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About Nyssa gate city journal. (Nyssa, Or.) 1937-199? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1967)
XXI SEPTEMBER, M< M< XVII KRAZY DAYS SECTIOM-JOURNAL (THE GATE CITY) EGAP ni TAILS r OF T WTO _•_ CHUCK Continued on page 6 BONELESS LUNCH ROAST BACON STEAK Hy Audrey Ward In the early 1930’s, farmers and stockmen were in dire need, due to the depression. Most of the banks and lending agencies were insolvent and the few that were not forced to close would not take on any new loans. Without financial help every one was forced to take extreme measures. Taxes were left un paid, notes were given for water irrigation, work was done with out (lie aid of hired hands and, in short, economy prevailed in every way possible. Fixed expenses remained the same, but ‘income* became an 'outgo*, with $4 lambs, 7? wool, $4 hay, 50? per hundred grain, etc. The government finally came to the farmers’ aid with a lend ing agency, but it was still im possible to make both ends meet, owing to prices received for produce. Under these con ditions, it is needless to say, ‘there was no joy in mudville.” People’s faces were as long as a piece of rope and laughter was a thing faintly remembered. 1 was to meet my brother and another packer who were in charge of our sheep. This meeting place was pre-ar ranged. We met, as planned, and the same old tale of woe was with us, as we were tadly in need of rain and feed was poor. I carried my lunch with me and we decided to eat before loading the pack-horses with groceries and stock salt. We had just started eating when a boy came galloping off the hill. He said tie was herd ing saddle horses and upon see ing us, thought he would come down and visit for awhile. W e had plenty of lunch and he was hungry. While eating he told us that since he was graduated from the eighth-grad«*, he de cided to get a job and help with the family's income. He said his boss, a friend of ours, had told him that since times were so hard, he could not pay very big wages, but that as they had a full case of hen eggs, they would lie partners in a new business venture. Since there were dozens of magpies nesting along tin* creek, they would substitute hen eggs for magpie eggs and the birds would not only hatch the baby chicks, but would also feed them until they were old en ough to take care of themselves, at which time the men would drive off the magpies and har vest the crop of baby chicks. Th«* boy’s boss also said that the egg substitution could work both ways, as they could eat magpie eggs, thus releas ing more hen eggs for the new venture, but he was not sure he wanted to eat magpie eggs, even though it might cut down on their new income source. The lad did not stay long, as his horses were giving him some trouble. While we were packing up, we all had a good laugh at this new depression enterprise. After arranging for a new meeting ten days later, we parted as each boy went to his respective camp and me to the ranch and home. As I drove along, I could not help thinking that even when we were small boys, we would not have ‘bit’ on anything so absurd as the magpie story. Then I recalled th«* time one- armed Clark told us that if you circled a ground owl, keep ing it on your left, that the bird would follow with it’s eyes un it it’s head would unscrew and drop off. And we did think at times that one of th«* birds’ heads was getting loose. And then there was the time when I was persuaded to put eggs in my hat and a pail of milk in each hand and carry them to the house. I had to open and close a gate. That is where 1 met disaster; and what a mess it was! Then there was th«* time that old Cowboy Charley bet us that we could not tie a rope around our necks, throw the loose end over a limb, grasp the loose end and climb up to the limb. 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