BH: Hum. How long did that sawmill operate?
Glen: Oh, not very long—just a few years.
BH: Were you aware of any other ones up in that area?
Glen: Well, there was a few little sawmills around there, and I didn't. . . Hoffmans had a sawmill up on. . . well, north of Crestone there someplace.
BH: Would. . . would these guys take all their equipment when they shut down, or did they sometimes leave some of it up there?
Glen: Well, they moved most of it all out.
BH: Moved it all out. . .
Glen: There's one place there—they started to move it out—that big boiler? On the wagons? They upset it in the creek. And it's still in the creek.
BH: Oh, really? Which creek is this?
Glen: That's ah. . . Cottonwood Creek. Yeah, my wife and I went up there one time. She wasn't feeling very good, and I finally managed to get her up there. And where this boiler fell in, it pooled the water back up. So I sat her down there on a rock beside the—and right down below is a hole about that deep—and she dropped her line down through that hole. And golly—here she come out with a fish about like that. . .
BH: Oh, my goodness!
Glen: And you know, we set right there—in that one pool—and caught our limit of fish.
BH: I'll bet she felt better, after that.
Glen: Yeah. And ah. . . we come home, and I was living out over here—and I told my uncle about it. Well, he wanted to go back. So a couple three days we went back—and there wasn't a fish in there. They'd left—all went up.
BH: Timed it just right. Let me see if there's anything else. I think. . . How did most of the people in this area get their water? When you were growing up over there?
Glen: Get their water there at Crestone? They had dug wells.
BH: Okay.
Glen: Just rocked up, and wheeled it out with a bucket. And some of 'em had pumps, but that was all. Nobody had water in the house. In fact, when we were married—they had a big house right there. Are you familiar with Crestone?
BH: A little bit.
Glen: When you first go in, there's a big house sits back in the trees there—
BH: Um hum.
Glen: Well, my wife and I lived in there, and that was the only house in town that had water in it, and a bathtub.