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The Overland Monthly
Vol. XX (Second Series) -- August, 1892 -- No. 116.
Staging in the Mendocino Redwoods 1
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Ninetta Eames
July 5, 1892

[Quote from wagon driver]

"This is Cuffey's Cove. There was once millions of feet of lumber shipped 
from off them rocks, an' such loads of potatoes! You must have heard of 
the Cuffey Cove potatoes, for in them days they had a big name all over 
the State. The first man that come here was Nigger Nat, an' after that 
the men called the place "Cuffey" as sort of a joke. That was nigh on to 
forty years ago. Oh, yes, Nat's living still, an' pretty near as young 
as ever! Likely 'nough you'll run across him fishing up on Big River. 
He's mostly there this time o' year."