*** Source: History and Business Directory of Humboldt County, Lillie E. Hamm, November 1890, Eureka, Cal. *** ---page 035--- [ad] Demorest Patterns and all kinds of Fashion Books at J.E.Mathews [ad] HISTORY OF HUMBOLT COUNTY 35 flowing into the latter about three miles east of Hydesville. It is about fifty miles in length and takes its name from the fact of a traveler having lost his yager while crossing it. Lawrence creek, flowing into the Yager, rises at the foot of Kneeland Prairie buttes, and has a southwesterly course. Big Laribee creek, little Laribee creek and Dobbyns' creek, also empty into Eel river, and are streams of some size. The South Fork of Eel river is about 80 miles in length, and might properly be called the south half of that river, the flow of water above the junction of the two being about equally divided between it and the main river. It has for its tributaries in this county several creeks, prominent among which are Bull creek, Canoe creek, Elk creek, and Sprawl creek. MATTOLE RIVER. The Mattole river rises in Mendocino county and is about one hundred miles in length. It takes its name from the Indian work Mattole, which means clear water. This river with its tributaries drains a large area of country. KLAMATH RIVER. The Klamath, which has its origin in southern Oregon, traverses Siskiyou county, and enters Humboidt at the extreme northeastern corner, flowing southeasterly for thirty miles, to the northern boundary of Hoopa Indian Reservation, where it receives the waters of the Trinity river, and then makes a complete right angle, flowing northwesterly forty-five miles to the Pacific Ocean, discharging just north of the county line, and fifteen miles south of Cresent City, the county seat of Del Norte county. The entire length is 225 miles. It is navigable for small ocean crafts thirty-five miles inland from its mouth, and penetrates one of the richest mining regions in California, or of the Pacific Coast, and has a course in the county of seventy miles. TRINITY RIVER. Trinity river enters the county a little north of the center of its eastern line, and, after a course of thirty miles along its eastern edge, it passes a distance of twelve miles through Hoopa Valley, at the northern boundary of this beautiful Indian Reservation, the Trinity flows into the Klamath river, and thence to the Pacific Ocean. MAD RIVER. Mad river is a considerable stream, emptying into the ocean six miles south of Little river, and just north of Humbolt Bay, traversing a length of over 100 miles in the county and empties into the ocean twenty-two miles north of Eel river. BEAR RIVER. Bear river rises near Happy Camp, having a due west course, and flows into the Pacific Ocean near Cape Mendocino. It takes its name from the number and size of the bears that once roamed in that section, and from the fact that L. K. [Wood] [ad] Gibbard & Lever Manufacture Door and Window Frames, Brackets Scroll Work, Turning, Etc. Etc. Factory Second & L Streets. [ad] ---end---