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