My Heath family and other family came from Mich in 1883 or maybe a year earlier. they were in Sherman Co OR by 1883. Notes taken by one family member says they took the train to San Francisco and then by boat to Seattle. Notes don't say how they got from Seattle to Sherman Co, but notes say my Heaths were already there. Any way the opening of transcontinental rail to Calif, allowed more to come to oregon as well. rather than the long boat trip around the Horn