Hudson O Sept 20 ‘82 Rev H Lyman Forest Grove Oregon Dear Christian Friend I write to request you, being a disin-terested party to rend me some statements of the principal attractive features of the trinity of Oregon, as a point worthy of the consideration of a young man 30 years of age seeking a home + a [?] [?] useful future for himself & a family [?] of a wife 27 yrs old & 5 little ones aged from 1 to 9 years. I was born + raised here on the old homestead which I have always lived with almost addictive affection & when I have always desired to spend my life but recent events seem to indicate that the Master has other designs in regard to my lifetime or if so I know that he has somewhere a place elected for me & that He will guide me to it by means of information received from this. I learn from the Home Missionary that Oregon has attractions possessed by no other territory in the New West. I am early aply containing either written or printed information concerning: 1 the climate, 2 topography, 3 various foundations, 4 prices of lands in close proximity to existing or proposed lines of R.R.;s – possibilities of a diversity of productions on the same farm, 6 prices of farm produce, 7 prices of farm produce & agricultural implements, 8, cost & accessibility of building materials & fencing, 9-, RR. con-nections with eastern states. 10- growth of small towns & dependence of the tendency of the character of the future inheritance upon the character & faith of the first settlers, 11- character & nationality of those who are now settling up the land in your immediate vicinity also their spiritual condition, & last & most important of all, the opportunity now presented for the successful labor in extending & establishing the knowledge of Jesus among the various classes;-will be very thankfully received & carefully considered, because of great value to me in selecting a future home. I am thus told in asking for particulars from you because the statements of Land Agents & R.R. companys are never reliable & I think that you work placed aptly in a position that would keep you thoroughly posted in all the details about which I enquire Your reply will greatly influence & may possibly determine the future location of my family I would like very much to receive a reply of any agricultural papers printed in Oregon as it would be a reliable source of infor-mation on many minor details of which you have no desire to write I am making a heavy debt upon your time but I feel that I may place [?] in your statements in regard to these things, & would receive thoroughly a reply at your earliest convenience Respectfully Yours Horace M Clark Hudson

Hudson O Sept 20 ‘82
Rev H Lyman
Forest Grove Oregon

Dear Christian Friend

I write to request you, being a disin-terested party to rend me some statements of the principal attractive features of the trinity of Oregon, as a point worthy of the consideration of a young man 30 years of age seeking a home + a [?] [?] useful future for himself & a family [?] of a wife 27 yrs old & 5 little ones aged from 1 to 9 years. I was born + raised here on the old homestead which I have always lived with almost addictive affection & when I have always desired to spend my life but recent events seem to indicate that the Master has other designs in regard to my lifetime or if so I know that he has somewhere a place elected for me & that He will guide me to it by means of information received from this. I learn from the Home Missionary that Oregon has attractions possessed by no other territory in the New West. I am early aply containing either written or printed information concerning: 1 the climate, 2 topography, 3 various foundations, 4 prices of lands in close proximity to existing or proposed lines of R.R.;s – possibilities of a diversity of productions on the same farm, 6 prices of farm produce, 7 prices of farm produce & agricultural implements, 8, cost & accessibility of building materials & fencing, 9-, RR. con-nections with eastern states. 10- growth of small towns & dependence of the tendency of the character of the future inheritance upon the character & faith of the first settlers, 11- character & nationality of those who are now settling up the land in your immediate vicinity also their spiritual condition, & last & most important of all, the opportunity now presented for the successful labor in extending & establishing the knowledge of Jesus among the various classes;-will be very thankfully received & carefully considered, because of great value to me in selecting a future home. I am thus told in asking for particulars from you because the statements of Land Agents & R.R. companys are never reliable & I think that you work placed aptly in a position that would keep you thoroughly posted in all the details about which I enquire Your reply will greatly influence & may possibly determine the future location of my family I would like very much to receive a reply of any agricultural papers printed in Oregon as it would be a reliable source of infor-mation on many minor details of which you have no desire to write I am making a heavy debt upon your time but I feel that I may place [?] in your statements in regard to these things, & would receive thoroughly a reply at your earliest convenience

Respectfully Yours Horace M Clark Hudson

Part of Letter from Horace M. Clark inquiring about life in Oregon