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G.. Junk Matthews' House
G.. Junk Matthews' House of Charlie Olson — printed p. 55 — recorded January 29, 1990 at Sulphur Springs and Soap Creek Valley area, Benton County, Oregon. Every printed page has its own permanent link.
Zybach, Bob and Angela C. Sondenaa 1994. Charlie Olson. Biographical Sketch and Early History of Sulphur Springs, Benton County, Oregon: 1900-1920. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #07. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 185 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
- From
- #7 Charlie Olson
- Narrator
- Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson
- Recorded
- January 29, 1990 · Sulphur Springs and Soap Creek Valley area, Benton County, Oregon
- Interviewer
- Bob Zybach, Angela Sondenaa
- Printed pages
- p. 55
- Original
- http://www.nwmapsco.com/ZybachB/Oral_Histories/Soap_Creek_Valley/07_Olson/Zybach-Sondenaa_1994.pdf
- Accessioned
- From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026
Bob Zybach: What were they set in, were they stakes in the ground, built on that or..
Charlie Olson: There was a floor, there was a floor in there and they set on the floor.
Bob Zybach: Was there a roof or any side walls?
Charlie Olson: No.
Bob Zybach: Now the floor, was it a wooden floor?
Charlie Olson: Yeah.
Bob Zybach: So plank? So this was pretty well, built up right around that spring then?
Charlie Olson: It was a wooden floor, tongue and groove.
Bob Zybach: And it had an open field and people would have tents, a house that people lived in sometimes, or the hotel, was it ever vacant? Or was somebody always living there?
Charlie Olson: Dell Baker lived with his folks down here just on the other side of where Cooks lived.
Bob Zybach: Was there any garden or orchards here?
Charlie Olson: No.
Bob Zybach: Can you think of anything? I think we have a clear picture and I think we've covered. can you think of anything about this area here that we may not have mentioned.
Charlie Olson: I can think of something in regards to that power for that sawmill.
Bob Zybach: Let's go up that way next here.
G. Junk Matthews' House
Bob Zybach: We are up here by a red house, and we're on probably the south east corner, we're just entering what looks like a horse ranch or something here.
Charlie Olson: I wouldn't have any idea what they've got here now. The house, Matthews' house was right in there.
Bob Zybach: About maybe where that barn is or where the fences are down there or horse trailer?
Charlie Olson: I can't tell what that is down there.
Bob Zybach: But it would be off to the lower left of us. What kind of house was it?
Charlie Olson: Just an ordinary wooden house.
Bob Zybach: Do you recall any orchard or anything in this area?
Charlie Olson: Nothing.
Bob Zybach: Where would the saw,nill have been from here?
Speaker attribution inferred from typography where the printed page prints only Q and A.
How to cite this item
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- As printed
- Zybach, Bob and Angela C. Sondenaa 1994. Charlie Olson. Biographical Sketch and Early History of Sulphur Springs, Benton County, Oregon: 1900-1920. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #07. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 185 pp.
- This page
- Olson 1994. G.. Junk Matthews' House, p. 55. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m07-olson/g-junk-matthews-house/ (accessed 2026).
- Cite this passage
- Olson 1994, p. 55 — Monograph #07:55
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