After I had burnt off a great deal of timber . . . I took a notion to cut the timber in saw logs and bring it to Portland, which consisted of about 15 or 20 buildings at that time. It was expressed along the river that I was a big fool for trying to get out saw logs when there wasn't a boat on the river to tow with. But I had quite a number of oxen. I thought I could put the logs in the Slough and raft them as cheap as I could burn them. There came a high water the next summer, and I had in about 300,000 ft. and started them for Portland. . . Before starting I went to Vancouver and got four old government tents, put up masts on the rafts and stayed them with lines and stretched these tents up for sails. In a little over four hours we landed in Portland. Soon after this there was quite a number of other fools in the same business. Columbia Slough settler, Lewis Love