Vignette Vol. 3 No. 7
Resource: BEHIND THESE MOUNTAINS
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Resource: BEHIND THESE MOUNTAINS
1920. Excerpt -- Noxon: Jim Finnigan, Strawberry and Zin Caza worked together on log drives on the Clarks Fork River, taking logs downstream to sawmills in Idaho. Jim's stepson, Carmen Moore, told how the drunker Zin got, the straighter he'd get, until he'd fall over backwards, and his money would fall out of his pockets. The watching kids picked up Zin's money and gave it to him. But he'd give his coins back to the kids.
Carmen said, "That Cabinet Gorge was a narrow gorge. Jim Finnigan rode a 25-30 foot pole down through there in the high water once. The water was so high he just went right through on a channel. He had a pike pole to balance himself as he went through." Finnegan's feat was daring, and much admired.
Jim was a skilled carpenter. Jim and his brother, Bill Finnigan, also built four houses in a row on Broadway, between Buck's Store and the new Ranger's house. All sat on the west side of Broadway. S.S. Brown bought one of them, Henry Larson bought next to Brown's, and Grandma Ellis owned the one farthest up the hill.
George Phillips, the Northern Pacific Railroad depot agent, had his house built near the schoolhouse. A two-story house, it was the only house in town to have an indoor toilet. The sewer pipe went under the main road into Noxon, and spilled out over the steep embankment, just east of the school grounds.
Carmen said, "That Cabinet Gorge was a narrow gorge. Jim Finnigan rode a 25-30 foot pole down through there in the high water once. The water was so high he just went right through on a channel. He had a pike pole to balance himself as he went through." Finnegan's feat was daring, and much admired.
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Cabinet Gorge on the Clark's Fork River in the
Panhandle of Idaho. Photograph courtesy
Maxine Laughlin collection.
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George Phillips, the Northern Pacific Railroad depot agent, had his house built near the schoolhouse. A two-story house, it was the only house in town to have an indoor toilet. The sewer pipe went under the main road into Noxon, and spilled out over the steep embankment, just east of the school grounds.
Visit: Five Star Review
[Resource is also available free online @ Behind These Mountains, Volume III ] .PDF copies of "Behind These Mountains, Vols. I, II & III" are available on a DVD - $50 S&H included. Plus author's permission to print or have printed buyers personal copy of each of the approximately 1200 page books which contain about 1,000 photographs from homesteaders personal albums.
Order here:
Mona Leeson Vanek
13505 E Broadway Ave., Apt. 243
Spokane Valley, WA 99216
Email: mtscribbler@air-pipe.com
TO HAVE AN EXCERPT PUBLISHED IN BYGONE MONTANANS ABOUT A PERSON WHO MAY BE MENTIONED IN THIS REGIONAL MONTANA TRILOGY Email mtscribbler@air-pipe.com
Please visit often, and share with friends and acquaintances. If you find anyone with family ties, please leave a comment and contact information and share a memory to grow your family tree!
