fedup

  Kinda wish I was back there. I know 2 guys that works there. I could get the truth from those workers. That being said, I hate to say this, I am a Debbie Downer when it comes to the real truth coming out and heavy hitting against the company.

  You can bet the brooms have been out and the deals are being made as you read this.

  Guy knows this part. What happens here will affect the whole industry. The consumers will not handle the rate increases it will take to revamp what has been into what is needed. 

  The government and the industry heads are hard at work to maintain the Status Quo.

 I know you had more smiles to pass around

 Even if we never heard a sound

 We knew the smile was there

 Because your heart was always here

  fedup will miss you being here

This is a idea for a new Forum, how many would like to have a place to discuss unknown paranormal things like ghosts, haunting's, Bigfoot sightings and ufos?  I think this would be a cool topic to add to the forum location, How about it Steve.  

  I think the debate forum already covers some of your topics Dodge. ;D

found this in my mom's stuff. It was cut out of the Courier Express. On the back of the picture there is an article about President Nixon and his wife on a trip to Spain. I have not a clue as to when that was.

  How things have changed!

http://www.vincelewis.net/bulldozer.html

  How would any of you like to crawl in here everyday to make probably 80 cents a day and owe most of that to the company store?

 

LOL!  Hubby's not as smart as he thinks...we were both wrong...ha!

Or the person who sent the post card could have been wrong. I'm not too sure just who she is for sure.

  I have a few more pics from that area but I have no idea when they were taken and even who they are. It was a rough and tumble place back in the day.

My hubby says I'm wrong and that they are ducks.  He said the necks are too short to be phesants.

This is the back of that photo

whats behind those guys....ducks?

Pheasants

Post card post marked SEP. 12,1915   Firstfork Pa.

Mix Run 1930  Lizzie Mix Tom Mix's mother

In the 1950's some Texans arrived in the Driftwood,Benezette and Mix Run area on reports that natural gas could be found there......It was....Then a myriad of residents of that area signed just about any piece of paper put in front of them approving drilling on their property and thereby became "millionaires".I say"millionaires" because most of them managed to quickly blow their "millions",if the well came in, in a very short time on stuff like jewelry,children who took what they could steal,fancy cars, homes in Florida etc. DuBoisites,especially people who were owed money for debts of the newly prosperous ,and the local banks who were asked to form estates for some of the few careful guys and then all manner of rip-off artists who would turn up at your place tomorrow if you were suddenly aclaimed "rich",created a real "gold rush"atmosphere which was a real entertainment for our whole region...When I see that drilling rig in the picture I'm reminded about what money can do. I'll never forget the story of the Driftwood gas rush (I watched it) and how a whole bunch of money came to that area and then disappeared in a year or two....

  I'm kinda interested in where you got the 1950's quote. The start of the gas well drilling had to be  (at the very least before 1954) I was born in 1954 at the St Marys hospital. My dad showed up in Mix run at least 9 months before that.  Do I need to do the math?

  As far as the people pissing their money away you are right. If there was some numbers person in the family I'd be rich today--just call me the coulda been Jed Clampett decendent. ;D

  The only one to leave that area and make money on their own was Tom Mix and that was way before anybody knew there was natural gas to be had.

Did they ever do anything with the site that is supposed to be Tom Mix's birthplace? The last time i saw it 20+ years ago, it was a partial stone foundation of a cabin..

  They tried to make a tourist thing out of it.  It was where he was born. They built a little building beside it an did the tourist bull. It didn't work. The foundation is still there.

WE spent some time at Fred's Place!!!!:shots::shots:

  When I was there back in the day there was a shelve above the bar with all kinds of bullets There also was a priest that was part of a camp deal up dents run. That man could drink and smoke with the best of them.

nice pix...:ty:

  Mike have you ever spent some time down in that area?

I searched for some pic's that I have seen from the big loggin in Winterburn, I couldn't find them but I found some pics of the town I was born in. Actually I was born in MIX RUN a thriving sub- ;D burb of Driftwood.  While I'm here---can anybody find a net copy of a paper or mag called the OUTDOOR JOURNAL?  There was a two part story in that publication called "Albert and the bears paw camp" (I think) I have one of the two part hard copies somewhere. The story was written by a game warden named Erickson (I think). Albert was my grandfather. He was a trip--the things he knew would blow yer mind---hell he should me how to fish with short liittle sticks colored red.

Downtown Driftwood

 

do u have any pictures of this place?

  Nope none of my own. There are websites and books with lots of pic's from Winterburn and Dubois back in the day. I was raised close to the old town. Have been up there numerous times.

Not much left these days except pic's taken years ago.

  You folks might be really surprised. You will find it very interesting. One good place to start is a town called Winterburn. Not much left to it but at one time I do believe it was bigger than Dubois. The old growth trees that was harvested from there will amaze you. One log per train car. They also floated logs down Bennets branch. Now you can walk across it and not get yer knees wet.