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The people at the head of the Sacramento valley, knowing 

 that an attempt was naaking to cut off a large part of their 

 trade, went to work industriously and made a good wagon 

 road to Yreka, and thus reduced the freights to that place 

 very much. The country westward of Yreka is verv ruorcred, 

 and as the people of Crescent City had not the capital to make 

 a wagon road, their goods had to be transported at much ex- 

 pense on mules; and Yreka and vicinity continue to make 

 their imports and exports by way of the Sacramento River. 

 Crescent City, therefore, remains a small place, but it supplies 

 a district within a range of forty or fifty miles to the east and 

 northeast. Trinidad is a small seaport which is the chief 

 trading point of the miners in Klamath county. 



§ 294. Areata. — Areata is a town of eight hundred inhab- 

 itants, at the northern end of Humboldt Bay. It was founded 

 in 1850 with the expectation that the miners in the basin of 

 the Trinity River would obtain all their imports through it ; 

 but the only means of conveying goods from Humboldt Bay 

 was a bad mule trail through a rugged country infested by 

 hostile Indians, so the trade continued to go by the way of the 

 Sacramento River. It is probable, however, that the current 

 of this trade will be changed within a year or two. A wagon 

 road is being made to Weaverville, a distance of eighty miles, 

 and the Indians have been driven away. At the present time 

 fifteen hundred pack-mules are used in conveying goods from 

 Areata to the various parts of Humboldt, Klamath, and Trinity 

 counties. The name of Areata was adopted in 1860; previ- 

 ous to that time the town was called Union. 



§ 295. Anaheim. — Anaheim is the only German town in 

 the state. It was laid out by Germans, built up by Germans, 

 and is populated and owned by Germans. But it will never 

 have the foreisrn character which marks manv German villao^es 

 in the vaUey states of the Mississippi, where the English 

 language is not known to any of the people. ]S"one of the 

 Anaheimers have come direct from Germany; all of them 

 have lived for some time among the Americans, and most of 

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