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Directly North of Ukialı, eight miles, on the West branch of Rus- sian River, lies Redwood Valley. At its Southern foot is the town of Calpella. This place was laid out by Col. Veeder and his son-in- law, James Pettus, and for a time was a rival of Ukiah. Between these two places was quite a contest for the honor of being selected for the county seat. Ukiah triumphed, and Calpella fell into decay. It is now owned in great part by Mrs. Capt. DeWolf, widow of the gallant Capt. DeWolf who was lost with the Brother Jonathan. She
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has surveyed and marked out streets, plazas and squares, and is offer- ing great inducements for settlers. It now contains two hotels, one blacksmith shop, and four residences.
THE EEL RIVER DIVISION.
The second division, comprising the Eel River valleys, is probably. the best pastoral country in the Coast Range. The soil is generally dark and rich, yet not much of the adobe, and is covered with a rich growth of clover, wild oats, bunch grass, rosin weed or wild sun- flower. For timber it has all the varieties of pine known to Califor- nia, several kinds of oak, laurel, redwood, some little cedar on the higher ranges, and maple. Most of the mountain part is as yet un- surveyed, and is held by brush fence titles in large ranches counted by square miles. Round Valley is the largest valley, and is about. seven miles in diameter in any direction; the soil mostly rich loam. but approaches the adobe on the East side and rather gravelly on the West. It was first settled in 1856 by Government employés. from the Nomo Calkee Indian Reservation, as an Indian farm or station. From fear of the wild tribes surrounding the valley, many settlers were induced by the authorities to accompany the Govern- ment train, and from this time the valley rapidly filled up. Mucha trouble was experienced with Indians, usually nothing more serious than wholesale destruction of stock, though occasionally a house would be burned and a lone settler or hunter waylaid. At the present time the valley contains about forty families, and will soon afford room for many more. Improvements have been at a stand- still for years on account of the declared intention of the Government to take the whole valley for an Indian Reservation, and consequent ejectment of the settlers. By a bill passed at the last session of Congress, about two-thirds of the valley will be thrown into market and the controversy forever settled. This alone will add near $400,000 of taxable property to the assessment roll of Mendocino county. Up to the year 1870 all supplies were packed into the valley on the backs of mules. Wagons were brought in from the Sacramento over a difficult natural road, but not of such a nature as to admit of freighting. In 1869 the people, with the assistance
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of an appropriation from the county, built a road of forty miles in length to connect with the county seat, and now a road has been commenced to connect the valley with Humboldt Bay. Long Val- ley and Sherwood are hardly entitled to the name of valleys, as they are but one farm wide, though the former stretches Northwest and Southeast for several miles. Cahto is the postoffice and business place for Long Valley, for here are the store, saloon, blacksmith shop, saddler shop, postoffice, and express office. It is a high but beautiful valley, owned by Robert White and John P. Simpson, and was settled in the early days of the county. Long Valley lies a little to the East of it and is the head of one branch of Eel River: Cahto is the head of stage travel on the route from San Fran- cisco to Humboldt, the mail being packed from this point to Hydes- ville on mules. Sherwood Valley was first settled by A. E. Sher- wood, from whom it took its name. It is more a settlement on the hills than a valley, though Sherwood has a fine valley farm, as also L. Tuttle and one or two more; but the "valley" is made up of nu- merous detached glades dotted around through the timber and hills. Little Lake, lying about eighteen miles North and six West of Ukiah, is a fine mountain valley containing about forty farms in the valley proper, and numerous others in the detached valleys surrounding it. Martin, Henry and Samuel Baechtel were the first permanent settlers of whom we have any knowledge. They commenced erecting buildings of split redwood in 1853. Alvin Potter, Win. Roberts, and James Rawlison, Fulwider brothers, and others, soon joined them and are still residents in the valley. Little Lake retains her original population to a greater extent than any other settlement in Mendocino county. The valley is nearly round, and in Winter has quite a lake in the North, or lower end of the valley, from which the waters join those of Long Valley and Sherwood.
These three last named valleys are quite elevated, and are sometimes visited by frosts as late as June, yet most of the fruits of a temperate climate, including peaches, rarely fail of producing a good crop. The hills afford excellent pasturage, and the timbered portions offer better feed, in the shape of nuts, for hogs, than the lower valleys of the county.
