I believe they quit planting the lake in 1941.
They must have because I know we planned fish one year when I was there. That would have been in 1941. It was have been the last year. The fish were hauled down in tanks on pack animals.
- P Leavitt was the superintendent, and his assistant superintendent was Tom Parker. One of the real old timers was on the clerical force, Ethel Wilkinson. It seems like she had been there for a long time (6). She was what I guess you would call “old timers” in the office.
When did you move into the stone house?
We moved into to the stone house April of 1940. During the time I was at Crater Lake I lived in three different houses. The first one I moved into was one of the stone houses, which was when I got married in 1940 and they assigned me the house. It had formerly been occupied by the resident engineer, who worked for the Bureau of Public Roads when they were building the road up there (7). I was single the first year I was in the park and didn’t have any household goods or furnishings anything of that type. When I announced that I was going to get married, someone said, “Why don’t you go see Mr. Strubble?” He was the resident engineer and he was being transferred, and we understood that he wanted to sell what he had. So I went to see Mr. Strubble and he said he wanted to sell everything he had in his house. All his furniture, rugs on the floor, curtains on windows, dishes, even brooms, mops and playing cards. Everything in the house, the whole works. I said, “Fine, do you have any idea what you want for it?” He thought for just a minute and said, How about $ 35.00 for the whole works?” So I said, Okay, I’ll take it” As fate would have it, they assigned me that house. All I had to do was move in since it was already furnished. There I was with a house that was completely furnished for $ 35.00.
