History of Humboldt County, California : with illustrations descriptive of its scenery, farms, residences, public buildings, factories, hotels, business houses, schools, churches, etc., from original drawings, including biographical sketches, Part 16

Author: W.W. Elliott & Co
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: San Francisco : W.W. Elliott
Number of Pages: 344


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170


2,200


16,160,988


Sacramento, 1,026


170


980


18,578,385


Novada,


1,050 SO


500


6,821,306


Yolo. 1.150 215 8S0


9,910,597 Modoc.


7,380


40


250


1,239,152


Santa Clara. 1,336


850


23,628,845


San Jonquin. 1,350


475 1,350


18,678,594


Kern.


8,000


40


2,000


4.185,997


Ventura.


1,380


78 700


2,857.383


-


٠١٠١٠١٠١٠١٠١٠١٠١٠١٠١٠١٠١


1,380


150


600


5,832,925


.. . . . . ... .


Sononia.


1,400


310 1,200


15,178, 121


8,750


110


2,800


6,055,0G2


Mariposa.


1.110


8


300


I,209,950 .1.


.... . . . . ... ... ...


San Diego,


15,150


28


GOO


3, IGI.177


Trinity.


1,800


12


100


898,610


El Dorado. 1.872 20


330 2,331,350


290 1,649,6]] 'T'nolumue. 1.350


Merced.


1,975


480 1,500 5.712,657.


Humboldt.


2,000 45 1.100 5.355.028


Calusa.


2.376


435 1,800 12.546,242


Plumas.


2,73G


10


290 1,926,154


Tehama,


2,800


300


750 4.192,548


A


Siskiyou.


3,040


4S


300 2,651,367


1


NAMIK.


3,160


90


San Luis Obispo.


Monterey.


3,300


300


1.150


7,185,185


3,540


90


1,300


4,479,829


Santa Barbara.


.................. . ....


.


1,100


5.508,650


Mendocino.


3,816


95


1


San Bernardino.


23,472


85


700


2,601,321


1.1 .


Total.


1G4,031


0,0-11


41,350


$578,839,214


By way of comparison, on same scale, to show the vast size of California, wo represent tho State of Rhode Island. 1,300 square miles.


1


Ainador.


700


45


200


2,724,4-19


Contra Costil.


750


180


700


7,720,292


Alameda.


800


105


G50


37,452,230


... ...... ..


Salano.


800


190


790


8,671,022


....... . .


....... .


.... . . . . . . |


.....


........ . .


·


Stanislaus. 1,350 590


1.220


6,031.988


Del Norte.


1.440


2


80


G95,850


Butte.


1,458


370


750 10,665,097


M


Fresno.


.... ......


..


.. . . . . . ·


Placer.


·


35


VALUATION. Real and Personal,


Mono.


. . . ..


..... ... .


350


1


ARKA.


RESIDENCE OF THOMAS BAIR, ARCATA, HUMBOLDT CO. CAL.


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77


SCHOOLS AND EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES.


EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES.


California has 2,743 public schools, with an attendance of 144,805, and 216,464 children on the census roll. In the ycar 1878-79 there was $2,285,732.38 paid to teachers as salaries. Since the organization of California as a State, she has paid for the support of schools $38,500,000- not a bad showing.


The educational system of the State has received much atten- tion and care from those in authority. Our public schools and higher institutions of learning are liberally endowed, and gene- rally efficient. The profession of teaching is held in high repute, and teachers command good salaries. We are justified, we think, in saying that the system of public schools established by the laws of California is in no respect inferior to the best in any other State in the Union.


FIRST YANKEE SCHOOL-MASTER.


In April, 1847, the first English school was opened in a small shanty on the block bounded by Dupont, Broadway, Pacific and Stockton Streets. Hero were collected from twenty to thirty pupils, who then comprised nearly all the children of the city. It was a private institution and was supported by tuition fees from the pupils, and by the contributions of the citizens. It way taught by Mr. Mareten, who is entitled to the honor of heing the first Yankee school-master upon the Pacific Coast. Although he continued his school but a few months, he per- formed an important part as a pioneer in establishing our schools, which ehould cause his name to be held in grateful remembrance by every friend of education.


THE PIONEER LADY TEACHER.


