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tin- soil. He brought to Oregon a slave woman and three of his five sons. He rarely purchased anything, living as much as pos- sible on what the farm furnished. He planted a large orchard on a very rocky piece of land and got fine results from it ny thickly covering the surface with crops of straw produced on the level land which was chosen more for keeping stock through the winter without feed, than for grain. His custom was to begin with so many breeding animals and keeping them, increase up to the line of overstocking, sell for cash, reserving a certain number to start again, hide his money and keep on towards another sale. He did little labor himself, leaving that for the slave woman and his -us, who were all industrious and some of them very worthy citizens. Mr. Delaney's exercise was to go with his hounds and rifle wherever, in the near vicinity, beasts of prey might lurk, and depend on his dogs to bring them within range of his rifle. He must, in this way, have destroyed very many panther, lynx, and wild cats, as well as some bears, and so * was a benefactor to his neighbors. He seemed to iv;id his bible chiefly to find in it support for his dominion over the soul and body of his female slave. His sales and -|>. -i id it ures having been watched by a neighbor and pro- fessed friend for over a period of twenty years he was mur- dered for his treasures. Such was the end of a pioneer of 1843, whose life action in nearly every respect was the very opposite to that of Peter II. Burnett, who wielded the largest influence a?; leader of immigrants of 1843-44, and was the most complete tv|>iv-eiitative of the motive of the enterprise of Americaniza- tion of Oregon and California, of which latter State he was the first elective Governor. It -liould not be understood leadership is claimed for Mr. Burnett over all his brother pioneers in every respect. Some (I think a large number) would have fought for dominion after arriving here more readily than either he or Jesse Apple- uate. his able co-laborer, in getting the leading men in charge of the Hudson Bay Company's property to place it and them- selves under the protection of the Provisional American Gov- ernment.