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Jim's Quote of the Day:
"You've got to understand that we had a big ranch but we only got money
once or twice a year out of it. The money wasn't very free. All the money you
got was in gold coin. I remember I was nearly fifteen or sixteen years old
before I saw much paper money. It was all gold and silver. They didn't have
any greenbacks that I remember. My dad would take the wool and mutton to sell,
and he'd come back with some tobacco sacks full of twenty-dollar gold pieces.
He used to drive three or four-hundred head of sheep down to Cloverdale. They
only brought about $2 a head. A big four horse load of wool taken over to Ukiah
would pay for the groceries and clothes for the next winter. That was the big
trip of the year, when I was a boy. That was when the money came in. That was
the way that we used to get paid for things. Gold and silver coins. As kids,
they used to let us play with the gold coins now and again. That was quite
a celebration." - Ernest
E. Rawles (JWR's grandfather)
