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THE PACIFIC DISTRICT. 
bodj by this date. A goodly number of its 
members and ministers had emigrated to the 
Walla Walla valley, Washington Territory. So 
rapid had been the growth of the Church in this 
valley that the General Conference ordered that 
a new mission-conference be organized to be called 
Cascade — a name that was afterward exchanged 
for ^AValla Walla.’’ It also voted to make the 
Oregon a self - supporting conference. 
One year after, Bishop Shuck reported to the 
corresponding secretary of the missionary society 
the following figures for the Pacific Coast District: 
Whole number of members 1,209 
Decrease in one year 60 
Itinerant preachers 20 
Local preachers 18 — 38 
Money collected for missions $ 191 00 
Money colle( 5 led for preachers 3>767 53 
From the bishops’ address at the same confer- 
ence I glean the following figures: 
Whole number of members in the Church 89,911 
Decrease in four years 4 )^ 4 ^ 
Increase in number of classes 720 
Number of meeting-houses 207 
Number of Sabbath-schools 9^928 
Number of Sabbath-school scholars 68, 171 
The bishops state that they had no report from 
Kentucky, Tennessee, the Pacific coast, or from 
tbat part of the Virginia and Parkersburg con- 
