Sonoma County, California History Transcribed by Sally Kaleta This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter. All persons donating to this site retain the rights to their own work. PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The first State superintendent of public schools, John G. Marvin, reported to the legislature of 1852 the statistics he had been able to gather in the year 1851. Following is his report of Sonoma county in full: Number of children, 250. There are five schools in this county: one at Sonoma, one at Santa Rosa, one at Analy, one at Bodega, and another at San Miguel Ranch (Mark West). The three former are English, the latter is Spanish. They are supported by contributions and tuition money. In 1854 Dr. B. B. Bonham, first county superintendent of schools, reports 1,253 children between the ages of 4 and 18; 23 schools; 31 teachers, and 8 school districts. In 1859 the total number of children is reported at 5,138; number of teachers, 70; number of schools, 43. There are now in the county 138 schools and a school-population of 7,383. Of this population, 3,689 are boys, and 3,611 are girls. The schools are comprised within their grades; first, second and third--there being 50 of the first; 58 of the second, and 30 of the third. The total enrolment of pupils at the school is 6,217. Between eighty-five and ninety thousand dollars are annually received from State and county taxes for school purposes. Of this amount between seventy- five and eighty thousand dollars are annually expended in the payment of teachers. About $3,000 is annually invested in school libraries. The average monthly wages paid male teachers is $83.00; paid female teachers, $64.00. Ninety-one of the schools are maintained more than six, and less than eight months; 47 are maintained eight months and over. The most of the school-houses are substantial, comfortable structures, well supplied with school furniture, apparatus and libraries. The value of the school-houses and lots is estimated at $150,000; school libraries, $12,000; apparatus, $4,000. The most important schools are those of Santa Rosa, Petaluma, Healdsburg, Sonoma and Cloverdale. The cities of Santa Rosa and Petaluma, in addition to a most efficient grammar school, have each an excellent high school. Number of children between five and seventeen, white.... 7,300 " " " " " " " negro.... 10 " " " " " " " Indian... 73 " " white children under five..................... 3,076 " " children who have attended public school during the school year........................ 5,407 Number attending private schools........................ 413 Number who have not attended any school................. 1,563 Whole number of school districts........................ 95 " " " schools................................ 138 " amount paid teachers during the year.............. $75,320.00 " " " for rents, repairs and contingents.... 8,400.00 " " " libraries............................. 2,185.35 " " " apparatus............................. 408.06 Amount paid for buildings and school furniture.......... 7,137.18 Total receipts from State and county fund............... 84,676.90 " " " district taxes........................ 5,269.24 " " during the year, including balance on hand at beginning of the year.................. 115,490.20 Total disbursements..................................... 93,452.00 Salary of superintendent, inclusive of traveling expenses, $1,600 per annum. CHURCHES AND CHURCH PROPERTY. There is, perhaps, no county in the state of California that can boast of as many houses of worship as Sonoma, unless it be San Francisco. There are in all forty-three, and these are well distributed over the county. The first Protestant church was built in the town of Sonoma by the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in the year 1852, under the late Rev. E. B. Lockley. It was a small Gothic church of great beauty. It cost about three thousand dollars, and it was burned a few years ago. The next year another was built by the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the same town, that is still standing. About the same time Rev. M. Riley, of the Baptist church, built a house of worship at the site of the old town of Franklin, near Santa Rosa. This house was regarded as a Union church for the Hardshells and the Missionary Baptists. It was subsequently moved to Santa Rosa, and used by the Baptists until they erected their present house, when it was converted into a double tenement-house and as such it now