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Interview with William Durbrow, Irrigation Leader (1958) (233 pages)
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at their place neer Crockett on Cerquinez Straits to
see if shipments were properly sampled.
Is that how your brother went to work there?
Of course, my feather knew e11 of the Selby people,
whieh probably helped, The heed of the company was
A. J. Ralston, the brother of W. ©. Ralston, the
early day banker. I knew him quite well. A. J.
Ralston was very highly thought of in San Francieco.
My brother was head of the ore purchasing department
and later became secretary of the company and remained
there until he retired,
My brother Alfred was not a very good student.
He did not go to high sehool but became a salesman for
the Cowell Cement Company, and when he died et 72 was
employed by the Southern Pacific Hospital in San Francisco. He wes a member of the Olympic Club, was a
good teller of stories, end very popular with eae large
circle of friends.
And your sisters married, I suppose?
My oldest sister married W. W. Sanderson, who was at
one time one of the supervisors of San Francisco.at a
very interesting time in San Francisco's history. Sen
Francisco had just gone through the terrible scandal
of the Schmitz and Ruef time and a man named Taylor