Letter from Fr. Luke Sheehan

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Bishop's Residence Baker City, Oregon Leb. 12. 13/10 My Dear Lather We have at length opened in Baker City and a very worn welcome from Dr. O'Reilly. Show not somether sooner for the semple reason that I appected we would have opened much earlier, but on obstacle sand other prevented our doing so. We had a very pleasant exprission all along the line, priests & people were most kind to us. I generally with their hospitality. His Londaly seemed quite under a mistaken idea about our coming & had everything planned for our final settlement here. This moving the architect called with plans & specifications for our approval. a combined house & chapel to be stooted neight away in an approved the plan. His Londaly sides being that I should on charge down & build up the chapel & father what catholics there might be about the place which I should would be opened preaching massine & so father in the funds. He estimates that there are about 50 females in the particular spot but by the fall they may be doubled & trapped by gores in the highest most glowing ascet parallel of all its possibilities & capabilities. Yet he would have arranged the particular spot called Hommerstein & Crook's County which is to be the gray of the Cap. Bishop's County which is to be not west as to Province in some years to come. He does not wish as to take up Crook's County for the movement & therefore yet development has not yet struck. Tuesday next we hope to be able to stoot in verification & the what see whether the onsease ideas coverpend with the neality. We have asked inquired all along about the prospect of Baker City & everyone spoke of going the prospect of Baker City & everyone spoke of going the prospect of Crook's County. - The development is Hommerstein & Crook's County. - The development is Hommerstein & Crook's County. House & forms are going on at a rapid rate. House & forms are being executed & revealed with a few months. The voice of the system is being extended to the regions in which they are a plenty of supply front in the future of the County. They are seen to be a few months. However we shall probably be able to price our personal views at least first in pression by next week. We spoke already about 8. hrs with the Bishop & are here nearly made being understood the position of affords. Our very fast view will probably clear be in bottom by those seem much patient work ahead & after a time the news of it on not yet home in with our indeed development yours side beyond the country & with our indeed development yours side beyond the country.