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The people at the head of the Sacramento valley, knowing 
that an attempt was making 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 very rugged, 
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. Arcata.—Arcata 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 
Arcata to the various parts of Humboldt, Klamath, and Trinity 
counties. The name of Arcata 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 foreign character which marks many German villages 
in the valley states of the Mississippi, where the English 
language is not known to any of the people. None 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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