Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-24
PARADISE IL BUTTE COUNTY.
A New Section, With Extensive Resources
and n Bright Future.


and Bright Future.
EDS. RECORD UNION: Since my last let
ter a new storehouse in Paradise is in
process of building, where, it is said, will
be kept full line OF general merchandise;
also mineral spring, about mile from
the village, has been brought into notice.
A crude analysis shows it to contain some
medicinal properties. On further exami-
nation. if it proves Of sufficient value, our
local physician contemplates erecting a
sanitarium. The natural salubrity of the
climate, added to the medicinal properties
of the spring. would make this one of the
most desirable places for such an institu-
tion. The climate is unsurpassed. An
eminent physician gave it as his opinion
that there is no finer climate in the State
for persons affected with throat and lung
diseases. During the rainy season ii is very
common TO see the great valleys be-
low covered with dense fogs, while
here. the air is clear, and the sun shines
bright. Frequently the stage-driver puts
on an extra heavy coat while coming up
through these fogs, but when he gets above
them he laws off the extra coat. Even now
while | write, one of these fogs lies over
the lower valleys, but here it is beautiful
sunshine and a spring-like day, the Their
mometer standing at GO on the north side
of.the house at l o'clock P. NJ.
1t is the common experience of persons
living here that in winter, when they go
down into the valley, they are sensible OF a
chilliness that they do not have at Para
disc. When the weather is clear, men go
about without their coats and feel no dis
comfort. The thermometer, it is true,
shows few degrees colder, but the condi-
ton of the air is such that TO the sense it is
different. q
know of no portion of the higher foot
hills where there is so much tillable land
lying in so compact form. The land OF
the Paradise district is all tillable, and may
all be irrigated from the local streams and
the large bitches that skirt its upper border.
This is essentially a farming district and
being compact in form, it is capable of
maintaining all the adjuncts of well or
ganized community. There is no mining
upon this plateau; so. as whole, we have
a unity of interest. We may be sleeping
over ancient channels, which are indicated
by the numerous springs that break out
lower down in the hills and the ancient
channels may be rich in auriferous de-
posits, but there are no groupings on the
But of this again.
As an agricultural section, we are some
what isolated from other farming COM
munities, yet our communications are well
established with the centers of trade, and
also with the numbering regions and other
localities higher in the SIerras. Three
main trunk roads pass the Paradise dis
trict-oue from Oroville, one from Biggs
and Gridley, and one from the Rancho
Esquan, on Butte creek, now owned by
Senator Stanford. All three of these roads
converge into one road at the foot of
Magalia hill. or northern limit of the
Paradise country Another important
road is in process of construction from
Paradise to the town of Chico, which, on
account of its shortening the distance to a
shipping point, will give an impetus to the
business of fruit-raising, for which the soil
and climate are well adapted
B. RUSSELL.
Paradise, December II, 1886.