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184 1853 in the region south of Winchester, notably the town of Roseburg, founded by Aaron Rose, who purchased the claim from its locators for a horse, and a poor one at that. A flouring mill was put in operation in the northern part of Umpqua Valley, and another erected during the summer of 1851 at Winchester. A saw-mill soon followed in the Rogue River Valley, many of which improvements were traceable, more or less directly, to the impetus given to settlement by the Umpqua Company.

In passing back and forth to California, the Oregon miners had not failed to observe that the same soil and geological structure characterized the valleys north of the supposed northern boundary of California that