The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 24, 1897, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO 1897. — COUNTY JAIL AND HALL OF RECORDS. QK?ST UmflmTfimmflmme Marysvillz, the Queen City of Northern California, & has a history that reads like a romance. There are tales of the good padres and the old alcaldes told by the older resi- 3 3 dents. It is also related how the pretty town sprang up sud- denly on the desert cf sagebrush. When the sagebrush began to disappear Marysville’s prosperity commenced. &WWWWWMMW In 1849 the spot now known as Marys- ville ccntaineu the only settlement in that flourishing and fertile tract of country embraced between the Yuba and Feather rivers, commencing at their junc- | tion and extending, widespread, to the rivers’ sourcer. It was designated as *“Nye's ranch,” and was the only embarcadero or landing place for goods brouszht from below. It comprised upward of 45 000 acres, and was known as the Cordua Grant, being named after the gentleman who first settied upon it in 1841, under a lease from the veteran pioneer, Captain John A. Sutter. In the spring of 1849 Cordua disposed of his interest in this grant to Messrs. Nye, Foster and Covilland; hence its desig- nation as *“Nye’s ranclh.” At that time but three buildings, adobe built, eraced the northern bank of the Yuba, and they were occupied by the gentlemen above mentioned. Toey were situated nearly at the spot which is now the foot of D street. It was in 1 that Theodore Corcdua named this first settiement “New Meck- lenburg,” in honor of his old home in Germany. It was eight years later that Marysville received the name which it now bears. It was at a convention of the rough settlers that the place was chris- tened in honor ot Mrs. Mary J. Covilland, the first white woman to locate here. Sons, daughters and grandchiidren of this noble pioneer woman are stili residents of this city. In those days Marysville was the depot and stariing point for all mining centers, this peculiar vantage aceruing through the fact that it was, as it still remaius, the tead of navigation in the eastern Sacra- mento Valiev. Population was of a very fluctuating character then. Restless men, in those hurrving days, thronged the streets of the new camp, eager to lay in their supviies and rush on to the fields of eold. That was, in fact, a fictitious popu- lation, here to-day and gone to-morrow. Some authorities say that as many as 15,000 people found their abode here tirough the fifties. How different in these days. Now we find the quieter progress of a prosperous, solidly built town, with a steady inflow and outflow of trade. Over the plains, as far as the eye can reach, are rich orchards and fielcs of waving grain. The peach, the pear, the fig, the prune, the apricot, the grape, the olive, the quince, the pomegranate grow in abundance. Marysville of 1897 is the home of over 5000 people. With transportation facilities it is well supplied, both by water and railroad lines. Two lines of railway have been built throuzh its corporate limits, and are being successfully and profitably operated. On the east side is the Califor- nia and Oregon line and on the west the San Francisco and Oroville, both branches ofthe Southern Pacific system. Marysville is a terminal point and the only city north of Sacramento so favored. It may be dubbed *‘the hub of the Bacra- mento Valley.” It is 143 miles nerta of San Francisco and fifty-three miles north of Bacramento. The growth of the city has beer steady and permanent, based upon actual de- mands, and what is found hers czn be ac- counted for upon the basis of existing to supply a present instead of a prospective demand, As a trading point Marssville has ever ranked with the ordinary town of 15,000 inhabitants, this being accounted for by the nature and exient of its tribu- tary country. The city has a fine systen of water works and a first-class electric light plant. No interior town is better lighted 1han Marysville. Then there are excellent public schools, a substantial brick courte | house, a Hall of Records, a fine theater, | seven churches, splendid blocks of build- ings, a flourmill, woolen-miils, planing- milis, foundry, harvester works, fruit can- nery, steam laundry and bag factory. | and three smaller ones, with capacity