*** Source: History and Business Directory of Humboldt County, Lillie E. Hamm, November 1890, Eureka, Cal. *** ---page 103--- [ad] Pianos and Organs LATEST ASSORTMENT SHEET MUSIC J. E. Mathews [ad] HISTORY OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY 103 prosperity. With three car lines in operation, it can safely be said that Eureka is better provided with street car facilities than San Francisco, taking size and difference of population into consideration. STREETS. Most of the thoroughfares have been graded and graveled, and at the present writing it is the intention of the city government to begin macadamizing the leading streets. All the principal business houses are located on First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, C, D, E, F, G and H streets. It would be hard for one to define the principal residence avenues of the city, for elegant and costly structures are to be found on almost every street outside of the business portion. As yet Eureka cannot boast of any distinct residence section where her wealthy citizens live, probably because it would indeed be difficult to point out any particular advantage possessed by one over the others. WATER. The water supply of Eureka is good and abundant for all needs of the citizens It is obrained from artesian wells and the Ricks Water Company. The company have made extensive improvements at heavy cost, and much labor. In consequence of which the public are being supplied with a superior quality of water. The Ricks Water Co. are more extensively described upon another page. FRATERNAL SOCIETIES. The fraternal societies are well represented. There is the Masonic Lodge, with its O.E.S.; two Lodges of Odd Fellows, with Rebekahs; United Workmen, Knights of Pythias, Chosen Friends, Good Templars, Orangemen, Native Sons of the Golden West, Native Daughters of the Golden West. In addition to these there are posts of the G. A. R., U. V. U. and S. of V., each with its auxiliary ladies' society. IN GENERAL. Eureka possesses all the advantages natural and artificial which conform to the requirements of a great city. There is not a community on the coast which can look forward with such bright expectations to its "manifest destiny." For it is surrounded by a country rich in natural resources, timber, stone and marble quarries, coal and precious metals are to be found. The soil is wonderfully fertile and productive. It has a harbor—-one of three on a coast line of thirteen hundred miles. A railroad would make Eureka second in importance only to San Francisco. We do not believe that we are indulging in any unwarranted hopes, or expectations doomed to disappointment, or are over-coloring the future, when we say that ten or fifteen years will effect the result which we have above predicted, in the event of having through railroad connection with Eureka. True, the outlet to the harbor needs improvement, but a few million dollars would remedy all the defects now complained of, and then the largest steamer afloat could lie at the wharves. No "boom" has ever existed here, except during the mining times, and the city has steadily grown in population and wealth with almost every obstacle in [ad] Gibbard & Lever Do All Styles of Upholstering and Repairing PIONEER B’DG Cor. 3d & H St. [ad] ---end---