Where did you get the water?
From Annie Springs, I think. (AH)
So you wouldn’t have gone over to the river and hauled it in? I know you’d have to go up and around to get to that fire.
I know we had a bunch of ten-gallon cans we’d fill with water and haul around to the guys fighting the fire. They were packing water on two horses from the road to where the fire line was. (AH).
So you didn’t have access to hoses?
No. (AH)
I think they had water piped here and there at different places. As I remember, when we’d water the horses around by the Wineglass, I think there was a pipe spigot over there and a horse trough. There was the same thing over at the Devil’s Backbone, because you couldn’t get to the water unless you had pipe there. There were a lot of springs around on the rim that they picked, gravity water, you know. Wherever the barns were. I don’t remember being close by any streams. (OH)
Did you both go fishing regularly? I know we talked a little bit about hauling fish in cans down to the lake.
When we were camped down by the dock on the island, every time we had a little slack time we’d go around on the north side of the island and fish from the shore. We kept fish in a wire by the boat dock, and we used to give them to people who’d come by and weren’t having very good luck. That would give us a good incentive to go fishing again if we’d take time to go after work, or days when the boss would go to camp, we’d knock off and go fishing for maybe an hour or two. It created quite a time with the tourists. Fishing got awful good there for awhile while we were over there. Pretty near everybody got a fish. It creates quite an interest in fishing. (OH)
We talked about planting fish. Did all the fist come from Butte Falls at the time?
I’m not sure where the original fish came from, but while I was up there, I think I only made two trips to Butte Falls during that time. (AH)
