A letter written from Milton to his cousin, Elizabeth Price Astle in 1965:
"Memories" by Milton Price
I remember Utah. I recall the first day I went to school in the little log school house, the teacher was Lawrence Johnson. He lived in Laketown and would ride a horse over from town and leave it in our barn. The second year the new meeting house was built on the hill and school was held there. We all thought what a nice school and church we had. We could check the time for meetings with your father [Isaac Thomas Price] and family going by during the week days and on Sundays. I can remember when Leslie Price, Herbert and Henry Earley and I were all baptized the same day by Bishop [Isaac] Price and Jimmy Anderson. I think it was in the Price Dam. When I was small, one of the best highlights was to go to the store to see your father [Isaac Price.] I would take an egg to get some candy. he was always so nice to me.
I think when we left Round Valley and went to Randolph, I was 8 years old. We all liked it better there because it was a larger place and it had a better school and larger church. The land Dad [Johnny Price] got was half alkali ground and he couldn't raise anything but that fox tail grass; the stock wouldn't even eat it. My dad was made City Marshall but he did not get along very well on the job because many people and kids didn't like him. So we decided to go to Oregon.
My father rented an apple orchard for a year. There was a nice house and the first bath tub any of us had ever used. We thought it was great! This move was made in the fall of the year 1911, to LaGrande. It was just in time to pick apples and Dad hired a lot of pickers paying by the box. As Dad did not know anything about the harvesting of apples, he left it to the pickers, and when he was not around, they shook the apples from the trees and many of them were bruised. The apples were stored in a cellar. In about a month we started to sort them and found about half of them were spoiled. So that was another bad deal.
We stayed at this place until spring and then Father bought some ground closer to town. He also found a house that someone wanted moved from the present location, and so he bought it and had it moved to his ground and we had a home once more. We lived there for years. As we children were all growing up, we went out to work for wages: Shell worked for the UP Railroad, Parley at odd jobs, Rhoda at the Laundry, Alva at the sawmill. As a spring job, I worked at the brick yard, but in summer would go out to the Walter Pierce farm. Walter Pierce was the Governor of Oregon and owned over 1,000 acres. He liked my father and he made him his foreman. He worked for Pierce for a number of years. I worked there for two summers and then decided that the city jobs were better and paid more.
After that, I was not around my father very often. I went to work at the printing office in 1916 in LeGrande; moved to Klamath Falls, Oregon in 1929. In 1953 I came to San Francisco, where I still reside. I have been engaged in the printing office all these years.
I married Opal Ivie and we are happy and proud to be the parents of four wonderful children, all grown up and established for themselves. On the 22nd of March 1965, I had a serious operation, and after three months do not feel sufficiently recovered to return to my work. I am now 64 years old. Opal and I remember with pleasure our trip to Utah. It was one of the nicest we have ever taken, and we hope to return as soon as we can. We appreciate the fine work done on all the histories for the family, and they mean a lot to me.
"Memories" by Milton Price
I remember Utah. I recall the first day I went to school in the little log school house, the teacher was Lawrence Johnson. He lived in Laketown and would ride a horse over from town and leave it in our barn. The second year the new meeting house was built on the hill and school was held there. We all thought what a nice school and church we had. We could check the time for meetings with your father [Isaac Thomas Price] and family going by during the week days and on Sundays. I can remember when Leslie Price, Herbert and Henry Earley and I were all baptized the same day by Bishop [Isaac] Price and Jimmy Anderson. I think it was in the Price Dam. When I was small, one of the best highlights was to go to the store to see your father [Isaac Price.] I would take an egg to get some candy. he was always so nice to me.
I think when we left Round Valley and went to Randolph, I was 8 years old. We all liked it better there because it was a larger place and it had a better school and larger church. The land Dad [Johnny Price] got was half alkali ground and he couldn't raise anything but that fox tail grass; the stock wouldn't even eat it. My dad was made City Marshall but he did not get along very well on the job because many people and kids didn't like him. So we decided to go to Oregon.
My father rented an apple orchard for a year. There was a nice house and the first bath tub any of us had ever used. We thought it was great! This move was made in the fall of the year 1911, to LaGrande. It was just in time to pick apples and Dad hired a lot of pickers paying by the box. As Dad did not know anything about the harvesting of apples, he left it to the pickers, and when he was not around, they shook the apples from the trees and many of them were bruised. The apples were stored in a cellar. In about a month we started to sort them and found about half of them were spoiled. So that was another bad deal.
We stayed at this place until spring and then Father bought some ground closer to town. He also found a house that someone wanted moved from the present location, and so he bought it and had it moved to his ground and we had a home once more. We lived there for years. As we children were all growing up, we went out to work for wages: Shell worked for the UP Railroad, Parley at odd jobs, Rhoda at the Laundry, Alva at the sawmill. As a spring job, I worked at the brick yard, but in summer would go out to the Walter Pierce farm. Walter Pierce was the Governor of Oregon and owned over 1,000 acres. He liked my father and he made him his foreman. He worked for Pierce for a number of years. I worked there for two summers and then decided that the city jobs were better and paid more.
After that, I was not around my father very often. I went to work at the printing office in 1916 in LeGrande; moved to Klamath Falls, Oregon in 1929. In 1953 I came to San Francisco, where I still reside. I have been engaged in the printing office all these years.
I married Opal Ivie and we are happy and proud to be the parents of four wonderful children, all grown up and established for themselves. On the 22nd of March 1965, I had a serious operation, and after three months do not feel sufficiently recovered to return to my work. I am now 64 years old. Opal and I remember with pleasure our trip to Utah. It was one of the nicest we have ever taken, and we hope to return as soon as we can. We appreciate the fine work done on all the histories for the family, and they mean a lot to me.
