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expense, only gave the participants a deeper assurance of its ultimate success, and this 

 initial trial was to form the foundation for future efforts. So it followed that a year later 

 Judge Denny made a second trial, this time with success. The utmost care was taken. 

 The services of a tramp steamer coming to Oregon were enlisted, a scow-load of sand 

 was brought alongside and deposited between decks, several small boat-loads of various 

 kinds of food, green stuff and grain, together with sundry large bags of charcoal were 

 placed on board for their use, and the captain and sailors were paid well to attend to their 

 wants. Poles of bamboo caged off a neat airy room some twenty feet square, and here in 

 semi liberty thirty birds were turned, and here they stretched their wings and fluttered 

 and scratched in the sand and ate of the food provided for them. Talk of the hardships 

 of an ocean voyage! Indeed these birds actually grew fat. Only four perished on the 

 way and the remainder after reaching Portland were placed in the large cage which 

 had been made under Judge Denny's supervision and shipped with the birds, and 

 immediately turned over to a brother, Mr. John Denny, who had come to Portland to receive 

 them. He took them to his large ranch in Linn County in the Willamette Valley, and 

 here at the foot of Peterson's Butte the travellers were liberated. Grain was scattered 

 about freely; a little band of friends and neighbors took the cage up the mountain side, 

 and after opening the door, hid themselves and waited for the birds to come forth. They 



