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

MILLS AND FACTORIES.

   Grist-mills 10—steam power 3, water power 7; saw-mills 13—steam power 13;
lumber, sawed—feet 50,000,000, shingles 10,000,000; woolen mill, 1; boot and
shoe factory, 1; Alden fruit dryers, 3; railroads—broad-guage 1, length 70
miles, value $378,300; narrow-guage 1, length in this county about 25 miles;
value $75,000 per mile.

   Registered voters                6,000
   Estimated population            40,000

   We think the contrast of the above figures with those of 1855 will show a
very steady rate of progress for a period of little more than twenty years, and
the county has just begun to advance.

   Taking the statistics of the assessor, and from other sources, we have made
an estimate of the value of the annual products of Sonoma county for the present
year. Many of the products here given will largely increase, especially the
yield of the forests, for the reason that both railroads have recently been
completed to the timber region, and a number of new mills are building.


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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