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Show This text message is used to keep the image from rotating in ocr process. Be sure to crop the top .25" off after the ocr process. goods, including bottled fruits and vegetables, a variety of raw vegetables and produce, and pans ,of cold milk. She had no refrigerator t~ k~ep the milk or buttercQld, but put the milk 10 round, flllt milk pans and . put them in one special shelf. Here it was protected, by a screen door which ' kept .Qu.t ' flies. When the cream had ' risen to th,e top of the milk; It was skimmed off and ' made Into ' . delicious, ' rich butter, which she ', .~hurnE!d . regularly> ' ;. :~;.;. ;.:J .. :;' i:'" .. ' ,' .•.' . ' Flies were Ii corlstant problem , . '. . summer. Rhoda kept .a fly swatter , house and when she was nQt doing something ) else, she had her fly swatter busy. She abo : solutely did not like flies in her ' '" , whenever anyone came .in the ' , would . to shoo the flies and " tile i' ' -. " j ' " 'next sE1ver~1 years Joneses 'lived in rock : house and farmed the IU""IUIII~' I~nd. One of the Jones girls, now remembers the many parties town had. Once a group of to Apex mine (the famous . mine . about fifteen miles west of ' ngtQn) after some snow. No ice was in theenlirearea, but with the snow freeze 'homemade' ice cream. A made the ice crcam mix and the in an old-fashioned ice cream ,pp" .... ·'t Whpn they opened the freezer and ice cream, it was. salty and decided the snow must hav.! were certainly disappointed hard work. ' planted fig trees and the ' , .hilve looked forward to their , ' yield. '" But Qeforc the trees had , . ' Jame~ and Alice traded the place . . farm ilt Mt. , Trumbull, Ariz. Once . Bloomington homestead had new , •• . • . i ~., • • ' .,' .~ ~ 7 ;. . MeCains ' < • ':\. i _, I " .. "," ; . ~, is\~;~~'~~'~:;'r;rM'~rn,,-,,'winti'''''a use, ' " : ~~ liVva~~~ n~if:hJ~1~)~!:'Jt: were , il ' 'lot of · ," j family l:lea;:;gers . along the river. '." ;, ' kept Albert busy too. they werc' used to' ;;::~'!~;l'i' Many tImes, Robert, Arthur and some of the hard work ; they had known nothing else, and }!.' :;:. neighbor boys and sometimes we girls would life here was actually easier than it had been \ ,< .': go down on horses and round up some oC at Mt. Trumbull. . _ ' .. .; " . ;.k;;: ~~e":;o~se:~~~dt~~i~~!~:~ ~~:~ ~r~ecriili~ , . . " :wdone ~~~er:o!~~. ~e~~~, :~~s~ W~~h hCa~ir:~~' ,:'. about twice a week, lIe built a heavy ' ,·.i-" '·~~·-';i':, 'i.;:,: :;t,~;'.: ·c,. : :~;~l';;,(,i Alben and Rhoda McCain ' •. '. . :',.', . .' i ; ',.' . ':. , ,, ; , :~ h~'; '; 1~ '-' . stand in front of their gate between two large '. , hanc:ll ~':>" " " "' ! " _, l,trandCathcl' In th~n('lds ' .\ '. IUlClng~eedl cottonwood trees. On this platform were kept .~,h· 'i ,As : mentioned previously, the old . 'rr'gatln~. pluwiug. pl;tl1linh ;. ..~ ':;:r\'(.~tlnl the two large barrels of water. When the ' . '. ' homestead was situated along the bvanks of , The dozens oC grandchildren "laying alon! water got low, he put the barrels on the wagon : . i/'<>the Virgin River. The river was necessary for Lht! dlLch ballkli ulld in lilt! dilcltc:., dilllbilli and took them to town where he filled them . · :'\, :: ~,' the very existence' of the settlement; the land the knal'ied c\J·.\onwocxl trees, walking th~ from a tap. When he returned from lown, th.e , '1-,'" :'.' could not be farmed without it. But as in all of fences and playing Wltll their grandfather a, barrels were unloaded onto the platform, ":'~ i>;- the pioneer settlements along its ' banks, lhe evening kept you young. You must havl l which was the same height as the bed of the J ;:!U'''~ ' Virgin took its treacherous toll from time to smiled at their games of make-believe; YOli wagon. Then theY 'used a short rubber hose to ,'''Y; '. time. Every time a" big flood came down, It must huve sweated with yourl'amlly 81 draw the water out by the bucketful as ~t was " ': would take an acre or two oC Albert's alfalfa everybody pitched In to dig the Johnson grasl Food and Farming need~. . ". , field with It. It kept cutting away through thc roots from the melon patch; you must havl , , Their trIPS to town were made on the days . years until th,,e re was hardly an