 In the fall of 1858 she reappears sailing for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company between San Francisco, Portland, Puget Sound, and Victoria, B.C.. Part of her business, and perhaps the reason for her reactivation was to ferry miners from California to the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush.She also carried troops amid escalating border tensions in the San Juan Islands with British forces.In January 1858 she embarked 260 enlisted men and 13 officers in San Francisco for Fort Vancouver on the Columbia River.