*** Source: History and Business Directory of Humboldt County, Lillie E. Hamm, November 1890, Eureka, Cal. *** ---page 095--- [ad] Pictures and Picture Frames at Mathews [ad] HISTORY OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY 95 EUREKA An Important Shipping Point, The Growth of Population Its Rapidly Increasing Values of Real Estate. Churches, Schools and Public Institutions ITS IMPORTANCE AS A TRADE CENTRE THE ENTREPOT FOR NORTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA [Drawing of male gold seeker and Native American not included.] TO THE pioneer Californian two visions constantly present themselves; one is deeply shadowed by the broad wings of time. It is a vision or dream of the events of forty years ago. It reverts to the days of gold, when every creek, every gulch and mountain side was covered with thousands of men seeking the treasures which lay hidden in the earth; from Europe, the East, from Australia, the islands of the Pacific, and even from across the broad ocean, came countless thousands, all animated with the same idea, with the same set purpose, to seek gold. A few years of toil and hardship, thought they, and homeward they would go to spend the fortune they had secured from the earth. This was the hope of all, and realized by only a few. Gold! gold! was the cry; it was sought by all and found by [ad] Gibbard & Lever DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF Furniture Cor. Third and H Streets Pioneer Building, Eureka [ad] ---end---