| Show and small stove-size Tumps Extra boards had been added wagon boxes so that bigger loads could be hauled And wedging large chunks of coal into the wagon corners made good utilization of space 75 coal and us camp Coal taken taken from mine As left the ton we Then hollered there at with the sun mine in the it went to 00 and costs mine We ll the The from Mr following But had day we in we to Rasmussen at outfit next 16 00 be camping down Hafen from early for 20 00 ton to 50 Want previous Huntington rode sold Forks made for 1920neighbor the to Now saw us to join plans to Canyon horses--the same horses that pulled the wagons--through James Canyon and over the mountain to Clear Creek My little girl diary recordsbeautiful ride through the aspen and pine trees once-over glance at the small mining fore pitching full moon to town and camp that 1ight our tiring night camp horseback at Gooseberry as we ate as we ride back There was sang be songs and as we slept under the stars and as the men cared for the horses --watering for the night went them Papa usually for coal or feeding them and bedding them down drove two span of big work horses when he perhaps tooksingle horse along to help pull the load inpinch He greased the wagon wheels to the trip and later chopped down an aspen tree and prior used portions of grades The brake hand constant tied to the trunk use the as brake large lever In earlier back of the the drivers The haws could pressed on grades were so with days wagon Driving the teams which quired capable men Tike Papa and steep severe for the downhill several was to slow notches told its drag was in log was descent pulled the big loads of coal and Uncle Hyrum The gees be heard up blocks throughout grades that and often the down drivers canyons narrow had as dugways to stop every twenty-five or fifty yards to wind their horses Shingle Mill Hill was especially troublesome We were glad when the weather was good for when it rained the dugways could become slick and dangerous -24 re |