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GHAPTER II.
HISTORICAL, SKETCH.
Mendocino county was organized by Act of the Legislature ap- proved March 11th, 1859, having been up to that time attached to Sonoma county for civil and political purposes. Jos. Knox, F. Nally, H. Bacchtel, G. W. Brown and Wm. Heeser were appointed Commissioners to locate polling places for the first election. On the first Monday in May of that year the following county officers were elected and entered upon the discharge of their several duties : Sheriff, J. B. Price ; Clerk, G. Carminy Smith ; Surveyor, J. J. Cloud ; Treasurer, John W. Morris ; School Superintendent, A. L. Brayton ; District Attorney, Wm. Neely Johnson ; County Judge. Wm. Henry ; Assessor, John Burton ; Assemblyman, J. B. Lamar; Supervisors, O. H. P. Brown, J. F. Hills, Daniel Miller.
February 20th, 1860, Dan Miller resigned and H. Willitts was elected Supervisor.
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September 4th, 1861, H. Willitts, M. T. Smith, and John Gsch- wind were elected Supervisors. Clerk, G. Carminy Smith ; Sheriff, W. H. Tainter ; District Attorney, Wm. Neeley Johnson ; Super- intendent of Schools, E. R. Budd ; Public Administrator, W. H. Kelly ; Treasurer, J. W. Morris ; Assessor, J. Burton ; Coroner, J. D. McGann. Total vote, 1,345.
September 3d, 1862, Supervisor, O. HI. P. Brown; County Judge, R. McGarvey. Total vote, 1,040.
September 2d, 1863, Assembly, L. Wilsey; District Attorney, R. McGarry ; Sheriff, L. M. Warden ; Clerk, F. W. Watsons ; Treasurer, J. W. Morris ; Assessor, E. S. Reed, removed and S. W. Haskett appointed ; Coroner, E. M. Pierson ; Superintendent of Schools, J. S. Broaddus ; Surveyor, C. A. Conkling. Judicial election October 21st, 1863, County Judge, E. R. Budd. Votes cast, 1034, At the Gubernatorial election the month previous, 1203 votes were cast.
September 6th, 1865, Assembly, Wm. Holden ; Sheriff, L. M. Warden; Clerk, Jas. Anderson ; District Attorney, T. B. Bone ; Treasurer, S. Orr; Assessor, B. J. McManus; Coroner, T. J. Cooley; Surveyor, J. S. Heiser ; Superintendent of Schools, C. C. Cummins ; Supervisor, O. H. P. Brown.
Special election November 6th, 1868, D. B. Holman elected Su- pervisor in place of Willitts, resigned.
September 4thı, 1867, Assembly, W. H. Cureton ; Sheriff, D. C. Crockett ; Clerk, James Fowzer ; District Attorney, T. B. Bone ; Treasurer, S. Orr ; Assessor, J. A. Jamison ; Coroner, J. McNeil ; Surveyor, T. P. Smythe ; Superintendent of Schools, C. C. Cum- mins, resigned and T. B. Bond appointed ; Supervisor, J. Shoe- maker. Total vote, 1412.
November 3d. 1868, L. F. Long, T. W. Dashiells elected Super- visors. Vote cast 1623.
September, 1869, Assembly, G. W. Henley; Sheriff, D. C. Crockett ; Clerk, J. Fowzer; Assessor, J. A. Jamison ; District Attorney, M. A. Kelton ; Treasurer, Wm. Ford ; Surveyor, T. P. Smythe ; Supervisors, T. W. Dashiells, Wm. Handley.
September, 1871, Assembly, Geo. B. Mathurs ; Sheriff, S. J. Chalfant : Clerk, H. J. Abbott ; Treasurer, Wm. Ford ; District
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Attorney, M. A. Rilton ; Assessor, J. H. Donohoe ; Superinten- dent of Schools, J. M. Covington ; County Judge, R. Harrison ; Coroner, S. W. Haskett ; Supervisors, W. J. Hildreth.
November, 1872, H. Willitts elected Supervisor.
