B.. The Old Sawmill

Bob Zybach: Okay, on this road here, we go up to where it forks and you said it goes to the Mennonites. About how far is that?

Eugene Glender: Oh, probably about a half mile or something like that.

Bob Zybach: How big were the orchards ... oh, and how far down the fork was it then?

Eugene Glender: Oh, about a half mile up here [west] and then another half mile back that way off to the right [north].

Bob Zybach: Do you recall how big the orchards were?

Eugene Glender: No, it was just trees scattered around, more or less, .there wasn't really that much left.

Jan Meranda: [Jan] They're pretty old ... old trees?

Eugene Glender: Yeah, they were fairly old trees, they were all grew up in blackberries already.

B. The Old Sawmill

Eugene Glender: . old building of some kind in there, I don't really know who lived there or what was there.

Bob Zybach: Was anybody living there when you were a kid?

Eugene Glender: No.

Bob Zybach: Because there's a little orchard here ... let's see, what's the mileage Jan?

Jan Meranda: [Jan] 609.4.

Bob Zybach: And this is the ... you can remember the building, was it like a house or shed or.

Eugene Glender: More like a shed.

Bob Zybach: Was it shingle roof

Eugene Glender: I believe.

Bob Zybach: Is there anything else you might recall about this site?

Eugene Glender: No.

Bob Zybach: Were these fir trees growing here then, was it a field?

Eugene Glender: No, this was all trees through here.

Bob Zybach: Were there larger trees than these?

Eugene Glender: I think probably about the same as they are now; they've grown some since.

Bob Zybach: Can you remember about where the house was?

Eugene Glender: It was right in there, just the other side of that apple tree.

Bob Zybach: Just off there on the left, then?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Okay.

Eugene Glender: Anymore, I just can't

Bob Zybach: Is that an old large log up there or is that some sawdust tailings?

Eugene Glender: No, that's ... they just plugged the road up.

Bob Zybach: Oh, I see, just blocked the road there. So we're at Stop 2 and you remember a sawmill being up here?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: What ... was it operating?

Eugene Glender: When I was just a little kid it was.

Bob Zybach: In the late 1920's?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Do you remember what they were logging here, what types of...

Eugene Glender: Fir. It's all fir in here.

Bob Zybach: Old growth or second growth?

Eugene Glender: I don't know, probably old growth. I suppose, this kind that's here ... because it had never been logged before.

Bob Zybach: Was there any oak or did they do any hard woods at all?

Eugene Glender: No.

Bob Zybach: Do you remember any of the people that worked here?

Eugene Glender: No.

Bob Zybach: Do you remember how they logged the area? Horse logging?

Eugene Glender: I don't really know; I never came over when they were logging.

Bob Zybach: How long was this building here?

Eugene Glender: I don't know that either.

Bob Zybach: How far off the road do you think it was here?

Eugene Glender: Fifty yards, a hundred yards.

Zybach, Bob. 1989. Historic Soai Creek Valley Auto Tour, Oregon State University Research Forests, 3lpp.