Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-08-25

stock cattle and let them roam over the
hills in the summer at will, shelter and
| feed them about two months in the winter,
and you have fat beef and get the top
prices, while your silurian neiglfbor has to
wait till his are again fattened, and the
price has dropped in the mean time two or
three cents per pound. One of the great
est needs of they vale at the present time
is for a few
PEOPLE OF ENERGY AND MONEY
To come in and do things as they are done
| in other prosperous communities and they
| will make fortunes for themselYe.., and
put new life into the community. Many
| of the people have been living on and i'm
proving their lands for several years with
out even so much as making filing, either
through ignorance or to avoid the Tax
Collector. Several people have lost part
of their alfalfa fields, some wheat fields,
and Others their orchards, through neglect.
There is good Government laud left in the
valley, open 10 any one that will come
soon and take IT, Procrastination how
ever, will not do. | sent to Weavery;lle
for a surveyor and land attorney when I
first came over, to do about half day s
| work, and they kept him in the valley
over a week, and he then left, leaving a
large number to await his next coming.
Several thousand acres of the best land
has been pre-empted in the last three
weeks, simply because somebody else
thought it was worth something. An old
resident (Mr. Knowles sold his farm
Of 320 acres, with good buildings
several miles OF fencing, and splendid
apple orchard, for $1,000. The man that
bought it can double his money inside of
twelve months. Such place in the Sac
ramento valley is worth $4,000. Hay
Fork is rapidly gaining in population,
and inside of FIVE years will have the
county seat, for the simple reason that she
will outyote the northern end; besides, it
is the most centrally-located place in the
county. The views in all directions are
simply
BEAUTIFULLY GRAND.
| am building house at the brow of a
hill, and just across the valley l shall have
wealth of views. There is a gentle slope
for half mile in front, when the river is
reached. Persons visiting this country
five years hence will not recognize it from
their present recollections of it. We have
selected beautiful spot on low hill for
the Courthouse, after it shall have been
put on wheels. The building occupied at
present by the county is an old store, prob
ably an early pioneer. ] will state con-
corning connection with vacant lands. that
there is considerable yet in Scott's valley.
Siskiyou county. 1t is good land, and
most of it can be irrigated. The winters
are little severe, but it is good country
to make home In, with good wheat or
alfalfa lands. There are many elegant
residences in the valley, that / should say
cost from $1,000 to $4,000. Finally, If
this should reach the eye of any industrl-
| Gus couple of small means and willing
hands, that want to reach independence in
few years, advise them to come Up
north. The lands are incomparably better
than those in the south, and you will not
have to cover it with twenty dollar pieces
to own few acres of Gods tootstool.
Good, delicious pure water, and plenty of
1t, and fine bracing atmosphere. Leave
your pills and noxious drugs behind you.
There is not a physician in all of Hay
Fork valley-none nearer than % miles,
and he has never been called except to set
broken bone. fear l have drawn this
epistle to greater length than | should
have done, but I have been so charmed
with the country that could not say less.
J. I. G.