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Show Mrs. Laura s. Hadfield Page 5 and in the winter t iae it was impossible to get over the mountains, so the next year the Endowment House was opened again, and that is when my husband and I went. They asked me where I was born, and when I told them Juab County, and couldn't tell them what town., the roon said that if I was old enough to get married, I was surely old- enough to know what town I was born in. One of the brethren interrupted and said he doubted if there was a town there at the time. In 1879 we went to Elba, in Cassia County, Idaho • There were a number of young people from Farmington who went th ere, and also a number from Willard. In fact the comm.unity was practically made up of Farmington and Willard people . There was nothing up there but greasewood, sagebrush, rattle snakes and jack rabbits, but about the only thing there was for a young couple to do at that time, was to take up some government land, and try to keep from starving to death , until you could prove up on it. A little later on, Horton D. Haight was sent to Cassia County by the Church to organize a stake. He lived at Oakley, Idaho, which was just over the hill from where we lived. Our nearest neighbors were the Beechers, and the Parishes, Pettingills, Hess's, Charlie Call and others who lived there were just like a big happy family. Tp ere were no poor , no millionairs, but everyone had plenty and was well to- do. We all had g od productive farms. The worst of it was , we didn't have a-ny market . If we took ten pounds of butter into .Albion, it would flood the market . You couldn't sell anything , s o we all had plenty to eat. It was a wonderful country up there, but finally before the rlilner dam was built on the Snake River , there wasn't enough water for our crops. One year I sold nine turkeys that weighed 19 pounds each for a dollar apiece . 1igy husband was a sheep man and ran sheep on the Caribou reserve, and also around Cassia County. In those days you could let your shee,p graze any place that wasn't fenced in by someone . Now the government has set |
