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Show "fe'rrimrHFrT' 'wmm'r1t 7 2A Emej County Progress Tuesday, November 24, -- nvmg Jones-lon- g time builder By ELIZABETH HANSON Staff writer Charlie Jones is a wonder, an builder who has laid up millions of bricks in physical and spiritual form in a long productive life and he is willing to lay up a few more for our benefit. In 1917 the threshing machine and a big order for bricks busied the Franklin R. Jones family of Elmo. Frank had a contract to furnish brick for the Elmo schoolhouse. Charlie, at 11 years of age, was involved finding a site with plentiful clay soil and digging a hole to mix the soil and sand (the sand adds the color, ranging from pink to dark red depending on the percentage). He helped build the 4 X 6 wooden box where the sand-cla- y blend was shoveled in by hand and stirred up by a horse. A shaft projecting into the mud was fastened to the horses The horse was single-trea guided by long slender pole fastened to the bridle. Around and around went the horse until the mixture was ready to be d into molds and e. hand-tampe- m?o(?T7mnN Please call for information on current I" 1987 cemnwmr Charlie mtfmwm mm wp11 m movies. We appreciate your business. THANK YOU The biggesf liffle theatre in the world. shook out on hard packed earth to dry. A hundred thousand bricks were placed on racks inside a homemade kiln and fired for 10 days. Too many broke because there was too much lime in the clay. Dad had to buy some brick from Price and haul it by wagon. Charles drove one of the teams. Any profits from the contract went to buy the brick they couldnt supply. Fortunately, the family threshing machine brought in some cash. In two years the Case steam engine used to run the thresher lll was sold to George H. Miller for his sawmill in Rilda Canyon. The deal included delivery to the site. Charles helped load the wagons with camp gear and provisions and coal to power the enormous wheeled contraption. Five day later, the party of five pulled in at dusk to the bank of Huntington Creek. They decided to leave the engine there overnight, swim the horses and wagons across and stay in the cabin for the night. The sodden bedding and clothing needed drying out. Next morning they forded the stream again, revved up the engine to 125 horsepower and it rolled across before it conked out. Later on Charles laid up brick for the first Cleveland church and schoolhouse and for many homes and businesses in Price. Nothing prepared him for the problems he encountered as brick- - laying supervisor of the Horse Canyon office, machine ' ' .. Charles Jones trolled business. The brick had already been ordered for the I discovered the project. eastern architecht gave specs of an for brick inch thinner and a quarter of an inch shorter than the western type of brick delivered. The rows werent coming out right. I had to resolve the differences. We had about 7,000 bricks too many, but we could not sell them because of government rules. I was three years on the project. three-quarte- ignitron, firehouse, buildings and manholes for sewer and water. It was a government rs At age 17 Charles wanted to go to high school in Fairview, but was more or less coerced into coal mining at Latuda with his father. Alternately rejected and cajoled by his father, creating deep emotional hurt, Charles left his paycheck for his folks after a few weeks and got a job on the railroad at Sunnyside Junction. He earned the $800 they needed to pay the mortgage on the cows and returned to Latuda. At Latuda when we would go back into the mine after being idle for two or three days, we would hold up our carbide lamps until they ignited the methane gas which rolled over our back Portable Synthesizers from 539 Different Models Keyboards 20 niymrnn mtnnwiv rrr:: MUSIC 11 E. Main, Price 637-013- 4 27 FREE one DAV GALE (ill Donuts Day After TIcrtkcgMitg Juice Early Bird ; Tom watermelon. By 1912 the Mexican revolution drove them back to Utah. The battle of Casa Grande, two and a half miles from their home lasted 16 hours and 3600 men were killed. Charles witnessed mass burials in trenches. In 1924, after alternately farming and coal mining, Charles went to Salt Lake to join his father in a construction business. He signed up for a full journeyman course, taking two classes a week in architecture at the University of Utah. Out of work in 1927, he went to Idaho, bought a farm and milk cows along with his sister Winnie and her husband. He was disappointed in love and through with all women until he met Zillahd Fay Ericson on May 30 at Salt Lake, proposed the first day and married her in the Salt Lake Temple June 27, 1928. To qualify for ordination and a recommend, he threw away his nicotine and that was that. His first introduction to tobacco was as a small child when he sneaked his dads pipe and natural leaf tobacco. The smokes had been prescribed by Dr. Fisk to help counteract the sugar in Franks blood stream. He had sugar diabetes. After the birth of the first son, Eugene, in Salt Lake City, Charles worked 14 months at a Tooele lead mine, got a bad dose of lead poisoning and had to quit. Maurice had joined the family by the time they returned to Elmo with $180 to buy seed and food and survive. You couldnt buy a job anywhere, ' Thanks SPECIALS ' ot saying, Here is your pump. Afterwards, I went to the man and told him there was a pump a few cross cuts down and we would go get it and hook it up to dry out the room, so he could start on the coal. He said, No, if we put the pump in here, Im fired. I got four little kids out there and theyre hungry. He picked up the box, filled it with water and stepped around the corner to pour it down the passage. The man was paid by the ton loaded and not for the water toting. Now we dont have those kind of conditions because we got organized. Granted, the union got overbearing and put pressure on the company impossible to comply with at times. 1a OPEIM NOV. Coffee s .' This photo was taken by Charley Jones in 1933 of his father and mother at the portal of Deer Creek mine before they started mine development. Charles Franklin Jones, bom and we knew it was safe to go in and work. Jan. 2, 1905 at Colonia Dublin, Once I was bringing in a Chihuahua, Mexico to Franklin R. and Mary Julia Pulsipher machine to switch with another. I saw the super come in the back Jones, traveled with his parents entry with a new man and take and sister Winifred to Cleveland him into one of the three back in 1907, stayed three years, rooms. The rooms were full of enduring hardship and returned water. The man asked if there to Mexico in 1910. As a child, Charles grew corn was a pump around. The super handed him a powder box, 15 feet high and a four-foLong Reminder. . . FRIDAY, ' VvliVlJV.. shop, 687-927- 5 i ' he said. (Continued on Page 3A) for yourpetronago will be offered Purchase $20 or more of 4 Hours in et the store, and receive Only 7am-l- l nchous ANY MERCHANDISE am PA?ar fREE WITH THIS COUPON 7AM to 11AM FRI. NOV. 27 ONLY Cash Value 120th of K Redeemable 35 Castle Dale Next to Farmer Jack Price Our Personal Service Makes The Difference! FASHION II CROSSROADS Next to Smith's TATES Food King WHERE FASHION 47 West 1 AND VALUE MEET Main Street, Price, Utah 6 TM Style No. 3658 "Double Support Fit for a fuller shape |