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Pockoged Lots-Truck-&-Trq iler Shipments tween their Grays Harbor mill and California, making occasional offshore trips to Guaymas and Honolulu, under the command of such well-known Pacific Coast captains as C. W. Liljeqvist, ooOle" Monsen, "Gus" Peterson, and Fred Scott.

She suffered near-fatal mishaps when she was driven ashore at Grays Harbor entrance in 1903, and again when her aging seams opened up off Eureka early in 1912. Towed waterlogged into San Francisco Bav after this latteilisaster, she was promptly laid up in Oakland Estuary. The last saiiing schooner had been built in 1905, and the cost of repairing the Thayer approached her total value in a day when the steam schooner was rapidly taking over the coastal lumber trade.

But the Thayer had come to the end of only her first career. She was bought and quickly outfitted by Peter Nelson -for the first of her l3 annual voyages to the salmon salteries he operated in Western Alaska. During the war, when bottoms were scarce, she made winter voyages to Australia with her old familiar lumber cargoes, and she summered in the upper reaches of Bristol Bay, Alaska, in company with the great square-rigger fleet of the Alaska Packers Association and other major cannery operators.

Both salt salmon and sail were on the way out when in 1925 the Thayer retired to that last haven of West Coast schooners -the Bering Sea Codfishery. J. E. Shields, of the Pacific Coast Codfish Co. of Poulsbo, Washington, outfitted her with dories and a large forecastle for fishermen and for seven seasons sent her north under the command of John Grotle, dean of the Pacific codfishing skippers.

An extended layup in Lake Union throughout most of the Great Depression, brief service as an Army barge during the Second World War, and the Thayer was again in the Bering Sea under J. E. Shield's flag, for five postwar voyages-this time a real anachronism, whose every movement was reported by a history-conscious press. When the C. A. Thayer returned from the

Bering Banks to the codfishing village of Poulsbo in the fall of 1950, her hold filled to capacity with 700,000 pounds of salted codfish, she closed out her eighty-year history of the American codfishery in the Pacific-and the age of commercial sail on the Pacific Coast.

Old togging Town Being Restored

Tennant, anold California logging towno abandoned after World War I, is being restored by its new owners in the style of the I900s. located in Siskiyou county, it closed up after the supply of timber dwindled.

The new owners, Tennant Agency, Inc. purchased the entire town several years ago from Clarence Bullock, a retired manufactnrer from Indiana, who had spent $350,000 renovating and repairing.

Ninety-seven of the 100 homes in town are being ofiered for sale as retirement homes or vacation retreats.

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