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["Toni Hawryluk" <tonihawr AT msn.com>]

----- Original Message ----- From: Gene GeRue<mailto:genegerue AT ruralize.com> 

> The horses became so weak from starvation [that?] they were not fit for 
> traveling so Mr. Lane would walk 15 miles to what they called the "Dutch 
> Settlement" and now known as Swanton, pay $2.00 per bushel for corn and 
> carry a sack full on his shoulder making a thirty mile.round trip for one 
> sack.

Thank you for giving us a baseline to which we
can compare "modern problems" ....