Orson Clark-11/23/81 - Pg 4

Orson Clark: I had one little experience. This fellow that smoked these cigars, he was at the head right then. They hadn't been giving me hardly any work, practically no work. I had to have work to go to school, it was my last year. So I went down to him. He's one of these fellows, big, old, staunch with a cigar and the like. I just walked up to him and I said, "How about some work?" He said, "We don't have the work, I'll call you when we need you." I said, "All right, if you can't use me I'm going where they can use me." I turned around and he said, "Oh, wait a minute here. You come to work in the morning."

Interviewer: He knew what a good worker you were.

Orson Clark: Well, there is one thing about it, I worked hard for those folks. Iw as used to hard work.

Interviewer: Living on the farm you would be.

Orson Clark: Going and not fooling around and the like.

Interviewer: You had the advantage over some of those city boys.

Orson Clark: Yes. They liked it. The bosses liked it.

Interviewer: When you went on this peddling trip, did you go in a car or horse and buggy?

Orson Clark: Model T. Ford.

Interviewer: When you came back, where did you live in Salt lake then, the same place?

Orson Clark: No, we moved. Where did we move to?

Lucille Clark: Was it then that we moved on Third South.

Orson Clark: I tell you, the experience we had when we were on our way back. We had our wives come up to meet us. Coming back we went to Yellowstone Park. That was before you had to have all these fancies, you know. So we just took an old canvas we had and took some sticks and made a prop out of it and that was where we slept. We went in there the first day that it opened. We had our hook and line. You would just stand there and as quick as you hit the water you'd catch one.

Lucille Clark: The fish would catch it.

Interviewer: Did you like fish?

Lucille Clark: Oh boy, did we. We had all the fish we could eat.

Orson Clark: We pulled those fish out of there and we were