My family moved to Mountain Green where father had a contract to furnish cord wood to the government for fuel in Fort Douglas. He also sold tan bark to tanner¬ies for making leather shoes. For three years I worked at my father's sawmill and learned to run the mach¬inery. I went to work for the Union Pacific as a brakeman between Ogden and Evanston, looming. While working on the railroad there was a blockade of snow and for 10 days no trains ran between Ogden and Omaha, Nebraska. At the age of 19 I married Emily Adelaid France on January 17, 1874. We lived in Mountain Green for a while, then moved to Hooper where our first child, Amy, was born. When she was six weeks old we moved to Uintah and stayed there a year. We moved back to Mountain Green where Amy died with Scarlet fever. We bought an acre and a half of land with a one-room log cabin, sold that and bought a larger log house with two acres of land in Cottonwood. We now had six living children: David Byram Jr., Eva Adelaide, Charles Eugene, Ethel, Elva Adelia and Rachael. Our third child, Joseph, had died at about one month of age. We moved to Hooper in 1885 where I hunted ducks where the Weber River emptied into the Great Salt Lake. Mallards sold for $1.50 a dozen; and teal ducks for $1.75. Once my brother and I sighted a big grizzley bear and decided to kill him for his hide. We both shot at him and kept on shooting. We didn't kill him until he was within three rods of us. In the Spring of 1886 my family and several others moved to the Snake River Valley in Idaho. We had 75 cents change in our pockets. At Eagle Rock I obtained work from William Arave. We pitched our tents by the Snake River and went to work on the Great Western Canal. It was built to wash gold. The land on the Monroe Brown farm had been 'salted' with gold dust and sold to some wealthy east-erners. When they found there was no gold the canal was sold to farmers for irrigation purposes. Our only cow, 'Old Brin', swam the Snake River and dis¬appeared. In July we filed on a homestead at Taylorville and we moved there. We lived in the log house of Ed Wadsworth until I could get out logs and build my own. Old Brin was found and brought back home and Charles was bitten by a scorpion. We were much concerned, but the boy said, "Take me to Sunday School and I will be alright," which we did and he was. I made a living by hunting, selling the hides DAVID CHARLES E. 180