Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-11-12
Paradise I'm Butte County.

EDS. REcoRD-UNIoN l send you few
notes relative to section of country lying
in the central part of Butte county, known
as Paradise 1t comprises about town.
ship of land, and is kind of plateau slop-
ing gently southwark. Its elevation on
the lower border is about 600 feet, and on
the upper border about 1000 feet. The
country is mostly forest of oak and pine.
The surface from north to south, is regu-
lar incline; from east to west it is gently
undulating by reason of small streams that
rise from springs in the upper portion OF
the plateau, and flowing southwark, empty
into CANYONS at the southern border of the
Paradise section. In the center of this por-
ton of the country is the village of Para
disc. containing two stores, a postottice,
houses of entertainment, public hall, the
upper story of which is used as Good
Templars' lodge-room, where two lodges
meet every Sunday at different hours.
There is also fine new school-house here,
having two departments, in both of which
good schools are maintained.
At the last census, taken for school pur-
poses, there were over ninety names on the
roll At our recent general election there
were eighty-four votes cast in Paradise pre-
cinct; but number of persons in the up
per portion of this plateau voted at pre-
cinct farther north. The water here is
GOOD. and the climate is all that any one
could desire. The settlers have clearings
of ten to one hundred acres, few having
more than fifty acres cleared. The soil is a
reddish loan, probably produced from the
abrasion or decay of volcanic rock. No
one has vet experimental sufficiently to
ascertain what the soil is best adapted to,
but there is one thing certain, it will grow
trees and vines that produce fruit in per-
fection Perhaps there are no better ap-
pies, pears, peaches, plums, prunes and
berries than may be produced here. 1t is
not vet known whether the orange can be
successfully cultivated here, but there is no
doubt that the olive would be success.
Of course it requires some little capital to
clear off the land and prepare it properly
for trees and vines.
The village of Paradise is about twenty
miles from Oroville, the county seat, and
about twelve miles from Chico, the largest
county town. Hitherto the distance from
Paradise to Chico has been about the same
as to Oroville, but by new road, which is
in process of construction, the distance will
be only twelve miles. Any one desiring to
take a look at this portion of country, will
take the cars at Sacramento for Marysville,
then change cars for Oroville, then take
the stage for Paradise. Or, if you prefer it,
you can go directly from Sacramento to
Chico without changing cars, and then
take private conveyance to Paradise. By
the Oroville route You will have an oppor-
tunity of seeing the foothill lands nearly
all the way, and in Oroville and vicinity
will be near the orange, the lemon and the
olive growing in perfection, and bearing
luscious fruits, together with other things
of interest. Land can be had here from
ten dollars upward per acre, according to
the location, amount of clearing and i'm
provements. B. RUSSELL.
Paradise, November 8, 1886.