Gilbert, Arizona

k Cotton gin

The cotton was processed in gins in and around Gilbert. When I was a young man, we had three cotton gins in town. This gin shown above is still standing along the tracks west of Gilbert Road.

Albert “Ab” Nichols and his oldest son are shown below about 1920, taking loads of baled alfalfa hay to the Southern Pacific Railroad Depot in the Town of Gilbert.

k Hauling hay to the Gilbert Depot

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