Potato pioneer Sam Driggs looked ahead, got it right
Sam Driggs shows off the fruits of his labor, a potato field on his farm on Potato Hill Road. Driggs was the first person to plant potatoes in the Moses Lake area.
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Sam Driggs and most of the family in 1937. From left, Sam Driggs, daughters Leah and Betty, wife Lottie, daughter Mary, son Delbert with granddaughter Bonnie, sons Harvey and Forbes.
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They didn’t just grow potatoes on Potato Hill – (from left) Sam Driggs, Delbert Driggs and two unidentified workers show off the results of watermelon harvest.
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Sam Driggs (second from left), son Percy (second from right) and two unidentified workers dig a ditch for the redwood pipe that would bring irrigation water from Moses Lake.
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MOSES LAKE — Sam Driggs was one of those guys who looked ahead – and when he did, he was right about what was going to happen.
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