The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1920-03-18

All Of his timber holdings with san
Francisco bank. made heap OF MS
winnings. and like a true adVentnrer
,taked his all on a new yenture-the
first sawmln 10 Humboldt county
q,he tImbers for II we're hewed out oy
hand. the boards and planks we're
whipsawed. ----.-------------
II was tiny mill, judged by present.
day standards. for In fourteen-hour
working day John Cardigan and his
men could not cut more than twenty
thousand feet Of lumber. Neverthe-
less when Cardigan looked nj bis mill,
his great heart would swell with
pride.
"Here," said John Cardigan to him.
self exultingly when long-drawh
wall told him his circular saw was
biting into the first redwood log TO De
mIlled since the world began, Il shall
bulld a city aud call 1t Sequoia. by
to-morrow I shall have cut sufficient
timber to make start. First ] shall
build for my employees better homes
than the rude shacks and lighthouses
they now occupy; then i shall bulld
| myself a fine residence with SIX
rooms and the room that faces the
hay shall be the parlor. When can
afford il, shall build more houses.
/ shall encourage tradesmen to set up
In business In SeQuola and to my city
| shall present church and a school
house We shall have a volunteer nre
| department, and II God is good,
shall. at a later date, get out some
longlength fir-tlmber and build a
schooner to freight my lumber to
market. And she shall have three
mnsts instead Of two. and carTy half
n million feet OF lumber Instead OF
two hundred thousand. First now
ever. must build a steam tugboat to
tow ms schooner In and out over
Humboldt bar. And after that-dh'
WELT That is sufficient for the
| present"
Thus did John Cardigan dream ana
as he dreamed he worked. The city
of Seouoia was born with the Argo-
naurs slx.room mansion of rough red
wood boards and a dozen three-room
cabins with lean-tO kitchens; and the
tradesneople came when John Cardi-
gan. with something of the largeness
OF his own redwood trees, gave them
ground and lumber In order TO en-
courage the building Of their enter
prises. Also the dream Of the schooi-
mousse and the church came true, as
did the steam tugbOat and the schooner
with three masts.
At forty John Cardigan was younger
than most men at thirty, albeit he
worked fourteen hours a day, slept
eight. and consumed the remaining
two at his meals. But through all
those fruitful years of toll he had
stln found time to dream, and the
spell OF the redwoods had lost none
of its potency.
At forty-two Cardigan was the frsl
mayor of Sequoia. At forty-four ne
was standing on his dock one day
watching his tug kick into her bertf
the first square-rlgged ship that hae
ever come to Humboldt bay 10 load
cargo of clear redwood for foreign
delivery. She was a big Bath-buili
I clipper. and her master a lusty down
Easter. 4 v-ilower with one daughtei
who had come with him around th'
Horn. John Cardigan saw this CIR
come up on the quarterback and
stand by with a heaying-line In hel
hand: calmly she fixed her glanc'
upon him. and a. the ship was shuntes
IN closer 10 the dock. she made tn
cast 20 Cardigan. He caught th'
ueht heavinc-line. hauled In ia
heavy Maula sleruIne to whiel
it was attached. end Slipped the lool
of the moor-uecahle over the dolphin
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