and ©MilIren of 10 anl 12 were married, got their claims and went 
Home to their parents to grow up. This accounts for a great many 
curiously shaped farms. Ours is over a mile long and about half 
as wide, lying along the river* It makes it rather inconvenient to 
farm as it is a long haul from the far end to the buildings. Like 
all the land in the Yd.] larirett© valley it has teen cropped with 
grain for 40 to 50 yearsand tuu eh ffif its origin 1 fertility has been 
dissipated. A few years with our herd of* oo^s -*uii bring it back, 
however, and this will V© our work for some years to come. I saw a 
note in the Oregonian a few days ago under the caption, l *50 Years 
Ago” that there were 65000 ■usheIs of wheat in the warehouse at 
Cornelius, a little village a lew miles west of us. 
50 or 60 riles nrrth of us Mt. St. Helens, the most beau¬ 
tiful of our sleeping volcanoes thrusts its head some 10000 or 
12,000 feet into the skies, a beautiful snowy cone, in plain view 
every clear day. the eastern can iust see the apex of Hood over 
the treetops on a ridge. 
Portland's a busy city, it stands on the bank of the w. 
with high bluff'd behind, it on tin -vest, and a wide stretch of fairly 
level land on the east side. Most of the wholesale business is over 
there, along the waterfront and back of that is a great residence 
district- There are many bridges across the river and a constant 
stream of cars and trolleys going in each direction, making a great 
congestion of traffic at the approaches. Th<?y are now thinking of 
tunnelling the bluff to the west to allow the city to grow in that 
direction. 
w e shall miss many things to which we have been accustomed. 
p lear running waterand the snowcapped hills directly above us. but 
we cannot nave, everything. Prices for our products are not quite 
as good as in Washington, but the expense of marketing much lessWd 
we are able to market our cream daily and so ship a better grade 
for which we get a better price.fream and eggs will be our sole 
