Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1907 — OUT ON THE BOUNDLESS DESERT [ARTICLE]

OUT ON THE BOUNDLESS DESERT

Gaylord McFarland will leave Monday for Lemay, Utah, to take a job at S7O per month in the yards of the Southern Pacific railroad at that plaoe. This is where Lloyd Jessen and Rue Parcels are looated, the former as telegraph operator and the latter as foreman of the railroad yards. Lemay is 85 miles from Odgen and not far from the U. P. coal mines. The loaded coal cars are brought to Lemay and there made np into trains and sent out. A letter reoeived a few days ago by Rne’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Parcels, oontained pictures of the railroad and their home—a box car. The boyß are batching, and as there is nothing to tempt their money from their pockets they are laying np a nice sum each month. It is a barren desert where they are, and Ogden is the nearest town frbm them. Rue says he is getting stout and rugged and has not been sick a day since he went there. The “mountain fever” sometimes gets hold of the men there, and Lloyd Jessen was in the hospital two months with the disease, bat is now back at work.