Richard Neal Interview

Richard Neal by Ryan Leftwich

 "The railroad came in and loaded iron ore and transported it and loaded timber and the merchants received car loads of feed for farms, salt, flour and that nature. The old Conley store building housed a bank, the post office, a store and a train station. You could buy a ticket there and go to Bastian or Narrows by way of train. It ran three days a week. The railroad brought in work to the area. It transported and hauled out a lot of raw materials such as iron ore and logs and different things like that. I rode the train to Bastian; I’m not quite sure how much it cost."