to accommodate a large numb r of people. The water supply of the city is pumped from a well inio lzrge tanks atan ele tion of fiity feet, and thence distributed through pipes to every part of the town, never having failed in the dry seasons. pure as can be, as shown by analysis, sul- heaithful degree. To this fact is at- tributed the other fact that Marysville has never been visited by an epidemic. | State Board of Health show a mortality | far below the average. To insure a con- | tinnance of these conditions a new sewage system has just been completed at a cost of $50,900. | There are three regular banking insti- tutions, viz: The Rideout Bank, Decker, Jewett & Co. Bank, and the Cali- fornia Northern Bank of Savings—all doing a large business. The public Ii- brary,lccated in the City Hall building, bas been in existence many years. many valuable volumes made each year. At the mile racetrack and fair grounds, including sixty acres, and iocated inside of the corporate limits of the city, are found all of the necessary buildings for holding fairs. The fairs of the Thirteenth additions are | ally, always being well attendsd. A United States Land Office is located for the year ju-t closed shows that there are nearly 1,0000% acres of unc'aimed | Government and in the district. Consid- erable manutacturing is carried on; still | there remains a good fiela for othérs, par- | ticularly for the manufaciure of farming utensils, carloads of which are brought here every vear by rail from the East and | s0id at a large profit. The splendid farm- and shoes, harness, pottery and many ar- ticles which are brought from a distance and which should be made at home. | Not a few men who have been promi- nent in the saffairs of this preat nation figured in the early history of Marysville. | Justice Stephen J. Field was the first Al- calde of ihe city. He wrote the first deed | to property in Marysville. He used to tell many stories of wuen he ran the place. On December 29, 1349, he waiked the stree's of San Franci-co with just §1 in his vocket. Ninety days later he was the possessor of $25,000 from the sale of town lots in Marysville, As first Alealde of Marysville Field drew up the contract by which General John A, Sutter sold the township. Jt was during his term as Alcaide that George C. Gor- ham, then a penniless Iad of 17, was the private secretary of Field. At the present Marysville is governed by a Mayor and four Aldermen, who.are on their second term, having been ina gurated in April, 1894. William T. Ellis Jr., only son of the prominent grocer ana a young man o! aimitted executive al ity, is the man honored with ‘the highest ofice within the rift of the people of Marysville. He is a native of the city and 32 years of age. During his administra- uon sireets have been paved with mac- adam and bitumen as the result of hisen- ergy and that of his four associates, and the sewerage system and a stretch of side- walks of which any city might feel proud Lave been coastructed. | The four Councilmen are: There are in the city three large hotels | The water is clear as crystal, and as near | pbur and magnesia being present to a | The cflicial monthly reports filed with the | the | To the | Agricultural District are held here annu- | in Marysville, and the reportof the officers | | ing country on all sides of the city causes | large demand for farm imp'ements, boots | ® NORTH FROM . THE W. F. Kelly, | Tepresenting the First Ward; Martin Sul- | livan, Second Ward; L. C. Williame, Third | Ward; Bernard Mehl, Fourth Wara. The | other city officers s Marshal, J. A. Maben; Assessor and Clerk, ¥. E. Smith; | Treasurer, Justus Greely; Police Judge, xs:lmuel Garber; City Attorney, W. H. Car- 1n. Beginning with the incorporaticn of the city the following nave held the cffice of Mayor: S. M. Miles; 18 H. Jewett; 1853-4, 8, M. Miles; 18 Winters; 1855-6, James Allen; 18 , Levi Hite; 1¥ C. Tomokins; 1838, Peter Decker: 1829, William Ginger; 1860-1, C. B. Fow- ler; 186 B. Fowlier; 186 C. B Fowler; W. K. Hudson; 186! Charles M. Gorham; 1870-1, Charles M. Gorham; 18723, Char.es M. Gorham: | 1874-5, William Hawley; 1876-7, C. E. | Stone; 1878.9, N. . R'deout; 1880-1, C. E Stone; 1 . Bingham; 1884.5, A. | } F. H. Greely; 1888.9, P. C. Slattery; 1890-1, J. M. Hofstet er; | 