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Theo scene is on a high mountain. There are indeed many higher. There are many of a nobler outline, but the one who lives upon its sides, Mount ST Helene a soon becomes a center of interest. Yeah, it looks down on much green, intricate country. It feeds

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in the springtime, many splashing brooks well. From its summit, you must have an excellent lesson of geography seeing to the South San Francisco Bay with Tamil pious on the one hand, and Mount Diablo on the other to the west and 30 miles away. The open ocean

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eastward across the corn lands and thick Tooley swamps, the Sacramento Valley and northward, the white head of Shasta looking down on Oregon, Three counties Napa County, Lake County and Sonoma County march across its cliffy shoulders. It's naked Peak stands nearly 4500 ft above the sea. It's

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sides air fringed with forest on the soil, where it is bare, glows warm with cinnabar. The words are Robert Louis Stevenson's written in 18 80 pictures are hours on. The story is nap. Accountant Thistle is assignment for the award winning report to the West, produced in

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the community interests by the news and documentary department of K. R O N T. V. For the next half hour, the panorama of Mr Stevenson's green intricate country as it waas. Then, as it is now and as it may be in the future, the world and

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Napa County have changed a good deal since Mr Stevenson's time. The sleepy little village of Napa there was a day and a half from San Francisco is now a thriving city, a scant our from the bay. Napa County looks eagerly to the future, but its heart

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is firmly planted in the past. Witnessed the Napa Register, now into its second century of reporting the News for Napa County on August 10th, 18 63. The first issue concerned itself with stories of the war, the Boundary Survey to determine an eastern border for the state,

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a dissertation on good eating versus wrinkles. And if the advertisements are to be believed, there was a really battle shaping up between the Napa Exchange restaurant and the Napa House restaurant. As to whose culinary ability was second to who's Abraham Lincoln was president and Leland Stanford

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was governor. Napa was already a town of commerce. The dolphin had made the first steamship journey from San Francisco across the bay and up the river in 18 50. These old war phages and buildings give strong witness to the fact that Napa's riverfront was a busy

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one. Sitting at the foot of the fertile valley, the town was a natural collection point for the produce of the rich farms and ranches throughout the Valley floor, as well as the quicksilver and for a while, the silver that poured out of the mines in the

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hills of the county's northern limits. It had all started in 18 23 when Father one Altamira struck out from the Sandra Fell mission in search of a new mission site. Further to the north, he traveled up through the Sonoma country, then headed eastward over the slopes

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of the large mountain he named Mount ST Helene and into the northwest section of the Valley of the Napa Indians. Father Altamira eventually crossed back over to the western slope and founded the Mission San Francisco Solano at Sonoma. Then, on a clear February morning in 18

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31 George C. Yao rode up in old Indian Trail on the west face of the valley, looked south across country to San Francisco Bay for the next 11 years. He was to be the only white man in this valley. Yeah, and would spend the rest of

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his long life here in 18 41 the bit well. Bart Elson party left Westport in Missouri, the first wagon train to make the crossing to California. Yaounde welcomed several members of that caravan to his valley, among them Nancy Kelsey, the first woman to make the difficult

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journey across the continent. In the same year, 18 41 2 Russian scouts journeyed inland from their outpost at Fort Ross. On the seacoast, they planted a marker on the summit of Mount ST Alina. This replica of the original plate left by the two pioneers reads Russians.

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June 18 41. Pl Bosnia Cesky the third e i Sharetsky Russians. The marker stands on one of Mount ST Helena's four volcanic peaks, just a few 100 yards from the survey marker that is the common boundary of Napa, Lake and Sonoma counties. It is perhaps symbolic

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of the part Napa County played in early California history. General Mariano Valeo had been sent to this area with specific orders to block any Russian settlement movements. And a few years later, in 18 46 33 American revolutionaries marched from Napa County to nearby cinema and raised

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the bear flag of the California Republic over that captured Mexican outpost. By 18 45 other wagon trains had made the crossing to California, and there were 15 families living in the valley. A scant 15 years later, the population figure was well over 5000. The initial industry

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in the valley was, of course, agriculture. Father Altamira had brought the great the fig, the olive and the mustard. See early settlers had discovered that the mission grapes flourished in this warm, fertile earth. Then, in 18 58 Charles Krug used this old cider press to produce

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the first commercial wine in the county. In the early sixties, foreign grapes were introduced from the Santa Clara Valley. These two events marked the real beginning of the valleys wine industry. This is the winery crew. Built in 18 74 near ST Halina. It was the first

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commercial winery built above ground. It continues in operation today. Two years later, Chinese laborers hacked out these limestone caverns for the Beringer winery, just across the road from crude. Over 1000 ft of tunnels were cut to hold the oak aging cast. With the success of their