stands. Of the forty-five churches now standing the Methodist Episcopal Church owns twelve; the Catholic, six; the Methodist Episcopal South, six; the Presbyterian, four; the Baptist, three; the Congregationalists, three; the Christian (Campbelite), three; the Adventist, three; the Protestant Episcopal, two; the Cumberland Presbyterian, one; the colored people, one; and one is owned jointly by the Methodist Episcopal Church South, the Baptist and Christians. They are distributed as follows; Santa Rosa has eight; Petaluma, seven; Healdsburg, seven; Sonoma, three; Bodega Corners, three; Bloomfield, three; Cloverdale, two; Sebastopol, two; Green Valley, one; Pleasant Hill, one; Valley Ford, one; Two Rocks, one; Howard's Station, one; Bennett Valley, one; Guerneville, one; Fulton Station, one; Macedonia, one; Windsor, one. We do not give the assessed value of the church property because the figures on the assessors' books are much below the real value. The inhabitants generally are a moral, law-abiding people, who contribute literally to the support of the churches in their midst. Long before any of the churches here mentioned were built or thought of, the chime of bells in the Greek chapel at Ross floated out over the waters of the Pacific. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. The public buildings of the Sonoma county are not worthy of much, if any, notice. The court house was built in 1859, and answers the purpose for which it was intended, and that is all that can be said of it. The recorder's office is pronounced a very creditable building; it stands by itself, and was erected in 1871-2, and is a neat, substantial, if not elegant structure. It is entirely fire-proof, and the valuable records of the county within its walls are free from danger. The county possesses two institutions of which the people may justly feel a pride; we refer to the hospital and county farm. Both of the institutions are well managed, and in the hospital all the comforts which could be asked are furnished to the indigent sick of the county. The hospital and county farm are directly under the control of Dr. J. B. Gordon. William Strom, a most excellent person for the special duties required, is steward of the hospital, and the manager of the county farm is Robinson Head. The number of persons admitted to the hospital during the year was 177; discharged cured 152, died 20, remaining January 1st, 1877, 31; county farm, whole number January, 1876, 13; admitted during the year 12, discharged 13; number remaining January 31st, 1877, 12. RAILROADS. THE SAN FRANCISCO AND NORTH PACIFIC RAILROAD. The San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad, which runs through the great central valleys of Sonoma, has been so fully described in the main body of this sketch, that any special mention is not necessary. The road was commenced in 1869, and was completed to its present terminus at Cloverdale in 1872, and from that time to the present the progress of the county has been upward and onward. The road is one of the most complete in the State in all its appointments, and reflects credit on its builder and upon its management. Colonel Peter Donahue is president of the company. He was the builder of the road, his attention having first been called to the work by the Hon. A. P. Overton, a prominent citizen, now of Santa Rosa. With that rare business tact for which Colonel Donahue is distinguished, he saw that a necessity existed for the road, and enlisting in the enterprise, he pushed it to success with the indomitable determination which is a well-known characteristic of the man. To that enterprise, which has placed Colonel Donahue in the foremost rank of the business men of the great metropolis of the Pacific coast, we owe our excellent facilities for communication with San Francisco. When others faltered or drew back, he pressed to the front. His business sagacity and capital proved the "open sesame" which smoothed and made straight our highway to the sea, over which the varied products of Sonoma County are transported (a rich tribute) to his adopted city, San Francisco. The road is now extending south of its first terminus, Donahue, which will greatly shorten the time to Petaluma, Santa Rosa, Healdsburg, Litton, and Skaggs' Springs, Cloverdale and the Geyser springs. When that is done, one may go from San Francisco to the northern limits of Sonoma county in not more than three hours, through the most fertile and beautiful portion of the great State of California. Colonel A. A. Bean, the