INDUSTRIAL SURVEY OF COLUSA COUNTY. 



ITS SITUATION, EXTENT, SURFACE, AND RESOURCES. 



THE SACRAMENTO RIVER — SLOUGHS — TIMBER — SOIL — PRODUCTIONS OF THE 



SOIL — CLIMATE HEALTH PROPERTY VALUES WHEAT-^--WOOL LIVE 



STOCK — IRRIGATION AND RECLAMATION — THE TOWN OP COLUSA — PRINCE- 

 TON AND OTHER SHIPPING POINTS — A RAILROAD "WANTED — HISTORICAL 

 SKETCH. 



[ORIGINALLY WRITTEN FOR AND PUBLISHED BY THE SACRAMENTO RECORD, BY WILL S. 



GREEN, EDITOR OF THE COLUSA SUN.] 



Colusa County comprises a large portion of the great Sacramento Yal- 

 lev. It is bounded on the north by Tehama, on the east by Butte and 

 Sutter, on the south by Yolo, and on the west by Lake and Mendocino. 

 The southern boundary corresponds very nearly with the thirty-ninth 

 degree of north latitude. It is eighty miles north of San Francisco, and 

 a north line from the city would run through the county about twenty- 

 five miles westof the county seat. The county is sixty miles from north 

 to south, and averages about forty-five miles from east to west, and con- 

 sequently contains about two thousand eight huudred square miles. Of 

 this about one thousand five hundred square miles lies in the Sacramento 

 Yalley. As the " summit of the Coast Kange " joins the western bound- 

 ary, the balance of the area is composed of mountains, low hills, and 

 smaller valleys. The valley portion of this balance we have estimated 

 at two hundred square miles, the low hills at seven hundred square 

 miles, and the mouutains at four hundred square miles. The mountains 

 have, in this estimate, an apparently small area assigned them; but, 

 although the line calls for the " summit," it really runs from the south- 

 ern boundary on a low spar, until about the middle of the county, from 

 north to south, where the spur connects with the mountain proper — the 



