If the bounty for gopher tails was in
South Dakota and the bounty in Minnesota was for a foot--seems
like an enterprising guy near the borders could claim dual
citizenship for the little guys and be paid for the paw in Minn.
then the tails a mile down the road for a few more $ ?? Not to get
too far into the woods, but my step-father rented out the family
home to a guy one winter.? I needed to enter the barn for some
tool so the renter opened the main door revealing a large pile of
frozen rabbits.? The bounty for all those rabbit furs would equal
a caboose or two--so get to work Gale!
Bob Werre
PS
BTW One is a bay window; one is a
slopped coupla. another's lettered for? the Texas & New
Orleans with the UP CA1
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The small town in southeastern Minnesota where I last served
before retiring had an annual summer festival, the Viola Gopher
Count, commemorating the practice of paying a bounty for each
gopher paw (not the tails), going back to the nineteenth
century.? They were?
considered a pest to be eliminated.? ?The practice was still
current, although likely few youngsters found it worth their
while to collect paws.
Viola was on the Plainview Branch of the C&NW "Alco Line."
Bob,
My guess they ?are going to cost several gopher tails
apiece.. ??
Gale Hsll
On Jul 1, 2024, at 11:49 AM, Bob
Werre <bob@...> wrote:
?
Friends, blowing up things with
firecrackers was great fun, but I used to get only 20
Black-cats for 10 cents and even with some clever pyro
work they only lasted a few minutes!? Mom said they
used to get their" 4th of July" spending money by
turning in Gopher tails.
Now fast forward some ???? years you
will have the opportunity
to add? wonderfully detailed brass cabooses from
Gold Coast Models to end up with more than a singed
finger and burned newspaper scraps.? So it's time to dig
out all those Gopher tails--the county guy would give
out has much as a nickel per!
I have 4 of those models--1 UP & 3 SP in different
flavors!
Coming soon!
Bob Werre
THE BBB
Bob Werre