The first permanent white settlements in the county were made in 1852 on the coast. In the first week of April of that year, Captain Peter Thompson, one of Carson's old trappers, Geo. Raney, after- wards mate of a Panama steamer, and Steve ---- , clerk for American Consul at Callao, passed down through Anderson Valley and on to the coast, reaching it worn out with fatigue and hunger. At Little River Thompson shot an elk and plenty crowned their festive board. Thompson settled at Pine Grove, four miles above Big River, and was the first known permanent white settler of Mendocino county. He is a native of Ayershire, Scotland, and is now 72 years of age. He went through the Apache country with Walker in 1836; was with Carson in several expeditions in South America in 1848. In 1844. in command of a company, he attempted to go down the Upper Colorado Cañon on the ice with fifty horses. Starting in February they were soon caught in the Spring thaws, and the breaking ice compelled them to climb the mountains where they were so rugged that their horses were often lowered from one bench to another with ropes. He is still hale and hearty, and leads as wild a mountain life as this county will afford. In the Fall of 1852 the sawmill at Big River in Mendocino was commenced by Henry Meigs., J. B. Ford and others. This enterprise was soon after succeeded by the building of the Noyo, Albion, Nevarra and Caspar mills. In 1852 Wm. and Thos. Potter, M. C. Briggs, Al. Strong, J. L. Anderson, and Cestos Feliz, went up Russian River to Potter. In August. 1853, the Potter brothers moved their stock up there. In 1856 Thomas Henley, as Indian Agent of Nome Lackie, established a farm in Round Valley ; he was accompanied by Denman Brothers, Martin Corbett, C. HI. Bourne, G. E. White, and some others. In 1859 John Parker and John Turk settled in the lower end of Ukiah Valley with cattle belonging to Jerry Black of Marin county, also Truman. In 1851 L. B. Arnold and three others came up through Ukiah Valley and across to Anderson and back to Cloverdale, killing twelve or fourteen grizzly bears on the route.
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Ukiah City, has since the organization of the county, been the county seat. The town was incorporated in September, 1872, by the election of T. L. Carothers, S. Orr, R. N. Wellisey, J. R. Moore and E. W. King as Trustees; Thos. Charlton, Marshal; J. L. Wilson, Assessor. The original Court House was built by E. Rathburn for $7,000, in the Fall of 1859. A new Court House was built by A. P. Petit in the Fall of 1872 for $40,000. County Court was convened in the new building for the first time on the first Monday in March, 1873.
RESOURCES OF MENDOCINO.
As noted in various places along through the descriptive sketch of this county, the resources are varied and extensive. At present the chief business is lumbering. Mendocino City, situated on a bay of the same name, at the mouth of Big River, is a town of considera- ble importance in the center of this lumber trade.
Grazing and stock-raising is of much importance and increasing. Agriculture, owing to the distance from market, is chiefly confined to domestic necessities. Farmers find it more remunerative to feed their stock with their surplus grain and drive the stock to market, than to attempt to transport the grain.
Mendocino affords evidence of the presence of various minerals, but not as yet discovered in quantities to pay for working. Virgin copper has been found, and its sulphates in numerous places, Gold has been washed out near Calpella by means of rockers. Traces of silver and gold in quartz have caused excitements from time to time, and lately some excellent cinnabar veins are said to have been found near Ukiah. A very large vein of coal, forming a bar eight feet thick across the river, exists four miles above the forks of Eel River, between Round Valley and Eden Valley. 1. Friedlander has en- tered 30,000 acres of land around the vein. It was first located and steps taken to interest capitalists inlit by B. S. Coffman, formerly a Lieutenant stationed at Round Valley, but it was first discovered and coal brought out by H. L. Hall, many years a resident in Eden Valley. The vein is but four miles from the proposed railroad route.
Many springs abound. the virtues of which are as various as the
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diseases of man. Near Ukiah is one peculiarly efficacious in skin and rheumatic complications, and has materially improved several bad cases of asthma. On the head waters of Big River, fifteen miles from Ukiah, is the Hot Sulphur Springs. At either end of Potter Valley are soda and sulphur springs, each possessing their pe- culiar virtues. On the ranch of the late Dr. Sargeant, in Long Valley, is a mineral spring of large volume, but of unknown proper- ties, which afford almost water enough to run a small mill.
