Northern California 



There is but very little of these lands that do not show 

 a natural growth of trees and grass, indicating a soil ready 

 to reward the intelligent cultivator. Large crops of grain, 

 yielding as high as forty and more bushels to the acre, both 

 on the bottom, the adobe hills and the hills between, have 

 demonstrated the fertility of all classes of the soil. This 

 feature of Tehama County has made it one of the most pros- 

 perous counties in the State. It has become so from its own 

 intrinsic merits. Xo external effort has been made to bol- 

 ster up or create a fictitious progress. Indeed the citizens 

 have not even taken the trouble to make known the re- 

 sources that have given them their wealth. But their ad- 

 vantages were too great not at length to attract outside 

 attention, and repeated suggestions to them have induced 

 them to throw open the avenues of their prosperity. 



STOCn RAISING 



Tehama County is particularly well adapted to cattle 

 and sheep raising. Comprising as it does almost limitless 

 mountain stock ranges, over which stock can be grazed dur- 

 ing the summer months to good advantage, and when snow 

 appears on the mountains our area of valley lands afford 

 plenty of feed, and owing to the mildness of the winter cli- 

 mate stock men need have no fear of loss by reason of 



HAULING WOOL TO MARKET, RET) BLUFF 