1892-3. N 1894-5, W. T. Eilis Ir. #uzzdians of the peace numbering a half- dozen men of experience, and they are | eficient officers. The people also point | With wride to the militia company sta: | tioned here, The command is knowa as Company D of the Second Infantry Regi- ment, N. G. C. Captain George H. Voss | has for his lieutenants Phil J. Divver and David Canning, popular young residents. No better-equipped fire department than | that kept in Marysville can be boasted by R0y town in California. There are four steamers to be reried upon conflagration, and, besides, a horse hose. cart and two hand certs, carrying in ail 3000 feet of first-class hose. F. C. Meyeris engineer and C. E. Rockefeller is captain of the hose. Eignt paid hosemen are kept the year around. As fire-fiehters the boys | bave everything to' boast of and nothing to be ashamed of. A splendid hook-and- ladder apparatus, bought during the term of Mayor Slattery, is well under the con- trol of ihe men, who indulge in frequent practice to perfect themselves in its work- ings. Cnaries Price is engineer of steam- | ers and George Korb is his assistant, The Board of Health has been jnstru- mental in bringing about the adoption by the City Council of a pure-milk ordinance, which insures a healthy supply of lacteal fluid for the city. The dairymen here- about now court a visit from the experts appointed to make the tuberculin test. Thus far every herd examined has proven | remarkably free from tuvercuiosis or any otber intectious disease. The members of Marysville’s Board of HMealth are as fol- lows: Dr. David Poweii, vresident; W H. Parks Jr., secretary; Dr. G. W. Strat- ton, Wiiliam England and W. H. Carlin. C. C. Kelser is heaith officer under sulary. The city's Roard of Education is com- posed of the following: W. T. Kilis Jr., | president; J. A. Scott, secretary; J. E. Goorman, George R. Eckart ana Dr. D, Powell. They have full charge of the educational interests, There are two | school buildings—one known as the high school, the other as the B-street school. The high school, which is accredited, is under the tutorship of Professor G. H. Stokes, who hus two able assistants in | teachers are: Professor Martin, Mrs, E. A. Couit, Miss Ella Kelly, Miss Anna’ B. | Karr, Miss Lillie Brooks, Miss Margaret Lowery, Miss Anna McKenney, Miss Amy Davidson and Miss Ads Townsend. Three hundred and seventy Ppupils were enrolied at the beginning of the fail term in Sep- tember. The classrooms are large, weil ventilated and commodious. 1ln evidence ol the reputation the Marysviile High School has gained as an institction of learning, it may be stated that not a few scholars are entered from adjoining coun. ties as pay pupils. Marysville also has her private institu- tions of learning. Justly proud are ier citizens of the College of Notre Dame, which institution was foundea in 1856, chartered in 1869. The coliege is con- ducted by the Sisiers of Notre Dame, a so- ciety of la entirely devoted to the work of Christian education. The build- ings, occupying an entire block, are sur- rounded by vretty grounds furnished with every facility for the amusement and physical welfare of the students. The course of studies is pursued in t::.e English language, but French, German and Span- isb beiue spoken by many of the teachers, the pupils enjoy every facility for perfect- ing themselves in tnese languages. Lessons in vocal and insirumental mu- sic are given, also in shorthand, type- writing, drawing, painting, plain and use- ful needlework, embro:dery and all kinds oi jancy work. To excite laudable emu- lation in tne various branches of science, monthly competitions are beld, when those most distinguisihed 1n their respec- tive ciasses receive the honorary decora- tion of a medal. At the same time re- portsare forwarded to parenis and guar- 8 °D° STREET, THE MAIN BUSINESS B THOROUGHFARE OF MARYSVILLE,L0OKING [ FIRST HABITATION STOOD. The Marshal is Chief of Police, the | in case of a | Miss Whiteand Miss Spohrs. The otner | . | flood CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, SPOT ON WHICH THE dians giving the class ficiency, etc., of their daughters and wards. The scholastic year consists of one session, commencing on September 1 and ending June 30. Students who have completed the prescribed