A brief excerpt from Alice's autobiography:
"If I should write all the actual occurrences of my life you would think I was pulling your leg or was an awful liar. But here goes … When I was eleven my Mother went to Beaver Canyon with my sister, Mollie Bassett, when her third child was born … When she went to Beaver she left me at home with a housekeeper to look after me, then sent for me. At eleven, mind you, I took the trip from Tooele to Beaver Canyon alone; made changes at Salt Lake for Ogden, Ogden for Pocatello, Pocatello for Beaver Canyon, getting in at 2 o'clock in the morning. I wouldn't let one of my girls cross the street in a place we were well known at that age at that time of the morning. So, if you find me self-opinionated you will know what caused it. Mother was induced to open a restaurant for the accommodation of the businessmen in Beaver Canyon, some eight in number ... So long as she was in the business of feeding the multitude I was with her.

… At 16 I was called on to take care of my brother Alf's family as his wife had just died. So back to Tooele for me for the next two years. Then Alf came to the conclusion that he could do better for his family of four girls and one boy if he also came to Idaho. But that put me in the section house at Pleasant Valley as he got work on the section and I ran the boarding house. Out of that, I never at any time got one penny, as it took all we both could make to keep things going. While there, my sister Lib, came to Idaho from Mexico. And as she had lost her husband on landing at San Francisco, she wanted me to go back with her. My mother looked after the children while I was away. I was with Lib in Tapachula where she sold her coffee plantation. But my health was so bad I had to come home. Believe me, all you have to do is leave the U.S.A. for a while to know what a precious privilege it is to belong here. "

Source: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/memories/KWVG-XPG