THE SEARCH BEGINS It is said that William Macy and possibly others of the expedition kept a journal. However, Macy¹s was lost to the Harney Lake Indians, and no other records have ever been found. The only record we have of the events that befell this party is to be found in the viewers report which they called ³an abridged narrative ... as our journal was lost ...² John Diamond remembers, ³On the first night we camped near Butte Disappointment² The formal report only gives a casual description of the route from the Forks of the Willamette to the crest of the Cascades. However, the actual wagon tracks of the 1853 train have been followed and are described as follows: ³The first 25 miles were up the north bank of the river from Butte Disappointment.² Where viewers approached the North Fork of the Willamette they were on the north bank of the Middle Fork. The geography here is described as ³a rocky precipitous U¹ shaped ridge terminating at the water¹s edge.² This ridge has since been partially removed to allow the Willamette Highway to pass. At this point the viewers elected to leave the Middle Fork and follow an Indian trail up the North Fork. They forded the river and passed up a narrow gulch that now holds the road from Oakridge to Westfir. The trail then turned right and crossed a rise of land descending into the valley of the Middle Fork then known as Big Prairie. Just beyond the present day town of Oakridge, Salmon Creek flows into the Willamette¹s Middle Fork. The party had a difficult time crossing this creek. They named it ³Macy¹s River.² This name can be found on several older maps of the area. That name, however, did not remain in use. Back now, on the Middle Fork, the path led to Indigo Creek, where the Indian trail they following forked. The Calapooia trail continuing up the Middle Fork for some distance and the Deschutes trail turning east, passing around the end of a gulch and across a creek. These were later named Emigrant Gulch and Emigrant Creek after the ³Lost Train of 1853.² They reached the summit just to the south of a mountain peak and commented in their report ³to the north is a peak .... seen from the uper {sic} Willamette Valley that we call Diamond Peak.²