Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-09-12
IT'S A NOBLE SHIRE.
MISS PRESCOTT DESCRIBES
CALIFORNIA COUNTY.
where Nature Is BountiTul Though
BoisterOus and Men of Mind
and Muscle dwell.

to know certainly Whereo1 Iney
SPEAK, the very finest county OF
the State. Eureka, the county
seat, with its very handsome court
house and fue churches, its 5000
inhabitants (not a Chinaman) mot
sidewalk broken nor missing on
all its wide streets even to the
outskirts, its electric lighting, its
redwood warming (for almost
every house boasts its open fire.
place., its cool fogs and very cold
rain, often sandwiched with bull
let's of hail through the rainy
season, is the very most import
ant part Of the State, as you
know, north of San Francisco and
has mighty shipping interests in
lumber, wool and butter. When
the bar is removed so as to admit
vessels of any draft, this county
will come to the food-ine of
prosperity. The government APP
preparation of 1893 was $1,700,-
600 (this being the third and it
is now hoped that, in about two
years more, the work will be
nearly or quite completed, and
only the ghost of a bar be left to
tell the story of wreck and ruin
in the sad eventful pastl The
county is ahundantly watered
from end to end and from side to
side throughout its length Of a
hundred miles and it's breadth of
forty. Will you not agree with
US when we say it is beautifully
treed (enough so to make even an
Englishman's eyes water) when
we assert that the bare figures are,
(and Humboldters are all all hon
orable mcn) Is miles in width of
redwood timber land, extending
from north to south-trees
often and often of giant size
and inexhaustible-400, ,000 acres
of pine, spruce, fir and cedar,
and thousands of acres of tan
bark, oak, laurel and madrone.
Wheat will not thrive; it is too
wet; but grass and clover will,
and there are immense dairy
farms and creameries-one capt.
talist (Russ) owning %, where
tons of richest butter are being
made in every year. The wild
black berries are chick in this
country and of sweet delicious
flavor, climbing eagerly over every
nook, corner and wall (while
children are sleeping), struggling
and struggling, ragged and jagged
Zone of sweet natures vagabonds)
into every mans commons and
pastures to give fruit, jam and
wine for his and his children's
refreshment and medicine often
for their ills. Dear loving boun-
tiful Mother Nature! The stranger
here decides at once as he looks
about that the poorest child can
have jam for his bread and at
least a scraping of sweet butter
under that. What can we say
more, for time would fail to speak
Of the prunes, the figs, the nee
tarines and the abundance of
delicious white honey in the
comb.
The men of this county are
pioneers and the sons of pioneers;
they came "in the fifties," ear
nest, helpful workers, ambitious
in the right direction, and they
have risen to be the capitalists of
the county-loggers and bankers,
shippers and lumbeImen, mer-
chants and shingle-makers, and
there are no finer shingles in the
world,and they are made for and by
the million. There are men too
who hang out the shingle, doctors
as skillful, lawyers as learned,
judges as wise, priests as sincere,
journalists as clever as can be
found in Christendom. Yes, in
deed. If you are i'll they will
never desert you, if wronged will
right you, and if a heathen or
an in6del try to convert you to
the Christian faith. They have
"risen from the ranks" to be, not