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at much expense on mules ; and Yreka and vicinity con- 

 tinue to make their imports and exports by way of the Sacra- 

 mento Valley. 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, a small seaport, 

 is the chief trading point of the miners in Klamath County. 



61. Ilumboldt Bay Toicns. The principal town on Hum- 

 boldt Bay is Eureka, which had 2,049 inhabitants in 1870. 

 Arcata had 924, and Bucksport, 388. Eureka has the main 

 shipping business, Arcata being situated behind a wide mud 

 flat. The latter town was long the more important, and in 

 1862, 1,500 pack-mules were employed in conveying goods to 

 the mines in Trinity and Klamath Counties. Eureka is the 

 only town of over two thousand' inhabitants in the State with- 

 out a telegraphic line. 