course of study receive a diploma or certificate when such distinction is deserved. Good references are required of all applicants. While the Catholic religion is professed by the ladies of this institution, there can be no inter- ference with the religious principles of those who profess a different creed. Among the graduates are numbered some of Marysville's most prominent ladies. i ©f churches there are seven in Marys- ville, v.z.: Presbyterian, corner of D ana Fifth streets, Rev. J. W. Lundy pastor; | Roman Catholic, St. Joseph’s, corner of E and Seventh streets, Father M. Coleman in cliarge; Episcopal, St. John's, corner of E | and Fiith streets, Rev. W. H. Stoy rector; Methodist Episcopal, corner of E and | Fourth streets, Rev. Thomas Chase pustor; | Coristian Chureh, corner of E and Sev- enth sireets, Rev. Mr. Kincaid pastor; A. | M. E. Church (colored), Rev. Mr. Chapman pasior; Baptist (colored), Rev. Mr. Smith pastor. A corps of the Balvation: Army flourishes here and is doing good work. The first religious service ever held in Marysville was in the spring of 1850, and was conducted by Rev. Mr. Washburn on a flatboat opposite the plaza. Mr. Wash- burn was at that time kerping 2 boarding- house or hotel. In this effort to establish religious worship at this point Mr. Wash- | burn was succeeded by Rev. Mr. Wilson, | & Methodist clergyman, who' by indefati- | eable exertions succeeded in rearing a Methodist Episcopal church. He died in the following summer. With fraternal and social societies the | city is well supplied. The Masonic fra- ternity boasts six lodges, as follows: Cor- inthian Lodge No. 9, organ'zed 1850, cbar- tered November 27, 1850; Yuba Lodge No. 39, churtered May 6, 1854; Washing- ton Cluapter No. 13, Royal Arcu Masons; Marysville Council No. 3, Royal and Se- lect Masons; Marysville Commandery No. 7, Knights Templar; Marysville Chapter No. 55, Order Eustern Star. The Odd Ferows’ lodges are in a thriy- ing condition, and, like the Masons, bave a fine, large building of their own, being one of the best-paying pieces of property in the city, having declared dividends to an amount more than double the cost of the strocture. The I Q. O, F. lodges are as follows: Yuba No. 5, Oriental Ne. 45, Marysville Encampment No. 6, Minne- baha Rebekah Degree Loage. Other societies are: N, 8 G. W., Par- lor No. 6; N. D. 6. W., Parlor No. 74: G. A. R., Post No. 80; A. O. F. of A., Court Pride No. 34; A. 0. U. W., No. 88; Knights of Honor, No. 1656; 0. C. F. (iwo lodges), Rainbow No. 125 and Marysville No, 3; L O. R. M, Yuba Tribe No. 45; Com. panions of tbe Forest, No. 101; Y. M. L, No. 18; C. L. R. 8. (relief society); L O. B. B., Miriam Lodge No. 56; Jeffersonian | Lyceum. E Campus Vitus, King. David Lodge No. 7,188,189, meets at the sound of the bewgag. There is a lodge of colored Ma- | sonsund one of colored Odd Fellows, be- | sides a court of Independent Foresters. The Marysville theater is one of the oldest in the State. It was erecled. in August, 1865, ana remodeled aiter the of 1875. The cseating capaeity, zround floor and gallery, is 800.° W, C. Swain is proprietor and W. B. Swain manager. Marysville's public library has for its librarian Mrs, J. A. Saul. The Odd Fel- lows' Library is in charge «f Mrs, Louisa Wentzel. s There are eleven public parks, or squares, in Marysville, two ot Which— Cortez Square and Napoleon Equare—are improved, and decided ornaments to the city. Work on the levee system surrounding Marysville was commenced in 1865, although some leveeing had been done some years previous to that date. . The city is now well guarded from flood waters and very little fears are entertained of a future overflow. The length of the levees is something over thirteen miles ana the average height fifteen feet. The expendi- tures for building and maintaining the city levees up to the present time are as fotlows: City, $447,339 74; county, $81,000; State, $39,000; tora, $562,339 74. The pres. ent Commissioners ure: 'W. T. Ellis Sr., D. E. Knight ana John C. White. Telephone and teiegraph lines extend east, west, norih and south—to the moun- tai and to ibe valley districts and to the metropolis. Tne San Fraucisco and Bacramento papers reach Maryéville twice a day, the morning dailies at noon, the evening journals not later