Highlights in the Life of James Monsen

In this segment James Monsen tells about working by shearing sheep for 6 cents per head, working for the DR& G, working at a sawmill, planting gardens for Z.C.M.I.  He returned home to buy calves and returned to making shingles.

James Monsen

              In the spring of 1882 a group of boys and girls assisted in  shearing for Leonard                                        Jordan at the head of Sanpitch River, 

"O Lord of love, come from above in this our mountain home, and give us meat, that's fit to eat, and take away the bones"