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Date Posted: 13:52:03 06/28/02 Fri
Author: jim straight
Subject: Re: Paging Jim Straight
In reply to: U 's message, "Re: Paging Jim Straight" on 20:52:25 06/27/02 Thu

Thank you ever so much for the good words. I appreciate it.I was lucky enough to realize that "Gold" comes in many forms. About 1937-8, as a kid at Osceola,Nevada, "Dragline" Miller who later married my widowed grandmother let me play soldiers with some of his nuggets-- the indians-- and quartz pebbles--- the calvary--- and of course the log-cabin sirup cans--- the fort. This was in the Boone Tilford log cabin just after Boone moved to Ely. The Tilfords were old family friends. Boone Tilford's grandson, Dave, is a leading businessman in Ely and sells the ICMJ in his shop. Several years ago I went and met Dave and with Cecil Weaver as my guide revisited all of the Osceola old-time workings.

With the copper mines shut down and the smelter now gone this part of my life no longer exists. I once worked as a laborer at the crusher and later as a flotation operator. All is now gone. Then on to Kaiser Steel as a foreman in the finishing division, now gone but part of a racetrack. I then taught industrial arts in Fontana schools. Industrial arts now gone, the shops have been remodeled into classrooms and the woodshop/metalshop/drafting programs replaced by computor classes.

To close my reminisencing, I was recently at the Claim Jumper restaurant in San Bernardino and to my astonishment saw Dragline's unidentified photo on the wall along with other old timers; gunfighters and prospectors. More "Gold."

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