Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1921-07-28
Thursday-Friday, July 1928

men. The cooks have to be real chefs
or they could not hold their Jobs over
night. Only the best the market af-
fords comes to that cook house. and,
may say, to every table in the camp.
We simply live on the Injuries of the
land of the great San Joaquin (pro-
nounced San Waukeen) Valley below.
There is railroad to Auberry from
Fresno, over which we obtain supplies
daily, they being ordered by telephone.
Besides a company truck makes trips
to that city $50 miles) two or three
times week.
The men that board at this mess
house pay for their meals at the rate
of three meals for dollar, which is
taken from their pay at the end of the
month. This price does not pay the
cost of the meals. but the company
realizes the fact that in order to retain
good men in such an isolated place.
they must receive only the best of us
age,
There is a clerk, one of the finest fell
/ lows ever met, who orders all food
supplies, acts as time keeper, and, I'M
der my sons jurisdiction, is the most
! important man in camp. Those who
keep house may 30 20 this clerk and OBJ
tain any supplies that may be available
at the mess house at actual cost. 1t is
the aim to keep most anything and
everything in the food line and as it is
bought in large quantities, we obtain it
at less than the eity's retail price Then
there is huxter that comes into camp
two or three times a week with load
of fruits and vegetables. So all in all
we are well fed
| should have added to our perquisites
the matter of fuel We have electrical
appliances for cooking, besides a fine
wood range, and all the wood ready cut
laid at our door, and all free.
The people employed here are above
the average in ability to do things, as
nearly all have to DO with electricity in
some capacity. We find such people
well informed along many other lines.
! must tell you more about our houses
or shacks. You will not find in all the
houses that constitute the camp or the
town of Auberry single square foot
Of dressed lumber. So those who are
fastidious and exacting must stear clear
of this neck of the woods. But let me
whisper the fact that all Of the unoccu-
pied shacks are being torn down and
there are plans complete for nine fine
cement block houses to be constructed
this year, besides big mess house,
bath house, warehouse and club house.
50 we shall soon have a little commun-
ity village with fine lawn and flowers,
as a landscape gardner has been en-
gagged to lay it all out. Hence there
will be in few months a beauty spot
at "the end of the trail combining the
beauties Of nature and the result of in
/ telligent application of labor.
4 ! must add that we have here about
200 select books that constitute branch
Of the Fresno county library and we
can draw from there any additional
books or magazines.
Now for some of our disadvantages.
We are at the end of the trail. We
can go only backwards, unless we go
afoot over rocks and precipices. We
are fifty miles from any church. We
have left all our friends behind us. Only
real expert chauiTeurs can dare at
tempt to drive car, but nearly every
man in camp Except myself is such,
and nearly every one has car No
movie pictures The only way we dis
tnRuish Sunday from any other day is
that we all have ice cream.
As | write great mountain forest
fire is raging not far from camp, so |
must describe the great power plant
and the fire in my next.
VIM. GOLDSWORTHY.
At kerckhoff Power Plant House Camp
in the mountains.