At the Fivemile House while Hodgkins kept it was a man whose name was David Gorman, commonly called “Old Dave Gorman.” He went from there to
the Boise mines with Hodgkins and on his return worked for D. G. Leonard on the Leonard bridge on John Day river and later bought the Cold Spring
ranch on the river seven miles above the bridge. This was the ranch that John Irvin had taken up in 1862. Gorman sold an interest in this ranch to
John Sweet and they conducted the place for a number of years. Dave finally sold to Sweet and went to Walla Walla and from there to the
Palouse country.

Going up Tenmile creek about one mile from the Fivemile House was the home of Nathan Olney, later occupied by Judge Perham. Next above Nate
Olney on the creek was O. Olney, a brother of Nate’s and next above him was the Shapley Geiger place just below the Company Ranch hollow. It was
on this place that my people spent the forepart of the summer of 1860. Next came the place of J. M. Bird, who later kept the livery stable in The Dalles. Next came the place of Marcellus Faulkner, and next came the place of Col. Fulton. The school house was built on Col. Fulton’s place in 1860 by a young man whose name was Robert Cochran, who was working for Col. Fulton that summer. There was also a young man working there whose name was Crabtree. 

It was at the Fulton school house that my
mother taught school. She was the first to teach public school in the Tenmile district, and the scholars, as I recall them, were James Fulton,
Jr., John Fulton, David Fulton, Emeline Newton—a step daughter of Faulkner,--Alice Faulkner, Wm. W. Masiker, Esther Masiker, Elmyra Masiker, and Carson C. Masiker.