*** Source: History and Business Directory of Humboldt County, Lillie E. Hamm, November 1890, Eureka, Cal. *** ---page 113--- [ad] Pictures and Picture Frames at Mathews [ad] HISTORY OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY 113 $3,000. Most of the town property and that of the surrounding country is owned by the residents of Arcata. This part of the country is only equaled in the fertility of its soil by the Eel River Valley, and the redwood of this section has no superior. It also has its home paper, the Arcata Union, of which Wiley & Borg are the editors and proprietors. The town is fast regaining the prosperity which it possessed in the early times, and the day is fast approaching when it will be one of the most important of Northwestern California. FAIRHAVEN THE "ALAMEDA" OF HUMBOLDT. This beautiful and prosperous village is situated on a peninsula, and is destined to be one of the brightest jewels in Humboldt’s crown, bounded on the north by Mad river, east by Humboldt Bay, south by the Humboldt Bay Light house, and west by the Pacific Ocean. Can you imagine a lovlier spot for health and pleasure? This has been the once happy grounds of the child of the forest (mighty red man). Here the NATIVE AMERICAN roamed undisturbed until the advent of the pioneer, eating clams and smoking the peace pipe (veni! vidi! vici!). But we now look in vain for the departed shades of the glories of this once happy and contented race. FAIRHAVEN lies 1 1/2 miles southwest from EUREKA, and is connected with the latter by the Ocean Beach Ferry. Every fruit, grain, grass and shrubbery that grow in any portion of the county will thrive and flourish here without irrigation. The town is beautifully laid out, with a regular street system. At one end of the village on the banks of the bay, is situated Bendixsen’s ship-yard, constantly employing about 40 to 50 men. The north end is occupied by the Fay Bros. shingle mill, employing from 30 to 40 men. Its proximity to Eureka, the natural position it occupies as a shipping point, its transportation facilities, its level tracts of land along the bay, all point it out as the place where most of the great manufactories of this county will one day be situated. Liberal donations have been made by Mr. Bendixsen and the Messrs. Fay, as well as the city of Eureka, to establish the Ocean Beach Ferry, and construct a road across the peninsula, a distance of one mile, so as to enable turn-outs of every description to drive along the beach. In the rear of Fairhaven lies one of the grandest Ocean Beaches in the world. For a stretch of 18 miles you can spin along this magnificent shell- marbled, ocean-crowned highway and inhale the vigorous sea breeze. The village has a fine school, which is well attended. Immediately north of Fairhaven are situated the finest and most picturesque picnic grounds in this county. We see a grand and pleasing future for this maiden village and the Ocean Beach road. [ad] Gibbard & Lever DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF Furniture Cor. Third and H Streets Pioneer Building, Eureka [ad] ---end---