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Show OHI Sidney Matz 11-1 9-85 sl:lO SM Yeah. In fact, tha t mountain used to come allthe way down right into the dike and down t o the beautiful little valley . I mean, this - Perkins, he was an old man then. Well , he died a few years ago but he was telling me about when he lived in Ra gtown, he was young you know , how there was a stream that run right down to the bottom of it. and it was beautiful green grass and everything. But, then they moved it - In fact , they moved it up into where the mills are , right below it . And then they had a bunch of shacks they caleld Jap Town, where the Japanese workers lived in. It was just nothing. Youknow , even the slaves in be south lived better than they did. In ~ct , when Ifirst com e back to work at Kennecot t , ah , this Joe - the one nephew of my Dad ' s? LK Yeah. SM He said, you know , -- I lived in these housing01er t here in Garfield. And there was just these little houses and a yard , you know and this and that. Andyou couldn ' t grow mych grass or anything because the smelter smoke would kill the grass , flowers and everything there. And he says , you know, yhe looked at that place from the outside and he says , "The blacks in Africa--theslaves or whatever they were - lived better than this." These housing that we were _________ used to live there. Well, with Kennecott it was housing thst cost you- cost me $15 a month for a two bedroom- in about a five room home. It was wood-wooden construction. It didn't look too good from |
