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even a too free use of adjectives, we think we could prove that it is 

 destined to become the third or fourth city of importance in California. 

 Navigation to Colusa is excellent, and while freight from Chico, only forty 

 miles further from the bay, is six dollars and fifty cents per ton, and 

 from Woodland, forty miles nearer the bay, is three dollars, the freight 

 from Colusa, on produce, is only three dollars, and it has been taken as 

 low as two dollars and fifty cents per ton. It is the shipping point for 

 the mines as well as for the agricultural region around it. The travel 

 for Wilber's, Allen's, Bartlett's, and Foot's Springs, situate in the Coast 

 Range, in Colusa and Lake Counties, passes through Colusa. Last 

 Summer no less than ten stages left Colusa every morning for different 

 points. Except a very good flouring mill, no manufactories have been 

 erected at Colusa, although several are badly needed. It is evident from 

 the resources above indicated of the surrounding countiy, that no better 

 investments could be made than in the several branches of manufacture 

 at Colusa. An instance, showing the thrift of the people of the town, 

 might be mentioned: a tax of sixty-five cents on the one hundred dol- 

 lars of taxable property was levied this year for town purposes, and 

 every dollar of the tax was collected without a single person being re- 

 turned delinquent. The town has a very fine public school house, erected 

 at a cost of about fifteen thousand dollars, besides which it maintains two 

 first-class private schools. It has four churches — Christian, Catholic, 

 Methodist, and Presbyterian. 



PRINCETON AND OT>HER SHIPPING POINTS. 



Fourteen miles above Colusa there has sprung up a town of about two 

 hundred inhabitants, which bids fair to become a thriving village. 

 Wheat is hauled in on wagons from the country back to the nearest 

 shipping point on the river, and ihere is a very rich section back of 

 Princeton. By the time the present shipping season is over, there will 

 have been shipped from Princeton about twelve thousand tons of wheat. 

 There are several other shipping points along the river at which large 

 warehouses have been erected. The present season there have been 

 erected, on Grand Island, four warehouses, with an aggregate capacity 

 of about twenty thousand tons. At Colusa, one new one, three hundred 

 and twenty by one hundred and twenty feet, which, with the houses 

 already there, gives a capacity of twenty thousand tons. The ware- 

 house room at Princeton and Jacinto — Dr. Glenn's farm — will give a 

 capacity of perhaps fifteen thousand tons. These, besides the granaries 

 on the farms, give good facilities for caring for the produce of the county. 



The population of the county has been estimated at fifteen thousand. 



WANT OF A RAILROAD. 



Although the river is better of itself than a railroad, yet a road up 

 the west side of the Sacramento River would be of very great advantage 

 to the county. From the Town of Colusa we must either take a boat, 

 thirty-five miles (straight) to Knight's Landing to connect with the 

 cars, or the stage, twenty-five miles, to Marysville. From other parts of 

 the county persons must come to Colusa to get out. In these fast times 

 everybody understands the necessity of railroad communication. The 

 California Pacific would have extended their road up as far as Colusa 

 long ago, had it not fallen into litigation, stopping everything like exten- 



