Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-30

hama, and counties still farther to the north
of the latter In all of them the immi-
grant may find plenty of good land at mod
crate prices.
FACILITIES AND PRODUCTIONS.
Placer county has excellent railroad
facilities. The Central Pacific overland
road traverses it from Roseville on the
south TO Alta on the north, and the Cali
fornia and Oregon road also passes through
several villages and large extent of farm
ing country in the southern end of the
county. The Colfax section also has COM
munication with Nevada City by narrow
gauge railroad.
A few months ago there was completed 4
splendid road from Colfax to Forest City,
by which the residents of the latter place
have been brought several miles nearer the
railroad. as regards time and distance TO be
travelled 1t is one of the finest wagon
roads in the mountains, and cost some $40
600 or 500. 900. Its construction was largely
uue to the enterprise of w. B. Hayford OF
Colfax, one OF the leading citizens i'll that
section.
GRANITE oUARRIEs.
Placer county has some of the most ex-
tensive granite quarries in the Union,
located at Rocklin, Penryn and Pno.
These quarries supply all the granite used
in the State, with the exception Of what
comes from the Folsom Prison, These
quarries are practically inexhaustible.
There are a few quartz mines still in
operation in Placer, but of late years the
principal part of the mining has been con-
| Quoted on the hydraulic system. Some OF
the largest and richest mines have been
compelled to cease operations in conse-
Quence of injunction suits brought by some
of the valley counties, which have suffered
| from the effects of the debris washed into
and carried down the rivers and deposited
upon farming lands. There are, however,
said to be severab such mines still being
operated in the eastern part of the county.
Up about Alta and Dutch Flat, in addi-
| ton to some mining, there are great lum-
Der enterprises which give employment to
ia large number of men. There has been
an immense quantity of lumber taken
| from the magnificent pineries in that sec
ton, but the supply is still great; and,
moreover, the mountains that were de-
nuded of their timber years ago are now
! covered with bristling young pines, which
will command the attention of lumbermen
of generations yet to come.
CLIMATE AND HEALTH.
The climate of Placer county cannot be
surpassed While it is true that in the
lower foothill section the mercury often in
summer ascends among the nineties, the
higher attitudes are cooler, and 4 few hours
only are required to enable one to reach a
locality the temperature of which is all
that could be desired. Auburn, the county
scat, is becoming quite sanitary resort,
especially for persons whose complaints
are of a pulmonary character. Asthmatic
sufferers also declare that Auburn and vi
cinity is the only locality in the State in
which they can find relief
Placer is also a favorite resort for the
tourist and pleasure-seeker. Tahoe-the
grandest OF mountain lakes in the Union,
nesting between the loftiest peaks of the
Sierra Nevada, with their caps Of eternal
snow-lies partly within the limits of the
county. Thousands of persons visit the
lake every summer to bask in the cool
breezes that float across its broad and
CRYSTALLINE bosom, and refresh their lungs
with the balsam-laden air of the pine for
estS that border its beautiful shores. Then
there are the Soda Springs, near the sum
init, the waters Of which are not eXcelled
in mineral qualities by any on the coast
and where the sportsman and angler can
find agreeable occupation with gun or rod.
Alta Blue CANYON and other places III the
northern part of the county are also becOm-
ing favortie resorts for seekers after pleas
ure or health. Indeed, it would be difficult
to name county of this State, or a section
III any part of the Union. that has been
more generously endowed by nature with
all that should 90 toward making Il people
prosperous and happy than Placer county.