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C. Tibbeta ..
Pierre De peu
G. Eryuetto .
John Turner
Lawrunoe Carmichael.........
William J. Bal ley.. ..............
Jason Lee, for M. Mission.
Waliamene Settle» and Dr.
. McLoughlin ....... .
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to Hon, Guadeloup Vallejo, the Span­
ish Governor of California:
"To His Excellency Gov. of the State
of Up. California.
“Sir: Your petitioner would be*
leave to inform your Excellency that
there Is on the Wallamette River,
south of the River Columbia, a small Whatever cloud
settlement of citisena of the United
States. This eommonlty have from
their origin laboured under many dlf-,
to introduce cat-
flculties for want of horned cattle, of
tcame
an influen-
which they have none, but knowing
portant
factor in
that your Excellency Is aware of the
He
completed
advantage which they confer, your.pe-
titioner cannot think it necessary to
express in detail the reasons why cat­
tle are Indispensable to the prosperity
of an agricultural people. Under these
circumstances a part of the dtisens of hastened by his many trials and disap­
said community, on the 18th day of pointments He waa burled on his
January, A, D. 1887, formed them­ fang under an oak tree. This prop­
selves into a Joint stock company for erty, or at least a portion of It, la now
the purpoee of procuring cattle from owned by the heirs of the late Sidney
Upper California. The object of your ! Smith, who 1» well known In this
petitioner, as well as that of said com- <
connection, it may
pany, are expressed in the following i not be amias 1 iggest
It would
¡extract from their articles of aaaocla- 1 he a most cos idable that
thing
for the
tloo, vis: *
I public-spirited laena
Yamhill
“ ‘Whereas, we, the undersigned <
tillory, but the want of kettles and settle»
the Wallamette River, <
Other needed apparatus prevented . In a » fully upon
convinced
utility and1 <
the spring of 1888 Capt. Nathaniel J. necessity of having of neat the cattle
of our 1
Wyeth, who had begun a colony on own in order successfully to carry
on 1
Sahvfas’ Island, determined to quit
farms and gain a comfortable live- <
huqlneea and return East; then Young our
and,
i
bought ooe of the cauldrons that had llhood;
“ ‘Whereas, we find it Impossible to j
purchase than here, as all the cattle 1 th s suitable description of what It
in the country belong to the Hudson’s i inda for, and then raise an additional
Bay Company, and they »fuse to sell i m to he spent In the construction
them under any circumstances, and as < some public building, for school or
believe that the possession of cat- i vary purposes, to perpetuate his
sr of that the distillery would ruin the farm- we
will not only benefit us personally, i me as the first American settler In
*tore tag community, and gave him the aa- tie
but will materially benefit the whole ’ mhill County.
not su ranee that .If he wished to engage In settlement,
we, the undersigned, do When Young died, the connhunlty
vory any enterprise which would be bene- therefore agree,*
etc.
tlttle ficial to the settlement he would give “In pursuance etc.,
of the object ex- 1
him aid to a reasonable amount This pressed in these articles,
a party of
hern caused Young to change bis plana and ten American dtisens and three
Indian
with be began the erection of a saw and boye, of whom I was chosen leader,
1 by grist mill. About this time, late in took passage in the American brig
e of 1838, Young conceived the Idea that Lorlot, Capt. Bancroft, of which Wu.
was nest cattle, would be a grant aid in Slacum,
^
of the United (Statea)
with carrying on farming and gaining a |^ A. avy
waa Esq.,
charterer
livelihood, and proceeded to organise' “In
- compliance with the wishes of
Vat a Joint stock company for the purpoee said
your petitioner
with of bringing cattle into Oregon from would Association,
pray
your
Excellency’s
permis­
dev- California. Since this was the first In- sion to purchase cattle to the number
Les corporation having its orifin in Ore- of five or six hundred-head of the cib-
ome son, 1 quote the articles entire:
of California for the purposes
lana “Oregon Territory, Wallamette 8et- teens
expressed above; and relying on the
the “Articles of agreement made and sa­ sensof the United States have always
ber* tered into this 18th day of January, hi stood
those of your government,
the year of Our Lord one thousand end on to your
personal generosity, he
illey, eight hand red and thirty-seven.
(. E. “Whereas, we, the undersigned set-
«frly tiers upon the Wallamette River, are Obdnt. B o rn » -vaf*.
Lee* fully convinced of the Importance and
“(Signed) Ewing Young. first official action arsa on April 16,
- net- necessity of having neat cattle of our “San Francisco,
March, 1837.” 1841, when he appointed Rev. David
fairs own in order successfully to carry on This apparently 10th
did
not
avail any- Leslie “administrator of the estate of
ound . our . farms
. . . and
. gain
- a comfortable . Jive- thing, as Young returned from Mon Ewing Young, yeoman, deceased, in­
and’ we find it impossible
... to terey
on March
with the not informa-
In due time the estate waa
“Whereas,
tlon that
Vallejo 10 would
permit testate.”
settled
up,
88734.26. and
purchase them here, as all tt* cattle cattle to be driven out of the country, it waa loaned and out. It netted
In
1844
this money
to the country belong to the Hudson’s *aylng „uch permission waa to the
Bay Company, and they refusing to sell hands of the civil government, at
fl^MKSrbai-a. Thither Young went which was pledged to refund the same
and made a statement of hla desires. to the heirs or creditor* of Young
In due time, after much circumloca- whenever they should appear. By the
tion, consent was obtained that seven
hundred head of cattle might be se­
cured. provided they were bought of first west of the Missouri River. Thus
the government instead of the mis­ it la seen that Young’s death waa the
sions to which they belonged. By the primary reaaoa for organising the
22d of June the whole number of cat­ Provisional Government and his es­
tle
had been secured, and soon after­ tate gave Its treasury its first funds.
