Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-01
TAXABLE WEALTH IN 1885.
ANIADOR.

Amador county adjoins Sacramento on
the southeast, and belongs exclusively to
the foothill section. She has an area of
737 square miles, or 100000 acres, and is
bounded on the north By Ell Dorado, south
by Calayeras, east by Alpine, and west by
San joaquin and Sacramento. Amador
was always one of the wealthiest mining
counties in the State, and to-day stands
third in the list of old-producing counties,
her average annual yield at present being
about s1,500,000. Her gold product now
comes wholly from the quartz mines, the
placers having been exhausted MANY years
ago since which time agriculture and hor-
ticuiture have come to the front as leading
industries.
OTHER RESOURCES.
AmadOr possesses variety of resources
the development of which should attract
large population. Among others she has
an almost inexhaustible timber supply.
which needs but convenient railroad trans
portation to make it source of vast wealth
TO the county. There are great forests of
pine and oak as yet untouched bv the
woodsman-indeed, untrod, except bv the
drover or hunter. The western portion of
the county is splendidly adapted to farming
and fruit growing, and great advancement
has been made in these industries of late
years. Wheat, barley, oats, rye and corn
yield abundantly, and the fertile bottom
lands adjoining the Cosumnes and Mokel-
umne rivers produce large crops of vegeta-
bles. Irrigation is not required for grape
| raising in the foothills which accounts for
the superior quality Of the grapes and wine
that come from Amador.
CIruATr Towrc r-rc
In point of climate, Amador ranks sec
ond to no county in the State. The alti-
tude varies from 300 to 5000 feet, which
affords opportunities for persons of various
constitutions to select the attitudes best
suited to them. The county seat of Anna
dor is Jackson, one of the oldest settle
ments in the county. and has q population
at this time of about 1000 Like other
former mining communities, the present
population of Jackson is less than it was
twenty-five years ago, but it is of a more
settled and permanent character. The
same may be said of Volcano, Sutter Creek,
Amador City, Plymouth, lone, Drytown
and other towns in that county The pres
ent output of gold comes from few rich
quartz mines, and mining is by no means
general. The Amador Branch Railroad
connects at lone with the Southern Pacific
trunk line at the town of Gait, thus afford
ing convenient and rapid means of COM
mpnication between Amador and Sacra-
mento or Stockton.
FUTURE PROSPECTS.
Unlike the older-settled farming COM
munities in the valley, Amador county Of
fers excellent inducements to new -cofners
in search of a healthful, productive locality
in which to establish themselves in perma-
nent homes. The foothills, as before stated.
are sPlendidly adapted for small farms.
orchards, vineyards, ETC., and land can be
had there at very moderate prices. In the
western portion of the county, about lone,
the fact has already been demonstrated that
| raisin culture is profitable as well as wine
making; and there is practically no limit
| to The market requirements for these com-
| modities. Already the merchants of the
| Eastern States are beginning to rely on the
| raisin product Of the Pacific coast, instead
Of the foreign article, and 1t is only ques-
/ ton of very few years when California
will be expected to supply not only the
/ United States, bat other eaautries. viii
| raisins. AS one of the results of early
| mining operations inS Amador, the coanty
is traversed by innumerable canals and
water-ditches, whicit can be utilized il
| necessary for lrrigathA purposes. These
bitches aggregate sont 500 miles in extent
and are Supplied front tleyer-failinx sources
The county is also os:iF Fularly favored IN the
| matter OF water-powbr for manufacturing
purposes, and some day these great agent.
of commerce will be niilized.
| There are three Excellent newspaper.
published in the 1ounty-the Ama6o
| Ledger, the Timer anil the Dispatch, ali o
| which appear to be Veil supported, which
is pretty sure evid0lce Of the prosperit,
Of the people.