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when the governor's proclamation calling for five hun- dred men was issued, ordering them to rendezvous at Portland on the 8th of January, and to proceed on horseback. In order that their supplies might meet them, a party was sent to build a flat-boat above the Cascades, and to transport the provisions and am- munition over the portage and across the river; the route lying bv the mouth of the Sandy across the Columbia to Vancouver, east by the cattle trail to a point above the Cascades, and across the river again to the south side, whence the trail led to the Dalles. Abernethy wrote Lee January 1st, that if there was a prospect of a general war, he thought of building a block-house at the Cascades, and keeping a force there 2S He also wrote that provisions had begun to come in from the country, and Commissary-general Palmer was doing all he could to hasten them. # Ihe impossibility of knowing what was going on in the Indian country, or what was likely to be required, augmented his cares and anxieties.

28 This was the first intimation ever given of the value of that point for defensive purposes; or for any other, though it had been passed by thousand,

"^'^Thert have been recently rescued from dust and oblivion some of the documents which show the manner of furnishing the first army of ! Oregon Yamhill County sent the following: Andrew Hembree, 600 lbs. pork an J bushels of whit; Eli Perkins, 1 horse 2 lbs. powder 2 .^^f ' ^ bad- Win. J. Martin, 1 horse loaded with provisions; Benj Stewart, z ooxcs cans 2 lbs lead 1 blanket; John Baker, 1 horse; Thos. McBnde, $5 cash; T^J^u^X powder 8 lbs. lead; SamueL » ,f cash lb- load, 2 lbs. powder; Joel J. Hembree, 1 horse, 200 lb |- Pf*» f? Shv wheat; James McGinnis, $3 in orders; James Johnson, *'-\°™*™™£ t '

4 lbs. lead; T. J. Hubbard, 1 rifle, 1 pistol; Hiram Cooper, 1 rifle 1 ^sket, GO bounds ammunition; A. A. Skinner, 1 blanket, 1 \^%^^ ton, 3 pair shoes; J. M. Cooper, 2 boxes caps, 2 guns; James Grecn^ 2 boxes mm 2 lbs lead- C. Wood, 1 rifle; J. Rowland, 1 outfit; W 1 ^ewby,

5 e; CaTney Goodridge, 5 bushels' wheat, 100 lbs. pork; John .Man ning pair shoes; John Richardson, 1 Spanish saddle-tree; Solomon Allen, 6 bar. Lad; Felix Scott, 1 gray horse; 0. RLley, 1 rifle, 3 boxes caps, 00 lbs. flou M Burton 1 pair pants; Richard Miller, 1 horse, six boxes caps; Amos Hai- vey 1 gun; &J Burton, 1 sack and stirrups, ^rn Mercury A U,n, Stale RiglJs Democrat, Oct. 12, 1877. Says Abernethy to Lee We are now rrPttincr lots of nork and some wheat.' Of. Arrives, MS., 103 1 nomas S> ^ who had brought a stock of goods across the plains the previous sum. mer', had a considerable quantity of ammunition which was mannf actured .by himself in Illinois, and which he now freely furnished to the volunteer, with- out charge. Or, Literary V alette, April 18*9.