some things in his own experience before going to, and at the time of reaching, Oregon. Some thirty years ago he was living on the eastern rim of this town. His last winter here was a daily contest with our "zephyrs" (for they should be called such in comparison with western storms) for weeks, in keeping the road clear of drifts. There was one way to conquer them, and that was to run away from them; and at the age of thirty-eight he went to Wisconsin. Five years there increased his worldly goods satisfactorily. Then came a fire which licked up at one meal these uninsured possessions. At forty-three years of age he "went West" from Wisconsin to "grow up" with Oregon. Across the plains, in the then usual way, he drove a team, and halted at Yreka, California, for a season. Thence, on foot, he went to Portland, Oregon. He went to a hotel, and told the landlord he had nothing to pay for his keeping. He was kindly received, however, and the next day took a job of cutting wood at $1.50 per cord, but had to get an axe on trust and food to live on in the same way. Not long after he hired to a farmer, who thought, as he applied, he could not work much, but tried him, on low pay. Soon the farmer was willing to rent his farm to him, and stock it to his mind. He finally bought the farm for some $10,000, kept it as long as he wished, and sold out for over $22,000. At the present time his three sons have a flock of six hundred sheep. Many of the readers of The Watchman may be able to recall Oregon's display at the Philadelphia Centennial in 1876, of which Mr. Dufur had the charge. He told us how some of the immense trees in Oregon are felled. A hole is bored into them close to the ground, and, a foot or so above, another is bored down, diagonally, to meet it. Into the lower one fire is placed, the upper one serving as a flue. In this way they are burned down. A tree fifteen feet in diameter, one hundred feet from the butt, is one worth talking about. And so are cherries, which are taken by an eastern man for plums, as are plums of the size of eggs. Mr. Dufur showed us an elegant specimen of gold-bearing quartz from there. This specimen must look like some of their doctors, for he tells of paying bills of $20 each for a daily visit to his place when six miles from town. He tells us that lady teachers in his place get $600 and $700 for nine months' work. Also that men find it profitable to go there and hire flocks of sheep, as can be done betimes. Of course we put the inevitable question, "Would you advise eastern men to go west?" He feels sure young men ought to be able to do far better there, and thinks a man who has a family of boys to help him may go profitably, later on in life. But usually a man in middle life, established here, may better stay here, he thinks. He will remain hereabouts till October 1st.
