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Identifier
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07173
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Title
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1906 Eureka Promotional Advertisement
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Postcard Caption (front)
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EUREKA, CALIFORNIA,
Has regular and quick water communication with San Francisco, with freight rates ranging from $1.00 to $4.00 per ton, the cost of living and prices of merchandise, clothing, manufactures, and general supplies are governed by those of the latter place, and vary but little therefrom.
Humboldt County Has:
Great extent, affording choice of location. Cheap lands in abundance. Its own lumber, fuel, food, wool, leather. Equable temperature, insuring bodily comfort. Healthfulness, especially absence of fevers and malaria. Diversity of products, giving variety in occupations. Abundant rainfall, guaranteeing crops and water. Great natural resources in divers branches. Cheap lumber, making improvements inexpensive. Cheap fuel, costing little more than the labor of taking it. Good schools within reach of every home. Good county government, honestly administered. Cheap freight rates by sea to all Pacific points. The largest and best body of redwood on earth. An honest, peaceful, law-abiding population
Humboldt Has Not:
Chinese, to compete with American labor. Irrigation, with its expense and litigation. Spanish grants, to cloud titles and bar settlement. Railroad land grants, to interfere with progress. Codling moths to destroy the apples. Colorado beetles to destroy the potatoes. Summer thunderstorms to interfere with harvests. Long winters when stock must be fed. Severe frosts to destroy vegetation. Crop failures from any cause whatever. Cyclones, blizzards, tramps or strikes.
For further information address any of the following well known firms:
H. L. Ricks.
G. R. Georgeson, Real Estate.
Belcher & Crane Co., Abstracts.
Humboldt County Bank.
Daly Bros., Dry Goods.
Delaney & Young, Wholesale Liquors.
A. A. Newcomb, Real Estate.
I. M. Long, Real Estate.
Cooper & Rager, Real Estate.
S. I. Allard, Real Estate.
Thos. H. Perry, Real Estate.
Eureka Lighting Co.
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Specific Type or Edition
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appears in October 1906 Edition of Out West Magazine
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Publisher #
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October 1906
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Image Date
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October 1906
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Image Date (approx)
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October 1906
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Dating Notes
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based on publishing information for advertisement
Birdseye view comes from 1902 Illustration and Map by Noe
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