What a story, Ron. Thanks for sharing it. Sue Rezek, Iowa ----- Original Message ----- From: Ronald S. Morgan<mailto:edron00@sbcglobal.net> To: camodoc@rootsweb.com<mailto:camodoc@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 1:12 PM Subject: Re: [CAMODOC] MCR Obits 4/19/2001 Modoc County Record – April 19, 2001 James Raymond Brennan A quick story about Ray when he sold Ford auto's and trucks for Crate Jarmin. An old family of Surprise Valley produced Mr. And Mrs. Sweeney who in their later years purchased the Soldier Creek Ranch in Nevada, near Gerlach. This was in the mid thirties and in the middle of the Depression. The Soldier Creek Ranch was an old Cavalry Fort long abandoned by the government. Ray drove a new ton and a half truck to the ranch on the odds of making a sale to the Sweeney's. As I said, times were hard and you did a lot of things to sell your goods. The Sweeney's really liked that truck and their son often hauled wood and poles from the mountain side next to Pyramid Lake near Reno back to the ranch, so they could really use a new truck. Finally they told Ray that they didn't think that they had enough money to purchase the truck. Ray told them that he could arrange financing for them and to think his offer over very carefully. Finally Mr. Sweeney announced that he and "Ma" would go into the house and converse and think about the deal. About 15 minutes later they came out of the house. They told Ray that they had all but $10 of the asking price. Ray told them not to worry about that. The surprise to this story is that they produced all but $10 of the asking price for this beautiful new truck in CASH!! They just were not sure whether they had enough cash, on hand, to purchase this new truck, not that they did't have enough money. My dad and I witnessed this event because we were guests at he time at the Sweeney ranch to hunt sage hens. Ron Morgan ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CAMODOC-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:CAMODOC-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message