Orson Clark-11/23/81 - Pg 18

Interviewer: How many acres were you farming up there?

Orson Clark: The first year we farmed part of her brother's, one hundred and sixty. Then the next year we bought a place, eighty.

Interviewer: So you were farming eighty acres. What were growing up there?

Orson Clark: Hay, grain, corn.

Interviewer: Those are major crops.

Lucille Clark: Potatoes.

Orson Clark: Potatoes and some onions. We had some cows and milk.

Interviewer: Those are your major cash crops. What would bring you in the greatest income?

Orson Clark: Oh, the cows I guess.

Interviewer: Were you selling fresh milk?

Orson Clark: Yes.

Interviewer: Were the dairies picking it up or did you have to truck it in?

Orson Clark: They would pick it up.

Interviewer: They would come right by the farm and pick it up? They used to do that in Holladay.

Ruth Knowlton: What year did you go there? I failed to hear that but maybe you said.

Lucille Clark: '51.

Interviewer: And you went there because you had relatives up there?

Lucille Clark: Well, he liked the country and he wanted to farm where you could have all the water that you wanted and not too many weeds.

Interviewer: Was it irrigated farming?

Orson Clark: Yes.

Interviewer: Was that on the Columbia River Project?