Dr. Ernest Fine

Greetings! Nelson Olsted here. Today let's follow the man with a little black bag on his rounds in Northern California. Here's Clint Groover, our Gee-Nee-Lz spokesman for Pacific Power. Welcome once again to Stories of Pacific Power Land, a presentation of Pacific Power and Light, the company that has been serving the electric needs of the region's homes, farms and industries through more than half a century of progress and growth.

Now, let's hear from Nelson Onstead, Pacific Powerland's favorite storyteller. If the young man who disembarked from a lumber steamer at Crescent City, California in the year 1899 seemed to trifle bewildered and out of place, he had good cause.

This was a strange kind of setting, people with burly lumberjacks, dock wallopers and fishermen. And one man said to him, oh, you're a doctor, huh? What brings you to town, Doc? for a place to hang out with Shingle, and I have a hunt this town's going to grow.

Besides, I like the looks of the country around here. Well, I reckon folks in Del Nord County get just as sick as anyone else, so we can put you to work. So welcome to Crescent City, Doc.

Well Dr. Ernest M. Fine, fresh out of Cooper's Medical College in San Francisco, soon discovered many things about the practice of medicine that had not been covered in his textbooks. might come in from isolated farms, mining or logging camps about an injury and illness, or a baby to be delivered. Dr. Finewood, pack his medical satchel, saddle his horse, lock

the office door, and head for the mountains. He remarked, in medical school, all they taught us was how to take care of the patients. What they should have told us was how to get to them in the first place. I'm going to suggest a few new courses of hiking and snowshoeing and boat rowing. Well, Doc Fine and Delnor County hit it off beautifully. It was obvious