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winery, the Barringer is built the Rhine House, a replica of the old family home in Europe. Today, Ryan House has been opened as a tasting room for those visitors who toured the winery in 18 79 the Ingle Nook Winery was established. Like Krug, Ingle Nook built

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its aging cellars above ground rather than in caves. Today there are over 40 wineries in the valley. The Modern Winery is an up to date business operation that combines the latest technology with age old techniques to produce quality wines. Each year. Nap of Vintners crush $4

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million worth of Great October brings the harvest season to the valley. The bright golds and reds of the vines all but hide the purples and grays of the fruit. The hands of the cutters are crimson, with juice from the broken grapes, the cutting knife and the

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great box air practically all that remain of the 19th century wine industry. Today, the grapes go to the winery and large gondola's. We tested and weighed. They are dumped onto large conveyors stemmed and crushed in one practically continuous mechanical operation. Mhm grape juice is then pumped

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into the large, aging bats, and here again the process reverts to the same techniques that were traditional when Krug made his first wine. For it takes time and knowledge to mature the fine wines of the Napa County vineyards winds that are internationally known and claimed. ST

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Halina lies at the heart of the wine country. In 18 53 a small store was erected at an important crossroads midway up the valley. Soon other buildings were added, and in 18 56 the community was named ST Halina, one of the most picturesque towns in the

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Valley state. Halina boasts not only a natural beauty but an historic beauty as well. Old buildings fine examples of the Victorian style. The electoral ears along Main Street, brought here after the 1915 Pan Pacific Exposition in San Francisco and the Avenue of Elms, just north of

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town on the highway to Calistoga, all lend to the charm of this pleasant North Valley town. It seems strange that no settlement developed around the bail mill some few miles north of ST Halina Edward Bail built this grist mill in 18 47 it saved families in

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the area. Two day trip to Napa City toe have their wheat ground to flour. The mill also served as a social center for the residents in that part of the valley. On many an evening light and the sounds of voices flooded from the windows as the

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neighbors gathered inside for a meeting or a dance. By 18 79 the bail mill had served its purpose, and it was abandoned. Today it has been restored to something approaching its original state and is an historical landmark on Highway 29 between ST Helena and Calistoga. The

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old Napa Valley Railroad ran from Napa City to Calistoga, where it stopped short, incapable of climbing over the steep flanks of Mount ST Helene A into Lake County. And even today, in spite of all the engineering wonders of our age, the mountain still frustrates. The railroad

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on the track still ended. Calistoga, the town of Calistoga, was known originally as hot spring. The guys Er's hot springs and mineral waters in the area provided all the qualities for a great resort area. It just remained for someone to arrive on the scene who could

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develop them. That someone was Sam Brennan. Realizing the potential of the area, Brandon bought a piece of land one mile square in the middle of town and set out to build a resort finer than any on the California coast. Today, only a few buildings of that

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fine era remain. Brandon was California's first millionaire. It was Brandon's newspaper that announced to the world the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill. The spa was to be his greatest achievement. Practically overnight, the town was transformed. Brannan brought the railroad to Calistoga, and with it the

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people. In fact, it was Brandon who named the town Ms Ivey lover. The well known Napa County historian told us how the town of Hot Springs came toe have its name change. One night at dinner, when they were talking and planning their hot springs, he raised

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his glass and said to the Saratoga of California. Several drinks, and a couple of hours later, he raised his glass and said to the Calistoga of Saref. Orania, What did I say? The Calistoga we'll name it Calistoga, and it was named and incorporated Calistoga Brandon's dream

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came true. His resort was built, but his luck changed. The hotel burned to the ground. He lost his fortune and his property. Brandon left Calistoga and would die many years later in poverty. But the story of Calistoga was one of continued success. Brandon's original spa was

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rebuilt. It flourished, as did the town. And today Calistoga draws thousands annually who come to enjoy and relax in the warm waters. Immediately behind Calistoga are the mountains dominated by Mount ST Halina. In 18 80 Robert Louis Stevenson rode up the Old Lake County Toll Road

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to the station house. He had come to the high country to recover from the brutal attacks of tuberculosis. With his bride, Stevenson climbed the mile long trail from the toll station to the Silverado mine and one of the few remaining buildings in the once thriving town.

