Valley City, now used for pastures, which, if divided into small tracts of 

 from forty to sixty acres, will make an excellent opportunity for settlers, 

 and will equal, if not surpass, any producing lands in this State. Water in 

 abundance can be had for irrigation at a reasonable price, and three to 

 five crops of alfalfa can be raised in a season, finding a ready market at 

 home at $17 per ton. The agricultural interests are still in their infancy, 

 the result being that there are excellent opportunities for the actual settler 

 with some capital to obtain fruitlands in the finest climate in the northern 

 part of the State. 



Our water supply during the dry season is kept in the large storage 

 reservoirs constructed in the mountains. They average a capacity in the 

 western slope of 40,000,000,000 gallons. These lakes furnish the purest 

 of water. The canals have a capacity and sufficient water to supply a city 

 twenty times as large as San Francisco, the large and reliable supply of 

 water being used for power of high pressure. It has assisted in making 

 mining profitable, and after furnishing mines with power it is kept and used 

 to advantage on the fruit ranches. In the county are the great water 

 canal systems of the South Yuba Water Company, North Bloomfield Water 

 Company, Excelsior Water Company, Summit Water Company, and one 

 of the plants of the Bay Counties Power Company. 



Means of transportation are made by a narrow-gauge road connecting 

 Grass Valley City with Colfax on the main line of the Southern Pacific. 

 Within twelve months from September, 1906, a broad-gauge line will run 

 through to Auburn, Placer County, and Marysville, Yuba County, which 

 will increase our land values twofold. The home-seeker who wishes to 

 acquire a self-supporting property with little means would do well to look 

 at the opportunities offered near Grass Valley, Nevada County. 



Nevada County is well equipped with schools and churches. In this 

 important particular, our people are as well cared for as any part of the 

 United States. The public schools in Grass Valley are accredited, and 

 graduates can enter the State University of California, the highest institu- 

 tion of learning in the State. Grass Valley City has a private educational 

 institution, with a corps of twelve instructors, which is highly recommended. 

 Its graduates are found all over the State. The above-named city also 

 has a business college of high standard of instruction. 



Any further particulars in reference to this county can be had by 

 writing or applying to the Nevada County Promotion Committee, C. H. 

 Barker, Secretary, Grass Valley City. 



Colusa County 



JOHN H. HARTOG 

 Secretary Colutta County Chamber of Commerce 



COLUSA COUNTY has principally been known for its enormous crops 

 of wheat and barley, and secondly for its enormous ranches. Think, 

 if you can, of a single farm (ranch) of ten thousand acres; then add 

 three more such farms to it, and even then you are four thousand 

 acres shy of the total of one ranch in this locality, — namely, the 

 Glenn Ranch, which comprised 44,000 acres. The Boggs Ranch, with 

 10,500 acres, and the Packer Ranch, with 7,000 acres, are other samples. 

 As some of these ranches gradually come upon the market for subdivision, 

 the poor man gets his chance. The man with small capital can buy ten, 

 twenty, or forty acres and be independent for life. 



While I am writing this, the papers teem with urgent requests for labor, 

 and our Colusa County Chamber of Commerce has inquiries from all 



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