*** Source: History and Business Directory of Humboldt County, Lillie E. Hamm, November 1890, Eureka, Cal. *** ---page 065--- [ad] Demorest Patterns and all kinds of Fashion Books at J. E. Mathews [ad] HISTORY OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY 65 the Seligmans for $6,000,000, it was expressly stipulated on the issuance of the bonds that the road should not be extended beyond Ukiah in any direction. However, there is no doubt the Donahue road would enter into a very reasonable contract, should an extension be constructed by Messrs. Flood and Mackey. Railroad Enterprises --OF-- HUMBOLDT COUNTY RAILROADS must have some objective points of permanent resource to go to, or they will not be built. When Eureka is placed on an equal footing with other seaports of large commercial importance, by the work now being actively prosecuted by the Government for the improvement of our bar, railroad enterprise will not be slow to make an advance to Humboldt Bay. Judged by the results of similar undertakings on the Pacific coast, the success of the experiment is assured, and the advantages likely to accrue to our harbor cannot be overestimated. With a situation practically central on the coast line between San Francisco on the south and Portland on the north, with a harbor capacity for deep sea vessels of heavier tonnage, and made accessible to the marine of a foreign as well as a domestic commerce, an array of facts is presented that not only justifies the important work now being carried out, but also warrants the expectation of responsive enterprise in railway extension from the interior in the bay, as its most natural complement. Commanding an unbroken line of communication for trade, seaward and landward, with the gates of her commerce swung open to the east and the west, Eureka might be pardoned if she began to feel endowed with some of the attributes of a seaport town, in fact. The significance of these enterprises in joint operation must exceed any estimate of heretofore applied agencies in adding to and establishing an advanced position to industrial and commercial progress, and place our city and county foremost on the grand threshold of a new future, pregnant with possibilities of which our past has given but the faintest indications. Perhaps not an equal area in the United States can match that of our littoral belt of territory in the material elements of an export commerce. [ad] Gibbard & Lever Manufacture DOOR AND WINDOW FRAMES, BRACKETS SCROLL WORK, TURNING, ETC. ETC. Factory Second & L Streets. [ad] ---end---