The Humphreys of Crystal, and the sons who left the dry farm
Horace and Roy Humphrey farmed at Arbon and Crystal from the 1910s, and Horace's Arbon-born sons later worked as far away as Barrow, Alaska, and Promontory, Utah.
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Horace and Roy Humphrey farmed at Arbon and Crystal from the 1910s, and Horace's Arbon-born sons later worked as far away as Barrow, Alaska, and Promontory, Utah.
In July 1918 the Power County commissioners took up a petition from Arbon Valley residents for a herd district, and with no one objecting, created it on July 27.