Wednesday, February 22, 2012
 

Jeffrey Scott Roberts
July 21, 1961 - February 13, 2012
Jeffrey Scott Roberts was born on July 21, 1961 in Grangeville, Idaho to Don W. and Barbara J. Roberts.  Scotty joined his older brothers and sister, Deon, Debra, and Von at that time and later became a big brother himself to two sisters Sandra and Joann.
 
Scotty attended school in Coulee City and as a child could be seen very often riding his bike around town in Coulee City.  He enjoyed the outdoors, fishing, hunting, biking, or “anything outdoors.”  As a young man Scotty delivered newspapers, mowed lawns, pulled rye, picked rock and learned a strong work ethic from his family.  Scotty grew up working hard, and that strong attribute stayed with him as an adult.
 
Scotty worked at several local businesses until settling at the local Cenex/Ag Link where he was employed at the time of his death.  Many kids growing up in Coulee City will remember Scotty as the “tire man” because he took the time to repair bike tires for any kids who brought him their flat bikes.  Scotty was also an avid gentleman.  When the Cenex was located on the highway, he would stop what he was doing and pump gas for the older ladies who stopped to fuel up.  He repaired tires from strollers to bicycles, to cars, trucks and farm equipment for over 20 years.
 
Scotty’s lifelong passions were the outdoors and hunting.  A member of the Coulee City Sportsman Club, he was an accomplish trap shooter breaking 100 in 2004 at the Othello Gun Club.  As was tradition when a shooter broke his first 100, all those present gathered around with loaded shotguns, took Scotty’s hat and shot it to smithereens!  He was so proud of that moment he asked Daphne, the cashier for the score sheet and even wore that holy old hat at work a few times.
 
Having a wonderful sense of humor, Scotty was known to be quite a jokester and also enjoyed a good laugh, even at his own expense.
 
Scotty cared deeply about his community and proved that by the service he freely gave to it.  For many years he served as fireman on the Coulee City Fire Department for 15 years along with serving his community as an EMT.  November 2005 was one of Scotty’s proudest moments as the citizens voted him in to serve as city councilman.  Scotty maintained that position until his failing health forced him to resign in January 2012.  Scotty went out of his way to lend a helping hand to the people of his community.  During the coldest snowstorms you’d find him out shoveling sidewalks or cleaning driveways and streets off with his 4-wheeler and snowblade.
 
Preceded in death by his father, Don W. Roberts, and a niece, Amanda Gerisch, Scotty is survived by his mother, Barbara, of Coulee City, his brothers Deon of Longview and Von of Coulee City; his sisters, Debra and her husband Bob Gerisch of Dallas, Texas; Sandra and her husband, Dan Shattuck of Deer Park; and Joann and her husband, Jeff McClain of Moses Lake; along with six nieces, two nephews, and great nieces and nephews.
 
Services were held Monday, February 20, at the Coulee City Assembly of God Church with Pastor Allan Fox officiating.
 
Scotty's passing leaves an empty spot in his community.  He will be greatly missed and always remembered by his family and his many friends.
 
 
GOD SAW YOU GETTING TIRED

God saw you getting tired
and a cure was not to be
so he put his arms around you
and whispered, “Come to Me.”
With tearful eyes we watched you
and saw you pass away
and although we love you dearly
we could not make you stay.
A Golden heart stopped beating
hard working hands at rest.
God broke our hearts to prove to us
He only takes the best.
 

Sunday, February 19, 2012

FROM PIONEERS TO POWER - post 2


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TABLE OF CONTENTS


PART I -- APRIL, 1958

post 1:
        Title page
        Copyright and recognitions

post 2:  (you are here)
        Table of Contents

post 3:
   1   Committees and Acknowledgements
   2   Forward
   4   A Brief Chronological History of the Construction of Grand Coulee Dam

post 4:
   9   The Original Inhabitants: The Indians
 11   Old Ferries on the River
 11      Keller Ferry
 11      Plum Ferry
 11      Seaton Ferry
 12      Grant County Ferry
 12      Stevenson Ferry

post 5:
 13   Grand Coulee: From Boom Town to Home Town

post 6:
 20   A Writer Views Grand Coulee During Construction Days
 21   Grand Coulee Newspapers
 24   Grand Coulee Post Office
 25   Coulee Dam Post Office

post 7:
 26   Coulee Dam Schools
 27   Grand Coulee School Districts, Rural Area
 28      The Earliest Grand Coulee School
 29      Fiddle Creek School
 30      First School
 30      The North Star School
 31      Washington School in Lincoln County

post 8:
 32      Old Schools in the Grand Coulee
 32      Alameda School on Alameda Flats
 32      Sam Post Office and Store
 32      Rex Grange
 33      History of the Grand Coulee Schools
 35      Steamboat Rock School

