*** Source: Thompson, Robert A., Historical and descriptive sketch of Sonoma County, California. Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1877, 122 pgs. Notice: This data is donated to the Public Domain by TAG, 2004, and may be copied freely by anyone to anywhere. *** ---page 28--- The wine product of Russian River township is about 400,000 gallons. The wine product of Mendocino and Washington townships aggregates about 500,000 gallons. The rest of the county 100,000 gallons. Total wine product of Sonoma county for 1876, 2,535,000 gallons. LIVE STOCK. Horses, 9,246: mules, 717; cattle of all grades, 28,154; sheep of all grades, 250,000; common goats, 1,021; Cashmere and Angora, full blood, 500; hogs, 13,701. MILLS AND FACTORIES. Grist--mills 10—-steam power 3, water power 7; saw-mills 13—-steam power 13; lumber, sawed—-feet 50,000,000, shingles 10,000,000; woolen mill, 1; boot and shoe factory, 1; Alden fruit dryers, 3; railroads—-broad-guage 1, length 70 miles, value $378,300; narrow-guage 1, length in this county about 25 miles; value $75,000 per mile. Registered voters.........6,000 Estimated population.....40,000 We think the contrast of the above figures with those of 1855 will show a very steady rate of progress for a period of little more than twenty years, and the county has just begun to advance. Taking the statistics of the assessor, and from other sources, we have made an estimate of the value of the annual products of Sonoma county for the present year. Many of the products here given will largely increase, especially the yield of the forests, for the reason that both railroads have recently been com- pleted to the timber region, and a number of new mills are building. TIMBER. Sonoma county possesses one marked advantage over most of the agricultural counties of this State. It has an immense source of wealth in its timber. The great redwood timber-belt commences in Humboldt and reaches down the coast for one hundred and fifty miles, terminating in Sonoma county. From the Valhalla—-the north boundary-line of Sonoma—-to the mouth of Russian river, the county along the coast is timbered. The timber grows inland from the sea-shore for about eight miles. The reader will see by reference to the map that Russian river turns around the town of Healdsburg, and flows west; just after leaving the valley it enters the timber-region, through which it flows to the sea. A branch of the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad leaves the main road at Fulton and runs into this timber, terminating at Guerneville, a lumber-manufacturing centre. The timber in the Russian River bottom is not surpassed on this coast. Fed by the rich alluvial soil, and watered by the annual overflow of the river, the trees grew to an enormous size. Some of them will measure fifteen feet in diameter, and are over three hundred and fifty feet high. They row to the height of one hundred and fifty feet without lateral branches, the bole of the tree preserving a remarkable uniformity of size. In some cases a single tree has been worked-up into sixty-five thousand feet of lumber, worth at least one thousand dollars. The wood in the tree *** end ***