alfalfa field .leCt. " " .. ; . . " . The fig trees' planted by the Joneses now they needed water. Albert and sometimes' wept III disappointment when the frost caml too eal'ly and rejoiced with tht'm when thl yielded a lovely crop for hungry grand. - Rhoda would get the mail,. market Rhoda's McCarn' s 'youngest daughter, Leoma harvest was gathered. And they shared witt " children and adults alike. There were also produce, and do other errands. Rhoda Iverson, lived across lhe river where they you Ih(' wonder as flood wa\('rs of tht' Vlrglr , many fruit trees. During her younger years, sometimes went to Will Whitehead's home In were renting a little house which was built up . rose higher and higher. then ,watched IE St. George where she ,spent the rest oC the day I on stilts so the river could not reach it. One Uhoda had helped right in the fields, doin~ a horror as the raging currcnts cut away acret man's work hauling hay and performing ironing for them. ' These day-long trips • " day some of the family were going to Leoma's of your fertile land. . ;, _ ' ' .' c' other farm labors at Moapa Valley, Nevada, seemed especially long in the heat of the / j~. \ . The water was so high that Rhoda decided No more is tarry pulled within your walls! " and Mt. Trumbull, Arizona. But after they , " summer. , . . ';;~ ; she would have to ride the horse too. She said No .longer does every evening find th~ moved to Bloomington, she did not get out into , " " Thegrandchildrenwentalongeverychance ' ,,,;j:t::she would rather walk any day than ride a . grandfather reading from the family Bible, .. i the fields so much. She had her own garden ' . :' they had,feeling important to be riding with >t..H· horse. Nevertheless, she got on this horse, then kneeling around the big, rough-hewl ,. c' and plants around the house and she irrigated . ;'.:' ; their .grandpa, even though he de1ig~ted in '::)t::~f sitting side-saddle ,:ven though she was ackitchen tahiE' with his ralllny In prayer. Thes\ and took care of the lot. Her lovely garden. " terasIng them about the Yahoos which he .~?~;V tually on a conventional saddle. The water things have passed, but not the memories. claimetllived up in the rock cliffs along the ., i~ 'r :~ came up so high that she had to hold her feet . .' Thc great-grandchildren marvel and laugh te " way. Half-believing the Yahoos did live there, , ,~ , out in front of her to keep from getting wet. hear their mothers tell Qf visiting Grandma; .,' :. they wouldn't have been too surprised at any . When she got to dry ground, she immediately . of getting stuck lil the mud, of summers fille~ sort of monster which may have appeat:ed. , got off, saying that this was the hardest day's with childish laughter and storle5 of Yahoos l Counting on their grandpa for protection, they ' work in a long time. She never did like to ride and or having to leave the haystacks to help l~ . were a captive aUdience for his stories. Albert ' " horses; she could work hard in the fields, but the garden o~ herd the ( ows. ' .1 ' c was known by his grandchildren as fun-loving : ' ~: ': would rather walk the five miles to town than ,. and witty. He enjoyed teasing them at every :: .:f' .' ride a horse. , , . .' And some day I ~ha\l take mv chiJdren,' ni . opportunity; making up opportunities was his ; ,1, i" . The JDS Church continued to provide ~\." my mother took me. to their great-greal specialty . . ' " " ." . ',' ' c, i: \ ' McCains with satisfaction and a feeling of grandparents' old homestead to play ta~ . . " , ' ' , c" belonging" They were active in the little among the fig bushes, to peek Into th4 ~~~K"S;:d'1~",--_ _~~'"_-~::::"-'-,·"~·......::.-2·;_':2~~~Dbr~a~~nf~~~~~J~i~~~o~!~~~,~~er,;~.:?~,~_~~ I1rllinprv lind ha.rnf!§§ !:hf!d. tJ\ wnndf!r hn'" 'them. They would sometimes dare, us into trying it. Alter everyone had been bucked off several ' times,' the burros ' would be turned loose to rest up for our next wild west shoW. "We had many a race across the river on horses, most of us riding horseback. Thcre was one old horsc tha t usually laid down in the watel' when we crossed it. Whoever was on himII COUltdhPlhan on a gOjod ddU~tk,i,ng. But we, as we as e orse, en oye ~' .' e; , 'J.,( ~ , . c- c ;' ~ |