In January, 1848, Mrs. Mary A. Case located in Santa Cruz and opened a school in her own house, and taught two terms, when the discovery of gold broke up her school by the removal of families. Mrs. Case was, in 1879, stal living in Santa Cruz. She was a native of Connecticut, and came to California in 1847. Her husband, B. A. Case, died at Long Valloy, Califor- nia, in 1871.


FIRST PUBLIC SCHOOL.


Late in the fall of 1847, active measures were first taken by the citizens of San Francisco to organize a public school, which resulted in erecting a humble one-story school-house on the south-west part of Portsmouth Square, fronting on Clay Street, near where it joins Brenhain Place. An engraving of this first publie school-house in San Francisco has been preserved in the " Annals of San Francisco." The history of this old building is cherished by tho carly pioneers with many pleasing associ- tions. Here germinated every new enterprise; here the town meetings and political conventions were held; here the churches first held their gatherings, and the first public amusements were given. After the discovery of gold it was deserted for school purposes, and was used as a Court House under Judge


Alinond. It was afterwards degraded into a public office and used as a station-house. It was demolished by the city in 1850.


On the 3d of April, 1848, the school was opened in the build- ing described, under the instruction of Mr. Thomas Douglass, now residing in San Jose, an able and zealous pioneer in the cause of education. He was appointed teacher hy the Board of School Trustees, at a salary of $1,000 per month. The popu- lation at this time was 812, of whom sixty were children of a suitable age for attending school. Although it was a public school under the control of regularly elected officers, it was mainly supported by tuition from the pupils. The success and usefulness of this school were soon paralyzed by the great dis- covery of gold, which for a time depopulated the town, leaving the teacher minus pupils, trustees and salary. He therefore closed his school and joined in the general exodus for the mines, the new El Dorado of untold wealth.


In the general excitement and confusion which followed the first rush for the "diggings," the school enterprise was for a time abandoned. The education of the children, who were rapidly increasing from the flood of cmigration pouring into San Francisco from every part of the world, was entirely neglected until the 23d of April, 1849, when the Rev. Albert Williams opened a school in his church.


In October, 1849, Mr. J. C. Pelton and wife opened a school in the basement of the Baptist Church, on Washington, near Stockton Street, and in July, 1850, the " Happy Valley School" was opened in a little dilapidated building, in what was then ealled "Happy Valley."


THE STATE UNIVERSITY.


This important institution is eituated at Berkeley, Alameda County, and is endowed by the various gifts of Congress with Seminary, Building and Agricultural College lands; also with a Stato endowinent from the sale of tide lands, which yields an annual income of $52,000. Its production fund is larger than that of the University of Michigan. It has an able corps of Professors and instructors, some of whom have a national repu- tation. The names of 336 students are upon its catalogue, dis- trihuted in the various departments of science and art. Its buildings and grounds are extensive, and for beauty of situa- tion, or the thoroughness of its instruction in literature and science, it cannot be excelled. Its Medical Department is in the city of San Francisco. The University is free to both sexes.


The Normal School, at San Jose, is one of the most admir- ably managed of our State Institutions. It has an excellent faculty and over 400 students. An additional Normal School is about to be erected at Los Angeles.


California has, besides these State Institutions, fifteen col- leges endowed or maintained by the different religious denomin- ations.


78


BAYS, LAKES, AND NAVIGABLE STREAMS.


DIMENSIONS OF CALIFORNIA.


Width on the north end, 216 miles; extreme extension from west to east, 352 miles; average width, about 235 miles; exten- sion from north to sonth. G55 miles. A direct line from the northwest corner of the State to Fort Yuma, being the longest line in the State, is 830 miles; a direct line from San Francisco to Los Angeles, 342 miles; a direct line from San Francisco to San Diego, 451 miles. San Diego lies 350 miles southi, and 285 miles east of San Francisco. Los Angeles lies 258 miles south, and 225 miles east of San Francisco. Cape Mendocino, the most westerly point in the State, is 96 iniles west of San Fran- cisco and 185 miles north.