than 9:30 each night. There are stages regolarly for Bangor, Brownsville, Hansonville; Straw- berry Valley, La Porte and Quincy, and standing, pro- also for Comptonville, Browns Valley, Oregon House, Dobbins Ranch and ‘Bul- lards Bar every day. The Nelson and | Japan monthly, Uollin stage line connects. with Smarts- SR ~ COLLEGE OF BY B'anoC’, ~ e U NOTREDAME' OCCUPYING SEVENTHAND EIGHTH STREETS, MARYSVILLE., W J. ELLIS,JR, Oy, ° ectf"fio S'a MAYO °0 A BLOCK OF-GROUND BOUNDED ville, Nevada City and Grass Valley, There is also stage connection with Colusa and Forbestown daily. Mearysville and her surroundings are ably represented by two live and progressive newspapers, both publishing daily and semi-weekly editions. The Democrat was established in 1884 by Milton McWhorter. The Democrat Publishing Company, a cor- poration, is proprietor. 'T. J. Sherwood is manager and editor and F. H. Day assist- ant manager. The "Marysville Appeal first appeared on January 23, 1860, George W. Bloom & Co. being the publishers. The paper is Republican in politics and 1s cenducted by the Marysvile Appeal Publishing Company. F. W. Johnson is managing editor. One of the best indicators to show the conditions of trade and progress in a town or city is the business transacted at | the local postoffice. During the past three years the Marysville office has made a splendid showing, the incresse of business | warranting an ali-night serv ce and the establishing of a free-delivery system. August1 two carriers were employed, who already have found the business demand.- ing the services of another to properly cover the whole torritory. An additional carrier has been ordered, who will enter upon his duties within a month. Marysville boasts of one of the iargest cahneries in the State. The building, which is new, covers over half a block of 160x32) feet. Five hundred persons find employment Lere during the sea- son, and their payroll for last season amounted 10 $30,000, and wiil reach $40,000 this year. Last year 60,000 cases of two dozen cans each were shipped, while this season theic shipments are expected to reach 75000 cases. The market of this cannery is the world, the last year's product being shipped to Lon- don and Liverpool, the distributing points from which Earope is supplied, to Syd- ney, Melbourne, Shanghai, Singapore, Johannesburg, etc. A. C. Baumgartner is the manager of the Marvsviile Fruit Packing Company. The Marysville Woolen Miil since 1867 has purchased and used in the manufac- ture of goods 13,429,922 pounds of wool, most of which was grown in the immedi- ate vicinity, at an average price of 1634 cents per pound, amounting to $2,214 - 827 38. This amount has been paid to the woolmen in cash, upon the delivery of the wool. enabling him to pay his biils promptly and in muany cases to keep a healtby balance at his bankers. In the same time there has been paid for labor $852 907 78, nearly two-thirds of which has gone to the white employes. There has been received from the sale of goods $3,995,782 72. The greatest portion of these goods bas been sold in S8an Fran. cisco and the returns brougnt to Marys- ville and put in circulation. The cepital | stock, originally $50,000, is now $200,000, of which but $75.461 65 was paid in cash, the remainder, $124.538 35, having been accumulated by the earnings of the corpo- ration. In addition, the shareholders bave always received a fair interest on their investment in casn dividends, the aggregate of which up to the present time 1s $374,474. Tbe buiidings and machinery are ali in good repair. The Marysvilie Winery, Gotlieb Sieber, proprietor, yeariy turns out large quanti- ties of brandy. and ships many thousands of gallons of wine to the Eastern markets and Europe, all of its ountput having a well-earned reputation, and bringing re- munsrative brices. The Empire Foundry and Harvester Works supply farmers with implements, and repair all kinds of farm toois; at the same time monilors and other mining machinery are turned out at short notice in large or small gquantities. Swain & Hudson own one of the best appointed planing mills in the State. They find employment for a large force of men at all seasons, being buiiders and contractors. The Marysvilie Bag Factory has a large number of reguiar patrons, and always has