Flax is now all pulled. Changed sheep & Cattle pens, a party making up fences round grain sheds. Pigs have now the range of the fields. Indian Women collecting clover seed. Carrier[1] fixing Kitchen.
Thursday 26th. Close sultry weather, smoke exceedingly dense, unable to see more than a few paces before us. Em ployed cutting binding & Carting Wheat from field No 19. Collecting & thrashing Clover seed. Received from Mr. Handcock[2] 640 bricks for a new oven. 2 carts at the manure. 3 Nisqually lads at the well.
Friday 27th. Clam [calm] weather, smoke very very thick. Employed cutting & binding wheat-carting out manure thrashing clover seed making up fences round the different sheds. 3 Nisqually Indians digging well. Received from Mr. Handcock 430 bricks.
Saturday 28th. Clam weather—the plain still enveloped in dense smoke. Cutting & binding wheat which is barely ripe in field No 19. As there is no grain to cart in, set all the carts & spare indians to cart out manure upon field No 2. Cleared out Salmon & wheat store. Counted the flock of lambs; there are 49 Wether lambs & 54 ewe lambs. Began to serve out potatoes on rations to the men.
Sunday 29th. Light westerly wind, air filled with smoke.
Monday 30th. Smoke still very dense, light westerly breeze-cutting binding & carting wheat of field No I9. Indian Women collecting timothy, thrashing clover & &. Potatoes are now suffering for the want of rain, indians
- ↑ Onizime Carriere is classified as a carpenter in the lists of Cowlitz Farm employees, 1847–50. See District Statements in H. B. C. Archives, B.239/1/18, fos. 45–46; B.239/1/19, fo. 44; and B.239/1/20, fo. 45, Columbia Outfits for 1847-48, 1848–49, and 1849–50 . Information from these District Statements has been obtained for use in this article through the courtesy of the Hudson's Bay Company, London. (Hereafter cited as Cowlitz Farm employee lists, H. B. C. Arch.)
- ↑ Samuel Hancock came to Oregon in 1845, worked for Dr. Tolmie at Nisqually in 1846 or 1847. See The Narrative of Samuel Hancock, 1843–1860, introd. by Arthur D. H. Smith (New York, 1927), 56–57. Bancroft's History of Washington, Idaho and Montana, 9, states that Hancock and A. B. Rabbeson made bricks on Simon Plomondon's farm in 1847.
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