*** Source: History and Business Directory of Humboldt County, Lillie E. Hamm, November 1890, Eureka, Cal. *** ---page 091--- [ad] J.E. MATHEWS, Agent for Daily, Weekly and Sunday EXAMINER [ad] HISTORY OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY 91 Humboldt has been supreme, and its position in this direction has been unassailable from the early days to the present time. The exceptionally fine quality and flavor of Humboldt potatoes placed them at once in high esteem and secured that widespread popularity which they hold to-day. As high as 21 1/2 tons of the tubers have been grown on an acre, which required over 300 sacks to pack them. The soil of the potato-growing sections of the county is most peculiarly adapted to their cultivation, being in some localities 20 feet in depth, and is light and friable--a rich black mould of vegetable mould. The profits from potatoes are in some years enormous. From $250 to $400 per acre has at times been netted, and to-day the planter who does not obtain $100 considers it a poor season. The annual yield of the county is from 30,000,000 to 35,000,000 pounds annually. Beets, carrots and other root crops grow rapidly, are of large size and fine in quality. Peas obtain their greatest perfection in this county, both in quality and yield, and their cultivation brings no small profit to the farmer, and in fact vegetables of all kinds are readily grown and profitably raised in this county. NO CHINESE IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY. In the matter of Chinese competition, a question of such paramount importance all over the coast, not alone to the wage worker but to many of the trades and business enterprises, Humboldt is above any county in the State of California blessed. There is not a Chinaman in Humboldt county, except in the mines on the Klamath river, and through the extreme northern portion, and they are only there because of the isolation of those localities. All that portion of Humboldt county which is, so to speak, within the domain of civilization, has been thoroughly, and it is believed permanently, ridded by peaceable means of this objectionable class. In 1885, following a series of outrages by the Chinese, which culminated in the death of a prominent citizen, the people of Eureka notified them to leave, which they did with all their goods and chattels. Other towns throughout the county took similar action, and in some instances bought their property. To those who have experienced the misery of having this degraded and debasing element in their midst, and realize the futility of redress at the hands of United States Courts, which has been so often demonstrated, this simple fact of itself is no small recommendation when seeking a home as far removed from vicious example as possible. Nature’s benefactions to Humboldt county have been many, but we pride ourselves on having, by our own efforts, eradicated a festering, putrescent sore from our vitals. CONCLUSION Few finer fields could be offered for capitalists wishing to invest money. The extensive and wonderfully rich and fertile districts which were a few decades ago only reached by mountains trails, have now good roads over which any amount of freight is annually hauled by large teams of from eight to sixteen horses or mules, which would astonish those unacquainted with teaming. But the rapidly developing resources of our county now seem to demand railroads. We know that, notwithstanding the fine natural advantages of this section, we are far behind [ad] Gibbard & Lever make a Specialty of Bedroom and Parlor Suits Cor. 3d and H Sts. Pioneer Bdg, Eureka [ad] ---end---