Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-02

side of Gait. The new town is about
mile east of old Elk Grove. 1t is dis
trlbuting point for large section of coun-
Try, and lies only few miles distant from
the arabic and productive bottom lands
that extend for miles on both sides of the
Costumes river. A large portion of the
plain land in this vicinity was originally
covered with forests of oak, and to such
soil there is no bedrock. The soil for sew
eral feet in depth is loose and sandy. with
clayey sub-soil. Where there vas no
timber the soil is red, with depth of from
three to five feet everything bedrock. In
all portions of this section
WATER CAN BE OBTAINED.
AT depth of from twelve to fourteen feet,
and as long as the wind blows the farmers
windmill irrigates his land The water
supply is unlimited, and bored wells with
steam pumps cannot make an impression
upon it. All crops, if well cultivated, do
well without irrigation, but smaller fruits
and berries do better with it. Thomas
Mcconnell has a vineyard near his place,
the vines Of which are three years old,
strong and healthy, which have never been
r irrigated, but only received deep and thor
ough cultivation, which makes irrigation
unnessaay. A large acreage is in wheat
and barley. The plains land Yields wheat
eighteen to twenty bushels, barley TWENTY
five to ihirty-fiye bushels to the acre. The
grain-raisers all summer-fallow their land.
The fruit-growing ir this section, while
not on an extensive scale, is quite profit
able, and many farmer are beginning to
learn that
A TEN-ACRE ORCHARD
Brings in more coin annually, with less
trouble and expense, than does a 100-acre
wheat field. Edward Lewis raises as fine
fruit as can be found anywhere in the val
ley, his early Crawford and orange-cling
peaches having a widespread reputation.
Other successful orchardists are L. NJ. Aid
rich, Delos Gage, Harry Kerr, J. H. Kerr.
NJ. Sherwood and D. Upton. Many hun
dreds of acres of new orchard are being
planted, the fruit industry having demon
strated its superior profits during the past
few seasons. The principal varieties being
planted are peaches, apricots, cherry,
plums and French prunes. Oranges do
well here, and trees that have aged bear
abundant crops of splendid fruit annually
in vineyard, mostly table and raisin grapes.
The table varieties are Muscat, Black
Hamburg and Tokay The raisin grapes
are the Muscat and Seedless Sultana. The
Kerr's are the principal
RAIsIN-MAKERs,
And market many tons annually. A num-
Der of orchardists dry their fruit, some of
them having patent evaporators for that
purpose.
On the Costumes bottoms the crops are
similar to those upon the Sacramento river
lands. On this bottom is raised almost the
entire corn crop of the county. The yield
of corn is immense. Pumpkins and squashes
average % tons to the acre, peanuts 700
to 1000 pounds, and hops, of the finest
variety, $500 pounds. Along this
river Freeman, Graham, Cantrell,
Jenkins, Altucker and Owens have
fine diaries. They raise alfalfa fields
from which are cut from five to ten tons
per acre, besides furnishing the entire
year around green pasture for mich COWS.
These diaries are operated at great profit
the hop and corn men have grown wealthy
and nowhere is found a more
PROSPEROUS AND COMMENTED PEOPLE.
Aitg hIOW any tUlIlP ABOUT
boom, they care nothing about boom,
they are not willing to sell out, and hence
don't desire a taxable appreciation of their
magnificent estates
Elk Grove is quite village Among
the business firms are the following :
General merchandise, ]. n. Andrews, J.
Emerson, Williams & Co.; drug store, Dr.
Mckee; harness shop, J. Hassman; black
smith shop, machine shop and carriage
maker, J. T. Chinnick; meat mar
ket, Bond Brothers; hardware and
tinshop, j. A. Longanecker; -four
mills, Hill & Bowers hotels, D. J.
Stevens and Thomas Allen; restaurant
Mrs Dalrymple; livery stable, T. Allen ;
saloon, Isaac Roden; barbershop, James
Toryea real estate, Allen & Graham /;
churches, Presbyterian and NJ f. South
1t has telegraph, post and express Offices,
and lodg es of Masons, Odd Fellows, Native
Sons and Grange.