*** Source: History and Business Directory of Humboldt County, Lillie E. Hamm, November 1890, Eureka, Cal. *** ---page 197--- [ad] Photograph and Autograph Albums at J. E. Mathews [ad] HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 197 department. Just inside the cooling-room door is a system of switches, by means of which the meat is run into or out of the beef-room or pork-room as desired. Here also the dressed meat is weighed, the movable portions of the tracks forming the switches, being connected with a Fairbanks scale. This scale is what might be called a reversed platform scale, the graduated arm and pea being beneath the weight instead of above it. At the door of the cooling-room the wagon road cuts across and under the covered passage and consequently under the tracks, so that the beeves, etc. may be run out on the tracks and lowered from the hooks directly into wagons for transportation to the market. The pork-packing department, which adjoins the slaughter room and occupies the entire east half of the main building, is the only establishment of the kind in the State outside of San Francisco. It is patterned after the celebrated Chicago packing houses, and is fitted with all the latest appliances. It contains a full tanking outfit for lard and tallow, a capacious smoke house, immense brine vats and numerous other necessities for the curing and packing of provisions. Outside the building are the elevated tanks supplied with water which is piped 2,000 feet from an artesian well about 20 feet deep, situated on the high ground on the other side of the county road. They are provided with valves and pipes connected with the sewers, which allows of a ten-inch column of water with a fall of thirty feet being forced through the various sewers. In addition to the main market the firm have several butcher shops in various parts of the city and county, all under the same general management, and which are supplied with meats by the central market. The Russ Market is especially connected by telephone with Russ, Early & Williams of Ferndale, and the Mazeppa Ranch on Bear River ridge. HUMBOLDT NURSERIES Mr. Stewart is one of the most enterprising and progressive nurserymen in California. He also is one of the leading spirits in the advancement of the fruit- growing interests of Humboldt. Horticulture in its best state is one of the factors in the production of prosperity and purity in home, business and social life. When people begin to develop this feature under favorable conditions of soil and climate it augurs well for that community. Apparently no one cares, except the individual concerned, whether or not there is money in horticulture, but all thoughtful persons should cultivate encouragement in fruit-growing, and herald to the people abroad these Italies of beauty and excellent horticultural enterprises, that lay hidden for so many years among our valleys and hills. In a little while hence the present efforts in horticulture will be more highly appreciated. The full development of this industry in Humboldt will some day take the scepter of power forever from the redwoods and their lumber. Things are beautifully changing from those of twenty years ago. The tendency prevailed at that time to discourage the small farmer and fruit. Capitalists conquered [ad] Gibbard & Lever CARRY A COMPLETE LINE OF Undertaker's Supplies Third and H Sts. Pioneer Bdg, Eureka [ad] ---end---