Siskiyou County California

TOMATO PATCH, SCOTT VALLEY.ALL MANNER OF VEGETABLES FLOURISH IN THE PROTECTED FERTILEVALLEYS IN TEL COUNTYValleys and TownsSiskiyou County is classed as a mountain county, yet one-fourth of itsfour million acres are valley lands drained by several good-sized rivers. Themillion acres of bottom lands in this "mountain county" exceed the area ofSan Joaquin County with a good slice of the delta lands of SacramentoCounty thrown in. So, whoever will take the trouble to glance at the mar)of California, will note this comparison of Siskiyou County's broad vales withthese noted valley counties of Central California. The United States Departmentof Agriculture, in its recent instructive bulletin entitled "The IrrigationResources of California and Their Utilization'" refers to the fertilevalleys of Siskiyou County in these words of commendation:"The valleys, although generally prosperous, are capable of considerableadvancement, but this must be conditioned upon a more modern irrigationsystem." In the two years which have passed since this report was published,several large irrigation projects have been developed, vast rancheshave been subdivided, and the farmers of Siskiyou County are now travelingalong the newly-completed State Highway which leads to Success.Klamath River ValleyThe Valley of the Klamath River is nowhere as wide as the valleys of itstributaries, the Shasta and Scott rivers. Yet, along its course from theOregon line near Lower Klamath Lake to the Sahnon River, a series of richpockets of fertile soil aggregate over 23,000 acres in area. It is on thesesunny benches that the best returns have been gained by the growers ofgrain, forage and fruit. On either horizon the forests of Siskiyou Countytower, awaiting the construction of the prol)osed railway down the Klamath26