Jack Dempsey, known as the Manassa Mauler or Nonpareil, held the heavyweight title from 1919 to 1926, but as a young man he traveled the rails and lived in hobo work camps, including one along the river in Echo. There he worked as a laborer on irrigation canal construction and did odd jobs around town. A local story recalls him buying 25 cents worth of stew meat from butcher Bert Logsdon, repeatedly presenting a one hundred dollar bill that could not be changed, then pulling it back when the butcher finally said he could change it and saying he had lived for several months on that bill before receiving the right change for the meat. In Echo, the pit called the Dug Out on Main Street, where the Fife RV is now located, hosted boxing and wrestling matches, and he fought there while living in town. He also returned about 1924 for an exhibition fight. While he was in Echo, Addie "Maxine" Cates lived on Kennedy and Dale Streets. Later she and Jack met in Salt Lake, where she was playing the piano in a saloon, and they were married from 1916 to 1919, when he divorced Cates. Although one biographer listed Maxine as ten years older than Jack, census and family history indicate that she was born in 1896 and was younger than he was.