Nor is gold the only mineral found in this section. At many points 

 are indications of rich deposits of copper, cinnabar, platinum, coal, and 

 asbestos. As yet but little attention has been paid to those minerals and 

 their working on account of lack of adequate transportation facilities. 



Though mainly a mining county, there are numerous pieces of fertile 

 agricultural lands in the various sections upon which are produced the hay 

 and grain and fruit and vegetables used throughout the county. There 

 is also a large acreage of good grazing lands furnishing pasturage for the 

 greater portion of the year, and the various mining operations afford a 

 good home market for all the productions of the farmer and stock-raiser. 



As a summer resort Trinity County offers attractions which cannot 

 be excelled to those wishing to avoid for a time the bustle and turmoil of 

 city life. There is an abundance of game in its mountains, of trout in 

 its streams, and at several places mineral springs with waters of remarkable 

 curative qualities. Post-offices and schools are scattered through the 

 county, and good wagon-roads enable daily communication with the rail- 

 road from all important points. Telephone lines extend to all principal 

 places in the county. 



It is a section of happy homes owned in nearly every instance by their 

 occupants and seldom found encumbered by mortgage or deed of trust. 

 Rarely has its jail a tenant or its courts a criminal trial or divorce pro- 

 ceeding. The county has neither millionaires, tramps, nor beggars, and 

 its people are not worried with the difficult race problems which are con- 

 fronting other portions of our country. 



Its people are unselfish and desire that more of their fellow-men should 

 share in the rich natural resources of this portion of California. They are 

 desirous and hopeful of soon having the iron horse and electric motor 

 speeding through their territory, and trust that the coming legislature of 

 the State will make an appropriation sufficient to complete the wagon- 

 road connecting the Sacramento Valley with Humboldt Bay. This is a 

 matter of moment not only to Trinity but to all the adjoining counties 

 and to the State, and the people of Trinity appeal to their fellow Cali- 

 fornians to make this wish a reality during the coming year. 



Kings County 



KINGS COUNTY, which was created from the western portion of Tulare 

 County in 1893, has an area of 1,267 square miles, or 810,880 acres. 

 It has a population of fully 14,000 people, or nearly double the 

 number of inhabitants of tv/elve years ago. The assessed valuation 

 of all property in Kings County is now $8,339,986. The bonded 

 debt of the county is only $13,000. 



Kings County is a level plain, with the exception of the extreme south- 

 western part, v/hich is hilly and mountainous. The soil of the county is 

 very productive, and most of it is susceptible of irrigation, either through 

 the irrigating-ditch systems that take water from Kings River, Cross Creek, 

 or Tule River, or by means of artesian wells or pumping-plants operated 

 by electric power or engines. 



The original settlers of Kings County were farming people from the 

 Middle, Western, and Southern States, who came to California in emigrant 

 wagons, entirely without capital. They selected these lands because they 

 saw the soil was rich and deep, and that plenty of water was obtainable 

 for irrigation. There was no great corporation ready to construct an 

 irrigation system for them, so they went to work themselves with shovels 

 and picks, and built their own canals and ditches. As a result, they own 

 the water and have no interest to meet. The cost of maintenance is light, 

 averaging under thirty cents per acre per year. The original poor settlers 

 are now well-to-do, and thousands of others who have come since the 



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