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Show 1" 1 "! V i I s j if. x " ' ' m & - ' r i , $ REMNANT OF YESTERDAY Ira Deveraux pauses to rest his black marc "Bally," who with her mate, "Tot" is the last "span of working draft horses in Pleasant Grove. Custom Teamster Is Last of Draft Horse Workers in P.G. Ira Deveraux, C6, horse lover, farmer and custom teamster in the Pleasant Grove area for more than 4 decades, is still going strong. In fact, he is now working work-ing with "Bally" and "Tct", his fourth team of draft horses and bids fair to last longer than this pair of healt.hv animals. Ira paused for a few minutes last Thursday morning to let Bally "blow", while he reminisced reminisc-ed about the old days when a tey.m was a living and a "teamster" "team-ster" drove horses instead of a truck. II? was scooting the snow from the city sidewalks with his iron-shod "lizard," a chore he has been performing for near on to 40 years. "That's light," he mused, "years back if a man had a horse he had transportation. Now he has to have a car and a trailer trail-er to transport the horse." He has been engaged in farming farm-ing and custom team work locally local-ly as long as most oldtimers can remember and has been a welcome wel-come sight to youngsters while trudging their way to school after af-ter a big snow. He recalled hauling brick to the Battle Creek Power Plant when the building was under construction; con-struction; and also assisting in the hauling and excavating f'r many of the town's public buildings. build-ings. Ira was born in Salem, Utah, and came with his father's family fam-ily to Ea.st Provo Bench when he was 5 years of age. He told of attending the old "Mountain View" .school and of wallowing through the deep smw to get there. Coming to Pleasant Grove or 5 years later he grew up in this community and has lived here ev- er since. He was the son of William Will-iam and Sylvia Tiffany Deveraux Dever-aux who were parents of 11 sonB and daughters. Ira married the former Pearl Rlchins in 1911 and the couple are the parents of four children. Lucile, Dean, Dale and Richard. "Some folks think that the farm tractor has made the draft team obsolete," he mused. "But I don't know, from what I hear the farm horse is coming back." "I sure hope so," Ira concluded. |