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The vessel of course fell into the hands of the Indians and was plundered and burned Rogue River is said to have unknown its name from the Roguish and theivish disposition of its inhabitants and was first called Rascal River by the early explorers and afterwards modified into Rogue River. In the same year that the Hagstaff was lost the mineral Regions of Southern Oregon and Northern California began to attract attention, and of course a vast amount of the mining population of California who had failed to become engaged in any very permanent or paying business drifted off in that direction and later in the season the previous word crossed out a company was organized in Sanfrancisco to explore the coast in search of an available harbor upon which to locate a town, with the view of opening a Road through the Coasts Range of mountains, and supplying the new mining Districts with goods The expedition, well organized and well armed sailed out of Sanfrancisco in the Brig Samuel Roberts, and turned her prow northerly for the Southern Coast of Oregon and soon found themselves of the mouth of Rogue River Boats were manned and