The San Francisco call., 1905-01-03

very much in evidence. Travelling over
! such roads is rare pleasure.
"Orland, in size the second town in
the county, is on the railroad seven
teen miles north of Willows. 1t has a
| fine graded school and a high school.
! There are several orange groves in Or
land and a fine orange and lemon nurs-
! cry small irrigation canal in that
section of the county passes through
the town. Orland is growing very rap
idly.
The other railroad towns are Ger
mantown, near the center Of the coun-
ty. and Norman, near the south boun-
dairy, and Fruto, seventeen miles west
of Willows and the terminus Of the
branch railroad running from Willows.
Elk Creek and MELVILLE are thriving
villages in the valley at the base of
the mountains on the west. Butte City
is located on the rich lands on the east
, side of the river. Jacinto which was
!, an important business center many
years ago, is situated on the west bank
of the river, about midway of the
Glenn ranch. 1t has long been omit
ted from the list of towns, but will now
have to be reinstated, as the sale of
this land has created a demand for the
town, which has been surveyed and
plated.
cN1IOSl<D <AD&
California has always made liberal
provision for schools, and those Of
Glenn County are up to the high stand
ard of the State. There are thirty
seven districts, employing forty seven
teachers, besides the two high schools,
one of which is at Willows, the other
at Orland. Two new districts have re-
Gently been formed on the Glenn ranch,
odn N hU ha nf
these lands, and it is matter of but
a short time before others will be or
ganized.
'The rights of children are we'll pro-
tected. AS soon as fifteen of school age
are brought together in a new locality
school is equipped for their instruc-
ton.
There are more than a dozen fine
church buildings in the county-four
at Willows, three at Orland, two at
Butte City, while Germantown, Elk
Creek MELVILLE and Alton have houses
of worship.
THE population of Glenn County in
1900 was $50. In wealth per capita
it is the richest county in the State.
and with the recognized standing of
California in this regard, this is equiv
alent to saying that here the oppor-
tunities for brain or Drawn are greater
than in any other part of the world.
There is not a foot of desert land,
nor an acre of submerged land in the
county, if we except the beds of the
running streams. Every part is fer
tile and productive. From the garden
lands along the river and other
streams, through the grain fields and
stock pastures, up the hillsides,
through the goat ranges, to the forest
of the valuable timber on the high
mountains, every acre is contributing
something to the wealth and comfort
of the inhabitants.
STONY Creek is the last stream on
the west side of the valley that emp
ties directly in the river. Those
north of it have not sufficient volume
to build up the valley as fast as the
river does, consequently the river is
flowing on a slight elevation, or ridge,
the land sloping gently down to the
west for few miles to the bottom of
the trough, and from there grad
ually rising to the base of the west
ern hills. This trough as 1t is called,
has its beginning about half way be-
tween the north and south boundaries
of Glenn County and deepens as it ex-
tends down the valley, until in the
counties below 1t becomes q basin, re-
tanning its waters till late in the sea-
son.
GREAT FERTILE AREAS.
Before the days OF the levees, the
overflow from the river at food time
used to rush back to this trough and
on to the south, adding fertility to the
soil and building up the land by de-
posting it's sediment Consequently
the land between the river and the
bottom Of this depression is known as
river land and is the richest to be
found. All the 10000 acres east of
the river and over $4,000 acres on the
west side are of this character. The
country between this depression and
the hills is known as plains land, and
is also very fertile
1T varies in character from the
gravel Of a narrow strip near the mid
die Of the plain, to the richest black