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Rh engine to take her back to Bonneville. I hadn't gone a mile when I came upon a crowd of 300 Indians lined up on one side of the track. Just to frighten them I pulled the whistle but they didn't stir a muscle and I blew it a second time. Then a big chief rushed down to the track and called out 'Hi you skookum, Siwash,' meaning 'big chief.' I invited him aboard and he liked riding so much that I could hardly get him off again. Every morning for at least a year that Indian was down there waiting for the Pony to come along so he could get a ride. He was very amusing, but not good company."

The "Pony"was kept on the Cascade portage for nearly two years [one year]. Every day it pulled on the average 200 tons of freight from Bonneville to the Cascades, but never much going the other way, save twice a week when it would take down from 500 to 2000 pounds of gold dust from the Salmon River mines. One of the cherished memories Mr. Goffe bears of that time is of the late Henry W. Corbett, who used to ride as a traveling salesman over the road once each week going up the river with his little hand satchel to solicit trade. He would always ride on the locomotive with the engineer and invariably had a pleasant word and a smile for him.

In 1864 [1862-3] another railroad was built on the Washington side of the river with heavier locomotives and better rails, and the "pony" was sent up to another portage at Celilo. But its work in Oregon was over. It was soon after sold to Mr. Hewes of San Francisco. Mr. Hewes had a contract for leveling off the sand hills of San Francisco and dumping them into the low places, on one of whieh the Palace Hotel now stands. He bought the "pony" and used it hauling dirt cars for many years. Mr. Goffe left it when Mr. Hewes bought it and became an engineer on the San Francisco and San Jose line. A. M. Stetson then became its engineer.

It was in San Francisco that Colonel Henry Dosch, the director of exhibits at the Lewis and Clark Fair, became connected with the pony. He was keeping time for Mr. Hewes and saw much of the little engine. Colonel Dosch is one of the most genial of men, and he told me its later history.

After Mr. Hewes had used it for many years he finally stored it away in a warehouse. It remained there for nearly 20 years. Not long ago the warehouse burned and