Orson Clark-11/30/81 - Pg 16

Orson Clark: Some.

Interviewer: Just local people at that time when you first went up?

Orson Clark: You could usually get local people pretty much.

Lucille Clark: They had camps for Spanish people. They were all around that country.

Interviewer: What percent of the population was Mormon in the area which you lived in?

Orson Clark: They were about twenty percent.

Interviewer: What was the nearest town to you?

Orson Clark: The city was Vale. Our farm was just seven miles directly west of town. Then there is Nyssa and Ontario. It makes a triangle Nyssa and Ontario and Vale at the point.

Interviewer: Where would you do most of your shopping?

Lucille Clark: If you wanted very much, you had to go to Boise.

Interviewer: If you were buying furniture?

Lucille Clark: They didn't have too much in the stores.

Orson Clark: They had a few stores there.

Interviewer: What about medical service, dental service, and things like that? Where would you go?

Orson Clark: You would have to go to Nyssa or Ontario. They were pretty good sized towns.

Ruth Knowlton: There used to be in the early '40's and late '39 up in Ontario, a member of the church who was a baker. His name was Williams.

Orson Clark: I don't know, it doesn't come to mind.

Ruth Knowlton: You didn't have very much association with the members of the church who were in Ontario.

Mrs. Clark: Yes.

Orson Clark: Yes, church was a gathering place.

Interviewer: What ward were you in up there?