Editing Eureka, California (section)

=== Queen City of the Ultimate West ===
[[File:Eureka Inn 7.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The [[Tudor Revival]]–style [[Eureka Inn]] (1922)]]
Completion of the [[Northwestern Pacific Railroad]] in 1914 provided the local lumber industry with an alternative to ships for transport of its millions of board feet of lumber to reach markets in San Francisco and beyond. It also provided the first safe land route between San Francisco and Eureka for people to venture to the Redwood Empire. As a result, Eureka's population of 7,300 swelled to 15,000 within ten years. By 1922, the [[Redwood Highway]] was completed, providing for the first reliable, direct overland route for automobiles from San Francisco.{{Citation needed|reason=There are a dozen or more factoids here, without a single citation.|date=October 2014}} By 1931, the [[Eureka Street Railway]] operated fifteen [[streetcar]]s over {{convert|12|mi|km|spell=in}} of track.<ref name="hwd">{{cite book | author=Demoro, Harre W.| title=California's Electric Railways| publisher=[[Interurban Press]]|location=[[Glendale, California]]| year=1986| page=201| isbn=978-0-916374-74-7}}</ref> Eureka's transportation connection to the "outside" world had changed dramatically after more than half a century of stage rides or treacherous steamship passage through the Humboldt Bar and on the Pacific Ocean to San Francisco. The building of the [[Eureka Inn]] coincided with the opening of the new road to San Francisco. As a result of immense civic pride during this early-20th-century era of expansion, Eureka officially nicknamed itself "Queen City of the Ultimate West". The tourism industry, lodging to support it, and related marketing had been born.<ref name="EkaArch" />