. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. The Story of S. B. Cibbs, and Sons, Ruel and Homer (Continued from Last Month) By CLARENCE J. HALL Ruel then started to branch out (from the Weweantit river section), and with Charles Hathaway of West Wareham, his father, and Edward Slocum of Everett, bought and built to its present size the 40 acre Miller Brook bog, near South Middleboro, but actually in the town of Rochester. His father had pre- viously built a part of this bog. The Slocum- Gibbs Cranberry Company was organized at this time, 1919, with Ruel Gibbs as treasurer and
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. The Story of S. B. Cibbs, and Sons, Ruel and Homer (Continued from Last Month) By CLARENCE J. HALL Ruel then started to branch out (from the Weweantit river section), and with Charles Hathaway of West Wareham, his father, and Edward Slocum of Everett, bought and built to its present size the 40 acre Miller Brook bog, near South Middleboro, but actually in the town of Rochester. His father had pre- viously built a part of this bog. The Slocum- Gibbs Cranberry Company was organized at this time, 1919, with Ruel Gibbs as treasurer and manager. Most of these properties were older bogs and most of them dry. Some had been built by Ben Nickerson of Harwich, one of the better- known earlier Cape pioneers who came up into Plymouth County, bringing their eirlier-ac- quired cranberry experience. Crops had been rather problematical on some of these bogs, but they were improved and water facilities proviced. Nineteen seventeen was cf course the year of World War I for the United States, and the war for a short time turned his interests away from cranberry growing. He went to Brown University for a training course of thee months (in construction), was stationed at Fort Adams, R. L, then was sent to Fortress Monroe in Vir- ginia to Coast Artillery School. But the armistice was signed, and he was out of service, and immediately re- sumed his cranberry work. The original properties he still holds and operates, but the suc- cessful building up and operating of these properties has not always been easy, and without difficulties. The Slocum-Gibbs holding now to- tals about 200 acres. The Myricks bogs which are the largest unit are now all flowed from a bog reservoir which is filled by Crane Brook. The brook has been dammed and the water is pumped electrically by Bailey pump into an upper reservoir of 50 acres and then onto the bogs. The water reaches the bogs from the reser- voir by gravity, and after being used is let back
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