Soap Creek Valley · 1989 Auto Tour

STOP #10 LEWISBURG SADDLE [Logging]

Stop 10 of the 1989 Historic Soap Creek Valley Auto Tour, printed page 27.

22.4 miles from the Peavy Arboretum entrance on the 1989 route. Open these pages in the original PDF · Read the text below

Original illustrated spread for STOP #10 LEWISBURG SADDLE [Logging], printed pages 26–27. The transcribed text and picture captions follow below. — Bob Zybach, *Historic Soap Creek Valley Auto Tour* (1989), pp. 26–27. Enlarge the pages.

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p. 27

The view before you has changed little during the past 100 years. Early pioneers from the United States found a landscape that had more clearings, ponds, and oak, and fewer conifers than today. This was mostly because of floods, beaver, and Indian fires. Grazing animals belonging to early settlers also had the tendency to suppress new forest growth. As fire protection became stronger and grazing practices changed, young fir trees began to spread outward from pockets of old-growth, protected by rugged terrain or shielded by fire-resistant oak groves. At the turn of the century local builders, previously dependent upon logging and milling operations to the west in Kings Valley, began to realize the potential for a more localized industry. By World War I, logging and milling were firmly established in the Soap Creek Valley. The picture to the left is of a logging camp that was home to several families during the depression. Two tramroads [planked roadways with metal rails] connected the camp to the rest of the Soap Creek community. A Pacific Northwest logging tradition that includes splash dams, teams of oxen, flumes, and railroads was largely precluded from the history of Soap Creek due to the differing conditions noted above. Today this area continues to support the forest products industry, as it has for the past 70 or 80 years.

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STOP #4 SOAP CREEK [Settlers]Named at this stop
STOP #10 LEWISBURG SADDLE [Logging]Logging

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Kings ValleyNamed at this stop

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Soap CreekNamed at this stop

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Soap Creek ValleyNamed at this stop

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Places. United States · Kings Valley · Soap Creek Valley · Soap Creek · Pacific Northwest

Narrators who speak of this place

Pages recorded in the collection index where a narrator names one of the places this stop stands on. Each number opens that page of the transcript.

#1 Lorna Grabe Narrator: Lorna Grabe p. 11, p. 7, p. 14
#2 Paul M. Dunn Narrator: Paul M. Dunn p. 37, p. 35, p. 41
#3 Donald Dickey Narrator: Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey p. 4, p. 20, p. 17, p. 26, p. 33, p. 44, p. 51
#5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner Narrator: John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner p. 82, p. 84, p. 92
#6 James Hanish Narrator: James Hanish p. 44, p. 53, p. 54, p. 57, p. 58, p. 1, p. 25
#7 Charlie Olson Narrator: Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson p. 1, p. 9, p. 10, p. 11, p. 12, p. 13, p. 14, p. 15, p. 16, p. 17, p. 4, p. 15, p. 16, p. 46, p. 47, p. 48, p. 59, p. 61, p. 63, p. 65, p. 67, p. 68, p. 70, p. 72, p. 94, p. 97, p. 136, p. 145, p. 151, p. 168, p. 175, p. 1, p. 4, p. 6, p. 7, p. 11, p. 12, p. 15, p. 16, p. 17, p. 24, p. 32, p. 33, p. 34, p. 35, p. 36, p. 38, p. 39, p. 43, p. 58, p. 59, p. 64, p. 65, p. 71, p. 75, p. 80, p. 82, p. 83, p. 84, p. 91, p. 92, p. 93, p. 94, p. 95, p. 97, p. 101, p. 109, p. 110, p. 115, p. 117, p. 123, p. 124, p. 125, p. 126, p. 127, p. 132, p. 134, p. 136, p. 140, p. 144, p. 145, p. 146, p. 151, p. 167, p. 173, p. 1, p. 2, p. 17, p. 58, p. 60, p. 83, p. 22, p. 92, p. 106, p. 120, p. 171
#8 Neil Vanderburg Narrator: Neil Elton Vanderburg p. 95, p. 104, p. 33, p. 88, p. 89, p. 104, p. 1, p. 2
#9 Eugene Glender Narrator: Eugene Glender p. 92, p. 102, p. 40, p. 72, p. 79, p. 87, p. 89, p. 92, p. 1, p. 3, p. 4, p. 5, p. 56
#10 Velma Carter Rawie Narrator: Velma Carter Rawie p. 7, p. 8, p. 57, p. 67, p. 3, p. 5
#11 Bessie Murphy Narrator: Bessie Murphy p. 13, p. 24, p. 32, p. 79, p. 84, p. 85, p. 87, p. 13, p. 19, p. 98, p. 12, p. 18, p. 24, p. 29, p. 32, p. 47, p. 50, p. 69, p. 79, p. 50
#12 Wanda Marcks Cook Narrator: Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel p. 32, p. 52, p. 74, p. 18, p. 40, p. 51, p. 74, p. 12, p. 8, p. 13, p. 18, p. 21, p. 23, p. 24, p. 30, p. 32, p. 36, p. 38, p. 46, p. 51, p. 54, p. 55, p. 66, p. 73, p. 74, p. 84, p. 85, p. 13, p. 18, p. 24, p. 28, p. 30, p. 32, p. 51, p. 54, p. 55, p. 66, p. 73, p. 74, p. 84, p. 1, p. 3
#13 WILLIAM A. DAVIES Narrator: William A. Davies p. 22, p. 37, p. 4, p. 18, p. 22, p. 50, p. 51, p. 79
#14 Charles and Norman Hindes Narrator: Charles Hindes and Norman Hindes p. 25, p. 9, p. 1, p. 3, p. 5, p. 6, p. 7, p. 8, p. 9, p. 36, p. 46, p. 48, p. 52, p. 56, p. 1, p. 3, p. 5, p. 19, p. 25, p. 26, p. 52
#15 Marvin Rowley Narrator: Marvin Rowley p. 25, p. 34, p. 92, p. 94, p. 99, p. 88, p. 89, p. 30, p. 32, p. 34, p. 58, p. 80, p. 99, p. 103, p. 106, p. 30

Photographs printed with this stop

This mill operated during the Great Depression in the vicinity of the Soap Creek Schoolhouse. Logging and milling operations provided employment for Soap Creek residents before World War II, but the work was irregular and the pay was scanty. Printed page 26

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As printed: Zybach, Bob 1989. Historic Soap Creek Valley Auto Tour. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 32 pp.
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