Standard Oil comes leasing in Arbon Valley, 1949
In November 1949 Standard Oil Company of California applied to lease state land west of Arbon, and by January 1950 it held state leases in Arbon Valley.
1949 in the valley.
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Charles E. Norton, Crystal settler, dies at Arbon in 1949
Charles Ethen Norton, who had settled on the Crystal side of Arbon Valley by 1915 and took up land there, died at his home on August 5, 1949, at 73.
Skis, a weasel and a stuck plane: Crystal in February 1949
In the blizzard of mid-February 1949 a Rattlesnake rancher skied nine miles and telephoned that about 60 families had no new supplies, and a weasel brought a sick man out from Mercer Creek.