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After the dikes failed, a prosperous farm on Skagit Island was reduced to 10 percent of its value, with the farmer pinning the blame on timber booms.
“The captain lost twenty-nine head of cattle, all his crops, and says that his farm, once valued at $12,000, is now valued at about 10 per cent, of that sum.”
When the federal government refused to station customs inspectors at the Skagit gold fields, Seattle merchants feared a massive influx of untaxed British Canadian competition.
“With no revenue officer to guard the British passage into the American mines, a glorious field for smuggling will be opened to enterprise.”
After wandering the rugged wilderness for nearly a month, an elderly miner perished in the mountains near the U.S.-British border.
“The body of the lonely old man had been found near the boundary line between the United States and British territory wrapped in his blankets and bearing evidence of having been dead many days.”
A blunt warning to new arrivals: the frontier isn't a land of ready-made farms.
“Do not prepare yourself to stay by arriving penniless, for in no country can you reap before you sow.”
William Wade tumbled down a steep incline in the Cascades while hunting mountain goats, bounding off icy benches before disappearing under a snowbank. He survived with bruises and a sprained ankle.
“"His body turning over and over, bounding and rebounding, and finally disappearing under a projecting snowbank at the bottom of the gulch."”
A small stern-wheel steamer, once a fixture of the Willamette River, burns to the waterline while awaiting a load of shingles.
“The next news received from her was that she had taken fire and burned, probably to the water's edge.”
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