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Saturday 25th. Very rainy day. Ploughed & harrowed in together 15 Bus Wheat. The land notwithstanding the deal of rain lately is not too wet to work. Louis Leclaire & the thrashing mill women took up potatoes for rations. It required 3 rows about 35 Bus: to suffice & there are 100 of such rows in the large field. Mr. [Michael T.] Simmons came for the set of Mill Irons.

Sunday 26th. Fair weather very wet under foot. Mr. Simmons & Mr Hall leave for Vancouver to day. Entrusted letters for the Board of Management to the care of Mr. Hall.

Monday 27th. Fair April like weather. Employed ploughing, harrowing, digging well-house building & a thousand & one other jobs. Mr. Thorn[1] arrived from Vancouver with 27 packs furs at Plomondons landing. The Batteux that went to Coo wee min[2] for salt arrived at the granary landing. Edgar & Shearer[3] arrived from Nisqually for the purpose of driving over Stock. Supplied a Mr. Jones[4] with the Mill Iron for Mr Simmons.

Tuesday 28th. Beautifully warm growing weather—almost calm. Sent to Plomondons landing for the furs, had the horses in the mean time got ready and started the party off for Nisqually in charge of Mr. Robt Logan[5]—accompanied by Mr. Thorn the Engineer. Had the salt brought by the batteux carted here. Employed otherwise ploughing, harrowing &c. The 2 partys house building as usual.

Wednesday 29th. A Fine growing day. Employed ploughing, harrowing, thrashing &c &c—took up 60 Bus potatoes for seed. Sowed before the ploughs 15 Bus Wheat. Received

  1. ↑ James Thorne, probably a Company employee, is on the Vancouver list of voters, 1847 (Oregon Provisional Government Papers, No. 1725).
  2. ↑ A company station at the mouth of the Cowlitz.
  3. ↑ John Edgar, born in England, and his family are listed in the 1850 census for Lewis County. (See also v. 2, P.S.A. Co. Ev., 65.) Edward Shearer is mentioned in the Nisqually Journal, WHQ, X:217, 222, XI:59.
  4. ↑ Gabriel Jones, a forty-eight-year-old farmer born in Virginia, according to the 1850 Lewis County census. He settled in Washington in 1845 (Bancroft, History of Washington, Idaho and Montana, 9, and v. 2, P.S.A. Co. Ev., 41-43).
  5. ↑ Postmaster on the Cowlitz Farm employee list, 1847-48, H.B.C. Arch. See also HBRS VII:38n, and Bancroft, History of Washington, Idaho and Montana, 8.

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