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RYAN: At age 13 yhsy summer I got my first job away from home that payed me real Money. I use to ride my bike by the railroad. One side was a box factory that used scraps from the Roy O. Martin Saw Mill there in Pineville. There was also a cresote mill for telephone poles and railroad ties. The other side of the track they loaded pulp wood onto bulkhead flats. My job was to climb up onto the top and streighten the pulpwood in the cars. They were loaded with a crane and cables. A double axle truck would haul two cords. A 14 wheeler would haul 5 cords. The crain would load one cord at the time. I spent school out to school in that summer and was making 30 cent per hour. I was the happest guy on earth that year.The heat was almost unbearable and it was hard work. One thing that made it bad was the pine rosin ozzing out and getting on your bare skin. If it did you had a blister. By the way I was born and raised in Pineville. Gradurated from Pineville High School in  1958. Well MoM calls so it must be time for supper. Later      Neal
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