Sierra County advocate., 1885-06-13

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in course Of erection. The town
site is located on gently undulat
ing mountain side, which stretches
to the brink Of the clear and rush
ing waters of the Polomas. whose
source is only a few miles away
among the almost perpetual snow.
banks Of the lofty peaks Of The
| Black range. Besides the concen-
i TRAITOR, the town can point with
pride to new and first-class saw.
mill which has capacity for cut.
ting both lumber and shingles
Mr. j. G. Plemmons keeps the on.
| ly store of general merchandise in
|town, but MIR. Beckett, of the Black
Range, is having large frame
business house completed which,
am told, will be stocked with dry
goods and groceries. Another
public necessity of the town, and a
more important one could not have
been thought of, is the erection by
Judge E. Teaford of q feed stable
where the transient public will be
certain to find ample accommoda-
tions for their stock. It is tho OBJ
iect Of Judge Teaford also, that as
the business of the town increases,
to add to his stables, from time to
time, such horses and rolling stock
as will be in demand by the public.
But the best institution in town, in
which everybody will readily agree
with me, is the Hermosa Hotel,
kept by Mrs. G. O. Reed. There
is no house in the country superior
to it for good tables and supertly
clean rooms. The culinary depart
ment OF the house must be presided
over by an artist, for everything is
SO nice and palatable, and the va
riety of the spread 80 great that
the inquiry suggested itself to me
that "where on earth did Mrs. Reed
get her supplies, or any one in this
western mining camp to get every
thing in such shape for the table
that speaks so eloquently for the
ono who does it?" Mrs. Reeds is
the only public house that l have
stopped at that used only ranch
milk and butter, and her noble
principles and angelic purity of
soul and body, has caused her to
lay forever aside the poisinous con-
densed stuff, and still worse tub
butter. l, as well as thousands OF
others. have got it indelibly en-
graved in my mind that the reason
honses do not use decent and natu-
raj milk and butter, but prefer the
dangerous substitute, is because
where they buy IN large quantities
they get the condensed stuff for
three cents can, and then make a
gallon of damaged water 10 the can
out OF il, and give it to the public
for milk. 1t is well known fact,
too, that the butter Is fully as poi
con and deathly as the milk, and is
only used in the east for wagon
grease. A large wagon factory in
a Wisconsin town used o hundred
tons last year, and the same stuff is
sent west for table use. 1t has
been fully proven by a board of
competent physicians in Philndel-
phia, appointed by order Of the
state board of health of Pennsyl-
vania, that the use Of this condens-
cd milk and tub butter is certain to |
bring death, consumption and brok- |
On constitutions. Especially is this
50 among children and young peo-
Pile. Recently an unprincipled |
woman who had charge of forty
being a portion belong
ng to an orphan asylum, who was
% take care of them and board
hem by contract, and learning
hat she could get milk for about
'ne mill gallon by buying 1t con-
lensed, and the result was that
within less than three months thir-
y-nine OF the forty children were
lead, and the woman was arrested,
ried, convicted and barely escaped
hanging, but went TO the peniten- !
isry for thirty years, where she be-
ongs.
Hermosa has many things to be
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