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Fr Or lamsey,are ,0
*pril 7, 1978
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APR t 1 1933
7relphtinp in cilverlity in the "arly nays
ry father, 7zienk larsey,Sr,, was born in evensville, Ind.
In IPF9. re moved to Arixora in 1897, sni finally settled at Toodruf.
the time he was able to wFA..k he waJ- ridinp hornes,he followed the
t-nle of cow-pnrcher and trade-enntil he ceme to Arizona then he worked
for tl'e raflread for a few ye re havire acquired a small fortune he
rev,4 to Id"071C0 in 1806 and went b ck to trediy-rwhi e in flexico
he went troe, and decided to rov- to Alma r.".in 1900.
?ether went t- frelghtire fror Alra to nooney Onnyon
wtt!i twelve heed of horepe. ife C meted all the machinery and enpellea to
The "nteepriee m7he road that he way frelPhtincv over is the pea; of
today, but there has never been a trnolr pell Bleed over the road. 'limn
a load rnst 17e carrie in a*caterpillar ie trouelit dawn the mourtnin and
pulls the loed ern the hill.
In T117 fathee decided th t he better move to 3ilver rity
ae he had tolr ehillren of Mn own and an stIonte; son that need el *0
he in rohe61, teellem we bade a lot ef Meets in tie family add neelel
to lye near a deotor. yonty leese, the adopt0 son, wee an orptan
this parents were deal and he an! his °thee brother and slaters were vent!
the pecele or *he nelehtorheod. The lee that we lawned of the toy he wae
ir roeth "re-loa.
Nther nft-r corrinp to Silver City decided to freipht to
"arollon. 're went by the followinp routel'
Stive- city to nortinental ntvide rilldown nna Onnyon,
so called becanse of the fact that'there wee a breze ir the osnrn when
the air less still ever7where else, we then went so-oss to l'clCelfe- Canyon,
named after a old sheep ranch ownerth, acr-ce to the "arrive which wa-
rare after an Indian oblef,we croesei r'reenwood eery n, whieba wee rnYled
the fact theem wae a strip pf territory throer% the dietriot with
ev-r preen tree on it where the eurronndinp territory was all baron. 'home
to'rtoln %.0ok, this creek,as in the old lays entirely-habitel by wild
Cnolre. -74 crooned to Indian sgoint, so called because in the early days it
wa-s a loolrotu that the Indians held and was a very danperous point as
rary teavelers were waylaid at thir point by the Indians. The not niece It
that wag-' named was Halls Fill so aalled by the freiphters because it was TNL
Hell to get up the hill as many times the mud wan from twelve to twenty
fonr inches deep., we then had to po dawn trunk mans `anyon and up swain
this place was called by the man for it waa said it war no crooked that it
took a drunk man to olirb out of the canyon. Hard Strupele was another
hill *hat oansed so much trouble and received its name from the fact.
1any of the hills and canyons alonp the route was mined by the freishters.
'evil's nntlyon was the next place that we crossed and wa- mare5 because
it was danperous and if a slip wse made the frelphters 'said that the driver
world cure po to thedevil. To didn't have brides to cross these
canyons asiyoe do todeyebut had to po dawn into the cenyon and then roll
ont *Pain. tn th^ aid dfys instead of aniline, a place in the road a
prade we cane it n nnpway from the f-ct many of the roads we ant throniil
the forest and places were dup away for thewarons to po by a unusually
tad place,and this is haw 1 numny received its name and the canyon that
we.enIle' eftewat was so called bre:rinse the road made a Coeble 1 dawn the
ceneon and now it is crossed by a brier*.
°nr last lanpe,ous hill war the bill that athe turn Climax turn
wee on this tu-n was callel by this neee ar it WSR a shan) turn an woull
be fatal to tears and driver if a mistake WSP eale and from thh fnot
the freighte-s said that when they mane the turn it W8P the 1irax to the
trip.
All,the hervy machinery that is in Vopollon was put in by horses
for it-ucke were unable to make the erade and by theold road would be
urines tody.
:hen T wns nine yeers old I made the trip to ropollon with
father and while on the trip father fell from a wagon and was injured and
had to be returned to silv,,r City by the frstest method possible. I was
lei" to make the return trip alone. I had to pet me an Artukle coffee
box to put the collars on the horses, but I made the trip without bny-
trouble, I drwve fourteen head of horses and trailed four wagols. *the
r trip wjas written up in the Albuquerque Journal and felt that had
Whoa a preat-feat but my joy was short lived for when I returned
o chool my teacher, Barbara C.-:-ipley„ &ale me stay after school as I
was ftisturbinp the school, about the trip. A
un thIse trips we usually tried to carry one thousand pounds to the anis
animal. e usually allowed ourself about fifteen days forthe round trip if
we didn't have any trouble, but many times it took forty- five days when
the water was high.
"arnest pennet lef started from Silver City to MOgollon with two
whThite trucks the first to ever po over the road. It took him six weeks
to pet to Ble nry creek, fifty four miles from Silver City 4 then
nunloaded onto freipht waeons to finish the trip. the 1.oads were impoest
is for trucks until it was charmed and tridees were build.
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Prank -aneey, Jr.