There were extensive saw-mills engaged in preparing this lumber for the San Francisco market, and sailing vessels, used in getting it to market, furnished the only means of communication between Humboldt and the balance of the world.
I was obliged to remain in San Francisco for several days before I found a vessel.

This gave me a good opportunity of comparing the San Francisco of 1852 with that of 1853.

As before stated, there had been but one wharf in front of the city in 1852--Long Wharf.

In 1853 the town had grown out into the bay beyond what was the end of this wharf when I first saw it.

Streets and houses had been built out on piles where the year before the largest vessels visiting the port lay at anchor or tied to the wharf.