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"PORTRAITS OF THE PAST"

By Frank Ott, Sr.

Route I, Box 376, Clackamas, Oregon 97015

Received my first copy of Gas Engine Magazine and it sure meets my approval as it is right up my alley. Although I had a few tussels with steam power back in Wisconsin where I was born, Oct. 29, 1874, and a few in Oregon, where I moved to in 1890 (Portland) with my parents. Such as helping on steam powered threshing rigs, firing boiler and running stationary engine in a brewery in Uniontown, Washington in the middle '90's. I also spent some time with Nick Stiener running a portable steam powered wood saw in Portland, Ore. In them days most homes in Portland used wood for cooking and heating. It was piled on the curb in 4 foot lengths to season out and in the fall and winter we, and several other rigs, were busy every day sawing it into 12 to 16 inch lengths.

But I guess what got me started with gas e...

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