Mendocino county offers peculiar inducements to tourists and pleasure seckers. The Eel River section is one of the finest hunt- ing and fishing countries to be found. In all parts of the county, save the immediate settlements in the valleys, game of all kind amounds. Some of the scenery in this county is unrivaled for beau- ty and grandeur. Especially is this true of the coast country.
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BIOGRAPHIFS.
JOHN YORK.
The main portion of this volume had gone to press ere we were able to get a notice of this old and highly esteemed pioneer. There- fore, the few lines notice of him found on page 167 are so unsatis- factory that we here give a more extended notice.
Mr. York was born in Granger county, Tennessee, in 1820, and lived with his family in that State till in 1840 he removed to Mis- souri. Here he lived till he started for California. Two years after he went to Missouri he was married. On the 15th of April, 1845, he, with his wife and one child, started overland for California. At Independence he joined a company of which the following were members : Benjamin Duell, now of Lake, John Grigsby, David Hudson, Win. Hudson, W. B. Elliot, now of Lake, Wm. Ide, Mrs. Delaney and sons, Messrs. McDowell. Ford, and others. John Brown was elected Captain and served as such till the company reached Fort Laramie, where John Grigsby was elected successor. The company having experienced no unusual events on the way, ar- rived at Sutter's Fort in October, 1845. Later in the Fall he, in company with David and William Hudson and W. B. Elliot, camc to Napa Valley, stopped a few days at Mr. Yount's ranch, moved to near the present site of Calistoga, where lie erected a log cabin, the first building in that part of the country, and also put in the first crop of wheat. The valley abounded in all kinds of game, and the In- dians were numerous. In 1848, on the discovery of gold, he went to. the mines. Before leaving for the mines he had purchased his present ranch near St. Helena, and after an absence of six weeks in
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the mines, where he had been at work making sometimes as much as $150 per day, returned and erected a house. Until 1860 he had confined his business to stock-raising, but in that year he com- menced setting out vines, and has continued till the present, till he now has one among the best vineyards in that section. In carly times bears were so numerous in that section that he many times stood in the door of his house and killed them. He had many thril- ling adventures with these animals. When he first came into the valley it was hard to get bread, and after harvest it was sometimes very difficult to get wheat ground. Many times has he found his house for weeks without bread. He is now blest with a fair share of this world's goods, and is one of the most respected citizens of his neighborhood.
J. B. WARFIELD.
J. B. Warfield, M. D., was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, in 1819. His father was a merchant, and both parents were natives of Baltimore, Maryland. When the War of 1812 broke out, the father, Basil H. Warfield, was one of the enlisted of the Maryland draft, and participated in the battle of North Point, where the Americans were victorious, and the British General lost his life. He then re- inoved (having a large family), to a place remote from the seat of war and settled in Ohio. In 1831, the father, with his family of twelve children, removed to Indiana. At the age of twenty-four the subject of this sketch commenced the study of medicine, and in 1 849 he graduated in his chosen profession at Cincinnati. He had for some years prior to his graduating been engaged in practice in the town of Weston, Missouri, and after he graduated returned to this place, intending there to locate. But on his arrival he found many of the people wild with excitement over the discovery of gold in California, and in August of the same year, after a trip of ninety- six days, he found himself in the mines of El Dorado county. After following the adventurous life of a miner for some time, he settled in Marysville and commenced the practice of his profession. He was eminently successful here. In 1854 he visited his parents, they having returned to their native city. His father died in 1856, at the age of seventy-five. His mother, now in her eighty-fourth
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year, still lives and enjoys excellent healtlı. In 1856 Dr. Warfield removed to North San Juan, El Dorado county, and was elected a member of the Assembly to the Legislature of 1858. He was for some years engaged in mining, merchandising. and the practice of liis profession.
In 1860 he removed to San Francisco and engaged in the exciting business of the day-incorporations, quartz mining, and mills. In 1864 he married the eldest daughter of Dr. C. T. Overton, formerly of Nevada county, but who died some years since in Napa. In 1867 he located in Sonoma Valley, purchased his present excellent property, where he has since resided cultivating the soil and practicing his profession. In 1867 he was elected a mem- ber of the Assembly from Sonoma county, and ably represented his constituents in the Legislature.
