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A.. The Old Mill Site and Ivan Slater

A.. The Old Mill Site and Ivan Slater of Charles and Norman Hindes — printed pp. 31–33 — recorded September 28, 1993 at Soap Creek Valley, Benton County, Oregon. Every printed page has its own permanent link.

Zybach, Bob 1996. Charles and Norman Hindes. Family History and Story of the Soap Creek Sawmilling and Logging Camp, Benton County, Oregon: 1928-1931. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #14. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 76 pp.

p. 47 = printed page 47 of the original book; the link on each page number is a permanent address you can send to anyone.

Provenance

From: #14 Charles and Norman Hindes
Narrator: Charles Hindes and Norman Hindes
Recorded: September 28, 1993 · Soap Creek Valley, Benton County, Oregon
Interviewer: Bob Zybach
Printed pages: pp. 31–33
Original: http://www.nwmapsco.com/ZybachB/Oral_Histories/Soap_Creek_Valley/14_Hindes/Zybach_1996.pdf
Accessioned: From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026

Part II header, p.31: "September 28, 1993 Soap Creek Valley Tour". Nine lettered stops A-I; the tape ends at p.49 with "END OF TAPE".

p. 31

Part II.

September 28, 1993 Soap Creek Valley Tour

A. The Old Mill Site and Ivan Slater

Bob Zybach: Okay, we're looking at the 1936 picture [Aerial photo overleaf]. It's labeled number 1000. Twenty eight out of 31 and we're looking at the mill site.

Norman Hindes: [NORMAN] That's right and this is the skid road that came down to the mill.

Bob Zybach: Okay. Can you see the water tank in there?

Norman Hindes: [NORMAN] No.

Bob Zybach: Here's a magnifying glass right here. This might. . .

Charles Hindes: [CHUCK] This is what we're looking for and I think maybe that's it right there.

Bob Zybach: Is that a pile of sawdust there, what looks like a clearing maybe around the mill?

Norman Hindes: [NORMAN] If its wooden.

Charles Hindes: [CHUCK] There was a burner in close proximity to the mill. I would say you really need a stereopticon to really see. I think I see a water tower fairly close to where we lived and that doesn't seem like the water tower that supplied the mill.

Norman Hindes: [NORMAN] Water what?

Charles Hindes: [CHUCK] The water tower.

Bob Zybach: Are those buildings in there? Those white specks. Is that the same buildings that are corresponding with these other?

Charles Hindes: Right, and this house of ours is right up in this area. I don't actually see the house but theres several other houses here. Theres the cookhouse and bunkhouse that I can identify. Theres the Sawyer's house. I couldn't think of his name. Was it Ed Adams?

Bob Zybach: So the sawmill site would be that big. . .

Charles Hindes: Right. Light area.

Bob Zybach: And it looks like everything else is corresponding to your map [on page 8] real nice.

Charles Hindes: Right and this skid road is just almost exactly where I had it before.

Bob Zybach: Okay. I'm going to draw a red line on that.

Charles Hindes: Yeah.

Norman Hindes: [NORMAN] Now, when was this taken

Charles Hindes: [CHUCK] '36.

Bob Zybach: 1936. So by that time they'd moved on to the other location.

Charles Hindes: Well, see they established the other mill about the same time that we were up there.

Norman Hindes: [NORMAN] Yeah. We were all there when they had both mills.

Charles Hindes: [CHUCK] They never did run at full capacity and I don't know any history about the second mill because we didn't know anybody that lived there and it seemed like it was kind of an after thought to put that mill in and I'm not sure that they really got fired up to full speed.

Norman Hindes: [NORMAN] I can't even remember what size the camp was.

Bob Zybach: Well people were saying that dozens of people had lived there at times, and that they had a Store, and other people scoffed. They said, "No, we never had that many families in there."

Norman Hindes: [NORMAN] You bet. You bet they did.

p. 32

1936 Aerial Photo of Soap Creek Valley. Negative #1000 on file with the Army Corps of Engineers. Caption as printed, p. 32.

1936 Aerial Photo of Soap Creek Valley. Negative #1000 on file with the Army Corps of Engineers. Photograph caption as printed, p. 32.

p. 33

[Withheld from this edition pending review. The page keeps its printed number and its permanent link, so a citation to it still lands here.]

Speaker attribution inferred from typography where the printed page prints only Q and A.

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As printed: Zybach, Bob 1996. Charles and Norman Hindes. Family History and Story of the Soap Creek Sawmilling and Logging Camp, Benton County, Oregon: 1928-1931. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #14. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 76 pp.
This page: Hindes 1996. A.. The Old Mill Site and Ivan Slater, pp. 31–33. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m14-hindes/a-the-old-mill-site-and-ivan-slater/ (accessed 2026).
Cite this passage: Hindes 1996, p. 31 — Monograph #14:31
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