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Show MAX COWAN MC: Yes. HR: How was he accepted? Do you recall? AUGUST 18 , 1972 MC: Boy, he was sure liked. He was really liked by every-body. In fact, they never again had as big a celebration as when he was mayor, and they celebrated the Days of 1847. It was the biggest. He had oxen from Big Piney, Wyoming, here. They brought them in. Friends of mine from Goshen brought their mule teams in here. He was a real showman, you know, being in the show business. That is where he came. When he came here he had these picture shows with him. He was very, very well-liked. Somewhere, through a farce, he did not get a second term. I do not know what it was. It was something. People were so sorry that he did not get the term. Some other fellow got it by the name of Erwin. He proved to be a fraud, this fellow Erwin. RD: Of course, Governor Bamberger was before your time in this State. MC: Yes, but I know a lot of people that knew Bamberger in the country. I used to run onto people in Sanpete County, and they would tell me that they remembered when Bamberger used to come down there with a team of horses. They had places like in Sanpete County, the town of Wales. It is a little tiny town against the mountain. They had a couple of mines there that he was interested in at one 26 |
