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Book Title: Historical And Descriptive Sketch Of Sonoma County, California

FISHERMAN'S BAY

is situated twenty-eight miles north of Russian river, and twelve miles south of
Valhalla river. It was first settled in 1858, and contains a hotel, store and
saloon, all owned by J. C. Fisk, who also has the shutes for shipping cord-wood,
lumber, tan-bark, post, fencing and railroad ties. There is annually shipped
from this point one thousand cords of tan-bark, five hundred cords of oak wood,
sixty thousand posts, and eight million feet of lumber. The tan-bark is worth
ten dollars per cord at the chute, wood six dollars per cord, posts six dollars
per hundred, and lumber sixteen dollars per thousand. Population of the place
about one hundred.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORICAL
AND
DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH
OF
SONOMA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
BY
ROBERT A. THOMPSON,
EDITOR OF "THE SONOMA DEMOCRAT."
PHILADELPHIA:
L. H. EVERTS & CO. 
1877.


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