manager of the road, is an accomplished gentleman and superintendent, and to him is largely due the very great satisfaction and success which marked the progress and management of the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad. NORTH PACIFIC COAST RAILROAD. The North Pacific Coast Railroad extends from a point in Marin county, opposite San Francisco, through that county into Sonoma, and terminates at Duncan's Mill, on Russian river. Milton S. Latham is president of the company, W. F. Russell is secretary and general agent, John W. Doherty is general manager, W. B. Price is auditor and general passenger agent, C. B. Mansfield is assistant superintendent, and J. W. Fillmore train despatcher. The road was first opened in January, 1875. Freight cars cross the bay of San Francisco on barges to the opposite shore at Saucelito, the land terminus of the road, a distance of six miles; or, reversing the order, they carry the freight-laden cars from the terminus to the city. Each barge has a capacity for twelve loaded cars, making a very great saving in transporting freight. The road has a second terminus on the bay of San Francisco, at San Quentin, by a branch road, which leaves the main line two miles north of the town of San Rafael. The Saucelito terminus is used for freight business, while the San Quentin terminus is used principally for the passenger business. This latter terminus is connected with San Francisco, a distance of about nine miles, by two elegant ferry boats, built in New York exclusively for this line, and for travel between the city of San Francisco and San Rafael. The road is a narrow-gauge, being three feet between the rails; leaving San Rafael, the road runs through Marin county, passing Ross valley, by Fairfax and Pacheco, to the summit, known as White Hill, at the head of Ross valley. The grade in this ascent is one hundred and twenty-one feet to the mile, and so doubles back upon itself that in one instance the tracks are not one hundred yards apart after traversing a distance of three-fourths of a mile. At the summit the road passes through a tunnel thirteen hundred feet long, and descends into the valley of San Geromino creek to Nicasio, and from there to Tomales. The route to this point is through a splendid dairy country, and, for all those rare beauties of scenery peculiar to California, it can nowhere be surpassed. For a year and a half the northern terminus of the road was at Tomales, fifty-four miles from Saucelito. The entrance to Sonoma count was barred, as it were, by a wall of solid rock, through which it was necessary to cut a tunnel seventeen hundred feet in length. The men who formed this company were not to be deterred by obstacles even as formidable as this rocky barrier; they pierced it, and soon the hills which enclosed the fertile valleys of southwestern Sonoma echoed the steam-whistle of the approaching locomotive. The road was finished to its destined terminus on Russian river in the winter of 1876-7. Just before reaching Valley Ford (we refer the reader to the map) the road crosses the Estero Americano, and enters Sonoma county, passing Valley Ford, a pretty village: but just why its church should have been built across the line in Marin county, is beyond our ken. Steaming north, we pass Bodega Corners depot, and next Freestone, of which a description appears elsewhere. Just beyond Freestone the road enters the redwood timber belt, ascends Salmon creek by a steep grade to Howard�s station; crossing there the summit of the divide between the waters which fall, on the south, into Bodega bay, and on the north into Russian river. Just before reaching Howard�s the road passes over one of the highest bridges west of the Mississippi river. The bridge is one hundred and thirty-seven feet high. At Howard�s we have fairly entered the redwood timber fields, and begin to realize the ultimate aims of the projectors of this enterprise, and the business it is destined to develop. Up to the fall of 1876 there were only three small saw-mills on or near the line of the road, and the great expense of hauling made them available only for the local trade. It has been but nine months since the road was completed, and there are now on the line of the road six large saw-mills, sending to market daily one hundred and seventy-five thousand feet of lumber, besides great quantities of shingles, lathes, pickets, cord-wood, tan-bark and charcoal. Streeten�s mill is owned by Latham & Streeten; has a capacity of fifteen thousand feet per