In politics Dr. Warfield has always been a firm Democrat, but his public services have ever been characterized for their fairness and statesmanlike ability. Ever watchful of the interests of the people. he has made many political friends, and by his courteous and fair dealing in his private relations of life, has surrounded himself with a host of warm personal friends.
CHARLES ML. HUDSPETH.
This highly esteemed citizen and pioneer was born in Overton county. Tennessee, in 1800. When ten years old emigrated with his family to Alabama. In 1816 he emigrated to the territory now known as Mississippi. After remaining here ten years following the business of farmer, he moved to the territory of Arkansas. In 1849 he came by the Southern route overland to California, and settled in Sonoma county. He served as a volunteer Captain un- der Lieutenant-Colonel Gray in the Mexican War. After coming to California he tried mining for a time, but this proved financially disastrous, and he returned to his home in Sonoma county. He now resides near Santa Rosa. He has been elected to many offices by the people, and always acquitted himself with credit. He was married in 1821, and is the father of twelve children, only three of whom are still living ;
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JAMES M. HUDSPETH.
The subject of this sketch was born in Madison county, Alabama, in 1812. In 1816 his family removed to Mississippi, where he re- sided till 1842, when he emigrated to Oregon. In 1843 he came to California and settled in Sonoma county. He was a member of the Bear Flag party, and served as Lieutenant under Fremont in the liberating of California from Mexico. In 1851 he was elected Assemblyman from Sonoma, and the following election was chosen Senator. He owns a fine tract of land West of Sebastopol, where he devotes his attention to farming and stock-raising. He lost one arm by an inflamation of the hand. He is highly esteemed by his neighbors and the people of the county.
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THE BAR OF NAPA.
The following compose the Bar of Napa: W. C. Wallace, W. W. Pendegast, Robert Crouch, Thos. P. Stoney, C. Hartson, R. Burnell, F. E. Johnston, T. J. Tucker, D. McClure, R. N. Steere, Dennis Spencer, R. M. Swain, G. W. Towle, J. E. Pond, C. A. Menefee, Charles A. Gardner.
Mr. Wallace is a native of Missouri, and has been long and favora- bly known in Sonoma, Napa, and adjoining counties, as one among the ablest of practitioners. In 1869 he was elected Judge of the Ser- enth Judicial District to succeed J. B. Southard, and still occupies that position.
W. W. Pendegast is a native of Kentucky. Attended the Hespe- rian College at Woodland in the early days of that institution, studied law under Wallace & Rayle, of Napa, was admitted to the Bar in . 1.864, and has been in practice in Napa since. He served the coun- ty one term as District Attorney, and has been twice elected to the Senate.
T. J. Tucker was born in Toledo county, New York, in 1833 ; came to California in 1852 ; studied law and was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court at Sacramento in 1860, and has since been engaged in practice in Napa. In 1869 he was elected Dist- rict Attorney, and served one term.
R. Burnell was born in Chautauque county, New York, in 1825. He was admitted to the Bar in the Common Pleas Court in 1847. He represented Amador county one term in the Legislature, and was in 1871 elected District Attorney for Napa county.
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David McClure was born in Clark county, Illinois, in 1842. Studied law and was admitted to the Bar in Napa county before J. B. Southard in 1869. In 1871 he was admitted to the Supreme Court of Illinois, and in the following year to that of California. He is now partner in the firm of Crouch & McClure.
G. W. Towle was born in Franklin county, Maine, in 1823. At the age of twenty-three he was admitted to the Bar in Massachu- setts, and in 1853 to the Supreme Court of California. He has long been a resident of Napa City, where he has filled many positions of trust.
F. E. Johnston was born in Green county, Missouri. Taught school for some time in California. Studied law and was admitted to the Bar in 1869. He has since been practicing in Napa, and is now partner in the firm of Pendegast & Johnston.
Dennis Spencer was born in Jackson county, Missouri, in 1844. Studied law in the office of Pendegast & Stoney, and was admitted to the Bar in 1870, and is now attending the law school at Albany, New York.
R. N. Steere was born in Rhode Island, in 1839. Studied law in the office of Wallace, Rayle & Pendegast, and was admitted to prac- tice in 1866. In 1867 he was elected District Attorney and served one term.
