, 1862-04-19
UNIFIED STATES .oE AMERICA,

UNITED STATES. OF AMERICA,
SrArE- or 0Rxeox, 49, ------ + Aa.-..-.
County Of Wasco.
To all people to whom these presents shall o.
may concern
4 l. james A. OdeIl Notary Public duly c6tnintk
stoned and qualified, residing IN Dailes city, OTegor
+ Know ye thnxoA the .2slh day Of March, A. D.,
eighteen hundred and Sky twc, before me appeaftd
q . B. Gibsoll Akent OF the Oregon Steam NaVgsti6H
Company, and noted in due formsof lay; before m
the said Notatyshis proiets aud reqriir6s me TO ea
tend hesaid protest. And together wlh the said o,
B. Gibson comes B. } Drew and G. H. Johnson.
All Of whom being by me duly sworn, voluntarily
and freely and soemnly declare and depOse fol-
lows, thatsis to say: That in the month Of Decem
Der, A. D. 1861, and previons rherctO the Oregon
StenmlN Navigation Co were engagedin carrying freight
land passengers from Portland Oregon TO ALA Wnlla
Washington Territory, by steamboats, plying on the
Columbia river wherever the same is ASvigahle for
steamboats, between said points: that between the
Dhles. Oregon, and DeS,hutts andng said rireTs
a distance of fifteen miles land portage Ead TO be-
made and Tint said Company kept md VsesiAt the.
SAID Deschutes Landing gOOd stone wafehouse, in
which freight IN tfansliu was stnrey tliut mid
month pf December, while large amount Of freight
was stored in said warehouse in transitu for the ssd
| Whs Wala. the Columbia river between said ware
house and snd Walla WRla became blocked and closed
| by ice so that boats could longer navigate snid
river between said points and that the said river be-
tween said points remained blocked and closed 70
aforesaid until about the 2Oth day Of March A. d.
lS62 Lnring which time the weather waS very cold
and mnepot the freight stored ny aforesaid nt sid
ibeschntes Landing damaged and injured by
freezing and the extreme cold weather. but nt BIZ any
neglecto want of care on the part of Il said Oregon
steam Navigation Companv that the said freight
was well protected from the eltmentsa as could have
been done; that the said warehouse in which said
freight Was stored good stone inl,ling in rood
pair and that all damages thot have occurred to
said freight solely by the circumstances heIrinbe-
tore stated, and cannot omghi be attrbnied 10
any insutfciency in said warehouse er default Of the
SAID ompany orther agents in charge t'
And the said 0. B. Gibson RS A geut for said Com,
pany, now requires me- the said Notary to make his
protest and Il is public act thereof that the same NAV
seen and be Of iul force andvsue Of right shall
apperain I,-..',
Whereapon. I, tIe said Notary do protest and by
these presents do publicly and soemny protest against
the weather and freezicg, and against I'll and every
has srSine damages or been injured for an lo Ses
costs damages or expenses and Injury which the said
urexHnSteam Navigation Company OF the owners and
shlPpers "t sud freight, any tber person 1T per
sons Interested nr concerned. have ilseady or may
hereafter sustain or incur account Of the prcniscs
and that no part of said expenses or losses already IN
erred. nr lerenter to be incurred, do fall ulni the
S"Id oregon S'esHa Navigation Company OF their
Thus done and protested at DaiIes CITY, Oregon.
this 2sth day Of March. A. D. 1862. In witness where
Of as well the sid appcareis as l. the said Nots,y
have hereunto subscribed al d / have affixed nv
| n otafial seal OBJ GIBS(N
! fi.i i1v< qrGcrr BENZ. J. DREW
i.is CALEB II. JOHNSON
- --N.- JAMES 4. ODELL
lL.s NOTARY PrsLrc, '.
tl1.f t1..8 4... Oregon
We the undersigned merchants doing business in
Dalles city, having assembled aud acted rs board OF
sur ey IN the examination Of freight in. transtu from
Portland and DalIeS Oregon. to W.flla Walla WA-h1
ington Territory by the Oregon Steam Navigatif Com
pany and now stored at Deschues find the following
facts In the promises after thorough and careful r.
ANIMATION. to wit ~''T
That the said goods have been stored during the
past winter in gond stone store building that n,re
than ordinary care has been taken in storing the same
and that aiy damage they may have sustained has
been in Consequence Of the extreme ttl weather Of
the past winter aud was unavoidable by the uartie&
having said goods in charge.
ArJ.KAUFMAN
o. s. SAVAGE
-5.r..-.- FRED. NJ. M.STOCKlNG.
DrscHUTES, March 26th, 1862.
STATE OF OREGON, f Dry
CorNTr OF WAsco s.
On this 2Sth day OF March a. d. 1852 personally
came before the undersigned. Notary Puilc drIv
commissioned and qualified residing IN Dallcs cty.
oregon, J. Kaufman AMI Fred NJ Sticking to me
known to be the identical persos whose genuine .g
natures appear to the foregoing report and acknNwi-
edge to me that they executed the same.
WitneSs my hand and Noara l>sal fixed
JAMES A. UDEll.
lLsl NorARr PrBLrc,
L Oregon