ti:hama county, California 



The Sierra Nevada Range of Mountains lie lengthwise 

 in the State, and form its eastern border. They extend from 

 northwest to southeast. The Coast Range, from northeast 

 to southwest. At the convergence of the two ranges is Mt, 

 Shasta, rising to an elevation of 14,442 feet, whose summit 

 is covered with perpetual snow. To the south and west 

 from Mt. Shasta for 140 miles are lower mountains and foot- 

 hills, seven and eight thousand feet high, heavily timbered, 

 protecting the lowlands from the Arctic blasts. Here we 

 find the north line of Tehama County, which extends from 

 the summit of the Sierras on the east to the summit of the 

 Coast Range on the west, a distance of 78 miles, and here 

 begins the Sacramento Valley, down which 38 miles is the 

 south line of the County running east to west, giving an 

 'area of 3,200 square miles or 2,000,000 acres. The agricul- 

 tural land is given at 700,000 acres ; grazing land at 800,000 

 acres and timbered or forest land at 500,000 acres. It has a 

 cosmopolitan population of 12,000. Every State in the 

 Union and many foreign countries are represented within 

 its borders. 



At the base of Mt. Shasta are numerous springs, the 

 clear, cold waters of which unite and flow southward 

 through a canyon, gathering force and volume by the ad- 

 dition of numerous mountain streams tributary to it, until 

 it reaches this valley, where it is recognized as the Sacra- 

 mento River. It is navigable for steamboats to Red Bluff, 

 the county seat of this (Tehama) County, which is 200 miles 

 north of San Francisco and 120 miles north of Sacramento, 

 the Capital of the State. 



Tehama County is bounded by Shasta County on the 

 north ; Plumas and Butte on the east ; Butte and Glenn on 

 the south and Mendocino and Trinity on the west. 



SCENERY 



The scenery in this county is not surpassed elsewhere 

 in California. The beautiful, the picturesque and the grand 



