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 as to time in constructing other Rail Roads or Wagon Roads to the big Eddy or other points on the Columbia River.

Witness: William D. Hare Jas. W. Davis.

John Chipman (L. S.) J. S. Ruckel (L. S.) Harrison Olmstead (L. S.)

Territory of Oregon Multnomah County ss

On this first day of September A. D. 1857, before the undersigned Clerk of the District Court for the 2nd Ju- dicial District of Oregon personally appeared, John Chip- man, J. S. Ruckel and Harrison Olmstead each and all personally known to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument of writing and who signed, sealed and delivered the same, and ack- nowledged that they signed, sealed, delivered and executed the same freely and voluntarily for the uses and purposes therein set forth.

Witness Jas. W. Davis, Clerk (Seal) and the seal of said Court affixed the day and year above written. Jas. W. Davis, Clerk. 2nd Judicial District.

I hereby certify that I have this 28th day of August A. D. 1858 recorded the within lease at length in Book A, page 150 and forward in the records of Wasco County, Oregon.

W. C. Moody, Auditor and Recorder...

That the prospect of a railroad on the Oregon side, which was going to extend, if constructed, along the full length of the four and one-half mile portage, gave deep concern to the Bradfords and their associates cannot be doubted. To this we may assume was largely due the- truce declared in November, 1857, between the two com- peting lines on the Portland-Dalles route, which by agree- ment closed the Oregon Portage and withdrew the Senorita below and the Wasco above the Cascades, leaving