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post 9:
 37   Churches
 37      Grand Coulee Community Methodist Church
 38      Seventh Day Adventist Church
 38      Assembly of God Church of Electric City
 38      Church of the Nazarene
 38      Catholic Churches
 39      Leahy Mission Church
 40      Episcopal Church
 40      Zion Lutheran Church
 41      Christian Science Society
 41      Jehovah's Witnesses
 43      Coulee Dam Community Church
 43      Grand Coulee Community Church

post 10:
 44   City and Towns
 44      Elmer City
 47      Delano
 47      Lone Pine
 48      Koontzville
 48      Electric City
 48   Fire Departments
 48      Electric City Fire Department
 49      Grand Coulee Fire Department
 50      Coulee Dam Fire Department

post 11:
 53   KFDR Radio
 54   Utilities of the Rex-Delrio Areas
 54      Electricity
 54      Telephones
 55   Douglas County Fire Protection District No. 3
 56   Delrio
 58      Delrio Grange

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 60      Delrio Church and Cemetery

post 12:
 61   Memories of Homestead Days
 61      Roy R. Rankin
 62      Florence Armbruster Peasley
 63      Bill Meyer
 64      Margaret Wallace Filton
 65      Roy Cunningham

post 13:
 66      William B. Pendell
 66      Benjamin J. Alling
 67      Hal Rice
 68      Bill Summers
 68      Max and Verna Cunningham
 69      Mrs. George Stanard
 69      Loren Pendell

post 14:
 71   History of the Barry Area
 72      Fiddle Creek Gang
 72      Big Bar or Washington Flats
 74      Waite Steveson
 74      Florence Armbruster Peasley

post 15:
 75      Mabel Sanderson
 75      Lucy B. Heidt
 75      Paul Filion
 76      Alex Sanderson
 77      Frank Sanford
 77      Mabel Adair Sanford
 78      John J. Sellers

post 16:
 81   Across the Coulee
 82   Sellers Landing

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  84   Early Settlers and Reminiscences
  84      Fred Weber
  85      George Trefry

post 17:
  88      Emry Vance
  92      George Trefry
  92      Mae Rinker Snodgrass

post 18:
  93      The Thoren Family
  94      "Pop" Wallis
  94          Streets in Grand Coulee
  95          The First Town Band
  96      Pluvius Irrigation Company
  96      Sheminski's Vineyard on the Columbia
  96      Rattlesnake Canyon
  97      Fleet-Schrock Ranch

post 19:
  98      Alameda Flats
101      Widby and Jennie Crider
101      Mrs. Louis Eylar
102      Mr. and Mrs. J. T. McKee
103      Joe (William Joseph) Price

post 20:
104      Cora Seaton Rinker
105      Roy Harper
105      Bess Seaton Dumas
106      Pauline and Bernard White
107      The Nilles, Campbell and Leahy Families

post 21:
108      Wesley Rinker
109      Ida Shaffer
110      Emmett Shaffer
111      Garnet Taylor Rinker
112      Mrs. George Trefry
113      Mrs. Charlie Trefry

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post 22:
115      Northrup Canyon and Steamboat Rock
116      Rod Hopkins
117      Dora Walton Phillips
118      Ed Klobucher
119          LaFollette Cemetery

post 23:
120      The Osborne Brothers -- Oscar and Charles
121      Harry Fulton
123      Do You Remember When
124      Ed Schrock -- A Venture in Ranching
126      Thomson Ranch
127      The Herdrich - Birchell Place

post 24:
128      Weber's "Lazy Triangle Plus" Ranch
131      The shooting of Bill Stubblefield
132      Albert and Matilda Macho
133      Mrs. John Schweighardt

post 25:
135      Hans and Matilda Lange
137      Miss Lical Park
139      Death of "Wild Goose" Bill Condon

post 26:
144      Wild Goose Bill and Barton Parks
145      Bibliography
146      Jay Sellers Trip Through Box Canyon
148      From Squaw Creek to Strahl Canyon -- Dorothy Strahl Holbert


PART II -- SUMMER OF 1976:

post 27:
152   Reflections
153   The Grand Coulee Dam Area Bicentennial Association

post 28:
157   The Third Powerplant of Grand Coulee Dam

post 29:
160   The Years of Transition:  1957 - 1976

post 30:
164   The Grand Coulee Blue Rock Worm
166   From U. S. to Us
169   Bibliography
170   49 Hillside Trailer Camp

