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A. Varesano interviewing Frank Zahay
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8/21/72
Tape 27-2

AV: What did you say about the mule stable again, you said it was extended east
and west?

FZ: East and west, I think on the west side of the mule stable, there was
another little building, I don't know just how big it was - a feed house -
from the feed house to the mule stable, a small car that would run in
between that they used to haul their feed in.

AV: On tracks?

FZ: On tracks, yeh.

AV: How big was the mule stable itself, maybe 100 ft long?

FZ: No, I wouldn't say a hndred feet long - just to give you a rough guess
about 80 feet, 80 ft about 40ft.

AV: And then that little shed on the west end of it how big was that?

FZ: Oh that wasn't too big either - well rough guess I'd say 20 x 40 and then
between these two buildings they had a little trestle.

AV: And the trestle that's where the car went on the trestle?

FZ: Yeh, between the 2 buildings.

AV: Does that mean the shed was higher than the mule building?

FZ: Well both of them were on foundations you know they had to come up
above the foundations.

AV: And if that feed car went up on a trestle was that a very high trestle?

FZ: No it wasn't very high, about five feet tall just above the foundation.

AV: How big was the mule yard, it extended from the east end of the building
all the way down to the road like it is now?

FZ: Yes, the road wasn't changed, yeh, I'd say from the east end.

AV: What kind of fence did you say it had again, wire?

FZ: Wire, and wire cable - wire posts and wire cable.

AV: You mean like steel posts?

FZ: No they weren't steel posts they were wooden posts but then in later
years, I'm not sure I don't think it was all over the yard but some parts
of the yard, I think stable has posts and pipe nailed on each end
was flat so you cold put a hole in the posts, had posts and pipe nailed
on, now whether it was all around I wouldn't say.