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They paid their ministers: California, 1580.73; 
Oregon, not given — probably $1,000.00; collected 
for missions in California $132.60; probably 
$150.00 in Oregon — in all $282.60. 
Walla Walla Conference, hitherto a part of 
the Oregon work, was organized by Bishop D. 
Shuck, at Vancouver, September 8th, 1865. There 
was one presiding-elder district, one circuit, and 
three missions. Rev. J. J. Kenoyer was elected 
presiding elder. 
Oregon Conference, which now became self- 
supporting, continued to work and live without 
any help from the Board of Missions for eight 
years, when in 1873 it was again added to the roll 
of mission-conferences. This state of things re- 
vealed a want of success. But the cause, or causes 
of this lack of success is not so clearly defined. 
The unwillingness of their ministers to take fields 
of labor, lack of harmony among their preachers, 
failure to enter and labor in the towns and centers 
of infiuence, too great zeal in opposing secret 
societies, a lack of support for their ministers, an 
unwillingness on the part of the resident preachers 
to unite heartily with the missionaries sent to the 
conference by the Board of Missions, from time to 
time the sparsely settled districts of country, and 
changing condition of society, and still other rea- 
sons, have been assigned as the causes of the slow 