California has an area of 164,981 square iniles, or 100,947,- 840 acres, of which 80,000,000 acres are suited to some kind of profitable husbandry. It is four times greater in arca than Cuba. It will make four States as large as New York, which has a popu- lation of nearly 5,000,000. It will make five States the size of Kentucky, which has a population of 1,321,000. It will make 24 States the size of Massachusetts, having a population of 1,500,000. It has an arca of 144 times as great as Rhode Island. It is four-fifths the size of Austria, and ncarly as large as Franco, each having a population of 36,000,000. It is nearly twice the size of Italy, with 27,000,000 inhabitants, and is one and one-half times greater than Great Britain and Ireland, hav- ing a population of 32,000,000. Its comparative, size is best shown by the diagram on page 76.


California needs population-sbe is susceptible of sustaining millions where she now has thousands.


With industry, economy, sobriety, and houesty of purpose, no man in this State, with rare exceptions, will fail of success in the ordinary pursuits of life.


BAYS, HARBORS, ISLANDS, AND LAKES.


California has a sea-coast extending the whole length of the State, amounting, following the indentations, to somewhat over 700 miles. The principal bays and harbors, beginning on the south, are San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Mout- crey, San Francisco, Tomales, Bodega, Humboldt, Trinidad and Cresent City Bay,


. San Francisco Bay, the most capacious and best protected harbor on the western coast of North America, is nearly fifty miles long (including its extension, San Pablo Bay,) and about nine miles wide. The entrance to the bay is through a strait about five miles long and a mile wide, aud is named Chrys- opylæ, or Golden Gate.


There are few lakes worthy of meution in California. The largest is Tulare, in the southern part of the State, which is very shoal. It is about thirty-three miles loug by twenty-two wide, though in the wet season it covers a much larger area. Owens, Kern, and Buena Vista are much smaller lakes, in the same vicinity.


Lake Tahoe, in Placer County, thirteen hours from Sacra- mento by rail, is visited by the tourist, attracted by the won- ders of the scenery, oftener than the invalid ; has a pure mountain air, with a most charming summer climate, there being no exces- sive heat, and ouly an occasional and enjoyable thunder-storm. Here, besides the lake and the streamns, are the waters of mount- ain springs and hot and cold mineral springs. There is trout fishing in the streams as well as in the lake, where a number of fish are taken-trout of several kinds, from a quarter of a pound to five pounds in weight, minnows, white fish, and scv- eral other sorts. Several of the beaches or bays of the lake are of interest, as Emerald and Carnelian Bays, carnelian stones being picked up that are very pretty. The lake is more than 6,000 feet above the level of the sea, and is twenty-two by twelve miles in size. Its greatest measured depth is something over 1,500 feet, and this great depth makes the principal won- der of the lake. The water is fresh, varying from thirty-nine to sixty degrees in temperature, and the extreme cold of the depth, which prevents drowned bodies from decomposing and rising to the surface, has given rise to the erroncous belief that the water is not buoyant, and will not float any object.


Donner Lake, near the scene of the Donner tragedy, is a small body of water much visited by tourists, situated near the cast- ern border of the State.


Lake Mono, fourteen miles long from east to west and ninc miles wide, lies in Mono County, east of the Sierra Nevada. The water, being saturated with various mineral substances, the chief of which are salt, lime, borax, and carbonate of soda, is intensely bitter and saline, and of such high specific gravity that the human body floats in it very lightly. No living thing except the larvæ of a small fly and a small crustacean, inhabits this lake, which is sometimes called the Dead Sca of California.


The other lakes are: Clear, in Lake County, in the western part of the State, about ten miles long; and Klamath an.l Goose Lakes, lying partly in Oregon.


CHIEF NAVIGABLE STREAMS.


The Sacramento is about 370 miles long, and is navigable for large steamboats at all scasons to Sacramento, ninety miles from its mouth, or 120 miles from San Francisco, and for smaller craft to Red Bluff, 150 or 200 miles above Sacramento.


The San Joaquin, about 350 miles long, is navigable for ordin- ary steamers to Stocktou, and for small craft during the rainy season to the mouth of the Tulare Slough, about 150 miles. The Calaveras, Stanislaus, Tuolumne, and Merced empty into the San Joaquin. Tute and swamp lands line the banks of the river. The soil is rich and needs only to be protected against high waters, to equal any in the State for production. The tules are a sort of tall rush, an l in early times, fires swept over them as on a prairie. The effect is faintly indicated in our engraving on page 43


79


SHE TIMBER RESOURCES OF THE STATE.


THE NATURAL WONDERS.


