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 and there were a great many trails to different points.

The trails used by the Indians who did not use horses were always made by the tramping of feet and were never cut out or graded in any way.They practically always went up the sharp points of the hills and along the backbones of the ridges, and this was done to avoid fallen timber.

Thirty- five years ago a young hunter was searching for deer in the little range of mountains between the Willamette Slough and the Tualitin Plains. It was an idle, easy hunting, more for the love of wandering than for the desire of killing, and in the Summer evening he sat down to rest and look around. Something peculiar about a vista in the woods attracted his attention and he observed it closely. Apparent- 40