6. What were the principal causes of the failure of Wyeth's expedition? Of Bonneville's? Did the United States gain anything by these expeditions?

7. Were the missions established in Washington of any value to the United States?

How?

8. Why did the Hudson's Bay Company establish the Puget Sound Agricultural Company in 1837?

9. Had that company been in the habit of fostering agricultural pursuits in the northwest before that time?

IO. What caused the formation of the Provisional Government for Oregon? Did the Hudson's Bay Company approve of it? Why?

II. What was the cause of the great overland immigration to Oregon in 1843-4-5?

12. Why did Simmons choose the falls of the Des Chutes for his settlement?

13. What reasons can be advanced for locating Seattle where it is?

14. Why was Port Townsend early selected as a place of settlement?

15. Why was a settlement made at Bellingham Bay? At the Cascades? On Baker's Bay? Did the last prove a wise selection? Why?

16. Were not favorable sites for establishing towns overlooked by the early settlers? If so, where?

CHAPTER III.

TERRITORIAL PERIOD.

63. Washington Territory Created. On November 25th, 1852, a convention of delegates from the counties of Oregon north of the Columbia met at Monticello on the Cowlitz River. A memorial to Congress was prepared, stating the condition of the country and praying that body to create the Territory of Columbia out of that portion of Oregon lying north and west of the Columbia River. Joseph Lane, delegate to Congress from Oregon, introduced the subject December 6, 1852, by procuring the passage of a resolution instructing the Committee on Territories to consider the question and report a bill. The Committee reported House Bill No. 8 to organize the Territory of Columbia, which came up for passage February 8th, 1853. Richard H. Stanton, of Kentucky, moved to substitute the name of Washington for Columbia, which amendment prevailed, and the bill passed the House February 10th, and was adopted by the Senate March 2d, 1853. President Fillmore signed the bill the same day, and the Territory of Washington was created.

64. Size of the Territory When Formed. The territory as created embraced more than twice the area petitioned for in the memorial. It reads as follows: "All that portion of Oregon Territory lying and being south of the forty-ninth degree of north latitude, and