DESCRIPTION: Land on the Arnold farm which they hope to clear next year....Thurston County is a cut over area....Many refugees from drought in other parts of the U. S. are settling, or attempting to settle in this part of Washington....This family...from Las Crusces, New Mexico....arrived by train in May 1935....Three days later they had made a payment of $1200 on 80 acres of uncleared land....At first they lived in a tent. They grubbed out 80 stumps from what is now the hay field in front of their present house which they built themselves, since. All the children work.