suflicient orders to keep busy s num- ber of men. The Buckeye Flour Mills, established in the early fifties, give employment to many men. Shipments are made to China and and there is an extensive demand all over the Biate. The institu- tion is now under control of the Sperry Flour Company. ‘White, Uooley & Cutls send its patent drapers and other goods to all portions of the State. While Marysville is the county seat of Yuba County Yuba City is the county seat of Sutter County, their courthouses lying about one mile apart and a street railway connecting the wwo cities. Yuba City prides herself upon her county buiidings and fine schools, her exemption from saloons and gambling-houses. The vaiue f the fruit crops of Sutter,County exceeds half a million dollars and over a miilion cans of preserved fruit are shipped yearly. The facilities for shipping are excellent. | Fruit lands 1emain comuara’ively cheap, | nor can any portion of California be re- | commended better to the settler than these same ci iss of Marysville and Yuba City in respect to climate. The number | of clear days, 235 a year, far exceeds those of Italy or Florida, where they average 196 and 124 respec:ively. Or, for instance, the average winter temperature of the two cities is equivalent to those of Philadelphia in April and of Rhode Island in May. In his “Early Days in Caltfornia,” Justice Stephen J. Field gives an intere. ing description of his first visit to Mary: ville ana h's election as Alcalde. After detailing a day spent in Sacramento, Jan- uary 13, 1850, he says: “The next day 1 took the little steamer Lawrence for Ver- non, which was 80 heavily laden astob: only eighteen inches out of water; and the passengers, who amounted to a large number, were requested not to mave about the deck, but to keep as quiet as possible. In three or four hours aiter leaving Sac- ramento the captaln suddenly cried out with great energy, ‘Stop her! stop her!’ and with some difficulty the boat escaped running into what seemed to be a solitary house standing in a vast lake of water, I asked what place that was ,and was an- swered ‘Vernon’—the town where I nad been advised to settle as affording a good opening for a young lawyer. I turned to the captain and said I believed I would not put out my shingle at Vernon just yet, but would go further on. ““The next place we stopped at was Nico- 1aus, and the following day we arrived at a place called Nye's Ranch, near tne junction of the Feather and Yuba rivers, No soouer bad the vessel struck the land- ing at Nye's Kanch than all the passen- gers, some foriy or fifty in number, as if moved by a common impulse, started for an old adebe building which stood upon the bank of the river, and near which were numerons tents. Judging from the number of the tents there must have been from 500 to 1000 people there. When we reached the adobe and entered the prin- cipal room we saw a map spread out on the counter, containing the plan of a town, which was called ‘Yubaville,” and a man standing b-bind it crying out, ‘Genilemen, put your names down; put your names down, all you that want iots.” He seemed to address himself to me, and I asked him the price of the lots, He answered, ‘Two hundred and fifty dol- lars for lots 80x160 feet.’ I replied, *But alterward don’t want the lots? He re- you don’t want them. Put your names down, gentlemen, you that want lots,” I took him at his wora and wrote my name down for sixty-five lots, aggregating in all $16,250. This produted a preat sensation, To the best of my recollection I had only about §20 left of what Coionel Stevenson nad paid me, but it was imn diately noised about that a great capilalist hag lots in the rising town. The consequence was that the proprietors of the place waited upon me and showed me great attention. “lsaw at once that theplace from its position at the head of practical river navigation was destined to become an important depot for the neighioring mines, and that its beauty and saluority would render it a pleasant place for residence. AR M S T *On the evening of the election there was a general gathering of people at the adobe house, the principal building of the place, to hear the offical announcement of the result. When this was made some one proposed that a name shoald be suppose a man puts