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post 31:
172   Towns:
172       Lone pine
173       Osborne

post 32:
176       Grand Coulee
177       Mayors of Grand Coulee
177       Mayors of Coulee Dam
178       Grand Coulee To Have A Birthday

post 33:
181       Elmer City

post 34:
188   Businesses:  Rawe and Rauch hardware
188       Browne's Department Store
189       Maytag Shop
189       Loepp Furniture and Appliances
189       Button Jewelers
190       Grayce's
190       Wright Chevrolet Company
191       Russell Drug
191       Vordahl's Variety
191       M & M Furniture and Music
192       Grand Coulee Cleaners
192       KFDR Radio
192       Wild Life Restaurant
193       Safeway
194       Gateway Tavern
194       Sears Catalog Sales Office

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196       Hospital
196       First Local Newspaper in 1933
197   Post Offices:
197       Alameda Post Office

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197       Barry Post Office
198       Delrio Post Office
198       Lella Post Office
198       Rex Post Office
198       Sam Post Office
198       Sanderson Post Office
198       Stowe Post Office
198       Wallace Post Office
199   Old Roosevelt Theatre
200   Rex Grange

post 36:
201   Grand Coulee Public Library
203   Coulee Dam (Mason City) Schools
204       Edward L. Greene Memorial Field and Scholarship
205   Grand Coulee Schools

post 37:
206   Fiddle Creek School

post 38:
212   Schools of the Area

post 39:
215   Teachers of Upper Douglas County:
215       District 3 - Rock Lake
216       District 5 - Battle Creek
216       District 9 - Meadow Springs
216       District 18 - Delrio
217       District 20 - Fiddle Creek
217       District 27 - Fiddle Creek
218       District 32 - Lone Pine
218       District 41 - Barry

post 40:
219       District 46 - Rex
220       District 57 - Alameda
221       District 60 - McIntosh
222       District 69 - Mountain View
222       District 95 - Pikes Peak

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223       District 112 - Delrio
223       District 119 - Mountain View
224       District 146 - Tipso

post 41:
225   Churches:
226       Coulee Dam Community Church
228       First Baptist Church
229       The Church of Christ
230       The Seventh Day Adventist Church
231       Christian Science Society
232       Jehovah's Witnesses

post 42:
233       Zion Lutheran Church
234       Assembly of God Church
234       First Baptist Church of Grand Coulee
235       Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
236       United Methodist Church
238       St. Henry's and St. Benedict's Catholic Churches
240       St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church
240       Church of the Nazarene

post 43:
242   Cemeteries:
242       Spring Canyon Cemetery
242       Aisle of Flags at Spring Canyon Cemetery
243       Tombstone Inscriptions in Delrio Cemetery

post 44:
247   Recreation:
247       Coulee Dam National Recreation Area
248       Steamboat Rock State Park
249       Fishing Yesterday and Today in the Grand Coulee Dam Area
251       Hunting and Trapping in the Grand Coulee Dam Area

post 45:
253   Farming:
254       Farms Threatened by Bombing Range

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post 46:
256   Memories of Coulee Country:  Bachelor in Barker Canyon - Old Man Barker
258       Buckley Springs - Si Buckley, Bachelor-Homesteader

post 47:
261       Old Ferries in this Area
263       Monument in the Sage - Thomas Douglas Stimson

post 48:
265       Plum Point History Recalled
266       Boats Chug Where Indian Drums, Chants Prevailed
267       Legendary Stones Disappear
268       Stage Stops and Old Freight Roads

post 49: 
269       They Remember '36 When River Froze at Grand Coulee Dam
269           Elmer Rauch
270           Rod Hartman
270           Hu Blonk
270           Ida Bartels
270           Dorothy Holbert
270           Jack Hilson
270           Bob Ludolph
270           Hayden McKee
271           Vern Canterbury
271       Cattle Stealing, Socials Spiced Delano's History
273       Naming the Delano District

post 50:
274       Glider Shadows on the Coulee Walls
275       The Slide
275       Ranching and Rodeoing Homesteader Style
277       First Lady Dolls

post 51:
277   Did You Know That

post 52:
283   Pioneers of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
283       Margaret Seaton Taschereau  (mother of C. S.)

post 53:
285       Edna Zelia Whitney Alling

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286       The Sidney Ford Family
288       Marie Baines

