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RAIN AND TEMPERATURE.
The following tables are taken from the Sonoma Democrat; comparative temperatures. "We have frequently referred to the fact that there is a warm belt on the slopes of the hills which surround the valleys of Sonoma county. Within this belt frost seldom falls, and when the soil is suitable, the most sen- sitive tropical plants can be successfully cultivated. During the winter months the range of the thermometer at sunrise is at least ten degrees higher in the warm belt than it is in the valleys, while during the heat of the day it is several degrees lower. We give herewith a table of the range of the thermometer within this belt and at Santa Rosa, for every day during November and December, 1878. The observations were taken three times a day, in the hills, by G. N. Whitaker, whose fruit farm is situated on top of the divide separating Santa Rosa from Bennett valley, between six and seven hundred feet above the sea level; in Santa Rosa the observations were taken by the late R. A. Thompson. The thermome- ters were of the same make and were previously compared. It will be observed from the table that the average mean temperature for the month of November at sunrise, is ten degrees higher in the warm belt than at Santa Rosa, while the mean temperature is higher by several degrees at noon in the valley than at Whitaker's. At sunset the mean temperature of both places is nearly equal. On the mornings of the 28th and 29th of November, when it registered as low as 29 degrees and there was a heavy black frost, it marked but 39 and 40 degrees at Whitaker's and there was just the color of frost in very low, moist places on the farm. These figures are worthy of the careful attention of those engaged in or those who pro- pose to engage in agricultural pursuits in any of its branches in this locality."
Day of month.
Santa Rosa-November.
Whitaker's.
Nov.
1
44
59
53
Remarks. fog
Sunrise.
Noon. 56
Sunset. 52
Remarks.
3
48
60
50
44
55
49
4
54
59
57
46
61
50
5
40
60
54
rain
54
58
56
rain
6
36
66
61
N.W.
46
56
62
N.W.
7
47
71
60
clear
43
60
60
clear
9
42
61
57
50
61
53
10
56
64
60
=
44
63
53
11
48
68
58
45
62
55
12
40
66
58
51
62
54
13
49
66
58
50
60
54
14
48
60
59
rain
46
61
56
rain
15
40
60
58
clear
52
60
54
clear
16
42
66
58
46
60
54
17
46
66
68
50
60
58
IS
46
57
54
fog
56
57
56
clear
19
42
63
68
clear
46
62
58
20
40
67
61
51
64
60
21
45
67
61
51
64
60
22
38
66
57
50
65
55
23
46
65
55
50
58
55
24
32
57
52
49
65
56
25
30
60
50
4.5
56
54
26
35
60
50
41
58
54
27
33
55
46
47
53
50
28
32
60
47
40
52
52
29
32
60
45
39
55
52
30
33
65
43
41
54
50
-
Mean
41
62 5/6
55
5516
59
62
54
57
57
61
51
Sunrise.
Noon.
Sunset.
45
.
=
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The observations for December are of peculiar interest and value for it was a phenomenon in the climatic history of the state as far as my experience runs. Old residents claim that it was as cold in the winter of '50-'51, but no one re- members and the records do not show any night when the mercury went below the mark set in 1878, of 18 degrees above zero in Santa Rosa. By a comparison of the tables it will be seen that on the 29th, it was 13 degrees higher at Whit- aker's at sunrise than in Santa Rosa. During the warm nights the difference is not as great as during the coldest. It will be seen that the thermometer did not fall below the freezing point but twice during the month of December at Whitaker's. The table shows a remarkable difference and demonstrates to a mathematical certainty the existence of a warm belt on the hills. It is believed that the soil on the hills is as rich in many places and often richer than that of the plain, which gives an additional interest to this development of a warm belt of the hill lands because sensitive plants which will not stand the frosts of the valley would be certain of growth on the hills.
Santa Rosa-December. 1878.
Whitaker's.
Day of month. Dec.
Sunrise.
Noon.
Sunset.
Remarks.
Sunrise.
Noon.
Sunset.
