Show I OUR PIONEERS PIONEERS PIONEERS- L J M 1 Al I Continued from list v week In the spring of 1886 3 two t rail rail- railroads rail railroads roads were vere being built to Aspen the thc D and R G and the and each was as trying living to Ing to get there ther first and things were ere sure boom boom- boomIng booming booming ing inge e Vv e went ent with our teams team and andset grade My tot set ct a contract building partner was vas a man by b the name of Jack Joyce Joce from Woods Cross Crosson Crosson Crosson on Price river We worked there until late lite in the fall and returned home again On the sixth d day y of April 1887 something of happened I I the red headed girl to togo togo togo go with me to Grand Junction Two T Toof of my sisters went lent with us We hid h a good team and light coffered ered wagon a on ind we e made the trip of oC t si t sl ty miles in a day dav and a half I told her right there and then II if she didn t many mirry me she would ouId have ha to walk alk back home so she decided it would be a long walk alk and she thought she would take a chance We Vve hid had the knot tied that afternoon by the thc District Judge When we e got back home the road master sent us to Sagers the first station east of Thompson Springs M Afy wife ran the boarding house and I v worked on the track until latE in the season when we moved I Ito to Provo Prose for the winter On Feb 25 1888 IMS a son was born to us and we e named him James M Jr In Inthe Inthe Inthe the spring we e moved mo t to Wallsburg and then spent the summer at the head of Provo making ties We went ent back to the Burg in the fall falland falland falland and on the day of October 1 Iwo we e landed In Ashley Valley at the I home of Joseph Timothy Joe gave us a lot to build on Bob Re Reynolds let me take his team and wagon and I went ent on Taylor mountain and got out a set of house logs I On the day of February 1889 we ve moved mo into our own o little home E and the little log cabin seemed like a mansion to us i We run Bob Reynolds farm fann that summer and that fall we bought t an eighteen acre farm fann from Dan Parry right where Mrs Mr's on n M Mian Manwaring lives now in Naples I We lived there that winter and in inthe inthe inthe the spring of 1890 1190 we e moved mo to inI I the home v where here we e now reside We I have used lived in Naples ward vard for 46 years ears and still expect to stay here I un until t It v we e pass pas in our checks I We are the parents of thirteen ten u-n bo boys s and three girls I of which there are six sic bo boys s and I It t two 0 girls livIng I have ha e held some responsIble positions in the someI ward ard I nd stake ta k I v was as justice of the peace for several years vears ears second counse counse- counselor lor ler In the stake st MIA president of I the 2nd Quorum of Elders In Sunday School for t twenty enty years vears ears I I Y president of the Young Mans Mens Men s Mu- Mu Mutual for six years I have twice been a director in the Central Can Can- Canal al company I have made built canals canals mAde in r bridges i roads us brok broke up new land and helped make this Uintah Basin what it is today I and my I posterity I feel have been an asset to this country and by putting In our best efforts all of our litres aid by dealing honor ably and honestly With my fellow entirely men fellowmen I feel f been that hw as my ed edl edie Ufe l I ie have have has not alt al- al always ways felt that I wanted to see tee neighbors friends and relatives my live and prosper as well as I have lent them m mi my credit and have lost my security ity for our old age and ant am broken down In health but our children are kind and roOd good to us and will wUl not see us sUffer for the n necessities of life I have ha lived to see Vernal grOw beautiful from a aery very ery small town to a beau beau- modern city with its water piped from a pure cold crystal spring pring at the mouth of Ashley can can- can yon canon on a distance of ten or twelve miles Its electric street lights tele- tele phone telephone and telegraph wires con cono connecting with all parts of the coup coun try asphalt sidewalks and 1 paved streets from from curb to curb sewer system and modem modern homes natural gas piped from a i well about twelve miles southeast of Vernal and last but not least a a good highway from Salt Lake City to the state line of which a ft good por- por per por tion lion portion is oiled and laid with rock rack asphalt from a product of great quantity a few miles west of Vernal and we expect within a short time It will be pa ed from the State St t line to the Utah State Capitol So I have seen this country grow from transformed almost a So fiat flat transform transform- transformed ed Into a beautiful garden which blossoms like a ft rose rase |