Dave
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I knew that the population here had declined based on what there use to be in the way of businesses. So I looked up the 1920 census. In 1920 the population of the county was 18,026. Today it is about 16,000. In 1920 this district of the census listed 388 people. Now our post office claims it serves 130 people. Homesteaders figured out they couldn't survive. The gold mines shut down. Then the logging and saw mills shut down. Other than the ranchers and a few farmers those with any get up and go, got up and left.