Remarks. clear
2
40
58
58
46
59
58
3
41
58
57
50
60
50
4
40
62
60
45
60
60
5
40
61
56
49
58
54
G
47
60
64
rain
62
62
55
rain
7
44
60
55
44
55
53
32
60
56
43
55
55
9
51
58
52
rain
51
57
51
rain
10
39
55
53
39
50
46
11
43
58
50
46
53
51
cloudy
12
43
57
54
43
51
58
13
34
56
46
gale
39
48
49
high wind
14
23
52
46
38
50
45
15
25
55
43
36
47
45
16
27
51
49
38
51
47
17
9.4
53
43
34
47
48
18
24
54
45
42
50
59
19
24
53
46
38
50
52
20
25
53
48
45
54
50
21
25
52
49
41
52
50
23
26
58
48
39
55
48
24
28
56
47
35
53
49
25
9.4
57
49
40
52
45
26
20
58
46
40
51
44
27
18
48
47
31
48
43
28
28
47
42
40
50
44
29
18
50
42
30
45
42
30
43
53
43
43
52
46
31
41
50
50
42
46
45
Mean
3212
5516
50
52
52
49
1
38
62
52
clear
41
60
53
28
53
48
41
58
50
From the memorandum kept by Mr. Whitaker it shows that the temper- ature was taken three times a day from October 1, 1878, to October 1, 1879. During that year there were forty-one rainy days, March taking the lead with thirteen and October the least. There were seventy foggy days : October, 2; No- vember. 5 : December, 3; February, 2 ; March, I ; July, 16, August 16; September, 25. As a general thing the fogs did not last but a few hours, coming in early in the evening or during the night and spreading over the land causing all vegetation to put on bright colors. It disappeared by ten o'clock with the exception of five days when it remained all day. Many days during the winter the valleys are enveloped in fog, while the sun is shining brightly upon the mountain homes. On the night of December 22, 1879, the wind blew almost a gale and at sunrise the thermometer registered 23 degrees, the lowest it was ever known to be in the hill section. The warmest day in '79 was August Ist, when the mercury stood at 102 at noon : August 2nd it was 101 ; and on the third it was 99 degrees.
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The heaviest rainfall for a period of thirty-six years was in 1890, when it registered 65.75 inches, and the lightest was in '63-64, when only 12.06 inches fell, also in '67-'68 there was only 13.15 inches. The rainfall from 1889 to 1901 was: 1889, 25.99: 1890, 65.75; 1891. 21.55: 1892, 28.83: 1893, 33-45: 1894, 27.16: 1895, 45.81 : 1896, 31.48; 1897, 31.41 ; 1898, 18.74; 1899, 23.04; 1900, 28.83 : 1901, 28.71. In Petaluma the record for ten years was as follows-1876-7, 13.15: 1877-8, 39.24 : 1878-9, 20.83: 1879-80, 26.83; 1880-1, 24.55: 1881-2, 17.04: 1882-3, 19.15; 1883-4, 24.55; 1884-5, 14.96: 1885-6, 28.89. In the ten years the average rainfall for the southern part of the county was 23.14 inches. From the observations taken by Robert Hall in the Sonoma valley for three years, 1886, 34.74 ; 1887, 20.75; 1888, 20. From these observations a good idea can be obtained of the average rainfall in the county. 1863-4 were dry years in the state and the stock throughout the southern part died from starvation; in Sonoma county there were enormous crops. There is only one other record known of a dry year in the state and that was in 1828, at which time the Spaniards lost all their stock except some young animals that were driven to Tulare lake and there lived on the tules.
SONOMA ASSESSED VALUATION.
The following tables will give the comparison of the assessed valuations of real and personal property as taken from the assessor's books in 1873 and 1910.
