10.. The Town of Tampico

Bob Zybach: The son did. I see. I'm trying to find out more about Lee. I keep hearing about him but nobody gives me too many details.

Charles Hindes: Well.

Norman Hindes: [NORMAN] I do remember one thing. I heard this awful noise. I was sleeping upstairs and I heard all this awful commotion in the bedroom so I opened up the door and I looked in and there he had this gal in bed and he run me out.

Charles Hindes: [CHUCK] Oh. Did you work for Brown?

Norman Hindes: [NORMAN] I stayed there, yeah. I worked for Brown for a little bit. It was during shearing time.

Bob Zybach: At the turn of the century, the story was that he used to go up to Sulphur Springs every week, but of course then he had a buggy. It was before cars, and get the sulphur water. Do you know anything about. . .

Norman Hindes: The old Brown.

Bob Zybach: Yeah. Lee Brown.

Norman Hindes: No. I don't. See, there wouldn't be no buggies then. When we were there, you could drive up there in a car.

Bob Zybach: I mean, he would drink the water for his health is what I heard. Another story that I heard was that there was four Brown brothers and three of them including. . . Lee was the only one that hadn't killed somebody is the way it was told [Charlie Olson: Monograph #7, p:50J.

Norman Hindes: Very well could be.

Bob Zybach: Did you ever hear any stories like that?

Charles Hindes: [CHUCK] No.

10. The Town of Tampico

Bob Zybach: Now the Browns went back there till the 1850's, and Tampico the town was there in the late 1850's, right before the Civil War, and there were a lot of stories about Tampico. Do you ever remember anybody talking about the old town or what the people did or. . .

Norman Hindes: [NORMAN] Well, I didn't know there was an old town there for years and years.

Charles Hindes: [CHUCK] I... Well, I didn't either for a long time, but I have since seen town platts of the area®. In fact, I think talking to you, Bob. You said that the last place that the school was located was about the third location of the Tampico School.

Bob Zybach: Yeah. I think so. Yeah, I think you were in the final location of the Tampico School and that one shifted slightly from a different foundation. I think, from about 1900.

Norman Hindes: [NORMAN] That might be down there about were the Dobrinins lived, could be in the first old city in Tampico.

Bob Zybach: It was about where Glenders were and it was. In fact, we looked on the map here. Do you remember Beals or Barzee?

Charles Hindes: [CHUCK] Barzees I do.

Norman Hindes: [NORMAN] Barzees, yeah. She was my first teacher.

Charles Hindes: [CHUCK] That was right across from Glender's.

Bob Zybach: Okay. So, Mrs. Barzee taught at the school?

Zybach, Bob. Historic Soap Creek Valley Auto Tour, OSU Research Forests and College of Forestry, Oregon State University, 1989. p:14.