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coast ports by steamship lines. In 1909 a railway (the Northwestern Pacific), to connect Eureka with San Francisco, was under construction. The See also:

DISTRICT

district owes its reputation as a See also:

HEALTH

health resort to its equable See also:

CLIMATE

climate and to the See also:

PROTECTION

protection afforded by the wide coast See also:

TIMBER

timber See also:

belt. Eureka is the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal point for the shipment of redwood See also:

LUMBER

lumber, and saw-milling is carried on here on an enormous See also:

scale. Several See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

RAILWAYS

railways run from Eureka and Arcata (pop. in 1900, 952) across the bay, into the forests, and bring lumber to the See also:

mills, most of which are in or near Eureka. Humboldt county was organized in 1853. Eureka was then already the centre of an important lumber See also:

trade, principally in spars. It was incorporated in 1856, displacing See also:

Union (now Arcata) as the county-seat in the same See also:

YEAR

year.

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