and his party recognized the availability of timber in the region, they moved camp to the more protected eastern shores of the bay to erect facilities to process the lumber they would soon be harvesting (Ficken 1987). As they laid out their settlement, they called their village Duwamps (later to be know as Seattle). The industry grew and soon mills were showing up all over the coast of Washington. Wherever there was protection, a mill site was erected to procure timber for the vast needs of an ever-expanding San Francisco in California. Though the mills were able to process timber into boards with unrivaled efficiency, the quality of the cuts soon became questionable. Distributors soon began to complain to the mills that the boards being milled were often thicker at one end than the other and contained other unacceptable irregularities. The mill towns were soon in search of a solution. The solution would soon arrive in the form of two men, David S. Doc Maynard and one Henry L. Yesler. III. Seattle establishes itself as a mill town:Doc Maynard was a failing purveyor of lumber who had a penchant for boozing and selling his wares that were initially purchased at half price, for half the asking price of the competition (Morgan 1951). He was in a slump and was shut down by his own vices and threats from other lumber salesmen. In search of new opportunity, Doc arrived at Alki beach, where he soon befriended the local Indians. As his relations with the locals grew, Doc took up residence in a nearby Elliot Bay site, where after meeting Arthur Denny and other influential figures, began his new life in commerce. With the help of his new Indian friends, the enterprising Maynard began to cut cordwood, catch and salt salmon, and manufacture barrels though the new business he called the Seattle Exchange (named after close friend and local Indian chief, Sealth). Doc was soon one amongst the most influential of all citizens and was able ...
