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and the routes. I was even a money carrier on the train. It was the experience that I got but it paid. Because of my getting in good with one of the head men, he used to see that I had the job. In the summertime they got so they would give me a job.  I worked right up until the time that I graduated from college in the spring of 1925 from the University of Utah.

G: What did you study in college?

C: Education. I graduated with a teaching certificate, B.S. Then, of course, after I got out of that, I went to teaching. I taught for twenty-five years.

G: Where did you teach?

C: I taught in Sunnyside in Carbon County the first year. Then I taught in the high school in Montpelier the second year. Then I moved to Farmington, Davis County. I got in the schools. I taught two years in Centerville. Then I transferred over to Bountiful Junior High School. It was South Davis Junior High School then. It was later changed to Bountiful because of many other junior highs. I stayed with them until 1951. I quit teaching school and moved to Vale, Oregon.

G: What did you do in Oregon?

C: I bought a farm and farmed it. (laughter) I guess the old saying that when you live and work on a job about so much, it just becomes part of you. All my life all I did and knew was farming. The only reason that I left was because there wasn't enough money in it for living. Then in 1927 I bargained to buy a piece of ground from my father. I farmed that and taught school at the same time. But I could see that sometime I'm going to have to quit teaching school and I've got to have something to do.

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G: You were telling me then that you had purchased this land from your father.

C: I could see that there wouldn't be enough to earn a living when I left the school, so I decided that I would go to Oregon. I had been up there. My wife had two brothers and a sister that were living up there. So we would go up occasionally to see them. That is very productive country agriculturally. So we decided that we would go up there. She had a brother and he would rent me some ground. We went up and farmed one year. The Second year we bought a piece of ground and we farmed that. We were there eleven years. We had sent one of our children on missions and through college. The last one had gone and I was alone there. I decided that I'm not going to buck this thing alone. I've come up here and in ten years I've paid for it. Now I'll turn around and sell it and go back and retire. That is what I did.