^Btowns of Scott Valley; Hornbrook, Ager, Montague, Edgwood, Upton, Sis- 

 ^*son, and Dunsmuir, towns along the railroad; McCioud, eighteen miles 

 inland from Upton, on branch road; Brownell, Picard, and Ruby, towns in 

 Butte Creek Valley. The mining towns are Sawyer's Bar, Snowden, and 

 Cecilville, on the Salmon River; Gottville, Oak Bar, and Happy Camp, 

 on the Klamath River; and Scott Bar, on Scott River. 



Yreka enjoys the proud distinction of having contributed to the relief 

 fund of San Francisco the greatest amount per capita of any community 

 on earth. 



Sonoma County 



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A. R. WATERS 

 Secretary Santa Roaa Cliamber of Commerce 



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^^wMPERIAL" SONOMA COUNTY is not to be compared to any other 

 county of California in wealth of opportunities for the home-seeker 

 from the cold and storm-ridden Eastern States. She ranks first 

 owing to her position, climate, productiveness of soil, and the fact 

 that there is never any need of irrigation. 

 With all of the California counties holding their arms open to receive 

 him, Luther Burbank, the foremost horticulturist and scientist of his day, 

 makes Sonoma County his home and experimental station, well satisfied 

 that he could not better the conditions with which he finds Nature has 

 endowed the county. 



Sonoma County lies along the Pacific Ocean in a northwesterly and 

 southeasterly direction, with a coast-line of over fifty miles, indented with 

 bays and inlets into which the streams from the interior enter. The extreme 

 length of the county is seventy miles, and the breadth varies from twelve 

 miles at the south end to forty miles at the north, while the total area is 

 1,680 square miles, and the population approximately 54,855. This area 

 is about one third more than the State of Rhode Island, but only about 

 one seventeenth the population. Santa Rosa, the county seat, with a 

 population of about 11,000, is only fifty-two miles north of San Francisco, 

 and is connected by two lines of steam railroads, while an electric line is 

 now being built. The other incorporated cities, in order of their importance, 

 are: Petaluma, sixteen miles to the south; Healdsburg, sixteen miles north; 

 Geyserville, twenty-four miles north; Cloverdale, thirty-two miles north; 

 Sebastopol, eight miles west, and Sonoma, twenty-four miles southeast. 

 There are a number of smaller towns scattered throughout the county. 

 The climate is all that could be desired. There is a dry and wet season. 

 The annual rainfall for the past seventeen years has been over thirty-two 

 inches, while the thermometer seldom falls below thirty-two or goes above 

 ninety-five degrees. There is never any extreme heat or cold. The wet 

 season is not at all disagreeable, as the sun shines more days in the year 

 in Santa Rosa than in San Francisco or Los Angeles, according to the 

 Government Weather Bureau records. Flowers bloom all the year round 

 out of doors without protection. 



There are mountain ranges and plateau and valley land in abundance. 

 Grazing for cattle, sheep, goats, and other animals is to be had in the 

 mountains, while a large amount of timber is also secured along the ranges. 

 The productiveness of the soil and the variety of the products can best be 

 judged by enumerating some of the crops assessed the past year: Grapes 

 (for table, raisins, and wine), apples, apricots, cherries, figs, nectarines, 

 olives, peaches, pears, quinces, plums, French and other varieties of prunes, 

 lemons, oranges, almonds and walnuts, wheat, oats, barley, corn, hay, 

 alfalfa, hops, potatoes, and celery. 



