*** Source: History and Business Directory of Humboldt County, Lillie E. Hamm, November 1890, Eureka, Cal. *** ---page 191--- [ad] Pianos and Organs LATEST ASSORTMENT SHEET MUSIC J. E. Mathews [ad] HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 191 The Normal department is in charge of experienced Normal teachers, and the work done compares favorably with that of any school in the State. Not only are students thoroughly drilled in the principal English and Scientific branches, but careful training is given in Pedagogy, the School Law of California and the practical duties of the school room. MUSIC Thorough instruction in both vocal and instrumental music has always been a special feature of the school. Only proficient artists and skillful instructors are employed as teachers. SHORTHAND, TYPEWRITING AND TELEGRAPHING Instruction in Shorthand, Type-writing and Telegraphy are also special features of the school. One of the most pronounced features of the school is to surround the students with the pleasant and refining influences of a well ordered home. Students and members of the faculty occupy the same building, meet at the same table for their meals, and are intimately associated together as members of one large family. Everything combines to make the school a constant object lesson in politeness and good manners to those who have been prevented from acquiring the manners and customs of polite society. EUREKA DAIRY The supplying of milk to every large place is always both a necessary and important branch of trade. In this respect, Eureka is peculiarly fortunate, for both at private houses and at hotels the milk supplied is pure and good, cream rather than the weak apology that serves for milk in so many cities. Mr. S. F. Pine’s milk and dairy farm at Bucksport is the source from whence a large portion of the milk consumed in Eureka is obtained. The milk ranch comprises 350 acres, chiefly of the fertile alluvial sediment underlaid by clay that forms the rich bottom lands that surround the bay. When purchased by Mr. Pine 10 years ago it was subject to overflow on the occasion of high tides. By dyking the land, however, and clearing up the scrub and drift wood that covered most of it, there was left a magnificent stretch of splendid soil. The house occupies a lofty bluff, commanding a fine view of the harbor and the ocean, and is an old-fashioned but comfortable farm home, with orchards and gardens about it. At the foot of the bluff are the stables, very large and the most complete and well suited to their use of any ever seen. In them are stalls for 116 milch cows, with feed troughs and other arrangements so that they can be very easily fed. Above is stored the hay and grain, the former being hoisted in by hay derricks, and the latter run by chutes to any point. The horse stable is large and ample, there are plenty of farm implements all of the newest makes, and in other respects everything is complete. The cows are fed entirely on hay or clover, which is cut for them fresh daily during the season, with which is given a mash of bran and shorts, thus insuring [ad] Gibbard & Lever Do All Styles of Upholstering AND Repairing PIONEER B’DG Cor. 3d & H St. [ad] ---end---