Indian fair at Brownsville--Ponies--The lasso--Breaking-in--The purchase--"Bucking" extraordinary--Sheep-farming in Eastern Oregon-- Merinos--The sheep-herder--Muttons for company--A good offer refused--Exports of wool from Oregon-Price and value of Oregon wool--Grading wool--Price of sheep--Their food--Coyotes--The wolf-hunt--Shearing--Increase of flocks--"Corraling" the sheep-- Sheep as brush-clearers. 118 CHAPTER X. The trail to the Siletz Reserve--Rock Creek--Isolation--Getting a road--The surveying-party--Entrance at last--Road-making--Hut-building in the wilds--What will he do with it?--Choice of homestead--Fencing wild land--Its method and cost--Splitting cedar boards and shingles-- House-building--The China boy and the mules--Picnicking in earnest--Log-burning--Berrying-parties--Salting cattle--An active cow--A year's work--Mesquit-grass on the hills. 127 CHAPTER XI. The Indians at home--The reservation--The Upper Farm--Log-cabins-- Women must work while men will play--The agency--The boarding-house --Sunday on the reservation--Indian Sun day-school--Galeese Creek Jem--The store-Indian farmers--As to the settlement of the Indians --Suggestions--A crime--Its origin--Its history--The criminals-- What became of them--Indian teamsters--Numbers on the reservation --The powers and duties of the agent--Special application. 136 CHAPTER XII. The Legislative Assembly--The Governor--His duties--Payment of the members--Aspect of the city; the Legislature in session--The lobbyist--How bills pass--How bills do not pass--Questions of the day--Common carriers--Woman's suffrage--Some of the acts of 1878--Judicial system of the State--Taxes--Assessments--County officers--The justice of the peace--Quick work. 145 CHAPTER XIII. Land laws--Homesteads and preëmption--How to choose and obtain Government land--University land--School land--Swamp land--Railroad and wagon-road grants--Lieu lands--Acreages owned by the various companies. 157 CHAPTER XIV. The "Web-foot State"--Average rainfall in various parts--The rainy days in 1879 and 1880--Temperature--Seasons--Accounts and figures from three points--Afternoon sea-breezes--A "cold snap"--Winter-- Floods--Damage to the river-side country--Rare thunder--Rarer wind-storms--The storm of January, 1880. 164 CHAPTER XV. The State Fair of 1880--Salem--The ladies' pavilion--Knock-em-downs _à l'Américaine_--Self-binders--Thrashing-machines--Rates of speed--Cost--Workmanship--Prize sheep--Fleeces--Pure _versus_ graded sheep--California short-horns--Horses--American breed or Percheron--Comparative measurements--The races--Runners--Trotters-- Cricket in public--Unruly spectators. 174 CHAPTER XVI.