In 1911, Lassen County commissioned the Sunset Magazine Homeseekers Bureau to compile and publish 32 page booklet about the wonderful attributes of the area with the anticipation of the Fernley & Lassen Railroad. In the subheading “The County In General” I thought some might enjoy this observation.
”While this is a new country, and thinly populated, it is an error to conclude that it is not a civilized one, for law and order prevail here to an even greater extent than in many of the densely populated sections. Go where you will throughout the county, and nowhere will you find a locked door, by day or by night and the grass grows in the doorway of the jail. You will find everywhere, in both the towns and rural districts, good public schools, churches, a telephone in every home, daily mails, a prosperous happy people, and a hearty hospitable greeting; even the dogs will bark you a welcome, and come fawning to your feet in gladness at seeing you. In every town at every crossroads there is at least one hotel, not a Palace or a Fairmont, but a place where you can get a good bed in which to sleep, and at least plain substantial food, and wherefore you do not need to carry your blankets.”