CHAPTER
10
THE TERRIBLE THIRTIES: THE GREAT DEPRESSION
1930-1939 M,
oroni "Roni" Christopherson and Rube Christensen, deputies for the Utah County Sheriff Department in the early 1930s, went to Goshen on one occasion to find an illegal still. Christopherson recalled: "We camouflaged ourselves by fixing the roads around town and asking the people if they'd seen any booze around." After several days they approached a h o m e they thought might be the location of the illegal still. A woman came to the door and shouted, "We'll shoot you if you don't stay off our property!" The men decided to walk away, but told the shotgun-toting woman that they would be back. The deputies returned in two weeks when no one was home and entered the house. "I can see it [the still] now," Christopherson remembered, "there in the house ahuffrn' and puffin', with a long copper tube and the booze running into a tub." 1 During the next year, county law enforcement personnel c o n t i n u e d to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution, which prohibited the 209
