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314 REVEREND EZRA FISHER

be occupied very soon. Soon immigration will be pouring in upon us from over the mountains and by water. Your Board must be apprised of this. We have the best evidence that gold is abundant in the south part of Oregon, and probably our Oregon men will dig near home this season.

We see that Br. Geo. C. Chandler is about leaving the pres- idency of Franklin College. 20 ^ He is favorably known by us. Would it not be right to draw him away from Indiana to the charge of our school? Means must not be wanting to in- sure us a teacher such as will secure public respect and confi- dence? My school numbers about 45 this quarter and will be larger from this time forward. Last quarter it was larger.

We subscribe ourselves, Yours respectfully,

EZRA FISHER, W. T. MATLOCK,

Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Clerk of the Board.

Done by order of the Trustees of Oregon City College. Received July 9, 1850.

Oregon City, Oregon Ten, July 1, 1850. To Rev. Benj. M. Hill,

Cor. Sec. Am. Bapt. Home Mission Soc. :

Herein I send you my report of labor under the appoint- ment of the Home Mission Society for the first quarter end- ing June 30, 1850. My field comprises Oregon City and Mil- waukie, six miles below Oregon City on the east bank of the Willamette, Clackamas County, and Linn County, 306 Washing- ton County (formerly Tualatin) immediately across the Wil- lamette from Oregon City. I statedly supply the station at Oregon City half the time and superintend the Sabbath school and teach the Bible class. Supply the station at Mil- waukie once each four weeks and supply the station at Linn City once each Sabbath three-fourths of the time. I have la- bored thirteen weeks the last quarter, preached twenty-five

205 Rev. George C. Chandler (1807-1881) was licensed by the church in Spring- field, Vermont, while the author was pastor there. He went to Indiana in 1838 and was president of Franklin College from 1843 to 1850. He came to Oregon in 1851. Mattoon, Bap. An. of Ore. 1:73-82.

206 Linn City was laid off by Robert Moore in 1843. Hist, of Portland, ed. by H. W. Scott, p. 78.