An illustrated history of Skagit and Snohomish Counties; their people, their commerce and their resources, with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington .. . ionedfrom time to time to make some recompense, butwithout avail and not even has opportunitybeen given those men to acquire public lands onany special terms. The old saying that republicsare ungrateful is unfortunately illustrated in this,as in some more noted cases. Of the seven menwho at one time or another expended their timeand strength in the great task of removing theSkagit jam, three are still living, Joseph S. W
An illustrated history of Skagit and Snohomish Counties; their people, their commerce and their resources, with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington .. . ionedfrom time to time to make some recompense, butwithout avail and not even has opportunitybeen given those men to acquire public lands onany special terms. The old saying that republicsare ungrateful is unfortunately illustrated in this,as in some more noted cases. Of the seven menwho at one time or another expended their timeand strength in the great task of removing theSkagit jam, three are still living, Joseph S. Wilson,Dennis Storrs and James Cochrane. Fritz Dibbern,Daniel Hines, Marvin Minnick, John Ouirk andDonald McDonald have passed away. The year 18i6, which was a great crop \ear ingeneral throughout the Pacific Northwest, witnessedthe heaviest shipments of grain from the Skagitcountry known up to that time. The Cacheslirothers, merchants at La Conner, at one timeshipped fifteen hundred and fifteen sacks of oatson the steamer Panama to San Francisco and by thesteamer Dakota three thousand eight hundred andforty, and they continued to make similar shipments 4 1 11 ftp- IB i.
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