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322 the Neefus and H. B. Tichenor Company of San Francisco. The first schooner load of manufactured lumber was shipped in the spring of 1854 to San Francisco, and brought $125 per thousand there.

William S. Winson,of honored pioneer name, was the mechanical manager there, and was among those to prepare this first shipment to market. It went there under the name he gave it, as Port Orford Cedar, and by this name it is still known to the world.

A plank road was made to the mills, and saw dust covered over it, and the great teams of Percheron horses easily and smoothly drew the tremendous loads over such road and down to the ship wharves every few hours in the day.

Deep sea fisheries soon followed, and many Italians were constatntly seen plying their trade, with boat and seine, in the waters adjacent.

It seemed that an era of permanent prosperity had now come for Port Orford, but fate willed it otherwise; for, as the poet says:

Gold, which brought the newcomers in quest of fortune from mother earth and a tide of material prosperity, also brought war and cruel depredation and death from the hostile Indians. The white man crowded him aside, and without treaty or compensation occupied his domains. Even the white man's increasing and overpowering military could not repress him. When at the last Colonel Buchanan with his forces met the assembled hostiles at the