As told to Layton Smith by his father, James Edward Smith Jr.

In 1937, as we were going through Globe, Arizona to a Smith Reunion in Safford. Dad showed me the Copper Mines and said, "Pa hauled the first Machinery in with team and wagon to operate these mines." The machinery was so heavy that it took several teams to pull the wagon, so it was required the use of a jerk line. A jerk line is a rope or line that went through the teams to the main team at the head of the wagon which was trained to know what "gee" and "haw" meant. If you wanted to go to the left the driver jerked on the line and called "haw" and to the right was "gee".

Grandpa didn't have any education so he could barely write his name, but you couldn't cheat him out of any money because he had hauled freight enough and he learned to count money.