A letter written from Milton to his cousin, Elizabeth Price Astle in 1965:
"Memories" by Milton Price
I remember Utah. I recall the first day I went to school in the little log school house, the teacher was Lawrence Johnson. He lived in Laketown and would ride a horse over from town and leave it in our barn. The second year the new meeting house was built on the hill and school was held there. We all thought what a nice school and church we had. We could check the time for meetings with your father [Isaac Thomas Price] and family going by during the week days and on Sundays. I can remember when Leslie Price, Herbert and Henry Earley and I were all baptized the same day by Bishop [Isaac] Price and Jimmy Anderson. I think it was in the Price Dam. When I was small, one of the best highlights was to go to the store to see your father [Isaac Price.] I would take an egg to get some candy. he was always so nice to me.
I think when we left Round Valley and went to Randolph, I was 8 years old. We all liked it better there because it was a larger place and it had a better school and larger church. The land Dad [Johnny Price] got was half alkali ground and he couldn't raise anything but that fox tail grass; the stock wouldn't even eat it. My dad was made City Marshall but he did not get along very well on the job because many people and kids didn't like him. So we decided to go to Oregon.
My father rented an apple orchard for a year. There was a nice house and the first bath tub any of us had ever used. We thought it was great! This move was made in the fall of the year 1911, to LaGrande. It was just in time to pick apples and Dad hired a lot of pickers paying by the box. As Dad did not know anything about the harvesting of apples, he left it to the pickers, and when he was not around, they shook the apples from the trees and many of them were bruised. The apples were stored in a cellar. In about a month we started to sort them and found about half of them were spoiled. So that was another bad deal.
We stayed at this place until spring and then Father bought some ground closer to town. He also found a house that someone wanted moved from the present location, and so he bought it and had it moved to his ground and we had a home once more. We lived there for years. As we children were all growing up, we went out to work for wages: Shell worked for the UP Railroad, Parley at odd jobs, Rhoda at the Laundry, Alva at the sawmill. As a spring job, I worked at the brick yard, but in summer would go out to the Walter Pierce farm. Walter Pierce was the Governor of Oregon and owned over 1,000 acres. He liked my father and he made him his foreman. He worked for Pierce for a number of years. I worked there for two summers and then decided that the city jobs were better and paid more.
After that, I was not around my father very often. I went to work at the printing office in 1916 in LeGrande; moved to Klamath Falls, Oregon in 1929. In 1953 I came to San Francisco, where I still reside. I have been engaged in the printing office all these years.
I married Opal Ivie and we are happy and proud to be the parents of four wonderful children, all grown up and established for themselves. On the 22nd of March 1965, I had a serious operation, and after three months do not feel sufficiently recovered to return to my work. I am now 64 years old. Opal and I remember with pleasure our trip to Utah. It was one of the nicest we have ever taken, and we hope to return as soon as we can. We appreciate the fine work done on all the histories for the family, and they mean a lot to me.
"Memories" by Milton Price
I remember Utah. I recall the first day I went to school in the little log school house, the teacher was Lawrence Johnson. He lived in Laketown and would ride a horse over from town and leave it in our barn. The second year the new meeting house was built on the hill and school was held there. We all thought what a nice school and church we had. We could check the time for meetings with your father [Isaac Thomas Price] and family going by during the week days and on Sundays. I can remember when Leslie Price, Herbert and Henry Earley and I were all baptized the same day by Bishop [Isaac] Price and Jimmy Anderson. I think it was in the Price Dam. When I was small, one of the best highlights was to go to the store to see your father [Isaac Price.] I would take an egg to get some candy. he was always so nice to me.
I think when we left Round Valley and went to Randolph, I was 8 years old. We all liked it better there because it was a larger place and it had a better school and larger church. The land Dad [Johnny Price] got was half alkali ground and he couldn't raise anything but that fox tail grass; the stock wouldn't even eat it. My dad was made City Marshall but he did not get along very well on the job because many people and kids didn't like him. So we decided to go to Oregon.
My father rented an apple orchard for a year. There was a nice house and the first bath tub any of us had ever used. We thought it was great! This move was made in the fall of the year 1911, to LaGrande. It was just in time to pick apples and Dad hired a lot of pickers paying by the box. As Dad did not know anything about the harvesting of apples, he left it to the pickers, and when he was not around, they shook the apples from the trees and many of them were bruised. The apples were stored in a cellar. In about a month we started to sort them and found about half of them were spoiled. So that was another bad deal.
We stayed at this place until spring and then Father bought some ground closer to town. He also found a house that someone wanted moved from the present location, and so he bought it and had it moved to his ground and we had a home once more. We lived there for years. As we children were all growing up, we went out to work for wages: Shell worked for the UP Railroad, Parley at odd jobs, Rhoda at the Laundry, Alva at the sawmill. As a spring job, I worked at the brick yard, but in summer would go out to the Walter Pierce farm. Walter Pierce was the Governor of Oregon and owned over 1,000 acres. He liked my father and he made him his foreman. He worked for Pierce for a number of years. I worked there for two summers and then decided that the city jobs were better and paid more.
After that, I was not around my father very often. I went to work at the printing office in 1916 in LeGrande; moved to Klamath Falls, Oregon in 1929. In 1953 I came to San Francisco, where I still reside. I have been engaged in the printing office all these years.
I married Opal Ivie and we are happy and proud to be the parents of four wonderful children, all grown up and established for themselves. On the 22nd of March 1965, I had a serious operation, and after three months do not feel sufficiently recovered to return to my work. I am now 64 years old. Opal and I remember with pleasure our trip to Utah. It was one of the nicest we have ever taken, and we hope to return as soon as we can. We appreciate the fine work done on all the histories for the family, and they mean a lot to me.
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