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and also guided a portion of the immigration of the Slowing autumn into the Willamette Valley by tins road, arriving in good season and m go odj .onto, while the main immigration, by the Dalles route partly on account of its number, suffered severely. This established the reputation of the Klamath Lake road • and the legislature of this year passed an act for its improvement, making Levi Scott commissioner, and allowing him to collect a small toll as compensa- tion for his Lrvices. The troubles with the Cayuses, which broke out in the winter of 1847, and which but for the Oregon volunteers would have closed the Snake route, demonstrated the wisdom of its explorers h providing the mountain-walled valleys of western Oregon with another means of ingress or egress than the Columbia River; 34 their road to-day being incor- porated for nearly its whole length with some of the most important highways of the country.

In June 1847 a company headed by Cornelius Gilliam set out with the intention of exploring the Rogue River and Klamath valleys, which from this time forward continued to be mentioned favorably on account of their climate, soil, and other advantages. ■

, Ablegate says: -It » "gST^^^ogZ^ meet the Oregon rifle regiment m 1849 then on ^ it > m b beef

tit^r^^^^^-^- °~* is57 - s -

Ann. 19; Overland Monthly, v. 581. reference to the nbiquity of the

V *I find in McKay's ^'^M^mv'JrwTtl^i) I was ordered into

Amerieans : . He says: ^f^o^sShed a station for the Hudson's

Oregon to ]om Mr raul * razer, wno "?? „ . M Frazer was alarmed

Bay Company near the mouth of the U mpqua g »™; ^ r nei hborhood from at the influx of American immigrants into his ™^ d ^ ved * verland durlll g

able to gather them: Albright, Elijah Bristow, Elijah

Levi Anderson J. C. Allen, John £ A g ^ J ^ w p

Bunton, David Butterfield, John baKer, ri ug n . Brown, Orus

Breeding, George WiUiamBur^t^J^Bosworth.Avm U^ ^

^te^eiXrS! y feuS^P^o Boine, Tolbert