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4o TEE OCCASI0AL AtrnRE.
long, the carcasses heavy. I have inquiry for the Fields sheep often yet. I
believe they made for themselves a wider and better name than any sheep that
ever have or ever will be brought to Oregon. tJncle Headrick, Wm. Turpin
and Johnson Mulkey, brought a fine flock, Priest Fackler drove them all the
way as far as they traveled with us. Turpin's were Saxony, and Uncle Headrick
gave him 25 for a half-blooded buck at Foster's which was certainly a big
price, for dollars were larger then than now. This stock of sheep is still on the
Howell Prairie and they speak for themselves. R. Patton brought a large
flock and took them to Yamhill county, but I do not know their history.
This emigration brought everything nearly, from a paper of pins to a 4-foot
burr. Mr. Haun, of Haun's mill noteriety in Missouri, brdught a pair of miii
burr-stones. I do not know, but suppose they were French burrs.
Uncle Thomas Cox, and William his son, brought a respectable store across
the plains and opened out at Salem the first store south of Champoeg. William
also brought some peach pits and planted them, and originated the celebrated
Cox cling peach, the boss peach of California, or at least was in 1870.
Uncle A. R. Dimick, the originator of the Dimick potatoe, brought the seeds
of the Early or Shaker Blue pota toe from Michigan with him in 1847, and planted
them on his farm in the n,)rth part of Marion county, and from these seeds
sprang the famous Dimick potato.
But the greatest undertaking, and one that was crowned with success, and
one that contributed the most to the name ad fame of Oregon, was the "Traveling
Nursery," brought across the plains by the late Henderson Luelling, in 1847.
If a man is a benefactor to his race who makes two spears of grass grow where
only one grew before, what is he to his State, who makes lucious pears, cherries,
plums and apples grow, where only poor seedlings or none, grew before. Mr.
Henderson Lnelling by bringing that splendid assortment of apples, pears,
plums, cherries, quinces grapes, berries aüd flowers in his "Traveling Nursery"
to Oregon in 1847, gave to Oregon the name of " God's country, or the Land of
Big Red Apples," a name that every Pioneer of Oregon feels proud of. I never
thought Mr. Luelling received the reward that his enterprise merited. I have
dealt with him to the extent of thousands of dollars, from one dollar to two thousand
dollar transactions, and always found him honest. Being honest himself he
trusted too much and consequently was victimized t a fearful extent. The conception
and carrying out of that enterprise was not the sudden conviction as to
the importance of the fruit business, but was the result of a train of circumstances,
the most controlling of which was his long and tuccessful engagement
in the nursery business.
In the fall of 1845 he began to prepare to start to Oregon, but could not dis-