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Book Title: History Of Butte County

BOSTON RANCH, OR HURLTON.

    The Boston ranch consists of one hundred and sixty acres, twenty of which
are bottom land. It contains a fine orchard, vineyard and garden. The location
of the hotel is as picturesque and pretty as can well be imagined. Beautiful
shade-trees surround the place, and the walls of the house are embowered in
rose-bushes and many other flowering shrubs. Twenty years ago, the place was a
popular resort for pleasure-seekers, its nearness to Oroville making a trip from
that place delightful. A view of it is given in this book.

    Smith H. Hurles, proprietor of the Boston ranch and hotel, is of Irish
ancestry, and was born in the town of Enniskillen, May 1, 1827. He was educated
in Portora Royal College, Ireland; and when twenty years of age came to the
United States and located in Boston, where he remained for seven years. He was
there married to Miss Hattie Herring, a native of Portland, Maine, and shortly
after they came to California. In 1857, Mr. Hurles settled on the Boston ranch,
and opened a public house, which has, from that time to the present, sustained
its high reputation of treating guests to the best of everything. It is situated
on a sunny slope on Honcut creek, twelve miles from Oroville, and has an
altitude above the sea level of 1,350 feet. The postoffice was established in
May, 1880, and received the name of Hurlton. It has tri-weekly mails, and Mr.
Hurles is postmaster. His family consists of his wife and four children, all of
whom have a musical bent. Fannie, the eldest daughter, has been educated in the
East. Richard W., Daniel F. and Annie H., are attending school at home.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA,
IN TWO VOLUMES.

I.
HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA FROM 1513 TO 1850.
BY FRANK T. GILBERT.

The Great Fur Companies and their Trapping Expeditions to California.
Settlement of the Sacramento Valley. 
The Discovery of Gold in California.
BY HARRY L. WELLS.

II.
HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY,
From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. 
BY HARRY L. WELLS AND W. L. CHAMBERS.

BOTH VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED WITH VIEWS AND PORTRAITS.
HARRY L. WELLS,
517 CLAY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO
1882.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1882, by HARRY L. WELLS, in
the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

FRANCIS, VALENTINE & Co., Engravers & Printers
517 Clay St., San Francisco


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