Santa Cruz County 



H. R. JUDAH, JR. 

 Secretary Santa Crux Board oC Trade 



SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, with a population of 27,000, contains 275,000 

 acres of land, and is situated on the coast of California, fronting the 

 Pacific Ocean on the west and Monterey Bay on the south, zmd 

 bounded by San Mateo County on the north and by the counties of 

 Santa Clara and San Benito on the east. 



Although the smallest in the State, Santa Cruz County has the widest 

 variety of resources, attractions, and advantages to be found in the great 

 Western empire — California. The facts of the following paragraphs will 

 prove this seemingly extravagant statement. 



Twelve miles from Santa Cruz, "up the coast" at San Vicente, there 

 Is In course of construction the largest cement plant in the world. The out- 

 put of this stupendous monument of industry will be 9,000 barrels of cement 

 per day. It is an understood fact that orders for the finished product are 

 already contracted for as much as two years from the beginning date of 

 operations. Between San Vicente and Santa Cruz, on the main county 

 road and the lines of the Ocean Shore Railway Company and the Southern 

 Pacific Company, are the bituminous-rock mines, exporting annually 40,000 

 tons of a superior grade of paving material, as well as several large dairy 

 ranches, the products of which are sold profitably each year. This business 

 offers fine opportunities. The D. D. Wilder Dairy Company have three 

 hundred cows and all modern conveniences for the making of butter. 



The city of Santa Cruz, with 13,500 inhabitants, is situated eighty 

 miles south of San Francisco, on the northern shore of Monterey Bay in a 

 protected cove, and has for a background on the north and east the wooded 

 hills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. A fairer location for a city cannot be 

 found. The "City of the Holy Cross" is the leading summer and winter 

 seaside resort of the Pacific Coast to-day. The Big Trees and the Cali- 

 fornia Redwood Park, respectively five and twenty-three miles from the 

 city, are accessible the year round by rail and carriage to the smoothest, 

 safest, and most protected beach on the coast. Over $500,000 in Improve- 

 ments will be invested on this beach before June of 1907. Swimming 

 (plunge and surf), horseback riding, driving, walking, all the entertainments 

 of a modern well-managed resort beach, besides fishing (deep water and 

 stream), can all be enjoyed at Santa Cruz or in the beautiful surrounding 

 country. 



A description of the towns and points of interest in the San Lorenzo 

 Canyon, north of Santa Cruz, and connected therewith by rail, will be of 

 interest to the reader. Five miles from Santa Cruz are the Big Trees, 

 famous the world over. Thousands have stood in their perennial shade 

 awe-stricken at beholding their splendid dimensions. The "Giant" of the 

 group is 306 feet high and 64 feet in circumference. 



One mile and a half north of the Big Trees is the town of Felton, sup- 

 ported by the workers of the Holmes Lime Company, whose lime-rock is 

 hewn from the side of the mountain back of the town. 



Four miles north of Felton is Ben Lomond, a famous mountain resort, 

 and near by are several hills of fine sand suitable for the manufacture of 

 glass and sand-lime brick. 



A mile and a half north of Ben Lomond is Brookdale, absolutely the 

 most picturesque home settlement in the West. The purest water in the 

 world, from Clear Creek; the County Fish Hatchery, hatching exclusively 

 for the 200 linear miles of county streams and the bay trout and salmon 

 of several varieties; the splendid chances for fishing, and the beautiful 

 walks and drives amongst the evergreen foliage and the towering redwoods; 

 the absence of public halls, saloons, and stores; the deeds to all new holders 

 of property excluding the erection of such buildings and therefore general 



