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Title: A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) Collection Type: Books and Periodicals Publisher: Lewis Publishing Company Published: 1891 Copyright: In the public domain or published before 1925 Source(s): Google Books # of Pages: 713 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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HISTORY OF NORTHERN OALIFORNIA. $756,000, with live-stock at $262,000, and produce at $308,000,—the total assessments standing at $1,871,000; yet the population fell froin 16,299 in mining days to 9,090 in 1880. For the Stockton & Copperupolis Railroad — —the only thoroughfare of the kind running into the county—see under head of San Joaquin County. The members of the State Assembly from Jalaveras County have been: Isaac Ayer, 1865 ~’68; James Barclay, 1863; E. T. Beatty, 1855 ~'57; Tunis S. Bever, 1867-’68; C. L. F. Brown, 1871-72; James Burdick, 1859; Thomas Campbell, 1862; William Childe, 1861; M. M. Collier, 1865-66; F. F. Davis, 1863; B. Dyer, 1864; Edward Fahey, 1873-’74; P. A. Galla. gher. 1860; John L. Gibson, 1871~'72; George W. Gilmore, 1873-~’74; Martin W. Gordon, 1854: E. L. Green, 1869-70; J. W. Griswold, 1862; A. J. Houghtaling, 1854; W. P. Jones, 1852; L. Langdon, 1864; C. A. Leake, 1853; C. W. Lightner, 1859; John Y. Lind, 1851; B. L. Lippincott, 1861; B. F. Marshall, 1858; F. W. McClenahan, 1887; C. A. McDaniel, 1854; F. G. McDonald, 1863; W. 8. McKim, 1852; Otto Menzel, 1867-68; H. A. Messenger, 1880; Charles E. Mount, 1859; D. W. Murphy, 1851; Thomas O’Brien, 1858, 1861-’62; W. A. Oliver, 1858; Eustace Parker, 1858; S. N. Parker, 1864; James Pearson, 1855-’56; W. P. Peek, 187374; William C. Pratt, 1854; J. B. Red. dick, 1875-’76, 1881; W. M. Rogers, 1853; Martin Rowan, 1854; N. G. Sawyer, 1865-’66; L. M. Schrack, 1871-72; H. A. Shelton, 1860; George L. Shuler, 1857; S. B. Stephens, 1855; T. W. Taliaferro, 1855-’56; Mark S. Torrey, 1885; Joseph S. Watkins, 1857; A. R. Wheat, 1877-78, 1883; W. S. Williams, 1869-’70; Samuel Wilson, 1860; A. R. Young, 1869-'70; George E. Young, 1852. COLUSA COUNTY Is sixty miles north and south and averages about forty-five miles east and west, and consequently contains about 2,800 square miles. Of this about 1,500 square miles lie in the Sacra121 mento Valley. As the summit of the Coast Range forms the western boundary, the remainder of the area is compused of mountains, low hills and smaller valleys. There are probably about 200 equare miles of this valley portion, 700 square milee of low hills and 400 of mountains. The Sacramento River, ranning almost due south, forms the eastern boundary. The river makes twelve miles of easting and sixty aniles of southing. This part of the Sacramento River has not been filled up by hydraulic mining, and its water is clear except after rains. To the town of Colusa, twenty-two miles above the southern line of the connty, steamers tow barges carrying as much as 700 tons. Above that point 300 tons is considered a fair load. The fall of the river from the upper end of the county to the town of Colusa is eighteen inches to the mile and from that place down it is only six inches. Compared with the lower portion, the upper river has more rapids and bare, and it also washes its banks and changes its position more. The average width of the river is something more than 300 feet, and the height of the banks at low water is twenty-three feet. The other principal streams of the county, besides the Sacramento, are Butte Slough, eighteen miles north of the southern boundary of the county; Sycamore Slough, four miles below Butte Slongh; and Stony Creek, rising on the Coast Mountains about forty miles north of the south line of the county and running north and then east. Although this carries off a great deal of water during the rainy season, in the dry portion of the year it loses itself in the gravel before reaching the river. Itis from an eighth to a quarter of a mile wide, and its banks twelve to fifteen feet high. The current is so rapid that its deposits have been principally boulders and sand. The river is skirted on either side with oak, sycamore, cottonwood and ash. Much of this, however, has been cut off. Along the coast rauge is much valuable pine timber. Away from the river, where the people have to depend upon wells for water, the average distance to