8 Tehama County 



blizzards and extreme cold weather, such as are frequent 

 and occasion much loss in other great stock sections. 



In this county there are two hundred thousand sheep 

 that are moved in the spring to the mountain ranges and 

 return in the autumn to the valleys and foothills for winter 

 pasturage. Twelve thousand head of cattle are similarly 

 handled, and so all the lands of the county are utilized. 



For feed, sheep owners look entirely to providence, the 

 native grasses being especially suitable to sheep. Flocks 

 increase rapidly, the percentage averaging ninety of the 

 ewes, while often, from the profusion of twin lambs, the 

 increase will reach one hundred and twenty per cent. 

 Sheep bearing wool sell from $2.50 per head up; lambs at 

 about $1.25. 



In Red Blufif the wool product of spring and fall is 

 stored, and buyers from other portions of the State are visi- 

 tors during the storing season. It is estimated that one-fifth 

 of the wool crop of the State finds a market in Red Blufif, and 

 in selling time the competition for "clips" is often brisk and 

 spirited. At the beginning and close of the summer season, 

 thousands of sheep are on the move from and to the moun- 

 tains in all parts of the county. 



The annual wool crop of Tehama County is about one 

 million eight hundred thousand pounds. Wool brought to 

 Red Blufif from other counties and stored for sale or ship- 

 ment annually amounts to eight hundred thousand pounds. 



RIVHR TRANSPORTATION 



Red Bluff is the head of navigation on the Sacramento 

 River, and steam boats make regular weekly trips from 

 Sacramento to this point. As a result freight rates are very 

 reasonable. The average monthly shipment to this place 

 is about 1500 tons. Of this amount 700 tons are for Red 

 Bluff and fully eight hundred tons are reshipped by rail or 

 teams to points- in Shasta, Lassen, Trinity, Plumas and 

 Siskiyou Counties, and southern Oregon. The character of 

 this freight is general merchandise, mill and mining ma- 

 chinery. Each boat has a return cargo of wool, grain. 



