The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-10-14

| ADIll, loOO, We Sduulcu OuI SlA pdCh
animals and started for Portland
driving them ahead of us after secur-
ing seven bushels of potatoes for seed
| made my mistake of cutting these
| potatoes before taking them because
| by cutting them into small blocks
reduced the weight and accordingly
| reduced the citality. l also secured
painful of onion sets expecting to buy
a considerable quantity more wnen we
arrived in Portland. We stayed over
night at HillsborO, Oregon, in Wash
ington county, and had our horses.
shod. ] received my first shock orr I
think perhaps it was a greater shock
to Porter than myself on the out
skirts of the village Of Hillsboro, as
we passed through a street with a
growth of hedge on each side, and
were talking about the Bcisae river
basin An old man across the road
fro mthe hedge evidently heard US
talking and said Young men, it's a
great pity. You'll never see Idaho
again Those. Indians will take you
in. =
We arrived in Portland the follow
ing day, and found it to be a real
small place consisting of really only
two streets, Front street and First
street, out of which the stumps had
been taken for a distance of several
blocks. VIC succeeded in getting
pillow from the firm of Knapp-Burrell
& company, who afterwards became
prominent dealers in agricultural i'm
plements. We failed to secure any
more onion sets, but we secured
supply of garden seeds, sue as on
ions, radishes, etc. The following
morning we shipped them to the
Dalles and also shipped our horses.
In those days there was a portage at
the ascades provided with a railroad
track of wood, the cars being hauled
arrived at the Dalles early in the
morning, and our effects, including
the horses, were landed on the sand
beach near wher what was TIM known
as the Umatilla house. The follow
ing day we packed our supplies, in
Guiding pillow and pair OF collars,
etc We started over the Rock creek
road by way of the Des Chutes. The
following day we came across lOca-
ton made by settler who had but
termilk to sell and | proposed to Por-
ter that we indulge in drink of but
termilk and so we approached the
lady of the house and asked II we
could have a drink of butterm1lk.
Yes Sc said, but perhaps you would
like drink of whiskey.' Porter as
scented to that, but I took the butter
milk.
The following dy we met a group OF
Umatilla Indians, several squaws and
indian men, who had mOccasins for
sale MY shoes were rather weari- |
some and 1 concluded to buy pair Of
noccasins, which 1 did and taking my !
shoes and fastening them to the pack,
out on the moccasins and started out.
t was perhaps three o'clock in the /
afternoon then I donned these moe
,asins and wore them the remainder
# the day until we went into camp /
hat night. The result was that
Gould not move that day. l was UNI
lble to walk, the bones of my feet hav-
ng ached so. We rested on day and
hn started over the Blue Mountains
The trail was broken through the
now, but at what was then termed the
oregon Trail and was broken through
he snow which we found to be four
r five feet deep at Meachem, where
was necessary for us to camp for
be night. l had been accustomed to
eep snow in the Sierra Nevada Noun
aims, and was not particularly alarm
d about making camp, but Porter
hOugh we would perish before morn
lg. However( we unlOaded and tied
ne horses head to head and cutting
own small tree chopped it into
sngths of four or five feet, laid them {
ide by side on the snow, and on these
70 built our bed. The branches were
.immed from the tree. We stuck the :
ut ends into the snow and on these !
enches we spread our blankets for
lie bed. During the night there was
4 additional fall of snow which had
on the blankets, and we !.
,oked our breakfast and started.
The following day we arrived at :
a Grande. We found La Grande to !,
} the "culdesac" Of emigration. 4
arge numbers of emigrants who .
ossed the plains the previous year 4
i'd settled there, many OF whom had a
catd around Grand Roniie.
The Indians on Brunt River were II
Try treacherous, and It was advisable v
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