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Originally Posted by Pavlov's Dog
A lot of the cities that boomed early on were due to ability to ship resources back east. Eureka is in an area from which it was impossible to create a railroad going eastward or northward due to a heck of a lot of mountains. It didn't have a large agricultural area nor any major mines that I'm aware of. Just a lot of big trees but there were many other similar areas elsewhere on the West Coast. The same could be said of Coos Bay, Oregon and Abderdeen/Hoquiam, Washington. They have very similar attributes.
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the central pacific railroad went to sacramento, and to san francisco. there's hundreds of miles of rugged topography to the east of eureka and that doesnt really break until you get to portland (or the southern willamette valley).
i have thought about eureka, before, and thought that it would be cool if there were another large metro between portland and san francisco. if the central valley had pierced the coast range to eureka it may have happened.