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300 inhabitants. Just above the station,
on the right, are located extensive works

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half a mile further, on the same side, is a
new coal mine, recently discovered. A
little further a turkey ranche, and then, a
real old-fashioned Vermont farm, only
there is a great uniformity in the size of
the rocks.

Ewine—comes next, a signal station,
41 miles from Lincoln, where we cross
Coon Creek and find the land improving,
for 3.5 miles, when we come to

SHERIDAN—This place contains about
20 buildings, situated on an_ open plain
where most of the land is used for grazing
purposes. We now cross Bear. River,
which has broad bottoms, much of which
is covered with sand, and the washings
from the mines above towards Grass Val-
ley. Here we get a good view of the
« Buttes,’ directly ahead. After passing
over 2.3 miles from Sheridan, we are at '

WHEATLAND—a place very properly
named, as it is situated in one great wheat-
field, with several fine,buildings, a flouring
mill, a weekly newspaper—the Recorder—
and an enterprising population of farmers,
600 or more.

Continuing along, through a fine country
2.6 miles, wecome to :

REED’s—a signal station of a half-dozen
buildings. On we go, through broad, rich
bottom-land, many miles in width, 4.7
miles to

Yuspa—another signal station on the
south bank of the Yuba River. Here we
cross a dyke, which extends up and down
the river, as far as you can see, thrown up
to keep the river from overflowing its
banks, to the damage of the surrounding
country. Theriver bottom there is a mile
in width, covered with oaks and willows,
across which the road is built on high tres-
tles. Crossing over, we find another high
dyke on the opposite side, which we cross,
and 1.9 miles from Yuba signal station,
stop at the old city of

Marysvi~LE—one of the prettiest towns
in the State. It is the county seat of Yuba
county, situated on the north bank of the
Yuba River, with a population of about
5,000. It was first settled in 1849, and
named in honor of the only white woman
within its limits, Mrs. Mary Covilland.
The town is built of brick, the streets wide,
and laid out at right angles. The chief
beauty of Marysville consists in the shrub-
bery which ornaments the town, though

there are many elegant public buildin
and private residences in the city. Scarcely
will you find a dwelling that is not sur-
rounded with a forest of fruit trees, includ-
ing orange and shade trees, or embowered
in a mass of vines and flowers. The city
is on a level plain, twelve miles from the
foot-hills, and protected from the spring
floods of the Yuba by a dyke or high em-
bankment. The streets are broad and
regularly laid out. The city supports one
daily paper—the Appeal—has several good
hotels, chief of which are the United States
and Western. There are two seminaries,
four public, and numerous private schools ;
also five churches, nearly all denominations
being represented. he city is lighted
with gas, and supplied with water from an
artesian well 300 feet deep, from which it
is elevated by steam power to a reservoir,
and thence conducted all over the city. It
has quite a number of manufactories, in-
cluding an iron foundry and machine
shop, where are maufactured all kinds of
mill machinery, stationary engines, &c.
Agriculture is now the principal source of
wealth of the country. Fruit culture and
stock-raising are very remunerative.

Saw-mills are numerous in the county,
as immense quantities of lumber are ship-
ped from Marysville. The greater portion
of the mining is now done by the hydraulic
process. There are 15 quartz mills in the
county, and 36 companies owning canals
or mining ditches, one of which cost
$500,000, and with its branches is over 150
miles long.

There are regular stage lines from Marys-
ville to Colusa, 29 miles west; Downieville,
67 miles northeast; North San Juan, 38
miles; Grass Valley, 35 miles: La Porte, 65
miles from Marysville.

The Northern California. BR BR.

This road branches off for Oroville, north,
and runs to the eastward of Feather River,
through Honcut, a small place, and arrives
at Oroville,after arun of 26 miles. Thistown
has a population of about 1,500, and is the
county seat of Butte county. Itis an old
mining town, principally placer mines,
which were at one time very rich, and in
some places now are worked to advantage.
The Chinese are very thick in the old pla-
cer region, and work these old diggings
over and over again. The town is em-
bowered in fruit and shade trees, beautiful
gardens and orchards.

This county possesses some of the finest

 

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