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| June 22, 2016
Horse shoes protect hooves By Brooke Marsengill
Once people discovered the utilitarian value of the horse, they then realized the necessity to protect their horse’s feet. People realized the need for horses to be serviceable for anytime we need them. So, they began shoeing horses to protect their feet almost as soon as they domesticated them. In the Book of Horses it says the first known protection for hoofs is described when people in Asia equipped their horses with some booties made from hides or woven plants. These helped the horses against future injuries that could occur during work or sports.
Horses a big help to early settlers By Keeta Mitcham
So if you need a helping hand I think you would like to have a companion like a horse. Horses can get the job done a lot faster than we can. Horses were a big help to people in the early days of Pend
Horses were used to help people travel from place to place.
A blacksmith makes horseshoes and puts the shoes on the horses. In England, horse shoes and coins were cast from the same iron, but the horse shoes were sometimes more valuable. During the Crusades of the 12th century, horseshoes were accepted in lieu of money to pay taxes. Horses were a huge part for logging in Pend Oreille County and they needed big, heavy shoes to stand a chance against the big rocks and the rough, messy terrain of logging. When they worked in the snow and on the ice, the blacksmiths welded barium cleats to the bottom of the shoes. A blacksmith makes horseshoes and puts the shoes on the horses. They also forge objects of iron that may be needed for horse drawn vehicles or on the farm. The blacksmith’s shop was often in the middle of the town because their shop was often one of the first businesses in a town. Their main tools were a hammer, forge, and an anvil.
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Horse shoeing was very important. Without a horse shoe, horses hooves would be badly injured and horses would be lame. I would love to visit a blacksmith and work with a blacksmith for just a day just to experience what it’s like. It would probably smell like forged metal and sweaty horses, and the horses would probably be sweaty because they will be stirred
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up and nervous to get the shoe fitted. Horses are wonderful creatures but need the proper care and treatment. I decided to write about horse shoeing because it seemed the most interesting. I got some of my research off of some websites and books. I also talked to my uncle’s farrier who shoes his horse for him.
bootlegging: From Page 11B
The horse walked behind the Metaline Falls Hotel into the barn, and it would wait for the owner to unload him. All this activity was called bootlegging. The term comes from the cowboys who wore tall boots that came equipped with more space to stash important items somewhere safe and hidden. After the Prohibition most people turned back to their law abiding occupation.
ranch: From Page 11B
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NEWSPRINT COMPANY A responsible partner in the communities where we live 422767 Highway 20, Usk, WA 99180
John graduated from Washington State University in 1959. He became the Pend Oreille County Commissioner for two terms. John, Harry’s son, later married Janice, and had two kids, Todd and Chris. Todd had four kids, Dylan, Mackenzie, Austin, and Ben. Chris had one child, Ashle, she lived on the farm for most of her life until she graduated for Newport High School. Two years later she joined the United States Marine Corps. She served two years and when she came home she had a baby girl, Lily. The Krogh Ranch business centers on 600-700 cattle, which is enough to feed more than 22,000 people. Timber harvesting, livestock and trade has been the reasons the Krogh ranch have prospered for over 100 years. Now nearly 110 years after my family’s farm was founded, it is run by my grandpa, John Krogh. Now, soon, it will be my turn to run The Krogh Ranch. Resources ● Todd Krogh ● Bonnie Krogh ● www.Ancestary.com/johnarntkrogh
Penrith Farms RODEO: From Page 11B
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ends and the crowd start to head out, you can watch as the volunteers take the signs down from the arena fence and the remaining steers being brought down to the catch pens. The few remaining cowgirls and cowboys start to head off to the trailers or possibly
even a different rodeo. As you get into your car and begin to head home you replay the wonderful memories that were just created. The Newport Rodeo has been creating long lasting memories for more than 50 years and encourages you to join them each year for an exciting, family oriented experience.
Oreille County. Horses also make life better and easier for people. They are fun to talk to and they are great friends. Horses were used to help people travel from place to place. They would pull sleighs in the winter and carriages and wagons in the summer. Horses would also help move heavy loads like big loads of logs for loggers. When they were doing these jobs, the horses would need a harness to pull. There are two types of harnesses, ones with a collar and ones with a breast strap. A collar is on a work harness and is for heavy duty work. It is for pulling heavy loads and moving heavy objects like logs or pulling a plow. Work harness was also needed to pull the big wagons. A light horse harness is used for pulling light vehicles like a carriage or sleigh. The horses that people ride usually do this kind of work, and they can be trained to do both. You have to know what you are doing to work with big horses in harness. To help turn a horse in harness you say “Gee” to go right, and “Haw” to go left. It helps the horses to know what you mean. Horses were harnessed together to pull even bigger loads. They used a double tree to attach more than one horse to something or extend out. It is common to hitch two horses together and a team is not too hard to drive. When you hitch horses together you use cross reins that tug both horses to the right when you pull right, and then the other cross rein tugs to the left on both the horses to move to the left. It gets more complicated and harder to drive when you add more horses. A four horses hitch is called “four in hand” because you have four horses hitched to the reins in one driver’s hands. Then when you hitch more they call it sixup, and eightup. Driving more than two horses usually requires a professional driver. Some people can drive a 20 mule hitch. Horses are too spirited to hitch that many together. It was a lot of work to care for a horse you would have to brush them every day. You would need cover like a barn to keep them dry. You would also need a place to keep all of the equipment like halters, harnesses, saddle, grain and hay. They would also need shoes so you would have to take them to the blacksmith shop a lot. The shoes are shaped like u’s and are put on the bottom of their hooves with horse shoe nails. The kinds of horses from then and now have changed too. Back before cars they used horses for work and doing jobs. Now we use horses for entertainment and show, for example, rodeos, barrel racing, jumping, and for showing. Also, in early Pend Oreille County most people did not have registered horses like we do now. A horse was worth a lot if it could do the jobs it was needed for. Today a horse is worth more money if it is registered.
The history of Diamond Lake By Kylee Rowe
Diamond Lake is a beautiful place to live. I should know, I’ve been living here for three years and it is the best place to live. It was this good even “back in the day” so I’ve heard. I interviewed my Grandma who has lived here for a long time. Some people say it was small but they loved it just as much as any other lake. They said that it was lovely. Diamond Lake wasn’t just beautiful and lovely, it was also very useful. It is still considered navigable waters, meaning you can conduct business on the water and it is controlled by the Coast Guard. I thought that was pretty cool. It also had log booms, a sawmill, the Diamond Match company cutting wood on it, and there was also a railroad depot. The log booms collected all the floating logs on the water from logging, and
they were loaded onto the railroad cars at the depot on Diamond Lake. There was also a lot
There was also a lot of fun at Diamond Lake especially in the 60’s. of fun at Diamond Lake especially in the 60’s. There was a resort called Camp Diamond Resort. I wish we still had that. It sounds like a lot of fun. You could go swimming, go boating, lay on the beach, eat at the restaurant, play the arcade games, and on the weekends, across the road, where there is a barn, they held dances. Everyone loved being at Diamond Lake. People came from Newport, Priest River and Spokane. People came from everywhere just to go to Diamond Lake.