R. M. Swain was born in Michigan in 1839, and was raised a farmer. Attended the College at Santa Clara, and was for a time engaged on the press. He studied law and was admitted to the Bar in Napa county in 1870. In 1871 he was elected Justice of the Peace for Napa Township, but resigned. He was appointed Under Sheriff by Mr. Zollner, and still occupies that position.
T. P. Stoney was born in Charleston, South Carolina, April 25th, 1835. He arrived in California in December, 1856. Studied law in the law office of Hartson & Edgerton, and was admitted to the Bar in Napa county in 1859. In 1871 he was elected County Judge of Napa county, which position he still holds.
Charles A. Gardner was born in Iroquois county, Illinois, in 1843. He was admitted to practice in Los Angeles county in 1870. Lo- cated in Napa in the Winter of 1872.
Robert Crouch and C. Hartson are noted in the chapter on biogra- phies of Napa county.
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TABLE SHOWING THE CONDITION AND PROGRESS OF NAPA CITY.
The following shows the business condition in 1856 and 1872. The first is that of 1856 :
Miscellaneous stores, 9 ; hotels, 2 ; restaurants, 3 ; blacksmith shops, 3 ; wagon makers, 3 ; shoe-makers, 2 ; tailors, I ; butchers, 2 ; saddler, 1 ; tin smith, 1 ; sewing machine, I; apothecary, 2 ; express offices, 2 ; printing offices, 1 ; billiard saloons, 2 ; bakery, I ; steam mills, 2 ; store-houses, 2 ; livery stables, 3 ; barbers, r ; churches, 1; bar rooms, 12 ; physicians, 2 ; lawyers, 4.
Within the period between 1856 and IS58 was organized the Napa County Agricultural Society, Napa Jockey Club, Napa Dra- matic Club, Napa Brass Band, and a Minstrel Troupe.
Business houses, &c., in Napa City, November, 1872 : Book, stationery and fancy goods store, 2 ; stationery stores, 3 ; general merchandise stores, 7 ; grocery stores, 5 ; fruit and confectionery stores, 4 ; dry goods stores, 3 ; clothing stores, 1 ; hardware and agricultural implement stores, 5 ; drug stores, 2 ; shoe stores, 3 ; bakers, 3; millinery stores, 3 : butchers, 3 : dress makers, 3 ; watchmakers, 3 ; land and insurance agents, 3 ; insurance agents, 2; law firms, S; dentists. 1 ; physicians, 5; undertakers, 2 ; hotels, 9 ; bars, 27 ; wine depots and manufactories, 2 : wine cel- lars, 2 ; coopers, 1 ; plow and wagon manufacturers, 4 ; marble works, 1 ; marble dealers, 1 ; machine shops, 2 ; blacksmiths, 6; bakeries, 3; tailors, 2 : boot and shoe shops, S; barbers, 5 ; sad- dlers, 4; feed stables, 2 ; livery stables, 3 ; furniture stores, 2 ; tanneries, 2 ; wood-workers, 1 ; gunsmiths, 2 ; breweries, I ; pho- tograph establishments, 1 ; carpenter shops, 5 ; grain warehouses, 4 ; restaurants, 4 ; wagon makers, 1 ; vegetable dealers, 2 ; tin- smiths, 4 ; printing offices, 2; billiard saloons, 5; steam mills, I ; lumber yards, 2 ; paint shops, 3; public halls, I ; schools, 4; churches, 7 ; congregations, S : glove factories, I : whip factories, I ; gas works, I.
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STATISTICS OF THE FOUR COUNTIES.
Sonoma. *
Napa .*
Lake. + Mendocinot
Land enclosed, acres. . . 500,000
107,650
59,596
250,000
Land cultivated, "
312,800
40,620
12,227
24,000
in Wheat.
. 165, 200
32,530
5,591
31,000
66
Oats
23,380
750
235
40,000
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Rye
159
9
Corn.
3,873
1,700
467
250
Hay.
21,510
8,650
3,565
30,000
Potatoes . .
3,543
301
31
3,000
Hops
26+
157
200
Butter, pounds.
