Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-01
LASSEN.

Situated almost in the extreme north
from the southern line of Oregon only by
Modoc-is Lassen, one of the most pictur-
esque counties in the State. 1t is essen
| tally stock-grazing county, and must re-
main as such for some time to come, owing
| to its lack of railroad communication with
the Sacramento valley. And yet Lassen
county contains large number of sheltered
and fertile valleys that are capable of afford
ing homes for many additional thousands
| of people. With an area of 5000 square
miles, Lassen has n population of only be-
tween 6.o00 and 1000. The winters are
| quite severe in some portions of the county,
| but spring puts in an early appearance,
| with its
WEALTH OF FLOWERS
| And glowing pastures. A correspondent of
the RECORD UNION, writing recently from
| Lassen, said: a Susanville, the county
! seat, is $50 miles from Sacramento, and
! the altitude 4,07S feet greater. In this
pure light atmosphere there are no pull
monary nor malarial diseases. Within the
county limits can be found as many changes
| of temperature as on journey from Green
| land to Florida. On summers warmest
days in the valleys one can go into shaded
canyons, protected hooks, or ascend to
| the ice-clad mountain SUBMITS and expert
| ence many changes of climate within few
| hours"
SOME ADVANTAGES.
Unlike many parts of the East and West
| in the same latitude live stock are not re-
quired to be sheltered and fed for many
| months in the year. 1t is rarely that at
! tention has to be paid to cattle for more
| than a month or six weeks in midwinter.
| As rule, cattle, horses and
sheep thrive out of doors all
the winter through Spring breaks
| in upon the monotony of winter
early in April, and by the middle of May
| the people have many varieties of vegeta-
| bles for table use, even including the deli
cate strawberry. Cherries, currants and
| other berries come in early in June. In
deed, there is scarcely any temperate fruit
grown in central California that cannot be
| reproduced in Lassen. The advantages of
| the county in this respect would be more
| fully appreciated if wider known. There
are thousands and thousands of families
eking out precarious livelihoods in the
East and North, where they are compelled
to subsist for from six to eight months on
| the scanty proceeds of their labors during
| the remainder of the year. To this class of
| tOlierS l1dSsen WOulu De dS pdrduiSt
CATTLE, LANDS, ETC.
| The annual export of beef cattle from
| Lassen is about 10000 head The Madeline
plains consist of broad plateau some 5, 900
| feet above the sea level. on which native
grasses grow waist high. The best agricult-
ural land in Lassen can be purchased at
| from S15 to SO per acre. and hay grown on
| these lands can be readily sold at a profit
| The sheep are sbeared twice a year, as in
central and southern California, and the
! wool is marketable at Red Bluff, Tehama
| county. Hogs thrive wonderfully in the
| soft tule lands about the lakes, where they
| feed upon bulbs and roots of the most nu-
| tritious character.
ATTRACTIONS FOR TOURISTS.
| Lassen like Shasta, Siskiyou and other
northern mountain counties of California,
possesses many attractions for tourists and
1 those fond of summer camping and hunt
| ing. Wild game abounds in all parts of the
county. Some years ago railroad was
projected to run from Reno up into the
Northeastern section of California and pen
crate Plumas. Lassen and other districts.
Some IS miles of road was completed and
stocked with cars, but litigation ensued and
no further progress was made. With a
railroad tapping that splendid section of
cpuntry it could not fail to be rapidly set
lied.
II woNANs PARADISE.
4 Lassen is said to offer excellent induce
nents to women. Those now there con-
Gfitute but about one-third of the popula-
Ion, and are either wives or girls too young
q wed. Housekeepes, .dairymaids, ETC.,