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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Oh yes! There was a dam at Foster, Oregon in
1944. But it was on Wiley Creek; not the Santiam River.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Back in those days when there was a lot of logging in the
area logs were hauled to Foster to be loaded on to rail cars to be ship
elsewhere. Wiley Creek was dammed a short distance north of HWY 20 to
form a pond into which logs were dumped a short distance south of the
highway. These logs were then loaded onto the rail cars on the northwest
end of the pond. My brother Doug and I spent hours watching the logs being
unloaded from the trucks; what a splash.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>One day Mom, Doug and I walked to Foster (from the Shea
house), to buy groceries; a 1 mile trip. There was some sort of commotion
at the bridge over Wiley Creek, and we went to see what was going on.
There was a real "steam shovel" down near the rail road tracks with a run away
boiler. I don't know why it was there, but we were told that it was about
to explode. We retreated to grocery store; post haste.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>The darn thing did not blow up. What a
disappointment. :-)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Heavy rains years ago (I think in the 1960's), filled the
pond with silt and debris that was never removed. There was no further use
for this facility as logging in the area dropped to almost zero.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Cecil</FONT></DIV>
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