18. Marys Peak Side Camp

Edward Sekermestrovich: See the side camps don't have doctors, so I would take this doctor of mine down to check the boys over there, once a week, or something like that. Unless something happens and they call you, you're supposed to go down there together.

Royal G. Jackson: Was a side camp different from a spike camp?

Edward Sekermestrovich: No, I think it's the same thing. But a spike camp -- that's logging talk -- like a bunch of loggers got a four- or five-guy camp, they called a spike camp, with the headquarters here for the big camp. But ours was what you called a side camp. I don't know why they called it that, but they called them side camps. But they had different numbers and they was different class of people, stuff like that. Like up here on Marys Peak they had people there, they was all from the South.

18. Marys Peak Side Camp

Royal G. Jackson: Now wait a minute. They had a camp on Marys Peak?

Edward Sekermestrovich: Oh, yes. As you go up Marys Peak.

Royal G. Jackson: Was that the conscientious objectors' camp? Was it a 3-C camp?

Edward Sekermestrovich: Yes, it was a 3-C camp. It was up around the circle like this here.

Royal G. Jackson: How big a camp was it? Permanent buildings?

Edward Sekermestrovich: Permanent buildings, yes. Well, maybe they had seventy-five people up there, or fifty.

Royal G. Jackson: At the same time as Camp Arboretum?

Edward Sekermestrovich: That's right.

Royal G. Jackson: Did you have much contact with them?

Edward Sekermestrovich: No. All the contact I had with camps like that was when somebody got hurt or got sick and needed a doctor. If they were all bandaged by somebody there and they had their foot cut or something like that, I could go pick them up and bring them down to my doctor, if my doctor didn't want to go up there. And then I used to go to Toledo. Just as you get into the town in Toledo there, there's a side camp up there.

Royal G. Jackson: Name a couple of camps that were close by.

Edward Sekermestrovich: The Mill City camp, and Triangle Lake, and Marys Peak. I don't know why they call it Marys Peak, but that one was Marys Peak side camp. Then we had one at Reedsport, too. I just went down there once.