R.. Govier's Sawmill

Charlie Olson: side. But they came together down here in order to cross the main creek over the bridge.

Bob Zybach: So back there on the knoll was the old house. if we're looking backwards where the black smith shop from right here, where would that have been? There's two barns and a black smith's shop, is that correct?

Charlie Olson: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Where would the black smith's shop have been from here?

Charlie Olson: That's pretty hard to tell.

Bob Zybach: Okay.

Charlie Olson: But we went around it, and had it on our right.

R. Govier's Sawmill

Bob Zybach: Okay, we're by Alvie Govier's place right here. A yellow house and where was the sawmill located from here.

Charlie Olson: Right straight up from the house.

Bob Zybach: Straight behind?

Charlie Olson: Yeah, right up straight from the house about fifty yards.

Bob Zybach: Okay. Now, Goviers still live there don't they, some members of the Govier family.

Charlie Olson: I don't know.

Bob Zybach: Do you know any Goviers alive now that would know about that sawmill?

Charlie Olson: Jup.

Bob Zybach: Jup?

Charlie Olson: Alvie Govier's boy would know. We tried to call him. This guy in Philomath that couldn't tell where he met me, he gave us a phone number and he said it was Jup and in Salem.

Bob Zybach: Jupiter?

Charlie Olson: I don't know what his real name was, they always called him Jup.

Bob Zybach: Okay.

Charlie Olson: Then Audrey called that number and they didn't know anything about any Goviers. So this rattle brain you know . . . he got the wrong number.

Bob Zybach: Okay, so do you know when Alvie Govier built that house there?

Charlie Olson: Alvie Govier built that house.

Bob Zybach: Do you know about when?

Charlie Olson: It would have to be about the time that he got married, he married Neva Nebon, from the east and they came out here . . . it would have to be . . . pert near have to get something I can associate with it, you know, it's pretty hard to just pin point a date.

Bob Zybach: I was just curious about when, it doesn't matter exactly, do you know about when their mill got started, was their mill going when you were a boy?

Charlie Olson: I was going to school, I was pretty well along in school when he married that. . . he had a little idea that probably he would marry my sister when she got old enough. I was trying to figure out about some date and he was a pretty nice guy, respectable sort of a guy, but this Neva Nebon grabbed him. And Hilda was probably about fifteen years old at that time, and I would be thirteen and a half.

Bob Zybach: So, she was how much younger than you?

Charlie Olson: A year and a half older.

Bob Zybach: So it would have been about 1915, he got married, and then he built the house about the time he got married.

Charlie Olson: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: When did he start the mill?

Charlie Olson: Pretty quick after that.

Bob Zybach: So right around World War I, he started the miii?

Charlie Olson: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Was there any other mill going in this valley then?

Charlie Olson: No.

Bob Zybach: So that would have been the only mill going at that time?

Charlie Olson: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Do you know of any mill between Sulphur Springs mill that we already looked at and this mill, any other mill going at that time?

Charlie Olson: There was one back of the school house.

Bob Zybach: Yeah.

Charlie Olson: There was one back there, but I was so little at that time, that I can't even tell you if I was two years old or if I was three years old or if I was only one year old. But we