Among the many remarkable natural enriosities of California is the valley of the Yo Semite.


This far-famed valley is 140 miles east of San Francisco, and is a cañon a mile wide and eight miles long. The bottom of the valley is more than 4,000 feet above sea level, and the walls rise as high as 4,000 feet. Its principal water l'all (thoughi not the only one, nor the most beautiful), has 2,600 feet to fall. Great cliff's, rising 6,000 feet high, and gigantic dome-shaped mountains, are gathered in this narrow valley, which are supposed to havo been formed suddenly one day by a fissure, or eraek, in the solid mountain chain. The valley scenery is of great beauty, and the summer climate is cool, with snow in winter. People camping in tents have an inclosure in Yo Semite set apart for them, and may also locate themselves in other parts of the val- ley, always under the stated regulations, which provide that fire- wood may be picked np, but never eut down; that fires must not be left burning; that fish may be taken with hook and line only, and thal, birds must not be killed. In the valley are three hotels, three stores, four livery stables, a blacksmith, a cabinetmaker, four photographers, a saloon, a bathing house, three carpenters and four laundries.


The Big Trees of Mariposa, only one of several interesting groups in the State, are sixteen miles from Yo Semite. The tail- est tree in this grove is 325 feet high, and the thickest is twenty. seven feet through. The age of tho oldest one, which has been counted by rings, is, 1,300 years old, its seed having taken root in this California valley, in the sixth century after Christ, when the world's history (so called) was eoufined to that narrow strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea, with the barbarous nations on its borders. These trees are of the Sequoia Gigan- tert., and only the Eucalyptus Amygdalena of Australia ever grows so large.


The Geysers are also remarkable natural phenomena. There is a collection of hot sulphur springs, more than 300 in number, covering about 200 acres, in a deep gorge, in the northeast part of Sonoma County. They are ahout 1,700 feet above the sea, and are surrounded by mountains from 3,000 to 4,000 feet high, Hot and cold, quiet and boiling springs are found within a few feet of each other.


There are five natural bridges in California. The largest is on a small creek emptying into the Hay Fork of Triuity River. It is eighty feet long, with its top 170 feet above the water. In Siskiyou County there are two, about thirty feet apart, ninety fect long; and there are two more on Coyote Creek, in Tuolumne County, the larger 285 feet long.


The most noted caves are the Alabaster Cave in Placer County, containing two chambers, the larger 200 feet long by 100 feet wide; the Bower Cave in Mariposa County, having a chamber about 100 feet square, reached by an entrance seventy feet long.


The most recently discovered of the great natural wonders of


the State is the petrified forest, about seventy-five miles north of San Francisco, the existence of which was first wade publie in 1870.


TIMBER FORESTS.


California is noted for its large forests of excellent timber, and for trees of mammoth size. The sides of the Sierra Nevada, to the height of 2,500 feet, are covered with oaks, manzanita and nut pine and above this, to a height of 8,000 feet, with densefor- ests of pine, fir, eypress, hemlock, and other coniferous trees.


Dense forests of redwood exist on the coast north of latitude thirty- seven degrees, chictly in Humboldt County. This tim- her is used for fence posts, railroad ties, and furnishes lumber for all Imilling purposes. It answers the same for honse mate- rial in California as Wisconsin and Michigan pine does in the Mississippi Valley. There is a large amount of timber of the various species named in the mountains and valleys in the northern part of the State, from the Sierra Nevada Range to the ocean.


The redwood, bearing a strong resemblance to the mammoth, frequently grows to a height of 300 feet, and a diameter of tif- teen feet. These forests are fully described in the local history of the County.


White and live oak abound in large quantities on the west slope of the Coast Range, and in the intervening valleys sonth of latitude 37°, in the counties of Monterey, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Barbara. This wood is chiefly used for fuel and is of little value for building or fencing purposes.


A great part of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, the Colorado Basin, the east slope of the Coast Mountains, and the Coast Range south of Point Conception, are trecless.


The sugar pine is a large tree, and one of the most graceful of evergreens. It grows about 200 feet high and twelve feet in diameter. This wood grows in the Sierra Nevada, is free-split- ting and valuable for timber, The yellow pine and white eedar are all large trees, growing more than 200 feet high and six or eight feet in diameter.


