D.. The Cox Dairy

Neil Vanderburg: Single stem per fern.

Bob Zybach: Did it grow up about five or six foot?

Neil Vanderburg: Well, not on our ground. They were up there about 18 inches, probably.

Bob Zybach: Okay. Can you think of anything else here? We kind of jumped ahead and got into fish and wildlife there a little bit, but.

Neil Vanderburg: No, I can't right off hand. Old Joe Smith doesn't look as old as he used to, does he? [Reference to younger man that has come into view]

Bob Zybach: No, it looks like he's gotten a lot younger. [Laughs]

D. The Cox Dairy

Neil Vanderburg: Is this College tees here?

Bob Zybach: No, this is Dunn Forest Road, going to the west, and we've just entered Berry Creek. . just

Bob Zybach: crossed Staat's Creek. Can you tell me about the dairy farm here?

Neil Vanderburg: Well, I'm not going to tell you what I told you about it a little while ago! But all I know about it was there was a pretty big dairy [Fred Cox] back there and we hauled some feed in to him one time and I think he probably lost the place and I think my brother-in-law's mother and father moved in there just before the war. And they got moved out just about as quick as they got moved in, I didn't know where they lived, but they lived north of Dickey some place, and I think this would put them right in there north of Dickey's.

Bob Zybach: So, now that draw there connects up to the Dickey's. The one that's running north and south towards Forest Peak there. Can you recall any other families living back through that country?

Neil Vanderburg: Not at this point. Right up on top of the hill there's a house, you can see a roof sticking up, Gilbert Ennis used to own that. He lived there with his son and wife and he sent his wife home on a vacation and she's still on vacation. She got the fare to get home and she went home.

Bob Zybach: Where did she live?

Neil Vanderburg: I don't know, back in the midwest some place. But Gilbert was raising that boy, oh the last time I saw Gilbert his boy was in high school. He moved over to the Lebanon area.

Bob Zybach: But down this road here there was just the one dairy?

Neil Vanderburg: Just the one dairy and it was a dead end road there.

Bob Zybach: And this was a dead end road?

Neil Vanderburg: Yeah. And Cooper's Mill would have been on back past the end of this road. And there wasn't any road that came here, you would have had to come in on that other draw there.

Bob Zybach: Okay, so where Cooper's Mill was, then you came in, like you said from Airlie?

Neil Vanderburg: From Airlie, yeah.

Bob Zybach: Would you have gone past Maple Grove and come in on Maxfield Creek, maybe?

Neil Vanderburg: I think so.

Bob Zybach: Okay. And so the Cooper's Mill was actually on the Kings Valley side of this ridge?

Neil Vanderburg: No, according to Donald, it was right over in back of his place.

Bob Zybach: Okay. But you just had to drive in from the Kings Valley side.

Neil Vanderburg: There wasn't any road that went through there. But we could hear. . . see, all these