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Township includes the valley of the same name and the eastern slope of 

 the Sonoma Mountain. Total assessed value of property, one million 

 eight hundred and forty-seven thousand one hundred and forty-one dol- 

 lars. 



VALLEJO TOWNSHIP, 



Adjoining on the west, includes the west face of the mountain to the 

 buy shove, and all the land lying east of Petaluma Creek. Vallejo 

 Township is about fifteen miles long by an average width of about six 

 miles — almost every acre can be cultivated. It has many dairy farms. 

 Fruit and grain are grown in considerable quantity. Beef cattle, hogs, 

 and sheep, are a source of large revenue to the farmers of Vallejo 

 Township. J. R. Rose and Seneca Daniels, the oldest breeders of 

 thoroughbred Devon cattle, have their farms in this section. Donahue, 

 the terminus of the railroad, is in this township. The market town is 

 Petaluma, which lies just across Petaluma Creek. A portion of the 

 town. East Petaluma, is, in fact, in Vallejo Township. A substantial 

 drawbridge unites the two. Total assessed value of property, six hun- 

 dred and fifty-eight thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight dollars. 



PETALUMA TOWNSHIP 



Lies west of Vallejo, including all .the territory "west to the Marin 

 Count}* line. This township is a butter, cheese, potato, and s;ock pro- 

 ducing section. In Two-Rock Valley one hundred thousand sacks of 

 potatoes are grown. There are large herds of sheep and numbers of 

 hogs are raised. The dairy product is also an item of great importance. 

 Petaluma, the principal town, is a growing place. It was, formerly, the 

 shipping poiut for all the produce of the county. It has extensive 

 manufacturing interests, among which is the Central flouring mill, with 

 a capacity for making sixty-five barrels of flour a day; it has two run 

 of three-foot stone. The Oriental mill manufactures about four thou- 

 sand barrels a year. Wagon and carriage manufacturing is carried on 

 extensively. The largest factories are those of Zartman & Co., J. Lor- 

 renger, Harter & Co., and Spottswood Bros. There are two tanneries; 

 the largest owned by S. Slaver, tans two thousand five hundred hides 

 a 3*ear. The soda factory of B. F. Connolly supplies nearly all the 

 soda, sarsapariila, and bottled ale and porter, used in the county. 

 There are many other enterprises worthy of mention which the scope 

 of this paper will not admit. The total assessed value of property, two 

 millions nine hundred and eighty-five thousand and sixty-two dollars. 



DOWNS OF SONOMA. 



The country north of Petaluma Township, along the coast, includes 

 the Townships of Analy, Bodega, part of Russian River, and part of 

 Redwood. This section embraces a territory for which the name of the 

 "Downs of Sonoma" would not be inappropriate. The hills are barren 

 of trees, and are rounded, as if formed ages ago by the action of the 

 wind before the hard crust formed over the drifting sea sands. The 

 soil is a deep, rich sandy loam, carpeted with a heavy sward of grass, 

 which keeps green almost all the year. Potatoes, butter, and cheese are 

 the principal products. In the Valley of the Estero Americano, an arm 

 of the sea, reaching about seven miles inland, one hundred thousand 

 sacks of potatoes are raised annually; near Bodega, twenty thousand 



