Pearl Baker, Green River, Utah: Utah Uranium Oral History Project

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Frank Hill when their son was about four years old. Going down North Wash they had to come over through Green River and go down through North Wash at that time. That's when Arth and Phoebe were on the ranch at Hite, at Hite and very early in there, in their settling Frank thought if he went down from Dove Creek, Colorado, his heal th would be better during the wintertime. He prospected around in that country a little. So on their way down, Mike their son, who was about four had a terrible, terrible case of croup, and they almost lost him in North Wash, but they finally got on down. I think their car broke before they got there and Frank had to walk on down and maybe they walked on down. Anyway, they spent the winter down there with Chaplin, then they kept going down in there. At the time the mill went in Frank had been on the poor farm for quite a while. He had had it developed for quite a while, but at the mine, at the Happy Jack Mine for several years there were Jack and Gene Casey who were just a young couple, and Billy and Betty's husband--what was his name? Just another fellow or two, there were only three or four miners running that mine, and then the ore was hauled and processed at the mill at White Canyon. That's what the mill was built for was the Happy Jack Mine. Originally Eckers, way back when had a claim, a 16