Odd, Old News: Eager Businessmen, Big Talk, and Railroad Progress–Round Valley Coal Fields, Part Two – Redheaded Blackbelt
"Southern Humboldt, stimulated by a railroad, would quickly develop into a fruit region, unsurpassed in the state...Broad reaches of fertile lands now given over to sheep-raising, would be divided up into small holdings, and set out to apples, peaches, prunes, grapes and small fruits."
Source: kymkemp.com