LETTER FROM OREGON.
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LlNNToN oregon, July 10Th, 1914.


lam here in our new town, which we have nam
ed above. in respect for DIR. Linns services for
this Territory. Gen. M. M. McCala and myself
have laid out the town together. He is gentle
man from Iowa Territory, and laid off Burlington.
the seat of Government. He is an enterprsing
man. Our place is 10 miles from Vancouver, on
the West bank of the Wallamettee river. at the
head of Ship navigation. and three or four miles
above the mouth Of Wallamettee, md twenty five
miles below the Wallamettee Falls. have NO
doubt but that this place will be the great CONNER
cial town in the Territory. We are selling lots
at $50 each, and sell them fast at that. = At the
Falls there is quite town already. | own two
lots in Oregon city. (the town at the FaIs.) They
are said to be worth 5000 each. got them OF
DR.. Mclaughlin. for two lots here in Linnton.
was six weeks at Vancouver, where myself and
family were most Hospitality entertained by DR..
Mclaughlin, free of all charge. He has been q
great friend to me, and has done much for this
emigration generally. find provisions high
pork 10 cents beef. cents; potatoes. 40 cents
-four, S4.OO per hundred. But find it costs me
as little, even less to live here than in Weston.


paid for wood the last year lived in Weston $75
for corn and fodder, $50, all of which is savet
here. We use much iess pork here than in Mis