Total assessments for 1910, $33,829,645, a gain over 1909 of $636,355, and gain of $17,653,085 over 1873. Incorporated cities : Santa Rosa, $4,942,730; Petaluma, $3,111,640; Healdsburg, $948,650; Sebastopol, $624,735; Sonoma. $463.615 : Cloverdale, $361,485. Road Districts: Glen Ellen, $468,616; Agua Caliente, $656,570; San Luis, $1,099,185; Penn Grove, $1,348.805 ; Lakeville, $1,066,800 ; Magnolia, $1.548,140; Marin, $859.815; Bloomfield, $980,195: Gold Ridge, $1.384,460; Forestville, $867,930: Russian River, $1,205,250; Fulton, $2,136,510; Bellevue, $2,136,510; Geyser, $865,565; Washington, $872,585; Knights Valley, $484,820; Mendocino, $2,098,250; Bodega, $1,216,665; Ocean. $685.765 ; Redwood, $1,216,665; Salt Point, $815.050. Number of acres sown to grains in 1910, wheat, 2,200 acres ; oats, 4,060; barley, 1,200; corn, 780 ; hay, 57.760 ; potatoes, 1,120; alfalfa, 340. The list from the assessor's books for 1873 was as follows: Money on hand or deposit, $146.466; goods, wares and mer- chandise, $502,093 ; ships, vessels and other water craft, $2,706; wagons, imple- ments, harness, machinery, robes, $415,303; live stock, all kinds, $1.394,824; household goods, fixtures, etc., $243,960; libraries, jewelry, musical instruments, firearms, $104,694: toll road, $5,000; telegraph lines, $2,000; wood, lumber, $58.408; bees, poultry, wool, butter, $34,250; hay, $1,598; wines, brandies, $130,688, making a total of $2,939,578. The total cash value of real estate in the four grades No. 1-185,129 acres, $368.618; No. 2-90,819, $664,033 ; No. 3-168,869, $2,388,894; No. 4-601,862, $4.796,096; total recapitulation, real estate and improvements, $12,551,317. Personal property, $2.939.578; railroad tracks and rolling stock, $685,665, making a grand total of all property assessed, $16,176,560. for 1873.
A GREAT ORCHARD.
Statistics of the fruit producing sections secured from the books of the assessor for 1910:
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495 acres bearing
12 acres
non-bearing.
Grapes-Tahle
Wine
16,440
44
460
-85,860 trees
Apple trees
22,540
44
-19,350
Apricots
45,720
-10,810
550
=
Fig
Nectarines
740
72
Olives
67,080
-25,410
Peaches
81,270
59,750
Pears
82,270
-13,810
Plums
6,740
510
Prunes-French
540,820
-64,170
Others
47,220
27,760
=
Hops
2,760
Quince
1,310
100
Lemon
792
65
Oranges
9,760
810
Almonds
7,085
1,680
Walnuts
4,890
570
=
This is a very creditable increase over former years, yet fruit culture may be said to be only in its infancy.
In 1905-6 I take from my inspector's book the following stock imported into the county for propagation : 266,000 trees consisting of apples, cherries, plums, pears, and in addition 139,000 budded and grafted trees; apples, pears, peaches, plums, lemons, oranges, nectarines, prunes, apricots, nut bearing trees besides a vast number of ornamental trees, plants and shrubs. This does not include the stock raised by the nurserymen.
In 1884 the county assessor classified the lands of the country into four grades, first and least valuable was the mountain land amounting to 300,000 acres ; second, timber and hillside pasture land, 200,000 acres; third, rolling lands denuded of timber lying along or near the sea coast and used for dairy purposes estimated at 200,000 acres; and fourth, the rich bottom lands of about 150,000 acres. This estimate was given twenty-seven years ago, and I will not vouch for its accuracy at this time. It was the best classification that could be made at that date. No mention was made of the tule and overflowed lands of which there must be about 100,000 acres.
Sonoma mountains occupy the central portion of the county and in them the old Indian chieftain left a record of his name that will never die, as Sonoma valley and mountain were named after him. The highest peak is Sonoma of about 2,306 feet elevation. The chain is about thirty miles long and eight to ten miles wide and ninety per cent of the land is tillable even though of a vol- canic formation. There is hardly a forty acre tract of land scattered through- out these mountains that is not supplied with a spring of fine water or upon which water cannot be developed from shallow wells. Soil thrown out of wells from a depth of 10 to 20 feet along this range, produces better than the surface soil. Gas has been found in many places and only awaits capital to develop it in paying quantities. It is of very fine quality and burns equal to that found in the eastern fields. The base of Sonoma peak is the ending of Bennett valley, the peak which looms high and lofty as if to say to the valley "thus far shalt thou go and no farther, for I am lord of all southern Sonoma county and my height there is none to dispute."
