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Donald M. Dickey: don't know whether he milked cows or whether he raised them for beef and sold them. He was over quite a ways from where we were, but we knew him because he used to come through checking, had we seen his cows.

Bob Zybach: Did you know any of the people on the Soap Creek side very well at all?

Donald M. Dickey: No, I knew some names but I didn't know the people very well.

Bob Zybach: How about the Cooper brothers, when they put their mill in there, did they live in the neighborhood?

Donald M. Dickey: They lived at Airlie. Hap was the older brother and Frank was the younger one.

Bob Zybach: So there would have been Weinert's mill, Coote's and Cornutt's mills, Cooper Brothers and Bennett Brothers, is that the only four mill owners then in the neighborhood?

Donald M. Dickey: Far as I know. That is real local. They used to tell a story on Hap Cooper. Hap had quite a temper you see. And he had one of these about 5 gallon fir barrels that they had nails in that was empty that they used for sitting on at lunch. And something went wrong at lunch why he'd come through and kick that empty 5 gallon wooden container about twice or three times. So these honory so-and-so's filled the thing part full of nails one day. He came through and kicked it that day before he discovered it had nails in it. I guess that cured him of kicking barrels.

15. CAMP ADAIR

Bob Zybach: When Adair came in, there were these mills in the neighborhood, and then there was farmers in the neighborhood, mostly subsistence farmers, and then there was the mill workers and the shacks and maybe a few other families in the neighborhood. But then Adair came in and started purchasing properties. What was the general feeling of those different groups of people about selling their land?

Donald M. Dickey: They didn't have any choice. They knew it. They just sold out and bought another place somewhere.

Bob Zybach: Were people bitter?

Donald M. Dickey: Huh?

Bob Zybach: Were people upset?

Donald M. Dickey: Oh, not particularly, I don't think. Was your folks upset?

Neil Vanderburg: We got moved out before Camp Adair by a year. The Federal Land Bank moved us out.