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Subject: Yolo County Finances and Climate, CA (ca 1870)
Date: 10 Oct 2004 12:20:27 -0600

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I am transcribing the “The Western Shore Gazetteer and Commercial Directory - Yolo County,” in sections and placing it on the Yolo County CA USGenWeb Project web site that I maintain. You can view the transcription of the book at this URL: <http://www.cagenweb.com/yolo/yollnk.htm>; The section below is in the “Yolo County (Description)” section.

The following excerpts on the finances and climate in Yolo County are from “The Western Shore Gazetteer and Commercial Directory, For the State of California, Yolo County,” compiled and published annually by C. P. Sprague & H. W. Atwell, Woodland, Yolo County, 1870, pp. 175-176.


County Finances.

There is money now in the county treasury to pay all warrants issued and registered on the GENERAL FUND prior to the second day of March, 1869; and the taxes to be collected the present season will doubtless extinguish all the indebtedness of that fund up to August of the present year. Warrants on this fund sell at eighty-seven per cent.

Hospital Fund.

There is money now in the treasury to pay all indebtedness of this fund that accrued prior to December 8th, 1869. The taxes of the present season will extinguish the indebtedness. Warrants sell at ninety cents.

The Road Fund is behind from December 8th, 1868. The taxes of the present year may pay all indebtedness of that fund that accrued prior to January, 1870.

Of the Swamp Land Fund there is now in the county treasury a surplus of six thousand seven hundred and eighty-four dollars and eighty-three cents. subject to warrants that may be hereafter issued.

We have now given brief notices of the leading interests of the county, as far as the size and nature of our work would permit. We will briefly refer to the general

Climate

Of the county. The winters are mild, snow rarely falling in the valley, and we believe it has not fallen to lie twelve hours but twice within the recollection of the “oldest inhabitant.” Frosts are frequent during the winter season, sometimes freezing thin ice on shallow, still water. In the foothills but little frost is felt, and from the first rains vegetation grows rapidly. During the summer the heat is very severe, the thermometer frequently standing at one hundred degrees and upwards for several days in succession, though the average length of the “hot spells” is about three days, when a cooler “spell” sets in, continuing from a week to ten days. The south wind generally is cool and refreshing, and accompanies the cooler weather, bringing the invigorating sea breezes in its train. The cessation of the south wind is frequently followed by the north wind, which in summer is hot, dry and scorching in the extreme, but in!
the rainy season it is cold and dry, generally, but if accompanied by rain, the storms are the most bleak of the seasons.

Transcribed by Peggy B. Perazzo
Yolo County CAGenWeb Project Coordinator
http://www.cagenweb.com/yolo/
Stone Quarries and Beyond
http://www.cagenweb.com/quarries/

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