The Evening Bulletin in 1884 said and this will apply more forcibly today for Sonoma county than at that time: "Is there any probability that fruit is to be over-done in California?" The answer may be furnished in part by such sta- tistics as those furnished a short time ago by the leading house in the dried-fruit trade in San Francisco. The product of dried fruits for 1883 is here shown ; sun- dried raisins, 125,000 pounds ; apples, 800,000 ; peaches, 500,000 ; pears, 75,000:
229,120 bearing
Cherry
4,510
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apricots, 300,000 ; nectarines, 20,000 ; figs, 60,000; evaporated apples, 250,000; apricots, 90,000 ; sun dried French prunes, 250,000 ; grapes, 150,000 ; pitted plums, 100,000 ; comb honey, 125,000; extracted, 835,000; almonds, 700,000. Suppose the products here noted had been ten times as large, would there have been any difficulty in finding a market?
The firm that furnished these statistics also furnished an answer that will apply as well today as it did then. "Out of a population of over 80,000,000 people east, it is quite safe to say that not to exceed 20,000,000 have ever yet tasted California dried fruits."
So the question of over-doing the fruit industry in California is one that is not likely to arise for several generations if it ever does arise. This is as true for Sonoma county as it is for the state and we make the assertion without fear of contradiction that Sonoma county today produces more dried fruits than was reported for the whole state in 1883. French prunes alone in Sonoma county amounted to 15,560 tons in 1910, while in 1883 the whole state produced 250,- 000 pounds. I have been unable to get the correct tonnage of the dried fruit ship- ments from the county on account of the unwillingness of some of the shippers to give this data.
THE HARVEST GATHERED-REST.
In reviewing the incidents of my connection with the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry I am too sensible of my defects not to think it impossible to have at times differed with my fellow Patrons of the order, but I shall always indulge in the hope that what errors I may have made will be considered errors of the mind and not of the heart, and after forty-one years of active service in the order with earnestness and zeal, the faults, whatever they may be, will be con- signed to the pages of oblivion as I must soon be, to the mansions of rest.
G. N. WHITAKER.
NOTICE.
Shortly after writing the foregoing pages of Sonoma county farm history, and before the publication of this work, Mr. Whitaker died at his beautiful home in Bennett Valley near Santa Rosa. He went to his bed and to sleep at the close of day, and never awoke. A long, a useful, a noble life ended during the still watches of a soft summer night. How true was his prediction, noted at the close of his article-"I must soon be consigned to the mansions of rest."
TOM GREGORY.
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CHAPTER XLIV.
SONOMA COUNTY STATISTICS.
In this work there has been little or no attempt to make a county finance "exhibit." but only to show the grand, unfailing sources of wealth in this ter- ritory. From Petaluma, with her treasure-producing factories placing their output on tidewater, passing along through the hop and poultry yards, prune and apple orchards, grape and berry vineyards, grain and hay fields up to the citrus groves of Cloverdale, the golden dollars are harvested every season- Without Irrigation. In all these flourishing centers are the banks,-those in- stitutions of trade, testamentary of the local commerce. Geyserville-Bank of Geyserville; Cloverdale-Bank of Cloverdale; Healdsburg-Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank of Healdsburg, The Sotoyome Bank of Healdsburg ; Sebastopol -Analy Savings Bank of Sebastopol, First National Bank of Sebastopol; Santa Rosa-Exchange Bank, First National Bank, Savings Bank of Santa Rosa, Union Trust-Savings Bank, Santa Rosa Bank; Petaluma-Bank of Sonoma County, Swiss-American Bank of Petaluma, California Savings Bank, Peta- luma National Bank; Valley Ford-Dairymens' Bank; Guerneville-Bank of Guerneville ; Sonoma-Sonoma Valley Bank. All crops this year (1911) are at hightide-grapes, apples, eggs, oranges, hops-hops recently jumped from ten to forty cents per lb., because of the scarcity in foreign countries. "Without Irri- gation," is one of the boom texts of Sonoma. There is not a water ditch in the county. When the first settlers looked around they found Mother Nature attend- ing to the irrigating, and she has been holding down the job ever since. And doing it well. With Burbank to invent new agricultural things, and Nature to make them grow, Sonoma harvests will come through just as sure as the sea- sons roll around.
PROPERTY VALUATION OF 19II.