762,400
145,000
30,896
117,600
Cheese,
356,207
7,350
65,600
9,800
Silk Cocoons, pounds
100
Wool,
272,925
51,610
56,488
274,000
Honey,
1,200
3,750
6,245
Apple trees
29,086
61,500
11,143
25,000
Peach trees.
62,300
25,800
6,002
22,000
Pear trees
16,175
19,025
1,791
3,060
Plum trees
44,890
7,115
2,431
2, ICO
Cherry trees.
8,321
12,340
362
640
Orange (other fruits omitted) 56 Mulberry 2,877
70
15
Grape vines.
4,798,348 2,324, 545
30,979
25,CCO
Gallons of Wine
876,328
464,320
Distilleries.
4
I I
1
Gallons of Brandy
1,250
13,999
Breweries.
4
2
Gallons of Beer
85,010
38,000
15,000
Grist Mills-water power, steam
6
2
I
2
Bbls. Flour made.
75,063
14,370
21,600
27,000
Bushels Corn ground ...
6.399
5,650
2,000
600
Saw Mills-steam power, water
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2
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Lumber sawed-feet. 14,693,327
60,000
70,000,000
Shingles made.
4,286,890
500,000 3,000.000
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2
I
5
2
3
18
58,250
129
Barley.
15,340
3,725
3,068
9,000
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VALUE OF PROPERTY IN NAPA COUNTY.
Napa county is divided into eleven Road Districts. No. I com- prises the Soscol country ; No. 2, Napa City and vicinity ; No. 3, Berryessa Valley ; No. 4, country between No. 2 and Sonoma coun- ty line ; No. 5, country West of Napa River and North of Nos. 2 and 4 ; No. 6, country East of Napa River and North of No. 2 ; No. 7. country North of Yountville ; No. S, St. Helena and vicini- ty ; No. 9. Calistoga and vicinity ; No. 10, Pope Valley ; No. 11, Knoxville and vicinity.
The following is the assessed value of the lands in these several Road Districts :
Road Dist. No. 1 .. . $
Real Estate. 567,335
Personal prop'rty.
Total.
$ $27.438
2. . . 1,377, 800
$160, 103 $50,258
2,228,058
3. . . 458,659
159,240
617,899
4. . . 721,905
138,300
860, 205
60
5. . . 599, 895
157,70)
757,604
187,770
56,252
244,022
613,835
135,841
749,676
S. . .
735,650
254,159
989, 8og
9. . .
372,515
100,210
472,725
IO. . .
225,27I
117,470
342,741
II .. . 97,685
49,285
146,970
Total,
$6,058,320
$2, 178, 827
$3,237, 147
VALUE OF PROPERTY IN SONOMA COUNTY.
The following table shows the assessed value of property in the several townships of the county of Sonoma :
Name of Township. Real Estate.
Personal pro'rty.
Total.
Petaluma, .
$2,956, 874
$1. 185.223
$4, 142,097
Santa Rosa,
2,584.500
971,688
3,556,197
Mendocino,
1,288,121
645,975
1,934.096
Sonoma,
1,779.058
617,120
2,396, 178
Anally,
1,396,690
457,330
1,854,290
Bodega,
581,496
204,576
700,072
Cloverdale,
316,041
169,348
485,390
Vallejo,
1,465,160
305,081
1,770,24I
Washington,
280, 466
113,259
393,725
Salt Point,
147,821
124,636
272,457
Ocean,
164,314
57,269
221,553
Redwood,
59,405
23,414
$2.819
Russian River, .
. .
761,734
286,251
1,047,935
S. F. & N. P. R. R.
58,225
885,995
944,220
Totals, $13, 840, 1 84
$6,047,166
$19,887,350
6. . . 7 .. .
1
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TABLE OF TEMPERATURES.
Below we give the mean temperature of each month in the year, at Napa City and Calistoga, at 6 A. M., 12 M. and 6 P. M.
Napa City.
Calistoga.
6 A. M.
1 2 M.
6 P. M.
1 6 A. M.
12 M.
6 p. M.
January .
35º
69℃
500
460
56°
520
February
46
59
55
50
59
56
March.
