R.. Neighbors

Bob Zybach: The college got that between 1925 and 1934, but they got it just from other people that had the forest up through there.

Eugene Glender: I don't know, they had it up there when we lived there.

Bob Zybach: You just called it the College Forest?

Eugene Glender: It was the [Peavy] Arboretum.

Bob Zybach: Arboretum. What did you call this up along the ridge there, "the Arboretum?"

Eugene Glender: That whole thing was the Arboretum.

Bob Zybach: Okay, how about down further towards the Soap Creek School, Lewisburg Saddle?

Eugene Glender: I don't know what that was.

Bob Zybach: Okay. I think ... can you think of anything we haven't covered here?

Eugene Glender: No.

Bob Zybach: I think we've covered everything about three times. How about you, Jan, as things occurred to you have mentioned them, haven't you? Well, I think we can just about wrap it up. I sure appreciate all this.

R. Neighbors

Eugene Glender: See where the road makes ... the road's closed now.

Bob Zybach: Yeah.

Eugene Glender: You used to go straight ahead, where as you made the turn that was Blake [Edgar and Charlotte] lived there.

Bob Zybach: Okay, I've got some stories about him.

Eugene Glender: Yeah, they built that house there and across on the other side was their old original house.

Bob Zybach: The old original Blake house?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: I know the school burned that down in 1956 or something. What did you know about the Blakes, were they well known locally?

Eugene Glender: He worked ... he was a professor at college, I think.

Bob Zybach: At Oregon State?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Do you remember anything particular about that house?

Eugene Glender: There's one of them houses there, they use for a school house when ... before Tampico was built.

Bob Zybach: Before Tampico was built?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: At Blake's there?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Do you know the name of it?

Eugene Glender: Mrs. [Lottie] Blake, I think, was the one that taught the school.

Bob Zybach: So that was

Eugene Glender: She was a school teacher.

Bob Zybach: And then past the Blake's, was that the Arboretum then, was the next thing?

Eugene Glender: No, then there ... just past them was old 99. See, you had to go, went on into Corvallis.

Bob Zybach: What did you call 99?

Eugene Glender: 99.

Bob Zybach: Okay, it was called Ninth Street before that. Around 1905 it was called Ninth Street.

Eugene Glender: Oh.

Bob Zybach: Didn't have a 99, so when ... Highway 99 then it went to Blake's, Hoffman, and then Barzee

Eugene Glender: there's one in between there.

Eugene Glender: No, Barzee right up on top here.

Bob Zybach: Then the turkey farmer

Jan Meranda: [Jan] Beal.

Eugene Glender: BeaL

Bob Zybach: And then your place.

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Okay. And then that road just ... was it pretty much the alignment to the one they shut off there that went all the way through there, was the roo4 alignment pretty much the same?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Did you ever know the Blakes?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Why would you go talk to them? Why would you see them?

Eugene Glender: Well, they used to come down here to the school, when we had school picnics. At the end of school and stuff like that. I knew them.

Bob Zybach: Oh, so it would be their kids?

Eugene Glender: I don't think they had any kids.

Bob Zybach: They were just older people that came to picnics and things?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: They were quite a bit older than you weren't they?

Eugene Glender: Oh, yeah.

Bob Zybach: So they'd be your parents' age?

Eugene Glender: They'd be all gone now, yeah.

Bob Zybach: So the Blakes were just a couple and then HoffMan, they had

Eugene Glender: One girl [Aladean].

Bob Zybach: One girl. And Barzees, how many kids did they have?

Eugene Glender: I think they had a boy and a girl.

Bob Zybach: Boy and girl. Then Beals

Eugene Glender: They were all older too, so ... Barzee.

Bob Zybach: And Beals had an older girl [Enid]?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: And then your family?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Okay, and then ... can you recall anything about the [Grover] Hoffinans in particular? What they did for a living?

Eugene Glender: Well he hauled wood and then he worked out. He used to come out and help us when harvest time and stuff like that.

Bob Zybach: Did you ever have a hired hand live with you?

Eugene Glender: No.

Bob Zybach: So on Blake, he was really the only person that wasn't just a farmer, even how about the sawmill, Govier, was the saw,nill his main business or was that, did he have a farm and a saw,nill?

Eugene Glender: I think that was his main business. Alvie's. See, Elmer was the one that farmed.

Bob Zybach: So we got up to the sawmill there. On Blake, he taught at Oregon State. Everybody else raised turkeys or dairy farm or

Eugene Glender: Yeah, more or less.

Bob Zybach: Worked and lived off the land?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: I didn't go there because I thought we were at the end of the line there.

Eugene Glender: Yeah, they might ... some of them might have done other things, I just don't know.

Bob Zybach: How about on the other side of Coffin Butte, do you know of any schools over there? Would you go out to the town out there?

Eugene Glender: Go out to Wells.

Bob Zybach: Did you ever hear it called Wellsdale ... or Wells Station?

Eugene Glender: Yeah, that's what it was, Wellsdale.

Bob Zybach: But they called it Wells?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: But it was Wells&zle?

Eugene Glender: I guess that's the name of it, I don't know, I always called it Wells. I've heard both.

Bob Zybach: Did you know any of the people out there?

Eugene Glender: Oh, I knew Ivers [William and Emma]. They lived on the other side but they didn't live in town. They live on that road that goes through there now.

Bob Zybach: Was that ever much of a town?

Eugene Glender: Oh, it had a great big warehouse; it had a grocery store.

Bob Zybach: Did you go shopping there?

Eugene Glender: No, used to haul our grain down there.

Bob Zybach: To the ... and the train would come up and pick it up or something?

Eugene Glender: I guess, whatever they done with it then. They had a big warehouse there.

Bob Zybach: Where would you get your mail?

Eugene Glender: Right in front of the house.

Bob Zybach: They had delivery right through here?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: So we've gone through Wells, how about Lewisburg, did you know anybody out towards Lewisburg beyond Blakes /Lottie and Ed]?