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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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Page: of 713
226 : HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
1881—Jolin Patterson, R. C. Sargent and
C. C. Paulk.
1883—C. S. Stephens, J. W. Kerrick and
Samuel L. Terry.
1885—H. J. Coreoran and F. J. Woodward.
1887-J. R. Henry and J. D. Young.
1888—R. S. Johnson and John MeMullen.
STOCKTON.
While the city of Stockton is the offspring
of the bold and enterprising Weber, its first
feed for rapid growth during babyhvod was
traffic with the “Southern” mines, along the
foot-hills east. During the first year or two
after the discovery of gold it was a city of
white canvas tents, doing an immense amount
of business as an entrepot. The times were
fully as exciting as those at Sacramento during
the same period,—a whirl of business, every
fellow for himeelf, drinking, gambling and
shooting. Before the cluse of 1849 it was estimated there were at least 1,000 people ‘there,
all inen, doing business or gambling. Scarcely
any good manners, scarcely any law, and still
-less execution of law.
The place was and is still favored as being at
the head uf good navigation of the San Joaquin
River, it being really at the head of a deep and
wide “slough,” or channel, three miles from
the river proper. According to the universal
law of social development, society immediately
began to erystallize, retine and coagulate. A
city government was formed under State law in
1850, and law and order yradually assumed the
sway.
THE STATE ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE AT 8TOCKTON
is the outgrowth of a small beginning made as
early as 1853. We have not spice here to give
asketch of all the im provementsand enlargements
from time to time; but suffice it to say that at
present the institution consists of several clusters of fine buildings, costing in the aggregate
several hundred thousands of dollars, and situated upon a tract of 107 acres, beautifully kept,
in the northeastern part of the city. The
grounds indeed are a delicious retreat for those
mentally afflicted, of whom over 1,500 are
here. The well-known Dr. G. A. Shurtleff was
for along time the medical superintendent of
this asylum, and was more than any other man
the father of the same. Dr. Hiram N. Rucker
has been in charge since November 1, 1888.
OTHER ITEMS.
Dr. Asa Clark also has long been keeping a
private institution for the treatment of the insane in the southwestern part of town.
The Masonic Temple at Stockton, just completed, is a beautiful model of architecture.
The Agricultural Pavilion, also new, is the
most beautiful in the State, and the second in
size. The Agricultural Society is an equil
rival of that at Sacramento.
SHASTA COUNTY.
The records and papers of the Alcalde of
Shasta County were destroyed by fire June 14,
1853, and thus many important points of history are lost.
The word “ shasta” is derived from the Russian language. Many years ago, and among the
first travelers who visited that portion of the
coast, were a party of Russians, who passed
through California, going from the north to the
sonth. They gave a name to many of the more
prominemt landmarks which they encountered
on their journey. To the peak now called
Shasta Butte, a mountain clothed with eternal
snow, they gave the name of Tvheste, signifying white, pure, chaste, clear. Subsequent
travelers and geographers changed the name to
“ Tehasta.” The early Americans adopted the
name, and spelled and pronounced it “ Chasta,”
but time has changed the spelling as at present.
The name was also applied to the valley that
lies at the northern base of the mountain, to
the river that pours its cold snow-waters into
the Klamath, and to the tribe of Indians in
that vicinity. When the counties of the State
were first organized, Mount Shasta was in
Shasta County. Afterward a new county was