Tyrus Himes.

, Mrs. Tyrus Himes.
George H. Himes.

Helen L. Himes (Ruddell).
Judson W. Himes.
Lestina Z. Himes (Eaton).
Joel Risdon.
Henry Risdon.

Charles R. Fitch.

Frederic Burnett.

James Longmire.

Mrs. James Longmire.
Elcaine Longmire.

David Longmire.

John A. Longmire.

Tillathi Longmire (Kandle).
Asher Sargent.

Mrs. A. Sargent.

F. M. Sargent.

E. Nelson Sargent.
Wilson Sargent.

Matilda Sargent (Saylor).
Rebecca Sargent (Kellett).

Van Ogle.
John Lane.

Mrs. John Lane.

Joseph Day.

Elizabeth Whitesel (Lane).

William Whitesel.

Mrs. William Whitesel.
William H. Whitesel,
Nancy Whitesel (Leach).
Clark N. Greenman.
Daniel E. Lane.

Mrs. D. E. Lane.

Edward Lane.

William Lane.

Timothy Lane.

Albert Lane.

Margaret Whitesel.

Alexander Whitesel.

Cal. Whitesel, all from Indiana.
Widow Gordon.

Mary Francis Gordon, or McCul-
lough.

Mrs. Mary Ann McCullough Porter.
McCullough.

Frazier.

Mrs. Elizabeth Frazier.

Peter Judson.

Mrs. Peter Judson.
Stephen Judson.

John Paul Judson.

Gertrude Shoren Judson (Delin).
John Neisan, from Illinois.

William H. Mitchell.

John Stewart, from states unknown.

To this list James Longmire adds the names of John Moyer, Ivan Watt and Will Clafin, young men who made the journey with him and who, a short time after their arrival, went to work in the logging camp of Bill Harmon. Fortunate indeed was the man or women who upon his arrival in the new territory, possessed two good shoes. Most of them wore shoes badly worn, some had one shoe and one moccasin made of cow hide. Clothing was torn and ragged, but the stores of Steilacoom and Olympia were drawn upon and the immigrants were soon scattered into the various settlements where they took up the task of claiming the wilderness.

Lieutenant Richard Arnold was put in charge of the road-making operations in the spring of 1854 and May 23 he left Steilacoom for the mountains. Taking up the work where Allen and his party had quit, Arnold continued the road work until the money at his disposal had been expended when he returned to Olympia and wrote a report in which he urged the Government to appropriate $10,000 additional. This was the last of Federal assistance on the road. Its difficulties, especially the steep bluff just west of the summit and the Mud Mountain hill, were considered too great obstacles for practical road making. Several parties of immigrants came through the pass road that year. The Indian war of 1855-56 and the enthusiastic work of Seattle people for the

Snoqualmie Pass, practically closed the old route for many years and it returned to its original condition.

When Captain McClellan reported the crossing of the Cascades by railroad to be out of the question, Governor Stevens sent A. L. Tinkham to Snoqualmie Pass with instructions to measure the snow and take other observations. Tinkham, January 21, 1854, with five Yakima Indians, entered the pass, measured the snow, which he found to be seven feet at the summit, and come out on the western side. He had found no serious obstructions and when his report was made to the governor, Seattle people at once realized the importance of taking advantage of this favorable statement. In the summer of 1855 Judge. Lander, Dexter Horton, F. Matthias, Charles Plummer, C. D. Boren, A. F. Bryant, J. H. Nagle, Charles Walker, Doctor Bigelow and others made a trip to the summit. One of their camps was made on what has since been known as Rattlesnake Prairie. In the night some of the explorers heard dry weed stalks rustling in the wind and jumped to the conclusion that the prairie was infested with rattlers. It was called Rattlesnake Prairie. Doubtless no rattlesnake was ever closer to this prairie than the Valley of the Yakima River on the east side of the mountains many miles away. The exploring trip of the Seattle pioneers resulted in a long and earnest effort to improve the pass with a wagon road; an effort that was to continue down to very recent times and the building of the Sunset Highway, an automobile road over the long-obstructed trail of the pioneers.

CHAPTER XIII

UNITED STATES SENATE ACTS FAVORABLY ON MONTICELLO MEMORIAL-NORTHWEST

ONCE-HIS ARRIVAL IN

CELEBRATES-GOVERNOR STEVENS BEGINS WORK AT
OLYMPIA AND ATTENDANCE AT A BANQUET AT WHICH HE COULD NOT EAT A
MORSEL FIRST LEGISLATIVE ELECTION-GOVERNOR URGES ROAD BUILDING AND
POINTS OUT NEED OF SETTLEMENT WITH HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY-EIGHT
COUNTIES CREATED-WOMAN SUFFRAGE DEFEATED BY ONE VOTE-GOLD DISCOV-
ERED AT STEILACOOM-DEATH OF MC CONAHA-INDIANS RAID BELLINGHAM.

One day in April, 1853, a mud-bespattered old man rode horseback into Olympia and told the people he had just come from the Columbia River where it was reported that the United States Senate had adjourned without taking action on the Monticello memorial. To Olympians he was a veritable "old man of sorrows." Few were those who dismissed the matter with the remark that better luck would crown their efforts another time-they were not those who held town lots on margins.

And then, on the 25th, came the news that the ancient messenger had been misinformed, and that in reality the Senate had on March 2nd passed the bill, the President had appointed officers who even then were on their way West, and Gen. Isaac I. Stevens was to survey the route for a railroad from St. Paul to Puget Sound across the northern side of the United States. Olympia celebrated. It was a long way to Washington, D. C., and the delay in receiving the news only whetted the appetite for celebrating.

The first of the officers to arrive was United States Marshal J. Patton Anderson. He came with instruction to take a census, a work that was not completed until in December when it was announced that the total population was 3,965, of whom 1,682 were voters. No wonder General Lane had adroitly side-stepped the question of his congressional colleague as to the number of people in the new territory. This small population was distributed among the counties as follows: Pacific, 152; Lewis, 616; Clarke, 1,134; King, 170; Jefferson, 189; Island, 195; Thurston, 996; and Pierce, 513. Anderson found thirty-one sawmills in operation with an estimated annual output of 45,000,000 feet. Washington rapidly was laying the foundation of her lumbering industry. After serving as the territory's first United States marshal, Anderson became its second congressional delegate. When the Civil war began he joined the Confederate army.

Working westward from St. Paul, Governor Stevens explored the route for the northern railroad and arrived in Olympia on the evening of November 25th. The little town had made great preparations for his reception. The largest hotel (the Washington) prepared its best rooms; its chef's ambition was to make the governor's table a Lucullan landmark.