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flux of population into our Territory the coming- year. 1 ** Farming will revive and sawmills will be multiplied through the country bordering on our navigable waters. We confi- dently hope for a more settled state of things and expect our pel. I could now settle myself in Tuallity Plains and have my family table supplied, excepting groceries. Then $200 brethren will soon become liberal in the support of the gos- or $300 would meet all my expenses, by ordering my cloth- ing and groceries from N. Y. But we must have a school, and our brethren think my duty calls me to take charge of it till you can send us suitable teachers. I may realize about $1000 per year for teaching, if we continue the school in this place, and be able to preach every Sabbath. Next week the friends of education meet at this place and no doubt they will agree in opinion with Br. Johnson and myself on the place of location. We have forty acres of land cleared from all incumbrances immediately adjoining the city plat for the site, and can build within half a mile from the Willamette River on a commanding eminence. In the event of my teach- ing, Br. Johnson will travel through the Willamette Valley the coming season and I shall spend my Sabbaths with this church and at Milwaukee, I95 a business place springing up six miles below this place on the river. My first quarter of the school will close next week. School has been large and I have been compelled to call in the aid of my eldest daughter part of the time. We shall continue the school in the Bap- tist meeting house 196 till next fall or the spring following and, in the meantime, we shall make an effort to build a good

194 See note 154.

lot Milwaukie, only recently laid out, had a population of 500 in the fall of 1850. Bancroft, Hist, of Ore. 11:251, quoted from Oregon Spectator, Nov. 28, 1850.

mfi Amonc- the cuoils who attended the school while it was still held in the meet n* house were Theodore Matlock, Almond B. Holcomb, William G. Welch, Safe Hotean John Welch, F. Dillard Holman, E. M. White, W. L. White, Lucy line G FTsh"'r E T T. Fisher, Ann Eliza Fisher, Franklin Johnson, W. C. John- son, Annie Abernethy, Abner P. Gaines, Noble W. Matlock, Jane Matlock, Ellen Matlock William Bullack, William Cason, Adomram Cason, James Cason, Maria Morfitt 'William. Morfitt, Julia A. Johnson, Charlotte Johnson, Amy Johnson, Sarah Josephine Fisher, Lucy Moore, Rebecca Parrish, Pauline Tompkms, Helen Tomp- tns, Josephine Hunsaker, Horton Hunsaker Jacob Hunsaker and Medorem Crawford. Recollections of W. C. Johnson and W. G. Welch.