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154 office, Phelan Building) connect with trains arriving on the Northwestern Pacific.

The road to Fort Seward passes near Round Valley Indian Reservation of bloody fame, and through the green of the foothills in view of looming heights. The connecting section of the railway will pursue the picturesque course of the Eel River. One of the finest concrete bridges in America spans this river near the foot of Humboldt Bay.

Eureka, opposite the entrance of the bay, has a harbour 14 miles long which has been dredged of its sand-bar and now welcomes ships of any tonnage. It is the "Land's End of California," a clean, energetic, fast-growing city. One wonders from what source a community so far removed from the interior of the State draws its life, until he goes down to the water-front and takes count of the lumber-boats loading at its piers.

General Grant, when a young man, was stationed at Fort Humboldt, and Bret Harte edited one of Eureka's first newspapers.

Good motor-roads join Eureka to Red Bluff and Redding on the Shasta Route of the Southern Pacific.

In a remote corner of Del Norte, the farthest-north county of the California coast, there are marble caves which are said to equal those of Fingal, and the Australian grottos of Jenolan.