Subject: Re: [Homestead] was Random thoughts about the day, now tote sleds
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:13:43 -0500
Gene GeRue wrote:
We Wisconsin boys know about stone boats. One of my first big-money
jobs was picking stones for a neighbor. Five bucks a day.
That must have been the going rate. Tj's scout leader, who was about
your age, recalled that he, too, picked stones for $5/day. Practically
all the building stones used in this county and probably neighboring
counties were resourced from my area...Rock Creek..
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