Delaplane, Kristin

Jun 30, 1996

Abstract: In the 1880s through the 1900s, the industry on Grizzly Island was pretty well given over to dairies. Cows were milked only in the spring and then they were milked by hand. Their fresh milk was separated and fed to the ranchers' calves and pigs. It was Steve Staffane's job to stop at each ranch to collect the cream, which was hauled by barge on the sloughs to Dutton's Landing where, the White Rose Creamery was established. Staffane also hauled calves butchered for market for the ranchers.