day; has about one thousand acres of land; employs forty men. The Russian River Land and Lumber Company is owned by Governor Milton S. Latham, the largest owner of timber-land in this section, having ten thousand acres in one body. From Streeten�s mill to Duncan�s, with the exception of two miles, the road passes through its land. It owns all the timber- land on the old Bodega Rancho that lies in Ocean township. Its two mills-- the Tyrone mill and the Moscow mill (at Moscow),--have each a capacity of forty thousand feet per day. Each mill employs from eighty to ninety men, and in the logging for both mills about sixty cattle are employed. The logs are hauled to the mill by small locomotives, on tramways laid with railroad iron. The lumber, as at all the six saw-mills, is loaded directly on the cars, and not rehandled until delivered at the wharf in San Francisco. The saving of labor expense and breakage, from this fact alone, will at once be appreciated by any one familiar with the number business. The next mill below is one of the mills of the Madrona Land and Lumber Company, near the intersection of Howard creek with Russian river. This company has about one thousand acres of land, and the mill has a capacity of twenty thousand feet per day, employing fifty men. A branch tract runs three-fourths of a mile up the Russian river to another mill of this company, having a capacity of twenty-five thousand feet per day, and employing sixty men. Following down the Russian river we pass the Moscow mill (already mentioned), and cross the river on the four-hundred-foot bridge to Duncan's mill. Mr. A. Duncan, the senior proprietor, is the oldest lumberman on this river. He owns four thousand acres of land, principally on Austin creek which empties into Russian river opposite Moscow. Duncan's mill has a capacity of thirty-five thousand feet per day, and employs seventy-five men. It is estimated that the lands owned by these parties will produce six hundred million feet of lumber. Immediately upon the completion of the road, the southern terminus of the northern coast stages for Stewart's Point, Gualala, Mendocino City, Point Arena, and Navarra Ridge, was change to Duncan's Mill, making a great saving in time for all the northwest coast. A description of this road would be incomplete without referring to the great inducements it offers to pleasure-seekers and sportsmen. It is not a sufficiently strong assertion to say that no route of eighty miles out of San Francisco offers such a variety of beautiful scenery. Moscow and Duncan's Mill, (opposite on the river,) are two charming spots, and as picturesque as any in the State. The ocean winds, tempered by the distance of seven miles up the Russian River, prevail all through the summer. Here are to be found the finest fishing and shooting. Austin creek is one of the notable trout streams in the State; quail abound; deer are still in the forests and glades. Salmon can be caught in large numbers in the river. One can leave San Francisco early in the morning, and at one o'clock in the afternoon arrive at Moscow for dinner---spend a day, and, leaving the next morning, be back in San Francisco at noon. The largest hotel to be found in the county, (120 by 70 feet, two stories), is kept by John Julian, one of the most accomplished and popular landlords in California. He possesses that rare faculty of making everybody feel as though he was the most favored of all the numerous guests: consequently everybody is especially well pleased, and contented with himself and his host. If you make the trip over the narrow-gauge, don't stop short of Julian's, whatever else you may do. The railroad company and the hotels do everything to encourage pleasure travel, and we predict for this locality the preference over any other within as easy reach of San Francisco. To those who knew the canon of Howard's creek and the valley of Russian river only a year ago, the change in that time will appear marvelous; the mills, with their little villages around them; the rapidly-growing towns of Moscow and Duncan's Mill, and the influx of population can hardly be appreciated by a single visit,--much less can they be described within the scope of a sketch so brief as this. ROADS AND HIGHWAYS. Sonoma county covers a large area of territory. In the mountains, a number of large streams rise, flow across the plains, or through the valleys, to tide-water, emptying either into the Pacific ocean or into the bay of San Pablo. At least three estuaries lead inland, two of