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 s
