Oral
Histories
Leo Dunbar:
| The living conditions were very good
here. The Six Companies had a wonderful store. I want
to tell you a little something about that, too. The
Six Companies office would issue scrip. And some of
the boys that were working for the Six Companies couldn’t
wait till the payday, so they’d go in ahead
and get scrip. A certain amount would be issued to
them. And the custom become here that scrip was worth
80¢ on the dollar for exchange. I was kind of
a frugal person, and I used to keep a few dollars
ahead; so I had some friends that would go in and
get some scrip, and I’d buy it from them for
80 percent, and then I could trade that scrip to the
Six Company store [at face value to purchase goods].
So that was pleasant for a living condition here,
that some people could have. . . . |
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