Was the kind of rock different from the sort of roc that you would have seen in the building that was already there? Because, in appearance, it does look different.
Well, I’m not sure. They got quite a bit of that rock from around the Devil’s Backbone, in that area. (OH)
Well, the rock we hauled was from around what they call the Watchman, on the west side. (AH)
Near where the rock was taken later on?
I had a gentleman ask me how’d they load those rocks. I said by strength. We didn’t have no machine. We just got up there and rolled them down off the mountain and into the truck. And we loaded them the same way. We didn’t have dump trucks. We threw them in the truck and threw them out.
So there were a few people there at the Watchman to haul rock all the time?
We’d take a crew with us in the morning, two or three men, to help us load. We had two trucks. The government had two trucks and the contractor had one truck. So they had three trucks up there hauling rocks.
Was that also used for the lodge, or did they have other projects that needed rocks?
No, I think that’s the only thing.
Where did the concession employees live at that point? Was it tents outside the lodge, or did some of them live inside the lodge?
Some of them stayed in the lodge, but I think they had a few cabins.
