*** 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 70--- EXPORTS OF PETALUMA. Following is a carefully prepared estimate of the exports of Petaluma for a year, which will give the reader an idea of the commercial importance of the city: Wool shipped, pounds ....................................... 125,000 Butter " " ......................................... 3,500,000 Cheese " " ........................................... 750,000 Hay " tons ........................................... 9,000 Grain " " ............................................. 3,000 Potatoes " sacks ........................................ 200,000 Eggs " dozen.......................................... 75,000 Poultry " " ............................................. 6,000 Quail " " ............................................ 12,000 Flour " barrels ........................................ 7,000 Cattle " head............................................ 1,500 Hogs " " ............................................ 28,000 Sheep " " ............................................. 7,000 Calves " " ............................................ 12,000 Fruit " boxes ......................................... 40,000 Paving stones...................................... 2,000,000 SANTA ROSA. Friar Juan Amoroso was the person who had the honor of giving the beau- tiful name of Santa Rosa to the stream from which the valley, the township and the town were afterwards called. It is recorded of Friar Amoroso that he was one of those missionaries who dared everything in behalf of the Cross; earnest, faithful and bold, he preached the story of the Master without fear. He was a true disciple of the Church militant on Earth, and believed in teach- ing the heathen the practices of Christianity, and, as far as possible, the arts of civilization by force, if they would not adopt them by persuasion. His zeal led him, in 1824, to accept the difficult, not to say dangerous task, of found- ing the mission of San Rafael. He successfully accomplished that task. Five years after, in 1829, he made an excursion northward in company with one Jose Cantua, hoping, doubtless, to find some stray heathen who by his zeal might be brought into the fold of the faithful. He came to the territory of the Cainemeros tribe of Indians, who resided on the river Chocoalomi, the Indian name of what is now Santa Rosa creek. At the rocky point opposite the "old adobe," a mile and a half from the present town, he captured an In- dian girl, baptised her in the stream and gave her the name Santa Rosa, from the fact that, on that very day the Church was celebrating the feast of Santa Rosa de Lima. He was attacked by the natives and fled, arriving safely at his mission of San Rafael. Fortunately the stream and the valley took its name from this beautiful incident. Friar Juan Amoroso and Padre Altimira were the very first pioneers whose eyes were gladdened by the sight of the hills and valleys of Sonoma in their virgin beauty. *** end ***