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From Steam to Gas

By Mr. Joseph Torgerson

Box 63, Sturgeon. Bay, Wisconsin 54235

My father bought his last big steam outfit in the summer of 1911 I believe. It was a thirty horse rear mounted simple Advance engine and a 44 x 64 Advance separator. I was not very old at the time as I was born in Fergus Falls, Minn, in 1904 (Jan.). The steam outfit was unloaded from the flat car at Hereford, Minn, which is no more. We lived at the time about twelve miles west of Elbow Lake, Minn. My dad and three brothers filed on homesteads in west central North Dakota. We moved out there in the spring of 1913. In the summer of 1914 he shipped the steam outfit out there and did a lot of custom threshing. O yes, he built a cook car and a bunk car, each ten by twenty-four feet. These were mounted on separator axles and wheels.

Early in the spring of 1914 my dad bought a La Cross eight bottom independent beam pl...

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