The property valuation as shown by the assessment rolls for this year, 1911, show the financial advancement of the county. The total assessment is $36,047,925, a gain of $2,226,000 over the year 1910. But deducting certain properties which are exempt from county taxation, the present real assessed valuation of Sonoma is $35,025,680, divided as follows:
Real estate other than city and town lots $16,250,175; improvements of same, $5,066,000. City and town lots, $4,332,250; improvements on same, $4,- 859,725. Value of improvements on real estate, assessed to persons other than owners of real estate, $154,945. Total value of real estate and improvements, $30,663,095. Personal property. $4,301,485; money, $36,700; solvent credits, $24,440.
Property in cities : Cloverdale-real estate, $108,235; improvements, $188-, 945 ; personal property, $48,380; total, $345,560.
Healdsburg-real estate, $323,240 ; improvements. $461,245; personal prop- erty, $186,245; total, $970,730.
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Sonoma-real estate, $168,970; improvements, $232,585; personal prop- erty, $76,675 : money, $1,200; solvent credits, $800; total, $480,220.
Santa Rosa-real estate, $2,102,410; improvements, $2,136,365; personal property, $635,060; money, $5,800; solvent credits, $2,200; total, $4,881,835. Petaluma-real estate, $1,240,395; improvements, $1,355,365; personal property, $591,140; money, $6,200; solvent credits, $2,210; total, $3,195,310.
Sebastopol-real estate, $194,415; improvements, $304,975; personal prop- erty, $116,195 : money, $5,490; solvent credits, $2,400; total, $621,475.
Total value of property in cities, $10,495,130.
On the new assessment rolls of the county the acreage of table grape vines is given at 500, and the acreage of wine vines at about 17,000.
Number of growing fruit trees: Apple 234,410 bearing, and 61,740 non- bearing ; apricot 23,640, and 16,410; cherry 45,980, and 10,120; fig 4,670, and 470 ; olive 68,110, and 24,160; peach 24, 830, and 58,730; pear 82,190, and 12,- 710 : plum 6,870, and 530; prune 598.230, 9,150; 9,790, and 720; almond 8,020, and 1,310; walnut 5,050, and 430.
Acres sown for crop of 1911 : Wheat 2,310; oats 3,070; barley 1,370; corn 480 ; hay 54,310; hops 2,850; potatoes 1,070; standing alfalfa 345.
POPULATION.
According to the census of 1911, the population of the Republic-without Alaska and insular possessions, the state, the county and its cities and towns, is as follows :
United States 91,972,299; California 2,377,549; Sonoma county 48,394. Cities-Santa Rosa 7,817; Petaluma 5,880; Healdsburg 2,011 ; Sebastopol 1,265; Sonoma 957; Cloverdale 823. The populations accredited to Santa Rosa and Petaluma are the residents within the respective limits of those places which were established years ago. In each city there are probably 3,000 people living without the municipal lines. Towns-some of these places are mere post office stations or small hamlets with nominal population, the figures of which are not given : Agua Caliente 33; Annadel; Asti 110; Bay; Bellevue; Black Point ; Bloomfield 359; Bodega 283 ; Burke 44; Camp Meeker 40; Cazadero 110; Clover- dale 830; Cotati 45; Cozzens 233; Duncans Mills 185: Eldridge (State Hos- pital) 1,100; El Verano 75; Fort Ross 63; Freestone 122; Fulton 215; Glen Ellen 350; Geyserville 400; Guerneville 695; Hilton 21; Jenner ; Kellogg 20; Kenwood 220; Lakeville 67; Lytton 26 (Salvation Army Industrial Home con- tains probably 200 additional) : Markliam; Mark West 25; Monte Rio 20; Oc- cidental 640; Penn Grove 330; Pine Flat; Plantation IIO; Preston 70; Rio Nido; Sears Point; Sea View 55; Shellville 143; Skaggs 22; Stewarts Point 120; Stony Point 60; Geysers 22: Valley Ford 220: Wilfred; Windsor 532; Forestville, 300.
SONOMA COUNTY SCHOOLS.
Every acre of Sonoma county is covered by a school district, in the center of which is a school house and in which is a school. No Sonoma child can live far enough back or high enough up in the mountain sections to be out of touch with his or her district school, and no established country school ever closes its doors during the session-period. In the most populized centers, Cloverdale, Healdsburg, Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, Petaluma and Sonoma, are the High Schools, occupying splendid buildings, ranking well up as educational institu-
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tions, and according to the grade of work done, on the State University ac- credited list. The number of districts is 49-a talismanic term in California.