[What follows has yet to be transcribed and posted}

post 54:
290       David Lewis, Enterprising Bachelor
292       William Barton Pendell
292       Gladys Pendell Meyers
295       Milton Cleghorn
296       Tillie Pozar
296       Dam's Taxi Dancer Days Recalled
298       Early Steamboat Rock
300       Lester Scott - A Bachelor Herdsman
303       Ed Funk, Bachelor of Fun
305       Albert Armbruster, Pioneer
308       Ed Armbruster, Pioneer
310       Wild Goose Bill Lived and Died Colorfully
311       Samuel Wilbur Condon
316       The Rice Brothers - Bob, Delbert and Ted
319       Oscar F. Osborne
325       Jed Pendell Reminisces
328       Bill Condon, Jr.
330       George Nanamkin
331       Matt Snyder
332       Horace W. Bozarth
338       Cull A. White
340       Peter Dan Moses
343       Sam Seaton   (grandfather of C. S.)
346       Fred Rice, Sr., Family and Upper Douglas County
352       Florence Armbruster Peasley
355       Len Dillman, The Optimist
357       Len Dillman, Bachelor
359       Rebecca and Sam Steveson
362       The Fry Family
362       The Wyborney Family

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363       William Andrews, Steamboat Bill
365       C. D. Newland and the Green Hut
366       Sam and Clara Price
366       Melford and Emma Traver
367       Bill And Betty Beery
368       Susie Wilkerson
371       Jess L. Lewis
373       Rhea Dumas Coleman  (cousin 1x removed of C. S.)
374       Floyd Sheely Retired from U. S. B. R.
376       Bob Gemmell - Legendary Old Grand Coulee - Gone, But Not Forgotten
378       Herman Friedlander
379       John Michaud
382       The Max Cunninghams
382       Theodora Banks Baird
384       Emil Gehrke - The Windmill Maker
386       Kaden Family of Alameda Flats
387       Little Audrey Trefry
388       Herb Buelen, Bachelor in Love
392       Memories of Coulee Country
395       William P. Thomson, Pioneer Homesteader
397       Hans Lang, Homestead Days
401       Memories of Coulee Country - Barker Canyon
403       Hans and Matilda Ann Lange, Wedding Journey in 1885
408       A Day to Remember
409       Wild Horses and Round-Up
413   Where Was It Map
414       Map Locations
415   Poem:  Coulee Pat-A-Cake
416   Index

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Saturday, February 18, 2012

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GLIDER SHADOWS ON THE COULEE WALLS

"Cloyd Artman, skillful Oroville glider pilot, is believed to have far surpassed all American and World records for primary glider flight when he made a spectacular sustained flight of 13 1/2 hours at Orville Saturday.  He used a flashlight to keep in touch with his ground crew after dark."  The above quote was taken from the July 9, 1934 Wenatchee World paper.

Artman was a young fellow enthused over air-flight, he was on his way to college at Pullman when he first stopped in Almira, driving a Model T Ford with his home built glider on a trailer behind.  He made a flight off of the old Almira Golf Course using a drum to wind up the strand of double twisted bailing wire, to lift off his glider.  The drum was fitted onto the jacked up back wheel of the Model T.

Martin Falls at Devils Punch Bowl
Charles Perryman, theatre man of Almira who filmed the interesting events for Pathe News spent several days filming Artman's glider flights off the Coulee Wall near the Devil's Punch Bowl.  Setting up for a flight meant hoisting the glider, and several young men from Almira were out to watch the flights and lend a hand including George Alling.  The glider was set in a greased 2 x 6 trough, one end extending out over the vertical drop of rock wall, the other end was propped up onto the car.  Cloyd wearing a leather jacket, jodhpurs, leather hightop boots, aviator's leather helmet and goggles, would climb aboard, check the controls and the wind currents going up the bluff.  Then with a couple of boys steadying the wings till he was at the brink of the drop off, they would release the glider from its restraining ropes.  With Mr. Perryman's camera focused on the scene below, Artman would glide down towards the poplars, make a turn and pass below the onlookers on the bluff.  He would make several passes back and forth until he lost the right air currents and then he would land on the floor of the coulee.  Then, one of his volunteer assistants would drive his car and trailer around by the coulee hill and down the coulee to pick him up.  On a good day he could make two flights.  He first flew off of the south coulee wall over the present site of the Grand Coulee Rodeo Grounds in Delano.

Artman and a friend were killed in the crash of a two place glider they had built and were flying off of the Snake River bluffs.

It is interesting to note that the glider meet based at Ephrata has the last leg of its triangular course coming down the Grand Coulee and on south to Ephrata.

