to coax the local pioneering population into renaming their settlement Seattle (Morgan 1951).Soon Henry Yesler, a successful Portland mill owner, arrived on the shores of Elliot Bay to survey land for a new steam powered sawmill. With and extended hand, Doc Maynard greeted Yesler and together, the two, in cooperation with other civic leaders, secured the success of Seattles ports by erecting the Puget Sounds first steam powered sawmill (Morgan 1962). Yesler and Maynard recognized that logs from inland could easily be transported to the Seattle tide flats via the nearby Duwamish River and while Yesler was in California purchasing implements for milling, Maynard and compatriot Carson Boron reserved the tide flats or Sag for the future mill. Here they would be able to take advantage of the deep Elliot Bay harbor and readily transport lumber to California, now in desperate need of building materials to facilitate their gold rush (Binns 1941).With opening of the mill and Skid Road on March 26, 1853, other forms of commerce soon arrived. A bunkhouse was erected next to the mill, as were saloons and cookhouses. The mill and its surrounding services had effectively jumpstarted Seattles bustling Warf economy (HistoryLink 2001). IV. The birth of new industry:With the sudden explosion in population, the inevitable expansion in the service industries occurred. As the inhabitants of the city were as salty as the water in Elliot Bay, a seedy side to Seattle developed. The male to female ratio was relatively grim at around 10:1 so in moved San Franciscan, John Pinnell to provide for the city of Seattles more steamy needs. Pinnell recognized the unbalanced population and also the bonanza that he would surely strike with the formal introduction of the sex industry to the still young city. With a fully white population, Pinnell solved his lack of Caucasian staffing, by substituting with the local Indian women, who were referred to as Hurd...
