Show II ill OUR PIONEERS J I OF I GEORGE A ST SI I I Continued From Front Last Week Weel After e ce c moved moed mo ed In 01 of course we e eno no food tood for I had earned one hundred and sixty bushela bus bushels bushels hels of grin the previous fall rall Six Six- Sixteen teen bushels I had wild p for tithing ing ini and most moot of the rest was s stored In the valley alley alley This assured us all nil the flour e ae e needed plenty plenn or of oats for our horses and barley barle for barle barley coffee We Vr never ne went vent hungry It seemed the neighbors Ifor were ere always al needing my cousin and andI I to help kill pigs pies or beefs just justI for an excuse to gibe cl gh e us a quarter I of pork or a large cut of beef beet I I There being but one doctor Dr er in the valley m moth moth- mother mother er fOr was called upon often to ren- ren render ren render der her services sen ices as a wife mid He ren-I ren She received from five fl to se seven seen en dol- dol dollars dollars dol dollars lars for a rich case If it happened I that the people had any an money monc Such uch kind treatment tre endeared II to us the people and the country It resulted In our flUng filing on a Do quarter quarter ter section of land and preparing to make this our future home As the Dirty Devil il country proved pro to tobe tobe ASI be a failure we never regretted coming to Ashley Valley It seem seeni- ed that all our misfortunes cork ork corked ork-frd ork ed e-d out for our best good led It was as a 3 sear ear of e sno snow and we e had no sleigh but v ae e ed need need- needed ed a house to the live In So ne we Fan be-Fan be- be began began gan dragging logs eight miles thru the deep snow sno to build a cabin on our homestead now non the Steph-en Steph Steph- Steph Stephen en Atwood At ranch in Davis is The I pI process was as i L slow 10 one only one only one trip a day da dato da to the foot of or Taylor I hill hUl about bout six si sl legs lc-gs to a 1 trip By planting time in the spring sprint the Ito planting o h roomed dirt roofed roared cabin was as finished I leased ed the Hodgkinson I farm in hi Na Nil les lea the spring sprint of Ib and planted a forty acre fort acre crop It ind nd rained and rained un- un un Un-til Un tit the seventh dav day of June when hen 1 it t wound up with Ith a 3 se seen seven inch seven en inch sno snow f n fn w Will UI Clarke Clarke- Clarke Wind ind Joseph p Eaton Baton sorted ct out to get our wagons about the first of April When they ar- ar ar arrived I rived ried there they the found that no- no nothing nothing no thing had been molested but all that cO could ld be seen of the UH lower nUl part of the wagons w was as tip tl- tl top ot of lone one hind tire Ure Seeing S Ing that they were they they were two tv a or three weeks too soon they went on On the ei twenty eighth day of April they the landed In n Ashley pulling the wa wa- wa wagons wa gons through six or eight Inches I of mud They brought with them mY brother John Hent Eaton Chris Iverson Ierson and Isaac When John arrived I turned the farm over to him and I went ent to work for Peterson In Glines s ward wardI I did all the irrigating of a ses- ses se 1 sev five enty acre farm m and helped with the harvesting Including six six- sixteen sixteen six sixteen teen hundred bushels of train grain re- re receiving receiving re for my services twenty t dol- dol dol-ars dol ars a month As soon as the road was as w as open for travel Mother and Ada left fer home Oh and was as I home home- homesick homesick sick sic It was the first time I had ever been away a way from my mother and it seemed like years since I had seen my father and brothers and sisters And then too there was as the pretty little neighbor girl back home We were oh ery back bak home We were oh ery ery much In love lobe and I though It was as wasa wasa a cruel cruel world orId that kept us apart But she wrote Tote often nots me sending get nots and reminding me that the strawberries were ere ripe or that the fruit orchards were doing exceptionally well ell this year Fall Fan came Late In November we e moved the family into the log lot cab cabin cab cab- cabin in on our homestead I wonder vonder If their first glimpse of ot their new home w v am t quite a shock There w t as not a tree or a green thing in sight In contrast to the home and fine orchard we e had left it must have been a little mUe sickening The nearest water was a mile and andla anda andla la a half away avay For two to winters we ve hauled It that distance and drone e our stock tock to water Our parents ne never neer er complained It Is one more example of the sacrifices parents are willing to make for the fu- fu future fu future ture welfare of at their children One of the finest things I learn learn- learned learned learned ed through my experiences Is that our prayers are often aos answered ered In quite a different ia s ay than we w might ml ht naturally expect Great op- op opportunities op ap opportunities came to me through coming to this coun country I Itry try I was soon called taIled Into service Soon after I was as ordained a dea- dea deacon deacon dea deacon con I was made president of the th I deaI quorum I felt that I was being very ery highly honored I shall never lever forget hat chat George L Goodrich said sald to us the night of ot the final finalI I organization |