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Mosty Family History
FROM KANSAS TO TEXAS
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... looking for us & took us to their camp on the Gus Nois farm a few miles below Menard on the San Saba River. Dad & Lee had worked the winter there grubbing & clearing bottom land that was heavily timbered - at $4.00 an acre. When they measured up in the Spring they had 4 acres - $16 for the entire winter. Spring & summer Dad worked in the elds at 75ยข a day & Lee was thrown in extra helping handling irrigation water in the elds. We caught lots of large cat sh & rolled in meal & baked in a skillet ...
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... on the camp re made good eating.
Late summer we left Menard for Junction. Then on to Kerrville. Coming over the Divide there was no water except wells at the ranches. We stopped at a ranch owned by Capt. Schreiner & Sidney Rees. Jack Rees was on the ranch at that time & he charges us 10 cents a bucket for water.
Reaching Johnson Fork we camped a few days near Sunset School. Our rst stay in Kerr Co. We came on to Kerrville & camped on the river about where Water ...
