The San Francisco call., 1910-03-26
More Parks Needed in The SeCiOn SOufh Of Market Street
M[NDOCINO COUNTY
RANCHERS PROSPER
Old Settlers Refuse to Leave
and Many New Families
Secure Locations

No one who gets acquainted with
Mendocino county ever wants to leave
it," say the old settlers of that favored
region. The saying is being literally
fulfilled now. New people are locating
at a great rate, and from all indiea-
tions this year will be a record breaker
in the sales of ranches and farms.
Near ukiah a tract of some 2,s00
acres has been sold recently to a group
of families. who intend to colonize it
at once. The CleIand place was sold
by A. J. HildrithN of Ukiah to some
bring out number of their friends to
take up homes near them. The Gibson
ranch is being cut UP into small farms,
which should sell off quickly.
At Calpella, village a few miles be-
syond Ukiah, 20 new families have ar
rived within the last three months.
Calpella is in the great thermal belt,
and both it and the Redwood valley,
which adjoins it, are growing rapidly.
Calpella has heretofore been simply a
flag station. but now the Northwestern
Pacific has fixed UP neat depot and
platform and trains stop there regu-
larly.
MANY RANCHES PURCHASED
Redwood valley is one of the richer
small valleys of the county. A branch
of the Russian river runs through it
and is fed by many living springs in
the hills. 1t is traversed its entire
length by the main county road to
Round valley, and the railroad station
is at its lower end.
Within the last year nearly every
ranch in Redwood valley has changed
hands, and the prices have been very
satisfactory to the sellers and buyers
alike.
A new sawmill and lumber yard are
now being put into operation in the
far end of the valley The rumor that
brought through this valley, thus
avoiding the steep grade at Laughlin
and the summit, may have been re-
sponsible for this sudden growth.
Wallace & Milone, who bought the
English ranch of some 600 acres, are
making great Improvements and are
putting up miles of hog tight wire
fence Dunlap & Hewes are also i'm
proving. their property and are pre-
pairing to set out an apple and English
walnut orchard.
HOGS THRIVE ON ACoRNs
The sale or lease of Belle Hardin
rahch of 100 acres, one of the finest
ranges in the state, is being negoti-
ated A Weldon, who bought the Ford
place of 500 acres, is preparing to put
in hops again, as this is as fine hop
land as can be found. George knight,
who owns a large tract of 1000 acres,
is reported to have had a fine offer for
his property and refused to sell on the
ground that the advance had hardly
started.
The high price of pork has turned
many TO hog raising, and Mendocino
county is the banner hog county In
Redwood valley the oaks furnish a
vast amount of acorns for feed and the
surrounding hills protect from excess
sive heat or cold. Hogs thrive won
road and 10 Ukiah affords ready
market Hog raising in Redwood of
fers remunerative business under prac-
tically ideal conditions
AND APPLE GROWING
The Northwestern Pacific is Issuing
a third edition of a very attractive
folder and time table in which the re-
sources of this wonderful county is set
forth, which has done much to arouse
Much is. heard of the famous apple
country of Oregon and the walnuts of
the south, but few persons realize that
both these products attain perfection
in the protected valleys of Mendocino
and Sonoma counties. The apples are
large, hard and sound and of delicious
flavor, comparing favorably with the
best grades of Oregon.
Walnut raising has passed the ex-
perimental stage and the next few
years many acres will be cultivated and
will bring a large income to the own
ers.
The north of bay counties are among
the best in the state. Investors who
buy there now are sure of a hand |