Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-29
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Shasta and Tehama Counties, and Some
Of Their Advantages.

SHdSta anu Ieudmd counties, anu SOHe
Of Their Advantages.
An occasional correspondent, writing
from Millville, Shasta county, under date
of October 23d, says:
Let me notice a few inducements that
may prompt some of the many home
seekers daily arriving in your city to look
to the northern counties, prominent among
which stands Shasta, whose citizens, like
those of the adjoining counties, are ever
ready to welcome the anxious father and
mother who, with perchance their
little ones, are in search OF what
to all is ever dear-a home. While
with pride we claim the city of Red
Bluff as our neighbor, we also concede to
it the prestige OF being not only the lead.
ing city of the far north, but one that fol
thrift and enterprise will vie with any in
land town of the State that comes anyway
near approximating it in population. The
rapidity with which it is being substan-
TALLY built up will soon place it in the
front line for numbers of its inhabitants,
The thinking mind and observing eye will
comprehend the situation and discover
why this praise is just. There
IL CuOuSu HloU CIdos dlaOlO iabh
In the vicinity of Red Bluff to more than
support greater trade than at present,
and our people believe that when city
has agriculture for its cornerstone, it is as
ga city built upon a rock, and no tinan-
cial wind can cause it to tremble. When
the many elegant business buildings erected
during the year were being planned, the
architects instructions were, ''use the
most substantial material" as we have
that on which the world subsists-the
fruits of the soil-to base our confidence OF
success upon. Yet there are many other
interests that contribute to the rapid
growth of the capital town OF Tehama
county, prominent among which is the
stock and wool trade, Red Bluff being the
wool mart of the north, and furnishing
quality that in the Eastern market is
graded as NO California woods" The
local dealers can and do pay prices that
keep the flock masters in good cheer. At
present plans are being matured for the
erection of extensive woolen factories, and
there is no cogent reason why the time
should be far distant when Red Bluff will
be the Sc Lowell" of California.
As we leave s'The Bluffs on the jour-
ney north, at first sight our Eastern friends
Especially those from the Mississippi Val
ley) may not be favorably impressed with
the topography of the country drained by
the Upper Sacramento river, as to them it
would not appear as susceptible of sustain
ing large agricultural population as they
would want to see. But we can point
them to advantages that will overcome
their first impression and lead them to
realize that they made no mistake, when
searching for homes. when they followed
| the sun to California.
The northern part of Tehama and south
ern part of Shasta counties have fine lands
contiguous to the Sacramento river and the
many streams that flow from the coast and
Sierra Nevada range. The intervening
table and hill lands afford fine winter and
spring pasturage for stock, large docks and
herds of which winter on these lands and
are driven to mountain ranges, IN Siskiyou
and Lsssen counties What is designated
as second bottom land is admirably adapted
to viticulture, which promises to be a
prominent factor in advancing the already
growing interest taken in these lands.
NJ, B. d,