DOCUMENTARY
THE LETTERS OF THE REV. WILLIAM M. ROBERTS, THIRD SUPERINTENDENT OF THE OREGON MISSION.[1]
Second Installment.
Edited by ROBERT MOULTON GATES
(Copy) Oregon City, March 18th, 1848. To the Cor. Secy. &C. REV. DR. PITMAN.
Dear Bro.:
In a former part of this report, I have given you the No. of persons in the employ of the Mission. The condition of their families, the work they are engaged in together with such general facts as I then deemed important. I now present the fiscal state of the mission, and do it in a separate letter because whatever publicity may be given to the former, this is some- what more confidential and private. I allude first to salaries or the amt. paid to the preachers, David Leslie $624. I. H. Wilbur $600. A. F. Waller $680. W. Roberts $800. Wm. Helm $404. J. L. Parrish $364. The amt. which will be necessary for Bros. Helm and Parrish each the coming year will be $450. I think this will be satisfactory to them, of course all their time is not employed in Pastoral work tho most of it is, unfortunately neither of them live on their circuit. Chauncey S. Hosford the Young man liveing in my family is to receive 100. and his board. When at home the items of work he does in my family in the intervals of study are an equivalent in part at least for his board and when abroad, his work is so fully Mission work that his salary of course should be paid by the mission.
Indeed my work as Sup. requires the employment of some one constantly, as an assistant in travelling for four months I had an Indian at an Expense of $25.99. He traveled over Mt. Hood with me from The Dalles last September. In the above items I am giving the amt. that is to be paid rather than the precise items which have been reed, by each one, the latter I could not do without a settlement with each one which I have not yet had.
The table Expenses of Bro. Wilbur and myself which were to commence immediately on our arrival in Oregon, will bear
- ↑ The first installment is found in Volume XXI, pp. 33-47 (March number, 1930).
