Transcript of Oral History Interview with J. Burkett, D. G. Lochte, and C. Meek, January 15, 1998 Page: 3
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Joe Burkett, Darell Lochte, Carl Meek
RECTOR:
LOCHTE:Now I heard that at one time Methodist Encampment, the Methodist
property, went all the way to the river. Was this in the same area?
Yes, just above it. Just upstream and the Methodist improvements
were on the opposite side of the river.BURKETT: It used to cross Highway 15 and go down to the river and then at the
end of the road there on the river, Captain Schreiner had built a cypress
dam which was about five or six feet high and this was the original
waterworks for the city of Kerrville. He built the dam and had a pump
up there and the pipe line came around and went up on the hill where
Dr. Matthews used to live this side of the stadium, and the old concrete
water tower tank I think it is still up there. It had thick walls.
RECTOR: He pumped it up there, there wasn't enough difference in height for it
to run up there?BURKETT:
No, maybe 60-75 feet, but the hill up there must be 200-300
feet high.LOCHTE: Even Captain Schreiner couldn't make water run up hill.
BURKETT:
RECTOR:
BURKETT:Yeah, but he was trying though. Had a one-horse engine with a
pump behind this dam bringing this water into a two-inch line that
came up and poured out into the reservoir. That was the first
waterworks for the city of Kerrville. My wife's uncle, Henry Juarez,
was the pumper for Captain Schreiner.
This dam was located up river from the dam that we think about
today?
Well, the dam where you are now, goes up the river about 200-300
yards to Knapp Crossing-just above the old Knapp Crossing, but now
they have a boat slip there. The (Methodist) Encampment Road if you
would just come straight down and hit the river, it was right there.LOCHTE: The Rauze place was just downstream on the opposite side below the
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Kerr County Historical Commission. Transcript of Oral History Interview with J. Burkett, D. G. Lochte, and C. Meek, January 15, 1998, text, January 15, 1998; Kerrville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1040126/m1/3/?q=%221919~%22: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Kerr County Historical Commission.