Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-04

shows good body of ore seven to eight feet
wide, but Just at present is idle.
| ALTAyILLE,
With population of about one hundred
inhabitants, lies one mile north of Angels
| Camp, and is one of the liyeliest little
towns in the foothills. This is the stop
! over point for tourists to the Big Trees,
being the halfway point by either the
Milton or Valley Springs route it being at
the junction of the roads.
j. II. Walters Just about constitutes the
live portion OF the place, he being the
proprietor of general merchandise and
supply store, and excellently equipped
livery and boarding stable, a neat, we'll
kept restaurant, an elegant and we'll
stocked bar, and fine dancing hall, with
floor area of over 1900 square feet. Be
sides these he has in contemplation the
early erection of large hotel, tue better
to accommodate the large number of tour
lists constantly pouring to the mountains
during the whole summer season.
Worthy of mention is the No. l hotel,
merchandise store and livery stable of B.
Il. Prince, the foundry and machine shops
of d. d. Demorest, the brewery Of johnny
Baker, the harness and repair shop of Z.
of John Lavignio.
The town derives its main support from
mining interests and travel, but her chief
source of wealth and prosperity viii sooner
or later come from the hundreds of acres
of the finest fruit lands which now lie idle
in the immediate vicinity.
MILTON
This place has an altitude of about 500
feet, and is a railroad town in the extreme
southwestern portion of the county
! About twenty years ago, when the copper
mines at Copperopolis were in full blast,
abroad was projected from Stockton to
that point, but the mines shutting down
about the time the road reached Milton.
the further extension was abandoned, and
since then it has remained the terminus
The place has population of about 100
and is supported from farming, grazing
and mining interests. The town does a
considerable amount of business, much
more than the size seem to warrant
The principal business houses are the
general merchandise store of Huntington
q Brown, the general merchandise and
warehouse firm of Peterson &. Dake and a
general variety store by Frank Brown.
The Milton Hotel by Miss Alice Phelan
and the Tornado Hotel by Herman Don
ner. Two livery stables, Thomas Mead's
and John Grimstes. Blacksmith shops by
John Olldrich and Milton Morse. Har-
ness shop, John Adams. Two forwarding
and commission merchants, II. G.. Davis
and Lewis Beysser, and four saloons.
There is also Masonic Hall and school
house in which church services are regu-
larly held
There are three stage lines daily, Sun
days excepted, leaving this point-one to
Sonora and Yosemite Valley, one to Jenny
Lind, and one to Murphy's and the Big
Trees. The town has post, express and
telegraph offices. Milton has an elevation
of about 500 feet, and is surrounded by
rolling foothills. This vicinity offers su-
perior
INDUCEMENTS FOR SETTLEMENT,
Lands being held at very low figures. To
the south is what is known as the Black
Hill section in which the soil is black and
deep and produces the finest quality of
wheat and barley.
The Rhodes Bros. have tract of 5000
acres, which they utilize for grain and
grazing. About 1000 acres are annually
sown to wheat, the yield averaging six
teen to twenty bushels per acre.
Another tract of 900 acres-some black
soil, some red, and the rest the rolling
hills now used mostly for grazing pur-
poses-adjoins the town site, and is spe-
cially adapted for fruit and vines
These lands can be had for from s. to-
$25 per acre. To the north and east are
thousands of acres Of excellent fruit and
vine land to be had for from s. to $40 per
acre.
J. II. Southwick, Superintendent of the
Salt Spring Valley Ditch and Mining
Company, has thirty-three acres of vines.
one and two year old, planted on gravelly
soil, once considered worthless, that pre-
sent as thrifty and healthy an appearance
as any vineyard can show The vines are
FREE FROM PESTS or ALL KINDS,
And are all standard table varieties.
grated on wild erape-root stalks, and have
the benefit of irrigation. John Meyers,
three miles from here, has five acres of
vines, seven years old, showing as fine
growth as can be seen anywhere, grown
without q particle of irrigation.
| j. r. Adams left New York in 1884 in
search of health and home. He spent one
year near San Jose, but wanting a climate
with less moisture, came here in Septem-
Der of 1885, and took up so acres of good
land that no one else wanted. He is very
enthusiastic over the healthfulness of the
locality, and exhibits 12-foot grape vine
shoots-the growth OF the past season--as
evidence of the fertility of the soil He
has three acres OF vines, table varieties that
for thriftiness cannot be surpassed
He says: People talk about cold
weather. They don't know what cold
weather means. Think of n section being
called cold where the thermometer only
gets as low as 240 above zero, and that only
half dozen times in thirty years, and
that is what the records show here. This
is my second winter here, which everyone
comedies to be the coolest known since
1851. | have
SEVENTY ORANGE TREES
In my yard and only on some of the young
est and most tender has the frost injured
the leaves, and the wood of none is
damaged in the least. Talk about cold |"
In reply to "What would you take for your
place?" the answer was, 1t is not for
sale ] want it for home"
This territory is of the area accessible to
irrigation from the Salt Spring Valley
Reservoir elsewhere mentioned, and land
all through these hills can be had from s.
to $40 per acre.
CoPPERoPoLIs,
Nineteen miles south by stage road, is now
experiencing boom. 1t has extensive
copper mines, which have been idle for
nearly twenty years. The recent advance
in the value of copper again directed at
tention to their rich deposits, and few
weeks since the water was pumped out of
the levels, and the mine is now in work.
ing order. 1t gives employment to about
thirty men, and the shipments of ore
now average a carload day. 1t is
freighted by teams to Milton, and from
there to San Francisco by rail, where in
ships it is taken to Wales for reduction.
An extension of the railroad from Mil
ton to this point is one of the possibilities
OF the near future.
Fine fruit and vine lands are scattered
in the valleys and on the hill-slopes all
through this section, and, as the cid saying
goes, "can be had for song, and sing it
yourself"
At Lodi, Southern Pacific Railroad
station fourteen miles north of Stockton,
the San Ioannin and Siarra Navada nov