servant medical attendance and the California to purchase cattle for our- wards
the homeward Journey overland to 1864 an heir appeared to the per­
aeeded comforts for a time.
selves and all our neighbors who waa begun
with 830 head of practically son of Joaquin Young, before referred
Yonag soon returned to French Prai- choose to Join na to our enterprise wild
animals.
was a very trying to, and he petitioned the legislature of
rie and there found himself posted as.either by accompanying ns themselves experience, and This tested
the patience the territory for hie father's money.
a horse thief. This made him furious, or furnishing the moans of purchasing and endurance of the entire
company He was empowered by the legislature
He tore down the notices, buried male- cattle In California,
to
the
utmost.
The
task
of
to bring suit but he did not do eo.
dictions on the Governor of California, “2d. We agree to furnish funds so­ that number of wild- snorting driving
brutes
At
the Supreme.Court consist­
und warned the Canadians and the cording to our means, making a com- five or six hundred miles without tbe ing length
of
George
Williams and Mat­
missionarie* against such lies, and mon stock concern subject to the fol- aid of trained dogs, through a track- thew P. Deady, H. gave
Judgment for
wrote to the Spanish governor de- lowing conditions: Tbe expenses of all leas wilderness, with the untamed sav Young: In the meantime’be
(Young)
mending to know the cause of each those who go down to California are age
constantly
on
the
alert
over
a
had
sold
his
Interest
to
Judge
O. C.
malignant stories. With tbe alow com- to be borne by the company, calculat- considerable portion of the route to Pratt} when this was known, a politi­
munication then to vogue up and down lag the time so employed at the rate make trouble, would alone afford ma­ cal opponent of Pratt, a member of the
the coast, it took time to get word of twenty dollars per month; provla-
for an Interesting chapter In the
from Monterey. Investigation followed Ions likewise to be paid by the com­ terial
early
history of our state. Through bill stopping the payment of the Judg­
as rapidly as possible under the dr- pany.
It
all,
however. Young preserved his ment. Thus the matter rested until
cninstances, and to due time Dr. Mo- “Id. The wages of the men Urns equanimity,
proved himself to be 1862, when through the influence of
Lougblin modified bis opinion of employed to be calculated aa so much possessed of And
qualities
which belong to Judge Deady, persons having claims
Young and Kelley. At one time Young money, and each one to be credited every true leader of men.
the territory were ’authorized
wanted some clothing, and sent to Dr. accordingly; and each and every mem- It waa not until the 12th of Septem­ to agalngt
bring
suit. Pratt took advantage of
McL ought In the necessary * beaver her of tbe company shall have his por- ber that the Rogue River Valley was this condition,
suit, secured
skins to purchase the needed articles, tlon of tbe cattle which may arrive reached, and It waa about the mdldie Judgment, and brought
received 86108.94, to
The doctor refused' the skins, but sent safely at the Wallamette, these to be of
before the party arrived at Noveeshe* 1883, twenty-two rears af­
the geode, with some food, as a pros- divided agreeably to the capital and the October
settlements
to the valley. Two ter the property waa taken possession
ent. This enraged Y osbk and ha re- waaee employed in the enterprise,
hundred
head
of
cattle had been lost
is first probate court.
turned every article, and went to Fort “4th. All those who go for the pur- on the way. The
expeaaea
of
the
Vancoover and poured ent hla vials of pose aforesaid to California hereby expedition, together with the original
wrath upon the old doctor. The inter- bind themselves to return to the WaT cost
of purchase, brought the price up
vtew was a stormy one, without a lametta With the cattle and to use to nearly
dollars a head. Then
doubt, and if what was said could be their best endeavors to protect the the number eight
was
divided up pro rate,
known at »«* day it would doubtless asms.
’-ji
as
set
forth
in
the
articles of incorpo­
add a good deal of spice to the events “6th. We hereby agree that Ewing ration.
V
of that time. Tbe stern end autocratic Young shall be leader of the party and As may be remembered -..a-
of
Dr. MoLonghHa met his match in the P. L. Edwards, treasurer, and they those who came to Oregon by to many
the
late
stalwart cabinetmaker from Tenses- shall be Joint purchasers of the cat- forties and early fifties, many of the
dtecepdants of these cattle were to be
who c
found to the Willamette Valley, and
Valley i
in
namerons places they wen ss wild
follows
M the untamed deer and far more dan-
tact with thaw wild cattle. By pa­
tient effort many of them were tamed,
and aa the Immigrants of the early
•Ms brought blooded stock across the
plain*, a Judicious course of breeding
to a few years brought to the settlers
a grade of stock that aided greatly to
the young industrial life ef the vallar
In referring to this cattle business,
the late Judge Deady. In aa address
before the State Pioneer Association
to 1878, said:
“This was a vary Important event
to tbe history of the oniony, for with­
out the cheap labor of the patient ox
and th* temple food of the faithful
•ow, the Plough must have mated to
Eoae'hungryato bed TThn,*aIte,,**rf
monopoly of the Hudson’s pay Com
and the settlers
supply of long
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