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BobHuddleston

January 31, 2013 09:50AM

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Charles wrote: "The men who worked on the track, dug out snowed-in trains and blasted rocks for the Rio Grande really didn't get paid that much. Max Casias, born circa 1904, made $840 for 52 weeks' work at Falfa in 1939 according to the 1940 census form."

There are a whole bunch of ways to measure the present value of an historic dollar amount (See measuringworth.com). $842 for an unskilled laborer in 1940 would equate to about $25,000 or so today.

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