*** 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 51--- The paper was continued at intervals up to 1855, when the editor, in a char- acteristic notice in the Petaluma Journal of September 15, 1855, announces its final demise as follows: "Hon. Q. Smikes wishes to return his thanks to the editorial fraternity for the kind notices of his debut, and to the public generally (the rest of mankind included) for their liberal patronage, and to announce that the Blunderbuss has dried up." Of Mr. Cox's newspaper experience still more will be said hereafter. ST. LOUIS OR EMBARCADERO. This, as its name implies, is the landing-place or embarcadero on Sonoma creek, at the head of navigation. Here supplies for the town and valley are received. In former times, when it was thought that Sonoma might become a town of importance, it was christened St. Louis, but it never reached the im- portance anticipated by its sponsors, and is, to-day, only the landing and ship- ping point for the town and valley of Sonoma, by a steamer which plies regularly between the landing and San Francisco. GLEN ELLEN. This is a post-office midway between Santa Rosa and the town of Sonoma; Captain Justi is postmaster. It is only a mail station, but is surrounded by some of the most experienced vine-growers in the county,--among them Colonel C.V. Stuart, whose handsome residence is the seat of a liberal hospitality. His vineyard cannot be surpassed for careful culture and its varieties of foreign and domestic vines. Here there is also the residence of the Hon. J. B. Warfield, one of the most successful vineculturalists of Sonoma. There are many other large vineyard proprietors in this neighborhood, who names we have not the space to mention. A radius of six miles, with Glen Ellen for a center, would, in the opinion of many, include the finest grape-growing sec- tion in the State of California. KELLOGG. This place is situated in Knight's valley, at the foot of St. Helena mountain. The Knight's Valley House is kept by E. Ewing, as a place of summer resort. It is not surpassed for beauty of scenery, salubrity of climate, and solid com- forts, by any place of the kind in this State. The Steele Brothers are the owners of the Knight's Valley ranch, which includes about seven thousand acres, upon which the Knight's Valley House stands. Next, adjoining them, is the fine estate of Calvin Holmes, a portion of the original Rancho de Mallacomes, which formerly included the whole of Knight's valley. The fine farm of George Hood, Esq., of Santa Rosa, lies near Kellogg, and was also formerly a portion of the Knight's Valley tract. FOSSVILLE. This is a station between Kellogg and Calistoga, named after, and owned by Clark Foss, the driver of the stage to the geysers. It is a hostelrie, and is fur- nished with every convenience and elegance which the most fastidious could *** end ***