Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-16
The FoorH1LL REGION.
Its Attractive Features Bring About Its
Rapid Improvement.


EDS. RECORD UNION: Providing space
can be afforded, would like to submit
few more facts regarding Placer and her
county seat for publication in the colu,. ms
of your valuable paper, which his done
and accomplished so much in me interest
of our northern counties. ILe will be con-
coded that this county, like those adioin-
ing, has been rather modest in proclaiming
her great natural resources and varied in
dustrles. being confdent that in due time,
when the excitement causing the great
boom down south had subsidized, her capa-
bllltles and real worth would soon be recog-
nized. That time has now arrived. People
are beginning to discover that few of the
southern counties do not comprise the en-
tire State; that a couple of hours ride from
the Capital on the Central Pacific or the
Placerville Railroad into Ell Dorado county
will bring them where there is an abund-
ance of valuable land, cultivated and I'M
| improved, attainable at a reasonable price,
and no charge for one of the most salubri-
Gus, health-giving climates under the sun.
While real estate has considerably ad-
vanced, it can still be purchased at reason
| able figure, and is being sought, not for
| speculative purposes, but for establishing
| permanent and comfortable homes, secure
from extreme cold, cyclones and floods.
The amount of acreage now under cult
Walton far exceeds that of the past year.
On either side of the railroad from Rocklin
to Colfax nearly every acre of land is being
| improved or under cultivation. The farm
ers In early days knew something perhaps
OF wine, but nothing of vine, and therefore
confined themselves TO raising some wheat.
barley and oats on the rolling lands and
small valleys. Finally it was discovered
that the orchard and vineyard was far more
| profitable, and that the fertile hills about
them, densely covered with chaparral and
pine, were peculiarly adapted to the sue
cessful cultivation of most all the luxuriant
fruits known to tropical cline.
industry and experiments has fully DEM
onstrated that these same uninviting hills
| lin their natural state) is where the orange,
olive, prune and vines best thrive, and
where they can now be seen budding and
| blooming, and in due season ladened with
| a bounliful harvest for consumption al
| home and transportation abroad.
The town of Auburn being the county
seat and centrally located on the line OF
| the Central Pacific, considerable transient
business is thereby acquired.
On account of the soft, invigorating and
even temperature of atmosphere prevailing
| here, summer and winter, it has become
quite noted as a fredericksburg resort.
There are many lovely homes in and about
Auburn, and several others will be erected
during the year. As the water works in
troduced by Mr.. Birdsall are capable, from
| the immense pressure, of conveying water
to the highest elevation, many of the dry,
| uncultivated hills surrounding the town
| can now be irrigated and made delightful
places of abode, and also productive of every
species of fruit, vine and flower raised else
where.
The park near the depot, owned by Col.
Hamilton and others, and to which |
alluded in former letter, is progressing to-
wards completion, although much more
time will be required before all the plans
proposed can be fully matured. 1t will
have nearly three miles of avenues,
smoothly graded, and in time well shaded.
for public promenade. Several thousand
olives and prunes have been planted. and
all the various walks and avenues will be
decorated with flowers and ornamental
trees. 1t has commanding and magnif-
cent view of the entire country around.
Auburn, May H. 1888. INST.