them forming, at high tide, navigable streams. One of the inland streams (Russian river) has its source in the high mountains of Mendocino, more than one hundred miles from its mouth, draining an immense territory. In winter, during the wet season, this is a very bold stream. With so large a scope of country, traversed by so many streams, the matter of building roads and bridges was, from the organization of the county, of great importance and great expense. With the exception of the subsidy voted by the people to the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad, and twenty thousand dollars bonds for a recorder's office, the whole indebtedness of the county comes from the building of roads and highways. We now propose to give the reader an idea of the approximate cost of the public roads, number of miles of roads, number of bridges, and their cost by townships. Analy township--miles of road, 111; bridges, 131; cost of bridges, $27,000; culverts, 275; cost, $2,439. Bodega township--miles of road, 46; bridges, 50; cost, $5,091. Cloverdale township--miles of road, 35; bridges, 11; cost, $6,125; culverts, 37; cost, $305. Knight's Valley township--miles of road, 22; bridges, 15; cost, $745; culverts, 13; cost, $78. Mendocino township--miles of road, 81; in this township Russian river is bridged twice; cost of bridges, $31,450; cost of culverts, $1,000. Petaluma township--miles of road, 80; bridges, 82; cost, $8,652; culverts, 312; cost, $2,218. Russian River township--miles of road, 64; bridges, 47; cost, $3,212. There are, also, on the line of this township four bridges across Mark West creek, which cost $6,700; culverts, 75; cost, $750. Redwood township--miles of road, 27; bridges, 30; cost, $1,748; culverts, 19; cost, $599. Sonoma township--miles of road, 80; bridges, 2; cost, $9,900; culverts and small bridges, 208; cost, $4,028. Ocean township--miles of road, 30; bridges, 14; cost, $4,050; culverts, 60; cost, $600. Salt Point township--miles of road, 44; bridges, 43; cost, $5,700; culverts, 72; cost, $575. Vallejo township--miles of road, 55; bridges, 10; cost, $3,000; culverts, 30; cost, $200. Washington township--miles of road, 11; bridges, 8; cost, $540; culverts, 14; cost, $104. Santa Rosa township--miles of road, 146; bridges, 115; cost, $32,850; culverts, 224; cost, $4,500. Recapitulation: Total number of miles of road, 832; number of bridges, 629; cost of bridges, $130,940; culverts, 1,524; cost, $18,422. Total cost of all bridges and culverts in the county, $149,783. Many of these bridges have been repeatedly washed away, and were repaired at a cost as great, or greater, than their present value; add to that the expense of grading, filling up, and making the road-bed for nearly two hundred miles, and some idea of the outlay on our highways may be formed. The roads each year improve; road-building goes constantly on, and will not be discontinued until every portion of the country is easily accessible. There are but two toll-roads in the county, and both are through its mountainous sections, and lead to the Geysers. These roads are not traveled to any extent except by those whose object is recreation, curiosity, or pleasure, and, as they are generally persons who can afford to pay, the burden of keeping the road to the Geysers in repair is very properly shifted to their shoulders. THE COURTS OF SONOMA COUNTY, FROM ITS ORGANIZATION TO 1877. The seventh judicial district, which included the county of Sonoma, was organized in 1850. The first district judge was Robert Hopkins; he was elected at the first session of the legislature, which convened in San Jose in 1850. Judge Hopkins held the first term of the court in the town of Sonoma, on the second day of September, 1850. He held the office of district judge until 1853, when he was succeeded by E.W. McKinstry, now one of the supreme judges of the State. Judge McKinstry served until 1862. After the November term of that year he resigned, and James B. Southard was appointed in his stead by Governor Stanford, for the unexpired term. Judge Southard served until the February term, 1870, when he was superceded by Judge W. C. Wallace, who had been elected the previous year. Judge Wallace served one full term and was reelected in 1875, but the legislature of the winter of 1875-6 created the twenty-second district out of the counties of Sonoma, Marin and Mendocino. Judge Wallace still presides in the seventh district, and Judge Jackson Temple was appointed by Governor Irwin the first judge in the new district, and