the ranches are very large, five In the Butte Creek country containing 

 10,400 acres. 



The principal crops raised are wheat, oats, barley alfalfa, and all kinds 

 of vegetables. Apples, pears, peaches, plums, prunes, cherries, English 

 walnuts, and small fruits do well in many parts of the county. Along the 

 Klamath and Salmon rivers they grow to their greatest perfection. Sugar- 

 beets are successfully grown, and when a sugar-beet factory Is established 

 here the growing of beets will be an important industry. Hops grown in 

 Scott Valley won a gold medal at the Portland Exposition. 



The United States Reclamation Service is at present engaged in the 

 work of draining the Klamath lakes, and marginal swamp-lands, part of 

 which are in this county, and building canals to carry the water, which fills 

 the lakes, to the desert lands of northeastern Siskiyou, a work which, when 

 completed, will give us 300,000 additional acres of farming lands. 



The Klamath River drains a great part of the county. It carries to the 

 ocean the waters of sixty-three tributaries, among them Shasta, Scott, 

 and Salmon rivers. 



Light and power are distributed all over the thickly settled portion of 

 the county, except in southern Siskiyou, by the Siskiyou Electric Power 

 Company. They have lines into all of the mining camps, save in the Salmon 

 River country, and, during the coming spring, they intend extending their 

 lines into this section as well as into southern Siskiyou. 



They have two large water-power plants in the county, and fully 

 $500,000 invested in the business. At the largest plant, that on Fall Creek, 

 they had to dig but 4,700 feet of ditch to get a vertical drop of 71 5 feet. 



Mining in all of its branches is carried on. The county's output of gold 

 has added $150,000,000 to the world's wealth, and we are adding to the 

 same at the rate of $1,000,000 annually. 



One of our quartz mines has produced $3,000,000, and a new mine in 

 the same district will from all indications beat the other's record. The 

 owners are at present working on an eight-foot ledge of $40 rock, on a 

 pay shoot 1,000 feet long. 



We have in the county undeveloped coal and Iron, marble, building- 

 stones, lime, and cement materials. 



The copper discoveries promise to double or treble the present mineral 

 output. One mine in the Siskiyou Mountains has between two and three 

 million dollars of copper ore blocked out. 



The promised extension of the Yreka and Montague Railroad to Etna 

 in Scott Valley will do much for that beautiful valley so rich in agriculture, 

 minerals, and lumber. The building of the California Northeastern, from 

 Weed, on the main line of the Southern Pacific, to the Klamath Lakes, in 

 the extreme northeastern portion of the county, is opening up a new 

 empire. There are five independent railroad lines being successfully ope- 

 rated in the county and ten stage lines. 



We have six State banks, and an equal number of weekly newspapers. 

 Our many health and summer resorts are visited by thousands of people 

 annually. One of our springs ships 750,000 gallons of mineral water every 

 twelve months. 



The principal industry of the county is lumbering. Our sawmills cut 

 200,000,000 feet of white pine lumber a year, which is worth $3,000,- 

 000. There are nine box factories in the county, making one half of the 

 boxes used in the State. 



Immense alfalfa crops are raised In the county (estimated at 75,000 

 tons), and the cattle and dairying interests are important. The former 

 is valued at $500,000, the latter at $1,000,000. 



We are proud of our school system; it is a credit to any country. There 

 are ninety school districts and more than one hundred and twenty teachers 

 employed, the average salary being $70. We have two high schools, the 

 Union High School, in Etna, and the County High School, in Yreka. The 

 latter stands accredited in twenty-four subjects at the State University, 

 and the former in almost the same number. 



