BOX 65, Route 5. . x ; 
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Hillsboro, Oregon. 
Bee. 17, 1935. 
My dear Mr. Beane:- 
It is winter in Oregon. After a most Beautiful 
fall w e are getting a succession of in 11 cloudy days with a great 
'leal of fog which rolls up the Col'imMa in great banks arid over¬ 
flows the bluffs and spins into the basin beyond- We have had sev¬ 
eral very frosty nights and cnee there was a little sleet which 
was sufficient to whiten the surrounding hills. 
We have all been here since the first of November. At 
that time we brought down the stock and a car of our other Belong¬ 
ings. It was a tig undertaking. I stayed here, the two older toys 
went north and packed up and got the stock together and then one 
brought his Mother down in the automobile and the other with a 
man same down in the ears with the stock. The stock suffered a g. odd 
deal from t ie trip, which was longteix days, as we had to lie over 
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two days at different points and fell off a great deal in their 
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production but nothing worse. 
I dent know if I have told you lust where we are. A few 
miles west of Portland lies Washington county, a large portion of 
whxch lies in the valley of the malatin, a little rive^which flows 
into the Willammett® near Oregon city. Washington C©. v is one of the 
richest in the state arid the Tualatin has, I think, the best of the 
land. Our place is a long narrow strip along the riber of 837 asses 
nearly level, but with plenty of drainage- The place was colled 
Farmingtonknd in the old days there was a p. 0. of that name, but 
we are now served from iiil.lsfeo.ro- Our place is composed of portions 
of t-o Donation claims, those regies of the old days when the flov- 
er'nwent was just Taking up to the value of the land and was doing 
everything to induce immigration, when everything west of the Rock- 
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ies and north of California was "Oregon"In these days ,ave every 
married couple 640 acres of land in any shape they chose to take it, 
