LETTERS

My husband has taken the ALBUM for many years. He’s a great
steam engine fan. In fact he has grown up with them, his Dad always
had an engine and separator and a saw mill, that was his
living.

When my husband grew up he took up where his Dad left off. He
has owned several steam engines, a threshing outfit and I don’t
know how many saw mill. He is sick now from a heart attack in 1955
and is indoors most of the time.

I’d like for anyone who wants to, to write him letters and
tell him of your experiences and if you have any pictures of any of
your machinery and can spare one he would enjoy that very much.
Let’s see how many nice letters he will get. Write to

MR. HENRY LONG, R. D. 1, Faucett, Missouri, Sincerely, MRS.
HENRY (Alice) LONG, R. D. 1, Faucett, Missouri

FROM SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA

I see the steam is going down and I don’t want the machinery
to stop so here comes my bit to keep things running so I won’t
miss a copy of the best little magazine ever put out since the days
of the old American Thresherman, of which I was a subscriber in the
days gone by when I was engaged in separating the golden grain from
the chaff. I get more pleasure out of it than any two dollars I
ever spent for amusement.

The letters from the old timers and the pictures of the old
engines are the only connections I have with the good old threshing
days of the long ago. I spent 15 golden years at a throttle then
had to give way to the small gas rigs and combines and forced to
watch the good old steamers rust away in fence corners. I have not
stood on the deck of one since I threw the last scoop of coal and
closed the throttle for the last time back in 1925. The little
ALBUM brings back all the fond memories of those wonderful golden
days.

As I read the many letters from every part of the nation and
Canada I find that threshing was the same in every part, hot,
sweaty and dirty days but we all loved every one of them.

Hoping you enjoy good steaming during the coming summer.

HARRY G. YATES, 3775 Herman Avenue, San Diego 4, California

FROM ANOKA, MINNESOTA

We just cannot afford to be without the ALBUM, each issue is
more interesting than the last one.

Last Sunday we were at Budenaki Bros., at West Concord,
Minnesota. We saw nine steam engines all steaming at once, too.
Friend Geo. Bednar, went with us. It was just a perfect day and a
wonderful crowd.

Thanks so much for such good reading and splendid pictures.

MR. and MRS. M. TAYLOR, Anoka, Minnesota

ONE OF MY PETS

I attended the Reunion at Pontiac, Illinois. Quite large crowd
and a very large display of engines. One of my pets was on display,
namely, the 19hp. Port Huron Compound.

I was one of the youngest men there who run an engine in a
regular threshing ring. I was 15 years of age, the run was the
summer and fall of 1921.

Here is one to remember: The abbreviation of the New York
Central Railroad C.C.C. & St. L. R. R. meaning Cleveland
Cincinnati Chicago & St. Louis Railroad. By phrasing the above
initials we have

‘Can’t Cutter Cockie, Steam’s too Low; Rah
Rah’.

JOHN STEPHEN, (Locomotive Engineer, Penna. R.R.), Terre Haute,
Indiana

STARTED THRESHING IN 1912

I started threshing in 1912 and stayed until the combines got
too thick in 1940. My son, Harvey, and I are collectors of steam
engines. To date wo have 18 steam engines and 4 Rumely Oil Pulls.
We had our fourth threshing Bee August 25th, 1957. Between 6 and 7
thousand people were at the show.

ALBERT G. MIKKELSON, R. D. 5, Box 25, Woodburn, Oregon