The story is told of two men who were engaged in the cut- ting of one of these immense trees into logs, with a cross-eut saw. After they had sawed themselves ont of sight of each other, one of them became impressed with the belief that the saw was not running as easily as it ought, when he erawled on top of the tree to remonstrate with his partner, whom he dis- covered to be fast asleep.


The visitor to California has not seen it all until he has spent a week in the deep recesses of a redwood forest. It is then, standing beside the towering monarch of the forest, that a man will realize his utter insignificance, and how inestimably ephem- eral he is compared with many other of God's haudiworks. He looks upon a tree that stood when Christ was yet in bis youtb, the eireles of whose growth but mark the eyeles of time almost since the first man was, and on whose tablets might have been written the records of the mighty men of old.


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80


CENSUS OF THE STATE BY COUNTIES.


POPULATION AND ITS INCREASE.


In 1831, the entire population of the State was estimated at 23,025, of whonr 18,683 were Indian converts. During the years 1843, '44, '45 an,l '46 a great many emigrants froui the United Stated settlel in California. In Jannary, 1847, the wlrite population was estimated at from 12,000 to 15,000. Its population in 1850 was probably 150,000. The population of the State in 1880 was 858,864. There are, on the average, six inhabitants to the square mile, but tbe distribution of the settle- ment over the State is unequal. Thus, San Francisco bas about 8,000 people to the square mile, while those portions of San Diego and San Bernardino Counties in the Colorado Desert and inclosed basin, with an area of 14,000 square miles, have at least seven square miles to each white inhabitant. The coun- ties of San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Contra Costa, San Joaquin, Sacramento, Yolo, Solano, Napa, Sonoma, anıl Marin, fronting on San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun Bays, and the deltas of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, all within thirty iniles of Mount Diablo, and distinctly visible from its summit, have 580,800 inhabitants, or about fifty-eight to the mile, leaving a little more than two to the square mile for the remainder of the State.


TABLE OF VOTES CAST BY CALIFORNIA AT ALL THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.


DATE ..


NANE OP CANDIDATES.


No. of VOTES.


MAJORITY.


1852


Scott and Graham.


35,407


11


Pierce and King.


40,626


5,219


34


San Joaquin (l) --


3,647


9,435


21,050


24,323


3,273


Halo aud Julian.


100


35


San Luis Obispo ..


336


1,782


4,772


8,142


3,370


Total.


76,133


37


Santa Barbara


1,185


3,543


7,784


9,478


1,694


1856


Fremont and Dayton.


20,691


17,200


39


Santa Cruz


643


4,944


8,743


12,808


4,605


Fillmore and Donelson


36,165


..


Total


110,221


1860


Lincoln and Hamlin.


38,734


711


43


Solano


580


7,169


16,871


18.475


1,604


11


Breckenridge and Lane.


38,023


Sonoma


560


11,867


19,819


25,925


6,106


Douglass and Johnson.


33,975


45


Stanislaus (lt)


2,245


6,499


8,951


Sutter


3,444


3,390


5,030


5,212


182


47


Tehama


4,044


3,587


9,414


5,827


48


Trinity


1,635


5,125


3,213


4,982


1,769


1864


Lincoln and Johnson MeClellan and Pendleton


62,134


13,273


49


Tulare


4,638


4,533


11.281


6,748


50


Tuolumne (h).


8,351


16,229


8,150


7,843


dec.307


52


Yolo


1,086


4,716


9,899


11,880


1,981


53


Yuba


9,673


13,668


10,851


11,540


689


Seymour aml Blair.


54,077


Total .


108,6GO


1872


Grant and Wilson


54,020


3,302


11


Greeley and Brown.


40,718


Chinese


34,933


49,310


75,025


25,715


Indians


17,908


7,241


16,130


8,889


Total.


94,738


1876


Hayes and Wheeler.


79,308


2,842


Tilden aud Hendricks.


76,46G


Cooper.


47


Total ..


155,821


1880 11


Garfield and Arthur. Hancock and English.


80,332


65


Weaver ..


3,381


Total.


163,980


For 1880, it is the average volo on elections. One Republican clector was elected and five of the Democratic electors, and the vote was cast accordingly.


CENSUS OF THE STATE BY COUNTIES* SINCE ITS ORGANIZATION.


