The ploughers even put at cutting seed potatoes on account of bad weather.

2nd Sunday.  No Indians stiring about us.  Mr. Heron and I rode to the water mill site and found less work done than expected.  Lapierre was spoken to on that head.  It continued to rain till afternoon.

3rd Monday.  The mill wright and his men were put to work as also the boat and bastion builders besides the ploughers and carters.  Old Phillip has been busy at chopping wood for making coals.

The women of the establishment were employed cutting seed potatoes.  More rain today.

4th.  Tuesday.  The third boat completed and the last on the stocks.  The same employment for the rest of the men.  The coal wood brought to the garden where the kiln is to be erected.

Women employed as yesterday.  Fine weather in the forenoon, a little rain towards evening.

5th.  Wednesday.  Old Phillip put up part of his coal kiln.  Jean Monde and party have been employed taking down the wind mill.  The weather fair.

6th.  Thursday.  Today fire was put to the coal kiln.  Monde and party have done their job of yesterday and have returned to the bastions.  Joachim has been busy at carting the wood for the water mill.  Fine weather.  Another female calf for this year.

7th.  Friday.  The fourth and last boat completed.  Frame of the water mill up and the rest of the work getting on by degrees.  Today it rained.

8th Saturday.  Frame of the last Bastion up.  The pieces for the saw completed and some roofing sticks cut by Deloges party.  Rest of the men as usual employed.  The young chief Pendent Oreille arrived with six of his confidential young men.  Rained all day.

9th.  Sunday.  Very few Indians that come to the fort who do not grumble at the want of provision which scarcely may be attributed to their indolence in the times of plenty.  A small pig was killed weighed 7 lbs.  Rained again today.

10th Monday.  Labonne and big Charles have gone off to the cedars to complete the boats.  The ploughing of the north field very hard.  The bastions up and the roofing beams ready to receive the covering.

The rest of men variously employed.  Traded 20 beaver skins from the Pendent Oriells.  Clear weather.

11th Tuesday.  Servant, Lefevre and Herea were sent up the river for fence poles, those brought before useless.  The ploughing ended and rows made for planting potatoes.  Horace sent to LaCourse and in the afternoon he came home with the cedar wanted.  Monde, Deloge, Portelaneu and Louis Proveau brought down a raft of squared wood for the saw.

The Pendent Oreills off.  Fair weather.

12th Wednesday.  Began to work at making packs, eighteen of Beaver made.  Part of the men out in search of fence wood and stairs at the mill.  Fine weather.

13th.  Thursday.  Seventy kegs of potatoes planted.  The mill stones put up.  Bales of saddles and appichasnon made up and other necessary jobs done about this place.  Fine weather.

14th.  Friday.  One hundred five squared logs brought home on rafts and many of them now near the house drawn by the oxen.  More packs of furs and bales of leather made up, as also twenty eight bags of provisions, Horse and pease.  Weather overcast and a thunder storm in the afternoon.

15th.  Saturday.  Today the work of three men for half the week went over the falls, owing to the high state of the waters, which prevented the men from bringing the raft ashore.  The rest of the men as usual employed.  Fine weather.

16th.  Sunday.  Some of the natives falling sick and a few of our men are in ill health.  Fair weather.

17th.  Monday  Fifteen packs of fur made, corn and potatoes planted and various other duties performed, besides Monde, Servant, Herea and Plouff off up the river for fence wood.  The river is raising fast.  Warm weather.

18th.  Tuesday.  The men as usual employed, packing business ended.  The water surrounding us, some of the hollows of the north field are already receiving water from the Columbia.  Very warm weather.

19th.  Wednesday.  Sixty one packs pressed.  Three more men added to the mill wright's party, for the purpose of making a canal for conducting the water to the works.  Another raft gone down the fall, containing four hundred odd fence poles.  The Columbia very high and strong at its conjunction with the Sway-yelp-pi-took on Dean's River NW from Colvile.  Fair weather.

20th.  Thursday.  The pressing completed.  Two men were employed at cutting, and bringing home fence poles from around the farm, up and down the river giving up rafting.  Weather overcast and some thunder.

21st.  Friday.  Six men have been busy gumming the boats, eight others putting up a fence around the new field, and the rest of the men variously employed.

The following is the seed put in the ground vis 23 kegs of Wheat, 7 kegs Barley, 3 1/2 of corn, 9 of pease, 246 of potatoes and 13 of oats, besides 2000 pumpkin seed.  Fair weather.

22nd Saturday.  This year no hoes were used at covering up the potatoes and corn, the harrow did the business which is a far quicker plan.  Packs carried over the lower end of the Kettle fall portage.  The pieces to take down per the bont are 173, sixty seven of which are furs.  The new boats taken to the little river ready for carrying them over in the morning and the old one mended.  Fair weather.

23rd.  Sunday.  Boats over and everything ready for starting.  The men recd, as a regal  each one loaf bread and one pound of pork.  Two pigs killed weight together 89 lb.  A little rain fell in course of the day.

Journal continued by Mr. C T Heron. 

24th.  Monday. Finding it necessary to pass the summer inland I sent Mr. Kittson off this morning to Vancouver in my place, with our returns in five boats manned by eighteen men and two Indians.  Four of the boats were built here, this season.  Myself, Rivet and six men constitute the summer establishment of the place.  Two men employed sawing, one at the water mill, one in the Kitchen garden, hoeing the seed put there, one sick and one cooking.  The water mill which was begun on the 30th ult produced this day some good flour.  Fair warm weather.  Wind W.

25th Tuesday.  The duties of the place as yesterday.  Wind and weather the same.  An Indian arrived with a letter from Mr. Ermatinger imparting that Mr. Busy would not be at Okanogan at the time appointed and requesting that our Brigade would therefore not reach that place before the 3rd proxly which information it is to be regreted has come too late.

26th.  Wednesday.  Duties of the place as above.  Rained at intervals during the day.  Wind variable.

27th.  Thursday.  The works, about the water mill have been completed which have not occupied a month in all.  the rest of our people have continued at their usual jobs.  Sultry weather.  Wind South very light.

28th.  Friday.  Two men occupied building an office.  One working in the garden, two sawing and one cooking and attending the cattle and etc.  Fine growing weather.  Sunshine and showers of rain at intervals.  Wind NW.

29th.  Saturday.  Wind and weather as yesterday.  The first Salmon of the season was killed at the falls, and brought to me, on which occasion there was a notable speech made to the Indian who presented it, with a present of tobacco, a dram etc.

The people of the place employed as yesterday.

30th.  Sunday.  Warm weather, wind SW.

31st Monday.  Two men sawing, two building a couple of houses of 15 feet each near the big house, for the residence of Gentlemens families going backwards and forwards.  One at work in the kitchen garden and one cooking and attending  cattle, who being fixed at theses jobs for the season, it will be an unnecessary repetition to advise to his occupation in the future.

The old and young Kettle fall Chiefs arrived with some of their followers and brought 18 beaver skins in.  They have taken up their stand at the falls for the Salmon season.

The crops look reasonably promising, more so it is said than at this time in any former year.  Cloudy weather.  Wind west.

The following is the month's trade

 

	Pendend Oreilles	Kettle Falls
15 large beaver	15
1 mid do	1
3 small do	3
2 large black bears	1	1
1 large brown bear		1
3 small brown bear	1	2
10 pr castereau	10
4 fishers	4
10 lb grease		10
2 martins	2
1 mink	1
8 musquash	8
30 lb beaver meat		30
2 otters	2
3 deer skins		3