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Show MAX COWAN HR: Yes. Max's sister-in-law is Alice Guss. RD: Oh, I see. AUGUST 18, 1972 MC: Her father would have really been interesting. RD: Right, I called her, and she is very interested. MC: You see, Mr. Poritzky, he was a young man when he came here in 19 0 5 . From 19 0 5, when they did not have any highway to go out to Roosevelt this way, he went to Price, and he hired a team and went out there. From Price to Nine-Mile Canyon. RD: What did Mr. Poritzky do for work? MC: He was a peddler. RD: Was he? MC: A young man. He was about seventeen years old. He peddled dry goods and stuff in the country. Bought hides and brought them back. Right now he is eighty-five years o~d, and he had an accident. He was hit by a car. If he was well, he could sure tell you a lot of stories about Salt Lake a longtime ago. More so than I could. I wondered, did they tell you about all these different communities, like Gold Hill, Utah? RD: No. I have not heard about them. MC: Gold Hill, there are some people by the name of Glassmans that have a store there. Gold Hill was a little mining town south of Wendover and the railroad. In fact, I shipped the last load of cattle that was shipped out of 39 |
