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Show -17- SESSIONS that by telegraph and we're writing that down so the trainman can read it. It would read # 31 at Farmington . Number 31 take side to Farmington and it would be signed by the superintendant, the initials, the superintendant's initials, and we'd repeat that back to the dispatcher to make sure it was correct, and then he'd give us an okay and he'd say "O.K.", and he'd give us a time to put on there, time that was okayed. Then I'd take that tefegrarn, and I would fold that or that train order, we called them train orders, I'd fold that and place it, had a hook and pla~ed it under a clip, and I'd hand up the engineer as he went by, hand one up to the rear end as they went by. N: So they got two of them, so that you were sure that they got one. S: Oh, the head and rear end both had it as th~y're both affected by a train going by and how they're going to meet and so forth. Well, pomebody over in Clearfield or someplace else would copy that same order and give it to the train coming the other way and #31 would take the siding where they were going to meet. N: That's really interesting. S: That was the style that they Had. At present time, telegraphy has gone out. T: Yeah, it's a dy~ng profession. S: It's dead. There is no telegraph anymore to handle trains, none what ever and only very, very little for commercial, very 1 very little for commercial use because of the change in communications • . N: Mr. Bessions, what were your living quarters like at .the station in those early days~ did you have a room with a kitchen or with a stove? S: At Woods Cross there was a, I worked extra, I was never assigned as regular agent there. I worked there as extra, but the agent had a living quarter just north of the depot. |
