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Show six feet--the younger boy six feet, three inches. My sisters were all strong, hard-working women ana raised families from ten to sixteen chilaren each. fhe one sister with sixteen children is the youngest-looking woman for her age in the to~m she now lives in. .About 1865, my father would go to Pioche, Patison, and Eli, Nevada and take loads of produce for sale. One Mr. Patison, at Patison mining camp about _forty miles north of Pioche, who was in the mercantile business, induced my father to set up a store at New Harmony. He would furnish the goods and take his pay in produce and livestock. This was the first little store in that part and gave the people a chance to exchange produce for merchandise. One trip Father aecided to take two teams. I drove a pair of large mules which aid not neea much driving. This load was a hay rack built for three aecks of live chickens. On top of this rack I wirea a box and took three cats. Mr. Patison bought the cats at $1.50 each or $4.50 for all three. This being the first money I ever had, I felt quite rich. When I was nine years of age, my father and Joseph Hunter of Cedar City trailed 200 beef cows ana steers from Harmony and Cedar City to balt ~ake City, grazing all the way ana coming on the west of Utah Lake. Arriving, we corraled them in the tithing yard just north of where the Hotel Utah now stands, where they were sold. It took thirty days to trail them, out we had good grass all the way. My father built a water power saw mill at New Harmony--up and down saw. He got timber from Pine Valley mountain in ivlain Canyon. He had two yoke of cattle with ~ two-wheel cart, one end of the log on the cart and dr&gging the other end. By this methoa the people could get -some lumber to build homes. I remember when President - 4 - |
