*** Source: History and Business Directory of Humboldt County, Lillie E. Hamm, November 1890, Eureka, Cal. *** ---page 123--- [ad] Books and Stationery 10,000 Songs and Song Books Curiosities of All Kinds J. E. Mathews [ad] HISTORY OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY 123 coming from the southern part of the State. But the great drawback to the fruit- growing interest is the lack of transportation. If it could be cheaply and certainly transported over Eel river bar, an immense quantity of fruit would be raised and shipped from this part of the county. There are several fruit orchards near Camp Grant. One of 1,500 trees has a fine nursery in connection with it. There is another of 640 trees, nearly all of which are apricots and prunes. Many orchards were planted in the fall of 1886. On the opposite bank of the river is a prairie of eighty acres, where, in 1863, a company of soldiers were stationed during the Indian trouble, naming the place Camp Grant. This little prairie is now a fine sheep ranch. Farther up the river are many fine farms, mostly seeded to alfalfa, from which three to four crops of hay are cut each year. Six miles east of Camp Grant is the eastern terminus of the great redwood belt. From there, far beyond the county line is good grass land, and immense herds of cattle roam over the rolling hills. At the mouth of the South Fork of Eel river is a fine body of agricultural land, and a ferry connects the Camp Grant and Garberville roads. Here we find a hotel and a livery and feed stable for the accommodation of travelers. Two miles up the South Fork we come to Bull creek. On this stream is to be found one of the finest and heaviest bodies of redwood timber on the coast. Up the creek about six miles from its junction is quite a large tract of open land, on which is a young and thriving settlement of some twenty or thirty families. They have a good school house and over thirty pupils in attedance at school. This tract is being rapidly planted in fruit trees and grape vines. One practical grape-grower has planted 10,000 vines. Passing up South Fork we find many fine homes, orchards and vineyards, with school houses every four or five miles, until we come to Phillipsville. This settlement consists of eight or ten families, a school house, store, postoffice, livery stable, etc. Here we find more orchards, and more are being planted every year. There is a small saw mill about three miles above Camp Grant on the main river, and another on the South Fork. These mills furnish lumber for the locality, and are used for cutting cants to be rafted down the river to larger mills. There are at Camp Grant, 4,000 fruit trees; on the main river two miles above, 2,000 trees; down the main river above Eagle Prairie, 5,000; on Bull creek up the South Fork, 1,500; total, 12,500 trees. BLUE LAKE Blue Lake is situated on Mad river, eight miles from Arcata, on the line of the Arcata and Mad River Railroad. It is a thriving little place of 400 inhabitants, and derives its support from farming and lumber interests. The town is pleasantly situated, has a delightful climate, and is growing rapidly. TRINIDAD Trinidad, the most northerly town in the county, is twenty-five miles from Eureka. Its main support is lumber, but for the past three years manufacturing [ad] Gibbard & Lever, Funeral Directors and Embalmers Undertaking Parlors 3d & H Sts., Pioneer Bdg., Eureka [ad] ---end---