At the April 1926 meeting of the Lassen County Chamber of Commerce they held a dinner meeting  in which the speakers were the Lassen County Courthouse employees. Two speakers provided some interesting insight.

First was Bill Sharp, the county treasurer as it pertained to county finances. The total annual income was $589,566.02, of which $385,000 came from county taxes. As to expenditures, schools (251,217) and roads (159,000) consumed the most at a whopping total $410,247). County salaries came in at third at $41,208 followed the hospital and indigent at $28,213.93).

M.D. Collins, county farm bureau agent, spoke on timber conservation and fires. Of note, Collins stated that were 185,000 acres burned over. This would mean, he said, enough timber to build a new house and barn on every farm in four counties of Northern California.

Tim