Siskiyou County California

these wonderlands. The permanent resident of Siskiyou County has the fullenjoyment of these scenic marvels ever in view. Such an environment makeslife in these upland valleys far more worth living than in the monotonousplains.Influence of ClimateVolumes might be written extolling the bracing climate of Siskiyou County.One gifted writer tells how "its tonic ozone sets all the bubbles in the blooddancing a breakdown." But none need fear a ''breakdown'' of their healthin this highland elysium. Many who have come from other climes to build uptheir health in Siskiyou County have remained to devote their accumulatingenergy to the development of this region so rich in natural resources.Most of the people reside at elevations between two thousand and fourthousand feet. Their homes are for the most part in five broad valleys, Strawberry,Squaw, Butte, Shasta, and Scott valleys. A free circulation of airpasses over their wide expanse, protecting tender blossoms, fruit and grainfrom frosts which are dangerous in restricted mountain pockets in less favoredlocalities. Light falls of snow occur at intervals during the winter,but these soft, fleecy coverlets are quickly removed by the warm sunshinewhich follows each transient storm.up among the timbered ridges sheltering these valleys Naturedeposits in her white banks a deep store of snow, which the porous rocks,gravel and subsoil absorb as these reserves of moisture melt, flowing forththroughout the summer in never-failing streams for her beneficiaries, theirrigators of the valley lands below.An annual rainfall of from fourteen to twenty inches in the agriculturalareas ensures sufficient water for every crop, but the surplus from the meltingsnowfields makes this assurance doubly sure.Markets and Transportation FacilitiesThe gold miner of Siskiyou County has a world market for his bullion.The lumberman not only supplies the needs of a large part of California, butships his finished products eastward more advantageously than his maritimecompetitor who must deduct the cost of water transportation and rehandlingfrom his gross receipts. Greater still are the advantages of the grower andstock raiser. Almost at his door are thousands of men engaged in mining andlumbering activities. Most of the food they consume is supplied by theirthrifty neighbors. Their surplus products find a ready market in the centers ofpopulation on the Pacific Coast, as well as in Eastern localities.Local stockmen, whose herds are legion, require many thousand tons ofhay and grain. Again the Siskiyou farmer is "Johnny-on-the-spot" with hisnutritious alfalfa, barley, clover, corn, oats, timothy and wheat. What cannotbe disposed of at home is shipped at good profit to the Bay Region of CentralCalifornia. The Southern Pacific Railway hauls their bulky products toSacramento and San Francisco at rates averaging between fifteen cents andseventeen and a half cents the hundredweight. flogs and sheep travel to theseever-ready markets for about thirty-five cents a head. On a $15.00 hog thetariff would be about two and one-third cents on the dollar. When Piggygoes to market from Siskiyou County he sends back a golden eagle to his lateand elated owner as a souvenir of his net profit. It costs $2.25 a head tomarket beef cattle worth an average of $75.00, or three cents on the dollar.Good roads traverse Siskiyou County and the completion of the StateHighway has greatly facilitated the development of the districts it serves.Motor trucks are solving the problem of getting heavy machinery to themany mines which have long waited just such an innovation to enable themto open up on a dividend-paying basis. Returning to the railway, they bringthe produce of remote ranches by rapid motor transit.7