Wouldn't those old films be interesting??
Edith Alling
1976         
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THE SLIDE

A Tremendous slide occurred on the north bank of the Columbia River in 1906 which according to the Bureau of Reclamation files, completely filled the river from shore to shore.  The area has since been known as The Slide and is so marked on the geological maps of the area.  The river eventually cut through the slide material.

The location of The Slide is about five miles south of Hunters and about five miles west.  The river at this section makes a bend and flows nearly due west.  To the immediate east of the first slide, there was another small slide in 1969.  Pictures of the scar of the hillside and the immense hollow created by The Slide are on file at the Bureau of Reclamation offices.
Esther R. Rice
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RANCHING AND RODEOING HOMESTEADER STYLE

Up Hopkins Canyon from the Columbia River where it swung west along the Colville Indian Reservation, two brothers, Oroville and Everett Covey took up land when the reservation was opened to homesteading after World War I.  The boys were veterans and came up to the Okanogan area from Salmon River, Oregon, bringing their young wives.  Friend, neighbor and also from Salmon River, was Wildhorse Dick Henderson, a bulldogger cowboy and now homesteader.

Their homesteads lay on the edge of Whitmore Mountain, rocky land, with some meadow patches and grass hill sides.  Not much to make a living off of but being young and full of life, and boys who felt they could whip anything on four legs into shape, they took in the local rodeos.  Keeping in practice was easy when their stock ran out in that rough country, and you might have to rope it to take it home.

One spring one of the Henderson's longhorned old range cows lost her calf and thinking how good some fresh milk and cream would be to fill in with the staples on the kitchen shelf, he saddled up the two saddle horses and with his wife hazing for him, they soon roped the old range cow.  Henderson threw her down "bulldoggin" style and held her while his wife untied the 5 pound lard bucket from her saddle and then she held the cow down by the horns while Henderson's strong hands squeezed five pounds of fresh milk from a fighting old heifer.  They never did make a gentle milk cow of the

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old girl, in fact she dried up pretty fast after being flopped on her side for a few milkings.

The Wild Horse Rodeo was coming up in Nespelem and all the boys on their little scratch patches up Hopkins Canyon wanted to go and compete.  Always ready to join in any joke they got the fun idea of riding up to the rodeo on wild horses -- going to be a wild horse rodeo anyway.  So they spent a day running in a bunch of broom-tails and each one keeping a lookout for a good young two or three year old that would make a showy saddle horse.  After the herd was in the corral, the old mares with colts and yearlings were split off, and pushed back through the gate and the boys started roping out their choces.  Dust flying, horses snorting and jumping, and one come choking and wheezing for air out of the dust and up to the snubbing post, where he was saddled up.  The wives on their steady saddle horses standing ready to snub the broncs up while their husbands mounted.  last to pick his horse for the ride was "Wildhorse" Dick Henderson and out of the dust on the end of his rope came plunging and fighting the eight year old black stallion from the herd.  The Covey boys helped him saddle up and get the old black out of the corral and burned the rest of the herd out to go tearing off, kicking up their heels to where the old mares were whinnying and calling from the hillside.

All riders up on their hoses and off to Nespelem for the rodeo!  Wives hazing their husbands' unbroken saddle horses along.  Except for the old black stud who decided to take off and soon had outrun the rest of them.  Mrs. Henderson decided to go along with the others towards Nespelem, so old Dick was left to get into town when and how he could.  The bunch made it into town, camped, stayed up late watching for Dick, finally rolled up in their blankets and slept.

Next day about noon a scratched up black stud with puffed up eyes carrying a rider came up main street of nespelem, not much fight left in the horse -- he was even starting to neckrein.  "Wild Horse Dick" told of getting the stud up near a tree on his wild ride, throwing one rein around the tree and tieing him up while Dick got off and rested awhile.  But he had spent most of the 24 hours on his wild horse, riding to a Wild Horse Rodeo!
Edith Alling
Note from Edith Alling:  This story was told to me by my Uncle Cecil Scott.  The Covey boys were relatives to Cecil's mother.

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FIRST LADY DOLLS

A real Bicentennial project was carried on through 1976 by Mrs. Mary Granger, wife of the first Third Powerplant engineer, J. R. Granger.  She researched and dressed in authentic colonial costumes, the early First ladies in our White House.  Twenty dolls make up the collection so far and she intends to have a doll for each First Lady before the year is up.  Fifteen showings and lectures have been given in four schools, six classes and various church and club groups.

The collection is similar to The Smithsonian Institute on a smaller scale and is valued at over $1,500.00.  It has been fun and a very rewarding trip into history.
Mary Granger
1976             
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