INDEX TO VOL. XV
Agricultural statistics for Oregon for the year 1831, 206.
Ague, fever and, in Oregon, 1830, 206.
ALMANAC, AN, OF 1776, 147-52.
ANDERSON, CAUFIELD, had charge of Okanogan and an interesting witness for Hudson's Bay Company at inquiry for adjustment of its claims, 27.
APPLEGATE, GENERAL E. L., Some rec- ollections of, 252.
APPLEGATE, JESSE, Letter of J. M. Peck tells of his earnestness and promise when a boy of 16 or 17, 1827, in attendance at Rock Springs Seminary (later Shurtleff College), 208-9.
ASTOR, JOHN JACOB, his enterprise to secure to the United States the trade and possessions of the Pacific North- west, 2-3.
Astoria in 1811, 104; David Thomp- son's reception at, 1811, 241.
Astoria, council of partners and situa- tion at, in the summer of 1813, 17; outbound brigades leave for up coun- try posts, July 5, 1913, 17; McDougall authorized to sell to Northwest Com- pany when situation should become desperate, 18; sale effected Novem- ber, 1813, 18.
ASTORIA RAILROAD, HISTORY OF, 221-40; the half-century agitation for, 221; completed to Astoria in 1898, 221-2; A. B. Hammond, the builder, 222. Choice between crossing the Cas- cade Mountains and following the Columbia River for reaching coast long undetermined, 223; first project for, originated in 1858, 223-4; mili- tary wagon road locations and ap- propriations the earliest phases of transportation activities, 223; route via Forest Grove, 223; Astoria project fig- ures in early land grant legislation, 224; Astoria and Winnemucca project, 225 ; Senator Geo. H. Williams causes proposed land grant to be diverted to Rogue River valley route, 225; this conflicts with schemes of Joseph Gaston, 225-6.
Henry Villard not only slights As- toria's railroad aspirations but also thwarts efforts for Reno-Eugene-Port- land-Astoria line, 226-8; Joseph Gas- ton and William Reid have parts in this narrow-gauge Central Pacific project, 228; Astoria takes reprisal in pressing for repeal of railway land grant, 229; Astoria citizens resolve upon self-help, 229-30; William Reid's aid enlisted, 230; connections with Yaouina line planned and projects from Albany and from Salem organ- ized, but all fell through, 230-1; ar- rangements with Huntingdon seemed almost complete, but not ratified and the Astoria and South Coast project halts, 231-2; other plans of Reid fail
to mature, 233; Astoria turned tem- porarily to Goble route, 233-4; Ne- halem route again attempted, build- ing operations oegun under supposedly Gould auspices, but suddenly sus'- pended in Sept., 1892, 234-5; Flavel terminal boomed for Salem-Sheridan- Tillamook line, 235-6; a procession of railway promoters who failed to make connections, 236-8: progress with the project under A. B. Hammond, 238-9; completion of the road and extensions merged with it, 240; sale of road to James T. Hill and transfer of it to Xorth Bank Line, 240; road on orig- inal Nehalem route not yet built, 240.
B
BAKER, CAPTAIN, for whom Baker's Bay is named, 242.
Block houses, as symbols of the pioneer past, 69.
BROOKS, QUINCY ADAMS, biographical sketch of, 210; narrates vividly ex- periences in crossing plains to Ore- gon in 1851, including conditions in stampedes, etc., 210-5.
Buffaloes in the Okanogan country, 31; theory as to influences that controlled spread of the species, 32.
BUSH, ASAHEL, expresses interest in Oregon, 199, 202.
c
Canadians in fur trade, 277-80; their boat songs, 280-2.
Champoeg, the first grain market in Oregon, 282-3.
Chinook language, the experiences of Governor Salomon with, 68; purposes it served and disappearance of it, 69.
Clataop Plains Church, 94.
Columbia river one-half in British Co- lumbia and one-half in the United States, 243.
COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN, FUR TRADE IN THE, prior to 1811, 241-250; Kootenay House the first trading post in the, 243-
Cox, Ross, succeeds Alexander Ross in charge of Fort Okanogan, 1816, 19; describes remodelling and rebuilding of it, 19.
D
Dayton City Park, the site of the Grand Ronde Military Block House, 64-70.
Democratic party, 1844, composed of diverse elements, Southern, Northeast- ern and Northwestern groups, 138; attitude of each group toward the Texas and Oregon issues, 138-9; course of each group in campaign of 1844, 139-41; increase of divergencies be- tween groups in session of Congress following, 141-4; resentment of North- western group because of Oregon boundary treaty, 1846, 144; bad faith
