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Not very many not most of them they homesteaded it, new country new land, they found out homesteading they could make with all the different people they , each of the men had a different craft from finland, each of them they could take, pooling their resources they could survive, like february 24th in their folklore, mapp matthews day, this was the time that the average family would check their food lodder, this time it would have 2/3rd survive for the winter, and their livestock and if they didnt have this consequently they wouldn't have the change to make it. I dont ever remember goign to matthews day on church only with sleds and horses, they would get together and little boys would talk about little girls, and they would have a potluck dinner, servie in the morning and services in the afternoon. they would talk about how much food they had in their life. This was alot of transactions they would do in their local churches. My wifes grandfather owned a saw mill and a steam mill it was run by steam.