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Show was at the funeral of Joseph Smith. I will now give a little record of my oVin experiences. I naa very little opportunity for schooling compared to this day. The most l got v\EtS a scl.~.ooling of experience. First, there was no suitable scnool houses, no money for teachers (they took the produce ~f the country). I remember the only book I had was the old ele-mentary spelling book. We learned to spell and give the key to eE~cL. word. From the age of eit,ht until I was twenty I learned to do all kinds of work . I learned to ride the horse when I was five years of o.ge, C:tnd to arive a team from ten years ;ind up. Father had a saw mill so I O.id chopping, ha.uling the logs and hauling timber, work of all kinds on the farm, both with horse teams and ox teams and have ploweu many· a. uay with an ox team. When I was thirteen, I arove a yoke of oxen from Panguitch to Pioche, Nevada. My brother, two years younger, took a horse team with a load of barley--! took 1000 feet of lumber. We were ~ith some of our neighbors. At f'anaca we sola the barley at 7¢ a pound. There my brother ann I were left alone to take the lumber to Pioche, about t~elve miles up in the mountains. Neither of us had been over the road to Pioche; however, v\ e lanued there ana sold the lumber for $100, which was paia to us in gola--~~0, ilO, $5, &nd $2.50 pieces. Our fcea oill was $2.50, but I gave the man a $5 gold piece. He gB.ve it bo.clr to me ana s&ia, HQ.Lve rne the $2.50 piece ." ReTe I fauna an nonest m~n. This being the first money for me to' handle, I aia not know the aifference between a ~5 piece and a $2 . 50 piece . Hovever, I hc:ve always known the uifference since thc.t time. On this trip of 150 1~1iles, v.re nobblea our tear:s and turnt~ a thsm on tne range for gr&ss as there was no llc.y to be hrd. j Vvho todt=1y I / - 9 - |
