Del Norte ~ Humboldt County Newspapers, 1894
Del Norte County
Population, 2,592. Del Norte lies just
below the Oregon line, and its principal industries are
dairying, lumber and mining. It embraces 66,562 acres of land,
of which one-third consists of rich valley land. In the eastern
part of the county mining is carried on to a great extent along
the Klamath river. Assessed valuation in 1891 was $2,076,027.
Salmon fishing is carried on at the mouth of Smith river.
Crescent City is the county seat.
Crescent City, Population 1,620
Publication |
Proprietors |
Issued |
Politics |
Year |
News |
I. W. Musick |
Friday |
Ind. |
1888 |
Record |
J. E. Eldredge |
Sat. |
Ind. |
1879 |
El Dorado County
Population, 9,232; mineral and
agricultural. A large portion ¦of the county is heavily timbered
with black oak, live oak, hemlock, spruce, fir, cedar and many
species of pine, while the banks of the streams are fringed with
the maple, the alder, the dogwood and madrona. The cereals
produce good remunerative crops, while potatoes, beets,
pumpkins, Indian corn, and all manner of garden vegetables
attain perfection, both in size and quality. Clover, in wildest
luxuriance, yields an enormous and perpetual crop. The apple,
the pear, the plum, the nectarine and all orchard products of
the temperate zone attain excellent size, flavor and keeping
qualities. But though El Dorado now enjoys a high repute as an
agricultural, horticultural, stock-raising, dairying and lumber
producing county, it is still a great gold producing district.
Assessed valuation, $3,849,571.
Georgetown, Population 400
Publication |
Proprietors |
Issued |
Politics |
Year |
Gazette |
H. W. Hulbert |
Thur. |
Ind. |
1880 |
Placerville, Population
2,593
Publication |
Proprietors |
Issued |
Politics |
Year |
El Dorado Republican |
G. A. Richardson |
Thur. |
Rep. |
1871 |
Mountain Democrat |
Obs'r-Dem. Pub Co. |
Sat. |
Dem. |
1852 |
Fresno County
Population, 32,026; chiefly
agricultural. Fresno, before the division, was the third county
in area in the State, containing 5,000,600 acres of surface. The
phenomenal success of this county is directly due to the perfect
system of irrigating canals in vogue. There are now in operation
900 miles of trunk canals, built at a cost of $2,000,000,
capable of watering 1,000 square miles, or 640,000 square acres.
The annual product of Fresno's mines, her wines, raisins, wheat
and wool, aggregate over $4,000,000. Assessed valuation for
1891, $41,702,975.
Fresno, Population 10,752
Publication |
Proprietors |
Issued |
Politics |
Year |
California Tribune |
Phil. Schmitz |
Thur. |
Dem. |
1891 |
Central Californian |
Brooks & Shankliu |
Sat. |
Agr. - Ins. |
1891 |
Expositor |
J. W. Ferguson |
Daily |
Dem. |
1882 |
Expositor, Weekly
Edition |
Wed. |
Dem. |
1870 |
National Spectator |
Spectator Pub. Co.. |
Thur. |
Ind. |
1883 |
Republican |
Republican Pub. Co |
Daily |
Rep. |
1886 |
Republican, Weekly
Edition |
Friday |
Rep. |
1876 |
Reedley, Population 450
Publication |
Proprietors |
Issued |
Politics |
Year |
Reedley Exponent |
W.W.Holland |
Thur. |
Ind. |
1891 |
Sanger, Population 1,500
Publication |
Proprietors |
Issued |
Politics |
Year |
Herald |
E. P. Dewey |
Sat. |
Ind. |
1889 |
Selnia, Population 1,550
Publication |
Proprietors |
Issued |
Politics |
Year |
Fresno Co. Enterprise |
L. M. Willis |
Sat. |
Rep. |
1889 |
Irrigator |
Lyon & Vanderburgh |
Daily |
Dem. |
1886 |
Irrigator |
Weekly Edition |
Sat. |
Dem. |
1886 |
Glenn County
Population, 7,000; fruit and
agriculture. Glenn county was formed from the northern half of
Colusa County by the legislature of 1891. Upon the separation
Willows was chosen as the county seat. The organization of
irrigation enterprises has given quite a stimulus to fruit
culture in the county, and the valley lauds are largely devoted
to grain growing. No statistics as to assessed valuation, annual
product, etc., have been compiled.
Orland, Population 700
Publication |
Proprietors |
Issued |
Politics |
Year |
News |
T. H. Dodson |
Sat. |
Ind. |
1887 |
Willows, Population 2,100
Publication |
Proprietors |
Issued |
Politics |
Year |
Journal |
Kelley & Crow |
Daily |
Dem |
1885 |
Journal |
Weekly Edition |
Sat. |
Dem |
1878 |
Review |
J. A. Apperson |
|
Rep. |
1890 |
Humboldt County
Population, 23,469; chiefly lumbering.
Humboldt is a coast county, the area embraced being 3,590 square
miles, or 2,297,600 acres. Humboldt county has five great
industries lumbering, ship-building, agriculture and fruit
growing, stock raising and wool growing, and mining. In 1891 the
output was 104,519,726 feet of lumber, 203,700,985 shingles,
17,240,523 shakes, and a vast quantity of ties, posts, pickets,
fruit boxes and house material. The assessment roll shows about
30,000 acres of cultivated lands. Stock-raising has been a very
successful and remunerative business ever since the county was
first opened to settlement. The county's export values amount to
over $4,500,000 annually, the transportation of which occupies
two lines of steamers and a fleet of over sixty sailing vessels,
giving employment to some 450 seamen, having a carrying capacity
of 11,000 tons, and representing a value of $2,500,000. The
total assessment for 1891 was $16,975,417.
Alton, Population 350
Publication |
Proprietors |
Issued |
Politics |
Year |
Our Paper |
Austin W. Bohall |
Sat |
Rep. |
1889 |
Areata, Population 750
Publication |
Proprietors |
Issued |
Politics |
Year |
Union |
Austin Wiley |
Sat. |
Rep. |
1885 |
Blue Lake, Population 600
Publication |
Proprietors |
Issued |
Politics |
Year |
Advocate |
C. Chartin |
Sat. |
Dem. |
1888 |
Eureka, Population 7,602
Publication |
Proprietors |
Issued |
Politics |
Year |
Nerve |
Nerve Printing Co. |
Sat. |
Ind. |
1892 |
Standard |
Standard Pub. Co |
Daily |
Dem. |
1873 |
Standard |
Weekly Edition |
Thru. |
Dem. |
1873 |
Times |
Times Pub. Co. |
Daily |
Rep. |
1854 |
Times |
Weekly Edition |
Thru. |
Rep. |
1854 |
Western Watchman |
Wm. Ayres |
Sat. |
Labor |
1884 |
Ferndale, Population 1,000
Publication |
Proprietors |
Issued |
Politics |
Year |
Enterprise |
Seotton & Hart |
Friday |
Ind. |
1878 |
Oracle |
W. J. Weymouth |
Sat. |
Ind. |
1893 |
Fortuna, Population 600
Publication |
Proprietors |
Issued |
Politics |
Year |
Eel River Valley Advance |
L. F. Stinson |
Thur |
Local |
1888 |
Rhonerville, Population 500
Publication |
Proprietors |
Issued |
Politics |
Year |
The Home Herald |
D. F. Morris |
Friday |
Ind. |
1881 |
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Source: Pacific States Newspaper
Directory, Sixth Edition, Palmer & Rey Type Foundry, San
Francisco, 1894
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