Increass


COUNTIES


1B50.


1860.


1870.


1880.


ten years.


1


Alameda


8,927


24,237


63,639


39,402


2


Alpine («).


10,930


9,582


11,386


1.804


Amador


3,574


12,106


11,403


18,721


7,308


4


Butte


16,881


16,299


8,895


8,980


85


5


Calaveras


115


2,274


6,165


13,118


6,953


6


Colusa


5,328


8,461


12,525


4,044


7


8


Del Norte.


1,993


2,022


2.499


628


9


El Dorado


20,057


20,562


10,309


10.647


338


10


Fresno


Humboldt


2,694


6,140


15,515


9,375


11


1,956


2,928


477


12


Inyo(b).


2,925


5,600


2,675


13


Kern(b)


1,803


1,686


6,643


3,674


15


Lake(r)


1.327


3,341


2,014


16


Lassen ((/)


3,530


11.333


15,309


33,392


18,083


17


Los Angeles


323


3,334


6,903


11,326


4,423


19


Mariposa


4,379


6,243


4,572


4,399


der.173


20


Mendocino(e)


55


3,967


7,545


11.000


3,455


21


Merced


1,141


2.807


5,657


2,850


22


Mono (f)-


1,872


4,739


9,876


11,309


1,433


24


Modoc (j)


405


5,521


7,163


12,894


5,713


25


Napa (c).


16,446


19,134


20,534


1,400


26


Nevada


13,270


11,357


14,278


2,921


27


Placer


4,363


4,489


6,881


2,392


9,087


24,142


26,830


36,200


9,370


30


San Benito (k).


5,551


3,988


7,800


3,812


31


San Bernardino.


4,324


4,951


8,620


3,669


33


San Francisco (g)


56,802


149,473


233,956


84,483


36


San Mateo (g).


3,214


6,635


8,717


2,082


38


Santa Clara


11,912


26,246


35,113


8,864


40


Shasta (d)


378


4,360


4,173


9,700


5,527


41


Sierra


1.1,387


5,619


6;617


998


42


Siskiyou


7,629


6,648


8,401


2,452


Bell and Everett.


9,136


46


48,841


Total


110,975


51


1868


Grant and Colfax.


54,583


506


Total. .. 52


The returns of 1850 for Contra Costa and Santa Clara were Inst on the way to the Censns Office, and those for San Franelseo were destroyed by fire. The corrected State census ol 1852 K ves the population of these three countles as fellowa : Contra Costa, 2,780; San Francisco, 36.154; asıl Santa Clara, 6,764; and gives the total population of the State (save El Dorado, »0: returned) 215.122. El Dorado was estimated at 40,000, which would make the total population


at That date 255,122. (Vide Doc. No. 14. Appendix to Senate Journal, 4th session Legislature.) (a) In 1863 Alpine Irom Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, and Mono.


(b) In 1865 organized.


(c) I» 1861 Lake Irom Nupa.


(d) In 1863 Lassen Irom Plumas sud Shasta. (e) In 1800 organized.


(J) In 1863 organized,


(g) In 1857 San Mateo from San Francisco.


(h) In 1634 StanIslaus Irom San Joaquin and Tuolumne.


(i) Divided and attached to oth r counties. (j) Organized 1873. (k) Organized i>> 1872 Irom Monterey.


"The census of 1680 gives males, 518,211; lemales, 346.415; native, 572,000; for.lgn, : 02.630.


5,416


5,013


23


Monterey


4,700


4,700


28


Plum:LN (1)


29


Sacramento


5.584


5,584


32


San Diego


4,605


6,336


9.478


3,142


14


Klamath(¿)


2,969


18


Marin


685


539


dec 1-46


The State


92,597


379,994


560,247


864,686 304.439


White


91,635


323,177


499,424


767,266


267,842


Colored


962


4,086


4,272


6,265


1.993


Ventura (j)


5,088


5.088


Buchanan and Breckinridge.


53,365


1,553


Total.


119,868


SO, 267


(e)


430


Contra Costa


A.BRIZARD


STONE STORE OF A.ORIZARD ARCATA. HUMBOLOT CO. CAL.


RESIDENCE OF THOS. DEVLIN,S ARCATA. HUMBOLDT CÓ. CALA.


STAR HOTEL LIDLIGANS HALL




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