held the first term of his court in Sonoma county on the 2d day of May, 1876. THE COURT OF SESSIONS. The Court of Sessions first met in the town of Sonoma in 1850. H. A. Green was county judge, and Charles Hudspeth and Peter Campbell were chosen associate justices. This court, beside their judicial powers, had control of the county business; they provided buildings for public purposes, and first divided the county into townships. Some time in 1851, Judge Green died, and Martin E. Cooke was appointed in his place. Mr. Cooke declined to serve, and W. O. King was appointed, and held one term of the court. The same fall the Hon. C. P. Wilkins was elected by the people as county judge. In 1852 Peter Campbell and J. M. Terrill were elected associate justices. October 3d of the same year, Phil. R. Thompson and A. C. Godwin were elected in place of the first named persons, whose terms expired. In 1854 Judge Wilkins resigned, and Phil. R. Thompson was appointed in his place; J. B. Boggs and J. B. Pettus were elected associate justices. In 1854 Frank W. Shattuck was elected county judge, he resigned in 1855, and John E. McNair was appointed in his place; Phil. R. Thompson and J. E. Prewett were associate justices. In the fall of 1855, William Churchman was elected county judge, and James A. Reynolds and S. T. Coulter were chosen as associate justices. THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. The first board of Supervisors met in the town of Sonoma on the 5th of July, 1852. D. O. Shattuck, Sr., was elected president, James Singley, W. A. Hereford, L. P. Hanson were the other members. Hanson appears on the record at but one meeting, and on the 4th of October, W. O. King succeeded him. 1853-4, H. G. Heald, James Singley, S. L. Fowler and Alexander Copeland were elected. At first meeting of the new board, James Singley was chosen president. 1854-5, H. G. Heald, president, succeeded, December 28, by Robert Smith, R. Harrison, S. L. Fowler and Alexander Copeland. 1855-6, Donald McDonald, president, Stephen Akers and William T. Allen. 1856-7, James Prewitt, president, B. B. Berry and C. J. Robinson. 1857-8, W. B. Hagans, president, R. Smith and Josiah Morin. In January, 1858, at a special election, Joseph Knowles was elected in place of R. Smith. 1858-9, Alex. Copeland, president of the board, J. Morin and J. Estis. January 26, 1859, E. Swift was elected vice Copeland, and Josiah Morin was chosen President. 1859-60, Josiah Morin, president, W. McP. Hill and H. M. Willson. 1860-61, H. M. Willson, president, Josiah Morin and W. McP. Hill. 1861-2, William McP. Hill, president, N. Fike, Josiah Morin. 1862-3, Josiah Morin, president, N. Fike, T. F. Baylis. 1863-4, N. Fike, president, T. F. Baylis and A. S. Patterson. 1864-5, T. F. Baylis, president, J. K. Smith and A. B. Aull. 1865-6, J. K. Smith, president, A. B. Aull and Zadock Jackson. March 5, 1865, Zadock Jackson was superceded by G. W. Frick. 1866-7, J. K. Smith, president, A. B. Aull and G. W. Frick. 1867-8, G. W. Frick, president, J. K. Smith and John D. Grant. 1868-9, J. K. Smith, president, J. D. Grant and B. B. Munday. 1869-70, J. D. Grant, president, J. H. Griggs and J. M. Palmer. 1870-71, J. D. Grant, president, J. H. Griggs and J. M. Palmer. 1871-2, J. H. Griggs, president, J. M. Palmer and D. D. Phillips. 1872-3, J. M. Palmer, president, D. D. Phillips, G. A. Tupper. 1873-4, J. M. Palmer, president, G. A. Tupper, D. D. Phillips, W. K. Rogers. Thomas Beacom. 1874-5, G. A. Tupper, president, W. K. Rogers, Thomas Beacom, Gus. Warner, J. D. Hassett. 1875-6, W. K. Rogers, president, Thomas Beacom, J. D. Hassett, Gus. Warner, H. Weatherington. 1876-7, J. D. Hassett, president, W. K. Rogers, H. Weatherington, Gus. Warner, R. W. Acker. SONOMA COUNTY FINANCES. Total value of assessable property for the year 1876-7, after equalization................................................. $15,242,248 00 State and county tax for 1876-7, $1.65 per $100, distributed as follows: State tax 73� cents, of which 23 4-10 is for school purposes. County pays to State for taxes.................................. $112,330 52 County tax 91 5-10 cents, distributed to funds as follows: General fund, 19 cents; indigent fund, 5 cents; school fund, 14� cents; road fund, 27 cents; railroad fund, 13 cents; road fund tax, 4 cents: bridge-fund tax, 9 cents. Total revenue from taxes: State apportionment............................................. $112,330 52 County apportionment............................................. 