Childers, did he have an auto dealership in town?
No, not this Childers here in Jacksonville. He lived here in town. As a matter of fact, Albert’s wife is related to the Childers’ through marriage. They were old timers here. As a matter of fact, he built the gas station in Jacksonville, the Shell Station that I bought from Ed Severance in ’37. Then they lived on the Applegate for a number of years, but most all of them are dead now. (OH)
You mentioned earlier about the building of the arch on the west entrance.
Well, that was that one picture that I showed you, or did I get around to showing it to your? I couldn’t remember whether we made the arch over the road.
We had a picture of the cabin in one of these that I brought.
I think it was built alongside the road. The road went in front of it here. Do you remember it that way Albert? (OH)
I can’t remember. I don’t believe it was over the road. (AH)
No, it stood parallel to the road on the south side, I believe, after I see the picture. We worked on it, put those timbers up, and the traffic was going to the lake. They didn’t stop the traffic, and they’d a had to if I was to snake those logs over there and across the road with a team. We cut the timbers, we didn’t, but somebody cut ’em in there a day or two before and had them ready for us. We were down there a day, I think, putting it up. It may have taken two days. I don’t remember. But I can’t remember taking the horse back and forth to Annie Springs. I can’t even remember taking them down once, but we had the team in there, the one black team that id the skidding. And that was, of course, quite a ways from Government Camp. That Government Camp was five miles above Annie Springs. Of course, we had a horse barn at Annie Springs where we stayed when we worked the roads from Annie Springs down to the south entrance and west entrance. Old man Krueger was the camp attendant the second year I was up there in ’24. He was an old Dane. (OH)
An old grey-headed Dane. (AH)
Pretty good old camp cook. They had camp facilities there, a cook shack, where he stayed. We were down there one time and had to clean the barn up and spruce up the place. It took a horse and a wagon to do it. We stayed most of a week. (OH)
Did you stay upstairs? Was there a sleeping area up there?
I don’t think there was at Annie Springs. It was just a one level deal there, several bunks in the bunkhouse. It wasn’t much of a building, a small building. (OH)