From the office of Miss Florence Barnes, County Superintendent of Schools. is given the following information :
Elementary schools:
Number of census children 1910-1911. 10,659
Average daily attendance 1909-10. 5,980
Number of teachers employed. 252
The sources of revenue for these expenditures are as follows:
Amount received from State taxes $117,342.10
Amount received from County taxes 93,656.40
Amount received from District taxes 5,119.45
The valuation of Elementary School property in Sonoma County is as follows:
Value of lots, buildings, furniture, etc. $497,395.00
Value of school libraries. 32,285.00
Values of apparatus 15,060.00
Total value of school property
High Schools: $544,740.00
Number of schools, 6.
Average daily attendance 1909-1910 706
Number of teachers employed 35
Amount paid for teachers' salaries 1909-10. $42,663.00
Amount paid for current expenses, supplies, etc. 16,188.74
Amount for buildings 20,533-37
Amount paid for books 1909-10. 1,259.22
Total expenses for the year 1909-10. $80,644.33
Sources of revenue for the support of high schools are as follows:
State taxes $ 9,103.09
Special taxes 50,758.69
Value of High School property in Sonoma County :
Lots, buildings and furniture $ 98,450.00
Laboratories 6,025.00
Libraries 4,510.00
Total Value
$108,985.00
COUNTY OFFICERS.
The official salaries of the California counties of the tenth class-of which is Sonoma-are as follows: Superior judges (two) $4,000 a year each ; super- visors (five) $1,000 each and fifteen cents a mile going to and from residence to county seat, also same mileage traveling as road commissioners ; clerk $2,000, chief deputy $1,500, three deputies $1,200 each, also several additional deputies for registration purposes between June and November in general election years, $4 a day each ; sheriff $2,000 and fees, undersheriff $1,500, four deputies $1,200 each; recorder $2,000, deputy $1,200, four copyists $900 each ; auditor $2,400, deputy $900; treasurer $2,000 and fees, deputy $900; tax collector $3,000 and fees ; revenue and taxation deputy $1,200, with the fees additional clerks are
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employed when needed : assessor $4,200, chief deputy $1,500, revenue and tax- ation deputy $1.500, with the fees additional deputies are employed when needed ; district attorney $2,400, assistant $1,800, deputy assistant $1,200, stenographer $750; coroner fees and mileage; public administrator fees and mileage, school superintendent $2,000 and fees, deputy $1,200; surveyor $1,800, deputy $900. When not employed in public service the surveyor may engage in private work.
Tables Showing the State and County Officers from the year 1849 to 1911, inclusive.
NAME OF OFFICE.
1849.
1850. 1851.
1852.
1853.
State Senator. ....
. . . M. G. Vallejo. ... . M. E. Cook ..
.. . M. E. Cook ....... J. M. Hudspeth ... J. M. Hudspeth.
Assemblymen . J. E. Brackett. . . . A. Stearns. ..
.. J. M. Hudspetb. . . H. P. Ewing ...... J. N. Burnett ..
. J. S. Bradford .... J. S. Bradford .... L. W. Boggs ... . . James W. McKamey W. B. Hagans. .
County Judge.
. H. A. Green ...
. C. P. Wilkins .. P. R. Thompson. . Frank Shattuck.
Sheriff .
.I. Brockman ... ... I. Brockman. ..
I. Brockman. ..... I. Brockman ...
Clerk . John Hendley. .... John Hendley
. John Hendley ..... N. McC. Menefee
Treasurer
. A. C. McDonald. . A. C. McDonald ... G. W. Miller ..... G. W. Miller ...
District Attorney
J. E. McNair ...
. . I. E. McNair J. E. McNair. ..... Asheal Clark ...
Assessor .
.. J. A. Reynolds. ... J. A. Reynolds .... R. F. Box .....
Administrator.
J. A. Brewster. .. . Coleman Talbot.
Supervisor.
D. O. Shattuck, Sr. H. G. Heald ...
..
James Singley. ... . James Singley .. W. A. Hereford ... S. L. Fowler ... L. P. Hanson ..... Alex. Copeland ..
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. W. O. King.
NAME OF OFFICE.
1854.
1855.
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