L.. The 100 Road

Neil Vanderburg: over. I have an idea the snow storm weakened it and then when the wind came along it just tipped it over.

Bob Zybach: So the wind was just within a year or two of that.

Neil Vanderburg: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Anti the whole thing.. . was that an old barn?

Neil Vanderburg: Well, I would think so. I thought the Indians built it.

Bob Zybach: It was built without nails.

Neil Vanderburg: There was no nails in it, and I didn't realize that until after it blew over and then I was Over there looking at it, I saw all these broken pegs, and then I realized it.

Bob Zybach: Where would the mill have been in relation to the barn?

Neil Vanderburg: It would have been on around the corner, up the canyon there a little ways.

Bob Zybach: Okay, how about the mill shacks?

Neil Vanderburg: The mill shacks were right on the creek. I think I told you that the mill shacks they built the out houses right over the creek and that way they didn't have to dig a hole for the out houses. And I remember one time we had a kind of a field trip from the school to pick flowers for May baskets, and we were over there by Savage Creek and Leslie Gardner drank out of it and she said if water has flowed over 250 feet of gravel it's just as pure as if it'd been distilled. And she went ahead and drank it. And all these out houses right about where she'd been drinking. She never got sick, but I think a lot of the reasons for that was that we didn't know any better. I drank out the creek all of the time. Both Savage Creek, and . . . but I didn't drink water that close to the mill.

Bob Zybach: Now, there wasn't any mill shacks where you could see along this side then, those were up around the corner there?

Neil Vanderburg: Let's say this, the trees are growing out here quite a ways from where they were. From the school, you could see the mill shacks. But I don't think that you could see them from here. You see, they were right on Savage Creek.

Bob Zybach: Now, we should make it clear that you only started calling this Savage Creek since you heard that from Don the other day.

Neil Vanderburg: Yeah, yeah. As far as I was concerned it was just Berry creek, and I never thought about it having a Y in here, I . . . I knew they did, but I just never gave it that much thought.

Bob Zybach: Okay. You want to maybe try to find the Chaffin place right now and then come back and finish off this last little segment here?

Neil Vanderburg: Yeah, if you know pretty much where this Chaffin place is.

Bob Zybach: I think so. Why don't we give that a shot.

Neil Vanderburg: When I used to go to the Chaffin place I went up the other road.

Bob Zybach: Well, we don't have that option any more.

Neil Vanderburg: Okay.

L. The 100 Road

Bob Zybach: Okay, now, we're right at the first stop with the Road 100 intersection and we're looking just about due east towards John Smith's.

Neil Vanderburg: It's just a little bit north of east.

Bob Zybach: Okay.