139,466 59 __________ $251,797 09 LIABILITIES. The county indebtedness is as follows: Railroad bonds bearing 8 per cent., payable in twenty years, interest payable January 1.................................................. $263,000 Hall of Record bonds, 7 per cent, twenty years, interest payable semi-annually........................................................ 20,000 Road bonds, 8 per cent., ten years, interest annually March 1........ 91,800 _______ Total indebtedness................................................. $374 800 Value of county buildings and property.............................. 200,000 VALUE OF REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY BY TOWNSHIPS. TOWNSHIPS.Amount of money.Value of personal property.Value of land.Value of improve- ments.Value of town lots.Value of improve- mentsTotal Value Analy$10,388$186,680$888,033$160,545$20,095$34,185$1,299,926 Bodega2, 589133,593445,15555,9005,48014,825657,542 Cloverdale80099,145109,14856,11517,79060,025343,023 Knight�s Val�y42524,00258,63318,3606152,225104,260 Mendocino19,010259,286548,455186,365178,970179,7551,371,841 Ocean2,40050,258164,18744,800100200261,945 Petaluma36,239430,4561,109,690301,432388,602410,1342,676,553 Redwood76041,44074,31525,1005,85014,170161,635 Russian River92086,247452,226120,3956,7608,017674,565 Salt Point500108,954180,96255,94531,550-------377,911 Sonoma6,848382,945869,116268,24027,92078,3851,633,454 Santa Rosa42,995545,1851,436,572399,980579,765554,8453,559,342 Vallejo6,260156,304979,264148,50010,9208,8851,310,143 Washington2,35053,305217,52148,8406,1455,025333,186 Totals$132,484$2,547,500$7,531,277$1,890,517$1,280,562$1,370,686$14,766,326 San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad, including track............................ 404,590 Mining claims and improvements, possessory claims, etc............................... 144,117 ____________ Total value of all property.................................................... $15,315,0633 LAND AS GRADED BY THE ASSESSOR. The assessor classifies the lands of Sonoma county into four grades. The first grade, mountain land, is least valuable; the second grade is hillside land; the third grade is valley land; the fourth grade is bottom land, which is the richest and most valuable. Number of acres in first grade.............................................. 226,981 Number of acres in second grade............................................. 100,341 Number of acres in third grade.............................................. 165,929 Number of acres in fourth grade............................................. 234,510 ________ Total.................................................................. 727,761 ACTUAL CASH VALUE PER ACRE. First grade................................................................. $1 to $5 Second grade................................................................ 5 to 10 Third grade................................................................. 10 to 20 Fourth grade................................................................ 20 to over AVERAGE CASH VALUE PER ACRE. First grade.................................................................. $2 50 Second grade................................................................. 7 50 Third grade.................................................................. 15 00 Fourth grade................................................................. 30 00 TOTAL ACTUAL CASH VALUE. First grade.................................................................. $552,210 Second grade................................................................. 791,099 Third grade.................................................................. 2,361,391 Fourth grade................................................................. 3,826,577 __________ TOTAL................................................................ $7,531,277 TOTAL CASH VALUE OF EACH KIND OF PROPERTY. Real estate other than city or town lots...........$7,531,277 Improvements on same................................1,890,517 City and town lots.................................. 1,280,562 Improvements on same................................1,370,686 _________ Real estate and improvements......................$12,073,042 RECAPITULATION OF TOTALS. Real estate and improvements...................... $12,073,042 Personal property................................... 2,762,758 Improvements on mining claims, etc....................479,283 ___________ Total value of all property....................... $15,315,033