| OCR Text |
Show DON ARAVE 1 2 2 and he wa making pretty good money. So I wa going toW b r Stat and h wa working day . I finally got me a job down to the .. .I wa ju t going morning to Weber Stat . I wa through by two o'clock or one o'clock. I went down to Railway Expre . They were advertising for employees, men to work the trains for the Railway Expres . I went down there and got on. I worked there all the rest of that winter. I even worked there for a little while after we moved out here to Hooper. But I'd be a working there and a troop train would come through and about three or four times out of a month, there'd be somebody on that train that would recognize me while I was riding the tractor around there. They'd holler at me. This one guy got out. He was a dark haired kid. His name was Black but we called him Blacky. He came in and said, "Hey, where can I get one of those carts?" I said, "Get on here." He had to go get something for them on the train for meals. I took him to the troop car. There were two or three other kids that I knew. They were younger than me. They had been just barely old enough to join, I guess. Two or three of them lived up in Wyoming, there where the cheese factory is. There's a lot of LDS kids there, real people there. World's greatest wrestler, Gardner-town (Afton, Wyoming). Yes, I was going to go up there and get lumber when I built onto this house. But I've been very lucky ever since with that little old twenty acres. Somebody in Hooper here told Mrs. Hull he'd give her six thousand for it. So the price went up five hundred. Well, she said, "Roy, I told you I'd sell you this for Don for $5,500 and I will, but Fieldings offered me $6,000 for it. He said, "Well, I'll give you $6,000, don't worry." But anyway, this land has just doubled in value every ten years. I've got about a million and a half worth of lots out here that I'm saving for my kids to get. If I sell it, what the hell, I'd have to give half of it to the government. 21 |