his name down and | joined, 'Ob, you need not take them if | come up from San Francisco to invest ip | | aaopted for the new town. One man sug- gested ‘Yubafield,” because of its situa- tion on the Yuba River; and another ‘Yubaville,” for the same reason. A third urged the name ‘Circumdoro,’ sur- roundel with gold, as he translated the word, because there were mines in every direction round about. But there was a | fourth, a solid and substantial old man, evidently of kindly domestic affections, who had come out to California to better his fortunes, He now rose and remarked that there was an American lady in the place, the wife of one of the proprietors; that her name was Mary; and that, in his opinion, her name oucght to be given to the town, and that it should be called in her honor ‘Marysville.’ No sooner had he made the suggestion than the meeting broke out into loud hurrahs, every hat made a circle around its owner’s head, and we christened the new town Marys- ville without a dissenting voice. For a | few days afterward the tewn was called | both Yubaville and Mary-viile, but the | latter name was soon generally adopted, and the place is so called to this day.” | Thelady in who-e hLonor it was named ] i was Mrs. Covilland. She was one of the survivors of tue Donner party. The “Queen City of Northern Califor- nia” Marysville is sometimes called. | There is much in its history to interest the generations destined 1o fiil the places | of those who have promoted its prosperity. where a few yearssince “the wild wolf howled and coyotes yelped around” stanls a thriving cily, whose inhabitants are characterized by their industry, thrift and enterprise—a heritage worthy the race upon whom it bas fallen. Her glory, her fame, her trials, triumphs and vicissi- tudes will pass as history into other hands for safekeeping. Letthem not be unworthy the trust. To the east of Marysville, distant eighteen miles, is the town of Smarisville, contuining a population of about 600 peo- vle. There is at this point some of the prettiest residences to be found in the county, also well-supported school-houses and churches, stores aud good hotels. Probably thie besi oranges seen in Yuba County's recent exhibits came from | Smartsville and vicinity, where large quantities are grown and marketed at least onez a mouth in advance of those Pro- | ducea in the southern part of the State. | This place is located in the foothills on ¥y a short ¢istance from the plains or valley lands, and is one of the best towns of the size in the State. Adjacent to the town on the east are some very rich mines, known as placer ciaims, several of them now being worked at a fair profit, There is a system of water ditches st this point, which extend down along the foot- hilis some distance west of the town, car- rying water to the lands known as the Bonanza Ranch, and will soon be ex- tended to other points. A railroad is to be bullt soon, which will pass through Smartsville, extending from Grass Valley to the city of Marysville, Dredger river mining, after the New Zealand methods, is now in its experi- mental stage oz Yaba R.ver, near Smarts- | ville. The town of Wheatland contains about | 900 inhabitants, and they are classed among the most progressive, sober and industrious to be found ir any country. It1s said that hops make Wheatland pros- per, and no doubt to a greatextent they do, but in early days the people depended upon wheat and the mountain trade. Ot late years the large hop fields adja- cent to Bear River support a large num- ber of people and have added very ma- terially to the assessed valuation of the property in that vicinity, The largest hop fleids in the world are located near the town of Wheatland and a short his. tory of them will be found of interest. Dr. D. P. Durst planted twelve acres in 1883 as an experiment. The hogs grew and were harvested and sold at a fair profit, whick induced others 1o plant some. 8. D. Woods, J. W. Roddan, W. B. Roadan and Dr. Darst planted additional lots the following vear, and as each cf them was satisfied with the results they increased the acreage until 1893, when the whole area in hops adjdcen: to Wheat- land was 900 acres. These several yards are arranged in the best possible way to produce, also to gather, cure and pack the product,