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June 11, 1938 Phyllis was born, a tiny dark haired little girl and the doctor had told me I would never have another baby. The pain I had gone through all winter was all worth it to me when I looked at that baby. Pete planted a tree for her and he bought the place so she would have a home and always a birthday tree.
The men mining Uranium did work hard. The ore had to be 2% and the pay was slow in coming so that spring of 1938 we did get hungry. I said to myself, my family will not get hungry again. I knew hunger. We got one of my Grandmother’s cows to milk, I had a dozen hens so we had some eggs and when a hen would set I put 13 eggs under her and soon we had baby chicks. After my baby was born I worked to get a little pig and later helped the neighbor can sweet corn and took sweet corn for pay. I raised string beans, big white beans, peas and black eyed peas, all went in cans and jars. Mary would take vegetables to the mine and Jack and Pete would bring us rabbits…
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MONTICELLO, San Juan County — A transformer weighing nearly 1 million pounds will arrive at the Monticello fairgrounds Monday after a week of traveling by truck at speeds of 3-10 mph through New Mexico, Arizona and Utah.
The transformer — measuring 25 feet wide and 415 feet long — made its way from China to Houston by boat, from Houston to New Mexico by train, and is finishing its journey by slow-moving truck. In total, the load weighs 1.8 million pounds, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation.
The Pacific Corp, Rocky Mountain Power-owned piece of equipment started its highway trek Monday, Oct. 26 and will arrive on Highway 191 at Monticello’s fairgrounds around noon, the project manager said.
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