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A. For a brief period in the seventies, the mountain was the site of energetic and profitable silver mining operations. Silverado, a town of 5000 inhabitants in 18 72 less than a decade later, Ah, ghost town. Today there is no trace of the mines, except for an

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occasional gash in the mountain or a rock gray scar in the green underbrush to show where men had descended to search for the quick way. This tablet, surrounded by rock dumps and gaping tunnels, marks the spot where

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Stevenson lived and wrote the Silverado Squatters, a chronicle of Napa County in the eighties. In a moment, a look. A Napa County In the sixties, when Stevenson was at the Silverado mind, the Eastern Valley was pleasant, rolling hills and busily quiet farmland. The Chinese had quarried

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limestone from the nearby hills and use that stone to span with graceful arches, the river on the streams that joined it. The Pewter Creek Bridge near Monticello was reputed to be the largest and most expensive stone bridge this side of the Rockies. Today, the Puta Creek

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Bridge, Puta Creek itself, the town of Monticello and most of the Barry S of Valley lie under 90 ft of water. The Monticello Dam on the Solano County line was completed in 1957. It displaced 350 persons living in the valley on covered some 18 0 acres

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of land. Lake Berryessa provides irrigation water for Solano County and recreation for people from all over the bay. area and Northern California. Some $2.5 million worth of recreation last year alone, under least to Napa County from the U. S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation

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County, in turn, has leased out seven resort sites, each with launching and docking areas, recreation and camping facilities. In addition, the public has free access to the lakefront outside the least sites. A summer weekend will bring 20 to 30 0 swimmers, fishermen, boaters, campers and just

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plain relaxes to the way Lake Berryessa isn't the only recreation spot in the county. The wineries have long been drawing thousands of tourists, and other new recreation sites are becoming more numerous not only in development of recreation areas but in all areas. The outlook is for

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the future. Case in point, a new real estate development in the city of Napa. Price expensive includes large lot home and private marina. The boat is optional. A community of this sort could not have been built in Napa just a decade ago, but this is part

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of the future of Napa County. And so it is this. Always a town of commerce, Napa today is becoming a city of industry. Alongside the old is the new. The war phages of 19th century Napa City lie rotting in the river, but along the river the

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pace increases. It's still a frontier town, but it's a different frontier now, one labeled economic. If you draw a line across the county somewhere near the southernmost vineyards you would find everything south of that line seems to be moving in one direction toward an economic alignment

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with the expanding Bay Area business and industrial complex. The city of Napa sees itself joining that vast complex, and soon planners look to the Napa County airport as the hub of a large industrial area, an area to be called Napa but anapa that would be a

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part of the Bay Region. The airport is four miles south of the city, surrounded by 2000 acres of farmland now zoned for industrial use. Napa is already looking ahead what the city will be like when this land becomes busy. That day isn't far off. Some of

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the problems are already apparently The biggest problem facing the city is the matter of the correction of the very bad sanitation situation which exists. We have one of the few combination systems in the state where by the sewage and the storm water is both carried through

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the same trade. This must be corrected. A bond issue for this purpose will go before the voters in October this year. If the bond issue is passed and the construction undertaken, we can then again resume growth in this community. But until that bond issue has passed,

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we cannot look for further growth. The water problem is an extremely complex problem. The county of Napa has acquired rights to North Bay Aqueduct water. They anticipate selling half at least of those water rights to the city of Jaffa. The city of Napa must determine whether,

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in the interests of its taxpayers and its water users, this is the best source of water or whether other sources might be available, which would give them the water supply for the future in order to again to permit girl by the end of this decade, it

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is estimated that the city of Napa's population will triple and by 2020 little more than a century ahead. Predictions placed the city's population in excess of one half million. Planners are already hard at work to make this certain growth as successful as possible. These orchards immediately

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south of the city are being bulldozed for the site of the new Napa Junior College campus. One reason for choosing this particular site was to provide a green belt that would separate the 2000 acre industrial area to the south from the present and growing city of

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Napa. With its business and residential district with the adjacent Napa State Hospital grounds, the new junior college campus will create a buffer zone that will effectively block any spilling over of industry into the southern residential areas of the city. The pace picks up throughout the valley

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with the talk of industry and people. Really, estate values are climbing, business is prospering, population is growing, and perhaps most importantly, new points of view are developing. The future of Napa County is being seriously surveyed and plan many problems have been solved. Many more remain to

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be discovered and solved. It is obvious that the city of Napa must turn towards the Bay Area and the industrial alignment that alliance offers. But it would be a mistake for the city of Napa to turn its back on the county of Napa, for that would

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amount to forgetting one of the truly unique areas of our country. Ah, quality all too hard to find. And all too often discounted equality epitomized by the wine industry of the North County. An industry that may be threatened by expanding population for the price of grapes

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does not keep pace with the rising land values. There is little to keep the land owners from selling their vineyards for subdivision. The results and the conclusions are obvious. Industry and the city of Napa are part of the county's future, but the Napa Valley is the

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county's heritage on they are both important, one to the other. Father Altamira found a Valley of Beauty. George Count Ah, Valley to settle, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote of a valley of variety on Sam Brannan sought fortune. All of these are still to be found in the

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valley today, but the modern Explorer looks to the future of Napa County on the word that comes to his mind is opportunity on it is to be hoped that the opportunities confined their rightful place in the green intricate country. A Assignment four is produced in the

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community interest each week at this time by the news and documentary department of K R O N T. V. I Don't know, be with us next week at this time for another report to the West on assignment for.