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DIARY 205

The following note in his own handwriting was found at- tached to the back fly-leaf of Mr. Thurston's Diary : "If I buy the office at Chicopee, I will want to buy same heading, 'Oregon Statesman/ fifty pounds ink, hundred pounds glue, roller mould, 30 bundles paper, and ten reams common writing paper, 1.50 cts. per ream." The foregoing was material needed in connection with the establishment of the "Oregon States- man," which was issued at Oregon City on March 21, 1851, with the late Asahel Bush, the well known banker of Salem, as editor and proprietor.