[or-roots] good old days

[Leslie Chapman]

Ingrid;

For feathers they may have relied heavily on wild ducks and geese, though
that country looks a little dry, there are some streams and so forth. As to
milk, we used to run polled herfords, but usually had to do some milking of
some of them when the calves were young as they werent' "pure" for teh most
part and produced quite a bit more milk than the calves would take. I am
sure there were always some folks who had domestic versions of most stock
though.

I would think in that area you are "fairly" safe from volcanos, though I am
sure it was pretty miserable there for a while after St Helens blew it's
top, I don't remember exactly how far down wind that was a major problem, I
remember life was hell in Yakima and the damage to the fruit trees and crops
in Washington drove the Grange Insurance agency into bankruptcy, but I am
not sure it was a serious thing all the way to Idaho except for the first
few days. I Think you would be safer from direct eruption there than I am
here on the coast as the basalt flows that build most of the high desert
stopped quite a while ago.

Les

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Subject: Re: [or-roots] George H. & Emma L. (Montgomery) LIGHTLE


Thanks Les for those two web links! Flora looks to be just right - fields,
trees, a few neighbors and mountains. Maybe there's a place there for me. Is
volcano insurance required with a mortgage? : )  Loved the wooden sidewalks,
we have asphalt ones here that the cars park on, concrete doesn't survive
the spring heaving.

Here's another little scrap: George was a charter member of the  I.O.O.F.
lodge at Flora and active for 40 years. I'd never heard of the Odd Fellows
till I started chasing my ancestors around.

Questions for anyone: Did the settlers keep goats & ducks? I saw one
reference to domestic geese, tarring and sanding of the feet so they could
make the drive.  If they had feather beds was it just chicken feathers? Milk
cows didn't seem to be in great abundance either just cattle, sheep & hogs.

I'm through the railroad era in the Wallowas and "Gateway" mentions that the
Eagle Cap Excursion had it's first run in 2003. How has that played out?

Ingrid

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