*** Source: History and Business Directory of Humboldt County, Lillie E. Hamm, November 1890, Eureka, Cal. *** ---page 057--- [ad] Oil Paintings and Ingravings at J. E. Matthews [ad] HISTORY OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY 57 [com]fortable, each having three beds for the same number of men, and in winter time are provided with stoves and fire places. At some of the camps buildings have been erected for reading and library purposes. The men employed are sober, intelligent and industrious, and as far removed from the class that is sometimes encountered in Eastern lumber camps as possible. Many have their families with them, but the majority of those engaged in the woods are unmarried. This is but a short description of the process of lumbering in Humboldt county. WOOL One of of the Great and Important Products of the County, the Annual Clip, the Superior Quality of Humboldt Wool, the Advantages of the County, for Sheep Raising [Drawing of a sheep not included.] HUMBOLDT County is as noted and famed for its great wool and sheep interests as it is for vast forests of redwood which clothe its hills and canyons. Almost as much capital is invested and the interests are nearly as large as those involved in the manufacture of redwood timber. According to the Assessor's report made this year the number of head sheep in the county is given at 155,540, including lambs, but this probably falls short of the real number by about 50,000, or making in all about 200,000. This is the estimate given by the leading men engaged in wool raising. By difference of climate the county is divided into two sections; the coast region, which is that part lying in close proximity or within the direct influences of the ocean, a section swept by the fogs and moisture of the sea, and clothed with dense forests of redwood and fir trees. But a small percentage of the sheep in the county are to be found in this section. To the east and beyond the redwood belt is the great wool raising section of the country. This country is hilly, free to an extent from heavy timber growth and well watered. Thick and nutritious grasses, free from burrs, cover the slopes and sides of the hills, affording the best of pasturage for sheep and cattle. The climate of this section is drier than that within the influence of the ocean and somewhat warmer, and an equality of tem[perature] [ad] Gibbord & Lever --MAKE A SPECIALTY OF-- Ornamental Mantels Cor. Third & H sts, Pioneer Building, Eureka [ad] ---end---