https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/7aad58cf64d5dad1f3ef09294bd90894.pdf 4fdb4323c4db7632b7987ec665246af7 PDF Text Text 'l ~ , ,, , ,' ~ ·, J ) ) J J l -) ) ) ) PARIS AND MADELINE ENGLER "I went into the asparagus business when I was 5 years old. Mr. Stauffer at the market in Rocky Ford gave me 10 cents a bunch. As long as the asparagus lasted l could walk the mile into town and make a profit. But that was nothing compared to the well-digging business Paul Edwards and I started the next year. We dragged out picks and shovels and started to work. The well was four feet deep and-progressing nicely when Paul's brother George lay down on the edge to watch and promptly got himself hit in the head with the backswing of a pick. We thought we'd killed him. He recovered, but our welldigging business was dead. The scene of all this enterprise was my parent's (Francis and Estella Engler) seven and one half acre truck farm in the Arkansas Valley. I was born in a tent near Rock Ford on July 28, 1898. My parents raised melons, corn, green beans and asparagus in that rich valley soil, selling it from the wagon in Rocky Ford, La Junta, and Lamar." "In 1904 Dad was ready to move on for the same reason he left Ohio. It was getting too crowded. When Dad was 19, he and a friend Ike La Ford drove a spring wagon pulled by a single horse from Ohio to Wyoming where he worked in a sawmill before going on to Colorado. In Denver Francis was hired on the construction crew building Elitch Gardens. It was there he met Estella Bird Beans and they were married in 1897." ) ) ) ) ) ) 1 J _) J ....J J _) ..J J ._) -..J ....J -..J J "In 1904 Dad and I rode the train to Allison, Colorado to locate a homestead. We camped in a tent on Jack Riddle's place until the remainder of our things arrived on the train two weeks later. All we brought to start the farm was a mare and a gelding, a cow and a heifer and two hives of bees. Our mare immediately ran off with a herd of wild horses. After days of chasing and a lot of help from neighbors, we cornered them in a box canyon and got a rope on her. The land was all pinon forest. If you wanted open land you had to clear it. The first year we opened up 9 acres. The one acre we planted to oats we had to cut with a sickle. Fortunately one of our neighbors had a horse-powered threshing machine which he let us use. Our first house was a simpl·e frame building made with lumber we hauled from Bayfield. It had an earthen floor and was not large. I slept in the wagon box filled with straw and later in the barn until we built our permanent house in 1915." 11 After we moved out here my dad was mainly interested in his bee hives, his orchard and his cows. He made a deal with me for clearing the pinons. I got all I could raise off the land I cleared the first year. I remember one year raising hundreds of pounds of potatoes. They sold for 26 cents per sack. Some of them were so large that 3 together weighed up to 1O pounds." "We bought our first hay baler for $6.00. It was in bad shape, but repairable. Most of our hay was shipped by train to the sawmills which used a lot of horse power. We decided to trade hay for the lumber to build our house. I stayed out of school one term to do the transporting. I used three horses to haul 20 bales to the train and returned with 600-700 board feet of lumber each trip. We dug the basement, hauled sand from Spring Creek and quarried rock. Old man Star came down from the mesa to help us lay the rock for the basement. It was a double wall 16 inches thick. We finished in 9 days." J J J J 49 �"Dad's bees did so well here, he decided to ask Lee Pennel's father, whom he had known back in Rocky Ford, to move on out. We raised a lot of comb honey. At times the Pennels and us shipped out several thousand pounds of comb honey on the train. It was my job to pack it in the railroad car just so with straw braced between the boxes." If the engineer bumped the cars too roughly while linking up or switching, he got a good chewing out from my Dad. Once Mr. Bendure, who worked at the station,,.,., ...... (page missing) 50 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shelby Smith Interviews Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-NC/1.0/?language=en Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1973-1980 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Collection of biographies, predominantly of residents from the Ignacio Senior Center, based on interviews conducted by Shelby Smith from approximately 1973 to 1980. The abridged interviews were originally published as individual entries in The Thoughtful Years newsletter, published by the Ignacio Senior Center, beginning in 1973. They were later published as a whole in Smith's book: Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley, from which the original scans in this collection have been derived. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Paris Engler and Madeline Engler Biography Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1973-1981 Subject The topic of the resource Engler, Paris; Engler, Madeline Description An account of the resource Biography of Paris Engler and Madeline Engler based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith sometime between 1973 and 1981. Included in the book "Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley" by Shelby Smith. Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Engler, Paris; Engler, Madeline Extent The size or duration of the resource. 2 pages Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby