October 1872

    October 21st--Clear and some frost. Pleasant day. I & Pete assisted Mr. Cavitt to open road up & on the mountain east of field, he intends to use it as a pack trail to his place some ten or 12 miles east of this, got home at sunset; tired enough. Cavitt & Pete come at dusk.

    Tuesday 22--Clear calm pleasant day. Cloud in the west at sunset. I & Pete worked at and about the house. Scalded bedsteads & floor & did other things, putting things in order as best we could. Cavitt gone.

    W. 23--Hazy forenoon and cloudy afternoon. Commenced raining at 3 P.M. & raining now at 8 P.M. I & Pete worked on Cavitt's trail up the mountain, went to the summit--to home at 1 P.M.

    Th. 24--Foggy morning. Partly clear after. Cloud in the west at sunset. Pete washed clothes, I did chores late in the afternoon, we walked round and through the pasture, back at dusk.

    F. 25--Commenced raining in the night and raining now at 10 A.M. Showery day. I & Pete To Simon's, helped him get up his sheep. Shot at deer as we come home, too far, missed it.

    Sa. 26--Rainy night, morning and day. Snow on the mountain east of field. I & Pete walked down to little house. Mr. Cavitt come from his camp where he had been for four nights on summit of the mountain part of time opening trail and part of the time weatherbound, put up two calves to wean, Red Pets & white heifers.

    Sunday 27--Pleasant morning, sun out for a time, Cavitt left early for his camp. Simon come, brought mail. Some rain in the afternoon. We walked to grave & little beyond.

    M. 28--Cloudy pleasant day. Sprinkled short time. We fixed up fence, staked and ridered big log near old barn.

    T. 29--Cloudy warm night. Commenced raining before day and rained all day, cloudy & warm at sunset, did no work.

    W. 30--Rained all night and some little this morn, cloudy warm day. John & Buck Cox called I & Pete to little prairie and back. Saw no deer

    Th. 31--Clear warm day. I & Pete hunted cattle. By way of Priest Prairie to head Myrtle Creek, saw nine head at the divide out of Joseph's, the balance belonged to Simon. Salted them.

November 1872

    November 1st. Warm day. Partly cloudy afternoon. I and Pete to Simon's, found him plowing--all well, had dinner and then to home & to digging potatoes.

    Sa. 2--Warm and showery--we cut and burnt some brush. Buck Cox, Watson & Bob Gilliland called. Horse hunting--Mr. Cavitt come, had dinner & gone.

    S. 3--Rainy day, we remained in house, did not go out or around the field or pasture. Buck & John Cox called.

    M. 4--Rained all night and all the morning till 11 A.M. Stopped and looks like clearing off. Afternoon. I & Pete to Simon's via. little prairie, back at sunset.

    T. 5--Cloudy warm night and day no rain. We chopped and piled brush. Did not go to the Presidential Election. Suppose Grant will be elected. We could not prevent the calamity--terrible though it is to our country.

    W. 6--Partly clear, warm. We chopped firewood and piled brush, trying to clear out our swale below garden. Mr. Cavitt come, gone,

    Th. 7--Partly clear. Partly cloudy warm day. I & Pete to Simon's, had dinner, brought up two cabbage and some oats. Chopped some in swale.

    F. 8--Rained in the night and showered all day. Some snow on the mountain. James Hutson come & young Smith and drove off sixteen head of cattle that I sold to his father last spring & (they come back) Pete helped get them up and drive to Gilliland's pasture, where they left them.

    Sa. 9--Rained and snowed in the night, ground covered this morning. Rained or snowed all day, quite disagreeable. Mr. Hutson come, drove off 9 head of their cattle. We have been quite busy. Put up Fanny's and Beauty's calves to wean. Little white face and calf quite poor. Mr. repaired fence, staked & ridered &c.

    Sunday 10--Stormy showery day. Snow gone off. Simon come, brought our mail. We put two calves to wean. We put [up] some fence that was down.

    M. 11--Rained all night and all day, very hard, wind part of the day. We did no work.

    T. 12--Cloudy pleasant. I & Pete worked till 1 P.M. putting up fence blowed down on Monday. Mr. Cavitt come and helped us afternoon.

    W. 13--Partly clear night, frosty morn. Foggy cool day. Simon come and helped us kill a beef. Sawed horn. Roan heifer, fine beef. Mr. Cavitt also helped us. Sam H. come hunting cattle, all gone.

    Th. 14--Foggy damp day. We cut up and salted our beef. Saml. Hutson come hunting cattle. He, H.B. Sr. and Pete started with six head. Boggs & calf, white steer, red steer. Roan lady heifer & blue yearling steer, the latter got away the others put in Gil's. past. Afterwards--Sam & Henry passed by with Dory heifer & calf and yearling steer known as Fayette steer or yearling.

    Friday 15--Foggy cool forenoon. Foggy all day, very dark day. I & Pete to Mr. Mast's shoe shop. Engaged him to make pr. shoes for Pete at $3. Mr. Sam Hutson rode up the mountain with us, too dark to hunt cattle & he returned.

    Sa. 16--Fog lifted in the night, consequently hard white frost this morning, and soon fogged up and continued foggy all day. Simon come and I & Pete went down with him and drove up six head of cattle, two cows and four yearlings and put in pasture.

    Sunday 17--Some frost this morning and some fog, cleared at 10. I & Pete to little prairie, saw one deer & our young bull, got back at 1 P.M.

    M. 18--Clear, warm, beautiful day, I & Pete chopped firewood, stovewood and piled brush.

    T. 19--Partly clear day, warm, we chopped till noon. Simon come for us to help hunt a bear that had been catching his sheep, he had just strychnine for the bear, had eat it, we found where he had been sick but did not see him, think he will die.

    W. 20--Partly clear pleasant day--I & Pete chopped firewood and piled brush, did good work. Pete [has] a very bad cold and bad cough.

    Th. 21--Foggy dark day. We chopped firewood and piled brush. Turned out of pasture six head cattle, to wit, Whiteface Dora, Lady, heifer, two yearling steers known as ringtail, and Pete and Browny and her calf and put old Dunny in orchard to be fed. If we can fatten her we will beef her. She is now 22 or 23 years old.

    F. 22--Foggy day not cold. We chopped firewood and piled brush. Pete to shoe shop at Willises for pr. shoes. Took $5 piece paid $3 for shoes and brought $2 back all right. I did good work.

    Sa. 23--Foggy till 2 P.M. then cleared off cool. We chopped firewood and piled brush. Turned in all the cattle that we put out day before yester. except Whiteface.

    S. 24--Cold night, hard frost this morning. Ice on water in a pan in kitchen. Foggy till 2 P.M. then clear. I & Pete walked round pasture, killed guy squirrel. Calm cool evening.

    M. 25--Cold, calm night. Very hard frost this morning. Ice on water in kitchen. Clear calm pleasant day. I & Pete chopped down big cedar tree and cut down cedar brush, did good work.

    T. 26--Clear, calm, cold night. Very heavy frost this morning. Clear, calm pleasant day. Some clouds in west at sunset. We chopped down two cedar trees and cut down brush, did good work.

    W. 27--Cold, calm night, cold but dry, no white frost. Hazy pleasant day, cloudy and warm at sunset. We chopped down three cedar trees and one fir. Our reason for chopping the cedars is they seed the ground and the young cedars are taking our grazing land.

    Th. 28--Cloudy, warm and windy. Some little rain. I & Pete to Simon's, had dinner and come back & cut down cedar and trimmed it. I had my right hand very badly hurt putting on back log, skin torn off badly.

    Friday 29--Warm windy night and day, some rain, did no work, hand badly hurt. Fence blown down but I am not able to put it up.

    Sa. 30--Pleasant, partly cloudy, no rain. We put up some fence, hand still in bad fix. Mr. Johnson, Methodist preacher, called to see us. Spent a few hours and gone.

December 1872

    Decem. 1--Partly clear pleasant day. December comes in pleasant. We in and about the house all day.

    M. 2--Pleasant cloudy day, we did no work. Suffering with my hand.

    T. 3--Rained in the night. Cloudy pleasant day. I & Pete chopped and rolled down log from butte south of canal and then cut brush, did good work, the first since my hand was hurt. I suffered very much last night with headache. Simon drove his sheep from north of pasture this morning.

    W. 4--Rained in the night and in the forenoon. Afternoon we [went] to work. Simon & Cavitt come and took off Cow Y and calf. We did but little work.

    Th. 5--Some little frost this morning--I & Pete cut brush did good work. Hazy pleasant day, clear sunset. Pete went over N. of pasture and salted some of Simon's sheep.

    F. 6--Clear, pleasant night. Clear warm day--I cut brush at N.W. end of pasture, mostly cedar. Pete herded Simon's sheep and in the evening put them in the corral.

    Sa. 7--Clear calm, beautiful night. Clear warm day. I cut brush, Pete took care of sheep. Simon come at 2 P.M. and took them home. Our dog treed a wildcat, but it jumped from the tree before we could get gun & left us.

    S. 8--Clear pleasant day. Mr. Cavitt come and gone to town, rode Dolly, back at 6 P.M. We remained at home all day.

    M. 9--Clear calm night, hard frost this morning Foggy dark day. Mr. Cavitt gone, early. We did no work.

    T. 10--Foggy night. Clear pleasant day. I & Pete cut brush on butte south of corral--did good work.

    W. 11--Partly clear partly cloudy, but pleasant day--I & Pete cut brush south corral, did good work. Simon come, brought spare rib and some bread. Much obliged.

    Th. 12--Very pleasant partly clear day. Pete washed our clothes. Afternoon we worked in field, cut and burnt brush.

    F. 13--Rained in the night and showered off and on during the day. Pete washed and did chores, I did some work about the house.

    Sa. 14--Rained in the night, some showers and some snow the day. This is my birthday. I am now seventy-one years old. I & Pete to dinner. Daughter Kate prepared a first-rate birthday dinner. I eat hearty. Mr. Cox was with us. I walked home. Pete packed a pig Simon gave him.


    M. 16--Cold night--hard frost this morning. Foggy, hazy, cool day. We fed some cattle and chopped down two trees and trimmed them. Put up Big Pide & Creed's Reddy & calf.

    T. 17--Cloudy cool night and day. Calm, and has been quite calm for several days. We fed our cattle that run in pasture. Put up Simon's two mares and colt and Buck fed them. Chopped down two cedars and trimmed them.

    W. 18--Cold, calm night--hard frost this morning. Cloudy, cool, calm day. We fed our in cattle and chopped down fir tree near barn. Simon come, brought mail all well. Big Pide come home the first time in a year, brought her calf and a poor star calf, both in Joseph's mark. We fed the three.

    Th. 19--Cold, calm night, hard frost. Clear calm cool day. We fed our cattle and chopped down fir tree, fed all the horses.

    F. 20--Some frost this morning partly clear day, warm & calm. We fed some cattle & horses, and chopped down two fir trees near barn. Put up old Yellow Pide (quite heavy), turned out Simon's houses.

    Sa. 21--Hazy pleasant day, we fed calves and chopped down fir tree. Buck Cox called.

    S. 22--Windy, cloudy day, some rain. I & Pete to Simon's, had dinner and returned at 2½ P.M. Old Yellow Pide had calf (bull), born just as we got home. Warm.

    M. 23--Rain and hard wind in the night and rain & hard wind throughout the day. Simon come and with Pete to help, tried to take Big Pide and calf to his home, did not do it, she got away & come back.

    T. 24--Very hard wind and heavy rain in the night. and some rain and wind throughout the day. I & Pete put up fence where it had been blown down. Simon come and brought a nice dressed pig and pies &c. for Christmas dinner, We are much obliged.

    W. 25--Cloudy, windy, warm day. This has been a warm, pleasant Christmas. I and Pete alone. We had a first-rate dinner, a fat boiled hen, roast pig, mashed potatoes, pies and cakes brought by Simon. Good coffee and nice cream, after dinner we chopped down pine tree & fed calves.

    Th. 26--Partly cloudy day, warm some, showers. (Rained hard all last night.) I & Pete to Simon's to help drive Old Pide & calf, had dinner & come home at 2 P.M., did chores.

    F. 27--Partly clear, pleasant day. We chopped trees, did good work, put up Simon's colt to feed him.

    Sa. 28--Foggy calm morning & day. I & Pete chopped down three trees and cut some brush & fed some cattle.

    S. 29--Foggy cloudy morning and day. We walked out to find Pete's whip where he lost it. He found it, quiet at home. Pete has headache.

    M. 30--Partly clear warm day. We cut brush in pasture N.E. of garden. I am tired. Put up Y & calf. Pete has sore throat.

    T. 31--Cloudy, warm night some little rain. Cloudy, calm, warm day. This year ends beautifully. We chopped down some trees E. of barn.

January 1873

    W. 1--Hard wind during the night and constant rain from midnight and raining this morning. Rainy forenoon and some rain the afternoon and some snow at 6 P.M. Stars out at 7. Cool and blustery. We chopped some trees E. of Barn and fed some cattle. Mr. Mast and Mr. Banner called, were going hunting.

    Th. 2--Clear cold the latter part of the night, hard freeze and very heavy white frost this morning. Cloudy or hazy day. We fed cattle & chopped down big fir tree near barn. Young Harris come & drove off two cows that we sold to Hutson, Jent & Fawny.

    F. 3--Very hard wind in the night and some rain. Hazy cool day. Some wind. I & Pete fed some cattle, put up fence where blowed down and chopped down two fir trees.

    Sa. 4--Very hard wind in the night, knocked down our fence in many places (heavy rain) & hard wind and rain all the morning and forenoon, and hard wind afternoon but no rain. Mr. Cavitt called to see us on his way to Myrtle Creek diggings

    Sunday 5--Some rain and wind in the night. Cloudy, warm, windy day--no rain. I & Pete put up fence to protect our field, did well.

    M. 6--Rained all night and rained very hard all this morning to this time 10½ A.M. and still raining very hard, a large amount of water has fell and still falling with hard wind. Rain partly ceased after 12 M. Warm, misty afternoon. Raining at sunset.

    T. 7--Rained slowly all night and all this day--calm and warm, Pete has fed and taken care of the cattle. I am sick, bad headache and some fever, have not been well for several days, nerves are very much shattered. Can't sleep.

    W. 8--Cloudy, warm, some wind. We put up fence and turned out a number of cattle, some of Cox's, some of Hutson's, one of Simon's steers and several of his belonging to this ranch. Mr. Willis and his son called, got some strychnine to poison cougar that had killed his sheep. We marked Pete's calf and chopped wood.

    Th. 9--Pleasant night. Clear but foggy day, warm as spring. Hazy at sunset, clear at 7 P.M. I &t Pete chopped east of barn, did good work.

    F. 10--Hazy warm night. Hazy partly cloudy day, warm. I & Pete cut brush between house & barn. Baked bread, cooked dinner, turned out our horses, fed cows & calves. did good work. I am quite tired.

    Sa. 11--Cloudy night some rain. Cloudy with some showers in forenoon, and hard rain at times in the afternoon. We chopped the forenoon and fed some cows and calves.

    S. 12--Warm showery day. We at home all day, fed and took care of cattle.

    M. 13--Rained in the night, turned cool, snow on the mountains. Stormy cool day frequent showers. Some snow mixed with rain. Pete gone to the shoemaker's to get his boots. I chopped firewood. Made the trip in 2½ hours.

    T. 14--Clear cool night. Some frost this morning--cloudy, windy, cool day. I & Pete chopped four oak trees for cattle. We did not feed cattle. Cloudy & windy now 7 P.M.

    W. 15--Windy cloudy night warm. Partly clear day quite warm. Mr. Cox called. Brought our mail. Pete to Simon's. Simon come with him, brought to us some cabbage & some rutabagas and his wife sent us some good pies. I cut brush. We are much obliged.

    Th. 16--Clear warm night, no frost this morn. Clear, warm day but foggy. We fed cattle and chopped firewood, been busy.

    F. 17--Clear, calm, warm night, no frost. this morning, Clear & warm beautiful day. This has been as warm a day as I ever saw in Oregon at this time of the year. All this month to this time has been unusually warm. We fed cows & calves and cut brush and firewood.

    Sa. 18--Clear warm night. Very little frost this morning. Clear warm beautiful day. I & Pete cut cedar brush in the field, did good work.

    S. 19--Warm beautiful night. Quite warm this morning, warm hazy day. At home till 3 P.M. We walked to look for cow, saw H.B. & two others out hunting.

    M. 20--Cloudy and warm last night. Cloudy morning, hazy or cloudy the balance of the day, warm. Rained some at 3 to 4 P.M. I and Pete cut brush in pasture and one oak tree, did good work.

    T. 21--Rained some last night. Partly clear pleasant day. We fed our calves and cut brush in pasture, worked faithfully.

    W. 22--Warm last night and warm day. Hazy. Forenoon we cut brush. Afternoon, Pete hunted our milk cow, he could not drive her & I had to quit work & help him bring her up. We succeeded after much trouble.

    Th. 23--Cloudy warm night. Hazy morning and forenoon. Cloudy rainy afternoon. We cut brush and one large fir tree, did good work. Took care of cattle, warm and raining now at 8 P.M.

    F. 24--Rainy cool night. Some snow on the mountain east field. Cloudy cool day, very light sprinkle of rain early. Simon called, Mr. Gilmore called. We washed our clothes and did good work. Scrubbed floor. Tired.

    Sa. 25--Hard wind with heavy rain in the night. Rainy morning. Sprinkled rain all day. The sun was not seen during the day, dark and misty, not cold. We took care of cattle. Pete washed clothes.

    S. 26--Cloudy warm night, some rain. Cloudy warm rainy morning to this time 11½ A.M. and raining. We fed all our in cattle & horses. Cloudy misty afternoon. Simon come brought us some tobacco and our mail. We were much obliged.

    M. 27--Cloudy warm night, some little rain. Cleared off early this morning. Very pleasant day. We cut brush and two oaks and took care of cattle. (I am tired.)

    T. 28--Clear, warm, beautiful day. We chopped down big fir tree near old barn. Chopped firewood. Mr. Cavitt come for his mule & to stay all night.

    W. 29--Commenced raining at 6 this morn. Raining hard now at 8. C. gone to town. Rainy day (some snow). We fed and took care of cattle.

    Th. 30--Cloudy cool night. Snow fell to the depth of two inches as per measure this morning, frequent snow squalls all the day but gone off as fast as it fell. Fed between 50 & sixty head cattle and our horses. Whiteface Dora come with young calf (heifer). Cavitt come from Simon's this morn & gone.

    F. 31--Some snow in the night, ground covered. Cleared off early this morning. Partly clear day, warm and pleasant. We fed 60 head cattle and chopped down big fir tree near the old barn. Snow nearly all gone, hills are looking green again. Thus ends the first month of the year 1873.

February 1873

    Sa. 1--Some frost this morning, Partly clear, calm, pleasant day. I & Pete chopped down pine tree near garden and then cut brush Took care of cattle and did chores. Turned out Nelly & colt and Frank, and old cow Speck and others.

    S. 2--Hard frost this morning. The day quite pleasant, not clear but hazy, cloud in west at sunset, some rain at 6 P.M. I & Pete to Simon's, found all well, had dinner and brought up some salt and some cabbage.

    M. 3--Cloudy cool day. Sprinkled rain for short time. I & Pete fed cattle and cut brush, did good work. Cloudy at sunset, looks like snow.

    T. 4--Partly clear. Partly cloudy day. Sprinkled rain at sunset. We fed the in cattle and chopped down fir trees. I chopped two and Pete two, Drove cow, Moth and her young calf (roan bull) born today.

    W. 5--Warm, windy, cloudy day. We chopped down four fir trees. Pete two and I two. Afternoon we cut brush, did good work.

    Th. 6--Very hard wind last night with hard showers of rain commencing at 11 P.M. Some snow on field and east of field. We fed our cattle and did chores. Simon come, brought some beans and our mail, took [omission].

    F. 7--Some frost this morning. Cloudy pleasant day. We fed cattle and chopped in clearing, chopped down one big fir. Pete Do laurel. This day Seven years ago I moved onto this place. Seven years I have toiled faithfully and yet there is much, very much to do to make it a good stock ranch, though we have accomplished much. Our friend James Harpham come to see and spend the night with us. Yellow blossoms out quite plenty.

    Sa. 8--Rained last night. Hazy forenoon, cloudy afternoon. Commenced raining at dusk. We cut brush and I chopped big fir tree. Pete some laurels. James H. gone early. Sick calf died, been sick 2 months.

    Sunday 9--Hard rain in the night and some little early this morning. Partly clear partly cloudy pleasant day. My son Joseph come to see us, all well at his house, he has another son, born Jany. 10-73.

    M. 10--Hazy forenoon, cloudy afternoon, commd. raining at 4 P.M., hard wind, raining and and blowing hard now at 7 P.M. I & Pete cut brush and fell one large fir tree, did good work.

    T. 11--Rained all night and rained some this morning and occasionally throughout the day. We fed and took care of cattle. Pete to the upper end of field & put up fence. I am suffering with chilblains, can't get about. Cox's boys drove their horses up here to graze.

    W. 12--Hard wind and rain all last night and rained by spells all day. Commenced snowing at 7 P.M., ground covered now at 9--bad storm. We fed and took care of cattle. Pete cut down some small trees and some brush.

    Thursday 13--Hard wind with frequent snow squalls in the night. Some snow and some rain fell today, partly clear afternoon. Snow gone except on the mountains. We fed and took care of cattle. I am still suffering with my toes, painful affliction. We have had a considerable storm.

    F. 14--Rain with hard wind nearly all last night, hard wind and showers all day. We attended to our cattle, nothing more. I have sore foot.

    Sa. 15--Stormed all night, wind & rain. Stormy bad day, wind rain and snow. Our pet calf Richard died of dropsy and enlarged gall. We chopped firewood & fed and took care of cattle.

    S. 16--Stormy night snow fell 1½ inches and snowing at daylight. Snow squalls off and on all day. We fed 50 head cattle, been quite busy all day, bad storm.

    M. 17--Cold night, ground slightly froze this morning. Cold windy disagreeable day. We fed 50 head cattle and brought up some firewood. Snow gone off west end of ranch. Pete found large wood rat. We killed [omission]

    T. 18--One inch of snow fell last night with hard wind all night. Cleared off early this morning. Warm pleasant day, snow nearly all gone. We fed cattle & chopped firewood.

    W. 19--Partly clear night not cold. Partly clear day. I & Pete to Simon's to drive down his cow Speck & calf, back at 2 P.M. and to work. Got our mail.

    Th. 20--Cold night. Very hard frost this morning. Clear pleasant day. Cow Queeny lost her calf. We cut brush and fed our cows & calves, did good work.

    F. 21--Some frost this morning. Foggy forenoon, clear & pleasant after. Cow Queeny had not lost her calf, as we said yesterday. Pete found it today well & hearty, drove them up. Cow looks badly, put them under shelter to feed. Cut some brush and fed cows & calves.

    Sa. 22--Foggy forenoon. Clear and pleasant after. We fed our cows and calves and cut brush, did good work.

    Sunday 23--Cloudy night. Commenced snowing early this morning and snowed at intervals all day but went off as it fell. Simon come to see us, had many complaints against Pete, gone at 4 P.M. We fed and took care of cattle.

    M. 24--Snow to the depth of one inch fell last night. Some snow squalls during the day. I & Pete have been very busy all the day feeding and other work. Partly clear at sunset.

    T. 25--Clear cold night. Hard frost. Partly clear & cool day. We fed cattle and cut brush did good work. Cloudy at sunset but cold.

    W. 26--Snow in the night, ground covered this morning, hard wind in the night and all day. We have had busy day feeding and getting wood. Put in Old Bain and fed her well.

    Th. 27--Snow in the night. Ground covered this morning. Snow squalls all day. All gone at dusk. We fed cattle. Simon come, paid me $100.

    F. 28--Snow fell last night to depth 4 inches and snowing this morning, very bad on cattle. Snow squalls all day with hard wind. Snow partly gone off at dusk. We very busy all day.

March 1873

    Sa. 1--Some snow in the night with very hard wind. Snow squalls with hard wind this morning. Clear warm afternoon. We fed our cows and calves and chop fir tree and cut brush. I am tired (very).

    S. 2--Partly clear hazy pleasant day. We fed and took care of cattle. Cow Pet had calf (heifer) born at 12 M. We turned out our horses and some cattle (been busy all day).

    M. 3--Hazy and cloudy day, hard wind. Simon brought mail, all well at his home. We fed and took care of cattle and cut brush. We settled with Simon and took some cattle and agreed to take charge of this ranch for as many years as we wished to remain on it. Owes me $1800.

    T. 4--Cloudy warm night. Cloudy windy warm day. We fed our cows and calves and repaired fence, broke by falling tree. Commenced raining at 5 P.M. and raining with hard wind now at 7 P.M.

    W. 5--Rained all night, large amount of water fell in the course of the night. Turned to snow at 7 this morning, and snowed rapidly till now 10 and still snowing fast. Cattle are up and hungry, but the snow is falling so fast that we will not try to feed. Snow squalls all day, ground all covered with snow, decidedly a bad day.

    Th. 6--Windy night, some rain commenced snowing early this morning. Snow squalls till 12 M., rain after at intervals, snow gone. We fed our cows & calves.

    F. 7--Some rain in the night. Cloudy warm day. Some showers. We fed our cows & calves and cut some brush and killed our wild barrow that run in our pasture, he was cross to our calves. Heard grouse gobble, 1st of the season.

    Sa. 8--Some rain last night, warm cloudy forenoon. Commenced raining at 2 P.M., raining now at 7. I & Pete to Simon's took some fresh pork and brought one sack salt. We owe Simon one sack. We fed our cows & calves, cut some brush. Cassie give me some pen points and Simon give me two plugs tobacco.

    Sunday 9--Rained all night and all day and raining now at 8 P.M. We fed our calves. Henry B. Sr. called, Pete went with him to get our mail brought out by Mr. B. Simon had got it.

    M. 10--Rained in the night. Cloudy warm day. Sprinkled rain at 6 P.M. We fed calves and cows and cut brush and put up fence where it was blown down, did good work.

    T. 11--Cloudy warm night. Cloudy warm day. Commenced raining at 2 P.M., raining now at 7, quite warm. We fed our cows and calves and cut brush, did good work. I am tired. Very tired.

    W. 12.--Warm rainy night. Foggy warm forenoon. Cloudy warm afternoon. We baked bread. Washed clothes. Scrubbed floor and cut brush, did good work.

    Th. 13--Partly clear pleasant day. We cut brush, did good work. My son Lafayette come to see us, all well with him.

    F. 14--Cool night. Some frost this morning. We fed our cows and calves and cut brush. Clear day. Lafayette gone home. We did good work.

    Sa. 15--Cloudy cool day. Smart wind with rain in the afternoon, raining at dusk. We fed some of our cows and calves. Did chores, nothing more. Mr. Gilliland called. We put up heifer (Lady) heavy & poor.

    Sunday 16--Rained in the night and some showers this morning and day. Cool. Heifer known by name (Lady) had calf (bull) 5 P.M. We at home all day.

    M. 17--White frost this morning. Hazy warm day. We to Barker's to get help to mark calves. Simon come, brought our mail, his wife not well. We are to have help to mark calves day after tomorrow. Cow Roany had calf (heifer) this morning.

    T. 18--Clear warm day. I & Pete worked at corral, repairing fence and bars preparatory to marking and branding calves.

    W. 19--Clear and quite warm the day. Mr. Barker, Henry B. Sr. and Henry B. Jr. come after dinner and marked our calves, 14 heifers and altered 7 bulls. Branded all but three that were too small, good job and done quick. We are very glad it is over. Now we can turn them out.

    Th. 20--Clear and very warm day, I think I have not seen a warmer day at this time of year. We did no work but attend to the cattle.

    F. 21--Clear calm and warm. We turned out of pasture 14 or 15 head of yearlings that we marked on Wednesday, and then cut brush, did good work. Mr. Cavitt come to stay the night.

    Sa. 22--Clear and warm forenoon. Some white clouds and pleasant breeze the afternoon. Cavitt gone early. We cut brush. Put up Pete's yearling and one of Simon's.

    S. 23--Cool partly cloudy. Sprinkled rain several times in the course of the day. We at home all day except walked round pasture.

    M. 24--Cool clear morning, some frost. Clear pleasant day. Mr. Matthews come to see if he could get work. We cut brush, did good work. Killed grouse & partridge. Mr. Matthews come.

    T. 25--Cloudy windy disagreeable day. Some rain. Mr. Matthews commenced work. Forenoon reset fence. Afternoon Mr. M. cut brush, did good work.

    W. 26--Cloudy windy day. Some hard showers. Mr. M. reset some fence and balance of the day cut brush. I & Pete did but little but take care of cattle. Our yearlings that we marked a week ago come up looking well.

    Th. 27--Stormy cool night, hard rain for a time. Snow on the mountain east of field. Cloudy windy day, some rain. Mr. Matthews chopped firewood forenoon and cut brush afternoon. I & Pete chopped wood. Pete cut some brush. We had many chores to do, worked generally.

    F. 28--Cloudy windy forenoon and rainy afternoon. Mr. M., self and Pete cut brush forenoon and afternoon reset some fence & Mr. M. cut brush after we quit the fence.

    Sa. 29--Hard wind and rain last night. Cool morning. Partly clear forenoon. Cloudy at times after. Sprinkled rain several times. I & Mr. Matthews reset fence, and he cut brush while I did the cooking. Pete hunted cattle, drove up young cow Bloss and put her in pasture. Mr. M. gone home.

    Sunday 30--Very hard wind and heavy rain last night and quite a stormy day this has been. Wind rain & hail. We at home all day. Mr. Matthews come.

    M. 31--Lonely windy day with sprinkle of rain several times. Forenoon Mr. M. cut brush. I & Pete to Mr. Cox's for bacon, brought 106 pounds and paid him six dollars we owed him for two years in all $19.25. Afternoon we put up some fence and then Mr. M. cut brush. I & Pete cut brush and did chores.

April 1873

    April 1--Hard wind and rain all night, and rained without entirely stopping all this day. Mr. Matthews chopped firewood and to Simon's the afternoon half day. I & Pete chopped in the afternoon.

    W. 2--Stormed all night, hard wind and hard rain. Rained all the forenoon with occasional dash of hail. Mr. M. chopped firewood forenoon. Put up fence after rain. Hail & snow alternately all the afternoon. I & Pete chopped and did other work. James Harpham come to see us and to stay all night.

    Th. 3--Snowed all night, ground covered this morning an inch deep. Snow squalls all the day, very disagreeable day. Paid Mr. Matthews for his work, he worked 7½ days at 1.25 per day. I paid him ten dollars, he owes me five bits. He & J.H. gone early this morn, bad day. Bad weather, protracted storm.

    F. 4--Snow in the forepart of the night and frost the latter part. Quite a frost this morning, partly clear day. Sprinkle of snow two or 3 times. I & Pete chopped firewood and did chores, busy all day, tired.

    Sa. 5--Partly clear, cool day. Sprinkled snow very little. I & Pete went with Simon to his house, he drove down old cow Nelly & two heifers. We had dinner got a sack of potatoes and returned. Mr. Cavitt come and gone to Simon's. Clear, pretty sunset.

    S. 6--Clear cool morning, some frost. Clear pleasant day. We at home quiet & comfortable. My son John just from the mines called to see me. He is in good spirits and health and after a stay of an hour has gone to Simon's. God bless and prosper him is my prayer.

    M. 7--Clear pleasant day. Mr. Cox called. Mr. Hutson come for cattle and drove off some 16 or 20 head that they purchased last year & they had come back. I & Pete been busy cutting brush and doing other things.

    T. 8--Partly cloudy and partly clear pleasant day. Hutsons took their roan heifer and Ben Bull the last of their cattle that run at this ranch. I & Pete chopped firewood and did chores.

    W. 9--Clear calm beautiful day. Forenoon we worked in garden making ditch. In the afternoon I & Pete to my son Joseph's. Found all well and returned at 5 P.M. Saw our cow Swanie and a number of Simon's cattle & some of Joseph's.

    Th. 10--Partly clear and pleasant day. Pete washed our clothes. I had bad headache, consequently did but little work. My son Joseph come to stay all night. Mr. Sweeny come also to stay with us. Cloudy at sunset.

    F. 11--Cloudy morning, some mist. Joseph plowed up our little garden and laid it off for planting. I & Pete planted some potatoes. Partly clear & Partly cloudy day. (Cool) Cloudy sunset. Mr. Sweeny gone at 10 A.M. Joseph gone at 3 P.M.

    Sa. 12--Some rain and some snow last night and some showers and snow squalls, the day quite stormy. Grandson Lafayette come & gone. George Curran called hunting work. I had a bad headache all day & night.

    S. 13--Clear, calm, beautiful day. I suffered with pain in the head. Pete to Joseph's to take home his horse Fred for jumping into our meadow. Joseph come and I swapped for for his horse and Pete brought him back. My head is comparatively free of pain.

    M. 14--Clear, calm, beautiful day. We did chores and chopped some fire[wood] and put up our horses to ride to town tomorrow.

    T. 15--Clear calm warm day. I & Pete set out for town at 7½ A.M., arrived there at 11. Spent the day & night there. Heard of treacherous killing of Genl. Canby, Lieut. Sherwood & others by the Modoc Indians. Terrible outrage. Chargeable to the infernal policy of the administration.

    W. 16--Clear warm day, some clouds intervening. I & Pete left town at 8 A.M. Took dinner at Mr. Peters', got some seed potatoes at Mr. Cox's, and arrived at home at 2½ P.M., did chores, separated cows & calves & feel quite comfortable.

    Th. 17--Partly clear. Some clouds and sprinkle of rain in the afternoon. Mr. Cavitt called. I & Pete worked in garden. Planted potatoes.

    F. 18--Clear pleasant day. I & Pete to Simon's, had dinner & then to Mr. Cox's after seed potatoes and to home at 4 P.M.

    Sa. 19--Partly clear, partly hazy, warm day. I & Pete planted potatoes, finished that job. Mr. How & Mr. Gilliland come to close Contract for land. We purchased 480 acres of How at $3 per acre to be paid in two years. Mr. Gilliland purchased the balance of his tract. We now have a good outlet for our cattle. We now hope to be able to shut out sheep from our ranch.

    Sunday 20--Hazy forenoon, cloudy after. Raining now at 7½ P.M. Simon come to see us, brought mail. We walk in & round pasture.

    M. 21--Windy, cloudy, cool day. Some showers in the afternoon. Pete washed clothes, tablecloths &c. We did chores, looked after cattle.

    T. 22--Partly clear and quite windy. Sprinkle of rain once or twice. Forenoon we chopped firewood, afternoon cut brush. Mr. Cox called to see us.

    W. 23--Foggy cool morning, after breakfast I & Pete to Simon's, found all well but Ratliff. He has a little spell. Will soon be all right. Returned round the hill to put Mr. Tucker on trail to Cavitt's. Saw Mrs. Drain and her son Charles. Afternoon cut brush, clear and warm afternoon. Put Pete's colt in pasture, turned him out again.

    Th. 24--Clear pleasant day. Old cow Madcap [had] heifer calf. We marked it. Worked some in garden. Sam Hutson called, still hunting cattle. Cam Cox & John come to corral their horses. Smart wind at sunset.

    F. 25--Hard wind last night but clear. Clear warm day. We planted some potatoes and cut brush.

    Sa. 26--Clear pleasant day. We cut brush, did good work. Broke my ax handle.

    S. 27--Cloudy morning. Sun out at 8, but cloudy now at 1 P.M. We have been at home all day.

    M. 28--Cloudy and some rain. I & Pete to town and back home. How made deal to me for 480 acres land. I gave note at two years, Lafayette security at 3 dollars per acre.

    T. 29--Clear pleasant day. We planted corn, beans and peas in garden, and then to Simon's and back. Mr. Tucker come to stay all night.

    W. 30--Clear warm day. Mr. Gilliland come and we staked line between our land & Mr. Cox's, and then I & Pete cut brush. Cloudy sunset. Mr. Tucker gone early. Our day's work has been a hard one. I am quite tired.

May 1873

    Th. 1--Partly clear forenoon. Cloudy after and a nice rain, fine growing weather. We cut brush on the slope adjoining Mr. Cox's land, did good work.

    F. 2--Pleasant day. I & Pete went to Mr. Singleton's, took dinner with him. Called at Mr. Cox's on our return, heard of the death of Judge Thayer. Grandson Frank come and took the horse that traded to his father. Cow Young Fanny [had] bull calf.

    Sa. 3--Clear cool day. We cut brush west of corral, did good work. I am tired.

    Sunday 4--Clear pleasant day. We at home all day. John & Buck Cox and Bob Gilliland come, took dinner with us and assisted us to alter calf. Mr. Hinkle & Antone called, were after their horses.

    M. 5--Cloudy morning, clear cool day. I & Pete all the forenoon finding and driving up young cow Pide and her young calf, heifer. Cut brush.

    T. 6--Clear pleasant day. Forenoon we planted beans and worked in garden. Afternoon we cut brush, did good work.

    W. 7--Cool morning some frost. Clear, warm, not a cloud to be seen. I & Pete to Mr. Cox's, got some salt and some potatoes, had dinner & got home at 2 P.M. White cow Bloss, heifer calf born 2½ P.M., white, no red nor black spot on it.

    Th. 8--Clear warm day. Forenoon we worked in garden. Afternoon cut brush. Quite warm.

    F. 9--Hazy warm day. I & Pete to Simon's, found all well. Charly had sore finger like felon. We got home at 12 M. Saw deer in Simon's pasture, brought up a few cabbage plants and planted them out. Cut my left forefinger badly while marking a calf, and am suffering with pains in right hand.

    Sa. 10--Clear & warm with some flying clouds. Owing to my lame hands we have not worked as usual.

    S. 11--Foggy morning, clear after. I & Pete walked down to and over the creek, back by 11 A.M. Simon had been here, left mail & gone.

    M. 12--Clear windy day, some clouds but cool. Pete washed towels, tablecloth and other things. I did no work, hands out of fix.

    T. 13--Hazy but pleasant day. Large circle round the sun. Pete chopped down large fir and then we looked after Boggy now quite heavy and brought in one of our wild chicks.

    W. 14--Cloudy forenoon, rainy after. Horse Fred broke into our field and then into our little meadow. We have him tied in the stable. Raining now at dusk

    Th. 15--Cloudy with very little rain. Forenoon we chopped firewood, afternoon we killed one of our wild chicks and did chores.

    F. 16--Cloudy forenoon, clear after. We cut brush, did good work. Cavitt called, took dinner with us and gone. Mr. Hays and his nephew called, hunting cattle.

    Sa. 17--Cloudy forenoon. Commenced raining at 3½ P.M. Raining now at 7½ and looks as though it would rain all night. We planted some cabbage seed and drove up cow Boggy with young calf, bull. Simon come, told us, that John had returned from San Francisco where he had been for machinery to work black sand. We cut brush, did well. Pete killed rattle [snake?].

    Sunday 18--Cloudy, cool damp morning. Partly clear, cool day. John & Buck Cox called, brought mail. We at home all day.

    M. 19--Pleasant partly clear, some clouds. We cut brush west of corral, and worked some in garden. Nearly all our cattle come up.

    T. 20--Cool and some showers the day. I & Pete to town, saw many friends. With Mr. Thayer called to see Mrs. Thayer, was much pleased took tea with them, heard the case of Cross against Don. argued. Verdict for defendant.

    M. 21--Showery cool day. On our return from town called at Mr. Cox's, took dinner and brought up a sack of salt, got home at 1 P.M.

    W. 22--Partly clear cool day. Some clouds and brisk wind. Forenoon we drove up cow Fanny and young calf (heifer) and then I cut brush. Pete picked strawberries, did good work.

    F. 23--Cool clear day. We did but little work. Mr. Hays, Brownfield and Cam. Cox called.

    S. 24--Clear pleasant day. We cut brush, did good work. Horse Fred pulled fence down. He is a bad jumper, gives me trouble.

    Sunday 25--Pleasant day. Cloudy afternoon, commenced raining at 7 P.M. We to Simon's and back, found them well. He makes grave charges against my servant boy Pete, he is the second man of all my acquaintance that meddles with servant Negro boys or servants of any kind & he is a good man.

    M. 26--Rained nearly all last night. Foggy morning. Partly clear cool day. I & Pete chopped firewood and worked in garden, did good work.

    T. 27--Cloudy. Cold showery day with some squalls of hail, bad weather on gardens. We chopped firewood in forenoon, did no work after. Simon come, brought. mail. Mr. Cox called.

    W. 28--Rained in the night and some this morning and at 8 A.M. Snow fell rapidly for a few minutes. Squalls of rain, hail, or snow all day. Mountain east of field covered with snow.

    Th. 29--Rained all night and raining this morning and cold as winter. Some showers off and on all day. In the forenoon we chopped oak firewood and after we chopped big fir log in barn yard. Simon come, we agreed to take his cattle on shares. He is going to move to town.

    Friday 30--Partly cloudy, cool day. I & Pete chopped and split firewood out of big fir log in barn yard, did good work.

    Sa. 31--Partly clear pleasant day. I & Pete to Simon's to see about cattle, back at 11 and worked in garden. Ground quite wet.

June 1873

    S. June 1--Pleasant day. Some clouds but no rain. We walked down to creek and up by Henry Barker's place, the first time that I have been there since he located the claim.

    M. 2--Foggy morning. Pleasant day. Some clouds in afternoon. We plowed our potato patch and hoed over half of it, did good work. I am tired.

    T. 3--Pleasant day. Some clouds. Forenoon we hoed potatoes. Afternoon we walk through our field and down to Deurbon [Dearborn?] cabin and across the creek and to home at 6 o'clock.

    W. 4--Mist of rain in the night and some early this morn. Pleasant day. Forenoon we scalded bedstead and scrubbed & drove up Miss Emma's cow [Beauty] young calf heifer then cut brush, did good work.

    Th. 5--Rained in the night and some this morning. Partly clear pleasant day. We washed clothes and then worked in garden. Tom Whitsett passed by on his way to Cavitt's.

    F. 6--Clear warm day. We worked in garden and cut brush and did chores.

    Sa. 7--Cool morning, warm after. We hunted cattle. Met with Cavitt and went over to head of Myrtle [Creek], but did not find any cattle. Tucker and and Cavitt come to stay all night.

    S. 8--Clear warm day. C. & T. gone early, we to Simon's, found children not well. Antone called, took dinner with us & gone. Turned out of pasture two heifers and calves.

    M. 9--Clear warm day. Forenoon we worked in garden. Baked bread &c., did chores.

    T. 10--Clear warm day. I & Pete to Simon's after cattle. Drove up twelve cows and calves, two cows without calves, three large steers and eight young cattle. Escaped from 4 cows and calves and some others. J. Harpham helped, Ling had calf, bull.

    W. 11--Foggy morning, clear after & warm. Mr. Tucker commenced work. I & him & Pete helped Mr. Harpham make brush fence on Simon's Norris place.

    Th. 12--Clear partly some clouds flying from the south and some wind. Mr. Tucker helping James Harpham. I & Pete repaired corral fence.

    F. 13--Foggy misty morning. Clear after. We worked in garden. Mr. Tucker worked [with] Harpham making brush fence. Simon come, had purchased wagon and mower price $290.

    Sa. 14--Clear warm day. Mr. Tucker worked with Harpham. We repaired some fence, hunted wild band cattle, saw some of them and worked some in garden.

    S. 15--Hazy forenoon, rainy after. We planted out some cabbage plants. Joseph come to see us.

    M. 16--Cloudy day, some rain early in the morning. I & Mr. Tucker worked at repairing fence. Staked and ridered a portion of east string. James Harpham called. We are to help him tomorrow.

    T. 17--Rainy day, forenoon repaired fence, afternoon worked on road and went to Simon's. [Text cut off on scan, page 44, vol. 1.]

    W. 18--Partly clear pleasant day. I & Joseph to town. Joseph drove out new wagon & mower, got home at sunset, hard on our horses, got 66½ pounds bacon of Mr. Cox at 12 cts., owe him $7.98, also got some potatoes. Deeded to Simon all my land. Mr. Tucker worked on road & fence. James H. come.

    Th. 19--Partly clear partly cloudy. Mr. T. & James H. gone early to work building fence for H. Simon come and with the aid of Joseph put up mower. Both Jo & Simon gone home.

    F. 20--Cloudy with occasional sunshine. Mr. Tucker worked with James H. I & Pete did but little. I was not well. Out cattle come for salt.

    Sa. 21--Rained all day. Mr. Tucker did not work. I & Pete did but little. Rain. Rain very much.

    S. 22--Rained all night and some this morning and quite cloudy. Unusual amount of rain. Rained nearly all day. Frank Lane come for cow.

    M. 23--Cloudy morning. Partly clear day. Frank L. & Pete gone with Madcap and her calf. Pete brought some beef. Wood Barker come & gone. Mr. Tucker chopped firewood. I chopped forenoon & then to Simon, he had gone to town. Children doing well.

    T. 24--Partly clear cool day. James Harpham and Simon come and started our new Sprague mower. Works well. Afternoon James cut some volunteer oats. Mower worked well. Mr. Tucker chopped wood.

    W. 25--Partly cloudy, warm day. James worked mower. Tucker chopped wood and cocked up a little hay. Cam Cox called.

    Th. 26--Partly clear partly cloudy, hard thunder. Tucker chopped stovewood. I & Pete do.

    F. 27--Foggy till noon, clear after. Tucker commenced working at harvesting. Mowed and raked hay. Pete mowed and put up [hay].

    Sa. 28--Foggy forenoon. Clear after. Tucker mowed and raked hay. I & Pete raked up with forks. Cavitt come to stay the night.

    S. 29--Foggy morning, clear afternoon. Judge Mosher and family come to see us, brought us some fine mutton. My daughter cooked a good dinner, after dinner visited my good wife's grave and then they went home. May God bless them. Simon come.

    Monday 30--Foggy morning, clear after. Mr. Tucker mowed till A.M. and raked hay after. Pete mowed. has learned to mow well for one of his age.

July 1873

    July 1--Foggy and very damp till noon. Mr. Tucker mowed in Orchard meadow till noon then mowed some in field and put up hay. Pete mowed, did well James Harpham come, took dinner with us & gone.

    W. 2--Cloudy forenoon, clear after. Mr. Tucker mowed and put up hay in forenoon and with James H. worked at rack to haul hay on and early in morning with wagon to Cox's after sack salt. Pete with him. Creed F. come, brought us some candles.

    Th. 3--Clear, warm at noon. I left home with Wood Barker for Myrtle Creek, rode in his spring wagon, arrived at his Barker's house at 6 P.M. Stayed all night. Mr. Tucker and Harpham hauled 3 loads hay and put some hay in cocks.

    F. 4--I went from Barker's to Myrtle [Creek] made a speech and returned to Barker's. Stayed all night. Harpham worked half day. Mr. Tucker all day hauled 2 loads hay and cocked up hay.

    Sa. 5--Clear, warm day. Wood Barker brought me in wagon to Cornerly's pasture, he to Cox's. I home at 11 A.M. Mr. T. mowed. H. do. ½ day.

    S. 6--Clear, warm day--Mr. Tuck. gone home paid for his work 21 days 13 outside and 8 in hay harvest, paid him $26.75 and am to hand to Cavitt- $1.50. I & Pete have been busy in garden with hay.

    M. 7--Clear hot day. I & Pete ricked up some hay, hauled in three loads from field and cut three rounds with mower on five-acre piece in upper end of field.

    T. 8--Clear warm day James Harpham come and mowed after dinner and to Simon's after. Rake and back at 8 P.M. I & Pete worked hard all day, cocked up hay, raked some.

    W. 9--Clear hot day. James with mower cut five acres and then to Simon's. I & Pete put up hay, worked hard. Pete & dog killed skunk.

    Th. 10--Clear pleasant day. Forenoon I & Pete raked hay. Mr. Matthews come at 12 M. He raked hay in the afternoon. Simon come & I went with him to Barker's. Pete helped rake hay.

    F. 11--Clear forenoon. Cool. Some clouds at sundown. Forenoon Mr. Matthews on raked hay. I & Pete cocked up. Afternoon we hauled two loads hay.

    Sa. 12--Hazy forenoon. Cloudy & commenced raining at 11 A.M. We hauled 3 loads hay, worked half day and had to quit, rained all the afternoon. Very unusual & bad on hay. Volney come to tell us that Henry Barker's little boy was dead.

    Sunday 13--Rained all last night and showered all day and looks like much rain has and will damage much hay. James H. come, brought pitman [part for mower]. Mr. Matthews gone home.

    M. 14--Cloudy night some rain. Cloudy day and frequent showers. Mr. Matthews come, mowed all day, grass that was down and tangled. I & Pete do. alternately. Frank L. come & gone. Antone come, has taken homestead that Henry Barker pretended to take.

    T. 15--Rain in the night. Rainy, bad day. Mr. Matthews worked half day mowing. I & Pete busy generally.

    W. 16--Foggy till 11, clear and warm after. Mr. M. mowed and then we scattered hay that had been cocked and was very wet. Antone come.

    Th. 17--Clear warm day. Matthews, Antone & Pete scattering hay. I to Simon's for pitchfork, back at 9 and to work. Hauled in one load hay forenoon and two after and raked some hay in orchard meadow.

    F. 18--Clear and warm--with cloud in west. Matthews, Antone, self & Pete hauled hay, two loads from field & one from little meadow before dinner. Two loads from the field and one from home meadow after dinner.

    Sa. 19--Hazy morning clear and warm after. Mr. Matthews, self and Pete hauled six loads hay, 3 from field and 3 from little meadow. Matthews gone home.

    Sunday 20--Hazy morning, clear & warm after. Antone come, left article we sent for at Cox's. I & P. went after them, back at 5. Antone will stay to help tomorrow.

    M. 21--Foggy morning, clear and warm after. Mr. Matthews, Antone, self & Pete hauled hay, five loads from field and one from little meadow. Paid Antone $4.50 in full for his work.

    T. 22--Clear & warm. Mr. Matthews, self & Pete hauled 4 loads hay. worked hard, dark heavy cloud in west at sundown. Mr. Matthews has worked, this day included, 9½ days.

    W. 23--Clear warm day. Forenoon Matthews, self and Pete built pen under shed for hay & hauled 2 loads. Matthews worked half day & to his home & to town. Afternoon I & Pete put new sickle in mower & cut 9 rounds.

    Th. 24--Clear and warm. Matthews come late & to work raked hay & cut some with scythe. I cut with mower. Pete helped at everything.

    F. 25--Clear & hot. I cut with mower, did good work. Matthews cut with scythe & raked some hay. Pete took care of mower & oiled her &c.

    Sa. 26--Clear hot day. I cut with mower, did good work. Mr. Matthews raked hay, did well. Pete helped take care of the mower and put the grass out of the way. Mr. M. gone home.

    S. 27--Clear hot day. I & Pete at home, set fire to brush that we cut in winter, burnt beautifully. Matthews come.

    M. 28--Clear, hot. Mr. Matthews raked hay. I finished cutting and took down mower, done mowing. James Harpham come, took dinner with us & gone.

    T. 29--Clear hot day. Mr. Matthews, self & Pete hauled hay four loads and did chores. Mr. Bonebrake called to stay all night.

    W. 30--Clear warm & windy. Matthews, self and Pete hauled 4 loads from field and one from little meadow, did not unload the last load. Bonebrake gone, Simon come.

    Th. 31--Clear hot day. Matthews, self hauled hay 4 loads but did not unload the last one. I am quite tired.

August 1873

    F. 1--Clear and hot. Matthews, self & Pete hauled hay (four loads), last not unloaded.

    Sa. 2--Clear & hot. Matthews, self & Pete hauled three loads hay & put an addition to barn. Paid Matthews in full for his work 19 days, $28.50 and he owes me 50 cents. Simon & family for Drain & he for his mines.

    S. 3--Clear warm day. We at home all day. Mr. Cox called to see us. Cavitt do. Antone called.

    M. 4--Clear & hot. Anton, self and Pete hauled four loads hay, finished the big field.

    T. 5--Cloudy and looks like rain. Antone, self and Pete finished hauling the hay out of the orchard or little meadow at noon. O'Sweeny come, took dinner with us and gone. Commenced raining at noon, showery after till night.

    W. 6--Cloudy night, no rain. Partly cloudy day. I & Pete to Simon's place and back before dinner. Sweeny come, took dinner with us and gone. Afternoon we put out poison for squirrels & did chores.

    Th. 7--Partly cloudy and partly clear. Sprinkled rain at 12 M. We did but little work, walked round field and pasture.

    F. 8--Some fog this morning, clear and warm after. I & Pete went hunting. Killed fine deer and brought it in, all nicely, did well, we are thankful. It is not as easy to hunt as once it was. Now we get very tired.

    Sa. 9--Clear and hot. We washed our clothes. Pete to Mr. Cox's & Harpham to take some venison back in good time.

    S. 10--Clear & warm. We at home all day, Pete to Mr. Cox's to take venison ham he brought back yesterday, he found no one at home. Antone come, gave him some venison. Mr. Cox come, took dinner with us & gone.

    M. 11--Cloudy, cool morning. I & Pete to Simon's, tried to drive up some cattle but did not, could not.

    T. 12--Foggy morning. I & Pete hunted cattle didn't find them. Afternoon did chores, killed grouse.

    W. 13--Clear cool morning. I & Pete went hunting, killed & brought in forked horn buck. Packed him out of the mountains to H.B.'s place and then Pete got Old Dolla & brought him home.

    Th. 14--Clear hot day. I and Pete chopped firewood and burnt some brush, and got wagon ready for going to town tomorrow.

    F. 15--Clear and very hot. I & Pete to town, had horses shod and brought out seven sacks salt, half barrel sugar, forty-four lbs. coffee, four sacks flour, one lb. tea, one pound tobacco, one bottle whiskey and from Mr. Cox's, one sack wheat. Took to my children one qr. venison each, and got of Mr. Floed fifty dollars left with him for me by Simon R. Lane, and drove home in the heat, horses very tired.

    Sa. 16--Clear and hot. We did but little work. Mr. Jake Cox called to see us, took dinner with us and gone. Too hot to work. Three years ago this day my beloved wife breathed her last. Three years of sorrow have passed and gone. Still I mourn and shall while I live. Oh, God I pray he bring her soul to rest in peace.

    Sunday 17--Clear and hot, we at home all day. Antone come, took dinner with us and gone. We at home all day.

    M. 18--Clear hot day, we did no work. Visited the grave of my beloved wife. Three years this day we buried her. May God bring her good soul to rest in peace is my earnest prayer. God be praised forever.

    T. 19--Clear & hot. We fixed up fence where mule broke it down. Cavitt come after his mule that come before him three hours and to stay all night with us.

    W. 20--Clear & warm, not so hot as for several days past. We picked our seed peas and some for dinner. Cavitt and mule gone early.

    Th. 21--Clear warm day. Forenoon we went hunting, saw some of the wild band of cattle. Afternoon we burnt brush, had big fire.

    F. 22--Foggy morning. Clear and pleasant after. I & Pete worked some in garden and fired brush. Father Heinrich come to see and spend a few days with us.

    Sa. 23--Clear warm day. I spent a few hours hunting. Father H. and Pete do. fishing. I killed nothing. Returned at noon. Balance day given to conversation.

    S. 24--Clear and warm. Father Heinrich celebrated mass, we to Communion. Father H. discovered five deer on the butte near our house. I shot one and killed on the spot. Pete dragged it in & we butchered it nicely, fine little deer.

    M. 25--Some clouds in the night, and one shower of rain at 9½, soon over. Clear this morning. Father Heinrich left at 8 A.M. for town, took half of deer to my children. We worked in swale. Chopped & burnt brush.

    T. 26--Cloudy morning, light shower, soon over. We at work about the house till noon. Then to Simon's place and back and did chores. I am not well, quite the contrary.

    W. 27--Partly clear, pleasant. We worked some in garden. I am quite unwell and feeble. Pete waits on me as best he can.

    Th. 28--Clear warm day. I am still quite unwell. I & Pete walked down to creek and across it and find some logs on land we purchased of How. Killed a gray squirrel and pheasant after we returned & while on a visit to the grave of my beloved wife. I am feeble & sick. Pete is my only company. But God is with us. God be praised for ever. Praise ye the Lord.

    F. 29--Foggy morning, clear and pleasant after. I am sick, quite sick. I had the horses harnessed and to the wagon to go to Simon's place after my bureau and other things but was too unwell, and did not go. Sent Pete to Mr. Cox's. Mr. Cox come and stayed with me till 6 P.M. I am still quite unwell.

    Sa. 30--Clear, warm. I am still quite sick. Pete takes care of me and does cooking and other things. At dusk my son Lafayette and grandson Creed come to see and stay with us, brought us many things that we thank [omission]

    S. 31--Warm, hazy. Cloudy and sprinkled rain at 5 P.M. Son and grandson gone. I am not quite as sick as I was yesterday.

September 1873

    M. 1--Partly cloudy forenoon, sprinkled rain, clear afternoon. Mr. Cox and with Pete's help hauled two loads firewood--for which we are very much obliged. I am sick and suffer very much with pains, my legs thighs and back, at times very bad.

    T. 2--Some rain in the night and some little this morning--pleasant after. I suffered terribly last night, and at times the day. Mr. Cavitt come. I am very glad and very much obliged to him, he has cooked, washed and cleaned up. We are very much obliged to him, he has done much to make us comfortable.

    W. 3--Pleasant day. I find myself improving, have been up nearly all day, attended some to cattle, assisted Pete in putting up and turning out cattle. He drove up Simon's cow Speck and young calf (heifer). We could not milk her or rather did not. I too feeble. Cavitt come from town.

    Th. 4--Foggy morn. Clear after. Cavitt helped milk Speck & gone to Hinkle's. We to garden & back. I am gaining strength. Cavitt come at 5 P.M. to stay with us. Very kind of him.

    F. 5--Clear and warm till noon, hazy in afternoon. Wild geese passed over last night, first of the season. Cavitt gone early, off for his mountain home. I am feeble today, but not suffering. Pete found little black cow Pet with calf.

    Sa. 6--Clear and warm. I am still feeble, did no work. My horse Fred has stiff disease. I bled him by cutting the end of his tail off. Pete washed shirts for me and drove up Pet.

    S. 7--Clear and warm, we at home all day. Fence caught fire near outside bars from some burning brush. I & Pete packed water and put it out. I am not stout.

    M. 8--Clear and warm. We have been busy all day. James Harpham come, took dinner with us and gone.

    T. 9--Our state convention meets to day to nominate a candidate for Congress. Clear and warm. I & Pete worked some in garden picked our beans and dug some potatoes. Thomas Whitsett called & gone.

    W. 10--Clear and warm. I & Pete to Harpham's with wagon after bureau & other things. Worked old Harry in wagon first time for several years. H. gave us some venison, a fawn. Volney and Jesse B. called, had dinner with us & gone. We put yoke on dun mare that broke in our field.

    Th. 11--Some clouds early this morning. Clear pleasant after. We dug some potatoes and find some brush and old logs and rats' nests.

    F. 12--Clear, warm and smoky. We dug some potatoes, picked some beans & fired some brush. Mr. Cox come, brought a nice piece of pig. We much obliged. Took dinner with us & gone.

    Sa. 13--Clear, pleasant & smoky. I am not well this morning, headache & pain in hip. Pete out burning brush. Afternoon fired some brush.

    S. 14--Clear, pleasant, some clouds afternoon. My son Joseph come and soon after Thomas Ledgerwood and wife come to see us. She cooked for us a good dinner. At 3 P.M. they all left for their homes. I & Pete alone as usual. God in his kind mercy is with us.

    M. 15--Clear and warm, I & Pete have been cutting brush and opening road on butte south W. of our house. Mr. Cavitt come to stay two days to help us haul wood. Simon's sheep come.

    T. 16--Foggy morning, some mist. Pete drove Simon's sheep down, but did not find Harpham at home, nor did he find him at home yester. when he went to tell him about the sheep. Cavitt, self and Pete hauled wood, six loads.

    W. 17--Clear and warm. Cavitt, self and Pete [hauled] firewood nine loads, good work & good wood.

    Th. 18--Clear and pleasant. Mr. Cavitt left for home after dinner. I & Pete worked at opening road up the butte S. of house, didn't finish it.

    F. 19--Clear, pleasant and windy. I & Pete finished road on butte and did chores, burnt some brush.

    Sa. 20--Clear warm day. Pete washed clothes. Afternoon dug some potatoes, killed pheasant and looked after cattle.

    S. 21--Clear and warm. I & Pete to Mr. Cox's, found no one at home, then by Simon's place and round east of our field and home.

    M. 22--Clear and warm. I & Pete worked hard all day, bored and fired logs, picked brush and did other work.

    T. 23--Clear and warm. We worked at firing logs brush and other things.

    W. 24--Clear and warm worked at fires, picked and burnt brush & did chores.

    Th. 25--Clear and warm. I & Pete to mill site, purchased of How to get crosscut saw then worked cleaning and burning off logs & brush. Mr. Cox come, brought mail.
    F. 26--Forenoon we [worked] at clearing off logs. Frank L. & W. Willis come, took dinner & gone. Clear & cool. Some frost this morning, first of the season. Young cow Madcap [had] heifer calf.

    Sa. 27--Clear cool day. I & Pete to town with wagon, back at sunset. Bought [at] Marks one pr. boots for self, pr. shoes for Pete, one boy candles, two shirts for Pete, 3 prs. socks, one broom, one spade (long handle), one pr. gloves. 6 papers saleratus, 3 plugs tobacco.

    Sunday 28--Clear warm day. I & Pete to Joseph Lane's with wagon. Took dinner with them. My daughter-in-law had prepared a good dinner. Mrs. Pierce was there. We brought up four sacks wheat & one of oats, got home at 5 P.M.

    M. 29--Clear, warm & smoky. I & Pete hauled two loads stovewood and one of firewood. Mr. Morrison came to see about a bull that he had killed on head of Myrtle Creek that he was quite uneasy about, he was not sure whether it was mine or not. I am not sure about it, but I told him if it proved to be mine he could pay me one-half his value to be left to John Weaver. Antone come with us, both took dinner with us & gone.

    T. 30--Clear warm & smoky. I & Pete worked generally.

October 1873

    Wednesday 1--Clear warm & smoky. My son Joseph & wife and two children come to see and stay two days with us to help us. Thomas Ledgerwood, wife & daughter come to stay two days. Frank L. come & took wagon home.

    Th. 2--Clear warm & smoky. My daughters-in-law, Ella & Jane Ledgerwood, worked very hard washing, scrubbing and mending, cooking and other things. Joseph L. put back in chimney, good job. Tom L. out hunting. I & Pete did chores. Jacob Ledgerwood called to see us.

    F. 3--Clear warm & smoky. T. Ledgerwood camped out and this morning, killed 3 deer, come in for help. Joseph S. & Pete went with him and come in with the deer at 1 P.M. I worked at burning logs in corral. Thomas L., his wife and child and Joseph & his wife & two children & his son Frank who come after them left at 2 P.M. This day Capt. Jack and 5 of his band were hung for murder of Genl. Canby and others. Thus ends the Modoc war or farce. It was a war in which the Modocs did all the killing or nearly so.

    Saturday 4--Clear and warm, not so smoky as for several days past. Forenoon we chopped firewood, afternoon did chores.

    S. 5--Clear and warm, we at home all day. Buck Cox called, brought our mail.

    M. 6--Some little rain early this morning, soon over. Partly clear after and warm. We chopped firewood and opened road to get at it.

    T. 7--Windy, rainy, stormy day. I & Pete started to Myrtle Creek to see Morrison about our bull he had killed, but turned back at Priest Prairie. Mr. Cox & son Buck and James Dillard come. I sold to Dillard Simon's cow Speck for $30.00. They with the help of Pete drove off Speck & calf.

    W. 8--Very hard wind and considerable rain last night. Raining now at 9 A.M. Occasional showers throughout the day.

    Th. 9--Partly clear, some clouds and some little rain. We hauled two loads of firewood and went round the farm and put up fence.

    F. 10--Clear and warm. We hauled 3 loads wood and dug some potatoes.

    Sa. 11--Clear, pleasant forenoon. Cloudy after with mist of rain in the evening. I & Pete went over to Myrtle Creek mines to see Mr. Morrison about killing our bull. On examining the head and hide we found without mistake that it was our handsome young bull Ben that he had killed. He was my best bull, gentle, handsome and our last of the Dunny stock that we had turned out for a breeder. Gentle kind & handsome. Ben was shot and eat for beef. We are sorry.

    S. 12--Forenoon cloudy with some fog. Cool afternoon. Grandson Frank L. come. Brought some clothes that his mother had washed for us. We are much obliged. He and Pete swapped horses.

    M. 13--Partly cloudy and cool with some showers. We chopped some firewood in swale.

    T. 14--Clear cool morning and day. I & Pete went on the mountain east of field to look for out cattle. Saw some cattle, no deer.

    W. 15--Hard frost this morning. Clear warm day. Forenoon we dug potatoes. Pete called my attention to some deer on the butte. I killed one & we brought it in and skinned it. Pretty little deer.

    Th. 16--Clear pleasant day. I cut and burnt brush, worked hard. Pete to Mr. Pierce's to tell him about his sheep, and then to my son Joseph's, to take some salt. Mr. Mulkey & Mr. Jones come hunting down steer.

    F. 17--Clear and warm. Mr. Pierce come & drove off his sheep. Mr. Mulkey & Jones gone home. Pete to Harpham to tell him to come & get his sheep. Mr. H. & Mr. Jake Cox come with him & gone with their sheep. I cut & burnt brush, dug potatoes.

    Sa. 18--Clear and warm. Forenoon we did chores, afternoon hauled some potatoes, been busy.

    S. 19--Clear pleasant day. Buck Cox brought our mail. We at home all day.

    M. 20--Cloudy morning, mist of rain. I & Pete to Harpham to look for cattle, brought up two fine cabbage. Clear cool afternoon.

    T. 21--White frost this morning, pleasant day. We hunted cattle, were at little prairie.

    W. 22--Frosty morning. I & Pete to town with wagon, had horses shod, plow sharpened. Met Simon, he come home with us. Got 100 lbs. flour from Joseph. Jas. Dillard paid to me $5 in full for cow Speck.

    Th. 23--Cloudy morning with mist of rain. Simon gone early. I & Pete to little ranch with wagon after harrow. Afternoon hauled in our potatoes. Clear, pretty afternoon.

    F. 24--Frosty morning. I & Pete off early after two of Simon's heifers that had gone to Winchester. Mr. and John Aiken and sold heifers to him for $24 and returned home at 2 P.M., had dinner at Mr. Cox's. Found Mr. Cavitt waiting for us.

    Sa. 25--Clear calm pleasant day. We harrowed our potato patch and sowed some grass seed. That Simon brought up from Coquille. Ground was put in good order and seed well harrowed in. Afternoon we drove Pierce's sheep to his place and put them in corral. Lafayette Lane Jr. come & gone.

    S. 26--Clear calm & warm. We at home till evening. Then I walked out to see cattle and deer but saw no deer & but few cattle. Red Pet, Y, Fanny & Whitey and Calver come up. Grandson Fayette come & gone.

    Monday 27--Clear and warm. I & Pete to Joseph's after cattle. Grandsons Frank & Lafayette helped us drive 11 head of Simon's, one cow of Mr. Cox and one heifer of mine. Left one of Simon's. Bull yearling give out when nearly half way up the hill.

    T. 28--Clear and warm. Pete to Cox to tell him about his cow and then Buck to help drive. We tried to drive the sullen bull but could do nothing with him.

    W. 29--Clear and warm. Forenoon we hauled firewood, 3 loads. James Harpham come and left. Simon's two colts had driven & gone. We chopped firewood.

    Th. 30--Dark foggy morning and day, warm. I & Pete hauled three loads firewood before dinner. Cavitt come, had dinner with us and gone. We bored and fired big log near old barn & took care of cattle.

    F. 31--Warm and foggy. We fired logs after dinner. Pete drove Pierce's sheep off our land to his Hays place. I picked and burnt brush and put up fires on logs.

November 1873

    Sa. 1--Foggy morning. Clear warm day. We burnt logs and brush. Bobby had calf heifer, Pete drove her and calf up and milked her.

    S. 2--Clear warm day. We at home all day.

    M. 3--Hazy morning. Partly clear afternoon, James Harpham come to see [us] and bring a quarter of venison. We burnt brush. Pete to drive sheep to Mr. Gilliland. Mr. Antone come to spend night with us.

    T. 4--Hazy warm day. We repaired fence. Antone to town with our wagon & team after lumber, back at 6½ P.M. Mr. Cavitt come & gone. Commenced raining at 10 P.M.

    W. 5--Rained all night after 10. Rainy morning and all day. Warm. We did no work, raining now at 7 P.M., prospect good for rain. Our dogs left us in this night, gone.

    Th. 6--Cloudy or hazy warm day. Pete with Antone with wagon & team to haul lumber to Antone's place, back at 7 P.M. Then to drive Gilliland's sheep. Cavitt come from town, brought our mail. Our dogs gone. No word from our dogs. James Harpham come, wants to buy Simon's mules.

    F. 7--Hazy warm day. Cavitt hauled rails and we fixed corral fence and then he to Simon's for his packs. Wrote Simon & Ledgerwood about mules. Pete drove P. sheep.

    Sa. 8--Foggy warm forenoon. Clear & warm after. Pete drove Pierce's sheep down to his Pierce's place. I cut brush on line between me and Gilliland. Cavitt gone early to his home.

    S. 9--Foggy morning and forenoon. Clear & warm after. Pete drove Pierce's sheep as usual. Grandson Frank & Misses Barker and others passed riding, brought mail.

    M. 10--Very light frost this morning. Foggy and warm now at 9 A.M. Clear warm afternoon. I & Pete worked on fence row between me & Gilliland. He G. come to see us. Antone come to stay all night.

    T. 11--Clear beautiful morning and day. Antone hauled his hay to his home 3 loads. I worked on fence row. Pete helped Mr. A. & drove Harpham's sheep. I worked on fence row.

    W. 12--Foggy morning and day. Quite warm. Antone gone home, took How's crosscut saw. I & Pete cut brush on land got of How.

    Th. 13--Commenced raining early in morning. Showery warm day. Pete drove Pierce's sheep. I sowed some grass seed & cut brush & set stakes.

    F. 14--Foggy damp cool morning. Clear afternoon. Forenoon I & Pete gathered apples. Afternoon set stakes on line between us and Gilliland.

    Sa. 15--Clear, calm and warm. Finished setting stakes and did chores.

    S. 16--Clear, calm and warm. I and Pete to Antone's, took dinner and then we traced out line between the land purchased of How & Antone's land and west to Gilliland's land.

    M. 17--Clear, calm & warm. We sowed some grass seed where we had burnt brush. Mr. Gilliland and Mr. Cox come and we looked at land lines.

    T. 18--Hazy, calm and warm. We chopped for purpose of making road to haul rails. Pete dug and scraped road. After dinner we walked through pasture and out towards Simon's place to look for cattle & deer, halo ["nothing" in Chinook].

    W. 19--Foggy all day. Calm & warm. We worked on road and chopped some firewood and piled some brush.

    Th. 20--Foggy, dark, warm day. Some rain at dusk. I & Pete worked on road and chopped some firewood. Mr. Cox come, brought our mail.

    F. 21--Rained very little in the night. Partly cloudy morning & day. Some light showers. I & Pete chopped poles to lay on fence & some firewood.

    Sa. 22--Clear warm morning. Forenoon we chopped poles and brush. Afternoon I cut and picked brush. Pete after horses. At or about 8½ o'clock by our time a hard shock of an earthquake, House rocked quite violently. It appeared to me to be from west to east, but I am not certain. Hens roosting on apple tree squawled as if an owl was after them. Partly cloudy afternoon but clear, calm & beautiful at time of shock.

    S. 23--Clear, calm & warm. I and Pete to Har. to look for Simon's cattle, found ten head, salted some. Fawny has calf too weak to travel.

    M. 24--Warm, calm hazy morning. Pleasant. We chopped, picked and burnt brush.

    T. 25--Hazy warm morning, cloudy day. Commenced raining at 3½ P.M. We chopped poles and picked & burnt brush. Mr. Antone come to stay the night. Big Pide [had] heifer calf.

    W. 26--Drizzled rain all night. Cloudy. Foggy damp day. Antone took some cabbage and soon after breakfast left for his home. We chopped poles in our clearing, trimmed, but did not pile brush.

    Th. 27--Dark, foggy day. Some rain at 5 P.M.--Pete to Harpham's and back & then to Antone's. Antone come with him to stay the night. I chopped in clearing. Mr. Gilliland come.

    F. 28--Mist of rain all night. Cloudy day. Some hard showers. Cloudy & raining at sunset. Self, Antone & Pete to James Harpham, killed & dressed four hogs. Two of them we put on wagon & drove home before 2 P.M. Cavitt's dog killed one of Antone's sheep and I killed him.

    Sa. 29--Cloudy warm forenoon, hard showers in the afternoon. We chopped poles and brush. Mr. Gilliland & Mr. Ross called when we were at work. Pete tied one of Antone's sheep to help it out of gulch and it died. Antone blames him. Antone gone home.

    S. 30--Cloudy night, rained hard early in morning, turned to snow at 8 A.M. At night snow 3 inches. Simon come and gone. His wife has daughter born 23rd inst.

December 1873

    M. 1--Snow fell in the night 2 inches. Snowed all the forenoon, we got up and fed cattle, have up some 80 head. Put up Henry Jones steer and wrote him by Thomas Ledgewood, who come to see about mules. Pete gone with him to help start them if he buys them. This is a bad storm. Cattle have to be fed.

    T. 2--Hazy pleasant day. We have been very busy feeding and hunting cattle. We went to Simon's place to look after his cattle, drove six head to his place & Harpham fed them. Snow was going off fast down there, not so here. Come back, found Simon's mare Fanny. Suppose Ledgewood sent her.

    W. 3--Cloudy cool night. Commenced snowing at 9½. This morning heavy snowfall, till night 8 inches of snow fell. Cows Fanny & Ling and band come. Big Jaw steer from wild band come. John & Buck Cox come for their cattle.

    Th. 4--Cloudy & warm last night, commenced raining at 10. and rained till night. Mr. Cox and sons come. We have been busy feeding as usual.

    F. 5--Cloudy cool night, no rain after dark. Crust on the snow this morning. I & Pete to Mr. Cox's and then to Harpham's, started up with 8 head. Mr. Cox & sons helped us drive, got here with 4 and two come after. Pete drove 4 head from back of pasture, hauled out two loads hay for cattle. Mr. C. & sons drove some of their cattle home. We left one yearling at H.'s, too poor.

    Sa. 6--Partly clear night, no rain. Some rain & some snow today. We hauled out two loads of hay for cattle. Snow has gone off in places. This has been a deep snow and hard on cattle, not cold this eve.

    S. 7--Partly clear partly cloudy not cold. My son Joseph & grandson Frank & Buck Cox come to see us. I & Pete fed cattle. Cold at dusk.

    M. 8--Froze, crust on the snow foggy morning. Frank come, brought some venison. Stopped with us to help hunt cattle. He and Pete to Harpham's to look for cattle, found 4 head. Mr. Cavitt come, brought nice venison ham.

    T. 9--Cold morning. We fed and then to Simon's, brought 3 cattle. Mr. C. gone Harpham's. Dora H. [David Theodore Hinkle] come & gone. Mulkey & Jones come for steer. Frank & Pete hunted cattle, found none.

    W. 10--Hard freeze last night. Cold foggy morning, cold day. We have been busy feeding and taking care [of] cattle. M. & I gone with their steer. Frank drove old Ben home to us & gone. Owe him for two & half days. Mr. C. come to stay all night with us.

    Th. 11--Cold night, hard frost. Clear pleasant day. Snow off on south hillsides, hard frost on north side. Mr. Cavitt helped us feed then off for his home. Antone killed pig and dressed it here. I rendered lard from our two hogs. Pete busy half day driving sheep from our [ranch].

    F. 12--Hard frost this morning. Partly clear day. Cloud in west at sunset. Some warmer than last eve. Hauled out two loads hay to the cattle, balance of day driving sheep off our land. Heifer Picky, had calf, heifer.

    Sa. 13--Cloudy warm night. Cloudy. Windy warm day. Commenced raining at dusk. We fed cattle and Pete drove sheep from our ranch. Snow going off rapidly. Gil was up after his sheep. Picky's calf is very small, but is healthy & smart.

    Sunday 14--Cloudy windy day. Commenced raining at dusk. This day I am 72 years old. Forepart of the day we fed cattle, after we separated and turned the big ones out and then drove sheep from our ranch. John Drain come, left Simon's family, all well. Antone come, brought pr. boots for Pete & almanac.

    M. 15--Very windy night. Some rain, snow nearly all gone. Windy rain forenoon. Cloudy pleasant after. John Drain gone, took Simon's two old mares. We fed cattle and drove sheep.

    T. 16--Rained some in the night. Some showers the day. Cloudy at sunset. We fed cattle & drove sheep. I worked some in clearing first this morn.

    W. 17--Rained some in the night. Partly clear cold pleasant day. We fed cattle, did chores and drove sheep from our ranch. G. passed looking for Antone. Some cattle that we had turned out come.

    Th. 18--Cloudy night. Some rain this morning. Cloudy pleasant day. We fed and attended to cattle, turned some out. Mr. Sweeny come to spend night with us. Cloudy now at 9 P.M.

    F. 19--Windy night some rain. Cloudy showery day & at times hard wind. We cut some brush, Mr. Sweeney helped us then went east of field to look at timber for rails.

    Sa. 20--Cloudy warm day. Some showers and very hard wind at dusk and blowing hard at 6 P.M. Simon's cow sent has heifer calf, crooked legs. Pete packed it and put them both in or under the shed. We worked some in our clearing and fed out cattle. Sweeney gone to Myrtle Creek, left his horse here.

    S. 21--Very hard wind all last night. Some rain, hard wind the forenoon, some showers the day. We fed cattle & Pete drove sheep from east of field. Mr. Cox come to see us, took dinner & gone.

    M. 22--Hard rain forepart of last night. Frost after, clear morning and day. We fed cattle, helped Antone start his sheep for Gil's pasture and cut some brush.

    T. 23--Windy night no rain. Partly cloudy day, hard wind all day. We fed cattle and drove sheep from west end of our land twice & cut some brush. We can do nothing but feed & drive sheep.

    W. 24--Cloudy warm, windy night and forenoon. Cloudy & warm after. We fed cattle & cut brush, worked hard. Grandsons Frank & Joseph come with wagon, brought 400 lbs. flour, 100 of shorts and spare rib & backbone of hog. Raining at 8 P.M.

    Th. 25--Rained hard in the night, no rain the day, but foggy, cloudy & calm. We have had a quiet Christmas, I & Pete alone. Dinner roasted sparerib, mashed potatoes and a good cup of coffee. Sheep still give trouble.

    F. 26--Foggy night and forenoon, clear and pleasant after. We fed cattle and cut some brush. Mr. Cox come, brought our mail and some Tobacco and pr. of boots made by Mr. Parrett for me. Horse Fred quite sick.

    Sa. 27--Partly cloudy day, calm & warm. We fed cattle and cut some brush and drove heifer Liney and her young calf, bull, and put them in barn yard. Very busy all day.

    S. 28--Hazy. Calm night. Clouded and commenced raining early this morning, our horse Fred is mending. Showery day. We have been busy feeding. Frank L. & Tom Barker come, brought letter from Simon & gone, Henry B. & N. Carolinian called.

    M. 29--Cloudy warm, calm day, some fog and some rain. We fed cattle and cut brush. My son-in-law Judge Mosher come to see us and to spend the night. We are glad to see him, his family all well.

    T. 30--Hard wind and some rain in the night. Cloudy windy showery day. The County Surveyor come with him, Joseph Lane & James Cox chain carriers, Mr. Gilliland, myself and others. Run line between our land. Mr. Cox's, Mr. G. &c. one mile and stopped on account of rain. Capt. Mosher left for his home soon after breakfast. We did not feed out cattle the day.

    W. 31--Rained considerable last night. Partly clear & partly cloudy day, pleasant. Mr. Briggs, County Surveyor, Mr. Cox & Jos. Lane chainmen completed the survey of land dividing us & Gill, found comes between us & Whitsett and Mr. Briggs come to stay the night with us. I & Pete fed our home cattle. Pete put up old T. with young calf (bull).

January 1874

    Thursday 1--Hard wind in the night. Some rain, cloudy morning. Commenced raining at 10 A.M. Rainy afternoon, cold. Turned to snow in the evening, ground nearly covered now at 8 P.M. New year comes in cold and bad for cattle. I am uneasy. The surveyor gone early, Old Lill [has] bull calf.

    F. 2--Snow fell in the night 3 inches. Snow squalls all day, hard on cattle. Mr. Jesse M. Barker called. Talked of selling land. We were very busy feeding out cattle.

    Sa. 3--Snow fell in the night, now 10 or 12 inches deep. Cloudy & cold this morning but is not snowing. Hard wind from the south, some warmer. Some little snow fell. We fed out cattle and then to Simon's place to see about brindle steer. Jake Cox come and went with us.

    S. 4--Hard south wind all night. Snow going off. Cloudy windy morning. We hauled 3 loads hay for cattle, then baked bread, [illegible] backbone and did chores.

    M. 5--Partly cloudy night, hard wind. Cloudy windy morning. Clear & pleasant after. We fed & turned out cattle and looked for deer on butte & did chores.

    Tuesday 6--Partly clear, warm night. Hazy warm day. We did not feed our cattle the day. Sprinkled rain for a few minutes. We cut brush. Antone called, we commenced starting fence row between us & Gilliland. Cloudy, warm at sunset.

    W. 7--Pleasant night. Cloudy pleasant day Raining now at 9 P.M. We fed cattle and hauled 5 loads rails for fence between us & G. Mr. Cox commenced hauling his rails for fence between him & G., broke coupling of one of his wagons.

    Th. 8--Some wind and some rain in the night. Cleared off this morning. Warm calm, beautiful day. We fed our cattle and hauled six loads hay. We drove off sheep.

    F. 9--Pleasant night. Foggy cool morning, light frost. Very foggy dark day. Some mist, quite damp. We fed cattle and hauled 7 loads rails. Antone helped Pete with two loads while I cut brush.

    Sat. 10--Cloudy and cool some fog & damp, not a pleasant day. We fed our cattle, hauled 3 loads rails, drove off sheep and opened road to the rails. Our roan bull come home today, the first time for a year.

    Sunday 11--Cloudy at times and clear or sun out at times. We at home, Mr. Cavitt come to see us and paid me six dollars for pr. boots. We fed cattle &c.

    M. 12--Cloudy drizzly night, some snow east of field this morning, Mr. Cavitt worked for us today, made road and hauled 3 loads rails. We helped to make road and cut brush. Antone come where we were at work and talked, angry about his sheep. Mr. Cox come and brought our mail.

    T. 13--Hard wind and some rain last night. Cloudy with hard wind this morning. Cloudy warm day. Mr. Cox sent two teams and hauled over four hundred rails for us. Mr. Cavitt helped Mr. Cox build fence. Mr. Sweeny come, got his horse and gone. I cut brush. P. helped haul.

    W. 14--Cloudy windy pleasant day. Cavitt worked with Mr. Cox till he finished his fence and then Mr. Cox, Cam C. & Mr. Cavitt went at my fence and worked well. I cut brush out of fence row and did other work. Mr. Cox's two teams and his sons John & Buck hauled four loads rails each, Pete with them. Mr. Cox & his sons finished work and gone home.

    Thursday 15--Hard wind and some rain in the night. Hard wind all day, warm cloudy and some rain. We worked at fence. Mr. Cavitt made and drove stakes at the corners. I laid worm and did other things. Pete did what he could. Cavitt has worked faithfully 4 days, paid him $5.

    F. 16--Hard wind and some rain in the night and some rain this morning, hard rain at 11. and some in the afternoon. Snow on mountain east of field. We finished putting up fence, lack some 20 rails. Cavitt gone early. We got wet while putting up fence. Bargained with Antone for his land.

    Sa. 17--Cloudy cold snowy night, ground covered nearly one inch with snow, partly cloudy cool day, some little snow fell but nearly all gone. We fed about one hundred head of cattle, and did chores.

    S. 18--Cold windy night. Ground froze, ice on puddles, cold windy morning and day, hard rain and some snow. Snowing now at 6 P.M., ground covered. We fed and took care of cattle. Very bad day.

    M. 19--Snow 3 inches deep fell last night, snow squally during the day. Very bad on cattle. We did nothing but feed. Snowing now at 6 P.M., bad storm, we very busy.

    Tuesday 20--Snow in the night one inch. Some bad snow squalls the day, now 10 inches deep, bad day. We fed our cattle and did chores, fed 2 of Mr. Cox's steers and dun stray. Mr. Cox & sons come for theirs but could not drive them. We saw 3 deer but did not get shot.

    W. 21--One inch of snow fell last night and some very hard snow squalls the day, fed our cattle, 3 of Cox's and 2 of Barker's & one stray. Snow now 10 or 12 inches, snowed very hard in the afternoon. Snow 14 to 16 inches. We killed our fine fat old gobbler, very fat.

    Th. 22--Cold night very little snow fell. Calm cool morning. Snow very deep, hard on cattle. We fed our cattle & two of Cox's & one stray. Mr. C. sons come and drove off their 3 steers. We turned Queen & Dun in. Some little snow fell the day, quite dreary. Cox's Pidy steer come back.

    F. 23--Cloudy cold night. Some ice this morning. Cleared off early (this morning). This has been a clear, beautiful, warm day. Snow has melted on south hillsides. Still the snow is very deep. We fed our cattle, one of Mr. Cox's and the stray & did chores.

    Sa. 24--Partly clear hazy night. Some ice this morning and cloudy warm day. Brisk south wind, snow going off rapidly. We fed and took care of cattle and did chores.

    Sunday 25--Very hard south wind all night and this morning till now 11 A.M. and blowing a regular gale, has partly stripped our old barn and prostrated our fence. We can't feed, so hard is the wind, to load hay on wagon is impossible. Snow nearly all gone. Very hard wind all day. Pete drove off sheep.

    M. 26--Hard rain last night. Partly clear day, some wind& pleasant. We fed cattle & put up fence that had been blown down, then Pete drove sheep. Cattle look badly. This has been a hard month on cattle.

    T. 27--Cloudy windy day, some showers. We have been busy feeding and taking care of cattle, not cold but disagreeable. Mr. Cox called.

    W. 28--Very hard wind all last night. Cloudy windy showery day, warm. We fed our cattle and horses three loads hay and then washed our clothes.

    Th. 29--Smart wind last night and some little rain. Hazy warm day, some wind. We fed cattle & put up fence. Antone called.

    F. 30--Partly clear night, not cold/ Hazy forenoon. Hard rain after. We fed our cattle and did chores. Very hard wind now at 6 P.M.

    Saturday 31--Some rain in the night with hard south wind. Hazy. Pleasant day, no rain. We fed our cattle and turned some thirty out of the pasture. Turned out five head of our horses, put up some fence that had blown down. This has been a bad month, more snow storms and deep snow and more hard wind than any January line I come to this ranch. Thus ends the the first month of '74.

February 1874

    February S. 1--Cloudy windy, night some rain, cloudy morning & day brisk S. wind sprinkled rain, not cold. We fed our cattle, Joseph come to see us, had dinner and gone. It has been storming, snow, rain, hard wind and nearly all the time cloudy since 17th last month.

    M. 2--Cloudy, with hard wind & some rain in the night. Very hard wind and hard rain this morning. Rained steady all day, a large quantity of water fell. The storm of hard wind, snow and rain has lasted now twenty days. We got quite wet while feeding our cattle.

    T. 3--Some rain last night. Snow on the mountains, Cool morning. I & Pete to Joseph's, drove Blackhead & calf & two others. Frank helped us. Partly clear, cool day. F. helped feed & gone. Pete drove off sheep. Paid Frank $2.50 & sent $2.50 to Joseph to pay for oats.

    Wednesday 4--Partly clear or hazy day. Some wind south, warm. I & Pete chopped down big fir west of corral and fed our cattle & horses. Mr. Cox called, brought half doz. boxes Jayne's pills that I had sent for. Henry B. called, has sick horse. We hunted cattle.

    Th. 5--Cool night & morning. Hazy pleasant day We fed our cattle & chopped some firewood. Mr. Cavitt come to spend night with us.

    F. 6--Cloudy night, quite cloudy this morning. Commenced raining early & at 10 turned to snow. Snowing rapidly. Snow squalls all day but off as fast as fell as far up as the barn. Jeff Cavitt & Pete with wagon to Antone's after two-year-old heifer that A. found down. We put her on wagon and hauled her home & put her in barn, hope to save her. This storm is hurting cattle very much.

    Sa. 7--Eight years ago today I moved on this ranch and into this old house. For eight years I have toiled faithfully. Yet there is very much to do to make this a good stock ranch. This has been a stormy day, hard wind and snow, quite cold. Cavitt helped feed & cut down big fir tree & gone for his home. Cavitt had his face & nose hurt by piece [of] bark falling on him while chopping tree.

    Sunday 8--Hazy pleasant day. We fed our cattle and then quiet at home. Cam & Buck Cox and Frank Lane come for horse Paddy, got him & gone.

    M. 9--Cold night, some frost this morning. Hazy cool day. We have been quite busy feeding and attending to our cattle, turned some out of pasture and chopped some firewood. Cloudy at S.S. & raining now at 8 P.M.

    T. 10--Rained forepart of the night, snowed after, ground covered this morning & snowing. All day snow fell and snowing at dusk quite deep. We fed and took care of cattle, bad day--hard on cattle.

    W. 11--Snowed the forepart of the night, clear after. Snow four inches deep this morning. Partly clear forenoon, hard S. wind. Cloudy after. Some snow at dusk. but warm. Snow going off rapidly. We fed 120 head cattle hauled out 4 wagonloads hay, knocked Simon's bay colt in the head. It could not live.

    Th. 12--Snowed in the night, 4 inches of snow this morning & still snowing. Snow the forenoon, hard south wind. Cold. We fed in & out cattle. M. Chapman come, took dinner & gone. Cow Broke Horn had calf bull, hard wind at dusk. Snow going off. This has been bad storm, bad on cattle.

    Friday 13--Snow fell to depth of 2 inches last night. Cloudy morning, hard wind, cool. Snow squalls in the afternoon. Snow is deep all over our mountain ranch and the storm continues, Very bad on cattle, Fed our in cattle.

    Sa. 14--Quit snowing in the night and turned to freezing, hard crust on the snow this morn, clear & some fog in the forenoon. Clear after & pleasant. Snow melted off in spots on south hillsides. We fed in and out cattle, put Dolly in barnyard yesterday, where she is.

    Sunday 15--Some ice on the puddles. This morning hard crust on the snow. This has been a clear, calm, beautiful day, Snow has disappeared in spots exposed to the rays of sun. We fed our in cattle and some of the out cattle & horses. Cut down oak tree for our milk cow & others.

    M. 16--Cloudy morning and day, Brisk wind from south. Warm, looks like rain. Snow off in places in our field. We are scarce of hay and have let 70 head cattle in field. We fed in cattle. New moon to day. Warm, last change was cold & continued so to end.

    Tuesday 17--Rained for part of the night, snowed after, ground covered where it [omission] the snow had gone off and deep where it had not and snowing finely this morning. Snow squalls all day. Terrible day. Stock is suffering very much. With very little intermission storm has lasted over six weeks, bad winter, seldom one so bad. We fed cattle and chopped down two fir trees.

    W. 18--Stopped knowing and turned cold in the night, hard crust on snow & ground frozen where the snow is off. We fed our cattle & hunted wolf that Pete showed to me that was eating Antone's dead sheep at east end of our field, didn't find to get a shot at him. Bobby has calf but we did not find it. Partly clear & cool day, snow melted away on south side to some extent. Bobby [has] heifer calf.

    Th. 19--Cold night. Quite a freeze, ground hard. Hard crust on snow. Clear pleasant day. We fed cows that have calves. Bobby [has] heifer calf, she brought it to barn & left for grass. Cut wood for fire.

    F. 20--Cold morning, hard freeze & crust on snow. We lost our good old cow Queeny. We hauled her out of field and put strychnine in her for wolves. Cavitt come & gone. We fed some cattle & cut some wood. Partly clear, partly cloudy. Cow Queeny died from hurt by Old Y.

    Saturday 21--Cold night & morning. Cloudy & some little snow fell early. We to field to look after our cattle. Wolves had not taken the poison, back & to work. Creed Floed's red cow [has] bull calf. We chopped wood. Red Madcap [has] bull calf.

    Sunday 22--Rained more or less all night. Commenced snowing early this morning. Snow or rain all day, bad day. Wolves nearly eat up our old cow last night. We put in more strychnine the day. Don't know if any got poison to kill. Frank Lane come, I did not see him. I was putting out poison.

    M. 23--Rained in night, snowed on mountain. Cleared off early. Clear cool day. The wolves did not come to cow in night but took off dead calf that lay near her. We chopped some firewood and attended to cattle. Found old Cow Y dead, had fell in gulch and drowned, left young calf two months old.

    T. 24--Cold night, hard crust on ground this morning. Cloudy and snowing at 9--quite cold, continued to snow all day. Pete to Joseph's & back. Joseph come with him. We walked out to see dead wolf that was poisoned and died near our old cow.

    W. 25--Cloudy cold night, did not snow after 7 P.M. Cloudy cold morning, ground covered with snow. Cattle suffering. Joseph gone to town, took our letters to P.O. We chopped two fir trees to browse cattle (full of moss). We fed some cattle. James Harpham come, brought young calf. Cow down and nearly dead. She was in Simon's mark, don't know whether it is Simon's cow or one he sold to Barker, We will try and save the calf.

    Th. 26--Clear cold night, hard frost. Our orphan calf is dead. James H. gone soon after breakfast. Hazy now at 9. Clear after & beautiful warm day. We fed some of our cattle, chopped one tree & some firewood.

    F. 27--Partly clear & partly cloudy, windy day not cold. I & Pete busy taking care of cattle. Found one calf lame, crippled so as to be hardly able to walk. We put it in barn yard under the shed. We chopped one tree & did chores. Mr. Cox come, brought mail.

    Sa. 28--Cloudy, with very hard south wind all day. Commenced raining at dusk. Pete washed clothes and then to field, found old cow Lill down, has eat something that has poisoned her (wild parsnip) very much. Our sick calf died the day. Thus ends this horrible month. This is the worst Feby. I have experienced in Oregon. Pete caught the second squirrel of this year in steel trap.

March 1874

    Sunday 1--Deep snow fell in the night, 8 or 10 inches all over our ranch and snow squalls all the day and cold. Terrible on cattle, we have been very busy feeding and doing all we can to save our hungry cattle. Old Lill is dead.

    M. 2--Very cold night, hard crust on the snow and ice as thick as any morning this winter We hauled out hay to feed our in cattle and horses and cut down tree for some of the out cattle, turned out ten head. Cloudy stormy day, snow squalls &c.

    T. 3--A very deep snow fell last night 8 or 10 inches. Now the snow is so deep that one can hardly go through it. Snowed rapidly all the forenoon. Snow squalls after. Our heifer, Beaut, had calf today, heifer. We are obliged to Henry Barker for assistance. We put Fawny's calf up, so poor could hardly walk. Old Dunny come up. We had supposed her dead, out for 6 weeks.

    W. 4--Snowed in the night and snow squalls all day, now the snow is very deep, ugly to get about. I & Pete chopped 4 trees and fed seventy head cattle, H.B. called, helped us feed.

    Th. 5--Snow 3 or 4 inches fell in the night and snowing this morning, snowed all day, now five days & nights almost constant snow storm such as I never saw before. We feed and do all we can to save our cattle.

    F. 6--One inch of snow fell last night and snowing early this morn. Sun out now at 8 A.M. Commenced snowing soon after & snowed all day. Mr. Cavitt come, Mr. Matthews come. Mr. M. is going to help chop trees. We fed cattle & horses. Very bad time, never saw anything like it.
   
    Sa. 7--Very hard wind all night, commenced snowing early this morning and snowing rapidly now at 8, heavy snow squalls all day. Mr. Matthews commenced work, help us chop trees to browse our cattle, chopped 3 fir & 2 oaks and fed some cattle. Mr. Floed sent for and took home his horses, Mr. Cavitt gone early. Jo Lenham took Floed's horses.

    S. 8--Snow to depth of 4 inches fell yesterday and last night, very little snow fell today, sun out at times. Snow gone off very little. Joseph Lane and Henry B. come, had dinner and helped us chop two fir trees. Mr. Matthews worked the day, I & Pete do.

    M. 9--Hard wind last night, cold hard crust on the snow, almost impossible to get about. Hazy cool day. Mr. Cox come, brought our mail. Mr. Matthews worked the day. Heifer Crump had calf at barn. We found one cow down, unless it turns warm our cattle must die. Cloudy at sunset. Terrible time. Heifer Crump bull calf.

    T. 10--Cold night, hard crust on the snow, can hardly get through it. Hazy morning and day turned warm with risk south wind. Snow softened, commenced going off slowly. So deep is it it will take some time to go off. We chopped for cattle and hauled two small loads firewood.

    W. 11--Hard wind in the night and for a time hard rain. Snow gone off some little. Cloudy morning. Sprinkled rain. Joseph come with wagon. Frank to dinner, brought some 11 bushels oats & gone. Snow going off, but it is still deep on most of farm, ground bare in spots on south sides. Mr. Matthews worked five days & gone, he now owes me ten dollars towards little cabin.

    Th. 12--Cloudy morning and most of the day rained lightly at times. Snow going off slowly. We turned out some 20 head cattle, hauled out hay & fed some of in cattle. Cloudy & cool at sunset.

    F. 13--Snow last night to cover ground in & east of field where the snow had gone off. Cloudy cold day with snow squalls, but went off as fell. We fed our cows & calves and chopped for moss. Snow has only gone in spots. Broke Horn was hooked down in bad place but is up. This has been very bad day.

    Sa. 14--Considerable snow in the night, ground covered. Cloudy cold morning & day with frequent squalls of snow, quite cold at dusk. Young cow Fanny is dead. Antone called. We fed cows & calves and chopped for moss. Turned out some 28 head cattle.

    S. 15--Cloudy cold night, quite a freeze and some snow. Snowing rapidly at daylight and continued to snow faithfully & rapidly all day. Terrible storm. We have been very busy feeding and taking care of cattle as best we can. Hard wind at night.

    M. 16--Four inches of snow fell last night and snow squalls all day, bad storm, never saw anything like it. Pete to Joseph's, take over our wagon horses, grandson Ratliff come to see us. We have been busy feeding our cattle, hard time.

    T. 17--This has been a beautiful day, the first for a long time. Snow has gone off slowly. Still quite deep in & east of field. We have been quite busy feeding & taking care of cattle. We found Yellow Pide dead. My son Joseph come with wagonload, 22 bushels oats, Frank with him. Mr. Cox called, brought mail. (We have hard time.)

    W. 18--Cold clear night. Frost this morning in, on puddles. Clear warm day, snow goes off slowly. We have been quite busy feeding & taking care of cattle & chopping for browse.

    Th. 19--Cold night, ground froze some. Ice on puddles. Clear warm day. We were busy feeding and taking care of cattle, hauled some wood, and Pete drove up Red Pet[, has] bull calf

    F. 20--Cool night, cloudy cool morning and day. We busy feeding & taking care of cattle. A large portion of field and country around it pasture included covered with deep well-packed snow. Mr. Cavitt come, had hard walk through deep snow, told us Simon's old mare Snip is dead.

    Sa. 21--Cool night, some fog this morning. Clear warm beautiful day, fine indeed. Thank God for so fine a day. Mr. Cavitt gone early. We have been busy feeding and taking care of cattle, went round part of the field, put in little dun heifer and red steer. Saw deer on butte by the house, did not shoot at it.

    S. 22--Clear night no frost. Clear warm day. Our cows that have young calves are very poor and have to be fed, keeps us busy. Afternoon sent Pete to take wagon horses to my son Joseph. I walked through field on north side hills, snow is deep and hard, walk on it without breaking through. Pete returned from Joseph's at 4½ P.M. He will be here tomorrow with some oats.

    M. 23--Cloudy cool night and morning. Cool pleasant day. We chopped off fir log that fell across road south of barn. Mr. Cox & my son Joseph helped roll it out. Grandson Ratliff come with Mr. Smith to help and drove off 29 head of cattle that I had sold to him, besides six calves. Six of the cows had calves, the calves are not counted. Two of the cows, Blackhead & brindle heifer, were Simon's., besides old Nelly & Roany, his 3-year-old red steer, one two year dun steer and dun heifer. Brindle heifer two years old and ten of his yearlings. Clear beautiful sunset. Pete helped drive cattle back at S.S.

    T. 24--Warm night, morning and quite warm day. Very little hazy. We rode out to look for cattle, found snow at upper end of field over knee deep to our horses, that is in places, put up six head cattle and saw 17 others. After dinner walked round butte. Saw two deer no cattle, quite warm.

    W. 25--Clear night & morning. Hazy after & warm. We cut log out of road & put up Big Pide & Ringtail. Cloudy in afternoon & some little rain. We chopped some wood.

    Th. 26--Cloudy warm night. Cloudy morning. Partly cloudy and partly clear forenoon. Some wind & some rain. We put up old Fanny and her young calf (bull) and some others. Simon's two cows Fawny & Red heifer. Mr. Cavitt come, had dinner and we went with him to look out road that he had marked for road to haul rails, agreed to pay him $30 to make it fit and good for wagons to pass. Some rain this afternoon. Cool at dusk.

    F. 27--Hazy warm night. Hazy forenoon. Showery after. I & Pete cut brush in forenoon. Grandson Ratliff come, we delivered to him 25 twenty-five head of cattle, among them. 4 of Simon's, big white steer, 2-year-old roan steer & two yearlings. Mr. Hinkle called & gone. Rained some in afternoon.

    Sa. 28--Rained all night and showery all the day. Raining finely at dusk. I & Pete repaired fence and reset bar posts to corral and made yoke for Pete's mare.

    S. 29--Rained in the night. Foggy morning & forenoon. Partly clear after. My son Joseph come, brought mail. I & Pete walked to little prairie, saw some deer, no cattle.

    Monday 30--Partly clear & pleasant day. We hauled some manure and started plow for garden. H.B. called. Cloud in west at sunset.

    T. 31--Hazy warm day. Henry Barker & Pete to McLaughlin's after load oats, brought 16 bushels, 8 bushels I loaned to H.B. & 8 for ourself. I started to Joseph's, found him & others after cattle & come back, brought half of little deer. Pete to Joe's & back at dusk to tell them he saw wild band [of] cattle.

April 1874

    April 1--Hazy warm day. I & Pete to swale south of G.'s to help Ratliff bring out some wild cattle that he caught & tied to trees, got 8 head big & little, back home by 2 P.M., chopped firewood. Our horses are very much injured from trip yester.

    Th. 2--Hazy forenoon, cloudy after & cool, sprinkled rain at dusk. We worked clearing off ground for garden. We will break up ere long.

    F. 3--Rained quite hard in the night. Turned to snow before day, field covered and east of field quite deep, gone off of field early this morn. Sun out at 8. Cleared away briers from garden & did chores.

    Sa. 4--Hard wind and some rain in the night. Cloudy, cool morning. Cool showery day, some hail. I & Pete to Simon's place, put up two of his & two of our cattle in his pasture, then to see Cavitt at work on road then home & put up three of our cows and one heifer & one yearling of Simon's.

    Sunday 5--Showery night, morning and day. Some hail--occasionally. Washed some shirts, 6 pr. pants and repaired fence where horses broke in field, also repaired bridge for benefit of cattle. Raining at dusk.

    M. 6--Some little rain in the night. Cloudy cool morning. Henry Barker come, I let him have some more oats, five buckets full. We hauled two loads firewood and turned horses in pasture. They are not well, put up 4 cows & one yearling. Ratliff Lane & Smith come to stay & get up cattle.

    T. 7--Clear cool night. Some little frost this morning. Clear beautiful day. Ratliff Smith & Pete put in pasture four head cattle & then to Simon's place & put up 8 head. Mr. & Mrs. Cox come to see us. We were very glad to see them. Mrs. C. put house in order, did things very nicely, we are much obliged, gone to their home.

    W. 8--Clear warm day. I and Pete to help Ratliff L.get up cattle, drove up cow Mott & calf and yearling bull, altered & marked him & put them in Simon's pasture & to home at 3 P.M.

    Th. 9--Cloudy forenoon, rainy after 3 P.M. Raining smartly at dusk I & Pete to Mr. Hinkle's & back to Simon's place. Mr. Hinkle come & helped get out from our cattle in pasture two of his steers and four other cattle that had gone in with ours. Mr. Hinkle gave us peas, onion sets & other garden seeds, Ratliff & Mr. Smith gone home. Roan Pet had calf heifer, Pete drove and put them in orchard meadow.

    F. 10--Large amount of rain fell last night. Cloudy cool forenoon & rain afternoon very light till about 4 o'clock, and then commenced a terrible fall of hail that covered our whole ranch from one inch to three or four inches deep, altogether the heaviest fall of hail that I ever saw, not the largest hail but the greatest quantity, continued to fall till dusk. Bad storm. I & Pete to Simon's pasture to see to cattle and back by Cavitt's road.

    Sa. 11--Rained in the night. Cloudy cool morning. Partly clear pleasant forenoon. I & Pete drove roan bull out of field & repaired fence & hauled two loads firewood. Cavitt come early, brought grouse, had breakfast & left for his mountain home. Cloudy at sunset.

    Sunday 12--Cold rainy night. Snow on mountain east of field, quite cold & rainy morning, bad storm. Cold showery disagreeable day. We twice round pasture, turned our roan bull out of field.

    M. 13--Rained all night, turned to snow this morning & snowed rapidly for two hours, ground covered deep in & east of field. Sun out for short time, snow soon gone. Rain or hail at times, balance of the day cold & disagreeable, did no work.

    T. 14--Cloudy cold night. Cloudy cold day morning. We ground our axes preparatory to work, and then looked after cattle in & out of pasture. My son Joseph come & gone. Mr. Tucker called, had supper & to Harp. Cloudy cold showery day. Some hail, some snow &c.

    W. 15--Rainy night. Snow on mountain. Cold cloudy morning Some showers the day, cool. We chopped firewood & did chores.

    Th. 16--Clear beautiful day. Forenoon I & Pete worked opening fence row & road to haul rails. Afternoon at home attending things--did chores, found our mail on table, letter from Simon, kindness of [omission].

    F. 17--Clear forenoon. Hazy after, warm growing weather. Worked opening road and to see Cavitt where he is making road. Fine grouse gobbler, at our house.

    Sa. 18--Cloudy & cool most of the day. I & Pete worked at our fence road till noon, on our return found a mule in our field. Then worked repairing fence.

    S. 19--Partly clear but cool day. I & Pete to see my son Joseph & family, found all well, had dinner and got some things I had sent by him for and come home. He had been to Myrtle [Creek] after cattle but could not drive [omission?] a lot that he found. Will try again. Heard of the death of Hon. James Watson, a respected citizen.

    M. 20--Clear beautiful day. I & Pete & Simon's pasture & to Harpham's & then to work. Worked hard till evening & to home. Saw Mr. Cavitt, he will come.

    T. 21--Clear pleasant day. We hauled wood & did other things. Mr. Cavitt come to plow for garden.

    W. 22--Clear warm beautiful day. Cavitt could not break our garden with our horses--will come with Simon's horses and plow tomorrow. We worked opening fence row till noon then home, found Ratliff, Tom Ledgerwood, Smith, Dickinson and Joseph waiting for us. Ratliff took 14 head of cattle, 5 of them Simon's, one Emma Floed's. He got 4 of mine & one of Simon's on Myrtle Creek, one of mine he had got some time ago. Grandson Frank's brought wagon of oats. Cavitt come with Simon's horses to plow up garden.

    Th. 23--Clear warm day. Cavitt plowed garden and laid off for planting & gone. I & Pete planted some potatoes & did chores.

    F. 24--Partly clear partly hazy, pleasant day, brisk wind. I & Pete worked in garden sowed seeds, planted onions, peas & beans & some potatoes and some grains of wheat. Saw Joseph, grandson Ratliff, M. Smith & Mr. Dickinson come, drove up roan bull and tied him fast to a stump. We quit work to provide for the above named gents. Tomorrow they take cattle from Simon's pasture.

    Sa. 25--Rained some little in the night and some the forenoon & some after. All hands off early this morning, took roan bull to Barker's tied him and to Simon's pasture, delivered to Ratliff 30 head of cattle including bull, four were mine, one of Creed Floed's and twenty-five of Simon's, seven of them large steers. I & Pete to Harpham's, bought of him 65 pounds fresh pork at 5 cts, $3.25. Ratliff drove off cattle.

    Sunday 26--Partly cloudy, pleasant day. We at home except a walk to the creek & back. Saw John Cox hunting his mules. Pete's mare had colt last night (horse) fine little colt.

    M. 27--Clear warm day. I & Pete to Harpham's, found one of Simon's cows with young calf, drove her & it to Simon's pasture & put them in, then to home & in afternoon we worked on road and put cow & calf in corral & come by where Cavitt was making road. Simon's young cow had bull calf.

    T. 28--Partly clear, cloudy at S.S. & warm. We drove Simon's cow & calf home. Mr. Cavitt come, not well. Mr. Cox come. I & [Pete] walk out to look for quartz. Cavitt & Cox gone.

    Wednesday 29--Cloudy and some rain in the afternoon. I & Pete planted seeds--cabbage, carrots & turnips and did chores. Cavitt come to stay the night with us. Hard rain in the evening.

    Th. 30--Rained hard all night. Showery cold day. Cavitt gone early. We did no work, bad day.

May 1874

    May F. 1--Cloudy cool day. Some showers. I & Pete planted some potatoes. Mr. Cox & Mr. George Cox come to see us, took dinner & gone. We were glad to see them (good men). Cloudy & cool at sunset.

    May Sa. 2--Rained nearly all night and showery forenoon. Pete washed clothes and in the afternoon we planted some potatoes. Wild steer known as One-Eyed Riley & two others of wild band come, it was dusk. We put out salt and they come among the gentle cattle & licked some salt. We will try and tame them.

    S. 3--Clear cool morning, some frost. Clear pleasant day till eve, clouded and raining now at 8. Joseph come to see us & gone home.

    M. 4--I & Pete to town, had our horses shod. Took dinner with Mrs. Floed and saw our people and back at 5 P.M., got quite wet on our return. Rain on us all the way.

    Tuesday 5--Partly clear, pleasant forenoon. We did work about house till noon then worked opening road. Clouded up and commenced raining at 5 P.M., a large amount of rain in last five days.

    W. 6--Rained quite hard last night. Foggy early this morning. Sun out now at 7 A.M.. Some rain with thunder in the afternoon. We set out 150 cabbage plants. Mr. Cox sent them by Pete, who went down to get them. Mr. Cox come looking for his hogs--gone.

    Th. 7--Foggy cool morning, partly clear forenoon. Cloudy & some rain after. I & Pete chopped firewood. Grandson Frank come & gone.

    F. 8--Cloudy cool day. I & Pete with wagon & team to Ledgerwood's, found them all well, walked with him to look at his farm, he has a first-rate ranch. I was much pleased & was very kindly treated, stayed all night, saw Mr. Jo Ledgerwood & Mr. Henry Adams, they stayed all night. Simon's cow Redhead died of poison near Gilliland's.

    Sa. 9--Some rain in the night & some little the day. Left L.'s after breakfast & arrived at home 12 M. Ledgerwood present to me the bacon of one hog & I bought of him 3 sides 73 lbs. $7.30, all of which is in our smoke house.


    Sunday 10--Cloudy cool day, very little rain. We at home except a walk to look for Mr. Cox's sow. He, Mr. C., come and took her home.

    M. 11--Partly clear after 10 A.M., pleasant. I & Pete worked at our fence row till noon, then to see Cavitt & his road. Ratliff come, after dinner I & Pete planted potatoes. Grandson Frank come, brought letter from Lafayette & gone. Liney heifer [had] calf. Born last night. Ratliff gone.

    T. 12--Cool morning, some little frost early this morning. Clear warm day. We finished planting potatoes, planted some beans and some corn and hoed our cabbage.

    W. 13--Clear warm day. Some clouds in west at sunset. Forenoon I & Pete cut brush on our fence row. Afternoon did chores.

    Th. 14--Clear & warm till in the afternoon cloudy in the west, and cloudy at sunset. We work on our fence row in forenoon, after chopped.

    F. 15--Clear warm forenoon, hazy after. We opened road for hauling rails and did chores. Cloud in west at sunset.

    Sa. 16--Clear warm day. Forenoon I & Pete picked & burnt brush. Afternoon worked in garden.

    S. 17--Clear warm day. We at home all day, in afternoon Pete to Mr. Cox's after mail. Mr. Cavitt & James Harpham come to stay all night, brought specimens.

    M. 18--Clear & warm. I & Pete with Mr. Cavitt to look at his silver lead, back at 7 P.M. Ratliff come, he had paid Marks for me $31.25 and to Tom Ledgerwood $7.30.

    T. 19--Hazy morning (cool), Ratliff gone. We worked at our fence row, burnt brush. Henry B. come to see us all week.

    W. 20--Hazy cool day. We worked on our road and called by where Cavitt is making road, and to home at 5 P.M.

    Th. 21--Cloudy night and morning. Cool. I & Pete worked on road to haul rails. Sprinkled rain several times. We quit work at 1 P.M., picked some brush near old barn.

    F. 22--Cloudy drizzly day. We worked some in our garden, too wet to do much.

    Sa. 23--Cloudy night & morning. Some little rain, sun out at 10. Pete washed clothes, hoed in garden. Cavitt & Jake Cox come, had dinner, Jake gone.

    Sunday 24--Cloudy, sprinkled rain, warm. Afternoon I & Pete to Mr. Cox's, got our mail and forty dollars that Ratliff sent to me. Cavitt gone.

    M. 25--Warm. Cloudy & showery. I & Pete worked on road to haul rails & in afternoon worked some in garden. Set out some cabbage plants. Paid Cavitt $20.00.

    T. 26--Rained in the night, showery morning and day--did no work, had bad headache. My son Joseph come and got some plants.

    W. 27--Rained in the night. Misty morning. Rain and hail in afternoon. We hauled some firewood and worked in garden. Cavitt come, I paid him ten dollars--paid him twenty on Monday last, makes $30.00 that I have paid which is the amount that he agreed to make the road for. It is not enough he must have ten dollars more. The assessor come, Cam Cox come & brought tobacco, pills and some money, $18.50 all right much obliged.

    Th. 28--Partly clear. Some mist at times. I worked in garden. Ratliff come, paid $130 and give notes for $1582.00 and gone. Clear at sunset.

    F. 29--Clear warm day. Forenoon worked on our wagon road, afternoon in garden. Cavitt finished the road he made for us & tomorrow goes home.

    Sa. 30--Clear warm day. We worked from noon in garden, forenoon hunted our bull Davy, did not get him. George & Cam Cox come by & left some specimens from Cavitt's lead.

    S. 31--Clear, warm. Bull come and we put him in pasture with our cows, he had been with some of them the middle of this month.

June 1874

    June 1--Foggy misty morning. I & Pete to Roseburg to the election. Voted Democratic & fusion ticket in part. Paid to Leonard How $120 in gold and signed to him note on Ratliff B. Lane for one thousand dollars, making $1120 paid in my note to him. I also signed to Floed &c. note on Ratliff for $247, owed them $121. Balance we will take in goods. Groceries paid Jo McLaughlin six dollars cash for oats.


    T. 2--Clear pleasant day. We worked in garden, hoed cabbage, corn & potatoes. Mr. Cavitt come to haul rails for us.

    W. 3--Hazy & pleasant. Mr. Cavitt with our team commenced hauling rails. Pete to look for him, hauled four loads & drove to Simon's to get rail rack and back to our road, Road proves good. I cleared out fence row & burnt brush. Mr. Cox's sons commenced getting up their cattle. Cloudy at sunset.

    Th. 4--Cloudy morning & day. Commenced raining at 9 and drizzled rain all day. Mr. Cavitt hauled rails till noon and after worked on road. I cut brush, fired big log that lay across road--went down to Mr. Barker's to see about cow of Simon's that Henry B. drove fr. Jones.

    F. 5--Rained some in the night and some little this morn. Forenoon worked in garden. Afternoon worked on road. Cut some brush and mended fire on big log. Paid Cavitt for his work, he left for his home at about 8 this morning, took plants.

    Sa. 6--Cloudy rainy day. Pete helped Henry Barker drive one little band cattle down to Jesse N. Bs. I to mend up fire on log then to Simon's pasture, salted horses & heifer, then by B.'s, and with Pete to our home. Set out home plants--rainy--Antone come to stay all night.

    S. 7--Rainy night & showery day. Antone gone. We mended up fire on logs & to home. Tom Barker come, brought our saddle & after his horses.

    M. 8--Showery day. We did but little. Pete to Mr. Cox's to tell him that one of his horses had dist near our field fence. Mr. C. come. P. brought tomato plants.

    T. 9--Clear day. I & Pete to Mr. Barker's to get Simon's cow & calf that H. B. had driven from old place. We put her & calf in Simon's pasture and then cut brush, did good work. Mr. Antone killed one of our wild yearlings, he & Dora Hinkle stayed all night with us.

    W. 10--Clear day. We went early with Antone and Hinkle to get half of yearling. Pete to Jo's with piece. I to Mr. Cox. A. & H. gone home &c. Worked in garden.

    Th. 11--Foggy cool morning, clear afternoon. I & Pete to town, had our horses shod and back by 6 P.M. Got ax & ax handle of Floed & Co.

    F. 12. Clear cool day. We plowed our garden in forenoon & hoed potatoes, beans & other things in afternoon.

    Sa. 13--Clear and warm. I & Pete & Irvin worked on road at the sharp angles, made Cavitt paid Irvin one dollar. I come very sick and was very sick all night. Suffered very much. Cavitt give us half V.

    S. 14--Clear and warm. I quite sick forenoon, some better after. Antone come & cooked for us. Buck C. & Tom Livingston come, took dinner with us.

    M. 15--Clear pleasant day. Jesse B. called to see us. We cut some brush, burnt some brush and worked in garden.

    T. 16--Rainy day, did no work. Cavitt come, had dinner with us and left for his home away 12 miles in mountain.

    W. 17--Showery cool day. I did some chopping. Pete took care of Simon's sheep till we drove them home & then to Cox's to take letter for Mrs. Simon Lane to be mailed.

    Th. 18--Partly cloudy, no rain. Forenoon busy with our cattle, after worked in our garden. John Pierce come, didn't buy our horse Fred.

    F. 19--Partly cloudy day. Sprinkled rain early this morning. Forenoon we worked in garden. Afternoon we looked over our field to see when we may begin harvest. Shot our big wild bull. Skinned one side, that we may strychnine him for wolves.

    Sa. 20--Foggy morning, clear day. James Harp. come and helped put up mower. I paid him 75 cts. I owed him for pork. Afternoon I & Pete worked in garden & put out poison for wolves.

    S. 21--Clear cool day. We at home, my son Joseph come to see us, all well with him.

    M. 22--Cloudy cool day. Forenoon I & Pete to near corner of Simon's pasture after our wagon, brought her home. Afternoon did chores. Sprinkled rain at sunset.

    T. 23--Cool showery day. I & Pete started to town with wagon. Met my son Simon in Ganger's lane afoot, we took him in & come back and drove up to his place, and then he come home with us to stay all night.

    W. 24--Partly clear morning and day. I, Simon & Pete off early for Simon's place and then with wagon to town to take some things for his family as he & they are on their way to his black sand mines where I pray God they may arrive in safety. I was very glad to see Cassie & my grandchildren. I & Pete were back home before sundown. Isaac M. come with us part way.

    Th. 25--Rained nearly all night. Cloudy drizzly morning. We ground our axes for work. Chopped firewood till noon, did chores after. Grandson Creed come to tell us Dr. Hawthorn will come.

    F. 26--Cloudy forenoon. Dr Hawthorn come, also Judge Mosher, had dinner and gone at 4. We were glad to see them, had pleasant time.

    Sa. 27--Clear pleasant day. Forenoon worked in garden. Afternoon started our mower, cut nine rounds on piece vol. oats. Creed helped us.

    S. 28--Foggy morning clear day. Cloud in W. at S.S. We at home. Cavitt come & gone to Harpham's.

    M. 29--Clear pleasant day. I & Pete with mower cut hay, did fair work. Creed throwed back out of way. Cavitt come & gone. Mr. Rich come to see us. Isaac M. come & gone to Harpham's.

    June 30 1874--Clear, we cut hay till noon. Isaac Matthews raked afternoon. Mr. Rich gone. Mr. Barker & two Mr. Gilmores called to see us. Creed to town.

July 1874

    July 1--Clear pleasant day. Mr. Matthews finished raking and we hauled one load hay.

    Th. 2--I, Pete & Mr. Matthews hauled five loads hay. Clear pleasant day, cloud in W.N.W. at sunset. Creed come, all well at his home.

    F. 3--Cloudy forenoon. Clear after, we finished hauling at 10 A.M. 2 loads and Mr. Matthews gone, worked 3 days. Creed & Pete to Simon's pasture for cow & calf and heifer could not drive them, left cow & calf at Mr. Barker's.

    Sa. 4--Clear, pleasant day after the fog lifted. I, Creed & Pete to Mr. Barker's after cow & calf, succeeded in bringing with the help of T.B. & Jones. Then I worked in garden.

    S. 5--Foggy cool morning. Clear & warm after. My son Joseph come, all well at his home, gone at 4 P.M. Took his scythe & cradle. We at home.

    M. 6--Foggy cool morning. Clear warm & windy after. We washed clothes, scrubbed floor and did chores.

    T. 7--Clear pleasant day. My son Lafayette and Mr. Burton of Cal. come to see us, had dinner & gone.

    W. 8--Clear & warm. Forenoon we cut two swaths across upper field so as to examine the grass as to fitness to cut. Afternoon fired brush & I to Cox's.

    Th. 9--Clear hot day. I with mower cut 4-acre piece of timothy. Creed forked up some hay in cocks. Pete assisted both he & I.

    F. 10--Clear warm & windy. Creed & Pete raked hay. I picked scattered hay with fork. Finished raking and hauled one load to barn.

    Sa. 11--Clear windy pleasant day. Creed, self & Pete hauled three loads hay. After 5 P.M. Creed left for town. Warm afternoon.

    S. 12--Clear, windy, pleasant day. We at home all day. Pete shot and killed gray squirrel, his first success.

    M. 13--Clear warm day. We cut six acres of timothy. Creed & Pete busy with pitchforks.

    T. 14--Clear & warm. We cut two acres grass and the seat bar broke. Afternoon Creed & Pete raked hay.

    W. 15--Clear & warm. Creed finished raking and to town to get seat bar mended. I & Pete raked hay

    Thur. 16.--Foggy morning. I & Pete cocked hay till noon. Creed come & I to mowing, cut 3 acres and we hauled one load.

    F. 17--Some fog early. Clear warm after. I to mowing, cut some four acres. Creed & Pete cleared grass from ends, not much work. Pete found dead wolf, got too much strychnine.

    Sa. 18--Clear warm day. Creed & Pete raked hay, all that was cut, in windrows and cocked some, good job, good work. Creed gone at 6 P.M. to town.

    S. 19--Clear hot day. I & Pete on horseback to Harpham, found no one at home. Took some oats, nearly two bushels, either of his or Simon's. We will see and settle for them. Put his young sow in pasture.

    M. 20--Clear hot day. Isaac Matthews come and set in to work, he raked hay, I cut with mower and in the afternoon broke her badly. Then hauled one load hay. Isaac finished raking all that was cured.

    T. 21--Clear and warm. Isaac cutting with scythe forenoon. Pete & Creed mowed alternately, and in afternoon commenced mowing and broke scythe. Matthews still mowing.

    W. 22.--Clear warm, windy. Mr. Matthews finished mowing. I, Creed and Pete raked hay and hauled three loads hay & put in barn.

    Th. 23--Clear pleasant day, hard wind after part. We raked some hay and hauled four loads. James M. called, took dinner with us & gone. Mr. M. & C. worked.

    F. 24--Some fog this morning. Clear, pleasant, windy. We hauled five loads hay. Mr. M. & Creed worked.

    Sa. 25--Clear warm day. Mr. M., Creed & Pete & self hauled five loads hay. Mr. M. quit. We owe him $14.50 for time worked in the harvest.

    S. 26--Clear hot day. Tom Ledgerwood come to see us, took dinner & gone. Mr. John Cox do. Mrs. R. B. Lane fine son born last night. We at home.

    M. 27--Clear warm day, some clouds at sunset. Creed, Pete & self hauled four loads of hay. Mr. Alfred Matthews come, borrowed the reel stand of Kirby machine, gone.

    T. 28--Clear, warm. We finished hailing hay. Creed to town.

    W. 29--Foggy morning, hot day. We with our wagon & team hauled in H. Barker's oat hay & home before night, he worked hard.

    Th. 30--Clear, warm. We did but little.

    F. 31--Clear, pleasant. We did chores.

August 1874

    Sa. 1--Clear pleasant day. Forenoon I cut & burnt brush, at 2 o'clk. Father Heinrich come to see us and celebrate Mass. Glad to see him.

    S. 2--Clear, pleasant. Father H. celebrated Mass. We at Communion, God be praised. Mr. Rich come to stay the night.

    M. 3--Clear, pleasant. Father H. celebrated Mass. Mr. R. gone to work at Mr. Barker's. Mr. Barker & Mr. Hopkins called & gone.

    T. 4--Pleasant day. Afternoon Father Heinrich and Creed gone to town. I & Pete did chores.

    W. 5--Pleasant. I & Pete to Harpham's, found him killing a deer, give us forequarter. Pete brought it up. I to Cox's after mail, back at 2 P.M.

    Th. 6--Partly cloudy. I not well. We burnt some brush and Pete killed some squirrels.

    F. 7--Cloudy, cool morning. Big fire tree burnt down last night near old barn. We put out poison for squirrels and chopped firewood.

    Sa. 8--Pleasant forenoon, cloudy afternoon. I & Pete to Joseph's, got bottle strychnine and some meat. Creed F. come with 300 head sheep. Rained at dusk. Kit, Ted & come [omission].

    Sunday 9--Cloudy night. Rained hard this morning. Showery day, quite winterlike. My son Joseph come to see us & gone.

    M. 10--Cloudy night, commenced raining at daylight, raining now at 9 A.M., turned sheep in pasture. Self, Creed & Pete chopped fire[wood] and brush--no rain in afternoon.

    T. 11--Partly cloudy cool day. Creed & Pete herding sheep. I chopped some firewood. James Harpham come, wants to give up Simon's sheep.

    W. 12--Partly clear day, some fog in forenoon. I to Antone's and back. C. & P. with sheep.

    Th. 13--Creed to town. I & Pete to Harpham's (some rain). As we come home I killed a deer. Shot it near our little timothy patch on preemption and caught it with Barker's dog, left largest half with B.

    F. 14--Cool morning. Partly clear day. Creed come, brought tar & bells for sheep & some things for ourselves. I am quite sick, bad headache and pains generally.

    Sa. 15--Pleasant day. I am still quite sick, did no work.

    Sunday 16--Clear pleasant day. Four years ago this day my beloved wife departed this life. O, what a lonely lonesome life I have had. God rest her soul in peace. God be praised. Mr. Cox called. Antone come, gone.

    M. 17--Clear pleasant. I & Creed & Pete with Antone run line between our land. Mr. Cox called, also Harpham, gone.

    T. 18--Clear & warm. Creed & Pete drove Floed's sheep to Simon's place to brand them & shear the lambs. Mr. Matthews is shearing. We branded Simon's sheep and divided increase, with Harpham. His part 14. We have taken charge of the flock until Simon shall make some disposition of them. Creed remained with them.

    M. 19--Cloudy morning. I & Pete to Simon's place, found Mr. Matthews shearing lambs. I left Pete to help Snyder thresh wheat. I come home, not well, did but little work.

    Th. 20--Cloudy morning. Pete to Simon's place to help Snyder. I down in afternoon. Matthews finished shearing, I & Pete to home.

    Friday 21--Clear & warm. Sacked the wool & turned all the sheep into Simon's pasture. Drove up Simon's colts, purchased Snyder's oats in the sheaf, $20 to be paid the 20th May next.

    Sa. 22--Partly clear partly cloudy. Creed to town & to hunt his missing sheep, 6 in number. I & Pete to Simon's place, purchased Snyder's sheaf wheat $3.33 cents. Corraled sheep in field.

    S. 23--Partly clear. I & Pete to S.L. place, put sheep in pasture to home at 1. P.M. After dinner I took a siesta & dreamed that Mrs. & Mr. Cox called and had something important to tell me, but I could not wake & when I did I was more drowsy than I recollect to have been in my whole life.

    M. 24--Partly cloudy, some showers. I & Pete & Creed to Simon's place, finished putting oats in barn. Corraled the sheep & to home at sunset, divided hogs with Harpham. Took for Simon 3 barrows & he took two barrows & two sows. We heard that George Cox was dangerously if not fatally shot by Munns, at 3 P.M. yesterday. Col. Barker is our author[ity] & that Munns shot him 3 times.

    T. 25--Clear warm day. We drove Simon's hogs from Barker's pasture. Matthews took off Harpham's [hogs] part of them, two sows & two barrows, our 3 barrows at Simon's place to be fattened. George Cox is better. Barker heard that Cox will survive.

    W. 26--We to Simon's place to see to the sheep and feed hogs. Creed to town with wagon, hauled Snyder's wheat & his & Harpham's wool. We burnt brush.

    Th. 27--Misty morning, clear after. I & Pete to see to sheep, found one of Creed's dead, had not been killed. Then I to my son Joseph's and back by Barker's, had letter from Simon & Drain. Creed come, hauled salt & flour.

    F. 28--Warm day. We at Simon's place, taking care of sheep & putting things right.

    Sa. 29--Drove sheep from Simon's pasture to our pasture.

    Sunday 30--At home all day. Joseph come to see us, all well at his home. Antone called, gone.

    M. 31--I & Pete to town had our horses shod, paid $4. Purchased for Mrs. Simon Lane 160 acres land from Henry W. Barker. Deed made & paid $600 and attended to having Simon's assessment credited with amount of assessment. I contracted for Singleton's 80 acres near us.

September 1874

    Tuesday 1--Clear & warm. Creed to town with wagon for buck sheep. I & Pete to our Barker place to see to things then repaired fence between us & Gill. & to Simon's place. Jim Snyder called. We home & repaired fence. Creed come with wagon & two bucks.

    W. 2--Clear & hot. We worked at fence row between us & Antone. Staked line & cut brush.

    Th. 3--Clear hot & smoky. I & Pete worked on our brush fence. Creed to Gilliland's to tell him about sheep. Capt. Land called, we were glad to see him. We to Simon's place, fired some brush, burnt 300 rails.

    F. 4--Hot & very smoky. Creed to Ledgerwood's to get some bucks. I & Pete out to see if our rails are safe from fire, and then to cutting on fence row. Some thunder & sprinkle of rain.

    Sa. 5--Warm & smoky. I to work on fence row. Pete to Simon's place. Says he found two young men there had fed their horses and making themselves at home. Considerable thunder & sprinkled rain. Creed come with 6 bucks, Simon Ledgerwood with him. Granddaughter Mrs. H. Barker daughter born Sa. night 5th inst.

    S. 6--Smoky but not so bad as for several days. Some rain in evening. Simon Ledgerwood gone home,

    M. 7--Some rain last night & some the day. We chopped brush
till 11, when Capt. Mosher come for me to go [to] town to see Genl. Jeff C. Davis & wife. Mrs. Floed give a splendid dinner upon the
occasion, pleasant party. Pete took dun horse back at dusk.

    T. 8--Some rain in night & some the day. We cut brush and took care of sheep. Messrs. Cavitt & Mulkey come, brought fine venison, found no gold on their trip.

    W. 9--Rained in the night & showery cool day. C. & M. gone, bad day. I have bad headache. Pete & Creed to Simon's place. Horse Jake leg hurt.

    Th. 10--Some showers last night. Cloudy & cool. My son Joseph come to help us, commenced at noon, hauled one load rails to upper end field and then chopped trees & brush.

    F. 11--Clear & warm, hauled rails off of mountain to make fence from Simon's pasture south, 4 loads.

    Sa. 12--Clear & warm, hauled four loads rails.

    S. 13--Clear & warm. Joseph gone home. I & Pete to Simon's place. Joseph come. Creed come from town, brought: 1 pr. shoes, 3 boxes pills, 50 cts. tobacco.

    M. 14--Clear warm day. Joseph, Pete & self hauled four loads rails.

    Tuesday 15--Clear & warm, Joseph hauled 4 loads rails. Pete attended to locking. I cleared out road and worked generally.

    W. 16--Clear & warm. Joseph & Creed hauled three loads rails. We dug road.

    Th. 17--Foggy morning, smart mist. Clear afternoon. Hauled four loads rails & broke wagon wheel or rather one spoke of hind wheel.

    F. 18--Clear & warm. Repaired wagon, built bridges and hauled three loads rails, two of them to near little field.

    Sa. 19--Clear & warm. We hauled 3 loads rails and Joseph gone home. W. A. Mulkey stayed with us last night. Sold him our old wagon for $20, took her & gone.

    S. 20--Clear & warm. Frank L. come, helped us build fence around hay at our Barker place.

    M. 21--Clear & warm. I to Joseph's, saw my great-granddaughter H. Barker's child, 2 weeks old. Back in eve.

    T. 22--Clear & warm. I & Pete laid worm & put up 100 panels fence. Creed helped the afternoon.

    W. 23--Clear & warm. I Pete & Creed put 38 panels fence & worked road. Creed hurt his ankle at barn.

    Th. 24--I & Pete packed rails & put up 10 panels & worked road
& cleared out fence row. Cloudy at sunset.

    F. 25--Some fog in forenoon. Clear & warm after. Creed to town. I & Pete to Simon's place, he herded sheep. I packed rails out of brush & put up fence.

    Sa. 26--Clear & warm. Pete looked after sheep. I cleared out fence row, worked hard. Granddaughters Mary Floed, Mary Barlow & Virginia Welch come to see us & gone. We were glad to see them. May God bless them.

    S. 27--Clear & warm. I to Simon's place to see to things & then to home. Creed & Pete looked after sheep.

    M. 28--Clear & warm. Joseph come and we hauled three loads of rails. John Way come & gone.

    T. 29--Cloudy forenoon. Joseph, Creed & Pete hauled three loads of rails. I worked on road. Henry Barker called by & helped to dig a few min.

    W. 30--Clear & warm. Joseph, Creed & Pete hauled rails. I made roads. Cavitt come to stay the night.

October 1874

    October 1--Partly cloudy, a few drops rain at 6 P.M. We hauled five loads rails. I opened some roads. Cavitt gone to his home.

    F. 2--Rained slowly all night & misted all day We hauled three loads rails made by Negro Tom. 3 loads, 206 rails. Joseph gone to his home.

    Sa. 3--Clear warm day. I, Creed & Pete opened road to some rails that Tom made & hauled one load. Creed to town.

    S. 4--Clear & warm. I & Pete to Simon's place, fixed up barn. Creed come from town at dusk.

    M. 5--Partly clear, pleasant. Joseph come and we put up fence. Creed to town on Fred to have him shod, back.

    T. 6--Partly cloudy, mist of rain for a time. Joseph & we hauled 5 loads rails. Creed's good dog Nig died suddenly and mysteriously. We are very sorry.

    W. 7--Clear & warm. We hauled 3 loads rails to pasture fence and one to Simon's place. Joseph drove &c.

    Th. 8--Clear & quite warm. Joseph & we hauled 3 loads rails from mountain, and [end?] of Tom's rails.

    F. 9--Hauled down rails from our little meadow and put up fence. north of that. Joseph hauled & then put up till noon & then to his home. I commenced making fence row between us & Cox, he called.

    Sa. 10--Pleasant day, we worked at fence row. Thunder, lightning & rain last night.

    S. 11--Sprinkled rain this morn. We to Simon's place, helped Antone catch his 4 lambs, we home.

    M. 12--Joseph come and commenced hauling rails for fence between us & Cox, hauled 5 loads.

    T. 13--Clear & warm. Joseph & Creed hauled 7 loads rails. 431 rails. I worked at fence row.

    W. 14--Clear & warm. Jo & Creed hauled till noon & Jo & Pete till night. I cut brush & opened fence row.

    Th. 15--Foggy morning. Jo & Creed hauled rails, finished at noon and Joseph gone home. I at work.

    F. 16--Foggy forenoon. Clear & warm after. I chopped trees to make fence. Antone called, told our sheep & Pete's mare were on road to town. Pete gone after, drove up his mare & colt & Simon's colt but got no sheep.

    Sa. 17--Clear forenoon, some fog. Partly cloudy after a few drops of rain. I laid up fence. Boys after sheep.

    S. 18--Hazy partly cloudy some little rain. I & Pete to Simon's place, fed our hogs & horses and to home. Creed after sheep, found most of them.

    M. 19--Foggy forenoon, clear after. Creed with wagon to town. I & Pete put up fence to quarter corner between us & Cox.

    T. 20--Cloudy morning. Some rain at 10. I & Pete worked at building fence till noon. My granddaughter Mrs. Haynes, children & Mr. Jesse Applegate come to see me after dinner. I to town with them, comfortable buggy ride then at dusk Creed come at 3 P.M. with flour for winter.

    W. 21--I & Pete from town at dusk. Creed at home while we were gone.

    Th. 22--Clear forenoon, hazy after. I, Pete & Creed built fence till noon. Caught Gage's mule & tied it up, want to yoke it.

    F. 23--Rained in the night and at it this morn. Showery day, we did no work. C. & P. hunted sheep.

    Sa. 24--Some very little rain in the night. Some snow on the mountain. We hauled firewood. Mr. Cavitt come to see us.

    S. 25--Big frost this morning. Foggy till noon. Ed. Ledgerwood called. Cavitt, I & Pete to Simon's place, got some apples. Creed to town. I & Pete to little prairie & home.

    M. 26--Partly clear. Pleasant day. Cavitt helped us build fence. We finished the part next to Simon's pasture, did good work & to home. Creed come by Joseph's and drove some of his sheep.

    T. 27--Frosty morn. Clear day. Cavitt left for his home & killed fine deer 1½ miles east of us and I went up & brought it home (a present) & then built fence. Creed to town with wagon after oats.

    W. 28--Clear, pleasant. I & Pete worked some on fence & then to Simon's place. Creed come with load of oats. We put 6 bushels in bin at Simon's & brought 15 bushels home.

    October 29--Clear warm day. Creed with wagon to town. I & Pete built fence, did faithful work but did not finish.

    F. 30--Clear, pleasant. We finished fence to Cox, Barker corner. I & Pete then finished fenced to Simon's pasture. Creed come from town with load of oats.

    Sa. 31--Clear, pleasant. Creed & Pete after sheep. I finished fence with little help from grandson Ratliff who come to see us & Creed & Pete [fenced] from C. & B. corner to our brush fence & to home.

November 1874

    November 1--Clear & pleasant. I with Ratliff to Mr. Willis's, had a good dinner & then I called at Mr. Cox's. Saw J. Dillard and family, found all well, heard from Simon & to home.

    M. 2--Hazy, pleasant day. Pete & Creed hunted sheep. I worked at fence row north of Simon's field.

    T. 3--Rained in the night and raining this morning, rained all day. I am quite unwell. Suffering with pains in my knees and headache.

    W. 4--Rained in the night, rainy day. Boys hunted sheep. I indoors all day, not well.

    Th. 5--Rained all night and all this forenoon. Snow on mountain east of field down to the fence. I chopped firewood. Boys hunted sheep. I & Buck Cox come and took jumping mule.

    F. 6--Pleasant day. Creed to town with wagon. I chopped firewood, Pete after sheep.

    Sa. 7--Rainy. Some hard showers. I & Pete to Simon's place, got wet, hard rain. Creed come, brought 5 sacks salt, had horses shod.

    S. 8--Rainy day, ground quite wet, we at home all day.

    M. 9--Cloudy pleasant day, no rain but a light sprinkle. We to Simon's place, Creed and Pete hauled six loads rails. I cut brush.

    T. 10--Showery. Rained in the night. Creed & Pete hauled two loads of rails. We finished putting up fence.

    W. 11--Rained in the night. Pleasant day, no rain. Creed & Pete to Simon's after wagon, hauled wood. I chopped and am tired. Henry Barker coming.

    Th. 12--Rained all night, showery day. Creed & Pete to Simon's then after sheep. I chopped firewood.

    F. 13--Rained all the last night. Showery day. Joe come, brought some venison & took Simon's horse Jake & gone. Creed & Pete to Simon's and after sheep. I chopped firewood.

    Sa. 14--Pleasant day. I, Creed & Pete picked apples at Simon's place & to home. Mr. Cavitt come, killed fine buck two miles east of us at look old Jim to bring it in come 10 at night.

    S. 15--Pleasant, sprinkled rain for short time. Creed & Pete after sheep and Creed to town. Mr. Cavitt come, killed fine buck look old Jim & [omission]


    M. 16--Cloudy cool day. We picked apples at Simon's place. Joseph come & took wagonload. Mr. Cavitt with wagon to Mr. Barker's for kettle & barrel to scald hogs in, home at dusk.

    T. 17--Cloudy, cold. Self, Mr. Cavitt, Creed & Pete killed and dressed our three hogs & brought them home. Henry Barker come & helped.

    W. 18--Cold frosty morning. Clear pleasant day. Cavitt helped us cut up our hogs and started for his home. I salted the pork and remained at home, not well. Creed & Pete hunted sheep, found some near Barker's.

    Th. 19--Very gold night, heavy frost this morning. Clear cold day. I & Creed & Pete to Simon's place, picked some apples, hauled & put them in our barn & to home at sunset. Fed & salted Simon's colts.

    F. 20--Hard frost this morning, pleasant after. Hazy in the evening. I not well. Creed & Pete hunted sheep in the forenoon and dug potatoes at Barker's in the afternoon. I chopped some wood.

    Sa. 21--Rained some in the night and rained all day. Creed to Chapman's, had horse shod and joined us at Barker's where I had spent the day pleasantly, had good dinner and hauled up 5 bushels potatoes that he gave us, continued to rain all the time.

    S. 22--Rained all night, snow on the mountain east of field, quite cold. Cattle up, want fed. Rainy day. Capt. Cross come, took dinner with us, borrowed 3 vols. Gibbon's Rome & gone, rain.

    M. 23--Rained all night with very hard wind. Rained some the day. We chopped and Creed & Pete hauled firewood after dinner, forenoon they put up fence where it blowed down in night.

    T. 24--Warm cloudy night, warm cloudy day, some light showers. Forenoon Creed & Pete looked after sheep. I dressed & cooked hogs heads. Afternoon we dug potatoes and rendered lard. Simon's colts come, we fed them.

    Wednesday 25--Cloudy warm forenoon. Sprinkled rain at times. Clear pleasant after. We hauled load of poles and finished a few panels of fence between us & Cox and put up some that had been blown down & then dug potatoes. Creed to Barker's to tell them of their cow. Increase of dogs last night, only nine new ones.

    Th. 26--Partly clear, pleasant day. Self, Creed & Pete hauled rails to H.B. place to repair fence. Mr. Jesse B. & Henry B. come for cow and drove her off.

    F. 27--Partly clear, party hazy, pleasant day. Mr. Cavitt called. We hauled one load rails to H.B. place & then dug potatoes, did good work. Hauled them up and covered with hay.

    Sa. 28--Partly clear, partly hazy, warm day. Creed and Pete after sheep and to town is Creed. Pete come & helped dig potatoes, we finished and brought them to the house. Muddy, disagreeable job, but is finished. I am tired.

    S. 29--Hazy, pleasant day. We rendered some lard and then I & Pete to Simon's place to look after sheep. Pete by Barker's to tell them about their cow. I to home, saw a forked horn buck, did not kill him. Our old horse Charly come up.

    M. 30--Partly clear and very pleasant day. I & Pete put up fence at H.B. place. Creed come from town, brought mail. George Cox come, told us that Barker found two of our sheep that had been killed by wolves. We skinned one and put in strychnine and drove the sheep home or rather a portion of them. Creed drove some from Bonebrake's and some from Gilliland's.

December 1874

    T. 1--Rained all last night and some this morning. We fed our out horses at H.B. place and then I went to our poisoned sheep, found one large wolf nearby, dead & stiff. Creed & Pete looked after sheep.

    W. 2--Rainy day. We did but little. Creed & Pete looked after sheep. Cavitt come, told us that he met Antone with his sheep this side Buck's Peak on his way to his, Cavitt's, place. Well, A. is gone, sheep and all. Rid of him, "It is well."

    Th. 3--Partly clear, pleasant morning. Cavitt gone, will pack some of Antone's provision. Creed & Pete looking after sheep. I at work generally. Mr. Cox called, borrowed our harness. They are hauling rails.

    F. 4--Partly clear warm day. Forenoon Creed & Pete to my son Joseph's after harness, afternoon to Henry B. place to find Simon's colts and look for sheep. I chopped firewood, worked hard.

    Sa. 5--Clear, warm, calm beautiful day. Chopped firewood, hauled 1 load, and boys looked for sheep.

    S. 6--Clear, calm & warm. I at home, washed clothes and did chores. Creed & Pete to Simon's place and to look for sheep, back at 3 P.M.

    M. 7--Clear warm beautiful day. Creed & Pete hunted sheep and then helped me bore & fire some logs, one at S.W. corner of corral. I not well, headache.

    T. 8--Hazy warm day. Forenoon Creed & Pete looked for sheep and then assisted to burn some brush and to bore and fire big log in 3 places. Our slut Queeny died of poison that we had put out to kill wolves, left 5 young dogs. Killed three, try to raise the two.

    W. 9--Frosty night, foggy morning and forenoon. We chopped firewood, after dinner Creed and Pete put up fence and hunted sheep, found one ewe and young lamb, both looking well. I chopped firewood. Mr. Cox called to fix for laying worm for his fence.

    Th. 10--Hazy or partly clear. We hauled three loads firewood then Creed & Pete to Mr. Hinkle's pasture after some of our sheep that had got in, drove them to Simon's & put them across the creek. I chopped firewood and oak posts for gate to be put on line between us and Cox. Mr. C. makes the gate, he hauled one of posts and some poles that I cut and gave him.

    F. 11--Rainy day. We hauled some firewood in forenoon. Creed & Pete hunted sheep after. Mr. Cox come and put up gate posts.

    Sa. 12--Foggy at times, no rain. Mr. Cox and [omission] dressed gate timbers ready for putting together. I helped some and cut post for our little gate. Creed & Pete went out to burn remnant of sheep that we had poisoned, and then to Simon's to look after sheep and bring some salt.

    S. 13--Hazy pleasant day. My son Joseph come, brought some knickknacks for our birthday dinner. Afternoon Creed & Pete after sheep. I walked out to little prairie, saw nothing but old bull Ben, back at dusk.

    M. 14--Cloudy pleasant forenoon. Rainy after. This is my birthday, now 73 years old. Mr. Cox, George, Cam, John & Buck Cox joined us at dinner. They were working on their fence nearby. We started [to] plow, plowed a few rounds and quit. I helped fix gate on C. & our line. Boys looked after sheep. Obliged to Mr. Fuller for our whiskey the day.

    T. 15--Rained nearly all night and some this morn, partly clear after, some hail the afternoon, not much. Cool. Creed & Pete did some plowing, did quite well. I chopped some poles for Cox's fence. Mr. Cavitt come, stay the night with us, glad to see him. He helped the boys plow. I put up some of our new (fence blowed down).

    W. 16--Hard frost this morning and some fog till noon. Clear & pleasant after. Mr. Cavitt left early for his home. Took our old horse Harry to winter in the moun[tain]. Creed & Pete with him up the mountain and then after sheep & to Simon's place to look for sheep, found horse in barn yard, turned out & then to home. I chopped down fir tree near old barn and chopped some firewood. Cold evening, put up Pete's cow & calf and little Blue.

    Th. 17--Big white frost this morning. Creed & Pete to Simon's place, found same old horse in barn yard, turned him out again, looked after sheep and back to dinner. I chopped firewood and cooked a good dinner, this being Creed's birthday. Afternoon boys plowed & I chopped.

    F. 18--Cold windy morning, commenced raining at 9 o'clk, rainy and windy & cold, bad day. Boys to hunt sheep, were at Simon's & did not find, off again to look for sheep.

    Saturday 19--Cloudy cool day. I, Creed and Pete to Simon's place, marked his pigs, five barrows and three sows. Put up fence, separated some ewes from flock and put in field. Boys drove up some & put on this side of creek & to home at dusk. Suffered with pain in back.

    S. 20--Partly cloudy not cold. Creed & Pete after sheep to S. place & then to mountain east of field. I at home all day, weak back.

    M. 21--Some rain the last night. Cloudy with some showers the day. Creed & Pete to Mr. Cox's after our harness. After dinner they plowed. I chopped logs for fire log.

    T. 22--Partly clear, partly cloudy, pleasant day. I chopped firewood, broke my ax handle. Creed & Pete to S. place, attended to sheep, drove them on this side creek and drove horses hitched to sled up home & hauled some big back logs & then after sheep.

    W. 23--Some frost this morning. Partly clear forenoon, cloudy wind & cool after. Raining at dusk. Creed & Pete to Simon's place after sheep and then put in some at Cox gate and then helped me at fence. I chopped and laid a few panels fence and killed & dressed Jacky for Christmas dinner.

    Th. 24--Rained all night and nearly all this day with some snow squalls, bad day, did no work. Creed to town to spend Christmas with his mother &c.

    Friday 25--Snow to depth of one inch fell in the night. Partly clear morning and day. Snow nearly gone this morning. I & Pete fed horses and the cattle in pasture, then cooked turkey and vegetables & coffee and had a good Christmas dinner by ourselves, no one to cheer and greet us. After dinner Pete to Simon's place to look after sheep & I to our Henry B. place to look after sheep.

    Saturday 26.--Very little snow fell last night, cold morning, crust on the ground. I & Pete fed horses, cattle &c., and then he hunted sheep. My grandsons Creed Floed & Charly Mosher come, brought articles sent for and Christmas presents from Mr. Floed & my daughter Mrs. Mosher.

    Sunday 27--Cold morning, hard frost. Partly clear day. Boys to Simon's place hunting sheep. Fed horses. Simon's colts come and were fed. I at home all day. Lame feet, can hardly walk. Suffer very much. Creed killed partridge.

    M. 28--Cold morning, hard freeze. Partly clear pleasant day. Creed, Carly & Pete to Simon's place after sheep, then on mountain east of field and drove up sheep. I chopped firewood. Fed our horses & in cattle and colts. I suffer with my feet & back.

    T. 29--Cold night, have frost this morning. Foggy off and on all day. Sun out at times, not cold, rather pleasant. I, Creed & Pete chopped poles out [of] road, made them of length for hen house. Charly picked brush. Afternoon boys hauled firewood, I chopped.

    W. 30--Some frost this morning, not so cold as for several last nights & mornings. Clear pleasant day. Self and Creed, Charly & Pete to Simon's place. Creed worked at Barker's separating sheep, ours had got into his pasture. I & Pete & Charly hauled rails, cut off tree top that had fell on fence and rebuilt fence and fired log that broke fence and hauled load rails down the road to repair fence.

    Th. 31--Clear night, some frost this morning, partly clear pleasant day. Some fog at times with a cloud for a short time and a few drops of rain. Grandson Charly Mosher left early for his home. Creed and Pete to Simon's place to fire log & look for sheep. East of our field found two that had been killed by wolf. They poisoned it & left. I cut cedar brush, did well. Thus ends this year. Democratic success the great event.

January 1875

    Friday 1--Quite a hard frost this morning. Clear pleasant day. Creed and Pete spent the day hunting sheep, found one that had been killed by wolf. Up to the day five have been found killed. I cooked our new year's dinner & chopped firewood.

    Sa. 2--Partly cloudy, cool morning. Hazy pleasant day. Mist of rain for short time. We skinned & poisoned a sheep that the boys found killed and then Creed & Pete to Simon's place to see to sheep and back to corral all up at this ranch. I did chores.

    Sunday 3--Hazy pleasant day. I at home all day. Creed & Pete after sheep. Found a cougar that had killed himself eating poisoned mutton, skinned and brought his hide home & then after sheep. Mr. Cavitt come to stay the night. Had been sick.

    M. 4--Damp chilly night. Foggy morning & day. Creed gone to town after mail. My son Joseph come & brought mail, but Creed had gone. I did chores. Pete washed clothes & he & Mr. C. drove up sheep.

    T. 5--Hazy morning, some rain last night and some the forenoon and some at & just before sundown. Afternoon Joseph plowed some in old corral. Creed & Pete dug out posts and then after sheep. I did chores. Cavitt gone early.

    W. 6--Partly clear morning and day. I, Creed & Pete put up few panels of fence & cleared off that Joseph could plow, he finished south side and broke plow. Creed & Pete to Simon's place to look after sheep. I at work generally. Joseph to Simon's place after plow.

    Thursday 7--Cloudy warm day. Joseph commenced with new plow to break up some sod land south side of our upper field, found it very heavy on the horses, did good work. Creed & Pete to Simon's place to see to sheep, found one little lamb. I cut brush south of field.

    F. 8--Partly cloudy day, warm. Joseph plowed. Creed & Pete to look for sheep. Afternoon cut brush. I chopped brush & fired up one big cedar that I wish to burn down.

    Sa. 9--Foggy warm day. Joseph plowed, worked Jake and Fred. Jim give out. Self, Creed & Pete cut brush on land we had of H.B. Afternoon they hunted sheep. I cut brush, did good work. Jo left for home at 3 P.M.

    S. 10--Foggy night & morning, cool. We at home all day. Boys drove up sheep. Joseph come. Sprinkled rain at dusk.

    M. 11--Rained all night and some the morning & day with a sprinkle of snow. Creed & Pete after sheep to Simon's place & east of field. I chopped firewood and did chores. Joseph plowing. Snow squall at 4 P.M.

    T. 12--Snow to depth of 2 inches fell in the night and some fell the day (not much, however). Joseph gone home. We fed horses, cattle & some sheep. Boys after sheep and then fixed old stable. I did chores.

    W. 13--Snow fell in night two inches and continued to fall all day, now 8 P.M. Eight inches of snow and falling fast and very cold. Creed & Pete to Simon's place after sheep. I at home cooking & taking care of things. Horses, cattle & sheep suffering.

    Th. 14--Heavy snowfall last night. Snow now fifteen to eighteen inches deep and very cold, hard on stock. Some of our out cattle come. Henry Barker called and told us that our cattle was in Gil's pasture and that he would get them out. Creed & Pete fed horses & cattle & hunted sheep, found one dead lamb come last night, put some sheep in barn.

    Friday 15--Clear cool day. Some wind in afternoon. Creed & Pete hunted and fed sheep, put up some 150 sheep at Simon's, 5 lambs. I put up cow Fanny & her band except Beauty. She is missing. 5 lambs born at this place. 3 have died. Joseph Lenherr come, brought some things for Creed.

    Sa. 16--Hard freeze last night. Clear day, snow gone off very little, quite cold at sunset. Creed, Lenherr and Pete have been getting up sheep at Simon's place, 10 lambs among them. I put up 5 head here. Mr. Cox called and gone.

    Sunday 17--Cold night, hard freeze. Cold day, some fog, bad on stock. Snow still very deep, several ewes have lost their lambs, some have saved them. Creed, Lenherr & Pete to Simon's place to feed & take care of sheep. Killed two ducks and two partridges & drove up twelve sheep and put in & fed them.

    M. 18--Very cold night & morning. Cloudy day, moderated in the afternoon & raining at 6 p.m. Creed to Simon's place to attend to sheep. Lenherr & Pete to hunt sheep towards Big Rock, found some but could not drive them. Afternoon Creed with them drove up 30 and fed and put one in shed at H.B. place. Henry Barker come, took our sled & pork barrel, will return them in a few days. One ewe had lamb.

    T. 19--Rain with warm south wind all night. Snow going off very fast, quite warm with brisk S. wind this morning. Lenherr gone home. Creed & Pete to Simon's place to look to sheep. J.B. brought sled & barrel home. Boys drove up 50 of our sheep from A. place. Snow nearly gone. Showery at noon.

    W. 20--Turned quite cold in the night, one inch of snow fell. Ground froze quite hard, clear cold windy morning. We fed horses, cattle & sheep. Creed & Pete after sheep to S. place and elsewhere. Mr. Cox called, we tried to kill a deer Pete saw grazing in pasture but failed. Very hard wind all day.

    Th. 21--Very hard wind all night and the forenoon with hard rain the forenoon and snow afternoon. Two inches of snow fell. Creed & Pete after sheep to S. place and back just as the snow commenced falling. Turned ewe out of shed at H.B. place. As we were going to feed we saw 3 old bucks on butte. I shot and killed one at a distance of 400 yards from where I stood. Boys went up and Creed shot him in the head. Five point, fine deer.

    F. 22--Some little snow fell in the night and early this morning. Cleared off soon after. Clear pleasant day. Snow going off on south sides of hills. I have been busy, among other things I washed out our two rifles, chopped wood, fed ewes & lambs and did chores. Boys after sheep at S. place & here found one old buck, quite poor, put him in barn.

    Sa. 23--Cloudy morning & day. No rain or snow, not cold, snow going off slowly. Creed & Pete to Simon's place to see to sheep and then towards Antone place found one sheep that had been killed by our dog Maje. Skinned and poisoned it. I turned out our cattle & did chores.

    S. 24--Cloudy night & morning, some fog, not cold. Snow melting slowly (looks like rain). Some rain in the afternoon. Joseph come to plow this week if the weather permits. Creed & Pete after sheep, 50 on Oak Creek. Boys drove sheep to S. place and salted.

    M. 25--Rained hard at times in the night. Some little snow fell this morning and some afternoon. Forenoon Joseph, self & boys hauled firewood. Afternoon Jo plowed. I cut brush & Pete cut his finger, got up 3 of Creed's ewes & two lambs.

    T. 26--Very light snow all over the ground this morning, some frost the latter part of the night. Clear cool day, but sufficiently warm to take the snow off the south sides. Jo plowed. Creed & Pete after sheep. I did not work, not feeling well.

    W. 27--Cold night and morning, ground froze, did not plow the forenoon but after Jo plowed. We took horses to H.B. place and fed them and then I & Creed chopped down two dead oak trees that stood in our field & chopped three back logs off. Very hard wood, pleasant afternoon.

    Th. 28--Pleasant night, partly clear, pleasant day. Jo plowed. Creed & Pete after sheep, were at Barker's, found 3 ewes & one lamb with leg broke. I fed cattle and then to H.B. place & fed horses & then chopped. Grandson Lafay. come, brought good piece beef for which we are obliged.

    F. 29--Very dark foggy day, not cold. Clear in the field above the fog. Joseph plowed. I did but little, not very well. Pete looked after sheep in the afternoon. Creed to town early this morning, Cool at dusk.

    Sa. 30--Clear cold morning, big frost & crust on the ground. Clear pleasant day. Jo plowed, I & Pete cut brush in the forenoon, afternoon to our little field to feed our horses and chop some brush. Jo left for his home at 2 P.M.

    S. 31--Smart freeze last night, cool morning cloudy day some fog. Some little rain a little while before sunset. I & Pete to Simon's place to see to the sheep, found them very hungry, fed some two hundred, put one ewe & lamb in pen, then down to H.B. place, fed horses, brought Jim.

February 1875

    Monday 1--Rainy morning and forenoon, some snow squalls after. Joseph come, commenced plowing after dinner with 3 good horses to the plow. Clear now at 10 P.M. Creed returned from town. Pete to Simon's place, fed sheep and then with Creed after sheep, drove up some, one ewe with young lamb, put them in barn. I chopped in clearing in field. Boys fed horses at our little field.

    T. 2--Clear cold morning. Heavy frost this morn, hard crust on ground & more or less foggy frost, gone at 12 M. Joseph plowed. I worked in clearing. Boys to Simon's to feed sheep & then on mountain after sheep (saw Antone). Fed horses at little field.

    W. 3--Clear cold night, very heavy frost this morn, hard crust on ground. We fed our cattle & sheep that are at home. Creed & Pete to S. place to feed sheep. Joseph plowing. I at work generally, hauled a little stovewood. I worked some in clearing. Plow gearing for 3 horses broke. Jo had to plow with 2 horses.

    Th. 4--Cold night and morning hard freeze & big frost, bad on stock. Jo to plowing. Creed & Pete after sheep. We baked bread. Chopped in clearing, a piece of land inside field. Henry Barker Sr. called, just from Coquille, reports very little snow. We did good day's work.

    F. 5--Cold night, hard frost. Jo plowing. We fed our cattle and horses & sheep & then to work. Clear and calm. Cut and piled brush in clearing. Joseph quit plowing at 3 P.M., took plowshare to be sharpened and gone to his home. Boys after sheep.

    Sa. 6--Some frost this morning. Clear, calm, warm, beautiful day. Forenoon self, Creed & Pete hauled firewood, 3 loads. After, they, the boys, after sheep. I did chores, got some cherry bark. Turned out cows out of pasture.

    Sunday 7--Warm night and morning. Pretty clear and quite warm day. Creed & Pete after sheep. On Wednesday the 7th day of February 1866 I moved onto this place, now nine years I have toiled and labored to make a good stock ranch. Then the ranch contained 240 acres. We have added to it by purchase till now it contains over two thousand acres and has a front on the west end of just 3 miles with a fence across between us, Barker, Cox & Gilliland. Still there is much to do to make it a good ranch.

    Monday 8--Clear night, some frost the morning. Foggy forenoon. Clear, warm after. Jos. plowed. I cut brush in our clearing. Creed & Pete to S. place, brought some oats and then to Antone's, brought some potatoes that A. gave them. Clear beautiful sunset.

    T. 9--Pleasant night and a foggy dark day, not cold. Jo plowed part of the day with two horses, having broke his yoke for 3 horses. George Cox called. I, Creed & Pete worked trying to set gate posts but did not get it quite up.

    W. 10--Clear calm cold night, some frost. Foggy forenoon, clear & warm after. Creed & Pete to Mr. Hinkle's after sheep. Jo plowed. I worked in clearing, chopped down large white oak, will chop for firewood. Boys killed Simon's old sow, found her killing lambs.

    Th. 11--Pleasant night, morning and day, partly cloudy afternoon. Jo plowed. Creed & Pete to Simon's place to see to sheep, brought some oats & some salt, and then we put up posts and hung gate.

    F. 12--Warm cloudy night. Commenced raining at 7 A.M. Jo gone home. Creed & Pete to put out horses and look for sheep. Pleasant afternoon. Creed plowed 11 rounds on big land Jo had laid off. I cut brush, did well.

    Saturday 13--Clear, calm warm day. Creed & Pete plowed eleven rounds & broke three doubletrees and to our little field and fed our out horses. I chopped fir brush and saplings in our field, did good work.

    Sunday 14--Warm, calm pleasant day. Creed & Pete to Simon's place to look after sheep & then on mountain east of field after sheep. I at home all day.

        M. 15--Foggy dark forenoon. Creed & Pete plowed till Joseph come at 12 M., then Jo took the plow the balance of the day and the boys turned sheep & cattle out of the field & put up fence. I cut brush in field, did good work, partly clear afternoon.

    T. 16--Foggy forenoon, pleasant after. Clear & cool at 9 P.M. Joseph finished breaking eighteen acres that he will sow in wheat, he is to give me ½ the yield when threshed. Creed & Pete to Simon's place to see to sheep, brought some oats, and then to feed our out horses. I chopped some back logs. Jo to his home.

    W. 17--Foggy forenoon, clear & pleasant after. Creed & Pete plowed for garden till dinner, then to S. place after sheep. Forenoon I chopped firewood and after cut brush in field. Mr. Cavitt come to stay the night.

    Th. 18--Foggy forenoon, some frost this morn. Clear pleasant after. Joseph come and commenced sowing wheat at 1 P.M. Lafayette harrowing. Creed & Pete finished plowing old corral the second time & then after sheep. I did some chopping. Cavitt gone early to town.

    F. 19--Clear pleasant day. Jo finished sowing the six-acre piece and helped us plow for a few hours. Lafayette finished harrowing all that was sowed. Creed & Pete to H.B. place, fed horses and looked for sheep.

    Sa. 20--Clear, calm, pleasant day. Jo & his boy to Hinkle's after seed wheat, got 22 bushels & back at 3 P.M. & to their home. Creed finished plowing by the house & Pete harrowed it. Cavitt come & gone, brought letter from Cass. & $20. Cassie sent $20. I paid to Jo $10. I am glad to hear from her & family.

    Sunday 21--Cloudy night, some little rain. Showery day with some snow mixed with the rain. Jo & Lafayette come to sow wheat tomorrow. Creed & Pete to little field, fed horses & looked for sheep. I at home all day. Yellow blossoms have been out since 15th inst. & grouse gobble.

    M. 22--Some rain in the night. Showery morning and day. Some snow this morning east of field, all gone in course of the day. Creed & Pete with wagon to Simon's place, brought harrow and 4 sacks of oats. Jos. and his boy to Barker's, hauled up 4 sacks wheat and after dinner left for their home.

    T. 23--Cloudy cool showery day, did no work. Creed & Pete to little field, fed horses. Our old Spanish ewe Kissie had ewe lamb, black with some white spots, put her in barn to feed and take care of her. She is 13 years old.

    W. 24--Cloudy cool morning. Forenoon Creed & Pete to Hinkle's pasture after sheep, found & drove them home to Simon's place. I cooked the last of our venison. Afternoon I, Creed & Pete to our B. place with plow & horses and commenced plowing for oats, plowed a 17-step land. Joseph and Lafayette come to sow wheat, have to use our team.

    Th. 25--Cloudy or rather hazy warm day. Jos. sowed wheat on eight acres, grandson Lafayette and Pete harrowed all but one land, say, ½ acre. I & Creed turned sheep out of pasture & to B. place, on way found cow Lady with her young calf. I drove them up and he, Creed, after sheep. Cow L. is quite poor. Lady [has] heifer calf about two days old.

    F. 26--Foggy morning. Clear, calm, beautiful day. Joseph finished sowing wheat & gone home. Lafayette & Pete finished harrowing & L.F. plowed in oats for me & will plow tomorrow. Creed to town. I cut some brush. Pete after sheep in the afternoon.

    Sa. 27--Rained hard in the night, showery cold day. Ground too wet to plow, consequently we did not sow oats. Lafayette left at 2 P.M. for his home, did not plow, ground too wet. Forenoon we hauled some firewood on the sled & then L.F. and Pete hunted roan cow, did not find her. I chopped off one cut of fir log near old barn. Old horse Jake has foundered himself. We put him in garden to graze.

    S. 25--Cloudy night. Some rain and some snow, ground covered east of field. Showers & snow squally all the day. Afternoon I & Pete hunted roan cow, were at Antone place, drove sheep from east of field down home and fed horses and some calves at our B. place, and then hunted our old black ewe Kissie but did not find her. Thus ends the second month of the year. Goes out in a snow storm, though this has been the mildest, driest, best February that has been since I come to this place.

March 1875

    Monday 1--Some rain and some snow last night, ground nearly covered this morning. Stormy bad day, some showers and some snow squalls, quite cold. Mr. Cox called to see us. Creed come from town at 12 M. and then he, I & Pete hunted our roan cow, did not find, got very cold. I have sore throat, drove sheep from mountain, quite cold.

    T. 2--Some rain and some snow in the night. Stormy bad day, heavy snow squall. At 1 P.M. our roan cow come, has bull calf. Creed & Pete to Chapman's and then after sheep, back at 3 P.M. Mr. Cavitt come looking for his dog that left him some 5 days ago, and he has not heard of him, had not been here. Cavitt & Antone are not getting on as pleasantly as they expected. A. wants all the grass for his sheep, C. says no.

    W. 3--Stormy cold bad night. Some snow fell. Cavitt left early for his home. Very bad day, hard wind, some rain & some snow, quite cold. Creed & Pete took our out horses to Simon's place to graze down the volunteer oats, back at 3 P.M. I fed cattle & horses, cooked dinner and sat in house. Too cold and stormy for me to work.

    Th. 4--Rained all the forepart of the night, snowed the latter part. Ground covered this morning and snowing, bad storm, commenced last Friday night and stormed ever since. Our cow Fanny come with young calf (heifer). Old ewe Kissie and her lamb come for hay. Afternoon I, Creed & Pete chopped some firewood and brush south of little meadow fence, or orchard fence. Cold stormy bad day.

    Friday 5--Cloudy windy cold forenoon. We fed our cattle and cut poles for sheep pen. Partly clear afternoon. Pleasant. Creed & Pete to Simon's to see to sheep & bring some beans. I chopped firewood. Rained hard last night. Some rain the forenoon and hard showers the afternoon. Forenoon we planted onions seven rows, and after chopped & brought up some fire & stovewood. Cold rainy bad weather, put old Dunny out. Creed killed 3 rats.

    S. 7--Rainy night. Some rain this morning. Partly clear afternoon. We fed our cows and drove some of our out cattle, and our old horses Jim & Charly and Creed's filly to our B. place & fed them. After dinner Creed & Pete to S. place to feed Simon's colts, fed them and looked after sheep, saw a wildcat but did not get him.

    M. 8--Cool foggy morning. Clear and pleasant after. We set out some onions and then Creed & Pete to Simon's place, fed his colts. Put strychnine in lamb that had been killed & then to B. place, fed horses and after dinner hauled rails off butte to fence our garden "around." Our good old cow Dunny is dead. We have owned her 22 years, and she was three years old when we bought her of Mr. Cason near Oregon City, that makes her 25 years old at or about the time of her death.

    T. 9--Clear, pleasant morning and partly clear, pleasant day. Cloudy sunset. We finished planting onions and sowed some cabbage seed & sowed some turnip seed and built fence at end of our garden, our old corral. Then Creed & Pete to Simon's place to feed colts & see to sheep.

        W. 10--Light shower of rain in the night. Clear morning and day and quite pleasant. Forenoon Creed and Pete hauled 3 loads firewood. Afternoon we to our B. place. Creed plowed and I cut brush. Pete failed on the plow, he & I across the creek to see our wild bull, he had thrashed old Ben.

    Thursday 11--Cloudy morning and day. Soon after breakfast self, Creed & Pete to our B. place. Creed plowed till 2 P.M., point of plowshare broke. I cut brush, Pete do. We had dinner with us. Some rain in early evening. Fed some of cattle there. Pete shot squirrel.

    F. 12--Cloudy morning & day. Creed to town to get plow pointed. Some showers the day. I not well, did no work. Pete cut stovewood and did chores. Cloudy damp evening. I rode through field, found the wheat coming up.

    Sa. 13--Commenced snowing early in the night and snowed rapidly till morning. Snow squalls all the day. Snow now at 7 P.M. eight or ten inches deep, though much has gone from the underside. I think that within the last 24 hours one foot of snow has fallen.

    S. 14--One inch of snow fell last night. Cool cloudy morning and day. Some snow fell at intervals, now eight inches deep. Grandson Creed come from town, brought for me pr. shoes and some tea and our plowshares sharpened.

    M. 15--Cloudy cool night. Cloudy this morning, sun out occasionally, pleasant day. Sprinkle of rain for a few moments. Soon after breakfast self, Creed & Pete drove some of our cattle to Simon's place & fed them and his colts, fixed gate & back to dinner. Then to B. place, fed horses, put up big Pide & to home, boys to G.'s pasture, put out our cattle, some rain.

    T. 16--Some rain in night, some this morning, snow going off, nearly gone. I, Creed & Pete to Simon's place. Fed some of our cows, the colts & horses and hunted sheep and salted all that we found, then home. Boys to B. place and to look for sheep. Some rain the day, snow gone but on the mountains.

    W. 19--Cloudy cool night and morning, showery day. Some snow with all ground covered east of field. I to S. place, Creed with wagon do. Pete same. We fed our cattle, Simon's colts and horses and repaired pasture fence and to home. Creed drove wagon with plow, some apples, & two trunks and Pete to B. place, found Pide had calf, bull.

    Th. 18--Cloudy night, some rain, snow east of field. Partly clear, partly hazy day. Cool. Bobby Singleton and his boy passed by, going hunting, told me had killed 3 deer last Monday. I, Creed & Pete to B. place, put up old Bobby & then to Simon's place, salted some sheep, fed colts & home to dinner. Reset some fence. Pete shot & killed a big owl at day dawn this morn.

    F. 19--Rained all night and raining this morning. Showery day. Rain, hail, snow and then rain all the day. We drove Pide & her calf and Bobby from B. place and put in pasture. Creed & Pete to Simon's place, fed colts and cattle & salted sheep and back at 4½ P.M. Cam Cox called. We gave him our black shepherd dog "Nig." Nig is gone.

    Sa. 20--Cloudy night. Cloudy or hazy all the day. Some snow fell and some hard showers of rain and hail, some snow fell in the last night, ground covered east of field, gone. I, Creed & Pete chopped fire & stovewood, did good work, they to B. place, got some hay & back & then we to barn after oats.

    S. 21--Very hard wind latter part of last night. Began to rain early this morning and rained constantly all day, brisk wind most of the time, large amt. of water fell the day. Our heifer Blue is dead. Creed & Pete to S. place, fed horses & back at 1 P.M.

    M. 22--Cloudy rainy night, some snow on mountain. Cloudy cold day with some showers. The 3 of us to S. place, fed colts & some cattle, back to dinner. Boys to B. place, I to chopping stovewood. Mr. Delaney called. Our cow Bobby is missing, boys hunted, did not find her.

    Tuesday 23--Cloudy most of the day. Sprinkled rain for a time forenoon. We repaired fence & set in old bar posts. Afternoon Creed & Pete to S. place, fed horses & colts. I to look for Bobby. Pete come & found her, she has bull calf (all right).

    W. 24--Cloudy night with hard wind, and very hard wind this morning. Commenced raining soon after breakfast and is raining terribly, wind blowing a regular gale. Terrible storm now at 10 A.M. with fair prospect for the day. Rained very hard except a short time at from 3 to 4 P.M. all the day & at dusk turned to snow. We chopped some firewood and fed our work horses & 3 cows.

    Th. 25--Snow to depth of one inch fell last night. The day has been pleasant, snow gone, partly clear. We 3 to Simon's place, took horse Jake down, fed horses and three cows that have young calves and back to dinner. Mr. George Cox, Cam & John called to see us, had dinner & gone. After dinner we repaired field fence.

    F. 26--Cloudy windy night. Cloudy cool morning. Showery cold day. Creed & Pete to Hinkle's after sheep, got them all but one ewe & lamb. I worked at chores. Cooked the last of our cabbage. Wrote to my daughter-in-law Mrs. Simon R. Lane.

    Sa. 27--Cloudy windy night, little rain. Windy rainy disagreeable day. Creed to town. I and Pete to S. place, fed horses and colts, back round field and after dinner repaired some fence, put up 3 cows & calves, one yearling followed us from Simon's place, Fanny, Roany & Lady & their calves.

    Sunday 28--Terrible storm last night, much the hardest wind that we have had this year, with heavy showers at times, stormy morning. Very much of our fence was blowed down in the night. I & Pete out early putting up fence, had put up three gaps when it commenced snowing rapidly, ground soon covered and we had to quit, but will be out again as soon as snow ceases to fall and ground & rails are free from snow. A sheep come up that we think had been caught by Creed's slut and so torn and hurt that it will die. Soon after dinner I & Pete putting up fence, worked faithfully till near night, snow squalls all day & snowing at night.

    M. 29--Snow two inches deep this morning, ground all covered, sheep, cattle & horses suffering, terrible storm. This has been a bad March. Snow squalls all the day, very disagreeable. I & Pete to S. place, fed work horses & colts. Cam & John Cox come by, going hunting, back to dinner. Cam stayed with us. John to his home. Snow gone. We did no work.

    T. 30--Snow ½ inch fell in forepart of last night, frost the latter part of the night. Clear morning, some fog, pretty clear pleasant day, no rain, no snow. Thank God for this pretty day. Cam Cox, self & Pete restaked fence, did good work. Creed come from town, all well, told us that Lafayette's wife has babe (daughter) one week old.

    W. 31--Partly clear, partly cloudy warm day, some little rain at times and some rain last night. Cloudy sunset. Mr. Cam [Cox], Creed & Pete restaked fence. I cut some brush. We got on well with our fence. Commenced raining soon after dark with brisk wind. Thus ends March. Rain, snow blow & hail the month, though only 4 or five good days in the whole month.

April 1875

    Thursday 1--Some rain and hard wind the last night. Rained constantly all this day, moderately in the forenoon & quite hard in the afternoon. Cam Cox gone home. Creed & Pete to Simon's place, fed horses and brought up old Jake. I indoors, did no work. Very bad day. Creed & Pete choose to be out at work. Mr. Cavitt come to stay the night, he is on the way to town, reports snow deep on the road.

    F. 2--Rainy night and morning, and some light showers at times during the day. Forenoon Creed & Pete to Simon's place, fed horses and back to dinner. I chopped firewood. Afternoon, we planted radish seed, tomato seed and also some potatoes one row and commenced on another. Mr. Gilliland called for Creed to go tomorrow and bring his 60 sheep from G.'s pasture. Boys put up fence that had blown down.

    Sa. 3--Snow squalls during the night, quite cold. Terrible snow squalls all the day. This has been perhaps the worst day that I have seen in any April. Mr. Cavitt come from town and after lunch left for his mountain home, notwithstanding the terrible storm. Creed & Pete to Gilliland's after sheep & then to Simon's place & back, fed horses &c. I did no work.

    Sunday 4--Cold night, some snow fell and snowing this morning, brisk cold wind. Snow squalls all day & snowing at dark, quite cold. Cam Cox & [illegible] head. John Cox called, had dinner and gone. Pete killed grouse.

    M. 5--Deep snow fell in the night & cold. Ice on water all about. Dark, cloudy, cold morning. Bad storm, bad on cattle. Partly clear day, clear at sunset, wind north quite cold, very little snow fell early this morn. No rain, storm over, we cut tree to moss cattle. Creed & Pete to S. place, brought up work horses. Henry B. Jr. & Frank Lane called, all well with them.

    Tuesday 6--Clear cold night, hard frost. Ice half inch thick on tub of water sitting north side of house. Clear cool day. John Cox worked for us today forenoon, hauled firewood. I, C. & P. chopped firewood. Afternoon J.C. plowed at our B. place and I, C. & P. cut brush, all did good work.

    W. 7--Cold night, ground froze, ice on puddles. Cold morning, hazy. After 10 turned some warmer. Cloudy at 3 P.M., raining at 4, hard rain and brisk wind at 8, quite a storm. John plowed, will finish in another day. Self, Creed and Pete cut brush, all did good work, all on our B. place. Red Pet [has] heifer calf.

    Th. 8--Rained hard at times in the night and some little rain this morning, clear afternoon. Forenoon John C., Creed and Pete with wagon to Simon's place, brought up 13 bushels oats, then J.C. to plowing, we to cutting brush. John finished breaking up our little field, will sow tomorrow.

    F. 9--Clear warm beautiful day. John Cox sowed oats, finished at noon. Creed harrowed, finished at nearly sunset, brought plow and harrow from our B. place. I cut brush, Pete cut some brush.

    Sa. 10--Clear warm night. Clear, warm beautiful day. We plowed, harrowed and laid off ground for potatoes. This is the 3rd time we have broke & harrowed our ground for garden. Planted 8 rows potatoes. Pete's mare & Creed's mule jumped into our meadow. Afternoon C. & P. after sheep. I in garden at work.

    S. 11--Clear warm day. Creed & Pete to Simon's place to see to sheep and to make yoke for Pete's mare. I at home. Walked to field to look at wheat. [It] is up but not thick on the ground, consequently will be not [omission]

    M. 12--Clear & warm. I planting potatoes. Creed & Pete to Simon's place with wagon after oats. Back at dinner. Then plowed in oats and harrowed, did not finish. I planted potatoes, now have 20 rows planted. Charly Mosher come, brought mail.

    T. 13--Clear, warm beautiful day. The 3 last days have been very warm for the time of year. Pete plowed in oats and harrowed. Creed gone to town. I worked in garden, planted peas. Charly dropped them for me. Hutson come after his bull "old Ben." Planted carrots and some radish & cabbage seed. Grandson Ratliff come to see us.

    W. 14--Clear warm day. Forenoon self, Charly & Pete repaired fence on little pasture. Creed come at noon. Afternoon we all worked at fence. Ratliff left soon after breakfast. Creed bought two buckets $1.75.

    Th. 15--Clear, calm warm day. Clouds passed east of us, some thunder for a short time. Creed and Charly hauled rails the afternoon. I & Pete laid worm. Forenoon we all railed up and repaired fence, did good work.

    F. 16--Clear & warm. Creed & Charly hauled rails. I & Pete laid up. We put up three or four bull yearlings to be marked. Col. Jesse N. Barker called, out horses come up, did good day's work.

    Sa. 17--Clear warm day. We finished our little pasture fence, put in bars and made small corral and put in bars. We will now put up our milk cows. We have pasture for the calves and corral to milk in. Good work.

    Sunday 18--Partly clear and partly cloudy day, warm. Grandson Charly Mosher gone for his home. Afternoon Creed & Pete to Simon's place. I looked after garden, killed one old hen for scratching up onions. Heifer Fancy (Dunny stock) had calf at noon, bull.

    Monday 19--Partly clear, partly cloudy warm day. Forenoon we reset fence on our lane. Afternoon Creed broke up a portion of our garden. This is the 3rd time it has been plowed and harrowed. I finished hoeing our onions. Col. Jesse N. Barker called. Antone & McKie called, they were hunting A.'s sheep.

    T. 20--Clear forenoon, partly cloudy after. I laid off our garden for planting & planted some potatoes. Boys hauled rails & poles for sheep pens, all been quite busy. Warm day. James Hutchinson called on his way to Cavitt's. My son Lafayette come to see us, Cam Cox with him. We were very glad to see them.

        W. 21--Hazy forenoon, partly cloudy after. Lafayette out hunting for a time, brought in grouse gobbler & two gray squirrels. Pete killed one. Forenoon L.F. helped me plant potatoes. After I finished planting potatoes Creed & Pete looked after sheep, report our oats at B. place up & growing finely, quick work.

    Th. 22--Hazy day, some clouds and sprinkle rain in afternoon. My son Lafayette left early this morning for town. Creed with him, took Simon's mare Flora Temple with the view of selling. I & Pete to Mr. Cox's, got some seed potatoes & some seed corn, to home, finished planting potatoes. Pete says he heard thunder N.E. direction.

    F. 23--Clear cool day. We set bar post, scrubbed safes [sic] and worked in garden, did chores &c. (Remedy for croup) Half a teaspoonful of pulverized alum in a little molasses, repeat in an hour if necessary.

    Sa. 24--Clear and quite warm the day. Forenoon we hauled some rails, 3 loads from barn to make sheep pens. Pete drove and helped load & unload. Mr. Gilliland called. Afternoon cut some poles & stakes for fence, worked some in garden, planted 2 rows beans. Cloud in W.N.W. at sunset.

    Sunday 25--Partly clear, partly hazy day, quite warm. Creed come, part of four days out. Did not sell Flora Temple, she is at home again. Pete & Creed to Simon's place, put up fence (pasture). I at home all day. Jack Hutson & Henry B. called. Fayette Lane called, all well with them.

    M. 26--Clear pleasant day. Creed & Pete hunted sheep. I planted corn, finished that job. Oden, Dora H. & Thomas S. called. Liny [has] bull calf.

    T. 27--Clear warm day. Creed & Pete to Matthews after sheep, got two ewes & two lambs, one lamb Mr. M. marked through mistake, so we have one lamb in his, M.'s, mark. I worked hard all day building sheep pens & repairing fence. Afternoon Creed & Pete hauled rails. Antone come at noon, helped us a little while & then with Gilliland home, will be back tomorrow to get his sheep.

    W. 28--Clear warm day. We have been busy all day separating our sheep from Antone's. Creed and Pete to Gilliland's after sheep brought two years and one yearling wether that Antone give in lieu of one he drove off with his sheep in winter. Antone gone to Hinkle's. I am tired.

    Th. 29--Clear forenoon, hazy after, warm. Mr. Jesse N. Barker & Henry B. come early to help us alter & mark our yearlings and lambs. Mr. Oden come to get his sheep that was with ours. Antone come & took some of his. Col. Jesse N. B. did the altering of ten bulls and marked six heifers and altered & marked 111 lambs at this ranch. 227 old sheep was counted, and after dinner to Simon's place altered & marked 120 and had up and counted 334 sheep. Oden took his 16. Creed assisted. Creed & P. worked faithfully collecting lambs, Henry do. Marked 7 lambs for Pete at this ranch and one at Simon's from old ewe had of Barker.

    Friday 30--Hazy, warm & windy the day. Mr. Matthews, the County Assessor, called and assessed Simon R. Lane's property as follows:

	Real estate 2280 acres, value	$3000
	Total of all property		$3935
	Indebtedness in this state	$1000
	Amount to be taxed		$2935

I hoed in garden. Creed & Pete to Ganger's, found no sheep. Cam Cox called.

May 1875

    Sa. 1--Cloudy morning & day, cool, pleasant. I worked in garden, made hills to plant 230 cabbage, 230 hills and hills for tomatoes, hoed some potatoes & turnips and churned, got good butter, washed clothes, boiled ham & did chores. Creed & Pete to Shoemaker's after sheep, got one & left two could not catch, put the one in Simon's pasture, it was his, Simon's.

    S. 2--Hazy forenoon, mist of rain for a time, clear afternoon. Mr. Cox & his son George called, helped us load our mower into our wagon for purpose of taking it to town to be repaired. I at home all day. Creed & Pete drove up sheep. We salted them.

    M. 3--Foggy morning. Cloudy afternoon. I went twice to Simon's place, took 4 wool sacks & 4 hanks twine to Cam Cox, who commenced shearing Simon's sheep this morning with 3 hands to help him shear. Creed & Pete to Isaacs after sheep, brought one ewe & lamb. The lamb had been marked by Isaacs with crop & split in the right ear and an upper slope and underbit in the left ear. Afternoon I worked in garden, planted beans &c.

    T. 4--Cloudy windy morning. Wind lulled and commenced raining at noon. I & Pete to Simon's place, and back at 2 P.M. Set out 31 tomato plants and twenty cabbage plants before I left for Simon's. I worked in garden, Pete worked generally. Creed to Joseph's to look for sheep. Raining at dusk.

    Wednesday 5--Rained all last night and all the day. Sun out for a short time once or twice. I set out cabbage, now have 230 out or planted. Mr. Cox come and got some cabbage & some tomato plants. Pete to our B. place, says oats look well, fine growing season. I and Pete to our B. place and then to look at wheat & to home, me tired. Mr. Cavitt called yester., we were not at home, he left note and some books.

    Th. 6--Rainy night and forenoon and some showers the afternoon. I chopped firewood, Pete after sheep, no word of Creed.

    F. 7--Cloudy forenoon. Rainy after. I worked in garden. Pete to Mr. Cox's after watermelon & rutabaga seeds and to deliver (ring). Creed come, drove 8 sheep, 7 ewes, one wether & one lamb. One ewe and the lamb belongs to Simon, the balance to Floed.

    Sa. 8--Rainy night, morning and day. Cavitt gone early. I planted rutabaga seed. Creed & Pete to Simon's place to see to sheep. Henry Barker Sr. & H.B. Jr. called. Wm. & Tom B. called, hunting old bull Ben. Planted watermelon seed.

    Sunday 9--Rained all night, showery day. At home all day. Boys on mountain to look for sheep.

    M. 10--Partly clear morning, wind north, cool. I & Pete are going to town with wagon to take our broken mower. Found road very bad, arrived at town at 3 P.M. and unloaded machine at Bowers' shop. Floed will send to Portland for duplicate pieces to replace those that are broken, had our horses shod. We stayed all night at Floed's.

    Tuesday 11--Pleasant morning. Clear and balmy. Cloudy at noon, commenced raining at 4 P.M. and rained quite steady & pretty hard till night. We left town at 11 A.M. with 139 lbs. bacon, 300 lbs. flour & 300 lbs. salt, two gallons coal tar and sundry other things, had very bad road and very hard on our horses. Mired down in Ganger's lane, wagon and horses. Mr. Enoch Anderson come to our aid, Mr. Peters also. We unloaded wagon, got horses out of mud, paid up wheels, hitched to end of tongue, pulled out, reloaded and arrived at Mr. Cox's at 4 and left our flour & to home with balance of cargo at 6 P.M., very bad getting up the mountain, horses very jaded, bad trip. Anderson very kind and of great service to us. We quite wet.

    W. 12--Foggy damp morning, clear & warm after. Forenoon I chopped firewood and afternoon replanted corn & worked in garden. Creed and Pete to Simon's place via Mr. Cox's and back by dinner, afternoon they restaked fence. Clear sunset.

    Th. 13--Clear cool morning, cloudy afternoon, south wind. Forenoon self, Creed & Pete restaked fence. Mr. Cox called to see us about grazing his cattle. Boys after sheep. I worked in garden.

    F. 14--Cloudy night, commenced raining before daylight & rained faithfully till now, 12 M. Creed & Pete gone to McLaughlin's to take Flora Temple & Pete's mare to horse [for breeding]. I replanted some cabbage when cut by worms. Pete back by 3 P.M., left the two mares at McLaughlin's. Creed gone to town. We set out some tomato plants. Rainy afternoon.

    Sa. 15--Rained last night & showery day. We worked in garden and put up Cox's fence near where joins Gill., after that hauled 3 loads firewood.

    S. 16--Partly clear morning, cool. Looks like clearing off but didn't, some rain at 6 to 7 P.M. McLaughlin come, sold him old Kirby for $20 & season of Pete's mare. Creed come, brought ax handle made by Imlar, present. I thank him, Imlar.

    Monday 17--Partly cloudy day, sun out at times. I worked in garden. Forenoon Pete drove up sheep, salted them. Afternoon Creed & Pete cut brush. Yesterday Pete drove up Simon's red cow Stany (bull calf).

    Tuesday 18--Foggy morning, damp. Hazy day, sunset indicates clear hot weather. We will see. I worked in garden, hoed potatoes, Creed & Pete to B. place and round wheat field to put out poison for squirrels. Misters McLaughlin come & took the old Kirby reaper.

    W. 19--Partly clear, hazy afternoon, warm & pleasant. I worked in garden, did good work. Boys to Simon's place & then to mauling on rail cut. Cam Cox called, will shear Simon's sheep tomorrow, thinks he will finish this week. [A rail cut is a log cut to rail length, ready to be split into rails with a maul.]

    Th. 20--Partly cloudy windy day, cool. I worked in garden. Creed & Pete to Simon's place. Cam & John Cox were shearing sheep. Afternoon they made rails. Cavitt, Cooper, Whitsett & 3 other men called, took dinner with us and gone to look out road to Klamath Lake. Simon's cow Nelly [has] bull calf.

    F. 21--Clear pleasant day. Cloud in west at sunset. Forenoon Creed boiled ham. Pete killed 2 owls. I worked in garden. Afternoon Creed & Pete killed rattler. Then we repaired fence at our B. place.

    Sa. 22--Clear pleasant day. Forenoon self, Creed & Pete to Simon's place with wagon after plow & to prepare for branding sheep, brought plow & two trunks, back at noon. Afternoon I worked in garden. Creed off to town, turned out Fanny & calf.

    S. 23--Clear pleasant day. I & Pete walked down and across the creek, had a chance to kill a deer, but my good old rifle would not go off, the first time she ever failed, badly out of order. Creed come.

    Monday 24--Foggy cool forenoon, clear after. I, Creed & Pete to Simon's place, branded his sheep. Mr. Cox come & helped us. Cam & John were shearing, finished that job before sunset, will [be] back tomorrow. We at home with our wagon & team at 7 P.M., did good day's work.

    T. 25--Cool morning, some light showers. Clear at noon & cool. I & Pete to Tom Whitsett's and back at 11. Afternoon I worked in garden, Creed drove up sheep & then picked strawberries. I sold our wild cattle to Tom Whitsett, $10 cash & half a  beef heifer two years old.

    W. 26--Clear cold night, quite a frost this morning, did much damage to gardens. Cut down some of my potatoes. I worked in garden. Creed & Pete to Mr. Hinkle's. Sold to him 2 ewes, 2 wethers and 2 buck lambs (all belonged Simon) for $13.

    Th. 27--Clear pleasant day, some little frost this morning. Cloud in the west N.W. at sunset. Forenoon Creed & Pete with wagon to Hinkle's after wheat, back by noon with 10 bushels at 65 cents per bushel. I worked in garden, Afternoon we plowed 25 rows potatoes & I hoed some corn. Our tomato plants are not doing well. Did our first plowing in garden.

    F. 28--Clear pleasant day. Some warmer than for several days past. Finished plowing our garden & then took the hoe. Henry Barker Sr. come, sold to him two cows & calves belonging to Simon Lane for forty dollars, the last final payment on the land we purchased of him for Mrs. Simon Lane. Took the cows & gone. Mr. Cox and G. Cox called. We hauled some firewood & the boys picked some strawberries. Cloud in west at sunset.

    Sat. 29--Clear pleasant day. Forenoon I & Pete to Simon's place to try to get our eight shoats out of field, but could not, they are not inclined to follow for wheat. Afternoon we fired some brush & I worked in garden. Pete shot & killed a rabbit & stopped [a] swarm of bees that were going by, had nothing to put them in. Creed gone to town.

    Sunday 30--Partly clear cool day. I & Pete walked down to creek and to our B. place, saw one deer & to home. Creed come from town, all well.

    Monday 31--Some rain in the night and some showers the day. We fell a small ash, on it a swarm of bees had settled and set by them a half barrel, but don't know if they will accept it for a home, we will see. I worked in garden, boys to Simon's place twice, once afoot & then with wagon. Frank & L.F. Lane & Tom Livingston come to shear Creed's sheep, commence tomorrow.

June 1875

    June T. 1--Clear cool day. I worked faithfully in garden. Boys got up sheep, the hands sheared 91 head of sheep. Creed killed one for mutton. Antone called.

    W. 2--Clear pleasant day. I worked in garden. Frank, L.F. & Tom sheared 80 sheep & Creed ten, total 90 today. Creed & Pete doctor & brand sheep as they shear.

    Th. 3--Clear pleasant day. Forenoon I worked in garden. Boys finished shearing sheep, 221, and then we went all six of us to Simon's place to get up shoats that trespass on the crop, put up six. Two got away. Joseph come & gone. L.F. & Tom Livingston gone.

    F. 4--Cold night, some frost this morning. Clear warm day. I built a pen for our shoats. Creed, Frank & Pete to Simon's place with wagon & hauled up 8 young hogs. Then Frank left for his home. Creed & Pete sacked wool. I worked garden, did good work. Horse Fred jumped into our wheat, we got him in stable.

    Sa. 5--Partly clear day, some clouds in the afternoon. Cloud in W.N.W. at sunset. Creed gone to town. I worked in garden, finished hoeing our corn & potatoes. Garden looks well. Pete sacked some wool and then after sheep, drove them up & salted. I worked very hard the day and am quite tired.

    S. 6--Partly clear, some clouds the afternoon. I at home all day, quite warm. Pete to S. place to look after sheep. Creed come, brought mail & pr. overalls for me, do. for Pete.

    M. 7--Clear forenoon, some clouds after. I hoed & thinned rutabagas & did chores. Creed & Pete to Simon's place, caught & put turpentine on old buck that Mr. Cox altered for us two weeks ago. Then they drove up sheep & sheared 3.

    T. 8--Cloudy morning. Commenced raining at noon & rained hard at times all the afternoon, some thunder with one heavy shower. Forenoon I prepared ground for planting out cabbage. Afternoon set out over a hundred plants. Creed & Pete with wagon to Mr. Cox's after flour, back before the rain come.

    W. 9--Rained in the night, showery forenoon and cloudy after. I set out some plants and then Pete & I washed clothes. John Pierce come to buy our horse Fred. I gave him some cabbage plants &c., perhaps will sell Fred to him, we will see.

    Th. 10--Partly clear, partly cloudy day. Pleasant forenoon, Pete washed clothes. I packed water & did chores. Afternoon I worked in garden. Creed & Pete to Simon's place to look after sheep.

    Friday 11--Cloudy forenoon, clear after. I, Creed & Pete to Pierce's, sold my horse Fred $100 in hand paid & ten dollars to be paid in wheat at harvest. We back to dinner. Creed off to town. Pete out after horses, drove up Jim & Charly. I worked in garden & I & Pete repaired fence [ad]joining Cox.

    Saturday 12--Partly clear. Sprinkled rain at dusk. I worked in garden. Mr. Cavitt come to stay the night. I was glad to see him. After dinner he and Pete went hunting, back at dusk. Creed come, brought mail, letter from my son Simon. I was very glad to get the letter, find that he is doing well & in good spirits. God grant him success.

    S. 13--Cloudy, some showers. Cavitt gone early for his home. Creed & Pete to Mr. Cox's to take mule that jumped into our field. Beeson & his brother-in-law of Jackson County come to buy sheep, gone without buying. Creed & Pete to Simon's place to look after sheep, back at 12 M.

    M. 14--Rain the last night but not much, some light showers the day. Creed & Pete to town with wagonload of wool. Creed's wool 983 pounds, come back at 7½ P.M. I worked in garden and did chores. Washed tablecloths.

    T. 15--Cloudy day, sprinkled rain very slowly, in the afternoon heavy cloud with considerable thunder, passed west of us from south bearing north. I to Mr. Hinkle's, found him quite unwell, bad cough. Creed & Pete to Simon's place, loaded 3 sacks wool in wagon. All back to dinner. Boys after sheep, found one dead, not killed. Heard a wolf howl.

    W. 16--Rained hard all the forenoon, showery after. Creed & Pete to Simon's place, did not see the sheep afternoon on the mountain & drove down Creed's sheep. I put handles in two axes. Cloudy & raining at S.S.

    Th. 17--Clear warm day. Some clouds at times, no rain. I wrote letter to Simon & worked in garden. Creed & Pete hunted sheep, found about fifty at Hinkle's barn. Tom B. called. Boys drove sheep from mountain.

    F. 18--Cloudy foggy afternoon, partly cloudy after, some rain at dusk. I wrote letters & worked some in garden. Creed & Pete hunted for Simon's sheep, did not find them. Pete drove Creed's sheep down to home.

    Sa. 19--Partly cloudy & showery, at times rained quite hard. Creed & Pete with load of wool to town. I to town on Creed's pony. Brought our mower. I drew of Floed & Co. of Simon's money fifty dollars, paid out of it taxes $3.50, Bowen & Matthews $13, postmaster 50 cents, boot maker $18.00 and paid Floed $15 for one of the mutton bucks. Paid to How $20 on note he holds on me for land. Mr. Singleton backed out from our land trade, would not, did not stand to his word. Poor old humbug.

    S. 20--Clear cool day. Tom Barker & his little brother come up with their hounds. Creed & Pete went with them hunting, some time after Creed & little Jesse come & told they had treed a large cougar. I went with Creed, left Jesse here. I rode B.'s pony, Creed walked, met Tom on mountain, he had left Pete to watch cougar, which he did, he & the hound by themselves. Well, I shot cougar in the head, killed him dead, all in one minute after I got there, good day's hunt, wagon mountain east of field.

    M. 21--Foggy forenoon, clear & cool after. Creed & Pete found Simon's sheep & salted them. I worked in garden & did chores. Dr. Cook come to stay the night. Pete shot at deer, no venison by that shot.

    Tuesday 22--Foggy morning, clear after. Forenoon we put up our mower, found that Bowen had not done his work well, he is an old humbug. We will take her to Adamson. I worked in garden, Creed & Pete with team & wagon to Simon's place, put wool in wagon & turned horses in orchard. Bob Gill. come, one of Creed's sheep with theirs. He will shear & pay Creed when he takes wool to town. Dr. C. gone soon after breakfast.

    W. 23--Clear pleasant day. I rode Pete's filly to town, took Simon's rifle, had her cleaned out, paid for it $1. Creed & Pete with wagon, balance of Simon's wool, paid Adamson for shoeing horses & fixing machine $6.50, flour $4, powder 50 cts., socks 50 cts., caps 25 cts., lead .25, repairing Pete's shoes .50. Back at sunset.

    Th. 24--Clear pleasant day, forenoon Creed & Pete after sheep, afternoon Creed to town to have tooth pulled. I worked in garden. Pete after sheep.

    F. 25--Clear warm day. Pete washed some clothes and herded sheep. I worked in garden & did chores. Pete shot at deer, didn't get it.

    Sa. 26--Clear warm day. I hoed corn & cabbage, Pete burnt brush & to H.B. place to see if all was right & then after sheep. Mr. Hinkle come. I agreed to let him have 50 ewes & 50 lambs for $200 on note Simon owes him.

    S. 27--Clear warm day. Tom Barker, Creed & Pete, with dogs & guns out after cougar, did not find him. I at home all day.

    M. 28--Last night skunk among chicks, dogs pull him under house. Pete shot & killed him.  This forenoon C. & P. to McLaughlin's after mares. Pete's mare with foal, Flora failed to go to horse, back at noon. I worked in garden. Turned mare out to grass.

    Tuesday 29--Forenoon boys out hunting. I worked in garden & did chores. Clear warm day. Afternoon I, Creed & Pete burnt brush on B. place.

    W. 30--Clear cool forenoon. Cloudy after or rather cloudy after 4 P.M. I have been reading Headley's Washington, worked some in garden. Mr. Cox called Creed & Pete to Simon's place & then after sheep.

July 1875

    Thursday 1--Partly cloudy forenoon, cool, clear after. I did no work. Creed & Pete chopped firewood & stovewood, did good work. Dr. Montague called, had dinner & gone. Mr. Cavitt come at dusk from his mountain home, he will stay with us the night. We are glad to see him.

    F. 2--Clear cool morning. Creed & Pete chopping stovewood. Mr. Cavitt & Pete in afternoon went hunting, killed two grouse. Creed to town, I at work.

    Sa. 3--Clear hot day. Mr. Cavitt gone home. I at work. Pete washed clothes. Old Ben bull broke into our pasture. I feel like shooting him.

    S. 4--Clear hot day. After breakfast I set out for town on old horse Jake, arrived there at 1 P.M., stayed at Floed's. Mr. Cavitt from his mountain home to stay with Pete at my home, Creed from town also, to stay with Pete.

    M. 5--Clear & very warm day. Mr. Cavitt, Creed & Pete to town to attend the celebration. I think there were over a thousand people assembled in the pretty grove on Rose's land. People were formed into procession and marched to grove by marshals Livingston (sheriff) & L.F. Lane Esqr., J. N. Barker president, self & Howard (chaplain) & Miss Grubb in carriage drawn by Myer's big white studs. Barker called meeting to order, Howard made the prayer, Miss Grubb read the Declaration, I made the speech & with Pete come home. Mr. Cavitt had preceded us. Good, orderly celebration, very quiet, orderly people. No bad temper displayed. I met many warm friends, quite glad to see them.

    Tuesday 6--Clear hot day, I, M., Cavitt & Pete to look for board tree, fired some brush at south side of field and back to dinner. Mr. C. sharpened saw, Pete after horses, ground axes.

    W. 7--Clear hot day. Cavitt commenced getting out board timber at our old mill frame. Pete with him. I come home and attended to things. Creed come.

    Th. 8--Clear hot day. Cavitt making boards. I to where he was at work and back. Dora Hinkle called & gone. Creed & Pete after sheep, drove up.

    F. 9--Warm morning, some clouds in east. Cavitt to work. Creed & Pete after sheep. We delivered to Mr. Hinkle, Dora Hinkle with him, one hundred sheep, 53 cows & 47 lambs, all ewes, at $2 per head, making $200 together with $6.50 heretofore paid him. Making $206.50, he promised to credit on note that Dora Hinkle holds on Simon R. Lane $191.10, paid by Floed & Co. and credited on note, proceeds of wool, makes $397.60 paid on said note. Antone called. I to Mr. Cox's, had dinner with him & back at 3 P.M.

    Sa. 10--Clear warm morning. Mr. Cavitt going home. Creed to town. Mr. Cox and his son Cam Cox come on yesterday. Cam filed his preemption claim on the quarter section that Antone had filed on two years ago and had abandoned. I & Mr. Cox went with Cam who took possession of the place. I had bought Antone's improvements and delivered to said C. Cox the house & improvements for which he paid me. On my return I found Father Heinrich waiting. Glad to see him. Mr. Cox gone, Mr. Cam [Cox] going to remain on his preemption claim.

    Sunday 11--Clear warm day. Father H. celebrated Mass. I to Communion. Mr. Cavitt come at sunset. Creed come from town at 10 P.M. Pete killed 3 squirrels that were robbing potato patch.

    M. 12--Clear warm day. We delivered to Antone 41 head of sheep, 39 ewes & two wethers and then fixed our mower and in the afternoon commenced cutting our grass, cut 2 acres. All right now, and we will try and cut down our crop this week. Mr. Cavitt ground scythe and worked all the day. My son Joseph come.

    T. 13--Clear & warm. I quite unwell. Commenced cutting four-acre piece, did not quite finish. Very bad headache & quite sick. Mr. Cavitt commenced raking.

    W. 14--Foggy morning, clear after & warm. I very sick all night and not able to work. Forenoon Cavitt chopped rail timber, after dinner ground scythe. Creed took charge of mower and did good work afternoon. C. shot at deer in pasture.

    Th. 15--Clear after 11 A.M. Foggy morning, misty forenoon. I cut with mower. Afternoon Creed mowed, Cavitt chopped rail timber. Afternoon mowed & cocked hay. Watson called.

    F. 16--Clear warm day. Creed finished cutting hay in field and brought mower down & I commenced mowing orchard meadow. Forenoon Cavitt cut with scythe & afternoon raked hay.

    Sa. 17--Clear & warm, some little smoke. We finished cutting our timothy. Afternoon Creed to town, Pete to Simon's place after pitchforks. Cavitt finished raking and then cocked up.

    Sunday 18--Clear & quite warm, some smoke. Pete gone out. I at home. Cavitt washed his shirts. Barker's boys & others raised fuss with Pete while he was driving hogs out of corral at Simon's place. Bad boys.

    Monday 19--Clear hot day. Cavitt cocked hay till noon & then mowed. Creed & Pete cocked hay. Messrs. Cam & George Cox come, Cam to his preemption claim. G. stayed with us.

    T. 20--Clear hot day. Forenoon Cavitt & George Cox hauled hay, 2 loads, Creed & Pete after sheep, found Antone's & put them in back yard. Afternoon Cox, Cavitt, Creed & Pete hauled hay. Very hot. Thunder storm at 7 P.M., some rain, not much. Antone come to stay the night.

    W. 21--Forenoon Cavitt mowed oats, George Cox did not work forenoon. Afternoon George C., Cavitt & Creed hauled four loads hay after dinner. Antone & Mr. Watson come to get some sheep. Frank L. come & gone.

    Th. 22--Clear warm day. Delivered to Mr. John Watson 50 ewes of Simon's flock at $2.50 pr. head, making $125 to be paid on note to Hinkle. Finished hauling hay from field and then stacked up oat hay that Cavitt cut yesterday. Cavitt & Cox worked the day. Creed & Pete went to help Watson drive sheep as far as Chapman's back, helped haul one load hay & to Simon's place after horses, drove up and put one in stable.

    F. 23--Clear & hot. Cavitt, Creed & Pete mowed oats at B. place, did good day's work. Paid George Cox $3.75 for work, he gone home.

    Sa. 24--Finished cutting coats at B. place at noon. Cavitt, Creed & Pete mowed. Clear, windy and hot. Paid Cavitt $21 in full for work up to this day & date.

    Sunday 25--Clear pleasant morning, hot day. I & Pete to Mr. Hinkle's, paid Hinkle $120 for Simon's note to Dora Hinkle, making in all $517.60 paid on said note up to this day & date. Then we come by Simon's place, found fences up all right. Cavitt come at dark.

    M. 26--Clear, hot. Mr. Cavitt, Creed & Pete cocked up hay at B. place. Dr. M. come to see us.

    T. 27--Clear, hot day. Cavitt, Creed & Pete hauled hay, filled B. cabin. Dr. M. gone soon after breakfast.

    W. 28--Clear warm day. Cavitt & Creed finished hauling hay at B. place, drove wagon with half load hay home, finished at that place. The shed is as full as can be crammed.

    Th. 29--Clear cool morning. Warm day. Cavitt gone home. Owe him $3, paid him one-fifty & owe him $3 [sic]. Creed & Pete hauled & put in barn 4 loads hay including one of oat hay. I cooked and did chores. Glad that we can do without help.

    F. 30--Cool morning. Clear pleasant day. Creed and Pete finished hauling hay, 4 loads the day. We killed our fine fat gobbler, he was cross to young chicks, had good dinner. Creed to town.

    Sa. 31--Clear warm day. Pete to  Simon's place. Found Flora Temple [has] horse colt about 4 days old. Then he went to our B. place, found all right. I cut brush till noon. Mr. Cavitt come on his way to town. Returned from town after dark to stay the night.

August 1875

    Sunday 1--Clear warm, some smoke. I & Pete to Simon's place, found some of Barker's hogs in field doing damage to crop, could not get them out. Mr. & Mrs. Cox come to see us, Mrs. C. cooked a good dinner for us. We much obliged. I sent some periodicals to Miss Frances. My son Joseph & his son Frank come to begin their wheat harvest.

    Monday 2--Partly clear, partly cloudy day. I, Pete & Frank L. to Simon's place to haul hay. Joseph cut wheat till noon then helped haul hay. Creed come from town at noon.

    T. 3--Cloudy at times. Very little rain fell at noon. Joseph & his son Frank hauled oats at S. place, did not finish. Cavitt come, brought us a piece of a deer. I to Simon's place, back at 6 P.M. Cavitt gone home.

    W. 4--Clear hot day. Joseph & Frank finished hauling oats at S. place and brought up wagon and horses at noon. After dinner Jos. cradled wheat & Frank bound. Grandson Lafayette come, brought provisions for his father. Mr. Cavitt come to help Jo harvest.

    Th. 5--Clear pleasant day. Jos. & Cavitt cut wheat, Frank bound. Worked on six-acre piece. We did chores. L.F.L. come.

    F. 6--Clear forenoon, some clouds after. Jo & Cavitt cut wheat, Frank bound wheat. We did chores. Creed & Pete did but little, did not quite finish 6-acre piece.

    Sa. 7--Clear warm day. Jo & Cavitt cut wheat. Frank bound after them, finished six-acre piece at noon & quit for the day. Jo & Frank to their home. Cavitt & Pete out hunting.

    S. 8--Clean & warm, some smoke. Cavitt hunted, killed nothing. I & Pete at home. Jo & Frank come.

    M. 9--Clear warm & smoky. Jos. & Cavitt cradled wheat. Frank binds after them. Creed & Pete to Simon's place, found 4 mules in field. Pete drove them to Mr. Cox's. Mr. Cox, Mr. Cam & Pete drove them and old bay mare to this [ranch] & then Creed joined them and they took them to Lane Prairie where they left them to graze and back at 6 P.M., found good grass.

    T. 10--Clear, pleasant & smoky. Jos. & Cavitt cutting wheat. Frank binding. Cavitt broke down at noon, gone home, Creed with him. Jo & Frank worked all the day, good luck to them.

    W. 11--Joseph & his boy Frank finished cutting & binding. Hot smoky day. Mr. Rich of Myrtle Creek mines come to see us & stay the night.

    Th. 12--Clear hot smoky day. Mr. Rich gone to his home. Joseph, Frank & Pete hauling & stacking wheat. Simon's horses, my wagon. Mr. Cavitt & Creed come from C.'s home, quite smoky.

    F. 13--Clear hot & smoky. Jo, Frank & Creed hauled & stacked wheat. Cavitt off to Myrtle. I & Pete to town, took dinner with my son Lafayette, transacted some business, paid Sheridan $2 owed him. Left with Mrs. Cox five dollars for her son John, bought hat, shoes & overalls for Pete, some lead & caps for gun and one pr. sheep shears for Pete & to home.

    Sa. 14--Clear, warm, smoky. Joseph, Frank, Creed & Pete hauling wheat, quit at noon & Jos. and his boy Frank to their home. We did nothing.

    Sunday 15--Clear, warm & smoky. Creed & Pete to Simon's place to attend to horses. I to B. place to look if all is safe. After Creed, Pete, Tom & Jesse Barker out with dogs to look for cougar, found none. Our dog Maj. caught fawn, Pete packed it home.

    M. 16--Clear, hot & smoky. Joseph, Frank & Creed hauled wheat. Mr. Cox come, brought us fine piece of beef. We are obliged. He told us that P. J. Malone died last Friday night. We are very sorry. I had been to see him on Friday but did not think he would die so soon.
    Five years ago this day my good & beloved wife departed this life. God rest her soul in peace. Amen.

    T. 17--Clear, warm, smoky day. Joseph, Frank & Creed hauled and sacked wheat, finished at 6 P.M.

    W. 18--Clear warm smoky. Forenoon we put fence round our wheat stacks & Joseph & Frank to their home. Creed to town. I put our hogs in stubble field to pick lost, scattered wheat.

    Th. 19--Clear, warm, smoky. Forenoon I & Pete cut brush on west end of butte. Pete killed grouse & squirrel. Frank L. come & got their saddles.

    F. 20--Clear warm smoky. I cut brush. Pete to Simon's place. Creed come from town.

    Sa. 21--Clear warm smoky. I cut brush, Creed & Pete [to] Simon's place to see to horses.

    S. 22--Very nice little rain this morning. Clear afternoon, all day at home.

    M. 23--Clear cool day. Forenoon Creed & Pete to Simon's place, brought S.'s 3 colts & Creed's colt. I chopped firewood. Afternoon we all chopped firewood, did good work.

    Tuesday 24--Clear pleasant day. We all chopped firewood. Chopped dead dry ash in swale, very dry & hard, did good work.

    W. 25--Clear, cool day. I chopped firewood, Creed & Pete looked after sheep & to Simon's place.

    Th. 26--Clear & warm. Forenoon Creed & Pete with wagon to Simon's place, hauled up box of books. Afternoon Pete assisted Mr. Cam to drive cattle to Cam's preemption home. I chopped firewood, worked hard, quite tired.

    F. 27--Clear and warm. Forenoon Creed & Pete hauled firewood. I chopped.

    Sa. 28--Clear & quite warm, partly cloudy at sunset. Forenoon we dug three sacks potatoes. Creed with wagon to town, afternoon we did not work.

    S. 29--Some rain in the night & cloudy this morning. Cool. We wrote letters to Hon. O. C. Pratt, to my brother Simon and to my son, Simon R. Creed come from town at dusk.

    M. 30--Clear warm day. I & Pete [to] town. I attended board of equalization & had Simon's assessment credited with the amt. of assessment, his debts equal thereto, and wrote G. B. Smith and to Simon. Frank L. come.

    T. 31--Some little rain this morn & quite a shower at 6 P.M. Frank commenced shearing Creed's lambs, sheared 25, Pete 3, Creed 1. Tom Barker come. We treed 2 wildcats, I shot them. One old & one young.

September 1875

    W. 1--Clear pleasant day. Frank & Pete sheared lambs. Grandson L.F. Lane come, kicked up fuss with Pete & left. I took walk to look for deer, saw none, come in tired.

    Th. 2--Clear, pleasant. Frank & Pete shearing sheep. I rode down to Col. Barker's to see granddaughter Mrs. H.B., gone before I got there. Mr. Cox & Cam C. called. Cam shot at deer, didn't hit. Cloudy eve.

    F. 3--Cloudy cool morning. Creed & Pete to Simon's place, got Pete's mare & drove some sheep. Henry Barker called, helped Frank awhile.

    Sa. 4--Partly clear, partly cloudy. Creed, Frank & Pete after sheep, found ten head with Jo's sheep, drove them up & sheared three lambs. Cavitt come & gone. Frank sheared 31 of Simon's lambs.

    Sunday 5--Pretty clear & partly cloudy. Cam Cox come, took dinner with us and we went to field to look at land, agreed to let him have thirty acres to put in wheat, he to find everything, find himself horses, plows, seed &c., thresh out and deliver to me at threshing floor one-fourth of all raised, he to put ten hogs on stubble and me ten, he to keep fences up.

    M. 6--Cloudy morning, small mist of rain for few minutes. We sacked our wool & Creed to town with it, our wagon & Simon's old horses.

    T. 7--Clear cool morning. Pete killed skunk in the night, the skunk had killed 4 chicks this morning. Pete killed two hawks. Creed come from town, hauled out 5 sacks salt and 40 wheat sacks. Simon's lambs 114 lbs.

    Wednesday 8--Clear pleasant day. I, Creed & Pete to Simon's place to help Joseph thresh oats but thresher did not come till too late to do any work & we come home, Frank with us. I paid him, Frank, two dollars for shearing sheep. Mr. Cox come, brought letters from my old friend Pratt & others. Very kind of him.

    Th. 9--I and Pete to town. I wrote to Simon in relation to borrowing money of Judge Pratt, and had Mosher prepare papers as per agreement with Pratt and to take them to Empire & then send to Simon for his signature & to home. Found my son Joseph & family here as also thresher & some seven or eight hands ready to get out our wheat. Clear warm day.

    F. 10--Clear warm day, finished threshing wheat, 324 bushels & all hands & thresher gone, none but self, Creed & Pete at home.

    Sa. 11--Clear pleasant day. Creed to town and then to look for sheep. I at home. Pete after sheep. George Cox come, took dinner with me and gone. I had bad headache.

    S. 12--Clear warm day. I & Pete to Simon's place via Mr. Barker's, called to see Mr. Norris and then drove B.'s cattle out of Simon's pasture and repaired fence round pasture & to home, found Cam C., John C. & the Gillilands hunting horses.

    M. 13--Clear & warm. Mr. George & John Cox helped us haul hay, or rather straw, and put in barn. Joseph come & hauled one load wheat & back to stay the night for second load.

    T. 14--Clear warm day. John Cox quite sick, gone home. George helped us haul straw. Joseph hauled two loads wheat to his home.

    W. 15--Clear warm smoky. Hauled our wheat & stored it in our little house. George Cox gone home. We have our wagon loaded for to [sic] 26 bushels wheat.

    Th. 16--Clear hot day. I & Pete to town with wagon & team. Sold our wheat to Floed & heard my son Lafayette make his speech as also Warren & two others, stayed all night at Floed's.

    F. 17--Clear hot and smoky, left town at 8 A.M., load of 1000 lbs. or 20 sacks of flour, one barrel sugar & 50 lbs. coffee. Watered & fed our horses & took dinner at Cox's, and home & to work storing cargo, getting sheep out of pasture and other things.

    Sa. 18--Clear and quite warm. Pete hunted sheep. I spent the day reading. Joseph come and took to his home wagonload wheat.

    S. 19--Clear & warm. Pete hunted sheep. My granddaughter Mrs. Henry Barker & Mr. Barker and baby come to see us, took dinner and left us. We shot at deer, didn't get it.

    M. 20--Clear & quite warm. I & Pete to Simon's place after wagonload of oats, back at 2 P.M. Joseph come and took wagonload wheat. Cavitt gone early.

    T. 21--Clear & warm. We hauled the last of our oats from Simon's place. I to Mr. Cox's, Mrs. C. sick. We stopped & took dinner at Mr. Barker's, assisted B. to put out fire that [was] burning his fence. Cavitt come.

    W. 22--Clear & warm. Cavitt off for his home. Creed come, drove up 3 sheep. Pete hunted sheep. I did chores. Creed gone back to town.

    Th. 23--Clear warm & smoky. I quite sick, did no work. Pete dug some potatoes & to Mr. Cox's to see about mail & killed hawk.

    F. 24--Clear warm & smoky. I & Pete hauled 4 loads firewood. Mr. Cox come, brought mail, letter from Simon & other papers, much obliged to him. Miss Frances Cox left her home to visit her grandfather & grandmother in Linn County & to spend the winter.

    Sa. 25--Clear & warm but smoky. I & Pete to town. I attended to getting papers prepared to send to Judge Pratt, had to mail one to the clk. of the court of Coos County for certificate, wrote to Pratt & to my son Simon & then to home.

    S. 26--Clear, warm, smoky. I at home all day, not well. Capt. Cross come & borrowed collar for harness.

    M. 27--Clear after 10, foggy before, cool, warm afternoon. Dug some potatoes & picked our beans. Dora Hinkle come to let us know that our sheep were in his pasture.

    T. 28--Clear & warm but smoky. I & Pete to Hinkle's, separated our sheep and drove them to Simon's place & put them in field & to home. We took dinner at Mr. Hinkle's.

    W. 29--Clear, warm, smoky. I & Pete chopped in swale, burnt brush, and then scalded our bedsteads and did chores.

    Th. 30--Clear but very smoky. I & Pete to Simon's place, built corrals for branding our sheep. Dora Hinkle called to see about his sheep. We come by Mr. Barker's to see about getting help to brand. Mr. Clark promised to help us.

October 1875

    Friday 1--Heavy fog this morning, quite a mist. Cloudy afternoon. I & Pete to Simon's place to brand Simon's sheep. Mr. Clark helped us, finished by noon. C. come home with us & took some tomatoes to Mr. Barker's. Tomorrow we want to go to town.

    Sa. 2--Quite smoky morning. I & Pete to town, back at sunset. Sprinkled rain from the time we left town till we got home.

    S. 3--Cloudy, pleasant day. We at home. Spent the day reading.

    M. 4--Partly clear, pleasant day. We dug some potatoes. Mr. Clyne called to see us, he will commence his school at Bogus school house tomorrow.

    T. 5--Clear pleasant day. I & Pete to S. place, drove up sheep. Creed come from town to stay & take care of his sheep. Pete killed pigeon & pulled corn.

    W. 6--Clear & warm. Creed & Pete after sheep. Afternoon shucked corn & did chores. I studying political economy & other things.

    Th. 7--Clear warm morning, finished bringing in our corn. Creed & Pete after sheep. I preparing for trip to Eugene.

    F. 8--Clear & warm, some smoke forenoon. We dug some potatoes. Boys herded sheep.

    Sa. 9--Clear warm day. I & Pete to town. Afternoon Pete returned home with horses and I stayed all night at Mr. Floed's.


    Monday 1--Partly clear. I, Creed & Pete hauled firewood on sled. Too muddy for wagon. Afternoon Creed looked for sheep. Mr. Cox & sons called.

    Tuesday 2--Clear pleasant day. I & Pete put up fence knocked down by late storm, and then to Simon's place to feed our hogs. Creed come at noon from hunting sheep and helped us put up field fence. Saw Joseph at Simon's place after wagonload apples. Mrs. Joseph was with him.

    W. 3--White frost this morning. Clear warm day. I and Pete to Simon's place after our hogs, brought them up and put them in pasture. Mr. Cox called with news that Lafayette's election is certain. I & Pete hauled two loads wood & did chores.

    Th. 4--Some frost this morning. Clear pleasant day. Forenoon I did some letter writing and chores. Pete split some stovewood. Afternoon we dug some potatoes. Creed come.

    F. 5--Cloudy with prospect of rain. We did chores, hauled some wood. Cavitt come & helped us in afternoon plow & pick potatoes. Creed after sheep & to town.

    Sa. 6--Rained all last night. Some showers the day. We dug some potatoes. Cavitt gone to his home. Creed come.

    S. 7--Pleasant day. Creed gone after sheep. I & Pete to Simon's place, salted sheep, stopped at B.'s. My son Lafayette come to stay the night with us. He is gratified at his election. We were glad.

    Monday 8--Pleasant day. Lafayette gone to his home. We did but little work. Made pen for fattening hogs and put them in it.

    T. 9--I & Pete with wagon to Mr. Cox's after salt and other things we had left there, back at noon, then Pete to Simon's place to put up fence. Mr. Cavitt come, brought us 3 quarters of venison. We had nice supper, hard rain this afternoon.

    W. 10--Rained all night. Sometimes hard and raining this morning, rained slowly all day. Mr. Cavitt and Pete to Simon's place, worked all day putting up apples. Come home after dark. I at home all day, did chores.

    Th. 11--No rain the day, partly clear. We killed hog, Mr. Cavitt helped us. Creed come from town. After dinner we all dug potatoes. Hazy evening.

    F. 12--Cloudy morning. Cavitt gone to his mountain home. I & Pete to town, arrived there at 12 M. Rainy afternoon. I took dinner with my son Lafayette, his 33rd birthday, and stayed all night with him.

    Sa. 13--Rained very hard all the last night & rained all this day. I & Pete at 9 for home, got wet, stopped at Mr. Cox's, had dinner and got home at 2 P.M. Some snow on mountain east of field. Cool evening, great quantity of rain has fell since 25th ult. Road to town bad & getting worse.

    S. 14--Some rain and some snow in the night. Rain, hail and snow squalls alternately all the day, cold bad day. Several of our cattle come up. Pete with Simon's little gun killed a fine 3-prong buck and come in for help. Creed went with him & helped bring it in, this the first deer he has killed, a fine buck.

    Monday 15--Pleasant day, some little rain, snow going off slowly, hard wind last night , some fence down this morning. Cattle come up, seemed quite uneasy, bellowed and wandered all round. I put up fence. Boys after sheep. Mr. Sweeny come, helped me put up fence. Pete shot and wounded deer, Creed with him put our dog Maje after the deer and he caught and killed a sheep and then Pete shot and killed our only dog. Good dog, but would kill sheep when provoked.

    T. 16--Very hard wind last night, some rain. Very hard wind this morning, increased to a regular gale and continued to blow harder and harder till now 3 P.M. & still blowing, has stripped our barn and blowed down all our fences and done more harm than has any storm since I come to this place. Indeed I have not before seen a day of such hard wind, some rain with it.

    Monday 17--Please take notice that on the second page from this, having turned two leaves instead of one I set down the weather, work & incidents of the 15th & 16th instead of making the entry on this page. Wind lulled last evening and rained all night. Raining this morning and rained all this day, bad storm. Old cow Fanny & her band come for salt this morning. Creed & Pete to B. place, found roof blown off of shed, hay damaged. Mr. Sweeny left for town morning, early.

    Th. 18--Some rain last night. Forenoon of the day pleasant, partly cloudy. I & Creed chopped limbs of big fir tree blowed down by the hard wind. Pete hauled. Mr. Sweeny come from town. Afternoon we put up fence, Mr. S. helped us. Showers & cold the afternoon. Mr. Cox killed his bacon hogs the day.

    F. 19--Some rain in the night. Rainy day. Forenoon Creed & Pete after sheep. I put up fence. Henry & Tom B. come hunting sheep. Took dinner with us, helped to drive cattle out of pasture and gone, hard rain the afternoon. Mr. Sweeny left this morn for his home.

    Sa. 20--Clear but foggy morning and day, fog gone at 3 P.M. Clear & cool. Forenoon we put up fence. Creed & Pete to Simon's place, found fence down, saw some sheep. George Cox come, took dinner with us & gone. John & Buck have started to school. Expect hard frost tonight.

    Sunday 21--Some frost this morning. Pleasant forenoon, rain in the afternoon. Creed & Pete looked for sheep. I had very bad headache, suffered very much. Took medicine, as I was going to bed.

    Monday 22--Some frost and some fog. Pleasant day. Capt. Cross and Henry Barker come & drove off 4 of their sheep that had got with ours. Creed & Pete went over to near Hinkle's and drove Simon's sheep to pasture. I had a terrible headache all the last night, better this morn, quite sick the day and busy all day, got up our fattening hogs.
    Memorandum or account of money borrowed of Judge Pratt for and on acct. of Simon R. Lane applied in paying debts as follows.

	Amt. borrowed	$2000.
	Express charges	20.
	Recording mortgage	2.
	Interest on school note	122.	50
	Note to Dr. Hamilton	48.	72
	Floed & Co. acct.	200.
	Note to Hinkle	105.
				$1944.76
	For outfit expenses &c. to Eugene and to pay for harness, Cavitt &c.	55.	24	55.24
				$2000.00

    T. 23--Forenoon was pleasant. We hauled firewood. Mr. Cox and George & Cam C. come. Mr. C. & George gone. Cam C. remained for the purpose of plowing the land that he has rented of us. He, Cam, took his plow to the field and laid off a land & made three rounds and turned out, been raining all the afternoon. Creed drove for him as he is working one horse & two mules, and mules had not been worked in plow before. I did but little. Pete shot at Bull's horn for breaking our fence, did not hurt him much.

    W. 24--The two days above noted [entries for November 15 and 16] should have been on second page back, and is so noted on that page. This day has been cold & rainy. Cam Cox helped us halter our two young horses George & Charly and he went home. We did not [do] much work. Pete to Barker's after dogs to hunt cougar that Cam saw after our sheep. Henry & Tom B. come but dogs did not find cougar.

    Th. 25--Some little snow this morning. I & Creed sacked potatoes. Henry & Tom B. come, Henry helped us lead our young horses. Tom & Pete with the dogs out to look for cougar, did not find any. Pleasant after noon.

    Friday 26--Foggy morning and day, with some mist. I, Creed & Pete sacked and hauled in 19 sacks of potatoes, wet & muddy they were. We laid them by the fire to dry that we may put them up for the winter. Then we hauled three loads firewood.

    Sa. 27--Clear morning and day. Creed, Pete & myself to Simon's N. place, drove up & salted sheep & then put up fence that blown down & to home, good day's work. Capt. Cross called at S. place, had killed large buck.

    S. 28--Rainy windy day. I at home. Pete to Mr. Cox's to see if they had brought our mail, heard that my son L.F. left on last Tuesday for Washington via Portland, he also hear that Dora Hinkle was dead and buried at Masonic graveyard Roseburg.

    M. 29--Cloudy windy day. Very hard wind carried down some of our fence. We washed some of our clothes. Pete did most of the washing. Creed cleaned out smoke house and he & Pete gathered some apples and put up garden fence blown down by the hard wind today.

    T. 30--Windy rainy night. Rainy day did but little work. Pete to B. place, found that Tom Whitsett had made a hundred rails & back & he & Creed after sheep. I chopped some brush on foot of butte. A very large amount of rain with frequent hard wind since the 25th of October. Some rain on that day and a very great quantity since.

December 1875

    Wednesday 1--Hard wind all night. Some rain. Windy rainy day, not cold. We do nothing, too much rain & slop. Put our mower in shed, not too much rain on her. Pete to Mr. Barker's to let them know that we will not kill our hogs till next week.

    Th. 2--Hard wind all last night. With some rain. Very hard wind the day, some rain. I, Creed & Pete with wagon & team to the B. place, hauled 3 loads rails and back to our dinner, put up our fence on Gilliland line, hard wind & rain now, 9 P.M.

    F. 3--Very hard wind all night with some hard showers. Wind lulled this morning. Partly clear forenoon, quite warm, bees out busy at work. I & Creed chopped firewood, Pete hauled on sled. Hard rain at 3 P.M., and balance of the evening, quite warm.

    Sa. 4--Cloudy warm day, some very little rain. Forenoon I & Pete took our young horses to our B. place, put in field & fed them. After we hauled some wood on sled, 4 loads.

    S. 5--Partly cloudy day, some rain in the eve. I & Pete to B. place, fed our colts & to home, then Pete to Barker's to see if we could get help to kill our hogs. I did chores. Smart wind at 7 P.M.

    M. 6--Pleasant day, light mist of rain, not much. We killed our hogs, Capt. Cross and Henry Barker helped us, fine fat hogs. Creed come from town.

    T. 7--Clear pretty morning. Capt. Cross & H.B. come and helped us cut up and salt our pork. I give to them two sacks potatoes.

    W. 8--Pleasant, partly cloudy, warm. Cam Cox come & plowed (after dinner), worked Simon's old horses and his clay. I rendered lard. Creed & Pete put up fence. Mr. Cavitt come to stay the night, all right.

    Th. 9--Some rain in the night and some this morning, partly clear day. Cam C. plowed same team as yesterday. Cavitt to N. place after apples. Pete with him. Creed to B. place to find horses. Cavitt & Pete & Creed back to dinner. I finished drying our lard. Cavitt will stay tonight.

    F. 10--Clear, warm, beautiful day. Cavitt left for his home early this morning. Cam C. plowed team (the same). Creed & Pete to Simon's place to put up fence, finished & home to dinner. I chopped down young firs on east of butte, did good work.

    Sa. 11--Clear, warm, calm day. Cam plowed team as before. Forenoon I repacked our pork. Creed & Pete fed colts & chopped in clearing. Afternoon Cam C. to his home, Creed to his uncle Jos. I & Pete chopped old oak at foot of butte into firewood & did chores.

    S. 12--Clear, warm, calm forenoon. Cloudy at sunset and sprinkled rain for a few minutes. I & Pete to our B. place, fed colts & to home & to reading.

    M. 13--Clear, calm, warm beautiful day. Cam come & to plowing. Creed come & to chopping wood. I & Pete chopped wood all on west end of butte.

    T. 14--Clear pleasant day. We put our young horse George in wagon with his, Cox's, horse pilot and hauled five loads firewood. Cam harnessed and drove. George behaved well. I chopped, Creed & Pete loaded. This is my birthday, 74 years old. Barker called to see us. Creed & Pete chopped logs, Cam plowed.

    Wednesday 15--Partly cloudy morning and day, some fog. Forenoon C. & P. to our B. place, took horse Jim & Creed's filly and fed them & colts. I chopped poles for fence. C. & P. back & helped me. George & Jake C. come to see us, had dinner & gone. Afternoon Creed & Pete drove M. Cox's two steers home to him, good job. I put up fence, Cam C. plowed.

    Th. 16--Clear, warm, beautiful day. Forenoon Creed & Pete cut poles and dragged them [out] of the brush, 20 each. I chopped poles & brush. Afternoon boys to our B. place, fed horses & brought up Old Jim. Cam C. finished breaking sod & gone to get his plow sharpened. Mr. Hinkle come, had $100 left for him with Floed & Co., in all $622 for note, $622.60 paid.

    F. 17--Some frost this morning. Clear, warm beautiful day. Creed hauled firewood, seven loads. I & Pete chopped, did good work. Old horse Jack appears to be sick.

    Sa. 18--Cloudy morning. Forenoon we hauled firewood (four loads). Some rain and rained all the afternoon. Boys to B. place to feed colts.

    Sunday 19--Very heavy rain all last night, and rained all the forepart of the day and some in the afternoon. We at home all day. Out cattle come for salt, got it & gone.

    Monday 20--Rainy cool day, not much rain but misty. We chopped some firewood & did chores, ground our axes &c.

    T. 21--Partly clear and quite warm. Forenoon Creed & Pete to N. place to see to sheep & I chopped firewood. Afternoon we all chopped firewood, did good work. We haltered, petted & rubbed our young horses.

    W. 22--Warm, cloudy drizzly day. We stacked our potatoes in little house and cleared up generally, attended to our young horses and did chores. H.B. come and took some cabbage.

    Th. 23--Cloudy morning, not so warm as yesterday. Rained nearly all day. Creed off early this morning for town to take Christmas with his folk. Disagreeable day, we did no work. I headache.

    F. 24--Cloudy windy morning and day. Some snow in the forenoon. Rain after. Wind, at times quite hard. I & Pete to our B. place, turned colts out of field and fed them good oat hay, fed & took care of our horses at home. Some the out cattle come, had salt & gone. Killed our Christmas turkey.

    Sa. 25--Partly clear, calm & pleasant day. Cool at dusk. I & Pete had our Christmas alone. Good dinner, roast turkey and condiments. Barker's old hound come to see us, give him good dinner. Some of out cattle come for salt. These and nothing more, no human being by us was seen the day. God is with us, who would have more? We thank him for all his blessings. Amen.

    Sunday 26--Rainy warm day. Pete to Simon's place. On his return he stated that while he was getting some apples out of box in the bin Tom Barker, L.F.L. with him took Simon's rifle which I had him pack and which he had set against fan mill and after cursing him packed the gun to his home where Capt. Cross took care of her till I sent Pete with note to Cross and he delivered her to Pete, and as Pete come home Tom & L.F. followed him, one with a gun, and cursed him & threatened to strike him but did nothing more than curse him and used very bad language to him. Pete says Tom swore he would shoot him if found in woods.

    Monday 27--Hard wind all last night with rain. Very hard wind and some rain the day, quite stormy & disagreeable. We could not work.

    Tuesday 28--Large amount of rain last night. Raining and blowing this morning and continued to rain or snow all the day. At times snow fell very rapidly, but did not lay long, lies on mountain east of field. Creed come from town, our folks are well. My daughter Mrs. Floed sent to me present of two nice night caps and Mr. Floed sent knife, a very good one. Mr. Fuller sent sack of oysters in the shell, very fine they were. We are much obliged to all of them.

    W. 29--Cloudy, showery day. Some snow squalls. I, Creed & Pete took 17 head of our cattle to B. place & fed them, fed our horses and took care of our colts, rather bad day.

    Th. 30--Cold night, some snow, ground nearly covered. This morning hard wind and quite cold all day. Creed & Pete to Jesse Barker's to tell them to come & get their heifer that is in our way. Creed then went to town. Pete back and then come Henry & Tom Barker. I had a talk with them about taking gun from Pete and Tom & Lafayette Lane following him and abusing him. I told Tom Barker that he must not interfere with Pete again. Very hard wind now at 7 P.M., quite a gale & cold.

    F. 31--Very hard wind with some rain all night. Raining & blowing this morning. Continued all day, not cold but very disagreeable. Thus ends the month & the year. Remarkable for hard winds, hurricanes, heavy hard rains and destructive high waters & overflows in the U. States and Europe, no one year like it within my recollection. The exposure of whiskey rings and conviction of govt. officials. Item to be remembered. Corruption most remarkable. Thus ends the [year] 1875, long to be remembered. Henry & Tom Barker come, did not get heifer, storm too heavy for cow hunting. Sent by H. some cabbage.

January 1876

    Saturday 1--Partly clear, partly hazy day, some wind but no rain. I & Pete worked hard, faithfully putting up fence that had been carried down by wind at east end of our field, fed & took care of our horses, fed three cows & calves. Day rather pleasant, glad to see the new year come in so pleasant.

    S. 2--Hazy forenoon, cloudy after. Hard wind nearly all day. Commenced raining at dusk quite hard and raining now 9 P.M. We at home, spent the day reading. Raining all the forepart of the night.

    M. 3--Partly clear morning, windy, cool & at times misty. Considerable thunder in the night, the afternoon of the day cloudy. I & Pete chopped small firs on north end of butte near the house, did good work.

    T. 4--Some rain in the last night and some thunder, snow on mountain east of field. We fed horses and cattle and cut brush on N. side of butte. Roany and band up & fed. My son Joseph come and took load of wheat 7 sacks and some cabbage. Creed come from town, brought mail, letter from my boy Lafayette.

    W. 5--Pleasant morning, cloudy but warm, commenced raining at noon, rained all the afternoon, raining now at 9 P.M. I cut brush. Boys to S. place to look for sheep. Mr. Cavitt come, brought us good piece venison & some carrots, we were glad to see him.

    Th. 6--Foggy, misty day. Cavitt to town, Creed & Pete to Simon's place to look after sheep. I chopped firewood, did good work. As Creed & Pete come they found sheep that had been killed. Pete to Barker's to take their old dog home. We skinned and poisoned the sheep that had been killed. Cavitt come.

    F. 7--Foggy misty morning and forenoon. Some very little snow fell, quite cold. We did no work, fed horses and attended cattle & sheep. Nothing had eat our poisoned sheep. Cavitt gone to his home, no doubt he had cold trip.

    Saturday 8--Cool morning, pleasant day. Pretty cloudy but no rain. Self, Creed & Pete put up fence on south side of field. Then Creed & Pete put up on east side. I cooked dinner and then I chopped and they hauled firewood.

    S. 9--Cloudy rainy morning and forenoon, foggy after. We took our young horses and some [of] our cattle to B. place and fed them, home & spent afternoon reading. Boys turned sheep out of fields.

    M. 10--Foggy, damp night, morning and day, disagreeable. We took cattle to our B. place, fed them & horses. 9 A.M. after we returned, chopped firewood, fed calves & did chores. Foggy now, 9 P.M.

    T. 11--Cold night, frost this morning. Heavy fog all day. Creed & Pete to B. place, fed our horses and cattle, then to Simon's place, fed horses & back to dinner and helped me chopping wood. Fog with heavy mist, brush covered with ice & water.

    W. 12--Cold night, heavy frost this morning, dense fog all day. Very disagreeable. Boys fed horses and cattle at B. place, then they helped me chop firewood. Fog off at sunset. Cold.

    Th. 13--Quite cold last night, heavy frost this morning. Creed & Pete fed horses and cattle at B. place & to Simon place to feed horses & look for sheep. I fed calves and then to chopping firewood. Heavy fog at times all day.

    F. 14--Clear cold night. Partly cloudy this morning and some warmer. Change for the better. Boys after our horses to haul firewood. C. & P. hauled & I chopped.

    Sa. 15--Clear night, some frost this morn. Clear pleasant day. Boys to S. & B. places, fed horses, looked after sheep. I did chores. George Cox brought mail, took dinner with us & gone. All well.

    Sunday 16--Partly cloudy, pleasant day. Creed & Pete looked after sheep. I at home all day. Cam Cox come, to work tomorrow at breaking ground for wheat.

    M. 17--Cloudy morning, some rain at times the day. Cam C. plowing, boys taking care of sheep, fed horses at our B. place. Cattle come for salt. I did chores.

    T. 18--Cloudy day, some frost his morning. Cool with hard blasts of wind. Very hard wind now at 8 P.M. Cam plowed. Creed & Pete to Simon's place and back by B. place, fed horses. I did chores, has commenced raining 9 P.M.

    W. 19--Very hard wind all the last night, some rain and some snow during the day and snowing now at 9 P.M., now two or three inches deep. Cam C. went home this morn, left one of his plow horses. Boys to our B. place to feed horses & looked after sheep. We fear a deep snow.

    Th. 20--Snow to depth of 2 or 3 inches fell last night, snow falling this morn and continued till 11 A.M. Sun out at times after. Boys have been very busy feeding at B. & S. places. I did chores. Cam Cox come & took their horse home. Cold & cloudy now at 11 P.M.

    F. 21--Cold last ground [sic] and snow smartly frozen, ice half inch on the water in tub. Cold day, quite disagreeable. I, Creed & Pete fed cattle at B. place, also our colts. C. & P. to S. place to feed horses and look for sheep. Henry & Tom B. up after heifer, failed.

    Sa. 22--Cold night, smart frost this morn. Partly clear and rather pleasant day. Snow partly off south sides. We fed horses & cattle at B. Boys fed at S. place.

    S. 23--Partly clear forenoon. I, Creed & Pete took horses and cattle to B. place & fed them, back home and put up four calves to wean. Then Creed & Pete drove cows to B. place, fed & then to S. place, fed & then after sheep. Cloudy & snowing now at 6 P.M. I cooked good dinner.

    Monday 24--Hard frost this morning. Clear, rather cool day, snow going slowly on south sides. Creed & Pete fed at B. place and hunted sheep at S. place. I chopped firewood, did good work.

    T. 25--Clear, cold night, quite a frost this morn. Clear, pleasant forenoon. Moderating nicely, cloudy warm afternoon. Raining now at 6 P.M. Creed & Pete hauled firewood on sled, eight loads. I chopped, did good work.

    W. 26--Rained some in the night. Cloudy, rather warm morning, commenced snowing at nine, snow at times throughout the day. Boys fed at B. place. I fed at home, been busy taking care of stock. Henry Barker come, took some cabbage to his home.

    Th. 27--Some seven inches of snow fell last night, squalls all the day, perhaps one inch of snow fell during the day, deep snow now on us. Cattle suffering. Boys fed here & at S. place. I did chores.

    F. 28--Cold night, cloudy morning and day some warmer, no rain or snow fell. Boys took cattle to B. place and fed them. We fed horses and cattle at home.

    Sa. 29--Very hard south wind all the last night, took off a large portion of the deep snow, blowing hard this morn. Some warmer, looks like rain. Creed & Pete to S. place, fed, and then to Mr. Cox's, brought our mail & back at 2 P.M. Some rain.

    S. 30--Continued to thaw al night, cloudy warm morning, calm. Snow nearly gone. Pete to Mr. Cox's after our mail, took some onions to Mrs. C. Brought our mail. Mr. Cox had it brought from town. Very little rain at times.

    M. 31--Cloudy morning & day. Cool with south wind. Cam C. come & is plowing, we commenced harrowing meadow. Pete drove. I & C. chopped firewood. Joseph come and took load of wheat.

February 1876

    Tuesday 1--Partly cloudy, warm day. Mist of rain in afternoon. I and Creed chopped firewood. Pete harrowed meadow. Cam C. plowed. Cavitt come.

    W. 2--Clear pleasant day. I took sick with bad attack of cholera at 12 in the last night, took pills twice but no action, had very bad day, suffered very much. Pete went on foot to Mr. Cox's & to Mr. Barker's and got pain killer and back in one hour and half, good trip. I took two doses of pain k. and heated a green oak block and held to abdomen, got relief at dusk this way. Mr. Cox & Mr. Barker called to see me, very kind of them.

    Th. 3--Partly clear day, hired Mr. Cavitt to plow at Simon's place, left here this morn with wagon and team, plow, sack of flour, one of potatoes and bacon and coffee, prepared to work. Took bed & clothes, Creed & Pete with him. Come back at dinner and then put up field fence and turned out cattle.

    F. 4--Clear and cloudy alternately, frequent showers, cold, disagreeable, bad day. Creed & Pete to Barker place, covered old cabin in which we have hay, then Creed to  S. place to take pan to Cavitt, back at 2 P.M. I & Pete packed out hay and straw for horses. Still showery.

    Sa. 5--Heavy wind, with some rain and some snow the last night, ground covered this morning, some rain and some snow the day, rather bad on stock. Creed gone early this morn for town, Mr. Cavitt brought up wagon & horses, too wet to plow, he will go to his home tomorrow. I & Pete busy throwing out hay & straw to cattle & horses and seeing to sheep, chores &c.

    S. 6--Cloudy morning and brisk wind the forenoon, some little rain and very little snow. Cloudy with some wind at sunset. We fed horses and some cattle, turned five head of cattle out of pasture. Pete out for short time looking for sheep, deer &c.

	55 sheep at $2	110
	69/18 lambs	$119	__
	Simon Lane Dr. to Joseph Lane to 55 head sheep at $2 and 18 head lambs at 50 cts. each.	$119	.00

    Monday 7--Very hard wind all the last night and this morning till noon with some rain. Pleasant, cloudy afternoon. I & Pete chopped firewood. Ten years ago this day I moved onto this place & commenced work and how faithfully I have worked & struggled. Six years of that time I have cooked for myself and my boy Pete and work hand when we have had any, that is not often however, most the time by ourselves for months at a time. I have not gone off of the ranch. God knows how faithful we have been. Thank God for the health we have enjoyed. God be praised forever. Amen.

    T. 8--Clear morning, some fog for a time and cloudy afternoon, commenced raining at dusk and raining now at 11 P.M. I chopped firewood and Pete hauled six loads on sled. Creed come from town, our folk are well, brought mail & some tobacco, not cold the day.

    W. 9--Snow to cover the ground last night, cold, cloudy, bad day. Snow not going off. We fed and took care of cattle, hogs & sheep. Cam C. called, going to work on his preemption. Cloudy sunset.

    Th. 10--Very hard wind the latter part of the night and this morning. Some snow fell in the night and snowing this morning, very hard wind, regular gale, bad storm, hard on cattle.

    F. 11--Cloudy windy night, showery day with some wind, snowing rapidly at 10 P.M. Creed & Pete to S. place to see to sheep & horses. We fed our horses and some cattle. Bad storm. Old ewe Kissie has lamb, black & white buck.

    Sa. 12--Considerable snow fell in the night, ground covered all about us. Bad storm. Partly clear this morning, sun out, snow dropping from the trees. Cattle up and hungry, we have to feed. Boys to Simon's place, took Creed's roan & his colt & Simon's to pasture, back to dinner.

    S. 13--Cloudy windy night, hard wind this morning. Cattle come up, we fed them. Creed & Pete out looking after sheep, put up fence at our B. place. Mr. Cavitt come, reports snow 18 inches on his mountain road.

    M. 14--Cloudy windy night, cloudy morning, sprinkled rain at daybreak. Clear & calm & warm afternoon till 4 P.M. Then come clouds and showers. Mr. Cavitt with our plow team off to S. place to plow. Creed & Pete with him, they to repair fence.

    T. 15--Clear, calm, warm beautiful day. Forenoon Creed & Pete put up fence. I chopped firewood, all did good work. Afternoon we rode down to S. place to see Cavitt, he had got on well plowing. We fed horses, salted sheep and come home, chopped stovewood.

    W. 16--Clear, calm, warm springlike day. Creed & Pete finished putting up field fence, turned out sheep but three. I chopped firewood, did good work. Cam & Buck C. come [omission] wagonload oats. Buck gone, C. remained to plow.

    Th. 17--Rained quite hard latter part of last night and some very little this morning. Some fog, clear after. I, Creed & Pete chopped logs that had fell in our field and heaped them to burn. At 3 P.M. Cavitt come for seed oats to sow at S. place. Cam C. gone with him to sow the oats and Creed plows for him while he is gone. Warm.

    F. 18--Partly clear, pleasant day. Creed plowed for Cam, while C. sowed oats at S. place. Mr. Hinkle come, gave him note on Simon for $219.70, made mistake in date, 76 should have been 75--1875. Cam come, did not have oats to sow all the ground. I chopped firewood & brush, Pete chopped.

    Saturday 19--Rained quite hard in the latter part of the last night. Cold showery day, some snow mixed with rain. Cattle come up. Pete to Mr. Chap. but got no onion sets. Cam plowed. I & Creed did no work. Pete's cow (Blue) had calf at noon the day, heifer. Cam left for his father's at sunset.

    Sunday 20--Partly cloudy, hazy day, not cold, not warm. Calm, rather pleasant. Cavitt come for oats to finish sowing at S. place, Cam C. come to plow tomorrow. Boys took colts to B. place and fed them.

    M. 21--Clear, calm, beautiful day. I, Creed & Pete to Simon's place to repair fence. I worked till noon & to home. They worked till 4 P.M. and to home. Cavitt sowed & harrowed oats. Cam sowed and harrowed oats here. Buck came & gone. I to B. place, fed cow Beaut.

    T. 22--Partly clear, partly hazy day, warm, calm & pleasant. I, Creed & Pete [to] S. place to repair fence. Mr. Cavitt helped us, worked hard all day, did not finish. Creed stayed with Cavitt. I & Pete to home. Cam harrowed in oats. We hope to finish fence tomorrow.

    W. 23--Clear, warm beautiful day. Cavitt, self, Creed & Pete repaired fence at Simon's place, finished the job and Cavitt drove wagon, brought plow, harrow and other things ready to commence work on this ranch.

    Th. 24--Hard wind all the last night with hard rain from midnight till 1 P.M. today, partly clear after, cloudy at sunset & raining now at 8½ P.M. We did no work. Cavitt made two ax handles. We fed our cows, put Roany & Beaut in pasture. Cold rain. Cam Cox gone to his father's.

    Friday 25--Snowed in the night, ground covered this morning, all gone at 12 M. but another storm come, ground all covered now at 2 P.M., bad storm. Cavitt left early to walk to town after our mail. Creed & Pete to Hinkle's after sheep. I fed cattle & some sheep.

    Sa. 26--Partly clear, partly hazy, with brisk south wind from the south, quite cold day but snow come off of field. We fed horses and cattle. Cavitt to S. place, fed horses. We fed at B. place, hauled three sled loads firewood, cold, partly clear & windy now 9 P.M. Cavitt come early, brought our mail, letters from L.F.L, Mrs. Boyd & Col. Green.

    S. 27--Hazy cool day, all at home the day. Found our sow with ten pigs, fed our in cattle and work horses. Clear and pretty now at 8½ P.M.

    M. 28--Some frost this morning. Foggy forenoon, cool, calm, clear afternoon. Mr. Cavitt plowed on piece land to left of gate in upper field [with] Simon's old horses. I chopped firewood & brush, Creed & Pete to S. place, fed horses, afternoon they chopped. Cam C. come & to plowing, all did good work.

    T. 29--Cold windy disagreeable day. Cavitt finished plowing in field, afternoon plowed here in this little field. Creed & Pete to B. place, fed cows and drove up cow Lady with her young calf (heifer). I chopped firewood and brush, hauled one load firewood. Cam Cox plowed.
    Mr. Cavitt worked twelve days at $1.25, total $15.00.

March 1876

    Wednesday 1--Cloudy windy night, quite windy this morning, not cold, sprinkled rain very little. Sprinkled rain several times in the day. Cavitt gone to his mountain home. Creed & Pete to S. place, fed horses & to B. place, fed cattle, Cam plowing. I had bad headache. Col. Barker called, we traded for some wheat, give potatoes.

    Thursday 2--Pretty clear forenoon, quite windy but pleasant. Cam plowing, Creed & Pete with wagon to Barker's to take some potatoes and to get some salt & some wheat. Cow Roany has calf heifer, put up white heifer, she is poor & heavy. Put up Simon's poor heifer. Our large young sow is missing this morning. Put up old Fanny, quite heavy. C. & P. come, got 2 sacks salt and 3 bushels wheat. Largest young sow eight pigs.

    F. 3--Some rain last night & some little this morning. Clear, windy & warm now at 12 M. Old cow Fanny had calf last night (heifer). Boys to S. place to feed horses. I quite busy taking care of cows. Creed to town. Cam done plowing & to home.

    Sa. 4--Rained and snowed in the night, rainy, snowy, disagreeable day. Pete hitched up team and commenced plowing near orchard. We are quite busy taking care of cows that have young calves. Bad day.

    S. 5--Very hard wind latter part of night. Some rain and some snow, hard wind with some snow this morn. Cold, bad on cattle. We busy taking care of cows, salting sheep &c.

    Monday 6--Hard wind latter part of night. Very hard wind all the day with  rain, at times rained hard. Pete harnessed horses, tried to plow, too wet, had to quit. We quite busy feeding & taking care of cattle, hard on stock. Creed come from town, brought mail & tobacco, candles and garden seeds.

    T. 7--Very hard wind and hard rain all the last night. Cold cloudy misty morning, frequent snow squalls during the day, and at 4 P.M. quite a squall of snow, ground covered and quite cold. Bad storm. Cold and bad on cattle, bad on man and beast. I hope, I pray for better weather.

    W. 8--Cold night, ground covered with snow this morning. Clear at sunrise, cloudy soon after. I, Creed & Pete to S. place, took 18 head of our cattle, fed them & horses and back & to our B. place, took three cows & young calves and fed them. Snowing now at 9 P.M., and cold. Snow now 3 inches and falling fast. Very bad storm, hard on lambs & cattle.

    Th. 9--Cold snowy night. Country around all covered with snow this morning. Sun out at times, quite warm but often interrupted by snow squalls or hail, altogether disagreeable day. I, Creed & Pete fed our cattle at B. place, put Pide & Beaut in field, them both heavy. Pack home hay for cows & horses, then Creed & Pete to S. place, fed cows & to home.

    F. 10--Some snow in the night, ground covered this morn. Cool, partly clear, partly cloudy, some very little snow fell at different times. Snow partly gone, but looks like more the night. I, Creed & Pete to B. place, fed cows then to S. place, fed horses & then C. & P. to B. place, put out Pide and then put up fence east end of field. I put up some fence near garden. Creed shot & killed a large owl last night.

    Sa. 11--Cold cloudy night, crust on ground this morn with cold wind. Cloudy all day, very hard wind, rain or snow all the time. Cold and very disagreeable day, very bad day. Pete to Mr. Hodson's to get fore sight put on rifle, then to Mr. Ingram's to have his pony shod, had disagreeable ride. I & Creed to our B. place, fed cows & packed some hay to home for cows. H.B. come to get some pain killer. Blowing a regular gale with cold rain now at 8 P.M.

    S. 12--Cloudy, windy, rainy night, some snow on ground this morning. Cloudy day, sun out for short [while] at several times, some rain & some snow today, quite a snow storm at 6 P.M., ground covered. I, Creed & Pete fed at B. place, then Creed & Pete [to] S. place & fed horses and cows. Cows that have young calves come up hungry.

    Monday 13--Ground covered with snow this morning, stormy bad day, snow squalls in quick succession, melted off nearly as fast as it fell. I, Creed & Pete fed cows at B. place, then Creed & Pete to S. place, fed horses and drove up cows that had broke in field, tied up old Pet. C. & P. rolled logs off hill and made them into firewood.

    T. 14--No snow, no rain the last night, but cold, crust on the ground this morning, hazy, sun shines dimly. Creed & Pete to S. place to put up fence & feed horses. I fed hogs and then we fed cattle at B. place. Boys split fir logs for firewood. This is the first pleasant day we have had in this month. Turned Simon's sick heifer out to die, fed & watered old Pet.

    W. 15--Some snow in the night and some this morning. Snow gone at 10 A.M. Creed & Pete to Hodson's to get plow sharpened and to get our little rifle that Pete had taken to get bead fastened. He, Hodson, put in new bead and it fell out before the boys got home, besides he broke guard in two or three places and charged two dollars. I don't think that I will pay for such work. We fed cows at B. place. Boys hauled some wood after they come.

    Th. 16--Some mist this morning, clear & pleasant after. The first good day in this month. Cam & John Cox come with wagonload seed wheat and Cam sowed & John harrowed. Pete harrowed for timothy. I had headache. Creed put up fence. Cow Beaut had calf (heifer). Heifer Pretty had calf heifer.

    Friday 17--Saint Patrick's Day has been decidedly a rainy but not cold day, smart wind the forenoon but calm after. Still raining now at 8 P.M. Cam & John Cox finished harrowing in the wheat sowed yesterday [on] the six-acre piece and then left at 11 A.M. for their home. I & Pete put our two sows and their 15 pigs in little pasture and 3 cows & young calves in the same. Creed & Pete chopped some firewood near old barn.

    Sa. 18--Partly clear, warm day, fine growing weather. I sowed timothy seed in patch near field gate. Joseph got some potatoes and gone. Creed & Pete have been quite busy, twice to B. place 1st after cows & then hay & to B. place, drove cattle out of field & to home, but they are gone again.

    S. 19--Partly clear, calm, warm day. I, Creed & Pete to S. place to see if cattle had broke in, found nothing in, repaired some fence & to home. I finished sowing timothy seed, put our cows & young calves in pasture.

    M. 20--Cloudy misty morning. I chopped some firewood, Creed hauled one load & then plowed in oats that Cam C. sowed for us. Cam, John & Buck Cox come and sowed & harrowed in wheat after dinner. Creed & Pete packed hay from our B. place.

    T. 21--Some fog with mist this morning. Clear afternoon. Creed harrowed in oats & then we dug some potatoes and did chores. Joseph come, got some potatoes & to his home, Cam Cox finished sowing wheat and after dinner he & his brothers left for home. I am quite tired today, Pete killed the first grouse of the season, gobbler.

    W. 22--Partly clear, cloudy at sunset, warm. Creed plowed in our little field where we will sow wheat. I & Pete cut, piled and burnt brush for seedbed. In afternoon boys round field found two sheep, drove them out. Cavitt come from town, brought mail for us, took dinner with us and gone to his home. Creed did good work plowing.

    Thursday 23--Cloudy misty night, some mist this morning and some rain in forenoon and some rain in afternoon. Creed plowed, I & Pete worked generally. Made seedbeds and sowed cabbage seed, grubbed out some brush, picked bark & trash off land for Creed to plow, turned cows & hogs out of our little field, &c.

    Friday 24--Clear pleasant day, Creed finished breaking [sod] for wheat, plowed up and harrowed small spot for turnip patch. We sowed & harrowed in turnip seed. Mr. Isaacs come and got $2 of potatoes. Pete to S. place & back, Creed & Pete gone to S. place to see about cattle.

    Sa. 25--Cloudy morning with brisk west wind, commenced raining early, soon turned to snow and snowed hard and faithfully all the forenoon and snowed some in the afternoon. Quite cold ground east of barn, now covered. Bad storm, disagreeable day. Col. Barker called to see us. Our cow Pide has calf (bull).

    S. 26--Some snow, some rain and some sunshine (cold). We washed our clothes and did chores. I packed water. Pete did the washing with a little help from Creed, good job, much needed. Cloudy at sunset.

    M. 27--Partly clear partly hazy. Cloudy sunset. Cam Cox came, sowed our patch in wheat, Creed harrowed. I did chores. Pete do., pleasant forenoon. Creed plowed in garden. Pete picked up potatoes. I cooked dinner, had some  sprouts.

    T. 28--Hazy or cloudy day, pleasant, not cold not warm. Creed finished harrowing in wheat then plowed garden and commenced plowing in orchard field. Pete picked potatoes after plow in garden & drove up sheep. He & Creed brought hay from B. place. I did chores.

    Wednesday 29--Very hard wind with rain in the night, rain and snow this morning, ground covered in field and east thereof. Cold disagreeable. Storm. Boys busy putting up fence blown down by storm last night, put cows and calves out of pasture.

    Th. 30--Big snowfall last night, ground all covered in field two inches deep. We fed our cattle at B. place. Boys drove up Pide & calf. Joseph Lenherr come, glad to see him, brought mail. Chapman called, hunting sheep.

    F. 31--Clear in the night for a short time, some frost this morning. Cloudy forenoon, commenced raining about 3 P.M. & raining now at 8 P.M. Creed & Jo Lenherr left at 8 A.M. to drive cow & calf that Pete sold to Mr. Floed to Roseburg. I & Pete made two trips to our B. place to bring oats & crossed creek to little glades to look for cattle, then Pete to S. place to salt sheep & horses.

April 1876

    Sa. April 1st--Quite hard wind last night, some rain. Raining this morning, continued to rain till 12 M. Warm & calm, but cloudy & misty. Pete to S. place to salt sheep, back at noon. I did no work. Misty afternoon.

    S. 2--Misty morn. Pleasant till 1 P.M. then commenced raining, some hail, quite cold, rainy afternoon and raining briskly now at 9 P.M. Cold. Joseph Lane come with wagon & took some wheat & some potatoes.

    Monday 3--Rained the forepart of the night and snowed the latter part, ground covered this morning and quite cold, about average winter weather, very bad storm, bad on cattle. We put 4 of our cows & young calves in pasture. Cleared off at 9, sun out, snow gone, pleasant day. I chopped firewood, did good work. Pete after cattle, overtook them below Cox's and drove them back & put in S. pasture. Antone called, his horse went off & left him, had chase after him.

    T. 4--Clear cold night, smart frost this morning. We turned boar & barrow out of pasture. Pete harnessed horses, hitched to sled and hauled five good loads of firewood before dinner. Afternoon harrowed garden. I chopped. Clear, beautiful day. (Cool.)

    W. 5--Clear forenoon, hazy afternoon. Cloudy at sunset, warm & calm. We planted out our onion sets and some for seed or sets this fall, set out some garlic & planted one row of cabbage seed and six rows of peas. Creed has not yet come from town, six days out.

    Th. 6--Cloudy, cool forenoon, rainy afternoon. I to my son Joseph's and back at 12 M. Pete [to] town after tobacco and to see what detained [Creed], back before night. Creed come to Joseph's.

    F. 7--Rained all last night, some showers the day & cold. Creed come. Joseph some with wagon & took the last of his wheat. Pete to Barker's to see about hunting cattle. Bad day. I did no work.

    Sa. 8--Some rain and some snow and some hail the day, cold & disagreeable. I, Creed, Pete & Tom Barker after our two heifers & B. bull, found them south of Gilliland's, drove cows home and put in pasture. Tom & Lafayette L. drove bull towards Barker's, Robinson cow & calf also. We put Joseph's cow & calf or yearling in pasture with ours, one of the heifers (Blue) has calf heifer.

    Sunday 9--Some rain & some snow last night, many hard snow squalls and some rain & some hail the day. At times ground was covered but would go off by time another squall would come. Cold, disagreeable, bad day. Pete to G.'s for dog.

    Monday 10--Ground in & east of field covered with snow this morning. Rain or snow squalls alternately all day, disagreeable. Cold. We chopped dead oaks for firewood, hauled one load. Bob G. called, hunting sheep.

    T. 11--Rainy night, ground east of field covered with snow. Partly cloudy this morning, looks like clearing off. Creed & Pete with wagon to take some potatoes to Mr. Barker. Returned with them. B. had no wheat, then they went to Hinkle's, sold to H. ewe & lamb $3 on S. note. Cavitt come, brought to us some venison. Boys back at dusk.

    W. 12--Partly clear day. Cavitt gone to his home. Creed to town. I & Pete worked in garden. Pete plowed. Barker called to see us about getting some potatoes. I cut potatoes for planting.

    Th. 13--Rained very little in the night, cloudy cool morning, almost as cold as common winter weather. Commenced raining at 8 A.M. & rained all day and raining now at 9 P.M. Creed come from town, brought mail, some onion sets &c. Pete harrowed N. half of garden. I laid off twenty rows for planting potatoes, but is too wet to plant.

    F. 14--Rained in the night, raining at daylight this morning. Rained without intermission all this day and raining now 9 P.M. I planted some radish seed. Pete to S. place. Too wet to work.

    Sa. 15--Rained all the last night and all this forenoon, stopped raining at 12 M. Cloudy after. Creed to Gil's, back at noon. Pete to Joseph's after rake & hoe, back to dinner. I put out some onion sets. Boys drove up sheep.

    S. 16--Partly clear partly hazy, pleasant. Pete to Mr. Chapman's to see about marking lambs, brought pup. I set out some onion sets, planted 3 rows potatoes, heretofore been so wet could not plant. Creed baked bread.

    Monday 17--Cloudy drizzly till 11 A.M., then commenced raining very hard and for an hour was unusually hard. Then steady rain till night and raining now 8 P.M. Boys got up sheep & Creed marked 50 ewe lambs & 47 little bucks were altered & marked.  Capt. Cross & Tom B. come, got one of their ewes & lamb. Tom helped catch lambs. We fear this cold rain may do harm, more rainfall this April than we ever saw in any April.

    T. 18--Hard rain nearly all last night, mixed with snow, ground east of field covered with snow this morning. Some showers this morn, quite cold. Now at 9 A.M. looks like clearing off. We pray God that it may. I worked some in garden, killed a gopher. Forenoon Creed & Pete looked after sheep. Showery day, cloudy S.S.

    W. 19--Some frost this morning, quite cool, warm and pleasant at 8 A.M. Pleasant day. I, Creed & Pete to Simon's place, put up fence & drove sheep into the pasture and to home. Robt. Gilliland come for Creed to go to Joseph's after sheep. Creed & Pete went and drove band of over 20 & put in corral. I planted some peas.

    Th. 20--Partly cloudy day, cool, sprinkled rain at 9. We to Simon's place, Mr. Barker with us to mark Simon's lambs. B. did the marking, 22 of Simon's, 6 of Creed's & two of Pete's, one of S.'s too young. Then I with B. to dinner, Mr. Chapman with us. Creed & Pete to Mr. Gilliland's, drove up band sheep, 15 old ones & some lambs. I planted two rows potatoes.

    F. 21--Foggy early, hazy till 12 M., soon after commenced raining. Raining at sunset. Creed off to town. I worked in garden. Pete to S. place. Cam C. come, brought trap, we caught gopher, planted some radish seed.

    Sa. 22--Rained in the night & this forenoon, partly clear after, too wet to work in garden but caught gopher that was doing harm to our pea patch. Afternoon walked over pasture to find heifer Bob, found her. She has a calf but we did not find it. Pete to Barker's to help mark lambs. Creed come, left 4 ewes & two lambs in G.'s pasture, 3 of Creed's ewes & 3 lambs with Barker's sheep, two of the lambs in Barker's mark.

    S. 23--Rained in the night, hard at times. Rained all this morning and forenoon & showery afternoon. Creed & Pete to S. place & then Creed to Gilliland to let him know that one of his lambs [is] at S. place. I at home the day.

    M. 24--Rainy night. Cloudy this morning but not raining, cool. We hope that the rain is over for a while, we want sunshine, give us sunshine. Commenced raining soon after writing the above and rained slow but constant all day. Boys to S. place with Robt. Gilliland to look for lamb. I planted beet, parsnip, carrot and radish seed. We put bell on young Bobby, can't find her calf. Milked her, don't know if her calf is dead or alive.

    T. 25--Rainy night. Raining this morning. Rained all this [day] and raining now at 8 P.M. and looks like it was just setting in for a regular wet season. We made bar posts and set them well in at end of lane, good job. Can't plant garden, ground very wet.

    W. 26--Constant hard rain all night and raining this morning. Cleared off soon after and was a clear warm beautiful day. Cam Cox called, Creed & Pete hunted sheep. Forenoon I wrote letters, afternoon worked in garden, put up milk cows.

    Th. 27--Clear warm beautiful day. I & Pete to Mr. Chapman, had him to shoe Simon's old horses, paid him $2.50, got home at dusk. Saw Antone. Tomorrow he will be here to look for sheep. B. Gilliland's old roan in Simon's pasture.

    F. 28--Some rain the last night and very much the day and raining now at 9 P.M. Boys looked for sheep and then to Simon's place after Creed's horse & Pete's mare, brought them up. Antone called.

    Sa. 29--Some rain the last night and some this morning, quite cool. Showery day. Some hard showers and some hail, quite cool. Pete to S. place to see to his old gray mare, back to dinner. Afternoon we chopped firewood.

    S. 30--Pretty clear cool day. Pete to Mr. Cox's and Barker's, brought Mercury News from state convention. My son L.F. Lane nominated for Congress, Thompson for judge. I at home all day, set out few cabbage plants.

May 1876

    May the 1st--Foggy damp morning, cool forenoon. Clear & warm after, cloud at sunset. I & Pete to my son Joseph's to see to my little grandson Fred, he has been very sick and is not near well now, but we hope he will recover. Afternoon we worked some in garden.

    May T. 2--Some rain in the night and some very little rain this morning. Partly clear now at 12 M. I set out some cabbage plants. Pete hauled some firewood on sled, 4 loads. Cavitt come to stay the night, help replant carrot seed.

    W. 3--Cloudy damp morning, some mist. Mr. Cox & his sons Cam, John & Buck called, drove their cows to Cam's place. Mr. Cavitt left early. Creed come from town. I & Pete worked garden, planted some potatoes & set out fifteen tomato plants sent to me by my daughter Mrs. Floed.

    Thursday 4--Rained in the night. Showery day & cloudy at s.set and quite cool. R.G. come, Creed went off with him. I set out some plants. Pete to S. place to see about his old mare.

    F. 5--Clear pleasant day. Creed come at noon. I worked in garden, planted two rows potatoes and did chores.

    Sa. 6--Clear pleasant day. Creed laid off rows for planting corn. I finished planting potatoes and planted some beans. Mr. Cavitt come, young Whitsett with him, took dinner with us and gone. Grandson Lafayette come, his little brother Fred is better. They now think that he will recover. We are glad. Creed & Pete to Cam C.'s place & borrowed sack salt. Pete's mare has colt born yesterday, stud, fine colt.

    S. 7--Clear, calm, warm day. Cam Cox called, all well at his home, told us that Mr. Livingston was, is quick sick. We at home all the day. I wrote to my son Fayette and John M. Thompson. Watered some plants in the evening.

    M. 8--Clear, calm, hot day. Mr. J. N. Barker called with letters from James Hutchinson, asking that I request Thompson to withdraw and put Burnett on for judge. I shall do no such thing. Very impudent request. I planted corn in garden. Creed & Pete to Watson's with wagon & old gray horses, brought 8 bushels wheat. Clear & very warm at sunset.

    T. 9--Hazy morning & forenoon. I planted watermelon seed. Boys to Gilliland's after sheep and after dinner to Simon's place to look for sheep & cattle. I planted muskmelon and squash seed, did good work, put hen manure in all the melon hills.

    W. 10--Foggy morning & cloudy day. Creed to town. We finished planting beans and hoed two rows cabbage.

    Th. 11--Hazy foggy morning, cool cloudy day. Cloud in W.N.W. at sunset. I worked in garden. Pete washed clothes. Creed come from town, brought mail. I think I will go to town tomorrow.

    F. 12--Partly clear cool day. I & Pete to town, spent afternoon with my children & grandchildren.

    Sa. 13--Partly cloudy day. I quite sick, had chill on & very bad headache. When called on to speak, did speak but I am sadly grieved that I omitted to say the things I most wished and desired to say and said many things that I did not intend to say. I am grieved and sorely hurt. I have fear that my mind is in danger. I ought not have risked making a speech. Oh, if [I] had said what I intended.

    S. 14--Stayed the last night in town with my folk, dined with my daughter Mrs. Mosher, Judge Burnett, one of the party, good dinner & Judge Mosher entertains elegantly. Left town for home at 3 P.M. Some little rain while coming up mountain. Stopped & had supper at Mr. Cox's.

    M. 15--Cloudy, cold, showery day. I did no work. Pete set out some cabbage plants. Creed, Pete hauled four loads fire & stovewood. I not well.

    Tuesday 16--Considerable rain in the night, Showery day with occasional snow squalls and quite cold, snow on fir trees east of field all day long. Bad weather, bad on gardens. My son Joseph come after plants, took all he wanted, we set out a few. Creed to town after his mother, who wishes to come and put house in order.

    W. 17--Pleasant day, partly clear. I & Pete worked forenoon putting things about the house in order as best we could. At 1 P.M. Creed & my daughter Mrs. Floed come, all well, daughter went to work right off putting house and things in order. Great change in a few hours.

    Th. 18--Clear or rather hazy day. I went down to Mr. Cox's & back to dinner. Daughter & Pete washed and ironed clothes & put the house in splendid order. One can hardly imagine how great the change in so short a time.

    F. 19--Hazy forenoon, rainy afternoon. I went to Oak Creek school house to hear Flem Owens, Hermann & others make stump speeches. Creed to town, Mr. Cox altered Creed's colt, done very quick and did it well. I got very wet coming home, borrowed overcoat of Ewel Barker, which protected me or I would have suffered.

    Sa. 20--Rained or snowed all last night and snowing finely this morning. Snow in our wheat field 6 inches, wheat & oats all covered with snow, some snow in garden, ground nearly covered. I to town, had 20 minutes to discuss some things Owen & Hermann had said of Gov. Grover the day before, mailed some letters, one to Grover & one to Mercury. Pleasant day, some showers. My granddaughter Mrs. Hogan & husband come up to see us. I at home at dusk, quite tired.

    Sunday 21--Clear in the night, some frost this morning. Partly clear & partly hazy day, pleasant growing weather. My daughter and granddaughter are well and at home all day. Mr. Hogan to Simon's pasture. Pete with him to see Mr. H.'s pony. I at home, some headache.

    M. 22--Hazy pleasant day. Hogan & wife left us early this morning for their home. Creed come from town, brought horses that H. & wife rode down. George, Cam & John Cox drove up some horses and took dinner with us. I worked in garden, did good work. Pete helped Mrs. Floed work in house.

    T. 23--Clear morning, hazy at 12 M. cloudy and raining at 4 P.M. and rained hard till 7 P.M., some squalls of hard wind. My daughter Mrs. Floed & her son Creed left early this morning for town. Creed & his brother Fred arrived at sundown from town, Mrs. Floed had got home without inconvenience. I worked in garden. We, I & Pete, marked an altered our pigs, 7 barrows & 7 sows, little pet marked but not altered.

    W. 24--Cloudy cool day. Sprinkled rain for short time. Creed & Pete to Simon's place, caught Mr. Hogan's pony & took shoe off and then after sheep, drove them up, found one had been killed by cougar. I worked in garden, hoed cabbage & potatoes & planted half doz. tomato plants. Fred spent the day reading.

    Th. 25--Cloudy cool day. I worked in garden, Tom Whitsett come, brought qr. of beef he owed us & we paid him 50 cts. we owed him. Creed & Fred at home. Pete to Mr. Cox's to take some beef & get some salt after he come. Boys after sheep, drove them up.

    Friday 26--Warm morning, partly clear partly cloudy, damp atmosphere. Forenoon I worked in garden. I will go to town this afternoon. Left for town, grandson Fred with me. Fred's horse got rid of his rider and [we] had some delay in catching him, the pony.

    Sa. 27--Arrived at town 5 P.M., stayed at Mr. Floed's till noon on Saturday, made a speech to prove that Flem Owens lied and back to Mr. Floed's to supper, stayed all night.

    Sunday 28--Still at Mr. Floed's. After breakfast I attended our church, heard Mass and good discourse by Father Heinrich, then dined at F. [with] Mr. Fuller & Eugene Shelby of the party. Left soon after dinner for my mountain home, arrived at 6 P.M. Thank God I am again at home. Set out some tomato plants brought from Floed's.

    M. 29--Cloudy day, some rain. I worked in garden. Afternoon boys looked after sheep, quite cool, raining at dusk.

    T. 30--Rained at times in the night and raining this morning. Showery cool day, some hail at times. Creed off early to help Gilliland drive beef steer to town, back at sunset. I worked in garden when not raining. Pete caught gopher.

    W. 31--Cloudy cool morning, looks like clearing off. Partly clear & partly cloudy day. Cloud in west at sunset. I worked in garden faithfully all day. Creed & Pete hauled firewood, Mr. Sweeny come to stay the night with us. On his way to town thinks that Owens will not run as well as he did two years ago.

June 1876

    Thursday 1--Some showers the day, some rain the last night, some fog this morning. My nephew John Lane, son of my only living brother, arrived this morning just from Indiana on a visit and to see the country. Mr. Sweeny & Pete prospect for gold, found none. I worked in the garden, did good work. My nephew John Lane & grandson Creed to town.

    Friday 2--Clear warm day. Mr. Sweeny to town, back at 6 P.M. Cam Cox called. I worked faithfully all day in our garden. Pete worked some, clear S.S.

    Sa. 3--Clear warm day till 5 P.M., some clouds after but clear sunset. Worked hard all day in our garden. Pete worked some & then after milk cows. Mr. Sweeny left us early this morning for his home. Day after tomorrow will be our election. My nephew still in town. I will bring him on Monday.

    Sunday 4--Foggy damp morning, quite a mist, grass and brush very wet. Mr. Cavitt come, wet as if he had been in a hard rain. We had turnips and turnip greens & nice piece ham well cooked, good dinner. Drizzly afternoon. Indoors all day.

    Monday 5--Rained slowly all the last night and this morn. I, Creed & Pete to town. Creed drove wagon team, I rode in wagon, Pete horseback and had a saddled pony. I voted straight Democratic ticket, took dinner at Mr. Floed's, loaded our wagon, six sacks salt, 4 do. flour, 10 lbs. coffee, 2 of tea, one large chair & one dollar's worth tobacco. Come to Barker's, left 2 sacks salt and to home by 6 P.M. My nephew John Lane with us. Mr. Cavitt left early this morn for Oak Creek school house to cast his vote, paid to Ingram one dollar for Pete.

    T. 6--Clear warm growing day. I worked in garden. James Harpham called to see us & gone. Creed, John L. & Pete have been looking after cattle & to our B. place. We have no news from election.

    W. 7--Partly cloudy, sprinkled rain very little. I, John L. & Pete to Simon's place & back to dinner, salted horses and some sheep. Afternoon worked in garden. Mr. Cavitt come to stay the night with us. Creed for town early this morning, back at 6 P.M., heard that the entire Republican ticket is elected.

    Th. 8--Hazy morning & forenoon. Cavitt plowed my corn and some potatoes and after dinner left for his mountain home. I worked in garden. Creed is sick, some fever, took pills. Cloudy & raining at 1 P.M., I at work in garden. My nephew is learning to batch, helps cook, put up dishes and busy generally. Set out tomato plants. Rained nearly all the afternoon.

    F. 9--Cool night & morning, partly clear partly cloudy forenoon, raining after. I worked some in garden. Mr. James Cox & three sons drove their cattle up, called for short time. James Harpham come to fix our mower. Creed & John Lane to Simon's place and back, got wet.

    Sa. 10--Cloudy drizzly day. I sold to my nephew [John Lane] Simon's Norris place for $4000 all in greenbacks, $3000 to be paid in six weeks and one thousand June next. Creed & John L. to town, James Harpham gone. I wrote to my brother Simon Lane and to my son Simon R. Lane & worked some in garden.

    S. 11--Clear warm day. I & Pete at home, did some work in garden, watered tomato plants. Creed & John L. come from town, arrived at dusk. Lafayette Lane come to shear Creed's sheep. Frank L. called, will be here tomorrow. Creed left my mail at F. & Co. store.

    Monday 12--Clear warm morning. My nephew John L. has gone to town, he is to take charge of express matter between Roseburg & Portland. Pete has gone with him to bring back horse and bring mail & scythe stones. I worked hard in garden. Creed has commenced shearing sheep. Tom Livingston & L.F. Lane helping. Frank L. come & is shearing. Hot day.

    Tuesday 13--Clear warm morning and day. I worked in garden. Tom, Frank & L.F. sheared sheep, Creed assisted & cooked. Pete busy with them. Mr. Dillard & Mr. Whitsett come on their way to Cavitt's. They will stay the night with us.

    W. 14--Clear warm morning. Mr. D. & W. left after very early breakfast for Cavitt's. Boys shearing sheep. Today the Republican convention assembles at Cincinnati for the purpose of nominating a candidate for President and Vice President. We will soon know the result. I work quite hard all day in garden. Will Whitsett returned from Mr. Cavitt's.

    Th. 15--Clear hot day. I worked garden till noon, finished hoeing potatoes. Boys finished shearing sheep and with wagon team & mower, bedding and provisions all hands to Simon's place to shear sheep and cut our grass. I & Creed returned at 7 P.M.

    F. 16--Clear hot day, I am inclined to think that this has been as hot a day as I ever saw. Boys quit shearing at noon, too hot to work with sheep. We cut grass, Creed did the driving. Mower did badly till we put on a sack to keep the grass from pitman, did extra well after, but it was so hot that the horses could not do much.

    Sa. 17--Clear hot day, commenced work but pitman broke and Creed went to town to get it mended. Pete raked all the cut hay that was dry enough. I put up some with fork and we come home at 3 P.M., worked some in garden, had good size new potatoes.

    S. 18--Foggy morning, sun out at 8 A.M., partly clear, partly hazy, warm. I worked some in garden. Pete left at 8 to take some turnips to Mr. Cox's and see if we could get some help to make hay and has not come back yet, now 5 P.M. Pete come, Green M. and Leander Matthews with him. I hoed our replant corn.

    M. 19--Pretty clear forenoon. We have had a busy day. Early this morning sent Green Matthews & Pete to S. Lane's place after wagon. While gone I worked in garden. Then Pete had to go back after monkey wrench, finally we got the bed off and back on wagon. Frank Lane come and we all went down to haul in hay. Hauled 5 loads & I & Pete to our home just before rain commenced to fall. Others to their respective homes. Creed come from town. Floed's cow & calf come back to their old home. Much pleased.

    T. 20--Rainy night and showery day, quite heavy showers at times, too wet to work in garden. Creed & Pete sacked wool. Son Jo Lane come, took some turnips.

    W. 21--Rained in the night, raining this morning. Showery day. I worked some in garden, dug some potatoes, and planted some corn among our beans where they failed to come. Boys hunted sheep, Creed baked bread, got supper. Pete helped a little in garden.

    Th. 22--Cloudy forenoon, some fog. Forenoon I worked in garden. Boys drove sheep to Simon's pasture, after dinner we all 3 of us to S. place, Creed cut hay, mower worked well, he did good work. Pete and I put up hay to keep track clear.

    Friday 23--Pretty cloudy day, quite cloudy at 7 P.M., commenced raining at dusk. I, Creed & Pete to Simon's place. Isaac Matthews & his brother Green come there to shear Simon's sheep. We assisted to separate the sheep till noon, then Creed cut grass, I with him. I & Creed come home. Pete remained with the Matthews. Looks like we are to have much rain.

    Sa. 24--Rained very little at daybreak this morning. Cloudy day, sun out at times. In the last two days yesterday and today Isaac Matthews sheared 66 sheep and Green Matthews 60. Isaac 66 at 6 cts. $3.96 and Green $3.60. I & Pete helped with sheep. Pete sheared 2. Creed to town. Cloudy S.S.

    S. 25--Partly cloudy, sun out at times. I & Pete at home. Creed come from town. Antone called to see us, took dinner and gone, brought our mail & hunk of twine.

    M. 26--Clear with some clouds breaking up from the north means dry. Mr. Cox's bull in our field on Cam's wheat. Pete to tell Cam, he, C., said he would shoot him. I, Creed & Pete to S. place, Creed raked hay. We put in cocks. Green Matthews sheared sheep.

    T. 27--Foggy morning, some mist on one mountain, now in the valley. Clear warm day. I, Creed & Pete hauled 3 loads hay and put in barn, one load left on wagon all at Simon's place, making 9 loads hauled in. Green Matthews finished shearing sheep, in all 115 $6.91.

    W. 28--Clear hot day. I, Creed & Pete hauled hay, three loads, making twelve loads. Charles Oden come & took off Kirby reaper for which [he] is to pay me ten dollars in three months. Green Matthews helped sack wool, 66 cents job.

    Thursday 29--Clear warm morning. Creed to town with wagonload wool. Pete to town to get his pony shod, I to work in garden. Pete caught fawn yesterday, buck, he seems smart. This morning I sent $40 greenbacks to Haynes to pay interest on wool money note, money forwarded to me by Simon. Creed & Pete back before S.S. George Cox come to help us make hay.

    F. 30--Clear hot morning. I, Creed, George C. & Pete to Simon's place, hauled in two loads hay before dinner. Afternoon Creed & George C. cut with mower alternately. Creed off to town. George for town tomorrow. We caught Pete's gray mare & he rode her home. Colt followed.

July 1876

    Sa. July 1--Clear hot day. I & Pete [to] S. place. Cam Cox took charge of mower & cut down our oat crop, finished and off for his home, an hour by sun. I worked generally. Sent Pete home to take care of Father Heinrich's horse. The Father come to spend a few days with us. Mr. Lennon come & returned to town to be back tomorrow.

    S. 2--Clear warm day. Father had Mass. Joseph come, got some turnips, potatoes and peas and to his home, his son Lafayette quite sick. We at home. Mr. Lennon come to work in our hay harvest, begin tomorrow.

    M. 3--Clear hot day. George Cox raked till noon, Pete & Mr. Lennon after, finished raking & cocked some. Father H. walked out to look for deer. We all at home at sunset. Old mare Dolla come.

    T. 4--Clear hot day. I, Pete & Lennon hauled four loads hay & put in shed, had to clear a way that hindered some. Father Heinrich gone early this morning. We celebrated the Centennial as above mentioned, taking care of our hay.

    W. 5--Clear warm day. I, Pete & Lennon to S. place, hauled six loads hay, five of them put in shed one left on wagon. Cloud in W.S.W. at sunset. Turning cool.

    Thursday 6--Cloudy cool night. Sprinkled rain this morning. Misty after the sprinkle. I, Pete & Lennon to hauling hay at Simon's place, hauled 4 loads, finished haying at that place & loaded our mower in the wagon to come up tomorrow. George Cox helped us after dinner.

    Friday 7--I & Pete to S. place, brought wagon team & mower. I had bad headache, suffered terribly all day. My [son] Joseph S. come, got potatoes & peas, his son Lafayette is mending. Lennon did no work. Sprinkled rain.

    Sa. 8--Partly clear morning. Settled with Mr. Lennon & wrote to Floed & Co. to pay him five dollars and seventy-five cents. I suffered all night with headache, am better this morning. Medicine is doing good service. Thank God I am better, quite free of pain. I & Pete have been quite busy, scalded our bedsteads, fixed up house, washed handkerchiefs & socks and did chores generally.

    S. 9--Cloudy, cool, some light showers. I & Pete to Mr. Cox's and then to S. place and to home. Creed come from town. Antone come.

    M. 10--Partly clear, partly cloudy, sprinkled rain. I, Antone, Creed & Pete to S. place, drove sheep to corral. Creed sold & delivered to Antone 396 head, changed mark & put on Antone's brand, good day's work. George C. called, on return home found Mr. Cavitt waiting for us. On yesterday received letter containing check payable to Joseph Lane on order at the first National Bank, Evansville, Indiana for three thousand dollars drawn by banking house S.F.

    Tuesday 11--Clear pleasant day. Mr. Cavitt took his mules to pasture at Simon's place, Creed & Pete to help Antone drive sheep. I did chores. Afternoon I wrote letters, one to Simon R. and one to my niece Ann L. Creed come at noon & to town. Pete come at 4 P.M.

    W. 12--Foggy morning & forenoon. Soon after breakfast I, Cavitt & Pete with wagon to S. place loaded on 4 sacks wool. I & Pete to town, delivered wool to Floed & Co. and to home. My daughter, Mrs. Mary Shelby, & granddaughter Winifred Mosher some out with us. Mr. Cavitt mowed down some of our volunteer meadow, did good work. Creed come from town.

    Thurs. 13--Foggy morning & forenoon. Cavitt mowing, Creed helped for a time. Cam Cox come & commenced mowing in his oat field, our little mower, old grays. Broke the shoe at end of sickle bar & off he will go.

    F. 14--Very foggy with heavy mist the forenoon. Cam to town to get shoe for mower. I, Pete & Cavitt to Simon's place with wagon for hay rack & rake & Cavitt's mules and old horse Charly. Found his mules on our hay stack. Back at sunset. Daughter & granddaughter busy washing & fixing about the house, work hard.

    Saturday 15--Cloudy morning, morning few drops rain. Forenoon I worked in garden, afternoon put hay in piles. Pete helped & drive up Bobby with young calf, white as a swan (bull). Cavitt gone for his home with his mules & old Charly. Clear afternoon & sunset. Ladies cook and give us good meals. Everything nice.

    S. 16--Foggy morning, some mist. Clear & pleasant after. We at home, reading & talking. Daughter & granddaughter walked over to Mother's grave & then got up good dinner. Bob G. found Creed's borrowed horse dead in our pasture. Cloud in N.W. at s.set.

    M. 17--Cloudy morn, sprinkled rain. Clear after. Cam C. come & helped us haul our load hay & to mowing. Cavitt come to work tomorrow. We did but little after dinner. Cam cut the amt. due us.

    Tuesday 18--Clear warm day. Forenoon Cam to his father's to grind sickle. I, Cavitt & Pete hauled two loads hay. Cam back & mowing at 10. Afternoon Cavitt & Pete mowed with scythes & Cam with mower. We hope to finish tomorrow.

    W. 19--Clear hot day. Forenoon Pete finished cutting our hay in field & brought mower down & I commenced cutting in orchard meadow, lost key out of pitman. Afternoon hauled one load hay from little meadow & two loads from Cam's oat field rented of us.

    Th. 20--Pretty cloudy morning, very warm wind, S. Cam, Pete & Cavitt out hunting, killed fine 4-prong buck. Cam shot it and Pete twice, Cavitt twice. Five shots, one buck. Finished hauling in our hay from Cam's oats. Cam gone home with half of the buck.

    F. 21--Clear hot day. My brother, just from Indiana, arrived, his son John drove him up in buggy. Very glad to see him, hauled one load hay and cocked up all that had been raked, then Cavitt mowed in orchard meadow.

    Sa. 22--Clear but foggy morning, very warm. I and my brother Simon & Pete to look at Simon's ranch, turned sheep in orchard field and back to dinner, brought up S. filly. Cavitt finished mowing orchard meadow and raked up some and then to hunt his mules. I & brother cocked up some hay.

    S. 23--Clear warm day. Cavitt to Mr. Hinkle's to look after mules. Mr. Tom Ledgerwood, wife and daughter come to see us. Forenoon I & brother and Pete to our B. place & back. Pete shot at deer, all at home after.

    Monday 24--Foggy forenoon, clear & warm after. Ledgerwood, wife & daughter gone to their home. Cavitt, I, brother & Pete hauled five loads hay and put in barn. Mr. Cox & Mrs. Cox come to see us, took dinner with us & gone. We did good work.

    T. 25--Pretty clear & partly sprinkled rain. Very much thunder at times. Brother, self, Pete & Cavitt hauled seven loads hay & put in barn, finished upper field, did extra good work. Daughter Mary Shelby cooks and washes and works hard.

    W. 26--Some fog this morning, clear after. Hauled before dinner four loads hay from orchard meadow and put in little barn near house. Two loads hay after dinner, finished hauling hay until we cut more. Cavitt has worked 7½ days $11.25.

    Th. 27--Foggy misty morning, clear afternoon. We finished cutting the last of our meadow. Cavitt to town, paid him in full for his work $11.25. Brother & Pete to dinner place to see to sheep & other things.

    F. 28--Foggy morning, clear cool day, did no work forenoon. I walked around our wheat field, found deer sign and wheat very much tangled in places. Pete & Simon walked down to B. place & to the creek. Pete caught some fish (11). Afternoon I & my brother rode over to the little prairie and back, saw no cattle or deer.

    Sa. 29--Clear pleasant day. Forenoon brother Simon & Pete raked our last cutting of hay and we hauled & put in barn one load and then Simon to town and Pete to S. place to see to things there, caught some trout and back.

    S. 30--Some fog & mist this forenoon. I, Pete & my daughter Mrs. Shelby to Mr. Cox's, met brother Simon there. We all took dinner (good dinner) & to home, rode in wagon. Pleasant time.

    Monday 31--Clear cool morning, clear warm day. Afternoon Simon L., myself & Pete repaired fence from our qr. corner to Simon's pasture, good job. Cam Cox come & commenced cutting his oats. We saw some deer in field, shot at them, failure.

August 1876

    August 1--I & brother Simon and my daughter Mary to town in carriage borrowed of Mr. Cox, stayed in town all night.

    W. 2--I & Simon concluded to go to see my son Simon R. Lane at black sand mines, Coos County, and started from town 2 P.M. and stayed all night at Mr. Jenkins'.

    Th. 3--Left Jenkins' soon after breakfast and arrived at Mr. Norris' where we stayed all night.

    Friday 4--Left Norris after breakfast and arrived at Coquille City at 10 A.M. and spent the day at the Olive House, steamer having left before we arrived.

    Sa. 5--Self, brother & my grandson stepped on board the steamer for Randolph at 10 A.M., arrived at Randolph at 3 P.M. and walked to the mines 2½ miles, found my son and family all well and doing well.

    S. 6--Remained all day at the mines, walked down to the sea beach and slept at the mines.

    M. 7--Left the mines at 9 A.M. for home accompanied by Mrs. Simon Lane & her two youngest children, party now of six on board steamer at 11, to dinner going & coming at Parker's good house, arrived at Coquille City at 5 P.M., stopped at Olive House.

    Tuesday 8--Set out at 6½ in our carriage, Creed driving, bad road, stopped for the night at Mrs. Kent's.

    W. 9--Left Mrs. Kent's at 6 A.M., arrived at Roseburg at 6 P.M., slept at my daughter-in-law's Mrs. L. F. Lane, all well & hearty. Mrs. Simon & children slept at Mr. [omission]

    Th. 10--Home, sweet home. Self, Mrs. Simon & children left Roseburg at 9, left carriage at Mr. Cox's, found that we had broke her forward spring and bolt, come home in wagon, found Mr. Hogan and wife, who had taken care of house & place during our absence, well & hearty but they left for town soon after our arrival. Granddaughter Emma Lane also left. I, Mrs. Simon, her children and Vinnie Floed who come from town with us and Pete to N. place & back. I am at home, thank God. Thank the Lord for his mercy.

    F. 11--We left at 8 A.M. for town with wagon to take Mrs. Simon Lane, her children & Vinnie Floed, arrived at town at 12 M. Pete drove. I rode Dolla. I remained in town, Pete to home. Purchased Singleton's 80-acre tract, last of our field. Mosher drew up deed which was signed and acknowledged by Mr. & Mrs. Singleton before county clerk. Mosher also drew up deed conveying to my brother Simon Lane north half of our big ranch to be signed by Simon R. & his wife. This deeded land includes my home. Cassie handed me $10 at town & $20 at Pershbaker's store.

    Sa. 12--I & Simon L. & Mr. McGinnis [McGillis?] left town in wagon for home at 10 A.M., brought two sacks flour, one of salt, 50 lbs. coffee, one box tea & two new axes, arrived at home at 2 P.M., ground axes to be ready for work. I called at Cox's & paid $2.50 towards repairing buggy.

    S. 13--Warm day, a few drops rain at 4 P.M., Joseph S. Lane & his wife & four children come to see us, had a pleasant day, all gone at 5 P.M.

    Monday 14--Pretty clear, partly cloudy, warm. Heavy cloud with much thunder passed east and south of us. Simon Lane & Mr. McGillis commenced work on this ranch and did good day's work. Restaked fence & McGillis chopped four rail cuts. This is my brother's first work since he purchased of my son Simon. Some very little rain the day. [A rail cut is a log cut to rail length, to be split into rails.]

    Tuesday 15--Partly clear, partly hazy warm day. Col. Barker called to see us. We to dinner at his house, kindly treated. S. & McGillis made gate post & hung gate and made small stall to mark calves. We from Barker's via N. place to home. Pete assisted to make stall.

    W. 16--Clear hot morning. Mr. Mc., Simon & Pete finished stall and to work on fence. Pete to Joseph, S. & Mc. staked and ridered garden fence. I did chores.

    Th. 17--Clear, hot & smoky. Pete to Livingston to help drive cattle to this ranch to sell to Simon Lane. Mr. Livingston delivered S. Lane 5 cows & 4 calves, 6 two-year-old at $7, 15 yearlings at $4.50. The cows 5 at $12, all marked & brand with two half circles.

	Cows	60.00	169.50
	Two-year-old 6 at $7	42	21.00
	Yearlings 15	67.50	$190.50
		$169.50	12.00
			$202.50

    I to town with Creed, who come for wagon & team to take Mrs. Simon Lane to Coquille Valley. I remained in town all night.

    F. 18--Foggy forenoon. I come home at 12 M., clear after. Livingston delivered to Simon L. two steers & one heifer, all 2 years old, put in pasture at Norris place all marked in Simon's mark & branded as above at $7--$21 cow & calf. We put fence round barn at N. place and [text cut off, page 103 of volume II]. Creed & Cassie & her children left town in time to get to Jenkins'. I sent by Cassie to her husband deed to be signed conveying this ranch to Simon Lane, also various other papers, also $300 of gold coin and left in hands of Floed $200 for How and charge myself with $15 for my own use, consequently, am Dr. to Simon R. Lane.

    Sa. 19--Cloudy morning, partly clear for short time then cloudy with slow rain all the afternoon. My brother in company with Joseph S. & Mr. McGillis. Pete to bring back horses, left for town at 8 A.M. Brother on his way home to Indiana, not to see him for a year or two. McGillis & Pete back at dusk.

    S. 20--Partly clear pleasant day. McG. & Pete to N. place and back at 4. P.M., did no good by going. I at home all day. Pete put up young steer at N. place bought of Livingston.

    M. 21--Partly clear, warm day. McG., Pete & myself to N. place, did some repairing of fence, found 3 of Simon's steers in field, one missing, and found Blackhorn & her calf in pasture. Cam Cox commenced cutting his wheat with reaper, cut 4-acre piece & half of 6-acre piece, 4 men bind.

    T. 22--Clear warm forenoon, Mr. McGillis commenced chopping stove & firewood in swale, worked all day. I and Pete worked awhile. After dinner I & Pete to field where Mr. Cox is cutting wheat. Pete helped bind. Cloudy afternoon and good shower from dark till 9 P.M. Grandson Creek F. come at 4 P.M. with wagon & team from the Coquille, whither he had been to take Cassie & child. Cox's harvest hands stayed all night with us.

    W. 23--Clear morning, McGillis to chopping. I & Pete took our harvest to B. place. One of Simon Lane's steers sick, we gave him bacon & cut his tail off. McGillis chopped the day. I chopped some, Pete shot at deer, did not get it.

    Thursday 24--Clear warm day. Cam Cox finished cutting & binding his wheat. Pete helped bind a part of the day. McGillis chopped fire & stovewood. I chopped some in afternoon.

    Friday 25--Clear cool morning, warm after. McGillis & Pete chopping. I baked bread & to work. Chopped fire & stovewood.

    Sa. 26--Clear warm day. We fixed brush fence and then chopped three cedar trees down & barked one standing. This is six days McGillis has worked for my brother Simon Lane. I paid him six dollars out [of] my own money. Nephew John L. & grandson Creed come, brought mail, both gone. John will leave for Indiana ere long & Creed will go to school in Portland.

    S. 27--Clear & cool. Cavitt called on his way home. McGillis left for town, he is a low and I think a bad man, glad he is gone. I have bad headache.

    M. 28--Clear & cool. I am not able to work. Pete attends to chores. Rather lonesome, God be praised for his mercy to us.

    T. 29--Clear warm day. Cam Cox come with wagon & team and commenced hauling and stacking wheat. Pete helped him after dinner. I am not well, consequently don't work. Pete killed two grouse this morning.

    W. 30--Clear & warm. Pete helping Cox. I am unwell. Cavitt come on his way to Hinkle's, took dinner with us and gone.

    Th. 31--Clear hot day. Pete helped Cox haul wheat. Indoors all day. Suffered very much from sore feet, not well. Hot weather hurts. Cam & John took supper with us.

September 1876

    Friday 1--Clear warm day. Pete helping Cox haul wheat. I am not well, consequently do not work. Mr. Cox called for a few moments.

    Sa. 2--Clear & hot. Pete is helping Cam haul wheat. I am not well. Finished hauling wheat. Cam gone with his team & wagon to his father's. Mr. Clark come to stay the night.

    S. 3--Clear & cool. Mr. Clark & Pete to Simon's place. I at home. Mr. Cox & his son John called, Pete with them to drive cattle back at dusk. Commenced raining at 5 P.M., rainy evening.

    M. 4--Rainy night and showery day, ground getting wet. Mr. Clark & Pete to Simon's place to doctor sick steer & then hauled rails to make fence around wheat stack, finished it and put in our hogs and then hauled fire & stovewood.

    T. 5--Rained in the night, at times quite hard. Foggy drizzly morning, showery afternoon, bad on wheat in stacks. A large amount of water has fell in the last 48 hours. Clark chopping firewood. Pete to N. place to see to cattle & sheep.

    W. 6--Rain ceased to fall at 9 P.M. last night. Quite cloudy this morning but no rain. I tolled up and put in field 40 of our shoats, all in at this time. Forenoon Mr. Clark chopped rail timber and made two mauls. Mr. Cox and two of his sons come, tolled up and put in field thirteen (13) hogs and took dinner with us. Afternoon Clark, self & Pete work on our road at each side of gate, did good work.

    Th. 7--Partly [clear] partly cloudy afternoon. Mr. Clark & Pete made rails out of timber cut by Cavitt last summer. I wrote letters and did chores. Mr. Clark also fixed the barn so that cattle can't get out the hay.

    F. 8--Clear cool day. Mr. Clark & Pete made rails the forenoon and afternoon to Simon's place with wagon & team and back, brought sack wool and two bushels wheat borrowed of Mr. Barker. Mr. Lum come to repair our clock.

    Sa. 9--Clear pleasant day. I & Pete to town with wool in wagon, old gray horses, back at sunset. Mr. Clark worked on road and chopped rail timber. Mr. Lum fixed our old clock.

    S. 10--Clear pleasant day. I & Mr. Lum & Pete at home. Clark to Chapman's & back. Turned his pony [omission?]

    M. 11--Cool morning. Clear pleasant day. Clark & Pete made rails till noon then gathered some timothy seed. Mr. Lum left after we had breakfast this morning. Got up Pete's gray mare.

    T. 12--Clear hot day. I & Pete to town. I had the pleasure of meeting my old friend Genl. Albert Pike and spent the day most pleasantly with him, witnessed the hoisting [of the] Democratic Club pole and flag, heard Pike & Lafayette speak to large audience. Spent night in town that Pete might see the show.

    W. 13--Foggy morning, clear & pleasant after. I took leave of my good friend Genl. Pike and left for home. I & Pete drove two of S. cattle from this side of How's to S. place and put in field, failed to sell sheep to Hinkle and come to [illegible, page 107] at home, found Clark had worked the [illegible]

    Th. 14--Clear pleasant day. Clark & Pete made three cuts into rails at the branch and then to chopping big cedar. Cam Cox at sunset with How's thresher and full set of horses to commence threshing his wheat tomorrow morning.

    F. 15--Partly clear day, warm. Cam commenced threshing, did not finish. Mr. Clark worked all day with Pete to help stacking straw. Cavitt cooked for the hands. Mr. Norris came, glad to see him.

    Sa. 16--Cloudy morning, some rain before commenced threshing, finished at 10 A.M. and all hands and machine left, had 350 bushels wheat, my share 87½ bushels. We hauled ours home, housed it and built fence round Cam's. Several showers in the day, Mr. Norris left soon after breakfast.

    S. 17--Partly clear warm day. Clark & Pete went hunting, saw nothing to shoot, were at Simon's place and to home. My son Joseph & Mr. Griggs came, took dinner with us & gone. I give Joseph some timothy seed.

    M. 18--Some rain last night and some this morning, clear after. Mr. Clark & Pete chopped rail timber on side of butte near the house, rolled logs down & made some 90 rails. I at home and helped work and did chores.

    T. 19--Clear warm day. Pete & Clark to S. place, drove up sheep and then Pete [to] Pierce's and back and then to Mr. Cox's after our mail & back. Mr. Chapman's boy come after Clark. I paid him 13 dollars out [of] $45 that Simon left with Floed & Co. for 13 days work. Cloud in west at sunset. Paid Clark $13.00.

    W. 20--Raining at daylight this morning. Cloudy day with some showers. Pete made 21 rails the day, I did but little.

    Th. 21--Partly clear. Pete made 26 rails before dinner. Mr. Sweeny come and brought to us a little dog as a present and told us that our neighbor boy Robert Gilliland had accidentally shot & killed himself while hunting with his brother Lyle over on the waters of Myrtle Creek. I & Pete went over & found that the ball had cut away two inches deep of his forehead, some brain had run out, instant death.

    Friday 22--Clear & warm. Mr. Sweeny left soon after breakfast for his home. I & Pete attended Robert Gilliland's funeral at his father's house. Mr. Howard preached the sermon. Large audience. Sad occasion. I met my son Lafayette & family, Mrs. Floed & Mrs. Fenner. Home at 3 P.M.

    Saturday 23--Foggy cool morning. I & Pete fixed up fence between us & Gilliland, did chores &c.

    S. 24--Clear warm day. I spent the day reading. Pete shot doz. pigeons. My son Nat and grandson Eugene come to see me. Eugene returned, Nat remained. I very glad to see them & glad that Nat remains with us.

    Monday 25--Clear, pleasant. My son rested well, cough not bad this morning. Pete gone to town for candles, back at 3 P.M., did well this time.

    T. 26--Clear hot day. Forenoon we hauled fire & stovewood, 4 loads. My son Nat helped load. Afternoon we did no work.

    W. 27--Clear hot day, unusual for the time of year. Cam Cox come, hauled 21 sacks wheat. I spent the day in conversation with my son Nat H., he will go [to] town tomorrow and then to home.

    Th. 28--Clear hot day. My son Nat H. to town, horseback, Pete with him to bring horse back. I worked about the house, turned our beds and scalded our bedsteads.

    F. 29--Clear & warm. We turned 14 head of my brother's cattle out of pasture and did chores. Grandson-in-law Henry B. brought to us qr. of bear they killed.

    Sa. 30--Quite warm, some rain at and after sunset with some sharp thunder. Pete burnt brush in swale. Cam Cox finished hauling his wheat. I did but little. [Text cut off, page 109]

October 1876

    Sunday 1--Some rain the last night, partly clear day. Mr. Cavitt called on his way to his home, we at home all day, quite warm. Pete killed some pigeons.

    M. 2--Clear hot day. I & Pete to town with wagon & team, took 11 sacks wheat, net 21 bushels 44 pounds to Jones' mill, remained in town to hear my son Lafayette and R. Williams speak. Slept at Mr. Floed's.

    T. 3--Clear hot day, brought in our wagon 500 lbs. flour, 108 pounds beans & 64 pounds shorts and box candles. Very hard on our old horses. Left town at 10, arrived at Mr. Cox's 12½, rested horses, had dinner and to home at 5 P.M. 260 pounds flour due us at mill. All tired. We are at home. Thank God we are at home, home sweet home. Barker & Gilliland will be here to look for sheep.

    W. 14--Clear hot day. I had bad headache, did no work. Mr. Gilliland & Barker to look for sheep in our flock. B. got two, G. had none, Pierce got two.

    Th. 5--Clear warm day. Forenoon I & Pete burnt brush in swale. Turned 8 of my brother's cattle out of pasture, making 20 turned out.

    F. 6--Clear warm day. I wrote two letters, one to my son Nat H. and one to ex-Senator Bob Johnson and sent Pete to town to mail them, he returned at sunset and says he mailed the letters.

    Sa. 7--Cloudy or foggy morning. Sprinkled rain. At 5 P.M. we picked our beans & onions and dug one sack potatoes. Pete to Barker's and back.

    S. 8--Some rain in the night and some this morning. Cloudy after, sun out occasionally. Mr. Cox & my son Joseph called. Granddaughter Mrs. Henry B. and husband came to stay with us a while. Mr. Barker come to shear sheep.

    M. 9--Forenoon we fixed pens and got up our sheep. Afternoon Mr. Benham & Pete sheared sheep and Henry Barker hauled firewood. I helped. Partly cloudy day.

    T. 10--Cloudy day, sprinkled rain very lightly. Early this morning Mr. Benham & Pete finished shearing sheep. Henry did not work, he was quite sick. His wife cooks & washes for us. Miss Mary & Miss Ann Barker come to see us & cook dinner. The state election is now over in Ohio & Indiana, 10 P.M. at this writing. We trust that the Democracy have triumphed, God granting.

    W. 11--Cloudy morning & day. Henry B. & Peter hauled firewood. I worked till dinner and in afternoon went to Barker's.

    Th. 12--Cloudy morning & day. I got up and fed my hogs and we made pens to put them in. Henry B. & Pete hauled fire & stovewood, did good work.

    F. 13--Cloudy cool day. I to town on old Dolly, wrote to committee Portland fixing day for speaking & to my son Nat. Had my two last teeth taken out and agreed for a new set to be ready next Monday. Stayed all night at Mr. Floed's. Granddaughter Mrs. Fenner and my daughter-in-law Mrs. L. F. Lane quite sick.

    Sa. 14--Clear warm day. I left town at 10 & arrived at home at 1 P.M. Henry B. & P. chopped wood the forenoon & hunted cattle at S. place after. Mrs. Virginia B. & husband to Col. B. to spend the night. I did chores.

    S. 15--Hazy forenoon, cloudy after, raining at 5 P.M. I & Pete to N. place, salted 5 head of Simon Lane's cattle, and to home to dinner [text cut off, page 111]

    Monday 16--Partly clear day, quite warm. I to town, remained all day & all night, heard U. S. [Senator] Mitchell in a speech of 3 hours and set him down as a base, bad man and a great liar. Granddaughter Mrs. Fenner quite sick.

    T. 17--Left town for home at 1 P.M., commenced raining soon after and rained all the afternoon, arrived at 5 P.M.

    W. 18--Cloudy morning, some showers the day. I to town in evening, heard Siglin & Burnett make speeches at courthouse, did well. Burnett did nobly & do. Siglin. My granddaughter Mrs. Fenner & my daughter-in-law quite sick.

    Th. 19--I returned from town at 5 P.M. Some showers. Found things all right. Henry busy, Virginia gone to her mother's. Pete all right.

    F. 20--Calm, pretty day. Henry B. sowed timothy seed the forenoon and after dinner laid off land. Pete plowed & Henry sowed timothy seed, got on well.

    Sa. 21--Pleasant day. I & Pete left for town at 1 P.M., stayed all night at Mr. Floed's.

    S. 22--Pleasant day. Pete left town for home soon after breakfast. I remained in town.

    M. 23--Pleasant day. I left at 5 A.M. on train for Portland, arrived at depot at 4 P.M., found my son Nat H. & Mr. Thayer with Mr. Thayer's carriage waiting my arrival, took me to my son's house where I was feasted and where I slept, found my daughter-in-law quite well and very kind indeed as also my grandson Nat.

    T. 24--Spent most of the day at the Holton House receiving friends, making acquaintances and at dusk to my daughter's Mrs. Shelby, found all well and very kind. Slept well and had very pleasant night.

    W. 25--Rainy day. In the evening recd. a visit from the veterans of the Mexican War headed by Genl. Hamilton at the Holton House. Hamilton delivered an able address of welcome and spoke very handsomely of the gallantry of the soldiers of that war &c., &c., to which I replied as best I could.
    And at 7½ P.M. addressed a very large audience at Ankeny's new opera house, was as full as it could be, jammed, spoke for two hours & ten minutes on the political issues of the day, speech well received. But I am not certain whether I did good or not.

    Th. 26--Rainy day spoke in East Portland to a large audience, well received, and slept at my son's house.

    F. 27--Bid farewell to friends in Portland and by rail to Salem, kindly received and treated, spoke to large audience, did all I could to secure the election of the Democratic Party, very kindly treated.

    Sa. 28-S. 29--Addressed the people at Albany, well received, spent Sunday at the house of Genl. Mart Brown and was so very kindly treated by him, his lovely wife and her mother & father that the recollection of their kindness will be remembered & appreciated while I live, gratefully remembered. An oasis in the ups & downs & hardships incident to my career in the last 75 years. May God bless them and prosper them.

    M. 30--Left Albany in buggy at 10 A.M. for Corvallis (had been telegraphed to without fail) consequently did go as above stated. Met a very large audience and was happy in my effort. Huge enthusiasm. Audience happy and happy myself, good speech, was entertained kindly & well treated by Mr. & Mrs. Carlisle at their residence, and at 8 P.M. was serenaded. Excellent music & large audience. Spoke to them for ¾ of hour, enthusiastically received.

    T. 31--Parted with my friends at Corvallis and back to Albany & to Eugene, was quite unwell, bad cold, sore throat and some fever when I arrived at Eugene, was compelled to stop at hotel and take plenty of medicine, suffered very much, called to see Mrs. Thompson, found her & babe Thompson unwell, back to hotel.

November 1876

    W. Nov. 1--Left hotel & went to the house of my good friend Wesley Shannon, where I was very kindly treated by him and his charming good wife, stayed with them till Thursday noon. Took dinner with Mr. & Mrs. Buoy, good dinner, was very kindly treated. Gov. Whiteaker also dined with us at Mr. Buoy's.

    Th. 2--Left Eugene at 2 P.M., arrived at Roseburg at 7 P.M. Stayed with my daughter Mrs. Floed Thursday night and Friday night and Saturday till after dinner and though very sick when I arrived, by their very kind treatment [I was] able to ride a mule borrowed of Col. Barker.

    Sa. 4--Arrived at home, found no one at home, Barker gone, Pete gone, no bread, no milk, nothing to eat, and I very feeble & had hogs to water & feed, fire to make, and chores to do.

    Sunday 5--Some fog the forenoon, clear after, warm, had Pete out early after our milk, had not been milked for two or three days, nearly dry. Fed her well and will look to her carefully. Mr. Shepherd McLaughlin & Pete out hunting. I found fine deer that they had killed on Saturday & hung in smoke house, killed nothing the day. I watered and fed hogs. Cavitt gone early this morning.

    Monday 6--McLaughlin, Pete & myself out early to get our cattle out of Mr. Gilliland's pasture and put his sheep in. Mr. Shepherd McLaughlin commenced to work by the month at $20 per month for the winter, commenced today. Dug potatoes. Tomorrow will decide whether Tilden or Hayes will be the next President. God grant that it will be Tilden. Tomorrow I will go & vote for Tilden. Retrenchment, reform & honesty & economy.

    T. 7--I & Pete to town with wagonload of wheat and wool, delivered our wool at Floed & Co. warehouse, wheat to the mill. Voted the Tilden and Hendricks ticket & Lane for Congress and remained in town to get the news and have our old horses shod. Clear, warm. Mr. Mc. dug potatoes.

    W. 8--Clear warm day. Bowen finished shoeing our horses. News by telegraph that Tilden had carried N.Y., N. Jersey, Connecticut & Indiana, consequently is elected. We left town with wagonload chops [sic] & flour and arrived at home a little before sundown. Mr. McLaughlin harrowed timothy land.

    Th. 9--Clear warm day. Mr. Mc. harrowing. I & Pete drove two small bands cattle belonging to this ranch from Mr. Gilliland's pasture, in all twelve head, and put in our pasture.

    F. 10--Showery. Forenoon Mr. Mc. harrowed meadow land and noon hauled down stove from where Cam Cox had left it and after dinner put it up and did chores. Pete killed a fine buck, butchered it at the house, quite fat. I did chores. Mr. Barker called with news that Tilden lacked one vote, Florida to hear from. If Florida is for Tilden he is elected. Give us Florida and all is well.

    Sa. 11-S. 12--Foggy morning, clear after. At 11 A.M. I set out for town, took half of fine buck to my children. Remained all night in town, slept at Mr. Floed's, took breakfast with my daughter, and dinner with my son LaFayette & his family, being his birthday November 12. Now he is 34 years old. Hard frost the morning, warm afternoon. Arrived at home 4 P.M.

    Monday 13--Rainy morning and day. Mr. McLaughlin & Pete to N. place, fed five head of Simon Sr.'s cattle. His old cow has calf, heifer, 3 or 4 days old. They also found one steer Bob but could not drive him. Pete caught pig & brought it up & put in pen.

    T. 14--Rained in the night with hard wind and showered this forenoon with brisk wind and rained very hard during the afternoon with very hard wind and raining now at 7 P.M. Mr. Mc. plowed part of land. Mr. Cavitt come to stay the night.

    W. 15--Warm, partly clear, partly cloudy. C. gone. I to town, got there sick, had small fever, stayed all night at Floed's quite sick, had talk with my boy Lafayette, all right, we think that Tilden is elected.

    Th. 16--Rained some in the night. I found myself quite feeble this morning. Bid my son Lafayette and his family and all goodbye and left for home, quite warm, reached home at 1 P.M., not well. Election still in doubt.

    F. 17--Cloudy warm day. We fixed everything ready for killing one hog and Mc. and Pete hauled two loads of stovewood. Mr. Cavitt come to help us kill tomorrow.

    Sa. 18--Cloudy, warm. Commenced raining at 3½ P.M., rained quite hard and raining now at 8. We killed our six shoats and dressed them well and hung in smoke house before the rain commenced to fall, well done job. Mr. Cavitt gone to his camp where he works.

    S. 19--Stormy rainy day, one very hard hail storm. My son Joseph called, brought Oregonian. Presidential election still in doubt. We hope & feel uncertain, but hopeful. He says my son Lafayette would leave his home for Washington this morning. We cut up and salted our hogs that we killed yesterday. Jos. gone, took 2 backbones & two ribs. Mr. Mc. down to S. place to feed cattle.

    M. 20--Some showers, very light, however Mr. Mc. & Pete to S. place to look after cattle and pick and put up apples, back at dusk. I rendered one pan of lard, not full.

    T. 21--Clear warm day. Mr. Mc. did some plowing, I & Pete rendered lard and did chores. Mr. Cavitt come to see us & spend night with me.

    W. 22--Warm pleasant day. Mc. hauled rails, Pete for a time after bear then helped haul rails. I did chores, hauled six loads all right. Cavitt gone early.

    Thursday 23--Pleasant day, some little rain at [omission] P.M. Mr. McLaughlin to town on old Dolly. Pete to town, sent by Pete 3 letters to be mailed, one to Nat H., one to L.F.L. and one to Simon Lane, Indiana. Sold 7 chicks and brought some tobacco and some rice, back at sunset. Mr. McLaughlin Dr. to goods of Floed & Co. $8.00.

    F. 24--Partly clear pleasant day. Mr. McLaughlin hauled 3 loads rails. I laid fence worm around our straw stack and Mc. put up one string of fence. I am tired. Pete has been quite sick the day. Turned all cattle out of our pasture but 3.

    Sa. 25--Warm, hazy, cloudy at sunset, commenced raining at dusk and rained all night. We hauled one load of rails to straw stack and then Mc. harrowed meadow land, finished that job.

    S. 26--Foggy rainy no [illegible] day. Pete & Mc. to Simon's place, back at dusk. Mr. Cox and Mr. Cavitt called to see us, took dinner and gone. I fed horses & our cows.

    M. 27--Foggy misty forenoon, cool after & clear.sunset. Two young Mr. How come to take my son Simon's sheep that I had sold to their father, took 191 head at $1.50 per head, total $286.50. I settled with Mr. McLaughlin and wrote to Floed & Co. to pay him five dollars and twenty cents, the balance due him, discharged, gone & I am glad of it.

    T. 28--Foggy forenoon, clear & cool after. I and Pete are the persons on the ranch. God will, we hope, be kind to us and take care of us and enable us to do our work and take care of our cattle. God be praised for ever.

    W. 29--Cold morning, heavy frost, foggy forenoon, clear after. We took our horses to Simon's pasture & turned some of B. sheep into his B.'s pasture and did chores.

    Nov. 30--Very heavy white frost this morning. Clear, pretty morning. I & Pete took our nine hogs & Cox's boar to Simon's place & put them in orchard to eat apples & then Pete to Cavitt's camp. We then repaired pasture fence, turned out some of Cox's cattle and as we come home put 7 of Barker's sheep in his pasture. Cavitt & McKie come to stay the night and tomorrow kill our big hog.

December 1876

    December 1--Warm hazy day. C. & Mc. helped kill the hog, dress & hang it up. I give them a shoulder to take to their camp, gone. Col. Barker come, brought some papers & gone. We rendered the caul fat, made pretty lard.

    Sa. 2--Partly clear, pleasant day. We cut and salted our big hog and did chores, found our little sow, all her pigs dead in the bed where they were born, turned 48 sheep out pasture.

    S. 3--Warm hazy day. We rendered the last of our lard. Tom Livingston called to see about some cattle that his brother Elijah sold to my brother Simon. I have none of Simon's money to pay for the cattle & so told Tom. We fed our horses & some calves.

    M. 4--Foggy misty day. I & Pete hauled 3 loads firewood. Mr. Cam Cox brought our mail, Mr. Sweeny come. Congress met at noon today, grant that they may do much good for our oppressed  suffering country. The President & the Secretary of the Interior Chandler ought to be impeached and dismissed  [from] the public service. Two greater scoundrels live not on the face of the earth. The sooner they pass off and out the better for our country.

    Tuesday 5--Hazy foggy day. Mr. Sweeny helped us haul five loads firewood. Then we turned out and did chores. This is the second day of the session of Congress. Will the old villain Zac. Chandler be impeached? "That is the question." Mr. Cam Cox called. Foggy & damp now at 10 P.M. Tomorrow will decide the Watts case. He is barred by the Constitution.

    W. 6--Heavy white frost this morning. Foggy forenoon, clear after. Mr. Sweeny & Pete to Simon's place and prospected on North Deer Creek and to home at dusk. Were at Cavitt's camp.

    Th. 7--Very hard frost this morning. Fog in the valley. I, Mr. Sweeny & Pete to Simon's place, drove into the field our young steer Bob, but he jumped out. We got him in again, fixed up fence & left him in, to home at 4 P.M.

    F. 8--Cold frosty morning. Fog in the valley, clear pleasant day. Mr. Sweeny helped us hang our pork for smoking. We will build fire in smoke house tomorrow.

    Sa. 9--Pete to town, got his pony shod, brought our mail back at dusk. He was told that the Republicans held an indignation meeting & burned Gov. Grover's effigy, poor devils. Some of them got hurt, though the Democrats kept cool through the influence of the old heads. Cold morning, clear calm day.

    S. 10--Clear morning and day, hard frost. Calm, clear. Mr. Sweeny left this morning for his home, one week with us. Hard frost, clear day. Cavitt come to see us, got his mail, stayed the night.

    M. 11--Hard frost this morn, clear calm day. Cavitt gone early. Pete split some firewood. I have not been well the day, did no work.

    T. 12--Clear, cold frosty morning, calm clear day. We did but little work the day, killed a [illegible] chick for tomorrow breakfast.

    Wednesday 13--Foggy night and day. Much warmer than for several days past. Frost nearly all gone. Pete split some old fir logs and we hauled them for firewood, he did good work.

    Th. 14--Clear calm cold morning, beautiful, pleasant day. This my 75th birthday passes quietly. Pete & I feed & take care of our cattle &c. Judge Mosher & Col. Shiel called to see us, took dinner and the Judge left for his home. Col. Shiel remained with us. We will send him to town tomorrow. We are obliged to the above named gentlemen for their visit & for their kind wishes. E. Livingston drove 12 cows & two bulls to S.R. place that he had sold to my brother. Pete went down & marked them or helped mark them in Brother's mark. Tom & Ed helped.

    F. 15--Clear cold calm frosty morning, pleasant day. Col. Shiel left for town. Pete goes to bring back horse that he rides back at dusk, all right, brought some mail.

    Sa. 16--Clear, cold, calm, frosty morning. Pleasant up at our home. Foggy & cold in the valley. We down to S. place to feed cattle, did not find all that Livingston delivered, saw only ten head, fed them plenty hay & to home and did chores.

    S. 17--Clear, calm, cold frosty morning. Clear pleasant day. We at home, fed some cattle and killed three chickens for our table tomorrow, Cavitt come to spend the night with us. Glad to see him.

    M. 18--Clear, calm, cold frosty morning. Cavitt left for his mountain home. I and Pete to Simon's place, fed cattle & back at 2 P.M.

    T. 19--Clear morning with heavy frost. We fed our cattle & horses and prepared hogs head & feet for cooking. Pete split some fir logs for firewood & did chores, very few snow flakes fell in afternoon.

    Wednesday 20--Foggy morning, quite a freeze last night, cool now at noon, still quite foggy. Pete to Mr. Cox's after our mail, back at 3 P.M., still cold & foggy.

    Th. 21--Cold morning, Misters E. & Tom Livingston come. Mr. E.L. wanted draft on Simon Lane for cattle that he delivered, 12 cows, two bulls and one steer. I give him draft on my brother Simon Lane of Warrick County, Indiana for $158, then I & Pete to N. place, fed cattle & to home at 2 P.M.

    F. 22--Moderated in the night, thawing & foggy this morning, continued to thaw all the day. Pete off at daybreak to Livingston to drive up cattle that went back, found two cows but could not drive them.

    Sa. 23--Foggy drizzly morning and day, much warmer than heretofore for twenty days past, Pete down to S. place to feed cattle. I did chores, foggy at dusk.

    S. 24--Light freeze last night, partly clear morning, soon fogged up, partly foggy all day. I saw my dog Track catch my old black ewe in one pasture and I shot him dead "on the spot." Pete drove cattle out of our field. Tom Barker come after his old hound Rover but agreed to leave him till tomorrow that he might take Christmas with us in a hunt.

    M. 25--Cloudy misty morning and day. I and Pete took our Christmas dinner at home, had quite good dinner. Pete spent part of the day in the woods with old Rover but did not start a cougar. The day passed off pleasantly, this my 75th Christmas. God be praised for his kindness to us.

    T. 26--Cloudy rainy day. Pete found where cougar had killed a sheep & went for Tom Barker & old Rover but did not start him. I fed horses, cattle, pigs and did chores. Tom B. to his home.

    Wednesday 27--Very hard rain the last night, rainy drizzly day. Tom Barker came & Pete with him to hunt cougar, did not start him. I am laid up with sore feet, can't work. Damp warm weather.

    Th. 28--Not much rain the last night, pleasant warm morning, sun out now at 10 A.M. Some showers after & some fog. Pete drove cattle out [of] field.

    Fr. 29--Foggy damp drizzly morning. I & Pete have been quite busy feeding and taking care of cattle. Warm drizzly day. My grandson Creed F. come to see me. Very glad to see him, will return to his school on next Monday at Portland.

    Sa. 30--Clear morning and day, pleasant. Creed left us soon after breakfast. I wrote to Floed & Co. how to use a check that Simon Lane sent to them for $524. Several of our cattle come for salt.

    S. 31--Clear calm pleasant day. I & Pete to S. place, fed cattle & he to Cox's after our mail and I to home. Clear calm & cold now at 10 P.M. The weather during this whole month has been quite unusual for Oregon. Clear, calm frosty nights and foggy days have predominated largely over all other kinds of weather. Good for cattle & other stock. Tonight I have a headache. We still believe that Tilden will be inaugurated, knowing that he has been fairly elected. Repubs die hard. Grant will soon be out. Thus ends the year 1876, God save us from any more Grantism.

January 1877

    Monday 1--Cool foggy morning, dark foggy day. I & Pete did some chopping, fed cattle & did chores. Mr. Cavitt come to stay the night with us, glad to see him. The new year comes without snow or storm.

    T. 2--Frosty morning, some fog in the day. Cav & Pete to town, back at 6 P.M. I did chores. Rather pleasant day.

    W. 3--Frosty morning, pleasant day. Quite warm at sunset and cloudy. Mr. Cavitt left soon after breakfast for his mountain home. I to N. place, fed cattle. Pete to Mr. Ganger's after cattle. Tom L helped drive 4 cows & calves to N. place & here at dark.

    Th. 4--Clear calm, pleasant day. Tom Livingston & Pete left early this morning to hunt cattle belonging to my brother, did not return, are in Ledgerwood's settlement. I to S. place, fed cattle & back before 2 o'clk. Our young dog is missing, he was sick, suppose he is dead. But we don't know.

    F. 5--Clear warm morning, pleasant day. I at home feeding & taking care of stock. George Cox called to see us. Took dinner with [us] & gone. Pete come home at dusk, did not find any of the cattle that he & Tom L. went to hunt.

    Sa. 6--Foggy day. I & Pete to N. place, fed cattle & horses and back at 2 P.M. Did chores, fed work horses &c.

    Sunday 7--Cool, dark foggy night, dark foggy day. We fed horses and cattle and did chores. Turned cattle out of field.

    Monday 8--Warm but foggy morning and forenoon, partly clear after. We repaired fence & then to S. place and fed cattle, back at 3 P.M., did chores fed horses.

    Tuesday 9--Partly clear, partly cloudy, pleasant day. Pete hauled one wagonload rails to upper end of field and one load firewood and then to Mr. Cox's for our mail. Mr. George C. come with him. Mr. Cavitt come.

    W. 10--Cloudy morning, some rain and some showers through the day and some snow this eve. The first of this winter. Mr. George C. gone. Mr. Cavitt chopped firewood for us. Pete hauled 3 loads. Did good work.

    Th. 11--Some snow fell in the night & some snow squalls the day but not to cover ground. Self, Mr. Cavitt and Pete to S. place, took and put in pasture there Mr. Hogan's two mares. Fed our horses and some cattle. Mr. Cavitt took old horse Charly out to his home to run with his mules, left S. place at 11 A.M. We to our home. Found our young dog Maje at Mr. Barker's. We had supposed him dead. Tom told us about him. Pete went after him but he would not follow.

    F. 12--Very hard frost last night, cold morning. Frost off on south side of the hills, cold now at 8 P.M. We fed some of our cattle, fed our horses. Pete went out hunting, saw no deer.

    Sa. 13--Cold morning, hard frost. We fed some of our cattle here & then to S. place & fed cattle & horses and put our sheep in pasture & to home. Clear cool day.

    S. 14--Snow half inch fell in the night. Wind south, turned warmer this morning & commenced raining. Some fog at times, snow gone. Pete to Cox's after mail. Winter half gone.

    Monday 15--Rainy night, some little rain the day. Cloudy all the day. brisk south wind. We fed some cattle and our horses & Pete split some firewood, sawed off one large fir log & split it. Tom Barker called & gone. We cut down one oak tree.

    T. 16--Cloudy, windy, rainy night. Cloudy windy day, several snow squalls, did not lie long, some rain at times. Partly clear & cold now at 10 P.M.

    W. 17--Some very little snow fell in the night. Cool, partly clear morning and day, snow soon gone. I & Pete [to] Simon's place to feed cattle, only five come to be fed. To home by mountain rod to east of field in hope to start a cougar but failed. Dogs hinted, but no cougar to be found. Pete sawed off big log.

    Th. 18--Hazy morning, smart frost. gone at noon, pleasant afternoon. I and Pete hauled two loads firewood and put our old pet ewe and her twin lambs in barn, one is white the other black. The same as last year.

    F. 19--Cold frosty morning, heavy dark fog all day. We fed horses, cattle & pigs. After that Pete hauled and split firewood. I did chores. Cooked some parsnips for dinner, found them sweet & good.

    Sa. 20--Cold foggy morning. Crust on the ground and ice on puddles. We fed some cattle and our horses here and then to S. place & fed cattle and horses & to home at 20 past 2 o'clock. Cooked our dinner, fed work horses and did chores. Our old horse Charly quit Cavitt's ranch and come home.

    S. 21--Clear, calm, cold night, morning and day. Very heavy frost and where the sun did not shine remained all day. We fed cattle, horses & pigs and washed our flannel shirts. We think of sending Pete to town tomorrow for our mail, broom and soap.

    Monday 22--Cold calm night, heavy frost this morning. Clear calm day, frost off south hillsides. Pete off to town early, back at dusk. I fed horses, cattle and pigs, did chores, busy, generally.

    T. 23--Cold night, frosty morning. We fed here and at Simon's ranch, fed horses and cattle & to home at 2 P.M.

    W. 24--Clear cool morning. Warm day, frost going out of the ground, hauled one load back logs. Mr. Sweeny & Mr. Valley come to see us and spend the night, helped us load the logs in wagon, horses stalled & broke singletree.

    Th. 25--No frost the last night, partly clear. Warm day. Few drops rain this morning. Mr. Sweeny and Mr. Valley went with us to look at Simon's place, then they went home and I & Pete fed horses & cattle and we come home at 1½ P.M. all right.

    F. 26--Brisk south wind all night. Partly cloudy day with south wind, quite warm. I and Pete repaired field fence, put in stakes and laid on riders & turned 25 head cattle out of field.

    Sa. 27--Warm night, south wind no rain, warm day partly clear south wind. I and Pete spent half the day trying to bring old Pet & her calf to S. place but failed and drove her in to home pasture & made yoke to put on her, been quite busy all day, am tired.

    S. 28--Warm night. Warm morning and day, some wind from the south, no rain. Pete found Liney with her young calf, bull. Cam & John Cox called, we fixed field fence and fed some cattle.

    Monday 29--Cloudy warm, with some showers. I & Pete to S. place, fed cattle & horses. Put yoke on old cow Pet, a bad jumper, fed cows at home. Mr. Cavitt come to spend night with us.

    Tuesday 30--Cloudy night, some rain, and very hard south wind knocked down some of our field fence, hard wind and some rain the day. Forenoon Cavitt & Pete put up fence, and afternoon put up some fence. Cam Cox called, took dinner with us & gone, fed our horses & some cattle.

    Wednesday 31--Some wind, very little rain in the night, pretty warm morning. Cloudy by 12 M., raining at dusk and raining now at 8 P.M. Cavitt left at 9 A.M. for his home. We fed horses and some cattle. Pete went hunting. Killed gray squirrel, shot at deer, did not hit it. Put up Liney & her calf.

February 1877

    February 1--Hard wind and rain the last night. Warm, pretty morning and day. Warmer than I have known on the first of any February since I have lived in Oregon. Pete put up fence. I have headache. Mr. Cox called, took dinner with us & gone.

    Friday 2--Very hard wind and rain, in the night a large leak through the roof down onto my bed in the night, never before has a leak come on my bed. Warm day, some showers the day, and at 3 P.M. bad hail squall and hard rain after. Turned cold.

    Sa. 3--White frost this morning and foggy forenoon. I had a fall climbing over fence, hurt me. We fed here and then to Simon's place, fed horses & turned them out, fed cattle and left them in & to home at 2 P.M. Pete left his sorrel pony & rode the gray home.

    S. 4--Some frost this morning, clear warm day. We fed our cows & horses and Pete to Mr. Coxes' after our mail, back at 3 P.M. I at home as usual, God be praised for all favor to me.

    Monday 5--Some frost this morning. Clear warm day. Blossoms out, strawberry & yellow blossoms. We fed & then repaired fence at straw stack and with hounds out to try to start panther or wildcat, failed and to home.

    T. 6--Some frost this morning. Partly clear, pleasant day. Mr. George Cox called hunting cows, found and drove them to his home. Antone called hunting sheep, found some at Simon's place. I & Pete fed here and at S. place.

    W. 7--Eleven years ago this day I moved onto this ranch and during that time I have worked faithfully constantly and had a hard time generally. Most of the time have had no help or company but Pete, now 14½ years old. God has been kind to us. Blessed with good health for one so old. Foggy & warm this morning. Pleasant day. We fed cattle & horses. Mr. Hinkle come to us about money that Simon owes him. I will write to Simon.

    Th. 8--Warm hazy day. Sent Pete to town to mail a letter to Simon & one to Julian, Marcos, Texas and to bring some candles and mail. He got no late papers. Nothing from the commission to count the electoral vote. I was busy the day.

    F. 9--Rained in the night, some showers and snow squalls the day. Cool disagreeable day. I & Pete fed here and at Simon's place and to home at 2:30 P.M.

    Sa. 10--Some snow on the ground this morning day ¼ inch, partly off before night. We hauled two loads firewood, cold till midnight when it commenced to get warm. We fed horses and cattle. Pete killed big owl, Pete commenced plowing.

    Sunday 11--Warm morning, we fed and turned out of pasture 21 head of cattle. Pete to Mr. Cox's after mail, back in good time. I at home all the day. Rain in afternoon, hard wind from the south now at 9 P.M.

    M. 12--Hard wind last night, some rain and some rain the day. Turned Cox's big steer and other cattle out of our field. Pete to Mr. Cox's and then to Mr. Mathews, got Green M. to come & help us, he has gone home. We put up fence, been quite busy.

    T. 13--Hazy, pleasant day--We fed cattle at Simon's place and to home at 1½ P.M., did chores, fed horses & some cattle. Sprinkled rain for a time, not much.

    W. 14--Cool, damp foggy night. Foggy forenoon. Pete plowed near our house. We fed no cattle the day. Put up Pete's sorrel pony. The month half gone. This day Congress ought to say who will be President. I fear it will go wrong.

    Th. 15--Clear, calm, warm, beautiful day. I & Pete fed some cattle here & then to S. place fed the cattle there and salted & to home at 1½ P.M.

    F. 16--Smart frost this morning, but a clear warm day. Bees out at work like summer. The sunrise in the gap seen from the kitchen door. This morning Pete did some plowing. I did chores. Hazy at sunset.

    Sa. 17--Warm hazy windy day. We hauled two loads rails from straw stack to the field & one of firewood. Did chores, fed cattle & horses.

    S. 18--Very hard south wind the day. We fear that our fence will be blown down. Antone come to stay the night with us. Wind blowing very hard now at 9 P.M.

    Monday 19--Very hard wind all night and very hard south wind with considerable rain the day. We fed at S. place and then to our field, turned out Pet & heifer and then put up fence that was blown down, been very busy.

    Tuesday 20--Very hard south wind with frequent showers the last night. Cloudy warm day with one good shower. I & Pete put up fence that had been blown down, did good work.

    W. 21--Hazy warm day. I suffered very much last night with sprained ankle & today with bad headache. Pete to my son Joseph's, Jo come with him, and helped us kill a beef, all hung up in quarters before night, good job.

    Th. 22--Commenced raining at 12 last night and rained all the time since till now 4 P.M. and raining. Cut up two quarters of beef and salted. Rained so hard that Jo could not take his half of beef to his home.

    F. 23--Cloudy morning & day, some very little rain. Pete, wagon team to take beef to Joseph's. Met Lafayette with wagon and gave him the beef and come. I did chores.

    Sa. 24--Clear, pleasant day. Grass growing finely. We fed cattle at Simon's place, put sheep in pasture & put up fence and to home. Mr. Cavitt come, we were glad.

    S. 25--Clear cool morning, some frost. Grandson L.F.L., Tom & Jesse B. come to see us, took dinner & gone. Pete looked for lame steer, back at 2 P.M., did not find him.

    Monday 26--Partly clear, warm day. Afternoon we hauled some firewood. Cavitt come from town, brought our mail.

    T. 27--Hazy day, warm & cloudy at sunset. Cavitt helped us repair fence, staked and ridered all the weak places, did good work. Tom B. come, told us that their good old dog Rover had been badly torn by dogs.

    W. 28--Commenced raining in the night, raining slowly this morning, continued to rain very moderately all day. Cavitt gone to his home. I & Pete fed cattle at Simon's place, got quite wet. To home at 3 P.M., dinner to get and stock to attend to.

March 1877

    March 1--Rained without ceasing all last night and all this day without stopping a moment, a large amount of water has fallen. Pete found cow Lady with young calf, bull. Pete fed horses.

    Friday 2--Rained all last night and all the forenoon of this day, showery afternoon and raining now at 9 P.M.

    Sa. 3--Stopped raining and partly clear this morning. Pete to town, back at dusk, brought mail, tobacco, candles & rice. Hazy, pleasant.

    S. 4--Cold night, some frost this morning, soon gone. Hazy till the afternoon, cloudy at 2 & commenced raining, raining now at 9 P.M. We fed some of our cows & work horses.

    Monday 5--Rained very moderately last night and continued to rain till noon today, some light showers the afternoon. Commenced again at 8 P.M. briskly and raining now at 10 P.M. I & Pete fed cattle at Simon's, back at 3½ P.M. Our cow Beaut has calf heifer. Our Bob steer out of S. pasture. We fed him.

    T. 6--Rain more or less in night. Very hard rain nearly all in this day. Large amount of water has fallen. Pete repaired sled. I did chores, fed horses & cows that have calves.

    W. 7--Rained some little last night. Cloudy, pleasant day, some little rain. Commenced raining at 6 P.M. & raining now at 9. I & Pete fixed fence at field gate & then to S. place, fed cattle & to home at 3 P.M. Pete hurt horse Jim's back. Pete hauls two loads wood.

    Thursday 8--Rained last night and all this day, a large amount of rain but warm. We have done no work the day.

    Friday 9--Some rain the last night. Partly cloudy, forenoon warm, heavy rain commenced at 3 P.M. and rained till 10 P.M. Partly clear the balance of the night. Pete & I fed cattle at S. place, back at 1. John Cox called, hunting horses.

    Sa. 10--Clear at sunrise, but soon clouded & rained all forenoon, showery after. We did chores. Pete got up some wood.

    S. 11--Rained in the night, cloudy morning and day, no rain till 5 P.M., commenced then & raining hard now at 8, We fed cattle at S. place, found two lambs that had been killed by wolf or some other sheep killer. Pete poisoned them and drove sheep up to this ranch. Brisk wind the day.

    M. 12--Rained all night and all this day. I did no work. Pete to How's pasture after 3 of Simon's cattle, had Tom Barker to help him, drove to S. place and then with 19 others drove them to this ranch, and then put up fence.

    T. 13--Some rain last night but none today, partly clear & quite warm. We planted some onion sets. Cavitt come & gone to Whitsett's.

    W. 14--Hazy forenoon. Warm, cloudy after, commenced raining at 5, hard wind, rained till 10 P.M. with hard wind. We planted some sets. Cavitt come from town to stay the night with us, brought mail.

    Th. 15--Partly clear day. We finished planting set. Cavitt left us for his home at 9 A.M., had fifty apple trees packed on his mule to plant on his claim. Afternoon we did chores. I am quite sore from hoeing

    Friday 16--Hazy warm day. We marked our pigs, five barrows and four sows. Then we to S. place to see to cattle, tolled 9 shoats and fed apples to them. Found one of Simon's old cows with young calf, drove them to this ranch. Cox's black boar dead from strychnine that we had put in sheep killed by some animal.

    Sa. 17--St. Patrick's Day has been warm, hazy & pleasant. A few drops of rain at dusk. We burnt brush on a spot where [we] will sow cabbage seed. Pete went hunting and killed a grouse, gobbler, the first that he has killed this season.

    S. 18--Partly clear, pleasant day. We repacked beef & pork. Dr. Brown called to see us, left soon after dinner. Mr. Cox called. Pete to Mr. Barker's to see Tom about helping us drive cattle.

    M. 19--Clear, pleasant day. Tom B. & Pete after cattle, drove two steers from south of Gill to this side of fence between us & Cox and led one to near gate & tied to tree. I at home, did chores.

    T. 20--Partly clear hazy day. Pete & Tom Barker to Mr. Gilmore's pasture to bring cow that we supposed to be Simon Lane's bought of Livingston. Ingram claimed her, consequently did not bring her. They drove Simon's bell cow from below Pierce's. I at home all day. did chores.

    W. 21--Some showers the day, steady rain, with some little snow from dusk till now ten P.M. I & Pete to S. place, salted cattle & horses & fed hogs & to home. Made bed & sowed some cabbage seed. Tom Barker come & gone. Mr. Mathews come to assess our taxable property.

    Th. 22--Some rain the last [omission]. Partly hazy day. Pete hauled some firewood. I went through pasture and field, fed our pigs. Mr. Cavitt come on his [omission] to Cox's. Mr. Mathews gone on his way to Chapman's.

    Friday 23--Rained last night and rained all this day. We did no work. Mr. Cavitt gone.

    Sa. 24--Some rain in the night & some in the afternoon of the day. Pete to town, back at dusk. Saw my son Lafayette, he had a day or two before arrived at his home from Washington. Pete brought mail.

    S. 25--Rainy night & rainy day. We to S. place to see to cattle, turned our hogs out of field. I to home, Pete hunting, in at dusk.

    M. 26--Rainy night, some showers the day. Pete found old ewe Kissie with her young black lamb, ewe. Jesse Barker come, brought our dog Rover and helped Pete chop wood & gone.

    T. 27--Pleasant hazy day, no rain. Pete chopped some wood & then we made corral to milk our cows in. Buck Cox called & gone to see their horses.

    W. 28--Hazy and at times cloudy with small showers. We did but little work. Pete killed grouse and gray squirrel. Milked our 4 cows this eve, have been doing without milk for 5 weeks.

    Th. 29--Considerable rain fell last night, cloudy, cool day, few drops of rain. We ground our axes and chopped some wood & did chores.

    F. 30--Cloudy & cool. We chopped firewood. Afternoon did no work, had headache. Tom Livingston come & gone.

    Sa. 31--Partly clear day. Cavitt & John Cox called on their way to Cavitt's home. We worked in garden. Pete plowed. I hoed onions. Old horses balked & behaved badly, had to turn them out after making them believe that they had yielded by hauling wagon & some wood in it.

April 1877

    Sunday 1--Partly cloudy, cool day. Tom Barker come with his hounds, he & Pete out hunting, did not start a bear or cougar. I at home. Cavitt & Cox passed. T.B. to his home.

    M. 2--Clear calm beautiful day. Pete finished plowing garden & harrowed over it & commenced plowing the other way. Big fir tree burned down, fell at 11 A.M. I fired up on the fallen tree & did chores. Pete killed 3 gophers.

    T. 3--Foggy afternoon, clear after. Pete plowed the garden the second time. I did chores & fired up on our big log. Garden now well broken, yet to harrow, and to lay off for planting.

    W. 4--Pleasant, some fog then clear. Pete finished harrowing garden & laid off some rows for planting. We planted four rows of potatoes, Blue Kidneys.

    Th. 5--Foggy nearly all day. Cool & looks like rain. Pete to S. place to salt cattle, then to Barker's, and then to Cox's, brought our mail back at 6 P.M. I cut potatoes for planting.

    F. 6--Hazy morning, clear after. We planted 8 rows of potatoes & then cut some for planting tomorrow.

    Sa. 7--Partly clear & partly cloudy cool day, a few drops of rain fell. We planted potatoes till noon. Tom Barker & Volney come to help us mark our calves, altered 7 bulls, marked and branded them. Marked & branded 4 heifers and marked 6 lambs. My son Joseph come with wagon & got 3 sacks potatoes for planting.

    S. 8--Partly clear, partly cloudy. Pete & Tom B. to S. place, marked one of Simon's calves. Pete back at 8 P.M. I at home all day, churned, made good butter.

    M. 9--Rained off and on all day, did no work. One of my brother's young cows is in trouble, can't have her calf, doubtful about saving her.

    Tuesday 10--Pleasant day. I & Pete to S. place. Drove old white cow & her young calf. Then worked in garden. Simon's heifer had her calf all right.

    W. 11--Very little frost this morning. Clear, pretty day. Took care of cows & worked in garden. Tom B. called. Col. Barker called, brought our mail.

    Th. 12--Clear, pleasant day. Pete to Mr. Gilliland's to bring our colts but could not drive them. Grandson Frank L. called. I worked in garden.

    F. 13--Clear warm morning. Tom B. & Pete drove up our sheep. Mr. Gilliland & B. folk were here but found none of their sheep with ours. Marked 3 lambs. Pete to Barker's to help mark sheep. I finished planting potatoes. Word come that Mr. Chapman was dead.

    Sa. 14--Cloudy, some showers. I & Pete to S. place via. Mr. Barker's. Looked after cattle, put up fence, fed sow & pigs & to home.

    S. 15--Rained in the night, and rained off & on all the day. We at home all the day.

    M. 16--Rainy night, some showers the day. We chopped some firewood & then Pete to S. place. Our old cow Pet and a young steer jumped in our field. I sent Pete to turn them out and to shoot them. He say that he shot the cow three times & the steer once.

    T. 17--Partly clear, pleasant day. Mr. Weaver come to buy our cattle. We agreed to let him have our 3-year-old steers and some yearlings if we could get them up. Pete to Livingston's to get help. Tom L. come.

    W. 18--Cloudy. Boys got up 4 3-year-olds & some yearlings. E.L. & G.C. come and helped us. I worked in garden.

    Th. 19--Rained hard last night with hard wind, cold showery day. Cold for an hour, snowed hard, covered the ground east of field. We sold and delivered to Weaver and Chapman twenty-two head of cattle and one steer of my brother Simon's, in all 23, to wit, 11 2- & three-year-old steers. One barren heifer, one two-year-old heifer. Three cows & their calves & four yearlings. All for $186.00, all paid but six dollars that they are to hand to Floed & Co. We went with them to Gilliland's, recd. the 180 & to home at 4 P.M., quite cold. Pete sold his gray jenny to Tom Livingston for $20. $6 I am to pay to Pete. Tom owes $14 to be [paid] by June.

    F. 20--Rained in the night. Cold, showery, disagreeable day. We have been taking care of our cattle, did no work, put up heifer, quite heavy, belonging to my grandson Creed Floed.

    Sa. 21--Clear, pleasant day after 9 in the morning, some mist before. Creed's heifer had calf in the night, both dead. I & Pete to S. place, found two of Simon's cows had young calves, to wit, old Highhorn & Heart. Milked the old cow and to home & milked Creed's heifer & did chores.

    S. 22--Partly clear day. Cloud passed over and rained for a few minutes then clear. We to S. place, salted cattle, turned horses out of field and put two dun cows & three others, one with young calf, and one steer & milked two cows that have young calves.

    M. 23--Pleasant day. Pete to town, transacted some business for me. Paid to him eleven dollars & paid to Tom Livingston three dollars due him from my brother for driving cattle. Tom Livingston now owes Pete $13 for pony Pete sold to him.

    T. 24--Clear warm day. Pete & self to S. place, drove old cow & calf up to this ranch. Paid to Tom Barker $5 due him from my brother for hunting & driving cattle. Paid Mary one dollar for gloves.

    Wednesday 25--Cool morning, clear warm day. We did very little work the day. (Yesterday we tried to haul wood with our old horses and they would not work.) Tom B. come and helped milk Creed's heifer. Clear S.S.

    Th. 26--Clear warm day. I & Pete to S. place, took down & put in pasture Simon's old cow Pide calf, we could not keep her here. Breaks fence, throws the gate out and goes into meadow. Back to dinner. I hoed onions.

    F. 27--Clear warm day. Pete looked after cattle, found one red heifer with young calf and then to N. or S. place, found one of Brother's cows had calf, milked her & to home. I worked in garden.

    Sa. 28--Clear, pleasant. We to S. place, fed our pigs. Milked cow and to home, did chores.

    S. 29--Clear, some [omission] hazy afternoon. Pete & Tom B. to S. place. Milked cow, fed pigs. I at home. Mr. Cavitt come to stay the night with us.

    M. 30--Cloudy or foggy morning, some mist. Cavitt gone early to Cox's. Pete to Barker's to help them plant corn, back at 7 to take sack flour to Mr. B. I did no work.

May 1877

    Tuesday 1--Clear, pleasant day. Pete left at 4½ A.M. for Barker's to help plant corn, worked till 4 P.M. Tom B. made a fuss with & undertook to beat him & Pete come home. I at home the day.

    May W. 2--Clear, pleasant day--We to S. place to see to cattle. Salted some and drove dun cow to corral. Pete lassoed and milked her, we could not find her calf, fed sow and pigs.

    Thursday 3--Clear warm day. We drove Simon's dun cow and her young calf (heifer) from S. place to this ranch, suffering with milk in her bag. Then did chores.

    F. 4--Clear warm day. Pete to S. place. Reports Hogans buy mare, has colt born last night. Saw Simon's white cow has bull calf, could not drive her. I worked in garden.

    Sa. 5--Clear warm day. Pete broke up and harrowed and laid off a part of garden & planted 5 rows corn. I did but little work, was quite feeble all day.

    S. 6--Cloudy at times & pleasant. Pete [to] town, back at 6 P.M., brought mail, a letter from my brother Simon, Newburg, Indiana, dated April 8, 1877. Simon's heifer Madcap had calf, bull.

    M. 7--Cloudy showery day. I & Pete to N. place, salted cattle, fed pigs and Pete drove horses to Mr. Cox's. I to home. Saw L. Mathews hunting his cattle in our pasture.

    T. 8--Cloudy day, some rain. We set out some cabbage plants, had a time milking heifer.

    W. 9--Partly cloudy day, no rain. We have been busy attending to cows with young calves and working in garden, trying [to] cut away the weeds so that we can plow our potatoes. Tom B. come for his dog.

    Th. 10--Clear, warm day. Washed our shirts and did chores. Pete to Simon's place, fed pigs. Cox boys called, 3 of them.

    F. 11--Clear, warm day. I & Pete to town, rode the old grays, had them shod. Paid Floed & Co. 60 dollars on acct.. paid five dollars for shoeing horses, paid for pants, overalls & socks $7.50 paid, for tea, tobacco, rope and other things, paid for all we bought.

    Saturday 12--Clear warm forenoon, cloudy. Afternoon we arrived at home from town at 1 P.M., paid Ingram one dollar for shoeing Pete's pony, second time paid. Paid George Cox one dollar & paid Hodson $1.50 for repairing gun. We are at home, thank God.

    S. 13--Some mist. Pete in search of our dog, lost from us on our way to town two days ago. Found him at Mr. Peters. Thanked Mr. P. and brought dog home. I at home all the day.

    M. 14--Cool, partly clear day. I & Pete to S. place, found Simon's blue heifer, had calf, drove them up & milked the cow. Bull calf. Worked in garden.

    T. 15--Some showers the day. I & P. to S. place, turned cattle & horses out of lower field, and drove some of our horses & some of Mr. Cox's down to his, C.'s, corral. Mr. Cox altered Simon's two-year-old colt & left Flora & Brown filly & Dolly to breed to Cox's horse. Much obliged to Mr. Cox and his sons for helping us, and for altering colt. Paid George Cox 25 cts. that he advanced for us on whetstone.

    Wednes. 16--Foggy cool morning. Partly clear after Tom. Hinkle come with wagon after their two ewes and lamb that run with ours, got them and
altered three calves for us. Mr. Cavitt called on his way to Mr. Cox's. Pete worked garden.

    Th. 17--Cold night and morning, cool wind all day. Simon's brown heifer had calf last night (heifer). Pete & I worked in garden. Our young Bobby has calf. While hunting her in pasture we jumped up band of deer, five, all bucks.

    Friday 18--Some frost this morning, quite cool, warm at noon. We to S. place, salted cattle, fed pigs & back at noon. Worked in garden and haltered & milked three heifers, Bobby's calf.

    Sa. 19--Showery forenoon, cloudy, cool after. Cavitt called to see us, he is going out in the mountains to look for gold. Our Pet heifer had calf, bull, I worked some in garden. Milked our heifers to save their bags.

    S. 20--Cool night and morning, some little rain. Pete to my son Joseph's and back without delay. I have been reading lectures on science.

    M. 21--Cool partly cloudy day, some showers on this hill. I & Joseph to town with wagon, Joseph drove. Brought out 5 sacks salt, left one at Barker's, brought out rake & barrel sugar and pitman. Rake & pitman cost $13.50, paid Henry Bowen blacksmith bill $3.50, paid Bowen for sharpening sickle to mower, one dollar, and find on calculating interest on note held on us by Mr. L. How that we owe him, bought 37 cts. worth candles. $68 due How. $68.00 sugar, shirts, salt and candles on credit. Mailed letter to Simon Lane, Newburg, Warrick County, Indiana.

    T. 22--Clear cool morning. Joseph plowed our potato patch and after dinner took some cabbage plants & left for his home. We milked our heifers & worked in garden. Loaned to Joseph S. Lane forty dollars, two $20 pieces.

    W. 23--Cool clear day. I & Pete hoed. I am suffering with sore throat, only hoed nine rows potatoes.

    Th. 24--Clear warm day. Tom Barker come to help Pete shear our sheep, fixed place, got up some sheep and sheared a dozen. Cavitt come on his way to town, left one mule here and gone. Tom Ledgerwood & wife come to see us. Jane got dinner and did some washing.

    Friday 25--Cloudy morning, some little rain the forenoon and quite showery afternoon. Cavitt come from town, took dinner with us, got his mule and left for his home, had two of his teeth pulled while in town. Tom B. & Pete sheared sheep till stopped by the rain. Clipped 37 and 7 of Peter's. Tom gone.

    Saturday 26--Partly clear, pleasant day. We Coxes I drove up to our S. place the horses [sic]. Pete to hunt heifer, found but could not drive her. I worked some in garden.

    S. 27--Partly cloudy, sprinkled rain at dusk. We to S. place, salted cattle, turned some out of orchard field, fed pigs & to home.

    M. 28--Rained some last night & some this morn, showery day. Pete washed towels & table cloth. We planted some cabbage plants and did chores. Our cow young Roany has calf.

    T. 29--Several light showers during the day. We hoed potatoes, did good work. Col. Barker come to borrow hoe. We were using it. Old bull Ben knocked down fence.

    W. 30--Some rain in the night and some this morning. Pete killed deer this morning. Showery day, did no work.

    Th. 31--Partly clear, pleasant day. Pete to town, took half deer to Mrs. Floed. I hoed potatoes. Col. Barker called. Pete at home at 6 P.M.

June 1877

    F. 1--Clear, pleasant day. We worked in garden and after dinner to S. place. Drove up Brother's old brindle cow and her young calf. Mr. Buck Cox & Mr. Hurd come and gone.

    Sa. 2--Rained some the forenoon, cloudy after. The old brindle cow that we drove home yesterday broke out of pasture and went back to S. place and brought up another calf. Thus we find that she had twins and that she was not inclined to let one remain behind & starve. She behaved like a good mother. I have been quite sick the day. Pete fell under his pony & hurt his ankle.

    S. 3--Partly cloudy, partly clear, warm day. Tom Barker & young Ingalls come, charged that my hound had killed sheep and I gave him to Ingalls. I am sure the charge was false. Pete took Dolly to Cox's.

    Monday 4--Cloudy forenoon and commenced raining at 12th. Rainy afternoon, one very hard shower. Pete left early to work on road under Cox, come back at dusk

    T. 5--Partly clear, partly cloudy day. Pete gone to work on road. I did some work in garden. Pete back at 7 P.M. Mr. Cox getting on well.

    W. 6--Some rain at daybreak this morning, none after clear sunset. Pete to work on road. Mr. Hopkins come to work, shear sheep, drove them up and sheared 18 head, that finished the flock but one. Paid him. I worked garden, did good work.

    Th. 7--Clear day. I worked in garden. Roany has calf but Pete did not find it. I did good work in garden.

    Friday 8--Clear warm day. I finished hoeing our garden, George Cox came. We rode through and looked at our meadow. Pete found and drove up our cows Pide and Roany, both had calves, bulls. G.C. gone.

    Sat. 9--Clear & warm. Pete to town to get pony shod, back at 6 P.M. I at home. Fixed up house, scalded bedstead & did chores. 

    S. 10--Very warm day. We at home all day. 

    M. 11--Clear hot day. We sacked our wool. My son Joseph come to stay the night. I have headache. Weather hot. 

    T. 12--Clear hot day. Self & Joseph to town with wagon, brought out a portion of our mower that we had taken & left to be repaired, bought underclothing, 20 lbs. coffee, left money to pay taxes & for shoeing Peter's pony, paid Bowen $4.50 for work on mower, paid $1.50 to Woodard for bell collars and paid for 3 sacks flour at $3.50 per hundred and chronometer at 75 cts., salve 25 cts., home at 7 P.M. 90 Fahrenheit. 

    W. 13--Clear warm day 80 Fahren. at 4 P.M. Joseph, self & Pete walked through our meadow. Saw deer. Timothy not fit to cut. Lafayette L. Jr. come & his pa gone. Pate & L.F. after cow, did not find her.

    Th. 14--Clear pretty day. Ther. 78 P.M. Pete to S. place, salted some cattle. I worked some in garden. Mr. Cox called. Buck after his horse. 

    F. 15--Clear, pleasant. Pete to town, brought 20 pounds rice & tea & tobacco, back at 6. I did chores. Thermometer at 2 P.M. 78.

    Saturday 16--Clear warm day, hoed in our garden & did chores. Ther. at 78, highest 78. 

    S. 17--Dash of rain in the night, sprinkled rain this morn, some fog. Antone came, had dinner & gone to Gilliland's about sheep. Remarkable phenomena at 5 P.M. Clear, or rather hazy, a very plain sundog on the south and one on the north of the sun & two rainbows, one very plain, one not very plain, above the sun. I have not before noticed the like in as clear weather as it was at the time, though in the west it was hazy. 

    M. 18--Partly clear, pleasant day. Pete to Gilliland's to help brand sheep and to get one of ours that had strayed, back at dusk. I at home, 78. 

    T. 19--Pete with Antone to Barker's to bring some sheep from B.'s land where they had been for some time. Did not find them, come home and got up our sheep & marked some. Pete killed fine forked horn buck, took ham to Mr. G., drove up Antone's sheep but could not get them in coral. At 1 P.M. 76 Fahrenheit.

    W. 20--Clear cool morning, ther. at 46 at s.rise. Antone & Pete after a sheep. Pete come in at 9 A.M., could not drive them. Then Pete to Joseph's, took quarter venison and to tell Jo to come to help haying. Antone stayed with his sheep. 

    Th. 21--Clear morning, hazy at noon, cloudy raining at dusk. Pete & my grandson Lafayette started after two cows & calves that run at Ledgerwood's, made the trip 11 miles there and were back with the cattle at 4 P.M. 22 miles, good trip, good work. Our old cow Bobby had calf this morning, bull. Antone drove up his sheep & we got our wether & put him in pasture with our sheep.

    Friday 22--Rained all night & raining some this morning, some showers the forenoon. Clear sunset. Pete & slept some, did no work. Tem. 60.

    Sa. 23--Partly clear, partly hazy, some very little rain. Pete [to] S. place and then to Livingston's after cattle, drove them to S. place, got our mail at Mr. Cox's and back at 4 P.M. I at home, worked in garden. Whitsett & Bond killed deer near our spring, gave us half.

    S. 24--Rained some in the night and some showers the day. Tom B. come, he & Pete went hunting, did nothing. Temperature 56.

    M. 25--Partly clear, partly hazy. My son Joseph come and hitched horses to our mower & cut a few rounds to see if all was right & then tried our new rake. I feared rain and stopped work. Ther. 60.

    T. 26--Rained some in the night, showery day, considerable has fell the day. We did no work. Fine growing season. Temperature 54.

    Wednes. 27--Rained all night & has rained slowly all this day. Very unusual for this season of the year. Mr. Whitsett called to see us. Thur. 56 at 1 P.M.

    Th. 28--Rained all last night and has rained all this day till now 12 M. Thermometer 58 at 12 M. Showery afternoon.

    F. 29--Cloudy night, some rain, showery, rainy day. We hoed some late potatoes. Pete killed a 3-prong buck and packed him from our wheat field. Tem. at 12 56.

    Sa. 30--Partly clear day, Th. at noon 60. Pete to town to take three-quarters of his 3-prong buck to our children, back at 2½ P.M.

July 1877

    Sunday 1--Hazy forenoon, partly cloudy after. Cloudy sunset. This is Peter's birthday, 15 years old. Mr. C.'s big red steer has broke one of his horns. I am sorry. We salted him.

    M. 2--Partly clear, partly cloudy, some showers. We walked through our meadow, found our grass ready to cut.We did no work.

    T. 3--Cloudy showery day, rained quite hard at times. Grandson L.F.L. come and borrow our wagon & gone. Mr. Cavitt come. We are glad.

    W. 4--Clear, pleasant day. Cavitt, Pete & myself to Roseburg to join in celebrating the day. Large collection of people. Judge Beady made a good speech. I had the pleasure of seeing Mrs. Deady and two of her sons, had pleasant conversation with the Judge & Mrs. Deady, was very glad to see them. Many portions of his speech were very good. I &  Pete home at sunset.

    Th. 5--Partly clear partly cloudy & some thunder. After dinner I & Pete with mower & the old grays to our hay field. Commenced cutting our grass, find it very heavy. I have not often seen better timothy. Stands very thick & tall. Joseph come at 6½ P.M., heavy rain for a time.

    F. 6--Cloudy morning. Jos. gone home. I & Pete to field. Pete cut very little grass with scythe, killed two rattlesnakes and found the grass too wet to cut.

    Sa. 7--Clear warm day. We cut with mower, finished lower piece of oat & timothy hay, did good work.

    S. 8--Cold hot day. We at home all day. Joseph come to help us haying.

    Monday 9--Heavy fog on this morning. I am not feeling well. Joseph, Pete & self to work in meadow, Pete driving, broke tongue of mower. Joseph to town with wagon and broken tongue, had a new made & bought new mower & back at sunset. Mrs. Joseph & children come to see [us] got us good dinner & gone. L.F.L. & Pete raked hay & L.F. gone.

    T. 10--Rained in the night and rained some this morning. Did no work till after dinner, then hitched onto the new mower, Joseph driving for a while then Pete drove & Jo to Cox's. Mower works well, we are pleased with it. Pete drove & cut 2 acres.

    W. 11--Clear warm day. Pete with the old grays and new mower finished 4-acre piece & cut two acres on the 9-acre piece. Joseph raked hay, broke our new rake & then broke the old one.

    Th. 12--Clear warm day. Cavitt commenced work, him & Jo repaired rake. After dinner Mr. Cavitt cocked hay, Jo do. & I & Pete cut with mower, did good work. I pitched hay out of the way of mower.

    F. 13--Clear, warm, 78 at noon. Cavitt cocked hay. Joseph do. till noon then raked hay. Pete with mower finished 9-acre lot & the 3-acre lot. I with them all day, did good work.

    Sa. 14--Clear warm day. Pete finished cutting all on the left of gate & Jo raked all that was cut. Mr. Cavitt put up in shocks. I looked on.

    S. 15--Clear warm forenoon. Thunder storm in the afternoon, considerable rain. Pete to town & back at dusk. We cut the grass in orchard meadow. Mr. Cavitt repaired door.

    M. 16--Joseph & Lafayette come. Joseph with old grays & mower gone. Mr. Cavitt, L.F. & Pete put up hay. I did cooking. Thunder, lightning and rain at 6 P.M., some rain in the night.

    T. 17--Partly cloudy morning. Clear after 9 A.M. We opened door in barn and put out the straw, and then C. to shocking hay & Lafayette & Pete to N.P. place with wagon after bedstead. Brought up one of our sheep from Mr. Barker's. Sheared it and put it with our sheep.

    W. 18--Foggy morning. Clear after 11. Lafayette raked hay in orchard meadow. Cavitt repaired hay rack and fixed for hauling, hauled two ½ loads out of this orchard meadow and put in barn then to field loaded on one load & broke boom pole and quit.

    Th. 19--Clear warm day. Mr. Cavitt, L.F. & Pete hauling hay, 3 loads before dinner, two after and Lafayette to Mr. Cox's, where he stayed all night.

    F. 20--Clear morning, hazy afternoon, looks like rain. Lafayette was late getting here with team, hauled two loads before dinner. Cavitt mowed till L.F. come. Joseph come at noon with old grays & mower. Then hauled hay.

    Sa. 21--Foggy misty forenoon, pleasant after. Cavitt, Jo & Pete hauled hay. Jo got mad at Pete & struck at him twice with pitchfork, acted badly. I stopped it, did good work.

    Sunday 22--Pleasant day. Pete to Oak Creek Church. Mr. Cavitt & myself at home all day. Capt. Cross called. I sold to him grindstone for $3.50, to be paid very soon.

    M. 23--Joseph with mower cut our 8-acre piece. Timothy Cavitt built crib at barn under shed & propped timbers holding plates. Mr. Hughes & McKean from Cal. & Mr. Poe of this county called to stay the night.

    T. 24--Mr. Cavitt gone with the above named gentlemen to look for homesteads. Jo & Pete hauled four loads hay. I am unwell.

    W. 25--Joseph raked hay, broke our rake. Cavitt come at noon, he & Jo made rake. Jo finished raking, Cavitt put hay in shocks. The gentlemen that went with Cavitt come to stay the night with us.

    Th. 26--Clear afternoon & forenoon. Cavitt, Jo & Pete hauled 3 loads hay. Afternoon Jo & Pete hauled 2 loads & Pete killed fine forked horn buck. Cavitt finished shocking hay. Pete drove off sheep. Mr. Hughes, McKean & Poe gone, two first named for their homes in California.

    F. 27--Clear warm day. We all hauled hay, had bad luck. turned over the wagon with heavy load hay & then had load to slip off, bad luck. Cavitt, Jo, Pete & self [omission]

    Sa. 28--Cavitt, Joseph, Pete & self hauled 4 loads 4 loads, hay & made road across lower end of upper field, plowed & scraped and leveled, not done.

    S. 29--Clear cool day. Pete to town, back at 11 P.M. Cavitt to Cox's & back and then to his home, done working for us.

    Monday 30--Clear & cool. Joseph, Lafayette & Pete hauled hay, 5 loads. I along to see to it, did good work. Jos. come last eve, Lafayette this morning.

    T. 31--Clear warm day. Jos., Lafayette & Pete a part of the time hauled 5 loads hay to old barn near the house. I did chores, cooked dinner.

August 1877

    August 1--Clear day, cloudy at sunset. 74 Fahrenheit. Joseph & his son Lafayette hauled four loads 4 loads, filled old barn quite full. Pete stacked in barn, all did good work.

    Thursday 2--Cool & partly cloudy afternoon, some rain, raining very little now at 9 P.M. Joseph & L.F. hauled two loads, filled all of our barns & quit. Some 8 or ten loads to haul yet. Cavitt sawed two cuts off of our cedar log & found that boards could not be made out of it. Then we went to open road to boards he made 2 years ago. John Woodard come to tell us that my granddaughter Mrs. Fenner died today at noon. We will go tomorrow.

    F. 3--Clear partly warm. I & Pete to town to attend funeral. Pete returned home, I remained in town. Mrs. Hogan had several very sick spells, all the family takes the death of Emma very hard. Corpse looks very natural, she was as good a woman as any can be.

    Sa. 4--Clear warm. Remains of my granddaughter escorted to Catholic church at 10 A.M. Church very crowded, funeral service by Father Heinrich, quite impressive. From church large procession to Catholic burying ground. Ceremony concluded and remains placed in their final resting place, while we trust & believe that her pure spirit rest in peace in God's holy kingdom. Fenner come home with me, arrived at 6.

    Sunday 5--Clear warm day. Mr. Floed & Mr. Fenner come to see us. Pleasant visit with what we had prepared & that they brought with them we had decidedly a good dinner. At 3 o'clock they left for their homes, Mr. Fenner with them. Mr. Cavitt left for his mountain home.

    Monday 6--Clear warm day up to 86. Pete worked on road. I looked after our pigs put up our old sow hog, very poor

    T. 7--Clear, hot, temperature 84. Pete & myself to Simon's place. Salted some cattle and with the help of Cam & John Cox caught Mr. Hogan's mares and brought them up, put in little pasture and fed to them some hay. Turned little Betty and her calf out of pasture, to the woods.

    W. 8--Clear hot day. We did no work. Pete went hunting, saw no deer. Cam C. called, hunting cattle.

    Th. 9--Foggy forenoon, clear after, we chopped some logs to build between barns to put hay in. Will haul tomorrow.

    F. 10--Clear hot day, 90 Fahr. We hauled our barn logs & did chores, too hot to work.

    Sa. 11--Clear morning but smoky. Pete has gone to town on Hogan's mare. She downed him twice on the trip, back at 7 P.M. Warm, 90 Fahr.

    Sunday 12--Clear & warm, 88. Mrs. Floed, Miss Vinnie & Miss Maggy & Fred & Mr. Fenner come to see us, we were glad. Made us good dinner, pleasant time. Left us at 4 P.M.

    Monday 13--Clear warm, 88 Fahr. We did chores drove large band sheep through gate. I not well.

    T. 14--Clear cool morning, some smoke. We did but little.

    W. 15--Clear warm day. Tom Barker come with wagon & team to haul hay to town for Mr. Hogan. Mrs. Floed, Mrs. Hogan, Miss Annie Shelby, Miss Vinnie & Miss Maggy Floed & Fred Floed come to stay a while with us. We are very glad, hope that they will be comfortable. Creed & George Flet drove them up in two buggies & gone.

    Th. 16--Clear warm day. We did but little, Pete to town & back to Barker's where Fred met him with horse to ride up, girls along taking ride.

    F. 17--Clear warm cloud in eve passed east of us, some lightning, rained a few drops in the night. We hauled one load hay and two of wood. Tom Barker come & hauled two loads hay. Pete, Fred & Vinnie out riding after cows.

    Sa. 18--Clear morning, rained very little the last nigh. Pete gone to town to take Mr. Hogan's two mares, back at dusk. Fred took horse to Barker's for Pete [to] ride home.

    Sunday 19--Foy & Hall come in buggy here at 6 A.M. out hunting. Mr. Fenner in buggy brought Mrs. Shelby, Mrs. Haynes & 3 children, here at 10. Mr. Hogan come in buggy here at 11. Very pleasant day, all gone at 4 P.M., warm day.

    M. 20--Clear, warm. Mr. George Cox come and after dinner helped us build between barns to put hay.

    T. 21--Foggy damp morning George Cox, Pete & myself finished hauling our hay, 4 loads. Mr. Gilliland come hunting his sheep, paid G.C. $2.25 for work. At 7 P.M. Mr. Floed & my son Simon R. come. Very glad to see them, had not seen my son for a year. He is in good health, his family come and have gone to see her father, Mr. Drain.

    W. 22--Some fog this morning. Mr. Floed, Simon & Vinnie gone to town at 7 A.M. George & Cam Cox drove up their horses, turned Simon's brown filly with them.

    Th. 23--Pleasant day, looks like rain. Mr. Hogan and my son L.F. come and with two of L.F.'s children, Rose & Arthur, glad to see them, gone at 4 P.M., Maggie with them. Pete & Fred to down on old grays, back at 8 P.M.

    F. 24--Hard wind and considerable rain last night, showery day, raining now at 9 P.M. We hauled some firewood, 3 loads. Cavitt called on his way home, had dinner & gone.

    Sa. 25--Showery night, some very light showers this morning, have written letter to Judge Deady. Afternoon I & Pete to town in Mr. Hogan's buggy. Stayed all night in town with the view of attending church. Saw Mary of Burgundy acted by Mrs. Milton, played so-so.

    S. 26--Clear warm day, called on our good old Bishop Blanchet at Champarque, found him quite sick. But did attend church and confirmed 13 new members, he was however quite sick and feeble. We come home, arrived at 4 P.M. found Fenner ready to start to town with Mr. Hogan, Mrs. Floed, all well to home.

    Monday 27--Clear beautiful day. Mr. Hogan and wife left for town in their buggy at 7 A.M. Mr. Cavitt come, brought Pete's pony, took dinner & gone to Mr. Cox's.

    T. 28--Clear warm day. Mr. Gilliland come & Pete went with him to look for sheep. Fred & girls rode down to N. place. I had headache.

    W. 29--Cloudy morning and day. We hauled firewood. Granddaughters helped us & burnt brush. Fred helped us, hauled 5 loads.

    Th. 30--Cloudy morning. cool. We will haul firewood. hauled four loads. Fred to town, back at s.set.

    F. 31--Clear hot day. We did no work. Fred & Pete to creek, caught 15 fish, granddaughters Vinnie & Maggie to creek.

September 1877

    September 1--Clear hot day. Thermometer at 90. Mr. Hogan, my daughter Mrs. Shelby and grandson La Fayette Lane come to see me, drove up in buggy, friends well in town.

    S. 2--Clear warm morning. Warm day, Mr. Fenner and Foy come in buggy to see us. Grandson Creed come, all took dinner and gone. Pete to N. place, found cattle had broke into barn and destroyed 10 tons hay.

    M. 3--Clear hot day, 82 Fahr. I and Pete to N. place, built fence round barn, good job, don't think cattle can get in.

    T. 4--Clear afternoon. Fred & Vinnie to town, brought for me knife & can powder, all paid for. We & Pete hauled firewood.

    W. 5--Warm day, 82. I had headache. Pete drove sheep off our place & he & F.C. brought up old cow that Barker said got in their field.

    Thursday 6--Foggy cool morning. Clear at 10. We worked at repairing fence. Old bull Davy gives us some trouble.

    F. 7--Clear warm day, up to 80. I did no work. Pete twice to Simon's place, brought up old Pide cow. Fred F. off for town afoot or in other words to walk to town, good long walk.

    Sa. 8--Clear warm day, up to 80. Pete to S. place, Jesse Barker with him, brought up old cow. Mr. Hogan come from town in buggy, Fred with him, made his walk yesterday without trouble. Well done, Fred. I did no work.

    S. 9--Clear beautiful day till 5 P.M. Cloud in west & south. Our friends, Father Heinrich, Mr. Fenner, Mrs. L.F. Lane and her children, and Miss Winifred Mosher, Mr. Cox and wife, Mr. Cam Cox, my sons Simon & Joseph come to see us. All left in the afternoon. Mrs. Floed & Mrs. Hogan gone took my little great-granddaughter. I am uneasy about the little one. I was very much pleased with the acting of my little granddaughter Lorena Lafayette, youngest daughter 24 years old. I never saw one of her age so smart or that could act so well. God bless her and all my children & grandchildren and great-grandchildren, daughters in law & sons in law. Amen.

    M. 10--Commenced raining as dark last night and rained quite hard at times, some hard showers the day. I & Pete to Barker's, Pete shot beef for him. We brought piece and one old cow. Cavitt come, Cam Cox brought letter from Simon & Emily.

    Tuesday 11--Some rain in the night and some the day. We did but little. Fred, F. and Lafayette L. come, saw a wildcat, got Pete & dogs, went back, dogs treed it and they shot & killed it. Good job. Saved lambs.

    W. 12--Rained quite hard in the night and some little this morning. Mr. Hogan come in buggy and took two of my granddaughters to their homes, i.e., Miss W. Mosher & Miss Vinnie Floed. I wrote to my son Simon.

    Th. 13--Rained some little in the night and misting this morning. Mr. Bushy come in buggy and took to town Mrs. Shelby, Maggie Floed & Fred Floed. Myself & Pete are now alone. Mr. Cavitt called on his way home, took dinner with us & gone. Some mist.

    F. 14--Cloudy & some mist. Pete restaked and ridered some fence near our old house and did chores.

    Sa. 15--Some mist this morning fine growing weather. Pete killed spike buck and packed it to the house to be butchered, did no work the day.

    S. 16--Foggy morning, some mist. Clear & warm at noon. Pete has gone out with my rifle, brought word that the Barkers had clogged [dogged?] our cattle down the road past Cox's.

    M. 17--Clear warm day. I & Pete off early after our cattle. Pete found them near John Price's, drove back to Simon's place and then drove some of Barker's sheep and put them in his, B.'s, pasture.

    T. 18--Clear warm day. I & Pete with wagon to town, paid to Isaac Jones $5.75 for bran chicken feed & one sack flour, got $20 of Floed, paid blacksmith $5, Floed $20.

    Wednesday 19--Clear warm day. Pete off early to S. place, and then to Mathews and got Leander to come to help us put up fence. They both hunted cattle half day, half day for Leander. I did chores.

    Thursday 20--Clear morning, cloudy afternoon and commenced raining at 3 P.M. and rained all the evening, fine rain. L.M., Pete & myself worked putting up fence at Simon's place, repaired fence on roadside from Barker's fence to the upper end, good work. I paid Leander $1.50.

    F. 21--Clear, pleasant day, forenoon hunted our horse Dick, afternoon we to Cox's to look for cattle, back at sunset.

    Sa. 22--Clear, pleasant day. We did but little work, repaired some fence and tried to get hogs out of field,

    Sunday 23--Clear, pleasant day, cloud in mist at sunset. Pete to Mr. Cox's after our mail. I at home all the day.

    M. 24--Some rain in the last night, got our hogs out of the field & repaired fence. Pete hauled two loads rails. Cloud in the West N.W. at sunset.

    T. 25--Partly cloudy forenoon, rainy after. I & Pete to town after wagonload of beans & shorts, found it very slippery & hard on our horses getting up the mountain. Barker's team hauled as far as his house, 4 sacks salt for us and we left with them B.'s, 2 sacks shorts, 1 grain.

    W. 26--Partly cloudy. We did but little work, Mr. Gil Harper called, agreed to make some shingles to repair our old house top.

    Thursday 27--Cloudy warm day. We with wagon to Barker's to bring some salt 4 sacks & three sacks shorts one of the 3 grain for chicken feed, then got up 6 shorts to fatten for [illegible] meat, been quite busy.

    F. 28--Rained in night and showers at times the day. We made an addition to our pig pen that the hogs can pass from one to the other and attended to our stock.

    Sa. 29--Rained at times quite hard last night and some this morning. Clear & pleasant after. John Cox come hunting hogs & horses after dinner, he & Pete went out & Pete killed nice little deer, fawn buck, one half to John, backbone half to Pete. I did chores, been quite busy, am tired.

    S. 30--Partly clear day, cloudy at sunset. Pete out looking for cattle & to Mr. Cox's after our mail. I spent the day reading.

October 1877

    M. October 1--Rained at times quite hard in the night and frequent hard showers throughout this day, much rain fell, some thunder in the evening. Pete went hunting, thinks he saw elk.

    T. 2--Partly cloudy, partly clear day. I to town with wagon & old grays. dined & slept at Floed's and slept at my son Lafayette's. Paid Jones 25 dollars for one ton shorts. To Floed & Co. 2.80 for sacks and paid to E. Livingston $158 for cattle that my brother purchased of him.

    W. 3--Cloudy morning and day. Breakfasted with my son L.F. & family, hitched up my team, drove to mill, took 1000 pounds shorts (11 sacks) and set out for home at 9 A.M., met Pete at or near big bridge, come with me, got home at 4 P.M., had to put out 6 sacks to enable us to get up the hill, went back, brought up balance all right. Commenced raining hard at 7 P.M., raining now 10 P.M.
October 1877

    Thursday 4--Rained in the night, showery day. Attended to our hogs & cows. Pete out hunting, found no deer.

    F. 5--No rain the last night, none this day, pleasant. Pete to N. place, salted our cattle & back. I am not well.

    Sa. 6--Partly clear warm day. We have been quite busy feeding our fattening hogs, fixed stable & put up our old brindle cow from her twins. Will fatten her for market can't keep her, she is bad fence breaker. Pete dug some potatoes.

    S. 7--Clear warm day. Pete & self to Cox's with wagon, brought up six sacks shorts that that John Cox had brought that far for us.

    M. 8--Clear warm day. We have been busy feeding and digging potatoes.

    T. 9--Some fog this morning, some mist. We have been busy attending to our pigs, cows and digging potatoes. Potatoes of the Jenny kind are larger than any we ever saw. Quite warm day.

    W. 10--Cloudy forenoon, rainy afternoon. We sacked 19 sacks potatoes, piled and covered them with boards. Considerable rain fell during the afternoon.

    Th. 11--Considerable rain fell last night. Damp atmosphere all day but no rain, partly clear. Mr. Cavitt come to stay the night with us. We were very glad to see him.

    F. 12--I hauled five sacks shorts from Cox's. Pete to Gill Harper's to see about shingles. Cavitt gone, some rain in the evening.

    Saturday 13--I to town with wagon, road slippery & heavy, stayed all night at L.F., pleasant day. Paid to my daughter-in-law $25 borrowed of my son L.F. while he was at Washington. Paid to Floed & Co. for flour, coffee and other things $25, paid Sheridan $3 for yank tub, to Farrow for ax $2, for beef $1.

    Sunday 14--Foggy morning, clear after. Left town at 9 A.M., grandson Ratliff come with me. Stopped at Millie's, had lunch got sack corn 50 cts. Met Pete at Barker's gate, home at 4. Horses tired. Ratliff come.

    M. 15--Foggy, cool morning. Ratliff & self to S. place, looked round the fields, salted my cattle & I to home, Ratliff to town. Mr. Gillian come at dusk To tell us that Buck Cox was dead, died at 2 A.M. this morning. May God bring his soul to rest in peace is my earnest prayer. Amen. Mr. Cavitt has come to help us get our firewood.

    T. 16--Clear warm day. Mr. Cavitt commenced chopping wood, chopped all day, did good work. Pete chopped till noon. Grandson Ratliff come & gone. I did chores.

    W. 17--Clear warm day. Cavitt chopped till noon & then helped get mules & horses out of our field. Then we killed beef, fat & fine, dressed it beautifully. Then put up field fence where horses broke in.

    Th. 18--Clear warm day. Mr. Cavitt chopped wood till noon then helped cut and salt beef and then took some of fat calf to Mr. Cox & come to Mr. Willis's. Pete took some to my son Joseph. Joe come with [us] to stay the night.

    F. 19--Clear warm day. Mr. Cavitt from Mr. Cox's here at daybreak, chopped wood all day. Pete hauled 4 loads & got two horses out of field. Joseph to town.

    Saturday 20--I & Pete to Gill Harper's with wagon after shingles, got 1250 & back at 2 P.M., paid for them $50, found road quite rough. Mr. Cavitt chopped firewood. My nephew John Lane of Indiana come to see us, stayed only short time and off to town.

    S. 21--Hazy forenoon, one hard shower the afternoon, I spent a portion of the [day] very pleasantly at Mr. Cox's. The Misses Burnett, Miss Gilliland & Miss Frances Cox and others were there. At home at 4 P.M. Mr. George C. come to stay the night.

    M. 22--Cloudy showery day. I, Pete & George Cox started to toll & drive eight hogs to town contracted to Isaac Jones, got as far as Anderson's when two of them concluded to go back and did as far as Willis's. We turned back the others and left them at W. & come home. Cavitt come at 3 P.M., walked from his home.

    T. 23--Rained some this day. I & Pete left early for Willis's to take our hogs to town. George Cox helped us, delivered them to Jones, that is 7 of them at 7.50 per head. paid me $2.50 and owes me fifty dollars to be paid in three or four weeks. Paid George Cox $1.50 for going with us. Cavitt chopped wood & fed hogs, cows &c.

    W. 24--I & Pete stayed in town last night, paid one dollar for shoeing horses, 1.50 at stable, $9 for saddle, $1 for tobacco, 50 cts. for lead & caps, home at 2 P.M. Mr. Cavitt chopped wood & fed. Rainy at times, raining now 10 P.M.

    Th. 25--Showery day. Cavitt chopped wood the forenoon. I did not work the afternoon. We did chores.

    F. 26--Cloudy, showery day. Cavitt chopped firewood all this day. Pete chopped & split wood. I turned out one of our fattening hogs, getting heavy, Cam Cox called.

    Sa. 27--Showery. Self, Cavitt and Pete killed and dressed two of our hogs all before dinner, rainy after. Did no work.

    S. 28--Partly clear, cool day. Self & Cavitt at home all day. Obe Whitsett called. Pete to Cox's after mail, back at 3 P.M.

    M. 29--Clear morning, hard frost Thermometer at 32. Clear day. Cavitt repaired roof on our old house, put on 400 new shingle,s good job, good day's work. Pete assisted, I did chores.

    T. 30--Cold morning, hard frost, ther. 30. Clear, pleasant day. Cavitt hauled 11 loads firewood, Pete helped, good work. I did chores, felt very sore, can't work much.

    W. 31--Frost, clear warm day. Cavitt hauled wood, good work.

November 1877

    Thursday 1--Warm clear forenoon, hazy after, cloud at sunset. Fixing for rain. Cavitt & Pete dug and hauled potatoes. I was quite unwell. Cavitt finished work, done.

    Friday 2--Rained in the night, showery morning and day. Cavitt gone to his home, L.F. Ingalls come, took his slut dog & gone. John Cox called. I & Pete worked generally.

    Sa. 3--Cloudy night and some showers the day. Pete to town, brought soap, pills and tobacco, and four dollars from Floed & Co. and four dollars from Mr. Willis toward hog we sold him, $3.50 due. I rendered hard and tallow, been very busy and am tired.

    Sunday 4--Cloudy with some rain and hard wind in the afternoon. Mr. Fenner, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Dry, Mr. Wright, Lane & Jew come from town to see us. Mr. F. Dillard, George and Cam & John Cox come from home to see us. We were delighted, all took dinner with us, did the best we could for them, all left happy & I do., were pleased. Mr. Cavitt come after dark wet & cold to stay with us.

    Monday 5--Rained with hard wind all night and rained all the forenoon and some in the afternoon of this day, large amount of water fell last night & today. Mr. C. still with us. Paid Cavitt in full for his work, Cavitt & I square.

    Tuesday 6--Some rain the day, warm. Mr. Cavitt to town, back at dark with his mule packed with flour & other supplies for the winter.

    W. 7--Clear warm day, Cavitt off early with his packs for his home. I & Pete repaired gate & did chores, beautiful day.

    Thursday 8--Warm and partly cloudy. Barker, Hinkle, Pete and other boys out hunting bear with band of dogs, started a wolf and run him a while and come in. Pete fixed bars. I did chores.

    F. 9--Cloudy warm day. Mr. Cox, Cam & John come. Took some of their horses & gone. Pete put up apples. I did chores.

    Sa. 10--Warm cloudy forenoon, rainy after. Pete to town after our mail, back after dark. I have been quite busy all the day.

    S. 11--Pleasant forenoon, rainy afternoon. Pete out pretending to hunt, back at sunset. I at home all the day.

    M. 12--Partly clear, partly cloudy. Pete picked & put up apples. My son La Fayette 35 years old this day.

    T. 13--Rainy day. Cam Cox & John Lane come, took dinner and gone. We did but little. Quite heavy showers at times.

    W. 14--Rained for part of last night and some this morn. Mr. Pryor called, bought book of him. Cloudy, windy & cool at sunset.

    Thursday 15--Some showers the day. John Lane, Mr. Caro & Mr. Cam Cox come to see & spend the night with us. Mr. John Lane rented this [sic] ranch to Mr. Cam Cox for two years at the price of $600, and Cox to do work on the fence to the amt. $66, $300 to be paid at the end of the year 1878, and $300 to be paid at the end of the year 1879 & to be delivered to Cam in good order or to have refusal of renting if the said Lane wishes to rent it. Lane has also sold to said Cox 40 head cattle for $330 to be paid one year from next May and if there are more than 40 cattle to be paid pro rata, if less than 40 to be deducted pro rata from the rent.

    Friday 16--Rainy night, rainy morning and day. Mr. Cox, Mr. Caro & Mr. John Lane off early this morning. I & Pete fed our cattle & horses and did chores.

    Sa. 17--Hard wind and rain last night, rain with brisk wind all the day. We fed & did chores, heard firing of anvil or gun at Roseburg.

    Sunday 18--Cloudy, pleasant day, Pete killed spike buck and took ham to Mr. Cox. I to Mr. Cox's and back at sunset, no rain the day.

    Monday 19--Large amt. of rain fell last night, rainy day with some hail. Grandson L.F. Lane called to see us, all well at his home. Clear now at 10 P.M. Pete out but saw no deer.

    T. 20--Some frost this morning, Hazy, pleasant day. Pete & self been busy, put cattle out of field & put up fence, Cam Cox come, drove up Hogan's mares & put them up to feed.

    W. 21--Windy cool night, windy day, commenced raining at 5 P.M. with hard wind, fair prospect of a rainy windy night. Cam Cox helped us kill our 3 fat hogs, have them hanging in our smoke house, will cut & salt them tomorrow, good job.
    We sold & delivered to Cam Cox 33 wethers and 25 ewes at $2 per head, and put the ewes in little pasture, wethers in big pasture.

    Th. 22--Rained very hard last night and this morning and more or less all day, hard wind all the time. Cam Cox & Pete drove two steers to Mr. Cox's, one of the Simon steers, one of Cox's.

    F. 23--Rainy night and showery day. Pete to S. place to salt cattle. Grandson Ratliff come to stay all night, I at home all the day, did chores.

    Saturday 24--Cloudy, pleasant day. Pete to town, back at dark, brought mail. Ratliff remained with me all the day.

    S. 25--Rained all night, some mist this morning, partly clear after. I & Pete drove lot of sheep in to Barker's pasture and put up fence where blown down. C. come, we recounted sheep and found our count correct. 33 & 25 making 58, one of the ewes has young lamb, found all the hogs. Ratliff gone.

    M. 26--Partly foggy, partly clear, no rain. Pete dug 3 sacks potatoes, I did chores.

    T. 27--Foggy forenoon, clear and warm after. Pete took a run today, Barker's and perhaps other places, queer unreliable boy, dug some potatoes. I have been sick all the day.

    W. 28--Some frost this morning. Clear calm, warm day. I rendered out our lard. Pete dug some potatoes, fed cattle and did chores.

    Th. 29--Cloudy, some showers. Pete dug potatoes. I fed & did chores. Harry Barker & Tom B. called after dark and gone again.

    F. 30--Cloudy warm day. Pete to Barker's and Cox's, back at dusk. Mr. Gilliland called to tell us that our horses [were] in his pasture.

December 1877

    December 1--Cloudy cool day, very little rain. Pete to G.'s after our horses, drove them home at noon. Cam C. called and at dusk he & my nephew John Lane come to spend the night with us.

    Sunday 2--Cloudy day, some light showers. John & Cam left after breakfast. I left at noon for town, arrived at alt 4 P.M., took dinner at Floed's & slept at my son L.F.'s.

    M. 3--Partly clear and cool. I called on Isaac Jones, he paid to me $30, owes me $20, to be paid when I call for it. Paid $7 to Langenberg for shoes, $2 to Floed & Co. for socks & overalls & one to Wright for horse & $2.50 for [illegible], home at 4 P.M. Sam Cavitt at Cox's. Rained considerable last night.

    Tuesday 4. Quite hard frost this morning. Thermometer 25. partly clear day, cool. Pete is quite sick with a very bad cold and bad cough. We fed & did chores. Cavitt called & gone to his home.

    W. 5--Some frost this morning, therm. 36, partly clear, pleasant day. Tom B. drove some of Antone's sheep and put them through gate. We heard from Tom B. that Tom Livingston was buried today, died from cut on his foot. We are sorry, was good boy.

    Th. 6--Partly clear warm day. Pete quite sick with cold and cough. He drove a band of Antone's sheep, 4 put through gate. I did chores.

    F. 7--Partly clear warm. Pete took pills last night, is some better. I to Barker's to see about sheep but they were not up, come home. Hinkle Sr. was there, also Tom H. and his son. Saw Ingalls, he will not come.

    Sa. 8--Cloudy forenoon, rainy evening, rainy now at 10. Mr. Pryor stopped with us this afternoon and night. Pete to Mr. Barker's. Henry brought up our two sheep. Bought of Mr. Pryor 2 books, $4.50.

    S. 9--Partly clear warm day. Pryor gone. We did chores. Cavitt come & gone to Cox's. Self & Pete sick.

    M. 10--Partly clear, some cooler than yesterday. Pete still sick. I am not well. Rain last night.

    T. 11--Clear, pleasant day. Pete took old brindle cow to field and put up some fence. I did chores, Not well, nor is Pete.

    W. 12--Partly cloudy, cool morning. Antone passed by with 25 of his sheep, been grazing on this ranch. Cam Cox come with 197 head of sheep, 4 did not go in to field. We did chores.

    Th. 13--Pleasant, clear day. Cam, Pete & self to S. place, drove up & delivered to Cam Cox 9 head cattle, bell cow & calf, white cow calf & red star & white face steer & two Pidey steers & roan known as Warty.

    Friday 14--This has been clear warm pretty day. And this is my birth day. Now 76 years old. We have been very busy, drove up and delivered to Cam Cox 11 head cattle, 3 cows & 3 calves, high horn red steer, muley steer, Pidey steer red with some white hairs & roan heifer, making 11 head. Six head he drove home, 5 head in field, delivered in all up to this day 31 head. He has gone home.

    Sa. 15--Warm partly cloudy day. Pete to town brought mail, tobacco & rice and hat for himself. I quite busy all day.

    S. 16--Cloudy warm day, 60 Fahrenheit. We at home. Joseph come to see us. Is in trouble, has to sell his ranch. Owes Marks & Co. $3000 store debt. Bad management. Never heard anything like it. Jews have got him, gone in.

    M. 17--Rainy day. We fed a few of our cows and did chores. Cam & John Cox called, were after cattle found & drove some to their home. Henry Barker called, told us that he got the old buck that Pete shot in our pasture, had give him a death shot.

    T. 18--Cool morning, some fog & some mist. Pete had started to hunt cattle but come back from Mr. Gilliland's to let me know that Mr. Willis was dying. I went down and found him very low. Cannot last but a few hours.

    W. 19--Rained in the night and some the day. Found Mr. Willis much improved, back at 3 P.M., busy till night. Pete drove sheep through gate, hunted cattle.

    Th.--20--Cloudy, pleasant day. We hauled some rails. Cam Cox come & turned his sheep out of field into pasture. Col. Barker called, reported Mr. Willis improving.

    Fri. 21--Hard rain last night. Hazy forenoon, clear after. I to Mr. Gilliland's to see Mr. Willis, found him improving, back at sunset. Pete out hunting, saw no game.

    Sa. 22--Rained in the night and occasionally all the day raining. Now at 5 P.M. hard wind at times. Pete out after horses, got them up at sundown. Sent old Charly to Joseph by Barker. Jo wants to work him. Last of Charly.

    Sunday 23--Some snow in the night and snowing this morning, snow or mist of rain all day did not lie on the ground at the house but is 4 inches deep east of field. Tom B. & Pete hunting, saw wildcats, dogs failed to tree them. Cavitt come to stay the night.

    M. 24--Cloudy night, morning and day, ther. 36. Pete off to town early. Cam to Cox's. I fed cattle. Eight of Brother's cattle up, to wit, dun steer, white steer, Staghorn red steer & red roan steer, red cow & her heifer yearling and Peggy & her steer calf. Peggy is pidey and her calf do. Red cow's yearling is red with white in her face. All these now belong to Cam Cox.

    Tuesday 25--Partly clear, partly hazy, ther. 38 all day. Cavitt took Christmas breakfast with us, and gone to his home. Self and Pete spent the day taking care of sheep and cattle, put up Cam Cox's cow Peggy & calf and found 7 of his lambs had been killed, wolf, cougar or dogs did the work. Had good dinner. Pete to Cox's after strychnine.

    W. 26--Partly clear. We feed our calves and some of cows. Shot our dog Spring. Mr. Ingalls and his two daughters come to see us, the girls got dinner, washed up dishes, put things to rights and left. We wished they had stayed. John Cox & Antone called, found that wolf had eat strychnine put in lamb and gone off to die as they think.

    Th. 27--Big frost this morning. Clear, pleasant day, thermom. at noon 38, 32 at daylight. Self & Pete chopped down old pine tree and commenced chopping it up. Pete some time taking care of Cam's ewes.

    F. 28--Hard frost this morning. Nearly off by sundown, though foggy all the day. Cam C. come and turned his sheep out of field, at night corraled them in barn yard. We fed cattle and chopped firewood.

    Sa. 29--Hard frost this morning, 26 Fahrenheit, 32 at noon, 30 at 3 P.M. We hauled firewood, Cam helped 3 loads, I & Pete 2. chopped, Pete hauled. Antone called, found some of his sheep & drove them off. Cam gone home. I & Pete home. Dense fog all day. Pet brindle heifer come, heifer calf.

    S. 30--Heavy frost and foggy day. Therm. 26 at daylight, 30 at noon. Cam come and gone, says he will be back Tuesday. We busy all day taking care of our cattle.

    M. 31--Cold night, cold morning, hard frost foggy day. We have been busy feeding. Thermom. at sunup 20, noon 28. Antone called, gone to Barker's. Thus ends the year 1877. Cold frosty and dreary. Old cow Liney this day [has] heifer calf.


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