50
68
61
56
60
56
April
45
69
57
52
70
60
May
50
73
62
68
77
76
June
56
77
67
68
90
68
July
60
80
72
73
74
79
August
52
84
70
60
86
77
September
55
SI
72
55
82
68
October
43
88
76
52
81
72
November
46
72
55
48
64
61
December. .
35
61
58
46
57
56
The observations at Napa were taken at Dr. Boynton's drug store; those at Calistoga at the Springs Hotel.
VALUE OF LAND IN MENDOCINO COUNTY.
· In 1868-9, land and improvements are classed as land, except im- provements on possessory claims, or on land of non-residents, which will account for the small valuation that year under the head of im- provements, and large valuation in proportion :
Land.
Improvements.
Personal.
Total.
1859-60. . $ 492,457
$371.694
$1,728.754
$2,562,905
1868-9. .. 472,678
164,501
1,372,666
2,009, 845
1872-3 . . . 1,985,084
749,647
2,580,168
5,314, 899
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VINEYARDS OF NAPA.
In addition to the vineyards already noticed in the body of this work, we here note a few more, and give some statistics connected with the business of viniculture.
J. H. McCord has a vineyard of 20,000 vines, three-fourths of which are foreign, near Pine Station, above Rutherford's. Mr. McCord is a pioneer of 1849; purchased this place in 1855. Be- sides his vineyard, he has an orchard and considerable fine farming land.
Next above Mr. McCord's place is the farm and vineyard of Mr. M. Vann. This gentleman came to California in 1852; purchased a tract of land of Mrs. Bale; now has a fine homestead, a large orchard, and a vineyard of 25,000 vines, about two-thirds of which are foreign.
Above the farm of Mr. Vann is that of Mr. Smith, who has thirty acres of vines, about half of which are foreign.
Next and last, we notice the splendid premises of Mr. John Lew- elling. This estimable citizen was born in North Carolina, in ISI0; came to California in 1850; settled at San José Mission; planted an orchard of 80 acres in the years '53 and '54, and sold out. In 1858 he went to San Lorenzo, where he still owns 118 acres all in orchard and small fruits. In 1864 bought 163 acres near St. Helena, known as the Young Anderson place, on which he has set an orchard of 500 apple trees, besides plums, cherries and other fruits; also an almond orchard of 1, Soo trees, and a vineyard of 35,000 vines, all foreign. In 1865 he bought 184 acres more of L. H. Murry on the opposite side of the road, and extending from the road to the foot of the mountains on the Western side of the valley. He has since bought a mountain tract back of the Murry place of 190 acres, which gives him fine pasture lands and splendid water privilege. In 1870 he erected a splendid house on the Murry place at a cost of $10,000; on this place he also has 1,600 almond trees and 50,000 vines, comprising about 24 varieties, the greater portion foreign.
In the district of country lying between Oakville and Calistoga there were 1,967 acres in vineyards, nearly two-thirds of which we- foreign varieties. In 1871 only about one-half of this number bearing vines, yet the yield of grapes was 25, 320, 000 pounds
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that date many new vineyards have been set, and the work still continues.
VINEYARDS OF SONOMA.
Sonoma Valley is the greatest wine-producing sec ion in either of the counties. In this valley alone, and on the surrounding foot-hills, there are over 3,000 acres set in vines, all bearing; and in the whole county there are over 1,000 more acres. In 1867 the total number of vines was only 2, 564, 850; in 1872 there were 4, 798, 348.
The largest vineyard in the county is that of the Buena Vista Vinicultural Society, which covers nearly 400 acres, and contains nearly 400,000 vines. There are several other vineyards of over 100 acres, and over thirty more that have from 20 to 100 acres.
We had hoped to be able here to give tables showing the various vineyards, their extent, number of vines, and yield, but the statistics furnished us we find to be unreliable, and will not therefore present them.
SONOMA BARRACKS.
In our Frontispiece is seen the Plaza, old Barracks, and many of the buildings of the town of Sonoma. The building near the cen- ter, the end of which is propped up, is what is known as the Bir- racks. Around this building were enicted many of the most stir- ring scenes in the history of Sonoma. Here the Independent Party in 1846 hoisted the memorable Bear Flag, and here the Govern- ment forces were quartered. The view represents the town of So- noma of to-day.
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