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