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G.. South Fork Bridge

G.. South Fork Bridge of James Hanish — printed pp. 44–46 — recorded January 13, 1990 at Berry Creek, Dunn Forest tracts, OSU Research Forests, Benton County, Oregon. Every printed page has its own permanent link.

Zybach, Bob and Kevin Sherer 1994. James Hanish. Biographical Sketch and a Tour of Berry Creek, Benton and Polk Counties, Oregon: 1930-1938. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #06. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 85 pp.

p. 47 = printed page 47 of the original book; the link on each page number is a permanent address you can send to anyone.

Provenance

Narrator
James Hanish
Recorded
January 13, 1990 · Berry Creek, Dunn Forest tracts, OSU Research Forests, Benton County, Oregon
Interviewer
Bob Zybach, Kevin Sherer
Printed pages
pp. 44–46

Part I. January 13, 1990: Berry Creek Tour (printed pages 1-46). Recorded in the field; fog prevented reaching the Forest Peak summit.

p. 44

James Hanish: Yeah, they didn't bother to scratch you or anything.

Bob Zybach: How about jack rabbit, were there any jack rabbits?

James Hanish: Yeah, there were a few jack in through here. And jack and ground squirrels, hawks, occasional pheasants, and up in the timber is what they call flying squirrels.

Bob Zybach: Did you see very many flying squirrels?

James Hanish: I didn't see them, but I seen the remnants of them.

Bob Zybach: So they were pretty common?

James Hanish: Yeah, I don't know how many there was, but they were up there.

F. 130 Road

Bob Zybach: Now we're on the 130 Road, come up a new stretch where the old road used to cut over to your house, and we've come up above the meadow where you used to hike over to the mill. And we're going to start angling towards Forest Peak on a road that none of us have ever been on before, so we're going to be lost here but we should be up somewhere around your one-sixty [160 acres], I'm thinking, because we've come about a mile and a half or two miles up the creek.

James Hanish: Yes, I see.

Bob Zybach: So are you oriented enough to say anything about this or are you lost enough to just. . . that we should drive on a little bit further?

James Hanish: I don't know anything at all about this country here.

G. South Fork Bridge

Bob Zybach: Now we're on the South Fork of Berry Creek, right here. Now the old road as you came up from Coote's mill into this country here. You say it followed on the right hand side of the creek which would be right in front of us here. Being on the south side of the creek. Is this the old. . . do you think this is the old road bed going right in front of us here, or was the bridge somewhere below us or can you tell for sure?

James Hanish: I think that's . .

Bob Zybach: Would we be about back on your family's one-sixty in here?

James Hanish: No, you're not far enough up.

Bob Zybach: You think it's still further up to the west here.

James Hanish: It was practically straight, the family place was practically straight south from the Coote's sawmill up that canyon.

p. 45

Kevin Sherer: [KEVIN] Through that draw that you showed me where the trees came together?

James Hanish: Yeah.

Kevin Sherer: [KEVIN] Okay, that would put that in that track over there, because this is the bridge over here to my left, at this angle and I would think that we're pretty much on that break.

Bob Zybach: We're in that canyon that you were pointing to.

Kevin Sherer: [KEVIN] Let me get up here a little bit and see if this is the road right here. [Couldn't locate old road bed.]

p. 46

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Zybach, Bob and Kevin Sherer 1994. James Hanish. Biographical Sketch and a Tour of Berry Creek, Benton and Polk Counties, Oregon: 1930-1938. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #06. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 85 pp.
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Hanish 1994. G.. South Fork Bridge, pp. 44–46. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m06-hanish/g-south-fork-bridge/ (accessed 2026).
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